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Simon did not return to Woodside's mountain villa that evening, but went to her apartment in Atherton with housekeeper Alice Ferguson after Tim Berners Lee's reception.
In fact, there are some small considerations.
The day before yesterday afternoon, I couldn't help sleeping with another female assistant. I realized that Celia was as ambitious as Sophia. Simon didn't want to give women too much fantasy space, so he deliberately ignored her.
The next morning, Zoe parks, who had a little affair with the housekeeper, was specially called to prepare breakfast, and girl a naturally followed.
So there was a man and three women on the breakfast table.
During the meal, looking at her ruddy face, while eating a salad at will, Simon looked at the Housekeeper on the laptop screen at hand. Simon said to the baby faced girl, "Zoe, don't go back with me at the weekend. Take Ellie to Hawaii for two days. Well, remember not to tan."
The intimacy with the housekeeper was caught by Simon at the beginning. Now, it seems that he has been labeled as lace by his boss.
However, since the housekeeper entered igritte, Zoe actually had little contact with Alice. At this time, the baby faced girl looked pitifully at her boss and then at Alice.
It's nothing to go to Hawaii for the weekend. I'm looking forward to it.
It's just, what's the point of being with a workaholic who's still dealing with email at breakfast.
Just like Simon forced her to take a rest last time, Alice looked up at someone who bullied her last night and subconsciously said, "I still have a job."
Simon, as he did at the beginning of the year, said, "not now."
Alice's clear blue eyes were staring at a guy. After a moment of confrontation, she realized that her resistance was doomed to be invalid, so she turned her attention to the laptop again.
Let's go to Hawaii.
Anyway, he can't stare at himself all the time, just change his work place.
Unexpectedly, the man seemed to be aware of her mind, and added: "in the afternoon, I'm only allowed to take a change of clothes, but my laptop can't get on the plane. In addition, I'll lend you my villa in Hawaii. Remember to do a cleaning at the weekend. "
Alice immediately raised her head again and bargained, "tomorrow morning."
"This afternoon," Simon insisted, adding, "and I'll have Zoe with you every weekend."
After another confrontation for a moment, the housekeeper was still defeated and had to acquiesce.
As a boss, Simon certainly wants his employees to work tirelessly like cattle.
As a man, Simon doesn't want his woman to only know about work all day, leading to haggard appearance and even physical exhaustion.
Compared with B, C and D, the housekeeper and Simon have maintained the original contract. Simon bought this mansion in Lindenwood community in Atherton and gave it to the housekeeper. Claire didn't have this kind of treatment. After leaving, she needed to be self reliant.
After breakfast, we all leave the housekeeper's mansion. Simon's destination is C girl's tincobail company. On the way, he will send the housekeeper to igritte headquarters.
Arriving at dinkbail's office building, C girl has started a meeting. Simon temporarily borrows Claire's office to start a day's work.
Today is May 20th, Friday.
Another box office week in Hollywood.
Just in the past week, from May 13 to May 19, star gate directed by Michael Bay won the first place in the box office of a single week without any doubt, earning $36.61 million in the first seven days of the week.
Although there will be big movies coming out in the next few weeks, with the box office revenue of $36.61 million in the first week, as long as the box office decline in the next week is not too fierce, the total domestic box office of Stargate will not exceed 100 million.
In contrast, the other two new movies, when a man falls in love with a woman, starring Meg Ryan, only made $11.29 million in the first seven days of the week.
In order to save money, Disney invited Andy Garcia, who is not too well-known, to be the leading actor. The biggest achievement of this actor who has been in Hollywood for many years is that he won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in Godfather 3 a few years ago, which has little box office appeal. In this film, when a man falls in love with a woman, Andy Garcia failed to compete with MEG ·Ryan has the same strong spark as the hero and heroine in "sleepless in Seattle" and "when Harry meets Sally".
As a result, when a man falls in love with a woman's final budget is $25 million, which is a real saving compared to Meg Ryan's $7 million high pay after last year's sleepless in Seattle. Only the box office of $11.29 million in the first week, considering the mediocre reputation of the film and the subsequent series of blockbusters, the total box office of this love movie in North America may be only about $30 million.
Through the overseas and subsequent release, Disney can recover the cost, but it is basically a waste of time, and once again wasted a summer opening time.Black director Spike Lee's new film "deep race" is even more modest at the box office, earning only $3.91 million in its first week of production.
With the success of the last "black tide", Spike Lee's new film received $15 million in investment from Colombia, with $3.91 million at the beginning and about $10 million at the local box office. The overseas market of black ethnic films is very narrow, and Colombia is once again in the water.
In a word, Spike Lee has been cooperating with universal pictures a few years ago, and three consecutive works have been produced by universal investment. It's a pity that after Daniels entertainment completed its acquisition of MCA, because of the turmoil during the integration period of the two companies, this kind of cooperative relationship has not extended to Daniels entertainment.
As one of the most outstanding black directors in Hollywood, Spike Lee's personal works are limited to the audience, and the box office is usually not too high, but because the production budget is often low, he can usually achieve good profits, and even if he loses money, he won't lose too much, so he is definitely similar to Woody Allen's directors who are worth attracting.
After watching last week's box office report, Simon specially sent an email to Ella doechman, asking him to take the time to chat with Spike Lee, and try to win his next movie while the other party has just experienced a failure. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the final profit or loss. Doing so can further increase the diversity of Denise Entertainment's films and shape the corporate brand It's of great benefit.
In the new week, two new heavyweight films will be released in North American Theaters, namely, MGM's "speed of life and death" and Warner Bros.'s "gambler Ma Huali".
"Speed of life and death" is directed by Martin Campbell, who successfully produced "Wonder Woman" and starred by two Hollywood stars, kenu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Once upon a time, the original "speed of life and death" was not popular among the three creators, Jane de bond, Gino Reeves and Sandra Bullock. However, the film made an outstanding achievement in North America box office with a production cost of US $30 million.
This time, influenced by Simon, the "big butterfly", the three main creators are all hot in Hollywood. As a result, the production budget has increased from US $30 million in the original time and space to US $45 million, basically reaching the level of a blockbuster.
In order to compete with Batman: the rise of the dark knight on June 3, MGM has also made a big effort this time, preparing 2869 opening screens for speed of life and death, with a budget of $20 million.
Today, the official large-scale painting was launched, and the media reputation of "speed of life and death" was released at the same time. According to the preliminary statistics, the comprehensive media score reached 9.4 points, which directly surpassed the 8.2 points of "Stargate" last week, reaching a classic level.
Another "gambler Ma Huali" is a complete super blockbuster.
The film is adapted from a western drama of the same name in the 1950s. Richard downer, director of the lethal weapons series, collaborates with Mel Gibson again and invites Oscar winner Judy foster to join in. The lineup of the three creators is even better than the speed of life and death.
Relying on the success of the "lethal weapon" series, the budget cost of "gambler Ma Huali" is as high as 75 million US dollars, Warner Bros. has also invested 30 million US dollars in the publicity budget, and the number of opening screens of the film has also reached 2537.
Because it's not optimistic, danielis entertainment doesn't touch the theme of western movies, but Warner is a big western movie player.
Simon is even less optimistic about this project. Even if the box office of "gambler cavalry" in North America exceeds 100 million in memory, warner can hardly make much profit from this project. It's a classic case of "working" for a Hollywood superstar.
For the whole project, Mel Gibson directly took away $15 million of high film remuneration, Richard downer also received $8 million from the first-line directors, and even Judy Foster's film remuneration reached $5 million.
All three of them have come home with a full load.
However, with the huge cost of Warner Bros., Warner Bros. needs to earn about 250 million US dollars in the global box office to make ends meet. In the past, the global box office of Warner Bros. was only 180 million US dollars.
Not only that, this time, because there was "Stargate" before, and "speed of life and death" at the same time, and two weeks later, there was "Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight" with super heavyweight, surrounded by powerful enemies, and the media's comprehensive word-of-mouth only barely passed after the painting, it was very difficult for "gambler Mahua Li" to get the box office share in the original time and space again. If the local people want to break through 100 million yuan, unless there is a miracle.
More likely, Warner will make a big comeback in this project, and then further increase its dependence on the DC movie universe.
Celia Miller didn't see her boss again until she returned to Los Angeles together in the evening.
However, women did not show the slightest resentment that a little man had just been happy for a night. Taking advantage of the short time when they returned to Los Angeles, they continued to discuss with Simon the various layout of the westero system in the military field.During her business trip around the earth, Celia was able to participate in the secret negotiation between the westero mercenaries and the French government. The French authorities finally paid 25 million US dollars in compensation for all the members of the military and French advisory group of the former Rwandese government detained in the hands of westero mercenaries, including all the bodies.
The $25 million price was offered by Celia on her own initiative after she learned the general situation.
It's not that the French government can't afford more. It's because if the claim is too high, it will exceed the tolerance limit of the French government's Secret coffers. At that time, it will have to raise funds through official government financial channels. Once that happens, the French Military Advisory Group will be exposed.
This is a result that neither side wants to see.
Allowing Celia to participate in this negotiation is also a small test for Simon, mainly to test the credibility of the former Defense Department female official. The result was beyond Simon's expectation, and it also showed him the benefits of having a man who had worked in the federal defense system and was familiar with the hidden rules of various authorities.
Before that, both Simon and William McRaney, commander of the westero mercenaries, wanted to speak up to the French government. If they did, they would probably tear their faces.
For half a month in a row, Celia also completed the personnel penetration layout of the Rwandese government, and had a private meeting with Leon Kuchma, the current prime minister and next presidential candidate of Ukraine. Not only did she persuade the hesitant Ukrainian government to agree to the establishment of a private military company in Ukraine by the Westeros system, Celia also took charge of the establishment of a private military company in Kiev Ukrainian mercenaries in the aftercare support team.
"In the United States, I think our company should mainly recruit middle and low-level retired officers in the short term, cooperate with about 300 ex special forces, and mainly provide military training services to foreign countries," Celia looked at the little man on the sofa next to the Boeing 767 in the front cabin living room, saw that he had no objection, and continued: "the French government arranged a military advisory group in Rwanda Although the news has not been made public, I think other countries will learn from it in the future. Through the disguised provision of similar services by private military companies, we can not only reduce the casualties of official soldiers, but also avoid the accusation of interfering in other countries' internal affairs once the matter is revealed. We have a lot of business space in this area. "
Simon is looking through a plan for the formation of a private military company in Australia. He nods and signals Celia to continue.
Celia took another look at Simon, thought about it, turned to the subject for a moment, and said, "Simon, in North America, do you really not want to think about the name of the 'military consulting and security services company'
Military Consulting & amp; security service (MCSS) is the name of the private military company of westero system in North America.
Australia and Ukraine are not directly named XX Branch, but have similar brand-new names. The former is Perth military consulting and security company, because its headquarters are set up in Perth, Western Australia, while the latter is Ukrainian front-line military service company, headquartered in Kiev.
Three names, the biggest characteristic is common, and slightly long.
Simon listened to Celia's question, looked up and asked, "what do you think would be the case if you had a name similar to Denise entertainment?"
"I think that's better," Celia said. "It's special. It's easy to remember."
Simon shook his head and said, "entertainment technology companies, of course, the easier their names are to be remembered, the better. But for private military companies, do you think it's good to be remembered all the time?"
Celia pauses, quickly reacts, shakes her head and says, "it's like, it's not."
Simon shrugged: "so that's right."
In history, Blackwater international, founded in 1997, became famous in the industry in just a few years. Whether in the United States or overseas, when it comes to mercenaries, many people can think of Blackwater at the first time, because the name just sounds tough and domineering.
Because of its great reputation and too many eyes on the company, Blackwater has been in trouble ever since it became big. All kinds of scandals have been exposed frequently, so it has lost a lot of orders.
Finally, Blackwater finally began to reflect that it is not the largest private mercenary company in the United States at all. If MPRI is the largest company in the United States, it can't even get into the top five in the world. Why is it in trouble? Why doesn't the media go to those big companies?
Finally, I understand.
Oh, it's the name!
The name "Blackwater" is too conspicuous and windy.
So one day, Blackwater quietly changed its name to Xe service company.
What does Xe mean?
Who knows?
I don't know!
Learning from the lessons of Blackwater, Simon confirmed from the beginning that the more common the name of the private military company of the Westeros system, the better, the more unforgettable it is.
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Simon did not return to Woodside's mountain villa that evening, but went to her apartment in Atherton with housekeeper Alice Ferguson after Tim Berners Lee's reception.
In fact, there are some small considerations.
The day before yesterday afternoon, I couldn't help sleeping with another female assistant. I realized that Celia was as ambitious as Sophia. Simon didn't want to give women too much fantasy space, so he deliberately ignored her.
The next morning, Zoe parks, who had a little affair with the housekeeper, was specially called to prepare breakfast, and girl a naturally followed.
So there was a man and three women on the breakfast table.
During the meal, looking at her ruddy face, while eating a salad at will, Simon looked at the Housekeeper on the laptop screen at hand. Simon said to the baby faced girl, "Zoe, don't go back with me at the weekend. Take Ellie to Hawaii for two days. Well, remember not to tan."
The intimacy with the housekeeper was caught by Simon at the beginning. Now, it seems that he has been labeled as lace by his boss.
However, since the housekeeper entered igritte, Zoe actually had little contact with Alice. At this time, the baby faced girl looked pitifully at her boss and then at Alice.
It's nothing to go to Hawaii for the weekend. I'm looking forward to it.
It's just, what's the point of being with a workaholic who's still dealing with email at breakfast.
Just like Simon forced her to take a rest last time, Alice looked up at someone who bullied her last night and subconsciously said, "I still have a job."
Simon, as he did at the beginning of the year, said, "not now."
Alice's clear blue eyes were staring at a guy. After a moment of confrontation, she realized that her resistance was doomed to be invalid, so she turned her attention to the laptop again.
Let's go to Hawaii.
Anyway, he can't stare at himself all the time, just change his work place.
Unexpectedly, the man seemed to be aware of her mind, and added: "in the afternoon, I'm only allowed to take a change of clothes, but my laptop can't get on the plane. In addition, I'll lend you my villa in Hawaii. Remember to do a cleaning at the weekend. "
Alice immediately raised her head again and bargained, "tomorrow morning."
"This afternoon," Simon insisted, adding, "and I'll have Zoe with you every weekend."
After another confrontation for a moment, the housekeeper was still defeated and had to acquiesce.
As a boss, Simon certainly wants his employees to work tirelessly like cattle.
As a man, Simon doesn't want his woman to only know about work all day, leading to haggard appearance and even physical exhaustion.
Compared with B, C and D, the housekeeper and Simon have maintained the original contract. Simon bought this mansion in Lindenwood community in Atherton and gave it to the housekeeper. Claire didn't have this kind of treatment. After leaving, she needed to be self reliant.
After breakfast, we all leave the housekeeper's mansion. Simon's destination is C girl's tincobail company. On the way, he will send the housekeeper to igritte headquarters.
Arriving at dinkbail's office building, C girl has started a meeting. Simon temporarily borrows Claire's office to start a day's work.
Today is May 20th, Friday.
Another box office week in Hollywood.
Just in the past week, from May 13 to May 19, star gate directed by Michael Bay won the first place in the box office of a single week without any doubt, earning $36.61 million in the first seven days of the week.
Although there will be big movies coming out in the next few weeks, with the box office revenue of $36.61 million in the first week, as long as the box office decline in the next week is not too fierce, the total domestic box office of Stargate will not exceed 100 million.
In contrast, the other two new movies, when a man falls in love with a woman, starring Meg Ryan, only made $11.29 million in the first seven days of the week.
In order to save money, Disney invited Andy Garcia, who is not too well-known, to be the leading actor. The biggest achievement of this actor who has been in Hollywood for many years is that he won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in Godfather 3 a few years ago, which has little box office appeal. In this film, when a man falls in love with a woman, Andy Garcia failed to compete with MEG ·Ryan has the same strong spark as the hero and heroine in "sleepless in Seattle" and "when Harry meets Sally".
As a result, when a man falls in love with a woman's final budget is $25 million, which is a real saving compared to Meg Ryan's $7 million high pay after last year's sleepless in Seattle. Only the box office of $11.29 million in the first week, considering the mediocre reputation of the film and the subsequent series of blockbusters, the total box office of this love movie in North America may be only about $30 million.
Through the overseas and subsequent release, Disney can recover the cost, but it is basically a waste of time, and once again wasted a summer opening time.Black director Spike Lee's new film "deep race" is even more modest at the box office, earning only $3.91 million in its first week of production.
With the success of the last "black tide", Spike Lee's new film received $15 million in investment from Colombia, with $3.91 million at the beginning and about $10 million at the local box office. The overseas market of black ethnic films is very narrow, and Colombia is once again in the water.
In a word, Spike Lee has been cooperating with universal pictures a few years ago, and three consecutive works have been produced by universal investment. It's a pity that after Daniels entertainment completed its acquisition of MCA, because of the turmoil during the integration period of the two companies, this kind of cooperative relationship has not extended to Daniels entertainment.
As one of the most outstanding black directors in Hollywood, Spike Lee's personal works are limited to the audience, and the box office is usually not too high, but because the production budget is often low, he can usually achieve good profits, and even if he loses money, he won't lose too much, so he is definitely similar to Woody Allen's directors who are worth attracting.
After watching last week's box office report, Simon specially sent an email to Ella doechman, asking him to take the time to chat with Spike Lee, and try to win his next movie while the other party has just experienced a failure. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the final profit or loss. Doing so can further increase the diversity of Denise Entertainment's films and shape the corporate brand It's of great benefit.
In the new week, two new heavyweight films will be released in North American Theaters, namely, MGM's "speed of life and death" and Warner Bros.'s "gambler Ma Huali".
"Speed of life and death" is directed by Martin Campbell, who successfully produced "Wonder Woman" and starred by two Hollywood stars, kenu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Once upon a time, the original "speed of life and death" was not popular among the three creators, Jane de bond, Gino Reeves and Sandra Bullock. However, the film made an outstanding achievement in North America box office with a production cost of US $30 million.
This time, influenced by Simon, the "big butterfly", the three main creators are all hot in Hollywood. As a result, the production budget has increased from US $30 million in the original time and space to US $45 million, basically reaching the level of a blockbuster.
In order to compete with Batman: the rise of the dark knight on June 3, MGM has also made a big effort this time, preparing 2869 opening screens for speed of life and death, with a budget of $20 million.
Today, the official large-scale painting was launched, and the media reputation of "speed of life and death" was released at the same time. According to the preliminary statistics, the comprehensive media score reached 9.4 points, which directly surpassed the 8.2 points of "Stargate" last week, reaching a classic level.
Another "gambler Ma Huali" is a complete super blockbuster.
The film is adapted from a western drama of the same name in the 1950s. Richard downer, director of the lethal weapons series, collaborates with Mel Gibson again and invites Oscar winner Judy foster to join in. The lineup of the three creators is even better than the speed of life and death.
Relying on the success of the "lethal weapon" series, the budget cost of "gambler Ma Huali" is as high as 75 million US dollars, Warner Bros. has also invested 30 million US dollars in the publicity budget, and the number of opening screens of the film has also reached 2537.
Because it's not optimistic, danielis entertainment doesn't touch the theme of western movies, but Warner is a big western movie player.
Simon is even less optimistic about this project. Even if the box office of "gambler cavalry" in North America exceeds 100 million in memory, warner can hardly make much profit from this project. It's a classic case of "working" for a Hollywood superstar.
For the whole project, Mel Gibson directly took away $15 million of high film remuneration, Richard downer also received $8 million from the first-line directors, and even Judy Foster's film remuneration reached $5 million.
All three of them have come home with a full load.
However, with the huge cost of Warner Bros., Warner Bros. needs to earn about 250 million US dollars in the global box office to make ends meet. In the past, the global box office of Warner Bros. was only 180 million US dollars.
Not only that, this time, because there was "Stargate" before, and "speed of life and death" at the same time, and two weeks later, there was "Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight" with super heavyweight, surrounded by powerful enemies, and the media's comprehensive word-of-mouth only barely passed after the painting, it was very difficult for "gambler Mahua Li" to get the box office share in the original time and space again. If the local people want to break through 100 million yuan, unless there is a miracle.
More likely, Warner will make a big comeback in this project, and then further increase its dependence on the DC movie universe.
Celia Miller didn't see her boss again until she returned to Los Angeles together in the evening.
However, women did not show the slightest resentment that a little man had just been happy for a night. Taking advantage of the short time when they returned to Los Angeles, they continued to discuss with Simon the various layout of the westero system in the military field.During her business trip around the earth, Celia was able to participate in the secret negotiation between the westero mercenaries and the French government. The French authorities finally paid 25 million US dollars in compensation for all the members of the military and French advisory group of the former Rwandese government detained in the hands of westero mercenaries, including all the bodies.
The $25 million price was offered by Celia on her own initiative after she learned the general situation.
It's not that the French government can't afford more. It's because if the claim is too high, it will exceed the tolerance limit of the French government's Secret coffers. At that time, it will have to raise funds through official government financial channels. Once that happens, the French Military Advisory Group will be exposed.
This is a result that neither side wants to see.
Allowing Celia to participate in this negotiation is also a small test for Simon, mainly to test the credibility of the former Defense Department female official. The result was beyond Simon's expectation, and it also showed him the benefits of having a man who had worked in the federal defense system and was familiar with the hidden rules of various authorities.
Before that, both Simon and William McRaney, commander of the westero mercenaries, wanted to speak up to the French government. If they did, they would probably tear their faces.
For half a month in a row, Celia also completed the personnel penetration layout of the Rwandese government, and had a private meeting with Leon Kuchma, the current prime minister and next presidential candidate of Ukraine. Not only did she persuade the hesitant Ukrainian government to agree to the establishment of a private military company in Ukraine by the Westeros system, Celia also took charge of the establishment of a private military company in Kiev Ukrainian mercenaries in the aftercare support team.
"In the United States, I think our company should mainly recruit middle and low-level retired officers in the short term, cooperate with about 300 ex special forces, and mainly provide military training services to foreign countries," Celia looked at the little man on the sofa next to the Boeing 767 in the front cabin living room, saw that he had no objection, and continued: "the French government arranged a military advisory group in Rwanda Although the news has not been made public, I think other countries will learn from it in the future. Through the disguised provision of similar services by private military companies, we can not only reduce the casualties of official soldiers, but also avoid the accusation of interfering in other countries' internal affairs once the matter is revealed. We have a lot of business space in this area. "
Simon is looking through a plan for the formation of a private military company in Australia. He nods and signals Celia to continue.
Celia took another look at Simon, thought about it, turned to the subject for a moment, and said, "Simon, in North America, do you really not want to think about the name of the 'military consulting and security services company'
Military Consulting & amp; security service (MCSS) is the name of the private military company of westero system in North America.
Australia and Ukraine are not directly named XX Branch, but have similar brand-new names. The former is Perth military consulting and security company, because its headquarters are set up in Perth, Western Australia, while the latter is Ukrainian front-line military service company, headquartered in Kiev.
Three names, the biggest characteristic is common, and slightly long.
Simon listened to Celia's question, looked up and asked, "what do you think would be the case if you had a name similar to Denise entertainment?"
"I think that's better," Celia said. "It's special. It's easy to remember."
Simon shook his head and said, "entertainment technology companies, of course, the easier their names are to be remembered, the better. But for private military companies, do you think it's good to be remembered all the time?"
Celia pauses, quickly reacts, shakes her head and says, "it's like, it's not."
Simon shrugged: "so that's right."
In history, Blackwater international, founded in 1997, became famous in the industry in just a few years. Whether in the United States or overseas, when it comes to mercenaries, many people can think of Blackwater at the first time, because the name just sounds tough and domineering.
Because of its great reputation and too many eyes on the company, Blackwater has been in trouble ever since it became big. All kinds of scandals have been exposed frequently, so it has lost a lot of orders.
Finally, Blackwater finally began to reflect that it is not the largest private mercenary company in the United States at all. If MPRI is the largest company in the United States, it can't even get into the top five in the world. Why is it in trouble? Why doesn't the media go to those big companies?
Finally, I understand.
Oh, it's the name!
The name "Blackwater" is too conspicuous and windy.
So one day, Blackwater quietly changed its name to Xe service company.
What does Xe mean?
Who knows?
I don't know!
Learning from the lessons of Blackwater, Simon confirmed from the beginning that the more common the name of the private military company of the Westeros system, the better, the more unforgettable it is.
Simon did not return to Woodside's mountain villa that evening, but went to her apartment in Atherton with housekeeper Alice Ferguson after Tim Berners Lee's reception. In fact, there are some small considerations. The day before yesterday afternoon, I couldn't help sleeping with another female assistant. I realized that Celia was as ambitious as Sophia. Simon didn't want to give women too much fantasy space, so he deliberately ignored her. The next morning, Zoe parks, who had a little affair with the housekeeper, was specially called to prepare breakfast, and girl a naturally followed. So there was a man and three women on the breakfast table. During the meal, looking at her ruddy face, while eating a salad at will, Simon looked at the Housekeeper on the laptop screen at hand. Simon said to the baby faced girl, "Zoe, don't go back with me at the weekend. Take Ellie to Hawaii for two days. Well, remember not to tan." The intimacy with the housekeeper was caught by Simon at the beginning. Now, it seems that he has been labeled as lace by his boss. However, since the housekeeper entered igritte, Zoe actually had little contact with Alice. At this time, the baby faced girl looked pitifully at her boss and then at Alice. It's nothing to go to Hawaii for the weekend. I'm looking forward to it. It's just, what's the point of being with a workaholic who's still dealing with email at breakfast. Just like Simon forced her to take a rest last time, Alice looked up at someone who bullied her last night and subconsciously said, "I still have a job." Simon, as he did at the beginning of the year, said, "not now." Alice's clear blue eyes were staring at a guy. After a moment of confrontation, she realized that her resistance was doomed to be invalid, so she turned her attention to the laptop again. Let's go to Hawaii. Anyway, he can't stare at himself all the time, just change his work place. Unexpectedly, the man seemed to be aware of her mind, and added: "in the afternoon, I'm only allowed to take a change of clothes, but my laptop can't get on the plane. In addition, I'll lend you my villa in Hawaii. Remember to do a cleaning at the weekend. " Alice immediately raised her head again and bargained, "tomorrow morning." "This afternoon," Simon insisted, adding, "and I'll have Zoe with you every weekend." After another confrontation for a moment, the housekeeper was still defeated and had to acquiesce. As a boss, Simon certainly wants his employees to work tirelessly like cattle. As a man, Simon doesn't want his woman to only know about work all day, leading to haggard appearance and even physical exhaustion. Compared with B, C and D, the housekeeper and Simon have maintained the original contract. Simon bought this mansion in Lindenwood community in Atherton and gave it to the housekeeper. Claire didn't have this kind of treatment. After leaving, she needed to be self reliant. After breakfast, we all leave the housekeeper's mansion. Simon's destination is C girl's tincobail company. On the way, he will send the housekeeper to igritte headquarters. Arriving at dinkbail's office building, C girl has started a meeting. Simon temporarily borrows Claire's office to start a day's work. Today is May 20th, Friday. Another box office week in Hollywood. Just in the past week, from May 13 to May 19, star gate directed by Michael Bay won the first place in the box office of a single week without any doubt, earning $36.61 million in the first seven days of the week. Although there will be big movies coming out in the next few weeks, with the box office revenue of $36.61 million in the first week, as long as the box office decline in the next week is not too fierce, the total domestic box office of Stargate will not exceed 100 million. In contrast, the other two new movies, when a man falls in love with a woman, starring Meg Ryan, only made $11.29 million in the first seven days of the week. In order to save money, Disney invited Andy Garcia, who is not too well-known, to be the leading actor. The biggest achievement of this actor who has been in Hollywood for many years is that he won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in Godfather 3 a few years ago, which has little box office appeal. In this film, when a man falls in love with a woman, Andy Garcia failed to compete with MEG Ryan has the same strong spark as the hero and heroine in "sleepless in Seattle" and "when Harry meets Sally". As a result, when a man falls in love with a woman's final budget is $25 million, which is a real saving compared to Meg Ryan's $7 million high pay after last year's sleepless in Seattle. Only the box office of $11.29 million in the first week, considering the mediocre reputation of the film and the subsequent series of blockbusters, the total box office of this love movie in North America may be only about $30 million. Through the overseas and subsequent release, Disney can recover the cost, but it is basically a waste of time, and once again wasted a summer opening time.Black director Spike Lee's new film "deep race" is even more modest at the box office, earning only $3.91 million in its first week of production. With the success of the last "black tide", Spike Lee's new film received $15 million in investment from Colombia, with $3.91 million at the beginning and about $10 million at the local box office. The overseas market of black ethnic films is very narrow, and Colombia is once again in the water. In a word, Spike Lee has been cooperating with universal pictures a few years ago, and three consecutive works have been produced by universal investment. It's a pity that after Daniels entertainment completed its acquisition of MCA, because of the turmoil during the integration period of the two companies, this kind of cooperative relationship has not extended to Daniels entertainment. As one of the most outstanding black directors in Hollywood, Spike Lee's personal works are limited to the audience, and the box office is usually not too high, but because the production budget is often low, he can usually achieve good profits, and even if he loses money, he won't lose too much, so he is definitely similar to Woody Allen's directors who are worth attracting. After watching last week's box office report, Simon specially sent an email to Ella doechman, asking him to take the time to chat with Spike Lee, and try to win his next movie while the other party has just experienced a failure. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the final profit or loss. Doing so can further increase the diversity of Denise Entertainment's films and shape the corporate brand It's of great benefit. In the new week, two new heavyweight films will be released in North American Theaters, namely, MGM's "speed of life and death" and Warner Bros.'s "gambler Ma Huali". "Speed of life and death" is directed by Martin Campbell, who successfully produced "Wonder Woman" and starred by two Hollywood stars, kenu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Once upon a time, the original "speed of life and death" was not popular among the three creators, Jane de bond, Gino Reeves and Sandra Bullock. However, the film made an outstanding achievement in North America box office with a production cost of US $30 million. This time, influenced by Simon, the "big butterfly", the three main creators are all hot in Hollywood. As a result, the production budget has increased from US $30 million in the original time and space to US $45 million, basically reaching the level of a blockbuster. In order to compete with Batman: the rise of the dark knight on June 3, MGM has also made a big effort this time, preparing 2869 opening screens for speed of life and death, with a budget of $20 million. Today, the official large-scale painting was launched, and the media reputation of "speed of life and death" was released at the same time. According to the preliminary statistics, the comprehensive media score reached 9.4 points, which directly surpassed the 8.2 points of "Stargate" last week, reaching a classic level. Another "gambler Ma Huali" is a complete super blockbuster. The film is adapted from a western drama of the same name in the 1950s. Richard downer, director of the lethal weapons series, collaborates with Mel Gibson again and invites Oscar winner Judy foster to join in. The lineup of the three creators is even better than the speed of life and death. Relying on the success of the "lethal weapon" series, the budget cost of "gambler Ma Huali" is as high as 75 million US dollars, Warner Bros. has also invested 30 million US dollars in the publicity budget, and the number of opening screens of the film has also reached 2537. Because it's not optimistic, danielis entertainment doesn't touch the theme of western movies, but Warner is a big western movie player. Simon is even less optimistic about this project. Even if the box office of "gambler cavalry" in North America exceeds 100 million in memory, warner can hardly make much profit from this project. It's a classic case of "working" for a Hollywood superstar. For the whole project, Mel Gibson directly took away $15 million of high film remuneration, Richard downer also received $8 million from the first-line directors, and even Judy Foster's film remuneration reached $5 million. All three of them have come home with a full load. However, with the huge cost of Warner Bros., Warner Bros. needs to earn about 250 million US dollars in the global box office to make ends meet. In the past, the global box office of Warner Bros. was only 180 million US dollars. Not only that, this time, because there was "Stargate" before, and "speed of life and death" at the same time, and two weeks later, there was "Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight" with super heavyweight, surrounded by powerful enemies, and the media's comprehensive word-of-mouth only barely passed after the painting, it was very difficult for "gambler Mahua Li" to get the box office share in the original time and space again. If the local people want to break through 100 million yuan, unless there is a miracle. More likely, Warner will make a big comeback in this project, and then further increase its dependence on the DC movie universe. Celia Miller didn't see her boss again until she returned to Los Angeles together in the evening. However, women did not show the slightest resentment that a little man had just been happy for a night. Taking advantage of the short time when they returned to Los Angeles, they continued to discuss with Simon the various layout of the westero system in the military field.During her business trip around the earth, Celia was able to participate in the secret negotiation between the westero mercenaries and the French government. The French authorities finally paid 25 million US dollars in compensation for all the members of the military and French advisory group of the former Rwandese government detained in the hands of westero mercenaries, including all the bodies. The $25 million price was offered by Celia on her own initiative after she learned the general situation. It's not that the French government can't afford more. It's because if the claim is too high, it will exceed the tolerance limit of the French government's Secret coffers. At that time, it will have to raise funds through official government financial channels. Once that happens, the French Military Advisory Group will be exposed. This is a result that neither side wants to see. Allowing Celia to participate in this negotiation is also a small test for Simon, mainly to test the credibility of the former Defense Department female official. The result was beyond Simon's expectation, and it also showed him the benefits of having a man who had worked in the federal defense system and was familiar with the hidden rules of various authorities. Before that, both Simon and William McRaney, commander of the westero mercenaries, wanted to speak up to the French government. If they did, they would probably tear their faces. For half a month in a row, Celia also completed the personnel penetration layout of the Rwandese government, and had a private meeting with Leon Kuchma, the current prime minister and next presidential candidate of Ukraine. Not only did she persuade the hesitant Ukrainian government to agree to the establishment of a private military company in Ukraine by the Westeros system, Celia also took charge of the establishment of a private military company in Kiev Ukrainian mercenaries in the aftercare support team. "In the United States, I think our company should mainly recruit middle and low-level retired officers in the short term, cooperate with about 300 ex special forces, and mainly provide military training services to foreign countries," Celia looked at the little man on the sofa next to the Boeing 767 in the front cabin living room, saw that he had no objection, and continued: "the French government arranged a military advisory group in Rwanda Although the news has not been made public, I think other countries will learn from it in the future. Through the disguised provision of similar services by private military companies, we can not only reduce the casualties of official soldiers, but also avoid the accusation of interfering in other countries' internal affairs once the matter is revealed. We have a lot of business space in this area. " Simon is looking through a plan for the formation of a private military company in Australia. He nods and signals Celia to continue. Celia took another look at Simon, thought about it, turned to the subject for a moment, and said, "Simon, in North America, do you really not want to think about the name of the 'military consulting and security services company' Military Consulting & amp; security service MCSS is the name of the private military company of westero system in North America. Australia and Ukraine are not directly named XX Branch, but have similar brand-new names. The former is Perth military consulting and security company, because its headquarters are set up in Perth, Western Australia, while the latter is Ukrainian front-line military service company, headquartered in Kiev. Three names, the biggest characteristic is common, and slightly long. Simon listened to Celia's question, looked up and asked, "what do you think would be the case if you had a name similar to Denise entertainment?" "I think that's better," Celia said. "It's special. It's easy to remember." Simon shook his head and said, "entertainment technology companies, of course, the easier their names are to be remembered, the better. But for private military companies, do you think it's good to be remembered all the time?" Celia pauses, quickly reacts, shakes her head and says, "it's like, it's not." Simon shrugged: "so that's right." In history, Blackwater international, founded in 1997, became famous in the industry in just a few years. Whether in the United States or overseas, when it comes to mercenaries, many people can think of Blackwater at the first time, because the name just sounds tough and domineering. Because of its great reputation and too many eyes on the company, Blackwater has been in trouble ever since it became big. All kinds of scandals have been exposed frequently, so it has lost a lot of orders. Finally, Blackwater finally began to reflect that it is not the largest private mercenary company in the United States at all. If MPRI is the largest company in the United States, it can't even get into the top five in the world. Why is it in trouble? Why doesn't the media go to those big companies? Finally, I understand. Oh, it's the name! The name "Blackwater" is too conspicuous and windy. So one day, Blackwater quietly changed its name to Xe service company. What does Xe mean? Who knows? I don't know! Learning from the lessons of Blackwater, Simon confirmed from the beginning that the more common the name of the private military company of the Westeros system, the better, the more unforgettable it is.
