Hollywood New Century

Early in the morning, the breeze was blowing, and Simon leaned on a chair on the balcony, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

At this time, the Venice Film Festival is in full swing; the Nine-headed Bird Fund is also going all out to short the stocks of the two houses; the support of the Democratic candidate *** in the US presidential election; the purchase of the bonds of the US Summit Entertainment; the films of Xinghai Entertainment and TV production.

Although Simon Parker is currently in San Francisco, he has not relaxed his neglect of his current work.

"It's finally here!" Simon took a sip of his coffee and looked at the Pacific Ocean in the distance. The number of people who defaulted on housing loans increased exponentially. Although the government kept saying that the economy would not decline, the actual situation was very different. bad.

House prices have fallen sharply. Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are guaranteed by the US government, their stock prices are very stable at present.

However, Simon of course knows that the two houses can't stop this monstrous wave, and the subprime mortgage crisis is not just talking about it.

"Darling, you got up so early?" Blake Lively came out sleepily, wearing a **** silk pajamas.

Sitting next to Simon, he kissed Simon's face, and said with a smile, "Because the newspaper said that you dared to gamble on Wall Street because you made a successful investment?"

"Heh, the newspaper also said that I might be selling Xinghai Entertainment. I don't think about it because the wind is rain," Simon smiled and continued:

"I just got a project from the company's TV department about making Keeping Up With the Kardashians!"

"I know this, Xinghai Entertainment's production will be broadcast on E! Entertainment Channel, you have already started?" Blake Lively knew that Kim Kardashian broke out a **** video incident this year, very popular.

"Oh, it will be broadcast in November, and the recording has already started. It is the first project for the company to enter the reality show." Simon doesn't care about the character and image of the main creator.

However, the Facebook financing that Simon has been paying attention to has made progress. Microsoft won the competition from Google and valued Facebook at US$15 billion, investing US$240 million in exchange for a 1.6% stake in Facebook!

According to Zuckerberg's current nearly 40% stake, according to Microsoft's valuation, this guy is worth an estimated $56 billion.

"Simon, are you still going to be here in San Francisco? I'm going to help promote Gossip Girl," Blake Lively said, wrapping his arms around Simon's neck.

"No, I'm leaving too. Let's go to Germany. "Life and Death" is being filmed there. I'll go take a look." Simon mainly wants to go to Germany to see the specific situation of the film fund and tax rebate policy there.

After all, the rebate of the German Federal Film Fund is relatively strong, plus the European Union Film Fund, the German government and the Berlin Film Festival's cooperation with the World Film Fund.

Therefore, although Germany has perfected the tax rebate loophole for overseas films before, the compensation that can be obtained by co-producing films with German film production companies and filming in Germany is still relatively large.

Blake Lively nodded, feeling that Simon Pike was under a lot of pressure recently, after all, his investment in Wall Street was hundreds of millions of dollars!

"By the way, Simon, there's something I want to tell you," Blake Lively said hesitantly.

"Well, what's the matter?" Simon frowned when he saw Blake Lively's hesitation.

"It's about Jennifer Smith, who seems to have met Harvey Weinstein once in New York," Blake Lively didn't want to say, but Jennifer Smith was Simon's friend.

"Once, Harvey Weinstein asked Jennifer to go to the hotel to talk about a role, but he was rejected. Later, I heard from the agent Susan White..." Blake Lively held back for a while, and then said:

"Harvey Weinstein said to keep Jennifer Smith out of the show!"

"Well, hotel audition?" Simon shook his head and smiled. "Harvey Weinstein means to block Jennifer Smith?"

Jennifer Smith is just a small actor now, and it is too easy for a big man like Harvey Weinstein to deal with her.

"I didn't hear Susan mention it!" Simon said helplessly. Jennifer Smith's current movies and TV are all projects of Xinghai Entertainment, and of course Harvey Weinstein can't get in.

However, some other movies or series are not easy to say, after all, Weinstein Pictures is an independent distributor.

"Susan was going to tell you about this, but Jennifer said that you don't need to bother you with such trivial matters!" Blake Lively said and stretched.

"I know, but it's good that people don't suffer!" Simon said that he is also a well-known figure in Hollywood now, and Jennifer Smith is also his friend after all. If Harvey Weinstein also spoiled it, it would be too useless .

"Susan has told us that we should all be careful about Harvey Weinstein, and we all know the conflict between Xinghai Entertainment and Weinstein Pictures, and the projects of Weinstein Pictures are very important. Be careful!" In fact, Blake Lively wouldn't work with Weinstein Pictures at all, after all, he now has Simon Pike's Xinghai Entertainment as his backer.

Simon nodded, picked up the phone next to him and called Sonia Roman.

"What, is something wrong, Simon?" Sonia Roman's voice came.

"Did Sharon Waxman go to the Venice Film Festival?" Simon asked.

"Well, I went. I went there when the Venice Film Festival opened at the end of last month. You know, Italy is basically the European headquarters of Weinstein Films. Harvey Weinstein's branch in Italy is very important. ," Sonia Roman heard Simon asked about Sharon Waxman's investigation, and directed Simon to be concerned about Harvey Weinstein's situation.

"That's good, there should be a lot of victims at this kind of film festival. Let Sharon Waxman investigate carefully," Simon knew that sleeping with female stars in the entertainment industry was quite normal.

However, Jennifer Smith is his friend, and Harvey Weinstein has to deal with her!

"Sharon Waxman still knows a lot of people, and she has already investigated Harvey Weinstein's situation before, but the completed news is not published according to her original book, I believe she will definitely surprise us. ," Sonia Roman was confident.

"That's good, next year will be a great opportunity!" The new president adds to how good the economic crisis is.