Chapter 435: A Trip to Europe
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The weekend was supposed to be off, because I had been out of Los Angeles for almost a whole week, and I couldn't relax this weekend.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Simon ended the production meeting of "The Last of the Mohicans", and after a brief farewell to the main creators, he returned to Dumeijia Manor.
Today is Saturday, September 14th.
When I got home, I handed the briefcase to Alison, the girl who came over, asked a question, and walked to the sea-facing living room on the first floor of the villa.
Janet was leaning on the sofa, her calves resting on Lady D's thighs, being gently kneaded by Deborah, very much like a concubine of the East Palace. Six months of pregnancy, while the belly is getting bigger, women will inevitably experience the common edema of pregnant women, but fortunately, it is not serious.
Seeing Simon, Janet hummed a few times, and her expression was a little pitiful.
Simon sent the girl away, and sat in the position she had just started to help Janet knead her calf. Men are always stronger than women. Janet snorted a few times comfortably before saying, "It's so annoying."
"Why don't you go to Europe with me tomorrow, change places, and take a break in Italy?"
Although he had just returned to Los Angeles for a few days, Simon had to leave for Europe again this time.
The closing ceremony of this Venice Film Festival is on September 16, next Monday, which is actually the day after tomorrow. Daenerys Entertainment's "Farewell to the Piano" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this Venice Film Festival. According to the feedback from Ella Deutschman, it is no surprise that "Farewell to the Piano" has locked the Golden Lion. prize.
Simon plans to attend some parties after the Venice Film Festival.
In addition, the opening of this year's Milan Fashion Week is September 26, Sofia also hopes that Simon can attend.
The above two are just incidental. The filming of "Wonder Woman" has entered the second half. It happened to be filmed in several locations in Italy recently. Simon followed up with the crew for a week at the beginning of the filming in July, and it is nearing the end. Follow up for another week.
As a project in the DC Cinematic Universe that is basically entirely Daenerys Entertainment, "Wonder Woman" fully deserves Simon's attention.
Janet naturally knew Simon's itinerary in advance, and shook her head when she heard the words: "I don't want to go, I suddenly regret having this little guy now, I really want to kick him out of my stomach immediately."
Simon smiled and helped Janet continue to knead her calf with one hand, reached over and stroked the woman's round belly with the other hand, and said, "It's about time, did I kick you today?"
Janet wrinkled her nose: "I kicked it, and it stopped after I scolded it for a few words."
The smile on the corner of Simon's mouth was even stronger. After thinking about it, he said, "Or, if you don't want to go to Europe, go back to Australia to live for a while. Can I take you back to Australia tomorrow?"
Janet blinked a few times, stared at Simon and said, "You want to go back to Australia, right?"
Simon wondered: "Why do I want to go back to Australia?"
"Hum hum."
"What does it mean?"
Janet raised her chin, as if you knew it in your own heart.
Simon unswervingly pretended to be stupid and changed the subject: "What would you like to eat at night?"
Janet suddenly got a little temper, and said in a hoarse voice: "I want to sleep."
Speaking of which, Simon has always suspected that the woman used to smoke.
Otherwise, how could it be such a slightly hoarse voice, but the woman never admits it, and Simon has never seen her smoke.
Not entangled in this thought, Simon nodded immediately: "I will take you to the bedroom, sleep for a while, and then call you after dinner?"
Janet's tone was a bit more savage and coquettish: "I want to sleep on my stomach."
"..."
Janet's tone suddenly became aggrieved again, and she repeated, "I want to sleep on my stomach."
"This is very difficult. Besides, sleeping on your stomach is really unladylike."
"Well, it's all your fault."
It's unreasonable for a woman to have a temper.
Simon didn't have the slightest intention of reasoning with the big-bellied woman, and followed Janet's tone of voice for a while, before she let her go to sleep on her stomach.
To appease Janet, Simon went to explain some dinner in person, and when she came back, Janet had returned to her usual appearance, as if the childishness just now did not exist.
He asked Simon to sit down on the other side, leaning on his man's lap and watching the red sunset seascape outside the floor-to-ceiling window, talking small words.
It wasn't until twilight that Lady A came over to help turn on the lights in the living room, and the scenery outside the window was completely lost under the shadow of the light.
Dinner was ready, and Janet was lazily unwilling to move, and was carried by Simon to the restaurant.
Still habitually sitting down next to Simon and eating food specially prepared according to the recipe for pregnancy, Janet also talked about some serious business: "Forbes will release the new annual list of the 400 richest people in the United States next Monday, but in the afternoon I have already I got the information, you can read it later."
Simon asked directly: "How much?"
Janet sells the trick: "You can see for yourself."
Although no detailed statistics have been made, Simon occasionally estimates his own wealth in private.
In any case, apart from the royal families floating on the oil fields in the Middle East, there are definitely few people in this world who are richer than Simon in terms of non-state individuals.
always difficult
To avoid the 'money to a certain extent, it becomes a number' statement.
Simon has often had similar thoughts over the years since he topped the rich list last year.
However, Simon also knows that the main reason for this idea is that his personal wealth of tens of billions of dollars has not exerted its due influence because of his insufficient background.
And, for Simon, either last year's $21 billion or this year's, it's not enough.
At the peak of the Rockefeller family, private wealth accounted for 1.5% of the U.S. GDP. According to the U.S. GDP figure of $5.98 trillion in 1990, Simon needed to accumulate about $90 billion in personal assets to be equal to the Rockefeller family at its peak.
Of course, when the fact is obvious, the peak of the Rockefeller family was already in the later years of John Rockefeller.
Compared with John Rockefeller back then, Simon, who is only 23 years old this year, still has too much time. With the current expansion rate of the Westeros system, it is only a matter of time before he surpasses the Rockefeller family and surpasses the Rockefeller family's influence in the United States. not too far away.
The next day continued to be a busy morning, and Simon boarded a private Boeing 767 directly to Venice, Italy in the afternoon.
There is a 10 hour time difference between Los Angeles and Venice.
After calculating the time in advance, after a flight of about 12 hours, the Boeing 767 arrived in Venice, and the local time was 5 o'clock in the afternoon on September 16.
Simon had no plans to attend the closing ceremony, but arranged to attend the closing dinner afterward.
As the base of Gucci, with successful experience in the two major film events of Oscar and Cannes, Sofia will naturally not miss the Venice Film Festival.
However, in order not to steal the limelight from the closing ceremony, Gucci's Venice Film Festival-themed party took place on Saturday night two days before.
Speaking of which, it is not no problem to win the naming rights of the closing dinner of the Venice Film Festival, just to avoid suspicion, Gucci did not do this. Otherwise, the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment won an award, and Gucci, which belongs to the Westeros system, paid for the closing ceremony dinner, which is too easy to give people some reverie.
Even if you hide your ears, there are many things in this world that you have to do on the surface.
The three cities of Venice, Florence, and Milan are very close to each other, and the distance between them is only more than 200 kilometers, which is only half the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Private jets can reach them in one take-off and landing.
Therefore, Sophia also specially rushed over from Milan.
The woman was recently in Milan preparing for next week's Gucci show at Milan Fashion Week, and the pair plan to stay tonight at Simon's mountainside villa on the shores of Lake Como in Milan.
Simon did not buy property in Venice.
On the one hand, there is no suitable real estate.
On the other hand, Simon has some instinctive resistance to this water city.
As for the reason, it's probably like Simon isn't interested in private yachts. The feeling of floating on the water made Simon instinctively feel a certain sense of insecurity.
Arrive in Venice, have a simple dinner with Sofia and Ella Deutschman, and discuss some recent events at Highgate in a suite at the Venice Boutique Hotel on Lido Island, where the closing dinner will be held. , while waiting for the results of the awards that keep coming at the closing ceremony.
When the news came that Holly Hunter won the best actress at this Venice Film Festival, everyone knew that the big picture was settled.
The film festival jury may give some honors such as the jury award to some films that cannot win the Golden Lion, but the best actress is not listed here.
While waiting for the final news, Simon also heard another name.
"The Big Red Lantern Hanging High".
The film won the Silver Lion along with two other films.
Last year's "Judou" received a good response, so Deutschman has already won the North American distribution rights for "The Red Lanterns" ahead of schedule, and plans to once again hit the Oscar for best foreign language film this year.
Because Daenerys Entertainment will voluntarily give up the competition for major awards such as the Oscar for best picture next year, and a lot of public relations resources are idle, it is still very easy to win some marginal awards such as best foreign language film.
Simon had neither push nor obstruction to this matter, but just let Deutschman operate by himself.
At nine o'clock, the closing ceremony finally came to an end.
Directed by Jane Campion and starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel, "Piano Love" successfully reached the top and won the Golden Lion, the highest honor at this Venice Film Festival.
At the end of the closing ceremony, the guests left the Cinema Palace and began to gather at the Venice Boutique Hotel, which gradually became lively.
When the "Piano Farewell" arrived at the residence, Simon and others rushed to the banquet hall and expressed their combination to the film's main creators.
Not many people knew in advance that Simon would appear at the closing dinner of the film festival. As the news spread, there was some commotion in the banquet hall, and even many closing ceremony guests who were not planning to attend the banquet also temporarily came over.
The turmoil in Europe or Eastern Europe will be basically over by the end of this year.
In the next few years, while continuing to integrate and expand the domestic market in North America, a large part of Daenerys Entertainment will focus on developing the European market.
In the general direction, of course, the US government has come forward to ask European countries to increase the opening of the local film market through relevant trade negotiations.
Intensity, specific to each Hollywood studio, needs to show their magic.
The next stage of Daenerys Entertainment's goal in Europe is to penetrate the major European movie ticket warehouses in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. If you want to develop the movie market, network connections are crucial, so take part in more Such film festival activities are only good for Daenerys Entertainment executives.
Speaking of which, not just Daenerys Entertainment, but the entire Westeros system will begin to slowly penetrate into Europe in the next step.
The future development of Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Igret and other companies held or controlled by Westeros will be global. If you want to prevent these companies from being troubled by the European Union for three days in the future, Westeros The system must have enough leverage in Europe.
Not just integrating the Westeros system into the U.S. economy, but even the entire world, is something Simon has been thinking about these days.
If the EU wants to make some more targeted measures in the future, it needs to consider the consequences, whether it will damage its own economy, whether it will cause the unemployment of its own workers, whether it will cause the reduction of its own tax revenue, etc. Wait.
With the continuous change of vision and insight, Simon has also become more and more aware that it is not a shrewd decision for companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Google to try to take tax avoidance measures in Europe.
Leaving the benefit taxation to various countries will only bring more benefits to the development of these enterprises themselves in these countries' markets.
However, the option of avoiding tax as much as possible is actually understandable if you stand at the level of professional managers of those companies. The task of professional managers is to create profits for shareholders as much as possible.
In comparison, Simon has now stood on another level.
The lively and noisy closing dinner continued until late at night. Simon couldn't help but get a little drunk under the entertainment of countless people. It was past the early morning when he and Sofia returned to the villa by Lake Como in Milan.
Probably because of the frequent running around, Simon has also become very easy to adapt to the jet lag.
I didn't rest until nearly two o'clock last night, and woke up less than nine o'clock in Milan time the next day.
Sophia got up earlier, looking radiant.
The news of Simon's attendance at the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival last night has been reported by the local Italian media. However, because of Simon's presence in Italy, the local Italian media is even more lively today. The topic of discussion is "Forbes" in North America. The magazine just released its new annual list of America's 400 richest people yesterday.
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