Early in the morning, in Beverly Hills, Simon was lying on the bed. Blake Lively got out of the quilt and exhaled a few breaths of air. He licked the corner of his mouth and asked, "What time is it?"

Simon looked weakly at his watch and said, "It's 7:30!"

Blake Lively put his head on Simon's chest and responded, "I'm going to New York today, when will you be there?"

"It depends, I'm not sure when it will be over, I'm going to keep an eye on 'Iron Man' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'," Simon said, smoothing over Blake Lively. groping around.

As for "26 Dresses", "Gossip Girl", and "Slumdog Millionaire", you don't need to spend too much energy on your own, and "Life and Death" and "Fake Marriage" have just reached the stage of script perfection.

"Well, then you can find me when you go to New York!"

Simon nodded. Now the company has no liquidity, and the last 20 million is also the funds of "Gossip Girl" and "Slumdog Millionaire".

Burbank, Xinghai Pictures, in Simon's office.

"The shooting progress of "Iron Man" is very good, and it will be closed next month, and it will enter the important post-production special effects production," Kevin Feige was a little excited on the phone.

"That's good, the special effects should be carried out earlier in the future. By the way, the preparatory work for "Thor" can also start!" Simon also said.

"Simon, what about the release of our "Iron Man"," Kevin Feige asked a little embarrassedly. After all, the promotion of the movie has also begun, so it would be better to set the schedule earlier!

"Don't worry, there will be no problems during next year's Christmas schedule. We have a lot of time to publicize, and funds will be sufficient by then," Simon answered truthfully to the phone, and there is still one and a half years left, enough It works by itself.

After hanging up the phone, Simon took out his newly bought first-generation Apple mobile phone and played with it. He sighed slightly, still not used to it!

Then he threw the iPhone in his hand on the table and called Martha Cosby in.

"Martha, are all the information I asked you to collect on some independent small publishers?" Simon asked.

"Well, it's all there!" Martha Cosby said and handed Simon the document.

Simon took it over and looked over it. The top one was actually Lionsgate. Simon smiled helplessly and said, "Our company doesn't have the ability to think about Lionsgate yet, and it's a listed company anyway."

Then came New Line Films, Miramax Films, and Simon all directly missed, and the second-tier distributors who were backed by big groups could not eat it.

"Top Entertainment, IFC Pictures, and Prologue are all our goals," explained Martha Cosby.

"IFC is a film and television production and distribution company under Rainbow Media Group's AMC TV station; Overture Pictures is a small distribution company under Starz TV station; Summit Entertainment has no backer, but is an independent film production and distribution company established by three investors!"

"Other distribution companies are either too expensive or not perfect, or they can only distribute art films. In terms of organization, these three companies lack only the experience of distributing commercial blockbusters!"

"Peak Entertainment," Simon muttered while leaning back on his chair, "This is not bad, it will release three movies this year, there is no library, and the price is much cheaper, but the distribution system is still good, it has been established for more than ten years, like " Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Vanilla Sky have their company's investment!"

"Boss, the most successful films released by Summit Entertainment are the "Garment Horror" series and "Dancing Out of My Life" series. The director of "Dancing Out of My Life" is working with us on "26 Dresses"!" Martha Coase than reminded Simon.

"Now we Xinghai Entertainment's "Iron Man" and "Slumdog Millionaire" have not contacted the publisher. The outside world knows that we must intervene in the distribution. If there is no good opportunity, we can only spend money," Martha said. Cosby said with a frown, otherwise he would have to form his own distribution network.

"Is there an opportunity?" Simon smiled. The capital behind these film companies is from Wall Street. Soon, the opportunity will come soon.

"The three investors of Summit Entertainment, one is a hedge fund, one is a real estate business, and the other is an executive of a bank," Simon looked at the information in his hand. This combination is really good.

"Boss, AMC TV's revenue has not been good in recent years, IFC Films, do we have a chance?" Martha Cosby asked.

Simon shook his head and said: "Difficult, you don't know how popular "Prison Break" is, AMC TV has turned over, and the chance of acquiring Overture Pictures is greater than it."

"However, although our main target is these three now, we still have to keep an eye on other publishers. If it's not perfect, we can improve it ourselves. We can let us do what we do when we first build up the air."

"The boss, the reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" co-operated by the TV department and the Kardashian family has been negotiated, and the company has no funds!" Martha Cosby was a little confused.

"Is that so!" Simon also knew that the company had no funds, and the 50 million left at that time and the overseas box office share of "The Queen Wears Prada" were spent.

"I remember from Marvel's side that they still have 20 to 30 million US dollars in their accounts. It is the leftover from the bank loan of 225 million US dollars. Let's transfer it first." The budget of "Iron Man" is only 140 million US dollars. In addition to the superhero copyrights repurchased before, Marvel should still have close to 30 million funds in its account.

"Okay, what Nina means is that we can continue to borrow from the bank. Now Xinghai Entertainment's debt is 285 million US dollars, and the ten-day North American box office of "Spartan 300 Warriors" has reached 130 million US dollars. According to the evaluation, the final North American box office The box office will exceed 200 million US dollars, and the bank will continue to lend to us, after all, we will work with Lionsgate on the promotion of No Country for Old Men!" Martha Cosby said.

"That's fine, then take another $15 million loan from Credit Suisse, and then take $15 million from Marvel, $30 million is enough for us to promote No Country for Old Men and develop the reality show and other expenses. Then we will The box office received from "Spartan 300 Warriors" was divided, and the project of "Life and Death" was also funded. "Simon will not use the capital of his nine-headed bird fund, which is the principal of harvesting leeks.

In this way, Xinghai Entertainment has a debt of 300 million US dollars!