Four Hundred and Twenty-Five-Don’t Your Knees Hurt?

The buildings on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York, are regarded as examples of architecture and design during the Art Deco period. The buildings that can be seen everywhere are themselves vibrant works of art.

Park Avenue 49th Street, the world's first skyscraper hotel, is the legendary New York Waldorf Astoria Hotel. There is probably no other hotel in the world that has witnessed countless major historical events and hosted as many celebrities from many countries as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, every North American general has stayed here. There used to be a secret train station inside the hotel, which was said to be for the convenience of Roosevelt Jr., but Wayne's curiosity was destined to be impossible to satisfy, because this legendary train station had long been abandoned.

The theme of this hotel is very Chiloluo, that is, everything that exists is to serve the rich. This purpose dates back to the 1880s. John Astor, the head of the Astor family, was known as the richest man in the world at that time.

The richest man left all his wealth to his only son, William Waldorf Astor, and before his death, he specifically asked him to build a hotel specifically to serve the rich. Today the world’s tallest skyscraper hotel, the Waldorf Astoria.

At this time, on the balcony on the 42nd floor of the hotel, a life-and-death war was coming to an end. Wayne stood erect and strong in the sun, happily and relaxedly admiring the art-like street below.

"It's so high up here, honey. Just looking down makes me weak in the legs."

Jennifer Connelly's cat-like lazy voice came. As she spoke, she raised her head vigorously and looked at the man with a face of enjoyment. Just when she was about to suggest that she go back to the room to take a shower, she suddenly screamed "ah".

"My god! Nina, have you always stayed here?!"

The moment Jennifer Connelly raised her head, she suddenly spotted a woman wearing glasses sitting on the balcony on the right. Apart from herself, there was only one woman who could appear in the penthouse suite, and it could only be Wayne's 24 Hours. Personal Assistant Nina.

"Sorry, Jennifer, I was here first."

The assistant lady pushed up her glasses habitually and looked at the two naked people without any emotion, as if the world war just now was not as attractive as the financial statements in her hands. "I was afraid of affecting your mood, so I was very careful not to make any noise."

Nina was wearing a clean white bathrobe in the hotel, leaning on the lounge chair and shrugging. She took another look at Jennifer Connelly's beautiful figure under her delicate face, and joked: "Don't your knees hurt? If I were you, I wouldn't. He would kneel there and look at me stupidly."

"F**K!"

Following the assistant lady's teasing, Jennifer Connelly cursed in a low voice. After reacting, she immediately wanted to get up, but stumbled and fell to her knees again.

Wayne rolled his eyes and stretched out his hand to pull her up. The woman immediately ran into the suite without caring about anything else.

Now that he had been seen all the time, Wayne, with his thick skin, simply pulled the bath towel lying aside and surrounded himself. He calmly picked up a cigarette and lit one, and looked at it comfortably again. Focused on the picturesque neighborhood downstairs.

"Boss, let me remind you, don't catch a cold."

Nina raised her wrist, glanced at the time, and said: "It's now eleven forty-five. The event starts at one o'clock in the afternoon. I've prepared your dress in advance. Also, Jeff just called and he's here." While you were busy ravaging that little wildcat.”

"Damn, I'm going to change clothes right now."

Even with his thick skin, he felt a rare sense of embarrassment when faced with the expressionless report from the assistant lady. He turned around and walked into the suite with a cigarette in his mouth. He walked into the bathroom and started taking a shower and changing clothes.

"Honey."

Jennifer Connelly helped him straighten his shirt, while looking at him cautiously, and asked: "We just went crazy on the balcony, only Nina saw it, right?"

"What?" Wayne didn't understand what she meant. Although this American girl looked soft and delicate, she was actually just as unrestrained and hot behind her back. She shouldn't care about others seeing her accidentally.

The woman helped him straighten his shirt and said directly: "Okay, I mean, it was just Nina who saw it, right? Your bear-like bodyguard wasn't on the balcony just now, was he?"

He shook his head. "That's impossible. As long as Sergey stays in a hotel, he usually just stays in the room and plays games. Hurry up and put on your dress. You still have about an hour to clean yourself up."

There were relatively few activities planned today. After getting off the plane in the morning, they checked directly into the world-famous Regal Hotel. They only arranged a media meeting in the afternoon and a fan meeting at a theater in the Imperial chain in the evening. meeting.

"You take your time to clean it up." He kissed the woman gently on the cheek, took a look at a red evening dress that the woman took out, shook her head slightly, and said, "If you have time in the afternoon, you can call Ni Na, let’s go shopping on Fifth Avenue with you and pick out some more dresses and handbags.”

"Ha, is this a reward for my good performance?" Jennifer Connelly raised her eyebrows with a smile and waved her fist at him playfully. "Then you have to be careful with your credit card. I will never let a big capitalist like you off easily."

Wayne suddenly stretched out his finger, tapped the girl's forehead, picked it up and said emphatically: "Hey, girl, where are we?"

Jennifer Connelly was very smart and immediately responded, arrogantly replying: "This is the starting point of all civilization - the Waldorf Astoria Hotel!"

This hotel has such a high status in North American culture. The conversation they just had was a famous scene in the movie "Scent of a Woman", and half of the scenes in this movie took place in this hotel. It was a worthy scene. The tango scene that is said to be a classic in film history also came from the banquet hall of this hotel.

Leaving the woman in the room to continue cleaning up, Wayne walked out of the bedroom with a smile and went to the large living room in the middle of the suite, ready to ask Jeff Robinov if he had anything important to do with the phone call just now.

As for spending some money on luxury goods for women, he didn't care at all. In his eyes, this is a very low-cost way of communication. Don’t worry about the money at all. The assistant lady has a Wells Fargo black card signed by him in her hand. If you just buy luxury goods, it will be difficult to let that money go. Make the most of each card.

Gu "Nina! Ms. Klein, can you go change your clothes!"

As soon as he entered the living room, Wayne's head was filled with black threads. The assistant lady was still dressed as before, or at least not dressed at all. She was wearing a white baggy bathrobe from the hotel and wearing glasses and was waiting for him.

"I will change before departure. I don't have to wear a dress, right?" Miss Nina retorted plausibly. "This is a rare relaxing time for my team. Living in the most expensive hotel in the world, of course you have to enjoy their best things. Boss, the bathtub here actually has a massage. You don't know... ."

"Hey, hey! I Know."

He raised his hands helplessly and made a surrender gesture. When it comes to work, he is definitely the one who is in the wrong. The assistant is almost inseparable from him and has no private time at all. Apart from enduring her occasional sharp taunts, she can be regarded as a perfect personal assistant.

"Listen, when you go back, you can talk to Hela and ask her to change your room to this damn jacuzzi." He raised his hand helplessly and patted his forehead. "By the way, let her order a cabinet of comfortable bathrobes like this for you. Are you satisfied? Can we talk about business now?"

"Yep!"

A crisp reply came from Nina's mouth, and at the same time she winked playfully at her boss, with an expression as if her trick had succeeded. "Jeff called. He hopes that the final accounts of "The Matrix" will be made at a loss by Warner Bros. and your accountant team. Depending on the situation, he even wants the 40 million principal of the overseas film fund." have eaten."

"Promise him, just say there is no problem with me." Wayne nodded happily. This matter had no impact on him at all, and it would even allow him to get more dividends from shareholders, so there was no need to object. "You should contact Colin later and remind him to keep an eye on all accounts and not to trust Warner Bros.'s financial department too much."

In Hollywood, a place of intrigue and intrigue, he has never been afraid to look at his collaborators with sinful eyes, let alone Warner Brothers. In his heart, the only person he truly trusts is Nina, and now he has to add half a dozen more. Naomi Watts who gave birth to a child.

Yes, compared to the assistant lady whose fate is completely tied to him, he only has half trust in the Australian actress with whom he has a special relationship. Hollywood is a vanity fair that amplifies everyone's emotions. In his opinion, feelings are the most unreliable thing.

"Is there anything else?" Wayne glanced at the time. It was twelve o'clock exactly. If nothing else, he could still take a rest. He had been playing crazy just now, but now he felt a faint protest from his waist.

"have."

Nina's steady voice came again, and she calmly took out her work notebook, flipped it to the middle, took a look, and continued: "Nicolas Cage's agent called and said that they I am willing to sign a contract for the second Batman film, but the specific salary amount must be kept confidential."

"Okay, give them an answer for me." After hearing this, Wayne lit a cigarette and thought for a while before saying: "Ask Nicholas to wait for me for a while and tell him to contact him after we return to Los Angeles. , when the contract is signed, he will be given a specific script in advance, and he needs to find the status in advance for this film."

Wayne believes that as long as Nicolas Cage sees the script, he will be very happy with his choice.

In this Batman, in a sense, the Joker he plays is the protagonist, but Bruce Wayne, played by Christian Bale, is the actual foil, even if Wayne has worked hard to adjust his role. It won't become as unbalanced as the original, and it won't change that.

Of course he could change the setting of the film and even change the original storyline of The Dark Knight, but no director would be willing to give up on making such a great work that is destined to go down in film history.

Perhaps the only biggest change is to give clues about other heroes in the film, giving some hints to pave the way for the arrival of the next hero.

At 12:40 in the afternoon, the "Departed" team left the hotel in their best clothes, got in the car and rushed to the old Manhattan Bank Building at 40 Wall Street, between Nassau Street and William Street, both in Manhattan. People now call this place the Long Bank Building. Trump Tower.

On the ninth floor of this skyscraper, a press conference for "The Departed" will be held, which is regarded as the official debut of the creative team in New York.

"Nina, how much is the first batch of box office share of "The Matrix"?" On the way, Wayne looked at the receding street scene and asked the assistant lady sitting opposite.

In his estimation, the money from "The Matrix" has only one use, and that is to use it for Blue Sky Studio, which is about to become his own. Everyone in the industry knows how expensive an animation studio is. It is always better to be more prepared. That's right.

Jennifer Connelly, who had been silently holding Wayne's arm, also pricked up her ears when she heard them chatting about this issue. Everyone in the industry knew that this young boss was a super rich man, but how much did he actually have? No one knows the money, and even the profit from each of his movies has always been the subject of media speculation.

Nina glanced at Jennifer Connelly and saw that her boss looked indifferent before she said: "The current North American box office of "The Matrix" is 176 million U.S. dollars, and the first batch of the North American theater company's distribution is 75 million U.S. dollars. It has already been credited to Warner Bros.’s account, and it will take time for overseas revenue to be shared, so we still have to wait.”

Wayne nodded silently. The money would not be too much in his hands in the end. He had already been mentally prepared for this, as the bulk of his income was still to come.

The peripherals of "The Matrix" are a big part of the revenue, and as time goes by, it will only become more and more. We have to wait until the movie is released. With the type of "The Matrix" movie, it will definitely become a video rental The income from buying and selling the darlings in the market is definitely not comparable to the box office.

There are also North American TV premiere rights, second-round broadcast rights, various authorizations, various overseas film and television authorizations, etc. This is the real revenue of "The Matrix". This is not a one-time deal like the box office. Similar income can last for more than ten or twenty years. This is considered the exclusive domain of the major movie giants.

In his previous life, he came across Xiangjiang Kung Fu star Zhaolong who participated in the "The Matrix" project on a short video platform. It is said that after so many years, "The Matrix" is still creating a steady stream of revenue for him, and it is also It will continue forever, which shows the money-making ability of this film.

"You have to keep an eye on all the income from "The Matrix"." Wayne was silent for a while, and when he was about to arrive at the event, he suddenly told Nina. "Except for setting aside money to invest in the production of the second and third films, don't touch anything else. We have to prepare for the development of Blue Sky Studio."

"Okay, I understand." Nina nodded seriously.

A convoy of luxury cars slowly parked in the parking lot of the Longtop Building. The first thing that greeted everyone was a flash of camera flashes.

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