hollywood melon man

Chapter 487 The craze of high society

"Your place is really nice, the scenery is beautiful and the place is very large."

After a tour, Bill Gates said to little Gilbert with satisfaction.

"How does it compare to your several estates?" asked little Gilbert with a smile.

"That's almost it. You should visit my farm in Canada and my private ski resort." Bill Gates observed the expression on little Gilbert's face.

Then he said, "If you want, I can transfer it to you."

Little Gilbert curled his lips and said, "It's better for me to have a courtyard house in the capital of China."

"Speaking of China," Bill Gates revealed the purpose of his visit: "I heard that you introduced a Chinese doctor to Steve?"

"I guess so!" Little Gilbert began to brag: "Traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down for 5,000 years. It is extensive and profound, and can treat many difficult and complicated diseases."

Bill Gates was very interested: "Little Gilbert, I think this project has great potential. We can cooperate."

"how to cooperate?"

"We can jointly invest and set up a TCM medical center. You can find those TCM doctors and I will find customers." Bill Gates was a little excited: "You know, many rich people are in poor health.

But Western medicine cannot effectively solve these problems.

If we introduce traditional Chinese medicine to solve this problem, this will be a huge market.”

"So you're going into the medical industry?" asked Gilbert Jr.

"No," Bill Gates said confidently, "I am contributing to society and retaining these elites of humanity."

Bullshit elites, they only care about their wallets and connections.

But you know what, Bill Gates' suggestion is very tempting. But unfortunately, there are only a few masters like Master Shikong, and they don't care about fame and fortune.

Most traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are just filling in the gaps and are even worse than Western medicine practitioners.

However, there is still a solution. Let Master Shikong train a few more disciples. Those who are willing to cooperate can come over. It is not a difficult task.

On the other hand, Drew Barrymore, who has worked with Cameron Diaz, also came to visit Cameron Diaz and see the baby.

"Is this the baby? So cute." Drew Barrymore held the child in her arms, looking very fond of him.

She also noticed that Cameron Diaz's skin was getting better and better, more than twice as good as the last time she saw her.

So Drew Barrymore curiously asked Cameron Diaz: "Michelle, why is your skin getting better and better? What brand of skin care products do you use?
Estee Lauder? Dior? "

Cameron Diaz smiled and said, “No, it’s because Gilbert Jr. invited a master from China who had some beauty recipes and prescribed some medicine for us.

If you take it regularly, you will get the current effect.

Not only me, Sally, but also Jacqueline, Rene and others are using it."

Drew Barrymore is interested. Which woman doesn't want to maintain her youthful beauty as much as possible?

But time is a woman's biggest opponent. No matter how beautiful she is when she is young, no matter how much cosmetics she uses and how much expensive maintenance she spends, she will inevitably decline when she reaches a certain age.

So Drew Barrymore begged Cameron Diaz: "Can you give me some? I want to try it too."

"This," Cameron Diaz hesitated, "is a confidential recipe. I can't give it to you."

"I can pay for it, any amount is fine. We are good friends, can you please do me this favor?" Drew Barrymore begged.

Cameron Diaz still refused to give it to him: "The master said that everyone's physique is different, and the prescriptions he prescribes are also different. Mine may not be suitable for you, and there may be some side effects."

"Then how about this, you introduce the master to me and I'll go find him," said Drew Barrymore.

"I'm afraid it's no use. The master has already returned to China." Cameron Diaz said.

Drew Barrymore felt a little regretful, but still said: "Maybe we can invite a master, because the beauty industry is a promising industry.

Michelle, we can start a beauty empire."

Cameron Diaz is indeed tempted, and Drew Barrymore's proposal is good. But the master is the kind of person who doesn't care about fame and fortune, so I'm afraid he won't agree to cooperate.

So Cameron Diaz had to regretfully reject the proposal for cooperation.

It has to be said that Steve Jobs's improved health, coupled with the beauty recipes used by several women, caused a ripple.

Some people have discovered that this is closely related to Little Gilbert. They didn’t understand it before, but now many people understand why Little Gilbert is obsessed with Chinese culture.

Sometimes, Chinese culture really works. This ancient and mysterious country has lost some of its mystery because of Gilbert Jr. and policy changes.

But people always feel that the more they know about this ancient country, the more mysterious it becomes.

This incident sparked a wave of China fever in the Western upper class, with more and more wealthy entrepreneurs going to China to discuss cooperation, open factories and companies, and look for talented people.

Of course, most of the people found are swindlers, but there are also some truly extraordinary people who are treated as guests of honor by these wealthy people.

Among them, David Ellison is probably the happiest one, because he is also known as a China expert.

Now David Ellison would occasionally show off the copy of Tao Te Ching that little Gilbert gave him, and then he would talk about some specious philosophical theories.

This made David Ellison very popular in high society, and he became a frequent guest at various parties and banquets, and also got to know many Hollywood bigwigs.

For this, Larry Ellison even called Gilbert Jr. to express his gratitude, which made Gilbert Jr. a little confused and puzzled.

I don’t know how long this group of wealthy people’s China craze will last, but it is a change after all.

On May 28th, the disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow", produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Rosen and Sarah Ward, was released.

Roland Emmerich is particularly good at making this type of disaster movie. Although his "Independence Day" was criticized, it did not affect its global box office success.

The same goes for "The Day After Tomorrow", which grossed $6833 million in its first week, successfully beating "Shrek 2: The Monsters" which was in its second week of release, becoming the new North American weekly box office champion.

This week, "Wushuang" earned $852.2 million, ranking fourth on the weekly box office list. The North American box office has reached $2.33 million and the global box office has reached $6.05 million.

The film currently ranks second on the North American and global box office charts, with The Passion of the Christ ranking first.

However, considering the excellent performance of "Shrek the Monsters 2" and the fact that there are many blockbusters to be released later, it will be good for "Wushuang" to maintain its position in the top five of the box office charts, and there is no need to expect it to be the box office champion this year.

But for young Gilbert, this was no big deal. After all, he had already won many box office championships, so he really didn't care.

Some media outlets don't think so. Just this week, film critic Kenneth Turan published a book about his career in Hollywood.

In the book, he recounts in detail the feud between himself and Gilbert Jr., and asserts that Gilbert Jr. will rapidly go downhill in the next four to five years, starting with the reboot of "Batman."

Ever since Warner announced that it would reboot the Batman movie and that Gilbert Jr. would direct it himself, the media and critics were in an uproar.

Some supporters believe that Gilbert Jr. successfully adapted an impossible work like "The Lord of the Rings" and achieved huge success worldwide.

Then, young Gilbert can also revive Batman.

Some people oppose this, arguing that although superhero movies have been increasingly successful in recent years, there have also been many failures.

These works are all from Marvel. DC hasn't released any movies in seven years.

Even if Gilbert Jr. takes over the creation of "Batman", how can he save this superhero with a ruined reputation?
In this regard, the Los Angeles Business Journal asked this question in an exclusive interview with Warner Bros. CEO Doug Walter.

Doug Walter said that he has full confidence in the project. This is not blind confidence in Gilbert Jr., but the confidence generated after reading the script of the trilogy.

"The script is great, and I can only say that this story is different from all the previous Batman movies, and it's a realistic superhero movie.

It’s very serious, very grand, and an epic superhero movie.”

The concept of epic movie has been somewhat abused in the past two years. Even "Troy", which has a mediocre reputation, has been labeled an epic historical movie.

But in fact, apart from the handsome men and beautiful women, there is really nothing worth mentioning in the movie.

However, considering the impossible things that Gilbert Jr. had done in the past, what Doug Walter said seemed to be true. After all, Gilbert Jr. was the one who was good at creating miracles.

During his vacation, Gilbert Jr. has been paying attention to the outside world's reaction to his upcoming takeover of the "Batman" series.

As expected, there was a lot of controversy.

That's right. If you have high expectations for everything, it would be bad.

Gilbert's agent also started negotiations with Warner Bros. regarding Gilbert's personal treatment, because it was a Warner Bros. project and Disney could not get involved.

Gilbert Jr. didn't hesitate and asked for a salary of $2000 million plus a % share of the total profits.

Of course, Warner Bros. would not agree to this condition. The two sides negotiated bit by bit, and since Gilbert Jr. was also a shareholder of Warner Bros., the conditions were easy to compromise on.

The final salary remains unchanged, but the share is changed to 20% of the total box office share plus 5% of the peripheral share.

This is a good offer. Even Spielberg and James Cameron could only get this director contract. But they can't save "Batman", but Gilbert can.

After the contract was finalized, Warner Bros. couldn't wait to hold a press conference for the project. Gilbert Jr. also made a special trip back to Los Angeles to attend the press conference.

(End of this chapter)