Chapter 487 The craze of the upper class
"Your place is really nice. The scenery is beautiful and the place is huge."
After walking around, Bill Gates said to little Gilbert with great satisfaction.
"How does it compare to your several manors?" Little Gilbert asked with a smile.
"That's still close. You should go see my farm in Canada and a private ski resort." Bill Gates observed little Gilbert's expression.
Then he said, "If you want, I can transfer it to you."
Little Gilbert curled his lips and said, "How about I 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?"
"That's right!" Little Gilbert began to brag: "Traditional Chinese medicine has been inherited for five thousand years. It is broad and profound and can treat many difficult and complicated diseases."
Bill Gates was very interested: "Little Gilbert, I think this project has great potential and we can cooperate."
"How to cooperate?"
"We jointly contribute money to establish a traditional Chinese medicine medical center. You go to the traditional Chinese medicine doctors, and I will look for customers." Bill Gates was a little excited: "You know, how many rich people are in poor health.
However, Western medicine cannot effectively solve these problems.
If we introduce traditional Chinese medicine to solve it, this will be such a huge market. "
"So you are going to enter the medical industry?" Little Gilbert asked.
"No," Bill Gates said confidently: "I am here to contribute to society and retain these human elites."
Damn elites, they don’t care about their wallets and connections.
But not to mention, Bill Gates’s suggestion is very tempting. But it's a pity that there are only a few masters like Master Shikong, and they don't care about fame and fortune.
More Chinese medicine doctors are just fake and fake, which is worse than Western medicine.
However, there is still a solution. It is not difficult to ask Master Shikong to train a few more disciples. Anyone who is willing to cooperate can come over.
On the other side, Drew Barrymore, who has worked with Cameron Diaz, also came to visit Cameron Diaz and take a look at the baby.
"Is this the baby? It's so cute." Drew Barrymore held the child in his arms, feeling extremely rare.
She also noticed that Cameron Diaz's skin condition 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? Which brand of skin care products are you using?
Estee Lauder? Dior? "
Cameron Diaz smiled and said: "No, little Gilbert hired a master from China. He had some prescriptions for beauty and prescribed medicine for us.
If you keep taking it, you will get the effect you have now.
Not only me, Sally, but also Jacqueline, Reanth and others are using it. "
Drew Barrymore is interested. What 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, how much cosmetics and expensive care she uses, she will still decline involuntarily when she reaches a certain age.
So Drew Barrymore begged Cameron Diaz: "Can you prescribe some for me? I want to try it too."
"This," Cameron Diaz hesitated: "This is a confidential recipe, I can't give it to you."
"I can pay for it, no matter how much it is. We are good friends, can you just do this for me?" Drew Barrymore begged.
Cameron Diaz still refused: "The master said that everyone's constitution is different, and the prescriptions prescribed are also different. Mine may not be applicable to you, and there may be some side effects."
"In this case, you introduce the master to me, and I will go find him." Drew Barrymore said.
"I'm afraid it won't work. The master has gone back to China." Cameron Diaz said.
Drew Barrymore has some regrets. But he still said: "Perhaps we can invite the master here, because the beauty industry is an industry with a bright future.
Michelle, we can start a beauty empire. "
Cameron Diaz is indeed interested, and Drew Barrymore’s proposal is good. But the master is the kind of person who doesn't like fame and fortune, so I'm afraid he won't agree to cooperate.
Therefore, Cameron Diaz had no choice but to regretfully reject the proposal for this cooperation.
It must be said that Steve Jobs's physical condition improved and the beauty prescriptions used by several women spread, causing a ripple.
Some people have discovered that this is inextricably related to little Gilbert. They didn't understand it before, but now many people understand why little Gilbert is obsessed with Chinese culture.
Sometimes, this Chinese culture really works. This ancient and mysterious country has now lost a bit of mystery because of little Gilbert's relationship and policy changes.
But people always feel that the more they know about it, the more mysterious this ancient country becomes.
This incident has triggered a wave of China fever in the upper class of the West. More and more wealthy entrepreneurs are going to China to discuss cooperation, open factories and companies, and also look for talented people.
Of course, most of the people found are swindlers, but there are also some really strange people who are found and treated as guests by these rich people.
Among them, David Ellison is probably the happiest one, because he is also known as China Master.
Now David Ellison takes out the "Tao Te Ching" given to him by Little Gilbert from time to time, shows it, and then talks about some specious philosophical theories.
This made David Ellison very popular in the upper class, becoming a frequent guest at various parties and banquets, and he also met many Hollywood big shots.
For this reason, Larry Ellison also called little Gilbert to express his gratitude, which made little Gilbert a little confused and confused.
I don’t know how long the Chinese enthusiasm of these rich people will be popular, but in short it is a change.
The time comes on May 28th, produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Rossum, and Sarah Ward The disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was released.
Roland Emmerich is particularly good at making such disaster movies. 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 US$68.33 million at the box office in its first week, successfully beating "Shrek 2" in its second week of release and becoming the new North American weekly box office champion.
This week, "Wushuang" received a box office of US$8.522 million, ranking fourth on the weekly box office list. The North American box office has reached US$233 million, and the global box office has reached US$605 million.
The film currently ranks second on the North American and global box office charts, with "The Passion of the Christ" ranking first.
However, given the excellent performance of "Shrek 2" and the fact that there are many blockbusters to be released in the future. By then, it will be good if "Wushuang" can maintain its position in the top five box office charts, and there is no need to expect to be the box office champion this year.
But for little Gilbert, this is no big deal. After all, he has already won the box office title, so he really doesn't care.
Some media don’t think so. Just this week, film critic Kenneth Turan published a book about his history in Hollywood.
In the book, he details his feud with Gilbert Jr. and asserts that Gilbert Jr. will go downhill rapidly in the next four or five years, starting with the reboot of "Batman."
Since Warner announced the reboot of the "Batman" movie, with Gilbert Jr. directing it himself, the media and critics have been in an uproar.
Those who support it believe that Gilbert Jr. has successfully adapted impossible works like "The Lord of the Rings" and achieved great success worldwide.
Little Gilbert can do the same thing when resurrecting "Batman".
There are those who object and believe that although superhero movies have continued to be successful in recent years, there have also been many failed ones.
These works are all from Marvel. DC has not had a movie in seven years.
Even if Gilbert Jr. takes over the creation of "Batman", how can he save this superhero whose reputation has gone bankrupt?
In this regard, the "Los Angeles Business Journal" asked about this in an exclusive interview with Warner Pictures CEO Doug Walter.
Doug Walter said he has full confidence in the project. This is not blind confidence in little Gilbert, but the confidence generated after reading the scripts of the trilogy.
"The script is great, and all I can say is that this story is different from the previous "Batman" movies. It's a realistic superhero movie.
Very serious, very ambitious, an epic superhero movie. "
The concept of epic movies has been somewhat abused in the past two years. Even "Troy", which has a moderate reputation, has been labeled as an epic historical movie.
But in fact, apart from the handsome guys and beauties, there is really nothing worth mentioning about the movie.
But thinking about the impossible things that little Gilbert has done in the past, what Doug Walter said seems to be true. After all, little Gilbert is the person who is good at creating miracles.
During his vacation, Gilbert Jr. has also been paying attention to the outside world's reaction to his upcoming takeover of the "Batman" series.
To his surprise, it was very controversial.
That's right, it would be even worse if everyone had expectations.
Gilbert Jr.'s agent is also negotiating with Warner Pictures about Gilbert's personal treatment. Because it is a Warner Pictures project, Disney cannot participate.
Little Gilbert was not polite and said he would receive a salary of US$20 million plus a 20% share of the total revenue.
Of course, Warner Pictures couldn't agree to this condition. The two parties negotiated bit by bit, and Gilbert Jr. was also a shareholder of Warner, so the conditions were easy to compromise.
In the end, the remuneration remained unchanged, and the share was changed to 20% of the total box office share, plus 5% of the peripheral shares.
This salary is good. Spielberg and James Cameron can only get this director contract. But they can't save "Batman," little Gilbert can.
After finalizing the contract, Warner Pictures couldn't wait to hold a project launch conference. Little Gilbert also made a special trip back to Los Angeles to attend the press conference.
(End of chapter)