Hollywood Hunter

For BlackBerry, Simon's first choice was to consider giving it to Nokia, and then to Scoble, who plans to enter the wireless communications field, but not to Tinkerbell.

The main reason is that they don't match.

However, after some exchanges in Tinkerbell's lab and then at dinner, the project was still snatched up by C-girl, who plans to use it to enter the cell phone field in advance.

In any case, this phone is after all just an excess.

Although the market capitalization of Blackberry once reached a maximum of $80 billion, it was more of a conceptual operation than anything else, and the phone lacked the same super sticky user base as Apple once did.

Anyway, since Tinkerbell is going to make a phone sooner or later, it's a good idea to practice with it now.

Success is better, of course, but if it fails, it's a failure.

Then there was the question of the name.

Simon's reminder led Tinkerbell to apply for a large number of trademarks around the world starting with the 'i' series, including, of course, the 'iPhone'.

Since it was a cell phone that made groundbreaking use of webmail technology, the use of the iPhone trademark seemed fine, but Simon was still adamantly against it. The phone was so far from the iPhone that Simon remembered, that it would be a waste to use the trademark in advance.

Only, Simon's proposed Blackberry, based on a button design that resembled the layout of a blackberry, was incompatible with the naming conventions of Tinkerbell products.

If you decide to do it, of course you can't treat it differently from the start.

It would be an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) nightmare, and Simon, who also has some OCD, had a hard time accepting it.

After some discussion, a slight compromise was reached and the name was decided to be iBerry, with 'Berry' being a collective term for 'berry, berry', so that future marketing would still be able to promote the keystrokes inspired by the berry, and that instead of Blackberry, it would no longer be limited to black.

The proposal was finalized, followed by the acquisition of the Canadian company RIM.

This company also had an IPO last year to take advantage of the new technology wave, but it was a very small one, with a market capitalization of less than $300 million, and if it waited until the Nasdaq turned, it might only need half that much. And even if we don't get the company, with Westeros's vast technology accumulation, it won't be difficult to launch the iBerry on its own.

These were the things that the Tinkerbell team was responsible for.

The next day was March 7.

Friday.

Simon arrived in San Francisco on Wednesday, stayed for two days, and departed for the East Coast in the morning as usual.

Inside the cabin office of the Boeing 767.

After the private jet lifted off, Simon's first concern was the Hollywood box office situation of the past week.

In the box office week of February 28th to March 6th, the third week of release, "BJ's Diary of a Single Woman" took in another $19.46 million with a big drop of 33%, and still easily won the weekly box office championship. According to the pattern of a film's decline, last week's deep drop will narrow this week's decline, so it is very likely that this romantic film will break the 100 million dollar mark in the coming week and become the first movie of 1997 in the 100 million dollar box office club of Daenerys Entertainment.

The second and third places on the list are occupied by two re-released Star Wars films, which are not to be missed.

And then there's the fourth-place film, "Two Sticks of Smoke,

The fifth-place finisher, Nolan's The Following, also in its fourth week, has grossed $4.26 million and $20.64 million in total box office.

These days, two small, seemingly insignificant films, "Two Sticks" and "The Following," are getting more and more attention, mainly because, according to current box office estimates, the two films, which are only in the worldwide theatrical release stage, are expected to bring no less than $30 million in net proceeds for Daenerys Entertainment.

That's $60 million for two films.

And that's not counting the subsequent video and TV credits.

This is the kind of profit that most of Hollywood's bombshell movies don't get at the theatrical stage, and it really makes other studio executives feel like they want to freak out.

With three of the top five Danielle Entertainment titles on the list, further down the list, it's worth mentioning "Mindcatcher".

Having just completed its 13th week of screenings, "Mindcatcher" pushed the film's local gross to a high of $150 million with a $3.35 million weekly take, bringing the film's total to $152.51 million. Compared to the smaller films "Two Sticks of Fire" and "The Following," "Mindcatcher," which had a production budget of only $10 million, the profit margin is clearly more maddening.

This is one thing that many people in Hollywood circles can't figure out.

It is clear that the era of heavy bombs has arrived, and that Daenerys Entertainment has produced the largest number of heavy bombs of this era, but this company, in addition to a series of super-selling heavy bombs, has always been able to win big with small, one after another, to release various box office dark horses.

It's like a hangman.

However, the truth is that someone with a prophetic edge does belong to the open-minded kind.

On the other hand, a series of blockbuster films have made the creators behind these projects popular, and recently both Guy Ritchie and Christopher Nolan have been the subject of close contact with Hollywood studios, and Simon didn't have much of a reaction when he read an email Amy wrote to her specifically about this.

There is a 'sophomore effect' on up-and-coming Hollywood filmmakers: after a hit, the next film is usually a flop, or even a flash in the pan.

Both Guy Ritchie and Nolan are debut feature films, and with the success of "Two Sticks and a Chaser" and "The Following", it would be hard to get their second film made without a budget of $20 million to $30 million, plus the fact that studios are accustomed to being accommodating or even lenient with newly famous filmmakers.

Simon wouldn't have stopped working with the two he had his eye on, but would never have blindly gone out of his way to compete for them.

Of course, again, because Daenerys Entertainment is so well established, there is no shortage of projects, and therefore no need for the kind of accommodations that other studios have to make.

Otherwise, it would have been like Paramount, which almost gave up the Exploding Shell for the Transformers series and made whatever it wanted, resulting in the complete failure of the Transformers series. And then there's Nolan, Warner is also for sale, any build, any play, the result is the release of the "Creed", even how to release depends on the attitude of the director, the results can be imagined.

The company's strategy is to make sure that the company's customers are satisfied with the quality of its products and services. And then there was Warner, who immediately humped up the 'tail light' classmate, with a $300 million investment in 'Justice League'.

The result was another tragedy.

In New York, in addition to accompanying the pregnant women, there was another thing this time.

After a period of negotiation, the Carlyle Group successfully took the British company Platinum Engines in a bid with Caterpillar, the final price of $1.425 billion, mainly because the United States' largest construction machinery giant Caterpillar to participate in the bid, compared to the initial budget of about $1.3 billion, the transaction price is $100 million higher.

On the other side of the equation, Carlyle and China's XCMG have also negotiated a purchase agreement, with three initial targets, XCMG, Sany and LiuGong, with only the last one still in the negotiation stage as Simon finalized.

Now, with the acquisition of Platinum Engines, Westerlo's presence in China's construction equipment sector can be accelerated.

Initially, the company will take over XCMG's own diesel engine subsidiary, thus transferring the production line to China in the shortest possible time.

In addition, the Carlyle team's operations in Ukraine have been very productive.

In addition to the technology and teams tapped from Ukraine for port and mining machinery, Carlyle has also acquired shipbuilding expertise and selected a long-sought-after shipyard in China called Jingjiang Shipyard in Jingjiang, Jiangsu province. Just last year, the yard achieved the feat of developing and building a 10,000-ton freighter on its own, a breakthrough for a non-national, local shipyard.

The rise of China in the next few decades will inevitably trigger another boom in shipping, and Simon had his eye on South Korea's shipbuilding industry, intending to make a vulture investment after the next financial crisis in Southeast Asia. On the Chinese side, since there was a suitable target, of course, he would not miss it.

After initial contact, the response from Jingjiang Shipyard was also quite positive.

East Hampton, Long Island.

Between busy days, it was already Sunday.

This afternoon, Grace was quietly brought here for a pregnancy test, and by the way, the sex of another little one was determined.

It's a boy.

This added to Simon's stress levels once again.

Six little ones, and if they're all boys, I wonder if they'll break their heads over the family fortune in the future.

Grace, who had just returned from a pregnancy test and was staying with Simon on the living room couch, was very decisive when it came to this issue: "That's why I need you to be a tougher father.

"Remember the theory," Simon said with one arm around the woman beside him, "that if a father is too strong, his children become weak, and I don't want that to happen even more."

"Well, it's all on you anyway."

"You're responsible, too."

"Well, I'll do whatever responsibility you put me in charge of."

Bryce Levison came in with a fruit plate, just in time to hear Grace's words, and rolled her eyes, "It feels like you're not even just taking him on as king, you're literally taking him on as master."

Grace smiled without saying a word.

Simon saw the woman put the fruit plate on the coffee table and deliberately lifted the shelf: "Bring it over here, how can I eat it there?"

With her mouth agape, Blaise still obediently brought the fruit plate up to Simon and said, "Master, please."

Simon twisted a piece of apple and gave it to Grace beside him as he said, "It would be better if you put on a maid's outfit and speak in a more submissive tone."

Blaise snorted, thrust the fruit plate directly into Simon's hand, sat down on the other side of the man, and said, "Then you'd better let Grace do it, she'll do anything."

Simon took the fruit plate and looked at the woman sitting down beside him, "You're not going to leave yet, it's quite disturbing to be here all the time."

"I'm not leaving, I'm going to stay here and watch, so you don't bully Grey."

"Grey can't bully now, I'll have to bully you later."

"I'll yell."

"Uh, well, to say any more would be a bridge from some movie."

Blaise saw someone concede voluntarily, grunted twice, and twirled fruit from the man's hand to start eating.

Grace listened quietly to the two men bicker for a while before saying, "The new Elite Model of the Year contest is coming up in April, Simon, what do you think?"

"What can he have in mind, of course, is to choose a bunch of pretty girls ...... ah, pain."

Simon gave the woman next to him a squeeze somewhere before saying, "There's just one, I almost forgot to mention it, the final round of this modeling contest would be best held in Atlantic City."

Bryce Levison chimed in again, "Atlantic City, what's there to put it in?"

Simon turned his head again and saw the woman unconsciously shrink before saying, "Don't you care at all about your own property?"

"I'm just concerned about how to spend the money."

Grace on the other side of the table helped explain, "The Levison Group has several casinos in Atlantic City right now, and, I seem to have heard, none of them are doing too well."

Simon nodded, "The casino industry in Atlantic City hasn't been doing too well, but since we got it, we should always try, making a movie about Atlantic City is one, there are already projects to do again, and there is also the idea of introducing some entertainment events in Atlantic City, which would raise awareness."

"In that case, I'll talk to the Levison Group over there as soon as possible, and not only the finals, but some other processes can be done in Atlantic City."

Blaise saw Grace say and look at herself again, shaking her head, "I don't care about that, you talk to Frank."

Grace nodded and looked at Simon again, "It's Milan Fashion Week, don't you want to go to Europe?"

The four major fashion weeks of spring 1997 started in mid-February, starting with New York Fashion Week and then London Fashion Week, and now it is the turn of Milan and finally Paris Fashion Week.

Simon just shakes his head.

There is really no such interest these days.

Blaise was not so sensitive to Simon's emotions, and again teased: "This guy must be feeling very empty in New York lately, the goblins are all in Europe.

Simon put the fruit plate back on the coffee table, turned around and grabbed Blaise, who finally felt bad and wanted to run away: "I don't know if New York is empty or not, but I think you are a bit empty, otherwise your mouth wouldn't be so poisonous.

With that, Simon picked up the woman and carried her out of the living room as Blaise screamed in a half-hearted struggle.

Grace smiled as she watched the man carry Blaise away, and ate the fruit again from the fruit plate she had just been carrying.