Hollywood Hunter

Since entering the media with the help of the "Butterfly Effect" script, Simon has basically been in the spotlight of the media for two years.

However, Simon's previous influence was still limited to Hollywood.

Even the pioneering effort of making more than one billion U.S. dollars from the stock index futures market late last year has gradually faded after the media hype.One billion levels of wealth are too far away from the lives of the general public, and it is difficult for too many people to understand what this means.

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When "Forbes" magazine's new year's list was released, the world's 16th-ranked US list ranked third, instantly instantiating the personal wealth under Simon's name.

In just two years, Simon jumped from an unknown pawn who had no connection with the rich list to the third richest person in the Confederacy. Moreover, he was only 20 years old, and the rest of the list was generally 50 or 60. The middle-aged old man looked even more dazzling.

This miraculous pioneering work instantly made him the focus of attention throughout the United States and the world.

Many people envy and wonder, but can't help but have some kind of strong doubt again: Why can Simon Westero do this, what happened?

In the following weekend, almost all mainstream media in North America and the world were talking about Simon's bits and pieces, and Simon's various experiences from small to large before and after his fame were re-digged."Forbes" magazine's estimation of Simon's personal net worth has also become the focus of controversy.

Although "Forbes" gives a very detailed basis for evaluation, most of the media have re-drawn in order to attract attention.In a similar argument, many people even prefer that Simon's personal worth should be higher, not just $3.1 billion.

The stock asset and debt data under Simon's name are irrefutable, and the focus of the discussion is still on the valuation of Daenerys Entertainment.

Through analysis of various types of business under Daenerys Entertainment, many media found that even if the company paid a lot of operating and debt costs in acquiring New World Entertainment and maintaining various other businesses, Daenerys Entertainment in 1988 The expected net profit after tax is likely to be no less than US$200 million.

After all, it’s just “Who Will Be a Millionaire,” and the $2 million in revenue per installment plus the revenue from the pilot episode and very substantial sponsorship revenue, together, can already bring more than $200 million to Daenerys Entertainment’s Incoming, the production cost of this reality show is only about 20 million US dollars.

In addition to "Who Will Be a Millionaire," Daenerys Entertainment’s other businesses are also rich in income.

Therefore, the scale of net profit of US$200 million is entirely reasonable.

The market value of many companies is probably equivalent to the net profit scale multiplied by the price-earnings ratio. In the stock market, the company's price-earnings ratio is usually between 10 times and 30 times.

In this way, even if it is only calculated at a low price-earnings ratio of 10 times, the valuation of Daenerys Entertainment should reach 2 billion US dollars.In fact, stocks of the same type of listed companies in Hollywood in North American stock markets generally have a price-earnings ratio of about 15 times.Looking at Daenerys Entertainment, according to the company's ultra-high growth momentum, if it is a listed company, because of the optimistic capital market, it is fully capable of achieving a price-earnings ratio of 30 times or higher.

30 times price-earnings ratio, net profit scale of 200 million US dollars.

The result is obvious, but the market value of Daenerys Entertainment will therefore reach 6 billion US dollars.

Counting Simon’s stock and other assets and subtracting debt, his personal net worth will reach 7.6 billion US dollars. This figure can even make Simon surpass Sam Walton and become the richest man in the United States, even on a global scale. Simon's ranking can also rise to sixth place.

Relevant data was released, and some people immediately refuted that no Hollywood company in the entire Hollywood, if not counting the other assets of the parent company, could reach a market value of US$6 billion.In addition to the copyright of a series of film and television works, Daenerys Entertainment,

However, some people soon gave an example. Westeros's heavyweight holding of Microsoft, during the 1986 IPO, had net assets of less than 5 million US dollars, but the market value on the day of listing exceeded 300 million US dollars.

By comparison, Daenerys Entertainment’s net assets are much larger than this number, but the copyright value of Who Will Be a Millionaire can reach hundreds of millions of dollars, which is enough to cover all the debts of Daenerys Entertainment. The hundreds of film and television copyright assets received by New World Entertainment from Daenerys Entertainment and a series of projects previously owned by Daenerys Pictures are of considerable value.The combination of Daenerys Pictures and New World Entertainment has achieved an effect far beyond one plus one.

Speaking of New World Entertainment, it was immediately proposed that Daenerys Pictures acquired all equity in New World Entertainment for only US$250 million. Prior to this, Daenerys Pictures’ heritage was not even as good as New World Entertainment. After the merger, Daenerys Entertainment will also have a total debt of $350 million. Considering the strong uncertainty in the operation of the film and television entertainment company, Daenerys Entertainment’s valuation can only reach a maximum of $1 billion.

There was a lot of media clamor, but Simon didn't have any thoughts about it. He even regretted that he didn't cooperate with the statistics of Forbes magazine and tried to keep his personal asset figures as low as possible.Throughout the weekend, Simon spent all sorts of disturbances. Although he wanted to fly to Australia in advance to get more clean, evasion was obviously not the way to handle things. He even had to postpone the date of his rush to Australia again.

In just two days, too much happened around the release of the Forbes Rich List.

Early in the morning on Saturday, Simon received a call from Robert Iger from New York. I don’t know if it was influenced by media public opinion or other reasons. CBS suddenly changed his attitude, hoping to get the "Beverly Jiao" again. The broadcast rights of "Wife" are not only willing to accept the various conditions of Daenerys Pictures. On the basis of the same price of 600,000 US dollars per quarter as HBO, CBS also agreed to order the complete 23 episodes.

Daenerys Entertainment had originally decided to sign a contract with HBO next week, and CBS temporarily changed his mind, and immediately let this matter regenerate.

However, Simon did not hesitate too much, and he decisively chose the former between the very strong public television network and the small audience of HBO in this era.In addition, Terry Semel, who had been quiet since he contacted Simon some time ago, once again hoped to talk to him about cooperation. There are a lot of things on the weekend. Simon can only agree on Monday lunch time.

Monday, August 29.

At the end of the summer, Los Angeles finally had a rare rainy weather. Simon should have boarded a plane to Australia with Janet today, but because of the sudden incident that disrupted many things in the plan last Friday, he had to Continue to rush to the company.

Inside the villa of Malibu.

Looking at Janet who came over to help him tie his tie carefully, feeling the cool breeze blowing in the outdoors, Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman's face, laughing and saying, "It's not because you're in a bad mood , Is the weather outside like that?"

Janet kissed Ren Simon on the side, opened her mouth, but didn't bite, saying, "If I have this ability, at least it will be hail outside."

Simon smiled and said, "I will definitely be able to start the day after tomorrow, I promise."

Janet pouted: "The man's guarantee is the most unreliable."

Simon helpless: "Okay."

Janet tightened her tie, looked back, nodded, and said, "Actually, Sofia flew from France today, and it should be at nine o'clock."

When he returned from Cannes in May, Simon handed over the affairs of Europe to Janet. At this time, he heard the words: "How is she doing?"

"Of course it's working for you. She will bring some real estate information this time, and there are other things that I don't need you to manage anyway," Janet said casually, and finally looked up at Simon, saying: "Will she be invited to dinner at night?"

"Not tonight, let me have time," Simon didn't notice Janet's small eyes, picked up the suit on the hanger next to it, and shook his head: "I made an appointment with Peter tonight, Peter Butler, you still remember?"

Jenny said, "The Los Angeles Times reporter, he wrote an interview for you last year."

Although I don’t like contacting the media in my bones, in the current situation, Pat Kingsley’s advice to Simon is better to be able to interview some people, so as to avoid the outside from getting Simon’s personal consultation, so I start to speculate and even make up. Chaos, Simon agreed.

Sending the man away, Janet came to a living room, took a folder from the coffee table and opened it, crooked on the sofa to dial the phone of Simon’s personal lawyer George Norman, and chatted for an hour, seeing It was nearly nine o'clock before she hung up.

Ken Dixon has taken Simon’s European housekeeper Sophia Fisci from Los Angeles International Airport.

In the courtyard, Sophia Fessie got off Janet's burgundy Land Rover, and the woman immediately greeted her.The housekeeper wore a black women's professional suit today, and the tailored suit and tube skirt made the woman more mature and temperamental.

After the two women hugged each other and walked into the villa together, Janet asked, "How are the two little guys?"

Sophia Fessi nodded gratefully, "Well, I sent them to my parents for the time being."

"If that guy dare to pester you again, tell me immediately," Janet said fiercely in a small expression: "I just want a few wineries."

Sophia Facie smiled and walked into the villa with Janet, sat down on the living room sofa, opened the briefcase she carried on her knees, and looked at Janet toward the small bar in the corner of the living room. "If you really do Interested, I can help you find one, I still know some in this regard."

Janet brought two cups of coffee and said, "Yes, but the best, um, what house information did you bring this time, let me see?"

"I went to Paris, London, Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam during this time and selected a total of sixteen properties," said Sophia Fessi, and took out a few stacks of materials from the briefcase and put them neatly. On the coffee table, he said, "Oh, congratulations to Simon. His ranking on the Forbes list is really surprising."

Janet picked up a piece of real estate information and leaned comfortably on the sofa. She smiled and said: "I also feel very happy, but there are a lot of troubles. We had to fly to Australia, and now we have to delay the trip."

Sophia Fessi nodded, understanding, "Yes, Simon is too young after all."

"By the way, how is Natasha? The last time she called, she said she was going to Italy?"

Sofia Fessi nodded: "She is currently shooting Jez Skolimowski's new film "Spring in Rapids."

Janet tilted her head and said, "I remembered that some time ago this was mentioned in the media. The catwoman Simon chose, um, Valerie Galino, she was going to perform this A movie is here."

Sofia Fessi laughed: "Yes, Skolimowski prepared the film for two years and was suddenly robbed of the heroine, so she had to delay a few months to re-select the cast."

"I don't know much about this person, but of course he can't compare with my man." Janet said of course, suddenly said: "This house is good, um, Kensington Garden Street, and Kensington Palace Next to?"

Sophia Fisse came together and said, "Yeah, it happened to be the neighbor of Prince Charles and Princess Diana."

Janet pouted and said disdainfully: "That messy guy."

Sophia Facie grinned reluctantly. Many people were always eager to be neighbors with the royal family. Janet's disdainful response was completely beyond her expectations.

Janet turned a few more pages and read his head sideways: "This house is really good, but it would be nice if those two guys could be kicked out of Kensington Palace. I really don't want to be a neighbor with them."

Sophia Facie's smile was stiff.

The idea of ​​driving the heirs of the British royal family out of Kensington Palace is probably only a woman around.

Janet didn't realize how unrealistic his thoughts were, and looked at Sofia: "Hey, how do you think we can get them out of Kensington Palace?"

"This," Sophia Fisci could only shake her head and said, "Jenny, this is not very practical."

Janet noticed Sofia’s expression and shrugged her small shoulders, saying, "Nothing is impractical. Maybe I will buy Kensington Palace one day, but Simon doesn’t seem to like this style of house too much. , May have to overthrow the reconstruction."

Sophia Fischer was not a woman with little knowledge, and when she heard Janet's words, she could not help thinking.

It is indeed not impossible to achieve Janet's'imagination', but the premise is that either the royal family is on the verge of bankruptcy, or it is probably to cancel the royal family.