Hollywood Hunter

After a long sixteen-hour flight, Simon returned to Los Angeles. The Eastern Time of the United States was still on the evening of Sunday, June 25. Because of the time difference, the major exchanges in Asia have already begun a new week of trading.

The various measures taken in the past two days have clearly worked. The Tokyo stock market opened and the Nikkei 225 index began to slowly rise.

New week in North America.

Simon got up in the morning, and the Nikkei 225 index closed at 36617 points the day before.Although this data has not yet reached the highest point of last week, the unexpected crisis of the Japanese financial market has passed smoothly.

In recent days, many newspapers in North America have been talking about the news that Simon rushed to Australia to visit his girlfriend and caused the Japanese stock market to plummet. He also has a new phrase of "Westero effect".

The front page news on Monday is still the same thing. The picture is a photo of Simon and Janet hugging together at Melbourne Airport.The article re-introduces what happened in recent days, and still remembers that Simon is definitely the most unpopular guy in Japan, and predicts that he wants to travel to Japan for a long time in the future and is refused entry. The probability is as high as 100%.

Over Australia, the agreement between Cersei Capital and the Japanese is progressing smoothly.Less than a week later, the two sides completed the secret delivery.

In the final agreement, the ownership of Cersei Capital’s sub-funds 1 to 5 was transferred to the Japanese, and it was apparently managed by Janet and Anthony.

Janet wanted to fly to Los Angeles as soon as the transaction was completed. However, in order to avoid sudden personnel changes that caused outside speculation, the Japanese asked her to run Cersei Capital for at least two months. Of course, it was completely remotely controlled by the Japanese. Under the prerequisites, Janet actually has no decision-making power.

For the benefit of all, Janet had to agree.

In two months, it is actually just right.

The latter part of it will end in September. Simon plans to take a long vacation after finishing this film. The first stop in the plan is the major fashion weeks in September.At that time, Janet can also use this very reasonable excuse to leave.

Since being unable to get away for the time being, Janet was not idle, and began to prepare for the operation team of Cersei Capital's sub-funds 6 to 10 in order to short the North American junk bond market in the second half of the year. The source of funds was naturally the Japanese recently transferred to Cersei Capital overseas USD 5 billion in cash in the account.

In order to keep its layout secret, the Japanese also requested that Cersei Capital’s funds cannot be transferred back to the country for at least one year, and no one disputes this.

For tax avoidance considerations, Simon had no intention of returning the money to the country in the short term, and investors in Australia also hoped to continue to rely on Cersei Capital to obtain more income.

Although the settlement has not yet been carried out, according to the original ladder drawing agreement, Simon's personal profit from this transaction can also be roughly predicted.

With a capital of 5 billion US dollars, excluding the principal of 1.57 billion US dollars, the profit figure is 3.43 billion US dollars.

In the original agreement, Simon only required the profit generated by the externally invested 970 million US dollars to be profitable. The 600 million US dollars for himself and the Johnston family need not be the same.The step-by-step scheme is to draw 20% of the profit within 30%, 30% to 100% of the portion, and more than 100% of the portion to 50%.

Calculated by all parties, Simon can get a principal income of 1.093 billion US dollars and a commission income of 836 million US dollars.Counting the original capital of 500 million US dollars, Simon's book share of the 5 billion US dollars has reached 2.429 billion US dollars.

In addition, the $100 million principal of the Johnston family has a book profit of $218 million.Australia’s other capital has a principal of US$970 million and a book profit of US$1.283 billion.

Although Simon is going to take more than half of the revenue share, but at the end of the transaction, no external investor has requested redemption or even partial redemption.

Faced with such a huge amount of capital held by Cersei Capital, Simon also gradually developed some other ideas.

Of course, this is something.

Suddenly left Los Angeles for several days without warning, after returning, he naturally had to work overtime to make up for some work progress.

On the other hand, North American summer competition has become more intense.

Simon left Los Angeles last Wednesday night, and immediately after the release of the box office in the third week, the film's box office decline was still only a slight 11% compared to the second week, with a receipt of $17.86 million and a cumulative box office of $61.55 million.

The following Friday, the North American Summer Program released three new films at once, which were Disney's sci-fi-style family comedy, Columbia Pictures and Orion Pictures music biographies.

Although none of the three new films hit the box office in the first week as they did, they also had a significant impact on the box office of the old films.

From June 23 to June 29, the week after Simon returned from Australia, the box office decline increased to 21% compared with last week, and received another 14.11 million US dollars.

Although behind and behind the weekly box office list, only ranked fourth.However, this film, which was not expected by everyone, was released for four weeks, but the cumulative box office has reached 75.66 million US dollars.

In addition, the box office in the new week shrank to 12.07 million US dollars, ranking fifth, with a cumulative total of 140.23 million US dollars.

Of the three new films, Orion Pictures did not meet expectations. This music biographical film, which tells the story of the famous American rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis, has a budget of $12 million, and the opening scale reached 1417 blocks. The first week of the box office But it is only 6.28 million US dollars, and the word of mouth is very general.

In the new year, in addition to an unexpected blockbuster in February, Orion Pictures received a $40 million box office account, and other films released ended in failure.Because of the continued deterioration of the financial situation, in February this year, the window period of the next three months has just passed, and Orion can’t wait to release the videotape.

Moreover, after Simon personally collected money from Mike Medova at the last party, Orion Pictures still delayed the box office share that had not been settled by Daenerys Entertainment.Tolerating Orion Pictures will be divided into delays for half a year, Daenerys Entertainment has done its best.

In order to avoid the sudden bankruptcy of Orion Pictures and cause the share to be completely irretrievable, Amy has recently considered taking legal measures.

On June 30, the new week, Simon secretly had high hopes and finally released.

Compared with the opening of more than 2,000 screens, the number of screens in the first week was only 1,673.This relatively conservative screening strategy is actually intentional by Simon, he hopes to reserve enough fermentation space for the film's word of mouth through a smaller screening scale.

Until the release of the movie, the plot is still strictly confidential. The early marketing strategy adopted by Daenerys Entertainment is mainly based on Simon and De Niro. It is very traditional to simply increase the popularity of the film.

Simon has always believed that in the original time and space to achieve a huge global box office success of more than 600 million US dollars, the root cause is definitely not just a simple plot reversal, the emotional core of the film to express and many other factors are very important.

However, the plot reversal between humans and ghosts is undoubtedly an important catalyst for the success of the film.

Therefore, in the publicity stage of the film, no matter whether it is a variety of manuscripts or a major interview, there is no mention or suggestion of the final reversal of the film. Simon’s basic strategy is to let the audience find this reversal instead of Through the hints of early publicity.

If you know in advance that the movie will have a "surprise", it may even have the opposite effect in the end, making some people feel like "but so".

After all, in the long history of movies, similar plots are not without.

As for the type of subject matter, most fans who pay attention to this movie can only get a general impression of a "horror movie" before the film is released.Even if it is the final stage of the TV trailer, the information that the audience can get is basically only a story between a psychologist and a psychic boy, which also comes with some special footage of misleading horror movies.

Because it should be basically a pseudo-horror film that focuses on family warmth. In terms of marketing audience, Daenerys Entertainment does not target teenagers as precisely as it is, but targets audiences of all ages, which also leads to advertising costs. The substantial improvement.

Some fans have been hesitant to choose the first time to watch the movie because of the conservative strategy in the promotion stage of the film, because Daenerys Entertainment's strict confidentiality of the film's plot and the unusualities in the stage of publicity, and a keen sense of entertainment The media became more curious.

Of course, there are also many experienced media and audiences who believe that whether it is the film's lower opening scale or low-key publicity and marketing, it is only the lack of confidence in Daenerys Entertainment.In fact, executives who have watched the film inside Daenerys Entertainment generally lack confidence in the film with a flat storyline.

Los Angeles.

Daenerys Entertainment headquarters in Santa Monica.

The time is on the afternoon of June 30.

In the large conference room in the office building, the meeting on arranging the company's mid-year financial audit started from two o'clock in the afternoon until now.

All core senior executives of Daenerys Entertainment attended.

Although the mid-year financial audit that will begin next month is not as detailed as that at the beginning of the year, it will also be jointly participated by Westero's accounting team in order to play a supervisory role.As the person in charge of Westeros, James Rebled came here from Los Angeles with Robert Egger.

In the first two quarters of the past, although the series of films released by Daenerys Entertainment had only unexpectedly sold at the box office, the company's revenue in the two core businesses of film and television is still very rich.

In terms of movies, in addition to the new films in the first half of the year, the local release of blockbuster films at the end of last year and other places has ended one after another, and overseas distribution has also basically completed. Continue to return.

In the field of television, the spring stalls of reality TV shows and dramas have also come to an end. The settlement revenue and prepayments of the television network also brought a lot of benefits to Daenerys Entertainment.

All the companies in the Westeros system, with a total debt of US$900 million, mean that only this year and year, Simon will need to repay the principal and interest amount of US$200 million, but he does not feel the slightest pressure.

Not to mention that the huge amount of funds Cersei Capital has just obtained from the Japanese is just a program under Daenerys Entertainment. In the case of a large-scale profit made by the new season contract, the continued revenue of this reality show is sufficient. Support the payment of Simon's personal liabilities.

However, although the profitability of Daenerys Entertainment has reached the level of jealousy of Hollywood peers, Simon did not intend to be a confused boss.Too many memories of the two generations made him deeply understand that any company that wants to continue to grow and develop, a strict financial supervision system is essential.

The meeting ended at five o'clock.

The others dispersed, and Simon and James Rebold stayed in the conference room to discuss Cersei Capital.

James is already aware of the transaction between Cersei Capital and the Japanese. The operation of the local junk bond market will require more cooperation from Westeros.

The two communicated separately for half an hour before walking out of the meeting room together.

Amy hadn't left, and after hearing Simon's concluding speech about James' communication, she came over from her office.

"Burbank counted the number of seats during the day, and some mainstream evening newspapers also published film reviews. Overall, the feedback was very good."

A few days ago, the box office was unexpectedly sold out, and Amy inadvertently said that a big film company could have a movie with a box office of over 100 million a year.At the end of the year, the distribution rights of the two key commercial films and both belong to Warner. Amy's remarks undoubtedly show that she is also the one who lacks confidence.

Seeing Amy's relaxed appearance at this time, her performance after the release today should have exceeded her expectations.

Simon did not comment too much, just smiled and said: "If there are no other arrangements, let's have dinner together and wait to talk."

Amy nodded, went downstairs with Simon, James and Jennifer, and pulled out her Motorola Micro-TAC mobile phone from her shoulder bag while walking, saying: "I think Rem should be reminded to communicate with the media to avoid tomorrow There are too many reviews of public spoilers in the newspaper."

Simon looked at Amy's head and dialed, glancing at the Motorola Micro-TAC.

After returning from Australia, Simon noticed that Amy, Nancy and others started to use this mobile phone, which can only be called a mobile phone with a palm size.

However, looking at this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in Simon's mind.

Ok.

correct.

Nokia!