Hollywood Hunter

From 1988 to the present, Daenerys’ TV business has mainly received a series of reality shows from Who Will Be a Millionaire.

Over the past five years, these reality shows have more or less shown the continued decline in popularity.

Daenerys TV has accumulated enough experience in the reality show field, coupled with many classic ideas in Simon’s mind, it is reasonable to say that the TV department can continue to innovate.

Simon did not do this.

Mainly to wait for Daenerys Entertainment to obtain its own public television network.

Moreover, even if the stamina is insufficient, the profits of these reality shows are still very rich, and there is no need to rush out new ones to eliminate themselves.

On the other hand, Daenerys TV's performance in TV series in recent years has also been very good, just a "Song Fei Zheng Zhuan", enough for the TV department to eat for many years.

This drama, which has become more and more popular in the past two years, has once been in the same position as "Friends" in the history of North American television.

Even after the first round of broadcasts is completed, relying on the syndicate copyright of this TV series, Daenerys TV can continue to obtain very considerable benefits, just like the "Friends" in memory. In the original time and space, Naifei kept the "Friends" The broadcasting rights even cost a huge copyright fee of US$100 million a year.

After the merger of MCA, Daenerys TV's operational focus began to be biased towards cable TV.

Relying on the housewife reality show series and "Desperate Housewives" two trump cards, USA has become one of the most watched basic cable networks in North America, and firmly occupy the position of professional female channels.

Although the TV broadcast at the beginning of the year did not rely on the rapid rise of Daenerys on the basis of several phenomenal reality shows or the scale of the USA TV network, the development momentum since the broadcast has been very stable and basically has a limited foundation in North America. The TV field has a firm foothold.

After the rise of the cable TV industry, many cable TV stations were born in North America every year, and a large number of cable TV stations died out.

TV is able to gain a foothold nationwide, which is definitely not as easy as it seems.

On the weekend two days, I carefully sorted out the TV business of Daenerys Entertainment. Simon flew back to the West Coast on Sunday afternoon, but the destination was San Francisco.

AOL plans to officially release its own portal on Monday.

Until now, it was mainly to improve its own e-mail system, which is a great tool for portals to attract a fixed group of customers.

The reason why Microsoft, which has been authorized by the commercial operation of e-mail technology, has not yet launched the brewing MSN portal, is also to improve the layout of e-mail and other technologies.As a competitor in this field, although Igrid is based on the technology license of the two companies, it will not give more support.

Compared with Microsoft, AOL also has a great advantage.

The tens of millions of users in this company itself can be directly converted into an email account. The AOL team even directly saves the activation step, and the default user automatically opens the mailbox.

Of course, the two companies that are about to launch the portal business also need to face another very important question, how to win customers from Igreat, who controls the important Internet portal of IE browser software.

In this regard, AOL also has certain advantages.

After the revision of its own network login software, in addition to logging in to the World Wide Web, this software has also expanded into a mini portal interface, which is used to open the IE browser by clicking on the information content on the interface and jump to the AOL portal .

Obviously, this mini-portal interface has obvious suspicion of wiping the browser software.

This is actually the case.

If Igret and AOL are not controlled by a parent company, but only this portal interface, it may lead to a war of infringement litigation.

Simon had personally coordinated this matter before.

After repeated negotiations between the two company teams,

AOL can continue to promote this interface, but this interface must not be directly powered by the browser to display content, and the link must jump to the IE browser software.At the same time, 50% of the recommended information on the mini interface must come from the Igreat portal.

Finally, regarding related patents, AOL must also pay Igreat’s expensive patent fees.

Using a dual shareholding structure, Simon firmly controlled the control of the two companies, AOL and Eaglet.

The result of the negotiation between the teams of both parties is largely a reflection of Simon's personal will.

AOL will definitely not develop into an original Internet media company in time and space, but will firmly lock in the identity of an Internet service provider and develop towards a more comprehensive and comprehensive telecommunications service provider. The development tone set by this company.

Now, the reason why this company is allowed to conduct portal business is mainly to take the ride of the new technology wave.

In the increasingly turbulent Internet bubble, having a portal business is just this gimmick, which is enough to increase AOL's stock price by a large amount.

Not only that, AOL's portal business can also share the potential monopoly pressure of the Igreat portal.

Therefore, most of the content business related to the Igreat portal, AOL will be opened one after another.However, AOL will not develop the core online payment system, search engine system and other tools independently, but plans to directly embed Igreut’s on-site products into its own site, which is also the most important clause in the cooperation agreement reached by both parties.

Therefore, for Simon, the latecomer, AOL's portal is basically just an Airbus without its own core product.

Of course, the capital market does not think so.

In the eyes of many investors in the new technology field, from paper media to television media to online media, this is a potential development trend in the media industry.Therefore, the concept of media is more sought after by the capital market than the concept of technology.

AOL is able to break the monopoly of Igret's content in another way. Even if the two companies are the bosses behind the scenes, this is a very rare thing.

On Monday, with the release of the AOL portal, AOL's stock price rose rapidly. As of the afternoon close of the East Coast, the single-day increase reached 2.9%. The market value reached a new high, reaching 37.1 billion US dollars, and the market value increased by 1.056 billion throughout the day. US dollars.

According to Westero’s 66.1% shareholding in AOL, after the close of the day, an analyst at Goldman Sachs posted AOL’s stock price chart on his Facebook page, along with the sentence'Westero Day: Oh, and made another $698 million.

It was originally a humble item on the Internet platform with many similar emotions.

However, under the intentional or unintentional operation of the Facebook operations team, this news was directly labeled as a hot label.

Subsequently, Sandra Bullock's reposts and comments triggered a wider discussion.

This actress, whom everyone knows is a private friend of Simon, forwarded an expression covering his face and laughing and crying:'Forget it, I need 175 years to earn so much.'

Then a series of queues were triggered.

Both star-certified users and ordinary users have joined the discussion.

'Forget it, earning so much, I need 3826 years.'

'Forget it, earning so much, I need 861 years.'

'Forget it, earning so much, I need 99 years.'

'Forget it, earning so much, I need 12663 years.'

'Forget it, earning so much, I need 26453 years.'

'Forget it...'

'...'

In the following days, the discussion quickly spread from the Internet platform to traditional media. Whether it is a serious financial newspaper or a witty talk show, they are discussing how long it takes to earn $698 million.

The result is that everyone feels a little sad and goes against the river.

Feeling powerless.

Almost everyone's most authentic feeling.

If it is someone else, it may also trigger a widespread controversy about the gap between rich and poor.

However, in the eyes of many people, Westeros is already a totally different number, and it is completely impossible to guess with common sense.

After all, if it is a group whose net worth has skyrocketed, such as Wall Street bankers, or Silicon Valley upstarts, it may be possible to'rob the rich and help the poor' through tax adjustment. Now, this is just a person.

The federal government cannot impose restrictions on a person too directly.

After years of accumulation, it is not just personal wealth. Simon Westero also has considerable influence in federal politics. This can be seen from the last trip of the new president to visit Silicon Valley. Therefore, this young man also It is absolutely impossible to be a worthy person.

This is obvious.

Therefore, some media on the bright side can only call on a certain guy to devote more funds to charity and give back to this society.

The Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation has been promoting charity in recent years. Compared with many rich people who have just begun to start charity projects after the media has targeted them, the Westeros are definitely called Generosity, this is really blameless.

Therefore, the final result of this small public opinion turmoil is still to let more capital focus on new technology.

Hollywood side.

The first week of the summer season passed quickly.

From May 21 to May 27, this week's heaviest Sylvester Stallone's new film "Beauty of the Mountain", the first week of the box office disappointed the producer Columbia Pictures, compared with 35 million to 40 million US dollars. In the first week, it was expected that, in the seven days of painting, only $25.02 million was received.

Considering the "Superman" on June 4, even if the next week's decline can be maintained within a fairly good range, the total box office of North America's "Breakfast" can only reach between 70 million and 80 million US dollars. .

However, this blockbuster cost only 70 million dollars to make.

Colombia is relatively stingy in publicizing, but it has also invested 20 million.

A total of US$90 million in production and distribution costs will require US$250 million to US$300 million worldwide to recover the initial investment through the box office.

North America only has a box office expectation of US$70-80 million, and the global box office of "Awesome Winds" is unlikely to reach US$250 million. It is important to know that if it is in the past, Stallone may still have a strong box office call in overseas markets. Power, but now, especially in this summer, Superman’s competitiveness must be strengthened, and it will inevitably squeeze the overseas living space of “Super Hero”.

Although it is not difficult to operate through all channels, it is basically a busy project for Colombia.

Relatively speaking, Stallone comfortably took away the huge $15 million in compensation, which is the biggest winner of this project.

Of course, no matter in this time and space, or in Simon’s memory, Stallone’s popularity has been greatly damaged after the "Superb Winds", and there will be no too heavyweight movies until many years later, a group of old men will be assembled to create the "Dangerous Team" series. Only some popularity was restored.

After "Awesome Winds", the comedy movie "Made in America" ​​starring Ubi Goldberg won the second place at the box office this week, with a draw of 14.1 million at the box office for seven days.

"Made in America" ​​is far from word of mouth or box office, compared with last year's "Nun is also crazy", the total box office in North America is expected to be between 40 million and 50 million US dollars.

In addition to the two new films, Simon is more concerned about "Bruce Bruce Lee" launched by New World Pictures on May 14.

This biographical film with a production cost of US$14 million. After the first week of the painting, it received US$12.96 million. At the box office on May 21, the box office fell by 37%, and it received another US$8.12 million. The total box office in two weeks was US$21.08 million. The total box office is expected to be around US$35 million, and the North American offering will roughly recover the cost.

Moreover, this movie was actually developed together with the fighting game of the same name, and the works of the two series have also started publicity.

At the same time when it was released on May 14, the Nintendo platform's fighting game of the same name was officially launched in North America and Asia. Relying on Bruce Lee's widespread popularity in North America and Asia, the sales volume of game cassettes reached 260,000 boxes in the first week, and the total sales is expected to reach 150 Ten thousand, sales are about 90 million US dollars.

Obviously, Daenerys Entertainment's profits on games of the same name are much richer than movies of the same name.

On May 28, a new week, the North American theater opened another two heavyweight films, namely "Super Mario Bros." produced by Disney and adapted from Nintendo's phenomenon-level video game, and another one produced by a unique animation. "Fairytale ending" developed by the company's studio.

"Super Mario Bros." Needless to say.

The high production cost of 48 million US dollars is a super pit for Simon, because there is not much information about this movie in his memory.

Another "Fairytale ending" is actually very interesting.

This is a follow-up animated film about Snow White, the story about the prince and the princess after living together.The film was actually developed in 1990. It was originally intended to be called "Snow White: The Fairy Tale Finale", but Disney of course disagrees, thinking that it may be misunderstood as a sequel to Disney's classic animation "Snow White". After more than two years of lawsuits, the final result was that the film was renamed "Fairytale Ending".

The two films that were almost destined to thump the street did not arouse much of Simon's mood. What attracted Simon's attention this weekend was that Canada's Seagram Group quietly started a trial of the acquisition of Paramount Communications.