Hollywood Hunter

Bill Spurt's promotion was of course not just because of a party. Simon helped a little. He deliberately asked James Rebold to investigate Spurt's details and make a digging gesture.

Another habitual free chess.

Whether it can be used in the future, there will always be no harm.

Simon just did not expect that Swiss Bank will have the courage to directly promote Bill Spurt to the position of head of the large business department. Although on the surface it is only a two-level upgrade, but any of these thresholds, many investment bank employees have not spent their entire careers. Will definitely be able to pass.

Of course, Simon will not spend too much energy on such small things.

After the two sides reached a settlement, the Hearst family disclosed the news on the next day. The other party originally wanted to be ambiguous, but Simon did not give them a chance. The New York Post subsequently leaked the settlement with a more gossip tone. General information, including the sale of ESPN shares for $1 and full compensation of 370 million in six lawsuits.

Simon is to use the "tragic" encounter of the Hearst family to deter all potential opponents of the Westeros system.

Judging from the feedback during this period, the effect is very obvious. The North American media has formed a significant chilling effect when discussing matters related to the Westeros system. After all, the powerful Hearst Group went to Simon Westeros After half a life, in the entire United States, there is absolutely not much media power over the Hearst family.

Without the constraints of the Westeros system, the Hirst family restarted the asset sale some time ago. From the preliminary feedback, it can recover about 300 million US dollars, which is equivalent to a 60% discount.

The parent company of the ABC television network, the cosmopolitan ABC Group, also secretly instructed by Simon, also submitted a transaction application to the Hearst family, hoping to buy back 50% of the shares held by the Hearst family in the AE television network. 200 million US dollars, which is equivalent to a half discount based on the original price. Even if the subsequent bargaining will not increase the price too much.

The Hearst family was still hesitant to raise more funds through the sale of assets. ABC's invitation helped them make a good decision.

The two transactions, $500 million in cash, were basically enough for the Hearst family to overcome the immediate difficulties.

It is also easy for people who are interested to find that after removing almost free ESPN shares and this part of assets to be sold, the total value of the remaining assets of the Hirst family is actually less than 1 billion US dollars.It took only three months from a century-old media family with a total family assets of up to 2.5 billion U.S. dollars.

Moreover, even if the difficulties are temporarily overcome, the troubles of the Hearst family are far from over.

For example, the San Francisco Chronicle, which occupies almost half of the remaining assets of the Hearst family, because of the increasing popularity of personal computers in the San Francisco area and the targeted operation of the Westeros system in the past few months, many residents will The channel for obtaining news information has shifted from paper to the Internet, which has resulted in the number of subscribers to the San Francisco Chronicle continuing to decrease at a rate visible to the naked eye in the past quarter.It is expected that the second quarter of 1994 will end. This century-old large regional newspaper will have its first quarterly loss in many years.

For an industry that has entered a decline cycle, once it has fallen into a loss, it is definitely not a simple matter to reverse.

What's more, the Hurst Group has already been seriously injured.

Without this storm, the Hearst Group can mobilize enough resources to regain the business of the San Francisco Chronicle as much as possible. Now, a broken ship floating on the four sides of the ocean is unlikely to be repaired. Ascend to the sky.

After three months of confrontation, the matter ended preliminarily, except that the people around them continued to stare at the movement of the Hirst Group,

Continue to make recent preparations for the upcoming Daenerys Entertainment listing on July 1, and the summer season in North America also continues.

During the week of June 24th to June 30th, the North American theaters once again released two more important new films, namely "Beverly Detective 3" produced by Paramount Pictures and the demolition bomb produced by Fox Pictures Type action thriller "Zero Blast".

After the two big-selling "Beverly Detective" series were launched in 1984 and 1987, Paramount and the film star Eddie Murphy have been unable to reach an agreement on the pay, and the third part has been dragged to 7 Now after years.

After so many years of delay, Eddie Murphy got the top 15 million US dollars in compensation at this stage, and the production cost of this sequel reached 50 million US dollars at the bombshell level.

Opened last Friday, Paramount prepared 2936 screens for this classic action comedy sequel, close to 3,000 screens for opening screens, which is second only to Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight in this summer’s film ".

Immediately, it was similar to last week's "Urban Rick 2".

Word of mouth also broke down.

Compared with the 1.8-point media rating of "Urban Stalker 2", the reputation of "Beverly Detective 3" is even lower, with a comprehensive media rating of only 1.1.

However, relying on tireless publicity and the pre-production of the film itself far surpassed the influence of the "Urban Stalker" series, "Beverly Detective 3" at the box office in the first week was finally pretty good, reaching 21.96 million US dollars.Although he only ranked third on the list, drawing more than 20 million US dollars at the box office, it still gave Paramount some thoughts.

From June 24 to June 30, the number one on the weekly box office list is still "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight". The film fell 32% this week, and received another 32.31 million US dollars. The cumulative box office reached 275,253. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

After receiving US$42.39 million in the first week, "Soul" did not show any box office potential. The next week's box office fell as much as 43%, and received another US$24.15 million. The cumulative box office in two weeks was US$66.54 million, which is expected to be recovered next week. A total investment of USD 40 million in production and distribution.

At the same time, under the propaganda of the New World Films team, the discussion about the Spirit of the Universe has also become a topic that fans have been talking about recently. The first derivative movie of the Spirit of the Universe for the Halloween period, "Haunted Time in the Morgue", is officially in The publicity plan has already aroused extensive attention from the media and the public before its launch.

After the third place in "Beverly Detective 3", Fox's new film "Zero Blast" ranked fourth, with a box office of $13.15 million in seven days of the first week.

neither warm nor hot.

Fox has invested a $28 million production budget for this action thriller starring Jeff Briggs, which includes a total investment of more than $40 million.At the box office of $13.15 million in the first week, Fox wanted to recoup the costs at the box office, and could only expect the film to come out of a miraculous box office trend.

As a commercial of popcorn, this kind of hope is obviously not great.

The fifth place on the list was picked by "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

This well-regarded action movie was released in the sixth week, surpassing last week's short-lived "City Rick 2", this week's box office decline was only 19%, another 6.73 million US dollars, North America's total box office also reached 95.22 million US dollars, is expected Next week officially broke 100 million.

In addition to the top five, other films such as "Urban Town Rumble 2" have basically withdrawn from the summer competition.

Before the new box office week on July 1, Daenerys Entertainment routinely held a grand premiere for Simon’s 1994 super blockbuster "Forrest Gump" in Simon’s mind on Wednesday, June 29. Yingli.

I don’t know if there is a deviation in the memory. It basically maintained the original class and the film effect is no less than the original version of Forrest Gump in Simon’s memory. After the word-of-mouth ban was lifted the next day at the premiere, it did not get too high. The praise, the comprehensive media score is only about 7.4 points.

A film critic of the Seattle Times criticizes "Forrest Gump" unkindly "Only in the United States can you see a film that uses a fool as a medium throughout the modern history of the country, and he is not yet a film. Satirical movie'.

The original book of Forrest Gump is a satirical novel, which is also for the critics of the Seattle Times to have such an argument.

It is also for this reason that the novelist Winston Bloom, who was the main writer in the screenwriting stage, also publicly stated after the premiere that the film completely deviated from his original intention to create "Forrest Gump" and went completely. The partial movie theme is therefore more'funny'.

In fact, the media reputation of 7.4 points is definitely not worse than those of "Urban Town Rumble 2" and "Beverly Detective 3", but in this summer's "Star of the Stars" related to Daenerys Entertainment. Gate, Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight, and even the horror movie "Soul", dwarfed immediately. The comprehensive media scores of the latter films are all above 8 points in the excellent level.

Simon has formulated a relatively conservative strategy for "Forrest Gump", hoping to form a phenomenal long-term box office trend through the word-of-mouth effect of the audience. Therefore, the film has only 2137 screens.

Now, the opening word of mouth has not met expectations, and the box office prospects of "Forrest Gump" suddenly cast a shadow.

Under the good cost control of Daenerys Entertainment, the final production cost of Forrest Gump is US$50 million, which is US$5 million lower than the original version.However, $50 million still reached the level of a real bombshell in this era.

Even if a relatively conservative distribution strategy is adopted, the film’s budget for distribution will reach US$20 million.

The production cost of US$50 million, the investment of US$20 million, and the total project budget of US$70 million, even if all of them are lost, can't actually hurt Daenerys.

The release of "Forrest Gump" frustrated at a very unfortunate time.

The film opened on July 1st. On this day, Daenerys Entertainment Group will be officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

As Bill Spurt said at the party on Friday night, the uncertainty in the film industry has always been the main reason for prohibiting a lot of capital. If Daenerys Entertainment Group just went public, it immediately encountered a total of $70 million. The box office of the investment movie was a fiasco. It is conceivable that this incident will inevitably affect the stock trend of Daenerys Entertainment Group.

In any case, the day of July 1st still arrived on time.

Daenerys Entertainment Group's listing was ultimately selected on the traditional New York Stock Exchange instead of the emerging Nasdaq Stock Exchange. There are many reasons, mainly because the NYSE market is more mature. In addition, In order to compete with the NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange has also given Daenerys Entertainment more preferential terms.

That's right, in the United States, listed companies can negotiate conditions with exchanges.Including commissions with underwriters, etc., all have room for negotiation.

This is especially true for Daenerys Entertainment, a large IPO that raised more than $5 billion.

For an ordinary enterprise IPO, the commission ratio in all aspects often accounts for about 10% to 15% of the total fundraising amount. This IPO of Daenerys Entertainment, after negotiations with the NYSE, underwriters and other related agencies, including investment banks Commissions, exchange fees, accounting and lawyer fees, etc., the total expenditure is expected to be only 160 million US dollars, accounting for only 2.8% of the total funding of 5.625 billion US dollars.

This is the result of the ongoing consultation between Daenerys Entertainment management and all parties in advance.

Of course, $160 million is already a very substantial income for all parties. Most companies in the US stock market don’t necessarily reach $160 million in total IPO financing.

After briefly returning to Los Angeles for the weekend last week, the Simons rushed to the East Coast again on Monday.

On July 1, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the couple had already had breakfast and rushed from the apartment on Fifth Avenue to the famous Broadway Avenue 18, the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange.

Hundreds of media from all over the world have been outside the NYSE since last night, and some senior executives of the Daenerys Entertainment Group also stayed overnight at the NYSE headquarters.

At the gate of the New York Stock Exchange, the Simons had just got out of the car and suddenly dazzled dense magnesium lights.

The security team deployed in advance formed a human wall to protect the Simons from entering the exchange building together.

For today's foolproof IPO, the Westeros system has quietly taken over the security of the New York Stock Exchange since half a month ago. Simon knows how obvious he is at this time, except for the 150 security guards on the surface. Or uniforms or plain clothes are spreading across the street, and the Westeros family intelligence team also has hundreds of people cruising around Manhattan.

Facts have proved that these measures are very necessary.

In just half a month, the intelligence team of the Westeros family successfully intercepted three unscrupulous individuals who tried to create an incident on the Daenerys Entertainment IPO day.

Two of them wanted to shoot Simon on the day of the IPO, and another veteran from Oklahoma even planned to place a car bomb outside the NYSE gate.There are different reasons. Some people think that Simon's huge wealth has threatened American society. Some people think that a difference like Simon should not exist in this world at all. The Oklahoma veteran was because Simon launched in Africa. war.

In the final analysis, Simon's huge wealth and power at this time have caused more and more people to be vigilant and fearful.

Qiu Fu is a kind of public negative emotion that has existed for a long time since the human society entered the civilized age, and it is often even used by those in power to defuse public complaints.

Therefore, Simon is also very clear that his situation at this time is unavoidable, and he does not have too deep a fear of this.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, and everything has its own two sides.

Because it was a more sensitive time, Simon did not let the three caught guys evaporate, but secretly escorted them to the FBI.

However, the Westeros family launched a deeper investigation into the motives of the three.

If afterwards it turns out that someone else is behind the scenes, Simon will not be polite this time.

As for the three of the parties involved, the calamity of the prison is inevitable. Even if they are released in the future, whether they are themselves or those around them will be listed as the key monitoring objects of the Westeros system. Simon will only tolerate this potential threat at most. once.