Hollywood Hunter

As far as the American political system is concerned, most Washington politicians consider the interests of the tycoons they represent or the behind-the-scenes goldholders when dealing with issues, and on the other hand, a decision on political capital such as their voter approval rates. influences.

If there is a conflict between the two, they tend to prefer the former.

Because the voter support rate can affect or even manipulate, once there is no support from the chaebol, the front and back are lost.

The most typical of these is undoubtedly the Bush family.

Especially during the George W. Bush administration.

As a well-known spokesperson for the interests of the American Petroleum Group, the Bush administration could not have known that launching a war would lead to a sharp expansion of the U.S. debt deficit, will bury the crisis of the U.S. economy, allow China on the other side of the ocean to rise, and cause Russia and other U.S. The economic prosperity of the old enemy.

However, when Bush Jr. took office for eight years, the war basically continued for eight years.

The goal of the Westeros system is growing.

In order not to be frequently targeted, Simon attached importance to overseas expansion while never easing its layout in North American local politics, at all costs.

As long as he can successfully build a powerful political spokesperson under the Westeros system in the next few years, Simon can also sit back and relax like the entrenched financial tycoons, oil consortiums and military industrial groups in the United States.

This is not easy.

However, as long as you step by step in accordance with the rules of the game in Washington, the goal will always be achieved one day.

In the study room of the villa.

It wasn't until Sofia knocked on the door to remind him that Simon stopped instilling in Daniel various ideas that were not very appropriate for his age.

Sending his son to the restaurant first, Sofia and Simon fell a little behind together, with a little warning in doubt: "I always think you are teaching Danny bad."

Simon didn't show a guilty expression at all, saying: "A lot of things, it's too late to teach after the child is 18 years old, Daniel's mind is enough to accept many things."

Sofia frowned slightly: "But Danny is only 13 years old."

Seeing that Daniel disappeared in the corner of the corridor, Simon reached out to block the woman's waist and said, "I was completely alone when I was 13 years old."

Sophia held Simon's devil's claws on his waist to prevent him from making a fuss, but his pace slowed down a bit: "In short, if Danny breaks the teaching, I will ask you to settle the bill."

Simon pulled the woman over slightly: "If you teach it well, is there a reward?"

Sofia felt Simon's breath after approaching, and gave him a white look: "I have given you everything, and what rewards are needed."

The two said, crossing the corridor to the restaurant, the others were already seated.

Seeing Simon and Sofia coming in, Gemma, who was sitting next to Seattle and talking to the little girl, looked up and excitedly said: "Uncle Simon, Seah must be smarter than you. I only taught the multiplication formula, she Just remember it."

Simon sat down in the chair opened by Alia and smiled: "Sir must be thinking that this sister is really boring, even reading such a simple thing in her ear, I will be back when I was three months old. Multiplication formula."

Little Gemma's eyes widened with dissatisfaction: "Not really, and, three months, how is it possible."

Simon said firmly in his face: "Of course it is possible that I will multiply the formula in three months. Sear is my daughter. You just said that she is smarter than me."

Of course Jema didn’t believe it: "How do you prove it?"

Simon said: "Why don't I recite it for you again?"

Gemma blinked and suddenly said cunningly: "Okay."

Simon was led by a girl, but he was not interested in carrying out multiplication formulas in front of so many people. He regretted: "Forget it, or don't hurt your self-confidence."

Gemma snorted without turning up, turned to Seattle, and came again to interest: "Xiya, how much is seven times seven?"

The little girl with a pair of beautiful eyes is sitting in a raised special baby seat,

Little Gemma just showed off in front of Simon and suddenly lost face: "It's wrong, let's talk."

The little girl seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "147."

Gemma waved her little hand: "How is it possible, give you another chance, the last chance."

The little girl thought or not said, "196."

Gemma finally couldn't hold back, and the detective squeezed gently on the face of Seattle: "I'm angry, quickly, it's 49."

The little girl let little Gemma pinch her face, her expression was still faint, as if the younger sister's fingers were not pinched on her face, and said softly: "245."

Gemma gave up completely: "Little idiot, don't play with you anymore, you really are not as smart as your father."

By the dining table.

Looking at the mad little Gemma, several adults thought a little and all laughed.

Janet opened the little Gemma who was still pinching Seattle’s face uncontrollably: “Don’t bully Sear, you’re a fool here.”

Little Gemma saw a few grown-ups laughing together, and even her mother was dissatisfied: "What's wrong?"

The adults are very unscrupulous, and Daniel helps his sister to make a lie: "Several numbers that Sear said just now are twice, three times, four times, and five times 49, she is teasing you."

Gemma blinked a few times, obviously not thinking about it, and raised a finger to make a few strokes on the table in front of him, and finally said suddenly: "Wow, really." Then he turned to Seattle next to him. Instead of being angry because he was just being teased, he looked amazed and turned to the opposite Jennifer who was taking care of Nick: "Aunt Jenny, Sia is a genius. How did you get born?"

Childhood is unscrupulous.

The question was a little embarrassing. Simon coughed a little and took the initiative to say: "This is mainly because of Syl's father."

Gemma suddenly threw a scornful expression on someone's really thick skin.

During the laughter, the waitresses put the dinner together, and when Gemma saw that everyone was going to pick up the cutlery, he couldn't help but looked at Simon's head next to Janet: "Uncle Simon, why Westeros? No need to pray before dinner at home."

Simon said seriously: "Dinner was bought by me working hard and earning money. Thank God, I will feel that I am suffering."

The truth is a bit overbearing.

Little Gemma was stunned and couldn't help saying: "Uncle Simon, you are blasphemy."

Simon changed it when he was right: "Okay, I confess."

Xiao Jiema felt that someone was hopeless and took back her gaze. As everyone picked up the cutlery and started to dine together, after a moment, they couldn’t help but open their mouths and looked at the opposite: “Mom, I can go to the city to watch fashion on the weekend Show?"

Sofia refused: "No."

Xiao Jiema said pitifully: "However, many of my classmates can go to the show. If I can't go, they will be rejected because they have no common topics."

Sophia listened to her daughter's words and thought for a while, Matsuki said: "My mother will ask you after dinner, but you can't go alone, and you can't export it to run."

Little Gemma immediately lost her pity, and excitedly nodded his head: "I can call some friends together," realized that I was a little exposed, and quickly said: "Can't you accompany me?"

Sofia was a little worried when she saw her daughter's very careless little cunning, but since she agreed, she certainly would not regret it, saying: "Mom still has something to do, you and your little friends will do."

Little Gemma agreed, and looked at Simon again: "Uncle Simon, will you go to the show this weekend?"

Simon said: "This, you need to ask your aunt Jenny."

Gemma looked at Janet suspiciously.

Janet smiled and said: "Uncle Simon will stay at home to watch children this weekend, and will not go anywhere."

Xiao Jiema had a clear expression and nodded her head: "Uh um, I understand." After looking at it, he glanced at Simon happily, "praising" and said: "Good man."

Since discovering that the children helped to change Simon's mentality, two Jenny began to increase the time that Simon and the three little guys get along.

I've been staying at Greenwich as a dad on the weekend, but two Jenny went to the city to watch a show and shop together.

On the new Monday, Simon arrived in Manhattan at more than eight o'clock in the morning to attend the Monday meeting of Daenerys Entertainment’s East Coast headquarters.

Today is September 26.

It is already the end of September. At the end of the summer film season, the autumn season of the TV series has already begun. This meeting is mainly about the summary of the series of TV series that have been uploaded to the beginning of the autumn season.

It's mainly about two new plays that were aired last week.

"Story of the Emergency Room" on September 19 and "Friends" on September 22.

According to Simon's original plan, the two new dramas were handed over to CBS and NBC, respectively. Relying on the excellent quality of the episode itself and spared no effort in publicity, both TV dramas achieved a good start after the broadcast.

On September 19, the first episode of "The Story of the Emergency Room" was broadcast. Although Monday is not a golden period for the TV series, this medical drama written by Michael Clayton, the author of the original novel of "Jurassic Park", is still at the beginning. The episode created 23.8 million viewers and became the new drama with the best performance in the autumn season.

On September 22, "Friends" was broadcast on the NBC TV network. The golden eighth file on Thursday, the first episode of ratings reached 21.5 million.

In 1994, cable TV and the Internet had not caused too obvious an impact on the traditional public TV network, and episodes with more than 20 million viewers were common.

However, this is only relative.

There are also hundreds of new dramas of various genres released in North America each year, and the number of episodes that can reach "The Story of the Emergency Room" and "Friends" that have just entered the hot list after the file is finally a minority, Daenerys Entertainment Another popular sitcom "Song Fei Zheng Zhuan" was launched, and it became popular after a few seasons.

In the past history, the public television network in the 1990s was basically the world of several episodes such as "Friends", "Story of the Emergency Room", "Song Fei Zheng Zhuan" and so on.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment has not only included all of these popular episodes, but also created the reality show era in advance. In addition to not being able to win a public TV station, the current cutting edge in the TV industry is no less than a movie. field.

Daenerys Entertainment’s East Coast headquarters in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

The regular meeting ends at half past ten.

Simon stayed in the meeting room and continued to discuss some trivia with Robert Egger, and was about to return to her office here. Girl A knocked on the door and handed a document to Simon, saying: "Boss, West Coast just came It is reported that Vivendi and Disney of France will hold a press conference at 9 o'clock in the west coast to officially announce that the two companies have reached an acquisition agreement."

Since Michael Eisner suffered a heart attack and was forced to withdraw from Disney's management, lacking Eisner's tough opposition, Vivendi's acquisition negotiations for Disney quietly officially opened.

Negotiations have not been smooth, and there have been more than one rumors that the negotiations between the two parties have broken or Vivendi will turn to other goals.

Unexpectedly, an agreement was reached suddenly.

Simon turned over the file that Girl A handed over, and when I saw Iger, she looked at it curiously, and moved the file toward him.

Last Friday, Disney's closing market value was about $8.1 billion.

In the terms of the current acquisition agreement, Vivendi finally bid $9.5 billion to acquire all of Disney’s assets, and assumed Disney’s total debt of up to $5.3 billion, with a total transaction amount of $14.3 billion.

Moreover, this is another all-cash acquisition.

If it was the original timeline, the $9.5 billion acquisition of Disney is absolutely worth the money. In fact, the market value of Disney in 1994 is close to $20 billion, and it is not at all able to win $9.5 billion.

It is different now.

Because of Simon’s big butterfly, Disney has been mistreated by Daenerys in recent years like several other brothers and brothers in Hollywood. The failure of Disneyland Paris has made Disney even worse. Before the acquisition was launched, Disney’s market value It has been less than 7 billion US dollars and 9.5 billion US dollars, with a premium of more than 30%.

Judging from Disney's financial reports in recent years, Vivendi apparently did the same thing as the original Sony.

Unless after that Disney, Vivendi has the ability to quickly recover this big film company in the next few years, otherwise, its own debt has reached as high as $5.3 billion, plus the huge debt increased by this acquisition, Viven If Di fails to reverse the situation as soon as possible, he will definitely fall into crisis because of the huge debts.

However, this time, Simon is definitely not going to give Disney another chance to turn over.

Seventh Hollywood.

Seven major film companies, after all, is too much.

After Simon got the inside information more than an hour in advance, at nine o'clock in the morning on the West Coast, the Disney headquarters in Burbank, Vivendi and Disney officially held a press conference to announce the results of the transaction reached by the two parties.

Next, as long as it is approved by the federal regulatory agency, the transaction can be successfully concluded.

Although there have been media calls in recent months to limit the excessive involvement of overseas capital in the US cultural industry, legally, this acquisition will not be substantially hindered, not to mention the secret promotion of the Westeros system.After the two companies officially held a press conference, Simon carried out some layouts again to ensure that the transaction passed without fail.