Hollywood Hunter

Simon rushed to the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan in the afternoon. The news that the internationally renowned model agency Elite changed hands has quickly spread.

This transaction is not worth mentioning compared to Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of the two major mergers and acquisitions of Metropolitan ABC Group and Dinkel Bayer.However, the well-known legendary tycoon and playboy Simon Westero directly intersects with the world's largest model brokerage industry giant, which can really bring too much association to people, but the natural lace atmosphere contained therein attracts attention. Not much worse than the other two acquisitions.

Moreover, the sudden occurrence of the transaction quickly became the focus of heated discussion in the media.

The official statement given by Apollo Management Company is very routine: optimistic about the potential and future of the model agency industry, Barabara.When some reporters tried to contact Elite founder and former president John Casablanca, the ever-fashionable fashion godfather uncharacteristically rejected all interview invitations, but issued a similarly formulated statement through a direct lawyer, saying that he withdrew from this for personal reasons. Companies hope that Elite will get better and better.

There have never been any impenetrable walls in the world.

Apollo Management Company and John Casablanca failed to satisfy the curiosity of the media. According to the news circulating quickly in the circle, the media quickly locked Elite's new president Grace Spurt.Ordinary brokers have a good appearance and a perfect family. They rely on the Elite New Media Operation Department, which was established less than a year ago, to rise rapidly and have outstanding capabilities.

These are nothing special.

Perhaps it is just another new member of the Westero system women's gang. Elite New Media's operation department and Westero system have very close cooperation, and both parties are considered win-win.

Even if, well, some gossip came out, and Westeros’s preference for women is well known, but it is impossible to take advantage of it anyway, otherwise, it will be easy for the defendant to go bankrupt.

Grace does not draw attention to herself.After a little operation, the media's eyes turned to several clients under the woman's name.

Qu Si Gao Fu.

Oh.

This is clear at a glance.

The baby-faced girl, who is only 19 years old this year, has risen as fast as last year. Not only did she sign up to become the sixth spokesperson for Victoria Secret, she also participated in Westero's screenplay of the phenomenon-level low-cost science fiction movie "This Man is from Earth" ", some time ago, it was rumored to join Daenerys and Warner Bros. in the science fiction blockbuster "Game of the Brave" as the heroine.

It now appears that Simon Westero's love for this lover is more than that.

In order to please each other, he even bought Elite, and let Qusi Gaofu turn from a contracted model into a boss lady.

Gee.

Qian Jinbo smiled.

I don't know how many girls will be jealous and sleepless all night.

Of course, these gossips still can't see the newspaper, otherwise the defendant may still go bankrupt.However, there are certain things that everyone knows well, even if you can't say it straight, no one will turn around.What's more, everyone sent a wave of Qusi Gaofu's manuscript together, beautiful and beautiful photos, all praising articles, and mention two incidents of Elite changing the incident, Westeros should not be angry?

How many low-level models are crying and shouting, and they can't get the exposure.

In the next few days, the entertainment media was full of Elite Master Memorandums marked with Qu Si Gaofu's photo, or the Elite Master Master Memorandum deliberately used Qu Si Gaofu's beautiful photos.

Lace gossip has always attracted more public attention than boring commercial mergers and acquisitions.

Simon's use of this lace triggered by Elite has largely diverted public attention to the merger and acquisition of Daenerys Entertainment and the Metropolitan ABC Group.

The two companies quietly submitted the merger case to the US Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission () and other relevant departments for review,

During this time, under the mediation of the resource balance of the entire Westeros system, the potential obstacle crisis of the M&A case was gradually eliminated.

Simon was put together and the most aggressive CBS just after the merger was announced also stopped.

Because the current CBS has become the object of the "pursuit" of Viacom and Westinghouse Electric.

This can be regarded as the result of Simon releasing various news to force Lalang to match.

At first, only Viacom expressed his intentions.

Simon is really not like seeing the merger of Viacom and CBS, which owns high-quality cable assets of MTV and Showtime, and secretly re-promoted Westinghouse Electric, which was interested in CBS, to join the war.

As a veteran American industrial giant like General Electric, Westinghouse Electric is far more powerful than Viacom Group. Not only that, in order to promote Westinghouse Electric’s determination, Simon also used the Westeros system on Wall Street to upload it in the media. After Westinghouse Electric's intention to CBS, it secretly bought a large number of Westinghouse Electric stocks, which increased the stock price of this veteran industrial giant by more than 10%.

This is public opinion.

The market is so optimistic about Westinghouse Electric's follow-up to develop the media business of General Electric.

What's more, the new CEO of Westinghouse Electric, Michael Jordan, who took office in previous years, split up part of the business of this veteran industrial giant. Westinghouse has almost $2 billion in cash in hand, which can be used to initiate an acquisition of CBS. Although Viacom is not short of money, it is most likely to adopt share swaps and mergers if it wants to annex CBS. This is the result that many capitals that want to cash out after the capital gains tax reform do not want to see it.

In order to further promote the M&A balance to Westinghouse Electric, the Westeros system has also quietly used its own power on Wall Street to block the possibility of Viacom raising funds for cash acquisitions.

At the same time, two potential buyers appeared, CBS's stock price recovered, and Larry Tisch complained of Daenerys much less.

Simon also sent a message to Tisch, if Daenerys and the Metropolitan ABC merger failed to pass, then, CBS do not want to sell themselves smoothly.

The influence of the Westeros system in Washington far exceeds that of CBS, which is enough to achieve this.

Simon certainly did not forget to give some sweetness and re-signed the contract of "The Story of the Emergency Room" with CBS to ensure that after winning ABC, Daenerys will not withdraw this trump card from CBS.

The obstacle of CBS is thus finalized.

For General Electric, Daenerys has also signed new contracts with General Electric’s NBC Television Network for projects such as “Friends” and “Survivor”, which dispels NBC’s doubts about the cooperation between Daenerys and ABC to the greatest extent.

In addition, on the day of Independence Day, Simon also invited GE Chairman Jack Welch to play together on a golf course outside of Greenwich.

The two chatted all morning.

About General Electric, about Westinghouse Electric, about traditional industries in the United States, about the media industry.

Simon explained his views on this American industrial pearl from the perspective of a latecomer.

The current General Electric is in a peak period after the second industrial revolution. This peak will be limited to the peak of the current bull market in the United States. Then, it will prosper.

GE may be able to maintain its advantages in the most advanced aviation field or relatively monopolistic and closed defense field, but in the near future, GE’s relatively mid-range electrical, lighting, transportation and other businesses are destined to be unavoidable by lower-cost Japan, Asian countries such as South Korea and even China continue to erode.

This point is already evident in the US automobile industry.

At this stage, traditional industries that still occupy a high proportion of US GDP are destined to be increasingly replaced by tertiary industries such as finance, media, and entertainment. Therefore, it is GE’s responsibility to develop tertiary industries while maintaining cutting-edge industrial advantages. future.

Actually there is one more point.

Suppress competitors as much as possible.

Compared with the diversified expansion trend that GE still maintains, as one of the most important competitors in the country, Westinghouse is constantly splitting, which is equivalent to self-abiding martial arts.In addition, the acquisition of CBS by Dongshi is also moving towards a branch.Because compared to ABC and NBC, the overall strength of CBS is really too weak, lacking the layout of the cable TV field that has grown rapidly in recent years, this is also a fatal weakness.

As long as Daenerys merges with the metropolitan ABC, and then facilitates the acquisition of Westinghouse Electric for CBS, then Daenerys and General Electric can work together to bring Westinghouse Electric down completely.

In the past history, this actually happened to be the fate of Westinghouse Electric.

Even after Westinghouse’s complete decline, some people questioned that Westinghouse’s CEO was a commercial spy sent by Jack Welch. He deliberately brought this GM’s largest competitor in the United States through irrational splits and unauthorized mergers and acquisitions. Into the abyss.

Simon investigated the resume of Westinghouse CEO Michael Jordan. The same name as the famous basketball star is actually a white middle-aged professional manager who is about sixty years old. There is no intersection with General Electric. The commercial spy is only later reported by the media. A conspiracy-style complaint.

Speaking of that, Michael Jordan sold Westinghouse Electric’s traditional industrial business a little bit in the original space-time and completely turned to the media field. Even in the late 1990s, even Westinghouse’s name was completely abandoned and changed to CBS. This development route and correct.It’s just that the professional manager didn’t have the talent to run the media industry. In the end, he could only sell media assets that took years of integration to Summer Redstone.

Westinghouse Electric also declined completely.

All in all, Jack Welch also agreed with Simon’s idea after playing golf for the whole morning. He promised Simon clearly at lunch that he would not create obstacles to the merger of Daenerys and the Metropolitan ABC.

Having settled CBS and NBC, two potential competitors most likely to create obstacles to the acquisition, things are basically dusty.

As for many other small and medium-sized media companies, Simon will not be taken lightly, but without the possible collective bounce back led by the two giants CBS and NBC, Simon does not think they can create many obstacles.

The media's attention has been diverted, competitors' obstacles have disappeared, and Washington is not a problem.

With these three things done, the M&A case is basically settled.

Continue to follow up some key projects being prepared by the television department, Simon returned to the West Coast on July 7.

This day is Friday.

Another box office week for the North American summer file ends.

Across the box office week of the Independence Day holiday, "Jurassic Park 2" released on June 2 finally gave up its single-week box office championship position. However, it was still the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment. "Apollo 13".

This film with the background of the Apollo 13 crash in 1970 fits the mood of the Independence Day holiday, not to mention the starring Tom Hanks who won the Academy Awards just a few months ago, so it attracted Large audiences bought tickets to enter the venue.

The production cost of US$50 million, the announcement of US$30 million, and the number of open screens are 2,793.

Relying on the classic media score as high as 9.5 points in "Jurassic Park 2", the first week of June 30th to July 6th release, "Apollo 13" opened for seven days at the box office. More than twenty thousand dollars.Although it can't be compared with "Jurassic Park 2", according to the first-week box office forecast, only a total of 150 million to 200 million US dollars at the box office is enough for "Apollo 13" to recover the full budget and achieve profitability.

After the championship, the live-action movie "Dinosaur Team" that was released at the same time as "Apollo 13" and Disney's Stallone starring action blockbuster "Special Police Magistrate" performed poorly. "Jurassic Park 2" successfully held the second place .

In the fifth week of the release, under the impact of three new films, although it was a popular holiday day alone, "Jurassic Park 2" single-week box office drop still reached 38%, box office receipts were 24.36 million US dollars.

From 129.13 million in the first week to 24.36 million in the fifth week, the decline rate of Jurassic Park 2 is very obvious, but in five weeks, the cumulative box office of this dinosaur sci-fi block in North America has reached 300 million. $30.78 million.One week's deposit can still maintain 24.36 million, leaving only 70 million from the 400 million threshold, and rushing into the 400 million box office club is really only a matter of time.

Immediately, Fox produced the "Dinosaur Team" with a cost of 15 million US dollars. Relying on the animated IP word-of-mouth, it received 16.49 million US dollars in the first week. It is estimated that the local box office of 30 million US dollars is a good success.

Stallone's cooperation with Disney's $90 million Special Police Inspector became a disaster.

The 2204 block opened the screen. The box office in the first week was lower than the production cost of "Dinosaur Team" which cost US$15 million. The audience obviously lost interest in Stallone's old-school action films. The film was opened at the box office. The total box office is about 25 million US dollars.

Everyone seemed to see the past reappear.

Sony has just joined Columbia and has been paying tuition for several years in a row.

Now it is France’s turn to Vivendi Group.

In fact, this project was finalized during the Michael Eisner period last year. However, Vivendi had the opportunity to stop the project after contacting Disney, or reduce the production budget, but the French did not do so, but planned He started his reputation in Hollywood with a blockbuster, so he spared no effort to support it.

The result was a super big heel with broken bones.It is estimated that the total box office of 25 million US dollars will not be collected even for the cost of distribution. Even if Stallone's overseas box office has a stronger appeal, Disney will not escape the huge loss.

What's more, the failure of "Swat Judge" also directly affected the two projects that Hollywood is advancing, namely "The Game of the Brave" by Daenerys and Warner Bros. Pictures, and Warner Bros. and Schwarzenegger some time ago. The finalized "Evaporation Secret Order".