Hollywood Hunter

Simon rushed to New York on May 9 mainly for Verizon Telecom's IPO and the subsequent layout of the Westeros system in the telecommunications field.

On May 6, the long-prepared Verizon Telecom formally submitted its first IPO prospectus to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announcing the regional telecommunications giant that was privatized by Westeros five years ago Will once again move towards the capital market.

From the end of 1990, when Bell Atlantic, which was the predecessor of Verizon, began to submit a prospectus again on May 6, 1996, during the five full financial years, when the growth of fixed-line business in the United States was almost stagnant, Relying on the rapid growth of mobile communications services, Verizon Telecom has achieved an average high-speed annual growth rate of 31% for five consecutive years.

In fiscal year 1995, Verizon Telecom’s full-year revenue reached US$15.36 billion, a cumulative increase of 3.8 times compared to the fiscal year 1990 before the acquisition.Moreover, even if it still maintains all kinds of large-scale investments in the mobile communication market in the United States and abroad, Verizon's net profit in 1995 was as high as 1.35 billion US dollars.

In 1990, excluding the $1.7 billion in debt, Westeros won Bell Atlantic, the predecessor of Verizon Telecom, with a $7 billion cash offer.

In 1996, according to the prospectus filed on May 6, Verizon Telecom's total share capital was 3.673 billion shares. It is estimated that 500 million shares will be sold and the initial issue price will be determined to be $10.25.According to this standard calculation, Verizon Telecom's IPO valuation reached 37.6 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 28 times the price-earnings ratio.

Like the Tinkobair IPO in February, of the 500 million shares listed this time, only 300 million of them were new shares, another 200 million shares, of which 170 million were from Westeros and 30 million shares. It is the cash reduction of Verizon executives at all levels.

Because of the rapid development of Verizon Telecom, Simon is not stingy in terms of equity awards.

Prior to the submission of the prospectus, after the completion of the last equity award, Westeros' shareholding in Verizon Telecom has dropped to 92.7%, and the number of shares held is 3.405 billion shares.

In addition, 268 million shares of about 7.3% of the shares were obtained by the company's management at all levels in the form of rewards or subscriptions.

According to the IPO valuation of US$37.6 billion, only 7.3% of the total value of the stock reached US$2.75 billion, of which Raymond Smith, the chairman and CEO of Verizon Telecom, held 2.8% of the shares. Equivalent to 1.05 billion US dollars, become another billionaire billionaire.

Unlike Igreat’s start-ups that can enjoy the founder’s dividend during the IPO process from the ground up, Verizon Telecom, an already mature and established company, Simon can still give such a large-scale equity reward, which is quite large Handwriting.

On the other hand, according to the preliminary price of 10.25 US dollars, the total amount of funds raised by this IPO reached 5.125 billion US dollars.

It will be another $5 billion.

From the beginning of the year to the present, the soaring of the Nasdaq index has greatly increased the book wealth of countless investors by 1.4 trillion US dollars. At present, the total market value of all stocks of the Nasdaq has reached as high as 5.1 trillion US dollars.In this comparison, it seems that the various cashes that Simon began at the end of last year were only more than 10 billion US dollars, which seems worthless.

However, many people understand that in the capital market, cash is the king, and the market value of stock prices and the like is virtual before cashing out.

The book wealth of the stock from the beginning of the year to the present seems to have increased by 1.4 trillion US dollars, but in fact, if someone even wants to cash out one-tenth of it, 140 billion, it will inevitably lead to a bubble that has been quite serious. Crash.

Therefore, even if it doesn't say that the personal net worth that has also followed the Nasdaq's soaring protection, only the cash withdrawal, Simon is also the biggest beneficiary of this wave of technology stocks.Now, how much cash does each company in the Westeros system hold, and what does Simon Westero plan to do with the huge amount of cash in the future? Think a little, the more you understand the horror of capital power, The more I felt shudder.

What Simon will do, of course, is expansion.

Just like this Verizon IPO, it is mainly to facilitate the subsequent series of mergers after the company is securitized. This is also a major topic discussed by Simon with the senior executives of Verizon and AOL after arriving in New York.

After going public, Verizon Telecom will first initiate the acquisition of NYNEX, one of the other seven small bells in the northern part of its site, and all of the Boston and Washington metropolitan areas on the east coast of the United States will be included in Verizon Telecom, and then together with AOL Integrate the resources of all parties.

Simon initially considered the cooperation between AOL and Verizon Telecom, but later dispelled this idea.

If the two companies forcibly merge, it will be too difficult to integrate each other's businesses or the antitrust review at the government level.Therefore, the two companies will continue to operate independently in the future, but after all, they are a boss, so they will cooperate in many aspects.

Verizon Telecom will continue to focus on two major businesses, fixed-line and mobile communications, with mobile communications as the core direction in the future.

As for AOL, it will focus on two major areas of network services and cable TV.

In this way, after the promulgation of the latest "Telecommunications Act" of the United States at the end of last year, the "three networks in one" trend that various media have advocated will definitely not be implemented in the Westeros system at least.

Speaking of the time and space, the United States failed to realize the true triple play until two decades later. Instead, it was China on the other side of the ocean. An optical cable, telephone, TV, and network were all inclusive, and a mobile number was bundled. , This is already equivalent to four nets in one.

As for the reason, of course it is still interest.

The triple play allows operators to make full use of their resources, thereby reducing costs and further benefiting their customers.

However, if these services are separated and different services charge different fees, operators can of course earn more, why not do it?

Capital is profit-seeking.

Capital is ruthless and profit-seeking.

Without the intervention of strong external factors, capital will involuntarily choose the way to maximize its own interests.

Just like the Westeros system.

With Simon’s net worth at this time, he was the largest capitalist on the planet, and none of them, although Simon was still a good boss in front of his employees, he himself did not use everything to squeeze out the Westeros system. Every industry has every tendency to benefit, but the capital controlled by the Westeros system will inevitably choose to do so.

It is bound to be evil.

Because of the nature of capital.

As for why?

In the Westeros system, millions of employees have their own goals, or R&D goals, or promotion goals, or sales goals, or all kinds of other things under the modern enterprise system. Goals, once these goals cannot be achieved, the relevant individuals or teams will face the punishment of lowering the salary and sweeping away.

Therefore they must do their utmost.

And the ultimate essence of all these goals is actually two words, chasing profits.

Capital for profit.

Therefore, the words "Capital falls on the earth..." in "On Capital" can't be more true and cruel.No one should have the illusion that capital may tend to be kind and gentle because of someone or a certain system.

The day after Simon arrived in New York, on May 10, the North American summer program officially opened.

The super blockbuster "Evaporation Secret" produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and "Romeo and Julia" produced by New World Pictures under Daenerys Entertainment were released on this day, while Paramount's Orion was also drawn. The crime thriller "Violent Metropolis" produced by the film industry and several other second- and third-line studios are not worth mentioning alone movies.

Among them, Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Evaporation Secret Order", the number of opening screens reached 2816.Xiao Lizi starred in the opening screen of "Romeo and Juliet" for 2017, and finally counted as a violent metropolis with a scale of 474.

Because Simon attaches great importance to "Romeo and Juliet", although only has a budget of $15 million, the New World Films team has made the promotion of this film to the extreme within the budget, and the paper, TV and Internet are painted on three sides. The main creator of the film has also been chased like a donkey recently. Various announcements are overwhelming, and he deliberately hyped up the lace of the two protagonists.

Because it is the most direct competitor, the New World Films team also used some less influential methods for the "big man" of "Evaporation Secret Order", deliberately releasing the news of the poor quality of the internal audition of the film on the Internet, which caused Schwarzenegger had to fight back on his Facebook page.

However, Arnold's Facebook and even the news related to "Evaporation Secret Order" are now on the Internet platform that is more and more important for the promotion of the film, and they are restricted by people without knowing it.

The Internet is owned by Westeros.

Current limiting is not a sentence.

The relationship between Daenerys and Time Warner is well known.

however,

This is capital for profit!

Even if it is Simon or General Electric Chairman Jack Welch, who has become the top boss of Time Warner at this time, has enough demeanor to not do this, but the lower team of the enterprise will involuntarily adopt various This can be used as a means of competition.

Immediately, from the opening of the first day of the May 10 summer box office, the entire Hollywood once again felt the fear of being controlled by Daenerys Entertainment.

"Evaporation Secret Order", the one-day box office champion with no suspense, made an account of 8.69 million US dollars on the first day of painting.

Followed by.

"Romeo and Juliet", box office at first day, $6.92 million!

It seems that "Evaporation Secret Order" clearly wins, but, even if not to mention the huge disparity between the production costs of the two films and the investment in dissemination, only the scale of the opening screen, one 2816 block and one 2017 block, is converted. "The first day pavilion is $3086, while "Romeo and Juliet" the first day pavilion is $3431.

The small man with a production cost of US$15 million accidentally overturned the bulk of the US$100 million budget investment in the museum.

You know, this is not a small-scale point-to-point drawing without comparability. Both movies are released on a large scale.Perhaps "Romeo and Juliet" has lost nearly 800 canvases to a certain extent, pushing up the average box office to a certain extent, but a billion-dollar super bombshell is suppressed by a low-cost love film, which is a failure in itself.

Moreover, the reputation of the two films is the same.

Although the New World Pictures team released the news in advance, it did not deliberately discredit it. The comprehensive media score of "Evaporation Secret Order" was only a pitiful 3.7, which was 3.6 with the "Phantom Hero" that Arnold last screwed up. No difference.

The comprehensive media score of "Romeo and Juliet" reached 8.1 points.

Excellent level.

Of course, there is no lack of some public relations factors, but if the quality of the film itself is not good enough, the North American filmmaker who is quite capable can not say that a failed film is excellent, just like a big piece of 3.7 points.

After the first day, the news of'small man overturning the big guy' also quickly occupied the entertainment page, and the attention of "Romeo and Juliet", which had relied on the national IP, increased significantly.

Now that it has made a good start, the screening of the screen is certainly not a problem for Daenerys Entertainment.After the box office was released on the first day, the New World Film team quickly contacted the major theaters. It is expected that the number of screens for "Romeo and Juliet" will increase to about 2,500 next week.

It still can't keep up with the 2816 block of "Evaporation Secret Order", but it is enough for this film to further develop its box office potential.

The three days of the first weekend passed quickly.

The box office statistics are released. The three-day box office of "Evaporation Secret Order" is $24.57 million, and the first weekend box office of "Romeo and Juliet" is $2017.07 million.

The difference is only 4 million.

Under the operation of the New World Pictures team, Leonardo DiCaprio quickly began to cooperate with the official launch of the second wave of publicity directly from the previous appearance with the acting in "Different Sky" broke out to the popular Hollywood frontline students .

Daenerys Entertainment did not miss this opportunity, and began to properly warm up the Titanic that will be released in June. It is also on and off the "Lateman Late Night Show" that has been aired on ABC TV. The "Mummy" team released in the week carried out a joint promotion because Rachel Vichy, who participated in "Mummy", was the heroine of "Titanic".

All kinds of male and female protagonists, all kinds of sparks.

In the end, in a box office week from May 10 to May 16, "Evaporation Secret Order" still easily won the single-week box office champion throne, and opened a painting for seven days to earn 36.42 million US dollars.

The second-place "Romeo and Juliet", the first week at the box office, was 31.46 million US dollars.

As for another "violent metropolis" and other small films without splashing any water, everyone's eyes were focused on the top two movies.

The first week of $36.42 million, which seems pretty good, is actually far lower than Warner Bros.’s expectation of $50 million to $60 million in the first week.After all, the production cost of "Evaporation Secret Order" is $100 million, and Warner Bros. also invested a $30 million announcement budget.With a total investment of US$130 million, it takes US$400 million at the global box office to recover costs.

Now, even fairly optimistically, it is already a blessing that the local box office of "Evaporation Secret Order" can exceed 100 million US dollars. Even if it is counted as twice as local, the global box office is only about 300 million US dollars.

Warner can only expect follow-up channels to recover costs.

Looking at "Romeo and Juliet", only the box office of US$31.46 million in the first week, according to the step-by-step accounting rules, has easily recovered most of the US$15 million production budget and US$15 million of the announced cost. Is inevitable.

If the total box office volume of this movie is only about 30 million US dollars, it is still a bit more pleasant, but this is just the beginning.

According to the market reputation and audience popularity shown in "Romeo and Juliet", although the opening box office is lower than the "evaporating secret order", the subsequent local total box office, the ending is really not necessarily, and, the obvious "Romeo and Juliet" win It's bigger.

May 17, the second week of the summer program.

Leading the same two films, Fox Pictures released the fantasy adventure blockbuster "Mummy" that Daenerys and Fox collaborated with, as well as Disney's new Mike Myers film "Ace Spy".

The final production cost of "Mummy" is 70 million US dollars. Because of the relative cost advantage, Fox hit a 35 million US dollars budget, which is 5 million higher than the "Evaporation Secret Order". The film also reached 2986 on the screen. .

"Ace Spy" is a work that was transferred to Disney last year after Mike Myers and Daenerys Entertainment failed to negotiate a follow-up cooperation agreement after the "Anti-Intelligence Multi-Star" series because of the "Anti-Intelligence Multi-Star" series. Success, Disney generously gave Myers up to 15 million US dollars in remuneration and the corresponding share contract, so the production cost of this "Ace Big Spy" reached 40 million US dollars, and the announced budget was 20 million US dollars. The number of screens is 2187.

Two or four movies, before the start of the summer file, almost everyone thinks that "Evaporation Secret Order" and "Mummy" will be the most direct competitors. If "Ace Big Spy" can continue the success of the "Anti-Intelligence Multi-Star" series , Will also be tied to the first two.

The three films are considered to be the core of the May start of the summer season.

Although "Mission Impossible 2" was released on May 31, it was already considered the June schedule.

Unexpectedly, it is very empty to kill a dark horse named "Romeo and Juliet". As the popularity of the film further spreads, this film has formed a group among the young audiences, especially young female audiences, at the core of the summer season. Movie watching boom.It may not be the whole age, but who would doubt a woman’s spending power?

So the situation suddenly became delicate.

In case "Mummy" is messed up again, although the chance is very small, this summer will be quite lively.Moreover, because of being attracted a lot of popularity by "Romeo and Juliet", the attention of Mike Myers' "Ace Spy" was unconsciously covered up a lot.

Los Angeles.

While many people pay close attention to the latest release of two new films and the follow-up performance of the opening movie last week, some people cannot calm down.

In the wealthy neighborhood of Brentwood, north of Santa Monica, a luxury car drove into the private home of Fox Films President Joe Ross at more than seven o'clock in the evening, and Arnold Schwarzenegger got out of the car and followed the welcoming Joe ·Ross entered the villa party scene and almost immediately felt the gaze of other people around him.

Not many people in Hollywood have experienced failures, um... maybe someone except, not to mention, "Evaporation Secret Order" is not too failed, at least much stronger than "Phantom Hero" over three years ago.

However, after "Phantom Heroes" failed, [UU Reading Book 00kxs] because there was "Terminator 2" as the base, and then quickly used "Real Lies" to restore popularity, so the project did not have Ano. The bit caused too much blow.

This time it was obviously different.

After all, everyone feels more and more obvious changes in Hollywood in recent years.

The most obvious.

Because of the rise of the DC movie universe, because of the prosperity of movie special effects, the super hot first-line superstars once seemed so less valuable.If that's the case, of course it doesn't matter. If the pay is reduced, it will be reduced, but because it is no longer so valuable, it also means that Hollywood's fault tolerance for super big coffee has also been greatly reduced.

The former superstar, failed a two-movie film, and had a third chance to rise again.Now, it may just be a movie failure, and it will be difficult for you to get better resources in the future.With the mediocre opening of "Evaporating Secrets", everyone realized that Arnold Schwarzenegger is probably the first super big man to fall into such an awkward situation.

Moreover, it is definitely not just caused by a movie in "Evaporation Secret Order".

It is a logical result after a series of accumulation.

First of all, the market performance of "Evaporation Secret Order" is unsatisfactory. In fact, it may mean that the old-school muscular male action films that Schwarzenegger is best at are no longer popular. This trend has been very obvious recently. Among the series of similar films, only "real" "Lies" highlights the encirclement, but failed projects can be listed in a series.

Sylvestre Stallone’s, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, Kevin Costner’s, “Phantom Heroes”, “Breakfast”, “Law Enforcement”, “Special Police Inquisitor”, etc., and even The most recent "Evaporation Secret Order".

The type is not popular anymore, in fact it is nothing.

As long as you can transform in time.

That's the problem.

After a lesson from "Phantom Heroes", Schwarzenegger apparently did not react completely. After the success of "The Real Lies", he thought that the type he was good at was still full of markets, so he missed an excellent opportunity last year.

That's right.

"Game of the Brave".

And it is obviously a series.

It's also a special effects blockbuster series that almost represents Hollywood's megatrends.

Because the value of the first-line big coffee is too high, in fact, there are not many opportunities for them. Because the special effects-based super blockbuster has already had a selling point, the producers often choose actors with relatively affordable pay.

It is not easy to be able to meet the project that suits you on the basis of the corresponding type.

There are no secrets in the circle.

Everyone knows that Simon Westero's initial preference was Arnold, and the conditions given were actually quite good, but unfortunately this super-big coffee wanted more, but the opportunity was dragged down.

What makes the gossip people eat melons is that this opportunity also falls into the hands of Stallone, Ano's dead rival.

Prior to this, Anoco had been fighting Stallone for many years.

Not necessarily in the future.

After all, Arnold rejected the project of Simon Westeros. Who knows whether it will leave a pimple in the heart of a young tycoon. Now in Hollywood, it is well known that all the best opportunities are almost from Daenerys Entertainment. It is all controlled by a young man who is only 28 years old.

Inside Joe Rose's mansion.

Schwarzenegger, who pretended not to feel all kinds of different looks, greeted some familiar guests, and quickly joined Joe Rose to avoid the party scene and came to a reception room in the villa.

Whether it's two people involved, or guests at the hall party, you can actually guess one or two.

Because it's easy to guess.

The box office of "Evaporation Secret Order" was unsatisfactory, and Arnold must consider saving popularity.

In the original time and space, Schwarzenegger chose "Batman and Robin" in 1997. Although the result was a huge pay of 20 million US dollars, it also caused a greater disaster.

This time there is no "Batman" series for Arnold to choose.

Then.

What else?

That's right, "Terminator".

The copyright is held by Fox and Daenerys Entertainment in the "Terminator" series.In the movie, Arnold is the savior of the human world. Outside of the movie, this movie is almost Arnold's savior.