Chapter 464

After washing and mending, Chris Jenna walks out of the bathroom and sees that Simon has returned to the round table on the terrace. She has a little upset in her heart. You don't have to worry about anything.

Of course, I dare not show it on my face.

In the courtyard, the music and laughter of the party remained the same.

No one seems to have noticed what happened in the past half an hour.

After finishing the skirt of the red low cut dress again, the woman walked over carefully and sat down next to him with the permission of the man's eyes.

Having just observed the angle, she was sitting at the farthest distance from the fence and would not be seen by people downstairs.

Although she doesn't mind and even wants to be seen, smart women obviously know what can and can't be done.

"The project team has arranged an interactive cross between" Beverly's wife "and" New York's wife ". In recent days, they have been shooting here. During the day, they met Mr. Friedman when talking about things. He said that there is a party tonight and I will come."

When she saw that the man was just leaning on the back of his chair and quietly looking downstairs, she didn't mean to chat with her, so Chris Jenna closed her mouth wisely.

Anyway, this "tiger skin" is enough.

This man does not give, she can not take the initiative to ask for anything.

At least Jonathan Friedman must have known she was here.

A moment later, when Chris Jenna heard the man tell her to have a glass of wine delivered, she knew it was a rush, so she got up and left the terrace.

Because of meeting this woman, Simon just thought of USA TV network.

After the merger last year, through the two series of "Beverly's wife" and "New York's wife" launched by USA, USA has successfully transformed into a female TV network.

But that is clearly not enough.

However, in the past year, two major acquisitions and other things have consumed most of Simon's energy. He does not have much time to take into account the development of USA, even MCA records, which he likes very much. All these can only be entrusted to a group of senior executives of the company.

The new year has just begun. It's still a lot of things.

Until now.

After several years of close attention, Denise Entertainment's film business has been very stable, and it is probably the time to turn her energy to other businesses.

Cable TV can still flourish for at least 30 years. In music, although the real record industry will decline rapidly with the rise of the Internet, in the west, where the copyright protection system is very perfect, the record industry will never disappear, nothing more than transformation.

What's more, the major record giants who survived a merger and reorganization in my memory have been making money all the time, although they always claim that life is hard.

In addition, the record industry is still on the eve of the last boom of the 1990s.

Michael Jackson, Madonna and other old celebrities still dominate the singing world. However, in the 1990s, it was the period of the rise of teen pop music.

During this period, a large number of young pop singers, such as backstreet boys, Britney Spears and even spice girls in the UK, have attracted most of the attention of the western music industry and spread this trend all over the world. Until many years later, the South Korean entertainment industry is still continuing the combination model that emerged in Europe and the United States in the 1990s.

In Simon's opinion, the biggest feature of teen popularity is that it can make stars in batches.

The rise of traditional superstars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna has a lot of strength and luck. However, for young pop singers, as long as they have a good bag, their performance quality is not too bad, which is almost enough. The next step is to pack them according to the fixed routine.

Not only that, but there are also some more direct and fast methods, draft.

None of this can be achieved overnight.

After careful consideration, Simon decided to start with USA.

With so much experience of two generations, Simon can easily sort out some rules: the rise of a TV network or media platform often needs a phenomenal TV program. For example, HBO's "the underworld family" in the late 1990s pushed the TV network to the peak. Later, because of "house of cards", Nafi's development also entered the fast lane.

At this stage, there is no trend of American Drama Classics falling out later.

Cable TV networks invest far less energy in TV dramas than in movies.

We have to start from the 1970s.

When Barry Diller worked in ABC television network, he found that it was often too expensive for television network to buy movie rights from Hollywood, so he created a TV movie model. Compared with Hollywood movies, TV movies often cost a lot of money, even hundreds of thousands of dollars can be made, and the cycle is shorter. One movie can be launched every month, and it can also be owned Exclusive premiere feature.

Again, Hollywood is very conservative.

After a business model emerged and proved effective, people flocked to it.

Especially in recent years, with the rise of cable TV, in order to compete for audience resources, TV movies with many advantages are more prosperous. Many Hollywood stars who can't survive on the big screen can switch to shooting TV movies. Even if the pay is not high, it can't bring much popularity, but there are enough opportunities to win.However, in Simon's view, TV film also has its disadvantages that can not be ignored.

The unsustainability of popularity.

When a TV movie is shown several times, the audience will be interested in it, and then turn to the syndicate platform and video channel. After mining the surplus value, it will be gradually forgotten. Relatively speaking, the popularity cycle is very short.

However, the phenomenal TV series are different.

Like "the underworld family," like "house of cards.".

In my memory, "the underworld family" has been filmed for six seasons, and HBO has been developing rapidly for six years. Similarly, house of cards has a similar effect.

According to the information in his mind, Simon roughly judged that it was in the late 1990s that the appearance of American dramas such as "the underworld family" squeezed the living space of TV movies, and further led to the decline of this TV business model.

As for now.

Hollywood, or the American media industry, obviously doesn't realize that.

In short, Hollywood has always been developing. More than ten years ago, now, it is not what many people see in ten or twenty years. Even in Simon's view, before the rise of blockbusters and CG special effects in the 1990s, Hollywood's film industry was not stable. Everyone was just "taking a chance.".

The same is true of television.

Before the 1990s, we already had the business model of television and film. In addition, the television network has a strong platform monopoly, so we don't need to invest too much in TV programs to win the audience. Therefore, we are not eager to make progress.

After the 1990s, the cable TV has risen completely, and the competition in the TV industry has become fierce. At the same time, the prosperity of the Internet also poses a threat to the TV industry, which makes the major TV manufacturers pay more attention to the development of content. Even TV production can reach the movie level.

Now, the best way to make USA TV network more prosperous is to subvert the traditional business model in advance.

In fact, Simon has subverted the traditional television industry in the United States through reality TV shows. This is just the second time.

Women's TV stations naturally need matching women's programs.

Simon's first thought of the TV series related to women is the phenomenal desperate housewives.

ABC TV network in my memory, because of desperate housewives, even appeared the trend of being called women's TV network. How great the influence of this American drama is.

In Simon's opinion, the reason why Desperate Housewives is able to catch fire is that it is close to life on the one hand and beyond life on the other.

The plot of this TV play is full of twists and turns. A TV play may cover the twists and turns that most traditional housewives may not encounter in their whole life. At the same time, the images of several housewives are typical enough, covering most types of traditional housewives in the United States. Finally, there are the real feelings shown in this American play.

Because of the memory of more than ten people in his mind, and the fact that desperate housewives is classic enough, Simon basically remembers most of the plot of this American play.

As for details, Hollywood has never lacked screenwriters.

Now it's 1992. Mark cherry, the core screenwriter of the original desperate housewives, is just a nobody. Simon is not in the mood to find each other.

So I'll just catch the knife myself.

Every night after dinner, I accompanied Janet and the little guy to chat and knock with my notebook.

After a week, Janet occasionally added some interesting details, and the script for the first season was almost finished.

"It's an interesting story, but it's not exciting enough."

In the villa of domay point manor, after finishing the script of the first season, Janet commented while rocking the cradle of Melbourne.

Simon sent an electronic copy of the script to Robert egger in New York, put down his notebook and said, "I have a more exciting story, but I'm worried that housewives can't accept it now."

Janet was immediately interested: "tell me, I'm a housewife now."

Simon combed briefly and said, "this is also the story of a woman. However, compared with some normal housewives in Wisteria street, this woman is a mess. First of all, she is a drug dealer."

Janet patted her little hand on the cradle: "I like it. I have to do it."

Simon saw that his son's eyes suddenly widened because of his mother's sudden slap. He looked like he was about to cry. He quickly reached out and picked up the little guy.

Janet also noticed this detail. Of course, she didn't admit her mistake and said, "I'll send this little annoyance to Australia in a few days."

Simon gently comforted his son in his arms, just smiling.

Let Veronica take care of Melbourne, this is his decision, now can't refute himself.

Janet, noticing Simon's thoughts, groaned twice, but didn't ask much. She went to the side table plate, took out a document from the shelf under the table, and said, "there's another case coming from New York. Leon black, they're going to play a big game."Feeling the little guy's head resting on his shoulder, he almost went to sleep. Simon continued to hold his son, walked around the cradle and asked, "what?"

"A comprehensive clothing enterprise, named limited Brands.inc (limited brand company), mainly for young people and women groups sportswear, underwear and other business. This is a listed company with a current market value of $1.31 billion. Because of the continuous expansion in the 1980s and the economic downturn in the last two years, the company is also in trouble. However, Leon they are very optimistic about the company's Victoria secret underwear brand, so they intend to launch a private wholly-owned acquisition

Simon didn't react. When he heard Victoria's secret, he thought of it.

Victoria's secret.

Many years later, every year's Victoria's secret show is equivalent to a fashion Super Bowl. It is also Weimi who won the top supermodel in the first decade of the new century.

After a brief surprise, Simon was not too surprised that Leon black, a member of cersei capital, was in charge of Apollo management company's selection of the parent company of Weimi.

Wall Street private equity firms have their own areas of expertise.

Probably because of the relationship with melisandro and danielis entertainment, Apollo management, which focuses on private equity investment, has a large part of its acquisition targets in the clothing and cosmetics industries, such as Simmons and Estee Lauder.

Now, it's reasonable for Leon black to lead the team to target the parent company of Weimi.

It has high-quality brand assets, cash flow is tight, leading to temporary poor operating conditions, and the stock price is in a state of status, which is also the main condition for a company to be targeted by private placement.

With that in mind, Simon asked, "how much premium would it take for a wholly-owned acquisition of $1.31 billion?"

Janet rolled on the sofa like a kitten, flipped through the files in her hand, and said: "Leon, they are in contact with the management of Ltd. if they can make a goodwill acquisition, the premium will be within 30%. The competition in the clothing industry is very fierce, unlike the emerging new technology enterprises, so even if the public invitation, the premium will not be too high. If it's too high, Leon, they will give up. "

Ltd is obviously limited Brands.inc The abbreviation for.

Simon calculated in his mind that a 30% premium would cost about $1.7 billion for a complete acquisition. Apollo management is able to provide such a large sum of money, but it will undoubtedly mean a great risk: "after the acquisition, what are Leon going to do?"

"Like Simmons, after a few years of operation, when the company recovers, it will go public again, or conduct a second private placement operation and sell it directly to other private equity companies," Janet said

Simon nodded: "the federal economy is at the bottom now. If Leon confirms that this company has enough high-quality assets, it will really appreciate if they hold them for a few years."

But Janet recognized the other meaning of her husband's words. She sprang up from the sofa, leaned over the armrest of the sofa and said, "don't you have any other ideas?"

Simon said with a smile, "you can buy this company first."

Nowadays, Weimi's catwalk is still in the stage of fashion week. According to the original time line, it was not until the end of 1990s that Weimi began to gradually build Weimi's catwalk into an ornamental commercial activity.

Maybe, we can make this beautiful show ahead of time.