Chapter 575

In October, the end of the year is approaching, and many films have begun the final stage of publicity.

Since Halloween, Denise entertainment has four major projects at the end of the year, namely, seven sins, lion king, mission impossible and Schindler's list. In addition, there is a DC movie "steel bone", Simon is only the producer, and the project is completely run by Warner Bros.

A special parent-child activity was arranged in the afternoon.

Take Janet and the little guy to see the lion king film in Daniels studios. This is Simon's first time to Daniels studios after his vacation.

It's a pity that Melbourne, who is only two months away from the age of two, is obviously not interested in animation. The little guy only stayed in the screening hall for less than 10 minutes and was carried out by girl a.

Simon watched the film with Janet and Denise entertainment executives.

The other films are not enough. As one of the most important projects at the end of this year, Simon can't ignore them completely.

Compared with the 2D version in his memory, the details of the 3D version of the lion king are perfect in Simon's opinion. The production budget of the film alone has reached US $60 million, far exceeding the US $35 million production cost of Pixar studio's first toy story, most of which is spent on improving various 3D technologies needed for film production.

Despite the huge expenses, the entire danilisi entertainment management believes that this investment is worth the money.

The excellent box office and huge peripheral revenue of toy story have proved the broad market prospects of 3D animated films. Even if the box office of Lion King is not satisfactory, the various technologies accumulated through this film can also be applied to other animated films, unlike live action films, which are usually only one-time investment.

Out of confidence in the lion king, the scale of the film's publicity also reached $30 million.

With a total investment of US $90 million in production and publicity, except for Simon, Denise entertainment basically doesn't expect the film to recover its cost through North American distribution. What we pay more attention to is the peripheral output of "Lion King" and the promotion of Denise entertainment in the whole industry chain of records, games, theme parks and so on.

Because of the importance of this project, the schedule of the film is carefully adjusted.

November 19.

This is the first week of the Thanksgiving season, and it will span the whole year-end schedule, which can give the film market the most space.

In order to make way for "the lion king", Warner Bros. originally intended to file Thanksgiving's "steel bone" by Denise entertainment to use energy to switch to December 24. Mission impossible, which will be released a week after the lion king, will not cause too serious conflict because of the type difference between the two films.

It's not that Simon didn't think about bringing mission impossible to Christmas. It's just that it's too obvious and unnecessary.

In a word, the news of the project "Lion King" has spread in Hollywood for a long time, because it's a gift from Simon to Janet. Other Hollywood studios don't have to guess how much Denise entertainment is interested in this project. Therefore, the animated films or family comedies that may compete with "Lion King" actively avoid this Thanksgiving.

Now we just need to wait for whether the 3D version of the lion king will be as popular as the original time and space.

At the end of the show, Janet kisses Simon on the face and leaves the studio first.

Simon continued to listen to several senior executives' introduction of the publicity progress and peripheral product promotion strategy of the lion king, and then left the screening room.

This projection room is located in the loft of Pixar studio on the second floor of the studio.

After watching the film and meeting, others left to do their own business. Simon went to another office in Pixar working area. John lassett personally introduced to Simon the story version of another 3D animated film just completed.

Beauty and the beast.

As a French fairy tale created in the 18th century, there is no copyright problem in beauty and the beast. When it was confirmed that Disney had abandoned the project, Simon let Pixar quietly set up the project.

Now that "the lion king" has been completed, the team in charge of "the lion king" will directly start making "beauty and the beast".

Of course, it's the same 3D version.

In addition, "Toy Story 2" production progress has also been completed, the preliminary plan will be set by the end of next year.

Finally, Simon finds Janet and her son playing in the rest area, and finds Veronica here, patiently building blocks with Melbourne.

Today is October 1st, Friday.

Veronica is here at about the same time. Simon is leaving for San Francisco to spend the weekend with her assistant.

After saying hello, we continued to play here for a while, and then we returned to domay point manor together.

"AOL doesn't have a big financial problem, but it seems that the company is too radical. Comprehensive technical audit and monthly price reduction in disguised form will definitely lead to continuous loss of the company. If it continues to expand to other regions of the United States, the loss next year may reach $1 billion."Veronica is introducing her work to Simon at domay point.

In the past half a year, AOL not only started to upgrade its ADSL network, but also officially launched a monthly package with a minimum of $29, which completely changed the previous time charge mode. In fact, it was a large-scale price reduction in disguise.

Although several large operators in AOL's business area were limited to enter the ISP field through exclusive agreements, in recent years, many small Internet service providers have emerged in AOL's sphere of influence because of the development prospect of the Internet industry.

ADSL network upgrade and monthly package plan make AOL gain decisive market competitive advantage at one stroke, which is a devastating blow to other competitors.

Reasonably speaking, with these two sets of killers, AOL should completely consolidate its existing sphere of influence before expanding. This seems more secure. However, neither ADSL nor monthly payment can be imitated, especially the latter.

Therefore, AOL must quickly break into each other's territory before other regional operators react.

In fact, there is only one way to achieve this goal: to burn money.

Different from AOL, which used to rent the network of other operators to provide Internet access services in the original time and space, AOL now attaches great importance to the laying of its own network lines under Simon's mandatory development strategy.

Up to now, AOL has two main optical fibers running through the East and west coasts of the federal government in the United States, and the total length of optical fiber cables independently owned in the whole North America has exceeded 150000 km, which means huge capital investment. In the history of

, many operators were bankrupt because of excessive investment after the Internet bubble burst.

However, it is not wrong to invest heavily in infrastructure. After the

Internet bubble burst, many companies went bankrupt, mostly due to complete blind investment and financial fraud such as Enron.

Many new technology business operators simply do not know what to do, just in accordance with the heart of the herd mentality.

AOL's goal is clear.

Build a national ADSL high-speed broadband network, and promote the integration of telephone, television and broadband after the federal government deregulates telecommunications.

ADSL technology is the future of Internet service providers. Once AOL has missed the rapid decline of dial up Internet to upgrade ADSL technology. Another reason is that once the US online has mistaken its own direction of development, ignoring the construction of its own basic line network, instead of turning to the Internet media with large bubbles.

Now AOL has also started the portal business, but as long as the company is still under Simon's control, he will not allow AOL to go the old way again.

At the present stage, ADSL upgrade, monthly package and all-round expansion are all in the right direction although they are radical.

According to a business principle of the Internet industry in memory, this is a comprehensive dimension reduction strike against competitors, actively suppressing the industrial environment to the worst state, so as to eliminate competitors one by one.

If it's other start-ups or operators who have just set foot in the ISP field, they dare not do so, but they have no strength to do so.

AOL, which has more than 26 million users in North America, has such a strong base, not to mention the more powerful westrow system behind the scenes.

As long as we can unify the whole North American market, not to mention the annual loss of $1 billion, even if it doubles, Simon has enough strength to make AOL lose more than five years in a row.

Five years is enough to knock out most of the competitors.

Simon didn't hide these ideas from Veronica. He explained them carefully and finally said: "as long as AOL is not on the wrong road, temporary losses are acceptable. My only requirement is that the company's operation and financial situation are completely transparent, at least to me, and there is no concealment or fraud."

Veronica doesn't quite understand why Simon is able to determine that AOL's current development path is correct. However, she doesn't raise any questions any more. She also understands what Simon just said. He just needs her help to keep an eye on this company, and doesn't care about other things.

After chatting with Veronica for more than half an hour, Simon took a look at the time and said goodbye. He took girl a and a group of bodyguards to the airport.

Los Angeles International Airport.

The private Boeing 767 is ready, and there are others waiting for Simon.

One of them is an ICM agent, a middle-aged white man in his forties. Another is a tall and pretty girl in her twenties. She is obviously a model. She is also a model. Her name is Natasha henschucci.

Seeing Simon, the middle-aged man welcomed him eagerly: "Hello, Mr. westrow. I'm Raul Bradley, Natasha's agent."Simon shook hands with each other, looked at Natasha henstretch next to the middle-aged man, and said, "let's get on the plane first."

Of course, people have no opinions.

We got on the plane together. More than ten minutes later, the Boeing 767 took off from the runway.

When the plane was stable, Simon gave a few words and took Natasha henstretch to the front cabin.

Raul Bradley looks at the figure of the girl who follows Simon to leave. He is envious and regretful. Naturally, it is a young man who envies him. It is a pity that such a beautiful creature has no chance to touch him.

"Mr. Bradley?"

A figure in his ear immediately made Raul Bradley withdraw his eyes and look at girl a left by Simon: "Raul, Miss Norris, you can call me Raul."

Girl a nodded and said, "the boss has made up his mind about the alien. The next thing you need to do is to arrange miss henstretch to receive some performance training."

Raul Bradley nodded, thought about it, and then said, "I discussed this project with MGM. You know, Natasha has no acting experience. Is the production of the film in a hurry?"

"No," said Alison, shaking her head. "The boss said that the heroine in this movie doesn't need acting at all."

Raul Bradley responded again with some emotion.

How many people in Hollywood are looking forward to this opportunity without acting.

"So that's what happened in the movie," Alison said, looking back at Raul Bradley and saying, "the next thing is about Miss henstretch. First of all, ICM needs to get her an assistant. She must be a woman. Secondly, it's very important, Mr. Bradley. In the coming year, ICM must make sure that there are no other women around miss henstretch. Do you understand? "

"Of course," nodded Raul Bradley, then subconsciously, "only, only a year?"

Alison's tone didn't change much. She said, "up to a year, maybe three months, maybe a month, maybe just a week."

“……”

Ignoring the change in Raul Bradley's expression, Alison continued, "today, when I go back, miss henstretch can choose a house in Los Angeles. ICM just needs to give me the bill."

Raul Bradley hesitated and said, "well, what's the price?"

Alison looked at Raul Bradley with great interest and said, "well, miss henstretch can choose for herself as long as she thinks fit."

Raul Bradley suddenly thought of some rumors in the circle, nodded, and was envious again.

Now that westero says he's free to choose, it's OK to choose even a two or three million dollar mansion. However, if you think about it carefully, it is probably a problem for a vase to maintain this luxury house every year.

As a barely second-line model, Natasha henschucci's income is not high. Even if she relies on the chance of "alien" to become famous, because of the positioning of the vase, she will still be a second-line model in the future.

Alison waited for a moment and looked across. "One more thing, Mr. Bradley. Have you got the medical report of miss henstretch?"

"Oh, of course."

Raul Bradley's face flashed a little queer, but he quickly took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to him.

Alison took the document, said nothing more, and looked through it carefully.