Chapter 675

In the new box office week on July 15, two new films will be released in North American Theaters, namely "Romeo stained with blood" produced by daenerys Entertainment's gaomen film company and "big league kids" produced by paramount.

Last year, working title, which produced four weddings and a funeral, murder green toe, ice blood storm, Notting Hill and other famous films, will be released Film) team is directly under danielis entertainment. Simon selected the first three projects from each other's scripts, namely four weddings and a funeral, love in my heart and blood stained Romeo.

The first two films have been released, and "Four Weddings and a funeral" sold well at the box office after it was released on Valentine's day at the beginning of the year, and then caused a wave of film viewing around the world.

Because of the poor quality of the film, it was a complete failure to be lost in early March's love in my heart.

The last one, Romeo stained with blood, was handed over by Simon to Quentin Tarantino, who completely changed his career because of his big butterfly, as his second project after "drowning dog".

"Romeo stained with blood" tells the story of an FBI agent who relies on selling the hiding information of a tainted witness in exchange for black money. After another betrayal, he falls into a series of conspiracies.

Quentin took over the script which was very suitable for his personal style, and then made a lot of changes according to his own preferences.

Although the budget is only US $15 million, relying on danielis Entertainment's extensive contacts over the years, the film has also attracted a series of well-known Hollywood stars to join us for low salary or even free on the basis of the hero Gary Oldman, including Robert De Niro, who has worked closely with danielis entertainment in recent years, famik Jensen, the actress of wonder woman, and other famous actors Madonna, who likes Quentin's "drowning dog", and John Travolta, who was supposed to turn over this year by relying on "vulgar novel", all show their faces more or less in this film.

Compared with the original version of "Romeo stained with blood", on the first day of the painting, it got a comprehensive media score of 8.7 points in the major media in North America.

In fact, if it wasn't for the good effect of the internal trial stage, gaomen film would not have put the film on the summer file.

Although it is a non mainstream crime thriller that needs to follow the line of word-of-mouth, "Romeo stained with blood" still has 2031 screens.

At the same time, Paramount's "big league" is still a children's film type of "big kid" in "little kid at home". It tells the story of a little boy who accidentally inherited the baseball team left by his grandfather and led the team to win the championship by using his unique wisdom.

The script is obviously trying to capture the successful experience of films such as "flying over the future", "pink League" and "kid in charge", but it fails to do so.

The media score of 3.3 points means the birth of another summer file cannon fodder.

Paramount probably didn't expect too much from the big league, but only offered 1532 opening screens. Obviously, he has turned his expectation to Harrison Ford's new film "burning eyebrows" which will be released next week.

Simon returned to Los Angeles and Hollywood on July 16, and the popularity of danilisi Entertainment's listing gradually faded. Many people's attention turned back to DreamWorks pictures, which is being hotly prepared by Spielberg and others, and the acquisition of Disney Pictures by Vivendi of France.

The biggest news about DreamWorks recently is undoubtedly the news that software tycoon Bill Gates has invested $500 million in his own name to join the company.

Since the initial dissatisfaction in the IE browser pre installation cooperation, Damen students increased the layout of Microsoft's Internet industry, at the same time, they constantly used various means to exclude the influence of westero system on Microsoft, and even some important board meetings deliberately forgot the representative of westero system.

Simon just looked on.

It's not a bad thing for Microsoft to go completely to the opposite side of the westero system. Of course, the premise is that students at Damen must first buy back nearly 20% of Microsoft's shares in westero system.

With the arrival of the new technology wave ahead of time, the share price of Microsoft has exceeded 50 billion US dollars. Although it is far away from the previous peak, if Damen is willing to take out 10 billion US dollars in cash to buy back the shares of Microsoft, Simon will not refuse.

Unfortunately, 10 billion dollars in cash is not available to anyone.

Even if Microsoft wants to cooperate with other companies to do so, considering that Wall Street generally thinks that technology stocks are overheated at the present stage, probably there is not much capital willing to invest to buy Microsoft's obviously "high value" stocks.

Simon is the only one in the world who can predict how crazy technology stocks will be in the next few years.

However, US $500 million is not a lot of money for the students who have more than US $20 billion at this stage.

The software tycoon is obviously born a lot of rich people after the fame of the mind.

As for the results.Simon has proved it once in his memory.

He failed.

Disney, Vivendi and Disney high-level contact with the acquisition of news exposure, Michael Eisner for the first time denied.

However, many subsequent news have proved this point.

After Jeffrey carsenberg left, Michael owitz, who originally intended to join Disney to take over the position of president of Frank wells, began to wait and see, considering that Disney would certainly adjust its management in the future once it was acquired.

At this stage, Disney is basically a public holding company.

However, Disney's two major shareholders, the bass family in Texas and the founder Disney family, still hold 25% and 11% of the shares of Disney respectively, with a total of 36% of the shares, which can basically determine the ownership of Disney after the acquisition invitation.

Simon got the news that the Disney family expressed strong opposition to the acquisition of the business, but the bass family was not firm.

Disney's downhill in recent years, the continuous turmoil of the management, and the Paris Disneyland in Europe are like a mess that may explode at any time, which makes the bass family feel that it is a good choice to cash out while the company is still valuable.

Now, Vivendi group, which is trying to acquire one side, and Disney management and Disney family, which are resisting the acquisition, are trying their best to win the support of bass family.

Simon and Joseph schrap, after reformulating their lobbying strategy for the ban on media integration, returned to Los Angeles to consider how to help the bass family make up their minds.

Daniels studios.

It's Monday, July 18.

The group's weekly high-level meeting is being held in a meeting room of the administrative district office building. Simon is in Los Angeles and naturally attends.

"The investment plan for the group's cash reserves is roughly the same. In order to avoid risks and consider the expansion in the next stage, the funds obtained from IPO and the company's original cash reserves will only invest in fixed income products with low risk and can be cashed in the short term. On Wednesday, Lawrence Fink, CEO of black rock asset management, will also come to Los Angeles to personally explain to the board of directors. Next, Universal Studios, Osaka, President Bruce Peck, a theme park business, submitted a motion last week that Osaka universal studios should add more scenic spots with local cultural characteristics, and put forward some suggestions. We can see them in the hands of everyone.

Amy Pascal said that a group of core executives who were able to participate in the meeting lowered their heads to read the materials.

Although they manage different businesses, Simon firmly believes in the way of collective management. In order to avoid the company falling into the wrong zone because of the wrong idea of a senior management, many important issues will be discussed together at the regular senior management meeting.

The IPO's final closing events have all ended recently. Except for all kinds of commissions and handling charges, Denise entertainment group still has more than $5.4 billion in cash. In addition, prior to the IPO, the cash reserve of danielis entertainment group itself reached $2.7 billion, but the total capital of $8.1 billion has exceeded the market value of several other major Hollywood studios.

Simon doesn't intend to use the money to repay the debt of danielis entertainment, and there is no big project to invest in in the short term, so he plans to put the money into Heiyan asset management company, and obtain a certain value-added by investing in low-risk fixed income financial products such as treasury bonds, agreement deposits and 3A level corporate bonds.

In fact, the fundamental goal is to fight against inflation, and profit is optional.

Of course, there are more lucrative investment channels, but since it has been listed, the capital flow of danielis entertainment will be subject to the supervision of the board of directors, shareholders and SEC, and it is impossible to use it at will. Moreover, if the huge amount of funds over 8 billion US dollars is invested in some fields, the news will be very big, and it will need to be publicly disclosed and reported. Uneven security will become the goal of those who want to be, so it is best to seek stability.

Simon combed the matter and looked through the motion of Bruce peck, President of theme park business.

Osaka Universal Studios began planning in 1991 and broke ground in the middle of 1992. It is expected to be completed by the end of this year and will be open next year during Easter.

There has been a complete planning since the construction of the film city. Originally, it was impossible to add additional projects temporarily. However, some time ago, one of the "space fantasy train" projects was proved to have security risks. For the theme park, even if it makes tourists feel less exciting, it is absolutely necessary to ensure safety first. What's more, it is not "Jurassic Park" or "Jurassic Park" Simon himself approved the cancellation of such core projects as the Great White Shark Water Park, and then there was a vacancy.

Looking at the information in his hand, Simon had a flash in his mind and thought of another thing.

In the conference room, Nancy Brill has taken the lead in saying: "I don't think it's feasible. In terms of theme park management, we need to adapt to the cultural habits of the Japanese, so that we can achieve better localization, just like Tokyo Disney. However, as for the setting of scenic spots, I believe that when Japanese tourists buy tickets to enter the park, they want to see American culture, not their own home things. ""I think we can give it a try," said new world film president Denny Morris. "What Nancy said is reasonable, but we can also Americanize Japanese elements. Hollywood never excludes cultures from all over the world."

"the more important question now is," Ira Doichimando, President of Osaka gate cinema, "the Universal Studios in Osaka will be open next year. It is now mid July. Is it enough time to redesign a Japanese element? I don't mean to simply build, but to plan from scratch. It will be very troublesome. Therefore, it is better to select mature projects from our existing theme parks and transplant them to the past. First of all, we should ensure that the opening of Easter next year will not be delayed. The disaster of Disneyland in Paris is largely about procrastination, which we should learn from. "

Mark Belford, vice president of global operations of the group, also said at this time: "I agree with Ella that it is very important for our first theme park overseas to ensure that it is completed and opened according to the plan."

Everyone was talking about it, but Simon never expressed his opinion. After universal studios,

talked for more than 10 minutes, and eventually decided to veto Bruce Peck's proposal to transplant mature spots from the existing universal studios in Losangeles and Orlando Universal Studios.

When Amy finally looks at Simon, Simon nods.

Making a decision, Amy turns to other issues.

The regular meeting lasted until 11:30. When the meeting ended, the others left for the restaurant. Simon called Amy.

absent-minded from Universal Studios in Osaka, Amy found Simon was a little absent minded. There were only two of them left in the conference room. Amy first said, "Simon, Panasonic, invited you to Japan when you were in IPO, and there was universal studios. Maybe you should go to Japan in this time."

During this IPO, in accordance with the agreement signed by Panasonic and Denise entertainment when Panasonic abandoned the acquisition of MCA three years ago, Panasonic initially invested $1 billion in Denise entertainment in the form of loans. All of the $1 billion was converted into shares of Denise entertainment group according to the issue price. At this time, Panasonic was also regarded as one of the minority shareholders of Denise entertainment, holding 45 million shares, equivalent to taking 250 million shares at one time One fifth of the new shares, accounting for 1.9% of Denise Entertainment's total equity.

After the IPO, the share price of danilisi entertainment continued to rise. In fact, a large part of the newly issued shares were taken away by danilisi entertainment stakeholders. Besides Panasonic, Heiyan asset management company also subscribed 20 million shares. In addition, a large number of shares granted to Denise entertainment employees in advance generally have a 3-6-month sales restriction period, resulting in few shares eventually flowing to the secondary market.

The market demand far exceeds the stock supply, and the stock price naturally rises.

In the first half of the year, Simon had been entangled by the Hester family for most of the time. He didn't leave the United States very much. Hearing Amy say so, Simon nodded and said with a smile, "the Japanese may just be polite, but they don't necessarily welcome me as a guest."

Amy laughed.

She did not forget the original "westero effect.".

After the joke, Amy said, "you were a little distracted just now, Simon. What happened?"

"You know, I've been thinking about how to get Disney shareholders to make the decision to sell the company in recent days, and I just had the inspiration," Simon said to Amy