Hollywood Hunter

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As an important part of American daily life, Los Angeles has never lacked a variety of parties, and there is no shortage of "party creatures" who attend one or two hundred parties every year.

Simon Westeros' 23rd birthday party, of all these parties, was both special and not special.

In the mansion halfway up the mountain in Palisades, a well-prepared birthday party on the evening of February 22, some people expanded their contacts, some people gained bragging rights, and Simon himself also got gifts that can be taken off for the entire weekend. Guests are happy.

After the birthday party, the PR of the Hollywood awards season is in the final sprint.

Because of the Gulf War, this year's 61st Academy Awards ceremony was scheduled for a later date on March 25.

Daenerys Entertainment's main award-winning work "Dancing With Wolves" this year, since its release on November 2 last year, has been in full swing throughout the awards season. After winning a number of important awards at the Golden Globe Awards in January, the recent Various trade union awards and Film Critics Association awards also kill the Quartet.

Among the Oscar nominations that have already been announced, "Dances with Wolves" also became the most nominated film at the 61st Academy Awards with a total of 12 nominations.

However, the most eye-catching point is the film's box office.

From November 2nd to February 21st before Simon's birthday, it was released for 16 weeks. At the beginning, there was no potential dark horse at the box office, "Dancing With Wolves". With the film's reputation and the continuous stimulation of the awards season's popularity, unknowingly has been It has accumulated a total of 113 million US dollars at the North American box office, becoming the third North American box office work of Daenerys Entertainment to exceed 100 million US dollars at the end of last year.

Looking back at the entire 1990, among the films produced by Daenerys Entertainment, the North American box-office films that exceeded 100 million yuan included "Pretty Woman", "Ghosts of the World", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Sleeping with the Enemy" Dances with Wolves, League of Legends, and Home Alone.

Seven films, all squeezed into the top ten of the North American box office chart in 1990. Among them, "Home Alone", "A Ghost Story", "Pretty Woman" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which were independently released by Daenerys Entertainment, also firmly occupied the top four positions in the annual box office list.

With the strong box office momentum of "Dancing With Wolves", this film is almost destined to squeeze out Paramount's film "The Hunt for Red October", which temporarily ranked fifth in the North American box office, making Daenerys Entertainment's The film completely occupied the top five positions on the box office chart in 1990.

In addition, as of December 31, 1990, the cumulative domestic box office total of the seven North American films that exceeded 100 million at the box office reached 910 million US dollars. That's 17 percent of the $5.26 billion North American box office total in 1991.

More than a dozen other films related to Daenerys Entertainment, such as "Children in the Cornfield 2", "Haunted Ghosts 3", "Hand Shaking the Cradle", and "Ten Days of Dangerous Love", also achieved a total North American box office of 3.5. $100 million, accounting for 6% of the North American box office share in 1991.

Taken together, Daenerys Entertainment's films accounted for 23% of the total North American box office share last year.

Moreover, this does not count the box office part of "Home Alone" and other films in 1991 for the time being, so it is not rigorous.

According to this calculation method, the 1990 box office portion of the films such as "Flying Innocent", "Batman: Hour of War" and "Driving for Miss Daisy", which were scheduled at the end of the previous year, should be included in the calculation.

Once so, Daenerys Entertainment's box office share will easily exceed 30%.

With the formal completion of the equity transfer between Daenerys Entertainment and mca shareholders at the end of February, in 1991, as long as the films produced by Daenerys Entertainment can continue to maintain the box office momentum of the previous two years, this company can definitely divide the share of the North American box office. 40% or more.

This possibility is actually very large.

Because, while other studios were still releasing 'Warm Up' for the 1991 box office, Daenerys Entertainment's first dark horse of the year had already emerged.

"Fighting Wisdom and Stars" opened on February 8. As of February 28, within three weeks of its release, the North American box office has rapidly reached 49.69 million US dollars. Moreover, compared with the second week, the box office of this film dropped by only 16% in the third week, and the long-term trend is very obvious.

The cumulative box office in three weeks is close to 50 million US dollars. Coupled with such an obvious long-term trend, it is almost a certainty that the North American box office of "Fighting Wisdom and Multiple Stars" will break 100 million.

Also on February 28, the 42-day Gulf War officially ended as the multinational force officially ceased its offensive against the Iraqi army.

This war has made many countries see the major trend of modern warfare from mechanization to informationization. In future wars, human sea tactics are destined to be difficult to play a role. The almost negligible role played by the Soviet Union in this important regional war further heralded that the red empire was getting closer to collapse.

On March 1, the day after the Gulf War was declared over, the North American stock market rose sharply across the board, with the Dow Jones and S\u0026P 500 both rising by more than 5% on the day.

Many people thought that a protracted war had ended so quickly. Before the war, the United States, which had collected a large amount of military expenditures from various countries in Europe and the Middle East, was undoubtedly the biggest winner of this war.

It is not only the devastation of the war that has caused the U.S. stock market to continue to rebound in the past month or so, but the direct war income obtained from the military spending of various countries has reached 19 billion US dollars, which has largely alleviated the increasing domestic fiscal deficit in the United States.

Character.

The Bush administration made enough political achievements and benefits through this war, and the domestic support rate rose steadily.

Simon knew that the recovery of the North American stock market did not mean the recovery of the US economy. The federal economic downturn would continue throughout 1991, which also paved the way for the Bush administration's defeat in the 1992 new presidential election.

The expansion of the Westeros system has not been affected by the economic downturn in the United States.

In terms of AOL, as of the end of February, the free trial period for Internet access users in January has ended one after another.

Among the 810,000 free trial users who accessed in January, more than 430,000 were eventually converted into regular users, with a positive rate of 53%, far exceeding AOL's initial expectation of 20% to 30%.

Throughout February, the number of AOL's free trial subscription users dropped sharply to 1.6 million compared with 2.3 million in January, but the number of trial users who successfully completed access increased to 970,000, basically reaching one million users per month. The goal.

The number of users queuing for a free trial has surpassed 2 million.

The major telecommunications operators in the United States, except for at-t, which is still a huge giant after being split, companies such as Seven Bells, basically have less than 10 million users.

Under such an obvious explosive trend of the Internet industry, major operators dare not take it lightly.

In addition to the three regional telecommunications operators, including Bell Atlantic, which signed an exclusive agreement with AOL, other telecommunications giants, including at-t, have begun to rapidly deploy the Internet industry in the past two months, or simply acquired their own operating areas. A World Wide Web access service company authorized by Igreat, or authorized from Igreat to set up its own Internet access service department.

Because of the industry trend brought about by the outbreak of the Internet industry, Simon's advantage of buying Bell Atlantic ahead of schedule becomes more and more obvious.

If it weren't for the fact that the Westeros system had already mastered Bell Atlantic, the most powerful of the three regional operators, driven by the huge interests of the Internet industry, even with the constraints of exclusive contracts, if the three regional operator giants simultaneously applied to AOL pressure, AOL must have to make a big compromise.

Now, Bell Atlantic is firmly on the side of AOL, and the other two companies, which happen to be located on the east and west coasts of the United States, are difficult to unite, and AOL can continue to maintain its advantage in the exclusive agreement.

In contrast, most of the Internet service providers in other regions have to accept the "recruitment" of the operator giants, and basically they are quickly reduced to the fate of being acquired. Otherwise, they can only be squeezed out by the operator giants who want to occupy the ISP business by cutting off the line network resources.

With the outbreak of the Internet industry, Igreat's high monopoly on World Wide Web technology has gradually attracted the attention of major manufacturers.

Of course, for now, it's just attention.

Because Igreat maintains a very open licensing attitude, and Igreat lost more than 50 million US dollars in January, its business prospects are far inferior to the isp business. The monopoly of the appliance and the services of the Igret portal have not aroused the covetedness of other telecommunications companies.

That's right, under the stance of sparing no effort to expand, Igreit was only in the first month of 1991. Although the revenue figure exceeded 15 million US dollars, the overall loss exceeded 50 million US dollars.

In order to increase the popularity of the portal business among the general public as soon as possible, Igreit has invested 20 million US dollars in marketing expenses in the past month.

The various information sections of the portal website have tapped a large number of news talents and columnists from traditional print media platforms to build Igrete's content team, and the investment is equally huge. Combined with e-mail services, social networking services, online gaming investments, and Igreat's own increasing spending on technology R\u0026D and infrastructure, the company ultimately lost $50 million in just one month. .

Of course, this kind of money-burning speed is actually just a small scene in Simon's view, and it is not uncommon for Internet companies to burn billions of dollars a year. The funds that Igreit is burning now are definitely much larger than the returns that Simon remembers burning money in the Red Sea market of the Internet industry.

As the entire new technology field has begun to attach importance to the Internet industry, Igreat, which has accumulated a large number of technical patents and software products in the early stage, has become increasingly Rapidly increasing, Igret's 1991 revenue figures will also accelerate.

As long as the current growth rate of performance can be maintained, Igreit's annual loss in 1991 is very hopeful to be controlled within 500 million US dollars, which is far from exceeding Simon's tolerance limit.

Under the trend of rapid user growth for two consecutive months, in the face of the continuous IPO rumors released by AOL, the valuation of this new technology company by various investment banks on Wall Street has all reached more than 1 billion US dollars. Morgan Stanley's Analysts even gave it a valuation of $2 billion.

It is conceivable that after completing the 3-month free trial plan, AOL's IPO valuation will definitely increase again.

In addition to the general direction, Westeros continues to deploy in some seemingly small new technology industries.

C-girl Claire, after showing Simon her own business plan, soon set up a compact camera company with the senior engineer who had left Kodak.

At the same time, Claire also contacted a graphics processing software company that has just been established for more than a year.

piece company.

The developer of the software is Thomas Knoll. Knoll first developed a graphic editing software for processing black and white images using Apple computers in 1987, named display. After two years of continuous research and development and improvement, the software's The name was also changed to photoshop, and it began to be used in the field of scanners and digital typesetting.

After Simon got the news, he directly instructed James Leibold to buy out the software.

However, the Knoll brothers did not agree to sell the software, but also hoped to cooperate with the Westeros Company.

After several negotiations between the two sides, Westeros invested $800,000 to acquire a 50% stake in the Knoll brothers' company. Meanwhile, the Knoll brothers will continue to master the research and development of photoshop software.

Simon didn't want the professional image processing software in his memory to become something like Meitu Xiuxiu, so he instructed the Noel brothers to develop two softwares at the same time, one to continue to deepen the professional-level functions of photoshop, and in the future, it will be used by Igreit. Sold in the online software store, and a simplified free version of Photoshop, offered exclusively to Claire's Card Camera Company as a companion software.

San Francisco.

Inside the Mountain Mansion in Woodside.

The time is March 5, and Simon came to Silicon Valley again yesterday to attend the monthly meeting of several companies in Igret.

The female assistant didn't press herself any more last night. Simon got up early and ran in the Woodside Mountains as usual.

At eight o'clock, returning to the villa, Jennifer had already prepared breakfast.

The two sat down in the restaurant, Jennifer ate breakfast, and casually talked about work: "I think, if Igret develops like this, sooner or later, it will encounter obstacles from antitrust. Now you want to build hardware again. Ecological chain, this will directly touch the interests of traditional technology giants such as Intel and IBM.”

Simon glanced at the newspaper beside him, picked up the cutlery and said with a smile: "Think carefully about my personnel layout for Igret."

Jennifer tilted her head for a moment and thought for a moment for unknown reasons. She quickly caught something and said, "Bates is in charge of the software business, and Bezos is in charge of the network business. Also, next, Ferguson may be in charge of e-commerce. Well, you Did you make up your mind to break up Igret from the start?"

"If we can not split, of course, it is best not to split," Simon nodded and said: "However, this possibility is very low. The major operators in North America have now begun to enter the isp business, which means that the Internet industry's The speed of expansion will be further accelerated. Igreit is just because it is still losing money on a large scale, many people cannot see the commercial potential contained in it, and this company is involved in a completely emerging technology industry, which will not encroach on traditional giants The interests of the company have not encountered too many obstacles. However, when the industry expands to a sufficient scale of output value, we cannot expect this state to continue forever.”

It is indeed Simon's idea to split Igret from the very beginning, because the industrial value of Igret's involvement in the field is too great.

Moreover, Simon did this mainly for the consideration of Igreit's own development. He didn't want Igrete to suffer from a serious big company disease early on because he had too many resources. The Internet era has just begun, and there are still too many challenges ahead. If you don’t want to make progress, you will only face the fate of being eliminated in the future, even if you have more resources.

The two were chatting when Simon's personal mobile phone suddenly rang.

I answered it casually, and before I had time to speak, a series of small screams came from the opposite side: "Ah ah ah..."

This is Janet's voice.

Simon showed a helpless expression and came again.

Just as she was about to reassure a few words, Janet excitedly continued on the other side of the phone: "Dear, yes, yes, I'm pregnant, come back soon."

Simon was stunned for a moment, confirming that he heard correctly, and stood up subconsciously.

Jennifer looked over suspiciously.

Simon stood across the dining table and chatted softly with Janet for a while, promising to rush back to Los Angeles immediately before hanging up.

Jennifer also understood after listening to the conversation between Simon and Janet.

Knowing that Simon has been tossed about by Janet because of her children, Janet finally got her wish before her 31st birthday. Although she was a little bit tasteful, the female assistant still put down the tableware and said: "In this case, we are now Just go back."

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