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As many times before, the results of the 64th Academy Awards have once again sparked controversy in the media.

Three women were nominated for the Oscar for best director at the same time. In the atmosphere of politically correct public opinion in the past few months, no one would think that this year's Oscar for best director should not be awarded to a woman.

However, in the eyes of many media, the comparison between Barbra Streisand and the other two female directors nominated this time is too obvious.

You must know that this time, the media score of "A Storm of Time" in the eighth grade of Oscar's eighth grade is only 6.8 points, which is not bad. The other two movies, "The End of the Road" scored 7.4 points, and "Piano Farewell" is even higher. 9.2 points.

Even if the media wind direction cannot represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, even if Barbra Streisand has more qualifications in Hollywood than the other two directors, it will be enough for "The Storm" to win a best director statuette, even the best picture. Also won, it seems that Oscar is too unfair.

Of course, there are also media who are very proficient in making an analysis from another angle.

These media believe that the three female-directed works, "The End of the Road" and "A Farewell to the Piano", are all films produced by Daenerys Entertainment, which is the key to the result of this Oscar award.

because of the past few years.

The 61st Academy Awards, Best Picture, "Rain Man", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

The 62nd Academy Awards, Best Picture, "Driving for Miss Daisy", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

The 63rd Academy Awards, Best Picture, "Dances with Wolves", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

For three consecutive years, Daenerys Entertainment has won the Oscar for best picture three times in a row, but there are no more than three things. If this time, the best picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to Daenerys Entertainment, then Oscar will become Dany. Liz Entertainment Group's exclusive Oscar.

Even if the previous "Rain Man", "Driving for Miss Daisy" and "Dancing With Wolves" all have excellent quality enough to win the Oscar for Best Picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscar Become a private plot of Daenerys Entertainment.

Therefore, this time, Daenerys Entertainment’s films, not counting films released by other labels, still won 23 nominations, but only won two golden statuettes. This result is completely expected. middle.

Simply put, Oscar is playing with balance.

Naturally, the academy strongly denies this balanced view of the media, and some academy executives and Olympic judges, who know that "A Storm of Time" is run by the public relations team of Gaomen Films, are even more mixed.

Since it is still an award run by her own, of course Daenerys will not use public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Awards, but only slightly added fuel to the controversy between the three films in order to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films.

"A Farewell to the Piano" and "A Shocking Wave of Time" were both released in December last year, and neither was released at this time.

As of last Friday, "Farewell to the Piano" took advantage of the attention of the awards season that started at the beginning of the year, and had a small-scale long-term screening for more than three months, with a cumulative box office of 36.32 million US dollars.

Compared with the production cost of the film of 7 million US dollars, "Piano Farewell", which is expected to hit the box office of 40 million US dollars before it goes down, is definitely a big seller.

As of last Friday, the cumulative North American box office of "The Storm" reached 71.51 million US dollars.

This mainstream film directed and starring Barbra Streisand has won several awards such as Best Picture and is expected to exceed $80 million at the North American box office before it goes down.

"The End of the Road" was released on September 6 last year, and it was dropped in early December. The total box office in North America finally reached 45.36 million US dollars, which is also a blockbuster.

After a three-month hiatus, Daenerys Entertainment officially released a videotape of the film ahead of the Oscars in early March.

Taking advantage of the heat of the awards season, 730,000 boxes of "Crazy Flowers" have been sold in three weeks, and the total subsequent sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes.

At an average video sales price of $30, the film could top $60 million in video sales and outperform the box office.

With the Oscars underway and media controversy surrounding the awards results, box office and video sales figures for all three films saw a notable uptick in the new week.

After all, the Oscars are both a hall of glory and a commercial feast for Hollywood.

Cersei Capital's competitor kkr made a $2.15 billion bid to Victoria's Secret parent company ltd on March 30, and Simon flew directly to New York after dropping four women in Los Angeles.

The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations.

Daenerys Entertainment's best foreign language film other than the best actress in "Piano Farewell" is also an advance layout by Simon.

Many years later, the reason why the "Transformers" live-action movie once broke the box office record on the other side of the ocean is that in 1987, Hasbro gave the "Transformers" cartoon to local TV stations for free, thus creating the image of Transformers of national popularity.

The PR difficulty of a marginal award such as the best foreign language film is actually not that difficult, and there are no other foreign language films shortlisted this year.

Hollywood is still immersed in the Oscars

At the end of the rhyme, Simon entertained some thank-you calls the next day, and swept the matter to the past tense.

After kkr's bid, Blackstone also proposed cooperation to the Apollo Asset Management team of Cersei Capital, hoping that the two parties would jointly fund the bid for ltd.

If you don't have enough confidence in ltd, or your financial strength is not enough, choosing a partner is also a good choice.

However, this time is different from Simmons, which has chosen to cooperate with other capitals to acquire it. For ltd, Cersei Capital neither lacks confidence nor lacks funds, and does not intend to give half of its future potential earnings to Blackstone Group.

There have been two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing it. Many arbitrage capitals have entered the market to buy ltd stocks, which has led to a further rapid rise in ltd's stock price.

On the day kkr made the offer, the market value of ltd broke through $2 billion.

From $1.3 billion two months ago to $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the mood of the ltd board and major shareholders quite complicated.

If ltd can have such a market value before the acquisition news leaks, relying on the confidence of the market, whether it is additional issuance of stocks or bond financing, can allow the company to easily survive the cash dilemma that is not serious.

The current situation is that the acquisition of ltd has almost become a foregone conclusion.

Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the stock price of ltd will never fall much slower than the rise. Even though Cersei Capital's acquisition has made many shareholders aware of the potential of ltd, they are still more willing to directly choose to cash out at a high level compared to the stock price plummeting again.

"KKr has not been able to get rid of the haze of the Reynolds Nabisco acquisition until now. I personally judge that the main reason for the bid for ltd with us this time is that Henry Kravis of kkr hopes to revive kkr through a successful acquisition. morale, and perhaps the idea of ​​diverting investors’ attention.”

A conference room at Cersei Capital headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

Leon Black, president of Cersei Capital's Apollo Management Company, is introducing the process of the acquisition: "Because the negative impact of Reynolds Nabisco is too great, the U.S. economy has not fully recovered yet, facing kkr's board of directors and investors. pressure, kkr will never offer unlimited offers. Therefore, $2.5 billion should probably be the limit of kkr.”

The Reynolds Nabisco acquisition was a disaster due to the runaway bids under irrational competition from all parties.

ltd's market cap was only around $1.3 billion before news of the acquisition leaked in February.

If kkr's offer exceeds US$2.6 billion, a 100% premium, investors will undoubtedly question whether the private equity firm will encounter the same mistakes as Reynolds Nabisco's acquisition.

Therefore, kkr is indeed likely to control the upper limit of the premium within 100%.

On the side of Cersei Capital, $2.5 billion is also the upper limit of the offer set by Simon.

Even if the ltd is not available, Simon will not allow the price to go up even a dollar more.

In fact, when the bidding is at the end, and the transaction price is not much different, the competition is more likely to be a specific transaction plan.

Simon considered this, and asked Leon Black again, "Where's the Black Rock?"

"Not sure yet, but blackstone and us have been unsuccessful, and they may turn to kkr. Both companies choose to bid largely because we are interested in ltd, and they are interested in the future of ltd. I don't have enough confidence. Of course, if kkr also rejected Blackstone's invitation to cooperate, Steve Schwarzman is more likely to give up completely. He is a very cautious and conservative person, and the current economic situation does not allow Blackstone to take risks. It's too risky, and the fashion industry isn't something Blackstone is good at."

Simon played with a pencil in his hand, thought for a moment, and said: "In this way, you try to contact some media, spread the news that kkr and Blackstone are just blindly following the trend of Cersei Capital, and make as much impact as possible."

Any company that loses its own judgment and just blindly follows others will obviously not gain the trust of investors.

Leon Black said: "The media has already commented on this, and we can indeed add to the flames. However, Simon, doing so may also attract other bidders."

"You can just keep the price ceiling of $2.5 billion," Simon said. "Even if it really fails, we still hold about 5% of the ltd stock in our hands. Well, how much profit can we make if we sell it?"

"At least fifty million dollars."

"So, that's all, let's talk about your specific acquisition plan."

In the next hour or so, in addition to the basic acquisition offer, everyone also readjusted the future payment form, management arrangements, and means of alleviating ltd's cash pressure and other acquisitions.

Simon also finally agreed to the ltd's major shareholder Wexner family to retain a 10% stake and the current chairman and CEO Leslie Wexner to continue to hold the current position. Leslie Wexner is officially the founder of the ltd group, and the Wexner family still holds about 30% of the shares of the ltd company at this time.

In the original time and space, ltd was controlled by Leslie Wexner until many years later, and the subsequent development of ltd also proved the ability of the founder. This acquisition of Cersei Capital is more of an investment, and Simon has no plan to grab control of ltd.

The meeting was over, and it was past five o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon and Janet go back to their Fifth Avenue apartment together, on purpose

A trip to the construction site of the Westeros Tower.

Today is Wednesday, April 1st.

April Fools.

After the official start of construction in January, the original buildings have been demolished, and the foundation is being excavated at this time.

The workers had already left work, and they just took a brief look at the construction site, and the couple left.

"After negotiating with the New York subway company for a long time, they agreed to add a subway station next to our building, but we have to pay for the renovation cost, which will cost about 10 million US dollars. Also, many of the workers employed by Tishman Speyer are actually from Eastern Europe. What about illegal workers, I talked to James about it and he said it wasn't a problem."

Janet and Simon talk trivia about the mansion's construction and soon return to their Fifth Avenue apartment.

When Simon heard about illegal workers, he didn't pay too much attention: "There are probably no construction sites in New York who don't use illegal workers, because there are simply not enough workers locally. And, even if something happens, the iron The Speyers of Lionsgate can do it too, they've been doing it for almost a hundred years."

Entering the apartment while talking, she was greeted by Alina Makherji, a yoga teacher that Janet had brought from India.

After a few months of exercising, Janet is in better shape than before her pregnancy.

However, this Indian girl who is very good at yoga and has a first-class figure has always stayed.

Simon has personally seen Alina's body as soft as an acrobat, and the unlocking scale is 100%, so he even jokingly asked her if she had any plans to go to Hollywood.

There are actually quite a few celebrities in Hollywood who have turned from fitness trainers to actors.

Steven Seagal was Michael Ovitz's judo coach.

Alina obviously has this kind of thinking, but it seems that she does not lack further patience and ambition. Simon didn't care about this, and let the charming Indian girl continue to stay.

After taking a bath with Janet, the woman went to the kitchen to arrange dinner, Simon changed into a casual sweater and slacks, and sat on the sofa in the living room while watching the instant news of CNN while holding a drawing book to draw casually.

The special fragrance came, Simon stopped his brush, looked up to see Alina put a cup of coffee in front of him, just smiled, and then turned his attention to the split shot in front of him.

After a while.

Youxiang still did not dissipate, and a voice came from her ear: "Sir, you are really good at painting."

Simon glanced sideways, the Indian girl squatted pretty beside him, her arms resting on the armrest of the sofa, with just the right amount of curiosity and admiration in her eyes.

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