Hollywood Hunter

Since entering the media with the "Butterfly Effect" script, Simon has been in the media spotlight for two years.

However, Simon's previous influence was more limited to Hollywood.

Even at the end of last year, the pioneering work that suddenly made more than one billion US dollars from the stock index futures market began to fade after several hype in the media. Billion-level wealth is too far away from the lives of ordinary people, and it is difficult for too many people to understand what this means.

however.

When the new annual list of "Forbes" magazine was released, the world's sixteenth and third in the United States, instantly embodied Simon's personal wealth.

In just two years, Simon has become the third richest person in the Federation from an unknown person who was difficult to associate with the rich list. Moreover, he is only 20 years old, and he is generally 50 or 60 on the list. Among the year-old men, it looks even more dazzling.

This miraculous creation instantly made him the focus of attention of the entire United States and the world.

While many people were envious and amazed, they couldn't help but once again have a strong doubt: why Simon Westero could do this, and what happened?

In the following weekend, almost all the mainstream media in North America and the whole world were discussing all kinds of bits and pieces about Simon. Simon's various experiences from childhood to large before and after his fame were all dug up again. "Forbes" magazine's estimate of Simon's personal wealth has also become the focus of controversy.

Although "Forbes" gave a very detailed evaluation basis, most of the media still re-signatures in order to attract attention. In similar discussions, many people even prefer Simon's personal net worth to be higher instead of only $3.1 billion.

Simon’s stock assets and debt data are irrefutable, and the focus of the discussion is still Daenerys Entertainment’s valuation.

Through the analysis of various types of businesses under Daenerys Entertainment, many media found that even if this company paid a lot of operating and debt costs in merging New World Entertainment and maintaining various other businesses, Daenerys Entertainment 1988 The expected net profit after tax will probably not be less than $200 million.

After all, it's just "Who Will Be a Millionaire" item. The income of 2 million US dollars per issue, plus the income from the pilot episode and the very substantial sponsorship income, has been able to bring more than 200 million US dollars to Daenerys Entertainment. In account, the production cost of this reality show is only about 20 million US dollars.

In addition to "Who Will Be a Millionaire", Daenerys Entertainment's other businesses are also lucrative.

Therefore, the net profit scale of US$200 million is completely reasonable.

The market value of many companies is roughly equivalent to the size of the net profit multiplied by the price-earnings ratio. In the stock market, the company's price-to-earnings ratio is usually between 10 and 30 times.

In this way, even if only calculated on the basis of a low price-earnings ratio of 10 times, Daenerys Entertainment's valuation should reach 2 billion US dollars. In fact, the price-earnings ratios of Hollywood stocks of the same type in the North American stock market are generally around 15 times. Look at Daenerys Entertainment. According to the company's ultra-high growth momentum, if it is a listed company, because of the optimistic capital market, it is fully capable of achieving a P/E ratio of 30 times or even higher.

P/E ratio of 30 times, net profit scale of US$200 million.

The result could not be more obvious, Daenerys Entertainment's market value will therefore reach 6 billion US dollars.

Counting other assets such as stocks in Simon’s name and subtracting debts, his personal net worth will reach 7.6 billion U.S. dollars. This figure can even make Simon surpass Sam Walton and become the richest man in the United States. Simon's ranking can also rise to sixth.

When the relevant data was released, some people immediately refuted that in Hollywood, if not counting the other assets of the parent company, no film company has a market value of 6 billion US dollars. In addition to the copyright of a series of film and television works, Daenerys Entertainment's other net assets are so small that it is impossible to reach this number.

However, some people quickly gave an example. Westeros Corporation, which holds a major share of Microsoft, had a net asset of less than US$5 million during its IPO in 1986, but its market value exceeded US$300 million on the day of its listing.

In comparison, Daenerys Entertainment’s net assets far exceed this figure, but the copyright value of "Who Will Be a Millionaire" can reach hundreds of millions of dollars, which is enough to cover all Daenerys Entertainment’s liabilities. Daenerys Entertainment has received hundreds of copyright assets of various types of film and television from New World Entertainment and a series of projects previously owned by Daenerys Pictures, all of which are of great value. The combination between Daenerys Pictures and New World Entertainment has achieved an effect far beyond one plus one.

Talking about New World Entertainment, someone immediately pointed out that Daenerys Pictures acquired all the shares of New World Entertainment for only US$250 million. Before that, Daenerys Pictures’ background was not even as good as New World Entertainment. After the merger, Daenerys Entertainment will have to shoulder a total of 350 million US dollars in debt. Taking into account the strong uncertainty in the operation of film and television entertainment companies, Daenerys Entertainment's valuation can only reach 1 billion US dollars at most.

The media is full of noise, but Simon has no thoughts about this. He even regrets not cooperating with the statistics of Forbes magazine to make his personal assets as low as possible. Throughout the weekend, Simon spent all kinds of disturbances. Although he wanted to fly to Australia in advance to be more clean, avoiding is obviously not the way to deal with things. He even had to postpone his departure to Australia again.

In just two days, too much happened around the release of the "Forbes" rich list.

Early on Saturday morning, Simon received a call from Robert Iger from New York. I don’t know if it was influenced by the media or other reasons. CBS suddenly changed its attitude and hoped to get the "Beverly Jiao" again. "Wife" is not only willing to accept various conditions from Daenerys Films, CBS also agreed to order 23 complete episodes based on the same quotation of $600,000 per season as HBO.

Daenerys Entertainment had already decided to sign a contract with HBO next week, and CBS temporarily changed its mind, which immediately caused the incident to renew its ups and downs.

However, Simon did not hesitate too much. Between the very powerful public television network in this era and HBO, which has a small audience, he decisively chose the former. In addition, Terry Semel, who has been silent since contacting Simon some time ago, also hopes to talk to him about cooperation. There are a lot of things on the weekend, and Simon can only agree on Monday lunch time.

Monday, August 29.

At the end of the summer, there was a rare rainy weather in Los Angeles. Simon should have boarded the plane to Australia with Janet today, but because of the sudden incident last Friday that disrupted the arrangement of many things, he had to today. Continue to rush to the company.

Inside Malibu's villa.

Looking at Janet, who came to help tie her tie carefully, feeling the cool breeze blowing in from the outdoors, Simon lowered her head and kissed the woman’s face, and smiled: "It’s not because you are in a bad mood. , The weather outside is like that, right?"

Janet profiled Simon and kissed him, opened her small mouth at him, but didn't bite it, and said: "If I have this ability, at least the hailstone outside will be hail."

Simon smiled and said, "I will definitely be able to set off the day after tomorrow, I promise."

Janet curled her lips: "A man's guarantee is the most unreliable."

Simon helplessly: "Okay."

Janet tied her tie, took a step back and looked at it, nodded herself, and said, "Actually, Sofia flew over from France today, it should be around nine o'clock."

After returning from Cannes in May, Simon left the European affairs to Janet to take care of. At this time, he heard the words: "How is she doing?"

"Of course I'm working for you. She will bring some real estate information this time, as well as some other things. You don't need to worry about it anyway," Janet said casually, and finally looked up at Simon and said: "Would you like to invite her over for dinner tonight?"

"No tonight, let's talk about it if you have time," Simon did not notice Janet's small eyes, picked up the suit on the hanger next to him, and shook his head: "I have an appointment with Peter tonight, Peter Butler, you still remember?"

Jenny said, "The reporter from the Los Angeles Times, he wrote an interview for you last year."

Although I don’t really like to contact the media in my bones, in the current situation, Pat Kingsley’s advice to Simon is that it is best to accept some interviews to avoid the outside world being completely unavailable to Simon’s personal consultation, so he began to speculate and even make up Simon also agreed to make a mess.

Sending off the man, Janet went to a living room, took out a folder from the coffee table and opened it, crouched on the sofa and dialed the phone of Simon’s personal lawyer George Norman, and chatted for an hour. It was nearly nine o'clock before she hung up.

Ken Dixon has picked up Simon’s European butler Sophia Fessy from Los Angeles International Airport.

In the courtyard, Sophia Fayci got off Janet’s Burgundy Land Rover, and the woman greeted him immediately. The housekeeper wore a black women's professional suit today, and the tailored suits and skirts made the mature temperament of a woman more intellectual.

After the two women hugged and greeted each other intimately, they walked into the villa together, and Janet asked, "How are the two little guys?"

Sophia Faisy nodded with some gratitude in her expression, and said, "Very well, I will send them to Mom and Dad temporarily."

"If that guy dares to pester you, tell me immediately," Janet said with a vicious expression, "I happen to want a few wineries."

Sophia Fessy walked into the villa with Janet with a smile, sat down on the sofa in the living room, opened the briefcase she carried with her on her lap, and looked at Janet who was walking towards the small bar in the corner of the living room and said: "If you really Interested, I can help you find one. I still know a little bit about it."

Janet brought two cups of coffee and said, "Yes, but the best, um, which house information has been brought this time, let me see?"

"I went to Paris, London, Venice, Barcelona, ​​and Amsterdam during this period, and I picked out 16 properties in total," said Sophia Fessy, and took out several stacks of documents from the briefcase and arranged them neatly. On the coffee table, he said: "By the way, I also want to congratulate Simon. His ranking on the Forbes list is really surprising."

Janet picked up a copy of the real estate information and leaned comfortably on the sofa, and smiled and said: "I also feel very happy, but it is also a lot of trouble. We have to fly to Australia originally, and now we have to delay the trip."

Sophia Faisy nodded in understanding and said, "Yes, Simon is too young after all."

"By the way, how is Natasha? The last time she called and said she was going to Italy?"

Sophia Fissi nodded and said: "She is currently filming Jez Skolimovsky's new film "Spring in the Rapids."

Janet tilted her head and said, "I remember. Some time ago, the media talked about this. The catwoman chosen by Simon, um, Valerie Galino, she was going to play this. A movie is coming."

Sophia Fessy smiled and said: "Yes, Skolimowski prepared a two-year film, and was suddenly robbed of the heroine, so he had to delay for a few months to re-cast."

"I don't know this person, but of course he can't compare with my man." Janet said of course, suddenly said: "This house is good, well, Kensington Garden Avenue, and Kensington Palace. Next to?"

Sophia Fessy came over and said, "Yes, it happens to be the neighbor of Prince Charles and Princess Diana."

Janet pouted her lips, disdainfully said: "That messy pair."

Sophia Faisy smiled reluctantly. Many people were always eager to be neighbors with the royal family. Janet's completely dismissive reaction was completely beyond her expectations.

Janet turned a few more pages, turning his head to the side and muttered: "This house is really good, but if you can drive the two guys out of Kensington Palace, it would be great. I really don't want to be neighbors with them."

Sophia Faisy's smile is almost frozen.

The idea of ​​driving the heir to the British royal family out of Kensington Palace is probably only the woman around him can think of.

Janet did not realize how unrealistic this idea was, and looked at Sophia: "Hey, how do you think we can drive the two of them out of Kensington Palace?"

"This," Sophia Fessy could only shook her head and said, "Jenny, this is not practical."

Janet noticed Sophia’s expression, shrugged her shoulders, and said, “There’s nothing unrealistic. Maybe one day I will even buy Kensington Palace, but Simon doesn’t seem to like this style of house too much. , May have to be demolished and rebuilt."

Sophia Fessy is not a woman with little knowledge. Hearing Janet's words, she couldn't help thinking about it.

It is indeed not impossible to achieve Janet's ‘vision’, but the premise is that either the royal family is on the verge of bankruptcy, or the royal family is about to be cancelled.