Hollywood Hunter

Simon played less than 20 minutes in Madonna's solo concert on the evening of June 23, but provided countless media with enough news materials to hype for a whole week.

The flame guitar at the opening is undoubtedly the most popular target for fans.

The concert that night was not over, many people began to inquire about the source of Simon's guitar.

"Los Angeles Times" obtained the detailed information of the flame guitar for the first time, and also interviewed the members of the production team of that guitar. The exposed information discouraged most eager guitar lovers.

Not to mention the cost of more than 100,000 US dollars and Westeros specially applied for a design patent, even if it is really copied, it is just the weight of the guitar itself that ordinary people can not play.

You know, the flame guitar that seemed to be played freely in Simon’s hands that night, because of the installation of the all-metal fire-breathing system, its body is much larger than the average guitar, but the weight is more than 20 kilograms, and the average guitar is very Rarely are more than 5 kg.

Of course most people can afford to carry a weight of 20 kg.

However, for a musical instrument weighing more than 20 kilograms, even with a shoulder strap hanging on the body, probably few guitarists can enjoy this feeling of pressure.

Unless sitting.

However, few people should have the face to sit down, holding a domineering double-headed flame guitar and playing like a delicate acoustic guitar.

It's a shame to think about it.

Of course, even with such obstacles, it still failed to stop many people from yearning for the flame guitar.

Afterwards, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to buy the guitar from Simon through various channels. The highest price even reached 3 million US dollars, but Simon refused. Janet had planned to store the guitar in their upcoming Du Mui. In Cape Manor House.

Because of the flame guitar, some media could not help but pay attention to Simon's strong personal strength again. At the beginning of the year, the video of ten consecutive KO opponents in the Melbourne boxing ring was once again brought out to hype.

The flame guitar is naturally unattainable for most people.

However, the guitar single called "Fire" officially hit the shelves the following Monday, and it sold more than 1 million copies in just five days.

The other two new songs "HungUp" and "GhostTown", Madonna plans to release on the next album, so if fans want to collect them in advance, they can only look forward to the videotape of the concert that will be released recently.

Of course, there must be a large number of people who directly recorded the video of the concert that night with a home video recorder.

In addition to Madonna's team, the biggest beneficiary of this concert is undoubtedly ABC, which bought the live broadcast rights of the concert. The $6 million offer brought ABC an average of 36 million and a maximum of 43 million terrorist viewers.

Such ratings are already comparable to the Oscars.

However, the Oscars award ceremony, the offer of 6 million US dollars, it is impossible to even think about it.

Although the gains were huge, everyone knew that there was too much unrepeatability in this concert.

In order to ensure the box office of the concert itself, most singers would easily not allow TV stations to broadcast live. After all, this may make a fortune in a short period of time, but it will discourage fans from watching the scene.

The Madonna team naturally understands this truth, and this time it takes the form of live broadcast, which is more for publicity.

Now, the effect has far exceeded expectations.

After the concert that night, although Westeros will not be involved in the future, Madonna's remaining North American and European concert tickets were all sold out in the next few days.

Of course, there is no shortage of controversy in the hot media discussion.

The petite girl named Jennifer, who rushed onto the stage when Simon finally appeared, was once suspected by many media as a pre-arranged childcare.

As for the reason.

Many media felt that the scene at that time was too perfect.

A beautiful girl as delicate as a doll.

Westeros comforted it just right.

And, the last "Rocketman" by Elton John.

Especially the last song "RocketMan" has become a BUG that many skeptics blame.

For commercial concerts, any song, don’t cover it, even if the singer’s original song, sometimes requires special authorization.

If Simon Westeros sings this song casually without the prior authorization of Elton John and the "Rocketman" copyright holding company, it is an infringement and will be prosecuted.

However, the subsequent news broke the doubts of the media one by one.

The whole thing was indeed an accident.

The 17-year-old girl from Florida named Jennifer Berry, apart from being a crazy fan of Simon, had never had any substantial interaction with Simon personally before. It was the first time that the girl saw Simon himself that night.

As for the song "Rocketman".

Simon did infringe.

However, afterwards, Madonna's team immediately contacted Elton John and the record company that holds the copyright of "Rocketman".

After learning of the situation at that time, another copyright fee was paid, and all parties expressed their understanding.

In an interview with the media, Elton John also praised Simon's singing at the time, hoping to have the opportunity to cooperate with each other.

Moreover, when "Rocketman", an old song released in 1972, followed "Fire" in the following week, it quickly rushed to No. 2 on the singles bestseller list, and the copyright company of the song was only overjoyed.

Because Simon took Jennifer Berry backstage after singing "Rocketman", the petite girl also became the focus of media attention, and the information that should not be exposed was dug up by the media.

Jennifer Berry is from Miami, Florida, and comes from an ordinary middle-class family. His father is a food company employee, his mother is a nurse, and there is an older brother and a younger sister. The girl became obsessed with Simon from "Lola Run", and saved money from odd jobs for several years, all of which was spent on a concert ticket that night.

I took the train from Miami to New York by train alone, and waited all day outside the Brenda Barry Arena, with my pockets empty, and I didn't even have a place to stay after the concert.

After Simon finished singing that night, he originally wanted to send the girl off stage, but he felt that the little girl was obviously in a somewhat abnormal mental state, and found that she was alone, which led to the backstage. Knowing the girl's situation, he also helped her arrange the hotel and return air tickets to Miami.

That's it.

After doing what he thought he should do and sending a single girl home safely, Simon no longer paid attention to it.

However, the gossip-minded media does not think so.

Some people speculated whether something happened that night, some people chased after the girl's contact with Simon, and even the agency tried to sign the girl.

None of this has anything to do with Simon.

On the second day after the concert, Simon left North America and flew to Australia.

Cersei Fund Management Company has begun a new phase of its layout in the international crude oil market. Apollo Management Company is in the process of acquiring Simmons Company. Black Rock Asset Management Company also plans to conduct a bottom hunt when the war triggers turmoil in the world stock market.

It can be said that the upcoming July will be very important to Cersei Capital, and Janet did not return to Australia with Simon this time.

Jennifer accompanied as planned.

During this time, the female assistant was personally responsible for building a wooden house on a lakeside in Simon Territory, Tasmania, waiting for a snowy day to come, and spending a long-awaited world with Simon.

In Melbourne, one week before Simon came to Australia, "Batman: The Dark Knight" officially started filming.

Taking into account the benefits of "Batman: Hour of War" for Melbourne movies, tourism and employment, this time "Batman: The Dark Knight" enjoys further benefits, and the tax refund ratio is 15% compared to the previous one. Increased to 20%, and there are still no restrictions on other films.

Simon did not deliberately exploit any loopholes because of the loose conditions of the Melbourne City Government. Instead, he transferred more of the production of this film to Australia. He also bought the abandoned factory that was used for filming in the western suburbs of Melbourne last time. Build a filming base.

Daenerys Special Effects Australia branch was also officially established.

In terms of specific shooting, although movie fans have a lot of criticism about Simon's use of Jane de Bont, in fact, as Daenerys and Warner Bros. publicly stated, the control of the film is still firmly in Simon's hands.

The script was finalized by Simon himself, and unless Simon can be persuaded, Jane de Bont has no right to modify it.

The crew is also all the team that Simon had cultivated last time, which is enough to ensure that the technical details of the film are consistent with the first.

Moreover, although Jane de Bont is the nominal director, Simon also arranged for him two other deputy, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell, all three of whom were later Hollywood directors. All have enough experience in filmmaking, and there is no doubt about their talents.

Simon's request is for the three to work closely together, and many things will be carried out after joint discussions.

After brainstorming, although it was Jane de Bont who had the final decision-making power on the shooting scene, Simon believed that De Bont, who cherished this opportunity, could not be unwilling to take the correct suggestions from the other two.

In addition, Simon still invited Joe Silvo this time as the producer responsible for the logistics support of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

With this series of advantages, if Jane de Bont can still mess up, Simon will decisively kick him out.

The fact is that Jane de Bont was naturally not kicked out.

Simon rushed to Melbourne and carefully checked the samples taken by the crew the previous week, and he was relieved to be the shopkeeper.

Of course, in media reports, in order to appease movie fans’ concerns about the quality of the film, Simon is still ‘diligently’ following up the filming process.

Unconsciously, the time soon came to July 1990.

Simon is not in Los Angeles, Daenerys Entertainment still started the financial audit work in the first half of the year step by step, and Janet occasionally helped take care of it.

Moreover, it’s not just Daenerys Entertainment, because of the attention that Simon participated in that concert some time ago. After some media counts, it was discovered that Simon Westeros has been in Los Angeles in the summer of 1986. In four years, a huge business empire has been created.

The entire Westeros system, with Westeros as the core, involves four major fields: entertainment, fashion, technology, and finance.

What's more rare is that none of the four major areas involved is a trifle.

One of the most dazzling Daenerys Entertainment, although its business area is still limited to the film and its surrounding related industries, but in just a few years, it has become a giant.

The original movie industry’s strong uncertainty and unsustainability curse was also broken by Daenerys Entertainment.

From its inception to the present, Daenerys Entertainment has not seen much loss in film projects. Instead, it has repeatedly used small gains to create such things as "Scream", "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" and "Feng Yue Qiao" The box office miracle of films such as "Pretty Woman".

The unfolding of the DC Cinema Universe Project has allowed the industry to see a new way for the development of the film industry.

In the field of fashion, Gucci, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly revived after being taken over by Simon Westeros. Recently, Gucci has been valued by industry institutions more than $1 billion. Compared with the initial investment, Simon Westeros Just in terms of equity, several times the return has been obtained.

The technology industry, this can be said to be the first area where Simon Westeros made a big bet.

Although Igreat, one of Westero’s four “women”, seems to be very weak, the stock prices of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN and other companies that Westeros bet on during the 1987 stock market crash have recently In the past few years, it has been increasing rapidly.

Especially Microsoft.

Since the Windows3.0 system was released in May and it was a big success, Microsoft's stock price has continued to rise sharply, and it has now exceeded $5 billion, catching up with Microsoft's close partner Intel.

The industry even predicts that by August, Microsoft's stock price may even double its market value of around US$3 billion at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, not to mention the profit from absorbing Microsoft stock during the initial stock market crash, but the 10% increase at the end of last year, less than a year, may bring nearly 100% of the book return for Westeros.

The last financial sector.

Cersei Capital became famous through two operations in the Japanese financial market and the U.S. bond market last year. At the beginning of this year, the exposure of Simon Westero's US$4.5 billion in overseas cash reserves was a surprise.

Although keeping a low profile as much as possible, Cersei Capital’s every move continues to make waves on Wall Street.

Cersei Capital is targeting the operation of the international crude oil market at this time, and it was no secret from the beginning.

Fortunately, companies that can dig up information from Cersei Capital are not stupid. Secret follow-up is the kingly way. Therefore, they did not spread this information everywhere, or even actively help. This did not make Cersei Capital completely transparent to the public. .

After a rough estimate, the total market value of a series of entertainment, fashion, technology and financial companies involved in the tentacles of the entire Westeros system has exceeded US$50 billion.

In this era, General Electric, which often ranks among the top 500 in the world, has a market value of less than US$50 billion.

July in the northern hemisphere is in the midsummer.

The southern hemisphere has entered the coldest phase of winter.

Melbourne is located in a temperate maritime climate zone, and there is basically no snow in winter. Tasmania’s seaside area is actually the same, but the inland stretching for tens of kilometers is another scene.

The second week of July.

When a heavy snow fell in the area where the female assistant was building the wooden house, the two rushed over together.