Hollywood Hunter

From 1988 to the present, Daenerys' TV business has mainly benefited from a series of reality shows on "Who Will Be a Millionaire".

Over the past five years, these reality shows have more or less shown a continued decline in popularity.

Daenerys TV has accumulated enough experience in the field of reality show, coupled with the many classic ideas in Simon's mind, it stands to reason that the TV department can actually continue to introduce new ideas.

Simon did not do this.

Mainly to wait for Daenerys Entertainment to obtain its own public television network.

Moreover, even if the stamina is insufficient, the benefits of these reality shows are still very generous, and there is no need to rush to eliminate yourself.

On the other hand, Daenerys TV's performance in TV dramas in recent years is also very good, just a "Sein Fei Zheng Chuan" is enough for the TV department to eat for many years.

This TV series, which has become more and more popular in the past two years, once had the same status as "Friends" in the history of North American TV.

Even if the first round of broadcast is completed, relying on the syndicate copyright of this TV series, Daenerys TV can continue to obtain very considerable income, just like the "Friends" in the memory, the original time and space, Netflix in order to retain "Friends" The right to broadcast even requires a huge copyright fee of US$100 million a year.

After the merger of MCA, Daenerys TV's operation focus began to lean towards cable TV.

Relying on the two trump cards of the Housewives reality show series and "Desperate Housewives", USA has become one of the basic cable networks with the highest ratings in North America, and firmly occupies the position of professional women's channels.

Although FashionTV, which started broadcasting at the beginning of the year, did not have the rapid rise of Daenerys relying on several phenomenal reality shows, nor the scale of the USA TV network, its development momentum has been very stable since it was broadcast, and it basically has a limited foundation in North America. The TV field has gained a firm foothold.

After the rise of the cable TV industry, many cable TV stations were born in North America every year, and a large number of cable TV stations died.

FashionTV's ability to gain a firm foothold across the country is definitely not so easy on the surface.

After carefully sorting out the TV business of Daenerys Entertainment for two days on the weekend, Simon flew back to the West Coast on Sunday afternoon, but his destination was San Francisco.

AOL plans to officially release its own portal ‘www.aol.com’ on Monday.

Until now, it is mainly to improve its own e-mail system, which is a great tool for portals to attract fixed customer groups.

The reason why Microsoft, which has been authorized for the commercial operation of e-mail technology, has not yet launched the brewing MSN portal, is also to improve the technical layout of e-mail. As a competitor in this field, although Yigrete is based on the technology authorization of the two companies, it will not give more support.

Compared with Microsoft, AOL still has a big advantage.

This company has a huge user base of tens of millions, which can be directly converted into an e-mail account. The AOL team even skips the activation step, and the user automatically opens the mailbox by default.

Of course, the two companies that are about to launch the portal business also need to face another very important issue, how to win customers from Igreat, which controls the IE browser software, an important Internet portal.

In this regard, AOL also has certain advantages.

After the revision of its own network login software, this software has not only logged into the World Wide Web, but also expanded into a mini portal interface, used to click on the information content on the interface to open the IE browser and jump to the AOL portal .

Obviously, this mini-portal interface is obviously suspected of wiping the browser software.

In fact it is.

If Eaglet and AOL are not under the control of a parent company, but just this portal interface, it may trigger a battle for infringement lawsuits.

Simon had personally coordinated the matter before.

After repeated negotiations, the teams of the two companies finally reached an agreement.

AOL can continue to promote this interface, but this interface must not be directly powered by the browser to display content, and the link must jump to the IE browser software. At the same time, 50% of the recommended information on the mini interface must come from the Eaglet portal.

Finally, for related patents, AOL must also pay Eaglet’s expensive patent fees.

Using a dual-shareholding structure, Simon firmly controls the control rights of AOL and Eaglet.

The result of the negotiation between the two teams is actually a manifestation of Simon's personal will to a large extent.

AOL will never develop into an Internet media company in the original time and space. Instead, it will firmly lock in its identity as an Internet service provider and develop into a more comprehensive comprehensive telecommunications service provider. This is what Simon has long been doing. The development tone set by this company.

Now, the reason why this company is allowed to carry out the portal business is mainly to take a ride on the new technology wave.

In the increasingly turbulent Internet bubble, owning a portal business is just this gimmick enough to increase AOL's stock price by a large margin.

Not only that, AOL's portal business can also share the potential monopoly pressure of Eaglet Portal.

Therefore, for most of the content business involved in the Eaglet portal, AOL will subsequently be opened. However, AOL will not develop the core online payment system, search engine system and other tools independently. Instead, it plans to directly use Eaglet’s on-site products to embed in its own site. This is also the most important clause in the cooperation agreement reached between the two parties.

Therefore, for Simon, a latecomer, AOL's portal is basically an Airbus without its own core product.

Of course, the capital market would not see it that way.

In the eyes of many investors in the field of new technology, this is a potential development trend of the media industry from paper media to television media to online media. Therefore, the concept of media is more sought after by the capital market than the concept of technology.

AOL can break the monopoly of Igreat on content in another way. Even if the two companies are the same boss behind the scenes, this is a very rare thing.

On Monday, with the release of the AOL portal, AOL’s stock price rose rapidly. As of the end of the afternoon on the East Coast, the single-day increase reached 2.9%, and the market value reached a new high, reaching 37.1 billion US dollars. Dollar.

According to Westeros’ 66.1% shareholding in AOL, after the close of the day, a Goldman Sachs analyst posted AOL’s stock price chart on his Facebook page with the sentence “Westeros Day: Oh, another $698 million earned.'

It was originally a humble one of many similar emotions on the Internet platform.

However, under the intentional or unintentional operation of the Facebook operations team, this news was directly put on the hot label.

Subsequently, Sandra Bullock's reposts and comments triggered a wider discussion.

This actress, who everyone knows to be Simon's personal friend, forwarded it with a smiling face and crying expression: "Forget it, I need 175 years to earn so much."

Then a series of queues were triggered.

Both celebrity certified users and ordinary users have joined this discussion.

‘Forget it, to earn so much, I need 3826 years. ’

‘Forget it, to earn so much, I need 861 years. ’

‘Forget it, I need 99 years to earn so much. ’

‘Forget it, to earn so much, I need 12663 years. ’

‘Forget it, to earn so much, I need 26453 years. ‘

"Forget it..."

‘...’

In the following days, this discussion quickly spread from Internet platforms to traditional media. Whether it was a serious financial newspaper or a witty talk show, they were discussing how long it would take to earn US$698 million.

The result is that everyone is a little sad.

Powerlessness.

It's almost everyone's most real feeling.

If it is someone else, it may also trigger a wide-ranging controversy about the gap between the rich and the poor.

However, in the eyes of many people, Westeros is completely an anomaly, and it is no longer possible to use common sense to guess.

After all, if the wealth is skyrocketing to a group, such as Wall Street bankers or Silicon Valley upstarts, perhaps they can also ‘rob the rich and help the poor’ through tax adjustments. Now, this is just one person.

It is impossible for the federal government to introduce restrictions on a person too directly.

After these years of accumulation, it is not just personal wealth. Simon Westero also has considerable influence in federal politics. This can be seen from the last time the new president visited Silicon Valley. Therefore, this young man also It is absolutely impossible to be a man who can be manipulated.

This is obvious.

Therefore, on the bright side, some media can only call on a certain guy to put out more funds for charity and give back to the society.

The Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation has been promoting philanthropy in recent years. Compared with many wealthy people who have hurriedly started charity projects to maintain their reputation after being spotted by the media, the Westeros are definitely called. Generosity, this point, is really blameless.

Therefore, the final result of this small wave of public opinion is still to make more capital pay attention to the new technology field.

Hollywood side.

The first week of the summer vacation will pass quickly.

From May 21st to May 27th, this week’s heaviest new movie "Silver Stallone", the first week of the box office let the producer Columbia Pictures disappointed, compared with 35 million to 40 million US dollars It is expected in the first week that, in fact, only 25.02 million U.S. dollars has been received in the first seven days.

Taking into account the "Superman" on June 4, even if the decline in the next week can be maintained within a fairly good range, the total box office in North America of "Breakout" is likely to only reach between 70 million and 80 million US dollars. .

However, the production cost of this blockbuster reached 70 million US dollars.

Colombia is relatively stingy in publicity, but also invested 20 million.

A total of US$90 million in production and distribution costs will require between US$250 million and US$300 million worldwide to recover the initial investment through the box office.

North America is only expected to have a box office of 70 to 80 million U.S. dollars. It is unlikely that the global box office of "Zhe Ling Xiong Feng" will reach 250 million U.S. dollars. You must know that if it is the past, Stallone may still have a strong box office call in overseas markets. However, now, especially in this summer vacation, the competitiveness of "Superman" must be strengthened, which will inevitably squeeze the living space of "Breakdown Heroes" overseas.

Although it is not difficult to pay back through omni-channel operations, for Colombia, this project is basically a waste of work.

Relatively speaking, Stallone comfortably took away a huge $15 million in remuneration, which can be called the biggest winner of this project.

Of course, both in this time and space, or in Simon’s memory, Stallone’s popularity has been greatly lost after "Break in the Mountains", and there have been no heavyweight movies until many years later, a group of old men gathered to create the "Expendables" series. It is considered that some popularity has been restored.

After "Breakout", the comedy film "Made in America" ​​starring Ubi Goldberg won the second place in the box office chart this week, with a box office of 14.1 million in seven days.

"Made in America" ​​is far from being compared with last year's "Made in America" ​​in terms of word-of-mouth and box office. It is expected that the total box office in North America will be between 40 million and 50 million US dollars.

In addition to the two new films, Simon is more concerned about "The Story of Bruce Lee" released by New World Pictures on May 14.

This biographical film with a production cost of 14 million U.S. dollars, after the first week of opening the painting and gaining 12.96 million U.S. dollars, the box office of the second week opened on May 21 fell by 37%, and then received 8.12 million U.S. dollars. The total box office in two weeks was 21.08 million U.S. dollars. The total box office is expected to be around 35 million U.S. dollars, but the North American release can roughly recover the cost.

Moreover, this movie was actually developed together with the fighting game of the same name, and the two series of works were also promoted at the same time.

At the same time as it was released on May 14, the fighting game of the same name on the Nintendo platform was officially launched in North America and Asia at the same time. Relying on Bruce Lee’s widespread popularity in North America and Asia, the game cassette sales reached 260,000 boxes in the first week, and the total sales are expected to reach 150 Million, the sales are about 90 million US dollars.

Obviously, Daenerys Entertainment makes a lot more profit on the game of the same name than the movie of the same name.

On May 28, in the new week, the North American theaters once again opened two heavyweight films, namely "Super Mario Bros." produced by Disney and adapted from Nintendo's phenomenal video game, and the other was produced by an independent animation company. "Fairy Tale Ending" developed by the company's Filmation Studio.

"Super Mario Bros." Needless to say.

The high production cost of $48 million is a huge pit in Simon's view, because there is not much information about the movie in his memory.

Another "Fairy Tale Ending" is actually very interesting.

This is an animated film about the follow-up of Snow White. The plot is about the story of the prince and princess living together. The film was actually developed in 1990. It was originally intended to be called "Snow White: A Fairy Tale Ending", but of course Disney disagreed, thinking it might be misunderstood as a sequel to the classic Disney animation "Snow White", so I worked with Filmation The room fought for more than two years, and the final result was that the film was renamed "Fairy Tale Ending."

The two films that were almost destined to hit the street didn't arouse much mood for Simon. This weekend, what attracted Simon's attention was the fact that Canada's Seagram Group quietly initiated the acquisition of Paramount Communications.