Hollywood Hunter

As far as the political system of the United States is concerned, when most Washington politicians deal with problems, they consider the interests of the chaebol powers or behind-the-scenes funders they represent on the one hand, and on the other hand, a decision that influences the political capital such as voter support. influences.

If the two conflicts, they tend to favor the former.

Because the voter's support rate can be influenced or even manipulated, once there is no support from the chaebol and funders, the front and back are lost.

The most typical of these is undoubtedly the Bush family.

Especially during the Bush administration.

As a well-known spokesperson for the interests of the US oil group, the Bush administration cannot fail to know that launching a war will lead to a sharp expansion of the US debt deficit, will plant the roots of crisis for the US economy, will allow China on the other side of the ocean to take the opportunity to rise, and it will cause Russia and other United States. The economic prosperity of the old enemy.

However, Bush Jr. came to power for eight years, and the war basically lasted for eight years.

The goals of the Westeros system are getting bigger and bigger.

In order not to be frequently used as a target, Simon attaches great importance to overseas expansion, but has never relaxed the layout of the local political field in North America, and at no cost.

As long as a political group under the Westeros system can be successfully created in the next few years, Simon will be able to sit back and relax like the deep-rooted financial chaebols, oil consortia, and military-industrial groups in the United States.

This is not easy.

However, according to Washington’s rules of the game step by step, the goal will always be reached.

Inside the villa study.

It wasn't until Sophia knocked on the door to remind him that Simon stopped instilling various ideas into Daniel that seemed out of place for his age.

Sending her son to the restaurant first, Sophia and Simon were slightly behind, with a little warning in suspiciousness: "Simon, I always think you are teaching Danny."

Simon did not show any expression of guilty conscience, and said: "Some things are too late to be taught after the child is 18 years old. Daniel's mind is enough to accept many things."

Sophia frowned slightly: "But, Danny is only 13 years old."

Seeing Daniel disappear in the corner of the corridor, Simon stretched out his hand to embrace the woman's waist: "I was completely alone when I was 13 years old."

Sophia held down Simon's claws on her waist to prevent him from causing trouble, but slowed down a bit, and said, "Anyway, if you fail Danny, I will ask you to settle the account."

Simon slightly forced the woman over: "If I teach well, is there a reward?"

Sophia felt Simon's breath after getting close, and gave him a blank look: "I've given you everything, what kind of reward is there."

The two said, walking through the corridor to the restaurant, and everyone else was already seated.

Seeing Simon and Sophia coming in, Gemma, who was sitting next to Seattle talking to the little girl, looked up and said excitedly: "Uncle Simon, Seaa must be smarter than you. I only taught the multiplication formula once. Remember it immediately."

Simon sat down in the chair pulled apart by Aaliyah, and smiled: "Syl must be thinking, this sister is so boring, she can even recite such simple things in her ears. I already knew how to recite it when I was three months old. Multiplication formula."

Little Gemma widened her eyes in dissatisfaction: "No, and, for three months, how could it be possible?"

Simon said with a firm face: "Of course it is possible. I will recite the formula of multiplication in three months. Syl is my daughter. You just said she is smarter than me."

Little Gemma certainly didn't believe it: "How do you prove?"

Simon said, "Or I will recite it for you."

Little Gemma blinked, and suddenly said slyly: "Okay."

Simon was enlisted by the girl. He didn't have the face to recite the multiplication formula in front of so many people. He repented and said, "Forget it, don't hurt your self-confidence."

Little Gemma snorted, did not chase her, turned to Seattle, and came again with interest: "Sia, how much is seven times seven?"

The little girl with a pair of beautiful eyes sits in the heightened special baby seat, quietly letting Janet spread her napkins for herself. Hearing the question from the little sister next to her, she tilted her head slightly and said softly: "98."

Little Gemma just showed off in front of Simon, and she lost face immediately: "It's wrong, it's wrong, let's talk about it."

The little girl seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "147."

Little Gemma waved her little hand: "How is it possible, I'll give you one more chance, one last chance."

The little girl said this time, "196."

Little Gemma finally couldn't hold back, and the probing hand gently squeezed Seattle's face: "I'm angry, just say 49."

The little girl allowed Little Gemma to pinch her face, her expression was still faint, as if Miss Sister’s fingers were not pinched on her face, and then softly said: "245."

Little Gemma completely gave up: "Little fool, don't play with you, you are really not as smart as your father."

At the table.

Looking at the crazy little Gemma, the adults thought a little and all laughed.

Janet happily opened Little Gemma who was still pinching Seattle's face: "Don't bully Sil, you're an idiot here."

Little Gema laughed at the sight of a few adults, even her mother, and said dissatisfied: "What's the matter?"

The adults were very unscrupulous. Daniel helped his sister to help his sister: "The numbers that Syl said just now are twice, three times, four times and five times 49. She is teasing you."

Little Gemma flashed her eyes a few times, obviously not calculating, raised a finger and gestured a few times on the dining table in front of him, then she suddenly said: "Wow, really." After that, she looked at Seattle next to her. He didn't feel angry at all because he was just being teased. Instead, he looked surprised, and turned to Jennifer who was taking care of Nick: "Aunt Jenny, Xia is a genius, how did you give birth?"

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The problem was a little embarrassing, and Simon gave a light cough and took the initiative: "This is mainly because of Sir Papa."

Little Gemma immediately cast a face of contempt for someone with a thick face.

During the laughter, the waitresses brought the dinner together, and when Little Gemma saw that everyone was about to pick up the tableware, she couldn’t help but poked her head and looked at Simon next to Janet and said: "Uncle Simon, why Westeros No need to pray before dinner at home."

Simon said solemnly: "I bought the dinner by working hard and making money. Thanks to God, I will feel very disadvantaged."

The reason is a bit overbearing.

Little Gemma was stunned and couldn't help saying: "Uncle Simon, you are blasphemy."

Simon knows his mistake and corrects it: "Well, I repent."

Little Gemma felt that someone was hopeless and looked back. As everyone picked up the tableware and started to dine, she couldn't help but speak first, and looked at Sophia on the opposite side: "Mom, I can go to town on weekends. Fashion show?"

Sophia refused: "No."

Little Gemma said pitifully, "However, many of my classmates can go to the show. If I can't go, I will be rejected by them because there is no common topic."

Sophia heard her daughter say this, thought about it, and said loosely: "Mom will help you ask after dinner, but you can't go alone, and you can't run around."

Little Gemma immediately disappeared from the pitifulness she was just now, and she nodded her head excitedly: "I can call a few friends together," after she realized she was a bit revealing, she quickly changed the subject: "Mom, can't you accompany me?"

Sofia was a little worried when she saw her daughter's little slyness.

However, since I agreed, of course I won’t regret it: “Mom still has things to do, you just need to work with your friends.”

Little Gemma agreed and looked at Simon again: "Uncle Simon, will you go to the show this weekend?"

Simon said, "Well, I need to ask you Aunt Jenny."

Little Gemma looked at Janet suspiciously.

Janet smiled and said, "Uncle Simon will stay at home to watch the children this weekend, so he won't go anywhere."

Little Gemma had a clear expression and nodded her head: "Yeah, I understand." After speaking, she gloated at Simon and said, "good man."

Since discovering that the children are helpful in changing Simon's mindset, the two Jennys have begun to increase the time Simon spends with the three little guys.

I stayed in Greenwich as a daddy on the weekend, but two Jenny went to the city to watch shows and shop together.

On a new Monday, Simon arrived in Manhattan at more than eight o'clock in the morning to attend the Monday regular meeting at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment.

Today is September 26th.

It is already at the end of September. At the same time that the summer film season is over, the autumn TV series has already begun. This meeting is mainly about the summary of the ratings of a series of TV series that have been released in the autumn file.

The core is the two new dramas that started last week.

"Story of the Emergency Room" on September 19 and "Friends" on September 22.

According to Simon's original plan, the two new dramas were handed over to CBS and NBC respectively. Relying on the excellent quality of the dramas and the sparing efforts in the early stage of publicity, the two TV dramas have achieved a good start after their broadcast.

On September 19, the first episode of "The Story of the Emergency Room" was broadcast. Although Monday is not the most golden period of the TV series, this medical drama written by Michael Clayton, the original novel author of "Jurassic Park" is still on the air. The first episode created a viewership of 23.8 million, making it the best new drama in the fall season so far.

On September 22, "Friends" was broadcast on the NBC television network. The first episode also reached 21.5 million ratings on a golden Thursday at 8 o'clock.

In 1994, cable television and the Internet had not had a significant impact on traditional public television networks, and episodes with more than 20 million viewers were common.

However, this is only relative.

There are hundreds of new dramas of various genres launched every year in North America, which can reach "Emergency Room Stories" and "Friends" such as "Emergency Room Story" and "Friends". After all, there are only a few episodes that have entered the hit list just after they were released. Daenerys Entertainment The release of another hit sitcom "Sein Fei Zheng Chuan", accumulated a few seasons before it became popular.

In the past, the public television network in the 1990s was basically the world of several dramas such as "Friends", "Story of the Emergency Room", and "The Story of Sein Fei".

Now, Daenerys Entertainment not only has all these popular dramas in the bag, but also pioneered the era of reality show ahead of time. In addition to failing to win a public television station, the current edge in the television industry is no less than that of movies. field.

Daenerys Entertainment East Coast Headquarters in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

The regular meeting ended at ten thirty.

Simon stayed in the conference room to continue discussing some trivial matters with Robert Iger, and was about to return to his office here. Girl A knocked on the door and handed a document to Simon and said: "Boss, news from the West Coast just arrived. , France’s Vivendi Group and Disney will hold a press conference at nine o’clock in the morning on the West Coast to formally announce that the two companies have reached an acquisition agreement."

Since Michael Eisner had a heart attack and was forced to withdraw from Disney’s management, without Eisner, a hard-line opponent, Vivendi’s acquisition negotiations for Disney officially opened.

After a few months, the negotiations did not go smoothly, and there were even more than one rumors that the negotiations between the two sides broke down or that Vivendi would turn to other goals.

Simon's attention has been in Europe some time ago, and he did not expect the two companies to suddenly reach an agreement.

Simon opened the file handed over by Girl A, and when I saw Iger looked over it curiously, moved the file toward him, and then looked over.

Last Friday, Disney's closing market value was approximately $8.1 billion.

In the terms of the current acquisition agreement, Vivendi finally bid US$9.7 billion to acquire all of Disney’s assets, which is equivalent to a 19% premium to the closing market value of last Friday. However, compared to Disney’s market value of less than US$7 billion before the start of the acquisition negotiations, The premium has reached 40%.

In addition, Vivendi will also assume Disney’s total debt of US$5.3 billion, with a total transaction value of US$15 billion.

Not only that, according to the documents in hand, this will also be an all-cash acquisition.

This also means that even if Disney’s huge debt is not considered, Vivendi needs to raise a huge amount of US$9.7 billion in order to win Disney.

If it is the original timeline, the acquisition of Disney for $9.7 billion is definitely worth the money.

In fact, the market value of Disney in 1994 was close to 20 billion U.S. dollars, and it was not 9.7 billion U.S. dollars.

It's different now.

Because of the big butterfly Simon, Disney has been suppressed miserably by Daenerys Entertainment in recent years, just like other difficult brothers in Hollywood, and the failure of Disneyland Paris has made Disney even worse. Judging from Disney's financial reports in recent years, Vivendi has obviously been taken advantage of just like Sony did.

Unless after taking Disney, Vivendi has the ability to make this big film company recover rapidly in the next few years, otherwise, its own debt has reached 5.3 billion US dollars, plus the huge debt added by this acquisition, Vivendi If Di cannot reverse the situation as quickly as possible, he will definitely fall into crisis because of his huge debt.

In the past, Vivendi had to spit it out again within a few years after swallowing the world because of the serious out-of-control debt scale.

This time, Simon did not intend to give Disney another chance to stand up.

Seven of Hollywood.

The seven major film companies are far too many.

After Simon got the inside information more than an hour in advance, at nine o'clock in the morning on the West Coast, Vivendi and Disney officially held a press conference at the Disney headquarters in Burbank, Los Angeles, announcing that the two parties had formally reached an agreement.

Next, as long as it passes the review of the federal regulatory agency, the transaction can be successfully completed.

Although there have been media calls in recent months to limit the excessive involvement of foreign capital in the American cultural industry, legally, this acquisition will not be substantially hindered, not to mention the secret promotion of the Westeros system.

After the two companies held a press conference in the morning, Simon quietly contacted Joseph Schrapp and asked him to work in Washington to promote the passage of the transaction. At the same time, some arrangements have been made in the media to reduce public opinion attacks on Vivendi’s acquisition of Disney, so as to ensure the smooth passage of this transaction without fail.