Hollywood Hunter

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Daenerys Pictures headquarters.

Jennifer Leibold knocked gently on the door of the editing room. After receiving a response, she pushed the door open and said to Simon, who was busy in front of the editing table, "Boss, it's already four o'clock."

Simon just nodded slightly, his eyes still on the monitor screen of the editing station, and his subordinates kept moving, saying: "Wait a moment, it will be fine soon."

Jennifer didn't say anything else, walked in lightly, closed the editing room door from behind, and watched Simon work quietly with the slight click of the equipment. Pulp Fiction's budget was ample, and Simon didn't need to be hands-on. The previous rough cuts of the film were done by professional editors, but Simon decided to do it himself in the fine-cutting stage.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spends most of these days in the company's editing room.

After a while, Simon archived the footage and began to organize tape notes and other items on the editing table. Jennifer also stepped forward, and together they skillfully helped Simon put everything into the safe in the corner of the editing room.

After spending a short quiet time with him secretly, Jennifer talked about today's work after leaving the editing room: "I have collected information on some major North American record companies and second- and third-tier labels, and have put them on your desk in your office. The secretary of Mr. Steve Jobs responded in the morning, and the other party said that Jobs did not intend to sell Pixar; Mr. Ed McCracken, the CEO of Silicon Graphics, invited you to visit the headquarters of Silicon Graphics in San Francisco recently; Bill Mr. Gates' assistant is calling, and Gates is coming to Los Angeles next Monday, hoping to have lunch with you; and, um, an invitation to speak at Stanford University."

Simon took Jennifer through the corridor, took the invitation letter from Stanford University from her, glanced at it, and handed it back, saying, "If there are any more invitations like this, just turn them down, I'm going to give them a speech, it's just a negative publicity. Energy: Look, that guy's the same age as us, God is not fair."

Jennifer chuckled lightly, put the invitation letter in the folder, hugged her chest, looked up, and asked, "What about the invitation from Mr. McCracken and Mr. Gates?"

"I will definitely go there once in San Francisco, but I don't have time recently, so I need to push it back a bit. As for Gates, you can book a restaurant, we are the hosts, so we should be more enthusiastic. In addition, I suddenly thought of something today. Well, now that those shares are out, I already have the right to ask for a board seat from these companies based on my Westeros holdings. Ask your dad if he's interested in serving as a director of these companies for me. I don't have that much time myself. So, my thinking is, George is in charge of the West Coast of these companies, and your dad is in charge of the East Coast."

Westeros' 4.9% stake in 26 tech companies basically puts Simon in the ranks of the major shareholders of these companies.

If these holdings are not exposed, Simon also intends to be a silent individual shareholder, hiding in the dark and watching the development of these companies. Now, now that these holdings are well known, Simon has decided to claim his rights as a shareholder.

In theory, the board of directors is usually the most direct institution through which the shareholders of a listed company exercise their power, and the management of the company is also voted by the board for appointments in most cases. As long as Simon gets a seat on the board of the corresponding company, it is enough to exert his own influence on the future development of these companies.

Jennifer followed Simon, writing down the restaurant reservation in her memo as she walked. Hearing Simon's last words, her expression suddenly became a little surprised, and some inexplicably shy. Just as they were about to say something, the two had already come to a conference room in the company. Jennifer had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​asking questions, and sat down with Simon at the conference table.

It's hard to calm down.

The most direct manifestation of the power of the US consortium is to control hundreds of board seats of a large number of corporate giants around the world.

The wealth that Simon now has is naturally incomparable to any of the top ten consortiums in the United States, but if he can win the board seats of all 26 companies, this is definitely a strength that should not be underestimated.

If Simon really made his father and uncle come forward as directors of these companies, with the role of the spokesman of Simon Westeros huge wealth and the influence represented by the board seats of these companies, the Rayburd family and the Norman family would immediately be able to get from The family of lawyers, who had been slightly famous, stepped into the most influential class in the country.

After all, billion-dollar wealth is definitely more than just a series of simple numbers on the surface.

Simon and Jennifer sat down at the conference table. There were actually only four people in the room. The other two were Amy and her assistant named Vanessa Lind. Liz Pictures also had to pay Vanessa's salary from Amy's own pocket due to lack of funds.

Now, of course, this dilemma will not happen again.

However, the conference room with only four people still shows the essence of Daenerys Films being just a small workshop. Under normal circumstances, including Simon and several others, there are actually only fifteen regular employees in the two-story office building of Daenerys Films who are responsible for all the work such as finance, sending and receiving, and logistics. As for the production of the film, it was entirely the hands of the owner, Simon and Amy Pascal.

Today is Wednesday, December 16th.

Daenerys Pictures' planned 1987 three-film project, "Death Comes," is drawing to a close.

From the opening of the painting on October 23 to the present, in seven and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of "The God of Death" has reached

$67.53 million. As news of Simon's sudden billionaire status in November inevitably served to boost the film's box office, "Death Is Coming" easily topped expectations by $60 million.

At present, "Death Is Coming" temporarily ranks 7th in the annual North American box office chart with a box office of 67.43 million U.S. dollars, followed by "The Unselfish" starring Sean Connery in the summer program. The film had still grossed $1.06 million at the box office over the three-day weekend of December 11 to December 13, and in the next few weeks, the film's total box office before it went down was enough to easily break the $70 million mark.

Simon intends to pay attention to the films of the two major schedules at the end of the year.

According to the information in my memory, the Thanksgiving and Christmas files also include "Three Dads and One Baby" released on November 25, and the next "Moonlight" on December 18 and "Early Morning" on December 25. An Vietnam" is expected to squeeze into the top ten of the annual list, and the others are not enough to pose a threat to "Death is Coming".

As a result, "Death Is Coming" unexpectedly entered the top 10 from the expected top 15 North American box office rankings. If no other box office dark horses appear in the future, this film will happen to rank in the North American annual box office rankings. 10th on the list.

Counting "Lola Run", which firmly held the first place, and "Butterfly Effect", which was temporarily ranked fourth, all three movies related to Simon in 1987 were all squeezed into the North American box office list. 10.

Even as Simon's billion-dollar run in the financial markets stunned the world, in recent weeks, "Death" has outpaced the likes of "The Witch of East Town," "Lethal Weapon," and "Road to Advancement." Won the 7th place in the annual list, Simon's pioneering work that all three films a year squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office list still makes the whole Hollywood look at him.

Therefore, although "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Met Sally" are still in the post-production stage, under the aura of more than one billion US dollars of personal wealth and three consecutive top ten films in the annual box office list, the capital market has finally Completely opened the door to Simon.

Simon is actually very much in agreement with the principle of not investing in movies with your own money.

In this world, no matter in any industry, using other people's money to make one's own profits is absolutely king. But even before the November fortune came to light, Simon hadn't gotten to the point where others would pay for him.

Now.

Like top second-tier film companies like the Big Seven and Orion Films, Daenerys Pictures finally got the qualification to get loans from banks just through brand guarantees.

Clearly, Daenerys Pictures' brand guarantee is Simon himself.

conference room.

Amy Pascal waited for Simon and Jennifer to sit down, then handed over a folder and said, "Simon, it's been negotiated, this is the draft contract. Wells Fargo is willing to provide 100 million to Daenerys Pictures. U.S. dollar loan with 5-year term and 6.5% annual interest.”

Simon took the document and opened it, and couldn't help but say, "6.5% is still a bit high."

"If it was before the stock market crash, we might have been able to get 5%," Amy explained, looking at Simon. "Now banks are generally tightening their loans. 6.5% is still the result of my long talk with Wells Fargo. You know that. Yes, Paul Olson initially offered an annual interest rate of 8%. In addition, the $10 million loan for "Instinct" is not included in this money, and it is still mortgaged through the "Death Come" sharing contract, and the annual interest rate is 8%. The interest rate is 5% and the term is 3 years.”

Paul Olson is the senior vice president of Wells Fargo who was in contact with Simon last time when he obtained the $20 million loan. He has a connection with the last loan. This cooperation can be said to be the result of a hit-and-run after the two sides contacted each other. .

Simon nodded with a smile, and continued to look at the draft contract in his hand.

It was less than an hour away from get off work, and Amy didn't wait for Simon to read it all before continuing: "Simon, I've talked to Wes Craven and he'd be happy to continue working with us on the next film. But , he also hopes to see the script first."

"Death is Coming" squeezed into the top ten of the North American box office. Although everyone knows that this is largely due to Simon's personal script and popularity, as a director, it is like Brian De Palma, who has returned to the peak of his career. In the same way, Wes Craven was also successfully promoted to the first-line director.

"I already have a good idea, probably a school thriller, and I'll take time out in the past two days to write a synopsis of the story. However, I don't have that much time to perfect the script right now. You and Wes will discuss it then. , hire other screenwriters to write it."

Amy heard what Simon said, and subconsciously said, "What about the signature?"

Simon smiled and said, "Three films are enough this year, Amy, do you think Hollywood has seven or eight films written by Simon Westeros a year, how much interest can the audience maintain?"

Amy, however, caught another layer of meaning in Simon's words, with her arms resting on the conference table, she raised her hand and gestured: "Simon, do you mean that we will make seven or eight movies next year?"

"Of course, not only movies, but also TV shows," Simon bounced on the draft contract in front of him and said: "Otherwise, where would we need so much money. So, next, you can continue to hire people, we Next year, I will not only venture into the field of TV shows, but I will also try to distribute films on my own.”

Although it had been expected, Amy couldn't help feeling that Simon was a little too eager. However, thinking about the series of miracles the young man in front of him has created in the past year, Amy nodded quickly.

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