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Daenerys Entertainment's mid-year financial audit came to a close as the 10-film project set the world on fire.

In addition to taking care of other work, Simon spent three days studying the dozens of pages of financial reports compiled by the company's financial department.

Overall, Daenerys Entertainment's revenue focus in the first half of the year is still the four films "Scream", "Steel Magnolia", "Dead Poets Society" and "Rain Man" at the end of last year.

From January 1st to June 30th, in the six months, the domestic box office portion of the four films continued to make 263 million US dollars, and Daenerys Entertainment's share from this part of the box office became 121 million US dollars. The reason why the box office share is lower than the average 55% is mainly because of the step-by-step sharing scheme of theatrical screenings. After a movie is released, the box office share gradually decreases.

Overseas, the total revenue from the four films was $356 million, of which "Scream" was $95.15 million, "Steel Magnolia" was $12.37 million, "Dead Poets Society" was $86.32 million, and "Rain Man" " was $163.65 million.

This box office data will increase in the second half of the year, but the potential is already very small.

Compared with the data in the original time and space, the overseas box office of the four films has shrunk significantly. Except for "Steel Magnolia", which has a huge gap between the overseas and the domestic box office, the overseas audience of the subject matter is too small. The box office of several other films is too small. The shrinking is mainly due to the lack of overseas distribution capabilities of Daenerys Entertainment and the fact that many overseas ticket warehouse countries have not yet opened the film market.

Moreover, even though most overseas box office countries have opened up the film market in this era, they still impose various restrictions on Hollywood movies, such as low-account and high-tax delays to protect the domestic film industry. The proportion is only 33%,

In addition, for some overseas ticket warehouses that are too small or have stricter policy restrictions, Daenerys Entertainment can only sell them at one time. Although the box office is still included in the total overseas box office data, it does not participate in the share.

In Simon's memory, the situation improved rapidly after the nineties.

Calculated, the four films contributed to Daenerys Entertainment's total overseas box office revenue of 116 million US dollars.

As for the new films released this year, as of June 30, the six films in the first half of the year, including "Blue Angels of Thunder" and "Metropolis", have made a total of 123 million US dollars, and "The Sixth Sense" released on June 30 was excluded from the list. In addition to this statistics, the cumulative revenue of the six new films was US$73 million.

In the home entertainment business, "When Harry Met Sally", released at the end of last year, sold 2.93 million cassettes in the first half of the year. According to the unit price of 29.9 dollars, the sales amounted to 87.6 million dollars.

Although the film company counts 80% of the videotape revenue as a cost in the basic agreement with the various unions, and only the remaining 20% ​​is divided, but in fact, the gross profit obtained by the studio from the sales of each videotape can generally reach the sales volume. At 40% to 50% of the unit price, the gross profit ratio of a hot new film like "When Harry Met Sally" is even higher.

So just the release of the videotape of the movie "When Harry Met Sally" brought in more than $46 million in gross profit for Daenerys Entertainment.

Counting some other fragmentary project income, comprehensive statistics, in the first half of the year, Daenerys Entertainment’s film business generated nearly 900 million US dollars in total industry output value in terms of box office and video tapes, and Daenerys Entertainment’s own operating income was 3.95%. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Behind the huge revenue, it also means huge expenses.

In the first half of the year, Daenerys Entertainment had more than ten films in various stages of official production, of which the budget cost of "Batman" alone reached $50 million. Uncle", "Scream 2" and other projects also require large expenditures.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment has also invested heavily in the theatrical distribution of local and overseas films.

Finally, taking into account a series of large expenses such as the construction of Malibu Daenerys Studios, the establishment of many overseas branches, the repayment of some due loans, and the equally important tax factors that need to be undertaken by the company as a whole, Dany The net profit of Liz Entertainment’s film business in the first half of the year was only US$51.19 million, with a net profit margin of less than 13%.

TV business.

Compared with movies, the TV business in the first half of the year was a bit lackluster, and Daenerys TV’s revenue focus was still on four reality shows. Since the beginning of this year, the TV department has successively signed production contracts for three new dramas with TV networks, but last year's two dramas were also cut after the end of the spring season due to their low ratings.

According to such statistics, Daenerys TV is currently operating a total of exactly 10 TV projects, of which six are TV series and four are reality shows.

Because the revenue and profit figures of the reality TV show with the largest income are basically determined, in the first half of the year, the total revenue of Daenerys' entertainment TV business was 232 million US dollars. Also after sharing large expenditures, the net profit of the TV division was US$36.82 million, and the net profit margin was also only a modest 16%.

comic business.

Although the launch of the "Batman" project has drawn the attention of the industry to Marvel Entertainment, in the first half of the year, the comic company still maintained a low-key operation status, with revenue of $39.71 million and profit of $2.26 million for Daenerys Entertainment. The overall impact is not significant.

However, in the financial report for the first half of the year, it is not that there are no bright spots, that is, the South

Consumer Products Division led by Shee Brill.

After several adjustments, Daenerys Entertainment Consumer Products is currently mainly responsible for the peripheral product development of the company's series of film and television projects, the distribution of soundtracks and a part of the advertising business.

Of course, the sponsored advertising operation of several reality shows such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire" is still solely in charge of Daenerys TV, which belongs to the advertising department of Daenerys TV, and the consumer goods department is only responsible for a few reality shows. Peripheral product development, the so-called advertising business is mainly the product placement of films and TV series produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

In the first half of the year, the energetic little woman led the investment in Blockbuster, established the Daenerys analysis company, and launched the Blizzard studio.

Through the operation of peripheral products for the two key projects "Scream" and "The Beverly Wife", the peripheral product business of the consumer goods department has opened up in one fell swoop, and two projects targeting different consumer groups have successfully established the consumer goods department. Two targeted retail channels, one for teenagers and one for housewives, just happen to be the two groups with the greatest consumption potential.

After the successful peripheral operations of "Scream" and "The Beverly Wife", the peripheral product development of the company's other films has also been implemented more smoothly.

In terms of acoustic records, although the acoustic records such as "Dead Poets Society" and "Rain Man" released by the record department are far from the height of the "Bodyguard" original sound album, they have also achieved fairly good sales. As of June 30, the sales data of the original soundtrack of "Rain Man" has exceeded 5 million copies, which is very rare for pure music records.

In the last advertising business, in order to avoid the company's film and television dramas blindly implementing advertisement placement and causing audience disgust, Simon was very cautious in this regard.

Nancy Brill didn't blindly pursue inappropriate ad placements. However, due to the success of Daenerys Entertainment's series of films last year, there are countless companies that want to cooperate with the company's brand, and the prices are very generous. , under the premise of implementing Simon to avoid advertising flooding, Nancy Brill still cooperated with the brands of "Batman", "Angel God", "Pretty Woman", "Ghost Love" and other projects. The company has brought in a lot of money.

As a result, in the consumer goods sector, which did not have much input last year, the revenue figure exceeded 200 million US dollars in one fell swoop, reaching 207 million in the first six months of the year.

However, because Nancy Brill pursues long-term business development rather than short-term profit, a large amount of money has been invested in product production, channel construction, promotion and marketing, and the company has even unknowingly China has a toy factory in Rhode Island on the east coast, and the consumer goods division also needs to share other expenses of the company, so the profit margin is even lower, only 9.5%, and the net profit is 19.71 million US dollars.

In the end, overall, Daenerys Entertainment's total revenue for the first two quarters of this year was $873 million and net income was $110.78 million.

Daenerys Entertainment's net profit of $110 million seems paltry compared to the huge gains Cersei Capital has just made from Japan's financial markets. However, Simon has always been very clear that this company is his foundation. The opportunities in the financial market cannot come every year. As he becomes more and more prominent, it becomes more and more difficult to make a profit in the financial market. big. Investments in the field of science and technology generally take ten or twenty years to see the final results.

The lower profit scale of Daenerys Entertainment is mainly due to the rapid expansion of Daenerys Entertainment.

Moreover, the net profit of 110 million US dollars in half a year is actually not low. Such a level of profitability can easily squeeze into the top 100 of the Forbes North American 500 list in this era.

More than 50 kilometers away from the coastline of the city of Los Angeles, a luxury yacht with a length of more than 60 meters is quietly moored at sea level.

The time is Sunday, August 6th.

This weekend, Simon did not work continuously, but once again chose to rest.

However, this time it wasn't a simple rest.

James Leibold has come from New York in recent days to discuss company matters and at the same time help Simon introduce some people, to be precise, some politicians.

The location is on this yacht.

Simon did not intend to use illegal means in the process of expanding his political contacts, and everything was carried out in accordance with public rules such as the "Federal Election Act". However, he also hopes that this matter can be carried out as low-key as possible, at least, he has no intention of publicly appearing in the newspaper media with a certain politician.

Over two days, including David Dinkins, who is making final preparations for the New York mayoral race at the end of the year, Simon met with a total of six politicians, all of whom Westeros has confirmed to fund. In addition to David Dinkins, the other five are a California Senator, two California House Representatives, a New York State Senator, and a California Representative.

These people are also Democrats. Since they decided to stand in line, Simon does not plan to bet on both sides in the short term.

Moreover, Simon did not select those star politicians who have a high degree of attention. The selected people are basically all potential stocks with good ability after careful investigation and no identification of the backstage. Congressional elections in the United States are held every two years, which seems to be very frequent, but in fact, the chances of congressmen being re-elected are very high, and some "evergreen" politicians can even be re-elected for more than ten terms.

Simon also does not seek these people to bring him immediate rewards.

The first batch of 'investments' in the initial stage was mainly to establish contacts,

Daenerys Entertainment will be smeared in the eyes of the federal high-level officials once something happens.

In the long-term vision, these people will be fine as long as they can provide support for the expansion of the Westeros Company in three or five years. , that's a lot of money.

In the evening, Simon finally ended his last meeting of the weekend.

After personally sending the New York State Senator to leave by helicopter, Simon and James walked to the table and chairs on the roof terrace of the yacht next to the tarmac and sat down.

As the sun sets in the west, the fiery clouds on the horizon cover the horizon, rendering a magnificent view of the sea and the sky.

Jennifer personally delivered a pot of coffee to the two of them, but walked to another set of tables and chairs and sat down, quietly reading a magazine with her head down.

James glanced at his daughter, sighed slightly in his heart, and continued to say to Simon: "I will send you the information on some other candidate lists, and there is a consulting company that provides election surveys and campaign plans for parties, just now. Shortly after its establishment, it was called Schlapp Consulting, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, near New York. Although it was just established, the founder of this company, Joseph Schlapp and his family, have very deep political experience and connections. I think This is a great opportunity, Simon, to set up a dedicated fund to fund this company long-term."

It is impossible for political investment to seek direct monetary returns. The establishment of non-profit funds can also maximize capital investment into tax avoidance capital.

"I'll take the time to look at the information first," Simon didn't immediately nod, and added: "In addition, this time, I can probably transfer another 50 million US dollars from Daenerys Entertainment to you, and we will be sure of the overseas funds within a year. useless."

"$50 million is already pretty good. I recently reviewed the company's finances. The tech companies we invested in in the first half of the year contributed about $37 million in dividends, which is a bit lower than last year, mainly because of our heavily owned Microsoft. Several companies have not implemented dividends, but considering the original accumulation, the money is enough to maintain the company's operations." James said, remembering one more thing, and said: "In addition, the remaining three can reduce their holdings at any time. Among the companies, amd's stock price has been falling recently, and now the market value is 50% lower than when we bought it two years ago, I don't think there is any need to stay."

AMD, of course, is Intel's "little enemy".

Still can't help it.

I remember that when I bought amd two years ago, the market value of the company was about 900 million US dollars, and the total investment was about 45 million US dollars. Simon has not paid attention to this matter recently. At this time, listening to James, the market value of AMD may have fallen to 600 million US dollars, compared to Intel's market value of 6 billion US dollars...

Well, simply can't compare.

However, considering that AMD can continue to survive for more than 20 years, there is no need to cut the meat and leave the market now. Maybe when the light shines back, the loss will be made up.

Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "Our current funds are not too tight, let's continue to hold them."

James nodded in agreement.

After the business was finished, he casually chatted about the recent big news of Daenerys Entertainment.

The two sat on the patio for half an hour, the helicopter flew back, and Simon, James and Jennifer boarded the helicopter and returned to Malibu.

Back on shore, the Raybolds turned down Simon's invitation to a Warner Bros party that night and hurried to dinner with Jennifer's uncle, George Norman's family.

Simon rested for a while at his home on the west side of Cape Dumay and set off for downtown Los Angeles.

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