Hollywood Hunter

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Unlike sunny Los Angeles and rainy Seattle, New York is still the coldest time of year.

Winter days are short.

Simon arrived on the east coast, rushed from JFK to his Fifth Avenue apartment, and it was already dark.

Janet was not alone in the apartment, Sophia Fisher came from Europe yesterday.

While Simon continues to work, Janet and many others around her are busy preparing for their wedding in early March.

The wedding has been confirmed to be held in Melbourne, and the guest list has also been tentatively finalized. The Johnston family has also specially prepared several charter flights for this purpose.

Sophia came to New York this time for the wedding dress. The Gucci design team started designing the wedding dress after the wedding date of Simon and Janet was confirmed. The housekeeper came to discuss some production details with Janet in person.

I was dragged by Janet last night to discuss the style of the wedding dress until the early morning, and Simon still woke up very early the next day.

Fumbling around, I took out my watch and glanced at it. It was still 6:50 in the morning on the east coast.

The woman in her arms noticed Simon's movement, and wrapped her around him even tighter. She opened her mouth and bit the man's shoulder in her sleep, and then she stopped moving again.

Feeling Janet's obsession, Simon dismissed the idea of ​​getting up and closed his eyes again.

Winter is indeed a season for laziness.

When she woke up again, it was almost nine in the morning, and Janet was no longer around.

Simon opened the bedroom curtain after getting dressed and washed. The desolate Central Park was filled with the soft sunshine unique to this season.

At least a sunny day.

When they came downstairs, Janet and Sophia had just prepared breakfast. Seeing Simon, Janet leaned over to kiss the man and said, "I was just saying I was going to wake you up."

Simon hugged the woman to say good morning, greeted Sophia again, and sat down at the dining table.

Sophia brought the breakfast and put a few today's newspapers by Simon's hand. Then she sat down. During the meal, she talked about some Gucci things. The fashion week in February is coming soon. The housekeeper is this time. It's not leisurely, and I will return to Europe tomorrow.

After breakfast, Sofia rushed to the headquarters of Gucci's US branch. Simon and Janet didn't arrange work today, and they were tired of enjoying the two-person world in the apartment.

"...I have already started preparations. On that day, a maze will be built with a flower wall on the periphery of our wedding venue in Yarra Valley Park. All kinds of flowers must be very beautiful..."

In a living room on the second floor of the duplex apartment, Janet was talking to Simon, holding a thick folder full of various wedding planning materials.

Looking at the woman's blushing face when she talked about this, Simon smiled and said, "Don't all women have premarital phobias? You don't seem to have any reaction at all."

Janet kissed Simon affectionately sideways, and said, "Only women who doubt whether they have met the right man will have premarital phobias, and I don't have them."

When Simon heard the words, he kissed Janet's smooth face, and he was still a little unsure, and then reached out and hugged the woman.

Janet responded naturally.

The two entangled for a moment, and soon turned to a picture inappropriate for children.

Tired of being in the apartment for a whole day, Sophia didn't come back to disturb them at night. The next day was Monday, and they had to continue to work.

On Saturday morning, Sheila Ward told Simon about Saddam's speech at the Arab Cooperation Council member state meeting, so the Cersei Capital team in New York is based on this news and some recent European and American countries. Trend, began to make arrangements in the oil futures market in advance.

As the hedge fund industry has become more prosperous in the past two years, Cersei Capital is not the only one eyeing the oil futures market.

However, for Saddam's remarks, many hedge funds believe that international oil prices should start to rise in the next period of time, but Cersei Capital is betting on oil prices falling.

In Simon's memory, because Saddam Hussein had expressed his 'non-cooperation' attitude with the West since last year, and the United States was ruled by the Bush family, a family closely linked to various oil giants, European and American oil groups finally decided to deal with Iraq. hands-on.

The first step, however, is not a war, but a domestic economy that has become increasingly vulnerable after the decade-long Iran-Iraq war.

The Iraqi economy is heavily dependent on oil, and the best way to hit the country's economy is to push international oil prices down.

Therefore, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which have close ties with European and American oil groups, will adopt a sharp increase in production in the next few months to lower international oil prices, which is also the most direct reason for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

In the original time and space, the international crude oil price plummeted from $19 in early 1990 to $13 in just a few months before the Kuwait war, a drop of more than 30%.

After the Kuwait war broke out, the international crude oil price jumped directly from the bottom of 13 US dollars to a high of 40 US dollars, an increase of more than 200%.

Then, the Gulf War broke out. When most crude oil speculators thought that the international crude oil price would continue to rise, the war ended quickly at a devastating speed. The international oil price soon fell to less than 20 US dollars, such an outcome was not expected even by the European and American countries that launched the war.

For more than half a year, the continuous sharp rise and fall of international crude oil prices has also caused no

Several investors engaged in crude oil futures trading have become rich overnight or bankrupt.

It can be said that if it is not for the prophet advantage of the reborn, even if Simon can roughly predict the next situation, he would not dare to place too heavy bets in such turmoil.

Otherwise, it may only take a wrong judgment, and the original huge gains may turn into losses.

Just like the Quantum Fund in the original time and space, Soros was invincible in the Asian market, but because of his misjudgment of Russia's economic situation, he suffered a one-time loss of more than 3 billion US dollars in the second year.

Moreover, the reason why Cersei Capital accepts North American funds this time is to minimize the occurrence of artificial variables, and at the same time, it can also obtain some useful inside information through this exchange of interests.

Simon was in New York until Wednesday.

For two nights in a row, he was attending a fundraising reception hosted by Cersei Capital. The funds of Cersei Fund Management had been in place. The two receptions were mainly for Apollo Management, which was headed by Leon Black, and Lawrence Fink, who was in charge. of Black Rock Asset Management.

Apollo Management Corp. has eyed the Columbia Savings and Credit Bank bond assets that are being auctioned and liquidated after being taken over by the federal government, with the first plan to raise $1 billion. One billion dollars is actually not enough. Therefore, the investment team of Apollo Management will also cooperate with other financial giants on Wall Street in the next investment operation of Condor.

In doing so, on the one hand, it can reduce risks, on the other hand, it can eliminate the hostility of Wall Street to Cersei Capital, and at the same time establish the relationship network of Cersei Capital on Wall Street.

Most of Wall Street's financial giants are in a state of competition and cooperation with each other.

The once mighty De Chong Securities Company went bankrupt in just a few months after falling into the crisis. The main reason is that De Chong Securities has no friends on Wall Street.

In the past ten years, with the issuance of more than 80 billion US dollars of junk bonds, De Chong Securities has been eating alone, refusing to give up a little of the lucrative issuance and underwriting fees to other companies, so that when De Chong Securities fell into crisis in the second half of last year, it offered to its Wall Street counterparts. Asked for help, but no one was willing to lend a helping hand.

Compared to Apollo Management's first $1 billion capital raising plan, Cersei Capital intends to raise additional funds for Black Rock Asset Management in the same size as Black Rock's existing funds, reaching $3 billion.

The reason for this difference is mainly due to the differences in the risks of the two companies engaged in business.

The operations of leveraged buyouts, equity investments and vulture investments that Apollo Management is responsible for can lead to heavy losses if you are not careful. In comparison, the investment business of stocks, bonds and fixed income products that Black Rock Asset Management is engaged in has a very low degree of risk. Of course, the returns are also very low, which requires winning by scale.

Busy, time has come to the last day of January.

Heading back to Los Angeles in the afternoon, Simon was at the New York branch of Daenerys Entertainment in Greenwich all morning.

The TV spring season has quietly opened. Although the annual TV program promotion season is in May, since the beginning of the year, various TV program production companies have begun to look for projects for the new year.

The Daenerys TV company in charge of Robert Iger produced a total of 10 TV shows last year, of which 4 were reality shows led by Simon at the beginning, 3 TV series that New World Entertainment took over, and 3 new series that started last year.

At present, the main income of Daenerys TV company is still 4 reality shows such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire". Of the 3 new dramas last year, the TV network has only renewed one, and the other 3 old dramas. After the fall of last year, it was also cut off again due to the downturn in ratings.

Moreover, among the 4 reality shows, the "Beverly Wife" broadcast on the cbs platform also encountered some problems.

Phenomenal reality shows have never been so easy to appear. In Simon's memory, there are only a few reality shows that can reach a familiar level, whether in the 1990s or after the new century. "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and "Survivor" belong to this group, and "Big Brother" is a little less, but in the past two years, there has been no more popular project than these three reality shows.

However, "Beverly Wife", which belongs to the basic cable station in the original time and space, is not so lucky.

Joining the public station sequence, compared to "Who Will Be a Millionaire", "Survivor" and "Big Brother", "The Beverly Wife" is already at the bottom of the ratings.

At the beginning, CBS also launched two reality shows at the same time. Although the ratings were lower, they were barely sustainable, which made CBS's dependence on "The Beverly Wife" not so strong.

Therefore, the second season of "The Beverly Wife" has not yet aired, and cbs is trying to drive down the renewal price of the third season of the reality show again.

In the building of the New York branch, Simon listened to Robert Iger's introduction to the situation in the conference room, knocked on the table to consider for a moment, and said, "If this is the case, then cancel the cooperation with cbs."

Robert Iger was a little surprised: "Simon, even if the offer is reduced by 20%, we are still profitable, and there is absolutely no need to cancel."

Simon glanced at the other executives of the TV department in the conference room, waved to signal everyone to go out, and then said to Iger: "Bob, for "Beverly Wife", I actually planned to make a complete series of "Beverly Wife". of."

Robert Iger nodded and said, "I know, you mentioned it before. However, Simon, this is not realistic. The four major TV networks cannot give us too much time to broadcast a whole series of reality shows."

"So, we need to find for this series

a separate platform. "

Robert Iger also knew that Cersei Capital had hoarded a large amount of funds overseas, and tentatively said: "Simon, are you planning to buy a TV network?"

"It's not the time yet," Simon shook his head and said, "Bob, there are some things I can't tell you, but if everything goes well, we will have our own TV network in the second half of the year. Although it's not up to the big four. The size of the public television network, but it is more than enough to accommodate the Wife series, and it just so happens that with the Wife series, we can also build our own TV network into a brand of women's TV station."

Having been in the TV industry for a long time, Iger heard what Simon said and quickly understood what was going on.

After sorting out the information about a series of media groups in the industry in his memory, Iger tentatively said: "usa?"

usa, like cw, amc, and mtv many years later, belongs to the national basic cable television network in the United States.

Different from the public television network, the basic cable station is a cable TV station, but it is different from the paid cable station. The basic cable station does not directly charge the users, but obtains a revenue share from the cable TV operator, as well as some advertising revenue. .

The current usa TV station is still jointly held by Paramount Communications and mca, each holding 50% of the shares.

Although the brilliance of usa after the new century has been completely covered up by TV networks such as cw, amc and mtv, compared to the amc that has phenomenal popular series such as "The Walking Dead" or the cw of dc superhero series, the TV programs produced by usa appear to be lackluster. , but in this era, because of the joint support of the two giants of Paramount Communications and mca, usa has a top-notch popularity and scale in the basic cable platform that has just emerged.

Seeing that Iger had guessed it, Simon didn't deny it. He nodded with a smile, and said, "Keep this matter a secret."

"certainly."

Iger agreed, and he didn't ask any further questions, but he couldn't help wondering whether Simon's next goal was mca or Paramount Communications.

mca seems to be a little easier.

At Paramount Communications, Martin Davis stayed in power until the previous head of the company passed away, and was easily reluctant to let go.

Because of the original contract, if they wanted to take back "The Beverly Wife", CBS had to give up voluntarily. The two discussed the matter for a while, Simon handed a folder to Iger and said, "I took the time to see the company. I have selected two of the TV drama project materials I am looking for, and remember to take them down. The rest, you can decide for yourself."

Iger took the folder Simon handed over and opened it. The first thing that appeared in front of him was a sitcom material with the name "Seinfeld" printed on the cover.

"Seinfeld," a sitcom that rivaled "Friends" in popularity in the 1990s. This drama is not as popular overseas as "Friends", but it is very popular in North America. In the original time and space, "Seinfeld" even created a viewership record of more than 70 million when it finally ended.

Simon saw the information about this project when he was in Los Angeles. Another purpose of coming to New York this time was to tell Iger to take down this project.

As for the other one, it's the sand that Simon habitually mixes in casually. It doesn't matter if it succeeds or not, or it's better to fail.

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