Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 355 Aftermath

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Simon played less than 20 minutes in Madonna's solo concert on the evening of June 23, but provided countless media with enough intensive hype news material for a whole week.

The flaming guitar at the opening is undoubtedly the target that most fans pay attention to.

Before the concert that night was over, many people began to inquire about the source of Simon's guitar.

The Los Angeles Times obtained the detailed information of the flame guitar for the first time, and also interviewed the members of the production team of the guitar.

Not to mention the cost of more than $100,000 and the fact that Westeros has applied for a design patent. Even if it is really copied, it is just the weight of the guitar itself, which is not something ordinary people can play.

You must know that the flame guitar that seemed to be playing freely in Simon's hands that night, because of the installation of an all-metal fire-breathing system, its body size is also much larger than that of ordinary guitars, but it weighs more than 20 kilograms, while ordinary guitars are very Rarely over 5 kg.

Of course most people can afford to lift 20kg.

However, for an instrument with a weight of more than 20 kilograms, even if the shoulder strap is hung on the body, probably few guitarists can play to the fullest under this feeling of pressure.

unless sitting.

However, there should be few people who have the face to sit down and play with a domineering double-headed flame guitar like a delicate acoustic guitar.

It's a bit embarrassing to think about.

Of course, even with such obstacles, it still failed to stop many people from yearning for the flame guitar.

Afterwards, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to buy the guitar from Simon through various channels. The highest price even reached 3 million US dollars, but they were all rejected by Simon. Janet had planned to collect the guitar in their upcoming Dumay. Cape Manor House.

Because of the flame guitar, some media could not help but once again pay attention to Simon's powerful personal force value. At the beginning of the year, the ten consecutive KO opponent videos in the Melbourne Boxing Stadium were once again hyped.

Flame guitars are naturally out of reach for most people.

However, the guitar single titled "fire" was officially released on the following Monday, and sales exceeded 1 million in just five days.

The other two new songs, "hung up" and "ghosttown", are planned to be released on Madonna's next album. Therefore, fans who want to collect in advance can only look forward to the videotape of the concert that will be released in the near future.

Of course, there must also be a large number of people who directly recorded the video of the concert that night with their home video recorders.

In addition to Madonna's team, the biggest beneficiary of this concert is undoubtedly abc who bought the right to live broadcast the concert. The $6 million offer brought ABC an average of 36 million and a maximum of 43 million horror viewers.

Such ratings are already comparable to the Oscars.

However, the Oscars, with a $6 million offer, that's a no-brainer.

Although the harvest is huge, everyone also understands that there is too much irreproducibility in this concert.

In order to ensure the box office of the concert itself, most singers will not easily allow TV stations to broadcast live. After all, doing so may make a lot of money in the short term, but it will dampen the enthusiasm of fans to watch live.

The Madonna team naturally understands this truth. This time, the live broadcast is mainly for publicity needs.

Now, the effect is far more than expected.

After the concert that night, although there will be no Westeros participation, Madonna's remaining concert tickets in North America and Europe are all sold out in the following days.

Of course, there is no shortage of controversy in the hot media discussion.

The petite girl named Jennifer who rushed to the stage when Simon finally appeared was once suspected by many media as a pre-arranged childcare.

As for why.

Many media felt that the scene at that time was really too perfect.

A beautiful girl as delicate as a doll.

Westeros comforts just right.

And, at the end, "rocket man" by Elton John.

In particular, the last song "rocket man" became a bug that many skeptics blamed.

For commercial concerts, any song, not to mention cover, sometimes requires special authorization, even if the singer's own original song.

If Simon Westeros sings this song without prior authorization from Elton John and the "Rocket Man" copyright holder, it is an infringement and will be sued.

However, the subsequent news broke the media's doubts one by one.

The whole thing was really an accident.

The 17-year-old girl named Jennifer Bray from Florida, apart from being a crazy fan of Simon, had not had any substantial interaction with Simon before. The girl saw Simon for the first time that night.

As for the song "rocket man".

Simon did infringe.

However, Madonna's team contacted Elton John and the record company holding the copyright of "Rocket Man" for the first time afterwards.

Knowing the situation at that time, paid another sum

Copyright fees, all parties have expressed understanding.

Elton John also praised Simon's singing at the time in an interview with the media, hoping to have the opportunity to cooperate with Yunyun.

Moreover, when "rocket man", an old song released in 1972, followed "fire" to No. 2 on the single best-seller list in the following week, the song's copyright company was only left overjoyed.

Because Simon took Jennifer Bray to the backstage after singing "Rocket Man", the petite girl also became the focus of the media's attention, and the information that should be exposed and should not be exposed was excavated by the media.

Jennifer Bray is from Miami, Florida. She comes from an ordinary middle-class family. Her father is a food company employee, her mother is a nurse, and she has an older brother and a younger sister. The girl has been infatuated with Simon since "Lola Run", and has saved a few years of money through odd jobs, all of which are spent on a concert ticket that night.

Came to New York by train from Miami alone, waited all day outside the Brenda Barry Arena with empty pockets, not even a place to stay after the concert.

After Simon finished singing that night, he originally wanted to send the girl off the stage, but she felt that the little girl was obviously in an abnormal state of mind, and found that she was alone, so she took it to the backstage. Knowing the girl's situation, she also helped her arrange a hotel and a flight back to Miami.

That's all.

After doing what he thought he should do, sending a lonely girl home safely, Simon stopped paying attention to it.

It's just that the gossip-heavy media doesn't think so.

Some people speculate whether something happened that night, some people chase the girl's contact with Simon, and there is even a brokerage company trying to sign the girl.

None of this has anything to do with Simon.

The day after the concert, Simon left North America and flew to Australia.

Cersei Fund Management has begun a new phase of its layout in the international crude oil market, Apollo Management is in the process of acquiring Simmons, and Black Rock Asset Management is also planning to conduct a dip in the world stock market turbulence caused by the war.

It can be said that the upcoming July is crucial for Cersei Capital, and Janet did not return to Australia with Simon this time.

Jennifer went as planned.

During this time, the female assistant was personally responsible for building a wooden house by a lake in Simon's territory in Tasmania, just waiting for a snowy day to spend a long-awaited two-person world with Simon.

On the Melbourne side, the filming of "Batman: The Dark Knight" officially started a week before Simon arrived in Australia.

Taking into account the benefits that "Batman: Hour of War" has brought to Melbourne's films, tourism and employment, the discounts enjoyed by "Batman: The Dark Knight" this time have been further increased, with a tax rebate ratio of 15% compared to the previous time. It has increased to 20%, and there are still no restrictions attached to other films.

Simon did not deliberately drill any loopholes because of the loose conditions of the Melbourne City Government. Instead, he transferred more production links of the film to Australia, and also bought the abandoned factory in the western suburbs of Melbourne for filming last time. Build a movie shooting base.

Daenerys Special Effects Australia branch was also officially established.

In terms of specific shooting, although movie fans were quite critical of Simon's use of Jane de Bont, in fact, as Daenerys and Warner Bros. said publicly, the control of the film is still firmly in Simon's hands.

The script was written by Simon himself, and Jane de Bont had no power to modify it unless Simon could be persuaded.

The crew is also all the team that Simon cultivated last time, which is enough to ensure that the technical details of the film are consistent with the first film.

Moreover, although Jane de Bont was the director in name, Simon also arranged for him two other assistants, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell, all three of whom were later Hollywood first-level directors. All of them already have enough filmmaking experience, and there is no doubt about their talent.

Simon's request is for the three to work closely together, and many things will be implemented after joint discussions.

After brainstorming, although Jane de Bont had the final decision-making power on the filming site, Simon believed that De Bont, who cherished this opportunity, could not be reluctant to take the correct advice from the other two.

In addition, Simon still invited Joe Silver as the producer responsible for the logistics support of "Batman: The Dark Knight" this time.

With this series of advantages, if Jane de Bont can still screw up, Simon will decisively kick him out.

The truth is, Jane de Bont was naturally not kicked out.

Simon rushed to Melbourne and carefully checked the samples shot by the crew the previous week, and he was very relieved to be the shopkeeper.

Of course, in terms of media reports, in order to appease fans' concerns about the quality of the film, Simon is still "conscientiously" following up the filming of the film.

Before we knew it, the time soon came to July 1990.

Simon was not in Los Angeles, and Daenerys Entertainment still started the financial audit work in the first half of the year as scheduled, and Janet occasionally helped to take care of it.

Moreover, not only Daenerys Entertainment, because of the attention caused by Simon’s participation in that concert some time ago, some media listed and found that since stepping into Los Angeles in the summer of 1986, Simon Westeros has been in a short period of time. In four years, a huge business empire has been created.

the entire Westeros system

, with the Westeros company as the core, involving four major fields of entertainment, fashion, technology and finance.

What's even more rare is that none of the four major areas involved are not petty.

Among them, the most dazzling Daenerys Entertainment, although its business field is still limited to movies and related industries, it has become a giant in just a few years.

The original film industry's curse of strong uncertainty and unsustainability in terms of performance was also broken by Daenerys Entertainment.

From its establishment to the present, Daenerys Entertainment has never made a big loss in film projects. Instead, it has repeatedly created projects such as "Scream", "Sixth Sense" and "Pretty Love". "Beautiful Woman" and other film box office miracles.

The launch of the dc movie universe plan has also allowed the industry to see a new way for the development of the film industry.

In the fashion field, Gucci, which was almost on the verge of bankruptcy, was quickly revived after being taken over by Simon Westero. Recently, the valuation of Gucci by industry institutions has exceeded 1 billion US dollars. Compared with the initial investment, Simon Westeros Just in terms of equity, the return has been several times.

The technology industry, arguably Simon Westeros' first big bet.

Although Igret, one of the four 'women' of Westeros, seems to be still weak, the shares of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Sun and other companies that Westeros bet on during the 1987 stock market crash have recently risen. It has been increasing rapidly over the years.

Especially Microsoft.

Since the release of the Windows 3.0 system in May and its great success, Microsoft's stock price has continued to rise sharply, and now has exceeded 5 billion US dollars, catching up with Microsoft's close partner Intel.

The industry even predicts that by August, Microsoft's stock price will even double compared to its market value of about $3 billion at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, not to mention the profits brought by absorbing Microsoft shares during the initial stock market crash, but the 10% increase in holdings at the end of last year, in less than a year, may bring about a paper return of nearly 100% for Westeros.

The final area of ​​finance.

Cersei Capital became famous through two operations in the Japanese financial market and the US bond market last year. At the beginning of this year, the exposure of Simon Westeros overseas cash reserves of 4.5 billion US dollars was a shock.

While keeping a low profile as much as possible, Cersei Capital's every move continues to make waves on Wall Street.

It was no secret that Cersei Capital was targeting the operation of the international crude oil market at this time.

Fortunately, companies that can dig out information from Cersei Capital are not stupid. Secret follow-up is king. Therefore, they did not spread this information everywhere, or even offered to help. This did not make Cersei Capital completely transparent to the public. .

After a rough estimate, the total market value of a series of entertainment, fashion, technology and financial companies involved in the tentacles of the entire Westeros system has exceeded 50 billion US dollars.

In this era, General Electric, which often ranks among the top 500 in the world, has a market value of less than 50 billion US dollars.

July is the height of summer in the northern hemisphere.

The southern hemisphere has entered the coldest phase of winter.

Melbourne is located in a temperate maritime climate zone, and it basically does not snow in winter. The same is true of Tasmania's coastal areas. However, the inland extending for dozens of kilometers is already another scene.

Second week of July.

When a heavy snow fell in the area where the female assistant built the wooden house, the two rushed over together.

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