Hollywood Hunter

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Just after everyone had dinner, Brandon Johnston couldn't wait to leave the Dumay Point Manor.

Janet has already helped him connect with a party in Hollywood.

And, while a fan of the Batman franchise, Brandon is not a fan of Simon, and is clearly uncomfortable with the little uncle.

Obviously, because the two are of the same age, Brandon should have received a lot of talk about 'other people's xxx' in private.

The mother and daughter Betty Johnston did not go out, and were visited by Janet in the Shell Villa.

Simon and Anthony stayed in a living room on the first floor of the villa to discuss business.

"Probably seeing the rapid growth of the Internet industry in North America, Telstra made some concessions and was willing to reduce the shareholding ratio of the joint venture company to 30%. On the family side, my father said that we should take 20% of the shares. There's also 50% to distribute if you want."

Simon has been preparing to enter the Australian telecommunications market since last year, including legal lobbying against Australian-related telecommunications industry restrictions and cooperation with Australian telecommunications companies.

Before the 1990s, the Australian telecommunications industry was dominated by state-owned enterprises.

Australia's largest Australian telecommunications company is very similar to the at-t before 1984 in the United States. This company has almost monopolized Australia's fixed-line telephone, cable TV and mobile communications industries. Some other second- and third-tier telecommunications companies are basically state-owned enterprises.

Because of the huge interests involved in the telecommunications industry, capital forces have been lobbying the Australian government to open the telecommunications industry to the private sector.

With the joint efforts of all parties, in January this year, the Australian government finally lifted the regulatory ban on the telecommunications industry, allowing private investors to participate in investment in the telecommunications sector in Australia. The Westeros system was thus able to start its own layout.

The telecommunications business that Simon plans to develop in Australia is mainly mobile communication and Internet access services, and also cooperates with Igreat's portal business.

If you want to develop ISP business, the fastest way is naturally to choose to cooperate with local operators like AOL.

Telstra, which monopolizes the entire Telstra network, is basically the only option.

Telstra is well aware of its advantages and has not made the mistake of the three Bell Atlantic partnerships with AOL, insisting on a 50% stake in Westeros' Australian-registered AOL-like AOL.

The Johnston family, who have confirmed a stake in Australia Online, have been in talks with Telstra in recent months.

Simon actually knew in advance what Anthony just said, and thought about it. At this time, he said: "I thought, since this is the case, we will simply abandon Telstra. Whether it is Internet access service or mobile communication, it is still It is an emerging industry in the early stage of development. Even if we cooperate with companies such as Telstra, we still need to face the trouble of upgrading basic equipment. The initiative in this regard is in the hands of Telstra, and we will be greatly constrained in the future.”

Because of signing an exclusive agreement and unable to personally take a share of the emerging Internet field, Bell Pacific and nynex have become increasingly passive in cooperation with AOL during this period, which has largely limited AOL's presence in the two companies. expansion of the region.

Simon no longer plans to work with Telstra, largely for that reason.

Because of the negative constraints of Bell Atlantic and nynex, AOL has now had to start to accelerate the construction of its own line network in the service areas of Bell Pacific and nynex.

Simon doesn't care about Telstra's insistence on a 30 percent stake, he just doesn't want to suffer from the same constraints that AOL has in Bell Pacific and Nynex.

Parasitic on the network of another company, even if the other party cooperates, it is still better to build the network yourself.

Moreover, even if it cooperates with Telstra, it is impossible to expand its business nationwide in Australia at one time, and it will definitely have to conduct trial operations in a certain area, and then continue to expand.

In this case, the advantages of working with Telstra are less obvious.

After all, with Bell Atlantic and AOL, Westeros has no shortage of business operations and technical teams.

What needs to be invested is only the investment in the construction of the basic operation network.

If it is only in a certain area, such as Melbourne, or a Victorian state, the cost of this aspect will not be too big.

By building your own network, you can also fully gain the initiative.

"Actually, Dad means the same thing," Anthony nodded after hearing what Simon said. "However, even if it doesn't plan to cooperate with Telstra, I think the company still needs to give up some of its shares, which will make the company's future in Australia. Development reduces a lot of resistance. After all, our family’s influence is mainly in mining resources.”

Simon nodded, shook his head, and said: "In the next one or two years, there will only be two joint ventures between us. After the situation is opened, some shares will be sold through financing. In addition, since we do not plan to cooperate with Telstra, the Internet connection In terms of services and mobile communications, there is no need to set up two companies, and you can directly set up a Bell Atlantic Australia branch. Oh, by the way, I am planning to change Bell Atlantic recently.

Called verizoncommunications (Verizon Telecom), this company is called verizonau. "

au is the abbreviation for Australia.

The reason why it is verizonau instead of aolau is mainly because Simon fully holds 100% of Bell Atlantic's shares, and only 75% of AOL's shares.

Although AOL will still be involved, this time it will be dominated by the soon-to-be-renamed Bell Atlantic.

Anthony Johnston has no problem with that either.

The two continued to discuss some details, and Anthony finally decided to make a personal trip to Bell Atlantic headquarters on the east coast to meet Raymond Smith after the MGM side was over.

After discussing this matter, the two talked about MGM again.

"300 million US dollars bought 30% of MGM. Although Dad agreed with his mouth, he was actually a little reluctant in his heart. He was not optimistic about this company," Anthony said with a smile: "So, take It's up to you to come down. If you really lose, the old man will definitely lose his temper."

The Johnston family's previous purchase of Australia's Seventh Television Network is definitely a high-quality investment with very good prospects, plus it can get involved in the media field, so the $800 million is very willing to spend.

Taking a stake in MGM is basically just to match Simon's ambitions in Hollywood.

MGM is a mess, as we all know.

This company wants to recover, and it is not something that can be done in a year or two.

Simon also smiled and said: "The end of the war in the Gulf, coupled with the turmoil in Europe in recent years, will definitely prompt the influx of capital from all over the world into the United States, and the improvement of the federal economic situation is inevitable. Even MGM's The operating conditions are still not good, these shares have been held for a few years, and they can be re-sold for a good profit. Many big companies in Japan and Europe are eyeing the big Hollywood studios.”

Anthony smiled and said, "Let's talk about your specific plans for MGM?"

"My general plan, first of all, is to tap the potential of MGM's film library. Over the years, Disney has released classic animated film videos such as "Cinderella", "Pinocchio" and "Sleeping Beauty" in the era of founder Walt Disney. Each one has been a very good success. Among them, "Cinderella" sold 6 million boxes and generated $180 million in revenue in just one year of release. This is a work from 1950. Although MGM does not use animation Movies are good, but the potential is actually greater. You must know that a large number of excellent films such as "Gone with the Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Singing in the Rain", "North by Northwest", "Ben Hur" and so on produced by MGM Golden Age, Even decades later, it's a classic. It just so happens that Daenerys Entertainment still owns Blockbuster, the largest video chain in North America. We can distribute these classic movies in a similar way to Disney. videotape."

Anthony said: "I remember Turner Broadcasting took a lot of the movie rights from MGM during that acquisition a few years ago?"

Simon nodded and explained: "It's just a part of the TV broadcast rights of the film. Moreover, in that case, Turner Broadcasting's method was not honorable, and the contract was not strict enough. Now that I control MGM, I will let the snow Leigh Lansing reconnected with Ted Turner."

"Okay, then, what's next?"

Simon laughed: "The second is the development of some peripheral products and the copyright operation of image licensing. Daenerys Entertainment is planning to build a third Universal Studios in Japan. However, compared to Disney's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Universal Studios is somewhat lacking in the accumulation of classic film and television characters for animation images such as the Princess series. In this regard, MGM can provide a lot of support for Daenerys Entertainment, such as "Tom and Jerry" and "The Wizard of Oz". The classic characters of , and many others. "Batman: War Hour" has sold 2 billion in derivative revenue in the past year. MGM has so much accumulation, and with the release of video tapes of classic films, it can also be developed as an accessory. Peripheral products."

Anthony nodded again.

Simon continued without waiting for Anthony to ask a question: "In the end, of course, it's still the film business. I am very optimistic about the two major titles this year, "A Few Good People" in July and "Golden Eyes of 007" at the end of the year. Daenerys Entertainment will accept it. In the future, we will cooperate with MGM on other projects. Speaking of which, MGM has a very deep background. The reason why it has fallen to this point is that this company has been regarded as a real estate company and The capital tools are in use, and if Kirk Kerkorian had patiently run the film business, the company would never be in such a bad situation as it is now.”

The MGM in memory, even if it was still broken throughout the 1990s, was acquired by Sony in 2005, and the transaction price was still close to 5 billion US dollars.

So, as long as MGM doesn't suffer some flops like Heaven's Gate in the early '80s, the company's prospects aren't too bad.

Now that Simon is there, the chances of this happening will naturally be minimized.

The Anthony family did not stay at the Dumay Cape Manor, but lived in the original villa of Simon and Janet on the west side of the manor.

Simon and Anthony continued to discuss until more than ten o'clock in the middle of the night, when Betty Johnston came to remind her with her little daughter Chloe who had fallen asleep, and the two ended their conversation.

Wake up early the next day as usual.

After the four girls abcd came to his side, Simon no longer needed to prepare breakfast himself.

At six o'clock, Simon is on the treadmill in the gym

Going for a jog, C-girl Claire walked in, holding two boxes in her hands.

"Morning, boss."

"morning."

Simon said hello, gestured to the box in the girl's hand, and asked, "Done?"

Claire nodded. Seeing that Simon didn't mean to stop running, he came to the treadmill and opened a square minimalist style box that Simon personally provided creative ideas similar to the packaging of later mobile phones. Inside the box lay a model that did not stand out from the camera. compact digital camera.

Lady C took the camera out of the box and placed it on the treadmill console.

Simon looked at it, the body is a beautiful dark blue, the overall length is about 18 cm, the width is about 12 cm, and the thickness is about 3.5 cm. Compared with other digital cameras of this era, it is already very small.

In addition, there is a word printed on the front of the fuselage: tinkerbell.

This is the name that Claire gave to her company, tinkerbell, tinkerbell, the name of the elf in "Peter Pan" novel, in Spielberg's "Captain Hawke", which is about to be completed later, Julie This is the role played by A. Roberts.

Now that more than half a century has passed since the publication of Peter Pan, the name tinkerbell will naturally not go unnoticed.

In order to successfully register the tinkerbellinc.c girl, an additional amount of money was spent.

Simon joked in private that the same woman's name, if the company really developed, might still be considered the 'fifth woman' of the Westeros system.

Lady C generously admitted that she thought so.

In addition to the company name, there is the name of the camera itself: icam10.

icam, of course, means to take intercomcamera, which is also inspired by Simon.

In the coming Internet era, any company that has a relationship with intercom or com will attract attention.

In the new technology wave around the millennium, many companies have deliberately changed their names in order to cater to the concept of the Internet, adding 'i' or 'com' to the company name.

tinkerbellinc. can't add Internet logo, so it makes a fuss about the product.

In addition to icam, Simon also asked Claire to register trademarks such as iplayer, iphone, and idisk around the world.

Right now, these are naturally not used, but they can be regarded as an alternative reserve.

Simon changed from jogging to walking. After slowing down, he picked up the dark blue icam10 card camera and played with it. In addition to the front camera, there is a 1.5-inch LCD screen on the back. The camera uses three traditional 5th battery, the use of lithium batteries is obviously not realistic in this era.

The storage device is a 3.5-inch general-purpose floppy disk. According to the manual, it can store about 50 photos.

The C girl next to her soon opened another box, which was lavender.

The electronic products of this era are mainly practical, and the appearance is rarely considered. Simon is used to seeing all kinds of beautiful industrial designs later, and naturally he will not tolerate it. At this time, there is a dark blue and a lilac in front of them, facing male and female customers respectively, and it is also influenced by Simon.

In order to achieve these two shell colors, the C girl also invested a lot of extra costs.

"We have ordered materials for 1,000 icams, and they can all be assembled in the middle of this month. The cost may be more than $320." C girl actively demonstrated the operation of the camera in her hand, and said: "After doing this , the initial $1 million in funding, probably only $150,000 is left.”

After all, because of the people around him, Simon has been paying attention to this matter.

Just 1000 cameras, calculated at $320 a piece, the total cost will be $320,000. Previously, the operation of tinkerbell company, the research and development of cameras, the customization of equipment parts, etc., all cost money.

In the end, there is still $150,000 left, which is not easy.

Neil Brantley, the engineer who is mainly responsible for research and development in cooperation with the C girl, originally hoped to customize a special cmos sensor. Because of funding, he could only choose the existing public sensor.

To put it simply, although she is well prepared, girl C is actually cautious enough in this matter, probably because she wants to leave herself a few more entrepreneurial opportunities.

It was easy to grasp how to use it. Simon finally got off the treadmill and gestured to Girl C: "Pose and see."

Claire understood, leaning against the treadmill with the lilac camera in one hand, a smile on her pretty face, her slender body leaning slightly, like a car model, and a slender, fair-skinned figure appeared between the low-waisted slacks and the tight black t-shirt. The waist even made Simon have the idea of ​​clicking on the girl's belly button.

Pressing the shutter and taking a series of photos in succession, Simon walked out of the gym and said, "Let's go, see the effect, and help you by the way."

Claire found that her boss had just been moved by her body, but she didn't move, which made her a little disappointed again, but she quickly followed.

It wasn't the first time it failed anyway.

Even, a few girls have already made a bet in private that whoever can make their boss tempted, even if it is not going to bed, but only ambiguous on other scales, is considered a winner.

Too bad no one has ever won.

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