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The time has entered October, the end of the year is approaching, and many films have begun the final stage of publicity.

Starting from Halloween, Daenerys Entertainment has four key projects at the end of the year, namely "Seven Deadly Sins", "The Lion King", "Mission Impossible" and "Schindler's List". There is also a dc movie universe film "Cyberbones", Simon is just a producer, and the project is entirely run by Warner Bros.

A special family activity was arranged in the afternoon.

Take Janet and the little guy to Daenerys Studios to watch the final film of "The Lion King", which is also the first time Simon came to Daenerys Studios after his vacation.

It's a pity that Melbourne, who is only two months away from being two years old, is obviously not interested in cartoons. The little guy only stayed in the screening room for less than ten minutes before being carried out by a girl.

Simon accompanied Janet and several executives of Daenerys Entertainment to watch the film.

A few other movies are okay. As the most important project at the end of this year, Simon can't be completely ignored.

Compared with the 2D version in memory, the 3D version of "The Lion King" is perfect in every aspect in Simon's view. The production budget of the film has reached 60 million US dollars, far exceeding the first "Toy Story" of Pixar Studio. The $35 million production cost, most of which was spent on perfecting the various 3D technologies needed to make the film.

Although the expense is huge, the entire Daenerys Entertainment management believes that such an investment is worth the money.

The excellent box office and huge peripheral income of "Toy Story" have proved the broad market prospects of 3D animation films. Even if the box office of "The Lion King" is not satisfactory, the various technologies accumulated through this film can also be applied to other animation films. Unlike live-action films, which are usually only a one-time investment.

Out of confidence in "The Lion King", the scale of the film's publicity this time also reached 30 million US dollars.

With a total investment of 90 million US dollars in production and publicity, except for Simon, Daenerys Entertainment basically does not expect this film to be able to recover the cost through North American distribution. What everyone pays more attention to is the peripheral output of "The Lion King" and the feedback on it. The promotion of Daenerys Entertainment in the whole industry chain of records, games, theme parks, etc.

Because of the importance attached to this project, the schedule of the film has been carefully adjusted.

November 19.

This is the first week of the Thanksgiving schedule, and it will span the entire end-of-year schedule, giving the film market maximum room to play.

In order to make way for "The Lion King", Warner Bros. originally intended to schedule Thanksgiving's "Steel", but Daenerys Entertainment used energy to move it to December 24. "Mission Impossible," which is released a week after "The Lion King," will not cause too serious conflict because of the difference in genre.

It's not that Simon didn't think about rushing "Mission Impossible" to Christmas, but it was too obvious and unnecessary to do so.

Speaking of which, news of the project "The Lion King" spread in Hollywood very early, because it was a gift from Simon to Janet, and other Hollywood studios didn't have to guess to judge Daenerys Entertainment's interest in the project. Always, so genres like animated films or family comedies that could compete with The Lion King actively avoided this Thanksgiving.

Now just need to wait for the 3D version of "The Lion King" to be as popular as the original time and space.

After the screening, Janet left the screening room after kissing Simon on the face.

Simon continued to listen to several executives introducing the announcement progress of "The Lion King" and the promotion strategy of peripheral products, and then left the screening room.

This screening room is located in the office loft of Pixar Studios on the second floor of the studio.

After watching the film and meeting, everyone else left to work on their own business. Simon came to another office in the Pixar workspace. John Lasseter personally introduced Simon to the story version of another 3D animated film that he just finished. .

"Beauty and the Beast".

As a French fairy tale created in the 18th century, "Beauty and the Beast" has long been without copyright issues. When it was confirmed that Disney had abandoned the project, Simon asked Pixar to quietly set up the project.

Now that The Lion King is complete, the team in charge of The Lion King will go straight to work on Beauty and the Beast.

Of course, the same is the 3d version.

In addition, most of the production progress of "Toy Story 2" has been completed, and the preliminary plan will be scheduled for the end of next year.

Finally finished work, Simon found Janet and her son who were playing in the rest area, and found that Veronica was also here, patiently accompanying Melbourne to build blocks.

Today is October 1st, Friday.

Veronica came at about the same time, and Simon was about to leave to fly to San Francisco to spend the weekend with his female assistant.

After saying hello and continuing to play here for a while, everyone returned to Dumeijia Manor.

"AOL's finances don't have much problems, but the company seems to be too aggressive. A comprehensive technical audit and monthly price cuts in disguised form will definitely lead to continued losses for the company, if it continues to expand to other regions of the United States , losses could reach the $1 billion level next year.”

In the Dumay Cape Manor, Veronica was introducing Simon to the results of her work during this period.

In the past six months, AOL has not only started to comprehensively upgrade the adsl network, but also officially launched the

The minimum monthly package of $29 has completely changed the previous hourly charging model. In fact, it is a large-scale price reduction in disguise.

Although several large operators in the AOL business area were initially restricted from entering the ISP field through exclusive agreements, due to the development prospects of the Internet industry, in recent years, many small Internet service providers have emerged within AOL's sphere of influence. .

The adsl network upgrade and monthly package plan have enabled AOL to gain a decisive competitive advantage in the market in one fell swoop, which is a devastating blow to other competitors.

It stands to reason that with these two sets of big killers, AOL should completely stabilize its existing sphere of influence before expanding it, which seems to be more secure. However, neither adsl nor monthly subscriptions cannot be imitated, especially the latter.

As a result, AOL must move quickly into each other's turf before other regional operators can react.

To achieve this goal, there is actually only one way, burning money.

Different from AOL, which only leased other operators’ line networks to provide Internet access services in the original time and space, the current AOL, under the development strategy forced by Simon, attaches great importance to the laying of its own network lines.

Up to now, AOL has two backbone optical fibers running through the east and west coasts of the Federation in the United States, and the total length of optical cables owned by the entire North America has exceeded 150,000 kilometers, which means huge capital investment.

In the past, many operators fell into bankruptcy due to excessive investment after the burst of the Internet bubble.

However, there is nothing wrong with investing heavily in infrastructure.

After the burst of the Internet bubble, many companies went bankrupt, more simply because of completely blind investment and financial fraud like the Enron incident.

Many new technology business operators don't know what to do at all, and just follow their inner herd mentality.

AOL's development goals are very clear.

Build a nationwide adsl high-speed broadband network, and promote the triple play process of telephone, TV and broadband after the federal government deregulates telecommunications.

Adsl technology is the future of Internet service providers. The former America Online just missed the upgrade of dial-up Internet access to adsl technology and declined rapidly. Another reason is that the former America Online got its own development direction wrong and ignored its own basic lines. The construction of the network has turned to the Internet media with a large bubble component.

Although the current AOL has also started the portal business, as long as the company is still under Simon's control, he will not allow AOL to go the same way.

At this stage, the adsl upgrade, monthly package and all-round expansion are a bit radical, but the direction is correct.

According to an operating principle of the Internet industry in memory, this is an all-round dimensionality reduction attack against competitors, actively suppressing the industrial environment to the worst state, so as to eliminate competitors one by one.

If it is another start-up company or an operator who has just set foot in the ISP field, of course, they would not dare to do so, and in fact they do not have the strength to do so.

America Online, which has exceeded 26 million users in North America, already has such confidence, not to mention that this company has a more powerful Westeros system behind the scenes.

As long as the entire North American market can be unified, not to mention the annual loss of $1 billion, even if it doubles, Simon has enough strength to make AOL lose more than 5 years in a row.

5 years is enough to knock out most competitors.

Simon did not hide these thoughts from Veronica, explained it carefully, and finally said: "As long as AOL is not on a wrong path, temporary losses are acceptable, my only request is this company. The company's operations and financial situation are completely transparent, at least to me, and there is no concealment or fraud."

Veronica didn't quite understand why Simon was able to determine that AOL's current development path was correct, but she didn't question any more, and understood what Simon just said, he just needed her to help keep an eye on this company That's enough, nothing else matters.

After chatting with Veronica for more than half an hour, Simon checked the time, said goodbye to everyone, and rushed to the airport with a girl and a group of bodyguards.

Los Angeles International Airport.

The private Boeing 767 is ready, and there are other people waiting for Simon here.

One of them was an agent under icm, a middle-aged white man in his forties. The other is a tall and beautiful girl in her twenties, with obvious model attributes, and she is indeed a model, named Natasha Henstridge.

The middle-aged man saw Simon and greeted him eagerly: "Hello, Mr. Westeros, I'm Raul Bradley, Natasha's agent."

Simon shook hands with the other party, looked at Natasha Henstridge beside the middle-aged man, and said, "Let's get on the plane first."

People naturally have no opinion.

Everyone got on the plane together, and more than ten minutes later, the Boeing 767 took off from the runway.

After the plane stabilized, Simon briefly explained a few words, and walked to the front cabin with Natasha Henstridge.

Raul Bradley glanced at the figure of the girl following Simon's departure, with some envy and some regret. The envy was naturally a certain young man. It was a pity that such a beautiful stunner would definitely not have the chance to get involved.

"Mr. Bradley?"

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A figure immediately made Raul Bradley look away, looking at the girl a who was left by Simon: "Raul, Miss Norris, you can call me Raul."

Girl a nodded and said, "The boss has already decided on the matter of "Xenogeneic". What you have to do next is to arrange for Miss Henstridge to receive certain performance training."

Raul Bradley nodded, thought for a while and then said: "I discussed this project with MGM, you know, Natasha has no acting experience, will the production progress of the film be a little urgent?"

"No," Alison shook his head and said, "The boss said that in this movie, the heroine does not need acting skills at all."

Raul Bradley responded again, with some emotion.

How many people in Hollywood are looking forward to such an opportunity that does not require acting skills.

"So, the movie is like this," Alison said, looking at Raul Bradley again, "The next thing is about Miss Henstridge's arrangements, first of all, icm needs to match her with one Assistant, must be a woman. Secondly, it is very important, Mr. Bradley, for the next year, the icm has to make sure that no other women are around Miss Henstridge, do you understand?"

"Of course," Raul Bradley nodded, and then subconsciously said, "Only, does it only take a year?"

Alison's tone didn't change much, and said, "The longest one year, maybe three months, maybe one month, maybe just one week."

"..."

Alison ignored Raul Bradley's change in expression and continued: "Go back today, Miss Henstridge can pick a house in Los Angeles, icm just needs to hand me the bill."

Raul Bradley hesitated and said, "Well, what's the price?"

Alison glanced at Raul Bradley with interest and said, "This, Miss Henstridge can choose by herself, as long as she thinks it's suitable."

Raul Bradley suddenly thought of some rumors in the circle, nodded, and felt a little envy in his heart again.

Since Westeros opened his mouth and said that he can choose at will, even if it is a two or three million dollar mansion, there is no problem. However, thinking about it carefully, if this is the case, for a certain vase, maintaining this mansion every year is probably a problem.

As a barely second-tier model, Natasha Henstridge's income is not high. Even if she relies on the opportunity of "Alien" to become famous, because of the positioning of the vase, it will still only be regarded as a second-tier in Haolai in the future.

Alison waited for a while, then looked at the middle-aged man opposite and said, "One more thing, Mr. Bradley, have you brought Miss Henstridge's medical report?"

"Oh, of course."

Raul Bradley's expression flashed a little weird, but he hurriedly took out a document from his briefcase and handed it over.

Alison took the document and read it carefully without saying anything.

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