Daenerys Film Headquarters.

Jennifer Raybould knocked gently on the door of the editing room. After receiving a response, she opened the door and said to Simon who was busy in front of the editing table: "Boss, it's already four o'clock."

Simon just nodded slightly, his eyes still on the monitor screen of the editing table, and his hands kept moving, saying: "Wait a moment, it will be ready soon."

Jennifer said nothing more, walked in quietly, closed the door of the editing room again from behind, and quietly watched Simon work amidst the slight click of the equipment. The budget of "Pulp Fiction" is sufficient, and Simon does not need it.

Everything must be done by hand. The previous rough editing of the film was completed by professional editors, but during the fine editing stage, Simon decided to do it himself.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spends most of his time these days in the company's editing room.

After a while, Simon archived the images and began to organize the tape notes and other items on the editing table. Jennifer also stepped forward and helped Simon put everything into the safe in the corner of the editing room together with skilled movements.

After secretly spending a quiet time with him, Jennifer talked about today's work after leaving the editing room: "I have collected information about some major record companies and second- and third-tier labels in North America, and I have put it on your desk in your office.

Mr. Steve Jobs’s secretary responded in the morning, saying that Jobs has no intention to sell Pixar; Mr. Ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics, invites you to visit the headquarters of Silicon Graphics in San Francisco recently; Bill

Mr. Gates’ assistant called. Gates plans to come to Los Angeles next Monday and hopes to have lunch with you; and, um, a speaking invitation from Stanford University.”

Simon led Jennifer through the corridor, took the invitation letter from Stanford University from her hand, looked at it, handed it back, and said: "If there is another invitation like this, just turn it down. It would be a negative communication for me to give a speech to them."

Energy: Look, that guy is the same age as us, God is so unfair."

Jennifer chuckled, put the invitation letter into the folder, held it against her chest, looked up, and asked: "Where are the invitations from Mr. McCracken and Mr. Gates?"

"I will definitely go to San Francisco once, but I don't have time recently, so I need to push it back. As for Gates, please book a restaurant. We are the hosts and we must be more enthusiastic. In addition, I suddenly thought of something today.

Well, now that all those stocks have been exposed, according to the shareholding ratio of the Westeros companies, I already have the right to request board seats from these companies. You can ask your father if he is interested in serving as a director of these companies for me.

I don’t have that much time myself. So, my idea is that George is responsible for the West Coast businesses of these companies, and your dad is responsible for the East Coast.”

Westeros Company's 4.9% shareholding ratio in 26 technology stock companies basically allows Simon to squeeze into the ranks of major shareholders of these companies.

If these holdings were not exposed, Simon planned to be a silent individual shareholder, hiding in the dark and watching the development of these companies. Now that these holdings have become public knowledge, Simon decided to claim his rights as a shareholder.

In theory, the board of directors is usually the most direct body for shareholders of a listed company to exercise their power. In most cases, the company's management is appointed by a vote of the board of directors. As long as Simon gets a seat on the board of directors of the corresponding company, he will be enough to influence the future development of these companies.

exert your own influence.

Jennifer followed Simon, writing down the restaurant reservations in her memo as she walked. When she heard Simon's last words, her expression suddenly became a little surprised and a little inexplicably shy. Just as she was about to say something, the two of them had already arrived.

In a conference room of the company, Jennifer had to give up the idea of ​​questioning for the time being and followed Simon to sit down at the conference table.

But it was difficult to calm down in my heart.

The most direct manifestation of the power of the American consortium is that it controls hundreds of board seats of a large number of corporate giants around the world.

Simon's current wealth is naturally incomparable to any of the top ten financial groups in the United States, but if he can win the board seats of all 26 companies, this is definitely a strength that cannot be underestimated.

If Simon really allows his father and uncle to serve as directors of these companies, with the influence represented by Simon Westeros' huge wealth spokesperson and the seats on the boards of these companies, the Raybould family and the Norman family will immediately be able to

The family of lawyers who were originally a little famous has suddenly become the most influential class in the country.

After all, a fortune of billions of dollars is definitely more than just a series of simple numbers on the surface.

Simon and Jennifer sat down at the conference table. There were actually only four people in the room. The other two were Amy and her assistant named Vanessa Lind. When she had just recruited Amy, Dani

At one point, Liz Pictures was short of funds and Amy had to pay Vanessa's salary from her own pocket.

Naturally, this dilemma will no longer occur.

However, the conference room with only four people still shows that Daenerys Pictures is still just a small workshop. Under normal circumstances, including Simon and others, in the two-story office building of Daenerys Pictures

There are actually only fifteen permanent employees responsible for all work such as finance, delivery, and logistics. As for film production, it is entirely done by the boss Simon and Amy Pascal.

Today is already December 16th, Wednesday.

The release of Daenerys Pictures' three planned film projects in 1987, "Dead Man" is coming to an end.

From the opening on October 23 to now, in seven and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of "Dead Man" has reached 67.53 million U.S. dollars. The news that Simon suddenly became a billionaire in November inevitably boosted the film's box office.

As a result, the box office performance of "Dead Man" easily exceeded the expected US$60 million.

Currently, "Dead Man" currently ranks seventh in the annual North American box office rankings with a box office of 67.43 million U.S. dollars, following the summer film "The Untouchables" starring Sean Connery. The film previously opened from December 11 to 12

It still grossed US$1.06 million at the box office over the three-day weekend on March 13. In the following weeks, the film's total box office before being released is enough to easily break the US$70 million mark.

Simon has paid special attention to the two major films scheduled for the end of the year.

According to the information in my memory, the Thanksgiving and Christmas movies include "Three Dads and a Baby" released on November 25, "Moonlight" on December 18, and "Morning" on December 25.

"An Vietnam" is expected to enter the top ten of the annual list, and the others are not enough to pose a threat to "Death is Coming".

As a result, "Death Comes" unexpectedly jumped from the top 15 in the North American box office rankings to the top 10. If no other box office dark horses appear in the future, this movie will happen to be ranked in the annual North American box office rankings.

Ranked 10th.

Counting "Run Lola Run", which firmly holds the No. 1 spot, and "The Butterfly Effect," which is temporarily ranked No. 4, all three Simon-related movies in 1987 ranked at the top of the North American box office rankings.

10 people.

Even though Simon's operation in the financial market has shocked the whole world, in recent weeks, as "Dead Man" has successively surpassed "Witches of Easttown", "Lethal Weapon" and "The Road to Prosperity" and other films have strong

Ranking 7th on the annual list, Simon's personal achievement of having three films in the top ten of the annual box office list in one year still attracts the attention of the entire Hollywood.

Therefore, although "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Met Sally" are still in the post-production stage, with the blessing of a personal fortune of more than one billion US dollars and three consecutive top ten films on the annual box office list, the capital market has finally

The door was completely opened to Simon.

Simon actually also strongly agrees with the principle of not using your own money to invest in movies.

In this world, no matter in any industry, using other people's money to make one's own profits is absolutely king. However, even before the wealth was exposed in November, Simon had not yet reached the point of letting others pay for himself.

Now.

Daenerys Pictures finally became eligible to obtain loans from banks simply through brand guarantees, like top second-tier film companies such as Seven and Orion Pictures.

Obviously, the brand guarantee of Daenerys Pictures is Simon himself.

In the conference room.

Amy Pascal waited for Simon and Jennifer to sit down, then handed over a folder and said: "Simon, it has been negotiated. This is the draft contract. Wells Fargo is willing to provide 100 million for Daenerys Films.

US dollar loan with a term of 5 years and an annual interest rate of 6.5%.”

Simon took the document and opened it, and couldn't help but said: "6.5% is still a bit high."

"If it was before the stock market crash, we might be able to get 5%," Amy looked at Simon and explained: "Now banks are generally tightening lending. 6.5% is still the result of a long discussion between Wells Fargo and I. You also know

Yes, the annual interest rate originally offered by Paul Olson was 8%. In addition, the US$10 million loan for "Basic Instinct" was not included in this amount of money. It was still mortgaged through the "Death is Coming" share contract, and the annual interest rate was 8%.

The interest rate is 5% and the term is 3 years.”

Paul Olson is the senior vice president of Wells Fargo who contacted Simon when he obtained the $20 million loan last time. He has the connection with the last loan. This cooperation can be said to be the result of the two parties hitting it off after contacting each other.

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Simon smiled and nodded, continuing to look through the contract draft in his hand.

There was less than an hour until get off work, and Amy continued without waiting for Simon to finish reading: "Simon, I have already talked with Wes Craven, and he is happy to continue working with us on the next movie. However,

, he also hopes to see the script first."

"Dead Man" has entered the top ten at the North American box office. Although everyone knows that this is largely due to Simon's personal script and popularity, as a director, it is like Brian De Palma who has returned to the peak of his career.

Similarly, Wes Craven was also successfully promoted to a first-line director.

"I already have a good idea, probably a campus thriller. I will take time to write a synopsis of the story in the next two days. However, I don't have that much time to perfect the script now. You and Wes will discuss it then.

, hire other writers to write it.”

When Amy heard what Simon said, she subconsciously said: "What about the signature?"

Simon smiled and said: "Three movies this year are enough. Amy, do you think there will be seven or eight movies written by Simon Westeros in Hollywood a year, and how much interest can the audience maintain?"

But Amy captured another layer of meaning in Simon's words. She put her arms on the conference table and raised her hands gently to gesture: "Simon, you mean, we will make seven or eight movies next year?"

"Of course, it's not just movies, but also TV shows," Simon flicked on the contract draft in front of him and said, "Otherwise, how would we need so much money. So, next, you can continue to hire people, we

Next year we will not only get involved in TV programs, but we will also try to independently distribute films."
Chapter completed!