"It's like this today. Regarding the length of time, three hours is impossible. Don't bargain with me, at most two and a half hours."

"Simon, "Titanic" can last more than three hours, why can't we?"

"If we don't talk about Titanic, we might be able to say the first "Terminator". For James, who likes to burn budgets, that movie only cost $6.4 million and lasts no more than two hours. What do you think?"

A movie-watching room in the second floor of Daenerys Cinema.

After Simon finished speaking, seeing that the Wachowski brothers had no way to refute, he stood up and said, "If you want more freedom, you need to prove your potential first. Don't think that the studio restricts filmmakers to be hindering your creation. Many times, some filmmakers are like toddlers. You don't know whether you can run, so you need someone to take care of them to avoid running rashly causing you to hurt yourself."

Finally, he shook hands with the two brothers who were reluctant but didn't say much, and Simon walked out of the movie room first.

It was around five o'clock in the afternoon.

After the morning meeting, Simon left all the afternoon time for "The Matrix" to watch sample films of the movie with a group of creators. The project was completed at the end of August, and the Wachowski brothers returned from Australia recently. Today, they discussed the next post-production plan. The two will return to Australia to continue the subsequent special effects production.

It is mainly cheaper to do it in Australia.

Simon walked out of the movie room and ran over to join in the fun in the afternoon, Demi Moore, the heroine of the new version of "The Matrix", followed, and said, "Simon, what you said just now is really reasonable."

Simon smiled and said, "Stand in your position, Demi, the position should be opposite to me."

"That's Larry and the others' position, I'm different," Demi Moore looked at the head with a little pleasing meaning: "I must be on your side."

"Ha, thank you."

The woman walked, her body seemed to touch Simon a few times, and turned to the stairs and said, "Simon, it's already time for get off work, do you still have to continue working?"

"No, I'll get off work on time today."

Demi Moore's eyes lit up: "So... can I take your free ride?"

"I'm sorry, I have other arrangements today."

"How is tomorrow?" Demi Moore said, adding immediately: "Or, when do you have time recently, call me at any time, have coffee and dinner?"

Simon smiled and nodded slightly: "Okay, I will contact you one day if I have time."

The two said, leaving the office building of the post-production center, Demi Moore followed him to the parking lot until the man got in the car and left, but he didn't find a chance and had to go back in a bad mood.

Simon also rarely gets off work on time.

Mainly Veronica came from Australia today.

Returning to Dumei Point Manor and entering the Shell Villa, Simon walked through the villa hall under the guidance of Indian girl Aliya, and came to a living room near the sea on the east side. Janet was here, and the room was filled with a bunch of clothes and shoes.

Seeing Simon come in, Janet comes directly with a blue and gray plaid suit: "Sophie just sent her new autumn outfit from Europe, come and try it out, this one is very good."

The waitress next to her also came over to help the male owner take off her coat.

Simon could only cooperate, spread his arms and put on the checkered suit handed over by Janet, while saying, "I still prefer solid colors."

"Yes, try again later," Janet stood in front of Simon, and helped tie the buttons considerately, "and you can't just wear solid colors, that will gradually become old-fashioned."

Simon felt the fragrance of a woman who had been familiar with her for many years and reached out to hold Janet's waist: "Am I old-fashioned?"

Janet smiled and twisted her body gently, tied the last button, raised her hand and drew a circle on Simon's heart, and cut a few more words from it: "You are a split-brother, you have all kinds of personalities."

"It's been a long time since no one dared to reveal my scars. If you say that, it seems you need to punish me."

Janet also hugged Simon's waist and raised her fair face: "Come on, and then I'll tell Bing...Aunt, you bully me."

Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman on the face, and asked, "Where is the person?"

Janet blinked his big eyes: "I'm still there just now, I touched my heel twice and disappeared. I should go back to Australia."

Simon saw Janet teasing herself with the joke of "The Wizard of Oz", and acted as a gesture to bite the woman's nose, and was avoided with laughter.

With a few jokes, Janet leaned over and bit Simon's chin before loosening his arm: "On the other side of the pond, Mel raised more and more ducks, and he wanted to catch them and send them away."

"oh."

Simon responded, feeling the woman's strange tone, and then said, "Let's continue to try on clothes. You must have something right? Let's see if you are beautiful?"

But Janet pushed him towards the door: "Go, go, and don't get angry at Mel."

Simon couldn't help but argue as he walked: "I have always been a good policeman for my son, right?"

"whispering sound……"

Janet sneered, too lazy to point out someone.

The pond on the northwest side of the Shell Villa was very lively. When Simon came here, a group of maids were catching ducks with long poles and nets. Fortunately, although they were flying wild ducks, they lived in Dumei Point Manor too comfortable, so they lost some instincts to a large extent, and it was easy to catch them.

On the east side of the pond, one big and one small were loading wild ducks caught in the cage. Seeing Simon approaching, Veronica, wearing a denim work suit and a sun hat, got up first, and Melbourne also stood up, and he took the lead in greeting: "Good afternoon, dad."

Simon nodded slightly, saw Veronica spread her arms to her, and went forward to hug her gently. After letting go, she took a wild duck that the maid had just brought over and asked, "Where are you going to send?"

"A park in San Francisco, my mother has agreed. I will take leave tomorrow and send the ducks with NANA. There will be no hunting there." Melbourne squatted beside Veronica, handing over a pair of gloves with a little attentiveness. Hearing his father's question, he took the initiative to explain. After saying that, he hesitated and asked, "Dad, are you going together?"

Simon stuffed the duck in his hand into the cage, then picked up the gloves and put them on. Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "You still have to work."

Melbourne lit his head and said 'um', then felt that the sound of um was a little loud, and he looked at his dad with guilt. Fortunately, it was fine, so he felt relieved.

Veronica waited for the father and son next to her to finish speaking, while busy, she also spoke: "Ray said that you would go to Australia for Christmas together. Did Jenny tell you?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Yes."

After saying that, I remember that there are more than two months left before the end of the year, but thinking about it again, the family now has to arrange their schedules, so it is indeed necessary to be ahead of time.

After saying this, the atmosphere fell silent, with only the rattle of the ducks being caught. After a while, Simon spoke first and asked Veronica: "Did the integration of BHC be smooth in Australia?"

"The reviews of various countries have been basically passed. I will go to New York and London this time to discuss the details of the merger with the management of each subsidiary," Veronica said, and continued: "The memorandum of developing the game industry you transferred to Australia has begun to be implemented."

Simon nodded and said, "Actually, I have considered recently that in addition to games, Australia can also try to develop semiconductors."

“The lack of foundation.”

"Australia will not encounter a technology blockade, this is the biggest foundation. In terms of talent, special scholarships can be set up to attract local and overseas college students to invest in this field. Moreover, the fields involved do not need to be too comprehensive. Even if you only focus on one direction, such as wafer foundry or memory chips, it will be fine and become a pillar industry in the future. The most critical market, there is no need to worry, Tinkobaier and others can fully digest it."

"In this case, I'll send an email to go back tonight and ask the other side to do some research first."

As he was speaking, Janet also came over, glanced at the three people in the scene, looked at the harmonious appearance of the three people at the scene, felt relieved, and came to the cage, stretched out a slender finger and poked it, and said to the waitress next to him, "Pick two fat people, make roast ducks tonight," and looked at his son who immediately felt hard on his face: "Come here, don't you treat me?"

Melbourne felt it made sense and was speechless.

Veronica said, "I don't eat roast duck."

"Or, boiled?" Janet suggested another sentence, and saw Veronica glaring at him and stuck out his tongue: "Okay, I won't eat it anymore."

After saying that, he was approached by his man: "What were you talking about just now?"

Simon said: "Maybe we can develop semiconductors in Australia as well."

Of course, Janet knew the layout of Westeros system for many key technology industries, thought about it, and said: "In Australia, the key is talent and market."

Simon smiled and said: "A small country like Finland can develop a Nokia. Australia's population is five times that of Finland. There is no reason why it cannot be done. Moreover, we can also give enough resources."

"Do it," Janet nodded and said, "By the way, Dad said let's go to Christmas and stay for a while."

"I already know."

Janet glanced at Veronica and said nothing more, and started to join in the fun and put the ducks in a cage, but it was obviously more of a bad idea.

Veronica was not idle, so she stayed here for two days and left Los Angeles the next afternoon.

At the same time, October 1998 was still lively.

First of all, Daenerys is the dark horse in the box office released at the end of September, the sequel to "Happy Death Day" was quickly put on the agenda.

Simon did not agree.

In my memory, there is a sequel to "Happy Death Day", but it still has the same routine. The reason why it is still unreasonable to add a reason to the heroine's death cycle is basically the dog tail sequel.

Of course, if you can make money, Simon actually doesn't mind.

The problem is still to consider the general direction of the Hollywood film industry. The reason is that Simon doesn't want the big screen to be filled with too many sequels, which makes Hollywood increasingly uncreative.

This is a trivial matter.

In addition, it was quickly spreading that Daenerys would invest huge amounts of money to expand Blockbuster again.

Daenerys is seeking a full acquisition of Blockbuster. This period of time has been a hot topic, mainly because of the joint efforts of the industry, which has allowed the media to see too many places to write. For example, Hollywood finally realized that Daenerys Entertainment is too huge and began to resist, Barbara.

However, many people have overlooked one thing. Even without absolute control, Daenerys Entertainment has always held control of Blockbuster.

If you want to win Blockbuster this time, since it doesn’t work to speak well with other parties, then be tough.

expansion.

Simple and crude.

With the powerful content advantages that Daenerys Entertainment has mastered, once Blockbuster seeks more market share at all costs, other competitors will have no power to resist.

When Blockbuster's market share increases, it can be imagined that the surrounding channels of other studios will be more constrained, and the revenue of videotapes is almost the same as that of theaters and theaters, and many times it is higher. At this moment, major studios dare not imagine the result of Blockbuster's monopoly market.

After a brief look, I found that Daenerys had no intention of playing with anything. The news was announced and I started to select store locations in some core markets. The originally tough-minded parties quickly softened.

It is expected that the negotiation will be completed in October.

Besides, Daenerys Entertainment is still the full-year financial report of the 1998 fiscal year from October 1997 to September 1998, and was officially announced on Monday, October 19th in the middle of the month.

Daenerys Entertainment experienced rapid growth and large-scale mergers and acquisitions in the past few years, especially after its revenue volume reached an astonishing US$40 billion, in the eyes of many people, the revenue growth of this media and entertainment giant will slow down significantly. After the last fiscal year, the industry generally predicted that Daenerys' revenue growth in fiscal 1998 will shrink significantly to between 5% and 10%.

However, the final data was beyond expectations.

This is mainly attributed to the continued growth of Daenerys’ gaming business, especially the continuous popular games, which brought large amounts to Daenerys Entertainment.

Finally, in fiscal 1998, Daenerys Entertainment's annual revenue increased by 12.6% year-on-year to US$47.1 billion. If nothing unexpected happens, it is likely to break through the US$50 billion mark next year. At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment's annual net profit also hit a new high, reaching US$7.61 billion.

As I remember, Disney's peak revenue volume around 2010 was only around 50 billion US dollars.

Daenerys Entertainment is now at least 10 years ahead of schedule and has reached the peak level of Hollywood's little overlord Disney. In fact, it is obvious that it only occupies nearly half of Hollywood's film business share, and Daenerys has now left the former Disney.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment has also successfully opened up a very profitable electronic game business.

It's just about the game business, Simon is very clear that continuing to develop and maintaining his current strength will be enough to support Daenerys's additional $500 billion in market value.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, it is only a matter of time before Daenerys Entertainment's market value exceeds the trillion dollar mark in the future.

Of course it's still early now.
Chapter completed!