Simon looked down at some records from the Nancy Brill's report just now, and looked at the woman in front of the stage and said, "Nancy, your explanation just now is very comprehensive, toys, clothing, accessories, books, electronic games, image authorization and the release of soundtracks that will be temporarily responsible for by the consumer goods department, but these are very broad long-term plans. Tell me about your recent work priorities, within a month?"

"In the past month, I plan to recruit personnel to form product design and sales teams. In this regard, I will use my personal connections in the past to tap talents from other companies to ensure that employees can invest in the company's existing film and television projects as soon as possible after joining the company," Nancy Brill said fluently without thinking at all: "In addition, I think the planning of film derivatives should be forward-looking. The company cannot wait for a movie to become popular before considering developing peripheral products. Therefore, I also hope to be approved to evaluate the derivative potential of all projects that Daenerys Entertainment is developing."

Simon nodded slightly and asked again: "The Survivor, Beverly Wife, Scream, etc. The types of these projects will be very complicated. How do you plan to deal with this problem?"

Nancy Brill still immediately replied: "In the short term, I will choose the most commercially valuable peripheral types among these projects for development and promotion, so as to ensure that the team's limited resources and manpower are not dispersed. When the company develops to accumulate enough copyright resources to form a scale effect, it will continue to expand the peripheral categories and maximize the transformation of derivatives' value."

"So, what about the terminal channel?"

"Seeking a national chain store as a partner, and opening counters if possible, so that it is convenient for marketing and promotion. We have a number of very popular film and television drama copyrights, and the terminal will be happy to cooperate with us. This is a comprehensive aspect and can be applied to all types of film and television projects. We can also use traditional channels such as traditional theater stores, toy homes, etc. to distribute goods. The operation in this aspect is mainly to be familiar with the market and training channels. The company also needs to wait to accumulate enough copyrights to open it.

Start pursuing profits,” Nancy Brill said this, thinking for a while and then said: “In addition, I found that the company will generate large profits in the next few years. I suggest investing in videotape chain companies that have developed rapidly in recent years. Compared with the highly competitive theater system, the videotape market development is far from saturation. If it can have hundreds or thousands of videotape rental and sales stores across the country and even the world, the company can not only share the emerging videotape market, but also have a complete derivative terminal sales network at the same time.”

Even if Daenerys Entertainment has been unprofitable since now, with the copyrights of several popular reality shows in hand, the company will be able to make stable profits in the next few years.

Although he has been planning to accumulate cash for some things in two years, Simon has never given up on the idea of ​​continuing to expand Daenerys Entertainment. At worst, he can continue to borrow money, and the company's debt ratio is far from Simon's limit.

Nancy Brill's sudden proposal is indeed very attractive. The videotape chain can not only provide Daenerys Entertainment with a complete terminal sales network, but this type of company, like a supermarket, also has a strong cash flow advantage. In my memory, Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount through the cash support provided by Blockbuster chain.

However, getting involved in the video tape chain business will definitely face some potential problems.

Daenerys Entertainment’s biggest disadvantage now is that its content accumulation is not rich enough. At present, the big Hollywood film companies can only watch Daenerys Entertainment develop rapidly in the film and television business. However, if they are involved in the video tape chain business, it is difficult to guarantee that the seven majors will not use the advantages of content to set obstacles for Daenerys Entertainment.

“Good advice, I will consider it seriously.”

Simon thought for a moment, responded this way, and then turned to the topic of this meeting again.

Nancy Brill continued to accept questions from Simon and several other executives before leaving the conference room. Everyone continued to discuss other matters of the company. The meeting ended and it was already past six o'clock.

Amy sorted out her own documents and left them until the end as usual. Asked Simon, who was still sitting at the conference table, and said, "So, what do you think of Nancy?"

"A wonderful woman," Simon agreed. "I look forward to her turning all her written plans into reality."

"Nancy is very important in Hasbro's marketing department. I suddenly dug her over and Hasbro is almost going to sue us," Amy said with a smile: "She came forward to solve this problem by herself."

There are more and more male executives in the company. Simon actually knows that Amy recruits a female executive to join the company this time to increase her confidence, so he is generous to praise her.

Just smiled, Simon turned the page of the information he had not finished reading in front of him, but was not in the interface.

Amy also realized that Simon must have seen through her mind, and she changed the subject a little embarrassedly, saying, "Simon, what do you think of Nancy's proposal just now involved in the videotape chain?"

Simon nodded and said, "It's very good. You can make a plan with her and find some companies suitable for investment. We don't need to start from scratch."

The two continued to talk about some things. Simon finished reading the documents in his hand and got up and was about to leave. However, Amy remembered something and walked out of the conference room with Simon and said, "In addition, Simon, the company's office space is not enough. This time Nancy set up a consumer goods department and had to rent another office nearby. I think we need to think about this matter carefully."

Daenerys Entertainment does seem a bit 'stricken' now. It's okay in New York. The company has successfully bought the building in Greenwich Village, but Los Angeles has a total of four office locations, including the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters on 4th Street in Santa Monica, the Daenerys Special Effects and Pixar Animation Company on 2nd Street, the Daenerys Entertainment Division in Burbank and even the studio near Marvel in Burbank. This dispersion is indeed not conducive to the company's development.

When he took a bus back to Malibu, Simon rarely took the opportunity to read some documents and scripts, and thought about this issue by the window.

In recent months, Simon has indeed considered the idea of ​​building a Daenerys Entertainment Cinema, but some of the locations I have seen have various problems, either the area is not large enough, the land price is too high, or it is a bit remote.

The Land Rover Range Rover turned from Santa Monica to the Linhai Highway and entered the Malibu area. While Simon was thinking, he accidentally noticed a fork on the side of the road. Suddenly, he had an idea and ordered Neil Bennett in the front row to say: "Stop, Neil, stop quickly."

Neil Bennett was unknown, but he quickly parked his car on the side of the road, looked up through the rearview mirror and asked, "Boss, what's wrong?"

Simon pointed back and said, "Reverse and retreat to that intersection."

It was the peak hours of get off work, and there was a lot of traffic on the Linhai Highway. Neil Bennett carefully turned the steering wheel and slowly retreated the Land Rover Range Rover to a fork in the road dozens of meters away, and turned directly in at Simon's instructions.

This is a slowly upward slope, which was obviously just opened up, but the road surface was leveled and before the asphalt was laid. The car was about two hundred meters inward, and another U-shaped turn occurred.

When the car stopped, Simon pushed the door and got out of the car. A large area of ​​relatively smooth open space appeared in front of him. Except for a temporary wooden house and construction materials and props piled up in the open air, there were still bushes in other places.

An old man with a beard heard the sound of a car, pushed the door and came out of the wooden house, and found that it was not the gangster who used to want to steal things. He grinned at the two of them, looked at Simon who seemed familiar and said, "Guys, is there anything wrong?"

Simon responded with a smile and said, "I'll look around, okay?"

"certainly."

The old man nodded, subconsciously wanted to remind him something, glanced at the expensive Land Rover Range Rover, and stopped talking nonsense, turned around and returned to the wooden house.

Simon walked forward for a while while walking a distance, and soon arrived at the edge of the cliff more than ten meters high. The sea-lined highway was under his feet. At about seven o'clock, the winter sunset had already sunk into the horizon, leaving only some dark red afterglows on the dark and magnificent sea level in the distance. You can also see the coastal situation in the west of Malibu and the lights gradually rising in the eastern Santa Monica city.

After stopping for a while, Simon did not intend to get in the car and leave. Instead, he turned around and continued to walk towards the gentle slope in the north along some trivial information in his memory.

This area with a triangular layout is surrounded by ridges on both sides of the left and right, and to the south is a cliff next to the sea highway. Simon walked upwards over a kilometer in the dim light on the rugged ramp, before reaching the top.

I chose a foothold and looked down again. The view seemed wider, but because of the obstruction of the ridges on both sides, I could not see too many urban scenes.

In my memory, this place will become a residential community in more than 20 years. Except for Simon, who built some luxury houses in the golden area at the top of the golden area, the rest of the area can only be considered mid-range. But now, this place is still a whole wasteland in the stage of development.

Because of the information in memory, Simon glanced around and soon formed a simple planning plan in his mind.

Extending from the highest point to the cliff in the sea, this entire triangular area surrounded by ridges on both sides is over 50 hectares. It can be opened up three sections of open space from top to bottom like half of terraces, each of which can exceed 10 hectares.

In addition to Universal Studios, Hollywood covers an area of ​​200 hectares, other Warner Cinemas, Fox Cinemas, Paramount Cinemas and MGM Cinemas all have an area of ​​only about 20 to 30 hectares. It is conservatively estimated that more than 30 hectares of construction land can be more than 30 hectares, which is enough to build a brand new film and television base.

Moreover, the geographical location of this plot is just right.

Going west, it is directly in the city of Malibu. It is less than 20 kilometers from here to Dumei Point, which makes it easier for Simon to get to get off work.

Going east, five kilometers away is Palisade and the adjacent downtown Santa Monica. Moreover, California Highway 1 can also be connected to the western end of Sunset Avenue at Palisade. Connecting Sunset Avenue is equivalent to connecting a large area of ​​wealthy Hollywood filmmakers from west to east, such as Palisade, Brentwood, Belaire, Beverly Hills, etc., from west to east, the easternmost part of Sunset Avenue is even across the downtown Hollywood.

Overall, compared with the smooth terrain of the city, the biggest difficulty in building a cinema in this area under your feet is the cost issue, but for Simon, as long as he is satisfied, this issue is the least problem.

When Simon returned home in the dark, after dinner, he began to design the general plan for Daenerys Cinema.

There is a top-down three-stage layout, with the top floor as an administrative area, and the middle is the work area of ​​subsidiaries such as Daenerys Special Effects, Pixar Animation, and Marvel Comics. The bottom floor has the largest area and can be used to build large studios and post-production centers.

In the future development process, Daenerys Entertainment will inevitably embark on the road of quickly expanding its development by annexing other major Hollywood film companies, and will definitely get some other film and television bases at that time. However, this did not affect Simon's idea of ​​building a separate Daenerys Cinema.

As long as the company develops strong enough, no matter how many film and television bases are, they can support them.

The next day, Simon showed Amy and several other core executives the planning sketches of Daenerys Cinema he designed overnight, and after a brief discussion with everyone, he quickly began to acquire the plot.

On the other hand, with the launch of small-scale preview screenings, major North American media also published reviews about "Steel Magnolia" the next day.

Due to CAA's rejection, the director of "Steel Magnolia" was no longer Herbert Ross, and Sally Field's role was replaced by another actress, Jessica Lange, a leading actress at the best-selling level. The other actresses, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hanner, Dolly Parton, and other actresses have not changed.

Moreover, under Simon's personal control, the quality of the new version is no less than the original version. The director recommended by WMA is Mark Radell, the director of "Golden Pond" that was touching back then. Compared with Herbert Ross, Mark Radell controlled the essence of the story that moved the audience through the seemingly plain plot of "Steel Magnolia".

In addition, compared with the market positioning of "Screaming Screaming" that is precisely targeted at the teenage audience, which does not deliberately pursue the reputation of film reviews, the market positioning of "Steel Magnolia" is a warm drama film suitable for the whole family to watch on holidays, and also takes the word-of-mouth marketing route.

Compared with other film markets, North American media and film critics are relatively less disturbed by film companies in evaluating a movie, but in fact it is only relatively speaking. When Daenerys Entertainment spared no effort to spend a large amount of advertising on major paper media, coupled with the excellent quality of "Steel Magnolia" itself, the film immediately received almost one-sided and all-round praise in the media.
Chapter completed!