Chapter 405(1/2)
Accompany various examinations, notify relatives and friends, and arrange diet and schedule during pregnancy... from Tuesday to Friday, and of course, they will stay at home on Saturday and Sunday.
The noise was too loud, and the media inevitably heard the wind.
The news was announced at the Igret portal: the first child of the Westeros is about to be born.
So there were congratulations and blessings from all sides.
The discussions in the media were also very lively.
Some people analyze the differences between boys and girls of Simon Westeros’ first heir, some people discuss how much wealth the child may inherit in the future, and some people speculate what kind of name the Westeros will give the child, and so many things are all there.
Anthony Johnston flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles on Friday to visit his newly pregnant sister on behalf of the family.
After confirming that he was 100% pregnant, Janet also secretly donated $10 million to several children's charity organizations such as the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation in the name of the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation. In Janet's statement, this is accumulating blessings for the little guy in his stomach, hoping that the child will be healthy and safe in the future.
Westerners regard charity as one of their social obligations, and are more utilitarian to gain corresponding social reputation. They do not have the concept of "a family that accumulates good deeds will surely have good fortune."
Simon felt that Janet had this idea probably because she had been insisting on learning Chinese in recent years. Women's Chinese level has reached the level of being able to directly read the traditional version of "Dream of Red Mansions".
He was an Oriental at heart, so Simon naturally would not object to Janet's actions.
Because he successfully conceived the baby, Janet celebrated his 31st birthday that he had always wanted to forget. However, he only invited some close relatives and friends to enjoy a birthday dinner at Dumei Point Manor, which was far less lively than Simon's birthday party last month.
After the birthday dinner, Anthony's family, who had been in Los Angeles for a week, returned to Australia, and Simon finally started working again.
Janet started taking maternity leave directly.
Not working anymore.
I have to take maternity leave after only over three weeks of pregnancy...
The biggest pregnant woman.
Who dares to object?
Fortunately, Janet has always adhered to a hard-working mentality. Most of the time, he only grasped one general direction for the operation of Cersei Capital, and most of the work was handed over to the heads of the three subsidiaries with confidence. Therefore, the departure of a woman will basically not have much impact on the operation of Cersei Capital.
Of course, Janet had to take maternity leave early, but Simon could not really let go of Cersei Capital.
Cersei Capital, Cersei Fund Management, Apollo Management and Black Rock Asset Management, manages a total of more than $21 billion in funds. The first two are both about $3 billion, and the Black Rock Asset Management, which mainly operates low-risk stock bonds and fixed-income investments, has reached $15 billion.
Although the heads of the three subsidiaries have been carefully selected and all have the top investment talent on Wall Street, no one can guarantee whether these professional managers will do anything out of the ordinary once they have excessive power and lack strict supervision.
There are countless cases where Wall Street fund managers have taken the initiative to invest without authorization to bring huge losses to the company.
In Simon's memory, the Solomon Brothers, which was incompatible with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in this era, probably later this year, collapsed due to the exposure of the illegal bond bid scandal of fund managers, and eventually disappeared from the ranks of Wall Street investment banking giants a few years later.
Janet's previous work at Cersei Capital was half of the direction control and half of the financial supervision.
After Janet took a leave, Cersei Capital quickly reorganized and established the Investment Committee. Simon, James Rebled and three heads of three subsidiaries joined as members of the Investment Committee.
Simon took on the task of controlling the overall situation, while James was responsible for financial supervision.
All subsequent investments above the corresponding scale of Cersei Capital need to be approved by the five-member Investment Committee before they can be implemented. Of course, as the controlling shareholder of Cersei Capital, Simon still holds the veto power.
However, Simon's inner idea was to try not to interfere with the management of Cersei Capital as much as possible.
Unless it is a project that is doomed to fail in memory, he will not deliberately obstruct the choice of fund managers of the three subsidiaries. A qualified boss must be able to tolerate the failure of his subordinates. The main purpose of setting up an investment committee is to avoid the three subsidiaries becoming a wild horse after Janet lets go.
Janet has actually not been so passionate about the operation of Cersei Capital. Since she is pregnant, she will definitely focus more on the little guys in the future. As long as the operation of the investment committee is effective, this system can be maintained in the future.
This year's Easter is March 31, and the Easter schedule will start on March 22.
Daenerys Entertainment has released two main films this Easter, Madonna's documentary "Real and Brave" and "The Kids in the Cornfield 3" last year's Blonde's ambitious concert.
If Universal Pictures is included, there is also a "Crazy Night" produced by John Hughes.
"Crazy Night" tells the story of a supermarket clerk and a wealthy girl who ran away from home encountering two thieves while watching the supermarket. The story setting is very similar to "Home Imperial", but this is not a work that follows "Home Imperial". The film was also filmed last year, and the plot is similar only because of the style of John Hughes's usual mass-produced work.
Simon didn't expect much of the box office of this movie, which I had basically never heard of, but the heroine of the film was quite eye-catching. It was Jennifer Connery in "The Past of America". The actress is 21 years old this year and is at the peak of her appearance.
The time is in late March, and it is actually not far from the summer vacation.
Simon has begun to focus more on a series of videos related to Daenerys Entertainment these days.
The next summer season, four movies in the core period from June to July, "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2", "The Destiny" and "The Good Man" are all foreign-cooperated films, released by several companies, Warner, Fox, Warner and MGM.
In addition to the four mainstream commercial films, Daenerys Entertainment only released three niche and unique films from Gaomen Pictures.
Because I expected to take over MCA this year, this is actually Simon's deliberate arrangement.
The distribution team of Daenerys Entertainment will complete the takeover and integration of Universal Pictures through the distribution work of this summer.
However, what disappointed Simon was that Universal Pictures' four movies, "Back to Temper", "Jungle Hot", "Problem Boy 2" and "Family of Four Seas" in this summer, obviously do not have the potential to sell well.
After sorting out Universal Pictures' list of films in 1991, it is probably only "Corner of Fear" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", which were initially scheduled to be released at the end of the year, but the box office of these two films in memory has not exceeded 100 million in North America. In other words, Universal Pictures should not have a movie with a box office of over 100 million this year.
Hollywood studios' performance fluctuations are shaking from now on.
This also once again highlights how sharp Daenerys Entertainment has been in Hollywood in recent years.
In order to avoid or reduce the losses caused by Universal Pictures' film business in 1991, Daenerys Entertainment has cut off the production and distribution plans of seven Universal movies in this period. However, because most of the projects are already in the substantial production stage, many of them have been completed, and the number of films that remain in the end still reaches 16.
Daenerys Entertainment, three brands, have confirmed that they will release 23 videos in 1991.
Adding up the two events, the brand new Daenerys Entertainment will release a total of 39 movies in 1991.
Fortunately, Simon had already planned in advance.
Daenerys Entertainment's 23 films, 11 of which are from Gaomen Pictures. Although niche and independent films and art films have repeatedly created box office miracles in recent years, the overall pattern is still limited, so it will not have much impact on the mainstream commercial film system.
After the re-planning, 6 of Universal Pictures' 16 movies were also classified as under Gaomen Pictures.
In summary, Gaomen Pictures will release 17 videos in 1991, all of which are niche and independent and literary films.
In addition, the number of movies New World Films has been assigned is 11, mainly thriller, horror and vulgar and funny.
The last mainstream commercial films are also 11, including films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" that have been collaborated with external parties, as well as films such as "Toy Story" released by Daenerys Pictures alone.
The three distinct distribution systems will become the main structure of Daenerys Entertainment's future film business.
The scale of each distribution system and production videos will be equivalent to that of a mainstream studio.
Although Daenerys Entertainment still maintains an open attitude towards external cooperation, the structural adjustment of its film business is obviously a strong aggression.
After all, traditional large studios usually release only a dozen or twenty movies every year, and rarely more than 30 movies. After Daenerys Entertainment’s film business structure is adjusted, the annual release scale will reach as many as 40 movies. With the North American film market capacity basically fixed, doing so will naturally squeeze the living space of other Hollywood studios.
However, Simon will not be held back because other Hollywood studios feel pressure. In the past few years, he has given enough bribes of relief. Next, Simon plans to personally promote the further integration of Hollywood studios and compress the number of Hollywood media giants to five or even fewer in advance.
In this process, there will definitely be traditional large studios that will be swallowed up and disappear. With the lifting of horizontal integration restrictions in the media field, media giants will gain more monopoly resources. It will become more difficult for latecomers to gain status in Hollywood.
Dumei Point Manor.
Today is Friday, March 22, and another week has passed without realizing it.
After Janet became pregnant, Simon basically got off work on time these days at 5 o'clock.
As soon as he entered the Shell Villa, Simon saw the hall full of children's supplies, baby carriages, milk powder, plush toys, Lego blocks, piles of clothes, piles of small shoes... It was like a flea market for children's supplies.
Walking through the 'flea market', Simon found a woman holding a remote control to manipulating a toy truck on the ground on the sofa beside the glass curtain wall.
An excited look.
The toy truck hit Simon's feet twice, and the woman's dubbing voice sounded: "Dududu, dad is blocking the way in the car, dad gets out of the way."
Simon was so amused that he walked over and slapped the woman who was lying on the sofa with only one head poking out and squirting: "Buy so many things, there is a mine at home."
Janet naturally could not understand the meme in Simon's words, but it did not prevent her from responding with confidence: "Yes."
Simon was stunned.
All right.
There is really a mine in this home.
Sit down around the sofa, picked up the woman and placed it on her lap, snatched the remote control in her hand, and the toy truck ran on the smooth ground again.
Um.
It's quite fun.
Seeing Simon quickly 'into it', Janet reached out to grab the remote control in dissatisfaction: "This is for the baby."
Simon avoided: "Don't rob, the baby will have to wait a few more years, let the baby's dad play for a while."
Janet's head rested on Simon's legs, and his little paws reached over and snatched them a few more times. He had no choice but to give up, but laughed happily.
After laughing for a while, Jennifer gently stroked her belly and asked, "Simon, what should we call our little guy?"
Simon said: "What do you think?"
"I want you to get up."
"I don't know how to name a lot."
"Yes, Seattle or something," Janet suddenly laughed again, took a slap on Simon, and said, "I don't call this strange name."
Simon also smiled and said, "How could Jenny tell you this?"
"Hmph."
Janet didn't explain, but just hummed a few smugs.
Simon thought for a while and said, "If it's a boy, it's called Melbourne. If it's a girl, well, it's also called Melbourne."
To be continued...