Before Egret's first public financing, Simon had quietly launched the site selection plan for Egret's headquarters.

Actually, there is no need to choose too much.

According to the information in memory, Simon directly selected the park plot of Google's original time and space in Mountain View, located in the south of Palo Alto.

The location selection of large enterprise parks will almost inevitably lead to rising surrounding land prices. Simon doesn't mind paying more funds, but he just doesn't want to see nail households appear on the plot he chose. It is still very difficult for American nail households to remove them.

Therefore, a few months in advance, Simon began to acquire land in related areas of Mountain View through an agency.

Although Silicon Valley is now very developed, its main areas are limited to the anniversary of Stanford University in Palo Alto. The southern Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Cupertino are still very backward. There are no large companies in the future after more than ten or twenty years. Many places are even large farms and wastelands.

Simon's memory of the plot where Google Park is located is currently composed of farms and wastelands, with few residents.

After several months of quiet operation, Simon's agency has unknowingly eaten about 60 hectares of land, located in the area of ​​more than 10,000 hectares of land near the bay east of Palo Alto, in an area of ​​more than 10,000 hectares of land, mainly farm land, and the purpose is to remove the "nail households" in this area in advance.

For a large area of ​​wasteland near the bay, you only need to discuss the acquisition with the Mountain View City Government.

Speaking of which, even if it is only the existing 60 hectares of land, if it is not a bit scattered, it would be more than enough to build the Igret Company Park. However, due to some deep-rooted personal preferences, Simon is happy to buy land.

With the completion of the huge $1.5 billion financing of Igrit Company, news that this increasingly dazzling new technology company is about to build its headquarters park quickly spread.

The key to why Amazon’s choice of second headquarters attracted countless American cities to compete for it is that the settlement of large enterprises will inevitably mean a huge tax source.

Amazon is good at tax avoidance and can even operate its own corporate tax rate to negative numbers, but tens of thousands of Amazon employees cannot avoid personal income tax.

The more developed the country, the greater the proportion of personal income tax in the country.

The proportion of personal income tax in the United States to the total federal tax revenue is about 50%. Employees of high-tech companies happen to be the best high-income group among individual taxpayers.

Therefore, when news of the headquarters of Igret Company spread, the entire Bay Area started to move. Whether it was Redwood, Monroe Parker in the north, Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, or Mountain View, Sunnyvale or Cupertino in the south, administrative officials from various cities chased behind several executives of Igret Company almost every day. Even if they thought it was unlikely that they would introduce Igret to settle in their own area, they did not easily miss the opportunity to try.

Tim Berners Lee and others have already known the big boss’s location for the company’s park. Although several people want to set up the company’s headquarters nearby in Palo Alto, it is not difficult for Palo Alto to draw out dozens of acres of land at this stage. However, the plot near the bay in the north of Mountain View is actually not too bad, and the straight-line distance from Stanford University is only about 7 kilometers.

After a low-key negotiation with several major cities in the South Bay Area for more than a month, he finally "selected" the tax preferential plan given by Mountain View City, and quickly drew a total of 300 hectares of land on the barren plot near the sea in the north of Mountain View City.

300 hectares, more than 700 acres are converted into.

Although it is far from the 8,000 acres of land donated by the Stanford couple to Stanford University, the 300 hectares of land is also a bit shocking for a company headquarters.

In fact, if the Mountain View City Government hadn't dared to approve too much, Simon would rather get at least 500 hectares of land.

Even so, when the news was officially announced in mid-May, it immediately aroused doubts from the San Francisco Bay Area media.

You know, even the old Silicon Valley HP company only owns an office park area with an area of ​​only 12 hectares in Palo Alto. Igret Company eats 300 hectares of land at one time. Is this planning to build an office villa for every employee?

The U.S. real estate market has shown signs of recovery after years of slump.

Therefore, many media have publicly accused the large amount of land under the Igrit Company of impure motives and obvious suspicion of land hype.

With more news disclosed, the media found that the main body of the company that purchased the land was Westeros, and Egret took over 20 hectares of land from Westeros for the same price, and planned to be used to build an office park area. As a result, the media became even more noisy.

Westeros, this is a foregone conclusion that it is about to get involved in the real estate industry.

However, after the detailed information was disclosed, the media from all sides became at a loss for the accusation.

Igrit actually only obtained 30 hectares of land, which is much larger than HP's 12 hectares, but it is not an exaggeration. As for Westeros' land enclosure behavior, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

The Linhai plot in the north of Mountain View City is a barren area to be developed. If any company is willing to take over the development, it will be of great benefit to the city.

Moreover, no one has any regulations that Westeros can no longer enter the real estate field?

Not only that, as long as Simon Westeros is not too slow, it should understand that it is worth betting on the industry and region.

Therefore, the noise in the media has not ended, and a large number of capital have turned their attention to the tens of thousands of hectares of land in the north of Mountain View City, and have made requests to purchase land from the Mountain View City Government or farmers who are still sticking to the area.

This also led to the fact that in just one week, it was said that the bidding price of some companies for purchasing land was increased by 30% based on Westeros’ purchase price. With Palo Alto as the boundary, the development of several cities in the southern South Bay Area has always lagged behind Redwood, Monroe Park and other cities in the north.

Mountain View City suddenly became popular, and the regional administrator was simply ecstatic.

In most countries and regions in the world, there are only a few sets of standards for measuring the political achievements of the governing officials.

As the current momentum continues, the growth rate of tax and employment indexes in Mountain View will definitely be far greater than that of other cities in the Bay Area in the next few years.

Simon arrived in San Francisco on May 20 and spent the whole day participating in the planning of the Igret headquarters park. He also walked on the plot in the north of Mountain View.

The 300 hectares of land has a southern border adjacent to the 101 Expressway running through California. On the east side, it is close to the Stevens River, which crosses the Mountain View City straight down from the southern mountains. The plot is generally rectangular, about 1.2 kilometers wide from east to west and about 2.5 kilometers long from north to south. It can be said to be the best quality plot in the northern area of ​​Mountain View City.

The planned development of the Igret Park is located in the central area of ​​this high-quality plot, away from the noisy 101 Expressway.

As for the remaining land, Simon has considered some plans and has given up all of them for the time being.

To put it bluntly, there is no plan.

Therefore, if anyone knows the inside story, he will definitely think that Westeros will eat 300 hectares of land for US$230 million this time, which is definitely a failure.

Simon doesn't care.

Just like Tasmania, which has been buying in Australia, he now has such willful capital.

Even if it is planting trees and grass, it doesn’t matter if it’s so simple, as long as the land is yours.

It's very steadily to step on it.

After staying in San Francisco for one day, returning to Los Angeles at night, and flying to New York early the next morning.

Recently, it is the New York TV series promotion season.

As the focus of Daenerys Entertainment's expansion in the next few years, Simon deliberately took the time to fly to the East Coast to follow up on some things.

Meanwhile, May 21st is another Friday.

After the preheating of several films such as "Anti-Condor 2", "Bruce Lee" and "My Genius Family", the summer season in 1993 officially started.

The most popular blockbuster movie this week is undoubtedly the action blockbuster "The Legend of the Sun" produced by Samsung, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, starring Sylvester Stallone. The film costs $70 million and the number of screens on the first week was 2,333.

In addition, the comedy "Made in the United States" starring Whoopi Goldberg was released at the same time, with 2,048 screens.

Stallone's "The Legend of the Ridge" and Schwarzenegger's "The Phantom Heroes" scheduled for June 18 are two blockbusters that Columbia Pictures will focus on issuing this summer, and the production cost of the latter is as high as 85 million US dollars.

Columbia Pictures also tried to collaborate with Daenerys Entertainment to develop "Phantom Heroes" last year, but was rejected by Simon.

Compared to Colombia's full ambition, Simon knew very well that these two movies were two big pits for Colombia's parent company Sony.

It was the failure of these two projects that caused Sony to completely lose patience with Colombia's head Peter Cooper, and even wanted to sell the large studio again.

On board the plane to the East Coast, Girl A delivered the newly released box office data last week to Simon.

Sitting in the front cabin office of Boeing 767, Simon opened last week's box office report and first found the new weekly box office data for "Anti-Wissing Stars 2" during the Easter schedule.

Since its release on April 9, "Anti-Wisdom 2" has been released for 6 weeks.

The first week started at $43.67 million, down 39% the next week. In the following weeks, relying on the reputation and popularity of the series and the lack of competitors during the same period, the box office curve of "Anti-Wissing Stars 2" is still stable.

From May 14 to May 20, compared with the fifth week, "Anti-Wisdom Stars 2" fell by 23% in a single week, continuing to earn US$8.96 million.

In six weeks, the cumulative box office of the film also reached US$124.55 million.

Through the box office of the next week, Daenerys Entertainment predicted that the total box office of "Anti-Star 2" in North America will be between $130 million and $150 million.

Now, six weeks after its release, based on the box office curve statistics of the opening of a month and a half, the publicity and distribution team further predicted that the final North American box office of the film should be around US$145 million, and the error will not exceed US$3 million.

The total budget for the production and promotion of "Anti-Star 2" is US$45 million. The local box office is calculated at US$145 million, and Daenerys Entertainment can earn about US$35 million in net income.

Compared with the local area, "Anti-Wisdom Stars 2" has not yet broken through the cultural restrictions of the overseas market.

According to the data feedback from overseas ticket stores such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and Australia, which have been opened, the video can only recover about 70 million US dollars in overseas markets.

Of course, for a comedy movie, the global box office of more than $200 million is a big seller no matter what.

Relying on a box office of more than US$120 million in 6 weeks, "Anti-Wissing Stars 2" is not only the first film in 1993 to have a local box office of over 100 million, but also temporarily ranked first in the North American box office list in 1993.

After returning to the first half of the year, there are not many top-notch projects.

In addition to "Anti-Withful Stars 2", only Columbia Pictures produced "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray is still a big hit. "Groundhog Day" was launched in the Valentine's Day schedule in February. As of last week, the cumulative box office was $66.32 million, and the total box office before the downturn is expected to reach $70 million.

Simon actually paid attention to "Groundhog Day" at first, but he just held the idea that Daenerys Entertainment could not occupy all the top-selling projects, and did not forcefully grab the script.

The third place in the annual list is the American Civil War historical film "It seems like an old friend is coming" starring Pierce Brosnan and Judy Foster. The film is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and released on February 5. It is currently out of stock with a cumulative box office of US$50.08 million.

Simon has seen this movie once.

The original series starred Richard Keel and Judy Foster.

This time, because of Simon's big butterfly, Richard Keel's role in "The Pretty Beauty" fell on Pierce Brosnan, and the role in "It seems like the old friend is coming" was replaced by Brosnan again.

It's not a coincidence.

Pierce Brosnan and Judy Foster are both artists under ICM and are both agents.

The three major brokerage companies are now promoting project packaging mechanisms.

After Pierce Brosnan became the leader with "Fengyue Pretty", ICM naturally tended to match him with Judy Foster instead of missing "Fengyue Pretty Pretty" and completely outdated Richard Keel.

Except for "Anti-Star 2", Daenerys Entertainment's three labels have released 15 movies as of mid-May, but there are no other box office dark horses except "Anti-Star 2".

Among them, the box office is the Mexican literary drama "Love Chocolate" released by Gaomen Pictures on February 19. This is an award-winning film from the Tokyo International Film Festival last year. Gaomen Pictures bought out the North American distribution rights for US$2 million. After its release, the cumulative box office was US$21.66 million, which is a small dark horse.

"The Sea of ​​Algae", released on the Easter schedule on April 16, has been released for 4.67 million US dollars in the first week of the painting. It has been released for five weeks and has accumulated box office of 15.39 million US dollars. It is expected to exceed the $20 million mark before ordering.

The Golden Bear Awards work "Wedding Banquet" at the Berlin Film Festival was released in early March while the Golden Bear Awards were released. It took two months to screen, with a cumulative box office of US$12.07 million, and the revenue was quite considerable.

Except for these 4 movies that are still popular, the other 11 movies have box offices of less than tens of millions of dollars, which is basically considered to be both losses and profits.

This is actually within the company's expectations.

The key films of Daenerys Entertainment, especially the most direct-line films produced by Daenerys Pictures, are concentrated in the second half of the year.

Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment was able to have a movie that temporarily ranked the annual box office champion in the first half of the year, as well as other projects that were profitable, such as "Love Chocolate", "The Sea of ​​Algae", "Wedding Banquet", is enough to envy other Hollywood film companies.
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