As time goes by October, the end of the year is approaching, and many videos have begun the final stage of publicity.

Starting from Halloween, Daenerys Entertainment has a total of four key projects at the end of the year, namely "The Seven Deadly Sins", "The Lion King", "Mission: Impossible" and "Schindler's List". There is also a DC movie universe film "Cylinder Bones", and Simon is only the producer, and the project is operated entirely by Warner Bros.

A special parent-child activity was arranged in the afternoon.

He took Janet and the little guy to Daenerys Cinema to watch the finished film "The Lion King". This is also the first time Simon came to Daenerys Cinema after taking a vacation.

Unfortunately, Melbourne, who was two months away from the age of two, was obviously not interested in cartoons. The little guy only stayed in the screening hall for less than ten minutes and was carried out by A.

Simon "fake private assistance" accompanied Janet and several executives of Daenerys Entertainment to watch the video.

It’s okay for several other movies. As one of the most important projects at the end of this year, Simon can’t completely ignore it.

Compared with the 2D version in memory, the 3D version of "The Lion King" seems to be perfect in Simon's opinion. The film's production budget alone reached $60 million, far exceeding the $35 million production cost of Pixar Studio's first "Toy Story", and most of the expenses are spent on improving the various 3D technologies required for the production of the film.

Although the expenses are huge, the entire Daenerys Entertainment management believes that such an investment is worth the money.

The outstanding box office and huge peripheral revenue of "Toy Story" have proved the broad market prospects of 3D animated films. Even if the box office of "The Lion King" is not satisfactory, the various technologies accumulated through this film can be applied to other animated films, unlike live-action films that can only be a one-time investment.

Out of confidence in "The Lion King", the scale of the film's promotion and promotion this time also reached US$30 million.

With a total investment of US$90 million in production and promotion, in addition to Simon, Daenerys Entertainment basically does not expect this movie to recover costs through North American distribution. What everyone pays more attention to is the peripheral output of "The Lion King" and the promotion of Daenerys Entertainment in the entire industrial chain such as records, games, theme parks, etc.

Because of the importance of this project, the schedule of the film has been carefully adjusted.

November 19.

This is the first week of the Thanksgiving schedule, and it will also span the entire end of the year, giving the film market the best space to play.

In order to make way for "The Lion King", Warner Bros., which originally intended to schedule Thanksgiving, was transferred to December 24 by Daenerys Entertainment. "Mission: Impossible", which followed "The Lion King" a week later, the two films will not cause too serious conflict due to the genre differences.

Simon actually considered driving Mission Impossible to Christmas, but it was too obvious and unnecessary to do so.

Speaking of which, news about the project "The Lion King" spread in Hollywood very early because it was a gift from Simon to Janet. Other Hollywood studios could judge Daenerys Entertainment always about this project without guessing. Therefore, the animated films or family comedy that may compete with "The Lion King" have taken the initiative to avoid this Thanksgiving.

Now we only need to wait for whether the 3D version of "The Lion King" can win the audience's love as it did in the original time and space.

After the screening, Janet kissed Simon on the face and left the screening room first.

Simon continued to listen to several executives introducing the promotion progress of "The Lion King" and the promotion strategies of peripheral products, and then left the screening room.

This screening room is located in the office Loft of Pixar Studios on the second floor of the Cinema.

After finishing watching the movie and meeting, the others left their own busy work, and Simon came to another office in the Pixar work area. John Lasseter personally introduced Simon to another 3D animated movie story version that he had just completed.

"Beauty and the Beast".

As a French fairy tale created in the 18th century, "Beauty and the Beast" no longer has copyright issues. When it was confirmed that Disney gave up the project, Simon asked Pixar to quietly prepare for the project.

Now that "The Lion King" has been completed, the team responsible for "The Lion King" will start directly producing "Beauty and the Beast".

Of course, it's also 3D version.

In addition, the production progress of "Toy Story 2" has been completed by most of the time, and the preliminary plan will be scheduled for the end of next year.

Finally finished work, Simon found Janet and his son playing in the rest area, and found that Veronica also appeared here, patiently accompanying Melbourne to build blocks.

Today is Friday, October 1st.

Veronica came at about the same time during this period, and Simon was about to leave and flew to San Francisco to spend the weekend with her female assistant.

After saying hello, I continued to play here for a while, and then we all returned to Dumei Point Manor together.

"There is not much financial problem in the United States Online, but the company seems to be too radical. Comprehensive technical audits and disguised price cuts in the nature of the month will definitely lead to the company's continued losses. If it continues to expand into other regions in the United States, the losses next year may reach the $1 billion level."

In the Dumei Point Manor, Veronica is introducing Simon to the results of her work during this period.

In the past six months, American Online has not only begun to fully upgrade the ADSL network, but also officially launched a monthly package of at least $29, completely changing the previous time-based charging model. In fact, it is a disguised large-scale price reduction.

Although the exclusive agreement was used to restrict several large operators in the US online business area from entering the ISP field, due to the development prospects of the Internet industry, many small Internet service providers have emerged within the sphere of influence of the US online in recent years.

ADSL network upgrade and monthly package plan have enabled AOL to gain a decisive market competitive advantage in one fell swoop, which is a completely devastating blow to other competitors.

Logically speaking, with these two sets of killing weapons, American Online should completely consolidate its existing sphere of influence before expanding, which seems to be more secure. However, neither ADSL nor monthly subscriptions cannot be imitated, especially the latter.

Therefore, American Online must quickly attack the other party's territory before other regional operators react.

To achieve this goal, there is actually only one way, burn money.

Unlike the original time and space, which only rents other operators' line networks to carry out Internet access services, the current American Online attaches great importance to the laying of its own network lines under the development strategy formulated by Simon.

Up to now, American Online has two trunk optical fibers running through the east and west coasts of the federal government in the United States, and the total length of optical cables that are exclusively owned in the entire North America has exceeded 150,000 kilometers, which all means huge capital investment.

In the past history, many operators fell into bankruptcy after the bursting of the Internet bubble.

However, there is nothing wrong with making large-scale infrastructure investments.

After the bursting of the Internet bubble, many companies' bankruptcies were more because of complete blind investment and financial fraud like the Enron incident.

Many new technology business operators don’t know what they should do, but just rush forward according to their inner herd mentality.

But the development goals of AOL are very clear.

Build a nationwide ADSL high-speed broadband network and promote the three-network integration process of telephone, television and broadband after the federal government lifts telecommunications controls.

ADSL technology is the future of Internet service providers. The former American Online missed the upgrade of dial-up Internet access to ADSL technology and quickly declined. Another reason is that the former American Online misunderstood its own development direction and ignored the construction of its own basic line network, but instead turned to Internet media with a large bubble.

Although AOL has also started its portal business, as long as the company is still under Simon's control, he will not allow AOL to follow the old path.

The current ADSL upgrade, monthly package and all-round expansion are somewhat radical, but the direction is not wrong.

According to a business principle of the Internet industry as I remember, this is a comprehensive dimensionality reduction strike against competitors, actively suppressing the industrial environment to the worst state, thereby eliminating competitors one by one.

If it is another startup or an operator who has just entered the ISP field, of course, he will not dare to do this, and in fact he does not have the ability to do this.

American Online, which has exceeded 26 million users in North America, already has such confidence, not to mention that there is a stronger Westeros system behind the scenes as support.

As long as it can unify the entire North American market, not to mention the annual loss of US$1 billion, even if it doubles, Simon has enough strength to make the United States Online lose more than five consecutive years.

Five years is enough to eliminate most competitors.

Simon did not conceal these ideas from Veronica, and explained them seriously, and finally said: "As long as AOL is not on the wrong path, temporary losses are acceptable. My only requirement is that the company's operating and financial situation is completely transparent, at least it is completely transparent to me, and there is no concealment or fraud."

Veronica didn't quite understand why Simon was able to determine that the current development route of AOL was correct, but she did not question it anymore, and understood what Simon said just now. He just needed her to help keep an eye on the company, and didn't have to care about anything else.

After chatting with Veronica for more than half an hour, Simon looked at the time and said goodbye to everyone, and took Girl A and a group of bodyguards to the airport.

Los Angeles International Airport.

The private Boeing 767 is ready, and there are others waiting for Simon here.

One of them is an agent under ICM, a middle-aged white man in his forties. The other is a tall and beautiful girl in his twenties who obviously has model attributes and is indeed a model named Natasha Hensquqi.

When the middle-aged man saw Simon, he came over very eagerly: "Hello, Mr. Westeros, I am Raul Bradley, Natasha's agent."

Simon shook hands with the other party, looked at Natasha Hensquitch next to the middle-aged man, and said, "Let's get on the plane first."

Of course everyone had no objection.

Everyone got on the plane together, and more than ten minutes later, the Boeing 767 took off from the runway.

After the plane stabilized, Simon gave a few brief explanations and took Natasha Hensquatch to the front cabin together.

Raul Bradley looked at the girl who followed Simon away, and was a little envious and a little regretful. The envy of him was naturally a young man who regretted that such a beautiful beauty would definitely not have the chance to get involved.

"Mr. Bradley?"

A figure in his ear immediately made Raul Bradley retract his gaze and cheered up to look at the A girl who was left by Simon: "Roel, Miss Norris, you can call me Raul."

Girl A nodded and said, "The boss has decided on "The Alien". What you have to do next is to arrange for Miss Hensquqi to receive certain performance training."

Raul Bradley nodded, thought for a while and said, "I discussed this project with MGM. You know, Natasha has no acting experience yet, will the production progress of the movie be a little urgent?"

"No," Alison shook his head, "The boss said that the heroine does not need acting skills in this movie."

Raul Bradley responded again, feeling a little moved.

How many people in Hollywood look forward to this opportunity without acting skills.

"So, that's what the movie is," Allison said, looking at Raul Bradley again, and said, "The next thing is the arrangement about Miss Hunsquech. First, ICM needs to give her an assistant, and she must be a woman. Secondly, this is very important. Mr. Bradley, within the next year, ICM must make sure that there will be no other women around Miss Hunsquech. Do you understand?"

"Of course," Raul Bradley nodded, and subconsciously said, "Is it only a year?"

Alison's tone did not change much, saying, "The longest year, maybe three months, maybe one month, maybe just one week."

“…”

Alison ignored Raul Bradley's expression change and continued: "Today, Miss Hunsquatch can choose a house in Los Angeles. ICM just needs to hand over the bill to me."

Raul Bradley hesitated and said, "Well, what is the price?"

Alison looked at Raul Bradley with great interest and said, "Miss Hunsquech can choose this yourself, as long as she thinks it is suitable."

Raul Bradley suddenly thought of some rumors in the circle, nodded, and felt a little envious again.

Since Westeros said that he would choose casually, it would be fine even if he chose a luxury house worth two to three million dollars. However, if you think about it carefully, if this is the case, it would probably be a problem for a certain vase to maintain this luxury house every year.

As a model who is barely considered a second-tier model, Natasha Hensquqi's income is not high. Even if he relies on the opportunity of "The Alien" to become famous, because of the positioning of the vase, he will still be considered a second-tier in Haolai in the future.

Alison waited for a moment, looked at the middle-aged man opposite and said, "One more thing, has Mr. Bradley and Miss Hensquatch brought the medical examination report?"

"Oh, of course."

Raul Bradley's expression flashed with some weirdness, but he hurriedly took out a document from his briefcase and handed it over.

Alison took the document, said nothing, and carefully looked through it.
Chapter completed!