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Before igritte's first public financing, Simon had quietly started the location plan of igritte headquarters.
In fact, it doesn't need too much selection.
According to the information in his memory, Simon directly picked the plot of Google's Park in the original time and space, which is located in mountain view city, just south of Palo Alto.
The site selection of large-scale enterprise parks almost inevitably leads to the rise of land prices in the surrounding areas. Simon doesn't mind paying more money, but he doesn't want to see nail households on the plots he chooses. It's very difficult for nail households in the United States to remove them.
Therefore, a few months in advance, Simon began to acquire the land in the area related to mountain view city through his agent.
Although Silicon Valley is now very developed, its main area is still limited to Stanford University anniversary in Palo Alto. Mountain view, Sunnyvale and Cupertino in the south are still very backward. There are no big companies in ten or twenty years. Many places are even large farms and wasteland.
Simon selected the site where Google park is located in memory. At present, it is composed of farms and wasteland, with few households.
After several months of quiet operation, Simon's agent company has unknowingly eaten about 60 hectares of land in the area of more than 10000 hectares of land to be developed, which is located in the north of mountain view city to the east of Palo Alto, near the bay. The main purpose is to remove the "nail households" in this area in advance.
Next, we only need to discuss the acquisition with the government of Shanjing city.
In fact, even the existing 60 hectares of land, if not scattered, is more than enough to build the igritte company Park. However, due to some deep-rooted personal preferences, Simon is not tired of buying land.
With the completion of the $1.5 billion financing of igrit, the news that this increasingly dazzling new technology enterprise is about to build a headquarters park quickly spread.
The key to why Amazon's choice of the second headquarters in memory has attracted the competition of numerous large American cities is that the settlement of large enterprises inevitably means a huge tax source.
Amazon is good at tax avoidance, and even can operate its own corporate tax rate as a negative number, but tens of thousands of Amazon employees can not avoid personal income tax,
the more developed countries are, the greater the proportion of personal income tax in national tax.
The personal income tax in the United States accounts for about 50% of the total federal tax revenue. The employees of high-tech companies are the highest quality high-income group among individual taxpayers.
Therefore, when the news about the location of igritte's headquarters spreads, the whole bay area moves one after another. Whether it's Redwood, Monroe Park in the north, Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley in the north, mountain view, Sunnyvale or Cupertino in the south, the administrative officials of each city almost catch up with several igritte's executives every day, even if they think they are from the West It is not likely to introduce igritte into the home area, and it is not easy to miss the opportunity to try.
Tim Berners Lee has known the location of the company's Park for a long time. Although they all want to set up the company's headquarters in Palo Alto nearby, it's not difficult for Palo Alto to carve out dozens of acres of land at this stage. However, the land near the Bay in the north of mountain view is not too bad, and the straight-line distance from Stanford University is only about 7km Right.
After a low-key negotiation with several major cities in Nanwan district for more than a month, we finally "selected" the preferential tax scheme given by Shanjing City, and quickly set aside a full 300 hectares of land on the barren land near the sea in the north of Shanjing city.
300 hectares, more than 700 acres.
Although far less than the 8000 acres that the Stanford couple donated to Stanford University, 300 hectares of land for a company's headquarters is also a bit of an eye opener.
In fact, if it wasn't for the mountain view city, the government wouldn't dare to approve too much. Simon would like to get at least 500 hectares of land.
Even so, when the news was officially announced in the middle of May, it immediately aroused doubts from the San Francisco Bay area media.
You know, even Hewlett Packard, an old Silicon Valley company, only owns a 12 hectare Office Park in Palo Alto, and igritte company eats 300 hectare of land at one time. Is this the plan to build an office villa for every employee?
After several years of downturn, the real estate market in the United States has shown signs of recovery.
Therefore, many media have publicly accused igritte company of a large number of land under the circle of impure motives, with obvious speculation suspicion.
With the disclosure of more information, the media found that the main enterprise that bought the land was westero company, and igritte company took over 20 hectares of land from westero company at the same price, which was planned to be used for the construction of office park, so the media became more noisy.
Westero company, this is a firm promise to set foot in the real estate industry.
However, after the disclosure of the detailed information, the media from all sides criticized that they did not know what to do.
In fact, igritte only got 30 hectares of land, which is much larger than HP's 12 hectares, but it's not too much. As for the enclosure of westero, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.The coastal area in the north of Shanjing city is a barren area to be developed. If enterprises are willing to take over the development, it will be beneficial to the city to a large extent.
What's more, there's no rule that Westeros can't get involved in real estate?
What's more, the industries and regions that Simon westero is interested in, as long as they are not too slow, should understand that they are very worthy of a bet.
As a result, the uproar in the media is not over, and a large number of capitals have turned their attention to the northern part of Shanjing City, which is a land area of more than 10000 hectares, and have made requests to the government of Shanjing city or the farmers who still stick to the area to buy land.
This also led to the fact that in the following short week, it was said that some enterprises' quotations for purchasing land increased by 30% on the basis of westero's purchase price. Taking Palo Alto as the boundary, the development of several cities in the south of the South Bay district had been lagging behind Redwood, Monroe Park and other cities in the north.
Mountain view was suddenly sought after, and district administrators were ecstatic.
In most countries and regions of the world, there are no more than a few standards to measure the performance of the principal officials.
With the development of the current momentum, the growth rate of tax and employment index of mountain view city in the next few years will definitely exceed that of other cities in the bay area.
Simon arrived in San Francisco on May 20, spent a whole day planning the igritte headquarters park, and went through the plot in the north of mountain view.
300 hectares of land, the southern border is adjacent to the 101 highway running through California, and the east side is close to the Stevens river running straight down from the southern mountains and across the mountain view city. The land is generally rectangular, about 1.2 km wide from east to west, and about 2.5 km long from North to south, which can be said to be the best land in the northern area of mountain view city.
The planned igrit park is located in the center of this high-quality plot, far away from the noisy 101 expressway.
As for the remaining land, Simon considered some plans and gave 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 surely feel that the 300 hectares of land that westero ate with us $230 million this time is definitely a failure in a failure.
Simon doesn't care.
Just like Tasmania, which is still buying in Australia, now he has such willful capital.
It doesn't matter if you plant trees and grass, or even if it's simply barren, as long as the land is your own.
It's very practical to step on it.
I stayed in San Francisco for one day, returned to Los Angeles in the evening, and flew to New York in the early morning of the next day.
Recently, it's the season of TV series promotion in New York.
Television business is the focus of danielis Entertainment's expansion in the next few years. Simon specially takes time to fly to the east coast to follow up some things.
Meanwhile, May 21, another Friday.
After the warm-up of several films last week, such as "fight against the eagle 2", "Bruce Lee" and "my gifted family", the summer program of 1993 officially opened.
The most popular blockbuster movie of the week is undoubtedly the action blockbuster, starring Sylvester Stallone, produced by Columbia Pictures' SamSung company. The movie costs $70 million and has 2333 screens in the first week.
In addition, the comedy "made in America" starring ubie Goldberg was also shown at the same time, with 2048 screens.
Stallone's "the wind of the mountains" and Schwarzenegger's "phantom hero", scheduled for June 18, are two blockbusters released by Columbia Pictures this summer. The production cost of the latter is as high as $85 million.
Last year, Columbia Pictures tried to work with Denise entertainment to develop phantom hero, but Simon refused.
Compared with Colombia's complacency, Simon knows very well that these two films are two big holes for Columbia's parent company Sony.
It was the failure of these two projects that led Sony to lose its patience with Columbia leader Peter Cooper, and even wanted to sell the big studio again.
Boarded the plane to the east coast, a girl will just come out last week's box office data to Simon's hands.
Sitting in the front cabin Office of Boeing 767, Simon opened last week's box office report and first found the box office data of the new week of Easter season "R & D 2".
Since its release on April 9, the movie has been on for six weeks.
At the beginning of the first week, it was US $43.67 million, with a drop of 39% in the next week. In the following weeks, relying on the popularity of the series and the lack of competitors' advantages in the same period, the box office curve of "fight smart star 2" was stable.
From May 14 to May 20, compared with the fifth week, the weekly decline of "anti fight smart star 2" reached 23%, and continued to earn $8.96 million.
In six weeks, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 124.55 million US dollars.
Through the box office of the next week, danelis entertainment predicted that the total box office of "fight smart 2" in North America will be between 130 million and 150 million US dollars.Now, six weeks after its release, according to the statistics of box office curve drawn for one and a half months, the publicity and distribution team further predicted that the final North American box office of the film should be about 145 million US dollars, with an error of no more than 3 million US dollars.
With a total budget of US $45 million for production and promotion, danelis entertainment will get a net income of US $35 million at the domestic box office of US $145 million.
Compared with the local market, the movie still fails to break through the cultural restrictions of the overseas market.
According to the data feedback of overseas ticket warehouses such as Britain, Spain and Australia, the film can only recover about $70 million in the overseas market.
Of course, for a comedy movie, the global box office is more than 200 million dollars, which is a big sale in any case.
Relying on the box office revenue of more than 120 million US dollars in six weeks, "fight smart star 2" is not only the first domestic film with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars in 1993, but also the top box office in North America in 1993.
In the past few months since the return to the first half of the year, there are not many successful projects.
In addition to the blockbuster 2, only Columbia Pictures' groundhog day, starring Bill Murray, is a big hit. "Groundhog Day" opened in February on Valentine's day. As of last week, it has grossed 66.32 million US dollars, and is expected to reach 70 million US dollars before the next show.
Simon actually paid close attention to groundhog day at the beginning, but he didn't grab the script because of the idea that daenerys entertainment couldn't occupy all the box office projects.
The third place on the annual list is a civil war history film "like an old friend" starring Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster. It was released by Warner Bros. on February 5 and has been released, with a total box office of $50.08 million.
Simon has seen the film.
The original is starring Richard Kiel and Judy foster.
This time, because of Simon's big butterfly, Richard Kiel's role in "pretty girl" falls on Pierce Brosnan, and the role in "like an old friend" is replaced by Brosnan.
It's no coincidence.
Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster are both ICM artists, and both belong to the same agent.
The three major brokerage companies are now promoting the project packaging mechanism.
When Pierce Brosnan came to the top with "pretty girl", ICM naturally tended to match him with Judy foster instead of Richard Kiel, who lost "pretty girl".
In addition to "fight smart 2", three brands of danielis entertainment have launched 15 films by the middle of May, but there are no other black horses at the box office except "fight smart 2".
One of the most outstanding box office movies is the Mexican drama "love chocolate", which was released by gaomen film on February 19. This is an award-winning film of last year's Tokyo International Film Festival. Gaomen film bought out the distribution right in North America with us $2 million. After the release, the cumulative box office was US $21.66 million, which is a small dark horse.
"The vast sea of algae", which was released on Easter on April 16, has grossed US $15.39 million in the five weeks since its first week of production with us $4.67 million, and is expected to break the US $20 million mark before placing an order.
"Wedding banquet", the Golden Bear award work of Berlin Film Festival, was released in early March, taking advantage of the popularity of Golden Bear award. In two months, the cumulative box office was 12.07 million US dollars, and the revenue was also considerable.
In addition to these four films, the box office of the other 11 films is less than 10 million US dollars, which is basically a loss and a gain.
This is actually what the company expected.
The key films of danielis entertainment, especially the films produced by danielis pictures, are mainly released in the second half of the year.
What's more, in the first half of this year, danielis entertainment will be able to produce a movie named "anti fight smart 2", which is temporarily the annual box office champion, as well as other profitable projects such as "love chocolate", "boundless algae sea" and "wedding banquet", which is enough for other Hollywood film companies to envy.
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Before igritte's first public financing, Simon had quietly started the location plan of igritte headquarters.
In fact, it doesn't need too much selection.
According to the information in his memory, Simon directly picked the plot of Google's Park in the original time and space, which is located in mountain view city, just south of Palo Alto.
The site selection of large-scale enterprise parks almost inevitably leads to the rise of land prices in the surrounding areas. Simon doesn't mind paying more money, but he doesn't want to see nail households on the plots he chooses. It's very difficult for nail households in the United States to remove them.
Therefore, a few months in advance, Simon began to acquire the land in the area related to mountain view city through his agent.
Although Silicon Valley is now very developed, its main area is still limited to Stanford University anniversary in Palo Alto. Mountain view, Sunnyvale and Cupertino in the south are still very backward. There are no big companies in ten or twenty years. Many places are even large farms and wasteland.
Simon selected the site where Google park is located in memory. At present, it is composed of farms and wasteland, with few households.
After several months of quiet operation, Simon's agent company has unknowingly eaten about 60 hectares of land in the area of more than 10000 hectares of land to be developed, which is located in the north of mountain view city to the east of Palo Alto, near the bay. The main purpose is to remove the "nail households" in this area in advance.
Next, we only need to discuss the acquisition with the government of Shanjing city.
In fact, even the existing 60 hectares of land, if not scattered, is more than enough to build the igritte company Park. However, due to some deep-rooted personal preferences, Simon is not tired of buying land.
With the completion of the $1.5 billion financing of igrit, the news that this increasingly dazzling new technology enterprise is about to build a headquarters park quickly spread.
The key to why Amazon's choice of the second headquarters in memory has attracted the competition of numerous large American cities is that the settlement of large enterprises inevitably means a huge tax source.
Amazon is good at tax avoidance, and even can operate its own corporate tax rate as a negative number, but tens of thousands of Amazon employees can not avoid personal income tax,
the more developed countries are, the greater the proportion of personal income tax in national tax.
The personal income tax in the United States accounts for about 50% of the total federal tax revenue. The employees of high-tech companies are the highest quality high-income group among individual taxpayers.
Therefore, when the news about the location of igritte's headquarters spreads, the whole bay area moves one after another. Whether it's Redwood, Monroe Park in the north, Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley in the north, mountain view, Sunnyvale or Cupertino in the south, the administrative officials of each city almost catch up with several igritte's executives every day, even if they think they are from the West It is not likely to introduce igritte into the home area, and it is not easy to miss the opportunity to try.
Tim Berners Lee has known the location of the company's Park for a long time. Although they all want to set up the company's headquarters in Palo Alto nearby, it's not difficult for Palo Alto to carve out dozens of acres of land at this stage. However, the land near the Bay in the north of mountain view is not too bad, and the straight-line distance from Stanford University is only about 7km Right.
After a low-key negotiation with several major cities in Nanwan district for more than a month, we finally "selected" the preferential tax scheme given by Shanjing City, and quickly set aside a full 300 hectares of land on the barren land near the sea in the north of Shanjing city.
300 hectares, more than 700 acres.
Although far less than the 8000 acres that the Stanford couple donated to Stanford University, 300 hectares of land for a company's headquarters is also a bit of an eye opener.
In fact, if it wasn't for the mountain view city, the government wouldn't dare to approve too much. Simon would like to get at least 500 hectares of land.
Even so, when the news was officially announced in the middle of May, it immediately aroused doubts from the San Francisco Bay area media.
You know, even Hewlett Packard, an old Silicon Valley company, only owns a 12 hectare Office Park in Palo Alto, and igritte company eats 300 hectare of land at one time. Is this the plan to build an office villa for every employee?
After several years of downturn, the real estate market in the United States has shown signs of recovery.
Therefore, many media have publicly accused igritte company of a large number of land under the circle of impure motives, with obvious speculation suspicion.
With the disclosure of more information, the media found that the main enterprise that bought the land was westero company, and igritte company took over 20 hectares of land from westero company at the same price, which was planned to be used for the construction of office park, so the media became more noisy.
Westero company, this is a firm promise to set foot in the real estate industry.
However, after the disclosure of the detailed information, the media from all sides criticized that they did not know what to do.
In fact, igritte only got 30 hectares of land, which is much larger than HP's 12 hectares, but it's not too much. As for the enclosure of westero, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.The coastal area in the north of Shanjing city is a barren area to be developed. If enterprises are willing to take over the development, it will be beneficial to the city to a large extent.
What's more, there's no rule that Westeros can't get involved in real estate?
What's more, the industries and regions that Simon westero is interested in, as long as they are not too slow, should understand that they are very worthy of a bet.
As a result, the uproar in the media is not over, and a large number of capitals have turned their attention to the northern part of Shanjing City, which is a land area of more than 10000 hectares, and have made requests to the government of Shanjing city or the farmers who still stick to the area to buy land.
This also led to the fact that in the following short week, it was said that some enterprises' quotations for purchasing land increased by 30% on the basis of westero's purchase price. Taking Palo Alto as the boundary, the development of several cities in the south of the South Bay district had been lagging behind Redwood, Monroe Park and other cities in the north.
Mountain view was suddenly sought after, and district administrators were ecstatic.
In most countries and regions of the world, there are no more than a few standards to measure the performance of the principal officials.
With the development of the current momentum, the growth rate of tax and employment index of mountain view city in the next few years will definitely exceed that of other cities in the bay area.
Simon arrived in San Francisco on May 20, spent a whole day planning the igritte headquarters park, and went through the plot in the north of mountain view.
300 hectares of land, the southern border is adjacent to the 101 highway running through California, and the east side is close to the Stevens river running straight down from the southern mountains and across the mountain view city. The land is generally rectangular, about 1.2 km wide from east to west, and about 2.5 km long from North to south, which can be said to be the best land in the northern area of mountain view city.
The planned igrit park is located in the center of this high-quality plot, far away from the noisy 101 expressway.
As for the remaining land, Simon considered some plans and gave 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 surely feel that the 300 hectares of land that westero ate with us $230 million this time is definitely a failure in a failure.
Simon doesn't care.
Just like Tasmania, which is still buying in Australia, now he has such willful capital.
It doesn't matter if you plant trees and grass, or even if it's simply barren, as long as the land is your own.
It's very practical to step on it.
I stayed in San Francisco for one day, returned to Los Angeles in the evening, and flew to New York in the early morning of the next day.
Recently, it's the season of TV series promotion in New York.
Television business is the focus of danielis Entertainment's expansion in the next few years. Simon specially takes time to fly to the east coast to follow up some things.
Meanwhile, May 21, another Friday.
After the warm-up of several films last week, such as "fight against the eagle 2", "Bruce Lee" and "my gifted family", the summer program of 1993 officially opened.
The most popular blockbuster movie of the week is undoubtedly the action blockbuster, starring Sylvester Stallone, produced by Columbia Pictures' SamSung company. The movie costs $70 million and has 2333 screens in the first week.
In addition, the comedy "made in America" starring ubie Goldberg was also shown at the same time, with 2048 screens.
Stallone's "the wind of the mountains" and Schwarzenegger's "phantom hero", scheduled for June 18, are two blockbusters released by Columbia Pictures this summer. The production cost of the latter is as high as $85 million.
Last year, Columbia Pictures tried to work with Denise entertainment to develop phantom hero, but Simon refused.
Compared with Colombia's complacency, Simon knows very well that these two films are two big holes for Columbia's parent company Sony.
It was the failure of these two projects that led Sony to lose its patience with Columbia leader Peter Cooper, and even wanted to sell the big studio again.
Boarded the plane to the east coast, a girl will just come out last week's box office data to Simon's hands.
Sitting in the front cabin Office of Boeing 767, Simon opened last week's box office report and first found the box office data of the new week of Easter season "R & D 2".
Since its release on April 9, the movie has been on for six weeks.
At the beginning of the first week, it was US $43.67 million, with a drop of 39% in the next week. In the following weeks, relying on the popularity of the series and the lack of competitors' advantages in the same period, the box office curve of "fight smart star 2" was stable.
From May 14 to May 20, compared with the fifth week, the weekly decline of "anti fight smart star 2" reached 23%, and continued to earn $8.96 million.
In six weeks, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 124.55 million US dollars.
Through the box office of the next week, danelis entertainment predicted that the total box office of "fight smart 2" in North America will be between 130 million and 150 million US dollars.Now, six weeks after its release, according to the statistics of box office curve drawn for one and a half months, the publicity and distribution team further predicted that the final North American box office of the film should be about 145 million US dollars, with an error of no more than 3 million US dollars.
With a total budget of US $45 million for production and promotion, danelis entertainment will get a net income of US $35 million at the domestic box office of US $145 million.
Compared with the local market, the movie still fails to break through the cultural restrictions of the overseas market.
According to the data feedback of overseas ticket warehouses such as Britain, Spain and Australia, the film can only recover about $70 million in the overseas market.
Of course, for a comedy movie, the global box office is more than 200 million dollars, which is a big sale in any case.
Relying on the box office revenue of more than 120 million US dollars in six weeks, "fight smart star 2" is not only the first domestic film with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars in 1993, but also the top box office in North America in 1993.
In the past few months since the return to the first half of the year, there are not many successful projects.
In addition to the blockbuster 2, only Columbia Pictures' groundhog day, starring Bill Murray, is a big hit. "Groundhog Day" opened in February on Valentine's day. As of last week, it has grossed 66.32 million US dollars, and is expected to reach 70 million US dollars before the next show.
Simon actually paid close attention to groundhog day at the beginning, but he didn't grab the script because of the idea that daenerys entertainment couldn't occupy all the box office projects.
The third place on the annual list is a civil war history film "like an old friend" starring Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster. It was released by Warner Bros. on February 5 and has been released, with a total box office of $50.08 million.
Simon has seen the film.
The original is starring Richard Kiel and Judy foster.
This time, because of Simon's big butterfly, Richard Kiel's role in "pretty girl" falls on Pierce Brosnan, and the role in "like an old friend" is replaced by Brosnan.
It's no coincidence.
Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster are both ICM artists, and both belong to the same agent.
The three major brokerage companies are now promoting the project packaging mechanism.
When Pierce Brosnan came to the top with "pretty girl", ICM naturally tended to match him with Judy foster instead of Richard Kiel, who lost "pretty girl".
In addition to "fight smart 2", three brands of danielis entertainment have launched 15 films by the middle of May, but there are no other black horses at the box office except "fight smart 2".
One of the most outstanding box office movies is the Mexican drama "love chocolate", which was released by gaomen film on February 19. This is an award-winning film of last year's Tokyo International Film Festival. Gaomen film bought out the distribution right in North America with us $2 million. After the release, the cumulative box office was US $21.66 million, which is a small dark horse.
"The vast sea of algae", which was released on Easter on April 16, has grossed US $15.39 million in the five weeks since its first week of production with us $4.67 million, and is expected to break the US $20 million mark before placing an order.
"Wedding banquet", the Golden Bear award work of Berlin Film Festival, was released in early March, taking advantage of the popularity of Golden Bear award. In two months, the cumulative box office was 12.07 million US dollars, and the revenue was also considerable.
In addition to these four films, the box office of the other 11 films is less than 10 million US dollars, which is basically a loss and a gain.
This is actually what the company expected.
The key films of danielis entertainment, especially the films produced by danielis pictures, are mainly released in the second half of the year.
What's more, in the first half of this year, danielis entertainment will be able to produce a movie named "anti fight smart 2", which is temporarily the annual box office champion, as well as other profitable projects such as "love chocolate", "boundless algae sea" and "wedding banquet", which is enough for other Hollywood film companies to envy.
Before igritte's first public financing, Simon had quietly started the location plan of igritte headquarters. In fact, it doesn't need too much selection. According to the information in his memory, Simon directly picked the plot of Google's Park in the original time and space, which is located in mountain view city, just south of Palo Alto. The site selection of large-scale enterprise parks almost inevitably leads to the rise of land prices in the surrounding areas. Simon doesn't mind paying more money, but he doesn't want to see nail households on the plots he chooses. It's very difficult for nail households in the United States to remove them. Therefore, a few months in advance, Simon began to acquire the land in the area related to mountain view city through his agent. Although Silicon Valley is now very developed, its main area is still limited to Stanford University anniversary in Palo Alto. Mountain view, Sunnyvale and Cupertino in the south are still very backward. There are no big companies in ten or twenty years. Many places are even large farms and wasteland. Simon selected the site where Google park is located in memory. At present, it is composed of farms and wasteland, with few households. After several months of quiet operation, Simon's agent company has unknowingly eaten about 60 hectares of land in the area of more than 10000 hectares of land to be developed, which is located in the north of mountain view city to the east of Palo Alto, near the bay. The main purpose is to remove the "nail households" in this area in advance. Next, we only need to discuss the acquisition with the government of Shanjing city. In fact, even the existing 60 hectares of land, if not scattered, is more than enough to build the igritte company Park. However, due to some deep-rooted personal preferences, Simon is not tired of buying land. With the completion of the $1.5 billion financing of igrit, the news that this increasingly dazzling new technology enterprise is about to build a headquarters park quickly spread. The key to why Amazon's choice of the second headquarters in memory has attracted the competition of numerous large American cities is that the settlement of large enterprises inevitably means a huge tax source. Amazon is good at tax avoidance, and even can operate its own corporate tax rate as a negative number, but tens of thousands of Amazon employees can not avoid personal income tax, the more developed countries are, the greater the proportion of personal income tax in national tax. The personal income tax in the United States accounts for about 50% of the total federal tax revenue. The employees of high-tech companies are the highest quality high-income group among individual taxpayers. Therefore, when the news about the location of igritte's headquarters spreads, the whole bay area moves one after another. Whether it's Redwood, Monroe Park in the north, Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley in the north, mountain view, Sunnyvale or Cupertino in the south, the administrative officials of each city almost catch up with several igritte's executives every day, even if they think they are from the West It is not likely to introduce igritte into the home area, and it is not easy to miss the opportunity to try. Tim Berners Lee has known the location of the company's Park for a long time. Although they all want to set up the company's headquarters in Palo Alto nearby, it's not difficult for Palo Alto to carve out dozens of acres of land at this stage. However, the land near the Bay in the north of mountain view is not too bad, and the straight-line distance from Stanford University is only about 7km Right. After a low-key negotiation with several major cities in Nanwan district for more than a month, we finally "selected" the preferential tax scheme given by Shanjing City, and quickly set aside a full 300 hectares of land on the barren land near the sea in the north of Shanjing city. 300 hectares, more than 700 acres. Although far less than the 8000 acres that the Stanford couple donated to Stanford University, 300 hectares of land for a company's headquarters is also a bit of an eye opener. In fact, if it wasn't for the mountain view city, the government wouldn't dare to approve too much. Simon would like to get at least 500 hectares of land. Even so, when the news was officially announced in the middle of May, it immediately aroused doubts from the San Francisco Bay area media. You know, even Hewlett Packard, an old Silicon Valley company, only owns a 12 hectare Office Park in Palo Alto, and igritte company eats 300 hectare of land at one time. Is this the plan to build an office villa for every employee? After several years of downturn, the real estate market in the United States has shown signs of recovery. Therefore, many media have publicly accused igritte company of a large number of land under the circle of impure motives, with obvious speculation suspicion. With the disclosure of more information, the media found that the main enterprise that bought the land was westero company, and igritte company took over 20 hectares of land from westero company at the same price, which was planned to be used for the construction of office park, so the media became more noisy. Westero company, this is a firm promise to set foot in the real estate industry. However, after the disclosure of the detailed information, the media from all sides criticized that they did not know what to do. In fact, igritte only got 30 hectares of land, which is much larger than HP's 12 hectares, but it's not too much. As for the enclosure of westero, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.The coastal area in the north of Shanjing city is a barren area to be developed. If enterprises are willing to take over the development, it will be beneficial to the city to a large extent. What's more, there's no rule that Westeros can't get involved in real estate? What's more, the industries and regions that Simon westero is interested in, as long as they are not too slow, should understand that they are very worthy of a bet. As a result, the uproar in the media is not over, and a large number of capitals have turned their attention to the northern part of Shanjing City, which is a land area of more than 10000 hectares, and have made requests to the government of Shanjing city or the farmers who still stick to the area to buy land. This also led to the fact that in the following short week, it was said that some enterprises' quotations for purchasing land increased by 30% on the basis of westero's purchase price. Taking Palo Alto as the boundary, the development of several cities in the south of the South Bay district had been lagging behind Redwood, Monroe Park and other cities in the north. Mountain view was suddenly sought after, and district administrators were ecstatic. In most countries and regions of the world, there are no more than a few standards to measure the performance of the principal officials. With the development of the current momentum, the growth rate of tax and employment index of mountain view city in the next few years will definitely exceed that of other cities in the bay area. Simon arrived in San Francisco on May 20, spent a whole day planning the igritte headquarters park, and went through the plot in the north of mountain view. 300 hectares of land, the southern border is adjacent to the 101 highway running through California, and the east side is close to the Stevens river running straight down from the southern mountains and across the mountain view city. The land is generally rectangular, about 1.2 km wide from east to west, and about 2.5 km long from North to south, which can be said to be the best land in the northern area of mountain view city. The planned igrit park is located in the center of this high-quality plot, far away from the noisy 101 expressway. As for the remaining land, Simon considered some plans and gave 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 surely feel that the 300 hectares of land that westero ate with us $230 million this time is definitely a failure in a failure. Simon doesn't care. Just like Tasmania, which is still buying in Australia, now he has such willful capital. It doesn't matter if you plant trees and grass, or even if it's simply barren, as long as the land is your own. It's very practical to step on it. I stayed in San Francisco for one day, returned to Los Angeles in the evening, and flew to New York in the early morning of the next day. Recently, it's the season of TV series promotion in New York. Television business is the focus of danielis Entertainment's expansion in the next few years. Simon specially takes time to fly to the east coast to follow up some things. Meanwhile, May 21, another Friday. After the warm-up of several films last week, such as "fight against the eagle 2", "Bruce Lee" and "my gifted family", the summer program of 1993 officially opened. The most popular blockbuster movie of the week is undoubtedly the action blockbuster, starring Sylvester Stallone, produced by Columbia Pictures' SamSung company. The movie costs $70 million and has 2333 screens in the first week. In addition, the comedy "made in America" starring ubie Goldberg was also shown at the same time, with 2048 screens. Stallone's "the wind of the mountains" and Schwarzenegger's "phantom hero", scheduled for June 18, are two blockbusters released by Columbia Pictures this summer. The production cost of the latter is as high as $85 million. Last year, Columbia Pictures tried to work with Denise entertainment to develop phantom hero, but Simon refused. Compared with Colombia's complacency, Simon knows very well that these two films are two big holes for Columbia's parent company Sony. It was the failure of these two projects that led Sony to lose its patience with Columbia leader Peter Cooper, and even wanted to sell the big studio again. Boarded the plane to the east coast, a girl will just come out last week's box office data to Simon's hands. Sitting in the front cabin Office of Boeing 767, Simon opened last week's box office report and first found the box office data of the new week of Easter season "R & D 2". Since its release on April 9, the movie has been on for six weeks. At the beginning of the first week, it was US $43.67 million, with a drop of 39% in the next week. In the following weeks, relying on the popularity of the series and the lack of competitors' advantages in the same period, the box office curve of "fight smart star 2" was stable. From May 14 to May 20, compared with the fifth week, the weekly decline of "anti fight smart star 2" reached 23%, and continued to earn $8.96 million. In six weeks, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 124.55 million US dollars. Through the box office of the next week, danelis entertainment predicted that the total box office of "fight smart 2" in North America will be between 130 million and 150 million US dollars.Now, six weeks after its release, according to the statistics of box office curve drawn for one and a half months, the publicity and distribution team further predicted that the final North American box office of the film should be about 145 million US dollars, with an error of no more than 3 million US dollars. With a total budget of US $45 million for production and promotion, danelis entertainment will get a net income of US $35 million at the domestic box office of US $145 million. Compared with the local market, the movie still fails to break through the cultural restrictions of the overseas market. According to the data feedback of overseas ticket warehouses such as Britain, Spain and Australia, the film can only recover about $70 million in the overseas market. Of course, for a comedy movie, the global box office is more than 200 million dollars, which is a big sale in any case. Relying on the box office revenue of more than 120 million US dollars in six weeks, "fight smart star 2" is not only the first domestic film with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars in 1993, but also the top box office in North America in 1993. In the past few months since the return to the first half of the year, there are not many successful projects. In addition to the blockbuster 2, only Columbia Pictures' groundhog day, starring Bill Murray, is a big hit. "Groundhog Day" opened in February on Valentine's day. As of last week, it has grossed 66.32 million US dollars, and is expected to reach 70 million US dollars before the next show. Simon actually paid close attention to groundhog day at the beginning, but he didn't grab the script because of the idea that daenerys entertainment couldn't occupy all the box office projects. The third place on the annual list is a civil war history film "like an old friend" starring Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster. It was released by Warner Bros. on February 5 and has been released, with a total box office of $50.08 million. Simon has seen the film. The original is starring Richard Kiel and Judy foster. This time, because of Simon's big butterfly, Richard Kiel's role in "pretty girl" falls on Pierce Brosnan, and the role in "like an old friend" is replaced by Brosnan. It's no coincidence. Pierce Brosnan and Judy foster are both ICM artists, and both belong to the same agent. The three major brokerage companies are now promoting the project packaging mechanism. When Pierce Brosnan came to the top with "pretty girl", ICM naturally tended to match him with Judy foster instead of Richard Kiel, who lost "pretty girl". In addition to "fight smart 2", three brands of danielis entertainment have launched 15 films by the middle of May, but there are no other black horses at the box office except "fight smart 2". One of the most outstanding box office movies is the Mexican drama "love chocolate", which was released by gaomen film on February 19. This is an award-winning film of last year's Tokyo International Film Festival. Gaomen film bought out the distribution right in North America with us $2 million. After the release, the cumulative box office was US $21.66 million, which is a small dark horse. "The vast sea of algae", which was released on Easter on April 16, has grossed US $15.39 million in the five weeks since its first week of production with us $4.67 million, and is expected to break the US $20 million mark before placing an order. "Wedding banquet", the Golden Bear award work of Berlin Film Festival, was released in early March, taking advantage of the popularity of Golden Bear award. In two months, the cumulative box office was 12.07 million US dollars, and the revenue was also considerable. In addition to these four films, the box office of the other 11 films is less than 10 million US dollars, which is basically a loss and a gain. This is actually what the company expected. The key films of danielis entertainment, especially the films produced by danielis pictures, are mainly released in the second half of the year. What's more, in the first half of this year, danielis entertainment will be able to produce a movie named "anti fight smart 2", which is temporarily the annual box office champion, as well as other profitable projects such as "love chocolate", "boundless algae sea" and "wedding banquet", which is enough for other Hollywood film companies to envy.
