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Bill spelt's promotion was not just due to a party, of course. Simon added fuel to the situation by deliberately letting James Leibold go to find out about spelt and make a dig gesture.
Another easy game of habit.
No matter whether it can be used in the future, it will not be harmful.
Simon just didn't expect that UBS would have the courage to directly promote bill spatter to the position of head of major business department. Although he was only promoted two grades in a row on the surface, many investment bank employees may not be able to cross any threshold in their whole career.
Of course, Simon doesn't spend too much energy on such trifles.
After the two sides reached a settlement, the Hurst family made public the news the next day. The other side originally wanted to be ambiguous, but Simon didn't give them the opportunity. The New York Post then revealed the details of the settlement in a more gossipy tone, including the $1 sale of ESPN shares and the total compensation of $370 million in six lawsuits.
Simon is to use the "tragic" experience of the Hurst family to frighten all potential opponents of the westero system.
According to the feedback during this period, the effect is very obvious. The media in North America has formed an obvious chilling effect when discussing matters related to the westero system. After all, the powerful Hurst group has lost half its life in front of Simon westero. In the whole United States, there are absolutely few media forces that surpass the Hurst family.
Without the constraints of the westrow system, the Hurst family restarted the asset sale some time ago. According to the preliminary feedback, it could recover about US $300 million, equivalent to 60% of the discount.
Metro ABC Group, the parent company of ABC TV network, also submitted a transaction application to the Hurst family under Simon's insidious instruction, hoping to buy back 50% of the shares of AE TV network held by the Hurst family. The offer price is US $200 million, which is equivalent to a 50% discount on the original price. Even after a bit of bargaining, the price will not be increased too much.
The Hurst family was still hesitant to raise more money by selling which assets, and ABC's invitation helped them make a good decision.
Two deals, 500 million dollars in cash, are basically enough for the Hurst family to survive.
It's also easy for people to find that the total value of the remaining assets of the Hurst family is actually less than $1 billion, excluding the almost free shares of ESPN and the assets to be sold. It took only three months for a century old media family with a total family assets of 2.5 billion US dollars to fall into this situation.
Moreover, even if we get through the difficulties temporarily, the troubles of the Hurst family are far from over.
For example, the San Francisco Chronicle, which accounts for almost half of the Hurst family's remaining assets, has become more and more popular in the San Francisco area because of the increasing popularity of personal computers and the targeted operation of the westero system in the previous few months. Many residents have shifted their access to news and information from the paper media to the Internet. As a result, the number of subscribers to the San Francisco Chronicle has declined in the past A quarter to the naked eye continued to reduce the speed. By the end of the second quarter of 1994, this large regional newspaper with a history of 100 years is expected to have its first quarterly loss in many years.
For an industry entering the decline cycle, once it is in a loss, it is absolutely not a simple thing to reverse.
What's more, Hurst group, which has been greatly weakened.
Without this storm, Hurst group could mobilize enough resources to revive the business of the San Francisco Chronicle as much as possible. Now, a broken ship floating in the ocean and leaking on all sides is extremely difficult to repair.
The confrontation lasted for three months, and the matter was initially over. In addition to letting people around him continue to watch the movement of the Hurst group, so as to push the other party into the abyss at the right time, Simon himself would no longer follow up the matter personally.
Continue to make the latest preparations for the upcoming launch of Denise entertainment on July 1, and the summer program in North America continues.
During the week from June 24 to June 30, North American Theaters released two more important new films, namely, Sheriff Beverly 3 by Paramount Pictures and zero point blast by Fox pictures.
In 1984 and 1987, two big selling "detective Beverly" series were launched respectively, because paramount and film star Eddie Murphy have been unable to reach an agreement on the film payment, the third film has been delayed until now seven years later.
After so many years of procrastination, Eddie Murphy got the top $15 million at this stage, and the production cost of the sequel reached $50 million of the blockbuster level.
Starting on Friday, paramount prepared 2936 screens for the classic action comedy sequel, nearly 3000 of which are second only to Batman: the rise of the dark knight.
Then, it's like last week's city bumpkin 2.
Word of mouth is also collapsing.
Compared with the 1.8 media score of city bumpkin 2, detective Beverly 3's reputation is even lower, with a comprehensive media score of 1.1.However, thanks to the publicity efforts and the influence of the film's previous work, which is far more than that of the city bumpkin series, the box office of detective Beverly 3 in the first week was good, reaching $21.96 million. Although he is only the third in the list and has made more than $20 million at the box office, it still gives paramount some thoughts.
During the week from June 24 to June 30, Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight still topped the box office list. The film fell 32% this week and received another $32.31 million, with a cumulative box office of $272.53 million.
After receiving $42.39 million in the first week, "soul" really didn't show the box office potential of elephant level. The box office of the next week dropped by 43%, and it received another $24.15 million. The cumulative box office of the two weeks was $66.54 million. It is expected that the total investment in production and publicity of $40 million will be recovered next week.
At the same time, under the publicity of the new world film industry team, the discussion about the universe of the evocative movie has become a hot topic for movie fans recently. The first derivative film of the universe of the evocative movie "the haunted time in the morgue" in the Halloween schedule has already attracted the wide attention of the media and the public before the official publicity plan is launched.
After detective Beverly 3, fox's new movie zero blast came in fourth with $13.15 million in the first seven days of the week.
Not warm, not hot.
Fox has invested $28 million in the production of the action thriller starring Jeff Bridges, with a total investment of more than $40 million, including publicity. In the first week, with $13.15 million in box office revenue, fox can only expect the film to follow a miraculous box office trend.
As a commercial popcorn movie, this kind of hope is obviously not big.
The fifth place on the list was picked up by speed of life and death.
In the sixth week of its release, this action movie with excellent reputation has surpassed the short-lived "city bumpkin 2" last week. This week's box office decline is only 19%, with another $6.73 million. The total box office in North America has also reached $95.22 million, which is expected to officially exceed $100 million next week.
In addition to the top five, other films such as "city bumpkin 2" have basically dropped out of the summer competition.
Before the new box office week on July 1, Denise entertainment held a grand Premiere of Simon's 1994 blockbuster Forrest Gump on Wednesday, June 29.
I don't know if there is a deviation in my memory. It basically maintains the original production and the effect of the film is no less than the original Forrest Gump in Simon's memory. After the word-of-mouth ban was lifted on the second day of the premiere, I didn't get too high praise. The comprehensive media score is only about 7.4.
A film critic in the Seattle Times criticized Forrest Gump bluntly: "only in the United States can you see a film that uses a fool as a medium throughout the modern history of the whole country, and he is not a satirical film.".
The original work of Forrest Gump is a satirical novel, which is also for the critics of the Seattle Times to have such a view.
For the same reason, Winston bloom, the novelist who was excluded from the screenwriting stage by the main creator, also said publicly after the premiere that the film completely deviated from his original intention of creating Forrest Gump, and the completely deviated theme of the film became more "ridiculous".
In fact, the 7.4-point media reputation is definitely not bad compared with the movies like city bumpkin 2 and detective Beverly 3. It's just that the movie star gate, Batman: the rise of the dark knight and even the horror movie evocation, which are related to Denise's entertainment in this summer season, suddenly pales in comparison, and the comprehensive media scores of the latter movies are all excellent It's more than 8 points.
Simon developed a relatively conservative publicity strategy for Forrest Gump, hoping to form a phenomenal long-term box office trend through the word-of-mouth effect of the audience. Therefore, the number of opening screens of the film is only 2137,
now, the opening word-of-mouth does not meet the expectation, and the box office prospect of Forrest Gump is suddenly covered with a layer of haze.
Under the good cost control of danielis entertainment, the final production cost of Forrest Gump is $50 million, which is $5 million lower than the original. However, 50 million US dollars still reached the level of a real blockbuster in this era.
Even with a relatively conservative distribution strategy, the film's publicity budget will reach $20 million.
The production cost of US $50 million, the publicity investment of US $20 million, and the total budget of US $70 million of the project, even if all of them are lost, can't make Denise entertainment hurt.
But the release of Forrest Gump is in a very bad time.
The film starts on July 1, when Denise Entertainment Group will be officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
As Bill spotter said at the party on Friday night, the uncertainty of the film industry has always been the main reason for many capitals to flinch. If danielis entertainment group just went public, it immediately suffered a box office fiasco with a total investment of $70 million. It can be imagined that this event will inevitably affect the stock trend of danielis entertainment group.In any case, July 1 will arrive on time.
Danielis entertainment group finally chose the traditional New York Stock Exchange instead of the emerging NASDAQ Exchange for listing. There are many reasons. The main reason is that the market of the New York Stock Exchange is more mature. In addition, in order to compete with Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange gives danielis entertainment more preferential conditions.
Yes, in the United States, listed companies can negotiate terms with exchanges. Including the Commission with the Underwriters and so on, they also have room for negotiation.
This is especially true of Denise Entertainment's large IPO, which has raised more than $5 billion.
In the IPO of ordinary enterprises, the proportion of commission in all aspects often accounts for about 10% to 15% of the total amount of financing. After negotiations with the New York Stock Exchange, underwriters and other related institutions, including investment bank commission, exchange handling charges, accounting and lawyer fees, the total expenditure of danilisi entertainment is expected to be only 160 million US dollars, accounting for only 2.8% of the total amount of financing of 5625 million US dollars.
This is the result of Denise entertainment management's continuous consultation with all parties in advance.
Of course, US $160 million is already a considerable income for all parties. The total amount of IPO Financing of most companies in the US stock market may not reach US $160 million.
After a brief return to Los Angeles last week for the weekend, the Simons came back to the east coast on Monday.
On July 1, before 7 a.m., the couple had breakfast and rushed from their fifth Avenue apartment to the famous 18 Broadway, headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange.
Hundreds of media from all over the world have been outside the NYSE since last night, and some senior executives of danielis Entertainment Group also stayed at the NYSE headquarters all night.
At the gate of the New York Stock Exchange, Simon and his wife just got out of the car, and the glare of dense magnesium lights suddenly lit up around them.
The security team deployed in advance formed a human wall to protect the couple from entering the exchange building together.
In order to ensure the success of the IPO today, westrow system has quietly taken over the security affairs of the New York Stock Exchange since half a month ago. Simon knows very well what an obvious target he is at this time. In addition to 150 security guards or uniforms or plain clothes, there are hundreds of people in the intelligence team of the Westeros family cruising around Manhattan.
Facts have proved that these measures are very necessary.
In just half a month, the intelligence team of the Westeros family successfully intercepted three criminals who tried to create trouble on the IPO day of danielis entertainment.
Two of them wanted to shoot Simon on IPO day, and another veteran from Oklahoma even planned to plant a car bomb outside the New York Stock Exchange. There are different reasons. Some people think that Simon's huge wealth has threatened American society. Some people think that Simon's anomaly should not exist in this world. The veteran soldier in Oklahoma is because of Simon's war in Africa.
In the final analysis, Simon's huge wealth and power have aroused more and more people's vigilance and fear.
Hatred for the rich is a kind of public negative emotion that has existed for a long time since the human society entered the era of civilization, and it is often used by those in power to ease the people's grievances.
Therefore, Simon is also very clear that his situation at this time can not be avoided, and he does not have too much fear about it.
If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. Everything has its own two sides.
Because it was a sensitive time, Simon didn't let the three arrested guys evaporate, but secretly escorted them to the FBI.
However, the Westeros launched a deeper investigation into the motives of the three.
If it turns out that someone else is behind the scenes, Simon will not be polite this time.
As for the three people involved, the disaster of imprisonment is inevitable. In the future, even if they get out of prison, they or the people around them will be listed as the key monitoring objects of the westero system. Simon will tolerate this potential threat only once at most.
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Bill spelt's promotion was not just due to a party, of course. Simon added fuel to the situation by deliberately letting James Leibold go to find out about spelt and make a dig gesture.
Another easy game of habit.
No matter whether it can be used in the future, it will not be harmful.
Simon just didn't expect that UBS would have the courage to directly promote bill spatter to the position of head of major business department. Although he was only promoted two grades in a row on the surface, many investment bank employees may not be able to cross any threshold in their whole career.
Of course, Simon doesn't spend too much energy on such trifles.
After the two sides reached a settlement, the Hurst family made public the news the next day. The other side originally wanted to be ambiguous, but Simon didn't give them the opportunity. The New York Post then revealed the details of the settlement in a more gossipy tone, including the $1 sale of ESPN shares and the total compensation of $370 million in six lawsuits.
Simon is to use the "tragic" experience of the Hurst family to frighten all potential opponents of the westero system.
According to the feedback during this period, the effect is very obvious. The media in North America has formed an obvious chilling effect when discussing matters related to the westero system. After all, the powerful Hurst group has lost half its life in front of Simon westero. In the whole United States, there are absolutely few media forces that surpass the Hurst family.
Without the constraints of the westrow system, the Hurst family restarted the asset sale some time ago. According to the preliminary feedback, it could recover about US $300 million, equivalent to 60% of the discount.
Metro ABC Group, the parent company of ABC TV network, also submitted a transaction application to the Hurst family under Simon's insidious instruction, hoping to buy back 50% of the shares of AE TV network held by the Hurst family. The offer price is US $200 million, which is equivalent to a 50% discount on the original price. Even after a bit of bargaining, the price will not be increased too much.
The Hurst family was still hesitant to raise more money by selling which assets, and ABC's invitation helped them make a good decision.
Two deals, 500 million dollars in cash, are basically enough for the Hurst family to survive.
It's also easy for people to find that the total value of the remaining assets of the Hurst family is actually less than $1 billion, excluding the almost free shares of ESPN and the assets to be sold. It took only three months for a century old media family with a total family assets of 2.5 billion US dollars to fall into this situation.
Moreover, even if we get through the difficulties temporarily, the troubles of the Hurst family are far from over.
For example, the San Francisco Chronicle, which accounts for almost half of the Hurst family's remaining assets, has become more and more popular in the San Francisco area because of the increasing popularity of personal computers and the targeted operation of the westero system in the previous few months. Many residents have shifted their access to news and information from the paper media to the Internet. As a result, the number of subscribers to the San Francisco Chronicle has declined in the past A quarter to the naked eye continued to reduce the speed. By the end of the second quarter of 1994, this large regional newspaper with a history of 100 years is expected to have its first quarterly loss in many years.
For an industry entering the decline cycle, once it is in a loss, it is absolutely not a simple thing to reverse.
What's more, Hurst group, which has been greatly weakened.
Without this storm, Hurst group could mobilize enough resources to revive the business of the San Francisco Chronicle as much as possible. Now, a broken ship floating in the ocean and leaking on all sides is extremely difficult to repair.
The confrontation lasted for three months, and the matter was initially over. In addition to letting people around him continue to watch the movement of the Hurst group, so as to push the other party into the abyss at the right time, Simon himself would no longer follow up the matter personally.
Continue to make the latest preparations for the upcoming launch of Denise entertainment on July 1, and the summer program in North America continues.
During the week from June 24 to June 30, North American Theaters released two more important new films, namely, Sheriff Beverly 3 by Paramount Pictures and zero point blast by Fox pictures.
In 1984 and 1987, two big selling "detective Beverly" series were launched respectively, because paramount and film star Eddie Murphy have been unable to reach an agreement on the film payment, the third film has been delayed until now seven years later.
After so many years of procrastination, Eddie Murphy got the top $15 million at this stage, and the production cost of the sequel reached $50 million of the blockbuster level.
Starting on Friday, paramount prepared 2936 screens for the classic action comedy sequel, nearly 3000 of which are second only to Batman: the rise of the dark knight.
Then, it's like last week's city bumpkin 2.
Word of mouth is also collapsing.
Compared with the 1.8 media score of city bumpkin 2, detective Beverly 3's reputation is even lower, with a comprehensive media score of 1.1.However, thanks to the publicity efforts and the influence of the film's previous work, which is far more than that of the city bumpkin series, the box office of detective Beverly 3 in the first week was good, reaching $21.96 million. Although he is only the third in the list and has made more than $20 million at the box office, it still gives paramount some thoughts.
During the week from June 24 to June 30, Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight still topped the box office list. The film fell 32% this week and received another $32.31 million, with a cumulative box office of $272.53 million.
After receiving $42.39 million in the first week, "soul" really didn't show the box office potential of elephant level. The box office of the next week dropped by 43%, and it received another $24.15 million. The cumulative box office of the two weeks was $66.54 million. It is expected that the total investment in production and publicity of $40 million will be recovered next week.
At the same time, under the publicity of the new world film industry team, the discussion about the universe of the evocative movie has become a hot topic for movie fans recently. The first derivative film of the universe of the evocative movie "the haunted time in the morgue" in the Halloween schedule has already attracted the wide attention of the media and the public before the official publicity plan is launched.
After detective Beverly 3, fox's new movie zero blast came in fourth with $13.15 million in the first seven days of the week.
Not warm, not hot.
Fox has invested $28 million in the production of the action thriller starring Jeff Bridges, with a total investment of more than $40 million, including publicity. In the first week, with $13.15 million in box office revenue, fox can only expect the film to follow a miraculous box office trend.
As a commercial popcorn movie, this kind of hope is obviously not big.
The fifth place on the list was picked up by speed of life and death.
In the sixth week of its release, this action movie with excellent reputation has surpassed the short-lived "city bumpkin 2" last week. This week's box office decline is only 19%, with another $6.73 million. The total box office in North America has also reached $95.22 million, which is expected to officially exceed $100 million next week.
In addition to the top five, other films such as "city bumpkin 2" have basically dropped out of the summer competition.
Before the new box office week on July 1, Denise entertainment held a grand Premiere of Simon's 1994 blockbuster Forrest Gump on Wednesday, June 29.
I don't know if there is a deviation in my memory. It basically maintains the original production and the effect of the film is no less than the original Forrest Gump in Simon's memory. After the word-of-mouth ban was lifted on the second day of the premiere, I didn't get too high praise. The comprehensive media score is only about 7.4.
A film critic in the Seattle Times criticized Forrest Gump bluntly: "only in the United States can you see a film that uses a fool as a medium throughout the modern history of the whole country, and he is not a satirical film.".
The original work of Forrest Gump is a satirical novel, which is also for the critics of the Seattle Times to have such a view.
For the same reason, Winston bloom, the novelist who was excluded from the screenwriting stage by the main creator, also said publicly after the premiere that the film completely deviated from his original intention of creating Forrest Gump, and the completely deviated theme of the film became more "ridiculous".
In fact, the 7.4-point media reputation is definitely not bad compared with the movies like city bumpkin 2 and detective Beverly 3. It's just that the movie star gate, Batman: the rise of the dark knight and even the horror movie evocation, which are related to Denise's entertainment in this summer season, suddenly pales in comparison, and the comprehensive media scores of the latter movies are all excellent It's more than 8 points.
Simon developed a relatively conservative publicity strategy for Forrest Gump, hoping to form a phenomenal long-term box office trend through the word-of-mouth effect of the audience. Therefore, the number of opening screens of the film is only 2137,
now, the opening word-of-mouth does not meet the expectation, and the box office prospect of Forrest Gump is suddenly covered with a layer of haze.
Under the good cost control of danielis entertainment, the final production cost of Forrest Gump is $50 million, which is $5 million lower than the original. However, 50 million US dollars still reached the level of a real blockbuster in this era.
Even with a relatively conservative distribution strategy, the film's publicity budget will reach $20 million.
The production cost of US $50 million, the publicity investment of US $20 million, and the total budget of US $70 million of the project, even if all of them are lost, can't make Denise entertainment hurt.
But the release of Forrest Gump is in a very bad time.
The film starts on July 1, when Denise Entertainment Group will be officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
As Bill spotter said at the party on Friday night, the uncertainty of the film industry has always been the main reason for many capitals to flinch. If danielis entertainment group just went public, it immediately suffered a box office fiasco with a total investment of $70 million. It can be imagined that this event will inevitably affect the stock trend of danielis entertainment group.In any case, July 1 will arrive on time.
Danielis entertainment group finally chose the traditional New York Stock Exchange instead of the emerging NASDAQ Exchange for listing. There are many reasons. The main reason is that the market of the New York Stock Exchange is more mature. In addition, in order to compete with Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange gives danielis entertainment more preferential conditions.
Yes, in the United States, listed companies can negotiate terms with exchanges. Including the Commission with the Underwriters and so on, they also have room for negotiation.
This is especially true of Denise Entertainment's large IPO, which has raised more than $5 billion.
In the IPO of ordinary enterprises, the proportion of commission in all aspects often accounts for about 10% to 15% of the total amount of financing. After negotiations with the New York Stock Exchange, underwriters and other related institutions, including investment bank commission, exchange handling charges, accounting and lawyer fees, the total expenditure of danilisi entertainment is expected to be only 160 million US dollars, accounting for only 2.8% of the total amount of financing of 5625 million US dollars.
This is the result of Denise entertainment management's continuous consultation with all parties in advance.
Of course, US $160 million is already a considerable income for all parties. The total amount of IPO Financing of most companies in the US stock market may not reach US $160 million.
After a brief return to Los Angeles last week for the weekend, the Simons came back to the east coast on Monday.
On July 1, before 7 a.m., the couple had breakfast and rushed from their fifth Avenue apartment to the famous 18 Broadway, headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange.
Hundreds of media from all over the world have been outside the NYSE since last night, and some senior executives of danielis Entertainment Group also stayed at the NYSE headquarters all night.
At the gate of the New York Stock Exchange, Simon and his wife just got out of the car, and the glare of dense magnesium lights suddenly lit up around them.
The security team deployed in advance formed a human wall to protect the couple from entering the exchange building together.
In order to ensure the success of the IPO today, westrow system has quietly taken over the security affairs of the New York Stock Exchange since half a month ago. Simon knows very well what an obvious target he is at this time. In addition to 150 security guards or uniforms or plain clothes, there are hundreds of people in the intelligence team of the Westeros family cruising around Manhattan.
Facts have proved that these measures are very necessary.
In just half a month, the intelligence team of the Westeros family successfully intercepted three criminals who tried to create trouble on the IPO day of danielis entertainment.
Two of them wanted to shoot Simon on IPO day, and another veteran from Oklahoma even planned to plant a car bomb outside the New York Stock Exchange. There are different reasons. Some people think that Simon's huge wealth has threatened American society. Some people think that Simon's anomaly should not exist in this world. The veteran soldier in Oklahoma is because of Simon's war in Africa.
In the final analysis, Simon's huge wealth and power have aroused more and more people's vigilance and fear.
Hatred for the rich is a kind of public negative emotion that has existed for a long time since the human society entered the era of civilization, and it is often used by those in power to ease the people's grievances.
Therefore, Simon is also very clear that his situation at this time can not be avoided, and he does not have too much fear about it.
If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. Everything has its own two sides.
Because it was a sensitive time, Simon didn't let the three arrested guys evaporate, but secretly escorted them to the FBI.
However, the Westeros launched a deeper investigation into the motives of the three.
If it turns out that someone else is behind the scenes, Simon will not be polite this time.
As for the three people involved, the disaster of imprisonment is inevitable. In the future, even if they get out of prison, they or the people around them will be listed as the key monitoring objects of the westero system. Simon will tolerate this potential threat only once at most.
Bill spelt's promotion was not just due to a party, of course. Simon added fuel to the situation by deliberately letting James Leibold go to find out about spelt and make a dig gesture. Another easy game of habit. No matter whether it can be used in the future, it will not be harmful. Simon just didn't expect that UBS would have the courage to directly promote bill spatter to the position of head of major business department. Although he was only promoted two grades in a row on the surface, many investment bank employees may not be able to cross any threshold in their whole career. Of course, Simon doesn't spend too much energy on such trifles. After the two sides reached a settlement, the Hurst family made public the news the next day. The other side originally wanted to be ambiguous, but Simon didn't give them the opportunity. The New York Post then revealed the details of the settlement in a more gossipy tone, including the $1 sale of ESPN shares and the total compensation of $370 million in six lawsuits. Simon is to use the "tragic" experience of the Hurst family to frighten all potential opponents of the westero system. According to the feedback during this period, the effect is very obvious. The media in North America has formed an obvious chilling effect when discussing matters related to the westero system. After all, the powerful Hurst group has lost half its life in front of Simon westero. In the whole United States, there are absolutely few media forces that surpass the Hurst family. Without the constraints of the westrow system, the Hurst family restarted the asset sale some time ago. According to the preliminary feedback, it could recover about US $300 million, equivalent to 60% of the discount. Metro ABC Group, the parent company of ABC TV network, also submitted a transaction application to the Hurst family under Simon's insidious instruction, hoping to buy back 50% of the shares of AE TV network held by the Hurst family. The offer price is US $200 million, which is equivalent to a 50% discount on the original price. Even after a bit of bargaining, the price will not be increased too much. The Hurst family was still hesitant to raise more money by selling which assets, and ABC's invitation helped them make a good decision. Two deals, 500 million dollars in cash, are basically enough for the Hurst family to survive. It's also easy for people to find that the total value of the remaining assets of the Hurst family is actually less than $1 billion, excluding the almost free shares of ESPN and the assets to be sold. It took only three months for a century old media family with a total family assets of 2.5 billion US dollars to fall into this situation. Moreover, even if we get through the difficulties temporarily, the troubles of the Hurst family are far from over. For example, the San Francisco Chronicle, which accounts for almost half of the Hurst family's remaining assets, has become more and more popular in the San Francisco area because of the increasing popularity of personal computers and the targeted operation of the westero system in the previous few months. Many residents have shifted their access to news and information from the paper media to the Internet. As a result, the number of subscribers to the San Francisco Chronicle has declined in the past A quarter to the naked eye continued to reduce the speed. By the end of the second quarter of 1994, this large regional newspaper with a history of 100 years is expected to have its first quarterly loss in many years. For an industry entering the decline cycle, once it is in a loss, it is absolutely not a simple thing to reverse. What's more, Hurst group, which has been greatly weakened. Without this storm, Hurst group could mobilize enough resources to revive the business of the San Francisco Chronicle as much as possible. Now, a broken ship floating in the ocean and leaking on all sides is extremely difficult to repair. The confrontation lasted for three months, and the matter was initially over. In addition to letting people around him continue to watch the movement of the Hurst group, so as to push the other party into the abyss at the right time, Simon himself would no longer follow up the matter personally. Continue to make the latest preparations for the upcoming launch of Denise entertainment on July 1, and the summer program in North America continues. During the week from June 24 to June 30, North American Theaters released two more important new films, namely, Sheriff Beverly 3 by Paramount Pictures and zero point blast by Fox pictures. In 1984 and 1987, two big selling "detective Beverly" series were launched respectively, because paramount and film star Eddie Murphy have been unable to reach an agreement on the film payment, the third film has been delayed until now seven years later. After so many years of procrastination, Eddie Murphy got the top $15 million at this stage, and the production cost of the sequel reached $50 million of the blockbuster level. Starting on Friday, paramount prepared 2936 screens for the classic action comedy sequel, nearly 3000 of which are second only to Batman: the rise of the dark knight. Then, it's like last week's city bumpkin 2. Word of mouth is also collapsing. Compared with the 1.8 media score of city bumpkin 2, detective Beverly 3's reputation is even lower, with a comprehensive media score of 1.1.However, thanks to the publicity efforts and the influence of the film's previous work, which is far more than that of the city bumpkin series, the box office of detective Beverly 3 in the first week was good, reaching $21.96 million. Although he is only the third in the list and has made more than $20 million at the box office, it still gives paramount some thoughts. During the week from June 24 to June 30, Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight still topped the box office list. The film fell 32% this week and received another $32.31 million, with a cumulative box office of $272.53 million. After receiving $42.39 million in the first week, "soul" really didn't show the box office potential of elephant level. The box office of the next week dropped by 43%, and it received another $24.15 million. The cumulative box office of the two weeks was $66.54 million. It is expected that the total investment in production and publicity of $40 million will be recovered next week. At the same time, under the publicity of the new world film industry team, the discussion about the universe of the evocative movie has become a hot topic for movie fans recently. The first derivative film of the universe of the evocative movie "the haunted time in the morgue" in the Halloween schedule has already attracted the wide attention of the media and the public before the official publicity plan is launched. After detective Beverly 3, fox's new movie zero blast came in fourth with $13.15 million in the first seven days of the week. Not warm, not hot. Fox has invested $28 million in the production of the action thriller starring Jeff Bridges, with a total investment of more than $40 million, including publicity. In the first week, with $13.15 million in box office revenue, fox can only expect the film to follow a miraculous box office trend. As a commercial popcorn movie, this kind of hope is obviously not big. The fifth place on the list was picked up by speed of life and death. In the sixth week of its release, this action movie with excellent reputation has surpassed the short-lived "city bumpkin 2" last week. This week's box office decline is only 19%, with another $6.73 million. The total box office in North America has also reached $95.22 million, which is expected to officially exceed $100 million next week. In addition to the top five, other films such as "city bumpkin 2" have basically dropped out of the summer competition. Before the new box office week on July 1, Denise entertainment held a grand Premiere of Simon's 1994 blockbuster Forrest Gump on Wednesday, June 29. I don't know if there is a deviation in my memory. It basically maintains the original production and the effect of the film is no less than the original Forrest Gump in Simon's memory. After the word-of-mouth ban was lifted on the second day of the premiere, I didn't get too high praise. The comprehensive media score is only about 7.4. A film critic in the Seattle Times criticized Forrest Gump bluntly: "only in the United States can you see a film that uses a fool as a medium throughout the modern history of the whole country, and he is not a satirical film.". The original work of Forrest Gump is a satirical novel, which is also for the critics of the Seattle Times to have such a view. For the same reason, Winston bloom, the novelist who was excluded from the screenwriting stage by the main creator, also said publicly after the premiere that the film completely deviated from his original intention of creating Forrest Gump, and the completely deviated theme of the film became more "ridiculous". In fact, the 7.4-point media reputation is definitely not bad compared with the movies like city bumpkin 2 and detective Beverly 3. It's just that the movie star gate, Batman: the rise of the dark knight and even the horror movie evocation, which are related to Denise's entertainment in this summer season, suddenly pales in comparison, and the comprehensive media scores of the latter movies are all excellent It's more than 8 points. Simon developed a relatively conservative publicity strategy for Forrest Gump, hoping to form a phenomenal long-term box office trend through the word-of-mouth effect of the audience. Therefore, the number of opening screens of the film is only 2137, now, the opening word-of-mouth does not meet the expectation, and the box office prospect of Forrest Gump is suddenly covered with a layer of haze. Under the good cost control of danielis entertainment, the final production cost of Forrest Gump is $50 million, which is $5 million lower than the original. However, 50 million US dollars still reached the level of a real blockbuster in this era. Even with a relatively conservative distribution strategy, the film's publicity budget will reach $20 million. The production cost of US $50 million, the publicity investment of US $20 million, and the total budget of US $70 million of the project, even if all of them are lost, can't make Denise entertainment hurt. But the release of Forrest Gump is in a very bad time. The film starts on July 1, when Denise Entertainment Group will be officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As Bill spotter said at the party on Friday night, the uncertainty of the film industry has always been the main reason for many capitals to flinch. If danielis entertainment group just went public, it immediately suffered a box office fiasco with a total investment of $70 million. It can be imagined that this event will inevitably affect the stock trend of danielis entertainment group.In any case, July 1 will arrive on time. Danielis entertainment group finally chose the traditional New York Stock Exchange instead of the emerging NASDAQ Exchange for listing. There are many reasons. The main reason is that the market of the New York Stock Exchange is more mature. In addition, in order to compete with Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange gives danielis entertainment more preferential conditions. Yes, in the United States, listed companies can negotiate terms with exchanges. Including the Commission with the Underwriters and so on, they also have room for negotiation. This is especially true of Denise Entertainment's large IPO, which has raised more than $5 billion. In the IPO of ordinary enterprises, the proportion of commission in all aspects often accounts for about 10% to 15% of the total amount of financing. After negotiations with the New York Stock Exchange, underwriters and other related institutions, including investment bank commission, exchange handling charges, accounting and lawyer fees, the total expenditure of danilisi entertainment is expected to be only 160 million US dollars, accounting for only 2.8% of the total amount of financing of 5625 million US dollars. This is the result of Denise entertainment management's continuous consultation with all parties in advance. Of course, US $160 million is already a considerable income for all parties. The total amount of IPO Financing of most companies in the US stock market may not reach US $160 million. After a brief return to Los Angeles last week for the weekend, the Simons came back to the east coast on Monday. On July 1, before 7 a.m., the couple had breakfast and rushed from their fifth Avenue apartment to the famous 18 Broadway, headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange. Hundreds of media from all over the world have been outside the NYSE since last night, and some senior executives of danielis Entertainment Group also stayed at the NYSE headquarters all night. At the gate of the New York Stock Exchange, Simon and his wife just got out of the car, and the glare of dense magnesium lights suddenly lit up around them. The security team deployed in advance formed a human wall to protect the couple from entering the exchange building together. In order to ensure the success of the IPO today, westrow system has quietly taken over the security affairs of the New York Stock Exchange since half a month ago. Simon knows very well what an obvious target he is at this time. In addition to 150 security guards or uniforms or plain clothes, there are hundreds of people in the intelligence team of the Westeros family cruising around Manhattan. Facts have proved that these measures are very necessary. In just half a month, the intelligence team of the Westeros family successfully intercepted three criminals who tried to create trouble on the IPO day of danielis entertainment. Two of them wanted to shoot Simon on IPO day, and another veteran from Oklahoma even planned to plant a car bomb outside the New York Stock Exchange. There are different reasons. Some people think that Simon's huge wealth has threatened American society. Some people think that Simon's anomaly should not exist in this world. The veteran soldier in Oklahoma is because of Simon's war in Africa. In the final analysis, Simon's huge wealth and power have aroused more and more people's vigilance and fear. Hatred for the rich is a kind of public negative emotion that has existed for a long time since the human society entered the era of civilization, and it is often used by those in power to ease the people's grievances. Therefore, Simon is also very clear that his situation at this time can not be avoided, and he does not have too much fear about it. If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. Everything has its own two sides. Because it was a sensitive time, Simon didn't let the three arrested guys evaporate, but secretly escorted them to the FBI. However, the Westeros launched a deeper investigation into the motives of the three. If it turns out that someone else is behind the scenes, Simon will not be polite this time. As for the three people involved, the disaster of imprisonment is inevitable. In the future, even if they get out of prison, they or the people around them will be listed as the key monitoring objects of the westero system. Simon will tolerate this potential threat only once at most.
