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Janet held Simon's arm, hummed, and said again: "My aunt has already helped you buy the remaining buildings on the Manhattan lot."

Simon nodded: "I know."

Although it was handed over to the shell company established with the help of Veronica to operate, the funds still had to be transferred from the Westeros Company, and Simon naturally knew about this.

Due to the continuous decline in the North American property market, Simon's purchase of the property between 59th Street and 60th Street east of Madison Avenue in Manhattan for the construction of the Westeros Building has become very smooth.

The purchase of all six buildings, including the land, cost a total of $1.73 million, much higher than Simon initially estimated.

Moreover, if you want to imitate the shape of the Avengers Building and build the tallest building in Manhattan, the cost you need to pay is also very expensive.Simon privately entrusted a real estate design company to make rough statistics, and the cost of the main building will not be less than 5 million US dollars.If Simon has high requirements on the building materials, design details, safety protection, etc. of the building, there is no upper limit on the construction cost.

In addition, the construction of such a building must first solve the user problem of the building.Otherwise, the result would be disastrous if the buildings with more than 100 floors were vacant.

The Westeros Building is Simon's personal dream. Even if the user issue is not considered for the time being, Simon does not intend to make do with low standards. He hopes that everything will be built with reference to the highest standards.In this way, the cost of the Westeros Building will rise to the level of 10 billion US dollars.

One billion US dollars may not be a big deal in 10 or 30 years, but it is sky-high in this era.

Although Simon's profit from the Japanese financial market this time is enough to pay for the construction of the Westeros Building, he still has many more urgent things to do, so he has to suspend this plan.Just thinking about buying a Boeing 767 first is also a compromise.

Simon wanted to fulfill the three wishes that he excitedly told Janet that night, but the reality was hard to satisfy.If you want to realize your wishes too eagerly, the result may be that you don't have enough capital to protect those things.

After all, I am still not rich enough.

Seeing that Simon just answered and stopped talking, Janet suddenly chuckled, turned her head and rubbed on Simon's shoulder, and said, "Are you disappointed this time?"

Simon wondered: "Huh?"

"Aunt has been in Singapore for the past few days."

Simon resolutely pretended to be stupid: "What's wrong with your aunt?"

"Hmph," Janet squinted at Simon and snorted twice, "Last night, someone was drunk and smelled like a puppy on someone's neck."

Simon was not fooled at all, shook his head and said, "I'm not drunk, and, besides, you fell asleep before me."

"In the middle of the night, I woke up."

"I sleep well and don't do weird things in my dreams."

"How do you know what you look like when you're asleep?"

"You snore when you fall asleep."

"would not!!!"

"how do you know?"

"You almost changed the subject," Janet clasped Simon's arm tightly, but her tone softened, and she said softly, "That's not right, Simon."

Simon has always known that Janet is an extremely smart woman, not to mention that the two have been together for so long, there is probably no second person in the world who understands herself better than her.Moreover, starting from Catherine, a certain attribute in him is difficult to hide.

After a pause, Simon gave an inaudible hum.

The two were silent for a moment, Janet leaned her head on Simon's shoulder, and said, "Actually, you can find some girls who are younger than you, they are more suitable for you. Well, don't be too young, or it will be very troublesome. "

Simon asked with a smile: "Then what do you do?"

"Of course I'm your girlfriend, and I'll be your wife in the future," Janet said as a matter of course: "When a man steals food outside, he always has to go home. Dad used to do this often, and he and his mother have lived together for so many years. Very well."

Simon pretended to be interested and said, "Tell me more, maybe I can find an opportunity to blackmail your old man."

"How are you blackmailing? It's almost as good as being beaten," Janet patted on Simon, and said: "My mother told me about this. She used to like to watch the old man make up lies to deceive her after he didn't come home at night. These years, when Dad gets old, he will settle down. We will be like Mom and Dad until we get old, right?"

Simon nodded without hesitation, feeling the slight melancholy in Janet's tone, and stretched out his hand to hug the woman into his arms.

For the affairs of Cersei Capital, reporters were still arranged around, and they happened to take a warm picture of the two standing in the west slanting sun and cuddling each other.

The Boeing 767 entered the runway, everything was ready, and Neil Bennett signaled Simon not far away that he could board the plane.

After the last few words, Simon was about to leave, but was stopped by Janet again, and asked with a worried face: "Do I really snore when I sleep?"

Simon smiled and lowered his head to kiss Janet on the lips, saying, "Of course not, I lied to you."

"Really?"

"real."

Janet was still not at ease, and warned: "Don't lie to me, I'll sleep right after I get back, and let my mother watch it for me."

A casual joke with seemingly serious consequences.

Simon stopped teasing, and finally hugged Janet, and walked to the private jet on the runway.

Chapter 272 Nokia (Revised)

After a long 6-hour flight journey, Simon returned to Los Angeles. It was still Sunday evening, June 25th, US Eastern Time. Due to the time difference, the major exchanges in Asia had already started a new week of trading one after another.

The various measures taken in the past two days have obviously had an effect. The Tokyo stock market opened, and the Nikkei 225 index began to slowly rise.

A new week in North America.

Simon woke up in the morning and the Nikkei 225 had finally closed at 36617 the previous day.Although this data has not yet reached the highest point last week, the unexpected crisis in the Japanese financial market has passed smoothly.

In recent days, many local newspapers in North America have been talking about the news that Simon went to Australia to visit his girlfriend, which caused the Japanese stock market to plummet, and even used a new term of "Westeros effect" in a serious manner.

The news on the front page of the "Los Angeles Times" on Monday is still the same thing, and the attached picture is a photo of Simon and Janet embracing at Melbourne Airport.The article re-introduced what happened in the past few days, and did not forget to tease Simon as the guy who is definitely the most unpopular with the Japanese now, and predicted that he would like to travel to Japan for a long time in the future and was refused entry The probability is as high as 100%.

In Australia, the agreement between Cersei Capital and the Japanese is progressing very smoothly.In less than a week, the two parties completed the secret delivery of all aspects.

In the final agreement, the ownership of sub-funds No. 1 to No. 5 under the name of Cersei Capital was completely transferred to the Japanese, and Janet and Anthony were still in charge of the management on the surface.

Janet really wanted to fly to Los Angeles immediately after the transaction was completed. However, in order to avoid speculation from the outside world due to sudden personnel changes, the Japanese side asked her to be in charge of operating Cersei Capital for at least another two months. Of course, it was completely controlled by the Japanese side. Under the premise, Janet herself does not actually have any decision-making power.

For the benefit of all, Janet had to agree.

Two months is actually just right.

The later stage of "Batman" will not end until September. Simon plans to take a long vacation after finishing the film. The first stop in the plan is Milan Fashion Week in September.When the time comes, Janet can also use this very reasonable excuse to leave.

Since she couldn't escape for the time being, Janet was not idle, and began to prepare the operation team of Cersei Capital's No. 6 to 10 sub-funds in order to short the North American junk bond market in the second half of the year. The source of funds is naturally the Japanese who recently transferred to Cersei Capital overseas. $50 billion in cash in the account.

In order to keep their own layout secret, the Japanese also demanded that the funds from Cersei Capital cannot be transferred back to China for at least one year, and everyone has no objection to this.

Out of tax avoidance considerations, Simon had no plan to transfer the money back to China in the short term, and various investors in Australia also hope to continue to rely on Cersei Capital to obtain more income.

Although the settlement has not yet been carried out, according to the original step-by-step commission agreement, Simon's personal profit from this transaction can be roughly predicted.

With a capital of 50 billion US dollars, excluding the principal of 15.7 billion US dollars, the profit figure is 34.3 billion US dollars.

当初的协议中，西蒙只要求对外部参投的9.7亿美元资金产生的收益进行盈利抽成，自己和约翰斯顿家的6亿美元不需要如此。阶梯抽成方案为盈利规模30%以内部分抽成20%，30%到100%的部分抽成30%，超过100%的部分抽成50%。

Calculated in all aspects, the principal income that Simon can obtain is 10.93 billion US dollars, and the commission income is 8.36 million US dollars.Counting the original principal of US$5 million, Simon’s book share of the US$50 billion has reached US$24.29 billion.

In addition, the principal of the Johnston family was 1 million US dollars, and the book profit was 2.18 million US dollars.The principal of other Australian capital was US$9.7 million, and the book profit was US$12.83 billion.

Although Simon wanted to take more than half of the proceeds, no Australian investor requested redemption or even partial redemption after the transaction ended.Not only because of the original agreement, it took less than half a year to convert 15.7 billion US dollars into 50 billion US dollars, and the profits of all parties have exceeded 100%. As long as other investors in Australia have a normal mind, they know that Simon is fully worth such a high amount. Split accounts.

Faced with such a huge amount of funds held by Cersei Capital, Simon gradually came up with some other ideas.

Of course, this is something.

He left Los Angeles suddenly without warning for several days, and naturally had to work overtime to make up for some work progress after returning.

On the other hand, the competition for North American summer holidays is becoming more and more intense.

Simon left Los Angeles last Wednesday night. Immediately afterwards, the box office of "Bodyguard" was released for the third week.

On the following Friday, three new films were released at one time in North America's summer vacation, namely Disney's sci-fi family comedy "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", Columbia Pictures' "Dragon Boy 3" and Orion Pictures' The music biopic "Ball of Fire".

Although the three new films did not hit the box office in the first week like "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" and "Ghostbusters 2", they also had a significant impact on the box office of many old films.

6月23日到6月29日，西蒙从澳洲返回后的这一周，《保镖》的票房跌幅相比上周扩大到21%，再收1411万美元。

Although "Bodyguard" lags behind "Honey, I Shrunk the Child", "Dragon Boy 3" and "Ghostbusters 2" on the weekly box office list, it only ranks No.4.However, this movie, which was not expected by everyone, has been released for four weeks, but its cumulative box office has reached 7566 million US dollars.

In addition, the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" shrank to US$1207 million in the new week, ranking fifth, with a cumulative box office of US$1 million.

Among the three new films, Orion Pictures' "Ball of Fire" did not meet expectations. This music biopic about the life of famous American rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis had a production budget of 1200 million U.S. dollars and an opening screen size of 1417. However, the box office in the first week was only 628 million US dollars, and the word of mouth is also very average.

In the new year, apart from an unexpected blockbuster "The Adventures of Abbie" in February, which earned $2 million at the box office, all other films released by Orion Films ended in failure.Due to the continued deterioration of the financial situation, in February this year, just after the three-month window period for the next release of "Pulp Fiction", Orion couldn't wait to release the video tape.

Orion Pictures is still holding off on paying Daenerys Entertainment's share of the Pulp Fiction box office after Simon personally collected debts from Mike Medova at the last party.Tolerating that Orion Pictures will be split for half a year, Daenerys Entertainment has done its best.In order to avoid the sudden bankruptcy of Orion Films and the complete irrecoverability of the share, Amy has recently considered taking legal measures.

On June 6th, the new week, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which Simon secretly placed high hopes on, was finally released.

Compared with the opening scale of "Bodyguard" with more than 2000 screens, the number of screens in the first week of "The Sixth Sense" is only 1673.This relatively conservative release strategy is actually Simon's intention. He hopes to reserve enough room for the film's word-of-mouth to ferment through a small screening scale.

Until the release, the plot of "The Sixth Sense" was still kept strictly confidential. Daenerys Entertainment's pre-marketing strategy was only based on Simon and De Niro, which was very traditionally aimed at simply increasing the popularity of the film. .

Simon has always believed that the root cause of "The Sixth Sense"'s huge success at the global box office of more than 6 million US dollars in the original time and space is definitely not just a simple plot reversal. .

However, the plot reversal between humans and ghosts in the end is undoubtedly an important catalyst for the film's success.

Therefore, in the promotional stage of the film, no matter it was the various manuscripts or interviews with the main creator, there was no mention or hint of the final reversal of the film. Simon's fundamental strategy is to let the audience discover this reversal by themselves, not Hints from previous publicity.

If you know in advance that the film will have a 'surprise', it may even have the opposite effect in the end, making some people feel 'just so'.

After all, in the long history of movies, similar plots are not unheard of.

As for the genre of "The Sixth Sense", most of the fans who pay attention to this movie can only get a general impression of a "horror movie" before the movie is released.Even if it is the TV trailer in the final stage, the information that the audience can get is basically that this is a story between a psychologist and a psychic boy, with some misleading horror movie-specific shots.

Because "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" should be regarded as a pseudo-horror film that focuses on the core of family warmth. In terms of marketing audiences, Daenerys Entertainment did not target teenagers as accurately as "Scream", but For audiences of all ages, this also leads to a substantial increase in publicity costs.

Because of the conservative strategy of "The Sixth Sense" in the promotion stage of the film, some movie fans have hesitated whether to choose to watch the movie at the first time, because Daenerys Entertainment's strict secrecy of the film's plot and various unusual differences in the announcement stage. However, the entertainment media with a keen sense of smell is becoming more and more curious.

Of course, there are also many experienced media and audiences who believe that whether it is the film’s low opening scale or low-key publicity and marketing, it is only Daenerys Entertainment’s lack of confidence in "The Sixth Sense".In fact, executives at Daenerys Entertainment who have seen the finished film of "The Sixth Sense" generally lack confidence in this film with a gentle plot.

Los Angeles.

Daenerys Entertainment HQ in Santa Monica.

The time is the afternoon of June 6.

In the large conference room in the office building, the meeting on arranging the company's mid-year financial audit started at two o'clock in the afternoon and has continued until now.

All the core executives of Daenerys Entertainment were present.

Although the mid-year financial audit that will start next month is not as detailed as the one at the beginning of the year, it will also be participated by the accounting team of Westeros Corporation in order to play a supervisory role.As the person in charge of the Westeros Corporation, James Raybould came here from Los Angeles with Robert Iger in the morning.

In the first two quarters that are about to pass, although "Bodyguard" is the unexpected box office hit among the series of films released by Daenerys Entertainment, the company's two core businesses of film and television are still very rich in income.

In terms of movies, in addition to the new films in the first half of the year, the local releases of blockbuster films such as "Scream" and "Steel Magnolia" have been completed at the end of last year, and overseas distribution has also been basically completed. "When Harry Met" released at the end of last year In the first half of the year, the videotape of "Going to Sally" also achieved very impressive sales performance, and funds in all aspects continued to return.

In the TV field, the spring season of reality shows and TV dramas such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and "Survivor" has also come to an end. The settlement income and prepayments of TV networks also brought a lot of income to Daenerys Entertainment.

All enterprises in the Westeros system have a total debt of 9 million US dollars, which means that this year alone, the amount of principal and interest that Simon needs to repay will reach 2 million US dollars, but he does not feel the slightest pressure.

Not to mention the huge amount of money that Cersei Capital has just obtained from the Japanese, it is just a program of "Who Will Be a Millionaire" under Daenerys Entertainment. The continued income generated by the show is enough to support the repayment of Simon's personal debts.

However, although the profitability of Daenerys Entertainment has reached a level that makes Hollywood colleagues jealous, Simon has no intention of being a confused boss.Too many memories of the two lives made him deeply understand that a strict financial system is essential for any enterprise to continue to grow and develop.

At five o'clock, the meeting ends.

The others dispersed separately, and Simon and James Raybould stayed in the conference room to discuss matters concerning Cersei Capital.

James already knew about the transaction between Cersei Capital and the Japanese, and the next operation of the local junk bond market would require more cooperation from Westeros.

The two communicated alone for half an hour before walking out of the conference room together.

Before Amy left, she walked over from her office after hearing Simon's concluding remarks from James.

"Burbank has counted the attendance data of "The Sixth Sense" during the day, and some mainstream evening papers have also published film reviews. Overall, the feedback is very good."

A few days ago, "Bodyguard" was an unexpected hit at the box office, and Amy inadvertently expressed relief that it would be enough for a big film company to have one movie with a box office of over [-] million a year.At the end of the year, the distribution rights of the two key commercial films "Flying Beyond" and "Batman" belonged to Warner. Amy's remarks undoubtedly showed that she was also the one who lacked confidence in "The Sixth Sense".

Judging by Amy's relaxed appearance at this time, the performance of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" after its release today should have exceeded her expectations.

Simon didn't express much opinion, just smiled and said: "If there is no other arrangement, let's have dinner together, we will talk later."

Amy nodded, and went downstairs with Simon, James, and Jennifer. While walking, she took out her Motorola Micro TAC mobile phone from her satchel, and said, "I think Rem should be reminded to communicate with the media, and avoid tomorrow's newspaper. There are too many open spoiler reviews on the Internet."

Simon watched Amy lower his head to dial, and glanced at the Motorola Micro TAC.

After returning from Australia, Simon noticed that Amy, Nancy and others started to use this mobile phone, which was only the size of a palm and could be called a mobile phone. He didn't pay much attention to it at first.However, looking at it at this time, a thought suddenly flashed in my mind.

Ok.

correct.

Nokia!

Chapter 273 Lisa (Revised)