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Simon paid a very expensive price to poach these four people. In addition to the high annual salary, the family members of the four people can enjoy the benefits provided by Westeros Corporation. They only need to work in this position for ten years. Can retire early.

The other four flight attendants are just pure vases.

After everyone introduced each other, Simon boarded the gangway to enter the cabin, and the four stewardesses followed in, offering to help Simon introduce the various facilities in the cabin.

With a renovation cost of $1500 million, every detail in the cabin is perfect.

It is decorated in a minimalist style with black and white tones like piano keys, and every arrangement reveals a delicate and expensive atmosphere. The living room, dining room, study room, bar, bedroom, meeting room, etc. are all available. With an area of ​​more than 300 square meters, the front cabin is a very private two-story duplex suite, giving people the feeling of being in a real apartment.

However, after all, it is only a medium-sized airliner, and overall it is still not as spacious as Simon imagined.

Although the crew had just experienced a [-]-hour long flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles, after Simon's visit, he still had a feeling that he couldn't wait after getting the toy, and asked the crew to take off again, and made a round trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Cersei Capital's operations in the US junk bond market are still ongoing, and Janet did not come to Los Angeles together.

Simon also has a lot of things to deal with recently. The two agreed to meet again after mid-November. At that time, they will probably fly to Finland first to take down Nokia's mobile communication equipment department.

The next day is Friday, April 11th.

Simon was awakened by the rare phone ringing, just after five o'clock in the morning.

James Raybould called, and the photo of the Boeing 767 that Simon had just received yesterday appeared in several East Coast newspapers, and James sent some faxes later.In order to keep a low profile, the Boeing 767 does not have any logos related to Simon, and looks like a commercial airliner.

However, the only Boeing 767 parked on the runway of Santa Monica Airport in the photo is obviously Simon's car, because all the scenes of Simon meeting with the crew yesterday afternoon and then boarding the plane were secretly photographed.

Several articles generally introduce this matter in a gossip tone, but it is inevitable that some people criticize Simon's extravagant behavior.

Private jets are very common in the West, but there are not many medium-sized airliners with a nuclear capacity of 767 or 300 people, such as the Boeing [-], as their private cars. The famous Air Force One is completely a state machine, and the heads of state in the Middle East rely on oil. State support.

Immediately after dawn, newspapers on the west coast also reported about Simon's private jet.

The Santa Monica airport is really not big, and the secrecy is not very good. After hearing the news, more media rushed over to take more photos of the Westeros flying car. Simon quickly ordered the crew to take the The Boeing 767 took off and temporarily flew to San Francisco and stopped at San Jose Airport.

In addition, Santa Monica Airport is apparently no longer a suitable place to store aircraft.

After thinking about it, Simon asked someone to contact Los Angeles International Airport, intending to rent a hangar there to store his plane in it.

Compared with Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles International Airport has hundreds of large and small aircraft of all types docking at any time.

Simon hid his Boeing 767 out of a deep-rooted instinct of not revealing his wealth, and the discussion in the media became more lively. The voices criticizing Simon's extravagance and waste unconsciously became more and more, and finally made Westeros And Daenerys Entertainment's PR department had to start fighting the fire.

Amid such excitement, the second week of the North American Halloween schedule ended quietly.

11月3日到11月9日，既首个完整周的3177万美元票房后，《惊声尖叫2》次周票房跌幅达到33%，再收2129万美元，两周时间累计票房5306万美元。

Compared with the first part, although the second week of this sequel has a deeper drop, the box office data of more than 5000 million US dollars in two weeks has exceeded many people's expectations.

The cumulative two-week box office of films such as "Alien and Monster" released at the same time is generally less than that of "Scream 2".

On November 11th, "Scream 10" is still in theaters, and Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films' new film "My Left Foot" is quietly released.

"My Left Foot" only won one best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in the first half of the year, but it still attracted a lot of attention. I have always attached great importance to it, and the choice of the November 11 schedule is also for the consideration of the upcoming awards season.

As a literary film that is destined to take a long-term word-of-mouth screening strategy, the opening scale of "My Left Foot" is far from being comparable to that of "Scream 2". There were only 112 screens in the first week, which is still according to the high gate. According to the radial distribution model of the film industry, the first batch of screens are only concentrated in major core cities in North America.

Speaking of which, "My Left Foot" is actually not the public relations focus of Daenerys Entertainment this year's Oscars.

"Driving Miss Daisy," which is scheduled to be released in early December, is.Therefore, choosing to release in November, "My Left Foot" will mainly rely on the film's nominations to accumulate box office.

As for Driving for Miss Daisy, Simon has seen the finished film and it is of the same quality as the original.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of "Driving Miss Daisy" is that the two leading actors in the film are both old people, and it tells the story of the two old people. At the same time, it also involves very politically correct racial topics, which is absolutely in line with the Oscar gang The preferences of older judges.

In addition to movies, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" video game released by Daenerys Entertainment's Blizzard Studio has gradually attracted the attention of the media.

Chapter 304 EA (Revision)

As the most watched rising star in Hollywood, Daenerys Entertainment's attempt to enter the field of video games has attracted the attention of many media from the very beginning. In the commentary on Simon's personal assets in the September 400 Rich List by Forbes magazine, Blizzard Studios was also specifically listed.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Blizzard Studio's test project, has been popular since its birth in 1984. After the game was announced in February this year, it was also rated as one of the most anticipated video games this year by some magazines.

However, it took Blizzard Studios 8 months to develop the ARPG (action role-playing) version of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game, far exceeding the average video game development cycle of 3 to 5 months in this era.

When the outside world had all but forgotten about the incident, Nancy finally officially opened the promotion of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" video game in October.

Because too many miracles have been created in recent years, the projects produced by Daenerys Entertainment almost naturally have a halo attribute that can attract the attention of the media and the public, which has created a great deal for the announcement of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game. convenient.

Relying on a large number of spontaneous media reports, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game has created an effect that other game companies may not necessarily achieve with a comprehensive publicity budget of 100 million US dollars.

As of November 11rd, the game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is almost well-known in the player circles of the two major video game markets of Japan and the United States.

The New York Times commented that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was like "Atari's "ET" to Blizzard Studios before the game was released.

The poor quality of "The Extraterrestrial ET" caused the famous "Atari Crash", but it still sold 150 million boxes of the best-selling level that year. Strong popularity.

As for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the "New York Times" concluded that this game relies on the attention brought by Daenerys Entertainment's own fame, and there is almost no possibility of commercial failure. The result is just a matter of earning more and less.However, if "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cannot be recognized by players, or even suffers from the negative reviews of "ET", after this game, the aura will recede, and it will be very difficult for Daenerys Entertainment to gain a foothold in the field of video games. difficulty.

Both Simon and Nancy actually understand the truth of the New York Times, otherwise, the first game of Blizzard Studios would not be so refined that it took eight months to polish it harshly.

In the attention of all parties, the ARPG version of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game was launched in the United States and Japan on November 11 at the same time.

The first batch of 10 cassettes will be sold at US$60 in the United States and 7000 yen in Japan.

In order to achieve the greatest publicity effect, under Simon's indirect contact through Australia, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game also landed on the cover of Nintendo's official game magazine "Nintendo Power" in November.

In the next few days, along with the media's discussion of Simon Westero's Boeing 767 private car, the game reviews of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" also came out.

"Nintendo Power" gave "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" a good score of 10 out of 8. Of course, there is a public relations effect of Daenerys Entertainment, but Nintendo's official attitude towards this game is beyond doubt .

The scores given by other professional game magazines are basically excellent.

Of course, criticism must be indispensable.

The Japanese game magazine "Famitsu" accused "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" of imitating Nintendo's "Legend of Saidar 2" and Konami's "Tuekaze Demon" in many details.

"Legend of Saidar 2" and "Tsukifumaden" are both horizontal ARPG games produced in the past few years. The first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is also a horizontal ARPG.

After writing a rough game plan based on the Konami version in memory, Simon did let the game design team try out several well-known horizontal ARPG games such as "Legend of Saidar 2" and "Moon Kaze Demon". The above is for reference only.

Even if the Blizzard studio team wanted to copy directly, Nancy, who had been keeping an eye on the project, would not allow it.Coupled with the fact that horizontal games have been rampant in recent years, and phenomenon-level games such as "Contra" and "Super Mario" are also horizontal versions, the accusation of "Famitsu" is irrelevant.

The statistics of game sales data are not as timely as movie box office, especially when the United States and Japan are released at the same time.

不过，11月3日到11月9日一周，原本的第一批10万盒游戏卡带迅速售罄，丹妮莉丝娱乐又紧急向任天堂增加了20万盒卡带的订单。

On November 11, the sales volume of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in the first week of its release was officially released. The total sales volume in the two major markets of North America and Japan was 13 boxes, with sales as high as 26.3 million US dollars.

Compared with movie box office, the sales curve of video games is more like music records, with a strong vitality.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sold 26.3 boxes in the first week. Although it failed to break the sales record of 50 boxes in the first week of many games in the industry, it still stunned a large number of people.Because the games with the highest sales records in the past are basically the second and third generation sequels, but "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is the first generation work.

26.3 boxes in the first week. Considering the excellent quality and reputation of this game, there is no problem with the overall sales reaching 500 million in the next year.It is estimated that the total sales volume of the game is 500 million boxes. Although it does not reach the tens of millions of levels of the "Super Mario" series, it definitely belongs to the ranks of phenomenal video games.

The sales volume of the game actually means the recognition of the market. Daenerys Entertainment immediately invested in the second wave of large-scale publicity, and the attention was further increased, which inevitably drove the sales of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game again.

Best-selling phenomenal video games usually have a long lifespan.

Therefore, just the success of the game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" will allow Blizzard Studios to eat for at least five years through the development of the next sequel. Stand firm.

Daenerys Entertainment HQ.

The time is October 11th, Wednesday.

conference room.

With the success of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game, Nancy began to plan for the next expansion plan of Blizzard Studios.

"A game cartridge priced at US$60, compared with Capcom's several manufacturers who can produce their own cartridges and have a royalty discount of up to 50%, our studio's gross profit margin is only about 30%. However, only this "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game, the sales volume of 26.3 boxes in the first week has allowed us to recover all the investment of Blizzard Studio in the past six months and achieve a net profit of 200 million US dollars. In the next year, the expected net profit of this game The profit scale will reach 1 million US dollars. My next plan is to expand into the field of PC games. It is too slow to start from scratch. Now that I have some understanding of the game industry, I hope to expand directly through acquisitions.”

Before Simon could speak, Amy, who had done a lot of work recently, asked, "Nintendo's exclusivity is very strong. Nancy, how do you solve this problem?"

Nintendo can almost be said to have unified the console game market now. The red and white machines have a market share of more than 90% in Japan and the United States. Therefore, this company is at the strongest stage, even if it is the most closely related company. The six major manufacturers also say that they will be blocked if they say they are blocked, let alone second- and third-tier game production companies.

Nancy obviously also considered this issue, saying: "We can maintain the separate operation of the PC game department and not overlap with Blizzard Studios. Moreover, we will not cooperate with Sega and Atari, which are Nintendo's competitors, to acquire After becoming a PC game manufacturer, you can also choose some excellent PC games to transplant to the Nintendo console platform, which can eliminate Nintendo’s hostility to the greatest extent.”

Amy obviously didn't think so, and turned to look at Simon.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were selling so well, she didn't feel the need to branch out into PC gaming.

The size of the PC game market in this era is still far from being comparable to that of console games. If Nintendo is angered by expanding into the PC field and Blizzard Studios are targeted, it will not be worth the loss.

Simon also doesn't think an overbearing Nintendo will allow Daenerys entertainment to be 'half-hearted'.However, he also does not intend to tie Blizzard Studios to Nintendo, a big ship that has turned from prosperity to decline, so he asked, "Have you seen a suitable target?"

Nancy nodded, and handed the two documents to Simon and Amy respectively, saying: "Electronic Arts (Electronic Arts), a video game manufacturer headquartered in San Francisco, was established in 1982 and originally developed games for Atari consoles. After the decline of Atari, EA began to focus on PC game development, and has accumulated a number of very popular sports game brands over the years.”

Simon flipped through the information in his hand, and had to admire the vision of his petite senior executive again.

EA.

Although it has the notoriety of "Studio Terminator", EA is undoubtedly one of the largest game production publishers in Simon's memory. At its peak, its market value was close to 500 billion US dollars.

Nancy noticed the eccentricity in Simon's expression, but she just continued: "EA just launched its IPO a month ago, and then encountered the stock market crash on October 10th. The current market value of this company is only 13 million US dollars, 1.7 times the price-earnings ratio. If we send out a friendly offer and get a response, we should be able to win $13 million. EA’s performance in recent years has been very good, and an acquisition based on a price-earnings ratio of less than 3 times is acceptable. "

"What if the bona fide offer goes unanswered, or, suddenly, another competitor pops up?" Simon asked.

Nancy said: "In this case, our chips can be raised by another 5000 million US dollars."

"That's it, I'll give you a budget of 3.5 million U.S. dollars to take down this company." Simon didn't hesitate, looked at Amy again, and said, "You can discuss this matter yourself, and you can also find Jim to cooperate. Jenny and I Going to Europe, I will let go of the company's affairs as much as possible for a long time to come, don't let me down."

Both Amy and Nancy already knew about Simon's plan, and they almost agreed that it was impossible for their boss to ignore company affairs for a long time.

Nature is hard to change.

You are a control freak and say you don't intend to control the company anymore.

Who believes!

So there is no objection to Simon's plans to 'take a long vacation'.

After the meeting, Amy and Nancy went to work on their own, and Simon also rushed to participate in the male lead audition of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love".

The original "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, Kathy Bates also won the Oscar for Best Actress for this role.

However, Simon does not intend to use the original crew this time.

Simon has seen the original film, and Kathy Bates's performance is indeed not bad, but Simon believes that the reason why the other party can win the best actress is more due to the role and public relations.

Oscar's favoring of psychopaths of all kinds is well known.

Because too many "patients" such as mental illness, homicide, and mania won the statuette, Oscar was once ridiculed as a mental hospital.

At the same time, Kathy Bates is an artist under C. Without Simon, C would definitely be the most powerful talent agency in Hollywood in recent years. Since the beginning of this year, under the sniping of Daenerys Entertainment, C is still Darth It can be seen that Ting Hoffman won the second statuette.

It's just that, compared to the original Anne Wilkes played by Kathy Bates, which only made the audience feel morbid and manic, Simon also hopes that the new version of the heroine can bring the audience some serious danger of substituting the role of the abused writer. feel.

I thought I had an affair, but ended up going to hell.

If you want to achieve this result, you must consider the value of appearance.

Based on appearance, acting skills and some unavoidable human considerations, Simon finally chose Susan Sarandon.

Susan Sarandon is 43 years old this year, about the same age as Kathy Bates, and also fits the general setting of the heroine in Stephen King's original novel.

Moreover, Susan Sarandon was nominated for the first Oscar for Best Actress in 1981, and her acting skills are beyond doubt.

Although she is over forty years old, Susan Sarandon is well maintained. In the "Witches of East Town" two years ago, the actress' style is not inferior to that of Michelle Pfeiffer and Cher .

Susan Sarandon also co-starred with Kevin Costner last year in a very well-grossing sports romance "Million Dollar Arm".In the film, Sarandon is ten years older than Costner, but the two look very well matched without any sense of age difference.

Speaking of it, Simon was very impressed with the "Emma Baby" starring Susan Sarandon.

Most people only think that Brooke Shields is the core of "Yanwa Biography", but Simon has no feeling for the flat figure of Brooke Shields in the film, but Sue, who plays Brooke Shields' mother The scene of Shan Sarandon lying on the sofa nude and taking pictures is like a beautiful classical oil painting, which makes people have endless aftertaste.

After receiving Simon's invitation, although Susan Sarandon hesitated to play a manic and perverted extreme book fan, she quickly agreed to play the role after consideration.

The actress also clearly sees the breakthrough the role could bring her.

As for the male protagonist, Simon's requirements for this role are not high, so it is inevitable that he will face a lot of favors.

Chapter 305 It's Not By Chance (Repair)

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, the audition for the actor of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" ended.

There were only three candidates for this final round of narrow auditions, the last of whom was Don Johnson, the husband of Melanie Griffith.

Simon originally didn't think that Don Johnson, whose style tends to be a tough guy, could play the role of a writer well, but he changed his opinion after being asked by some contacts in the Griffith family and watching Don Johnson's carefully prepared audition tape. .

Moreover, Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon are the same age, and an alternative CP effect can also be formed between the two.

Discussing the perception of the role, performing fragments of the script, and finally the heroine Susan Sarandon came to act in person. The audition took a full one and a half hours, and Don Johnson’s male lead was basically finalized. The film crew discussed the pay and other details with Don Johnson's agent.