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This is likely to be another [-] million box office club movie.

Moreover, it is definitely a [-] million box office club movie with the lowest budget cost last year.

While the media is generally attracted by "Driving Miss Daisy", Daenerys Entertainment's "Pretty Woman" is officially released on February 2th, which is scheduled for Valentine's Day.Because it was the off-season for movies, the distribution team easily managed to raise 9 screens for Pretty Woman.

Compared with the original version of Richard Gere, the new version of actor Pierce Brosnan is very low-profile, and Julia Roberts has only barely reached a level of familiarity in the audience's impression in the past two years.The advantage of using these two actors as the leading role is that the cost of the film is further reduced, only 1000 million US dollars.

Because the previous few internal previews have received very good feedback from the audience, Daenerys Entertainment has determined that the actor's reputation is not enough to make up for the publicity strategy, but the early publicity budget investment reached 700 million US dollars, of which 500 million Dollars are dedicated to serving ads to the various platforms.

As long as the film's box office in the first week meets expectations, an additional marketing budget will be added immediately.

On the first day of its production, "Pretty Woman" did not receive general recognition from the media, and the average film score was barely passing. This is still taking into account the public relations factors of Daenerys Entertainment.

"Time" magazine unceremoniously criticized the film as "an old-fashioned Hollywood assembly line work."

"Chicago Reader" commented sarcastically that 'the hero pays $3000, and then they fall in love, which is very Hollywood'. "Entertainment Weekly" also criticized "Pretty Woman" in a sarcastic tone: "The story is that Roberts' character suddenly becomes better because he meets a rich man and learns to cry at the opera house."

However, these evaluations with the unique sense of superiority of intellectuals did not affect the film's reputation in the minds of the audience.

The requirements of most ordinary people are actually not high, just a simple story that can resonate.

Moreover, the audience of "Pretty Woman" is much larger than that of "Driving Miss Daisy".

Coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's spare no effort to cater to the Valentine's Day atmosphere, "Pretty Woman" earned a box office of 1247 million US dollars in the three days of the opening weekend.

In the following entire week, due to the substantial increase in the number of viewers around Valentine’s Day on February 2, the seven-day box office of "Pretty Woman" finally reached 14 million U.S. dollars in the first seven days, squeezing out "Batman: Beginning of War" in one fell swoop. It won the single-week box office championship for seven consecutive weeks.

In the eighth week of its release, the box office of "Batman: Beginning of War" fell by 19%, and it received another US$1651 million, ranking second. The cumulative box office reached US$3 million, steadily advancing towards the box office of US$6362 million.

This week's No.3 is no longer "Driving Miss Daisy", but an action movie "Seven Years Storm" starring Steven Seagal produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, which earned 1214 million in the first week of filming. Dollar.

Under the impact of the two new films, "Driving Miss Daisy" increased to 1302 screens this week, and the box office still achieved an 11% drop. It collected another US$895 million, and the cumulative box office reached US$3550 million.

In the off-season of the box office in February, and the word of mouth is not too good, the box office can get 2 million US dollars in the first week. The box office performance of "Pretty Woman" exceeded most people's expectations.This also allowed the film to gain more media attention, or controversy.

At the same time, in the audience group, although some people do not agree with the concept expressed in the film, most of the audience like this movie very much and begin to recommend it to people around them.

So, in the second week after the filming started, even though Valentine’s Day had passed, the box office of "Pretty Woman" fell by only a very weak 5.5%. Obvious drop.In just two weeks, "Pretty Woman" quickly accumulated a box office of 1811 million US dollars.

There is no doubt that the first box office dark horse of 1990 was born.

And, still from Daenerys Entertainment, still from Simon Westeros.

After the release of "Batman: Begins" at the end of last year, Simon has kept himself out of the media eye as much as possible.To that end, Simon's 2nd birthday on February 22 was spent with Janet in a very quiet way.

Now, with the success of "Pretty Woman," once again, the media's attention has shifted to him again.

The news that first caught the attention of the media was that the richest man in the United States, who just passed his 22nd birthday, will marry his girlfriend Janet Johnston next month.

In this matter, in fact, recently, there have been media stationed in Melbourne for a long time to follow up the preparations for the wedding in real time.

Naturally, the media began to develop various topics around Simon and Janet's wedding, and the most discussed was undoubtedly Simon's personal wealth and various situations after the two got married.Because of the age difference between the two, there are still many media who are not optimistic about this marriage. An article in the "New York Times" also specifically reminded Simon to remember to sign a prenuptial agreement.

Then, the topic naturally extended to how much money Simon has now.

60 billion US dollars, this is a well-known and authoritative figure announced by the "Forbes" rich list.

However, this is already the data in August last year.

What now?

Accompanied by such a topic, the "Wall Street Journal" suddenly exposed Daenerys Entertainment's full-year financial report for last year on the second day of Simon's birthday on February 2.

Although it has to pay a lot of large expenses for the company's expansion, because Daenerys Entertainment has too many successful projects in the past two years to continue to provide a lot of income for this company that has only been established for more than three years, Daenerys Entertainment last year The scale of the after-tax net profit reached a staggering $5.31 million.

This is indeed a very staggering number.

In the past year, although the financial reports of many American companies have not yet been released, according to the data of previous years, the profit scale of more than 5 million US dollars is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to squeeze into the top 50 in the profit ranking of American companies .

Moreover, compared to Daenerys Entertainment's qualifications, other companies with the same level of profit are all giant-level existences that have been operating for more than ten years.

Like Motorola.

In the fiscal year ending September last year, Motorola, the electronics giant, had a net profit of only US$9 million, which was the best financial report in recent years.

At the same time, thanks to the post-production operations of several projects last year, especially "Batman: Begins", many media have predicted that Daenerys Entertainment's profit scale is likely to double this year.Once this is the case, it will undoubtedly be even more terrifying.

You know, Daenerys Entertainment is a company 100% owned by Simon Westeros.

Not to mention this year, but based on last year’s profit scale of US$5.31 million and the most conservative price-earnings ratio of 10 times, compared with the US$30 billion valuation of Daenerys Entertainment by Forbes last year, this rapidly rising Hollywood film company The company's market capitalization is also good enough to exceed $50 billion this year.

Not counting all the other assets of Simon Westeros, just this one is almost enough for him to maintain his position as the richest man in the Federation.

Some people not only ask, is Daenerys Entertainment really worth $50 billion?

Movies have always been a high-risk business. Maybe the last few years are very good, but the next few years may be in a downturn.

However, as soon as this question was raised, it was met with the most solid refutation.

Marvel!

That's right, Marvel Entertainment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment.

The success of just one project of "Batman: Beginning of War" is expected to bring 10 billion US dollars in profits to all parties involved. This is only a project at the beginning of the DC movie universe.

Now that the first film is successful, the huge plan of more than 10 films has been announced recently. Under the personal control of Simon Westeros, even if it does not achieve the opening results of "Batman: Beginning of War", it will definitely easily surpass Hollywood. most of the projects.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of the DC movie universe project is sustainability.

This means that Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner no longer have to take on the intense uncertainty of box office prospects every time they run traditional film projects.

Therefore, anyone with a little foresight can undoubtedly see how much potential Marvel, which is completely owned by Daenerys Entertainment, will have beyond the DC movie universe plan.

Warner Bros. Pictures planned to sell DC for tens of millions of dollars a few years ago. Now, it is just the success of "Batman: Beginning of War". Even if it is $10 billion, Steve Ross will not Agree to sell.What's more, any popular superhero under DC may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Then, Marvel, which also owns a large number of superhero copyrights, is undoubtedly a super gold mine.

This alone is enough to support Daenerys' entertainment value.

As a society where the media is commercially operated, if there is attention, there will be people to dig news.

After the "Wall Street Journal" broke the news about Daenerys Entertainment's annual financial report, another financial magazine "Fortune" suddenly exposed another piece of information, which directly ignited public opinion: Simon Westeros to the United States Data on foreign assets registered with the IRS.

cash.

45 billion dollars!

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"Fortune" magazine is a bi-weekly magazine under Time Inc. On the day when the new issue was released, Steve Ross called Simon, saying that he did not know about it beforehand. During the conversation, he congratulated Simon and also Said that he would attend his wedding on March 3 on time.

45 billion US dollars in cash, considered as other assets, Simon has become the first super rich man in the history of the Federation with assets exceeding 100 billion US dollars.

It does seem like something to celebrate.

During the release of "Pretty Woman", because it competed with "Seven Years Storm" starring Steven Seagal under Warner Bros., "Time" magazine, also owned by Time Warner, gave "Pretty Woman" a negative review .

Time Warner is not monolithic internally, but if it is said that Steve Ross did not know about this matter, Simon does not believe it.

However, Simon didn't care about these things.

As "Fortune" magazine exposed Simon's overseas asset materials registered with the IRS, what he greeted was not congratulations, but doubts.

45 billion US dollars, this figure exposed by Fortune and sparking heated discussions in the media is of course not the precise size of Simon’s overseas assets, but a registered taxable amount.

Moreover, not all of this money exists in cash, but also includes a large part of short-term convertible financial products in order to obtain a very safe capital return that is slightly higher than bank interest.

If you count assets such as Nokia, Gucci and Simon's overseas real estate, Simon's assets outside the United States are easily more than $50 billion.

Of course, most of the media and the public don't pay attention to these.

The focus of public opinion is, how did the huge cash of 45 billion US dollars come from?

The development of Daenerys Entertainment has a very clear context. However, the operation of Cersei Capital is opaque to most people.

Therefore, it is difficult for too many people to believe that a hedge fund can bring Simon a huge wealth of US$45 billion in just one year.

You know, this kind of profit scale is already comparable to the most profitable corporate giants in North America such as IBM, Ford Motor, and General Electric.

Similar corporate giants all have a revenue volume of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Therefore, the media and the public can't help but question whether there are some unknown secrets behind the huge sum of US$45 billion.

Faced with more and more doubts, Simon had to respond.

Pat Kingsley, still serving as his public relations manager, pointed out at a press conference on February 2 that Simon had already proved his talent in finance during the operation of the S&P 28 in 1987. The income of 500 billion U.S. dollars is entirely dependent on the legal operation of Cersei Capital and related commission income, and there is no inside story.

In this way, people will think of it.

Simon became the youngest billionaire in North America in one fell swoop through the operation of stock index futures during the stock market crash in 1987.

Now, through another operation, Simon Westero has completed the advancement from a billionaire to a tens of billionaire, which seems reasonable.

However, $45 billion.

This amount of money is simply too large for a single individual.

You know, on last year's "Forbes" North American 400 richest list, apart from Simon Westeros, only John Kruger's net worth exceeded this figure.

Even if it is the world's richest list, there are less than 45 people with a net worth of more than 20 billion US dollars.

What's more, this asset is all cash, not real estate or stock assets that are difficult to cash out.

In this way, Simon Westeros may be the one with the most cash among the richest people in the world.

Simon’s operating methods during the stock market crash in 1987 were once fully exposed in the media, and there is no possibility of replicating the god-level operation that closely follows the market curve.

This time, what is the inside story?

Along with this kind of thinking, many media have begun to report to the federal regulators, asking these departments to intervene in the investigation of more details of the operation of Cersei Capital.

However, these agitations were doomed to fail.

Cersei Capital has just recently confirmed that it will be headquartered in Manhattan. Prior to this, the hedge fund registered in the Cayman Islands was not subject to federal jurisdiction at all.

As for the proponents to use Cersei Capital's operation in the US stock and bond market last year as an excuse, it is still difficult to work.

Unless it is suspected that Cersei Capital has illegal operations, it is impossible for any regulatory agency to initiate an investigation hastily, let alone require a company to disclose its business information for no reason.

Are there irregularities in the operation of Cersei Capital?

With more financial institutions in North America secretly watching Cersei Capital last year, if there were any violations, they would have been exposed long ago.Even if it's not good for them, just out of jealousy, there are too many people who want to see Cersei's capital bad luck.

As a result, nothing happened.

If you can grasp the handle and stab Cersei Capital, it will definitely be no problem.

If there is no substantive evidence, just because Cersei's capital is too profitable to force an investigation, the result will only be disheartened.

Nor could Simon Westeros be defenseless.

Since it is impossible to find trouble with Simon Westeros through Cersei Capital, some people have turned their attention to taxes.

45 billion US dollars in cash, according to the tax rate of 28% of the capital gains tax on the additional equity income declared by Simon Westeros, this means more than 12 billion US dollars in taxes.

Over $10 billion in taxes, no individual in the history of the Federation owed such a large tax bill while alive.

Moreover, Westeros obviously has no intention of transferring the money back to the country immediately.

How does this work!

Therefore, within a few days of Fortune magazine’s exposure, a federal senator from Tennessee publicly stated that unless Simon immediately pays the arrears of taxes, Cersei Capital should be banned from conducting business in the United States.

In order to promote this matter, the congressman also solemnly submitted a proposal to Congress.

You must know that there are more than one companies and individuals like Simon Westero who keep their capital overseas to avoid taxes, but continue to conduct business in the United States through various means.If the relevant bill can be introduced, it will immediately bring a large amount of additional revenue to the federal budget.

However, the United States' global taxation strategy has always been controversial.

In order to promote the return of overseas funds to the United States, the federal government will guide these funds back to the country through tax exemptions every few years.

Now, it is definitely not just Simon who wants to force through stricter bills to tax corporate and personal overseas assets.

Once urgent, everyone is not without countermeasures.

The general idea of ​​overseas taxation in the United States is to collect taxes that are higher than the taxpayer's tax payment and lower than the local tax share.

If the federal government does too much, taxpayers can directly pay the full amount of tax money to overseas countries without using tax avoidance methods, so that they may be able to gain the favor of the corresponding countries and more policy support.

In comparison, if you hand it over to the country, you can't even get a little red flower.

Such a simple truth can be easily understood by anyone with a discerning eye.

Therefore, as long as the high-level federal government does not go crazy, it is impossible for the Tennessee Congressman's proposal to pass.