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My boss set up such a computer room to check the compatibility of IE browser with different operating systems of different machines in real time.

After briefly browsing the portal homepage, the eye-catching headlines are still the war dynamics on the Gulf side.

The reason why AOL was able to harvest 230 million subscribers in the past month is inseparable from the timely report of the Gulf War information on the Eaglet Portal.

Even though the traditional media realized the potential threat of the Ygret platform to the traditional media platform and deliberately reduced the reports on the Ygret portal-related news, the spread of this new content platform among the public has not been hindered in the slightest .

You only need to pay a monthly fee equivalent to that of subscribing to newspapers. Not only are there more news and information with richer content, but also various additional functions with strong applicability, such as online games, blog sites, and e-mail, which are attractive to users. Still very strong.

This also happens to be the selling point that Eaglet and AOL jointly advertise on various platforms.

In San Francisco in the last two days, I also saw that Igret is developing richer multimedia functions such as music and animation.Once they are fully activated, the housekeeper feels that there is really no need for traditional paper media platforms.

Just staying on the portal for a while, the housekeeper opened her e-mail.

Recently, she is recruiting to expand her team, and plans to recruit at least 10 more girls, all of which she is personally responsible for.In addition, Miami is designing and building a manor, and she is also watching this matter, as well as the trivial matters related to her boss's properties in various places in North America...

Apart from washing, cooking, making quilts and making beds, she is actually very busy.

Now I have to take care of Ygritte's work.

She couldn't help but think of what her boss said when she teased her last night, whether she wanted to get rid of this job early.

Of course I want to.

However, as much as you get, you have to pay as much.

She still understands this truth.

Otherwise, even if she has a higher degree and enters the workplace, she will have to start from scratch.After all, her family didn't have any deep background that made her jump out of the starting line of ordinary people.

After browsing through all the emails and replying, she was busy for more than 20 minutes and checked the time. The housekeeper knew that she should leave with someone.

just.

How much is still a little resentful.

Didn't you just walk to him earlier than us?

everyone.

Perhaps no one will be much worse than you.

Of course, just thinking about it this way, she really couldn't figure out the character of her boss.Sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes cold, sometimes ambiguous, sometimes alienated, it is simply fickle.

Moreover, I thought that after working for him, he would soon take over her body.However, after several months passed, the closest thing he did to him was just picking her chin last night.

It's not good to refuse and welcome, it's not good to pretend to be indifferent, it's not good to be shrewd and capable, and it's not good to be enchanting.

Last night, I deliberately changed my posture, pretending to be shy and timid.

Or not.

Really...

Where is the problem?

It is distressing.

Do you want to be savage and willful like the hostess?

However, if she really made such a gesture, she felt that the end would not be very good.

The hostess dared to act like a baby in front of him without any scruples, and it was more likely that she did it out of self-defeating.

After all, her status was still there, she was just his housekeeper, just a vase.

If he is interested, he can pick up the vase and play with it at any time. If she is too restless and takes the initiative to come forward, maybe he will be smashed to pieces if he misses it and misses it in a daze.

Simon was able to continue to sleep peacefully after hearing the news that the Ministry of Justice officially approved the acquisition of MCA by Daenerys Entertainment, but Hollywood could not calm down about this.

The approval of the acquisition means that a real Hollywood super giant is about to be born.

As long as the merger is completed, the new Daenerys Entertainment will be involved in multiple media businesses such as film, television, music, games, theaters, publishing, theme parks, peripheral products, and video tape retail.Moreover, most of these businesses are not insignificant in nature.

Needless to say, there are more than 1991 films in 30 under the two companies Daenerys Entertainment and MCA that have been confirmed to enter theaters.

Although several of Daenerys Entertainment's flagship films this year, such as "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2" and "The Fugitive", are all cooperative films with other film companies and are not responsible for distribution, but more than The distribution of the 30 films, calculated in full, is indeed as stated by the three major labor unions when they sued. Daenerys Entertainment is likely to control more than 40% of Hollywood's box office share.

Any industry with a market share of more than 40% is basically considered a monopoly-level super giant.

In terms of TV, in addition to Daenerys TV, which owns a series of hit dramas and reality shows, MCA also holds 50% of the shares of MCA TV and USA Cable Network. A television program production department of comparable size and six local stations located across the United States.

Therefore, this merger can further consolidate Daenerys Entertainment's strength in the TV field and allow Daenerys Entertainment to have its own TV station assets.

Not only that, after the completion of the acquisition, Daenerys Entertainment will largely make up for its own lack of content accumulation with the thousands of movie and TV library assets obtained from MCA.

Outside of the film and TV business, Daenerys Entertainment's biggest gain is undoubtedly the MCA record company and theme park business.

MCA Records (MCA Records) is actually the predecessor of Universal Music, which was originally established in 1913 as a subsidiary of Universal Pictures.

After more than half a century of development, MCA Records has become one of the world-class record giants comparable to Warner Records, Columbia Records, Polygram, EMI and other companies. MCA Records not only has a rich music library content accumulation, but also in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America all have their own record distribution networks.

Through this acquisition, Daenerys Entertainment will no longer need to rely on the network of other record companies for distribution of film soundtracks produced by Daenerys Entertainment in the future.

However, the shortcomings of MCA Records are also very obvious. For the time being, this company does not have such top-level superstars as Michael Jackson and Madonna Ciccone.

As for the theme parks, although MCA currently only has two theme parks, Universal Studios Los Angeles and Universal Orlando, both theme parks are very successful, and tens of millions of tourists continue to provide rich cash flow for MCA every year.Next, Daenerys Entertainment will also start the construction plan of Universal Studios Osaka together with Panasonic.

Chapter 400 The Coming Birthday (Revised)

After the U.S. Department of Justice formally approved Daenerys Entertainment’s acquisition of MCA, the pace of merger between the two companies, which was already advancing, began to accelerate.

In the following week, Daenerys Entertainment continued to announce various news about the company's finances and personnel, which made people dizzying, so few people realized what these news meant.

At the press conference on the day when the acquisition was approved, Daenerys Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal announced that the equity transfer of Daenerys Entertainment to MCA shareholders will be completed before the end of February.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment's funds for the acquisition of MCA will be obtained through loans.

The next day, Daenerys Entertainment announced again that it will cooperate with the legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg on two projects at the same time, namely the dinosaur sci-fi movie "Jurassic Park" and the story of the Holocaust in World War II. Schindler's List of the past.

Although Daenerys Entertainment is not a listed company, the announcement of this cooperation has made the industry more optimistic about the new Daenerys Entertainment Group, which suddenly bears an additional huge debt of 70 billion US dollars.It's not just because of Daenerys Entertainment's collaboration with Steven Spielberg, but also what else stands behind the Schindler's List project.

Subsequently, Daenerys Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal, whose contract is about to expire in March this year, announced her contract renewal.

This powerful woman in Hollywood who helped Simon Westero build Daenerys Entertainment Group in just a few years, the terms of the contract renewal became the focus of the media's most attention, which attracted various speculations for a while.

After a lot of discussion, the entertainment information section of Ygritte's portal finally revealed the answer.

Amy Pascal's new contract has a three-year term, the basic annual salary has been raised to $75, and the sharing terms are consistent with the 1987 agreement.

Also belonging to the Westeros system, the news from the Ygritte Portal is actually equivalent to an official announcement.

However, the interpretation surrounding this contract has not stopped.

Most of the media originally predicted that Amy Pascal's contract period this time is likely to be the usual five-year contract for Hollywood executives. The top leaders of several major Hollywood studios, Michael Eisner, Peter Guber, Snow This is true of the contracts of Lee Lansing and others.

Therefore, the 3-year period is very interesting.

The media in the industry did not feel that this was a sign that Amy Pascal might leave Daenerys Entertainment, otherwise, it would be impossible for Westeros to give Daenerys Entertainment the scale that has expanded countless times. This female executive has a salary contract with the same 5% of the company's net profit and the same amount of equity awards as four years ago.

You must know that the income dividend ratio of the directors of various studios in the industry is usually only 2%.

Even if Daenerys Entertainment will face a lot of debt pressure in the next few years, resulting in shrinking profits, the salary contract, which is equivalent to 10% of the company's net profit, is definitely a big deal.

So, look back at Pascal's contract period.

3 years.

Most likely means another node.

As we all know, before a company's IPO, the contracts of company executives need to be readjusted.

Daenerys Entertainment has just merged with MCA, so it is not wise to launch an IPO plan in the short term, and the three-year digestion time seems just right.

At the same time, several in-depth cooperation agreements between Daenerys Entertainment and Panasonic also appeared in the media, and the outside world finally learned why Panasonic quit the bidding for MCA in the first place.

In a series of news hotspots, negative news is naturally inevitable.

Before the acquisition was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of employees of Daenerys Entertainment reached as high as 3000. The revenue of the two companies in the past fiscal year was similar, but MCA has more than 1 employees worldwide.

The reason why Westeros chose not to lay off employees after acquiring Bell Atlantic was mainly because the rapid expansion of the telecommunications industry in the field of mobile communications and the Internet could naturally absorb excess human resources of Bell Atlantic.

Moreover, because Bell Atlantic does not know much about the telecommunications industry, and Bell Atlantic does not need to lay off staff and reduce expenses to solve the debt problem, Simon finally chose to stay still.

MCAs are different.

Because there are a large number of overlapping functional departments between Daenerys Entertainment and MCA, MCA, under the management of Lou Vasalman, who has long lost his vigor, inevitably has serious redundancy problems common to large companies.

Therefore, layoffs are inevitable.

The "Hollywood Reporter" first exposed that Daenerys Entertainment may have a large-scale layoff plan of up to 3000 people for the new company after the merger is completed.

The employment issue has always been a focus of American society.

For politicians, the employment rate is the performance of their performance.For enterprises, guaranteeing employment is also a reflection of corporate image and social responsibility.

All of a sudden, 3000 people could lose their jobs, and all of Hollywood is agitated.

Due to the situation, the three major trade unions that gave up on Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of MCA immediately came forward and condemned Daenerys Entertainment's possible layoffs.The North American media and various labor protection organizations in California have also begun to pay close attention to this matter.

The matter developed to the end. The new governor of California and several members of Congress in California who just took office at the beginning of the year expressed concern about this matter

Facing the pressure of public opinion, after a few days of silence, Daenerys Entertainment quickly clarified that there is no plan to lay off as many as 3000 people.

However, because the merger of the two companies has brought about a lot of duplication of jobs, Daenerys Entertainment had to make a trade-off, but it can be guaranteed that the scale of layoffs will be strictly limited to less than 1000 people.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment also promised to recreate at least 1000 jobs in the next three years through its own business expansion.

The number of layoffs has been reduced from the rumored 3000 to 1000. Although accusations are still inevitable, the outside world is obviously much easier to accept.

While the merger case continues to advance, the schedule for Valentine's Day in North America in February has also quietly started.

Last year's Valentine's Day saw box-office hits like "Pretty Woman," and this year, Daenerys Entertainment's film also received extra attention from the media.

However, compared to "Pretty Woman", the movie released by Daenerys Entertainment on Valentine's Day this time is much more non-mainstream, and it is called "Fighting Wits and Stars".

Moreover, the most watched film in North American theaters is still "Home Alone" last Christmas.

As of February 2, one week before the Valentine's Day schedule, "Home Alone", which started its seventh week of production, once again earned $7 million at the box office.In the seven weeks since its release, the cumulative box office of this phenomenal children's comedy has reached 1293 million US dollars.

On February 2th, Valentine's Day will start. Daenerys Entertainment's New World Films produced and released "Wisdom Fighting Stars", which opened on a scale of 8 screens. Warner Bros. produced George Miller's high-budget fantasy adventure film "Demon Realm 1739" and the romance film "LA Story" produced by Columbia Pictures' Samsung Company.

The fantasy adventure feature film "Demon Realm", adapted from a famous German children's book, invested a huge budget of 1984 million US dollars when it was first released in 2600.Although the North American box office at the time was not very successful, only in the early 2000 million, but because of the excellent special effects scenes, it earned about 1 million US dollars in box office worldwide at that time.

This time, Warner invited George Miller to direct the "Magic Domain 2", and once again invested a huge budget of 3600 million US dollars, which can be described as the most favorable box office contender for this Valentine's Day schedule.

However, the box office performance of several films in this Valentine's Day schedule has surprised many people.

From February 2th to February 8th, the first week of Valentine's Day schedule, the one that topped the single-week box office list is not George Miller's "Demon World 2", nor is it "LA Story" that fits the Valentine's Day atmosphere very well. , but it is the non-mainstream, nonsensical and vulgar comedy "Fighting Wits and Stars".

In its opening week, "Saturday Night Live" TV star Mike Myers starred in this sleazy comedy with no main plot and scattered, and it even got $2170 million at the box office in seven days.

Even under Daenerys Entertainment's consistently excellent publicity campaign, after the film was released, many film critics gave positive comments such as being fresh and interesting, but everyone still did not expect that this alternative film lacks selling points no matter how you look at it. Comedy films can gross more than $2000 million in their first week.

Inside Daenerys Entertainment, although many people know that Simon personally selected this project, even Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, who is in charge of the production of "Wisdom" before the film was released, also thought that If this film can get 5000 million US dollars at the North American box office, it can be called a miracle. Several project leaders even set up a small gamble for this.

Then, Danny Morris was the natural loser, but he lost happily.

The surprising box office of US$2170 million in the first week, combined with the film's media reputation and good topicality, means that "Fighting Wits" is expected to have a long-term box office.

The local box office of 5000 million may be just a guarantee.

However, because the content of the film involves too many jokes that only Americans can understand, the distribution team does not have much expectation for the overseas box office of the film.

After "Fighting Wits", No. 2 in the weekly box office list is not two new films, but "Home Alone".

In the eighth week of release, "Home Alone" lost its weekly box office title for the first time, but the box office decline remained at a very good 21%, and it collected another 1022 million US dollars.

At the same time, the film's total domestic box office in North America officially broke through the $2 million mark, reaching $2 million.

Based on the phenomenon-level box office momentum of "Home Alone", the film's total screen life usually reaches about 25 weeks.

It is not difficult to predict that after eight weeks of filming, "Home Alone" may still be able to stay in North American theaters for 4 months.

Although starting next week, the weekly box office of "Home Alone" will drop to less than 1000 million U.S. dollars, but after four months of screenings, there will be a popular period like Easter that is also suitable for family fun. It is not difficult to accumulate another 4 million U.S. dollars in box office, and it is still expected to reach the North American box office of 8000 million U.S. dollars in the original time and space.

With a production budget of 1800 million US dollars, only North America can earn 2.8 million US dollars at the box office. The crazy rate of return makes the entire Hollywood jealous.

Because of the recent series of events and the approach of a certain date, Simon, who has been trying to reduce his personal exposure, will inevitably become the focus of media attention again.

2 month 22 day.

Simon Westeros' 23rd birthday.