hunt hollywood

That's right.

"Bad Romance" is a song by Lady Gaga many years later in the original time and space. It is not surprising that the singer's name appears in the lyrics.

As for the specific origin of the word Gaga, Simon probably remembered that it was a song in recent years, and he didn't bother to delve into the specifics.

Madonna also didn't mean to get to the bottom of it.

To get a song and get Simon's personal promise, it's a worthwhile trip to fly to Paris in the midst of busy schedules.

The two chatted for more than half an hour, and stayed in the manor for lunch at noon before Madonna left.

After seeing off Madonna, Simon returned to the villa and saw Janet nestling on the sofa in the living room at the side of the living room, holding a magazine, looking lazy.

Walking over to sit down next to Janet, Simon reached out and touched the woman's belly, and said with a smile: "Don't be in such a hurry, there will always be when it should be."

Janet has been in a low mood for the past few days. The main reason is that the two of them have been 'busy' for a month. They originally wanted to make a little guy as soon as possible, but the woman's stomach has never moved.Simon wasn't in a rush about it, but Janet was clearly not.

Throwing away the magazine in her hand, Janet slapped the man beside her and said, "Let's go back to North America tomorrow."

"Stay a few more days," Simon hugged the woman's slender waist, and said, "Or, let's find a doctor for a checkup?"

Janet shook her head immediately: "No, it feels weird."

After chatting in detail and snuggling for a while, Janet regained her spirits.

Although they acquiesced in Simon's decision to stay in Paris for a few more days, both of them have started to work again in recent days.

Janet is fine, just spending two or three hours a day reading various materials from several subsidiaries of Cersei Capital, and occasionally communicating with New York over the phone.

Simon has too many things to juggle.

During the honeymoon period between the two, the casting of DC movie universe follow-up projects such as "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Superman", "The Flash", "Wonder Woman" and even "Steel Bone" was fully launched.

Simon's plan is to select suitable actors as early as possible and sign a long-term contract, so that sufficient time can be reserved for the training of the main actors, just like Famke Janssen, the default heroine of "Wonder Woman".

Outside of the DC movie universe, two key foreign cooperation projects that are currently being prepared, "Terminator 2" and "The Fugitive", also require Simon to allocate some energy to take care of them.

On the other hand, the team that plans to acquire MCA has also begun to be established, which will be mainly handled by Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital.

Leon Black, the head of Apollo Management Company, was mainly in charge of the leveraged buyout business during Drexel Securities, and it is more than enough to take over such a business acquisition consulting work.

According to the price of Panasonic's acquisition of MCA according to memory, in addition to the funds that Simon hoarded overseas, Daenerys Entertainment will have to raise at least another US$30 billion in cash to ensure the completion of this acquisition.Therefore, James Raybould has begun to make secret contacts with some banks in private.

In addition to Hollywood affairs, Simon also needs to devote enough energy to the field of new technology in the next period of time.

Eaglet has completed the preliminary layout of World Wide Web technology, and then it needs to formally launch the Internet plan.Without Simon's personal promotion, it would take at least another two or three years for this matter to unfold.

Chapter 340 Blockbuster's Problem (Repair)

Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.

The time is April 4th, and they stayed in Paris for another week. Simon and Janet flew back to New York yesterday and started working again today.

The headquarters of Cersei Capital did not choose the downtown area where financial companies gather, but was set up in Building 1230 of Rockefeller Center, and each of the three subsidiaries occupied a floor.

Compared with work, Janet pays more attention to the lives of the two.

Therefore, unless necessary, the woman only plans to work three days a week, divided among the three subsidiaries.And, even during working hours, most of the time he lives with Simon in Los Angeles.

Wall Street is full of workaholics of all kinds, but there is never a shortage of people who accomplish a lot with little work.

During the acquisition of the Blackstone Financial Management Company under the Blackstone Group a few days ago, Simon discovered that John Sreber, the head of the real estate investment department under the Blackstone Group, only worked 40 days a year, but he could get 20% of the equity of the partnership company. Still living in Chicago, far away from New York.

Things are actually very simple. To achieve this kind of work status, the key is to choose the right team.

This was what Janet had been doing for the two months leading up to the wedding.

The team of Cersei Fund Management Company has gone through a year of polishing and screening, and this is the most reassuring one.Leon Black and Lawrence Fink, the heads of the two teams of Apollo Management and Black Rock Asset Management, both have Simon's prophetic edge and are also very reliable.

The large conference room of Cersei Capital headquarters.

The meeting on the investment plan of Lawrence Fink's team for the new quarter lasted for two and a half hours, and by the end of it, it was almost noon.

Simon sat next to Janet the entire time, patiently listening in on the entire meeting.

Lawrence Fink is looking forward to Simon expressing some of his opinions during the meeting. However, this behind-the-scenes boss who should have a greater say than Janet has never said a word, which makes Lawrence Fink feel unpredictable .

Sometimes I feel that Simon may not understand the asset management industry, and occasionally I feel that this may be the case, but Fink absolutely dare not underestimate a young man who has earned himself a huge fortune in just over three years.

In fact, Simon just made himself a hands-off shopkeeper as much as possible.

In the afternoon there was also a meeting with the Apollo management company team. Everyone left the meeting room and went to a restaurant in the building to have dinner together.

In the corridor, the elevator had just opened, and it happened that Wayne Huizenga and Leon Black, the chairman of Blockbuster, were also in the elevator.

After everyone said hello, they took advantage of the opportunity to cooperate together.

During the chat, Simon learned that Wayne Huizenga came this time for the acquisition of Blockbuster some time ago.

After Blockbuster completed its IPO, in order to stimulate the company's stock price, it soon announced an acquisition of Baltimore-based video chain Errol Corporation.

Originally, the acquisition had negotiated an offer of 4000 million US dollars.

However, a few days ago, Nancy Brill found something wrong when checking Errol's financial information, so she hired the newly established Apollo Management Company team to re-examine the acquisition.

M&A consulting is also the business of the Apollo Management Company team. The largest M&A consulting case in the hands of Leon Black happens to be the acquisition of MCA initiated by Daenerys Entertainment.

After accepting this relatively modest M&A case, Leon Black's team quickly discovered a hidden debt of more than $800 million under Errol.

The purchase price of 4000 million U.S. dollars was originally a bit high compared to the size and liabilities of Errol Company.

Immediately after the additional hidden debt came to light, Blockbuster stopped pursuing the acquisition and restarted negotiations with Errol's management team.

Video chain is a capital-intensive industry. Although Errol's scale cannot be compared with that of Blockbuster, it also relies heavily on loans during the expansion process.If the acquisition collapses, Errol, which is far from having a scale advantage, is likely to go bankrupt.

Therefore, the final transaction price is very likely to be lowered to 3000 million US dollars.

Back in Los Angeles, Nancy Brill also talked to Simon about it.

However, Nancy pointed the finger at Wayne Huizenga.If she hadn't revisited the acquisition at the last minute, Blockbuster probably wouldn't have discovered the problem and ended up taking additional losses.This was clearly the fault of Chairman and CEO Wayne Huizenga.

After Blockbuster’s IPO, Daenerys Entertainment, which maintained a 35% stake, basically took control of the company because Wayne Huizenga and other founders’ equity was further diluted.

Nancy had long been dissatisfied with Wayne Huizenga's ability. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she proposed to re-select a CEO for Blockbuster and split Huizenga's power in two.

"Blockbuster's core operating philosophy is to continue to improve efficiency and reduce costs while expanding, so as to gain stronger competitiveness in the industry. I agree with you that you want to find a new CEO. However, Blockbuster just For IPO, I don’t want internal instability, so you should communicate with Huyzenga yourself. In addition, the new CEO can’t change the business strategy arbitrarily against Blockbuster’s business philosophy.”

Inside Daenerys Studios in Malibu.

The various teams of Daenerys Entertainment will probably be stationed in the next month. Simon came here in the morning to check the decoration effect that has been basically completed, and Nancy also rushed over from Santa Monica.

"Of course I understand, this is also where I am dissatisfied with Wayne." Nancy nodded and said: "He can no longer see how Blockbuster will go next. He discussed with me last time and wanted to buy a cable TV company. TV operators are trying the cable TV field, and Blockbuster has not yet achieved the ultimate in video chain, and now the development of cable TV is simply messing around."

Simon and Nancy walked along the corridor from the administrative area to the next-level office area, and said, "If Daenerys Entertainment is trying to expand into the cable TV field, do you think it is a good idea?"

Nancy asked, "Cable or cable operator?"

Cable TV station and cable TV operator are two concepts.However, because the Reagan administration liberalized media control a few years ago, many cable TV operators have also begun to get involved in the TV business, such as Time Warner, which owns Warner Cable, which is responsible for cable TV operations, and cable TV stations such as HBO.

Being involved in content and channels at the same time is obviously the best way to avoid being choked by someone, but it is also easy to distract the attention of the management team.

In this regard, Disney and Time Warner, which developed from the original time and space to the later stage, are two typical representatives.

Disney focuses on content and has never been involved in channel operations. Its ESPN is the basic cable station with the highest fee in the field of cable television.

Time Warner is involved in both channels and content. CNN and HBO are very successful, but both businesses came from acquisitions.Moreover, although Warner Cable occupies a large market share, it is still far from being able to compete with competitors such as Comcast.

When Simon heard Nancy's question, he said directly, "TV station."

"That's a good idea," Nancy nodded, and said, "However, no additional actions are required. As long as we win the MCA, we can have our own cable TV network."

Simon didn't react too much when he heard Nancy pointing out Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of MCA casually, and asked: "Why do you oppose Blockbuster's involvement in cable TV, but agree with Daenerys Entertainment's expansion in this area?" ?”

Nancy was a little dissatisfied with Simon's exam school. Do you still need to ask such a simple question: "Because the video chain and cable TV business are not complementary at all."

Strictly speaking, the videotape and cable television industries were competing with each other.

Blockbuster's involvement in the cable TV business will not in turn promote the development of the video chain chain, but will distract the attention of Blockbuster's management team.

That's not a problem for Daenerys Entertainment, though.

Diversification and horizontal integration of media groups has always been a major trend in this field, and getting involved in cable TV can make the most of Daenerys Entertainment's content advantages.

Speaking of which, after Daenerys Entertainment insisted on not making any concessions regarding the series "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills", CBS has confirmed that it will not renew the subscription.

According to the original agreement, Daenerys Entertainment could not sell the reality show to other networks unless CBS voluntarily gave up.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment is effectively taking back control of the project.

CBS is also confident. The ratings data of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" is not outstanding. In front of the content providers, several major TV networks have the same interests. CBS thinks that it has given up this project, ABC, NBC and FOX Will not take over, Daenerys Entertainment can only sell this series to the next-level basic cable station at best, which obviously means a lower price.

However, it is obviously impossible for CBS to see Simon's specific plan.

As long as the acquisition of MCA can be completed and "The Housewives of Beverly Hills" is transferred to the USA TV network under MCA, it may not be able to obtain the revenue of the public television network, but it can further expand the series of The Housewives, build a brand, and increase The value of the USA TV network itself can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Malibu Studios is very close to Cape Dume. Simon wandered around the studio until noon and returned to his home on the west side of Cape Dume for dinner.

When I got home, Janet was not the only one in the villa, Catherine also rushed over, and the two women were bringing lunch into the dining room.

"Point Delight" is about to start filming here in Los Angeles, and Catherine is only coming to the West Coast in the near future.

Catherine was naturally invited to the wedding last month.However, he was too busy at the time, and Simon didn't have a chance to get along with women.

Although it is impossible to go back to the past, everyone sat down in the restaurant, but still had a very strange sense of harmony.

After chatting for a few words about "Point Fright", Simon asked the woman, "What's your thinking about that project, "Thelma & Louise"?"

Catherine served the mushroom soup for everyone, nodded noncommittally, and said, "Very good script."

Simon smiled and said, "Should I pick it up or not?"

Janet also said to Catherine at this time: "Kate, take it, I think we can still play together."

Simon couldn't help but looked at the two women, and suddenly realized that the two lesbians in the original Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis really looked alike, so he looked at Jenny and said, "You know what I'm saying what?"

Janet gave Simon a blank look: "I've read the script, of course I know."

Simon was curious: "When did you watch it?"

"You don't care when I read it."

"Okay, but this is a story about two women rebelling against patriarchy. Do you think it's suitable for the two of you to play?"

"of course."

"Then some people think I'm abusing you."

Catherine put a bowl of creamy mushroom soup in front of Simon, and said angrily, "It's fine if you abuse Jenny, don't drag me in."

"It's fine to abuse me, Kate, I didn't expect you to be so vicious, you are like Snow White's stepmother."

Simon picked up the spoon and took a sip of the mushroom soup, then nodded with a smile: "Snow White and stepmother, very good PLAY."

Catherine obviously didn't react.

Janet picked up a piece of bread and threw it over: "."

Catherine was puzzled for a moment, then stared over, but her face was flushed a little more.

Simon cheekily pretended that he hadn't said anything just now, and said, "So, Catherine, this project is entirely for you. Think about it, the desert is yellow sand, the sun is setting, and the two women will never die under the siege of a group of policemen." Compromise, and drive towards the cliff together, what a shocking scene."

Catherine hadn't answered yet, but Janet asked, "Why did the two of them have to die in the end?"

“Isn’t death the best place for them to belong? Or do you want them to be sifted like Warren Beatty’s Bonnie and Clyde?”

"I mean, why can't it be two women who beat the rounded policemen to pieces, and then fled to Mexico together?" Janet retorted dissatisfiedly, and snorted again at the end, saying: "So, this is still It’s a machismo movie. I guess if it was two guys, they’d kill a lot and storm into Mexico like heroes.”

Simon listened to the heroic word that Janet deliberately bit down, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that this shot is not bad."

"Ok?"

Simon looked at Janet with a smile and said, "You should know that I am a feminist."

"Ah bah, I'm still a masculinist."

"So, we are a very compatible couple."

Simon laughed and looked at Catherine again.

Catherine slowly smeared caviar on the bread and said, "I also think Jenny's proposal is very good. Let Louise and Selma escape into Mexico instead of rushing off the cliff. Why do we women make mistakes? must die."

"Only disappointment can have the greatest impact on the audience. Didn't Bowtie die in the end of your "Point Thriller?"

Janet immediately said again: "Hmph, machismo!"