Chapter 1509

Aliya, an Indian girl, with two waitresses holding clothes, entered the master bedroom of the shell villa and found her boss lying on the big bed with the word "big". When they entered the door, they just rolled over.

Dare not ask more, just silently came forward and said, "boss?"

Simon, who had washed, was not embarrassed to see their experience. He sat up and chose a sports suit held by a waitress and waited for morning exercise.

As for just now, mainly when I came back from Asia recently, the women and children were on the east coast, so I decided to meditate again and sleep alone. So, I got up early today and suddenly felt very good. I haven't seen you for a long time and gave birth to some young minds.

Wearing a close fitting sports vest and shorts, Simon remembered one thing and asked, "aliya, you should be very rich now. Don't you want to leave?"

At the beginning, she participated in the establishment of instagram together. As an initial investor, she helped introduce it technical talents from India, and aliya obtained an initial 5% equity.

Now instagram has been acquired by igrit and become a member of igrit's social product matrix. The original equity of the Indian girl has been changed into igrit's stock. Simon doesn't know exactly how much, but as igrit's share price continues to rise, Indian girls must have hundreds of millions of dollars.

Aliya carefully tied her boss's shoelaces, shook her head and said, "I'm used to my life now, and..." after a pause, the Indian girl didn't say more, but said: "moreover, the boss and his wife are very kind to me, and I want to stay here all the time."

Simon nodded without asking.

However, from aliya's simple answer, Simon also figured out some things. My husband and wife are very good to her. Correspondingly, maybe someone is bad to her. If you think about the serious inferiority of men and women in India and the 100 million yuan worth of Indian girls, it is not difficult to imagine some things.

After half an hour of morning exercise, I took another shower, changed my clothes and came to the restaurant at seven o'clock in the morning.

Girl a has prepared breakfast and sent a report of the latest weekly box office data.

This is July 9th.

Friday.

Simon picked up the tableware and ate breakfast while browsing the box office data of the past week.

It was no surprise that the first place on the list was won by the peerless robbery, which was expected. There was neither surprise nor shock.

From July 2 to July 8, a complete box office week spanning the Independence Day holiday, the box office of the first week of the "doomsday" ended at $87.39 million. Behind Godzilla and Star Wars Prequel: the phantom threat, it temporarily ranked third in the first week of 1999.

If it were ten years ago, this achievement would naturally be very amazing.

At present, the saturated issuance is becoming more and more mature. Relatively speaking, such a super heavyweight with a total investment of US $180 million in production and publicity is also the golden Independence Day holiday slot in the popular summer file. It is not more than US $100 million in the first week, which is somewhat unsatisfactory.

Failure is certainly not.

After all, it was close to 90 million in the first week, and it was no problem that the "doomsday" reached the local 200 million pass level originally expected by Simon. For such special effects sci-fi blockbusters, overseas performance is often higher than that at home, and the total global box office reaches 500 million. The breakeven line of "the Apocalypse" is 400 million in the world. If it can get 500 million box office, it can realize tens of millions of dollars in gross profit only when it is distributed in the cinema.

However, people are afraid of comparison, so are movies.

According to the global 500 million calculation, the local 200 million and overseas 300 million. After the division, excluding the total cost of production and publicity of US $180 million, the gross profit at the cinema stage is only about 30 million.

The comparison is Godzilla in the same period.

Just after the fourth week of screening, "Godzilla" continued to earn US $26.36 million, ranking third in the list, behind "doomsday" and another new Warner Brothers film. However, the cumulative box office of the same type of blockbuster special effects blockbusters here has reached a high of US $243.53 million.

Local 300 million is a certainty.

Overseas, according to the feedback during this period, Godzilla's overseas performance also exceeds that of local. According to the current trend, even overseas is expected to impact 500 million revenue, and the final global box office may be about 800 million US dollars.

The total production and publicity cost of Godzilla is US $150 million. According to the box office data of 300 million at home and 500 million abroad, the film will realize a gross profit of about US $200 million only in the cinema stage.

The gap between "the Apocalypse" and "Godzilla", 30 million to 200 million, suddenly appeared.

Even though Godzilla is a cooperative project between danilis and Toho Corporation of Japan, excluding the 30% interest share of Toho, danilis will still earn far more profits from this project than the apocalypse.

Moreover, as the core of the project, after successfully taking charge of the Jurassic Park series, Simon also gave Michael Bay a very high salary scheme, a top salary of US $15 million, plus 10% of the global box office gross profit. Therefore, in addition to the share to be given to Michael Bay, danilis actually can't even get the initial income of 30 million in the cinema stage.

Basically, we can only expect follow-up channels.

Looking at the box office results of the first week of "doomsday", Simon also quietly made a decision, and the cooperation between danilis and Michael Bay can come to an end. It's time to let this commercial film director, who is becoming less cost-effective, go out and spend some time.

As for when to use it again, it's simple, transformers.

Thinking of this, Simon suddenly remembered that it was time to take Hasbro.

Speaking of, the toy company is also the former owner of small female executives. Simon had already determined an idea when Nancy Brill joined danilis, but the time was not ripe at that time.

Now, just right.

It is mainly Star Wars Prequel: the phantom threat, which was released in May. Because of the low sales of peripheral products, Hasbro, Lego and other toy manufacturers who spent a lot of money to cooperate with Lucas film will not have good financial reports this year, and the stock price will also decline.

As for the film and television copyright of transformers, it seems that it is still entangled with some Japanese companies. However, these are also small problems, and Simon doesn't need to intervene himself now.

In addition to "the Apocalypse" and "Godzilla", the trend of another danilis film "ghost record 2" is still stable. Despite the impact of new films such as the apocalypse, ghost record 2, which opened for the third week, still received US $16.01 million, with a decline of 45%, and the cumulative box office reached US $91.57 million.

It is expected to exceed 100 million next week.

No longer expect the local achievements of 200 million as the first one. After all, the first one accounts for the dividends of innovation.

However, even if the global box office is only $200 million this time, considering the total production and publicity costs of $25 million for ghost Video 2, the gross profit in the cinema stage will also reach more than $60 million, equivalent to twice that of the great robbery, which makes people can't expect more.

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After breakfast, he arrived at the company and discussed the box office data of the past box office week at the meeting with Amy Pascal. Simon mentioned the acquisition of Hasbro.

In fact, it's best for Nancy Brill.

However, Nancy, who has been pregnant for eight months, began to take leave to give birth last month. Simon forcibly interrupted the work of the small female executive. Otherwise, the little woman has a posture of planning to work until the child is born. Even if she can stand it, she has to think about her child, right?

At present, women also went to New York. Janet invited them to take care of their children when they were born.

Speaking of this, after the pregnancy of the little female executive gradually became pregnant, it was inevitable to cause some discussion in the circle. After all, Nancy was not married, and it was too easy to guess who the child was.

Therefore, many people inevitably have a somewhat more lively mentality.

The related emotions dissipated after Janet came out in person and walked in and out of the film and television city several times with Nancy.

If there is no excitement, there is naturally nothing to talk about.

It's not that some gossip media want to do things, which are easily suppressed by the media and public relations team of the Westeros family. Of course, Simon is not afraid of outsiders to know, just out of the protection of family privacy.

If exposed, it will inevitably cause some hidden dangers to the safety of women and children in the future.

In the morning, Simon got some basic information about Hasbro at noon.

Just before the release of the first song of Star Wars prequel, Hasbro's market value once hit a high of $5.4 billion due to the favorable authorization of the surrounding toys with this super phenomenal blockbuster. However, with the reputation failure of the first song of Star Wars prequel, the sales of surrounding toys were seriously lower than expected, Hasbro's share price also fell all the way during this period of time, and now it has shrunk to $4.3 billion, In less than two months, the cumulative decline was nearly 21%.

However, this is still Hasbro's high market value in recent years.

In the first half of the 1990s, affected by the downturn in the global economic environment, Hasbro's market value has been hovering between $23 billion.

At present, the reason why it can rush to more than $5 billion is due to the fact that the United States has entered a new bull market cycle. On the other hand, Hasbro has represented many popular film and television toys in recent years.

Not only star wars, but also danilis, Jurassic Park series, Pixar 3D animation series, etc. both sides have certain cooperation.

Moreover, with the rise of the new technology industry, even after a brief collapse, Hasbro has made follow-up investment and created a "Hasbro interactive" department, mainly developing video games derived from its own brand toy series.

After the Asian financial crisis, the return of the US dollar stimulated the overall rise of US stocks, the technology stock market also recovered rapidly, and the electronic game industry thrived again under the concept of the Internet. Even if there is no popular game launched by Hasbro interactive, Hasbro's share price actively following up the new technology concept still benefits from this trend.

Obviously, if Simon wants to buy HASBRO at a lower price, wait for one or two years, wait for the bubble of technology stocks to burst again, and promote the cooperation between HASBRO and HASBRO through the influence of the vistor system.

It's just that it's not necessary to entertain the current volume with danilis.

Of course, Simon will not give too high a premium.

Hasbro's revenue in the last three years has been maintained at about $3 billion, and its annual profit fluctuates between $150 million and $200 million. Referring to the stock price in the recent period, Simon plans to give a quotation limit of $5 billion, which is lower than the high of $5.4 billion before the release of the first song of Star Wars prequel, and will adopt the transaction of stock exchange acquisition as much as possible.

For a non growth traditional enterprise, the quotation of more than 30 times P / E ratio is actually very considerable.

If you can't make a deal, Simon won't be a wrongdoer.

Then wait.

After all, even if the family is big and the business is big, we can't spend it casually. At that time, the means to be used, such as cutting off cooperation, containment, sniping and so on, will also be used.

During lunch, he had a short discussion with Amy about it again. Simon rushed to Pixar on the second floor of the cinema in the afternoon.

Another 3D animated feature film of Pixar has been basically completed. The plan is still set for Thanksgiving at the end of the year. In the afternoon, we will discuss the editing and modification of the final version.

This is Pixar's sixth animated film. Simon intervened in the process of selecting the topic, and finally finalized the sixth work of the animation studio as "racing story". The former "racing story" was not launched until 2006. Moreover, compared with projects such as "undersea player" and "Toy Story", the box office of "racing story" is not brilliant.

Simon chose this film mainly because of its surroundings.

In the original time and space, if you ranked first in the sales list of Hollywood film peripheral products, people who have some ideas about it can probably say the Star Wars series.

But who is the second?

Maybe some people think of Jurassic Park, Pixar's Toy Story series, or Marvel's film universe series after the Millennium... In fact, they are not.

In second place is racing story.

Simon has seen a ranking data, which is only the real-time data up to a certain period of time. The cumulative sales around the Star Wars series are $30 billion, while the second place, racing story series, was born nearly 30 years later than the Star Wars series, but the sales can reach an amazing $10 billion, equivalent to one-third of the Star Wars series.

Later, other well-known Jurassic Park series and Toy Story series are only billions of dollars.

Therefore, we can see the strength of racing story.

In that case, even if the box office is relatively mediocre, Simon still makes this series before other favorite animations. After all, compared with seven years earlier, it is equivalent to making more money for seven years.

As it happens, the plan to win Hasbro is not only to lock the copyright of transformers series in advance, but also for the consideration that racing story will be released at the end of the year.

In terms of the sales of peripheral products of US $10 billion, for motor racing story, of course, it is mainly toys. It is absolutely two concepts to get the benefit share by taking the share through authorized agents and comparing it with a toy company that directly produces and sells its own products.