Chapter 1533

Even with the warm fragrance entangled by a group of goblins, Simon left Southampton early and rushed to Manhattan to start his day's work.

The first thing to focus on today is the launch data of Tianlong eight last night.

Since its official launch, DHO has a late night theater from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. the next day, five days a week, from Sunday to Thursday, mainly broadcasting non English TV dramas introduced from abroad.

At present, this toll cable station has been broadcasting for nearly a year. The ratings of several dramas launched continuously have high and low. The highest number of viewers has exceeded 1.1 million, and the lowest is only 200000. If you want to say an average value, it is about 500000.

By the end of August this year, the total number of local subscribers of DHO had reached 9.3 million, with an average audience of 500000. According to the time period, it was actually quite considerable.

By the way, the viewing statistics of toll cable stations are different from those of public television networks. They only watch the number of viewers. After all, every user spends money.

However, DHO's operation team is not too satisfied. It is planning to postpone the late night theater for at least another half an hour and add a late night talk show.

Talk shows are still quite popular late at night.

Moreover, it is obvious that DHO's talk show can be played at a larger scale than major public cable stations.

Simon has no objection.

The problem is that excellent talk show hosts are not so easy to find. Otherwise, several major public television networks will not have only a few late night talk show hosts for decades.

You can only choose slowly.

Let's go back to the newly launched "Tianlong eight".

Simon arrived at danilis east coast headquarters on 66th street in the upper west side, and the data of the premiere of the drama last night was sent to him. Two episodes were broadcast, with an average audience of 960000 and a maximum audience of 1.17 million, which was quite brilliant.

A comparison shows that it is rare.

For example, a play before the launch of Tianlong Babu, from Brazil, Portuguese, called the dance of the blade tip, tells the story of a modern Ranger who is both good and evil shuttling through all kinds of people in the metropolis to eliminate the strong and help the weak and maintain justice.

One characteristic of Brazilian TV dramas is that they are very long.

When purchasing, Simon was surprised to see the number of 53 episodes of the dance of the blade. After asking, he learned that it was still short. Many other Brazilian TV dramas often have one or two hundred episodes, and they are not as long as phenomenal longevity dramas such as friends in North America. They can be filmed in two or three years.

In short, because the ratings of "dance of the knife's point" in Brazil in the first half of the year were very excellent, and the number of episodes was not too many, we chose to buy it here.

After all, it's cheap.

Then, for the complete 53 episodes, the average audience of this Brazilian TV series is 670000, and the maximum audience data is 1050000, which is better than the average level of the past year, but it only slightly exceeds the level line. After all, the number of users of DHO has been growing rapidly, and it is close to ten million at present. If the audience of "dance of the knife point" is less than 500000, it may be stopped if it can't finish broadcasting.

If you look at the "Tianlong eight", you can break through the maximum audience of 1 million, which is undoubtedly a very brilliant beginning.

Of course, this is not without reason.

Compared with the previous "dance of the blade tip", Simon's preference for "Tianlong Babu" must be well known all over DHO, so he also paid considerable attention to it.

Just for the early publicity, in the official trailer released by DHO and YouTube at the same time, in addition to the main lens, there are also the affectionate recommendations of Ang Lee, Zhang Guoshi, Jack Cheng, Jett Lee, Roland Emmerich, Quentin Tarantino, Sylvester Stallone and other familiar Chinese faces and local celebrities in Hollywood.

Moreover, on the YouTube platform, DHO officials have also launched a number of wonderful video clips related to the play or preview explanations of the whole story for the convenience of Western audiences. Among them, the video with the highest number of hits has exceeded 12 million.

In short, none of these benefits can be enjoyed by the dance of the tip of the knife before Tianlong Babu.

It is not surprising to see the results of the first day of the show.

Therefore, the key is the follow-up trend.

Even if it doesn't go all the way up, as long as it can stabilize the current million level average viewing score, "Tianlong Babu" can become the best overseas TV series since the DHO late night theater was launched.

On the contrary, if you start broadcasting with good results and then go all the way up and down, it must be a little ugly.

In a word, Simon is very satisfied with the results of the launch, but he also understands that it still depends on the follow-up.

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On the same day, another thing was to finalize the acquisition of Hasbro.

In the afternoon, Simon personally participated in a meeting with Hasbro executives. Nancy Brill, who also took care of her children on the east coast, gradually planned to start working again because she had a relationship with Hasbro and the little guy was approaching the full moon. It happened that this was another matter within the authority of small female executives. She attended the meeting today.

The two sides have actually negotiated the price.

Simon made a little concession. Compared with the initial limit of $5 billion, the final transaction price was $5.15 billion, 150 million more.

Similarly, as a compromise, Hasbro accepts the cash plus equity payment scheme proposed here, in which the share of shares accounts for 70% and the cash can only take 30%. Moreover, according to different shareholders, there is a lock-in period of six months and three years to get the shares.

This meeting is mainly to discuss the development of Hasbro after joining Westeros system.

Although the shareholders of Hasbro won danilis shares after the transaction, considering their own interests, they will only pay more attention to the future trend of danilis entertainment. However, it is determined that Hasbro's management is basically left. These people will take charge of the toy company next. In addition, relying on danilis entertainment and even the whole Westeros system, they certainly hope to make a difference, which requires good conditions to be negotiated in advance.

Simon took Hasbro, the copyright of transformers series is very important, but Hasbro itself, he did not underestimate.

Hasbro has its own complete toy production and sales network. In the past, the cooperation between the two sides inevitably pulled interests. For example, danilis asked for too high share. Of course, Hasbro will not spend too much on relevant authorized toys, and vice versa. Therefore, it is inevitable that it is impossible to maximize the surrounding potential of a series of popular films under danilis.

This time, Hasbro will be completely incorporated into its own system, and there will be no similar problems in the future.

Of course, there will be other problems.

After joining danilis, Hasbro may not be so easy to obtain peripheral licenses from other studios in Hollywood.

However, this is not a problem at the moment.

Because it's just danilis entertainment, it's enough to support Hasbro next, not to mention the new 20th century fox or Time Warner. In fact, there will be no break in the cooperation.

What is lost is only the cooperation projects of the remaining studios, which will only become weaker and weaker. In fact, they will not necessarily lose. After all, business is business. The other studios may not have the strength to operate the surrounding areas by themselves. If good projects are developed, it is impossible to resolutely not cooperate with Hasbro just for anger or anything else.

In short, after getting Simon's promise to increase support for surrounding businesses, the matter was completely settled.

The next day, Wednesday, September 8, the news was officially announced. Compared with the previous merger of 20th century fox, MGM and Lucas film, danilis's acquisition scale was much smaller. However, the response was not weak at all. The most direct feedback was that the share prices of Mattel and other North American toy companies fell across the board on Wednesday, while the market value of Hasbro, which is still in trading, almost fell back to the low of the $3 billion range, and soared all the way, rising by 15.6% in a single day, The market value increased to US $4.73 billion from US $4.09 billion before opening.

Not only that, usually, the share price of the party initiating the acquisition tends to fall after the announcement, but the market value of danilis entertainment, which has broken through the high level of 700 billion, rose 0.79% on Wednesday with the announcement, and the market value increased from $721.9 billion to $727.6 billion.

Because the volume is large enough, with such a slight jump, the market value increase exceeds the total value of Hasbro.

Danilis was originally listed on the New York Stock Exchange. After the Dow Jones broke through a new high of 10000 points on May 26 in the first half of the year, the rise accelerated, together with the growth momentum of danilis's share price as a leader.

On the other hand, on the same day, the market value of igrit company on the Nasdaq market has also reached US $746.3 billion.

Two super giants with a market value of 700 billion lead the market in the two cities, which has become a big talk for countless people inside and outside the financial circle. Everyone is waiting to see which of the two companies can take the lead in breaking the 100 billion mark.

Although, it seems that no matter which one breaks through first, it is actually an industry under Simon westero's name. However, the first listed company in the history of human economy to break through the market value of trillion, which to some extent shows an important symbol of the prosperous economy of the global village in the new era, still makes most people look forward to it.

A mansion in Oyster Bay, north of Long Island.

This is the residence of Melania and InAs konavs sisters.

After pregnancy, the two women were arranged here to continue to run their fairly good fashion business. At the same time, the mother and son also got the task of managing a family fund from the Westeros.

Compared with a German girl who was crossed by Simon very early, the performance of the konavs sisters satisfied Simon.

So I came to visit last night and stayed overnight.

Both sisters have been pregnant for seven months. However, it is obvious that they still try their best to please a rare man. For Simon, it is also unique.

The morning of a new day.

This is Friday, September 10.

When Simon came to the restaurant, the housekeeper angrey Davis personally brought breakfast and today's newspaper.

While eating, Simon opened the international edition of the New York Times and could easily find the news from Chechnya.

According to this release, after the Russian troops started to fight, their advance in Chechnya was slow, and I'm afraid they will encounter the defeat of the last Chechen War again.

Simon just smiled.

After all, it's your ass that decides your head, or the reporter who wrote this manuscript is too amateur.

Compared with the defeat of the first Chechen War, the action of the Kremlin authorities not only has the great sense of anti-terrorism, but also has the unanimous support of all sectors of the political, commercial and military forces under the good coordination of someone.

Even though it has been 10 years since the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, not to mention the opponent is not a horse, which can only be regarded as a mouse.

If we want to make a quick decision, it is not a problem for the Russian army to fight directly to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya this week.

The problem is that the matter is solved easily, just like the Gulf War in 1991. It will be done in two or three months, and then?

The United States has the most typical example.

Then, Bush Sr. was in high spirits and thought that he could easily achieve re-election by virtue of the reputation gained by the Gulf War. Unfortunately, the public is the most forgetful group of people.

When the war ended, we talked about it for a few days, and we immediately came back to reality. The reality was that the U.S. economy was in a downturn, wages did not rise, inflation and unemployment rose. It was too bad. As a result, someone's glory gained through a war soon turned into a stain.

What's the use of winning a war? The problem is the economy, fool.

Then he lost.

So is Russia.

Russia's election time is next March. If the authorities simply and smoothly settle the war, the people will be cheered and encouraged in the short term. The red Empire, which has been silent for ten years, will stand up again.

It's just that standing consumes more energy than sitting, and it's easier to be hungry.

The result may be that until next year's general election, the war achievements at this time will also become a stain.

What's the use of winning a war? The problem is the economy, fool.

Therefore, the success or failure of this war is very critical. However, we must not lose. At the same time, the rhythm of the war must be well controlled, at least until next year, so as to ensure that the reputation of the war will not be transformed into negative public opinion assets.

So there was a steady and steady fight by the Russian army in Chechnya.

In the restaurant.

Simon was eating slowly while reading the newspaper. The sound of footsteps came. It was InAs.

With a bulging belly but a different kind of blush, InAs konavs and Simon said good morning, intimately came over, gently rubbed Simon's arm with their belly, and leaned forward.

Simon kissed the woman and motioned her to sit down next to her. While continuing to read the newspaper in front of her, he casually said, "is there a conflict with Mel?"

InAs was quietly telling the waitress what to eat for breakfast. She paused when she heard the speech. When the waitress left, she whispered, "no, Simon, No."

Obviously guilty.

In fact, of course, it was caused by the little guy in his stomach.

At the beginning, InAs could only be regarded as a gift for the two sisters. At first, she had no ambition. After all, her sister had nothing to ask for if she could rely on such a man and pull her over to live such a good life.

And then, that night.

Men say that as long as they get pregnant, they will be rewarded with $100 million.

That's $100 million.

In short, at the beginning, the sisters were also concentric and played some small tricks. But, unexpectedly, they would be pregnant together. When Melania learned this, her first reaction was to ask InAs to kill the child quietly. But how could InAs agree?

So it's now.

Although the two sisters still maintain apparent harmony and worked together to satisfy men last night, the rift caused by pregnancy has always existed.

Simon actually noticed last night that there was a clear distinction between the two sisters in the villa, and there were even other small movements in bed.

However, since InAs didn't say anything and Simon didn't ask much, he just said, "if it's inconvenient to live with Mel, tell Angie that it's just another place. The key is not to affect the children."

Simon said so. InAs, who was also guilty in front of the man, nodded quickly because it was a gift.

While chatting, Melania also came in with her stomach in her hand. She saw her sister sitting next to Simon and stared at him with a little heavy eyes. She wondered if InAs had said something to the man that she shouldn't say. However, when Simon looked over, Melania quickly changed into a smiling face, said good morning, walked to the other side of the man and sat down.