Chapter 129

Denise pictures headquarters.

Jennifer Leibold tapped on the door of the editing room. When she got the response, she opened the door and said to Simon, who was busy at the editing desk: "boss, it's four o'clock."

Simon just nodded slightly, his eyes still fell on the screen of the editing desk, and his hands kept moving, saying: "just a moment, it will be ready soon."

Without saying anything more, Jennifer came in softly, closed the editing room door from behind again, and watched Simon's work quietly with the slight click of the equipment. The budget for vulgar fiction is adequate, and Simon doesn't have to do everything himself. Before the film, the rough cutting was done by a professional editor, but in the fine cutting stage, Simon decided to do it himself.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spends most of his time in the company's editing room.

After a while, Simon saved the video and began to organize the tape notes and other items on the editing table. Jennifer also stepped forward and skillfully helped Simon put tapes and other items into the safe in the corner of the editing room.

After spending a quiet time with him secretly and leaving the editing room, Jennifer talked about her work today: "I have collected information about some mainstream record companies and second and third tier labels in North America, and put it on your office desk. Mr. Steve Jobs's secretary gave a response this morning, saying that Mr. jobs did not intend to sell Pixar; Mr. ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics, has invited you to visit Silicon Graphics headquarters in San Francisco recently; Mr. Bill Gates' assistant has called, and gates is coming to Los Angeles next Monday, hoping to have lunch with you; and, um, a speech invitation from Stanford University. "

Simon took Jennifer across the corridor, took the Stanford invitation from her, looked at it, handed it back, and said, "if there's another invitation, just push it off. I'm going to give them a speech. It's spreading negative energy: look, that guy is the same age as us. God is really unfair."

With a light smile, she put the invitation in her folder, held it to her chest, looked up, and asked, "what about the invitation from Mr. McCracken and Mr. Gates?"

"I'll definitely go to San Francisco, but I don't have time recently. I need to push it back. As for gates, you can book a restaurant. We are the host. We should be more enthusiastic. In addition, it suddenly occurred to me today that since all those stocks have been exposed, according to the shareholding ratio of Westeros, I have the right to ask for board seats from these companies. Ask your father if he is interested in serving as a director for me in these companies. I don't have that much time myself. So, my idea is that George is in charge of the West Coast businesses in these companies, and your dad is in charge of the east coast. "

Westero's 4.9% stake in 26 technology companies basically makes Simon a major shareholder in these companies.

If these holdings are not exposed, Simon also plans to be a quiet individual shareholder and watch the development of these companies in the dark. Now that these holdings are well known, Simon has decided to claim his rights as a shareholder.

In theory, the board of directors is usually the most direct body for the shareholders of a listed company to exercise their power, and the company's management is also appointed by the board of directors in most cases. As long as Simon gets the board seats of the corresponding companies, he can exert his own influence on the future development of these enterprises.

Jennifer follows Simon and writes down the restaurant reservation in her memo as she walks. Hearing Simon's last words, her expression was a little surprised, and some inexplicably shy. Just about to say something, they have already come to a meeting room of the company. Jennifer has to give up the idea of questioning for a while and sit down at the meeting table with Simon.

It's hard to calm down.

The most direct power of American consortia is to control hundreds of board seats of a large number of global corporate giants.

Simon's wealth now can't be compared with any of the top ten consortia in the United States, but if he can win the board seats of all 26 companies, it is definitely a strength that can't be underestimated.

If Simon really let his father and uncle come forward to serve as directors of these companies, with Simon westero's status as a spokesman for his huge wealth and the influence represented by the seats on the boards of these companies, the rebolds and Normans will immediately step from the slightly famous lawyer's home to the most influential class in the country.

After all, the wealth of billions of dollars is not just a series of simple figures on the surface.

Simon and Jennifer sit down at the conference table. In fact, there are only four people in the room. The other two people are Amy and her assistant named Vanessa Linde. When she just dug up Amy, Denise pictures once had to pay Vanessa's salary out of her own pocket because of lack of funds.

Now, of course, it will not happen again.

However, the conference room with only four people still shows the nature of danielis pictures as a small workshop. Under normal circumstances, including Simon, there are only 15 permanent employees in the two-story office building of danielis pictures, who are responsible for finance, receiving and sending, logistics and other work. As for film making, Simon and Amy Pascal have done it all by themselves.Today is December 16, Wednesday.

The release of death is coming to an end, which is one of the three film projects planned by Denise pictures in 1987.

From October 23 to now, in seven and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of death has reached 67.53 million US dollars. With the news that Simon suddenly became a billionaire in November inevitably boosting the box office of the film, the box office performance of "here comes death" easily exceeded the expected $60 million.

At present, "death is coming" is temporarily ranked seventh in the annual North American box office ranking with a box office of $67.43 million, following the summer season Shawn Connery starring in "selfless.". The film still made $1.06 million on the weekend of December 11 to December 13. In the next few weeks, the total box office of the film was enough to easily break through the $70 million mark.

Simon pays special attention to the two major films at the end of the new year.

According to the information in my memory, Thanksgiving and Christmas stalls, as well as "Three Dads and one baby" which was released on November 25, and then "the Moonlight" on December 18 and "Good Morning Vietnam" on December 25 are expected to be in the top 10 of the annual list, and the rest are not enough to pose a threat to "death is coming".

As a result, "death is coming" has unexpectedly stepped into the top 10 from the expected top 15 in the North American box office list. Not surprisingly, this film will just rank 10th in the annual box office list.

With "Lola Run" firmly in the first place and "Butterfly Effect" temporarily in the fourth place, all the three Simon related films in 1987 ranked in the top 10 of the North American box office.

Even though Simon's operation of making more than one billion dollars in the financial market has shocked the whole world, in recent weeks, with death coming surpassing the Witches of Eastwick, lethal weapons and the road to development and other films to take the seventh place in the annual list, Simon's three films a year have all been ranked in the top ten of the annual box office list, which still makes the whole Hollywood I'm looking at it.

Therefore, although vulgar novel and when Harry meets Sally are still in the post production stage, with the help of more than one billion dollars of personal wealth and the halo of the top ten films on the annual box office list for three consecutive years, the capital market has finally completely opened the door to Simon.

Simon also agrees with the principle of not investing in movies with his own money.

In this world, no matter in any industry, it's absolute kingcraft to make profits with other people's money. It's just that even before the exposure of his wealth in November, Simon had not reached the point where he let others pay for him.

Now.

Like the big seven and the top second tier film companies like Orion pictures, danilisi pictures finally got the qualification to obtain loans from banks only through brand guarantee. Obviously, the brand guarantee of Denise pictures is Simon himself.

In the conference room.

Amy Pascal, waiting for Simon and Jennifer to sit down, handed over a folder and said, "Simon, it's settled. This is the draft contract. Wells Fargo is willing to provide danilisi with a $100 million loan with a term of five years and an annual interest rate of 6.5%. "

Simon took over the document and opened it. He couldn't help saying, "6.5% is still a bit high."

"If it's before the stock market crash, we might be able to get 5%," Amy looked at Simon and explained, "now banks are generally tightening loans. 6.5% is the result of my long talk with Wells Fargo. As you know, Paul Olsen initially offered an interest rate of 8%. In addition, instinct's $10 million loan is not included in this amount of money. It is still mortgaged through the "death is coming" sharing contract, with an annual interest rate of 5% and a term of 3 years. "

Paul Olsen is the senior vice president of Wells Fargo who Simon contacted when he obtained the $20 million loan last time. He has the connection with the loan last time. This cooperation can be said to be the result of an instant agreement after the two sides contacted each other.

Simon nodded with a smile and continued to look at the draft contract.

Less than an hour after work, Amy didn't wait for Simon to finish watching it completely, and then said, "Simon, I've talked to Wes Craven, and he'd be happy to continue working with us on the next movie. But he also wants to see the script first. "

"Death is coming" is one of the top ten box offices in North America. Although we all know that this is largely due to Simon's personal script and popularity, as a director, like Brian De Palma, who has returned to the peak of his career, Wes Craven has also been promoted to the first-line director.

"I've got a good idea. It's probably a campus thriller. I'll take the time to write a synopsis these two days. But now I don't have much time to improve the script. Then you can discuss with Wes and hire other writers to write it. "

Amy listened to Simon and said subconsciously, "what about the signature?"

Simon laughed and said, "three movies are enough this year. Amy, how much interest do you think the audience can maintain when there are seven or eight Simon westrow films in Hollywood a year?"But Amy caught another meaning in Simon's words. She put her arm on the table and gently raised her hand. "Simon, do you mean we are going to make seven or eight movies next year?"

"Of course, it's not just movies, it's TV programs," Simon said, bouncing on the draft contract in front of him. "Otherwise, where do we need so much money. So next, you can continue to hire people. Next year, we will not only get involved in the field of TV programs, but also try to release films on our own. "

Although she had expected something, Amy could not help feeling that Simon was a little too eager. However, considering the series of miracles created by the young people in front of her in this year, Amy nodded quickly.