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The 35-year-old Matthew Modine has been tepid in Hollywood before, and many times he can only be regarded as an actor who is familiar to the audience but cannot be named.However, this actor actually won the Venice Best Actor Award in 1983 when he was just 22 years old with a Vietnam War-themed movie "Northern Lights". The situation is very similar to that of Valerie Golino who played Catwoman.

It is worth mentioning that in the past, Matthew Modine was also the leading actor in "Cutthroat Island".

It's a pity that this actor has endured for more than ten years since he won the Best Actor in Venice and finally won a super blockbuster actor. No one expected that the film would fail so badly, so he could still act once in a while. Matthew Modine, the second protagonist, was completely degraded after "Cut Throat Island", and never encountered any chance to turn around.

Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore are both signed to the series for five films.

Now, after getting the leading actor in the "The Conjuring" series, he will inevitably miss "Cutthroat Island". The situation of Matthew Modine has completely changed.In addition, Julian Moore, who is 33 years old this year and considered a late bloomer, is the same.One is a former film star in Venice, and the other has been honing in Broadway for many years. Both of them have excellent acting skills, and what they have been lacking is only opportunities.

Although it is difficult for a horror film to make a leading actor popular, it is also very easy to transform into a horror film.

Both of them were sitting here just now, just to make way for Simon and the others to get up and go elsewhere.

Many horror movie sets often have supernatural events, some of which may be true, and most of them are publicity stunts.Everyone chatted and laughed about the supernatural events on the set of "The Conjuring". Simon didn't shy away from being a psychic, and even made a guest appearance as a fortune-teller, pretending to make a fortune for Sandra, and the result was Sandra In the next month, they will inevitably encounter a 'bloody disaster'.

Everyone didn't understand this relatively obscure pornographic joke for a while, until Elizabeth Hurley beside Catherine burst out laughing. Everyone had an epiphany and laughed one after another. Sandra also laughed and rushed over to pinch Simon severely. .

After a moment of playfulness, Simon turned to David Fincher and asked about the next film plan of this cutting-edge director who became popular with "Seven Deadly Sins" last year.

"The Seven Deadly Sins" in the Halloween schedule last year, relying on the quality of the film itself and Daenerys Entertainment's efforts to enable strong distribution on the Internet, the cumulative North American box office finally reached 1.35 million US dollars.The overseas distribution of the film is still going on, but it has reached 1.93 million US dollars recently, and some overseas box office will probably earn 3000 million to 5000 million US dollars at the box office.

It is expected that the overseas distribution will be completed, and the global box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" will reach about 3.7 million US dollars.

With a production budget of 3000 million US dollars, the global box office was 3.7 million US dollars, and the box office return rate was more than ten times. This alone pushed David Fincher into the ranks of Hollywood's first-line directors.

However, David Fincher has never been a prolific director.

After "The Seven Deadly Sins", this rising star in Hollywood has not yet decided on his next movie plan. Daenerys Entertainment also actively recommended several scripts, but Fincher didn't like them.

David Fincher heard Simon ask, and said: "I recently received a very good script, the idea comes from a group decryption game in the 80s, about a billionaire who lost interest in life because of the ups and downs, accidentally received a An invitation letter for a decryption game, and my life has been caught between reality and fantasy since then..."

Finch briefly explained the plot of the story, and Simon remembered that this is another work of the other party, "Psychological Games". The film starred veteran Hollywood actor Michael Douglas. The production budget reached 5000 million US dollars, but it was not very successful at the box office.

Many scripts in Hollywood are often written for many years. Simon used to pay great attention to this problem. The scripts he chose initially were based on the information in his memory that he judged that the car would not crash.

"Psychological Games" is obviously another script that has been completed for many years, but it didn't succeed, so Simon didn't care.

It is not surprising that it fell into the hands of Fincher as it once did, because it involves the side of "Hollywood is small". Many filmmakers often have their own fixed circles. There will be no intersection in these circles. They are always just parallel lines, and if you can meet them, even if you encounter Simon, a super butterfly, you will still meet them.

David Fincher is yet another filmmaker on Daenerys Entertainment's roster.

Even if the box office of "Psycho Games" is not as good as expected, this director is definitely worthy of long-term cooperation.Therefore, if the other party insists on making the film, Simon will agree.

In any case, Daenerys Entertainment also needs some failed projects to "decorate the facade", not to mention that Fincher's films may not be successful at the box office, but their quality is absolutely excellent, and they are often popular with fans on channels such as video tapes.

After Finch's introduction, Simon said that he could send the script for himself to read.

Party time flies by with non-stop socializing.

It was approaching eleven o'clock, and for many night owls, the nightlife in the City of Angels had just begun, but Simon planned to leave.

still have to work tomorrow.

Catherine left the party with Simon, and asked Simon to take her home as if nothing had happened after getting in the car.

Simon also nonchalantly told the driver to go directly to Cape Dume Manor.

The woman stares.

Simon coaxed the little girl and said that the family had just raised a group of beautiful goldfish, and he could take Catherine back to have a look.

Catherine had an expression of "You lied to the little girl", and finally returned to Cape Dume Manor together.

Neither of the Simons are pets, so there must be no goldfish, and some are in the sea under the cliffs of Cape Dume.Now that she was tricked back home, hehe, it's useless to be angry, and no one will pay attention to screaming.

Chapter 616 Do You Want To Be Friends Or Enemies? (build)

On the second day of the Oscars ceremony, the report on the unsuspecting award results only occupied a small amount of newspaper space, and most of the media's attention was attracted by the news that the Westeros system had banned the Hearst Group.

Early on Tuesday morning, many heavyweight paper media exposed the news of 'inside sources' that Simon Westeros personally ordered all companies in the Westeros system to sever all cooperation with the Hearst Group.The media who paid attention to Melisandre's party last night gave the most direct evidence. The media reporters affiliated to the Hearst Group were all blocked outside the Sunset Tower Hotel, which caused some small conflicts.

Facing media inquiries, Hearst Group executives declined to comment.

The Westeros system is not secretive.

With the continuous verification of many media, the news was completely confirmed.

Daenerys Entertainment Group, Igret Company, Melisandre Company and other corporate executives in the Westeros system gave affirmative answers when they received calls from reporters or asked in person: the company has received Notification, immediately cut off all cooperation with the Hearst Group.

Not only that, the "Hollywood Reporter" also reported another news on the following Wednesday.

Warner Bros. Pictures has quietly canceled several "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" commercials planned to go to Hearst Group's media.

"Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", which is scheduled for June 6, officially released its first trailer in early March, announcing that the DC movie universe super blockbuster with an announcement scale of 3 million US dollars has officially launched a big pre-screening campaign. scale media campaigns.

Obviously, not only the Westeros system, but also companies that have a cooperative relationship with the Westeros system have been asked to 'stand in line'.

When asked by a reporter whether other film projects of Warner Bros. Pictures would also cancel advertising on Hearst Group’s media, a senior executive in charge of the film distribution business of Warner Bros. Pictures gave an ambiguous answer, but with an obvious tendency The other party said that Time Warner Group has its own traditional paper media platform, and the proportion of paper media in film promotion is not high, even if it does not cooperate with Hearst Group, it will not be affected.

It took only two days for the news to be confirmed.

Whether it is the Westeros system or the Hearst family, they are behemoth-level existences for the general public. One is accumulating wealth at an unstoppable speed, and the other is a deeply rooted old family.

So this matter quickly became a "big melon" that everyone paid close attention to.

As the news spread, the Hearst Group could no longer remain silent.

On Wednesday afternoon, William Hearst III, who was surrounded by a large group of reporters at the headquarters of the Hearst Group in Manhattan, faced media questioning. He couldn't hide his anger and said that the Westeros system was abusing its own market position to launch unfair business competition. Hearst Group will take all possible means to protect its own rights and interests.

It is fully confirmed that Simon Westeros is going to war with the old Hearst family, and the attention of the people who eat melons quickly turns to the cause of the matter and the impact that this matter will have.

When the time came to Thursday, two newspapers on the east coast directly revealed the answer.

The New York Post, a subsidiary of News Corp., published an article revealing the inside story of this incident in a large space.

The public suddenly realized.

It turns out that the conflict between the Westeros system and the Hearst Group has been going on for a long time.

Three years ago, in order to get rid of the heavy debt burden brought by the Reynolds Nabisco merger, Reynolds Nabisco Group chose to sell a large number of company assets, including a 20% stake in the famous sports TV station ESPN under the Met/ABC Group.

Daenerys Entertainment is very optimistic about the development of cable TV, so it chose to bid, and the Hearst Group, which is transforming into diversification, also intends to bid for this batch of shares.

At that time, Eaglet was in the early stage of development, and the Eaglet portal needed the support of news and information content from traditional paper media.

Hearst Group provided content support to Igret Portal as a bargaining chip in exchange for Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily giving up the bid for ESPN shares, and finally successfully acquired these shares.

However, after acquiring the ESPN equity, Hearst Group turned its back on what it said. Out of concern that Internet media would affect the interests of the traditional paper media industry, it refused to fulfill its original cooperation promise.

The entanglement between the two parties thus arose.

The article also specifically mentions that Daenerys Entertainment offered as much as US$2 million for ESPN equity at that time. After they voluntarily gave up, the Hearst Group reached the deal with only US$1.8 million, saving a full US$2000 million. , which also involves another tax avoidance operation of no less than 2000 million US dollars.

However, Hearst Group was not satisfied with taking advantage of a big advantage. Not only was it unwilling to honor the original cooperation promise, but it also believed that Daenerys Entertainment Group’s bid in disguise made Hearst Group pay more for ESPN shares. Therefore, it has been using its media to launch attacks on the Westeros system.

For example, the "San Francisco Chronicle" under the Hearst Group has completely opposed the Westeros system in recent years.

The flash point of the contradiction is the various recent turmoil.

Congressman David Melroth, supported by the Hearst family, is constantly using his power to try to initiate improper investigations into new technology companies in the Westeros system. The company's so-called monopoly accusation is based on the fact that the free Internet services provided by Eaglet, such as news information, classified information, and social networking, have hurt the interests of traditional paper media giants such as the Hearst Group.

As evidence, the New York Post article deliberately included a photo of William Hearst III and Congressman David Melroth at a reception, shoulder to shoulder, looking like good buddies.

For public readers, compared to many serious posed photos, this photo with an obvious "worried" atmosphere has a great lethality, and instantly made many people determine their potential tendencies.

Members of Congress elected by everyone with one vote are still just the spokespersons of the rich and powerful.

For this report, the spokesperson of Hearst Group immediately refuted it.

It's a pity that the article has made too many people have preconceived ideas.

David Meroth, who instantly became the focus of media and public attention, also quickly jumped out to refute, but the effect was obviously not great.

The Eaglet Portal follows the New York Post article with more articles about David Melrowth's ties to the Hearst family, the three-term congressman who has accepted in each of the past three elections. A large number of political donations from the Hearst Group, this year's fourth re-election is still the same.The many articles about the other party in the media under the Hearst Group are all unreserved praise, completely ignoring that this congressman has made little contribution to his constituency in the past few years.

Not only that, as the political spokesperson of the Hearst family, David Melrowth is still agitating Congress to lift the "transmedia ownership ban" that restricts the media from having too much discourse power. Once this ban disappears, the American people's daily contact News information may be controlled by a few media giants, which will have a strong impact on press freedom.

It can be said that the congressman's 'double standard' between promoting the monopoly of traditional media and cracking down on the emerging Internet industry is simply shameless.

While the Hearst Group and David Melrowth were struggling to deal with the revelations of this article, another related article in the Wall Street Journal also attracted a lot of people's attention.

"Do you want to be friends, or enemies?"

This report does not comment on the inside story of the conflict between the Hearst Group and the Westeros system, but a detailed analysis of the possible impact of this incident.

Hearst Group is not a listed company, but it also publishes results.

In 1993, the total revenue of the Hearst Group was US$21.1 billion, with a revenue growth rate of 9%, and the annual net profit was US$1.69 million, with an annual growth rate of 12%, and a net profit rate of 8%.

Traditional paper media groups, like the U.S. auto industry, are restricted by many labor union forces, but cannot transfer production bases overseas, so operating costs are quite high. Hearst Group can maintain a net profit margin of 8%, which has exceeded the industry Average.

Now, just for the Westeros system, the accumulated advertising budget of 6500 million US dollars invested in the Hearst Group in the past year has already accounted for 3% of the other party's annual revenue. The performance in 1994 had a significant impact.

Furthermore, if Simon Westeros uses the influence of the Westeros system to require other partners to "stand in line", then the additional negative impact will be at least twice that of the Westeros system itself cutting off cooperation.

Based on the 1993% revenue growth of the Hearst Group in 9, once the conflict between the two parties continues, it is likely to cause the Hearst Group's revenue growth to completely stagnate in 1994.

For the traditional paper media industry, which has gradually begun to show signs of decline, stagnant revenue growth actually means regression.

After all, whether it is calculated based on factors such as inflation or the natural increase of workers' wages, a company must ensure a considerable performance growth every year in order to maintain the normal operation of the company.

Once the growth of corporate revenue stagnates, the continuous increase in inflation, employee wages, and even the debt burden will not stagnate, and the first thing that will affect corporate profits.

When profits are gradually offset by the negative impact of stagnant revenue growth, a series of chain reactions such as layoffs, sales of businesses, and spending cuts will follow.

If the situation does not improve, it will eventually go bankrupt.

Reynolds and Nabisco, which were once giants in the industry with excellent revenue and profit performance, five years after the record-breaking $330 billion merger, it was because of the huge debts brought about by the original merger that triggered a crisis. A series of chain reactions have hovered on the verge of bankruptcy in the past two years.

A super-giant like Reynolds Nabisco could quickly decline, not to mention the much smaller Hearst Corporation

Therefore, the "Wall Street Journal" judged that if the Hearst Group cannot resolve this conflict as soon as possible, even if it lasts for only one year, it will have a serious negative impact on the operation of the Hearst Group.

In comparison, apart from the pressure of public opinion and the risks of litigation that may be borne, the overall scale of the Westeros system is already more than a hundred times that of the Hearst Group, and it will hardly suffer any substantial damage.

After all, Simon Westero's current net worth has reached 2000 billion U.S. dollars, while the current wealth of the Hearst family, the five grandsons of William Hearst, is less than 25 billion U.S. dollars, which is more than 80 times difference.

Moreover, the media empire owned by the Hearst family, which used to be feared by many politicians, celebrities, and rich people, is obviously insufficient in terms of lethality in the face of the Westeros system.

Not to mention the Igret portal owned by the Westeros system, before the Hearst Group was blocked, Simon Westeros had just made a 'friend' who was comparable to the Hearst Group. Times Group.

Now that the Internet industry is booming, if traditional media wants to successfully complete the transition to the digital age, it is inevitable that the Westeros system cannot be avoided.

The New York Times Group undoubtedly made a very wise choice.

Although it is obvious that Simon Westeros intends to control the tone of the traditional paper media to avoid the recent deterioration of media public opinion against the Westeros system, the other party has given the New York Times Group a generous return, so they simply gave up on Ig The practice of exclusive rights to the content of the news and information content of the Ritter Portal has made many accusations against the Westeros system of monopolizing Internet media lose their roots.

The most important point is that the achievement of this cooperation will also lead to more and more traditional media groups that may still criticize the Westeros system to gradually reverse their attitudes, in exchange for an opportunity to transform into the digital age.

So the next question is, do you want to be a friend or an enemy to the Westeros system?

The news of the New York Post naturally came from the arrangement of the Westeros system, and the report of the Wall Street Journal surprised Simon a little.

However, it was just a little bit of a surprise.

For Western capitalist society, capital really means everything.

Westeros System VS Hearst Corporation.

Even if the conflict between the two sides caused Simon to lose 100 billion US dollars, it would only account for 5% of his personal net worth. In the process, the Hearst family, whose total assets are less than 25 billion US dollars, may have lost everything.

On the other hand, the Westeros system launched an attack on the Hearst Group, and in just a few days it has had some positive effects.

Since the beginning of the month, due to the dual pressure from the media and the political circles, the stock prices of Cisco and AOL, the two core Internet companies listed in the Westeros system, have begun to fluctuate and fall. As of last Friday, the cumulative declines have exceeded 5%.

Based on the market value of the two companies, which is already close to US$600 billion, a stock price drop of more than 5% means that shareholders of both companies will have to bear book losses of more than US$30 billion.

The cooperation plan between Eaglet Corporation and New York Times Group, which was suddenly exposed on Monday, coupled with the fact that the Westeros system changed its defensive position in the past few weeks and launched a strong attack on the Hearst Group, strongly stimulated the market's interest in the Westeros system. Confidence, and triggered a rebound in the shares of Cisco and AOL.

The previous share price declines of Cisco and AOL were due to the capital market’s concern that the government authorities might respond to the pressure of public opinion. The financial performance and high growth of the two companies themselves doomed them to collapse. .

Now, as the New York Times Group turned to the side of the Westeros system, the Hearst Group was hit hard by Simon Westeros, and the form was quickly reversed.

In just three days from Monday to Wednesday, the stock prices of Cisco and AOL have recovered the highest point before the shock at the beginning of the month.

Opening on Thursday morning, Cisco's stock price achieved a breakthrough again, and the total market value broke through the $600 billion mark in one fell swoop.

As of 04:30 on the East Coast on Thursday, the market value of Cisco had reached 615 billion U.S. dollars, followed by AOL’s market value of 573 billion U.S. dollars. The Nasdaq technology sector was driven by these two leading technology stocks. Gains across the board, up 1.7% on the day.

At the beginning of this year, a large number of hedge funds that believed that there was a serious bubble in the Internet industry had suffered heavy losses before March because of their continuous short selling.

Reluctantly persisted until March. With a series of turmoil surrounding the Westeros system, all capitals saw the 'dawn' of the bursting of the technology stock bubble. Starting on the 3st, in just a few days, the short book profits accumulated for three weeks have all disappeared, and directly turned into losses.

Since the beginning of the year, Cersei Fund Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, has held no less than US$50 billion in long positions in the technology sector.