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With the rapid development of Daenerys Entertainment Group in recent years, Simon will not underestimate his role in it, but he will not ignore the concerted efforts of the whole group. Therefore, when it is time to give, he will not be stingy.

However, Simon has no intention of letting go of Daenerys Entertainment's control.

The prospectus specifically states that Daenerys Entertainment will adopt a dual-class shareholding structure. After completing the equity adjustment in March, the 3 billion shares of Daenerys Entertainment held by Simon will all be Class B shares with 19.37 times the voting rights , The 10 million shares held by all employees of Daenerys Entertainment are Class A shares, and the voting rights are only one-tenth of Class B shares.The 1.76 million new shares planned to be issued during the IPO process are also Class A shares with only one-tenth of the voting rights.

It is estimated that after the official listing at the end of June and the beginning of July, the total share capital of Daenerys Entertainment Group will expand to 6 billion shares, and Simon's personal shareholding ratio will drop to 7%, but the voting rights will still be as high as 23.63%.

Even if Simon intends to sell some of his shares in the future, he also has the right to convert the Class B shares into Class A shares before the sale.It can be said that as long as Simon does not voluntarily give up, even if the Westeros family's shareholding in Daenerys Entertainment Group drops to less than 10% after many years, they can still maintain absolute control over the company.

It is not difficult to imagine that due to the recent public opinion situation, after the exposure of Daenerys Entertainment's dual shareholding structure, there will naturally be some unavoidable criticism.

Simon just ignored it.

Whether it is Cisco, AOL or Daenerys Entertainment, Simon's dual shareholding operation is completely within the rules of the game.

Even if some people are dissatisfied, even if the relevant provisions of the company law are amended by the authorities in the future, it is impossible to change many established facts according to the unspoken rules of US law that do not go back to the past.

Ever since the news of Daenerys Entertainment’s upcoming IPO was released, there has been a popular saying in the industry that this entertainment juggernaut, whose core film business has already accounted for about [-]% of Hollywood’s share, no longer has much growth potential. Not optimistic about its long-term development prospects.

Recent facts have proved that this point of view is completely wrong.

Apart from other things, the sudden phenomenal success of the social game "Happy Farm" produced by EA, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, has proved that Daenerys Entertainment's game business still has an important role in addition to the movie business. Very great growth potential.

The film released by Daenerys Entertainment Group in the first week of Easter is the third part of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3". Compared with the film's $4 million production cost and $1 million publicity budget, the opening result of $2162 million clearly fell short of expectations.

However, the total box office in North America is expected to be about 8000 million US dollars, which actually made a pretty good ending for this series. Counting the overseas box office, the film can easily recover costs and achieve profitability through global theater distribution.

At the same time as the film was released, another sequel to the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series of games on the Nintendo console platform was launched on April 4. The first week of sales in the two major markets of North America and Japan was 1 boxes. The global sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles surpassed 11.6 million boxes. According to the results of the first week, it is estimated that the global sales of this sequel will also be around 500 million boxes, which is still a very rare success.

With online games, console games, and EA’s strength in the field of PC stand-alone through real-time strategy games and sports games, the industry predicts that the future output value of the electronic game field will be no less than that of the movie market. Daenerys Entertainment will have a long-term future. It has maintained a very impressive high-speed growth for a period of time.

On the other hand, after the Backstreet Boys under Daenerys Records officially released the self-titled album "Backstreet Boys" on March 3, the sales volume of the album reached 25 copies in the first week in the United States, and the sales volume in the following week was even higher. It was a counterattack to 27 copies.It is estimated that the total sales of "Backstreet Boys" in the United States alone will reach about 32 million copies. Although the overseas potential is temporarily unknown, based on the popularity in North America, it is conservatively estimated that the total global sales of this album can also exceed 1500 million copies.

Simon has personally followed up the formation and promotion of the Backstreet Boys since last year. After a busy year, he finally paid off.

The success of the Backstreet Boys not only means that Daenerys Records has gained a firm foothold in the mainstream pop music field, but also means that the attempt to mass-produce Teen Pop singers is truly feasible.

Similarly, the sudden popularity of Backstreet Boys also added another point for the entertainment giant in the relatively weak record field at the critical time point when Daenerys Entertainment submitted its IPO application, proving that Daenerys Entertainment In addition to the group's core film business, the record field also has huge growth potential.

In the description of the company's development prospects in the prospectus, in addition to the outlook on the two high-growth businesses of games and music, it also emphatically mentioned the TV business that Daenerys Entertainment has been actively deploying.

In terms of content production, Daenerys Entertainment has not only created a boom in reality shows, but has also successively launched popular dramas such as "Seinfeld" and "Desperate Housewives" over the years.

In terms of TV stations, Daenerys Entertainment has fully owned the basic cable network USA with a total subscriber base of more than 9000 million. Fashion TV, a professional fashion TV station launched last year, has also completed full-scale broadcasting in major countries such as North America and Europe. The two goals Cable TV networks with precise and clear audience groups have maintained a very fast performance growth rate.

Not only that, Daenerys Entertainment also stated in the prospectus that after the IPO, it will further expand into the TV field.

There is nothing cryptic about this description.

The lifting of the federal media integration ban is already an inevitable trend. Once the ban is lifted, Daenerys Entertainment will undoubtedly be the one with the most strength to merge with the three traditional American public television networks.

Some analysts on Wall Street predict that the listing of Daenerys Entertainment is largely paving the way for future mergers with large public television networks. Political and commercial obstacles to further expansion of Silk Entertainment.

Therefore, it can be seen that whether it is from the still fast-growing games and music businesses within Daenerys Entertainment, or the possible further expansion into the TV field in the future, this entertainment giant can continue to maintain a considerable growth rate for a long time to come. of high growth.

What's more, Daenerys Entertainment's movie business hasn't really hit the ceiling.

Only in the United States, the film market capacity has maintained a natural growth rate of more than 10% in the past few years. Hollywood, which uses super blockbuster films as a "battering ram", is unstoppable in the global film market. The super blockbusters in the past few years have basically come from Daenerys Entertainment.

Considering that Daenerys Entertainment has strong guarantees in terms of Daenerys special effects, Pixar Studios, Marvel Entertainment, etc. or technology or IP, it is not at all successful for this Hollywood giant to continue to maintain its core film business performance growth. question.

Coupled with the layout of Daenerys Entertainment Group in consumer peripherals, theme parks, movie theaters, video chains, etc., the first version of the prospectus confidently predicts that Daenerys Entertainment will still be able to maintain 20% in at least the next five years. % to 30% annual revenue growth.

Obviously, in order to leave room for myself, this forecast is still inclined to be conservative.

After all, in the two years after the MCA merger, the annual growth rates of Daenerys Entertainment reached 37% and 35% respectively. This is actually the corporate growth data when Daenerys Entertainment's core film business is very strong.

It is conceivable that, even without considering Daenerys Entertainment's further potential expansion into the field of large public television networks, it is not a problem for Daenerys Entertainment to continue to maintain an annual revenue growth rate of more than 30% for at least the next five years.

Although after Daenerys Entertainment submitted the prospectus, many media and Wall Street analysts with ulterior motives still insisted that Daenerys Entertainment has reached the ceiling of growth, but most potential investors have no doubts about the real value of Daenerys Entertainment’s stock. But he knows it well.

Chapter 628 IE Free (Repair)

In the week starting on April 4, the Westeros system launched three lawsuits against the Hearst Group on Monday for huge claims. On Wednesday, Daenerys Entertainment Group formally submitted its IPO application. After the slightest cooling, on April 4th, Friday, the Westeros system once again created an explosive news.

After exposure and preheating by many media during this period, Eaglet officially announced that its most popular Internet basic tool software, IE browser, is open to the public for free.

In a press conference on Friday morning, Eaglet CEO Tim Berners-Lee said the company's move is to further promote the openness of the World Wide Web platform.

For users, from now on, IE users around the world will no longer have to update and use the latest version of browser software due to charging reasons.

For enterprises, the latest technological achievements emerging in the Internet industry will also be promoted to users in the first time relying on the IE software platform.

During the media question-and-answer session after the press conference, Tim Berners-Lee denied without hesitation when faced with some reporters’ questions about whether the free IE browser was in response to possible anti-monopoly investigations by Eagletec. And once again listed the various measures that Eaglet has continuously promoted the openness of the World Wide Web platform in the past few years, and finally did not forget to accuse the recent improper lawsuits against many technology companies in the Westeros system, which are completely malicious media and grandstanding Politicians are maliciously fueling the flames.

Reminiscent of the conflict between the Westeros system and the Hearst Group during this period, the target of Tim Berners-Lee's accusation is self-evident.

The reporter at the scene immediately realized that the Westeros system should also be considered as "lawsuit bombing" in the near future, but the plaintiffs who filed lawsuits against the technology companies of the Westeros system are obviously weak, and what can be obtained behind the scenes It's just the support of some public opinion, far inferior to the tens of millions of dollars in real money that Simon Westero directly spent in the three lawsuits initiated on Monday.

In the face of such a behemoth as the Westeros system, not to mention that the chances of winning the lawsuits themselves are extremely small, even if some of them can barely win, it is difficult to cause substantial damage to the Westeros system.

In fact, at this stage, only the federal authorities have the strength to check and balance the continuous rapid expansion of the Westeros system.

However, the White House, which is rumored to have an ambiguous relationship with the Westeros system, has no intention of making a move so far.

There is no lack of relevant appeals from both houses of Congress, but it is a pity that it is not easy to reach an agreement between the factional and factional Senate and House of Representatives, not to mention that the majority of seats in both houses are currently controlled by the Democratic Party, and the Westeros system is already well-known. Biggest benefactor.

Igret suddenly gave up hundreds of millions of dollars in annual income and announced that IE is free. The specific strategic intentions are partly to promote the openness of the Internet, partly for the company's own interests, and partly to deal with potential anti-monopoly threats. Probably only Iraqi Several core executives of Gerrett knew about it.

Of course, a certain young man must be added.

It is rare for Eaglet’s executives to communicate directly with the media, ending the question about the free IE browser, and the reporters at the scene did not forget to mention the recently popular "Happy Farm".

Although the Eaglet Portal did not immediately announce the number of players in the second week of "Happy Farm" launch, the media with great powers still got the relevant data.

After quickly accumulating 697 million players in the first week, in the second week of its launch, the growth rate of "Happy Farm" reached a new high, reaching 829 million, boosted by the hot topic.In two weeks, the total number of players of this phenomenal online social game has reached 1526 million.

In terms of revenue, compared to the first week’s revenue of 261 million US dollars, because the number of overseas players who have not yet rolled out complete payment channels has increased significantly, the second week’s revenue of “Happy Farm” was 437 million US dollars.The 67% revenue growth in a single week may be far inferior to the 118% player increase in the same period, but such a scale of revenue still far exceeds the original expectations of the operation team.

In fact, some people in Eaglet have proposed to delay the launch of this game in overseas markets, so that in the future, the online payment tools in overseas markets will be further popularized to obtain more benefits.

Bezos vetoed the proposal before it reached Simon.

Simon also personally sent an email to Eaglet’s management after learning about the controversy, expressing his support for Bezos’ decision.

First of all, the development difficulty of "Happy Farm" is very low, just like when a Chinese studio launched this game in 2008, American counterparts produced an equally successful copycat version the next year.

The same is likely to happen if the overseas release of "Happy Farm" is delayed.

Moreover, if it’s just a game, it’s fine. Once the overseas market is seized, the result is likely to be that other Internet companies rely on similar games to take advantage of the momentum. This is the last thing Simon wants to see.

Eaglet's goal in developing Facebook from the very beginning is to create a huge social network connecting the world.

In the past, this kind of effort could only be obtained through celebrity effects and other means as much as possible.

Now, the phenomenon-level "Happy Farm" has really made thousands of players of different languages, nationalities and skin colors around the world mingle in a virtual social game.

In half a month since it was launched, because of this game, the total number of Facebook users worldwide increased from 4900 million to 5300 million in the first week, and from 5300 million to 6100 million in the second week. The total number of users has skyrocketed in two weeks Facebook has 1200 million users, of which about 500 million are from overseas. Before that, among Facebook's 4900 million user base, the total number of overseas users was only about 1300 million.

Just relying on the strong stimulating effect of "Happy Farm" on the growth of Facebook user base, even if this game does not make a penny, it is completely worthwhile for Eaglet, so whether it is Simon or the core members of Eaglet None of the executives will short-sightedly give up Facebook's overseas expansion opportunity for the benefit of a game.

The industry can see that there are not many key peers and media. These people are more concerned about whether Igret will continue to open its platform to other game manufacturers.

After Simon personally made the decision last Friday, the management of Eaglet has been discussing and drafting relevant terms for the past week.

In this IE free program press conference, Tim Berners-Lee also officially gave a positive response to the media's questioning.

Eaglet will continue to maintain an open attitude towards external cooperation in the field of online games. Not only will it not close its own platform to external game manufacturers, but in order to focus on its core business, Eaglet will not even form a game development team directly under it. In the future, only game content will be introduced from external manufacturers.

Even though Tim Berners-Lee subsequently added that Eaglet’s venture capital department would set up a special fund dedicated to investing in online game production with a total scale of about 1 million US dollars, this reply still surprised many people.

Igret does not directly get involved in game production, and completely purchases content from outsiders, which is tantamount to giving away most of the profits of the huge online game market.

Is this a manifestation of God, or an angel descending on earth?

IE free has been able to benefit hundreds of millions of ordinary Internet users, and the open game cooperation strategy will bring large-scale practical benefits to many game developers around the world.

The news quickly spread from the headquarters of Eaglet in San Francisco to the whole world through different channels. Many video game manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia have specially held special high-level meetings for this purpose, and some companies can't wait to try to cooperate with Iraq Get in touch with the management of Greeter in order to take advantage of potential cooperation in the future.

Same day.

Hollywood, the "Jurassic Park 2" project that has already had many rumors has been officially announced.

Steven Spielberg's outright exit was expected

However, Michael Bay, a newcomer director who seemed to appear suddenly, attracted intense media attention. After researching, it was found that this filmmaker was only a MV director before, and his only film work had not yet been released.

For a super blockbuster series that is almost $10 billion worldwide, Daenerys Entertainment has hired a newcomer with little filmmaking experience, even though Simon Westeros has proven himself in many blockbuster projects. Its outstanding employment vision, this bold move still aroused the concerns and doubts of many media.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is very tight-lipped about this matter, and can't find out the inside story, everyone can only turn their attention to Michael Bay's upcoming film debut "Stargate" which will be released on May 5.

Relying on the Internet platform, especially the self-media people who have emerged on Facebook, within a few hours, traditional newspapers have no time to report the news. About the new director of "Jurassic Park 2" Michael Bay and "Interstellar" The news of "The Door" was on the list of hot topics on social networks.

Michael Bay's personal information was quickly dug out.

Only then did the public discover that this talented MV director has not only won several top MV industry awards, but is also the director of the first "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show".Even if the Victoria's Secret Show has been held twice, the first Victoria's Secret Show video tape, which has become a must-have collection for many men, is enough to be called a classic.

As for "Stargate", the background of this film is also not small.

The film script comes from Roland Emmerich, the director of the DC movie universe "Superman" series, and the other party also serves as the producer himself."Superman" directed by Emmerich was not only a big success at the box office, but also stood out from the three core directors of the DC series, and was announced to be the director of the important crossover of the DC movie universe "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice".

The filmmaker's script certainly does not lack quality assurance.

Although the media and the public still have widespread doubts about Michael Bay's "Jurassic Park 2", but in just one day, "Stargate", which is scheduled for May 5, has already received thousands of dollars from the film company. Thousands of dollars may not necessarily achieve the publicity effect.

Even many Hollywood colleagues have to admire Daenerys Entertainment's wonderful marketing.

Of course, there are also many people waiting to see the excitement.

In case the quality of "Stargate" does not meet the audience's expectations, or even fails badly at the box office, it will definitely impact fans' expectations for "Jurassic Park 2". When Daenerys Entertainment wants to make up for it, it will probably have to replace it. director.However, according to the official launch schedule of "Jurassic Park 2", it is not easy to replace the director in a short period of time, unless Simon Westeros, who has not picked up the guide tube in recent years, comes out in person.

It's still the day.

In the second week of the Easter schedule, Daenerys Entertainment quietly launched another new film, the comedy "Aeroplanes" starring Jim Carrey.

Compared with last week's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" with a total investment of 6000 million US dollars in production and publicity, the production budget of "Aeroplane" is only 1500 million US dollars. Although the publicity offensive is not small, it only invested 1000 million US dollars. The opening scale of the film's 1837 screens is also far less than the 3 opening screens of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2763".

Moreover, compared to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" with a passable 6.3 overall media score, film critics who have always had little interest in spoof comedies only gave Jim Carrey's new film a 5.1 overall score.

The medium-to-low-cost production scale, unsatisfactory word-of-mouth, and the schedule on the tail of Easter, all these elements seem to mean that "Aeroplane" will be a tepid box office dud.

Simon has been dealing with a very serious domestic violence situation lately since he took the opportunity to confess something to Janet after Easter.

Simon could actually feel that Janet didn't have the slightest resistance or anger towards a certain fact, but instead showed a strange sense of excitement, probably some kind of special emotion of "you will never be able to get rid of me again", but, on the surface Of course, it must be very arrogant and constantly accuse Simon of being a jerk, a gangster, a pervert, a liar, and a big liar

This is overkill.

So it was cleaned up badly.

Simon is worse.

Facing Janet who fell into a little manic state, Veronica even hid directly in Europe in the name of a business trip.

This went on for a few days, and Simon finally decided to 'run away from home' as a protest and flew to New York on Friday, April 4th.

Ok.

In fact, the main thing is business.

With the season of TV promotions approaching in May, Daenerys TV division on the east coast will need Simon's help in many matters.

After getting the "Friends" project from ICM before, Daenerys TV recently negotiated a TV series project with Michael Crichton, the author of the original novel of "Jurassic Park", called "The Story of the Emergency Room" .

Medical drama is a major category in the field of American TV dramas, but "The Story of the Emergency Room" can be said to be a pinnacle of American medical dramas, so that many popular medical dramas such as "Grey's Anatomy" after the new century They all obviously bear the shadow of "The Story of the Emergency Room".

Not only that, because of the role of Dr. Chen played by Wen Mingna in the series, this American TV series accidentally made the image of Asian doctors deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the United States, which in turn led many Asians to deliberately choose medical majors after this American TV series.

Daenerys TV already has a hit-comedy-drama mix of "Seinfeld" and "Desperate Housewives" in addition to its hit reality shows.Now, as long as "Friends" and "ER" can achieve the success of the original time and space, Daenerys Entertainment will have two more trump cards in the field of TV drama.

The American TV industry produces hundreds of TV series every year, not much less than Hollywood movies.

Therefore, phenomenon-level popular TV series are absolutely rare. The four trump cards held by Daenerys Entertainment not only represent a potential income of one billion US dollars, but also can further increase Daenerys' It is the bargaining chip for Silk Entertainment to continue to expand into the TV field.

Chapter 629 The Truth About the Assassination Case (Revised)

For Simon, there is basically no distinction between weekdays and weekends.

All day Saturday, Simon was at Daenerys' East Coast headquarters in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, working on a string of major TV projects this year.

The six main creators of "Friends" have already been finalized. Except for the actor who plays Monica, the other five remain original, and the pilot episode of the series has also been completed.Because of Daenerys Entertainment's reputation in the TV industry in recent years, several major TV networks have expressed concern about "Friends".