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Now, with one more Time Warner, it can also share part of the firepower.

However, this is only temporary.

Simon's ultimate goal is still the three-legged confrontation that he had considered, two of which are still Daenerys and Time Warner, and the last one is either MGM, which Simon personally supported, or Blockbuster, which has quietly planted the seeds up to entertainment.

The three pillars stand together, and the Westeros system occupies two of them. By then, Simon's control over Hollywood will reach its peak.

As for the remaining majors, they will truly be reduced to second-tier teams that cannot stand up, or even disappear completely.

In the management canteen of Daenerys Studios.

Nancy Brill's sudden question interrupted Simon's thoughts: "Boss, do you think Michael Ovitz will choose to join Disney?"

Simon nodded: "It should be, but this is not good news for Disney."

Everyone looked over. Robert Iger, who came to the west coast yesterday, said: "Eisner and Ovitz are very good friends. I think the two should work together seamlessly."

Simon shrugged and said, "In the absence of a direct conflict of interest, the friendship between the two is easy to maintain. The key problem is that both Eisner and Ovitz are strong personalities who are used to being top leaders. Ace Even Katzenberg, who is actually not that strong, can't tolerate it, how could Ovitz be allowed to enter Disney to share power with him?"

Amy asked: "In this case, why did Eisner ask Ovitz to join Disney?"

Simon said: "It's very simple. He needs a strong enough excuse to drive Katzenberg out of Disney. If he is promoted from within Disney, it will be difficult for anyone except Katzenberg to convince the public. Ovitz created the C , the implementation of the project packaging mechanism, and a large number of top Hollywood stars as behind-the-scenes supporters, these can be the reasons for Eisner to convince the Disney board of directors."

Amy asked: "And then?"

Simon laughed and said, "Then, Eisner should find out that in order to stabilize his power, he had to find a way to remove his former good friend from the company."

Nancy looked at the expressions of the people around her, and suddenly said, "I just said, our boss is a guy who doesn't believe in people's hearts, and always thinks the worst of things."

Simon looked at his petite senior executive: "How about we make a bet?"

Not to be outdone, Nancy: "What about the bet?"

Simon laughed and said, "I happened to buy a batch of Mi-24 helicopters some time ago. If Ovitz didn't turn against Eisner after joining Disney, I'll give you one."

Nancy didn't feel at all that she shouldn't stick to the killing weapon that had mopped up tens of thousands of African soldiers in Rwanda not long ago. She nodded and said, "Okay, I lost, and I treat you to a meal."

Simon immediately had an expression of dissatisfaction that you could even say such insincere conditions.

Everyone laughed.

Nancy did not show any weakness in front of her boss: "You made your bet yourself, and of course I have to make my own terms. Moreover, you didn't say that our bets must be equal."

Simon raised his hand depressed, expressing that he admits it.

In fact, when it comes to Disney's infighting, everyone just thought of Daenerys Entertainment itself, but they soon felt relieved.

As long as there is a strong boss like Simon, there will be no soil for high-level infighting in Daenerys Entertainment. It is a relatively independent flat corporate structure for each department.

Everyone has their own hilltops, and most of them are directly responsible to Simon, the boss. There is no strong conflict of interest between them, and under normal circumstances they will not be tit-for-tat.

What's more, even if there is a sign of internal fighting, with Simon's strength, he will definitely extinguish the dispute in the cradle soon.The young boss of his family seems to be very fancy to everyone, but it is definitely not the case in his bones. If a certain executive needs to leave to ensure the internal stability of Daenerys Entertainment, he will do so without hesitation, no matter who How much executives have contributed to Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, the flat corporate structure of Daenerys Entertainment also brings some hidden worries.

The most important point is that once the powerful boss Simon is missing, it will be difficult to have a second leader with sufficient power and prestige to firmly condense the huge Daenerys Entertainment Group together. It may even become completely independent.

However, this potential risk is not urgent.

Simon is only 26 years old this year. Compared with some veteran businessmen who built a business empire when they were approaching retirement at the age of 60 or [-], what Simon lacks most is time, so he also has enough energy to arrange many things in advance.

Joking a few words about Simon and Nancy's bet, Amy said another thing: "David Geffen has been trying to form a large studio with several of his good friends in recent years, and Jeffrey It is also one of his lobbying targets, as well as Steven, so the establishment of this big studio should be a certainty."

In the past, Hollywood super-rich David Geffen joined forces with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg to establish DreamWorks. For a while, it was in the limelight in Hollywood. DreamWorks also continued in the late 90s. Produced a large number of blockbuster films.

However, because the foundation is not solid, the result of DreamWorks, which simply lacks perfect film distribution channels, is not good. Most of the profits of many blockbuster films are either taken away by the big studios responsible for distribution, or Steven Spielberg and other executives divided up the creation, and what was left to the investors who invested huge sums of money in the film company was just a mess of continuous losses.

The rise of Daenerys Entertainment is relatively short compared to the traditional major Hollywood producers, but from the initial small studio to the acquisition of New World Entertainment to improve its own production and distribution team, and finally the acquisition of MCA to completely promote the Hollywood Seven One of the big ones, every step is steady and steady.

The DreamWorks of the three of David Geffen also has the ambition to become one of the major Hollywood studios, but this studio is equivalent to building a large castle directly on the beach without laying the foundation. The scenery is powerful, but the bones are vulnerable.

Simon didn't intend to get involved in this, and felt the emotion in Amy's tone, and said, "We don't care about this matter, just do our job well."

Amy said: "Simon, I mean, maybe we can get MGM to cooperate with this new studio."

Simon shook his head and smiled again: "Even if we are willing, do you think Steven will agree to cooperate with us?"

Regarding the "Jurassic Park" series, although everyone seems to be getting together and dispersing, in fact, the entire Hollywood knows that Steven Spielberg was directly fired by Daenerys Entertainment. Since the 70s, the favorite of Hollywood, it is strange that Spielberg can swallow this breath and continue to cooperate with the Westeros system.

Moreover, even if the other party agrees, Simon will not agree.

Simon's arrangement for MGM is also steady and steady. By producing and distributing films by himself, he re-trains his own film production team and builds a complete distribution network.

If a cooperation is reached with the new studio of Spielberg and others, MGM will inevitably reduce production to adapt to each other. The end result is that the studio of Spielberg and others may eventually become a mess. Time will also be lame in both 'production' and 'distribution'.

Chapter 646 The more common the name, the better (repair)

Hillary Clinton personally lobbied to no avail, and the Hearst family finally gave Simon a reply on May 5.

The Hearst Group is willing to transfer 20% of its shares in the ESPN television network to Simon for $1. In exchange, the Westeros system must unblock the Hearst Group and stop the bombing of lawsuits. In the lawsuit, the Hearst family also offered a total settlement amount of 6 million U.S. dollars.

ESPN's shares can be described as the root of the conflict between the two sides.

Reynolds Nabisco, which struggled three years ago, sold off non-core assets, including the food and tobacco giant's 20 percent stake in ESPN.

At that time, the Hearst family used their influence in the media industry to half-coax and half-threat to force Simon to give up the bid, and finally got 1.8% of the shares of this TV network at a low price of 20 million U.S. dollars. The transaction price was obviously low. Based on the valuation of [-]-[-] million US dollars generally given by the industry.

In the past three years, ESPN's shares have further increased with the development of this basic cable network. At present, the value of 20% of the shares held by the Hearst family is no less than 3 million US dollars.

ESPN's shares are actually the fundamental purpose of Simon's $1.

At the peak of memory, as part of Disney, ESPN, which monopolizes major sports events in North America, is valued at up to 500 billion US dollars, which is more valuable than the ABC television network.

Hearst Group’s investment of less than 20 million US dollars to buy 2% of the ESPN TV network’s initial investment has increased dozens of times. Not only that, but with the decline of the print media industry, the income brought by only one-fifth of ESPN’s shares has accounted for Many years later, more than half of the revenue and profits of the entire Hearst Group, the Hearst family was able to continue their status, and did not decline like the old paper media families such as the Graham family behind the "Washington Post".

As long as the shares of ESPN are taken away, the Hearst family basically cannot avoid the fate of complete decline.

However, the asking price of the Hearst family did not meet Simon's expectations.

San Francisco Bay Area, inside a mountain house in Woodside.

The time is the afternoon of June 5.

For the Hearst family lawyer Andre Carney who came from the east coast to try to negotiate with Simon, Simon just asked Girl A to come forward to deal with him.

At this moment in the living room of the villa, girl A was sitting on the sofa with a slightly cold expression, and said without much emotion in her voice: "Mr. Carney, the boss is basically satisfied with the shares of ESPN. However, the compensation for the six lawsuits, the boss Said, not a single point less."

Simon Westeros said that the Hearst family only had one opportunity to make an offer. Andre Carney initially worried that if Westeros was not satisfied with the offer, he might be shut down, and the Hearst family would also be rejected. Will continue to be stuck in the mud.

Now, as long as it can be negotiated, it is a good result.

Andre Carney would not be so stupid as to take the initiative to care about Westeros' words that there is only one chance to make an offer.

Although he clearly felt that the girl in front of him was not in a good mood, Andre Carney still said: "Miss Knowles, the compensation amount of 3.7 million US dollars is too high. You should know that the current Hearst Group has no Can't afford the money."

Girl A said: "This is the Hearst Group's business, you have no room for bargaining."

As one of the most famous lawyers in New York, Andre Carney actually understands that the purpose of Westeros insisting on full compensation of 3.7 million US dollars is still to hope that the Hearst Group will continue to bleed.The current Hearst Group wants to raise 3.7 million US dollars in the short term, and there is only one way to go, which is to sell its media assets.

And it must be sold at a severely shrinking discount.

Now any investor who intends to purchase the media assets of the Hearst Group will not miss the opportunity to take advantage of the fire.

After thinking about it for a moment, Andre Carney said: "Miss Knowles, insisting on paying full compensation for the six lawsuits will not do Mr. Westeros any good. Apart from legal fees, I don't believe Mr. Westeros will get any compensation from those lawsuits." A share is drawn from the compensation, so why can't we take a step back?"

Girl A just shook her head: "This is the boss's intention, and it is the final decision."

Andre Carney tried: "So, can I speak to Mr. Westeros myself?"

"No."

"Okay, I'll pass this on to Mr. Hearst," Andre Carney was actually just a messenger, saying so, and then said: "Also, the Westeros system must be lifted after the two parties reconcile. Miss Knowles, what does Mr. Westeros mean by banning the Hearst family?"

Alison said: "The boss said that the ban can be lifted, but the Westeros system still won't have any cooperation with the Hearst Group?"

Andre Carney couldn't help asking: "Is this different from not lifting the ban?"

Girl A explained very seriously: "At that time, the Westeros system will no longer prevent other companies from cooperating with the Hearst Group."

Andre Carney thought for a while, and said, "At least, the Westeros Corporation should publish a statement in the newspaper."

Girl A shook her head: "The boss will not agree with such a statement, Mr. Carney, for enemies, the boss's greatest kindness is to ignore them. Don't expect him to do more."

Andre Carney questioned: "Miss Knowles, are you making decisions for your boss now?"

"Yes."

"I don't think you have the right to make such a decision. Maybe you'd better discuss it with Mr. Westeros."

"I know my boss and what decisions he makes."

Andre Carney said: "But now that we have reconciled, we should no longer be enemies."

"Mr. Carney, the so-called 'reconciliation' is just your wishful thinking. For the boss, this is not a 'reconciliation', it's just a 'let go', do you understand?"

Andre Carney couldn't help feeling a little pity for his employer, but on the surface he still insisted: "If this is the case, then the transaction between us is meaningless. Mr. Westeros wants my client to agree For those conditions, a certain response must be made, even if it is only a symbolic response, such as a simple advertising cooperation.”

Girl A said: "ESPN's equity transfer and the settlement of the six lawsuits are the response of the Westeros system. By then, the outside world should understand what happened, and there is no need for any additional symbolic responses."

Andre Carney felt a little bitter in his heart.

This is true, but not so.

As girl A just said, if the Westeros system does not give a public response, then, in the eyes of outsiders, this is indeed not a 'reconciliation', just a 'let go'.This is not the result that the Hearst family hoped to see after paying a huge price.

He continued to haggle with the girl in front of him for a while, but failed to get any further changes. Andre Carney had to leave and hurriedly informed the result of the meeting to the Hearst family who were anxiously waiting in New York while still in the car returning to the hotel. Several cores.

In the villa, the lawyer of the Hearst family was sent away. Girl A went to an office on the first floor of the villa, called someone to deliver a women's suit according to a certain size, and then turned on the computer and began to silently process some work emails.

So until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, during off-duty time, there was a knock on the door outside the office, and the Indian girl Alia pushed the door in and said, "Ah, the boss is going out."

Alison nodded, got up, picked up the sorted documents and left the office.

In a living room next to the living room, the baby-faced Zoe Parks was helping Simon tie his tie, and Isabel Dunn held a coat to her chest and stood obediently next to the man.

Seeing girl A coming in, Simon asked with a smile, "How was the talk?"

Girl A handed some documents in her hand to Aaliyah next to her, stepped forward to take over Zoe's job, felt the man's aura up close, and said softly: "The Hearst family should not agree too easily, but, They have no choice."

Simon just hummed.

Alison helped Simon tie his tie, and took the suit jacket from Isabel for the man to put on, but she lowered her eyebrows and looked down the whole time, like a wronged little daughter-in-law.

Simon waited for Alison to help him fasten his buttons, and smiled, grabbed the girl's chin and lifted it towards him: "Are you jealous again?"

Girl A met the man's gaze and didn't answer, but couldn't help blinking a few times.

Simon bowed his head and kissed the girl on the lips, and said, "No."

The man's eyes were cold, but his tone was gentle. Girl A felt that a small lump in her heart quickly disappeared, and she felt that she should not have done it in a blink of an eye.

Well, it needs to be punished.

The man seemed to have seen through her thoughts, leaned over and whispered a few words, then let her go, and finally said: "Okay, be good."

After saying this, Simon didn't wait for girl A to remind him, and took the initiative to take the documents from Aaliyah that he wanted to look through in the car. Finally, he said goodbye to the girls and turned to leave the villa.

In the afternoon, some work arrangements were canceled due to certain things, but there were two evening schedules, an evening dinner with Cisco CEO John Chambers, and a reception at Tim Berners-Lee's house.

Sending her boss out, Girl A immediately withdrew her little girl look and asked Zoe, "I ordered a set of clothes this afternoon, have you delivered it yet?"

Zooey nodded, and said, "I'll get it."

The master bedroom on the second floor of the villa.

Alison came in with a dark blue women's suit, put the clothes in the small living room outside, knocked on another door, got a response, pushed the door and went in, but went straight to another connected bathroom.After a while, she came out of the bathroom with a small tray and walked to the big bed.

On the big bed, a woman was lazily lying on her side hugging a pillow, her hair was loose, her face was ruddy, and she exuded a special style.

It was Simon's personal military assistant, Celia Miller.

Noticing the stinky expression on Alison's face, Celia didn't care at all, and with a bit of a smile, she gestured to the tray in Girl A's hand: "A, what is this?"

Alison put the tray on the bedside table, picked up the water glass, picked up a pill in a small saucer, handed them over together, and said bluntly: "Birth control pills."

Celia froze for a moment, shook her head and said, "It's not necessary, I have a safe period today."

Alison insisted: "This is the boss's order, Ms. Miller, I must watch you obey it yourself."

Celia heard the words, stared at Alison for a moment, and soon smiled again: "Simon wouldn't do this, but, well, I won't embarrass you."

As the woman said, she sat up, took the water glass and the pills, took them quickly, and opened her mouth jokingly for girl A to check, then lay down again, and said, "A, can you prepare some bath water for me?" huh, so tired."

Girl A noticed Celia's undisguised figure when she just sat up, and remembered something her boss said occasionally.Some women are good-looking only when they are wearing clothes, and only a small part are good-looking whether they are wearing clothes or not.