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The total market value of the three companies has reached an astonishing US$2551 billion!

According to the shareholding ratio of Westeros to the three companies, only these three companies have contributed 1707 billion US dollars to Simon's personal wealth.

Three months ago, the media just announced that Simon's personal wealth exceeded 2000 billion US dollars.

Now, only the stocks of Daenerys, Cisco and AOL held by Simon, and his personal wealth of 1707 billion US dollars are already close to this figure.

In addition, the Westeros system also owns companies such as Cersei Capital, Melisandre, Eaglet, and Verizon. Among them, the market value potential is no less than that of Cisco and AOL. Gretel's general valuation has already reached 500 billion US dollars, and the stocks of technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and SUN held by Westeros are also worth a lot of money.

All these assets add up to more than just another $1000 billion.

Although the Westeros system specially greeted many mainstream media groups in the United States, in the following weekend, many second- and third-tier newspapers in order to attract attention still gave Simon's latest personal net worth.

And directly raised another order of magnitude.

3000 billion dollars!

This is a valuation generally recognized by most of the media that give similar valuations.

Not exactly, but more or less.

After all, only Daenerys, Cisco, and AOL have contributed more than 1700 billion U.S. dollars to Simon Westeros’ personal wealth. Many other companies and assets in the Westeros system, excluding debts, have a total value of $1300 billion is clearly more than enough.

According to the economic data in the first half of the year, the official estimate of the US GDP in 1994 was about 7.2 trillion US dollars.

Now, Simon Westero's personal wealth of US$3000 billion is already equivalent to 4.1% of the GDP of the United States, far exceeding the 1.5% of GDP in the heyday of the Rockefeller family.

The former Rockefeller and Morgan were known as controlling the existence of the entire United States.

This time, the rapidly rising Westeros system has also penetrated into many aspects of American public life in just eight years, the most important and sensitive of which is the control of American public audio-visual entertainment resources.

Therefore, compared with the previous March when the London girl incident broke out, the American media was overwhelmingly hyping up and crusading. This time, the public with a little heart can feel that the North American media, especially the large media with extensive influence, has a great influence on Simon Westeros. 'Cold' attitude to new highs in personal wealth.

American media and public opinion have a great influence on the direction of federal policy.

In many cases, just a heavyweight article in a large newspaper such as the "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" or "Washington Post" can lead to the conclusion of some bills of the federal government.

The large mainstream media is indifferent. Even if Simon's personal wealth of more than 3000 billion US dollars has aroused many people's subconscious hatred of the rich, it will not cause too many negative consequences if it cannot be gathered and guided by public opinion.

However, although the influential mainstream media didn’t hype up the matter because of its interest relationship with the Westeros system or just out of fear, the birth of the first US$3000 billion super rich man in the history of the United States and even the world triggered The hustle and bustle is still not comparable to ordinary social events.

After all, it is impossible for newspapers and TVs with a little influence not to mention Daenerys Entertainment's listing and Simon's personal net worth hitting a new high.

Simon is just trying his best to control the media so as not to lead the public sentiment to the opposite of the Westeros system. For the major newspapers that can affect the direction of federal policy, the requirement is to minimize the exposure, but it is impossible to let the countless newspapers in the United States, All media platforms such as TV and radio are shut up.

Of course, with the lessons learned from the Hearst Group, most of the media did not dare to criticize Simon's growing personal wealth, but they spared no effort to use this topic to boost sales or ratings.

The mainstream media is conservative, but many politicians in the US government do not have these fears, especially those congressional candidates who realize that they have been included in the sniper list of this year's mid-term election by the Westeros system.

A group of politicians headed by Senator Craig Ames of Wisconsin jumped out again, sparing no effort to exaggerate the threat of the increasingly large Westeros system to the US economy, and demanded that the federal government must take immediate measures. Limit Simon's personal wealth to continue to grow uncontrollably.

The previous attempt by Congressman David Melroth, backed by the Hearst family, to set up a House Special Investigative Committee on the Westeros system has died down.

However, Craig Eames followed up on David Melrowth's ideas and once again promoted the original 'property tax' bill. The establishment of a special investigation committee, this time the goal is still to investigate the monopoly of the three Internet giants of the 'Cisco AOL Eaglet' on the emerging Internet industry.

As for the Daenerys Entertainment Group, although this company is already very large, there is not much to criticize in various federal laws.

In this world, unless a person is so mediocre that he has no sense of existence, if he has friends, he must have enemies.

Simon is very clear that even if it is the federal media, looking at the Westeros system is definitely not as peaceful as it seems at this time.The reason for this is mainly because it is difficult to fundamentally cause any damage to the Westeros system by hyping up the news hotspots at this stage.On the contrary, once a strong one emerges, certain flowers and plants may be trampled to death by the huge Westeros system.

If there is a suitable opportunity, Simon can be sure that many media will jump out and push the wall down.

As for politics.

In a capitalist society like the United States, politicians are usually not willing to provoke the super rich, but they are never absolute. When the rich show their own flaws, or block these people's political career, their nature is definitely better than that of ordinary people. Politicians who are too aggressive will absolutely do anything.

Moreover, the rise of the Westeros system is too fast and its foundation is too shallow, which has also given many politicians an opportunity to take advantage of it.

The following weekend, there was news from Washington.

The U.S. Department of Justice will formally launch an investigation into the suspected monopoly of the Internet industry by three companies, Cisco AOL Eaglet, within the Westeros system in the near future.

Unlike the FBI, the White House has strong control over the Justice Department.

However, in the face of many political opponents who continue to attack the Clinton administration for deliberately protecting the Westeros system, if the Justice Department takes action against the Westeros system after Congress, the accusations of some politicians will be more solid. The White House, which does not have a good reputation, will become more passive.

Therefore, Clinton must act before Congress.

Simon was prepared for this.

Even a rough plan has been made.

The biggest feature of the anti-monopoly investigation in the United States is that it takes a long time. It doesn’t even take too long for Simon. Even if it takes another two or three years, the layout of the three companies in the Internet industry will be completely entrenched.At that time, even if there is another split, it will actually be the same as the ATT split case back then. Although one giant has been split into seven, the market structure will still be monopolized by princes.

After July 7st, there will be a three-day Independence Day holiday.

The outside world is disturbing, and within the Westeros system, this increasingly large business machine is still running at high speed.

This IPO has greatly boosted the morale of Daenerys Entertainment Group employees.

The 3500 million shares of Daenerys Entertainment held by Amy Pascal increased to a huge value of 16.7 billion US dollars on the day of listing. Counting the previous accumulation of this female executive, Amy Pascal’s personal net worth has reached 20. Billion dollars, among the top richest ranks of this era.

Nancy Brill, Robert Iger, Mark Belford, Danny Morris and Ella Deutsch, the five core management members of Daenerys Entertainment Group, rely on hundreds of millions of dollars they hold. Thousands of corporate stocks, all became billionaires on July 7st.

Based on the closing price on the afternoon of July 7, there are 1 middle-level managers of the Daenerys Group who hold more than 15 shares of Daenerys Entertainment and have become multi-millionaires.

Among them, Tom Pollack, the president of Daenerys Films, who holds 150 million shares, is worth as much as 7000 million US dollars even if he has not squeezed into the core. The senior management who made too much contribution was even ridiculed by the "Hollywood Reporter" as the luckiest person in the IPO process.

In addition, 2 low-level executives who hold more than 173 shares have also become millionaires.

The entire Daenerys Entertainment, employees with a little seniority who participated in the original stock subscription, all earned a lot of money during the IPO process.

Before the listing, Simon distributed a total of 1.76 shares or rewards or subscriptions to the employees of the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group. According to the rough conversion of the unlisted state at the time, the average reward for each of the 2.9 employees of the group was only 5.1. Dollar.

However, on the first day of listing, the total value of the original 1.76 million shares reached 84 billion U.S. dollars. After excluding the cost of 10.9 billion U.S. dollars paid by employees for internal subscriptions, it is actually equivalent to each employee receiving a reward of 25 U.S. dollars.

In the history of world business, such a generous stock award is unprecedented, if not unprecedented.

From this alone, many people faintly realize why Daenerys Entertainment Group is so powerful.

Chapter 666 Hustle and bustle after going public (2) (repair)

The stock price miracle of Daenerys Entertainment Group on the first day of listing attracted too much media and public attention, resulting in some events that should have been very eye-catching but did not immediately become the focus of media discussion.

For example, a certain new Daenerys Entertainment film that will be released on July 7st.

Because of the July 7th Independence Day holiday, the box office week that starts on July 4st is counted as four days on weekends, so it is also the most important box office week in the North American summer vacation.

On the day that Daenerys Entertainment went public, North American theaters released three new films at the same time. In addition to "Forrest Gump", the other two were Columbia's "Werewolf" starring Jack Nicholson and Paramount The film produced "Phantom" starring Alec Baldwin.

Historically, Jack Nicholson had the highest box office appeal in the 90s among the four old Hollywood male stars because of the clown role in Tim Burton's version of "Batman" and the subsequent box office of "A Few Good Men" exceeded [-] million. that one.

This time, because of Simon, the big butterfly, since the box office hit "East Town Witch" in 1987, the new version of "Batman" series has no chance for Jack Nicholson, and the later "A Few Good Men" was also rejected. Simon replaced the main creator with someone else. Jack Nicholson has not had a blockbuster movie for seven years. The big actor’s latest gangster movie "Hoffa" has a total North American box office of only 1992 after it was released in 2724. 3500 US dollars, so far has not allowed Fox to recover the production cost of [-] million US dollars.

As a result, Jack Nicholson and his friend and film screenwriter Wesley Strike prepared "Werewolf Life and Death" for 12 years, and the production cost was also reduced from the huge budget of up to 7000 million US dollars in the original time and space. To 5000 million US dollars, a large part of which is the shrinking of Jack Nicholson's personal salary. Jack Nicholson only received 500 million US dollars in this film, barely maintaining his worth.

In the original time and space, Jack Nicholson, who was in the limelight during this period, should have a salary of 1500 million US dollars.

Speaking of which, Robert De Niro, who was supposed to be at the lowest point during this period, is now among the four veteran male stars because of the continuous blockbusters of films such as "The Sixth Sense" and "Dead Poets Society". Being the hottest is tantamount to taking away the luck that should have belonged to Jack Nicholson.

In any case, "Werewolf" with a production cost of 5000 million US dollars is still a very important blockbuster in this period. The number of opening screens of the film is as high as 2617. Can Jack Nicholson turn around in the film? In one fell swoop.

The other "Phantom Man" is adapted from a comic of the same name published in the United States in the 20s.

Superheroes similar to DC and Marvel are not easy to find in Hollywood. Seeing the success of the DC movie universe, the other major Hollywood film companies are of course unwilling to get involved in the field of comics.

"The Phantom" came into being.

Because of Paramount's attention, the production cost of this manga movie is also close to the blockbuster level of 4000 million, and it also spares no effort in publicity and distribution. Paramount not only invested nearly 3000 million US dollars in the publicity budget, but also prepared for the film A total of 2738 screens were opened.

It's just an Independence Day holiday, three blockbusters, and the competition is fierce.

Moreover, compared to "Werewolf" and "Phantom", which are obviously commercial in nature, "Forrest Gump" was promoted by many media as a partial literary work that may be similar to "Rain Man" during the production stage. drama.

The original "Rain Man" was naturally very successful, but in recent years, none of the projects following "Rain Man" can make any splashes.

Not only that, after the premiere of "Forrest Gump", it was obviously not as good as the "mediocre" word-of-mouth of Daenerys Entertainment's other summer films, which also greatly reduced the audience's desire to watch movies, thus causing many entertainment The media predicted that "Forrest Gump" is likely to become Daenerys Entertainment's first box office dud this summer.

The blockbuster with a total investment of 7000 million US dollars failed at the box office. For Daenerys Entertainment, which happened to be listed at the same time, the negative impact can be imagined.

However, when the box office of "Forrest Gump" was released on the first day, although most people's attention was still attracted by the aftermath of Daenerys Entertainment's listing, many people noticed that the film's seemingly unusual box office data.

On July 7, the first day of its large-scale opening, the box office of "Forrest Gump" was US$1 million.

This is the box office figure announced by Daenerys Entertainment on Saturday, July 7 through the Igret Portal. It also includes the box office of "Werewolf" and "Phantom" on the first day. "Werewolf" is 2 million U.S. dollars, "Phantom Man" is 597 million U.S. dollars.

The three blockbusters with similar cost and volume, the box office gap on the first day is clear at a glance.

First of all, Paramount's "Phantom Man" has already begun to fall behind on the first day of its release.

"Werewolf" starring Jack Nicholson had a box office of 597 million US dollars on the first day. It is expected that the box office of the four-day weekend of the Independence Day holiday is expected to reach about 2500 million US dollars, and the box office of the first seven days will be around 3000 million US dollars. Steady, obviously another seed player of the [-] million yuan box office club.

As for "Forrest Gump", it earned US$769 million on the first day, far exceeding many people's expectations.

After the premiere on June 6, because the word-of-mouth of the lifting of the ban was not satisfactory compared to other films in Daenerys Entertainment’s summer season, and because the film itself was a literary drama, many negative media thought that this A movie about an idiot running amok in modern American history is considered a success if it grosses $29 million in its opening week.

Now, the first day is 769 million U.S. dollars. Because it is the popular Independence Day holiday, the box office is expected to reach about 3500 million U.S. dollars in the first seven days.

It grossed 3500 million US dollars in the first week, which is already the level of the previous "Stargate" and "Speed".

Although even if North America breaks 7000 million, Daenerys Entertainment must rely on overseas and other follow-up channels to recover a total of [-] million US dollars in high costs, but at least the profitability of this project can be expected.More importantly, at the time point when Daenerys Entertainment was just listed, "Forrest Gump" did not suffer a disastrous box office failure, which is actually equal to success.

While many people breathed a sigh of relief for Daenerys Entertainment, the follow-up box office trend of "Forrest Gump" is almost dizzying.

After 769 million US dollars on the first day, the box office of the film directly rose to 1037 million US dollars on Saturday.

This is actually nothing.

The box office on Saturday is higher than that on Friday, which is a very normal box office trend.

However, on the following Sunday, "Forrest Gump", whose box office figure should have been the same as Saturday or dropped slightly, unexpectedly raised its single-day box office revenue to a new level, reaching 1176 million US dollars.

On the day of the Independence Day holiday on Monday, this drama film, which was initially not favored by people and even thought that it would drag down Daenerys Entertainment's listed stock price, reached a new high in single-day box office, reaching 1283 million US dollars.

On July 7th, the Independence Day holiday passed.

When the public ushered in the first working day after the festival, the box office data released by Hollywood for the Independence Day holiday fell below the attention of the whole world.

In the four days since the filming started, "Forrest Gump", which has received only a good reputation from the media, has unknowingly raked in US$4265 million at the box office with a miraculous single-day box office trend that continues to decline.

Squeezed by "Forrest Gump", the four-day box office of "Werewolf" was only US$2145 million, a full US$2500 million lower than the expected US$400 million. The Phantom, the first four-day box office is only 1115 million US dollars.

"Forrest Gump", which has shown phenomenal box office momentum since its opening, has officially pushed "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", which has maintained its weekly box office champion for four weeks, to the No.2 position. It is expected to exceed 5000 in the first week. The box office record of [-] US dollars is second only to super blockbusters such as "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" in this summer.

On July 7, after the box office data of the first weekend of "Forrest Gump" was released, an article in the "Los Angeles Times" lamented in a tone of admiration that "Daenerys Entertainment has a magical power, a kind of The power of inadvertently to make miracles'.

According to the first-quarter financial data released during the IPO of Daenerys Entertainment, on the day of listing on July 7, the share price of Daenerys Entertainment Group reached US$1 billion, with a total market value of US$47.75 billion and a price-earnings ratio of 1128 times.

A price-to-earnings ratio of more than 40 times is very common in the US stock market at this stage.

However, most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential. For super giants of the scale and size of Daenerys Entertainment, because the room for growth is often not large, the price-earnings ratio is generally low, and there are not many companies that exceed 30 times. .

After Daenerys Entertainment went public, General Electric, which was squeezed out to No. 2 in the market capitalization list of listed companies in the United States, has a recent price-earnings ratio of only 19 times.

Under normal circumstances, the market is too enthusiastic on the first day of listing, and there will definitely be a correction in the follow-up.

Everyone originally thought that in the new week, due to the cooling of market sentiment, the stock price of Daenerys Entertainment would turn to decline. However, because of the unexpected success of "Forrest Gump", the stock market opened on July 7, and Daenerys After the stock price of the entertainment company suffered a short-term decline after being subjected to a group of large-scale selling orders, the stock price began to rise again due to the rapid increase in market demand.

In order to completely consolidate the phenomenon-level viewing effect that has already formed, Simon signaled to Amy Pascal last Friday that the additional US$1000 million publicity budget will start quickly, and the popularity of "Forrest Gump" will be further spread in the media and the public. To a large extent, it has further boosted the confidence of the capital market in Daenerys Entertainment.

Therefore, on Monday, when many institutions took advantage of the huge book profits and started to ship slowly, because of the strong demand for Daenerys Entertainment stocks in the capital market, the stock price of Daenerys Entertainment not only did not appear as expected by many people at the close of the day. After a callback, it rose again by 1.3%. The stock price closed at $48.375 that day, and the market value further reached $1143 billion.

In the following three trading days, Daenerys Entertainment Group's stock price also continued to rise due to the further spread of "Forrest Gump" viewing trend.

Finally, at the close of trading on July 7, the share price of Daenerys Entertainment Group has reached a high of US$8, and the price-earnings ratio has further reached 50.25 times. The total market value of the group is as high as US$45 billion.

In just four trading days from Tuesday to Friday, Daenerys Entertainment’s stock price has increased by 7% compared to the closing price of the first day of listing on July 1. For a corporate giant with a market capitalization of US$5.2 billion, Every percentage point increase is very rare.

On the other hand, from July 7st to July 1th, the first week of seven days of filming, last Friday among the three blockbuster new films, "Forrest Gump", which was originally the least optimistic, finally had a box office of 7 million in the first week US dollars, the opening performance of the summer file is second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

In the early days when the word-of-mouth ban was lifted, the media gave "Forrest Gump" mixed reviews. For the audience, this seemingly absurd film hits the heart directly in many ways.

Not only the word-of-mouth effect among the general public has formed, but with the launch of Daenerys Entertainment's follow-up publicity plan, many film critics have also quietly changed their views and started to review the film again on the side of the public. Aspects of interpretation.

The phenomenon-level movie-watching craze was officially launched with the help of various aspects.

"Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", which ranks No. 2 in the box office list, is slightly ahead of "Werewolf" with a very slight advantage. In the past week, the box office fell by 22%. With 2514 million US dollars, the 2 million threshold is close at hand.

Jack Nicholson's "Werewolf" finally ranked No.3, earning 2491 million U.S. dollars in the first seven days, which is a full reduction of 3000 million U.S. dollars compared with the first week of 500 million U.S. dollars after the first day of the painting. The road is bumpy again.

"The Conjuring", the opening film of The Conjuring Cinematic Universe, ranked No.4, with a 27% drop in the box office and received another US$1762 million, bringing the cumulative box office to US$8416 million. Daenerys Entertainment has recovered all of the film's up to US$4000 million. The total cost of production and publicity.

No. 5 on the list is Paramount's new film "Phantom", which has a box office of only 1467 million US dollars in the first week of its opening, which is better than many new films in this summer.However, considering the film's production cost of 4000 million US dollars, the total box office in North America is expected to be around 3000 million US dollars, which is obviously an obvious box office failure.