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There are 32 issues in a single season, and the total production cost is 500 million US dollars based on the calculation of 1.6 million US dollars per issue.

These details can't be clearly explained with the woman around him in a few words.

Now, the number of viewers has reached 3000 million since the broadcast started, and the expansion plan of the second set of 32 episodes in a single season will definitely be chosen.

Whether it is 1.2 million or 1.6 million, this era is considered a blockbuster level for TV projects. Back then, Daenerys produced "Survivor", with a grass-roots team and continuous cost reduction, the total budget for the first phase of production was only 500 million US dollars. , is simply saving money to the extreme.Unfortunately, this kind of thing seems to have happened a long time ago, when the $2500 million "Rain Man" was already a big production.

Actually only 7 years.

It's just that there are two eras.

Hollywood in the 90s is like the era of the explosion of China's film and television industry after 2010 in Simon's memory. Capital poured in, star remuneration skyrocketed, and production costs skyrocketed. After the Internet bubble burst in 2000, Hollywood returned to rationality.

Simon and Jerry Hall hid in the corner and chatted for a while, got up and continued socializing for half an hour before leaving the reception early.

Overnight at Hall's apartment in Greenwich.

Get up at six in the morning.

The exhausted woman from last night was still lying on the bed. Simon washed up and left the master bedroom alone. The spacious flat-floor apartment seemed very quiet. He walked through the long corridor to the living room, but someone was already busy in advance. , not just the one guard and one guard arranged next to Jerry Hall, but also two other maids from the Wei family. During the greeting process, they said that it was Ms. Davis who asked them to come.

Several other servants in the apartment have been sent away on temporary leave.

Simon didn't think that the housekeeper would make her own decisions, even if it was to serve herself, it was more likely that it was Miss A's order, but she didn't mean to go into it.

There is a gym in the apartment, but I didn't plan to exercise this morning.

Sitting in the living room by the window, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and enjoying the autumn scenery of Manhattan.

It is not easy to see autumn in the city, but it is also divided into locations.

There are two rows of sycamore trees planted on the street outside the apartment chosen by Jerry Hall. At the end of September, the leaves of the sycamore trees are red and yellow. Looking down from the sixth floor, it looks like a wonderful ribbon, setting off Greenwich Village. The old apartments of various colors have a special sense of nostalgia, and people can't help but think of the passage of time.

So he didn't even want to pay attention to the newspaper in front of him.

A waitress was invited to ask a few words, and the other party quickly sent an iPlayer player, and said softly that if Simon had any songs he wanted to listen to, she could download them now.The waitress got a little closer when she spoke, and the pleasant body fragrance of the young girl wafted faintly. Simon smiled and pointed to his feet. The waitress was very smart, and she knelt down respectfully by the coffee table in front of her, and quietly helped the man continue for a while. After drinking coffee, he lowered his head and pretended to tidy up the scattered newspapers on the coffee table.

Simon put on the iPlayer earphones, selected in the list, found a song "Young and Beautiful", and pressed the single song cycle button on the fuselage operation interface.

Some classics are really suitable for a single cycle at certain times.

In the early morning of autumn, the mottled streets covered by plane trees outside the window, coffee, music, and the fragrance of women.

Probably because God is always unwilling to see some people perish in a perfect situation. Just after the singing in the earphones was repeated two or three times, another slender figure appeared at the exit of the corridor at one end of the living room. This is an eleven or twelve-year-old The girl has red hair, fair skin, and big eyes. She is wearing a vest with a navel and short shorts, revealing two long legs that look like chopsticks inherited from her mother.

Seeing Simon, the girl was not surprised at all, and sneaked over, reached out her little hand and took one earphone from Simon's ear and stuffed it into her own ear, leaning her slender body on the back of the single sofa where Simon was sitting and listening for a while, before finally Some teased: "Simon, you must be very narcissistic, even listening to your own song."

Simon also only found the girl approaching after one earphone was taken away, but he didn't respond. After hearing what the little girl said, he smiled and said, "What is your father singing his own songs all day long?"

"My father..." The girl wanted to refute, but she got stuck just as she started, and said somewhat self-destructively, "You are all narcissists."

As the little girl said, she turned to the side of the Simon sofa near the window, squatted down and lay on the armrest, and glanced at the Wei family maid who was still kneeling and kneeling at the coffee table. These are not two from their family, but the girl is very smart. Knowing the identity of the other party, for some reason, I felt a sense of threat inexplicably, so I pretended to be very dissatisfied, and said to Simon: "You were really rude last night, making my mother so loud."

Simon just picked up the coffee and put it to his mouth. He almost spit out a mouthful of coffee when he heard the words, so he quickly stabilized his mind so as not to be choked.

The waitress next to the tea table also lowered her head slightly, probably trying to hide her smile.

After recovering, Simon gestured to the waitress next to him: "Go prepare breakfast and tell them to add another one."

Seeing the maid get up, the little girl reminded, "There are four people in our family."

The waitress glanced at Simon, saw that her boss didn't pay attention to him, and turned to leave.

Seeing that the two ignored her, the little girl bulged her cheeks, and simply got up and walked to the single sofa opposite the coffee table, and sat cross-legged on it in an unimpressive manner.

Simon was not in the mood to talk to the little girl. He put on his earphones again, listened to music, drank coffee, and looked out the window.

The little girl confronted Simon for a while, and finally said, "My name is Elizabeth, and you can call me Liz."

Simon responded casually: "Yes."

The little girl paused, then raised her voice slightly and repeated: "It's Elizabeth Jagger."

"Ah."

"Simon, you are so cold."

"Ah."

"It would be very unpopular with girls."

"Ah."

"I'll tell my classmates that Simon Westeros is actually a pompous, aloof, um, lecherous bastard."

"Ah."

"Don't think my mother likes you, it's just because you are rich."

"Ah."

"Simon, I have taken a fancy to a Hermès bag, can you buy it for me?"

"Well...don't buy it."

"It's really stingy." Seeing that Simon finally stopped humming, the girl curled her lips, but still didn't give up: "You are my mother's lover, and you can also be regarded as my stepfather. You should buy it for me."

"You still have to find your biological father for this kind of thing."

"My father is even more stingy," the girl said, and then opened her eyes slightly: "Do you want me to call you your father before selling it to me?"

"Yes."

"dad."

"purchase!"

The little girl tried her best to hide her excitement, and immediately said: "Dad, can I borrow your private jet again, I want to take my friends to Miami on the weekend, and learn to surf along the way, Cynthia always shows off in front of me About her surfing. By the way, we also need a coach, who needs to be handsome, um, half as handsome as my father. "

"..."

"Dad~~Dad~~"

"Stop, this requires your mother's consent."

"Mom will definitely agree."

As the little girl spoke, she jumped up from the sofa with a grinning grin, crossed the tea table with her bare feet, threw herself into Simon's arms and kissed him hard on the face, and disappeared after leaving a sentence to catch up on sleep. .

Really.

Girl, where's your integrity?

It's so obvious.

Simon leaned on the sofa, the old god pondered for a moment, and made up his mind that if his son dared to act like a baby in the future, he would give him a good beating first.

Daughter.

Ok.

Still need to be rich.

But think about it, Seattle probably wouldn't act like a spoiled child to her like this, and little Snow, with the style of a female assistant raising children, would most likely become a lady.

That's good.

After all, Simon was alone at breakfast.

It was just after seven o'clock in the morning when I left Jerry Hall's apartment.

Today is Wednesday.

It was announced yesterday that the merger case had passed the federal review, and today's work schedule is still full.

Arrive early at Daenerys TV HQ, also in Greenwich.

Sitting in my office here, I didn't see the relevant data from the newspaper in the morning, and girl A sent me the more detailed ratings data of the first issue of "American Idol" last night.

After broadcasting 3470 million viewers, the number of viewers of "American Idol" did not fall back, but continued to rise, reaching a high of 4190 million at one point. The 86-minute two-episode simulcast, according to the final statistics, the average viewership reached 3720 million, and the ratings of the core audience aged 18 to 49, which advertisers are most concerned about, reached 20.7, directly dividing up more than one-fifth of the market share.

Because of the rise of cable TV, the current market share of public TV networks has dropped from more than 80% in the peak period before the 90s to about 60%. This is also the main reason why old TV networks have chosen to sell.Now, an "American Idol" has directly snatched one-fifth of the market share from other public television networks and cable networks, so it can be seen how powerful this reality show is.

As a key autumn project jointly created by Daenerys and Metropolitan ABC, the advertisements of "American Idol" are not sold in packages, but adopt a strategy of bidding for each issue.

Due to the lack of evidence for the first two consecutive broadcasts, the 30-second advertisement price was only sold for 30 US dollars.

This is already comparable to "Survivor", which had the same viewership of over 3000 million. However, it is no longer 1988. The production cost of the entertainment industry has increased significantly, and the price of advertisements has also risen. The quotation of 30 for 30 seconds is only equivalent to 2000 million. viewership standard.

Customers who bought last night's ad slot clearly took advantage.

Now, with an average viewership of 3720 million, it means that starting from the next issue, the 30-second advertisement of "American Idol" will be able to sell for more than 50. Ten thousand dollars is not out of the question.

The statistics given by the TV department are the 32 episodes of the first season, and the average price of a 30-second advertisement will be around US$60, which means a total of US$6.5 million in advertising revenue.

And it's just ad breaks.

There are also in-show title sponsorships like Tinkber.

Various peripherals.

After the end of the season, the player's tour concert income.

Not as much as syndicated rerun revenue from hit TV series but definitely not to be underestimated.

And, overseas copyright sales.

Think about it in my memory, FOX spent 7500 million U.S. dollars to buy the TV rights of "American Idol" from the British copyright dealer. This time it was sold from the United States. Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Australia and other countries sold them one by one.

All of these add up to not be much worse than interstitial advertising revenue.

Compared with many TV series whose production cost is less than 5000 million U.S. dollars, "American Idol" has a budget of more than 6.5 million regardless of whether it succeeds or fails in the planning stage. Daenerys Entertainment undoubtedly took a lot of risks, so it prepared an extra one. A stop loss plan.Now, it is only estimated that [-] million US dollars of interstitial advertisements will be paid in, and no one will think that the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in this project is a waste of money.

Chapter 844 Suspension and Listing

The waves caused by the launch of "Happy Ranch" last Friday have not yet dissipated. Daenerys Entertainment once again created a phenomenon-level explosion like "American Idol". With the release of the ratings data of this reality show, on Wednesday, capital The market still gave the most direct feedback at the first time.

At 09:30, the New York stock market had just opened, and Daenerys Entertainment's stock rose by 2.6% compared to yesterday's close.

This is not a big deal.

The most noticeable thing is the stock price of the Metropolitan ABC Group. During the trading day on Wednesday, the stock price of the Metropolitan ABC Group directly surpassed the agreement price of US$6 agreed by the two companies in June. It has reached 172 US dollars, with a market value of 179.75 billion US dollars.

Compared with the single share price of US$172 and the total market value of US$209 billion that the two parties originally agreed upon, the gap between the share price of US$7.75 and the total market value of US$10 billion was widened in one day.

The stock price of Daenerys Entertainment was also locked at US$81.25 at the close of trading in the afternoon, an increase of 6% compared to the agreed price of US$73.75 in June, and the total market value has reached US$10.1 billion.

Speaking of which, the share price of the Metropolitan ABC Group has actually risen from US$6 when it was announced in June to more than US$145 now, because Daenerys Entertainment gave a very high premium at the beginning. Metropolis ABC Group's overall growth rate reached 179%, and the growth rate calculated in this way is actually far higher than that of Daenerys Entertainment.

In the past three months or so, the stock movements of the two companies have somewhat violated the usual laws of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the past.

For most corporate mergers and acquisitions, from the agreement reached to the final merger after passing the review of the regulatory authorities, the stock price of the acquired party usually does not exceed the agreed price reached by the two parties, just like the Metropolitan ABC Group, considering that the transaction may be eventually rejected by the regulatory authorities And other risks, it stands to reason that it will certainly not exceed 172 US dollars.

This is true before the merger is approved by the regulatory authorities.

Even after Tuesday's announcement that the deal had been approved by authorities, the stock closed at just $169.375 that afternoon.

However, when the approval of the merger and acquisition almost coincided with the news that the ratings of the reality show "American Idol" exploded, it unexpectedly created a rare situation where the stock of the Metropolitan ABC Group rose sharply on Wednesday and even exceeded the price agreed by the two parties.

This kind of growth feedback is actually that investors are extremely optimistic about the prospects after the merger of the two parties.

The original "Survivor" allowed NBC to win the market share champion of public TV networks for several years in a row. Champion, there is almost no suspense.

The rules of the media and entertainment industry are like this, full of individual heroism.

to people.

Also for film and television projects.

In the past, FOX once relied on "American Idol" to contribute most of the TV network's profits, and with its super high ratings, it was able to keep pace with the other three old TV networks.

However, the fundamental goal of capital's pursuit of Metropolitan ABC Group is Daenerys Entertainment.

Also in accordance with the law of most mergers and acquisitions, the stock price of the party that initiates the acquisition often falls, or even plummets, after the news is announced, just like the former AOL acquisition of Time Warner, one month after the two parties reached an agreement, the AOL stock price that initiated the acquisition fell. It plummeted by more than 20%.

However, from June 6 when Daenerys and Metropolitan ABC announced the merger agreement to September 19 in the afternoon, the stock price of Daenerys Entertainment Group rose by 9% as a whole. A full increase of 27 billion U.S. dollars, which is already equivalent to the market value of most of the metropolitan ABC Group.

Now that an agreement has been reached, unless the transaction is cancelled, the two parties must make payment and settlement according to the original agreement when they merge.

9月27日周三收盘时大都会ABC集团179.75美元的股价，相对于172美元的协议价格，涨幅其实只有4.7%。对比起来，丹妮莉丝娱乐最近几个月的股价涨幅却是10.1%。

At the beginning of the merger agreement, it was stipulated that the shareholders of the Metropolitan ABC Group could freely choose the payment ratio of stocks and cash. In this way, even if the starting price of 179.75 US dollars is used to convert all of them into Daenerys Entertainment stocks, it will theoretically increase by more than 5%. book earnings.

This is of course only theoretical.