Chapter 1094 Launch

.. Boston.

In the wealthy area of ​​West in the western suburbs, in the manor where Ulyana Meletskova lives.

The time is January 27, another new week.

In the dimly lit bedroom in the early morning, Ulyana was lying on her side, looking at the two attendants Kaja and Irina brought from Ukraine by the big bed, dressed in light nightgowns to help men dress, and said softly: " If you don't like Anna and Nick, I'll send them back to Ukraine."

"So you're not alone here in Boston, okay?"

"I..." Ulyana paused and softened her voice: "I'm fine."

In fact, she herself didn't like the two fuel oil bottles around her. She almost blurted out just now, but she stopped in time.

Simon glanced at the woman who was five months pregnant on the big bed but became more and more irritable regardless of her body and temperament. Taking advantage of the two women next to her to bring their shoes, she sat down beside the bed, reached over, and said lightly, "Let them stay. Come down and accompany you."

Ulyana twisted her body to let the man follow her, nodded and said, "I'll listen to you."

Although he was interested, but after putting on his shoes, Simon only told the woman to sleep a little longer and left the bedroom.

When the man left, Ulyana said to the two remaining attendants: "Help me prepare some hot water, I'll take a shower later."

Kaja Saponova, a Standard Slavic girl with blond hair and blue eyes, said softly, "Ma'am, won't you sleep for a while?"

"When Simon is gone, it's time for me to sleep."

Ulyana said, raised her hand slightly, and Irina Dachenskaya, the female guard, hurried forward and carefully helped the woman up.

After the pregnancy became more and more obvious, Ulyana asked the two attendants she brought from Ukraine to sleep with her in the master bedroom. Of course, it was a small bed placed next to her, and she could help her turn over and get up at any time at night. The men stayed here last night, and Ulyana not only didn't let them avoid them, but she took the initiative to pull the two girls, both of whom are considered to be of good looks, into the big bed to please someone.

The effect looks good.

Of course, in order to prevent the two girls from having other thoughts because of this, after certain events last night, Ulyana drove them to a small bed in the corner of the bedroom again, and spared no effort to call the two girls in the morning. Born into a noble family, she knows that these seemingly inconspicuous little tricks are actually very effective, because people will always adapt to their position unconsciously.

Simon has always paid little attention to these little tricks of the women around him. After the routine morning exercise, as soon as he sat in the restaurant, Lady A brought a stack of documents just released to him.

After several months of private tandem layout, the new technology bears headed by Tiger Fund and the Mellon family finally exerted their strength today.

The first is the article that was intercepted by Simon years ago: "Shocking Conspiracy, Ponzi Scheme in the Internet Industry! 》

"According to the current information feedback, a total of 17 local newspapers on the east and west coasts will publish this article today, but large newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times have not participated, mainly such as Local newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Tribune controlled by Richard Mellon Skeff. There are also news sites and prominent bloggers that publish this article, again excluding the most influential portals ."

Lady A said, seeing her boss looking at the list of newspapers expected to publish an article, her slender fingers gestured to the two circled in red in advance: "These two belong to the Hearst family, Skye The husband had a relationship with Hearst, and he wanted the Hearst family to publish this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, which did not agree, but provided two local newspaper platforms."

Simon just nodded slightly and continued to read the subsequent information, but said, "Where are we here?"

"Below, Igret has put on the headlines, the title is "The coachman who tried to tear down the railway", this is the general direction, mainly attacking conservative forces trying to contain the new technology industry, in addition to some more A targeted counter-article that refutes the Ponzi-scheme thesis of the Skeef press release."

Simon was noncommittal and continued to look through the various manuscripts compiled by Lady A.

Alison waited for a moment and couldn't help but say: "Boss, in fact, releasing the evidence of Skeff's manipulation behind the scenes should have a more direct effect. Why not do it?"

Simon countered: "How much has Skeff lost now?"

"More than $150 million," Alison said: "In addition to Scave's $300 million principal, other branches of the Mellon family have bet at least another $300 million this time. After this time, although It's far from the root cause, but the Mellon family's control over companies such as Alcoa will definitely weaken. In addition, Skeff himself has suffered the most, and he has provoked this dispute, which will definitely be the Mellon family. marginalized."

"It's only half of the loss. If the insider is exposed now, it is likely to prompt Skeff to make up his mind to liquidate the position. I don't want him to run away."

Lady a heard the words, understood and nodded in approval.

Simon continued: "Collect a blacklist, and remove all the newspapers that published that article today, and all the advertisements that we could influence."

Alison heard her boss's order and quickly wrote it down on her memo.

"In addition, no matter what the impact of this article is, it is only the beginning. We can't just passively accept the recruitment, let Jinsili's Weijia public relations team and Igrit and other companies directly act, and finally put The Nasdaq pushes up another level.”

Simon was discussing with Alison when footsteps came, looked up

Go, Ulyana's two children, Anna Meretskova and Nicholas Meretskov, went into the dining room together, and saw Simon looking at them, the siblings who had already reached the dining table stopped in their tracks. , Sister Anna took the initiative to greet: "Good morning, Mr. Westeros."

The younger brother Nicholas, who was looking at the information in Simon's hands with a curious expression, also hurriedly greeted him.

Simon doesn't know the same as the two little guys, so he couldn't help frowning slightly and waved his hands: "You guys go to the restaurant next door, I want to talk about things here."

The sister and brother were quite sensitive to Simon's emotional changes. Seeing him say so, sister Anna shrank her neck coquettishly, made an embarrassed expression, and pulled Da Da to go out.

When the siblings left, Simon also roughly finished looking through the information in his hand and did not continue. This matter was just the beginning. Instead, he could say: "How about Sundance?"

The 13th Film Festival, which lasted 11 days, ended yesterday.

"The Jury Prize went to the film called 'Sunday,' directed by Jonathan Nosit. On our side, only 'Two Smoking Guns' has won a Best Audience Award."

The result was as expected, and Simon was not surprised and had no dissatisfaction, just said: "The planning of the "Ghost Story" I wrote over the weekend, I passed the information to Justin Lin and asked him to prepare it first. If you have time, let’s talk face-to-face. Well, let’s share a copy from C, after all, it can be promoted to irec, at least let her sponsor a batch of the latest digital cameras for filming.”

When he was at Sundance a few days ago, Simon had the idea of ​​​​starting the pseudo-documentary genre. After consideration, he chose "Ghost Records" in his memory.

As for "Blair Witch", which once pioneered the pseudo-documentary, it was temporarily suppressed by Simon. Mainly, the success of "Blair Witch", in addition to the influence of the Internet virus, is actually deceitful to a large extent, fooling the public who don't know the truth about a witch killing incident, and then attracting the audience to enter the scene.

Frankly speaking, if this project was done by a small publisher who was not in the mainstream, the result would be nothing, but if it was done by Daenerys Entertainment and used the same method, the result is likely to be met with collective deception because of this kind of deception. Lawsuit, Simon doesn't want to get into this trouble.

Even after the success of the previous "Blair Witch", it was not until 10 years later that another "Ghost Records" became a big hit, but the problem is that "Blair Witch" is equal to a film and created a pseudo-documentary first. And seriously hurt the audience's enthusiasm for this genre.

In comparison, "Ghost Records" is truly a pioneering film genre.

This is actually evident from the subsequent commercial performance of the two series.

The first film of "Blair Witch" sold nearly $250 million worldwide, and the sequel, which was launched the following year, increased the cost from $60,000 to $15 million. As a result, there was no splash at all, and the two young directors of the two series also It was a flash in the pan, and no influential works have appeared since.

Look at "Ghost Story" again. After the first film's global box office was close to 200 million US dollars, it was a success, and a series of sequels were launched. The cost did not exceed 10 million US dollars. of a golden egg hen. This is what a whole new genre and a blockbuster series should look like in Simon's view.

However, although "Ghost Records" was selected, the idea of ​​the follow-up "Blair Witch" can also be used, but this time, we must not use deceptive methods for publicity. 'The genre of the movie, Blair the Witch is seriously doing a little better, plus proper publicity, it's sure to be able to attract a large audience.

As for the director Justin Lin, although he was mainly known for the "Fast and Furious" series, the director is actually a generalist who can handle all kinds of genres.

"Ghost Records" is just an experiment after all. From the director to the actors, Simon intends to use newcomers. Not to mention the actors, only the newcomers will not let the audience play in this form of pseudo-documentary. For the director, on the one hand, it is considered a Simon gave Justin Lin an exercise, and Simon can also judge the strength and potential of this 'newcomer'. On the other hand, newcomer directors must also know how to cherish opportunities better, and at the same time, they are cheaper.

Of course, since Simon himself is leading it, he will definitely not only give a budget of $15,000.

In fact, if it really wants to be released, after the digital camera shoots, just converting the low-quality digital video to 35mm film will cost more than $15,000. Therefore, from preparation to completion of a movie that can be screened in theaters For a 35mm copy, Simon prepared $300,000.

The bulk is mainly in distribution.

If the project meets Simon's expectations, the distribution fee of three or five million may not be enough. Of course, only if the film is successful, Daenerys Entertainment can earn more.

After instructing this matter, Lady A wrote it down, and took the initiative to report some other matters: "Chen sent an email, and over China, the Rose Garden Villa project in Beijing has been finalized. Boss, would you like to see the details?"

"Well, let's see on the plane back."

"Also, on the Carlyle Group's side, Caterpillar officially announced its participation in the acquisition of the British Perkins Engine Company. Mr. Rubinstein's email said that this may increase our acquisition cost by 10% to 20%. %."

"What about David himself?"

"It was suggested that if it exceeds our budget by 15 per cent, the deal should be abandoned."

Simon nodded: "That's it."

"Also, about the Spanish clothing company i

nditex, after several contacts, they are very interested in our investment, but Amancio Ortega, the owner of inditex, hopes to meet you, and he hopes that Westeros will invest directly , not through Apollo Management Corporation. "

"You can arrange a time," Simon didn't refuse, remembered one thing, and said again: "Have you settled on the establishment of a factory by Inditex in Rivni?"

"It has been negotiated, but the scale of the first phase of the factory will not be too large, mainly because inditex has expanded rapidly in recent years, and its own funds are not abundant. In addition, inditex also mentioned another thing, I hope we It is possible to increase support for the aviation industry in Rivni, because the zara brand under Inditex adopts the method of air transportation to launch new products globally."

"You ask Komorov and the others to discuss this matter," Simon said, thinking for a while, and said, "We can strengthen further control over the basic services in Rovno State, such as electricity, railways, aviation, energy, Telecom, etc."

When Simon talked about this, what he remembered again was the city of a certain Li family on the other side of the ocean.

For Rivny, Simon had such an idea for a long time, intending to build a city of Westeros in Ukraine.

To do this, of course, the key is not to control the light industry and even the service industry, which is the key development in the Rivne area, but to control the basic needs of all kinds of clothing, food, housing and transportation that everyone in a region cannot do without. To put it bluntly, it is actually the development of a new rental economy.

If Simon wants to develop to Rivney, he must introduce many other funds to promote it together. It is impossible to eat everything by relying only on the Westeros system, just like inditex builds a garment factory in Rivni. However, as long as he controls the basic needs of everyone in a region and a city, not just ordinary residents, but all kinds of enterprises, then Simon will become a charter company that can get the most lucrative benefits.