Even with the warm entanglement of a group of goblins, Simon still left Southampton early and rushed to Manhattan to start the day's work.
The first thing I pay attention to today is the opening data of "Dragon Movie" last night.
Since its official launch, DHO has had a late-night theater from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. every Sunday to Thursday, five days a week. It mainly plays non-English TV dramas imported from overseas.
This paid cable station has been on the air for nearly a year now, and has released multiple series with high and low ratings. The highest number of viewers was more than 1.1 million, and the lowest number was only over 200,000. If we want to give an average value, it is probably Around 500,000.
As of the end of August this year, the total number of local subscribers of DHO has reached 9.3 million, and the average viewing audience is 500,000. According to the time period, it is actually quite impressive.
By the way, the viewership statistics of premium cable channels are different from those of public television networks. They only look at the number of viewers. After all, each user spends money.
However, DHO's operation team is not too satisfied and is planning to postpone the late-night theater at least another half hour and add a late-night talk show.
Talk shows are still quite popular in the late night time slot.
Moreover, it is obvious that DHO's talk show can be larger in scale than major public cable stations.
Simon had no objection to this either.
The problem is that excellent talk show hosts are not that easy to find. Otherwise, the major public television networks would not have only a few late-night talk show hosts for decades.
You can only choose slowly.
Let's talk about "Dragon" which just started airing.
Simon arrived at Daenerys' East Coast headquarters on 66th Street on the Upper West Side, where the data from last night's premiere was delivered to him. After the first two episodes, the average number of viewers was 960,000, and the peak number of viewers reached 1.17 million, which is quite impressive.
A comparison shows how rare it is.
For example, there was a drama before "Dragon" started airing. It came from Brazil and was in Portuguese. It was called "Dance on the Edge of the Knife." It told the story of a modern ranger who is both good and evil, traveling among all kinds of people in the metropolis to help the strong and the weak to maintain justice. s story.
One characteristic of Brazilian TV series is that they are very long.
When purchasing, Simon was a little surprised when he saw the 53 episodes of "Dance on the Edge of the Knife." After asking about it, he learned that it was relatively short. Many other Brazilian TV series often last for one or two hundred episodes, and it's not just phenomenal long-lived dramas like "Friends" here in North America. They can usually be filmed to this extent in two or three years.
In short, because the ratings of "Dance on the Edge of the Knife" in Brazil in the first half of the year were very good, and the number of episodes was not too many, we chose to purchase it.
It's cheap after all.
Then, for the complete 53 episodes, the average number of viewers of this Brazilian TV series was 670,000, and the highest number of viewers was 1.05 million, which was better than the average level of the past year, but it was only slightly beyond the standard. After all, the number of DHO users It has been growing rapidly and is now close to 10 million. If the viewership of "Dance on the Edge of the Knife" falls below 500,000, it may not be able to finish the show and will be stopped.
Looking at "Dragon" again, it broke through the peak of 1 million viewers when it first aired, which is undoubtedly a very brilliant start.
Of course, this is not without reason.
Simon's preference for "Dragon" compared to the previous "Dance of the Knife" must be well known to everyone at DHO, so they also paid considerable attention to it.
Just talking about the early publicity, the official trailer released by DHO and YouTube at the same time, in addition to the main film footage, also includes Ang Lee, Zhang Guoshi, Jack Cheng, Jet Lee, Roland Emmerich, Quentin Tarantino , Sylvester Stallone and other familiar Chinese faces in Hollywood and highly recommended by local celebrities.
Not only that, on the YouTube platform, during this period, DHO officials also launched a number of video clips of highlight clips related to the show or preview explanations of the entire story to facilitate Western audiences' understanding. Among them, the most clicked video has exceeded 12 million views in total.
In short, these benefits are not enjoyed by "Dance on the Edge of the Knife" before "Dragon Dance".
Looking at the first-day opening results of the series, it’s not surprising.
Therefore, the key is the subsequent trend.
Even if it doesn't go all the way up, as long as it can stabilize at the current million-level average ratings, "Dragon" will become the best-performing overseas TV series since the launch of DHO Late Night Theater.
On the contrary, if the results are outstanding at the beginning, but then continue to rise and fall, it will definitely be a bit unsightly.
All in all, Simon is very satisfied with the results of the first broadcast, but he also understands that it still depends on the follow-up.
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On the same day, another thing was the finalization of the acquisition of Hasbro.
In the afternoon, Simon personally participated in a meeting with Hasbro executives. Nancy Brill, who was still raising children on the East Coast, had a relationship with Hasbro and the fact that the little one was approaching one month old. She is also gradually planning to start working again, which happens to be within the purview of small female executives, and they attended this meeting together today.
The two parties have actually negotiated a price.
Simon made some concessions on this, and the final transaction price was US$5.15 billion, which was US$150 million more than the initial cap of US$5 billion.
Similarly, as a compromise, Hasbro accepted the cash plus equity payment plan proposed here, in which the stock share accounts for 70% and the cash can only take 30%. Moreover, depending on the shareholder, there are still other requirements for receiving the stock. A minimum lock-in period of six months and a maximum of three years.
This meeting was mainly to discuss the development of Hasbro after joining the Westeros system.
Although the original shareholders of Hasbro got Daenerys shares after reaching the deal and considered their own interests, they would only pay more attention to the future trend of Daenerys Entertainment as a whole. But this time it is confirmed that Hasbro’s management will basically stay. These people will take charge of the toy company next, and with the backing of Daenerys Entertainment and even the entire Westeros system, they must also hope to make a difference. This requires negotiating the terms in advance.
Simon won the rights to the "Transformers" series from Hasbro, but he did not underestimate Hasbro itself at all.
Hasbro has its own complete toy production and sales network. In the past, cooperation between the two parties would inevitably lead to conflicts of interest. For example, Daenerys' request for a share of the share was too high. Of course, Hasbro would not spend too much on related licensed toys. , and conversely, the same is true. Therefore, it is inevitable that it will not be able to maximize the peripheral potential of Daenerys' series of blockbuster films.
This time, Hasbro will be completely integrated into its own system, and there will be no similar problems in the future.
Of course other problems arise.
After joining Daenerys, it may not be easy for Hasbro to obtain peripheral licenses from other Hollywood studios.
However, this is not a problem at the moment.
Because it is just Daenerys Entertainment, it will be enough to support Hasbro, not to mention the new 20th Century Fox or Time Warner. The cooperation that should be there will not be interrupted.
What will be lost is only the cooperation projects of the remaining few studios that will only become weaker and weaker, and in fact, they will not necessarily be lost. After all, in business, the other few will not have the strength to operate peripherals on their own. If they develop good As long as the conditions are right for the project, it is impossible to refuse to cooperate with Hasbro just for anger or other reasons.
In short, after receiving Simon's promise to increase the support of peripheral businesses, the matter was completely finalized.
The next day, Wednesday, September 8, the news was officially made public. Compared with the previous merger of 20th Century Fox, MGM and Lucasfilm, the scale of Daenerys's acquisition this time was much smaller. However, the response was not weak at all. The most direct feedback was that the stock prices of Mattel and other North American toy companies fell across the board on Wednesday. The market value of Hasbro, which is still in trading, almost fell back to 30% from before. The lows in the US$100 million range have skyrocketed, with a single-day increase of 15.6%. In one day, the market value rose from US$4.09 billion before the opening to US$4.73 billion.
Not only that, under normal circumstances, the share price of the party initiating the acquisition will often fall after the news is announced. However, Daenerys Entertainment, whose market value has exceeded 700 billion, saw its share price rise by 0.79% on Wednesday as the news was announced. , the market value increased from US$721.9 billion to US$727.6 billion.
Because it is large enough, with such a slight jump, the increase in market value exceeds the total value of Hasbro.
Daenerys was originally listed on the New York Stock Exchange. After the Dow Jones broke through a new high of 10,000 points on May 26 in the first half of the year, the rise accelerated, and the growth momentum of Daenerys's stock price as the leader also continued to rise.
On the other side, on the same day, the market capitalization of Igret Corporation on the Nasdaq also reached US$746.3 billion.
Two super giants with a market capitalization of RMB 700 billion lead the market in both cities and have become a hot topic of conversation for countless people inside and outside the financial circle. Everyone is waiting to see which of the two companies can be the first to break through the RMB 1 trillion mark.
Although, it seems that no matter which one breaks through first, it is actually an industry under the name of Simon Westeros. However, most people are still looking forward to the fact that the first listed company in the history of human economy to have a market capitalization exceeding one trillion yuan is an important symbol that to some extent shows the prosperous economy of the global village in the new era.
Inside a mansion in Oyster Bay on northern Long Island.
This is the home of two sisters, Melania and Inas Konavs.
After getting pregnant, the two women were arranged here. While they continued to manage their fashion business, which was developing reasonably well, the mother also received a family fund from the Westeros family because of the wealth of the child. task.
Compared to a certain German girl who was crossed by Simon very early on, Simon was very satisfied with the performance of the Konavs sisters.
So I came over last night to visit and stay overnight.
Both sisters have been pregnant for seven months. However, they are obviously trying to please a man who rarely shows up, and they still try their best to please him. For Simon, it is also unique.
The morning of a new day.
This is Friday, September 10th.
When Simon came to the restaurant, the housekeeper Angora Davis personally delivered breakfast, as well as today's newspaper.
While eating, Simon opened the international edition of the New York Times and easily found news from Chechnya.
According to this press release, after the Russian troops started fighting, their advance in Chechnya has been slow, and they may once again suffer the same setbacks as the last Chechen war.
Simon just smiled at that.
In the end, the butt determines the head, or the reporter who wrote this article is too amateurish.
Compared with the complete failure of the first Chechen War, this time the actions of the Kremlin authorities not only have the righteousness of counter-terrorism, but also have the unanimous support of all walks of life in politics, business and military under the good coordination of someone.
Even though it has been 10 years since the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that the opponent is not a horse, but can only be regarded as a mouse.
If you want a quick victory, it will not be a problem for the Russian army to directly attack Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, this week.
The problem is, the matter is resolved neatly, just like the Gulf War in 1991, it was done in two or three months, and then what
The United States has the most typical lesson learned from the past.
Then, Bush Sr. was so high-spirited that he could easily achieve re-election with the prestige gained from the Gulf War. Unfortunately, the public is the most forgetful group of people.
When the war ended, everyone discussed it lively for a few days, and immediately returned to reality. The reality was that the U.S. economy was in a slump at that time, wages were not rising, inflation was rising, and the unemployment rate was rising. This was simply too bad. Thus, the glory someone gained through a war quickly turned into a stain.
What's the use of winning the war? The problem is economics, idiot.
Then he lost.
The same goes for Russia.
Russia’s general election is in March next year. If the authorities resolve this war simply and neatly, the people will definitely cheer and be encouraged in the short term. The Red Empire, which has been dormant for ten years, will stand up again.
However, standing consumes more energy than sitting and makes you more likely to get hungry.
The result may be that by next year's general election, the war achievements at this time will become a stain again.
What's the use of winning the war? The problem is economics, idiot.
Therefore, the success or failure of this war is very critical. However, while we must not lose, the pace of the war must also be well controlled, at least until next year, to ensure that the prestige of the war will not be transformed into negative public opinion assets.
That's why the Russian army is currently fighting steadily in Chechnya.
Inside the restaurant.
Simon was eating slowly and reading the newspaper when the footsteps came, it was Inas.
Inas Konavs, who was holding her bulging belly but had a different kind of blush on her face, said good morning to Simon, came close to her, rubbed her belly gently on Simon's arm, and leaned over. He leaned forward.
Simon kissed the woman and motioned for her to sit next to him. While continuing to read the newspaper in front of him, he said casually: "Have you had a conflict with Meier?"
Inas was quietly telling the waitress what she wanted for breakfast. She paused for a moment when she heard the words. After the waitress left, she whispered: "No, Simon, no."
He said obviously feeling guilty.
In fact, of course it was caused by the little guy in my belly.
In the beginning, Inas could only be regarded as a companion to the two sisters. She had no ambitions at first. After all, if her sister could rely on such a man and pull her over to live such a good life, she had nothing more to ask for.
Then, there was that night.
The man said that as long as she gets pregnant, she will be rewarded with a reward of 100 million US dollars.
That's $100 million.
In short, at the beginning, the sisters were of the same mind and played some tricks. However, I didn't expect that the two of them would become pregnant together. When Melania learned this, her first reaction was to ask Inas to abort the child quietly. But, how could Inas agree
So here we are.
Although the two sisters still maintain harmony on the surface and worked together to satisfy the man last night, the rift caused by the pregnancy incident has always existed.
Simon actually noticed last night that the two sisters were very different from each other in this villa, and even made some strange moves in the bed.
However, since Inas didn't say anything, Simon didn't ask any more questions and just said: "If you find it inconvenient to live with Meier, just tell Ange to change places. The key is not to affect the child."
Simon said this, and Inas, who also felt a little guilty in front of the man because it was a ride-on, nodded quickly.
While they were chatting, Melania also walked in, holding her belly in her hands. Seeing her sister already sitting next to Simon, she stared at her with a slightly serious look, somewhat doubting whether Inas had said something to the man that she shouldn't have said. However, when Simon glanced over, Melania quickly changed her face to a smile, said good morning, walked to the other side of the man and sat down.