Los Angeles, inside a mansion in Brentwood Heights, north of Santa Monica.
During breakfast, the restaurant was buzzing with chatter and seemed quite lively.
Mainly a group of girls such as the Hilton sisters, the Kardashian sisters, Elizabeth Jagger and Ivanka. Counting the girls who are clearly divided into four groups, they each bring their best friends or followers. The main restaurant of the mansion is used for banquets. More than thirty girls lined up on both sides of the meter-long dining table.
This is October 20th.
Friday.
The four major fashion weeks this fall have finally come to an end. Elizabeth Jagger, who has been busy for more than a month, returned from Europe. After some discussion, the little sisters decided to come to Los Angeles to spend the weekend and have a good rest.
Actually, of course they are all excuses.
Although most of the girls are under 18 years old, due to various reasons, parents basically have no expectations for the academic performance of this group of girls, and it doesn't matter whether they go to school or not. So, as long as you finish what you need to do, such as recording the "Honey Wives" series, or doing catwalk work, the rest is free.
Moreover, the parents are actually happy to see the girls come to Los Angeles, because they can get closer to a certain super tycoon. People need to move around more to get closer. This is a universal justice.
The mansion in the Brentwood Hills now belongs to Simon.
The girls all own properties in Los Angeles. However, in order to get together for fun or to facilitate bickering, after greeting each other, not only a private plane was arranged here, but also the current residence, the most prime hilltop location in the wealthy area of Brentwood. , more luxurious than their respective mansions in Los Angeles.
Once you stay here, you don't want to leave.
At least, when her mother was pregnant, Elizabeth, who had gained some legitimacy, wondered if she could occupy this mansion for a long time. After all, obviously, a certain man couldn't live here at all, and it would definitely be empty on weekdays. .
Inside the restaurant.
The topic at this time is about today's "Los Angeles Times".
Girls don't have a good habit of reading newspapers, but today is special because the Los Angeles Times focused on Daenerys Entertainment Group's full-year financial report for fiscal year 2000, which was just announced yesterday.
In the fiscal year that just passed from October 1999 to September 2000, Daenerys Entertainment's annual revenue finally reached US$59.1 billion, with a revenue growth rate of 13.1%.
Revenue growth, compared to profits, is a number that the industry pays more attention to.
When Daenerys Entertainment's annual revenue was close to US$50 billion, the industry generally expected that the subsequent annual growth of this super media giant would shrink to less than 10%, or even lower. After all, the size is there. Just like when a country develops to a certain level, its GDP can no longer make big strides forward every year.
However, contrary to everyone's expectations, from the revenue scale of nearly 50 billion US dollars in fiscal year 1998 to the most recent, for three consecutive fiscal years, Daenerys Entertainment Group's annual revenue growth rate has remained strong at 10 More than %, this year it surpassed last year’s 11.6% and reached a high of 13.1% again.
You know, before this, the industry generally predicted that Daenerys Entertainment's revenue growth this year would only be around 12% in the best case.
On the other hand, Daenerys Entertainment’s full-year net profit reached a new high, reaching US$10.6 billion, with a net profit margin of 17.2%.
This is also a highlight of this year’s financial report.
An equally important highlight.
Because, with a net profit exceeding tens of billions of dollars, Daenerys is the only company in the entire Federation that has released annual financial reports for at least the past four quarters, the only company with an annual profit of over ten billion dollars.
Among others, according to the latest full-year financial report data, there are only two companies that are relatively close to Daenerys Entertainment. Citigroup, with a full-year net profit of US$9.8 billion, and General Electric, with a full-year net profit of US$9.2 billion, followed by , the profit scale is within 9 billion US dollars.
In short, just relying on this financial report data, Daenerys Entertainment Group is worthy of its position as the leading stock on the New York Stock Exchange.
In addition to the overall financial figures, while all aspects of business have maintained considerable growth, Daenerys Entertainment once again focused on the development of its own game business.
In the fiscal year that just passed, Daenerys Entertainment's full-year game revenue, including stand-alone games, online games and other categories, reached a total revenue of 11.9 billion U.S. dollars, which also exceeded the 10 billion U.S. dollar mark for the first time. Moreover, The full-year revenue growth rate far exceeded Daenerys' average growth data, reaching 26.5%, and contributed US$2.73 billion in net profit to Daenerys Entertainment, with a net profit margin of 22.9%.
Growth has always been the most valued feature of the federal stock market.
When everyone thought a few years ago that Daenerys Entertainment, which had grown into a super giant in the industry, would fall into the dilemma of a performance growth ceiling, it has maintained an excellent growth rate of more than 10% for three consecutive years. It is inevitable that Daenerys has already The high stock price has once again injected a shot in the arm.
Just yesterday, Daenerys Entertainment announced its financial report at 9 a.m. East Coast time. On Thursday’s trading day, the company’s stock price rose by 1.7% in a single day, successfully breaking through the US$900 billion that had been fluctuating before but could not reach. threshold, with a closing market value of US$907.2 billion.
While taking another step closer to another giant with a market value of trillions, Daenerys has also achieved another overtake of Tinker Bayer, which had previously pushed it to third place in the US stock market.
Prior to this, with the outstanding performance of a series of new products released this year, especially the excellent market performance of the iPad-40 after the autumn launch, Tinker Bayer kept catching up and not only quickly achieved parity with Daenerys, but also A small overtake was achieved in the past few days.
On yesterday's Thursday trading day, Tinco Bayer's share price rose slightly by 0.6%, also breaking through the US$900 billion mark, becoming the third super giant in the US stock market with a market value of more than US$900 billion.
However, the company's closing market value was fixed at US$903.3 billion, which was nearly US$6 billion higher than Daenerys's market value at the previous day's closing, to a gap of nearly US$4 billion behind Daenerys.
In any case, the beneficiary behind this stalemate is the Westeros system.
Simon has determined that he will throw out the 'Enron bomb' in December, and he is not too concerned about whether his own company can break into the trillion-dollar market capitalization club before then. However, judging from the current situation, it is obviously very promising to add at least one more spot.
Although Simon still doesn't care, there are obviously many people paying attention to this matter, and some bookmakers have even opened bets on it.
A group of girls in the mansion restaurant basically couldn't understand the essence behind the financial report. They seemed to be as enthusiastic as many people about whether Daenerys could break through the trillion-dollar market value.
Even though there are some small thoughts of my own in my heart, I have the same opinion on this matter. In fact, when I found out that the Los Angeles Times article mentioned that a gaming company had opened the market because of this, I even had an idea and called the waitress here directly. , everyone chatted again, and simply collected more than half a million US dollars, all betting that Daenerys could exceed the trillion-dollar market value.
If you lose, you lose.
Just pocket money.
After all, people are divided into groups. Even if the girls in this group can only play the role of followers, they are not girls from ordinary families.
After such a messy breakfast and a lot of preparation, the girls set off and took several limousines to rush to Daenerys Studios in Malibu.
This is the schedule for today.
I have inquired in advance that a certain man has been in Los Angeles recently. Therefore, if you rush to Daenerys Studios, you might be able to catch it.
Even if you can't come across it, there are actually many fun places to visit in Hollywood's busiest studio city.
For example, Kim Kardashian has a goal to visit the on-site filming of "The Three-Body Problem", a science fiction drama that is being produced by HBO and is said to be very important to Simon.
This is mainly because the heroine of "The Three-Body Problem" Angela Winston, who plays the role of a girl, was recruited by Kim Kardashian and specially pushed to a certain man named Alexandra. Daddario's girl gets.
Alexandra is 14 years old this year, and her increasingly juicy appearance makes the Kardashian sisters jealous.
Of course, jealousy is just jealousy.
After all... they have their own unique 'competitiveness', not to mention that there are many beautiful girls like Daddario around men.
If there is one more, there will naturally not be many.
Anyway, since their mother had quietly told them to find more beautiful girls and introduce them to a certain man, they thought it would be good for themselves, so they followed suit.
Now, from the fact that Daddario was able to get such an important role as a girl in an important TV series like "The Three-Body Problem", it can be seen that a certain man should be paying attention to that girl. So, their original recommendation can be regarded as merit, right
After also saying hello in advance, a large group of girls arrived at Daenerys Studios and came to the parking lot of the third-floor administrative area of the studio. There was already a female assistant from Simon's Assistant Office waiting there.
I drove the car here directly, of course I wanted to chat with a certain man first.
Unfortunately, the tall, sweet-looking blonde female assistant said that someone was very busy and didn't have time for the time being.
I can only give up the idea temporarily.
After a somewhat controversial discussion, Elizabeth and Ivanka decided to visit Daenerys' special effects first, while Hilton and Kardashian reached an agreement to take their friends to watch "The Three-Body Problem" of shooting.
Even in the crowded film and television city, it was inevitable that a large group of girls would be divided into two groups. The female assistant had to call another colleague to take the two groups to their destinations.
In a special effects studio on the first floor of the film and television city.
This is the filming scene of "The Three-Body Problem". The relevant scene is about the heroine Angela Winston's experience in World War II as a girl. The specific scene is London City being bombed by the German army.
In the new story setting, Angela lost her parents in this bombing, suffered a huge psychological impact, and paved the way for later sending messages to the Trisolarans.
Even if Daenerys gave "The Three-Body Problem" enough budget, it would obviously not be possible to set up real scenes for similar war scenes, but would instead be shot with a green screen in a studio.
Even with Hilton's status, it is easy for them to see similar scenes. Entering the studio and watching the performances of Daddario and the actors who played Angela's parents in the ruins of a simple house wrapped in a green screen in the middle, standing on the periphery The group of girls were still watching with great interest, and before they knew it, more than half an hour had passed.
Near eleven o'clock, after shooting another set of shots, Alexandra Daddario, dressed in early-century English girl clothes, was finally able to take some time to come over and say hello to a group of girls.
Even if her clothes are tattered and her body is covered in dust, Alexandra Daddario, who has begun to fade away, can still be seen at a glance as a great beauty.
At least, Paris is a bit sour, and it is inevitable to make some jokes.
Paris teased, and Kim Kardashian responded tit-for-tat and acted very affectionate.
After all, it’s all a common plastic sister drama.
Watching Jin and Daddario chatting, Paris curled her lips, took a bottle of water from a minion, drank a few sips, and stuffed it back. Just as she was about to say something, she noticed another set of shots in the venue. It had already started, and when I looked over, I realized that Daddario's place had been replaced by another actress.
After a simple explanation, Paris was a little surprised and pulled her sister Nikki: "Look, that is Jennifer Connelly, right?"
Nikki also noticed the changes in the cabin and nodded after hearing this.
The other girls looked over together.
Alexandra took the initiative to explain: "Miss Connelly plays my character's youth. This part of the scene is the kind of memory scene, which is similar to the one where the camera changes in the blink of an eye and the character grows up."
After the girl finished speaking, everyone watched for a while. Paris finally added: "I remember, well, Jennifer Connelly was as beautiful as Brooke Shields back then. Now, she looks... at least not as beautiful as before. So stunning.”
Alexandra also nodded, but said: "However, it is much better now. My agent told me that if you want to be famous in Hollywood, being too beautiful is not an advantage, just like Brooke Shields , and she has never been too popular."
"So..." Paris looked at Daddario: "You are so beautiful, it's not easy to become a big star."
Alexandra could feel Paris's sourness, but she just smiled and did not answer the question.
If there was nothing to rely on, Daddario might be worried after hearing what Paris said after knowing something about Hollywood, but it was different now.
For example, there was a little secret that Alexandra didn't intend to tell the girls around her.
This morning, she actually came to the movie theater very early and was called to meet the big shot. Anyway... someone was very satisfied with her body development.
He also gave her a Chinese name.
Said to be called... Hamei.
I don’t know what it means, but I can see that the other person is quite interested. No matter what, for such a big shot to give her a name, the girls around her would only be envious.