Simon's total appearance at Madonna's solo concert on the evening of June 23rd was less than 20 minutes, but it provided countless media with enough news material for intensive speculation for an entire week.
The blazing guitar at the beginning is undoubtedly the target that attracts the most attention from fans.
Before the concert ended that night, many people began to inquire about the origin of the guitar in Simon's hand.
The Los Angeles Times immediately obtained detailed information about the Blazing Guitar and also interviewed members of the guitar's production team. The exposed information put off most eager guitar enthusiasts.
Not to mention the cost of more than 100,000 US dollars and the fact that Westeros has specially applied for a design patent. Even if it is actually copied, the weight of the guitar itself will not be able to be played by ordinary people.
You know, the flame guitar that seemed to be playing freely in Simon's hands that night was equipped with an all-metal fire-breathing system and was much larger than an ordinary guitar. It only weighed more than 20 kilograms, and ordinary guitars were very heavy. Rarely more than 5 kilograms.
Of course most people can lift 20kg.
However, for an instrument that weighs more than 20 kilograms, even with a shoulder strap hanging on the body, probably not many guitarists can perform to their fullest under such a crushing feeling.
Unless sitting.
However, few people would have the nerve to sit down and play the domineering double-headed flame guitar like a delicate acoustic guitar.
It's a bit embarrassing to think about it.
Of course, even with such obstacles, it still hasn't stopped many people from yearning for the flame guitar.
Afterwards, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to buy the guitar from Simon through various channels. The highest price even reached 3 million US dollars, but they were all rejected by Simon. Janet had already planned to store the guitar in their soon-to-be-completed Dume building. In the Cape Manor Villa.
Because of Blazing Guitar, some media couldn't help but once again pay attention to Simon's strong personal strength. At the beginning of the year, the video of ten consecutive KOs against opponents in the Melbourne boxing ring was once again put out for hype.
The flame guitar is naturally out of reach for most people.
However, the guitar single record called "Fire" was officially released on the following Monday, and sales exceeded 1 million copies in just five days.
Madonna plans to release the other two new songs "Hung Up" and "GhostTown" in her next album. Therefore, if fans want to collect them in advance, they can only look forward to the recently released concert video.
Of course, there must be a large number of people who directly recorded the video of the concert that night on their home video recorders.
In addition to Madonna's team, the biggest beneficiary of this concert is undoubtedly ABC, which bought the live broadcast rights of the concert with a lot of money. The $6 million offer brought ABC an average of 36 million horror viewers and a maximum of 43 million viewers.
This kind of viewing data is already comparable to that of the Oscar Awards.
However, at the Oscars, the offer of $6 million was unthinkable.
Although the harvest was huge, everyone also understood that there were too many unrepeatable features in this concert.
In order to ensure the box office of the concert itself, most singers will not allow TV stations to broadcast it live. After all, doing this may make a lot of money in the short term, but it will discourage fans from going to the venue to watch.
Madonna's team naturally understands this truth, and the live broadcast format this time is more for publicity needs.
Now, the results far exceed expectations.
After that night's concert, tickets for Madonna's remaining North American and European concerts were all sold out in the following days, although Westeros would no longer be participating.
There is certainly no shortage of controversy in the heated media discussion.
The petite girl named Jennifer who rushed onto the stage during Simon's final appearance was once suspected by many media to be a shill arranged in advance.
As for the reason.
Many media felt that the scene at that time was too perfect.
A beautiful girl as delicate as a doll.
Westeros is just the right amount of comfort.
And, the last one, "Rocket Man" by Elton John.
Especially the last song "Rocket Man" has become a bug accused by many skeptics.
For commercial concerts, any song, let alone a cover, even the singer's own original song, sometimes requires special authorization.
If Simon Westeros sings this song without prior authorization from Elton John and the copyright holder of "Rocket Man", it will be an infringement and he will be sued.
However, the subsequent news broke the media’s doubts one by one.
The whole thing was truly an accident.
The 17-year-old girl named Jennifer Bray from Florida, apart from being a crazy fan of Simon, had never had any substantive interaction with Simon before. This was the first time the girl met Simon in person that night.
As for the song "Rocket Man".
Simon did infringe.
However, Madonna's team immediately contacted Elton John and the record company that holds the copyright to "Rocket Man".
After learning of the situation, another copyright fee was paid, and all parties expressed their understanding.
In an interview with the media, Elton John also expressed praise for Simon's singing at that time and hoped to have the opportunity to cooperate.
Moreover, when "Rocket Man", an old song released in 1972, quickly shot to No. 2 on the singles best-selling list the following week following "Fire", the song's copyright company was overjoyed.
Because Simon took Jennifer Brie backstage after singing "Rocket Man", the petite girl subsequently became the focus of media attention, and the media dug out information that should be exposed and should not be exposed.
Jennifer Bray comes from Miami, Florida, and comes from an ordinary middle-class family. Her father is a food company employee, her mother is a nurse, and she has an older brother and a younger sister at home. The girl has been obsessed with Simon since "Run Lola Run". She saved money for several years by doing odd jobs, and spent it all on a concert ticket that night.
I took the train from Miami to New York alone and waited outside the Brenda Berry Arena all day. My pockets were empty and I didn’t even have a place to stay after the concert.
After Simon finished singing that night, he originally wanted to send the girl off the stage, but he felt that the little girl was obviously in an abnormal mental state and found that she was alone, so he took her backstage. After learning about the girl's situation, he also helped her arrange a hotel and a flight back to Miami.
That's all.
After doing what he thought he should do and sending an alone girl home safely, Simon stopped paying attention to this matter.
However, the gossipy media doesn’t think so.
Some people speculated about what happened that night, some people chased every detail of the girl's contact with Simon, and some agencies even tried to sign the girl.
None of this has anything to do with Simon.
The day after the concert, Simon left North America and flew to Australia.
Cersei Fund Management Company has begun a new phase of its layout for the international crude oil market, Apollo Management Company is in the process of acquiring Simmons Company, and Black Rock Asset Management Company also plans to conduct a dip when the war triggers turmoil in the world stock market.
It can be said that the upcoming July is crucial for Cersei Capital. Janet did not return to Australia with Simon this time.
Jennifer went along as planned.
During this period, the female assistant was responsible for building a wooden house by a lake in Simon's territory in Tasmania. She was just waiting for a snowy day to spend a long-awaited two-person world with Simon.
Here in Melbourne, one week before Simon came to Australia, the filming of "The Dark Knight" officially started.
Taking into account the benefits that "Batman Begins" has brought to Melbourne's film, tourism and employment, the discounts enjoyed by "The Dark Knight" have been further increased this time, and the tax rebate rate is 15% compared to the last time. It has been increased to 20%, and there are still no restrictions on other films.
Simon did not deliberately exploit any loopholes because of the loose conditions of the Melbourne City Government. Instead, he moved more of the film's production to Australia. He also bought an abandoned factory in the western suburbs of Melbourne that was used for filming. Build a movie shooting base.
The Australian branch of Daenerys Special Effects was also officially established.
In terms of specific filming, although fans have criticized Simon's use of Jane de Bont, in fact, as Daenerys and Warner Bros. publicly stated, control of the film is still firmly in Simon's hands.
The script was finalized by Simon himself, and Jane de Bont had no power to modify it unless Simon could be persuaded.
The crew is also all the team trained by Simon last time, which is enough to ensure that the technical details of the film remain consistent with the first film.
Moreover, although Jane de Bont was the nominal director, Simon also arranged two other deputies for him, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell. All three of them later became first-tier directors in Hollywood. They all have enough experience in film production and there is no doubt about their talent.
Simon's request is that the three of them work closely together, and many things must be discussed together before execution.
After brainstorming, although it was Jane de Bont who had the final decision-making power on the shooting scene, Simon believed that de Bont, who cherished this opportunity, would not be unwilling to take the correct suggestions from the other two people.
In addition, Simon still invited Joe Silver to be the producer responsible for the logistics support of "The Dark Knight" this time.
With this series of advantages, if Jane de Bont can mess up again, Simon will decisively kick him out.
The fact is that Jane de Bont was not kicked out of course.
Simon rushed to Melbourne, carefully checked the samples shot by the crew the previous week, and started to work as a hands-off shopkeeper with great confidence.
Of course, in terms of media reports, in order to appease fans' concerns about the quality of the film, Simon still followed the filming of the film "conscientiously".
Unknowingly, time quickly came to July 1990.
Simon was not in Los Angeles, and Daenerys Entertainment still started the financial audit work in the first half of the year step by step, with Janet occasionally helping out.
Moreover, it’s not just Daenerys Entertainment. Because of the attention caused by Simon’s participation in the concert some time ago, some media found out that from the time he stepped into Los Angeles in the summer of 1986, Simon Westeros had grown up in just a short period of time. In four years, a huge business empire has been created.
The entire Westeros system, with the Westeros Company as the core, involves the four major fields of entertainment, fashion, technology, and finance.
What’s even more rare is that none of the four major areas involved is a trivial matter.
Daenerys Entertainment, the most dazzling among them, although its business scope is still limited to movies and surrounding related industries, it has firmly become a giant in just a few years.
The original film industry's strong uncertainty and unsustainability curse in terms of performance was also broken by Daenerys Entertainment.
From its establishment to the present, Daenerys Entertainment has never suffered a big loss in film projects. Instead, it has repeatedly used small things to make big gains, creating such films as "Scream", "The Sixth Sense" and "Pretty Woman". The box office miracle of films such as "Beauty".
The unfolding of the DC movie universe plan has allowed the industry to see a new way to develop the film industry.
In the fashion field, Gucci, which was almost on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly regained its vitality after being taken over by Simon Westero. Recently, industry institutions have valued Gucci at more than 1 billion US dollars. Compared with the initial investment, Simon Westero It has been returned several times just in terms of equity.
The technology industry can be said to be the first area where Simon Westeros made a big bet.
Although Ygritte, one of the four 'women' under Westeros, seems to be still very weak, the stock prices of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN and other companies that Westeros bet on during the 1987 stock market crash have recently increased. It has been increasing in value rapidly for several years.
Especially Microsoft.
Since the release of Windows 3.0 system in May and its great success, Microsoft's stock price has continued to rise sharply. It has now exceeded 5 billion US dollars, chasing Microsoft's close partner Intel.
The industry even predicts that by August, Microsoft's stock price will even double compared to the market value of about US$3 billion at the beginning of the year.
Therefore, not to mention the profits brought about by absorbing Microsoft stocks during the initial stock market crash, just the 10% increase in holdings at the end of last year may bring nearly 100% book returns to Westeros in less than a year.
The final area of finance.
Cersei Capital became famous through two operations in the Japanese financial market and the US bond market last year. At the beginning of this year, the exposure of Simon Westeros's overseas cash reserves of US$4.5 billion shocked everyone's attention.
Although it has been keeping a low profile as much as possible, every move made by Cersei Capital continues to make waves on Wall Street.
It was no secret from the beginning that Cersei Capital was targeting the international crude oil market.
Fortunately, companies that can dig up information from Cersei Capital are not stupid. The best way to follow up secretly is to follow up secretly. Therefore, they do not spread this information everywhere, and even take the initiative to help. This way, Cersei Capital is not completely transparent to the public. .
After rough estimation, the total market value of the series of entertainment, fashion, technology and financial companies involved in the entire Westeros system has exceeded 50 billion US dollars.
In this era, General Electric, which is often ranked among the top 500 companies in the world, has a market value of less than US$50 billion.
July in the Northern Hemisphere is the height of summer.
The Southern Hemisphere has entered the coldest phase of winter.
Melbourne is in a temperate maritime climate zone, and it basically doesn’t snow in winter. The same is true for Tasmania’s coastal areas. However, the inland extending for tens of kilometers is already a different scene.
Second week of July.
When a heavy snow fell in the area where the female assistant was building the wooden house, the two rushed there together.