Accompanying me to carry out various examinations, notify relatives and friends, and arrange diet and rest during pregnancy... I am busy from Tuesday to Friday, and of course I will continue to accompany me at home on Saturdays and Sundays.
There was so much noise that the media inevitably got wind of it.
Simply announced the news officially on the Ygrit portal: the first child of the Westeros family is about to be born.
So there was another round of congratulations and blessings from all sides.
The discussion in the media was also very lively.
Some people analyzed the differences between boys and girls in Simon Westeros's first heir, some discussed how much wealth this child might inherit in the future, and some speculated what the Westeros couple would give this child a name, and so on. All kinds of things.
Anthony Johnston flew to Los Angeles from Melbourne with his family on Friday to visit his newly pregnant sister on behalf of the family.
After confirming that she was 100% pregnant, Janet also quietly donated $10 million to several children's charity organizations such as UNICEF in the name of the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation. In Janet's words, this is to accumulate blessings for the little one in her belly, hoping that the child will be healthy and safe in the future.
Westerners regard charity as one of their social obligations, and some are utilitarian in order to gain corresponding social reputation. There is no concept of "a house that accumulates good deeds will always be blessed".
Simon felt that Janet had this idea probably because she has been insisting on learning Chinese in recent years. The woman's Chinese level has now reached a level where she can directly read the traditional Chinese version of "Dream of Red Mansions".
Being an Oriental at heart, Simon would naturally not object to Janet's approach.
Because she was successfully pregnant with the baby, Janet had a small celebration of her 31st birthday, which she had always wanted to forget. However, they only invited some relatively close relatives and friends to enjoy a birthday dinner at Dume Point Manor, which was far less lively than Simon's birthday party last month.
After the birthday dinner, the Anthony family, who had stayed in Los Angeles for a week, returned to Australia, and Simon finally started working again.
Janet started her maternity leave directly.
Not working.
I'm just over three weeks pregnant and I'm about to take maternity leave...
Pregnant women are the biggest.
Who dares to object
Fortunately, Janet has always adhered to a mentality of superiority and hard work. Most of the time, she only grasps one general direction in the management of Cersei Capital, and most of the work is safely handed over to the heads of the three subsidiaries. Therefore, the woman's departure will basically not have much impact on the operations of Cersei Capital.
Of course, Janet has to take maternity leave early, but Simon cannot really let go of Cersei Capital completely.
Today, Cersei Capital, Cersei Fund Management, Apollo Management and Black Rock Asset Management manage a total of more than $21 billion in funds. Among them, the scale of the first two is about 3 billion US dollars. The capital scale of Black Rock Asset Management, which mainly deals in low-risk stock bonds and fixed income investments, has reached 15 billion US dollars.
Although the heads of the three subsidiaries have been carefully selected and all have the top investment talents on Wall Street, no one can guarantee whether these professional managers will do anything extraordinary once they have excessive power and lack of strict supervision. matter.
There are numerous cases of Wall Street fund managers making unauthorized investments on their own initiative, causing huge losses to their companies.
In Simon's memory, Salomon Brothers, which was comparable to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in this era, probably fell into collapse later this year due to the exposure of the scandal of illegal bond bidding by fund managers, and finally completely collapsed a few years later. Disappeared into the ranks of Wall Street investment banking giants.
Janet's previous job at Cersei Capital was half direction control and half financial supervision.
After Janet took leave, Cersei Capital quickly reorganized and established an investment committee. Simon joins James Raybould as members of the Investment Committee, as well as the three heads of three subsidiaries.
Simon was tasked with taking charge, while James was responsible for financial oversight.
All subsequent investments of Cersei Capital's corresponding scale and above must be approved by the five-member investment committee before they can be executed. Of course, as the controlling shareholder of Cersei Capital, Simon still has veto power.
However, Simon's innermost intention is to not interfere in the management of Cersei Capital as much as possible.
Unless it is a project destined to fail in his memory, he will not deliberately obstruct the decisions of the fund managers of the three subsidiaries. A qualified boss must be able to tolerate the failure of his subordinates. The main purpose of setting up the investment committee is just to prevent the three subsidiaries from becoming runaway horses after Janet let them go.
In fact, Janet has never been so enthusiastic about the operation of Cersei Capital. Now that she is pregnant with a child, she will definitely pay more attention to the little one in the future. As long as the investment committee operates effectively, this system can be maintained in the future.
Easter this year is March 31st, and the Easter schedule will start on March 22nd.
Daenerys Entertainment is mainly launching two films this Easter, "The True and the Brave" and "Children of the Corn 3", a documentary about Madonna's Blonde Ambitious Concert last year.
If you count Universal Pictures, there is also a "Crazy Night" produced by John Hughes.
"Crazy Night" tells the story of a supermarket clerk and a rich girl who ran away from home who encountered two thieves during a vigil in the supermarket. The story setting has many similarities with "Home Alone", but this is not a follow-up to "Home Alone" The film was also shot last year, and the plot is similar just because of John Hughes' usual mass-produced work style.
Simon doesn't have high expectations for the box office of this film, which he has basically never heard of. However, the heroine of the film is quite eye-catching. She is Jennifer Connelly in "Once Upon a Time in America". The actress is 21 this year. Years old, he is at the absolute peak of his appearance.
It's late March, and the summer holiday is actually not that far away.
Simon has begun to focus more on a series of films related to Daenerys' entertainment these days.
In the following summer, the four films in the core schedule from June to July, "The Dark Knight," "Terminator 2," "The Fugitive" and "A Few Good Men," are all external cooperation films, respectively produced by Warner Bros. , Fox, Warner and MGM.
In addition to the four mainstream commercial films, Daenerys Entertainment has only released three niche independent films from Gaomen Pictures.
Because it is expected that he will take over MCA this year, this is actually Simon's deliberate arrangement.
Daenerys Entertainment’s distribution team will complete the takeover and integration of Universal Pictures through this summer’s distribution work.
However, what disappoints Simon is that Universal Pictures' four summer movies, "Backfire," "Jungle Fever," "Problem 2" and "We Are All Together," obviously do not have big-selling potential.
Looking through Universal Pictures' 1991 film list, it seems that only "Cape Fear" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", which were initially scheduled for the end of the year, were relatively good at the box office. However, in my memory, the North American box office of these two films still did not exceed 100 million. In other words, Universal Pictures should not have a movie with a box office of over 100 million this year.
The ups and downs of Hollywood studio performance are evident here.
This once again highlights how cutting-edge Daenerys Entertainment has been in Hollywood in recent years.
In order to avoid or reduce the losses caused by Universal Pictures' film business in 1991 as much as possible, Daenerys Entertainment cut off the production and distribution plans of seven Universal movies during this period. However, because most of the projects are already in the substantive production stage and many have been completed, the number of films remaining in the end is still 16.
On Daenerys Entertainment's side, the three labels have confirmed that they will release 23 films in 1991.
Adding the two items together, the new Daenerys Entertainment will launch a total of 39 movies in 1991.
Fortunately, Simon had already planned ahead.
Daenerys Entertainment owns 23 films, 11 of which are from Gaomen Pictures. Although niche independent films and literary films have repeatedly created box office miracles in recent years, the overall pattern is still limited, so it will not affect mainstream commercial films. The impact on the system was too great.
After the re-planning, 6 of Universal Pictures' 16 movies will also be placed under the banner of Gaomen Pictures.
Taken together, the number of films released by Gaomen Pictures in 1991 will reach 17, all of which are niche, independent and literary films.
In addition, the number of movies assigned to New World Pictures is 11, mainly in the thriller, horror and vulgar comedy genres.
The final number of mainstream commercial films is also 11, including films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" in external cooperation, as well as films such as "Toy Story" independently released by Daenerys Pictures.
The three distinct distribution systems will become the main structure of Daenerys Entertainment's future film business.
Each distribution system will produce films on a scale equivalent to that of a major studio.
Although Daenerys Entertainment still maintains an open attitude towards external cooperation, such structural adjustment of its film business clearly carries a strong aggressiveness.
After all, traditional major studios usually release only a dozen or twenty films each year, and rarely more than 30 films. After the adjustment of Daenerys Entertainment's film business structure, the annual film release scale will reach as many as 40. With the capacity of the North American film market basically fixed, this will naturally squeeze the living space of other Hollywood studios. .
Simon won't be restrained just because other Hollywood studios feel the pressure. In the past few years, he has given enough easing chips. Next, Simon plans to personally promote the further integration of major Hollywood studios and reduce the number of Hollywood media giants to five or even fewer in advance.
In this process, traditional large studios will definitely be absorbed and disappear. As the restrictions on horizontal integration in the media field are lifted, media giants will gain more monopoly resources. It will become more difficult for latecomers to get ahead in Hollywood.
Dume Point Estate.
Today is March 22, Friday, and another week has passed before I know it.
After Janet became pregnant, Simon basically got off work on time at 5 o'clock every day these days.
As soon as he entered the Shell Villa, Simon saw that the hall was filled with a dazzling array of children's products, including strollers, milk powder, plush toys, Lego blocks, piles of clothes, and piles of small shoes... It was like a flea in children's products. market.
Walking through the 'flea market', Simon found a woman on the sofa next to the glass wall who was holding a remote control to operate a toy truck on the ground.
Looking enthusiastic.
The toy truck clicked twice at Simon's feet, and a woman's dumb voice sounded: "Dududu, daddy is blocking the way of the car, daddy, get out of the way."
Simon didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He walked over and slapped the woman who was lying on the sofa with only one head sticking out of her buttocks: "Buy so many things, your family will have a mine."
Janet naturally couldn't understand the meaning behind Simon's words, but that didn't stop her from responding confidently: "Yes."
Simon was stunned for a moment.
All right.
This home is truly a treasure trove.
He walked around the sofa and sat down, picked the woman up and put her on his lap, grabbed the remote control from her hand, and the toy truck started running on the smooth ground again.
Um.
It's quite fun.
Janet saw Simon quickly 'getting into it' and reached out to grab the remote control dissatisfied: "This is for the baby."
Simon dodged: "Don't grab it. The baby will have to wait for a few years. Let the baby's father play for a while first."
Janet's head rested on Simon's lap, and her little paws stretched out to snatch it a few more times. To no avail, she had to give up, but she laughed happily.
After laughing for a while, Jennifer gently stroked her belly and asked: "Simon, what do you think our little guy should be called?"
Simon said: "What do you think?"
"I want to wake you up."
"I'm not good at naming names."
"Yeah, Seattle or something," Janet suddenly laughed again, patted Simon and said, "My child won't be called such a strange name."
Simon also smiled and said, "Why would Jenny tell you this?"
"Hum hum."
Janet didn't explain, just hummed proudly.
Simon thought for a while and said: "If it's a boy, let's call it Melbourne. If it's a girl, well, it's also called Melbourne."
Janet clenched her little fist and smashed it over: "I will let you Melbourne, I will let you Melbourne."
Simon didn't dodge and said with a smile: "You asked me to name it. I think the name is good, Melbourne, Melbourne Westeros."
Janet hammered Simon again: "My child is not called Melbourne, it might as well be called Seattle."
Simon is easy to talk to: "Then you can do it yourself."
Janet twisted her soft body and rolled around on the sofa, still looking distressed. After a while, she finally 'compromised' and said: "For boys, let's call it Melbourne, for girls, call it Seattle."
Simon was helpless: "Don't grab things with Jenny, right?"
Although the female assistant was very dissatisfied with the name Simon gave in advance, it can be imagined that it would be lively if Janet took it away.
"I don't care. If she can, she will have a baby before me."
"If Jenny gives birth to a baby first, I think you might secretly kill me in the middle of the night."
"No way." Janet shook her head and said, "There is no need to wait until midnight, and I will kill you both together."
"Uh, really?"
"It's fake," Janet reached over and touched Simon's face, saying, "I can't bear to do it."
Simon breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
"However, I won't let you go."
"Um?"
"think it yourself."
"Don't think about it, you are already pregnant anyway," Simon put down the remote control, lowered his head and kissed the woman on the lips, and said, "So, as long as Melbourne is okay?"
"It sounds so unpleasant."
"Just get used to it. Who dares to say that Westeros sounds bad now?"
"Westeros doesn't sound bad to begin with."
"In this way, you can recite Melbourne Westeros a hundred times in your mind every day, and you will get used to it in a week. The power of habit is powerful."
"I still think Seattle Westeros is better."
"It happens to be because you have recited it in your mind many times."