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Friday, January 3, 1992.

In the new box office week, when people began to work after the festival, a series of films in the past year-end schedule saw a very significant drop in the box office.

From January 3 to January 9, the box office of "The Flash" dropped by 49%. Compared with the box office of $53.18 million in the previous week, this week's revenue has shrunk to $27.12 million.

However, in three weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Flash" also quickly reached 153.16 million US dollars.

With the box office base of $27.12 million in the third week, "The Flash" will continue to earn $100 million without any problem, and the total North American box office can easily exceed $250 million, becoming the runner-up at the North American box office in 1991.

"Toy Story", which has been very stable at the box office, also saw a 43% drop at the box office in the week after the new year, falling to $7.79 million in a single week, with a cumulative box office of $166.83 million.

Following this, films such as "Captain Hawk", "Assassination of Kennedy" and "Golden Eye" have all dropped by about 40 or 50 percent at the box office this week.

Of course, according to the previous box office rules, after this week's deep drop, according to factors such as the media reputation and audience popularity of each film, the box office drop next week will be readjusted to a level similar to that of the popular schedule at the end of the year.

After tackling some of the work that Daenerys Entertainment had accumulated late last year, Simon flew to New York on January 6 and spent the next few days working on the final preparations for the Westeros Tower.

The specific design work of the Westeros Building is in charge of the famous som architectural design firm in North America. The design firm of David Johnston's girlfriend Leslie Wickett's house has also thought about it, but Simon does not. It is possible that the design of such an important building was entrusted to a medium-sized company with little experience in the design of supertall buildings due to private factors.

In contrast, the som architectural design firm established in 1936 has a lot of design experience in high-rise buildings.

The construction of the building was also contracted by the historic Tishman Speyer real estate construction company.

For ordinary people, Tishman Speyer's reputation is not so loud, but a series of projects undertaken by this engineering and construction company are familiar to everyone. The most classic, the twin towers of the World Trade Center, is built by Tishman Speyer. responsible for construction.

In addition, Tishman Speyer has also undertaken the Disney World project in Florida and a large number of Hilton hotel projects around the world.

The choice of som architectural design firm is entirely Simon's personal wishes, but there are other factors in the choice of Tishman Speyer.

In simple terms, Tishman Speyer is equivalent to a local snake in the New York real estate industry.

This engineering and construction company, established at the end of the last century, is run by the Speyer family, the behind-the-scenes controllers, and has a complex network of intertwined political and business circles in New York. There is even a Rockefeller family behind the scenes of Tishman Speyer. The current and former head of Tishman Speyer also served as president of the New York Real Estate Association.

The final design proposal for the Westeros Tower, with a height of 622 meters and 139 floors.

These include 135 floors above ground and 4 floors underground.

Simon and Janet's residence will occupy a full ten floors of the top 50 meters of the building. The helipad platform of the original Avengers Tower is also preserved in this building, which is also the most difficult greeting in Westeros Tower.

Compared with the existing Empire State Building's 443 meters and the Twin Towers' 417 meters high, there is a gap of 200 meters, worthy of the name of the world's tallest building.

Such a skyscraper destined to become a landmark can make any architectural design firm famous, and it can also make any engineering and construction company that takes over become famous. As an old-fashioned engineering building in New York, Tishman Speyer is naturally Would let such an important project fall into the hands of other contractors.

As soon as the news of the Westeros Tower project was released, Tishman Speyer took the initiative to get in touch with Simon.

Simon didn't have the intention of having a bad relationship with such a local snake. What's more, Tishman Speyer also has enough qualifications to build this building. After several negotiations between the two parties, the contract was officially signed last year.

In return, Tishman Speyer also helped a lot with building approvals for the Westeros Tower.

However, although the main construction task was handed over to Tishman Speyer, Simon would not completely trust the other party because of the veteran qualification of this engineering and construction company.

Similar to old buildings such as the Empire State Building, Simon hopes that the Westeros Building can also stand for a hundred years.

Therefore, all the details of the project cannot be lost.

The Westeros Corporation has organized a dedicated financial oversight team to monitor all expenditures on the Westeros Tower project over the next five-year construction cycle.

At the same time, Simon has also organized a team of technical experts in Australia in everything from building materials to structural engineering through the connections of the Johnston family. For the next five years, the group will be based in New York, keeping an eye on all the construction details of the Westeros Tower.

The two teams worked together to ensure that the construction party would not have any chance of exploiting loopholes.

After a busy week, I re-examined various details of the building in the plan, and signed a series of contracts ranging from building materials procurement to accident insurance. The preliminary preparations for the project were finally finalized. It is located on 59th Street next to Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side. Demolition of six buildings between 60th Street and 60th Street will officially begin next week.

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Just demolishing the six buildings and completing the follow-up cleaning is expected to take two months.

Including the cost of purchasing the land in the early stage, the design cost of som, the underwriting deposit of Tishman Speyer and the purchase contract of building materials, etc., Simon has invested more than 400 million US dollars in order to complete the building.

Because of Simon's extremely high requirements for all the details of this building, the five-year construction cycle, the subsequent annual expenditure will not be less than 200 million US dollars.

After the construction is completed, the internal water and electricity decoration, etc., is also a large expenditure.

Overall, the total budget of the Westeros Tower is likely to reach more than 1.6 billion US dollars, which is undoubtedly the highest budgeted single building ever.

In the original time and space, the New World Trade Center rebuilt with the highest specifications, the overall cost is only 3.1 billion US dollars.

Construction on that building started in 2006, a full 14 years later.

Now it is 1992, the US dollar is very valuable, and most of the richest people in the United States are also worth less than 5 billion US dollars.

Saturday, January 11.

After a busy workday, Simon rushed from Manhattan to visit Steve Ross in East Hampton, Long Island, in the morning.

Late last year, Steve Ross had been privately fighting a recurrence of prostate cancer for five years, and recently started chemotherapy.

Simon is also aware that the media mogul, the same age as Rupert Murdoch and Sam Redstone, will, if nothing else, die this year.

Ross is 65 years old this year. For someone who has reached the top of the pyramid, 65 years old is actually not too big.

Nearly 30 years later, Murdoch and Redstone, who are about the same age, are still in control of their media empires.

For an ambitious person, losing to time is undoubtedly a great regret.

Ross was very happy with Simon's visit. He had told his family in advance to start preparing a sumptuous lunch, and invited some guests to accompany him.

After a lively lunch, Steve Ross and Simon wandered the estate in East Hampton after the others were gone.

As the best summer resort for the wealthy in Manhattan, East Hampton, which is still in the coldest season of the year, is not so conspicuous. It just happened to have snowed recently, covering up the grass and dead trees. An expanse of white decay.

Putting his hands in the pockets of his trench coat at random, and chatting about the DC movie universe, Simon looked around again and said, "It's quiet enough here, but it seems too cold, Steve, I still recommend you go to Los Angeles, then The climate on the side is more suitable for cultivation.”

Steve Ross also wore a thick black trench coat and a hat.

Chemotherapy has left him with little hair left.

"I still prefer the East Coast, and the Time Warner headquarters is here too, you know, Simon, I can't leave anytime soon."

Of course Simon knew.

Just a year later, the news that Rose would earn a salary of $79 million for his 1991 job once again became the subject of media controversy. And, following last year's merger, Ross has drawn up a 10-year compensation deal for himself that will continue even after his death.

Simon can feel that the cumulative annual salary of more than 100 million US dollars for two consecutive years, as well as the ten-year salary contract, is obviously the rhythm of Ross's funeral arrangements.

This undoubtedly caused strong dissatisfaction from other factions within Time Warner.

With too many memories in his mind, Simon certainly knew how terrible cancer was.

Huge wealth can ensure that a person will not have a financial burden after developing cancer, however, cancer is difficult to cure after all, and the disease also varies from person to person. Some people can continue to live for decades after suffering from cancer, just like normal people, but some people are menacing.

In Ross's current situation, changing the environment is actually not helpful.

Simon and Ross don't actually have a deep friendship. However, this self-made media tycoon who eats both black and white undoubtedly has a strong personality and is very good at attracting and making someone feel good about him.

Clint Eastwood has been filming only for Warner Bros. for the last decade, and that's because of Ross' influence. Spielberg even regarded Ross as his own father-like existence, and "Schindler's List" in the original time and space was specially dedicated to Ross.

Although the number of contacts was not many, Ross also gave Simon a very worthwhile feeling.

The two continued to walk for a while, and Rose's wife came over to call her husband and Simon to return to the villa. Rose's current body is not suitable for staying in the cold outdoors for a long time.

Back in the warm living room, when the servant brought coffee, Ross said again: "There is one more thing, Simon, I hope you can help me."

Simon nodded, signaling Ross to speak.

"That's it, I hope that next, um, Terry and Bob can take over my current ceo position together, I have already greeted Steven and them, of course, if they can get your support, the two of them would like to It will definitely be easier to take over Time Warner."

The Terry and Bob that Ross said were Terry Semel and Robert Daly, two cronies that Ross cultivated over the years.

Terry Semel has been CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures in recent years, and Robert Daly is in charge of Warner Bros.' communications business.

In Simon's memory, after Ross's death, Time Warner's CEOs were indeed Terry Semel and Robert Day

Benefit together.

The cooperation between Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner is very precise. In the stock issuance last year, Simon also bought 1 million shares of Time Warner. Although the proportion is very low, there is no voting right, but Simon Weiss Tello's stake in Time Warner means too many things in itself.

Therefore, Simon does now have the strength to support the successor that Ross wants to promote.

Since the two of them were in charge of Warner in memory, Simon certainly didn't mind sending this favor, nodded seriously, and said, "No problem, Steve, I will support them when the time comes. Well, then, what about the chairman?"

Hearing this question, Ross smiled helplessly.

Now at Time Warner, Ross himself holds the position of chairman and CEO.

Pushing Terry Semel and Robert Daly to the joint CEO position is probably the limit of Rose's layout.

"Chairman, probably Levin."

Nicholas Levin, another important shareholder of Time Warner, an executive of the former Time Company system, is also one of the main opponents of Ross within Time Warner.

Because of Ross' suppression, Levin now has only one vice chairman position with little real power.

However, once Ross died, Nicholas Levin, in conjunction with the forces of the original era company system, and perhaps the high-level support that Warner had long been dissatisfied with Ross, really wanted more than Terry Semel and Robert to get the position of chairman. · Daly has an advantage.

Simon actually had some bolder ideas, such as merging the entire Time Warner.

However, this thought is just a thought.

Taking control of MGM under the guise of holding shares is already the limit that can be tolerated by the current anti-monopoly regulations and related media regulations in the United States.

Even if the control of the media industry is further liberalized, with Daenerys Entertainment's current size, it will be difficult to merge Time Warner again.

What's more, Daenerys Entertainment itself needs competitors.

Time Warner is just right to be such a competitor in the future. Of course, it may only be superficial. After all, the cooperation between the two sides is really close.

Steve Ross took the initiative to compromise and give up the chairmanship to Nicholas Levin, which just happened to create some excuses for the "confrontation" between Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner.

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