Hollywood Hunter

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After washing and touching up her makeup, she walked out of the bathroom. Kris Jenner saw that Simon had returned to the round table on the terrace. She felt a little sullen in her heart, but you don't have to trouble anything.

Of course, he didn't dare to show it on his face.

In the courtyard, the music and chatter of the party are still there.

No one seemed to notice what happened in the past half an hour.

After tidying up the skirt of the red low-cut dress again, the woman walked over carefully, and sat down beside him only after obtaining permission from the man's eyes.

Just observed the angle, she is sitting farthest away from the fence, and will not be seen by people downstairs.

Although they don't mind, and even want to be seen, smart women clearly know what can and cannot be done.

"The project team arranged an interactive crossover episode of "The Wife of Beverly" and "The Wife of New York", filmed here in recent days, and met Mr. Friedman when talking about things during the day. He said that tonight there will be I'm coming to the party."

After explaining it like this, seeing the man just casually leaning on the back of the chair and looking downstairs quietly, without any intention of chatting with her, Kris Jenner shut her mouth wisely.

Anyway, this 'tiger skin' is enough.

If the man didn't give it, she didn't dare to ask for anything.

At least Jonathan Friedman must have known she was up.

After a while, Kris Jenner heard the man instruct her to have someone bring a glass of wine, and knowing that she was chasing someone, she obediently got up and left the terrace.

Because of this woman, Simon just thought of the usa TV network.

After the merger last year, through the two series of "Beverly Wife" and "New York Wife" launched by usa, usa has successfully transformed into a female TV network.

But this is clearly not enough.

However, in the past year, two major acquisitions, and various other things, have consumed most of Simon's energy, and he does not have much time to take care of the development of usa, even including the very fancy mca records, these are only Can be handed over to a group of senior executives under the company.

The new year has just started, and there are still a lot of things going on.

until now.

After several years of watching, Daenerys Entertainment's film business has been very solid, and it is probably time to turn its energy to other businesses.

Cable TV can still flourish for at least 30 years. In terms of music, although the physical record industry will decline rapidly with the rise of the Internet, in the West where the copyright protection system is very complete, the record industry will never disappear. Beyond transformation.

Moreover, the major record giants that survived after a merger and reorganization in memory, although they always claimed that life was not easy to the outside world, they were actually making money all the time.

In addition, the record industry is still on the eve of the last boom of the 1990s.

Old-timers like Michael Jackson and Madonna still dominate the music scene, but in the 1990s, it was a period of the rise of teen pop music.

During this time, a large number of teen pop singers, including the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, and even the British Spice Girls, held up most of the attention of the Western music industry and spread the trend around the world until Many years later, the Korean entertainment industry is still continuing the combination model that emerged in Europe and the United States in the 1990s.

In Simon's view, the biggest feature of youth popularity is that it can make stars in batches.

The rise of traditional superstars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna depends on strength and luck. However, for teenage pop singers, as long as they have a good skin and the performance quality is not too bad, it is almost enough. The next step is to follow the Fixed routine for packaging.

Not only that, but there are some more direct and quick methods, drafts.

None of this can be done overnight.

After careful consideration, Simon decided to start with usa.

With too much experience in the two worlds, Simon can easily sort out some rules: the rise of a TV network or media platform often requires a phenomenal TV program. For example, HBO's "Black Road Family" in the late 1990s pushed the TV network to its peak. Later, because of "House of Cards", Netflix's development also entered the fast lane.

At this stage, there has not yet been a trend that American TV classics have fallen out of.

Cable networks don't put as much energy into TV dramas as they do movies.

This is also from the seventies.

During his tenure at the abc television network, Barry Diller found that it was often too expensive for the television network to purchase movie rights from Hollywood, so he created the TV movie model. Compared with Hollywood movies, TV movies often have a very high cost, even dozens of One can be produced for $10,000, the cycle is shorter, one can be launched every month, and it can also have the feature of exclusive premiere.

Again, Hollywood is very conservative.

When a business model emerges and proves to work, people flock to it.

Especially in recent years, with the rise of cable TV, in order to compete for audience resources, TV movies with many advantages have become more prosperous. Many Hollywood stars who are unsustainable on the big screen can switch to shooting TV movies, even if the pay is not high, they also bring It's not too popular, but it wins because there are enough opportunities.

However, in Simon's view, TV movies also have disadvantages that cannot be ignored.

Unsustainable popularity.

A TV movie, played several times, with poor audience

After a while, you will become interested, and then transfer to the syndicated platform and videotape channel, and after mining the remaining value, it will gradually be forgotten. Relatively speaking, the popularity cycle is very short-lived.

Phenomenal TV shows are different, however.

For example, "The Black Road Family", such as "House of Cards".

The "Black Road Family" in my memory has been filmed for a full six seasons, and for six years, hbo has been developing rapidly because of this. Likewise, House of Cards brings a similar effect.

According to the information in his mind, Simon roughly judged that it was in the late 1990s that the emergence of American dramas such as "The Black Road Family" squeezed the living space of TV movies and further led to the decline of this TV business model.

As for now.

Hollywood, or the American media industry, apparently hasn't realized this.

To put it simply, Hollywood has always been developing. More than ten years ago, it is not what many people saw ten or twenty years later. Even, in Simon's view, before the rise of blockbusters and CG special effects in the 1990s, the Hollywood film industry was not stable, and everyone was just 'taking luck'.

The same goes for the TV industry.

Before the 1990s, the TV movie business model was already in place. In addition, TV networks had a strong platform monopoly and did not need to invest too much in TV programs to win audiences, so they seemed reluctant to make progress.

After the 1990s, cable TV completely rose, and competition in the TV industry became fierce. At the same time, the prosperity of the Internet also threatened the TV industry, which made major TV manufacturers pay more attention to content development. Even television can be produced at a cinematic level.

Now, the best way to make the usa TV network more prosperous is to subvert the traditional business model in advance.

In fact, Simon has already subverted the traditional American TV industry through reality TV shows. This is only the second time.

Female TV stations naturally need matching female programs.

When it comes to TV dramas related to women, the first thing Simon thinks of is the phenomenal "Desperate Housewives".

Because of the American drama "Desperate Housewives", the ABC TV network in memory even has a trend of being called a female TV network. How influential this American drama is.

In Simon's view, the reason why "Desperate Housewives" can be popular is that it is close to life on the one hand, and it is beyond life on the other hand.

The plot of this TV series is full of twists and turns, and a TV series may cover the twists and turns that most traditional housewives do not necessarily encounter in their entire lives. At the same time, the images of several housewives are also typical enough, covering most types of traditional American housewives, and finally, there are bits and pieces of the true feelings shown by this American drama.

Because there are more than ten people's memories in his mind, and "Desperate Housewives" is classic enough, Simon basically remembers most of the plot of this American drama.

As for the details, Hollywood is never short of screenwriters.

It's 1992, and the core screenwriter of the original "Desperate Housewives", Mark Cherry, is still an unknown character, and Simon is not in the mood to find each other.

So just grab the knife yourself.

I ate dinner every night, chatting with Janet and the little guy while holding a notebook and banging.

After a week of this, Janet occasionally added some details with great interest, and the script for the first season was basically completed.

"It's an interesting story, but it doesn't feel exciting enough."

In the villa of Dumay Cape Manor, after finishing the script of the first season, Janet commented while rocking the cradle in Melbourne.

Simon sent an electronic draft of the script to Robert Iger in New York, put down the notebook and said, "I have a more exciting story, but I'm just worried that the current housewives can't accept it."

Janet immediately became interested: "Tell me, I'm also a housewife now."

Simon briefly sorted it out and said, "This is also a woman's story. However, compared to the normal housewives in Wisteria Street, this woman is a mess. First of all, she is a drug dealer."

Janet patted the cradle with her little hand: "I like it, I must pat it."

Simon saw his son's eyes widen suddenly because of his mother's sudden slap, and he looked like he was about to cry, and quickly reached out and picked up the little guy.

Janet also noticed this detail, of course she did not admit it wrong, and pouted: "I will send this little annoying person to Australia in a few days."

Simon gently comforted the son in his arms, just smiled.

Let Veronica take care of Melbourne, this is his decision, and now he can't refute himself.

Janet clearly sensed Simon's thoughts, hummed twice, but didn't ask more, walked to the side of the coffee table tray, took out a document from the shelf under the coffee table, and said: "New York has just delivered it again. A case, Leon Black and the others are going to play a big game."

Feeling that the little guy had his head resting on his shoulder and almost fell asleep, Simon continued to hold his son, walked gently beside the cradle, and asked casually, "What?"

"A comprehensive clothing company called limited brands.inc (limited brand company), which focuses on sportswear, underwear and other businesses for teenagers and women. It is a public company with a current market value of $1.31 billion. Because 80 The continuous expansion of the 1990s and the economic downturn in the past two years have also made the company's operations in trouble. However, they are very optimistic about Leon.

The company owns the Victoria's Secret underwear brand, so it intends to launch a privatized wholly-owned acquisition. "

Simon hadn't reacted yet, and only remembered when he heard Victoria's Secret.

Victoria's Secret.

Years later, each year's Victoria's Secret show was the equivalent of a fashion Super Bowl. It is also Victoria's Secret that has won the top supermodel in the first decade of the new century.

After a brief surprise, Simon was not too surprised that the Apollo management company in charge of Leon Black, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, chose the parent company of Victoria's Secret.

Wall Street private equity firms all have their own areas of expertise.

Probably because of its relationship with Melisandre and Daenerys Entertainment, Apollo Management, which specializes in private equity investment, a large part of its acquisition targets are concentrated in industries such as clothing and cosmetics. Simmons, which was previously acquired, took a stake last year. Estee Lauder is like that.

Now, Leon Black led the team to target the parent company of Victoria's Secret, which is naturally reasonable.

It owns high-quality brand assets, the cash flow is tight and the operating conditions are temporarily poor, and the stock price is in a state of status. This is also the main condition for a company to be targeted by private equity.

Thinking of this, Simon asked: "For $1.31 billion, how much premium will it cost for a wholly-owned acquisition?"

Janet rolled on the sofa like a kitten, casually flipping through the documents in her hand, and said: "Leon and the others are in contact with the management of ltd. If a goodwill acquisition can be achieved, the premium will probably be within 30%. The clothing industry is very competitive. Intense, unlike the new technology companies that are emerging now, so even if there is an open invitation, the premium will not be too high. If it is too high, Leon and the others will voluntarily give up.”

ltd is obviously an acronym for limited brands.inc.

Simon calculated in his head that at a premium of 30%, a complete acquisition would cost about $1.7 billion. Apollo Management could spend such a large sum of money, but it would undoubtedly mean a lot of risk: "What about after the acquisition? , Leon, what are they going to do?"

Janet said: "Like Simmons, after a few years of operation, after the company recovers, it will go public again, or conduct a second private equity operation and sell it directly to other private equity companies."

Simon nodded: "The federal economy is at the bottom right now. If Leon and the others confirm that this company has enough high-quality assets, it will indeed appreciate in value if it is only held for a few years."

Janet, however, heard other meanings in her husband's words, and her delicate body bounced off the sofa, leaned on the sofa arm and looked over, "You don't have other ideas, do you?"

Simon smiled and said, "You should buy this company first."

Victoria's Secret's current catwalk is basically still in the display stage of fashion week. According to the original timeline, it was not until the end of the 1990s that Victoria's Secret began to gradually build the Victoria's Secret catwalk into an ornamental commercial activity.

Perhaps, this very eye-catching show can be produced in advance.

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