Chapter 129 (1/2)
Denise pictures headquarters.
Jennifer Leibold tapped on the door of the editing room. When she got the response, she opened the door and said to Simon, who was busy at the editing desk: ”boss, it's four o'clock.”
Simon just nodded slightly, his eyes still fell on the screen of the editing desk, and his hands kept moving, saying: ”just a moment, it will be ready soon.”
Without saying anything more, Jennifer came in softly, closed the editing room door from behind again, and watched Simon's work quietly with the slight click of the equipment. The budget for vulgar fiction is adequate, and Simon doesn't have to do everything himself. Before the film, the rough cutting was done by a professional editor, but in the fine cutting stage, Simon decided to do it himself.
Back in Los Angeles, Simon spends most of his time in the company's editing room.
After a while, Simon saved the video and began to organize the tape notes and other items on the editing table. Jennifer also stepped forward and skillfully helped Simon put tapes and other items into the safe in the corner of the editing room.
After spending a quiet time with him secretly and leaving the editing room, Jennifer talked about her work today: ”I have collected information about some mainstream record companies and second and third tier labels in North America, and put it on your office desk. Mr. Steve Jobs's secretary gave a response this morning, saying that Mr. jobs did not intend to sell Pixar; Mr. ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics, has invited you to visit Silicon Graphics headquarters in San Francisco recently; Mr. Bill Gates' assistant has called, and gates is coming to Los Angeles next Monday, hoping to have lunch with you; and, um, a speech invitation from Stanford University. ”
Simon took Jennifer across the corridor, took the Stanford invitation from her, looked at it, handed it back, and said, ”if there's another invitation, just push it off. I'm going to give them a speech. It's spreading negative energy: look, that guy is the same age as us. God is really unfair.”
With a light smile, she put the invitation in her folder, held it to her chest, looked up, and asked, ”what about the invitation from Mr. McCracken and Mr. Gates?”
”I'll definitely go to San Francisco, but I don't have time recently. I need to push it back. As for gates, you can book a restaurant. We are the host. We should be more enthusiastic. In addition, it suddenly occurred to me today that since all those stocks have been exposed, according to the shareholding ratio of Westeros, I have the right to ask for board seats from these companies. Ask your father if he is interested in serving as a director for me in these companies. I don't have that much time myself. So, my idea is that George is in charge of the West Coast businesses in these companies, and your dad is in charge of the east coast. ”
Westero's 4.9% stake in 26 technology companies basically makes Simon a major shareholder in these companies.
If these holdings are not exposed, Simon also plans to be a quiet individual shareholder and watch the development of these companies in the dark. Now that these holdings are well known, Simon has decided to claim his rights as a shareholder.
In theory, the board of directors is usually the most direct body for the shareholders of a listed company to exercise their power, and the company's management is also appointed by the board of directors in most cases. As long as Simon gets the board seats of the corresponding companies, he can exert his own influence on the future development of these enterprises.
Jennifer follows Simon and writes down the restaurant reservation in her memo as she walks. Hearing Simon's last words, her expression was a little surprised, and some inexplicably shy. Just about to say something, they have already come to a meeting room of the company. Jennifer has to give up the idea of questioning for a while and sit down at the meeting table with Simon.
It's hard to calm down.
The most direct power of American consortia is to control hundreds of board seats of a large number of global corporate giants.
Simon's wealth now can't be compared with any of the top ten consortia in the United States, but if he can win the board seats of all 26 companies, it is definitely a strength that can't be underestimated.
If Simon really let his father and uncle come forward to serve as directors of these companies, with Simon westero's status as a spokesman for his huge wealth and the influence represented by the seats on the boards of these companies, the rebolds and Normans will immediately step from the slightly famous lawyer's home to the most influential class in the country.
After all, the wealth of billions of dollars is not just a series of simple figures on the surface.
Simon and Jennifer sit down at the conference table. In fact, there are only four people in the room. The other two people are Amy and her assistant named Vanessa Linde. When she just dug up Amy, Denise pictures once had to pay Vanessa's salary out of her own pocket because of lack of funds.
Now, of course, it will not happen again.
However, the conference room with only four people still shows the nature of danielis pictures as a small workshop. Under normal circumstances, including Simon, there are only 15 permanent employees in the two-story office building of danielis pictures, who are responsible for finance, receiving and sending, logistics and other work. As for film making, Simon and Amy Pascal have done it all by themselves.Today is December 16, Wednesday.
The release of death is coming to an end, which is one of the three film projects planned by Denise pictures in 1987.
From October 23 to now, in seven and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of death has reached 67.53 million US dollars. With the news that Simon suddenly became a billionaire in November inevitably boosting the box office of the film, the box office performance of ”here comes death” easily exceeded the expected $60 million.