Chapter 178 (1/2)
Simon didn't have much leisure to take notice of the controversy over instinct. He flew to New York on Saturday morning to take part in the official recording of who will be a millionaire.
In the past few months of preparation, Simon has regularly participated in the production meeting of who will be a millionaire, and continued to provide a lot of opinions for the creation of the question bank, the setting of links, the selection of contestants, and even the creation of the most detailed on-site atmosphere of this reality show.
The project team, which had made several trial shots and rehearsals in advance, was able to do it, so Simon decided to watch it in person. After all, the success or failure of this reality show is related to whether Denise pictures can enter the field of TV program production smoothly.
Because ”who will be a millionaire” itself tends to be a variety show, and its production is relatively simple. The project team started to record seven pilot programs for a week from Saturday, which can just complete the whole pilot program while shooting and broadcasting.
However, the process is not easy.
On weekends, everyone on the project team works more than 10 hours, and Simon is no exception. On Sunday, he was busy until ten o'clock in the night. After watching the final sample film of the first issue with you, Simon relaxed a little.
June 20, Monday.
With the advent of a new week, ”instinct” is still hot in the media. Simon rarely sleeps in and gets up at nine o'clock in the morning.
In the morning, I went to the apartment on Fifth Avenue to check the decoration effect. After the absurd night of three people together, it happened that Catherine was going to make ”Thunderbolt Blue Angel” in New York, and Janet forced her to stare at it. Catherine did some interior design work in the 1970s, which is more experienced than Janet.
At noon, I had dinner with Catherine and talked about ”Thunderbolt Blue Angel”. During this period, the woman refused Simon's suggestion that he would go there tonight, claiming that she would attend a party in a circle in the evening. Simon said that he was very happy to meet some people in the New York film circle with her, but she was just thrown a blank eye. Women do not want their relationship to be known by too many people after all.
In the afternoon, as usual, I met with James Leibold to discuss some business of Westeros.
Determined the debt to equity swap plan, during this time, James Leibold has cleared the New World Entertainment stock in the hands of Westeros company again. Although Simon is sure to win the power of manwei, he will not choose to be a big loser in any case if he can save half of the money. It is no longer necessary to buy new world entertainment stock secretly.
With the completion of various acquisitions and investments during this period, the $100 million loan that westero just got is running out again in a flash, and Simon has no plan to increase his debt in the short term. For a long time, James Leibold will focus on the existing business of Westeros.
Over the past six months, the North American stock market has continued to recover.
However, because last year's ”westero portfolio” stimulated a strong rebound in the technology stock sector, the rise of the technology stock market has slowed down significantly compared with other sectors in recent months.
As of last week, the total value of westero's technology stock portfolio of listed companies was about $1.76 billion, while other unlisted companies' shares and real estate investment scale was about $150 million. Due to the continuous success of ”when Harry meets Sally” and ”vulgar novel”, the industry's valuation of Denise pictures is about $300 million, minus the total debt of $200 million of Denise pictures and westero, Simon's personal assets have reached $2 billion.
This year's Forbes Global rich list is expected to be released in August.
If ”who's going to be a millionaire” and ”instinct” succeed, Simon's fortune will certainly continue to improve. More than $2 billion in personal assets is enough for him to be in the top 50 on the global rich list.
In the underground parking lot of the building where the headquarters of westero company is located, James leibulde watched Simon's car leave. This series of data flashed through his mind, and he couldn't help feeling again. Feeling his daughter's puzzled look at him, he reflected from his trance and said to Jennifer with a smile, ”let's go back. Your mother will prepare dinner in person tonight.”
Father and daughter got into their car. James Leibold started the car and left the parking lot. Then he asked his daughter, ”do you think who will be a millionaire will succeed?”
Simon has already told James Leibold in advance about the idea of using his reality show project as a bargaining chip to trade Ge for new world entertainment.
Hearing her father's question, Jennifer said, ”I think it's very interesting. As for the ratings, I'll know tomorrow.”
”Didn't Simon tell you what he expected from the show?” James redton asked
She felt something else in her father's words, a little embarrassed, but said, ”he, he's very confident in the show.”
James Leibold turned the steering wheel around a street, glanced at his daughter and said, ”Jennie, you know, there are some things you need to strive for.”It's very straightforward. Jennifer's face is a little red. She can't help thinking of everything she's done for Simon.
To be fair, it's not that she didn't want to snatch that man from Janet.
Just, stay in his side, perhaps because too busy, perhaps because of some other what, in short, she is basically difficult to produce some robbing men and so on. Most of the time, she just unconsciously thinks that it's enough to be around him and work for him all the time.
She always felt that she was a very easy person to satisfy.
When the father and daughter return to their upper east side home, Carol Leibold, Jennifer's mother, has returned early and is preparing dinner. James and Jennifer go to the kitchen to help. The three of them have a warm dinner, and then they are together in front of the TV in the living room, chatting about some things, waiting for the arrival of nine o'clock.
”Who's going to be a millionaire” is on the air at 9 p.m.
ABC didn't give the most golden eight o'clock schedule. Of course, it didn't drop the show to the least important ten o'clock schedule, and Denise pictures can't expect too much of it. Moreover, because ABC refused to invest in the promotion of this reality show, danielis pictures could only invest $2 million for TV, newspaper and magazine advertising. Only this part of the expenditure was equivalent to a week's budget for the trial broadcast. In the early stage, the audition work for the program was also very expensive.
In addition, in order to retain the initiative as much as possible, Denise pictures did not seek sponsors to share the investment for the trial series. So, just in the trial stage, Denise pictures has invested nearly $5 million in all aspects of the project. That's a quarter of who's going to be a millionaire's budget.
It can be imagined that if the program fails, Denise film's lavish investment will surely become a laughing stock of the industry.