Simon returned to New York on September 5 and immediately threw himself into the final preparations for "American Idol" before filming began.

This ABC TV network 1995 autumn blockbuster reality show will be broadcast on Tuesday, September 26 at 8 p.m., once a week, through the winter break, roughly divided into two parts: the audition stage and the competition stage, the autumn file is the early audition, and the spring file will start the competition next year.

In the past, because of the successful precedent of the British version, the operation of "American Idol" was relatively mature, and it made a good start when it was launched.

This time, the new version of "American Idol" does not have the popularity base it once had, but it is supported by the huge resources of the entire Westeros system.

From the moment Simon had the idea to produce the project, this version of American Idol was positioned as a major crossover across the Westeros music industry, with Daenerys Records, ABC Network, Igrete Portal, and Tinkobay all involved.

During this time, Tinkobar first won the exclusive naming rights of "American Idol" at a high price of $25 million, and not only that, but throughout the first season of the program, Tinkobar will also give away 100,000 iPlayer-10 digital music players through voting and lucky draws.

At a manufacturing cost of 100,000 iPlayer-10s, plus naming fees, Tinkobar is expected to invest $50 million in the first season alone.

Title fees aside, 100,000 iPlayer players worth $50 million were advertised as prizes, plus cash prizes and record contracts for the winners, and the news was just announced at the end of July, which directly detonated public opinion.

The production team was initially worried that the first season might not receive too many applications, but in less than a month, the number of applicants across the United States exceeded 300,000 online and email, and the production team had to triple the number of people in the department responsible for auditions.

Due to music copyright limitations, from the audition stage, applicants are required to use the music used in the broadcast, which has already been incorporated into Tinkobair, instead of choosing the music according to their personal preferences. The project team randomly selected 10 pieces of music in a reply to the applicants, indicating that the music was available on the Broadcast website.

Through the pre-marketing of the 100,000 iPlayer giveaway and the detailed arrangement of the stock music that contestants must use Broadcast, not only has the music sales of the Broadcast website increased significantly in recent times, but also the demand for iPlayer players, which has been increasing in production capacity, has once again become in short supply.

With just this feedback, Tinkobair's $50 million investment is worth it. In the absence of the popularity base of the British version, the new version of "American Idol" is no less than the previous FOX TV network version.

What we have to do now is to sustain this good start and avoid the embarrassment of opening high and going low.

In order to ensure this to the greatest extent, Simon returned from Europe and re-incarnated as a micromanager, personally began to follow up all aspects of the audition process from the development of the lottery system to the lighting position of the competition studio, and also spent a day arranging the live rehearsal of the four judges, and personally adjusted the four judges who were actually fully prepared.

Under the bombardment of various reality shows in the previous life, no one knows better than Simon how the judges should perform to maximize the atmosphere of the scene.

Simon also personally set up a '-for-tat' stalk with another male protagonist, David Kruger, for Cher's eldest sister.

Refer to a certain '32 concerts' in my memory.

If you talk about model workers, Cher is definitely one in the American music industry, Cher who was born in 1946 will often hold dozens of concerts a year even after more than ten years, of course, it does not have the scale of Madonna's concert, but it is not comparable to ordinary third-rate singers.

The first season of "American Idol" will probably end at the end of May next year.

It just so happened that Cher planned to hold a series of concerts from June to September next year while the iron was hot, so Simon directly used the joke of '32 concerts', asking that whenever Cher and David Kruger had a dispute over whether a contestant was shortlisted, he would use 'I will hold 32 concerts next year' as his more professional and authoritative rebuttal than David.

The live demonstration was several times, and the effect was very good.

Cher is also very happy to accept this setting, after all, it will definitely make her concert next year much more attention.

As for whether there are 32 concerts or not, it doesn't matter, in fact, according to Cher's workaholic, this number is likely to be only a lot more in the three months of next summer, and the singer has done hundreds of concerts a year during his peak. In the Golden Globe Awards bribery scandal that year, it was no accident that the finalists gave Golden Globe Award judges tickets to Cher's concert, because it was too easy to buy.

If Cher has more than 32 concerts next year, it will be just right, and the jokes for the second season will be there.

David Kruger can bitterly accuse Cher of holding 64 concerts despite saying that she said it was 32 concerts.

Of course, these are all stubbles.

The key is the draft itself.

Simon's vision of "American Idol" is a reality show, but based on experience, the first few seasons of musical reality shows can still create a series of well-known artists, and he hopes to achieve this goal in order to promote Daenerys Records.

From the selection of judges, Simon began to make this arrangement.

The eldest sister Touxueer is an artist under Daenerys Records, and pushing the other party out can once again boost Cher's popularity and stimulate the record sales of the veteran singer.

David Kruger is the producer of Backstreet Boys' first best-selling record, and he specializes in pop music record production, and can pick out the musical talent that Daenerys Records needs from a large number of players, and it is a popular pop talent.

Two other judges, Jay-z and Jennifer Lopez, pulled the two into the jury, and Simon's original intention was to nurture the two as potential musical seeds for Daenerys Records.

Jay-z's past achievements need no saying.

As for Jennifer Lopez, although Simon has never been able to figure out how this Latin diva has maintained her popularity for so many years, since she has this potential, she will definitely be able to reap the desired rewards if she gives resources.

Simon has always believed that successful people have certain traits that will lead them to success.

In this world, there are always a few successful people, and there is a lot of luck.

So for others, it's very difficult to pick out people who have the traits of a successful person.

Simon's biggest advantage happens to be that he knows that some people and things have 'had' been successful, so if you bet again, the chances of winning are very large.

While Simon is focusing on the preparation of "American Idol", these days, one of the most important news in the North American entertainment industry is probably about to count "Jurassic Park 2" officially breaking through the $400 million box office mark, from September 1 to September 7, after 14 weeks of release and continuing to earn $3.91 million, the cumulative local box office of "Jurassic Park 2" reached $400.237 million, becoming one of the few 400 million box office club members in the North American film market.

Not only that, after the main box office warehouses around the world basically opened, as of early September, the global box office of "Jurassic Park 2" also reached $632 million.

Therefore, when North America broke through the $400 million mark, the global box office of "Jurassic Park 2" also officially bought the $1 billion mark.

$1 billion has always been a very important threshold for Hollywood movie box office, and before that, many films such as "Jurassic Park" and "Batman: Time to Go to War" have unfortunately stopped at less than $1 billion, and the only one to break this threshold was last year's Batman trilogy finale, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

Now, "Jurassic Park 2" has not only become the second global $1 billion blockbuster in North American film history, because important box offices such as France and Japan that have delayed the opening of the film are still in the early stages of release, and this super blockbuster is expected to go further, hitting more than $1.1 billion, and is likely to eventually exceed the global $1.135 billion of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" last year.

On the other hand, the news of GE's contact with Time Warner has gradually spread in circles.

It wasn't put on the table.

However, many people already know what they should know and what they shouldn't know.

The most direct evidence of this is that after the box office fiasco of "Future Water World" at the end of July, Time Warner's stock price plummeted, but began to rise after mid-August, and as of the last trading day of the first week of September on September 8, Time Warner's total market capitalization has reached $20.7 billion.

According to Terry Semele, Time Warner's top management and a major shareholder want to sell the company, but the price difference with GE is very large.

You must know that at this stage, Time Warner is only the fixed assets of the group in the fields of film, television, and publishing, with a total value of 32 billion US dollars, and the stock price has been sluggish in recent years, basically dragged down by the debt after the original merger and black swans such as "Future Water World".

When it comes to real consideration, Time Warner's overall operating conditions have been improving.

Therefore, the psychological price of Time Warner's shareholders is that GE's offer cannot be less than $30 billion. In comparison, Jack Welch's offer has never exceeded $25 billion.

In the past, Time Warner's market value exceeded 100 billion US dollars at the peak of the Internet bubble around 2000, mainly after the enactment of the "Telecommunications Act" in 1996, the value of Time Warner's cable TV operation system increased significantly. Because the new "Telecommunications Act" abolished the operational restrictions between cable TV, the Internet and traditional telephone, the market hyped up the triple play, Time Warner also adapted to the trend to use its own cable TV system to carry out network access services, so it promoted a significant increase in market value, and later AOL merged with Time Warner, Steve Keys fancy in addition to Warner's media and entertainment assets, there is also Warner's own cable TV operation network, these hardware packages can be used as a supplement to the US online network services.

This time, the Clinton administration's "Telecommunications Act" is still in the making, and under the turmoil of the big butterfly of Daenerys Entertainment, the situation after the merger of Time Corporation and Warner Bros. has not been very good. Although Warner Communications, the cable TV operator owned by Time Warner, is also thriving, without the support of the Telecommunications Act, and AOL has taken the lead in the field of Internet service providers, Time Warner's stock price has not taken off.

However, $30 billion, at least in Simon's opinion, is really not expensive.

If the possibility, the Westeros system is happy to continue to swallow Time Warner.

Of course, this possibility does not exist.

The takedown of the Metropolitan ABC Group is already the extreme that the Washington authorities can tolerate.

Simon stayed in New York until September 10, the day after returning to the West Coast, a new week when preparations for the Igrete IPO officially began.

Based on the strong performance growth that has been maintained for most of the year, the management of Eaglet and a cadre underwriter adjusted the issue price twice in a row, and as of the end of the roadshow, the IPO issue price of Igrete was finally determined to be $35, an increase of 16% from the initial $30. Based on the issue price of $35, the IPO valuation of Egrett officially exceeded $150 billion, and the total amount raised was $18.6 billion, excluding the greenshoe mechanism that could be triggered.

The $150 billion IPO valuation and the total amount raised of $18.6 billion have all set a new record for IPOs in the global stock market.

Although the strong growth of Eaglet's monopoly has made most investors full of confidence in the company's IPO, because the company's valuation and financing amount are too large, and the voice of the decline is endless, Julian Robertson, the founder of Tiger Fund, who has been in the hedge market in recent years, recently appeared on NBC's "Today Show" In an interview, he said that Igret's IPO was a completely irrational listing operation, and also publicly stated that the new technology bubble has reached its peak, and Tiger Fund will short a series of Westeros system technology companies after Igret's listing.

In the past, the Tiger Fund, which is the same name as the Soros Quantum Fund, exceeded $20 billion after the 1997 Southeast Asian economic crisis, however, it was Robertson's misjudgment of technology stocks that he bet on shorting before 2000, which eventually led to the direct liquidation of the Tiger Fund with a scale of more than $20 billion.

After following the Tiger Fund to snipe the pound and the Mexican lira, the size of the Tiger Fund has exceeded $8 billion at this stage, and Julian Robertson, the hedge fund boss, also has considerable prestige on Wall Street.

Simon just didn't expect that before the Asian economic crisis broke out, Robertson had already begun to look at the decline of the new technology industry in advance.

The Westeros system did not publicly respond to Robertson's statement, but the hedge fund under Cersei Capital began to prepare for the move.

It takes years to create a large-scale economic crisis, and now some hedge capital in North America has begun to deploy in Asia, and Cersei Capital is no exception. Hedging is a zero-sum game, someone loses to make money, and since Julian Robertson has given up his long-term plan for Asia and can't wait to play it, Simon certainly doesn't mind eating all the $8 billion in the other side's hands.