As many times as before, the results of the 64th Academy Awards have once again sparked controversy in the media.

Three women were nominated for the Oscar for Best Director at the same time, and in the politically correct atmosphere of public opinion in the past few months, no one would have felt that this year's Oscar for Best Director should not be awarded to a woman.

However, in the eyes of many media, Barbra Streisand is too obvious compared to the other two female directors nominated this time.

You must know that the media score of "The Stormy Waves of Years" in the Oscar Eight Mentions Six this time is only barely a good score of 6.8, and the other two movies, "Crazy Flowers at the End" are 7.4 points, and "Piano Don't Love" is as high as 9.2 points.

Even if the media trend does not represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, even if Barbra Streisand's qualifications in Hollywood surpass the other two directors, it is just that "The Waves of Time" won a Best Director statuette, and even the Best Picture was won, which seems that the Oscars are too unfair.

Of course, there are also media outlets that are very expert in making analyses from another angle.

These media believe that the three works of female directors, "Crazy Flowers at the End" and "Piano Love", are all films produced by Daenerys Entertainment, which is the key to the results of this Oscar award.

Because of the past few years.

The 61st Oscars, Best Picture, "Rain Man", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

The 62nd Oscars, Best Picture, "Drive for Miss Daisy", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

The 63rd Oscars, Best Picture, "Dances with Wolves", produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

For three consecutive years, Daenerys Entertainment has won the Oscar for Best Picture three times in a row, and if this time, Best Picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to Daenerys Entertainment, then the Oscar will become the exclusive Oscar of Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Even though the previous "Rain Man", "Drive for Miss Daisy" and "Dances with Wolves" all have excellent qualities enough to win the Oscar for Best Picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscars to become Daenerys' entertainment.

Therefore, this time, the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment, not counting the films released by other labels, still won 23 nominations, but only won two statuettes, which was completely expected.

To put it simply, Oscar is playing balance.

The academy naturally vigorously denies this balanced view of the media, and some of the academy executives and Olympic award judges who know that "Time and Storm" is run by the public relations team of Gaomen Pictures are even more mixed.

Since it is still a self-operated award, Daenerys will certainly not manipulate public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Awards, but only slightly fuel the controversy between the three films, so as to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films.

"Piano Don't Love" and "The Stormy Waves of Time" were both released in December last year, and they were not down at this time.

As of last Friday, "Piano Love" took advantage of the attention of the awards season that began at the beginning of the year to be screened on a small scale for more than three months, with a cumulative box office of $36.32 million.

Compared with the film's production cost of $7 million, "Piano Love", which is expected to hit the box office of $40 million before the next stage, is definitely a big hit.

As of last Friday, the cumulative North American box office of "The Waves of Time" reached $71.51 million.

This mainstream film, directed and starring Barbra Streisand, is expected to exceed $80 million at the North American box office before the end of the season as it wins several awards such as Best Picture.

"Crazy Flowers of the End" was released on September 6 last year, and it was already out of the market in early December, and the total box office in North America was finally 45.36 million US dollars, which was also a blockbuster.

After a three-month gap, Daenerys Entertainment officially released a videotape of the film ahead of the Oscars in early March.

Taking advantage of the popularity of the awards season, "Flowers of the End" has sold 730,000 boxes in three weeks, and the total sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes in the future.

Based on an average videotape price of $30, the film could reach up to $60 million in revenue on videotape, outperforming the box office.

With the Oscars and the media controversy surrounding the results of the awards, the new week saw a noticeable uptick in box office and videotape sales figures for all three films.

In the final analysis, the Oscars are both a hall of glory and a business feast for Hollywood.

KKR, a competitor of Cersei Capital, made a $2.15 billion bid to Victoria's Secret parent company LTD on March 30, so Simon flew straight to New York after dropping off four women in Los Angeles.

The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations.

Daenerys Entertainment's Best Foreign Language Film Statuette in addition to Best Actress in "Piano Farewell" is also Simon's layout in advance.

Many years later, the reason why the live-action movie "Transformers" once broke the box office record across the ocean was that in 1987, Hasbro gave the "Transformers" cartoon to local TV stations for free, thus creating the national popularity of the Transformers image.

The public relations of the marginal award of Best Foreign Language Film is actually not very difficult, and there are no other outstanding foreign language films shortlisted this year, and the public relations team of Gaomen Pictures easily pushed "The Red Lantern High" to the podium.

While Hollywood was still basking in the afterglow of the Oscars, Simon swept the matter into the past with some thank-you calls the next day.

After KKR's bid, Blackstone also proposed a partnership to Cersei Capital's Apollo Asset Management team, hoping that the two parties would jointly invest in the LTD.

If you don't have enough confidence in LTD, or the financial strength is not enough, choosing a partner is also a good choice.

However, this time, unlike Simmons, which chose to cooperate with other capital acquisitions, Cersei Capital has neither confidence nor lack of capital for LTD, and does not intend to give half of the potential future gains to Blackstone.

There have been two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing up, and a lot of arbitrage capital has entered the market to buy LTD shares, resulting in a further rapid rise in LTD's stock price.

On the day KKR made the offer, the market value of LTD exceeded $2 billion.

From $1.3 billion two months ago to $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the board of directors and major shareholders of LTD quite mixed.

If LTD had had had such a market capitalization before the news of the acquisition was leaked, relying on the confidence of the market, whether it was issuing additional shares or bond financing, the company would have been able to easily survive the cash predicament that was not serious.

However, the acquisition of LTD is almost a foregone conclusion.

Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the price of LTD will definitely not fall much slower than the rate of rise. Even though the acquisition of Cersei Capital has made many shareholders aware of the potential of LTD companies, they are still more willing to cash out directly than the stock price falls sharply.

"KKR has not yet shaken off the haze of the Reynolds Nabeske acquisition, and I personally judge that this time the bid for LTD with us is mainly due to KKR's Henry Kravis's hope to revive KKR's morale through a successful acquisition, and perhaps also have the idea of diverting the attention of investors. ”

Midtown Manhattan, in the conference room of Cersei Capital headquarters.

Leon Black, president of Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, is explaining the process of the acquisition: "Because the negative impact of Reynolds Nabeske is too great, and the US economy is not fully recovering, KKR will definitely not make unlimited offers in the face of pressure from KKR's board of directors and investors." Therefore, $2.5 billion, presumably, should also be the limit of KKR. ”

The Reynolds Nabeske takeover was a disaster because of the uncontrolled offer of the parties under the irrational competition of all parties.

Ltd's market capitalization was only around $1.3 billion before the news of the acquisition leaked in February.

If KKR's offer exceeds $2.6 billion, a 100% premium, it will undoubtedly make investors question once again whether the private equity firm will suffer the consequences of the Reynolds Nabeske takeover.

Therefore, it is indeed very likely that KKR will cap the premium within 100%.

Cersei Capital's side, $2.5 billion, is also the upper limit of Simon's offer.

Even if he can't get his hands on the LTD, Simon won't allow the price to go up even a dollar.

In fact, at the end of the bidding, when the transaction price is not much different, everyone is more likely to compete for a specific trading plan.

Simon considered this and asked Leon Blake, "What about Blackstone?"

"I'm not sure for the time being, but if Blackstone and we don't work together, they may turn to working with KKR. Both companies chose to bid largely because we were interested in the LTD, and they should not be confident enough about the future of the LTD. Of course, if KKR also turned down Blackstone's offer to cooperate, Steve Schwartzman is more likely to give up completely, he is a very cautious and conservative person, and the current economic situation does not allow Blackstone to take too many risks, and in addition, the fashion industry is not Blackstone's area of expertise. ”

Simon played with a pencil in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "In this way, you try to contact some media to spread the news that KKR and Blackstone are just blindly following Cersei Capital, so as to have as much impact as possible." ”

If any company loses its own judgment and just blindly follows others, it will obviously not gain the trust of investors.

Leon Black said: "There are already media comments about it, and we can really add to it. Still, Simon, doing so could also attract other bidders. ”

"You can keep the $2.5 billion quote cap," Simon said, "Even if it really fails, we still hold about 5% of the LTD stock in our hands, well, how much profit can we make if we sell it?"

"At least fifty million dollars. ”

"So, that's it, let's talk about your specific acquisition plan. ”

In the following hour, in addition to the basic acquisition offer, everyone also readjusted the future payment form, management arrangements, and measures to alleviate the cash pressure of LTD.

Simon also agreed to the requirement that the Wesney family, the majority shareholder of the Ltd, retain a 10% stake and that current chairman and CEO Leslie Wexnay continue in his current position. Leslie Wexnay is officially the founder of the LTD Group, and the Wexnay family still owns about 30% of the LTD company's shares at this time.

In the original plane, LTD was controlled by Leslie Wexney until many years later, and the later development of LTD is a testament to the founder's abilities. Cersei Capital's acquisition is more of an investment, and Simon has no intention of snatching control of the LTD.

The meeting ended at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon and Janet returned to their Fifth Avenue apartment together, making a special trip to the Westeros Mansion construction site on the way.

Today is Wednesday, April 1st.

April Fool's Day.

After the official start of construction in January, the original buildings have been demolished, and the foundations are being excavated.

The workers had already left work, but they just took a brief look at the construction site, and the couple left.

"It took a long time to negotiate with the New York subway company before they agreed to add a subway station next to our building, but we had to pay for the renovation, which was about $10 million. Also, there are a lot of illegal workers from Eastern Europe among the workers hired by Tishman Speyer, and I talked to James about that, and he said it wasn't a big deal. ”

Janet and Simon talk about the trivia of the building's construction and soon return to their Fifth Avenue apartment.

When Simon heard about illegal workers, he didn't pay much attention to them: "There is probably not a single construction site in New York that doesn't use illegal workers, because there are not enough workers in the local area. And, even if something happens, the Speyer family of Tishman Speyer can handle it, they've been doing this for almost a hundred years. ”

As he spoke, he entered the apartment and was greeted by Alina Makhegi, a yoga teacher that Janet had brought in from India.

After a few months of exercising, Janet's figure is already a few points better than before she was pregnant.

However, this Indian girl, who is very good at yoga and has a first-class appearance and figure, has stayed.

Simon had seen with his own eyes that Alina was no less soft than an acrobat's body, and the unlocking scale was 100 percent, so he jokingly asked her if she had any plans to go to Hollywood.

There are actually many stars in Hollywood who have turned from fitness instructors to actors by relying on their connections.

Steven Sieger used to be Michael Ovitz's judo coach.

Alina clearly has this in mind, but she doesn't seem to lack patience and ambition to go further. Simon didn't care about this, and let the amorous Indian girl stay.

After taking a shower with Janet, the woman went to the kitchen to arrange dinner, Simon changed into a casual cardigan and slacks, and sat on the sofa in the living room while watching CNN's breaking news while holding a sketchbook to sketch casually.

Simon stopped his brush, looked up at Alina with a cup of coffee in front of him, just smiled, and turned his attention back to the storyboard in front of him.

A moment later.

The fragrance still did not disperse, and a voice came from his ear: "Sir, you are really good at painting." ”

Simon glanced sideways, and the Indian girl squatted next to him with her arms propped up on the armrests of the sofa, ://./9_9937/