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A dock in southern Melbourne.
After three days of shooting, "Batman" finally ended the film's first fight.
The plot begins with five consecutive murders in Gotham. Some of the victims are shot, some have their necks broken, and some have been bitten by animals. Batman pursues according to the clues. When Vicky Val, a female reporter of the Gotham times, is about to be murdered, Batman successfully rescues her and tracks her along the sewer to an abandoned Wharf on the edge of the city.
The murderer showed his true face. It turned out that he was a huge, scaly, crocodile like monster with sharp teeth.
After a hard fight, Batman finally subdued the crocodile.
At the same time, Vicky Waal, who was in the initial stage of panic, called the police, and director Gordon, who was also closely pursuing the recent murders, personally led the team to the dock. Because of the arrival of the police, Batman had no time to interrogate the crocodile man, so he had to escape ahead of time.
This action play is followed by a text play, which is also the first official contact between director Gordon and Batman.
The recent start of the night drama shooting from 6 pm to 2 am, is still eight hours. It's Midsummer in the southern hemisphere, and the sky is very long, but usually after the preparations for shooting are completed, the night has already come.
It's already one o'clock in the morning, after the previous action play. The scene doesn't need to change too much. The police are picking up the debris in the original site. Director Gordon is reminded to go to a nearby warehouse.
The setting here has been completed ahead of time. Simon has a simple communication with two actors, Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones, and the shooting begins.
All the actors who had been buried in advance started to move with the playing board down.
Director Gordon hesitated to the street lamp in front of the warehouse, while Batman squatted on the edge of the warehouse roof, most of his body covered with a cloak. The composition of the camera has a clear moral, director Gordon and Batman, one in the light, one in the dark.
Feeling a slight noise overhead, Sheriff Gordon looked up and finally saw the "wanted man" he had been pursuing for a long time.
After a brief confrontation, Gordon said, "well, although But you did a good job
Batman didn't mean to say hello to Gordon. His voice was calm and cold. He said, "do you find any connection?"
Gordon nodded: "including Vicky Val, three journalists have been attacked in the last week. There must be something going on in the city. Someone wants to cover it up. "
Batman pauses and doesn't tell Gordon that he's actually found five related murders. He just says, "I need a trial report on that crocodile."
"I'm not going to work with the wanted," Gordon blurted out. Aware of Batman's hesitation, he asked, "do you know anything else?"
Batman said, "I will not cooperate with the police."
Gordon frowned: "then why do you think I'll give you the report?"
"Tomorrow night at 12 o'clock, still here."
Gordon moved in place, as if thinking about how to gain some initiative. After a short trance, he looked up again and the figure on the roof had disappeared.
“CUT！”
Simon behind the monitor raised his hand slightly and began to play back the video.
Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones soon got together.
"The mood is not in place yet," Simon explained to Tommy Lee Jones by pressing the replay himself. "Tommy, this conversation means that you two have formed some potential tacit understanding unconsciously, so the rhythm needs to be controlled. In addition, the little action you just made is too deliberate. Adjust it next time. "
What Simon needs is a kind of feeling. Naturally, he can't tell them how to act in detail, so they have to figure it out by themselves.
After a brief discussion, the two actors made a little preparation and began shooting for the second time.
Bruce Wayne is basically in Batman state with three no attributes. He doesn't have high requirements for Adam Baldwin's acting skills. Tommy Lee Jones is also a veteran actor for many years. Therefore, after shooting several pictures in succession, Simon got the satisfactory effect he needed.
At two o'clock, the crew finished work on time.
Simon went to bed at about three o'clock in the morning, had breakfast at nine o'clock the next morning, and went back to his study in his hotel suite.
Her main job is to keep in touch with the two companies in North America. She doesn't have to stay up late with Simon on set. Simon enters the study, and the female assistant has prepared the documents he needs to review today.
"We have successfully established 5000 long contracts of Nikkei 225 index futures in Osaka and Singapore commodity futures exchanges. The opening index is about 31200 points. The average single hand margin is US $25300, and the total margin payment is US $126 million. Dad thinks that the company only needs to reserve 50 million US dollars to resist risks, so it can add another 1000 hands to build a position. "
The original S & P 500 futures, 10 times leverage, a single margin of about $15000.Nikkei 225 index futures are still 10 times leverage. However, the contract multiplier of this index futures is 1000 yen, which means that the book value of each contract held by Westeros is 31.2 million yen.
In recent years, the yen has continued to appreciate against the U.S. dollar, and the recent exchange rate has reached 123 to 1. After the conversion of 31.2 million yen, it is approximately 250000 US dollars, and the 10% margin ratio is 25000 US dollars.
Simon listened to Jennifer's introduction and looked through the papers in his hand.
In the past two weeks, the growth rate of Nikkei 225 index has accelerated significantly. In December last year, when the Nikkei 225 index broke through 30000 points, the growth rate of that month was only 623 points. However, in the last two weeks, the Nikkei 225 index has risen a full 860 points, or 2.7%.
I don't know if someone heard the news and began to follow the approach.
At present, the funds that westero can freely use are only 200 million US dollars just transferred from danielis entertainment. The planned 5000 hand built warehouse is completed, and the remaining funds are only 70 million US dollars. Simon is not as clear about the trend of the Japanese stock market in the next year as that of the North American stock market in October of the previous year. Therefore, he must not fill his position. He also needs to reserve a sum of money to resist the risk of margin call.
After rough calculation, according to the current position ratio, if the Nikkei 225 index can still reach the original high of 38000 points in time and space. In theory, excluding the stock index futures trading tax and high capital gains tax in the Japanese market, westero's 200 million dollar principal will probably double at the end of the year, achieving 100% net profit.
Compared with the one two years ago, 100% net profit is not a good business. Simon can actually make so much money in a year if he makes other investments based on the information in his memory.
Now, for example, I'm buying shares in Columbia Pictures.
In 1988, Columbia released 15 films, but the box office was only $88 million. Yes, 15 movies, 88 million, with an average box office revenue of less than $6 million per movie.
Samsung pictures, a joint venture between Colombia and HBO, although the annual Box Office figures are better, the total box office of the same 15 films in 1988 was only $198 million. It is said that the accumulated loss of Samsung pictures in the five years since its establishment has exceeded 500 million US dollars. In order to cover up this fact, time group, the parent company of HBO, even has to allocate the losses to other departments through financial means.
Although the news of Sony's possible acquisition of Colombia has been spread, the share price of Colombia is still falling due to the poor performance of the studio, and the share price of Coca Cola group, which holds 49% of shares in Colombia, has fallen.
Columbia Pictures now has a market value of only $1.6 billion, and its debt ratio has reached 100%. If it falls further, it will be insolvent.
However, Simon clearly remembers that Sony's acquisition of Colombia in the second half of the year resulted in a transaction price of $3.4 billion, more than doubling. Moreover, Sony also took on all of Colombia's $1.6 billion debt, bringing the total amount of the whole deal to $5 billion.
If Simon enters the market to buy Columbia Pictures shares now, he will be able to double the profits in the second half of the year, and the risk will be lower.
However, because of being in Hollywood, Simon's doing so will certainly lead to unnecessary speculation and even be subject to insider trading investigation.
With Ivan bosky, Michael Milken and a large number of arbitrage tycoons who had been dominating Wall Street for many years before falling down one after another, gaining enough reputation, the complacent federal investigation agency certainly hopes to bring Simon westrow, a big fish with a more bizarre track of sudden wealth, into the net.
As a result, seeing many stock arbitrage opportunities such as the recent acquisition of Reynolds nabesk and Sony's acquisition of Columbia in the next few months, Simon has restrained himself.
Although they disagree with most hedge funds on Wall Street who are bearish on the Japanese stock market, there is no such risk of making money through the Japanese stock market.
To suppress the rise of Japan is entirely the "political correctness" of the United States in recent years.
Of course, the profits generated by speculating in Nikkei 225 index futures may not come from Japan, but this is not something Simon needs to consider.
Thinking about it in his mind, Simon heard Jennifer convey James Leibold's advice, thought about it and quickly said, "yes."
Position increased to 6000 hands, the risk is still controllable. Even so, however, the expected return is still hard to satisfy Simon's appetite.
Money is still a big problem.
Simon does not intend to speculate in stock index futures by means of loans. It is unlikely that he will get loans for this reason, and he will not allow himself to take such risks.
Thinking about this, Simon suddenly remembered something. He looked up and asked Jennifer, "is your father still in the company?"
Jennifer nodded: "it's six o'clock in the afternoon in New York, but dad is still there. When you have breakfast, Dad calls and says he'll wait for you."The assistant picked up the phone on the desk, skillfully dialed a series of numbers, and then handed the receiver to Simon.
After the reduction of Motorola's shares, the number of listed technology companies held by westero is 25, of which 16 have board seats, and the other 9 only hold shares and do not join the board.
At the beginning, in order to avoid implicating the whole technology stock market in the process of reducing Motorola's holdings, westero company issued a one-year non reduction statement for companies that did not join the board of directors and a three-year non reduction statement for companies with board seats.
One year after the announcement, Simon can now raise more funds for the operation of the Japanese stock market by reducing some of his technology stocks.
I talked to James Leibold on the phone for half an hour. They roughly determined a plan to reduce their holdings of six stocks, three of which have performed poorly in the past year, and three of which Simon has long confirmed that they will reduce their holdings, such as apple.
Simon gave up joining Apple's board.
When westero bought Apple during the stock market crash, the company's market value was about $3 billion, with a total investment of $150 million. With the small-scale increase in holdings last year, the shareholding ratio just exceeded 5%.
Recently, Apple's market value has increased to US $5.3 billion, and the book profit of westero's shares exceeds 75%, with a total value of US $260 million.
Although Apple's market capitalization is expected to exceed $7 billion in the next few years, Simon doesn't intend to wait any longer. Of course, he did not want to sell all of them in the short term. About 5% of the shares held by a listed company is already a large proportion. If he sells too much at one time, it will definitely have a serious impact on Apple's shares.
However, a total of six stocks, even if westero company issued a reduction statement will have a certain impact on the stock price, it can easily cash out $300 million in the next month. After the financial audit, Denise entertainment can transfer another part of the funds to Westeros.
With a principal of more than $500 million, Simon can safely increase his position in Nikkei 225 index futures to 15000 hands.
Although more can be invested, Simon also intends to stop there.
After the next month's cash out, when the stock market is slightly stable, westero will continue to reduce its holdings, but Simon plans to use the surplus funds to increase the shares of Microsoft, Intel and other companies.
The long-term return of this part of investment is actually more huge.
After hanging up James Leibold's phone, Simon began to look through several documents sent by Denise entertainment.
After watching Robert egger's report on ABC's request for Denise entertainment to drastically reduce its bid for the second season of who's going to be a millionaire and participate in the placement of advertising, Simon called Los Angeles again.
It's just over three o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles. It's working time.
Denise entertainment can make $250 million from the first season of who's going to be a millionaire, but ABC can only get $80 million. Although Simon very much hopes that this profit distribution pattern will continue, he also knows that it is impossible.
The company took advantage of the Hollywood writers strike last year, and ABC will not make such a mistake again this year.
Fortunately, danielis entertainment has negotiated the contract for the next three seasons with NBC in advance.
Although the audience rating of "Survivor" is higher than "who will be a millionaire", the scale of one issue per week and 13 issues per season does not occupy a large share in NBC programs. NBC also did not appear ABC so strong rebound.
After discussing the negotiation plan with ABC, Simon just hung up the phone, but this time the bell rang.
Once again, Sophia Fisi called from Florence, Italy, where Gucci's headquarters are.
By phone, Sofia said it had negotiated a 39% stake in Gucci and was still in contact with other members of the Gucci family.
Although the acquisition agreement was basically reached with Gucci family last time, the shares of Gucci family are relatively scattered, and the specific price and other conditions need to be discussed by Sofia and the three branches of Gucci family respectively.
Sophia also predicted that because of sufficient funds, she would probably be able to get more than 60% of Gucci's shares, which is higher than the original plan of absolute shareholding.
Simon holds the microphone in one hand and talks to Sophia on the phone. He turns to Nancy Brill's development plan of Ninja Turtle video game, and his expression is a little surprised.
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A dock in southern Melbourne.
After three days of shooting, "Batman" finally ended the film's first fight.
The plot begins with five consecutive murders in Gotham. Some of the victims are shot, some have their necks broken, and some have been bitten by animals. Batman pursues according to the clues. When Vicky Val, a female reporter of the Gotham times, is about to be murdered, Batman successfully rescues her and tracks her along the sewer to an abandoned Wharf on the edge of the city.
The murderer showed his true face. It turned out that he was a huge, scaly, crocodile like monster with sharp teeth.
After a hard fight, Batman finally subdued the crocodile.
At the same time, Vicky Waal, who was in the initial stage of panic, called the police, and director Gordon, who was also closely pursuing the recent murders, personally led the team to the dock. Because of the arrival of the police, Batman had no time to interrogate the crocodile man, so he had to escape ahead of time.
This action play is followed by a text play, which is also the first official contact between director Gordon and Batman.
The recent start of the night drama shooting from 6 pm to 2 am, is still eight hours. It's Midsummer in the southern hemisphere, and the sky is very long, but usually after the preparations for shooting are completed, the night has already come.
It's already one o'clock in the morning, after the previous action play. The scene doesn't need to change too much. The police are picking up the debris in the original site. Director Gordon is reminded to go to a nearby warehouse.
The setting here has been completed ahead of time. Simon has a simple communication with two actors, Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones, and the shooting begins.
All the actors who had been buried in advance started to move with the playing board down.
Director Gordon hesitated to the street lamp in front of the warehouse, while Batman squatted on the edge of the warehouse roof, most of his body covered with a cloak. The composition of the camera has a clear moral, director Gordon and Batman, one in the light, one in the dark.
Feeling a slight noise overhead, Sheriff Gordon looked up and finally saw the "wanted man" he had been pursuing for a long time.
After a brief confrontation, Gordon said, "well, although But you did a good job
Batman didn't mean to say hello to Gordon. His voice was calm and cold. He said, "do you find any connection?"
Gordon nodded: "including Vicky Val, three journalists have been attacked in the last week. There must be something going on in the city. Someone wants to cover it up. "
Batman pauses and doesn't tell Gordon that he's actually found five related murders. He just says, "I need a trial report on that crocodile."
"I'm not going to work with the wanted," Gordon blurted out. Aware of Batman's hesitation, he asked, "do you know anything else?"
Batman said, "I will not cooperate with the police."
Gordon frowned: "then why do you think I'll give you the report?"
"Tomorrow night at 12 o'clock, still here."
Gordon moved in place, as if thinking about how to gain some initiative. After a short trance, he looked up again and the figure on the roof had disappeared.
“CUT！”
Simon behind the monitor raised his hand slightly and began to play back the video.
Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones soon got together.
"The mood is not in place yet," Simon explained to Tommy Lee Jones by pressing the replay himself. "Tommy, this conversation means that you two have formed some potential tacit understanding unconsciously, so the rhythm needs to be controlled. In addition, the little action you just made is too deliberate. Adjust it next time. "
What Simon needs is a kind of feeling. Naturally, he can't tell them how to act in detail, so they have to figure it out by themselves.
After a brief discussion, the two actors made a little preparation and began shooting for the second time.
Bruce Wayne is basically in Batman state with three no attributes. He doesn't have high requirements for Adam Baldwin's acting skills. Tommy Lee Jones is also a veteran actor for many years. Therefore, after shooting several pictures in succession, Simon got the satisfactory effect he needed.
At two o'clock, the crew finished work on time.
Simon went to bed at about three o'clock in the morning, had breakfast at nine o'clock the next morning, and went back to his study in his hotel suite.
Her main job is to keep in touch with the two companies in North America. She doesn't have to stay up late with Simon on set. Simon enters the study, and the female assistant has prepared the documents he needs to review today.
"We have successfully established 5000 long contracts of Nikkei 225 index futures in Osaka and Singapore commodity futures exchanges. The opening index is about 31200 points. The average single hand margin is US $25300, and the total margin payment is US $126 million. Dad thinks that the company only needs to reserve 50 million US dollars to resist risks, so it can add another 1000 hands to build a position. "
The original S & P 500 futures, 10 times leverage, a single margin of about $15000.Nikkei 225 index futures are still 10 times leverage. However, the contract multiplier of this index futures is 1000 yen, which means that the book value of each contract held by Westeros is 31.2 million yen.
In recent years, the yen has continued to appreciate against the U.S. dollar, and the recent exchange rate has reached 123 to 1. After the conversion of 31.2 million yen, it is approximately 250000 US dollars, and the 10% margin ratio is 25000 US dollars.
Simon listened to Jennifer's introduction and looked through the papers in his hand.
In the past two weeks, the growth rate of Nikkei 225 index has accelerated significantly. In December last year, when the Nikkei 225 index broke through 30000 points, the growth rate of that month was only 623 points. However, in the last two weeks, the Nikkei 225 index has risen a full 860 points, or 2.7%.
I don't know if someone heard the news and began to follow the approach.
At present, the funds that westero can freely use are only 200 million US dollars just transferred from danielis entertainment. The planned 5000 hand built warehouse is completed, and the remaining funds are only 70 million US dollars. Simon is not as clear about the trend of the Japanese stock market in the next year as that of the North American stock market in October of the previous year. Therefore, he must not fill his position. He also needs to reserve a sum of money to resist the risk of margin call.
After rough calculation, according to the current position ratio, if the Nikkei 225 index can still reach the original high of 38000 points in time and space. In theory, excluding the stock index futures trading tax and high capital gains tax in the Japanese market, westero's 200 million dollar principal will probably double at the end of the year, achieving 100% net profit.
Compared with the one two years ago, 100% net profit is not a good business. Simon can actually make so much money in a year if he makes other investments based on the information in his memory.
Now, for example, I'm buying shares in Columbia Pictures.
In 1988, Columbia released 15 films, but the box office was only $88 million. Yes, 15 movies, 88 million, with an average box office revenue of less than $6 million per movie.
Samsung pictures, a joint venture between Colombia and HBO, although the annual Box Office figures are better, the total box office of the same 15 films in 1988 was only $198 million. It is said that the accumulated loss of Samsung pictures in the five years since its establishment has exceeded 500 million US dollars. In order to cover up this fact, time group, the parent company of HBO, even has to allocate the losses to other departments through financial means.
Although the news of Sony's possible acquisition of Colombia has been spread, the share price of Colombia is still falling due to the poor performance of the studio, and the share price of Coca Cola group, which holds 49% of shares in Colombia, has fallen.
Columbia Pictures now has a market value of only $1.6 billion, and its debt ratio has reached 100%. If it falls further, it will be insolvent.
However, Simon clearly remembers that Sony's acquisition of Colombia in the second half of the year resulted in a transaction price of $3.4 billion, more than doubling. Moreover, Sony also took on all of Colombia's $1.6 billion debt, bringing the total amount of the whole deal to $5 billion.
If Simon enters the market to buy Columbia Pictures shares now, he will be able to double the profits in the second half of the year, and the risk will be lower.
However, because of being in Hollywood, Simon's doing so will certainly lead to unnecessary speculation and even be subject to insider trading investigation.
With Ivan bosky, Michael Milken and a large number of arbitrage tycoons who had been dominating Wall Street for many years before falling down one after another, gaining enough reputation, the complacent federal investigation agency certainly hopes to bring Simon westrow, a big fish with a more bizarre track of sudden wealth, into the net.
As a result, seeing many stock arbitrage opportunities such as the recent acquisition of Reynolds nabesk and Sony's acquisition of Columbia in the next few months, Simon has restrained himself.
Although they disagree with most hedge funds on Wall Street who are bearish on the Japanese stock market, there is no such risk of making money through the Japanese stock market.
To suppress the rise of Japan is entirely the "political correctness" of the United States in recent years.
Of course, the profits generated by speculating in Nikkei 225 index futures may not come from Japan, but this is not something Simon needs to consider.
Thinking about it in his mind, Simon heard Jennifer convey James Leibold's advice, thought about it and quickly said, "yes."
Position increased to 6000 hands, the risk is still controllable. Even so, however, the expected return is still hard to satisfy Simon's appetite.
Money is still a big problem.
Simon does not intend to speculate in stock index futures by means of loans. It is unlikely that he will get loans for this reason, and he will not allow himself to take such risks.
Thinking about this, Simon suddenly remembered something. He looked up and asked Jennifer, "is your father still in the company?"
Jennifer nodded: "it's six o'clock in the afternoon in New York, but dad is still there. When you have breakfast, Dad calls and says he'll wait for you."The assistant picked up the phone on the desk, skillfully dialed a series of numbers, and then handed the receiver to Simon.
After the reduction of Motorola's shares, the number of listed technology companies held by westero is 25, of which 16 have board seats, and the other 9 only hold shares and do not join the board.
At the beginning, in order to avoid implicating the whole technology stock market in the process of reducing Motorola's holdings, westero company issued a one-year non reduction statement for companies that did not join the board of directors and a three-year non reduction statement for companies with board seats.
One year after the announcement, Simon can now raise more funds for the operation of the Japanese stock market by reducing some of his technology stocks.
I talked to James Leibold on the phone for half an hour. They roughly determined a plan to reduce their holdings of six stocks, three of which have performed poorly in the past year, and three of which Simon has long confirmed that they will reduce their holdings, such as apple.
Simon gave up joining Apple's board.
When westero bought Apple during the stock market crash, the company's market value was about $3 billion, with a total investment of $150 million. With the small-scale increase in holdings last year, the shareholding ratio just exceeded 5%.
Recently, Apple's market value has increased to US $5.3 billion, and the book profit of westero's shares exceeds 75%, with a total value of US $260 million.
Although Apple's market capitalization is expected to exceed $7 billion in the next few years, Simon doesn't intend to wait any longer. Of course, he did not want to sell all of them in the short term. About 5% of the shares held by a listed company is already a large proportion. If he sells too much at one time, it will definitely have a serious impact on Apple's shares.
However, a total of six stocks, even if westero company issued a reduction statement will have a certain impact on the stock price, it can easily cash out $300 million in the next month. After the financial audit, Denise entertainment can transfer another part of the funds to Westeros.
With a principal of more than $500 million, Simon can safely increase his position in Nikkei 225 index futures to 15000 hands.
Although more can be invested, Simon also intends to stop there.
After the next month's cash out, when the stock market is slightly stable, westero will continue to reduce its holdings, but Simon plans to use the surplus funds to increase the shares of Microsoft, Intel and other companies.
The long-term return of this part of investment is actually more huge.
After hanging up James Leibold's phone, Simon began to look through several documents sent by Denise entertainment.
After watching Robert egger's report on ABC's request for Denise entertainment to drastically reduce its bid for the second season of who's going to be a millionaire and participate in the placement of advertising, Simon called Los Angeles again.
It's just over three o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles. It's working time.
Denise entertainment can make $250 million from the first season of who's going to be a millionaire, but ABC can only get $80 million. Although Simon very much hopes that this profit distribution pattern will continue, he also knows that it is impossible.
The company took advantage of the Hollywood writers strike last year, and ABC will not make such a mistake again this year.
Fortunately, danielis entertainment has negotiated the contract for the next three seasons with NBC in advance.
Although the audience rating of "Survivor" is higher than "who will be a millionaire", the scale of one issue per week and 13 issues per season does not occupy a large share in NBC programs. NBC also did not appear ABC so strong rebound.
After discussing the negotiation plan with ABC, Simon just hung up the phone, but this time the bell rang.
Once again, Sophia Fisi called from Florence, Italy, where Gucci's headquarters are.
By phone, Sofia said it had negotiated a 39% stake in Gucci and was still in contact with other members of the Gucci family.
Although the acquisition agreement was basically reached with Gucci family last time, the shares of Gucci family are relatively scattered, and the specific price and other conditions need to be discussed by Sofia and the three branches of Gucci family respectively.
Sophia also predicted that because of sufficient funds, she would probably be able to get more than 60% of Gucci's shares, which is higher than the original plan of absolute shareholding.
Simon holds the microphone in one hand and talks to Sophia on the phone. He turns to Nancy Brill's development plan of Ninja Turtle video game, and his expression is a little surprised.
A dock in southern Melbourne. After three days of shooting, "Batman" finally ended the film's first fight. The plot begins with five consecutive murders in Gotham. Some of the victims are shot, some have their necks broken, and some have been bitten by animals. Batman pursues according to the clues. When Vicky Val, a female reporter of the Gotham times, is about to be murdered, Batman successfully rescues her and tracks her along the sewer to an abandoned Wharf on the edge of the city. The murderer showed his true face. It turned out that he was a huge, scaly, crocodile like monster with sharp teeth. After a hard fight, Batman finally subdued the crocodile. At the same time, Vicky Waal, who was in the initial stage of panic, called the police, and director Gordon, who was also closely pursuing the recent murders, personally led the team to the dock. Because of the arrival of the police, Batman had no time to interrogate the crocodile man, so he had to escape ahead of time. This action play is followed by a text play, which is also the first official contact between director Gordon and Batman. The recent start of the night drama shooting from 6 pm to 2 am, is still eight hours. It's Midsummer in the southern hemisphere, and the sky is very long, but usually after the preparations for shooting are completed, the night has already come. It's already one o'clock in the morning, after the previous action play. The scene doesn't need to change too much. The police are picking up the debris in the original site. Director Gordon is reminded to go to a nearby warehouse. The setting here has been completed ahead of time. Simon has a simple communication with two actors, Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones, and the shooting begins. All the actors who had been buried in advance started to move with the playing board down. Director Gordon hesitated to the street lamp in front of the warehouse, while Batman squatted on the edge of the warehouse roof, most of his body covered with a cloak. The composition of the camera has a clear moral, director Gordon and Batman, one in the light, one in the dark. Feeling a slight noise overhead, Sheriff Gordon looked up and finally saw the "wanted man" he had been pursuing for a long time. After a brief confrontation, Gordon said, "well, although But you did a good job Batman didn't mean to say hello to Gordon. His voice was calm and cold. He said, "do you find any connection?" Gordon nodded: "including Vicky Val, three journalists have been attacked in the last week. There must be something going on in the city. Someone wants to cover it up. " Batman pauses and doesn't tell Gordon that he's actually found five related murders. He just says, "I need a trial report on that crocodile." "I'm not going to work with the wanted," Gordon blurted out. Aware of Batman's hesitation, he asked, "do you know anything else?" Batman said, "I will not cooperate with the police." Gordon frowned: "then why do you think I'll give you the report?" "Tomorrow night at 12 o'clock, still here." Gordon moved in place, as if thinking about how to gain some initiative. After a short trance, he looked up again and the figure on the roof had disappeared. CUT Simon behind the monitor raised his hand slightly and began to play back the video. Adam Baldwin and Tommy Lee Jones soon got together. "The mood is not in place yet," Simon explained to Tommy Lee Jones by pressing the replay himself. "Tommy, this conversation means that you two have formed some potential tacit understanding unconsciously, so the rhythm needs to be controlled. In addition, the little action you just made is too deliberate. Adjust it next time. " What Simon needs is a kind of feeling. Naturally, he can't tell them how to act in detail, so they have to figure it out by themselves. After a brief discussion, the two actors made a little preparation and began shooting for the second time. Bruce Wayne is basically in Batman state with three no attributes. He doesn't have high requirements for Adam Baldwin's acting skills. Tommy Lee Jones is also a veteran actor for many years. Therefore, after shooting several pictures in succession, Simon got the satisfactory effect he needed. At two o'clock, the crew finished work on time. Simon went to bed at about three o'clock in the morning, had breakfast at nine o'clock the next morning, and went back to his study in his hotel suite. Her main job is to keep in touch with the two companies in North America. She doesn't have to stay up late with Simon on set. Simon enters the study, and the female assistant has prepared the documents he needs to review today. "We have successfully established 5000 long contracts of Nikkei 225 index futures in Osaka and Singapore commodity futures exchanges. The opening index is about 31200 points. The average single hand margin is US $25300, and the total margin payment is US $126 million. Dad thinks that the company only needs to reserve 50 million US dollars to resist risks, so it can add another 1000 hands to build a position. " The original S & P 500 futures, 10 times leverage, a single margin of about $15000.Nikkei 225 index futures are still 10 times leverage. However, the contract multiplier of this index futures is 1000 yen, which means that the book value of each contract held by Westeros is 31.2 million yen. In recent years, the yen has continued to appreciate against the U.S. dollar, and the recent exchange rate has reached 123 to 1. After the conversion of 31.2 million yen, it is approximately 250000 US dollars, and the 10% margin ratio is 25000 US dollars. Simon listened to Jennifer's introduction and looked through the papers in his hand. In the past two weeks, the growth rate of Nikkei 225 index has accelerated significantly. In December last year, when the Nikkei 225 index broke through 30000 points, the growth rate of that month was only 623 points. However, in the last two weeks, the Nikkei 225 index has risen a full 860 points, or 2.7%. I don't know if someone heard the news and began to follow the approach. At present, the funds that westero can freely use are only 200 million US dollars just transferred from danielis entertainment. The planned 5000 hand built warehouse is completed, and the remaining funds are only 70 million US dollars. Simon is not as clear about the trend of the Japanese stock market in the next year as that of the North American stock market in October of the previous year. Therefore, he must not fill his position. He also needs to reserve a sum of money to resist the risk of margin call. After rough calculation, according to the current position ratio, if the Nikkei 225 index can still reach the original high of 38000 points in time and space. In theory, excluding the stock index futures trading tax and high capital gains tax in the Japanese market, westero's 200 million dollar principal will probably double at the end of the year, achieving 100% net profit. Compared with the one two years ago, 100% net profit is not a good business. Simon can actually make so much money in a year if he makes other investments based on the information in his memory. Now, for example, I'm buying shares in Columbia Pictures. In 1988, Columbia released 15 films, but the box office was only $88 million. Yes, 15 movies, 88 million, with an average box office revenue of less than $6 million per movie. Samsung pictures, a joint venture between Colombia and HBO, although the annual Box Office figures are better, the total box office of the same 15 films in 1988 was only $198 million. It is said that the accumulated loss of Samsung pictures in the five years since its establishment has exceeded 500 million US dollars. In order to cover up this fact, time group, the parent company of HBO, even has to allocate the losses to other departments through financial means. Although the news of Sony's possible acquisition of Colombia has been spread, the share price of Colombia is still falling due to the poor performance of the studio, and the share price of Coca Cola group, which holds 49% of shares in Colombia, has fallen. Columbia Pictures now has a market value of only $1.6 billion, and its debt ratio has reached 100%. If it falls further, it will be insolvent. However, Simon clearly remembers that Sony's acquisition of Colombia in the second half of the year resulted in a transaction price of $3.4 billion, more than doubling. Moreover, Sony also took on all of Colombia's $1.6 billion debt, bringing the total amount of the whole deal to $5 billion. If Simon enters the market to buy Columbia Pictures shares now, he will be able to double the profits in the second half of the year, and the risk will be lower. However, because of being in Hollywood, Simon's doing so will certainly lead to unnecessary speculation and even be subject to insider trading investigation. With Ivan bosky, Michael Milken and a large number of arbitrage tycoons who had been dominating Wall Street for many years before falling down one after another, gaining enough reputation, the complacent federal investigation agency certainly hopes to bring Simon westrow, a big fish with a more bizarre track of sudden wealth, into the net. As a result, seeing many stock arbitrage opportunities such as the recent acquisition of Reynolds nabesk and Sony's acquisition of Columbia in the next few months, Simon has restrained himself. Although they disagree with most hedge funds on Wall Street who are bearish on the Japanese stock market, there is no such risk of making money through the Japanese stock market. To suppress the rise of Japan is entirely the "political correctness" of the United States in recent years. Of course, the profits generated by speculating in Nikkei 225 index futures may not come from Japan, but this is not something Simon needs to consider. Thinking about it in his mind, Simon heard Jennifer convey James Leibold's advice, thought about it and quickly said, "yes." Position increased to 6000 hands, the risk is still controllable. Even so, however, the expected return is still hard to satisfy Simon's appetite. Money is still a big problem. Simon does not intend to speculate in stock index futures by means of loans. It is unlikely that he will get loans for this reason, and he will not allow himself to take such risks. Thinking about this, Simon suddenly remembered something. He looked up and asked Jennifer, "is your father still in the company?" Jennifer nodded: "it's six o'clock in the afternoon in New York, but dad is still there. When you have breakfast, Dad calls and says he'll wait for you."The assistant picked up the phone on the desk, skillfully dialed a series of numbers, and then handed the receiver to Simon. After the reduction of Motorola's shares, the number of listed technology companies held by westero is 25, of which 16 have board seats, and the other 9 only hold shares and do not join the board. At the beginning, in order to avoid implicating the whole technology stock market in the process of reducing Motorola's holdings, westero company issued a one-year non reduction statement for companies that did not join the board of directors and a three-year non reduction statement for companies with board seats. One year after the announcement, Simon can now raise more funds for the operation of the Japanese stock market by reducing some of his technology stocks. I talked to James Leibold on the phone for half an hour. They roughly determined a plan to reduce their holdings of six stocks, three of which have performed poorly in the past year, and three of which Simon has long confirmed that they will reduce their holdings, such as apple. Simon gave up joining Apple's board. When westero bought Apple during the stock market crash, the company's market value was about $3 billion, with a total investment of $150 million. With the small-scale increase in holdings last year, the shareholding ratio just exceeded 5%. Recently, Apple's market value has increased to US $5.3 billion, and the book profit of westero's shares exceeds 75%, with a total value of US $260 million. Although Apple's market capitalization is expected to exceed $7 billion in the next few years, Simon doesn't intend to wait any longer. Of course, he did not want to sell all of them in the short term. About 5% of the shares held by a listed company is already a large proportion. If he sells too much at one time, it will definitely have a serious impact on Apple's shares. However, a total of six stocks, even if westero company issued a reduction statement will have a certain impact on the stock price, it can easily cash out $300 million in the next month. After the financial audit, Denise entertainment can transfer another part of the funds to Westeros. With a principal of more than $500 million, Simon can safely increase his position in Nikkei 225 index futures to 15000 hands. Although more can be invested, Simon also intends to stop there. After the next month's cash out, when the stock market is slightly stable, westero will continue to reduce its holdings, but Simon plans to use the surplus funds to increase the shares of Microsoft, Intel and other companies. The long-term return of this part of investment is actually more huge. After hanging up James Leibold's phone, Simon began to look through several documents sent by Denise entertainment. After watching Robert egger's report on ABC's request for Denise entertainment to drastically reduce its bid for the second season of who's going to be a millionaire and participate in the placement of advertising, Simon called Los Angeles again. It's just over three o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles. It's working time. Denise entertainment can make $250 million from the first season of who's going to be a millionaire, but ABC can only get $80 million. Although Simon very much hopes that this profit distribution pattern will continue, he also knows that it is impossible. The company took advantage of the Hollywood writers strike last year, and ABC will not make such a mistake again this year. Fortunately, danielis entertainment has negotiated the contract for the next three seasons with NBC in advance. Although the audience rating of "Survivor" is higher than "who will be a millionaire", the scale of one issue per week and 13 issues per season does not occupy a large share in NBC programs. NBC also did not appear ABC so strong rebound. After discussing the negotiation plan with ABC, Simon just hung up the phone, but this time the bell rang. Once again, Sophia Fisi called from Florence, Italy, where Gucci's headquarters are. By phone, Sofia said it had negotiated a 39% stake in Gucci and was still in contact with other members of the Gucci family. Although the acquisition agreement was basically reached with Gucci family last time, the shares of Gucci family are relatively scattered, and the specific price and other conditions need to be discussed by Sofia and the three branches of Gucci family respectively. Sophia also predicted that because of sufficient funds, she would probably be able to get more than 60% of Gucci's shares, which is higher than the original plan of absolute shareholding. Simon holds the microphone in one hand and talks to Sophia on the phone. He turns to Nancy Brill's development plan of Ninja Turtle video game, and his expression is a little surprised.
