#1073 Capping Ceremony

Chen Qing and Mo Yiling took advantage of the lunch to discuss some general ideas, and then it was another full afternoon of detailed discussions between the Jinshu Department team and district government officials.

The topic is the two major projects that Jinshu Film and Television City will start at the same time as the Qin Palace project, 'Ming and Qing Palace' and 'Jiangnan Fenghua'.

The Ming and Qing Palaces refer to the Hengdian project in Simon's memory, with a very simple theme, a full-scale replica of the Forbidden City. Even compared to the Forbidden City, which covers an area of ​​1,080 mu in the capital, this Ming and Qing Palace Garden project is expected to reach a scale of 1,500 mu, mainly in addition to the main palace complex of about 1,000 mu, as well as surrounding parking lots and other supporting facilities.

Compared with the simplified version of the Qin Palace, which is estimated to cost 200 million yuan, this time it will strive for excellence and the number of palace complexes will be larger. Although the project area is only 50% larger, the investment in the Ming and Qing Palaces will more than triple.

Jiangnan Fenghua is based on thousands of years of historical celebrities, literary stories, folklore, mysteries and strange things from the Jiangnan region in China to design various antique attractions, such as the 'Peach Blossom Wu' that was stripped out by Simon. It should be the very famous first among them, but the planned Taohuawu will still be built near Jiangnan Fenghua.

In the end, the core planning idea agreed on for Jiangnan Fenghua Park is 'a dream for a thousand years'. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the Two Jin Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc., will be completed with each material, and the area may reach 2,000 mu to 3,000 mu. 100 million.

In order to ensure that these projects can be launched quickly after completion, in addition to their own various operational methods, the Jinshu Department will also personally enter the market to invest in a large number of domestic TV dramas that are in high demand at this time, of course, mainly the type of ancient costumes. In addition, as a peripheral package, in addition to the registered Jinshu artist agency company, Jinshu restaurant and hotel group, etc., the Jinshu Department will also set up Jinshu Performing Arts School, Jinshu Special Effects Company and other related companies.

After finishing this matter, Chen Qing only stayed in Suzhou for one day, and then transferred to Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively. First, he followed up on several recent major investment projects of the Westeros system in China, and then met with the upcoming China Telecom roadshow team. Hong Kong converged and officially set off on December 2. The first stop was London, which opened the China Telecom IPO roadshow that will be listed in Hong Kong and New York at the same time with a valuation of 20 billion US dollars.

at the same time.

North America.

Thanksgiving is later this year on November 28.

This festival, the Westeros family spent in the northern suburbs estate of Greenwich, Connecticut on the east coast. In addition to the more festive atmosphere on the east coast because of the distinct seasons, there is also the Westeros Building which is determined to be held on December 5th. For the capping ceremony, both Simon and Janet hope to board the long-awaited tallest building in the world as soon as possible.

On the other hand, the North American media has paid the most attention recently, or the 1996 Thanksgiving holiday.

During the high-profile Thanksgiving week from November 22 to November 28, "Wonder Woman 2", which is unrivaled in popularity and reputation, has no suspense, whether it is the previous "Magic Slam Dunk" and so on. The old film is still stuck in the live-action adaptation of Disney's old animated film "101 Dalmatians", which was released on the day before Thanksgiving on November 27, and has become a complete supporting role in front of "Wonder Woman 2".

In the first week of the filming, after achieving the first three-day box office breakthrough of 100 million dollars with 107.15 million US dollars, the complete first-week box office of "Wonder Woman 2" finally reached 153.37 million US dollars, and all 10 films in the dc movie universe have been released. Among the movies, it was second only to the $177 million in the first week of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", which created a super box-office miracle last Christmas.

In the face of the impact of "Wonder Woman 2", "Star Trek 8", which ranked second on the list, plummeted from $34.67 million last week to $15.94 million, a drop of 54%. The two-week box office has surpassed the 50 million mark, reaching $50.61 million.

Followed closely, the third-place "Slam Dunk" also fell by 41% in the second week of its release, because the opening box office base was not high, and the box office in the next week was only 14.79 million US dollars. The two-week total of $39.93 million at the box office made Warner Bros., who bet on a production budget of $80 million, burst into tears.

Fourth place is Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

As Disney's main blockbuster at the end of this year, this classic animation adaptation of a live-action film cost 75 million US dollars, a complete blockbuster level. It also invited the popular "Home Alone" despite its obvious decline in recent years. " series creator John Hughes served as writer and producer.

Because of the huge cost and the fact that it is a family-friendly movie limited to a festive atmosphere, Disney struggled between the two schedules at the end of the year, and finally chose the release date of November 27. After all, although the Christmas file is more in line with the theme, there are quite a few films shot in "Wonder Woman 2" that choose to avoid Thanksgiving and get together for Christmas, and the competition is not much worse than Thanksgiving. What's more, "101 Dalmatians" is also very suitable for the long-term end of the year. Once the word of mouth is not good enough after Christmas, it will only be out in two weeks.

To prevent himself from repeating himself, Vivendi, who is in charge of Sony, is almost staring at the Disney team all the time. If the pot is broken, many people may lose their jobs.

As a result, when the painting was officially opened, "101 Dalmatians" was directly reduced to a failing score of only about 4 points in terms of media word-of-mouth and audience evaluation. Relying on Disney's publicity and the film's festival theme, "101 Dalmatians" barely made $10.17 million at the box office in two days, far below the Disney team's expectation of $15 million to $20 million in two days.

Moreover, the sequel to the film

Even more unpredictable.

In the same sentence, if there is no strong film competition, "101 Dalmatians" can still achieve a good long-term box office with its festival theme. Now, there is "Wonder Woman 2" before, "Jumanji" and "Jumanji" after. "Charlie's Angels", the film quality is not good, in this competitive environment, wanting to go out of the long-term is delusional.

The fifth place is still "Annabelle".

This horror film, which seems to be out of tune with the holiday atmosphere, has seen a big drop at the box office for two consecutive weeks. Following last week's 43% drop, this week's "Wonder Woman 2" also fell 39% under the strong pressure. Still, compared to other films, the conjuring cosmic horror film quietly grossed $9.45 million at the box office.

Within five weeks of its release, the film's cumulative box office reached 134.21 million US dollars, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes the first local film in the conjuring movie universe to break the target of 150 million US dollars.

On November 29, the new week, apart from "101 Dalmatians", which opened two days in advance, none of the major studios released new films. Therefore, it has also become a box office improvement or reversal for many films in the Thanksgiving schedule. Last chance.

Of course, only one "Wonder Woman 2" has tried to advance. How high the local box office of the film can eventually go, the trend of the next week is very important.

For "Sky Slam Dunk" and "Star Trek 8", the defeat is set, so only "101 Dalmatians" are expected to reverse. As long as the weekly box office can reach 30 million, it is no longer expected to be higher, and the follow-up curve will be much better.

It's a pity that some people's expectations came to nothing after the three-day weekend from November 29th to December 1st.

The first is "Wonder Woman 2", which fell by only 35% year-on-year in the next three days. It collected another 69.65 million US dollars. After 10 days of release, the cumulative box office has quickly exceeded 200 million, reaching 223.02 million US dollars.

This result also means that "Wonder Woman 2" surpasses the $371 million of the first movie, and even surpasses the domestic $416 million of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" before the Super Bat War. There is not much suspense.

The question now is whether it can break through the domestic $500 million.

If there is no "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels" in the next Christmas schedule, with the opening of "Wonder Woman 2", the probability of breaking the threshold of 500 million US dollars is very high, and now, only suspense is left.

Then came 101 Dalmatians.

As the first weekend after its release, under the pressure of "Wonder Woman 2" and the failure of word-of-mouth, the film made only $18.67 million in the three days from November 29 to December 1.

Even if calculated according to the ideal weekend and four-day box office ratio of 73%, the complete first-week box office of "101 Dalmatians" is only about 26 million US dollars, obviously not reaching the 30 million threshold expected by Disney . What's more, the data after the weekend proves that Dalmatians' weekday box office curve is even worse.

Manhattan, New York.

The Westeros Building between 59th and 60th Streets on the east side of Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side.

The time is Thursday, December 5th.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the 135th floor, the highest floor of the building, together with Simon and Janet, lifted the curtain that symbolically covered the surrounding glass windows. Starting from the start of demolition in early 1992, it took five years to build, with a bare height of 622 meters. The Westeros Tower, the world's number one building, has officially topped out.

Even if the subsequent infrastructure installations are not counted, but only the ceiling, the cost of this building, which is constructed using all the most advanced material technologies at this stage, has already exceeded the original budget of 1 billion US dollars.

Up to now, the investment figure is already 1.7 billion US dollars. It is expected that all infrastructure will be installed and laid, and the total cost will reach 2.5 billion US dollars. It is definitely the skyscraper with the highest construction cost at this stage. Thirty years later, this is definitely the case. After all, the Burj Khalifa, which was completed in 2010, cost only $1.5 billion, and the New World Trade Center in New York, which was rumored to be built with the highest safety standards in 2013, cost only $3.2 billion.

Therefore, this skyscraper, if Simon wants to talk about returns, it is basically impossible.

In fact, with Simon's net worth at this time, he didn't think about it at all.

This allows the entire building not only to be built to the highest standards, but also to be operated to the highest standards in the future.

One of the most important of these is, of course, safety standards.

In addition to the construction standards that the building itself can easily withstand natural disasters such as the largest earthquake and hurricane recorded in the history of the New York area, the security standards of the entire building in the future will also be designed in accordance with the standards of the Westeros family's private residence for a long time, such as In 1993, the explosion in the underground parking lot of the Petronas Twin Towers was stuffed with half a ton of explosives.

Since the investment standards in the building are quite harsh, Simon also plans to set a relatively low rent. The goal is only that the building's income can mainly meet the annual maintenance and tax costs. Therefore, the world's highest and most advanced skyscraper, In the future, rents will be lower than many old buildings in New York.

Of course, the premise is that you can pass the audit and be eligible to enter.

These are all later stories.

After the unveiling, Simon gave a simple speech and soon announced the start of the party.

Outside the windows, against the clear blue sky in New York in the clear winter, even if the surrounding steel beams are still exposed, and the champagne is opened, the atmosphere quickly warms up.

Simon picked up a glass of champagne, and first came to the Leibolds who attended the capping ceremony together and explained softly.

Mainly because Jennifer was on the east coast and didn't show up for this capping ceremony.

Although the female assistant must have talked about it with her parents, as a courtesy, Simon explained it again, mainly because of some safety rules that the Westeros family unknowingly formed. A yacht or something, although Janet was always reluctant to comply, the assistants and the kids never made an exception.

Since the topping ceremony of the building was not completely completed, everyone came to the roof by elevator. Even if they were cautious, it was difficult to say that it was absolutely safe.

So neither Jennifer nor the children showed up.

The James couple of course understood this, even more than Simon. After all, what Simon did was actually equivalent to fully recognizing the identity of the female assistant's family. Otherwise, if it's just a random lover by your side, where would you think so much.

So, with a few simple words, James took the initiative to turn the topic away: "I saw an article in the latest issue of "Barron's Weekly", speaking of Hollywood, "Wonder Woman 2" is another one of the world's 1 billion Top-quality movies, other Hollywood studios are generally unsatisfactory, Simon, are you sure this won't cause a backlash?"

"A backlash is inevitable, and at the last Annabelle celebration party in Los Angeles, Bob White came over and asked me to let go of the constraints on the development of DC superhero movies, although Jack personally called me to explain this. It's a matter of fact, but you can still see the attitude there, and the others are basically the same."

James asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"Do what Daenerys Entertainment should do, and then wait for other studios to make moves. Oh, in fact, it has always been like this, Daenerys Entertainment, and even the entire Westeros system, will not be because of When the external cause stops, we only need to keep our opponents far away, and it will be difficult for them to cause us trouble." Simon said here, after thinking about it, he added: "In fact, it is the eye-catching effect of "Wonder Woman 2" It's so obvious that it gives the illusion that Daenerys Entertainment has been making billion dollar movies when actually, well, even though Hollywood's billion dollar movies in recent years have been tied to the Westeros system It's related, but it's definitely not much, except for the unexpected two last year, the others are only one a year at most, and no amount of market can hold it."

After listening, James said: "This should be a public opinion point that can be operated."

Simon was stunned, then nodded: "I'll arrange it after the party."

It wasn't that James reminded me, but I didn't expect it.

Regarding the fact that Hollywood can only host at most one or two global $1 billion movies a year, it can indeed be hyped in the media and give the public a subconscious that Daenerys Entertainment is actually not that strong, even if it is obvious. The Ah Q illusion can at least make some media less jealous, so as not to add fuel to the flames.

Simon also thought of further extensions.

For example, Daenerys Entertainment's interests in the DC movie universe are actually not as high as Warner's. Therefore, the more successful the series, the more disadvantaged Daenerys Entertainment will suffer as the leader of this movie universe.

It's good to suffer.

Disadvantage is a blessing.

By doing this, some people can be psychologically balanced and the media's fueling efforts will be reduced. Then, Daenerys Entertainment can also boil frogs in warm water more safely.

As for the actual.

Next, the flames under the warm water will only get fiercer.