Chapter 1331: Find Out
After the global box office exceeded 1 billion US dollars, in the complete box office week from February 27 to March 5, the domestic single-week box office of "Titanic" was 23.16 million US dollars, with a cumulative total of 504.11 million US dollars. At the same time, the film's overseas box office receipts for a week are estimated to be about 71 million US dollars, making the total overseas box office continue to rise to 535 million US dollars.
Daenerys Entertainment has seized on the moment with yet another massive promotion for Titanic.
As the news spread that the film's global box office exceeded 1 billion, coupled with the film's still rapid box office growth momentum and the approaching Oscar, and even the entire Westeros system spared no effort to build public opinion, it became a media hot spot all over the world for a while. The focus of the discussion, in turn, further promoted the popularity of this movie.
Under the influence of the hotspot effect, in every corner of the world, many people who do not often go to theaters have started to buy tickets to enter the theater, and there are many movie fans who have watched the movie many times because of their love for the movie.
On the other hand, the brilliance of "Titanic" did not completely cover up the brilliance of other films in the same period.
The second pseudo-documentary film "The Blair Witch" also produced by Daenerys Entertainment, after its release on February 6, not only overturned the "Titanic" on the ground in the first week of its opening, but also in the shadow of the big ship recently. The downward trend is also quite stable.
In the fourth week of release from February 27 to March 5, "The Blair Witch", a low-budget horror film with a budget of only US$1 million, still earned US$14.93 million in a single week. In recent months, the cumulative box office reached 98.65 million. US dollars, breaking 100 million is imminent. At the same time, it will also become the first film in North America in 1998 with a domestic box office of over 100 million.
Just in China, the cost-to-return ratio of the box office will exceed 100 times, even if it is far less than the volume of "Titanic", the touch it brings to Hollywood is not weak at all.
Because no one dares to easily spend 200 million to make another "Titanic", but to spend 200 million to make 200 "The Blair Witch", too many people are absolutely willing to take this risk, even if only a few of them reach the level of "The Blair Witch". "The results are not bad. Therefore, the topic of pseudo-documentary films that cooled down slightly after the release of "Ghost Story" last year reached the highest level again.
Friday, March 6.
A new box office week begins. It is worth mentioning that Blockbuster, which has a close relationship with Daenerys, and New World Pictures jointly launched a reboot of the popular "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series in the 1980s, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Street: Homecoming.
Compared with the low-cost strategy that the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series has always adhered to, most of the previous film production costs were less than 10 million U.S. dollars. This latest reboot, which uses a lot of cg special effects, finally invested 25 million U.S. dollars, compared with The original budget of 15 million US dollars when Nancy first proposed to Simon was increased by 10 million, because the budget was overrun, and the project changed from a sole production of Blockbuster's production department to a cooperation with New World Pictures.
Furthermore, the publicity budget this time has reached 10 million U.S. dollars, with a total cost of 35 million U.S. dollars.
Compared with the current Hollywood film production investment that is generally rising, the total budget of 35 million US dollars is actually not high. Because of the popularity of this series, the production team is also quite optimistic about achieving profitability. At worst, the follow-up video tapes and TV channels are also sufficient. Pay for itself, after all horror movies have always been big in home entertainment.
In addition, choosing an unpopular schedule like the beginning of March is also due to various considerations such as the size of the project.
After all, the reputation of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is based here. Instead of squeezing popular schedules, it can attract more audiences. Of course, this time there was some miscalculation. The schedule was set last year. No one expected that "Titanic" would be so popular, and "The Blair Witch" is more or less a dark horse of the same type of horror movie.
In any case, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Return" was released on time on March 6, with 2,562 screens opened.
Fortunately, it turned out not bad.
Three days after the first weekend of painting, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Homecoming" earned a box office of 16.91 million US dollars. It is expected that the box office will be around 25 million US dollars for a full week, and the total local box office is expected to be between 40 million and 50 million US dollars.
Forty to fifty million domestic box office, not to mention "Titanic", it is difficult to beat "The Blair Witch", and it is difficult to recover the cost in local theater distribution.
However, this is actually the normal state that Hollywood movies should have.
The domestic income is 40 to 50 million. If the overseas performance is better, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Homecoming" may even hit the world to break 100 million. This must have achieved profitability, which is a good success.
Monday, March 9.
new week.
Simon arrived at Daenerys Studios in the morning. After a week of regular high-level meetings, he paid a little attention to the box office data of the past weekend, and started another meeting with Nancy and the Daenerys record team in charge to discuss the acquisition of Polygram Progress, according to the news from Washington and Europe, there are basically no obstacles to this merger at the government review level, so the actions after the merger can be formally considered.
After the meeting, Simon took time to check with Barry Weiss, who is in charge of the teen-pop business under the Record Group, the latest group that is about to be launched under the Infinity Records label in charge of the other party: the Spice Girls.
It was an idea Simon had floated last year, and Barry Weiss had promised to finish it this spring, and the plan has been well underway.
A whole different mix of Spice Girls.
There are still five girls, even if the current political correctness in the United States is not so serious, the "Friends" that later made the main creator cry and repent
All the protagonists are white, but the five girls are quite correct, three white, one Latino, and one black. The first single to be released is still provided by Simon More Memory, the original version of "Annabe" that once made the Spice Girls a hit.
After a brief meeting with five girls, and watching "Annabe", which was also shot in the same way as before, the time has come to noon.
Simon's energy for this project is limited to this.
What happens next is up to fate.
In fact, they found the right godfather of American teen-pop in history and gave them enough support. The development of Daenerys Records in this part of the business has been quite impressive in recent years.
In addition to the Spice Girls this year, Christina Aguilera will also debut.
After Britney was out because of the incident last year, Simon planned to turn Christina Aguilera into a hybrid of Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne. Goblins also have this potential. Of course, the weight must be controlled well, and the genie in the bottle cannot become the genie in the barrel.
Things are a little extra today.
After a busy day, when I get home, there will be a video conference with Australia after dinner.
Discuss the situation in Africa.
Rwanda has recently reached an agreement with Johnston Holdings to jointly invest in the mining of a diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to preliminary survey estimates by a team sent by Australia, a diamond mine in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is expected to be mined for more than 10 years , at least $2 billion worth of rough diamonds can be produced.
However, on closer inspection, this is actually just an addition.
The government of Rwanda wants support from the Westeros system to expand into the DRC.
Not only in terms of funds, but also in terms of public opinion, the Westeros system can use a lot of resources to at least ensure that the international community will not send troops to interfere after the war between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As for condemnation and the like, it doesn't matter. After all, Rwanda still has some great righteousness, which is to hunt down the war criminals who were killed in the massacre a few years ago.
Simon knew that the next thing was another long-lasting African world war.
Not only Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but most of sub-Saharan Africa will be involved, and behind the scenes are Western forces that are actually waiting for a meal.
Africa is indeed rich in resources. However, as far as the Westeros system is concerned, the bulk of oil, iron ore, coal, etc. are actually not so urgent to develop, but to occupy the pits first. After all, Johnston Holdings is in Australia and Brazil has enough mines to mine for many years.
The other is the battery-related metal resources that Simon is very fancy about, which is also the focus of the next layout.
As for the consequences of the next war, Simon will not care too much this time. In the intervention in 1994, Simon didn't really want to stop some humanitarian disaster, so this time it doesn't matter if the dragon slayer becomes a dragon or something.
Simon was never a dragon slayer, always a dragon.
At the end of the meeting, Anthony Johnston also mentioned another matter. Johnston Holdings has officially issued an acquisition offer to another mining giant in Australia, BHP. .
As long as BHP is successfully annexed, coupled with Billiton that has been digested, the Johnston family will formally control a super mining giant that is even bigger than the previous 'BHP Billiton'. Johnston Holdings will be involved in all metals, such as gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, lithium, tin, etc., as well as various rare earth metals, and even coal, oil, and diamonds other than metals.
After finishing the video conference with Australia, Simon connected with Chen Qing who was in Seoul.
The wiretapping incident last weekend in San Lucas has been cleared up.
The four women are all from the same messenger, Jin Yuzhong, the head of the South Korean Daewoo Consortium.
I don't know if Jin Yuzhong underestimated the seriousness of the eavesdropping on Simon, or underestimated the contacts of the Westeros system in South Korea, so he just asked his cronies to contact two investigation and consulting companies that specialize in similar businesses. A third party was used as a springboard, and it was not too obvious to end in person.
In short, under the investigation here, the matter quickly came to light.
The intelligence team of the Westeros family in South Korea also obtained the exact recording of Jin Yuzhong himself talking about this matter, because the four poor women were temporarily put on hold here, only saying that the matter failed, and probably learned something about that weekend Jin Yuzhong still yelled that it was a pity in his office, saying that next time he must arrange a secret camera.
After listening to the recording and Chen Qing's online translation, Simon inexplicably remembered the scandal where Li Kunxi was secretly filmed. Jin Yuzhong probably wanted to do this, at least to make Simon feel ashamed in Korea. After all, South Korea's national sentiment is very strong. The exposure of the incident and the pressure of public opinion may force the Westeros system to withdraw from South Korea. At least it will let the Daewoo Group, which is currently being targeted, breathe a sigh of relief.
Simon can only say that the idea is very good, but it is unrealistic.
Simon is a public figure, but at the same time not quite a public figure. Simon is not a star who needs to rely on his public image to make money, even if some negative things come out, so what? Will someone jump out and boycott the entire Westeros system, can they be boycotted? You know, this kind of thing happened once four years ago, when the Hearst Group almost exposed Simon, so what happened?
The public is always forgetful.
The public has an almost instinctive tolerance towards those in positions of power, and feels that
It is almost a matter of course for a high-ranking person to do certain things, so when things are exposed, it will not cause too many waves.
In any case, Simon originally wanted to proceed step by step for Daewoo, LG and other Korean chaebols who refused to surrender at the beginning. However, since someone is looking for death, Simon will not be polite, and directly ordered Chen Qing to take action over there to completely block the Daewoo Group and kill monkeys to make an example.
This matter is actually very simple.
For the Korean chaebol in the current situation, the most important thing is capital.
Daewoo Group, whose debt reached 70 billion U.S. dollars, is in a precarious state of capital chain.
It just so happens that Simon now wants to seal off the source of funds of a Korean chaebol, which couldn't be easier.
Not only is i’s team in Korea, which is responsible for controlling the Korean economy and allocating aid funds, completely under the control of the Westeros system, but also, as long as Simon speaks out, capital in any corner of the world, even outside of i, will no longer Easily flow to Daewoo Group.
Simon did as well.
After finishing the video call with Chen Qing, Simon directly wrote an electronic message to Girl A, asking her to make a detailed list, and then sent an ultimatum to the relevant financial institutions.
In last year's i negotiations, and the subsequent investment in South Korea, Simon brought a lot of capital to make a fortune together. Now that they have taken the benefits, those people have to listen to what Simon ordered. If you don't give face, let alone whether there will be a next time, the benefits you get this time, if Simon is unhappy, they can also make them spit it out.
Seoul, Korea.
In the mansion in Itaewon, the time difference of 17 hours in Asia is more than three o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday.
Chen Qing made an agreement with her boss, and also gave orders soon.
The first is to release the news that Jin Yuzhong tried to eavesdrop on his boss in a certain circle, and then, the relevant retaliatory measures are naturally taken for granted.
For the next hour or so, Chen Qing kept making phone calls, or summoning some people to give orders in person.
After all, it is definitely not that simple to deal with a corporate giant with a volume of tens of billions of dollars, or a local snake.
After all, land snakes are not dead snakes, they will bite people when they are in a hurry.
In the study room of the mansion villa, just after hanging up a phone call, Chen Qing's cell phone rang automatically, and when it was connected, it was Cheng Taixi who called. After hearing a few words over there, Chen Qing couldn't help raising her eyebrows, instead of being angry, she was rather interested, and even felt a little absurd.
The thing is that the shobox production company that Sung Tae Hee and the others are in charge of, was approached by a triad just before get off work.
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