Chapter 1522: Blue Sky Studio

In the study room in the front cabin of the Boeing 767, Simon bid farewell to the women after breakfast, and set off for the east coast just after 8 o'clock.

It's August 9th.

on Monday.

Simon's first focus was on last Friday's frantic release of Fight Club.

Under the high popularity brought together by intense controversy, the opening screen of 1,263 yuan, the three-day box office of Fight Club's first weekend finally reached 15.46 million US dollars, and the average box office directly broke through 10,000 US dollars, reaching the level of a blockbuster film.

According to the weekend listing, the box office of the film's complete first week will fall between 23 million and 24 million US dollars.

Compared with the box office of the original version of Fight Club in North America, which totaled just over 30 million US dollars, it is only the first week, and it is undoubtedly a very impressive start.

However, the next box office trend is actually somewhat unpredictable.

The key depends on the next week.

In the report given by the New World Pictures team, since the small number of screening screens has triggered the audience's discussion about Daenerys giving up the movie, in the next week, there will still be no more screens immediately, and it will remain at 1263 yuan. level.

On the one hand, this is to maintain the popularity of the topic, and on the other hand, it can undoubtedly achieve a hunger marketing effect. After all, the topic is so hot, but there are very few films scheduled. The more audiences can't see it, the more they want to watch it.

However, although it has only been three days since the opening of the film, the specific local box office volume can only be roughly determined by the trend of the next week, but the New World Pictures team judges that it is not easy for the film's total box office to exceed 100 million.

After all, the plot of this movie will indeed limit the audience to a large extent.

The premise of word of mouth is that people who have seen it say it is good, and then it will be passed on to those around them. If people who have seen it say they don’t understand it, or it is not as good as imagined, the result can be imagined.

Therefore, the team predicts the film's domestic box office to be somewhere between $60 million and $80 million. Of course, since the topic in North America is so hot, the overseas market may be higher, and the global market may reach 150 million US dollars.

As long as this level can be achieved, the film can basically pay back at the stage of theater distribution.

Moreover, because of the genre, the follow-up peripheral channels of this movie will happen to be very impressive.

First of all, people who like it will definitely rent videotapes or buy DVDs to watch repeatedly in the future. Secondly, people who are not willing to go to theaters to watch this movie now, after all, their fame has been hyped up, and they are likely to spend it in relatively cheap peripheral markets in the future. movie.

Therefore, the bulk of the profits will follow.

Simon also basically agrees with this idea, and has no intention of interfering in the follow-up announcement operation of the New World Pictures team.

While browsing the box office data and related reports of other projects, a girl knocked on the door and walked in.

Looking at the girl A who was wearing an ol suit as usual and putting down a stack of documents on the opposite side, Simon motioned, and Alison obediently turned to the desk.

Simon waited for girl A to approach, put his arms around her slender waist, leaned his head on the girl, felt the refreshing feminine fragrance, and immediately relaxed.

Be the absolute king?

difficult.

Girl A gently raised her hand to stroke her boss's hair, and said after a while: "Boss, why don't you change your course and go to Florida for a few days, or Europe?"

Simon shook his head: "Florida is too hot, I want to go somewhere cooler."

"Ukraine?"

"No, there's no place for women."

Girl A curled her lips, knowing that her boss had no plans to change the itinerary, so she didn't say any more.

Simon only leaned on it for a while, then let go of Girl A, and said, "Okay, let's go."

Girl A hummed and left quietly.

Simon continued to read the report in his hand before turning to the documents sent by girl a.

The first is from Latin America.

Just last week, the Brazilian currency, the real, suddenly experienced a plunge, which brought the entire Brazilian stock market and bond market into trouble.

On the surface, this can be regarded as a continuation of the 1997 financial crisis.

It's not quite over after all.

But, in fact, Simon has known this outcome for the last month.

The cause of the matter is also very simple.

Just last month, Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, held a summit led by the European Union and actively responded by Latin American countries, called the EU-Latin America Summit, to discuss strengthening economic cooperation between the two sides.

Then recently, as the largest economy in Latin America, Brazil's currency plummeted, dragging down the stock and bond markets, and even other countries.

It was almost as fast as lightning.

That's right.

Still count as another trick in the United States of America's sniping euro combo.

If the European Union wants to promote the euro, it is certainly impossible to operate on its own one-third of an acre of land, and it will inevitably require a lot of cooperative currencies. Then, I don't know what the EU countries think, and they put their thoughts on Latin America.

This is America's backyard.

They are all the flowers and plants of my family, can I let you open fields and grow vegetables here?

Think too much.

Anyway, Simon used to know about g8, g20, or Davos Forum, but he had no impression of the EU-Latin America Summit, and he didn’t know if it was canceled quietly later, or it was just reduced to a formality. The kind where we get together to chat, drink and get down to business.

Speaking of the combination of sniping the euro, in fact, China can also be considered to benefit from it.

Although the Clinton administration has been actively promoting China's accession to the WTO, the conservative U.S. Congress has always opposed it.

This year, however, there is suddenly less opposition.

Why?

It's very simple, worrying that a market like China with a population of 1.2 billion will completely turn to the EU.

However, while taking advantage of the process of entering the market, Simon also knows that in order to join the WTO, China finally adopted a monetary policy that anchored the US dollar to a certain extent, and actually paid a considerable hidden price.

I won't say much about this.

Going back to the plunge of the Brazilian currency, Simon understands that in order to make Latin America more honest and stop making troubles that should not be caused, the Federation's methods against that side will not stop there, and must be taught an unforgettable lesson. So this is just the beginning.

Therefore, after reading the information, Simon typed a simple reminder on the keyboard next to him, asking Girl A to send the information to Australia, reminding Anthony to keep an eye on the economic situation in Latin America and continue to buy various cores in Latin America at the right time. mining assets.

After finishing this, Simon put the documents in front of him aside and took another one.

from China.

In addition to some daily routines of the major investment projects, there are two other things that Simon paid special attention to, both related to the film and television industry.

Speaking of it, Simon has always wanted to let go, but unfortunately it is obviously impossible.

Just like some time ago, when Ren Jingxi sent an email to ask for advice, Simon couldn't hold back, and typed thousands of words eloquently.

Simply follow the trend.

There are two things this time. One is that the authorities officially issued a document in response to the petitions of people in the Hong Kong film and television industry, agreeing to open the mainland film market to Hong Kong. One of the main conditions is that Hong Kong films in the mainland can enjoy the same The status of the film is no longer treated as an imported film.

However, compared with the mainland's complete liberalization of Hong Kong films after the previous petition, this opening is not too big.

First of all, it is still limited to the field of movies.

In terms of TV, the original ban on entertainers from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan has not been lifted this time.

Secondly, although enjoying the treatment of domestic films, in terms of distribution, Hong Kong companies still need to cooperate with mainland film companies that have distribution qualifications, and they are not allowed to directly carry out distribution business in the mainland.

Obviously the result of a game.

The game between high-level and industrial levels.

After all, Simon believes that the top management in the mainland does not lack the courage to completely open up to Hong Kong. After all, for Hong Kong, the mainland has really taken care of it. Not only does it not pay a penny of tax, but it keeps it for its own use, and it also transports various supplies. According to the current situation, even a poor mother who is not fully fed herself will let her son with a rich family eat more after scraping the bottom of the pot.

Of course, if you are not familiar with it, you are not familiar with it.

Not much to say.

As for this matter, a poor mother has more than one son, so of course she can't tolerate my mother's blind favoritism.

This is the reason for this relatively compromised plan.

Even so, it is obvious that in the next few years, the Hong Kong film and television industry will collectively enter the mainland as it did before, and things have not been done very well, but there have been a lot of bullshit.

Not much to say about this.

The second thing is that the film distribution qualifications are officially opened to the private sector.

Unlike in 1999, when only one Bona obtained the private issuance qualification, this time the first batch was three, and Jinshu successfully occupied one, and the other two, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai, according to the information, how many It still has some state-owned background.

In fact, Simon also knew from the very beginning that distribution in mainland China was no longer a problem from a very early stage, and there was nothing more than a countermeasure.

This time it was put on the table.

Of course, there must be a lot of benefits, at least first remove the uncertainty of buying a factory label from a state-owned studio in the past. After all, it is not compliant, and when it comes to money, it is still a lot of money, and it is inevitably messy.

Now, qualifications are officially released, and it is not so easy to go back to the past.

Handling work emails like this, time flies by.

When the Boeing 767 landed at JFK International Airport in New York, due to the time difference, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon on the east coast.

Simon didn't start his schedule right away, and went back to his home in Westeros Mansion first.

Speaking of which, entering August, the recent summer vacation is coming to an end, and the two Jennys and a group of little guys will return to Los Angeles again during this period. Although there is no shortage of private schools that can be entered at any time, whether it is two mothers or a group of The children are more used to the environment over there.

After a night of rest, Simon continued to spin the next day.

Mainly one thing here this week: opening a second animated film studio.

It starts with Pixar first.

Simon has absolutely no problem with the quality of Pixar's animated films, but the problem is that Pixar's production schedule is really low.

Simon also tried at first, increasing production by increasing the size of the team and so on.

Right now, it's not a success.

Just like the last two animated movies, the last Bugs story was at the end of 1997, and this one, Cars, was at the end of 1999, a full two years apart.

Although the next project will be faster, such as

Immediately after next year, Finding Nemo will be completed, and Monsters, Inc., which has already established a project, will also be released in 2002.

Calculated, in fact, about one and a half years.

In fact, Simon himself is absolutely unwilling to see Pixar's pursuit of production at the expense of quality. In this case, the best way is of course to open up another battlefield.

There was a goal early on.

The former Blue Sky Studio.

The blue sky studio in the original space-time did not release its first animated film Ice Age until 2002, but in fact, this company was established very early in the 1980s. It mainly made CG advertisements in the early days, and later Dabble in special effects.

Because it was established early, it escaped the interference of Simon, a big butterfly. Although its development in recent years has inevitably deviated from the previous track, it still exists and develops well.

Simon had someone investigate and found that Chris Wedge, who was once the core of Ice Age, was also there this time.

Then it's not a problem.

As for the possibility of inspiration due to changes in time and space, this is not a problem, Simon is the least lacking in inspiration. After all, Pixar has always been dominated by Simon's "inspiration".

Because it has paid attention to it very early, under the quiet leadership here, Blue Sky Studio has completed its first animated short film in the first half of the year.

That's right, that squirrel.

Simon quietly asked people to send the idea to Blue Sky Studios, and personally gave the initial shape of the pine tree, and the director also chose Chris Wedge.

This time it is a further step forward.

First, complete the acquisition.

However, it is not Daenerys' acquisition, but the acquisition of the brand new 20th Century Fox that has basically completed three mergers.

Simon's intention is to increase Hollywood's animated film output, but not necessarily to dramatically increase Daenerys' animated film output.

All right.

This obviously involves the issue of layout.

In any case, if Blue Sky Studios is handed over to the brand-new 20th Century Fox, some future cooperation, such as peripherals, will definitely be fruitful, and the first choice must be its own Hasbro and the like.

Furthermore, Simon does not want to affect the style of animated films produced by Daenerys because of the joining of Blue Sky Studios, and even cause troubles for the audience.

Whether it's Blue Sky Studios, or some of the classic animated movie ideas planned, at least in terms of scale, there is certainly no Pixar's all-ages G-level. For example, Shrek, whose copyright was taken by Simon a long time ago, this anti-fairy tale is definitely not suitable for Pixar. Next, it is undoubtedly very suitable for Blue Sky Studios.

Similarly, with competition, Simon feels that the Pixar team will also increase some pressure, and only with pressure can there be motivation.