Chapter 1567: Let Go

In the early days of the second day, he was used to hugging left and right, but one foot was bound, and Simon kicked out subconsciously.

Amidst the woman's cries, he woke up.

There are some messes around.

Letting go of Scarlett Johansson, who was petite and cat-like in her arms, Simon sat up, only to see Demi Moore crawling up from the floor at the end of the bed with a face of pain. Seeing Simon, the woman immediately looked pitiful again, rubbing Stomach: "Simon, why did you kick me?"

"Sleepwalking." Simon gave the answer with a smile. Without disturbing the left and right, he also got out of the bed from the end of the bed. He was about to go directly to the bathroom, but when he saw the woman on the ground, he kicked him again: "Come on."

Demi Moore noticed the expression on the man's face and knew it was nothing good, but she put on a flattering smile and followed obediently.

This man is the king of Hollywood right now, even if she turned around because of The Matrix, there is no room for bargaining in front of him.

Therefore, Demi Moore also took the initiative to pester me last night, and lied that her husband went to New York to discuss the project. In fact, Bruce Willis was in Los Angeles and attended the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony together, but then Moore took the initiative to send the other party away and did not let him attend the after-hours party.

Otherwise, how can you cling to Simon Westeros.

After washing up and doing morning exercises again, I took a shower again and changed my clothes, and sat in the dining room. It was seven o'clock in the morning.

Not letting the women from last night pester him, Simon ate alone. By the way, he paid attention to the feedback of last night's Golden Globe Awards in today's media. Not surprisingly, he still couldn't escape the controversy.

For example, the double yolk eggs of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna, the Hollywood Reporter criticized the Golden Globe judges for giving up their professional standards again. After all, even if the two women performed very well, it is obvious that Catherine Zeta-Jones is more outperformed.

Speaking of which, an old man killer complained to Simon on the bed last night. However, this was the operation of the people below, and Simon didn't care about the details. As long as the general direction was okay, he didn't bother.

Then there is the best film in the drama category, which is also criticized. The focus of criticism is the Golden Globe Awards, so that the Matrix and the genius Ripley are ignored. Some media also mentioned the Lord of the Rings, which is still in theaters: The Fellowship of the Ring thinks that this movie is more capable of winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama, but it didn't even get a single nomination. It's an unjust case.

In short, Hollywood awards season has always been like this.

After breakfast, the women here were not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles. They all obviously wanted to stay here to have fun. After all, this place is too luxurious, and they don't have to spend their own money.

Simon boarded the Boeing 767 back to Los Angeles alone.

Still can't be too slack.

After the Boeing 767 took off from the airport in San Lucas, Simon started his day's work in the study in the forward cabin.

First of all, I paid attention to a business plan from China, about Jinshu’s plan to cooperate with China Film Group to establish a large chain company for sales and leasing of film and television audio-visual products. The goal is still to promote genuine products.

In the past, Simon did not remember any genuine rental chains in China, but this does not mean that there is no such market in China.

Or that shoe theory.

In fact, the shoe theory has a premise, that is, the seller must first determine whether people who do not wear shoes in a region have the ability to consume shoes. If so, it is worth promoting. Starting with shoes, it was promoted, but it was still useless.

In China, the answer to this question is yes.

China has a broad mass base for consuming genuine audio-visual products, and the number of people with consumption capacity is not small. At present, if you switch to leasing, compared with directly buying genuine CDs, the price will drop significantly, and the consumer group will definitely be larger.

Just like the later video sites.

To a certain extent, video websites can also be regarded as a kind of film and television rental, just like Netflix’s development from online physical rental to streaming media. China has not experienced the previous stage, mainly because the Chinese film industry happened to be in the 1990s. The most sluggish period.

At present, this industry has the soil for development.

Thinking of this, Simon intends to comment on the plan, except that this company can cooperate with Blockbuster appropriately, such as introducing the management system here, or, if conditions permit, directly forming a joint venture company is no problem.

In addition, the most important suggestion Simon gave there was the video website.

The youtube video website in the United States has been developing for several years, and has expanded its business to most developed countries in the West, while China, with the continuous improvement of basic network facilities, can already try to set up its own video website there.

Of course, Simon has not forgotten how the first batch of video websites in China developed.

Still pirated.

After all, it still involves resource issues. There are not enough legal resources, or even if there are enough genuine resources, the public just likes to watch various types of movies that cannot pass the censorship in the mainland. I searched for it.

This time, if we can get official support and establish the rules from the beginning, although the follow-up development will not be too easy, we will eventually be able to take the lead.

As for the follow-up, Simon is not sure.

However, there is one thing, as long as the concept is hyped up, even if it is just an IPO, at least the return on investment on the books

It will be very rich for sure.

All in all, in the current era of commercial barbarism in China, whether you want to do something or just want to make money, there are actually enough opportunities. The key is to do it and know how to do it.

Back in Los Angeles, today is already January 24th.

on Monday.

Simon arrived at Daenerys Studios directly from the airport, but the first thing he paid attention to had nothing to do with the film and television industry.

Celia Miller, who flew over from the east coast early, was already waiting here to report something to Simon. On the Eastern European side, the local time is 11 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. This morning, the Russian army completely cleared the last military stronghold on the periphery of the Chechen capital Grozny, realizing a complete siege of Grozny.

Next, unless the United States or NATO directly sends troops to Chechnya, the battle in Chechnya will basically be settled in the next half month.

Simon has been quietly paying attention to things in Russia.

During this time, something different has happened.

In the original time and space, Yeltsin should have voluntarily resigned from the Russian presidency on the last day of 1999 and promoted someone to be the acting president. Then, Russia also held a new presidential election ahead of schedule.

But this time, until now, something hasn't happened.

Simon had not had any direct contact with Yeltsin since a trip to Moscow more than a year ago to ease Russia's financial crisis. However, even half a world away, Simon can understand Yeltsin's current state of mind compared to before.

Once a certain person was handpicked by Yeltsin himself.

And this time, at least in Yeltsin's view, it was Simon who pushed him step by step.

After all, as the president of a big country, a Russian, even if he has made a statement a long time ago, even now, there is actually no way out, and Yeltsin is inevitably still hesitant.

After all, is it really necessary to sell your country completely?

Simon was right.

In Moscow, Yeltsin has been hesitant since the end of last year.

One thing, Simon only said once, was the proposal when he met Yeltsin's daughter for the first time. One of them was that Yeltsin needed to give up power in advance and let someone take over the power of the country as acting president, and then use This favorable situation to participate in the presidential election.

As the Russian army completed its siege of Grozny, the Chechen capital, Yeltsin also found himself seemingly thrust into perspective.

Over the past few years, Yeltsin has read someone's file more than once, time and time again, and I don't know how many times. Coupled with the fact that he has arranged the other party by his side in recent years, he is very sure that this is a very capable person.

If there is no Simon Westeros, Yeltsin feels that it should be a good result to hand over the country to the other party.

The problem is still Simon Westeros.

Even though the process of Yeltsin's seizure of power was not very glorious, Yeltsin himself has always been firm. He hopes that the future of his motherland will be better, and he has never had the idea of ​​bringing this great country that once competed with the United States into the abyss. .

there has never been.

Now, if one is not careful, it may be the real abyss.

This kind of entanglement and anxiety even caused Yeltsin's physical condition to deteriorate again in recent months, so that he spent most of the time lying in the hospital ward.

From January 24 when the Russian army completed the siege of Grozny, day by day passed, and a whole week of hesitation continued until the evening of January 30, when Yeltsin, who was still hanging water in the hospital during the day, suddenly returned to the Kremlin. In the middle of the night, he urgently summoned his last prime minister.

Talk all night.

The next day, January 31, a very sudden news broke and quickly spread throughout the world.

Yeltsin suddenly issued a statement. On this day, he resigned from the post of Russian president and handed over the supreme power of Russia to his own prime minister. Then, in the evening of that day, Yeltsin left the Kremlin by car and moved into a villa in the western suburbs of Moscow. .

Just like hanging a crown in ancient China, it is crisp and neat.

This time, Yeltsin didn't even notify anyone in advance, whether it was the heads of state of other countries in the world, or a certain young man who had agreed on all this at the beginning, and even Yeltsin's daughter, when his father announced the news through live TV , Only then did I know all this.

Then, a certain second daughter of the Yeltsin family whose surname was Tatyana Yeltsin, who had just ended her other marriage for the time being, was at a loss after communicating with her father who seemed to have suddenly let go of everything. A tacit understanding, tried to contact Simon.

The conversation between the two parties lasted for more than ten minutes, and Simon could feel the sudden panic of a certain woman, just to comfort her. As for the promise, frankly speaking, he really couldn't promise anything to the other party.

Because before this day, if someone was still a pawn that Simon could mobilize, after this day, many things were out of his control.

Simon didn't think about controlling it either, it was unrealistic.

Simon's original goal was to let history develop in a direction he was more familiar with, lest everything would be unrecognizable prematurely and make him at a loss.

Of course, it's impossible for Simon to be stupid enough to confess this kind of thing.

Just like someone who is temporarily in a certain position at the moment, even if the position is stabilized in the future, it is absolutely impossible to completely cut off the involvement with the Westeros system.

Because the other party is a smart person, not a fool.

Unless the Westeros system completely wants the other party to be a puppet, otherwise, it is not difficult to fight for the interests that various Westeros systems want.

On the second day of the sudden political turmoil in Russia, Simon set off again, aiming at Asia.

In China, this year's Lunar New Year falls on February 5th, so I made an appointment with Chen Qing in advance, and of course Simon will not miss the appointment.

However, the first stop was South Korea.

As usual, I paid attention to the development of a series of projects in South Korea, as well as routine inspections and declared territories.

Regarding the major pillar industries in South Korea, the Westeros system is still steadily infiltrating and controlling them step by step. Simon will only have a general understanding of things he is not familiar with, and will not rashly intervene in micromanagement.

As for the more familiar film and television entertainment.

During this period of time, South Korea can be described as very lively.

First of all, the two female high school ghost stories released on December 31, 1999, the American version of the female high school ghost talk and the Korean version of the female high school ghost talk 2, because of the extensive hype in advance, and the quality of the two films can also stand up The test, the final box office results are very good.

As of the week before Simon's arrival, four weeks after the release, the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea exceeded 2 million for two low-cost horror films in various markets.

Moreover, as expected, the Korean version of Girls' High School Strange Talk 2 is slightly better, with a cumulative viewership of 2.59 million in four weeks. It is expected that after the next Spring Festival, the number of complete viewers will easily exceed 3 million.

According to the average ticket price of about 3,500 won in South Korea, 3 million moviegoers are worth 10.5 billion won at the box office, and the production cost of Girls' High Ghost Story 2, even with the success of the first film, is still only 1 billion won. Therefore, It's just the theater stage, and this time it can make a lot of money.

Then there is the American version of Girls' High School Strange Talk, which was also released for four weeks, with a total of 2.13 million viewers, and the total number of viewers is expected to be around 2.5 million.

It is not as good as the Korean version of Girls' High School Strange Talk 2, but one thing that cannot be ignored is that this film is in South Korea, and it is profit as much as it makes. After all, the North American mainland has realized all costs and achieved profitability.

Moreover, even if the Korean version surpasses the US version, the US version of Girls' High School Ghost Story, which has already achieved a total box office of over 100 million in the world, is not comparable to the Korean version.

In addition to the two female high school ghost stories, there is also the Mingliang Sea Battle that has been in full swing recently.

It was the last of three blockbuster films originally planned.

Compared with the previous two films, The Spy and the Joint Security Area, which initially offered 10 million US dollars, it actually didn’t cost that much. This time, because it is a costume drama or a war film, it is still a naval war film that is difficult to shoot. A lot of special effects were used, and the final budgeted cost of the Myeongryang naval battle reached 16 billion won, which is equivalent to 12 million U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate of around 1300.

At present, coupled with the same huge publicity and distribution expenses, even if it still receives a large subsidy from the South Korean authorities, if the number of Korean viewers of this film does not exceed 10 million, the possibility of paying back the cost is not too great.

Fortunately, it’s not just the internal test screening of the film that has a very good reputation. In South Korea, because of the confrontation between the two female high school ghost stories, the pride of Koreans is also at the highest point. Very likely.