Chapter 996 Promotion
In the sixth week of its release, although "007 Spectre" was squeezed to the third place on the weekly box office list, the single-week box office still reached 15.52 million US dollars. Since the beginning of the painting, the cumulative domestic box office in more than two months is even more. As high as 247.73 million US dollars, the distance from the 300 million threshold itself is in the early 50 million, basically locking the 300 million box office club.
Daenerys Entertainment's only blockbuster movie "Sleepy Hollow", which is two weeks behind "Spectre 007", is the only blockbuster movie produced and distributed by Daenerys Entertainment in the summer. Dollar. Within a month of its release, the film grossed $129.56 million at the box office.
Obviously, the box office volume of "Sleepy Hollow" and "007 Spectre Party" are completely different from the same order of magnitude. However, the box office performance of this fantasy horror film, where every frame of the picture can be used as a wallpaper, has reached Simon's expectations. The expected domestic box office of the film has increased from the original 150 million to 170 million, and it is only the local theater release. Silk Entertainment has recovered more than 90% of the total investment of 100 million yuan, and the cumulative global box office so far, calculated, has already brought Daenerys Entertainment into a profitable stage.
After the top four, "Bird Cage", which ranked fifth on the list, fell directly into the range of 10 million US dollars in a single week, and its box office in the third week of its release was 9.07 million US dollars.
This alternative homosexual comedy starring Robin Williams has exceeded 100 million at the North American box office in the original time and space. This time, due to various reasons, the box office of the film is only 47.95 million US dollars in three weeks after its release, although the box office is expected to be around 70 million US dollars. It still exceeded the expectations of MGM, but it failed to replicate the excellent results in history.
However, "Bird Cage" also performed better at the box office than Disney's "Brave Island."
Once the three main creators left only the old 007 actor Sean Connery's new version of "Brave Island", although it still burned Disney's production budget of up to 70 million US dollars, the same release in the third week, a single week Only $8.13 million was left at the box office, and the three-week total was $46.25 million.
French Vivendi ambitiously swallowed this old film company, which can be called an American cultural icon, last year. Just like Sony, which acquired the Statue of Liberty, the cold water poured down one after another.
On July 26, a new box office week opened.
In the last box office week, because of the opening of the Olympic Games, the single-week box office volume in North America fell from 167 million to 111 million, a drop of 35%, and the impact was obvious.
The Olympic Games continue to be hot this week, and there are no commercial films with a production scale of more than 1,000 yuan in North American theaters. The only one that is relatively good is the new Coen Brothers "Frozen", a crime drama produced by Gaomen Pictures. He won the Best Director Award at the previous Cannes Film Festival, and the media reputation is very good, with 715 screens.
Entering the weekend, the Atlanta Olympics, which lasted smoothly for a week, suddenly changed.
In Atlanta's Olympic Century Park, which was specially built to welcome the Olympics, in the early morning of July 27, an open-air concert that gathered thousands of people suddenly exploded. Because the crowd was too dense at the time of the explosion, more than 200 people were injured and 11 People died directly, and in the hustle and bustle that followed, there were still people who died of serious injuries one after another.
Such a bad bombing shocked the whole world.
Clinton paid attention to the bombing overnight and asked the FBI to set up a special investigation team. Countries around the world also expressed concern and sympathy for the bombing and condemned the criminals.
Speaking of which, the bombings in the 1990s in the United States were almost one after another, such as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the Woodfield Manor bombing in 1994, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and even the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Bombings, these are only explosions with relatively large impact and casualties, and they are all within the United States.
Other than that, Simon basically knew the ins and outs of the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics as a later post.
First of all, the casualties of this explosion are obviously more than the information in Simon's memory, because in the past, the bomb backpack was discovered in advance by a patrolling policeman, but it didn't have time to detonate, but it happened during the evacuation of the crowd. The explosion, so the number of deaths was very small, this time it was not detected in advance, resulting in the direct death of more than 10 people.
Ironically speaking, the policeman who discovered the exploding backpack in advance was once slandered as a suspect, and his life was almost ruined.
Moreover, in the original time and space, the suspect in the 1996 bombing, Eric Rudolph, was not captured until 10 years later. He was a habitual offender after interrogation. The attacks on the Olympics were a protest against the deregulation of abortion by the Clinton administration.
Even if he knew the inside story, Simon just watched from the sidelines.
The several consecutive operations two years ago were all for the sake of standing up, telling some people that if they attacked the Westeros family's crooked ideas, he would not hesitate to die. Even interfering in the mid-term elections that year was actually very risky.
If he intervenes in the Atlanta Olympic bombing this time, he will definitely end up like a policeman who was wronged to the point of collapse.
As such, it is business as usual within the Westeros system.
After the chaotic and turbulent weekend, on July 29, Verizon officially announced the opening of its IPO roadshow, and the listing date was confirmed on August 15.
Because he plans to take a family vacation after Verizon's listing, and plans to stay in Australia for half a month, Simon's recent work schedule is also more full.
Busy, August is coming soon.
The first big thing in August is August 3rd
The inauguration of Yeltsin's second term.
For Yeltsin's re-election, the outside world is undoubtedly concerned about a group of Russian business oligarchs who have successfully penetrated into the Kremlin, such as Berezovsky, who is rumored to be fighting for the premiership, but Simon has noticed a detail. On the day of the inauguration, in a large group photo of the core of the new Kremlin authorities released by the Yeltsin government, a middle-aged man with a short stature and thinning hair seemed to appear casually in the corner of the photo.
Immediately came more accurate news.
On the second day of Yeltsin's inauguration, someone was on the list of the first Kremlin core list announced. Moreover, the deputy director of the Presidential Affairs Bureau, who was only the White House butler, was promoted to the deputy director of the General Affairs Bureau of the President's Office. Although the names of the two departments are similar, their powers are very different. It is the deputy director of the confidential department directly responsible to the head of state, and is also responsible for the formulation of very important foreign economic and legal policies.