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Lisa Collins felt the discussion around her, got up and left the screening hall with her boyfriend with a smile on her lips.

Because of some involvement with a certain guy, she couldn't help feeling a little proud at this time, and decided to take the time to watch it again. Many details in this movie are still very memorable.

At the 9 o'clock session, the movie viewing ended, and it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night on the East Coast.

However, passing the ticket hall when leaving, Lisa noticed that some spectators who had just left were walking towards the ticket window again.

In the current time period, those people are obviously not watching another movie in a hurry, but they probably can't wait to review many foreshadowing details in the movie just now.

Most movies with plot reversals lack sufficient foreshadowing, and the plot turns will be somewhat abrupt.However, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" does not have such a problem at all. Too many details in the film clearly hint at the final ending, but it is difficult for people who don't know the ending to understand those details. After knowing the ending, everything suddenly becomes clear .

The most important thing is that all the foreshadowing and all the foreshadowing are completely integrated with the film's story, which is not deliberate and inseparable.

So, this is genius.

Lisa couldn't help thinking that some media have been bad-mouthing this movie recently, and now, Daenerys Entertainment has undoubtedly produced another classic.As for the box office, considering the viewers who are already late at night and want to relive the film immediately, this will obviously not be a problem.

It's still 8 p.m. on the West Coast.

Not too late.

So I decided to call Jenny when I went back and congratulate her.It would be even better if I could run into him with her, maybe say a few words.

When Lisa Collins finished her movie viewing, countless professional or amateur film critics in various states and counties in North America basically completed their film reviews on "The Sixth Sense".

Compared with other movies, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" undoubtedly has a natural advantage in this regard.Because only this new film started painting this week, and it is also the main creator of the high-profile Simon Westeros and Robert De Niro, it is impossible for most newspapers and media to ignore Westeros and De Niro. There is no other choice.

If everyone is swarming to discuss "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" on the entertainment page tomorrow, but there is no similar news in your own newspaper, then readers will probably think that this newspaper is out of touch with society.

This is not what newspaper operators want to see.

As a result, early on Saturday morning, almost all the key film reviews in the entertainment pages of countless newspapers in North America were related to "The Sixth Sense".

Just this is equivalent to an all-round carpet marketing with huge investment.

A large part of the reason why many big directors and stars are always more likely to succeed is that they naturally attract the attention of a large number of media and the public.Even if the quality of these people's works is not high, because the attention and popularity are too wide, the box office will generally not fail too much.If the quality is good enough, it's easy to sell well.

This is actually what people often call 'box office appeal'.

North America has formed a very complete film review system for a long time, and film critics in newspapers usually do not need to use spoilers to gain attention.Under Amy's special instructions, Daenerys Entertainment's distribution department stepped up its public relations offensive in this regard.In the end, in the film reviews of "The Sixth Sense" on Saturday, almost all film critics carefully guarded one of the film's most critical secrets while praising the film.

Of course, although there are no spoilers, compared to Daenerys Entertainment's complete secrecy during the announcement stage, film critics don't need to be so conservative.

The well-known film critic Stephen Hunter of the "Washington Post" wrote obviously very scratchingly: "With a little attention, "The Sixth Sense" will make you want to stop, this gloomy and cold film will eventually point to a you. Absolutely unpredictable ending. I really, really want to tell you guys what happened, but I can't because you're going to hate me. All I can say is, this is one movie that you absolutely shouldn't miss this year."

The "Los Angeles Times" was not as hesitant to speak as Stephen Hunter, but it also praised implicitly: "Simon Westeros has another meticulous and exquisite script. "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is definitely one I have seen One of the best endings in a movie like this."

Other influential newspaper platforms such as "Hollywood Reporter", "Variety Show", "Chicago Sun-Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", etc., in the large-length "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" film reviews, all of them are unexpected. The ending made more or less hints.

In addition to the comments on the ending of the film, under the premise of avoiding spoilers, a large number of film critics also focused on analyzing the connotation of the redemption story of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality". The performances of De Niro and Cole were also unanimously affirmed.

The actor who plays Cole is just a newcomer selected from many child stars, and the comments on acting are more inclined to Robert De Niro, an old star.

Compared with Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro put a lot of energy into the role of Dr. Crowe, just like many of the films he participated in before. He not only studied a lot of child psychology materials, but also Spent a month in a psych clinic to experience the profession firsthand.

Therefore, the series of words and deeds shown by De Niro in the film are no different from that of a professional psychologist.

The film critics of the "New York Post" unabashedly praised De Niro for once again successfully creating a screen role in a new field after "Dead Poets Society".In the article, critics also suggested that De Niro should give up his participation in the upcoming "Goodfellas" to prevent him from returning to the shackles of the image of the gangster.

Based on various media data, the score of "The Sixth Sense" has reached the best score of 8.5 since the opening of the summer file.

Prior to this, only Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" scored 8 points this summer.

For other films, "Bodyguard" was almost sprayed to death by the media, "Ghostbusters 2" also failed, and Paramount's "Star Trek 5" had a worse reputation than "Bodyguard".Last week's three new films, the well-reputed "Honey, I Shrunk the Child", had a media score of only 7.5 points, "Longwei Boy 3" was directly labeled as money-making, and "Big Fireball" passed Yes, but the box office was the worst.

Numerous cases have proved that there is no direct correlation between the box office and word-of-mouth of a movie, which also involves too many other factors such as release schedule, screen size, media popularity, and so on.However, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" not only won the highest rating in the media since the opening of the summer file, but the film's influence among the audience is also spreading very quickly.

While the media hinted at the wonderful plot of the film, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" once again had a rare word-of-mouth effect among the public. After watching the film, many viewers recommended this film to their relatives and friends with mysterious expressions. A movie with an unexpected ending.

Coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's previously spared no effort in the promotional campaign for all age groups, and the high-quality schedule of the film's exclusive hottest week of summer, all these favorable factors have been combined. After three days of filming, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is only 1673 Block Screen not only easily won the weekend box office championship, but the accumulated box office in three days was as high as 2315 million US dollars.

You know, the first seven-day box office of "Bodyguard" was only 2363 million US dollars.

The popular summer season in North America, due to the increase in the number of viewers on weekdays, the weekend box office of a movie is usually 60% to 70% of the whole week's box office.

According to this box office ratio, whether it is the box office statistics agency, the public media or Daenerys Entertainment, it is generally believed that the box office of "The Sixth Sense" will be between 3300 million and 3800 million in the first week. This is already a summer vacation. The file is second only to the opening box office data of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" and "Ghostbusters 2".

It’s just such a box office in the first week. According to the step-sharing contract signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater, “The Sixth Sense of Spirituality” is enough to recover all the production and publicity costs of the film in just seven days.

In the end, though, everyone underestimated the real box-office potential of this well-timed and well-placed film.

Because of the continuous fermentation of word-of-mouth and popularity, compared with the expected 3300 million to 3800 million, the seven-day box office figure of "The Sixth Sense" in the first week finally reached 4135 million US dollars that far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Compared with all the other summer movies that failed to get rid of the 60% to 70% box office ratio between the weekend and the whole week, the three-day box office of "The Sixth Sense" only accounted for 56% of the seven-day box office of the whole week.Driven by the continuous spread of word-of-mouth, a large number of audiences still came to watch the movie after the weekend, and the film's box office share on weekdays significantly exceeded the average data under normal circumstances.

In addition, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has also become the first film in the summer file to break through 20000 US dollars in the first week of its opening.With a total of 1673 screens, the average single-house box office earned $24716.

In comparison, in the first full week of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", the box office figure for a single venue was only US$19773, and "Ghostbusters 2", which had a larger opening screen, had a box office of US$4491 million in the first week, and the average box office for each venue was US$18635. The figure is only a lower $[-].

What's more, the opening screen numbers of "Indiana Jones 3" and "Ghostbusters 2" have already stimulated all the box office potential of the film at one time.Neither film has expanded its release in recent weeks.

Looking at "The Sixth Sense" again, the number of opening screens of this film is only 1673, which is very different from the 3 screens of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2327" and the 2 screens of "Ghostbusters 2410".The average price of the first week is close to 25000 US dollars, and a phenomenon-level movie-watching trend has also formed. Daenerys Entertainment has no reason not to increase the number of films.

According to box office data in recent weeks, the industry's forecast for the total North American box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" is about 2 million US dollars.

Many people originally thought that this movie was expected to break the "monopoly" of Daenerys Entertainment, after "Run Lola Run" in 1987 and "Rain Man" in 1988, regain the annual box office champion.Now, few people will mention such a statement again.Everyone is just paying attention to where the box office potential of "The Sixth Sense" will go with envy and curiosity.

On July 7, the release of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" entered its second week.

Due to the shortage of screen resources in the summer season, after urgent consultations with the theaters, Daenerys Entertainment barely won an additional 256 screens for "The Sixth Sense" in the new week, bringing the total number of screens to 1929.

At the same time, three new films have started painting this week, namely Warner Bros.' "Lethal Weapon 2," Fox Pictures' "The Boss Is On Vacation" and Columbia Pictures' "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

The first part of "Lethal Weapon" was an unexpected success in the unpopular schedule in March two years ago. Although the box office failed to break through 3 million, it also became Warner's highest-grossing movie that year.However, because the success of the first film was unexpected, Warner did not have 1803% confidence in this sequel, and only gave [-] opening screens.

Fox Films' "The Boss is on Vacation" is a comedy. Simon has never heard of this movie, and the number of opening screens is only 1134.

In the last "Sex, Lies and Videotape", Columbia Pictures obviously knows that the audience of this low-cost independent film will not be too wide. Although the film is likely to be favored by Westeros, Columbia has no self-confidence. Only 517 opening screens were arranged in the first week.

Of course, for literary films, such a scale of release is already very impressive.

With three new films coming, Daenerys Entertainment did not dare to take it lightly. It launched a new marketing campaign of "The Sixth Sense" and coordinated with the crew of "Goodfellas" to postpone Robert De Niro's role. Filming, so that he can continue to participate in the promotion of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", and the other main creators of the film are traveling all over North America non-stop.

Perhaps because of anticipation of the emergence of a dark horse, and to snipe at the strength of "The Sixth Sense", the North American media's attention to the three new films has also increased significantly.

After the painting started on Friday, media evaluations came out quickly.

"Lethal Weapon 2" successfully continued the excellent reputation of the first film, with a comprehensive score of 8.3 points, surpassing "Raiders of the Lost Ark 5" in May, and only 2 points lower than "The Sixth Sense".

Perhaps it is the discussion about the depraved slackers in the film that aroused emotional resonance, or perhaps it is the nature of a literary film that is easy to please film critics. "Sex, Lies and Videotape" has been unanimously praised by the media, with a comprehensive score as high as 9.6 point.

In comparison, Fox Films' "The Boss Is Going on Vacation" seemed silent and failed to pass the score, only 5.3 points, a look of self-defeating.However, as a brother comedy with gags and some criminal elements, "The Boss is Going on Vacation" also has its own fixed audience.

Three new films are released, plus many old films that are full of stamina in May and June. The seven days from July 7th to July 7th can be said to be the most competitive week for the summer vacation.

Chapter 275 The Beginning of the Story (Revised)

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The date is Monday, March 7.

In the villa on the west side of Cape Dumei, Simon woke up at six o'clock in the morning on the new week.

Last night, I talked on the phone with Janet until late to discuss the cabin design of the Boeing 767. At this time, there were still many design drawings faxed from Melbourne scattered in the bedroom.

Now that he decided to buy a Boeing 767 first, Simon contacted Boeing after returning from Melbourne last time.

However, Simon then sent Boeing sales representatives directly to Melbourne to discuss the details with Janet, and the only decision he made was the choice of aircraft.

波音767系列的最新款机型是767 300ER，西蒙选择的却是767 200ER。

The 200ER is only slightly inferior to the 300ER in terms of fuselage length and load capacity, but its cruising journey and other data are comparable to the 300ER. It can easily complete a long-distance trans-Pacific journey of more than 10000 kilometers. Simon has been renting the 200ER before.

Moreover, the most important reason why Simon chose the 200ER is that this medium-sized airliner has relatively low requirements for takeoff and landing airports. The length of the runway required for a full-load takeoff is only 1.7 kilometers, and most airports in the world can meet the requirements for takeoff and landing.In comparison, the runway length required for the 300ER to take off is 2.4 kilometers, which cannot be supported by airports in many smaller cities.During Simon's last trip to Europe, whether it was Cannes or Florence, the length of the city's airport runway was within 2 kilometers.

For the selected model, Boeing's quotation is 6000 million US dollars.

One of the first things Janet did when she approached a Boeing sales representative was haggle over the price.Simon is not the kind of big customer who orders 10 or 20 planes at one time. However, as a public figure, he buys Boeing products as private jets, but he can play a better branding role than those big customers.

Moreover, the purchase of private jets is indeed negotiable.

After negotiation, the transaction price between the two parties was finally determined to be 5000 million US dollars, almost [-]% off.Of course, this is only the price of the bare metal, and the internal equipment and decoration will be calculated separately.

Simon has never been a person who is stingy when it comes to spending money, but he hates being taken advantage of the most. He is very pleased that his wife can save the money of a top villa in this transaction.After signing the contract, including the time for assembly and decoration, the aircraft will probably be delivered in November at the end of the year.

Get dressed and get up, simply tidy up the artwork around, and the bedroom will become tidy again.

This is actually Jennifer's credit.

Janet is not in Los Angeles, and Catherine has also gone to New York. Simon is in Malibu, Palisades, Beverly Hills, and Janet's villa on the east side of Cape Dumay is all managed by Jennifer. The female assistant Take time to take someone to clean several properties once a week, and Simon doesn't need to worry about it at all.

The two properties in New York have been watched by Catherine recently. When Catherine is away, Angela Ahrendts, president of Gucci America, will be in charge.

As for Europe, after completing the acquisition of Gucci, in order to save money, Sophia originally planned to return a Falcon 50 business jet rented by the company, and in the end, in order to be able to quickly travel between different cities in Europe, in order to help Simon take care of many things. Property, this is preserved.

Janet had reminded Simon that if the house was left vacant for too long, it might become dilapidated. Now that there is regular and meticulous maintenance, Simon no longer worries about this.

Wash, exercise, shower.

seven o 'clock.

Leave the house on time.

Breakfast was at a nearby restaurant, and by the way, I had an appointment with the head of the construction team at Cape Dume Manor to discuss the construction progress of the 'Iron Man Villa'.Simon's attitude towards that villa was the same as the imagined Westeros mansion, and it was built completely according to the high specifications of the art level. He was not in a hurry, and he only pursued perfection with a slow workmanship mentality.

After breakfast, drive to Santa Monica.

Simon opened today's "Los Angeles Times" in the compartment of his car, and first looked at the cover index.

Skip words such as '"Sixth Sense of Spirituality"' and 'reverse decline', find a news headline of "The US-Iraq Business Forum Successfully Concluded", and turn directly to the international news page.

Today is the 11th day of the release of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality". Simon has already done what he can do, and the box office in the first week has reached his best expectations. He doesn't need to worry too much about the next things.

Relatively speaking, the just-concluded "US-Iraq Business Forum" is something that Simon has been paying close attention to recently.

The Iran-Iraq War, which lasted for 8 years, finally ended at the end of last year. After 8 years of consumption, the economy and people's livelihood in Iraq have declined to the extreme.

Saddam received the "enthusiastic" help of many Western allies in the war with Iran, and the war lasted for 8 years.Now, if you want to carry out post-war reconstruction in Iraq, you will definitely need the assistance of these partners.

The partners are also very enthusiastic.

Although it is the US-Iraq Business Forum, oil giants from major Western countries such as the US, the UK, and France all gathered in Baghdad.

During the two-week business forum, Iraq hopes to get US$400 billion in financial support from Western allies in order to revitalize the domestic economy.

The allies were not stingy, and they agreed wholeheartedly, but they also put forward their own conditions. Iraq needs to privatize its own country's oil resources, or most of them, so that Mobil, Trust, Shell and other international oil giants can better to help Iraq develop its oil resources and at the same time help restore Iraq's domestic economy.

According to the detection data of geologists from various countries in the 80s, Iraq can be said to be the largest undeveloped oil producing area in the world except the Soviet Union. Although the overall reserves are not as good as Saudi Arabia, it has huge potential.

Seeing that the "allies" are eager to hand over Iraq's oil sovereignty directly, and Saddam's head has not been kicked by a donkey, how can he agree.

Without oil, what's left of Iraq?

Therefore, this business forum failed to reach any substantive agreement in the end, and the rest of the parties was only a superficial harmony.

Simon watched all this with cold eyes, knowing in his heart that this might be the beginning of many stories in the next 20 years.

When he arrived in Santa Monica, Simon rushed directly to Daenerys' special effects headquarters. In the morning, he was going to discuss the final modification of some CG shots with the special effects team of "Batman".

Jennifer is already waiting for Simon at Daenerys' special effects headquarters.

Telling the female assistant to collect more information about the 'US-Iraq Business Forum', Simon also took over his work schedule for today from her.

The work content in the morning has been determined, and I have made an appointment for lunch with Jonathan Friedman at noon.

In the afternoon, it starts at one o'clock.

Check out progress on Toy Story, one hour; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game demo, one hour; Receive a brief progress debrief from the company's financial audit team, half an hour; Blockbuster Chairman Wayne Huyzan Added visit, half an hour; watch the rough cut film of "Angel God" and discuss revisions with the main creative team, two hours.

At six o'clock, the evening is still a working meal with Amy.

In addition, the schedule also lists some documents that need to be reviewed by Simon as soon as possible, which can only be arranged after returning home at night.

Walking into the office building of Daenerys' special effects headquarters, Simon went through his work schedule while walking, and the female assistant handed over the box office data report for the past three days of the weekend.

Simon just browsed through it roughly, and then turned his mind to today's work.

Compared to Simon's calmness, the whole of Hollywood was a little uneasy when he saw the box office data report for the past weekend early this morning.

During the three days from July 7th to July 7th, "The Sixth Sense" successfully withstood the pressure brought by all new and old films. Compared with the first weekend, the box office of this film did not fall in the second weekend, but achieved 7 % of the box office rebounded, and another $9 million was collected in three days.