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Because of some trivial matters in Los Angeles, the two did not immediately fly to Europe, but stayed for another day to check the construction progress of the villa at Cape Dume Manor. At noon, they also accepted Qintex Chairman Christopher Skass lunch invitation.

Affected by Simon, the big butterfly, the acquisition of MGM by Australia's Qintex Group is a certainty.

That being the case, Simon is no longer as indifferent to Christopher Scars as he was at first.With a good relationship now, once the Qintex Group becomes unsustainable, Simon can more easily arrange for other Australian capital to take over MGM.

The afternoon and evening schedule is also full.

So the next day, the two boarded the Boeing 767 early in the morning to take off from Los Angeles, stopped in New York for a short time, and brought the acquisition team of Westeros, which was going to Europe to conduct final negotiations with Nokia, and the group flew directly to Helsinki, Finland.

It was less than six o'clock in the morning local time when we arrived in Helsinki.

It is mid-winter in the northern hemisphere, and the nights are longer near the Arctic Circle. At six o'clock in the morning, the surroundings of Helsinki are still dark.

Nokia sent a car to pick up James Raybould and others, and the Boeing 767 took off again and rushed to Florence.

The 'first stop' of Simon and Janet's European trip was London, and they went to Florence only because Sophia helped them prepare a lot of things there, including several maid cooks who were responsible for their daily life.

After so many twists and turns, Simon and Janet finally settled in the famous Kensington Garden Street villa in central London on the evening of November 11.

A total of more than 15000 kilometers of long-distance flights, because of the existence of the luxurious Boeing 767, except for the jet lag, neither of them felt much fatigue from long-distance travel.

Janet also introduced to Simon in detail the operating results of Cersei Capital's No. 6 to No. 10 sub-funds during this period.

After the US stock market's "mini-crash" broke out on October 10, Cersei Capital made a huge profit of US$13 billion by closing the S&P 500 index futures and other short positions in various types of stocks and bonds in the following week.

In the following month or so, because the North American stock market quickly stabilized, and after getting the most lucrative profit at the beginning, Cersei Capital also began to simmer porridge and patiently manage the remaining positions.

截止11月17日，瑟曦资本6到10号子基金在最初那16亿美元基础上再次斩获7亿美元利润。

Therefore, excluding the No. 1 to No. 5 sub-funds in the hands of the Japanese, the net asset value of Cersei Capital belonging to investors such as Simon has reached 73 billion US dollars.

After discussing with Janet, Simon and Janet plan to completely liquidate various positions in the US junk bond market around December, and then turn their targets to the oil futures market.

In my memory, Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 1990, 8, and the price of crude oil skyrocketed during that time.

However, before the Kuwait War, in order to force Iraq to use force against Kuwait, Western countries and Middle East oil majors suppressed oil prices significantly by increasing production, and the international crude oil price once fell to 13 US dollars per barrel.Therefore, the first half of the year can just be used for shorting.

Chapter 307 Accidents Repeatedly (Revised)

Simon's departure didn't have much impact on the highly competitive Thanksgiving schedule.

After the premiere on November 11, the film critics of "Flying Beyond Childhood" began to appear in major North American media.

However, this family comedy with the baby talking as a gimmick did not arouse the praise of the media. Under the joint public relations of Warner Bros. and Daenerys, the media film score was only 6.2 points, barely reaching the pass. Many mainstream newspapers such as "Variety Show", "New York Times" and "Washington Post" gave negative reviews.

"Variety Show" commented that "babies imitating adult thoughts and tone of voice is not cool at all, but makes people anxious", and "New York Times" also pointedly commented that "Billy Crystal's chattering dubbing reveals desperation".

While there are plenty of other newspapers giving positive reviews like 'very funny', 'a surprise at the idea of ​​a baby talking', 'an enjoyable movie', both Warner Bros. and Daenerys are aware of just how much of it there is. Public relations components, so it is inevitable to worry about the prospects of this movie.

11月17日到11月19日，这部有着梅尔·吉布森、比利·克里斯托（配音）参演的电影首周末三天斩获2046万美元票房，轻松夺得周末票房榜冠军。

It earned 2046 million U.S. dollars in three days. Compared with the production cost of 1500 million U.S. dollars, this result is of course already very good, but it is difficult for Daenerys entertainment to relax.

Everyone knows that this beautiful opening box office is the result of sparing no effort in the early stage of publicity, and the final determination of the total box office potential of "Flying Beyond Childhood" still depends on the box office situation in the next week.

Because of the disapproval of the media, Amy and others are very worried that the box office curve of this movie will drop sharply all the way.

In this regard, "Scream 30", which has fallen by more than 2% for two consecutive weeks, can be regarded as a reference.

10月27日上映后，《惊声尖叫2》首周票房3177万美元，次周跌幅33%，进账2129万美元。

As usual, if a movie falls too deeply in the second week, the decline in the third week will definitely narrow, but the decline in the third week of "Scream 2" has further expanded to 35%, from November 11th to November 10th. Only 11 million U.S. dollars were collected in seven days a day.

"Scream 2" has accumulated a box office of 6679 million U.S. dollars in three weeks, and Daenerys Entertainment is still making a lot of money.However, based on the box office curve shown by this film, it may be no problem for this sequel to break through 1.32 million, but it will definitely not reach the total box office data of the first domestic film of [-] million US dollars.

"Back to the Future 2" does not have the popularity advantage of a sequel, and the reputation of film critics is not good enough. The box office in the first week can be supported by the early announcement and cast, but in the case of "Back to the Future 30" in the next week, if the next week falls by more than 40 % or even [-]%, it may be hopeless for the local market to exceed [-] million.

With more than $2000 million in its opening weekend, it's still easy for "Flying Childhood" to surpass $6000 million domestically, and it's bound to be a moneymaker.

However, because of the original contract, if "Children's Flight" fails to exceed [-] million, Daenerys Entertainment must continue to cooperate with Warner Bros. on other projects until it exceeds [-] million.

Therefore, compared to the worries of Daenerys Entertainment, Warner is relatively relaxed.

In this day and age, a movie with more than $6000 million domestic box office is considered a big hit.

In any case, Warner Bros. is destined to make a fortune from this project.If you earn less this time, it will bring opportunities for cooperation next time.

In different minds, on November 11, Universal Pictures' blockbuster "Back to the Future 22" was released.

这部影迷期待了4年时间的续集也不负众望，只是周三和周四开画两天就快速进账1518万美元，轻松夺取11月17日到11月23日一周时间的票房季军位置。

At the same time, "Flying Beyond Childhood" easily won the No.2923 position in the weekly box office list with a box office of 1 million US dollars in the first week.

Paramount Pictures' "Harlem Nightclub," starring Eddie Murphy, came in second with $2372 million in its opening week.

The decline of "Scream 2" this week finally began to narrow, and the box office fell by 23% compared with last week, and it received another US$1056 million, lagging behind "Back to the Future 2", ranking No.4.The cumulative total box office of the film is 7735 million US dollars.

Among the six new films this week, Disney's animated film "The Little Mermaid", which quietly opened with only 994 screens, ranked fifth, with a first-week box office of 844 million US dollars.

Later, Orion Films announced the same heavyweight "Fantasy Sea Childhood" as "Flying Over Childhood" and "Harlem Nightclub", but it did not arouse the audience's response.

The large-scale 1713 opening screens of "Fantasy Sea Childhood" only brought Orion $410 million in box office in the first seven days, ranking No.7 in the weekly box office list.

"Fantasy Sea Childhood", a story about a girl and an elk that Orion Films placed high hopes on with an investment of US$1500 million, failed again, further impacting this top second-tier film company whose financial situation continued to deteriorate.

Seagram Group of Canada, which recently contacted Orion Films with the intention of testing the waters of Hollywood, saw this situation. Although they did not back down, they put forward more stringent capital injection conditions to Orion's major shareholder John Kruger.

In addition, "My Left Foot" released by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films opened on November 11, with a box office of 10 million US dollars in the first week, and continued to earn 183 million US dollars in the second week.

In two weeks, the low-budget biographical film earned $112 million on a scale of 335 screens.

The film has also received unanimous praise from the media as scheduled, and Ella Deutschman has begun to apply for various awards for the film.

Thanksgiving this year is November 11.

Beginning with Thanksgiving on Thursday, the North American public usually has 4 consecutive days off.

Therefore, November 11 to November 24 is also the most golden week of the Thanksgiving schedule, and a large number of audiences flock to theaters during the Thanksgiving holiday.The sudden and substantial increase in the number of movie viewers usually brings about a sharp decline in the box office of many films this week.

The annual box office champion of the first film has accumulated a lot of popularity, and it has collected 1518 million US dollars in two days after its opening. Although the word-of-mouth of "Back to the Future 2" is just barely passing the same level as "Flying Beyond", most of the media's attention is still focused on this Ministry of 'blockbuster' body.

While other film companies have adjusted their film schedules to avoid the edge of "Back to the Future 2", Daenerys Entertainment is going against the trend. The scale of 11 screens officially started painting.

The fundamental purpose of Daenerys Entertainment's production of "Gucci Mark" is to promote the Gucci brand, and it does not expect it to bring much commercial benefit. The scale of 532 screens seems small, but they are all concentrated in the core urban areas where potential consumers of the Gucci brand gather, such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in North America.

Moreover, the original budget of 300 million U.S. dollars for the documentary, under the request of Sophia and others to keep improving, the final production cost was inevitably overrun to 500 million U.S. dollars.After Gucci took the initiative to prepay the publicity fee, Gaomen Pictures invested another 500 million US dollars in the publicity budget.

A total of 1000 million U.S. dollars was spent, and with the gimmick of the first fashion documentary to be released in theaters and the hard-working publicity of a group of celebrities, supermodels and fashion celebrities, "Gucci Mark" has attracted a lot of attention before it is released.

At the same time, the film also took a lot of money in terms of schedule.

Various studios have avoided the edge of "Back to the Future 2". If you don't count "Back to the Future 2", which started painting two days in advance, on December 12th, there was only one new film "Gucci Mark" in North American theaters. release.

The moderate word-of-mouth of "Back to the Future 2" has consumed the interest of the media in the first two days, and the market turned cold in the following two weeks in early December, lacking new films worthy of attention.As a result, a lot of media attention has turned to this gimmick-filled fashion documentary.

Naturally, the $500 million budget overrun was not in vain.

Simon repeatedly emphasized during the project preparation stage that if the documentary wants to interest the audience, it must tell a complete and interesting story.

The creative team did a great job of fulfilling the concept he articulated.

The documentary takes Tom Ford as the protagonist, starting from the young designer who became the creative director of Gucci at the age of only 28 under pressure to enter the job. The main line is the preparation of the fashion week in September. During the period, the experience and Gucci management team Running in, experiencing the confusion of brand design and the ups and downs of fashion week preparations, and finally successfully completed the Gucci 9 spring and summer women's wear show at Milan Fashion Week on September 9 amidst praise.

In addition to the complete story, the documentary also perfectly intersperses a large number of classic Gucci products that are enough to make fashionable women scream, as well as a lot of gossip in the circle that makes people talk about it. Sell ​​more.

Because a small-scale premiere ceremony was held in advance, on the day "Gucci Mark" was released on November 11, most mainstream media in North America published comments on the documentary.

Compared with the lukewarm reputation of a series of films last week, "Gucci Mark" unexpectedly received a lot of praise.

"Variety Show" magazine, which has given negative comments to "Scream 2" and "Flying Childhood", praised ""Gucci Mark" has created a beautiful fashion dream". "The Hollywood Reporter" also praised the documentary's "well-crafted narrative structure that leaves most Hollywood movies in the dust."

According to statistics, the comprehensive media score of "Gucci Mark" has also reached an excellent level of 8.3 points, which is the highest score among all eight new films in the past two weeks.

On the other hand, in the eyes of most people, "Back to the Future 2", which is almost destined to be a big hit, did not perform well at the box office in the first weekend after its opening.

On Friday, November 11th, compared to Thursday, the single-day box office of "Back to the Future 24" was 2 million US dollars, a single-day increase of 1119%, which is still expected.

However, entering Saturday, the box office performance of "Back to the Future 2" surprised many people.

Anyone who pays attention to the box office of movies knows that under normal circumstances, the box office performance of a movie over the three days of the weekend will basically be a lower opening parabola with a lower opening on Friday, a big rise on Saturday, and a fall on Sunday.

However, "Back to the Future 2" grossed US$1119 million on Friday. When many people thought that the box office of the film would break through the US$4000 million mark in its first full week, the film's Saturday box office was unexpectedly compared to Friday. It fell 7%, and the single-day box office slipped to 1040 million US dollars.

If the box office drop of "Back to the Future 2" on Saturday can barely be explained by an excuse for a large number of fans of the previous work to watch the movie for the first time on Friday, then on the following Sunday, "Back to the Future 2" compared with Saturday A huge drop of up to 40% in a single day is doomed that this movie will not be able to continue the glory of its predecessor.

You must know that the decline of general blockbuster movies on Sunday in the same period will basically not exceed 20% compared to Saturday.

"Indiana Jones 2", which has a summer file similar to "Back to the Future 3", saw a single-day drop of only 9% on the first Sunday compared to Saturday, and "The Sixth Sense" temporarily ranked first in this year's box office list. "It even fell all the way in the first weekend.

Compared with the rapid decline of "Back to the Future 2" in the first weekend of its release, the box office performance of "Flying Beyond Childhood" also exceeded many people's expectations.

However, unlike the weak box office of "Back to the Future 2", "Flying Beyond the Childhood" took advantage of the east wind of the Thanksgiving Week holiday to unexpectedly achieve a reversal.

To be precise, because the box office performance of "Back to the Future 2" was not as good as expected, the virtually vacant market share made many movies in the same period realize a reverse decline.

11月24日到11月26日三天时间，《回到未来2》仅以非常微弱的优势夺得了周末三天票房冠军。然后，这部让同期大部分电影都主动避开的科幻喜剧在工作日就被《飞越童真》反超。

最终，11月24日到11月30日一个完整周，《飞越童真》以3338万美元票房再次夺得单周票房榜单No.1位置，影片相比上周票房逆跌幅度达到14%。

In just two weeks after the filming started, the total North American box office of "Flying Beyond Childhood" quickly accumulated to 6261 million U.S. dollars.

Daenerys Entertainment's worries were all but wiped out after the film's opening week.

With a two-week box office of more than 6000 million U.S. dollars, no one will doubt that the total North American box office of "Flying Beyond the Child" has the strength of breaking through 1 million U.S. dollars.Moreover, according to this box office trend, the total North American box office of "Flying Beyond Childhood" will far exceed the figure of 1 million US dollars.

Immediately afterwards, "Back to the Future 2" ranked second with a box office of 3271 million US dollars.This "blockbuster" film, which Universal Pictures had high hopes for, lost its single-week top spot in its first full week, and it may not be able to win another weekly box office championship during the entire release cycle.

In addition to the two heavyweight films, Eddie Murphy's "Harlem Nightclub" failed to achieve the same box office rise as "One Fleet" this week. Instead, it fell by 42%. 3 million U.S. dollars, with a cumulative box office of 1361 million U.S. dollars in two weeks.

"Harlem Nightclub" is expected to have a total North American box office of 6000 million US dollars, which is quite satisfactory.

Disney's animated film "The Little Mermaid" also achieved a 13% drop in the box office, earning another $963 million.

Subsequently, "Gucci Mark", which unexpectedly kicked "Scream" out of the top five on this week's list, is undoubtedly the biggest highlight on this week's list.

Because of its excellent quality, various topical gimmicks and sufficient investment in publicity and distribution, "Gucci Mark" earned US$532 million in the first week and seven days with a scale of 955 screens, only lagging behind by less than US$10. The Little Mermaid.

What's more, the fashion documentary's nearly $18000 per-week average box office data surpassed all other films on this week's list.

Chapter 308 Skyrocketing Sales (Revised)

Los Angeles.

The Daenerys Entertainment Division in Burbank.

The time is October 12th, Friday.

"Gucci Mark" earned US$532 million in the first week with 955 screens. The box office performance of this documentary, which was originally only for publicity purposes and not seeking profit, far exceeded everyone's expectations. Ella Deutschman started immediately Planning to increase the number of screening screens for this documentary.

However, Gucci has made a decision that is difficult for him to accept. The North American screening of "Gucci Mark" will always maintain the scale of 532 screens, and no screen will be added.

"Gucci Mark" earned US$532 million in the first week with only 955 screens, and word-of-mouth and popularity are also rising. If the number of screens is gradually expanded to about 1000, the total North American box office of this documentary will surely easily exceed 5000 million Dollar.

Now, if the screening scale of 532 screens is only maintained, the total North American box office of "Gucci Mark" is likely to be only 4000 million US dollars, and the box office gap between the two is at least 1000 million US dollars.

In comparison, because the preliminary work has been done enough, and an additional 500 screens, Gaomen Pictures only needs to pay 50 US dollars in copying and transportation costs.

"Ella, this is actually a decision made by Mr. Westeros himself."

In Ella Deutschman's office, Angela Ahrendts, the president of Gucci America, who came to Los Angeles to discuss the follow-up promotion of "Gucci Mark" with Gormen Films, faced Ella Deutschman again. Expressed doubts, so explained.

Ella Deutschman heard that it was Simon who decided not to increase the number of screens of "Gucci Mark", and immediately gave up the idea of ​​persuading Gucci to change its mind.

Before formally signing the entry agreement, Ella Deutschman had a face-to-face in-depth discussion with Simon. Simon told him clearly that although his salary agreement had a 5% net profit sharing clause for Gaomen Pictures, Gaomen The operation of the film industry must still obey the interests of Daenerys Entertainment as a whole, and the company's internal collaboration mechanism will not change.

The same is true for other companies that have expanded to the entire Westeros system.

Ella Deutschman's salary plan has a 5% net profit sharing clause of Gaomen Films. However, because of Simon's request, he is destined to be unable to put the interests of Gaomen Pictures first in everything, let alone It is possible to turn Gaomen Films into its own private territory.

Ella Deutschmann was squeezed out of the New Film Company by several partners at the beginning. Now, his power and salary in Hollywood are beyond the reach of those previous partners. He is very satisfied with this, so he does not resist Simon's decision.

He didn't dare to resist.

Also working here in Burbank, Ella Deutschman could feel how difficult Robert Rehm's life was during this time.

Attempted job hopping, Simon did not kick him out of the company, and paid for the purchase of the Manhattan real estate for him.

However, Rem, who was originally the third person in Daenerys Entertainment after Simon and Pascal, is now divided into three powers, and Pascal has obviously begun to intervene in the company's distribution matters.

It is conceivable that as long as Pascal completes the takeover of the company's distribution network, Rem will be completely marginalized and can be kicked out at any time.