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After chatting for more than ten minutes, David Rubinstein got up to leave.

Although today is the birthday of a certain little girl, Cape Dumei Manor does not intend to hold a large-scale party, so it seems very inappropriate for him to stay.

Simon didn't hold back either, and sent Rubinstein away. It was already evening, and Jennifer's uncle, George Norman's family, arrived soon and began to prepare for the family dinner in the evening.

Generally speaking, there were not many people. Apart from my own family, there were also Veronica who came from Australia and planned to live for a while, and Jennifer's Mr. and Mrs. Raybould and the Norman family. It was basically a family feast.And it was a birthday for two little guys, Seattle and Nicholas.

Janet's little Nick was three days later than her sister Seattle, and the three parents didn't mean to make a fuss over and over again.

The next day is Monday, November 11, the day before the general election vote.

The second weekend of the Halloween schedule is also over.

Prior to this, in the first week of the Halloween schedule, The Conjuring Cinematic Universe's latest series "Annabelle" was unstoppable in front of a sea of ​​old and new films. With a release scale of 2739 opening screens and an excellent score of 7.8, it earned $4736 million in seven days in the first week. At the box office, this result is second only to "The Haunting of the Mortuary 2" in the first half of the Easter schedule in the first half of the year.

In fact, the most important point is that "Annabelle" has opened up a new series of The Conjuring film universe in addition to the two series "The Conjuring" and "The Haunting of the Mortuary".

After all, for a movie universe, the two series seem thin after all.

Now, with three franchises coming out, and all of them being successful, the Conjuring Cinematic Universe truly deserves its name.

In the weekend just past, compared to last week’s “Annabelle”’s first weekend of $3453 million, the year-on-year decrease of the next week was only 27%, and it continued to earn $2519 million. The box office prospects for the opening of the third series of the cinematic universe look brighter.

The cumulative box office in 10 days of release was 7255 million U.S. dollars. Not only has it fully recovered its capital and started to make profits, it is expected that "Annabelle" may become the first Conjuring movie universe film with a local box office of more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars.

Limited to the volume of horror films and the nature of fast-moving popcorn, it is often difficult for the project curve of the Conjuring movie universe to be excellent at the opening box office.Prior to this, the best result was "The Haunting of the Mortuary 2" in this year's Easter schedule, which only had a domestic box office of 1.37 million US dollars.

On the other hand, the reason for this achievement is not only that the quality of "Annabelle" itself is good enough, but also the result that the IP brand of The Conjuring Movie Universe has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Therefore, on a schedule like Halloween, it has almost become a subconscious choice for many people to watch a film from The Conjuring Universe.

It also eclipses everything else in the period, whether it's Sony's crime comedy "Ultimate High," Paramount's thriller "Too Thin to Die" or Disney's Whoopi Goldberg comedy "Mystery Tycoon." , were reduced to cannon fodder almost silently.

For Daenerys Entertainment, there is another film worth mentioning in the same period, Paul Thomas Anderson's new film "Boogie Nights" produced by Gaomen Films.

After receiving US$939 million in the first week, the Gaomen Films team increased the number of screening screens from 1218 in the first week to 1553. With the popular Halloween schedule and the continuous fermentation of the film's reputation, the box office of "Boogie Nights" did not decrease in the second week On the contrary, it fell by 13%. In the second week, the income reached 1061 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office in the two weeks was 1997 million U.S. dollars.

In the following third box office weekend, the year-on-year decline of "Boogie Nights" was only 17%, and it earned another US$579 million in three days, with a cumulative box office of US$2576 million.

Based on the three consecutive weeks of curves and the film's market feedback, the Gaomen Cinema's publicity team raised the local box office expectation of "Boogie Nights" from the initial US$3000 million to more than 4000 million.

At first, I thought it would be a bit difficult to recover the US$1500 million production and US$500 million publicity investment in the local area. Now, it is only released in local theaters, and "Boogie Nights" is enough to recover all costs and achieve profitability. The film itself has also been upgraded from a regular one to a A quasi-dark horse.

You must know that although the box office records of Hollywood movies have been soaring higher and higher in recent years, compared to the number of four or five hundred movies that only enter theaters every year, there are only a very small number of movies that create box office miracles. Take 1995 as an example, there were actually only 4000 films that grossed over US$36 million domestically.

This year is not over yet, but the relevant data will not differ too much.

Therefore, "Boogie Nights" is actually ranked among the top 4000% of Hollywood's most successful films each year, with a forecast of more than 10 million US dollars. What's more, the film's production cost of 1500 million US dollars is also low in this 10%. To calculate the return on investment, the ranking is even higher.

Relying on this outstanding box office performance, Gaomen Films has planned to increase the public relations of the film during the awards season in order to stimulate subsequent overseas distribution and peripheral channels.

In Simon's opinion, "Boogie Nights" is actually Paul Thomas Anderson's best film, much better than the once more famous "Magnolia".

The story structure of "Magnolia" is completely imitating the multi-line narrative master Robert Altman's "Life Intersection". As a super fan of Altman, Anderson is understandable if it is just like this.

It's just that, compared to the multi-line narrative of "Intersection of Life", the structure of "Magnolia" is obviously jerky, and it uses too much force. From the beginning to the end, Tom Cruise, who is everywhere whether he appears on the scene or not, makes the whole story even more unbalanced.

On Monday, while paying a little attention to the box office situation in North America, Simon stayed at the Cape Dume Manor all day, and worked with James Raybould to sort out and plan the global industrial layout of the Westeros system.

With the continued rapid growth of the US stock market, the local investment of the Westeros system has basically stopped, and it is in a state of only getting in and out. After all, when the market is generally overheated, any current investment or acquisition is equivalent to high-level acquisitions. Simon would rather hold a lot of cash than rush into buying.

The main action in the near future is overseas.

In the morning, after browsing through some recently compiled documents, Simon stumbled across a suitable target, the Spanish clothing giant Inditex, which was planning to build an OEM base in Ukraine.The company's Zara later expanded strongly around the world, but Simon has a deep memory.

Now is the initial stage of rapid growth of Inditex, the parent company of Zara. Although its foundation is already very solid, it still needs funds to expand rapidly.

This is the opportunity of the Westeros system.

In fact, Simon initially paid more attention to the Express fast-moving brand under the parent company LTD Group of Victoria's Secret. However, under the leadership of the founder Leslie Wexner, the development of this LTD sub-brand in recent years has not reached the level of Simon. Anticipation, in fact, is also the reason why Wexner has lost his entrepreneurial passion.

That being the case, of course one cannot be hanged from a tree.

Then, mainly on the Chinese side.

In addition to China Telecom's IPO, which will have a global roadshow at the beginning of next month, Chen Qing also informed Simon of recent events by email.

Whether it is Zhu Momo's mother's idea of ​​"Jinshu Film and Television City", or several real estate projects in Beijing, or even other investment and acquisitions in real estate, food, technology, heavy industry and other fields, Simon always adheres to a A fairly relaxed cast-a-net mentality.

Now China is a blue ocean of investment, first come, first served.

What's more, Simon has a prophetic advantage that is incomparable to all other capitals entering China. He only said that the brands such as Evergrande, Country Garden, Haitian, Nongfu Spring, etc. that have been finalized or are being negotiated in recent months will be rewarded later. The rate is easily hundreds or thousands of times.

Even if some of them deviate from the previous development track due to the interference of Simon, the big butterfly, as long as some of them succeed, it is enough to make the Westeros system full.

Therefore, Zhu Momo's mother wants, no problem.

In fact, the shorter the period of the Jinshu Film and Television City project, the more beneficial it is for the Jinshu Department. If it is really delayed for 10 years, the cost of all aspects will rise, and 20 billion will not be enough.Now, shortened to 5 years, the budget of many projects can also be greatly reduced, and the difficulty of advancing the entire plan will be greatly reduced.

As for the result, it was equivalent to less than 3 million US dollars. Even if it really messed up in the end, Simon could afford it.

And it won't pay at all.

The land involved in a large number of projects, in the future, when China's real estate industry will drive land prices to rise sharply, if necessary, it may be several times the profit if it is sold.

Over there in the capital.

Since someone wants the Westeros system to take over the mess in the Rose Garden villa area in Changping District, they must save face in exchange for the approval of the golf club near Xiangshan.Even if the development is completed in the future, the demand for high-end villas in Beijing is not so strong, so just stock up.

Big Beijing has hoarded houses for ten or twenty years, and there is absolutely no loss.

Just like a real estate tycoon in Hong Kong, he often used means to hoard houses and land in the Mainland for 30 to [-] years, and the result was always a lot of money.

The key to this matter is actually financial strength.

The main reason why the developers in the mainland are so fast, even taking only six months from the acquisition of land to the opening of the project, is that the capital chain is too tight.With funds like Simon's being so abundant that there is no place to spend them, hoarding real estate is actually tantamount to investment in disguise. No matter if you sell it ten years or twenty years later, the growth rate of housing prices in the future is bound to be profitable.

Of course, it's not good to have an empty house, but it can be a golden house, right?At that time, Simon can also try to hide the whole villa area of ​​'Jiao'.

Chapter 1056 The Ponzi Scheme

On November 11, the voting for the 5 US general election officially opened. When the Clinton polls continued to crush Dole for many months, everything seemed calm, and even affected the people's desire to vote.

The voting results were released that day, and Bill Clinton easily won the election with 49% approval rate and as many as 379 electoral votes.

The other two opponents, Republican Bob Dole, won only 41 percent of the public vote and 159 electoral votes.And the third-party candidate Ross Perot, who once again came forward to disrupt the situation but whose influence has dropped sharply, only got 8% of the votes this time, and naturally there is no electoral vote.

Because it was so logical, this election also hit the lowest turnout rate since 1924. Only 49% of the American people voted, and it was the first time in more than half a century that the turnout rate was lower than 50%.