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In the 5-minute wedge, apart from the story, what satisfies Simon is the special effects.

In the original version of "Scary Ghost", the ghost special effects are very rough, giving people a strong sense of cheap five hairs. This time, Daenerys Special Effects Australia Branch, who has experienced many blockbuster films, is responsible for the production. The ghost body in the lens The shape is light, as if it may disappear at any time when the wind blows, giving people the appearance that this is probably the soul after death.

In addition, the special effects company is only doing things after all. Peter Jackson can skillfully apply special effects to this level. In Simon's view, he can safely hand over the Tol King series to the other party.

Just thinking about these things, a close voice came from my ear: "Mr. Westeros, I have always wanted to thank you in person for giving me this opportunity."

But it was Mia Sara who was taking advantage of the opening of the title.

Simon's thoughts were interrupted, he just hummed and raised his head slightly to signal the big screen.

So quiet down.

The feature film begins at a funeral. The deceased was an employee of the town museum. Although Frank was not responsible, but because of what he saw and heard that night, he attended the funeral and met Lucy, the daughter of the deceased. Played by Ya Sara.

love at first sight.

In order to get close to Lucy, Frank introduced his occupation to Lucy, and took the initiative to reveal that her father might not have died of a heart attack, but was killed by evil spirits.

Of course Lucy didn't believe this kind of nonsense, and she also developed a bad feeling for Frank because of it.

When he met the girl he really loved, Frank decided to investigate the truth of the matter, and at the same time pursued Lucy. The two ghost friends also gave advice, and there was a lot of jokes for a while.

At the same time, strange deaths similar to Lucy's father's heart attack occurred one after another in the small town.

When the heroine Lucy took a bath in the bathroom on the big screen and Frank, who was guarding outside her window for safety reasons, struggled and hesitated whether to take a peek, Simon in the screening hall felt that his right thigh was accidentally touched , and Mia Sara's voice with a bit of anxiety and a different meaning came again: "Mr. Westeros, how is my performance?"

Simon frowned slightly, turned his head and glanced at the fawning Mia Sara beside him, raised his hand and stretched it through the girl's smooth long hair, grabbed a section of the slender neck, and exerted a little force.

Mia Sara just resisted a little instinctively, and soon softened, bending over along with the man's strength.

The auditorium has a five-by-five layout, because the big boss chose the second row, and there are two beauties sitting on the left and one on the right. Of course, no one ignorantly moved up to the two extra seats on the edge, but they all Sit in the front and rear rows.

Danny Morris in the front row is okay, and the executives of New World Pictures in the back row who were lucky enough to participate in this film viewing soon found that there was suddenly a "missing" person next to the big boss, but, just happened to sit The two executives in the third row not only didn't dare to inquire at all, but were a little nervous, worried that the big boss would misunderstand them for peeking and be unlucky.Sitting upright for a while, he still felt that something was wrong, so he quietly moved his body and took the initiative to retreat to a further back position.

The story on the big screen continues.

After some mistakes, Lucy finally believed in the existence of ghosts, and suspected the truth of her father's murder, and started an investigation with Frank.At the same time, because Frank can always appear around the dead, the sheriff of the town arrested Frank as a suspect, and the evil spirit also found that Frank was chasing him and wanted to kill the psychic.

As a result, another climax of the film's war between humans and ghosts appeared in the police station of the small town.

After the police battle, the sheriff also sided with Frank, and the group got closer and closer to the truth.

Frank understands that the ghost-catching tricks he used to deceive people at first will not work on evil spirits at all. After discussing with his ghost friend, he learns that ghosts are afraid of the sanctified cross in the church and the pastor's use for newborn babies. Baptism of holy water and other items, so began to prepare 'professional' tools.

The story soon came to an end.

The truth is actually in the castle where Frank hunted ghosts at the beginning of the novel. The hostess' daughter, Barbara, had died and was resurrected through an evil witchcraft.However, in order to maintain the state of the living dead, Barbara had to frequently incarnate as an evil spirit to hunt the souls of the living for sacrifice in order to maintain her 'life'.

This also echoes some of the details in the opening wedge.

Then came the wonderful final battle, justice defeated evil, and lovers finally got married.

At the end of the screening, everyone turned to the meeting room next door. During the period, Girl A quietly took Mia Sarah away, and everyone present looked as if they had never heard of it.

Compared with "A Bug's Story" who lost his temper before, Simon is much more satisfied with "The Scary Ghost". He just proposed some revisions on the details of the soundtrack, and briefly discussed with the New World Pictures team about the Easter next year. distribution, it turned its attention to Peter Jackson and Ben Stiller.

Both are filmmakers trained by Daenerys Entertainment.

From the initial assistant director of "Batman: Beginning of War" to the present, it has been eight years. Now that Peter Jackson has been determined to have the ability to control the "Lord of the Rings" series, the project can naturally start.

However, because many projects in 1997 and 1998 have been finalized, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings" will not be released until at least 1999. Simon's initial date is the end of 1999, so Jackson has three years to make this Middle-earth movie. epic series.

Of course, Simon's plan is still to shoot the trilogy back to back. Considering the huge workload required, three years is actually not a long time.

And then there's Ben Stiller.

As one of the core members of the bad boy gang, Stiller participated in two projects of Daenerys Entertainment in the second half of this year under the support of Simon. The director directed Jim Carrey's "The Cable Repairman."

Next, Simon also intends to let the other party participate in "The Hangover" in order to promote Atlantic City.

As long as "The Hangover" can be successful next year, even if it is not as good as before, the local box office will exceed [-] million, and the gang of bad boys will basically take shape, enough to compete with most of the comedians of the older generation of Hollywood.

Of course, Simon doesn't plan to cooperate with the Bad Guys for too long. After all, the cost performance of this group of people will be lower as the time goes on. The factory is often just making hard money, which is completely inconsistent with Simon's philosophy.

Talked to two people, the time is already off work time.

Peter Jackson and Ben Stiller left now, and Simon discussed with Danny Morris for more than an hour about the development progress of related film projects of New World Pictures in the next two years.

If this year is just a buffer, starting next year, Daenerys Entertainment will fully exert its strength and no longer leave too much room for other Hollywood studios. The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of major Hollywood studios and form a Dany Liz Entertainment dominates Hollywood's almost monopoly structure.

Chapter 1081 The Great Success

"Mr. Qin, let me introduce you. This is the founder of the Carlyle Investment Group and the chairman Mr. David Rubenstein. Carlyle plans to invest at least 20 billion US dollars in China in the next few years, mainly involving the field of machinery and heavy industry. "

Inside a hotel ballroom in midtown Manhattan.

The time was on the evening of December 12th, and a celebration reception for China Telecom's successful listing on Nasdaq was being held here.

Chen Qing introduced David Rubinstein to a high-level executive of China Telecom, and while helping to translate, patiently accompanied Rubinstein and Mr. Qin to exchange pleasantries. Chen Qing remembered something and asked, "David, what about Ukraine?" , is there any progress on Carlyle's side?"

David Rubinstein nodded and said, "I just passed a piece of information to Simon this afternoon, about this matter."

Chen Qing paused and didn't ask any more questions, but planned to ask her boss for the documents.

After chatting for a few more words, Chen Qing waited for Rubinstein to leave, and explained to Mr. Qin next to him: "I just asked about Carlyle's help in importing technology from Ukraine to China. Mr. Qin, I hope you don't mind," said Then he lowered his voice slightly: "You know, Mr. Qin, there is an aircraft carrier in Ukraine's Black Sea Shipyard. The country intends to buy it, but there is a lot of resistance. And Carlyle has a deep network in Washington. If they help, our success rate will be much higher.”

Boss Qin, who was really dissatisfied with Chen Qing leaving him in English to talk to the American just now, shuddered, shook his head quickly, and lowered his voice subconsciously: "Of course I don't mind, this is a big deal."

Chen Qing smiled slightly, and then gestured towards the distance: "Mr. Qin, over there is Mr. Helton, the president of Nokia's US branch. Let me introduce you."

"Of course, I happened to know something recently. Regarding the past events between Mr. Westeros and Motorola, China Telecom is about to start a massive expansion. In order to thank Mr. Westeros for his support for the listing of China Telecom, In the future, we will definitely increase our cooperation with Nokia and reduce our purchases from Motorola."

"This is really good news. I will tell Simon as soon as possible. He will be very happy to know."

This continued to socialize until after eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, when the reception was over, Chen Qing and Lin Su returned to their residence in the Upper West District.

After a busy day, Chen Qing was still in high spirits.

After taking a shower and calculating the time difference, it was not yet nine o'clock on the west coast, so I tried to call my boss. I didn't expect much, but I didn't expect to get connected by accident. After a few chats, I learned that my boss was in "Charlie's Angels" at the premiere party.

Chen Qing also paid attention to Hollywood. Her boss mentioned it, and then she remembered it.

Of course, it's just knowing.

Chen Qing didn't have the energy to pay too much attention at the moment. After confirming that her boss didn't want to hang up the phone too quickly, she talked about the general situation of China Telecom's listing today.

Although China Telecom Co., Ltd., the predecessor of China Mobile, plans to list in Hong Kong and New York at the same time, the listing time in New York is one day earlier, and the next day is Hong Kong.Of course, if you calculate the time difference, the gap is actually only 12 hours, and the stall where the two talk to each other is about to open in Hong Kong.

Overall, the IPO was very successful.

With the full support of the Westeros system and due to the good feedback from the previous global roadshow, the final issue price of China Telecom’s new shares issued on Nasdaq is determined to be US$5.35. Based on the calculation of 5 million new shares launched in North America, the amount of funds raised will reach 26.75 billion US dollars, the scale of financing in Hong Kong is comparable to that in North America.

Converted down, China Telecom's listing, the total financing amount of more than 53 billion US dollars.

Although there are cornerstone investors who have subscribed for a large number of stocks at discounts in advance, such as several major consortiums in Hong Kong and Westeros, the actual funds obtained are less, but the successful completion of the financing of 50 billion US dollars is definitely a big win. win.

On the first day of listing in North America, due to being labeled as a concept stock in Westeros, and the listing of Instagram some time ago has just re-stimulated the technology stock market, even as a Chinese concept stock, it is inevitable that there will be many unfavorable negatives. According to the report, China Telecom's stock rose by 27% on the first day, and the market value at the close of the day was as high as 269 billion US dollars.

At the beginning, Westeros and a group of Hong Kong capital served as the cornerstone investors for China Telecom Trust, and invested 5 million US dollars in advance to buy a large number of stocks. The profit is close to 50%.

Of course, profit is only secondary.

The 5% increase in the value of US$50 million in a single day is only a small amount for Simon. The key is that the success of this IPO paves the way for further cooperation between the two parties.

In any case, the listing of China Telecom this time is much better than the situation in the past when the IPO almost failed due to the financial turmoil, and then barely succeeded and had a tragedy on the first day. With the same proportion of stocks, the amount of financing has increased by nearly $10 billion.

Pretty happy ending.

After chatting for a while, Chen Qing brought up the matter of Carlyle and Ukraine again. Simon hadn't had time to read the document sent by David Rubinstein, but he also promised Chen Qing to let Girl A pass it to her in time.

A party scene at a hotel near the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Simon stood in the corner of the hall and talked with Chen Qing on the phone, and heard the girl finally said that the team of "Vogue" magazine in China had given a positive reply, saying: "Then I will say hello to Semel tomorrow, and the rest is up to you Just do it... go to China? You know I'm definitely not free at this time... that's it... well, goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Simon tidied up a little, so he didn't pay any more attention.

After all, it is only a part of his many layouts in China. When China Telecom took the first step in the road show, Simon did not worry about the follow-up at all.

Passed the mobile phone to girl A next to her, and just after receiving a glass of champagne from the female assistant, a few girls headed by Elizabeth Jagger surrounded her not far away, causing Kate who happened to be close to her ? Beckinsale obviously depressed.

Stretching out his hands and rubbing the girl's head, which was becoming more and more slim, Simon pretended to be in pain and said, "Every time you have to run over to watch the premiere like this, one group at a time, the cost is a bit high, what should I do?"

Elizabeth was very dissatisfied with Simon messing with her hair, shook her head and shook his arm, and said confidently: "I call you dad, isn't that enough?"

"..."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, and reached out to catch Nikki Hilton next to her: "Niki, you come too, call Dad."

Nikki Hilton was looking at the man in front of her with sparkling eyes, but she subconsciously shook her head when she heard this: "I don't."

Elizabeth was careless: "I know you like my dad, but, do you know that men actually like being called dad, it will be very exciting."

Nikki is not a young girl who doesn't understand anything, two blushes suddenly appeared on her face when she heard this, and she glanced at Simon shyly.

Simon raised his hand and gave Elizabeth a chestnut. Seeing the girl covering her forehead in pain, he said, "Okay, if you keep making trouble, I'll have someone kick you out."

Elizabeth immediately withdrew her small expression, looking very insincere, and asked, "Dad, do you have any plans for the weekend?"

"Yes, work, and it's not your turn if there is no arrangement," Simon said, waving his hands: "Go and play, you can only stay here for half an hour, and you must return to your residence before ten o'clock."

"Well, it's heartless and long-winded."

Simon turned to the female assistant next to him: "A, help them arrange a car."

Elizabeth immediately covered her ears and pretended not to hear, and left with a group of girls playfully.

When the girls joined the crowd, Barbara Broccoli, the female producer of the 007 series, came over first, raised her glass and said, "Simon, I have to admit, this movie is really outstanding."

Simon smiled and said, "It seems that you think "Charlie's Angels" is qualified to be linked with 007, right?"

Barbara Broccoli immediately felt a little resentful: "Can I say no?"

"Unfortunately, I can't. Besides, just talking about "007: Spectre", the facts have proved that the plan I gave is a wise choice."

Although Barbara Broccoli didn't agree, she already agreed with a certain man's statement in her heart.

The summer "007: Spectre" has been released for half a year, and the cumulative global box office has exceeded 7.5 million US dollars.Even if the inflation factor is calculated, this movie surpasses any other film in the 007 series. You must know that after calculating inflation, the previous most successful "007: Thunderball", calculated according to the 1996 standard, is equivalent to a global box office. $6.8 million.

Not only that, after watching "Charlie's Angels" today, coupled with the success of the DC Movie Universe series and The Conjuring Movie Universe series, Barbara Blockley is also full of expectations for planning the same grand Agent Movie Universe series.

The main reason is that "Charlie's Angels" is really excellent.

First of all, the three heroines, Kate Beckinsale, Meichen Amick and Catherine Zeta-Jones, not only have their own characteristics, but also play distinct roles, completely surpassing the previous TV version. The shackles of the vase, whether it is the powerful fighting ability played by Kate Beckinsale, or the top female gunman played by Meichen Amick, or even Catherine Zeta-Jones' wisdom and responsibility as a thief, are all eye-catching .

Secondly, although the beginning of this series is still a high-concept story routine, which roughly tells the story of three angels accidentally getting involved in a huge human trafficking network and destroying it through a hostage rescue incident in a kidnapping case, but many of the plots, such as Kate Beckinsale's restaurant fight scene, Mei Chen Amick hit a projectile point to penetrate the wall at the same time, Catherine Zeta-Jones' passing through the infrared alarm network, etc., are all full of innovations.

In the end, this opening chapter also made a perfect foreshadowing for the fusion of the agent movie universe.

The human trafficking network that the three angels worked together to destroy is one of the huge industries under the Spectre Party. Therefore, in the ending egg, the Spectre Party not only came to the door, but also many details in the story are not difficult for people to discover. Charlie, the angel behind the scenes, may be inextricably linked with the Spectre.

As for whether it is a positive or negative connection, we can only wait for the follow-up announcement.

Thinking of this, Barbara Broccoli couldn't help asking: "Simon, after "007" and "Charlie's Angels", which project will MGM plan to develop next, "Bourne Shadow"?"

""Bourne Shadow" is still a bit early. At least "007" and "Charlie's Angels" will launch a sequel before I will consider other series."

Barbara Broccoli didn't know whether it was luck or regret for a moment: "It seems that I will speed up the development progress of the next 007."

Because of some schedules, MGM chose to hold the premiere on Thursday, the day before the large-scale opening of the film.However, the next day, the word-of-mouth and popularity of "Charlie's Angels" still fermented rapidly. In addition, the secret agent movie universe plan was once again confirmed through the film. For a while, the secret agent movie fans cheered, and other Hollywood studios came again. archenemy.

The two major movie universe series have already occupied a large and fairly fixed market share. Now, there is another one, how can we not make everyone more stressed.

What's more, the final comprehensive media score of 8.2 points in the "Charlie's Angels" series is higher than that of "Game of the Brave" which started drawing last week.

With the opening of "Charlie's Angels" in North America on December 12 with a scale of 20 screens, it is the box office data of the first week of the Christmas schedule that has just ended.

In the first week of Christmas from December 12th to December 13th, "Game of the Brave" reached the top without any suspense, with a box office of US$12 million in the first week, an opening scale of 19 screens, and an average of US$6335 per museum. Even if it can't be compared with "Wonder Woman 3539", it still perfectly meets the expectations of the two producers.

It broke through 6000 million US dollars in the first week. Not surprisingly, "Game of the Brave" basically locked in the domestic box office of 2 million US dollars.

The production cost of "Game of the Brave" was 8200 million U.S. dollars, and the publicity investment was 3500 million U.S. dollars, totaling 1.17 million U.S. dollars.Therefore, only locally, this project is expected to recover all costs and enter the profit cycle.

No. 2 on the list is "Wonder Woman 2".

Due to re-entering the popular cycle of Christmas, despite the impact of "Game of the Brave", "Wonder Woman 2" still only dropped 35% at the box office this week.Of course, speaking carefully, this is still a very high drop, because in previous years, many films at the end of the year even experienced a reverse drop when they entered the Christmas file.

In any case, in the fourth week of its release, "Wonder Woman 2" continued to earn $3881 million, with a cumulative box office of $3 million.

No.3 is "Mind Catcher".

This partial literary drama film that still achieved a dazzling box office under the crush of "Titanic" still showed a dark horse posture this time.

In the first week of its large-scale release, "Good Will Hunting" earned as much as US$1746 million with only 2392 screening screens, and the average museum reached US$1.37. Compared with the theme and volume of the film, this is almost a small miracle.Counting last week's screenings, the cumulative box office of "Good Will Hunting" reached 2935 million U.S. dollars within two weeks of its opening.

The total investment in the production and publicity of this film is only 2000 million US dollars. Not surprisingly, all costs will be recovered and profitability will be realized next week.After the large-scale opening of the first week, Gaomen Pictures also responded quickly, increasing the number of screens for the film to 2125 in the new week.