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The most direct consequence of the dominance of the three strong films from Daenerys Entertainment is the dismal start of the other two large-scale opening films last week.

No. 4 on the list, "Jingle Bells All the Way", a family comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, had a box office of only US$1217 million in its first week, and a production cost of US$3000 million, equivalent to three times that of "Good Will Catcher". The box office is only half of "Good Will Hunting".With such a start, the domestic box office of the film is expected to be only 3000 million to 4000 million US dollars, and Fox, the producer, can only expect overseas and surrounding areas to recover the cost.And Schwarzenegger's voluntary cut of half of the salary came with the sharing contract, which basically became a piece of waste paper.

No. 5 Disney produced the black comedy "Angel's Bodyguard", which had a production cost of US$4000 million higher than that of "Jingle Bells".

Finally, I would like to mention that "The English Patient", which was screened in the Los Angeles area on a scale of 10 screens last week, not only won praise from film critics in terms of word-of-mouth, but also received 4.9 screenings per week on a small scale. The U.S. dollar basically followed the route set by Simon to advance steadily.

12 month 20 day.

A new box office week, in addition to the menacing "Girls in the Thunderbolt", this week also has an animation film from Paramount, "Buffy and Butt-headed", and Madonna's "Madame Peron".

"Charlie's Angels" needless to say.

"Buffy and Butt-Headed" is a film version of a popular serial animation adapted by Paramount. It has a 2D style and a style similar to "The Simpsons". Simply put, it is a piece of cannon fodder.

"Mrs. Peron", which Queen McGrath gave a go, was screened on demand.

Although it has won a series of Golden Globe nominations and Her Majesty the Queen has also received an endorsement from Simon, Paramount still adopts this rather conservative release strategy in order to avoid being overwhelmed by the strong films at the end of the year, and even plans to release Zhou's New Year's Day week will continue to be screened until the end of the year.

In addition, this week's "The English Patient" is still screened, but the scale of the screening has increased from 10 screens last week to 27 screens, and it is planned to start a large-scale painting next week. .

Chapter 1082 Chess Player

Chapter 1082 Chess Player After the release of Charlie's Angels, Simon continued his busy weekend in Los Angeles and returned to the East Coast on December 12, the day before Christmas Eve.And on the same day, Daenerys Entertainment Group quietly and quickly completed the issuance of the last $23 billion long-term bond of the Westeros system in 1996.

Since it is still mainly for overseas capital this time, coupled with the deliberate low-key, it did not cause much disturbance.

The $50 billion 10-year and 20-year long-term bonds were sold out by investors from all over the world on the day they were launched. After all, Daenerys Entertainment’s current corporate credit rating is comparable to that of U.S. treasury bonds, and the interest rate of corporate bonds It is also higher than the U.S. Treasury bonds, which naturally attracts all kinds of investors who pursue stable income.

Of course, as the leading company with the largest market capitalization on the NYSE, media attention is inevitable.

Daenerys Entertainment's annual net profit in the past fiscal year has exceeded 50 billion US dollars, and it is impossible to be short of money. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, there is no need for this Hollywood giant to issue bonds. Stroll did so, naturally with other purposes.

As for why, in fact, since the beginning of this year, it has been repeatedly discussed by countless media.

The Westeros system is hoarding funds for the economic downturn after the bursting of the stock market bubble, in order to survive the economic winter, and even further expand the bottom.

However, from the beginning of the year to the present, I have been talking about it for a whole year, and the Nasdaq index with the highest bubble content has not only not burst, but has risen even higher. This will inevitably make many people feel numb, so the relevant discussions are more limited to professional finance. Much of the attention of the media, and the general public, is on the coming Christmas.

on the other hand.

A box office week spanning Christmas passed quickly in a lively and warm festive atmosphere.

12月20日到12月26日的一个票房周，即使有着平安夜缘故，这一周的北美总票房还是在一众热片的刺激下突破了2亿美元大关。

First of all, "Charlie's Angels", which started painting last week.

In the first week of release, with a higher popularity and word-of-mouth than "Game of the Brave", "Charlie's Angels" successfully took over and reached the top, earning as much as US$7201 million in seven days after the opening, which is already close to the film's production cost of US$7500 million , the first week of the museum even reached 2.29 US dollars, which is a full US $ 1.79 higher than the first week of "Game of the Brave" of 5000 US dollars in the same period.

It is conceivable that if the number of screens of "Charlie's Angels" is comparable to that of "Game of the Brave", it is not impossible to hit 8000 million US dollars in the first week.

Affected by the big sales of "Charlie's Angels", "Game of the Brave" fell by 34% in the next week, and its revenue fell to 4179 million US dollars, with a total of 1 million US dollars in two weeks.

Frankly speaking, the two-week box office exceeded 30 million, which is a success for most movies of this era, and "Jumanji" is no exception.It's a pity that this is supposed to be the hottest week of the year, and it's also the hottest CG special effects blockbuster type, with a drop of more than [-]%, which is obviously a bit unsatisfactory.

However, "Game of the Brave" is actually quite lucky, because this week, "Wonder Woman 2", an absolute phenomenal blockbuster at the end of the year, was unexpectedly overtaken by a literary drama.

The movie, of course, is Good Will Hunting.

In the third week of its release and the second week of its large-scale opening, the number of screening screens of "Good Will Hunting" increased from 1746 last week to 2125. Compared with other large-scale releases in the same period, the investment of this movie is only 1000 million US dollars The literary and artistic drama film became the only film to achieve a reversal this week, with a 6% decline rate and another 2531 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 5466 million U.S. dollars in three weeks, completely recovering the total investment of 2000 million U.S. dollars in production and publicity. , and start to make a profit.

The former "Good Will Hunting" still won more than 1.3 million US dollars in the domestic box office under the crushing of "Titanic" in the same period. This time, "Wonder Woman 2", "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels" The combination of blockbuster films also failed to suppress the edge of this film, which is rare.

Affected by "Charlie's Angels", "Wonder Woman 4", No. 2 in the weekly box office list, fell by as much as 46% last week, and received another 2095 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 3 million US dollars.

This result corresponds to the industry analysis after the first week of the release of "Wonder Woman 2".

"Wonder Woman 2" in the Thanksgiving schedule made a strong first week of more than 1.5 million US dollars at the box office, second only to last year's box office miracle "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", ranking No. 2 in Hollywood film history.It's just that the industry media judged that "Wonder Woman 2"'s domestic box office of 4 million is not a big problem. Whether it can reach 5 million or even higher depends on the market reaction of the two blockbusters in Christmas.

Now, "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels" have been successful, and even exceeded the studio's expectations, which will inevitably have a hit at the box office of "Wonder Woman 2", which was expected to hit the box office. Judging from the current situation, 5 million is still safe, but it is obvious that it will stop at the early 4 million, and it is difficult to go higher.

In the final analysis, the film market is still so big, and one ebbs and another ebbs and flows.

Of course, in the eyes of other Hollywood studios, this 'regret' makes people want to scratch the wall.The top four films, "Charlie's Angels", "Jumanji", "Good Will Hunting" and "Wonder Woman 2", even if "Charlie's Angels" and "James of the Brave" are linked to MGM and The Warner Bros. label, but who doesn't know that these are all projects led by Daenerys Entertainment.

The most popular one-week schedule, just these four movies, the total box office is close to 1.6 million, and the total box office this week is only 2.2 million US dollars, which means that the four movies accounted for 72% of the market share. Among the 17 films in total, the other 13 films such as "Jingle Bells All the Way" and "Angel's Bodyguard" won less than 30% of the remaining 4000 million US dollars at the box office.

Insane.

If you look at the whole year, Daenerys Entertainment is even more dominant. It is no longer like in previous years, and there are several top ten shares of the annual list that belong to other studios.

Laymen just watch the fun.

In the Hollywood circle, the more people who understand the strong gambling nature of movies, the more they can understand how terrible it is for Daenerys Entertainment to do this.

Because of the strong uncertainty in the film industry, even if a studio can produce a blockbuster film, it is difficult to prevent other film companies from releasing the same blockbuster blockbusters to share market share. This is also the case that oligarchs will appear in other industries for nearly a century. Monopoly, but Hollywood has always been the main reason for the coexistence of the six majors, the seven majors and the eight majors.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment has miraculously reversed this accepted industry law.

"So, how did you do it?"

The manor on the northern outskirts of Greenwich, it was already the afternoon of December 12st.The villa was preparing for the New Year's Eve party in the evening. Catherine Bigelow and Simon, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, were leaning on a couch in the living room together, and asked with a smile while drinking the red wine in their hands.

What the two discussed happened to be Daenerys Entertainment's current almost monopoly Hollywood pattern.

In fact, the reason is not complicated.

First of all, of course, the golden finger of Simon II played the most direct guiding role, preventing Daenerys Entertainment from stepping into many minefields. This is the most critical point, and it is also a unique advantage of Simon.

Secondly, Simon completed the promotion of the Hollywood film industry model ahead of schedule.

People who don't understand it always talk about Hollywood's powerful film industry. In fact, speaking carefully, there is no doubt that Hollywood before the 90s was powerful. The industry is actually not perfect.This change actually started with the rise of blockbusters in the 90s, and truly formed the film industry that allowed Hollywood to dominate the world.

Simon not only pushed Hollywood into the blockbuster era in advance, but also mastered the most important core technology of CG special effects in this new era.In addition, through the series of movie models such as DC Movie Universe and Conjuring Movie Universe, Simon has changed the gambling nature of the strong uncertainty of the movie industry to the greatest extent, allowing Daenerys Entertainment to continuously produce blockbuster movies.

All in all, Disney used to be able to easily occupy six or seven of the top ten films every year at its peak. With Simon's advantages in all aspects, it is more natural for Daenerys Entertainment to do this.

Simon leaned on the sofa and sat opposite Catherine, also holding a glass of red wine in his hand, but did not answer the woman's question.

Being in private with a woman and talking too much about work can actually be a bummer.

With the other free hand, he fumbled around, grabbed a strand of long hair of the woman in front of him and played with it, but Simon looked very hurt: "It's okay if other people ask, Catherine, I thought we met for the first time, You've already seen my talent."

Catherine gave someone a slight look, but there was some memory in her expression.

It suddenly occurred to me that it seemed to be an evening many years ago, when a young man with a harmless smile on his face said seriously that he was from the 'Watsonville Mental Hospital'.

after that.

It became a blockbuster and soared into the sky. It only took 10 years to reach a level that everyone can only look up to forever.

"Do you worship me more and more?"

A voice from next to her ear interrupted Catherine's thoughts. After realizing it, the woman rolled her eyes again, and then she couldn't help being curious: "Do you feel like you have lost your goal now?"

Simon thought for a while and said: "My original goal was to win an Oscar Grand Slam, such as best picture, best director, best screenwriter, best soundtrack, etc. You know, except for the difficulty of the heroine, other things I won You can try it all. But when I have a trillion dollars, similar goals seem irrelevant. Like a person who has a Ph. D., how can he care about a little red flower in the kindergarten. Standing alone What kind of position is there, of course, there is a vision of what position and different life goals, at least, I know what I am doing and what I want to do.”

Catherine let the man in front of her play with her hair. After listening carefully, she saw that he hadn't revealed some of her real goals, but she didn't go into the details. She just couldn't help but said: "Jenny said that she can feel that you are very nervous occasionally. confused."

"It's unavoidable, and this situation will happen to anyone." Simon said and curled his mouth again: "So you should love me more."

Catherine resisted the small urge to roll her eyes: "Jenny also said that when you are confused, you often like to mess around."

"This is slander," Simon said with a righteous face, "You know, Jenny snatched me from you at the beginning, in order to prevent you from having the idea of ​​snatching me back, of course you have to slander me in private. "

Catherine finally couldn't hold back and rolled her eyes again.

Simon pretended not to see it, let go of Catherine's hair, and continued to protrude, trying to reach the woman's fair neck that was still well maintained all these years.

This time he was beaten back.

Knocking off the man's claws, Catherine brushed her hair to cover a part of her neck outside the black turtleneck sweater, and said in a very harmless way: "People will see it."

Simon didn't force it, but just moved closer without making a trace, enjoying the different fragrance of every woman, and asked, "Speaking of which, do you have any plans for the next movie?"

Catherine shook her head: "I've read many scripts, but I'm always unsatisfied."

"Then shoot whatever you want, shoot whatever you want, and try all kinds of genres."

Catherine was noncommittal.

In fact, it was because of the failure of "Detroit" last time.

If other investors had proposed this matter, she would definitely not have too many scruples, just try to do it, even if it fails, at least she has a clear conscience.

Which director in Hollywood has not experienced failure?

Now, instead, I can shoot whatever I want, but I dare not do it lightly.

Seeing that Catherine didn't respond, Simon didn't force it.Catherine was definitely not the kind of person who couldn't live without movies. On the contrary, although she was always alone, a woman's life was very exciting, so he didn't need to worry about anything at all.

The two chatted without saying a word until it was dusk before they knew it.

The New Year's Eve party in the evening was very lively, hundreds of guests gathered together, not only there were various performances, but also a grand fireworks show was arranged at midnight for the New Year's Eve, which was very lively.

In 1996, it was also officially spent in this hustle and bustle.

For Simon, this year seems to be longer than the turbulent 1994. Overall, it can be described as a major turning point for the Westeros system.

Simon's personal net worth exceeded $1 trillion during the year.

unprecedented.

Daenerys Entertainment's tendency to dominate Hollywood has become more and more apparent this year.Igret, Daenerys Entertainment Group, and Cisco have successively entered the $5000 billion club in market value, and continue to rise, leading the two major US stock markets, dazzling.

The power of the Westeros system in North America has become more and more entrenched, and it has begun a comprehensive layout around the world.

At the end of the day, these changes all mean one thing.

Compared with the turmoil in 1994, in the past 1996, Simon was truly promoted from a participant in this world to a chess player.

Chapter 1083 The Sixth

"Because many companies will announce quarterly and annual financial reports this month, January is the most prone to accidents. Joe, I want you to keep an eye on the Fed. No news can be spread, and once rumors arise, Greenspan needs to appear in person at critical moments, and this also requires you to operate.”

"Greenspan's problem is not big. He will end his second term this year, and the president will announce in February whether he supports his re-election. As long as he communicates well with the White House, he will cooperate with us at least until February."

"Very good," Simon nodded in satisfaction, looked at Joseph Schlapp on the opposite sofa, and said, "The last point, Joe, this matter has a lot to do with it, and I have to remind you that if you personally have funds to operate, Just put it on the side of Cersei Capital. For yourself, and the people around you, I don’t want to see any situation where this opportunity is used to speculate on technology stocks.”

When Joseph Schlapp heard the words, his heart trembled slightly, and he said quickly: "Simon, I assure you, no news will flow out of me, let alone the situation you mentioned."

"I hope so, Joe, you can also realize these years that I never treat those who are loyal to me badly. I hope you will never let me down."

In the manor on the northern outskirts of Greenwich.

After Simon and Joseph Schlapp finished talking, they walked out of the study together, and the maids in the villa were busy tidying up.

Today is Friday, June 1th.

After staying on the east coast for more than a month, the Westeros family will finally return to Los Angeles, and the two Jenny will take the children away first.

Simon is leaving on Sunday.

Not long after seeing off Schlapp, a custom-made Black Hawk of the Westeros family also landed on the lawn. Janet got off the plane and went straight to Simon who was guarding the gate of the villa.

After hugging the man intimately and returning to the villa, Janet talked about the meeting with Cersei Capital executives in Manhattan just now: "It has been arranged, Cersei Capital is the leader, Goldman Sachs, Morgan, First Boston, etc. They will try their best to cooperate to ensure that once the market changes, there will be no one-sided selling frenzy. Moreover, even if I return to Los Angeles, I will continue to follow up personally during this time.”