Hollywood Hunter

The aftermath of the new presidential election quickly settled. In the following period, almost all the news that attracted people's attention in Hollywood came from Daenerys Entertainment.

From November 4th to November 10th, in the 17th week of its release, "Instinct" officially went down in North America, with a cumulative box office of $117.12 million.

At the same time, in the second week of "Screaming and Screaming", the box office fell at a very impressive 19%, and another $18.35 million was collected in seven days the following week, bringing the cumulative box office to $39.06 million. Only two weeks after the show, Daenerys Entertainment completely recovered all investment in the film and generated profit.

In addition, the first week of "Steel Magnolia" was released on the same day. A total of 22 screens were screened, with an average of more than 68,000 US dollars in a single library. In the first week of screening, this film was not favored by many people. $1.51 million at the box office.

Then, the week before Thanksgiving, Hollywood's year-end schedule finally began to lively.

On November 11th, if you count the same movies with dozens of screens, there are a total of 7 new films released in Hollywood.

However, what is surprising is that in the week from November 11 to November 17, although the box office decline expanded to 23% from the first week, "Scream" still maintained its position as the one-week box office champion. With another $13.96 million, the cumulative box office quickly reached $53.02 million in three weeks.

Moreover, a movie that followed "Scream" was also a bit surprising. The horror film "The Ghost Baby" produced by United Film Corporation had a box office of 9.61 million US dollars in the first week.

If there was no "Scream", obviously, this horror film series, which was later very well-known, would also become the weekly box office champion. However, people can't help but discover a problem. The two most popular movies are all horror movies during Thanksgiving, which should have been full of family atmosphere. This is not normal.

This is indeed the case.

Normally, only second-tier film companies that focus on horror films like Xinxian are keen to push their own horror films to the most popular schedules, because they have no choice. By analogy, Hollywood actually doesn't have many choices. In the final analysis, it is the result of a strike by Hollywood screenwriters.

Simon has studied the films released at the end of the Seventh National Congress. If Daenerys Entertainment is not included, the Thanksgiving holiday schedule of major Hollywood studios does not appear in his memory that can squeeze into the top ten box office charts.

There are only two Christmas films with this potential, one is Universal Pictures’ "Dragon Brother and Mouse" starring Schwarzenegger, and the other is Paramount Pictures’ "White Headed Detective". The release time of these works is not the most popular around Christmas. The release date of "Dragon Brothers and Rats" is December 9th, and the release date of "Bad Detective" is December 2nd. Obviously, Universal and Paramount I am not optimistic about these two works, but they have become the dark horses in the box office for the Christmas schedule next month.

However, this kind of schedule actually means another thing, the popular December 16 and December 23 schedules, the seven major film companies are equal to ‘let’ out again. Daenerys Entertainment's "Rain Man" and "Death Poetry Society" happen to be released on a large scale in these two weeks.

Looking at it again, after "Ghost Baby Resurrection", the focus is still "Steel Magnolia".

In the second week of the screening, the number of screens of "Steel Magnolia" increased to 35. Although the weekly box office of the single library dropped from 68,000 US dollars to 66,000 US dollars, it still received 2.35 million US dollars in seven days.

So, just at the screening stage, the cumulative box office of "Steel Magnolia" has reached 3.86 million US dollars, which is almost equal to the total box office of the previous "Oolong Detective" produced by Warner Bros.

In addition, just like "Instinct", on November 17, the 23-week-long North American "Pulp Fiction" was also released. In half a year, the cumulative box office reached 156.93 million U.S. dollars, temporarily ranking first in the 1988 North American box office rankings. position.

"Pulp Fiction" is followed by Disney's real-life and animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". This week's box office has shrunk to less than US$500,000 and the cumulative box office has also exceeded US$150 million.

However, as long as Disney is not spending money on the box office to deliberately fight for an annual box office title, it is basically impossible to surpass Pulp Fiction in the final weeks of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

With the downgrade of "Pulp Fiction", Hollywood once again realized that although "Pulp Fiction", "When Harry Meets Sally" and "Instinct" were not distributed by Daenerys Entertainment, who There is no denying that they are the works of Daenerys Entertainment and the projects controlled by Simon Westeros.

Moreover, these three works that have been downgraded are all ranked in the top ten of the North American annual list. The North American box office of the three films totaling more than US$380 million is equivalent to the total annual box office of more than half of the seven major studios.

At this time, with the box office performance of "Scream" and "Steel Magnolia" still dazzling at the end of the year, Hollywood finally felt the pressure brought by Daenerys Entertainment.

The most important thing is that although they are very reluctant to admit it, the seven responsible persons have to face a reality.

Just as Simon asked Jack Valenti to forward the words, although Daenerys Entertainment has only risen for two years, it has indeed become one of the players in Hollywood. Hollywood's tactics to deal with latecomers are nothing more than restricting distribution channels and funding sources, or adding some less popular litigation bombing and scandal tactics, but these tactics are almost useless in front of Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon Westero ranks third in the United States with a billion-dollar net worth enough to support Daenerys Entertainment from being troubled by a shortage of funds. Stimulated by a series of popular blockbusters, North American theater operators will not join forces with the seven majors to block Daenerys Entertainment’s distribution channels, but will compete with each other instead.

As for those influential methods, it may be very useful to deal with some film companies that are weak or in trouble, but for Daenerys Entertainment, the result is likely to usher in a strong counterattack.

However, things always seem to have some ‘breakthroughs’.

When the entire Hollywood was sighing at the confusion of the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, Paramount Pictures was negotiating with "Scream" director Wes Craven about the news of a new film cooperation, which immediately made many people wake up. .

indeed.

Even if you can't directly confront Daenerys Entertainment, you can dig into Daenerys Entertainment.

With the development and growth of this rising star, Simon Westeros, no matter how talented he is, it is impossible for one person to do everything. Moreover, even if "Screaming Scream" is still Simon Westero's work, when "Steel Magnolia" once again shows the momentum of the dark horse at the box office, there are not many people in Hollywood who doubt Simon West. Luo's vision for selecting projects and talents.

Who wouldn't pry corners?

Due to the popular trial screening effect of "Steel Magnolia", when the film was officially opened in North America on November 18, the number of screens of the film has increased from 922 yuan in the previous contract stage to 1,135 yuan, and, in the following few years Week, as long as the box office performance of this film can meet expectations, major theaters in North America will provide more screen resources for this film.

Encouraged by "Scream and Scream", Daenerys Entertainment's publishing team has performed bolder in the announcement of "Steel Magnolia".

A week before the release, "Steel Magnolia" even advertised for ABC's popular "Who Will Be A Millionaire" program. The ratings of "Who Will Be a Millionaire" have been suppressed by "Survivor" during this period, but compared to "Survivor", it is the most popular program for audiences of all ages. 》The target audience of the festival family carnival movie fits well.

As one of the most expensive TV shows in North America, Daenerys Entertainment’s previous "Scream" dare not advertise on "Who Will Be a Millionaire" because the winter break is approaching. , The following "Rain Man" and "Death Poetry Society" also have no such opportunity. One three-week issue of "Who Will Be a Millionaire" has two 30-second commercial breaks in each issue, but this only cost Daenerys Entertainment US$1.5 million in advertising fees.

In the end, from November 18th to November 24th, the week of Thanksgiving, "Steel Magnolia" unexpectedly and unexpectedly replaced "Scream" as the box office champion of the new week.

In the first seven days of the week, the final cumulative box office of "Steel Magnolia" was $12.81 million.

In essence, it is still the limit of women’s movies, $12.81 million. This figure is indeed far less than the $20.71 million in the first week of "Scream and Scream", but it is already the best opening of the year-end schedule after "Scream and Scream". Draw results. In the first week of the film, the average box office of a single library also reached a big seller level of 10,000 US dollars.

Although there is no lack of media reports that the box office performance of "Steel Magnolia" is not as good as expected, more people understand that because of the good reputation and the spread of word of mouth from the audience, the box office of "Steel Magnolia" is very promising. The summer file "Flying Over the Future" has a very beautiful long line.

The subsequent box office numbers of "Steel Magnolia" immediately proved this point.

During the Thanksgiving weekend from November 25 to November 27, the film’s box office fell by only a very small 5% compared to the first weekend. Compared to the $8.26 million in the first weekend, the box office still reached 7.86 million in the next three days. U.S. dollars, with a total box office of 20.67 million U.S. dollars in ten days.

Malibu.

Unknowingly, it was already Tuesday, November 29.

Simon did not go to the company this morning, because today he has to sign some contracts such as bank loans and real estate delivery. After Janet personally rushed to Europe last time, Sophia Fessi completely helped Simon settle the European real estate affairs during this period.

France's Credit Lyon Bank finally decided to provide Simon with this loan. Taking into account the renovation and maintenance of some houses and other costs, Simon simply borrowed US$200 million from Credit Lyon Bank in one lump sum.

After negotiations between the two parties, perhaps to pave the way for future cooperation, Credit Lyon Bank gave Simon a very favorable 4.3% loan interest rate for a period of five years.

With the continuous downgrades of "Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction" and the arrival of the TV series winter break, Daenerys Entertainment will intensively receive a lot of dividends and final payments in the next more than a month, but this huge profit will be It has ensured Simon's ability to repay, not to mention, in the next few years, even if there are no other popular projects, Daenerys Entertainment is destined to continue to obtain more benefits from existing projects.

The various formalities and contracts went on all morning, and Simon did not ignore the goodwill shown by Credit Lyon Bank this time. At noon, he also held a small luncheon to entertain the Credit Lyon bank representatives who came from France.

The luncheon lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon, and most of the guests were sent away. Simon and James Rebald, who also came from New York this time, discussed some Westeros affairs, and the villa finally calmed down.

After tossing for a long time, Simon took a bath comfortably, changed his clothes, and looked at Janet, who was shrinking on the sofa in the living room with Sophia Fessy and discussing how to transform the real estate. Simon was a little helpless, woman. Sophia stayed again.

Self-reliant and wearing a tie, Simon said to Janet: "Then, let's talk slowly. I'm going to the company first. It just happened to be around 4 o'clock and there are still some things."

Janet got up and leaned over with a smile, took Simon's tie and fiddled with him, and then walked out with him, saying: "I bought so many houses at once, when shall we go live?"

"Next year," Simon said, feeling that Janet was hanging on him intimately, "There is still a busy year. When the production of "Batman" is over next year, the company will be completely stabilized. Let's take a good rest."

"Yeah," Janet pressed her head to Simon's shoulder and said, "It's a deal."

"Of course," Simon said, "I didn't want to be a workaholic all my life, but of course I still want to enjoy life."

Janet curled her lips and said, "Hmph, many workaholics think so, but they can't stop for a lifetime."

Simon smiled and said, "Isn't there you still? I can't stop, you just jump out and drag your legs."

"I said it a long time ago, I won't ask you to regret it," Janet sent Simon to the car and nodded confidently, "Never."

When Neil Benitra drove the door, Simon kissed the woman's forehead and said, "You still have to drag it when it's time to drag it."

Saying goodbye with a smile, Simon got in the car and hurried to the company headquarters in Santa Monica.

Today there is not enough working time, Simon arranged to meet several Wonder Woman candidates.

During this period of time, various Hollywood studios sent several batches of Wonder Woman candidates over. Although many agency companies subconsciously selected Linda Carter's type, many still met Simon’s requirements. He also Easily found a few goals I wanted from these people.