Hollywood Hunter

Simon returned to Los Angeles on November 6, which was already Friday.

Tomorrow is the day when the Victoria's Secret Show is officially held.

In the past few days, the main development plan of Yigrete Company for next year has been finalized, mainly for the further deepening of core products.

In order to increase the recognition of products, after Amazon, Eaglet will officially launch the two sub-brands of ‘Google’ and ‘Facebook’ that have been registered.

Google is naturally involved in the search engine business.

With the exponential growth of Internet sites, the content of online space has increased significantly, the role of search engines has become more and more obvious, and Simon himself has paid special attention to this network tool.

The latest IE browser to be launched will also add a Google-specific search box next to the address bar.

Another Facebook is also a social network business.

Of course, the new version of Facebook is definitely different from Simon's memory. Taking into account the current network environment, the Facebook business that will be launched separately is more inclined to the Weibo in Simon's memory, mainly using celebrity superstars as traffic guides.

Simon also proposed a supplementary plan for Egreat Portal to personally create a group of ‘net celebrities’.

Relying on the resources of the entire Westeros system, it is easy to do this.

In addition, the personal homepage and microblog that were already split will be further differentiated into two products with the establishment of the Facebook sub-brand.

The personal homepage will gradually develop in the direction of personal column, mainly to provide information content for the Eaglet portal.

As for Facebook, the core is naturally social.

In addition to Google and Facebook, Amazon's e-commerce business will also begin to expand further, and it is expected to increase video tape sales and movie peripheral sales early next year.

The video tapes and film surroundings obviously competed with Blockbuster, but Simon did not prevent this competition from happening.

Amazon's business expansion is a necessity.

At this stage, in addition to books, video tapes with relatively fixed types and formats are also a product that is very suitable for sales through online platforms.

Around the film, it relies on the resources of the Westeros system in Hollywood.

If Amazon is concerned about the competition with Blockbuster and abandons these two businesses, it is inevitable that there will be no other competitors in the future.

Simon very much agrees with a business philosophy of Jobs in his memory: rather than being eliminated by others, it is better to eliminate yourself.

Many veteran corporate giants just can't make it by themselves to eliminate themselves, and then they will be wiped out.

The most typical is Blockbuster on the original timeline. In order to avoid the erosion of offline leasing business, Blockbuster even took the initiative to give up the opportunity to develop online business and eventually went bankrupt.

Netflix is ​​exactly the opposite of Blockbuster. After securing the top spot in online leasing, Netflix is ​​not as complacent as Blockbuster. Aware of the industry trend of streaming media, Netflix executives, regardless of the fact that streaming media business may severely impact physical online leasing, decisively transformed, and eventually became a media giant alongside Disney.

Therefore, with regard to the competition between Amazon and Blockbuster, as long as the two sides do not engage in a price war that hurts both sides or use other non-influenced means, Simon does not intend to interfere. In fact, he still holds an encouraging attitude.

The Internet industry is exploding rapidly, because the lead will slow down for a while, and the result will only be surpassed.

The competitive landscape of Amazon and Blockbuster can also urge the two parties to develop rapidly in various aspects such as operations and technology to avoid slack.

Carol Bartz is responsible for the Internet basic service-related business, and the development focus next year will still be cloud computing.

Although it has been successfully applied to support various products of Eaglet Portal, there is still a lot of room for improvement in cloud computing technology.

The next step of the Eaglet cloud computing technology team is to further get rid of server equipment suppliers such as IBM in terms of hardware, directly purchase chips, hard drives and other equipment from the lowest hardware manufacturers such as Intel and Seagate, and design and assemble proprietary In this way, the construction cost of the data center can be greatly reduced. Eaglet can also obtain more permissions at the server level, which is convenient for designing the software system that best meets its needs.

The presidential election clearly had an impact on the North American box office for the week from October 30 to November 5.

However, in the first week of the painting, Daenerys Entertainment's "Midnight Bell" launched on Halloween schedule still achieved very eye-catching box office results, with a total of 28.79 million US dollars in seven days, and the average dust of the museum was 12,000 US dollars. .

In comparison, the horror film "Sugar Man" launched by Columbia's Samsung company, which was opened at the same time, had only 5.19 million US dollars at the box office in the first week. This movie that tried to follow the trend of the "Ghost Street" series of evil spirits killing humans is not a gross box office failure , But it did not meet the studio's expectations, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around 10 million US dollars.

On November 6, there was only one new film on the North American theater line. The hijacking crime action film "Passenger 57" produced by Warner Bros., the film starring Wesley Snipes, which is the original timeline starring " The black movie star of the "Blade Warrior" series. Basically, although the scene was moved to an airplane, the film clearly followed the pattern of Bruce Willis' "Die Hard" series.

Simon does not have much information about "Passenger 57" in his memory. He is still focusing on "Midnight Ring".

The Japanese version of "Midnight Ring" on the original timeline is a phenomenon-level movie in Japan. This time, skipping the Japanese version and directly developing the US version, although Simon adopted the US version of the story structure in his memory, but in the shooting, soundtrack, etc. On the other hand, it is still more inclined to refer to the Japanese version. Therefore, the scenes of evil spirits from the TV have also become classic horror scenes in the hearts of many viewers.

In the first week, 28.79 million US dollars, in line with the reputation of the film, the new version of "Midnight Ring", breaking 100 million is a breeze. As for how high it can go, it still depends on the subsequent box office curve.

The Japanese have never lacked the dream of marching into North America in all respects. The "Midnight Ring" adapted from a Japanese novel was a big hit at the box office, which also caused a wave of public opinion in Japan. Daenerys Entertainment originally had the opportunity to let "Midnight Ring" be released in Japan at the same time. After all, this is a movie adapted from a Japanese novel.

However, what is needed is the ‘prudence’ of the Japanese after the film’s success, so the distribution team decided to wait for the release of "Midnight Ring" before releasing it in Japan.

The North American market has always been closed, and there are only a handful of Japanese movies that can sell in North America. In the original plan, as long as the North American box office of "Midnight Ring" exceeded US$50 million, it would be enough to attract strong attention from the Japanese market. Now, the film's North American box office is expected to exceed 100 million yuan, and even squeeze into the top ten of the North American annual box office rankings. Then, the next big sales in Japan can be even more expected.

The theme park team that is designing Universal Studios Osaka, after the box office of the first weekend of "Midnight Ring", quickly decided to add "Sadako" to the haunted house attractions of Universal Studios Osaka.

Simon had already learned the box office information of "Midnight Bell" in advance, and when he returned to Los Angeles, he rushed directly to the Dorothy Chandler Theater in the city center.

The Victoria's Secret Show will be held tomorrow night, and today happens to be the last rehearsal.

Not only Simon, but also senior leaders such as Leslie Wexner, Chairman of the LTD, and Grace Nichols, CEO of Victoria's Secret, also came to watch the rehearsal.

The interior of the Chandler Theater has long been transformed into a show venue with a 20-meter-long T stage, which is mainly distributed on both sides of the T stage, and the lighting, machine positions and even some of the settings in the theater hall have also been set up.

Of course, what attracts everyone's attention most is a group of ‘big fairies’ who are ready to go.

People who have seen the Victoria's Secret angel shape finalized under the guidance of Simon himself will almost always have an idea in their minds: amazing.

In the original time and space, the first few catwalks of Victoria's Secret in the 1990s can only be described as earthy dregs. The models wear very conservative underwear and wear unqualified lipstick and blush, as if they had just escaped from the ravine. come out.

This time, Simon directly elevated the Victoria's Secret show to the level of maturity after 2000.

Beautiful underwear, stunning shapes, colorful wings and a batch of top models in the fashion circle.

Of course, in the final analysis, it is still the effect of 10 million dollars.

Backstage at the theater, this big show is related to his own future in Hollywood. A large group of waist fines can only be seen but not eaten. For months, Michael Bay, who has worked hard for this big show, has shown a bit of what happened later. With the tyrant's breath, he shouted into the headset to command each unit to start waiting. When the deputy director personally indicated that he could start, Michael Bayi, who was standing behind a row of real-time monitors in the background, shouted to start.

The music plays.

Before the last moment, in order to keep it secret, the music is still just a soundtrack.

However, everyone also knows that the first-hand very popular song is called "Angels" and the theme name: psychedelic angels.

Simon put the "Angels" of the Vicetone combination in his memory at the beginning, not the song "Paradise", mainly to relied on this very rhythmic dance music to ignite the atmosphere of the scene for the first time.

For this big show, the expectations of the outside world have reached the highest.

If the audience's long-awaited emotions are not mobilized at the beginning, the final effect of the big show will be difficult to achieve perfection.

In the hall, there were only a few people in the stands, such as Simon, Wexner and Grace Nichols. When the music remembered, the few people who were talking stopped the conversation and looked towards the T stage together.

In the dynamic opening music, the lighting is also dominated by warm red.

The theme of the psychedelic angel is not the white in people's inherent impression, but the luxurious gold.

Cindy Crawford was the first angel to step onto the stage as the opening angel.

White underwear, golden accessories, and a white feather-like wing attached to both arms.

Regarding angel wings, Simon also did not simply adopt the wing shape that people have inherent impressions. Cindy Crawford’s opening dress is actually the shape of Gisele Bundchen in Simon’s memory for the opening of the 2006 Victoria’s Secret Show. The whole is like a proud and wild golden angel.

Different from the elegant steps common to models of this era, Cindy is accompanied by the rhythm of the music, and the scissors steps that are also very powerful and rhythmic.

The first theme, the angel costume design draft that Simon personally finalized was only Cindy, and the rest were played by the designer of Victoria's Secret. However, when Najia Allman joined, Simon was inspired by Najia Allman's golden style design similar to the Nordic goddess in a catwalk, and he personally caught the second set.

When the shape is different from the one in the memory, Naja Allman’s angel outfit this time adopts a hollow design, which can reveal the Victoria's Secret brand underwear. This is a must, but for the audience, the most impressive thing is definitely the girl’s. Two madly long legs.

When Naja Allman appeared in the second half of the theme, even Leslie Wexner next to Simon couldn’t help but shine, thinking of the young man’s legs, Wex Nye immediately dismissed some thoughts, but he said to Simon with envy: "This girl was the last to join, I think it's outstanding?"

Simon explained: "It's just that this set of angel costumes is amazing and fits this theme very well. Najia's own style is still biased towards high fashion, lacking the feminine feeling that Victoria's Secret Show needs."

Leslie Wexner disagreed a little, and laughed: "I think this angel costume will definitely become the most memorable set of this big show."

Simon nodded to this too.

At the same time, next year, it is mainly the perfect match between the model and the angel costume that produces this amazing effect. If you change a model to wear this suit, or change to another set of angel costumes by Naja Allman, it will probably be It is not easy to reach this level.

The creation of the classics is often an accidental combination of many factors.

The first topic ended soon, everything went smoothly and perfectly.

After a short break, the second theme soon began.

Love in heaven.

The theme song is naturally the ethereal "Paradise".

The first one is amazing, the second one is soothing, one by one.

Moreover, although there is no such strong sense of rhythm as "Angels", the overall tune of "Paradise" still matches the atmosphere of the show very well, suitable for models to step on.

Five themes, five openings, five Victoria's Secret angel spokespersons each have one chance.

This time the opening is Stephanie Seymour.

Speaking of which, the opening and closing are actually a manifestation of the reputation and status of models in the fashion circle.

This time, the five themes, five openings and closings, especially the opening of the first theme and the closing of the fifth theme, have gone through a battle. In order to prevent a group of fairies from tearing up too much, Simon finally came forward in person and ranked 10 opening and closing places.

The second theme, the biggest feature is crystals and sequins, accompanied by lighting, giving the audience a sense of heavenly dreams.

In the audience, after just reading these two themes, Leslie Wexner has already confirmed that the big show to be held tomorrow night will be a brand-level success for Victoria's Secret.