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Under the impact of "Jurassic Park", the box office performance of other films on the North American theaters in the first week of the Christmas file was not satisfactory.

Under normal circumstances, with the advent of the holiday season, most of the two movies will have a reversal around Christmas, but this time it did not happen, even if it is the most suitable holiday theme "Home Alone 2", December 18 to December In the week of the 24th, box office data dropped by as much as 17%.

In the fifth week of its release, "Home Alone 2" earned a box office of 10.29 million U.S. dollars and a cumulative box office of $132.05 million.

For this reason, Daenerys Entertainment's publishing team had to lower its local box office expectations for "Home Alone 2". The original forecast of up to 200 million US dollars will definitely be difficult to achieve. In the best case, the estimate can only reach the original. About 170 million dollars on the timeline.

Robin Williams' fantasy comedy "Toys", which opened at the same time as "Jurassic Park", even went straight to the street, with a box office of only $5.31 million for the first week and seven days.

In the same week, on Monday, December 21, the nominations for the 50th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were officially announced.

Daenerys Entertainment's "Crying Game" won three nominations for best film, best supporting actor and best screenwriter in the drama category. As the focus of the 1993 awards season, "Scent of a Woman" won the best drama category Six nominations for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay in Film and Drama.

With the announcement of the nomination, the two films once again received media and public attention.

The "Crying Game", which opened on September 25, has been released for 13 weeks as of December 24. The total box office in North America has reached 51.63 million U.S. dollars, and the single-week box office has also fallen to less than 4 million U.S. dollars, December 18 to 12. On the 24th, the box office received only $3.13 million in seven days.

Gaomen Films has focused its announcement on "Scent of a Woman". Therefore, taking advantage of the east wind of the awards season and appropriately re-expanding the screening scale, "Crying Game" may still receive another 1,500. Around, the final North American box office is expected to be between 65 million and 70 million US dollars.

Compared with the production cost of 3 million US dollars for the film, this is already a miracle.

"Scent of a Woman", which opened on November 13, was screened for two weeks, and officially opened on November 27.

As of December 24, four weeks after the large-scale release, the cumulative box office of "Scent of a Woman" reached 30.11 million US dollars.

Taking into account the award season in the next few months, "Scent of a Woman" will become the focus of Daenerys Entertainment's awards public relations. This literary feature film starring Al Pacino can at least reach the local box office. "Cry Game" is quite standard.

On December 25th, in the second week of the Christmas file, three new films continued to be released on North American theaters.

Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Famine Is Unexpected", starring Mel Gibson, has 1,710 screens.

In Simon's memory, the heroine of the original film was Jamie Lee Curtis. This time, the heroine was replaced by Meg Ryan.

It was obviously the influence of Simon this big butterfly.

However, Simon did not personally interfere with anything. He hoped that the heroine of the film would still be Jamie Lee Curtis. Just thinking about Curtis, who was full of masculine atmosphere, could not have any spark with Mel Gibson. It is not Daenerys Entertainment's film, of course the worse the better.

Of course, even if the heroine is replaced by the more pleasing Meg Ryan, this year-end schedule, "The Famine Is Unstoppable" will only be crushed by "Jurassic Park".

Two other new films.

Paramount Pictures’ "Miracles", starring Steve Martin, tells the story of a liar traveling around the country performing performances, with 1,554 screens.

Fox Pictures’ "Hoffa", a biographical crime drama starring Jack Nicholson, is clearly aimed at the awards season, with 1066 screens.

New York, Long Island.

Inside a synagogue in East Hampton.

The time is December 27th.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Steve Rose's funeral was held here.

The Jewish priest introduced Rose’s life, and then relatives, friends, and colleagues took to the stage to give speeches. The funeral lasted until noon, and everyone returned to the Rose family’s manor for dinner in East Hampton.

The lunch is buffet style, and the atmosphere is a bit solemn.

"Simon, I'm thinking about one thing recently. I hope to make "Schindler's List" a work dedicated to Steve at the same time."

In the lobby of the manor house, the Simons and his wife once again expressed their condolences to Rose’s widow Courteney Rose, and Steven Spielberg said so suddenly.

The "Schindler's List" in my memory is a work of Universal Pictures, but the end of the film is also marked with the words "dedicated to Steve Rose".

Simon naturally didn't mind at this time, and nodded: "Of course it's okay, Steven, "Schindler's List" is completely up to you."

Spielberg originally wanted to explain his specific thoughts. Seeing Simon said so, he stopped saying more, just a little more grateful in his eyes.

Courteney Rose also had a touched expression: "Oh, Steven, and Simon, thank you so much."

"This is what we should do, Ms. Rose."

"Then," Courteney Rose looked at Simon and said, "Simon, next month, I'm still planning to organize a Steve's memorial ceremony. Can you spare time to participate?"

Simon paused, and faced Courteney Rose's eager gaze, he nodded: "Okay, just let me know at that time."

Janet, who was standing quietly next to Simon with a dinner plate, curled her lips when she heard the conversation.

Speaking of it, Courteney Rose is the third wife of Steve Rose, who is more than twenty years younger than Rose, a standard old man and young wife. Compared to Steve Rose's high emotional intelligence in dealing with people, Courteney Rose does not look very pleasing in this circle.

For example, the invitation just now.

Simon and Rose are not too close to each other, and being able to rush back from Australia to attend the funeral is already a matter of face.

For Ross's memorial ceremony, it was best to send out an invitation in private. If Simon has time to attend, it is naturally best. If there is no time, it will not hurt to refuse quietly. At this time, it was raised in front of other people at the lunch after the funeral. In order to avoid obvious embarrassment, Simon could only agree.

Moreover, in the presence of Spielberg, who almost has a father-son relationship with Rose, Courteney Rose is too enthusiastic about Simon, which will inevitably seem a bit snobbish.

Courteney Rose obviously didn't realize this.

This woman may only see that with Simon's current status, if she can attend the memorial ceremony for Ross, it will definitely add a bit of glory to the event. As for Spielberg next to her, she probably felt that even if she didn't mention it, the other party would naturally attend the Ross memorial ceremony.

After a while, Robert Daly and Terry Semel, two of Rose's close associates, came to say hello.

Everyone talked a few words softly, and Spielberg walked away wittily.

Janet glanced at Courteney Rose, who was still standing, and had to step forward and say: "Curt, can you introduce everyone to me?"

Courteney Rose heard that Janet, who was still a little cold, took the initiative to talk to her, and quickly nodded and smiled: "Oh, of course."

When the two women walked away, Robert Daly first said: "Simon, I have seen some information on FashionTV. Speaking of which, the cable industry really lacks a professional fashion TV station. This plan should be very promising, Warner We will do our best to cooperate to get this TV station online as soon as possible."

As Rose’s two deputy, Terry Semel is mainly responsible for the film business, and Robert Daley is in charge of Warner’s cable operator business, mainly Warner Cable. As for the cable TV station HBO, it actually belongs to the time company system.

If Daenerys Entertainment wants to launch FashionTV, it will definitely need the cooperation of cable operators.

Simon certainly understands Robert Daly's intention to show his good intentions through FashionTV, and smiled: "In fact, FashionTV is mainly for promoting Gucci and other brands. I am not confident whether it can do it well. By the way, you are here in the past few days. How's it going?"

The two looked at each other and Terry Semmel said: "The board of directors plans to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on January 5, when the company's management will be determined."

Today is December 27, and there is still more than a week before January 5.

Simon made a mental calculation and continued: "In fact, Steve talked to me about this in the first half of the year, and he should have notified you. I don’t want Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner The good state of cooperation has been destroyed, so I will try my best to support the two of you as the co-CEO of Time Warner. If you need help, you can contact me at any time."

Steve Rose’s successor, Gerald Levin, was a bit disgraced these days because of the leak of his speech at the last internal meeting, especially when the box office of "Jurassic Park" exploded. Daenerys Entertainment's renegotiated Gerald Levin appeared more passive.

Coupled with the recent sharp decline in Time Warner's share price caused by a series of events such as high-level internal fighting and the death of Rose, Warner's board of directors and major shareholders have quite criticized Gerald Levine.

If at this time, Simon can spare no effort to support Robert Daley and Terry Semel, it is not that the two have the possibility of completely taking charge of Time Warner.

Moreover, the method is also very simple.

As long as Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group cooperate on the DC Cinema Universe to put pressure on Time Warner’s board of directors and shareholders.

Since the merger of Time Warner, the company's most eye-catching project in recent years is the DC Cinema Universe. This plan has not only represented substantial benefits, but has even affected the market’s confidence in Time Warner to a large extent. .

Once the DC Cinema Universe plan changes, Time Warner's stock price will definitely continue to fall sharply.

For Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention Marvel, which is under development, just the recently released "Jurassic Park" is enough to show that Daenerys Entertainment's dependence on the DC movie universe is far low. At Time Warner, Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of initiative in front of Time Warner.

However, listening to Simon's words, both Robert Daly and Terry Semel realized that Simon did not intend to intervene in the high-level changes of Time Warner too much.

Of course the two of them did not completely understand some of the joints.

Daenerys and Time Warner are competitors after all. A competitor with internal chaos is definitely more in line with Daenerys Entertainment’s own interests than a competitor with stable management.

In addition, there is one more point.

At this time, the two of them couldn't take out the bargaining chips that Simon would try to help them in the upper position.

In order to ensure that the cooperation between the two parties will not change, Westeros can openly support them to jointly assume the CEO position of Time Warner, but without other benefits, the other party cannot do too much.

As for the deeper factors, in fact, even if they really fully control Time Warner's power, the two have no intention of diametrically opposed to Daenerys Entertainment.

After all, Time Warner is a publicly held company, and the two of them are just professional managers.

As a professional manager, as long as he can do his best to the company during his tenure, get the highest profit, and get the reward he deserves, this is enough. As for the long-term planning of a company, neither of them feels that they have such an obligation. Even for Time Warner, where internal struggles continue, even if they want to undertake such an obligation, it is impossible.

Time Warner is not Daenerys. In this hill-topped company, each faction has its own demands.

Simon had already had a phone call with Gerald Levine when he was in Australia, and he also roughly expressed his attitude on the phone.

The three briefly discussed, Simon promised Daenerys Entertainment will make some more statements in the media to ensure that there will be no other changes in the shareholders meeting on January 5, and Simon does not intend to do more.

After having a simple lunch and greeting someone who should be greeted, Simon and his wife returned to Manhattan together.

In the evening, I also arranged a dinner with the Rebold family, and the Robert Iger family will also be there.

Although I came back early, I didn't plan to return to Los Angeles to start work immediately. Instead, I planned to spend the New Year in New York. Various activities were arranged in the following days.

Unconsciously, the last week of 1992 finally passed.

In the week from December 25 to December 31, "Jurassic Park" continued to dominate. In the second week of its release, the film fell by only 21%. Compared with the high box office of 91.38 million US dollars in the first week, this drop has been very good. . In the rest of the next week, "Jurassic Park" continued to earn $72.17 million, and the cumulative box office quickly reached $163.55 million.

The second-ranked one-week list of "Unexpected Love", compared with "Jurassic Park" at a box office of 72.17 million US dollars, this new film starring Mel Gibson has only 15.18 million US dollars in the first week of its opening. Far below Warner's expectations.

Considering that the Christmas file will be over next week, and the production cost of "The Famine Is Unexpected" with a production cost of 30 million US dollars, the total box office in North America may only be between 30 million and 40 million US dollars.

The third-placed "Home Alone 2", because of Christmas, once again gained 9.98 million US dollars with a 3% ultra-low drop. It was released for six weeks, and the cumulative box office was 142.03 million US dollars.

"Hoffa" produced by Fox had a box office of $8.71 million in the first week, ranking fourth.

With a comprehensive media rating of only 5.4, this biographical crime drama is obviously unlikely to hit the awards season.

Paramount produced a comedy starring Steve Martin, "A Miracle of Heaven", which had a box office of $7.37 million in the first week and ranked fifth, which was also not as good as expected.

In fact, the top five films on the single-week list, the last four films such as "The Famine Is Unexpected" and the other four films together, the box office is not as good as the film "Jurassic Park".

Relying on the momentum brought by "Jurassic Park", Daenerys Entertainment's statement on the need to ensure the stable replacement of Time Warner's management immediately received a positive response from all parties in Time Warner.

Through this incident, Hollywood once again felt Daenerys Entertainment's growing influence in the American media industry.