Hollywood Hunter

On July 30, the summer file began to close. There were as many as 7 films that landed on North American theaters this week. However, 4 of them were opened within 300 yuan. An Italian art film "Four Duan Qing only shows the scale of 11 screens.

The three mainstream commercial films with a screen size of more than 1,000 yuan are MGM's "Passenger in Paradise", Fox Pictures' "Robin Hood Crazy" and Columbia Pictures' "Naked Surprise".

"Paradise Pass" starred by Robert Downey Jr., tells the story of a car accident surrounding four ghosts around the actor Tommy, apparently following the trend of "Human Ghosts Are Not Over", the film has a screen of 1,263 yuan.

"Robin Hood is Crazy" is a spoof of Rogue Robin Hood. Obviously, it followed the trend of Kevin Costner's "Rogue Robin Hood" two years ago, with 1,275 screens.

"Naked Surprise" is a project similar to "Instinct" that Madonna personally promoted to Simon last year. The film uses Queen Mai's large-scale performance as a selling point. The number of screens opened exceeds the other two commercial films, reaching 2,070 yuan.

A box office week from July 30th to August 5th, because the box office of new films released in the last two weeks is very average, the first on the list is "Gannet Assassination Order" which opened on July 16.

In the third week of its release, the box office of "Gannet Assassination Order" dropped by 31% compared with last week, and it earned US$16.82 million. The cumulative box office of the film reached US$72.83 million in three weeks. It is expected to reach 100 million in the next three weeks. The box office is about 100 million US dollars, and it is unlikely to exceed 110 million US dollars.

Not just "Gannet Assassination Order," entering August, the box office trend of a series of related films in Daenerys Entertainment's summer archive has been basically determined.

Relying on a single-week box office of US$10.37 million in the fifth week of the release, the North American box office of "Sugar Coated Trap" opened on July 2 on its own daily schedule officially broke through the US$100 million mark, reaching a total of US$104.93 million. Taking into account that the box office volume of "Sugar Coated Trap" in the fifth week of its release has reached 10.37 million US dollars, the total North American box office of the film is expected to reach between 140 million and 150 million US dollars.

Another film related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Sleepless in Seattle", this week’s box office grossed $6.03 million. It was released for seven weeks. This romance film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan The cumulative box office was 11631 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around US$130 million.

Going forward, "Superman", which opened on June 4, was released for the ninth week, and the box office in a single week officially fell to less than ten million U.S. dollars. From July 30 to August 5, it earned 9.39 million U.S. dollars in a week. At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film has reached 332.11 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to reach about 360 million U.S. dollars.

Because three of the four major commercial films are distributed by other Hollywood studios, Daenerys Entertainment is only responsible for the "Sugar Coated Trap", which also makes New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures third in the summer file This film has obtained the distribution resources of Daenerys Entertainment.

Therefore, "Bruce Lee's Biography" on May 17th, "Orlando" on June 11th, and "Why Do You With Love" on June 25th, three medium and low-cost production films, are all compared to their budgets. Got a pretty good box office,

Among them, "The Legend of Bruce Lee" has been released. The film production budget is 15 million U.S. dollars and the announcement of 5 million U.S. dollars. The total box office in North America reached 35.11 million U.S. dollars. New World Pictures basically relied on the North American box office to recover all production and announcements. Cost, follow-up channel profits will be very considerable.

"Orlando," starring Tilda Swinton, had a cumulative box office of $17.36 million as of August 5, and continued to steadily approach $20 million with a box office of more than $500,000 in a single week. The total investment in the purchase and announcement of "Orlando" was only 6 million US dollars, and at this time it had already begun to generate profits.

Tina Turner's music biopic "What to Do with Love" is even more surprising.

The production and publicity investment of the film is equivalent to that of Bruce Lee, with a total cost of 20 million US dollars. After the release on June 25, as of August 5, the cumulative box office has reached 42.63 million U.S. dollars. The single-week box office from July 30 to August 5 still reached 3.81 million U.S. dollars, and the next hit 50 million U.S. dollars in total box office problems Not big.

Compared with "Superman", the revenue of these three films is simply not worth mentioning. However, three films, or, including four major commercial films, Daenerys Entertainment's summer archive of seven films have all been successful, for Hollywood For other studios, this time is the scary thing about this newest rising star.

Film is a business that is almost gambling, how can someone always win?

Simon didn't think it was any special.

The seven movies and the four main movies are all good cards made by him based on his own prophetic advantage. The other three, since they were selected by New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures in the summer, their quality will not be too bad. What's more, there is also the strong publicity support of Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Movies are a gambling business, however, the cards can actually be counted at this table.

Like Disney in Simon's memory.

Disney, which integrates Marvel Entertainment, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Studios, also has a set of best hole cards with a lot of wins. This also causes the top ten of the North American box office list to be divided into half by Disney every year. .

In the past few years, Simon always worried that Daenerys Entertainment would be too pushy and would cause unpredictable troubles, so he adopted the strategy of cooperating with foreign countries to share profits. Until this summer, Daenerys Entertainment has three of the four major commercials. It is distributed by other studios.

With Daenerys Entertainment's smooth merger of MCA and the growing strength of the Westeros system, the previous concerns are no longer a problem.

As long as it smoothly merges with a national public television network in the next few years and completely completes its layout in the media field, Daenerys Entertainment can fully demonstrate Simon's dominance of Hollywood.

On the other hand, this summer file, in sharp contrast with Daenerys Entertainment, is undoubtedly Columbia Pictures, which is owned by Sony.

In order to keep his position as CEO of Columbia Pictures, Peter Cooper was almost desperate.

Starting from "My Genius Family" on May 14th and "The Story of Bruce Lee", as of August 5, Columbia Pictures has released a total of 6 movies in this summer file, namely "My Genius Family", "Unbelievable Heroes", "Phantom Heroes", "Honeymoon Dangerous Period", "Justins Writing Poems" and "Naked Fright".

For the six films, the cumulative production budget alone reached 230 million US dollars.

However, the total box office of the six films as of August 5th was only 170 million U.S. dollars. Columbia Pictures could only recover the box office share of 90 million U.S. dollars, not even the publicity cost of the six films.

Among them, Madonna's new film "Naked Surprise", which was released on July 30, had a production budget of US$30 million, and the box office in the first week was only US$8.54 million. The market proved that the audience did not have much interest in the **** of Queen Mai. The failure of this project is also the epitome of a series of failures of Columbia Pictures' summer files.

The failure of Columbia Pictures is also not an accident.

When he ran the Cooper-Peters company, Peter Cooper and John Peters were the producers in the circle. Because they were cooperating with colleagues who were familiar with the industry rules, they did not act too outrageously, and achieved good results. Achievement.

After taking over Columbia Pictures from Sony, because of the Japanese decentralization attitude, two old Hollywood guns also completely released themselves.

Laziness, profligacy, chaotic management, nepotism, and blind investment... The ills that can drag a company into the abyss have been committed by two executives almost once in recent years.

For such a film company, losses are inevitable, but profits are accidental.

On August 6, with the disappointing box office results of "Naked Surprise" in the first week, Sony officially released an announcement to remove all positions of Peter Cooper and John Peters. Michael Shure, President of Sony America Branch Hoff temporarily took over all affairs of Columbia Pictures and reported directly to Sony CEO Norio Oga.

Not only that, Sony also dispatched an accounting team to Colombia to begin a financial audit of the studio.

In the face of this sudden personnel earthquake, Sony remained quite silent, but Peter Cooper, who was relieved of his duties, expressed his dissatisfaction with the unexcused dismissal during the contract period in an interview with the media, and also revealed that he might initiate an action against Sony. litigation.

The North American media discussed the turmoil in Columbia Pictures throughout the following weekend.

Until Monday, August 9th, the front page article of the Los Angeles Times was still reporting the latest news of Columbia Pictures. It is rumored that the financial situation of Columbia Pictures is worse than everyone expected. Sony may face more than 1 billion. Write-down of assets above USD.

However, Sony's recent market value is actually only about 17 billion US dollars.

Peter Cooper was expelled by Sony two years earlier than Simon remembered. It was in time and space until 1995 that Sony finally stopped laissez-faire to Columbia Pictures.

Simon even knows Sony's real asset write-down amount, which is a full US$2.7 billion.

When Sony bought Columbia Pictures, the bid for the equity of this large studio was only US$3.4 billion, and another US$1.6 billion of debt was assumed. The total transaction amount reached US$5 billion. In recent years, in order to resolve various legal disputes and the funding needs of Columbia Pictures, Sony has invested no less than $1 billion before and after.

The asset write-down of US$2.7 billion is almost equivalent to the emptiness of most of Columbia Pictures’ assets.

Because of this failure, Akio Morita completely lost control of Sony, and died in depression a few years later.

This time, obviously influenced by Simon and Daenerys Entertainment, some things have changed.

However, Sony's big somersault on Columbia Pictures will not change.

Just this summer, the loss of a series of projects of Columbia Pictures will exceed 200 million U.S. dollars. In a few years, this large studio has been greatly injured by Peter Cooper and John Peters. It is expected that Sony will take over. The number of asset write-downs announced later will certainly not be much lower than Simon remembers.

This incident actually sounded a wake-up call to Simon.

It definitely does not mean that you can receive rewards if you provide enough funds, enough trust, and enough space to play.

If you do this rashly, you may get a mess.

The scale of the Westeros system is getting larger and larger. If you want your business empire to continue to expand, decentralization is a must. However, decentralization without constraints may lead to catastrophic results.

In the dining room of Shell Villa, while reading the newspaper in the morning and talking to Janet next to her about her thoughts, the woman exaggerated her head a few times: "I understand, I understand."

Janet is actually Simon's eyes on the Westeros system.

Seeing the appearance of the woman making mischief, Simon smiled and said, "Is there any problem?"

"No," Janet shook her head, gave the man a glance, and said, "Do you want your aunt to come over and take my place and take care of some things for you? Don't worry, I won't let you succeed."

"..."

After wrinkling her nose and eating the last bite of the breakfast for pregnant women specially prepared by the nutritionist, Janet wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin, leaned in and kissed Simon on the face, and said with a smile: "Go to San Francisco today to have a better time, don’t have to come back tonight Yes. Well, you can tell Jenny that you have to come back, and I will help you lie."

Simon carefully followed Janet and hugged it on her lap, and gently touched the woman's bulging belly. Without answering the words just now, she said, "Would you like to have Britain next week?"

After several months of preparation, Nokia will officially be listed on the London Stock Exchange next Friday.

Janet put her arms around Simon's neck and pressed her cheek to Simon's head: "I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to stay at home."

Simon thought for a while and said, "In this case, I won't go."

"Go go, it's boring to be with pregnant women all day."

"It's really boring and troublesome."

"Hmm, bite you."

Feeling that his ears were bitten by two rows of small teeth for a while, Simon said: "After this month, I will put down my work as much as possible to accompany you on maternity leave."

Janet helped Simon rub the shallow tooth marks on her ears and said, "You have no credibility with me, workaholic."

"This time, I must take Moer back to take care of him for a period of time. You can't let the little guy even know his parents."

Janet did not deliberately mention Veronica again this time, she gave a shallow hmm, leaned her head on Simon's shoulder and said a little bit more. It was about nine o'clock before Simon left home and rushed to the airport to fly. San Francisco.

At ten o'clock, I arrived at the headquarters of Eaglet, where several executives were already waiting for Simon.

Today, I will focus on a new project, a classified information website, to be launched by Eaglet.

This is a key project in Eaglet's recent expansion plan after the completion of the last $1.5 billion financing.

There are many classified information websites in Simon's memory, such as 58.com, Ganji.com, Baixing.com and so on.

Since there are so many classified information websites, it shows the commercial potential of this website type.

In the original time and space, unlike the contention of a hundred schools of thought on classified information websites in China, there is only one'Craig Catalog' in North America showing a near-monopoly. However, unlike many classified information websites in China, the Craig Catalog is almost completely free. Yes, it is this free model that gives it a super high monopoly advantage.

Moreover, the suggestions on classified information websites were actually put forward by Igreat people very early.

It was only under the pressure of Simone’s will, and it has only been launched until now. Some time ago, Simon also asked people to apply for the subsidiary brand of ‘58list’ and the corresponding independent website based on memory.

Among them, 58 naturally refers to the same city as 58, which can be regarded as a little evil of Simon.

The project has been suppressed to the present, mainly because, starting this project will touch a big cake of tens of billions of dollars.

As we all know, the paper media in this era in the United States is very developed. It often has its own newspapers in world-class metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles and in remote fishing port towns.

The American public also has a very common habit of subscribing to newspapers.

In the huge paper media industry, most newspapers will have many densely packed classified information advertisements such as ‘recruitment’ and ‘rental housing’. This part of the income often accounts for about half of a newspaper’s total income.

The entire federal paper media industry currently earns more than US$20 billion in classified information advertising each year.

Now, once the free classified information website of Eaglet Portal is launched, most users can publish various classified information advertisements on the Internet without spending a penny. It is conceivable that once this online business develops, What a powerful impact it will have on the existing paper media platform classified information advertising business.