Hollywood Hunter

The closest mansion to the west of Cape Dumei Manor. The villa is a three-story modern style building. The main body of the white building seems to be a superposition of many cuboids, which is full of modernity.

Simon took the female assistant and walked through the villa. The two came to the third-floor terrace. The female assistant leaned on the railing and looked at the sea. Simon naturally hugged her waist and asked, "How is it?"

"Very good," the female assistant turned her cheek and posted a sticker with Simon, and then pointed to the row of luxury houses on the west side: "You bought all these?"

"Yeah, how is it?"

Jennifer said: "In recent years, many media have always criticized you for being extravagant."

"I don't care what others say, I only do what I want to do."

The female assistant actually didn't care, nor did she persuade Simon to constrain or use the money for charity. From the first encounter, she became the mother of his child. Unknowingly after so many years, she watched him walk step by step and watched him create a huge business empire. She felt that she was still listening in Venice Beach. He secretly put down the $10 unknown girl while singing.

Until now, I still just want to stand beside him silently forever.

No matter what the outsider is, no matter what he does, she will always be on his side.

Noting that the female assistant in her arms was looking at the east side of the bay in a daze, Simon followed, and there was the coastal line of Santa Monica: "What are you looking at?"

Jennifer said: "Suddenly I remembered the first time I saw you."

Having said this, he remembered again that he still didn't know about the original video tape, and he didn't intend to let him know that he wanted to be a little secret in his heart forever.

Simon put his arms around the female assistant's waist tightly, and smiled: "Did you secretly like me when you first met?"

Jennifer recalled that it was actually the second meeting between the two of them, and teased slightly: "Are you talking about the guy who was beaten into the hospital?"

"Well, let's change the subject."

"Haha," the female assistant laughed, raised her wrist to check the time, and said: "Let's go back, the kids should wake up."

The two returned to the Shell Villa. Girl A happened to return from the outside and brought back a set of scrolls.

The female assistant first went to the nursery to see the two little guys. The children were still asleep, so she went out to admire the scrolls Alison brought back with Simon.

This is a Chinese painting.

The picture is close to three meters in length and 1.5 meters in width. Above it is a magnificent picture of ancient wars. Tens of thousands of ancient soldiers of various types are fighting **** the vast battlefield. Giant siege vehicles and awe-inspiring swordsmen. In the battle, the cruel cavalry collided, and the crumbling and broken city was surrounded by dead bodies, and the setting sun was stained with blood outside the distant mountains. On the right side of the banner was Cao Song's "Ji Hai" written in cursive.

At the beginning, I just asked Girl A to find someone to write Cao Song's poem.

Later, I felt that the thin scroll of poems was a little pale, so I ordered it at will and got this painting.

The painter's skills are very deep, and the female assistant does not know the poem on the right side of the frame, but she can hardly restrain her position and feel a slight sense of suffocation. Involuntarily holding Simon's arm, he whispered: "I don't like this picture."

Simon patted the back of the female assistant's hand and motioned to the four girls who were carefully displaying the huge paintings and said: "Take it away and put it in the showroom."

After speaking, he said to the female assistant: "Let's go see the child."

Jennifer glanced at the painting that Alison and the four were carefully rolling up, nodded, and followed Simon to the baby room. After thinking about it, she didn't ask.

Simon did not explain.

Things in New York, with David Dingkins losing 41% to 59% of the vote to Rudy Giuliani in the mayoral election on November 1, some things have temporarily settled.

Of course there are follow-ups.

Since he decided to attack the entire David Dingkins city government cabinet, Simon has no plans to stop.

The Westeros system tends to stand on the side of the Democrats, but if someone takes it for granted and does not even need to bear any responsibility, this incident will be a clear warning.

Perhaps there will be some discord between the two sides, and Simon does not care.

If after David Dingkins suddenly turned his face, Simon did not make a strong enough layout in the first time, he believes that many follow-up small moves will definitely come in.

In this world, too many people like to weigh the more they are in a high position. Sometimes, this is a weak reaction in the eyes of the enemy.

Simon did not hesitate to directly fight with the Speyer family behind Tishman Speyer and even did not hesitate to fight with the Democratic Party. It made many people realize his personality. Westeros did not turn to peace at all because of the increase in wealth and power. He was still the lunatic who could break other people's legs without hesitation.

Even considering the gang fight in Bowery Bay, a certain young man seemed to be a little more crazy.

For this kind of person, if there is no guarantee of victory, playing small moves will only outweigh the gain.

Janet picked up Cersei Capital again, and after the weekend, Simon also began to work again.

While many Hollywood filmmakers are still feeling the unexpected box office performance of "The Seven Deadly Sins" on the Halloween schedule, the past weekend, "The Lion King" once again shocked everyone.

For a 3D animation film, Daenerys Entertainment not only invested 60 million US dollars in production costs, but also announced the scale of 30 million US dollars. Before the film was released, most media believed that Daenerys Entertainment dared to invest in such a way. The key lies in The potential peripheral benefits of 3D animated films.

Daenerys Entertainment probably does not intend to make any profit at the box office.

You should know that in the "Toy Story" two years ago, in addition to the global box office of 400 million U.S. dollars, the sales of peripheral toys in the film in the last two years have exceeded 3 billion U.S. dollars. Counting the income of movie tapes and TV broadcasts, the entire project is Daenerys Entertainment's net profit has reached $1 billion, most of which come from the sales of peripheral toys.

Moreover, "Toy Story" brought Daenerys Entertainment more than just monetary gains. The success of this film not only broke Disney’s long-term monopoly on animated films, but also drove Daenerys Entertainment. The development of the entire industry chain of its peripherals, games, and theme parks.

Therefore, this time "The Lion King", in the eyes of many people, is just a further layout of Daenerys Entertainment in the entire industry chain.

According to the phenomenon of the "second-year curse" seen in Hollywood, whether it is a filmmaker or a studio, after the first movie is amazing, the second movie produced is often not as good as before.

There are even some media predictions that the local box office of "The Lion King", an animated film with no fairy tale popularity or partial animal themes, is already a success. Daenerys Entertainment may only end up losing money this time.

Since "The Lion King" was not considered a threat too much, there were as many as 6 films that opened at the same time on November 19. Although there are three very small-scale literary and award-winning films, there are also two blockbuster films that are scheduled for the end of the year, namely "Slim Daddy" starring Robin Williams produced by Fox and a biography produced by Columbia Pictures The epic film "Gronimo".

Simon's "Slim Daddy" has a local box office of more than 200 million U.S. dollars, and is the second-place box office runner-up in Yuan Shikong in 1993 after "Jurassic Park".

"Gronimo" produced by Columbia Pictures, tells the story of a hero named Gronemo rebelling against the British ruler during the American war alone. The film budget reaches 35 million U.S. dollars and the same A-level production level.

Simon didn't have much impression of "Gronimo" in his mind, which was obviously one of the expensive box office duds left by Peter Cooper. After an audit that lasted for several months, Sony finally announced a write-down of up to $2.5 billion in assets for Columbia Pictures.

Asset write-down is actually a kind of loss in disguise.

The US$2.5 billion loss, although less than US$200 million in Simon’s memory, should never be underestimated.

After the news was announced, Sony's stock price has fallen continuously for more than a month, and its market value has even returned to less than $15 billion. News of Sony’s plan to get rid of the hot potato has also continued to spread in circles.

Although in the mud, Colombia has prepared a 1605 screen opening scale for "Gronimo". The screen scale of Robin Williams' "Slim Daddy" has also reached 1,678 yuan. Although both films are up to Many people think that the opening level of "The Lion King" is less than 2691 yuan, but it also poses a clear threat to "The Lion King", especially the film "Skinny Daddy", which is also a family carnival.

Daenerys Entertainment opened the media word of mouth for "The Lion King" after its premiere on November 17.

Because the media who participated in the premiere were selected in advance, the first wave of media reviews of "The Lion King" was almost overwhelmingly praised, and the Internet platform was even more boring, soft or hard.

However, even if it is officially launched on a large scale on Friday, many people don't think the box office of "The Lion King" will be so good.

Until Saturday.

When countless media reporters and film company executives were woken up by the phone at one or two o'clock in the morning on Saturday and saw the box office data report of the previous day, many people's first reaction was even ‘Will it be wrong? ’

The first day was 16.33 million US dollars.

The first day.

Is this still a cartoon?

The Eaglet portal responded immediately and directly pushed the first day box office data of "The Lion King" to the headline of the portal's homepage.

"A new box office record for animated films, "The Lion King" was 16.33 million US dollars on the first day."

The first day's box office was 16.33 million US dollars. What is this concept?

The comparison is clear.

"Slim Daddy", which was released in the same period, had a box office of only 5.31 million US dollars on the first day. It is expected that the first three days of the first weekend will be able to reach the level of the first day of "The Lion King." Another "Gronimo", the first day box office score is only 1.29 million US dollars, less than one-tenth of "The Lion King."

At the same time, 16.33 million US dollars on the first day means that the box office of "The Lion King" is around 50 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the box office is expected to reach 70 million US dollars in the first week.

The first week of 70 million US dollars, which is already at the same level as the DC movie universe project.

Two years ago, "Toy Story" had a total box office of US$211 million in North America, which gave everyone a surprise. At that time, the box office for the first week and seven days was only US$46.73 million.

Daenerys Entertainment's large-scale publicity of "The Lion King" has already made the movie have a very high reputation.

Although a large part of the traditional paper media remained quite indifferent to the news on the first day of the film’s box office, the topic of "The Lion King" soon became more popular under the Igreat portal and the media close to the Westeros system. Take a step up.

Originally, both word-of-mouth and popularity were already very good, coupled with the gimmick of breaking the box office record, "The Lion King" unknowingly attracted more media into the theater, and quickly formed a phenomenon-level movie-watching boom.

The first day was 16.33 million US dollars.

$18.29 million on Saturday.

On Sunday, $17.31 million.

Within three days of painting, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King" quickly reached 51.93 million US dollars.

The same animated movie box office new record.

Faced with the impact of "The Lion King", the box office of "Slim Daddy" was pretty good on the first day. The box office in the first three days of the first weekend was only $13.76 million. It is conservatively expected that "The Lion King" also suppressed at least $2 million in the box office.

Simon is more aware that this suppression spans the two major periods of the end of the year.

The target group of "Slim Daddy" is the same as "The Lion King", both are family audiences. This time, with the better choice of "The Lion King", the box office of "Slim Daddy" will inevitably shrink significantly.

No matter how hard the traditional media try to provoke some controversy, attacking "The Lion King" is imitating Disney's style, provoking the film for alleged hidden racial discrimination, etc., it can't stop this phenomenon-level 3D animation film from breaking through.

In the end, from November 19 to November 25 in the first week of the week, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King" reached 70.31 million U.S. dollars, second only to "Jurassic Park" in the first week of 72.17 million U.S. dollars, and the first week of "The Flash" At the box office of 72.86 million US dollars and the six films "Wonder Woman", "Superman", "Batman: Hour of War" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", they ranked seventh in the box office in the first week of North American film history.

The DC Cinematic Universe has been classified as another dimensional film by Hollywood, and "Jurassic Park" has also brought too much visual shock to the audience. The success of these films can be regarded as traceable.

As an animated cartoon, it can be side by side with a phenomenal movie, and it can only be described as a miracle.

With the big box office sales of "The Lion King", Daenerys Entertainment's increasingly complete peripheral sales channels have also quickly introduced film-related toys, posters, clothing and other products to the market. According to preliminary statistics, the first week of revenue reached 2 The billion-dollar level, after all, is due to the type of subject matter. This result is not as good as "Toy Story", which is richer in peripheral products, but at this time, no one dares to question the commercial prospects of "The Lion King".

In addition, after the box office was released in the first week, "The Lion King" related video games and theme park projects have all entered the pre-planning stage.