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The premiere ended at 8:30pm West Coast time. In the next few hours, official materials, press releases and fan discussions about "Suicide Squad" were released one after another. With the help of the Igreat portal, directly let The film has become the hottest topic on the Internet platform.

Early the next morning, the reputation of this DC movie universe anti-hero masterpiece was officially lifted.

According to preliminary statistics, the comprehensive media score of "Suicide Squad" reached 8.3 points. The Hollywood Reporter praised the film for "continuing the stunning and popular DC movie universe, and the anti-hero perspective and narrative structure innovations have allowed the film quality to sublimate again.

After a full day of public opinion bombing on Thursday, "Suicide Squad" audience expectations reached the highest.

Friday, December 16.

"Suicide Squad" was officially released in North America, with 3,165 screens opened.

In addition to "Suicide Squad", the Disney holiday comedy "Santa Claus" opened at the same time, the "Little Women" produced by Highgate Pictures and the documentary "Bauhaus" produced by Warner Bros. are also being screened for two weeks. Afterwards, large-scale paintings began.

Disney's "Santa Claus" has 2,183 screens and a comprehensive media score of 7.4, which is not bad.

In the past history, this "Santa Claus" produced by Disney was released during Thanksgiving. Relying on a good reputation and a festive film theme, the cumulative box office in North America exceeded 140 million US dollars, ranking fourth on the box office list that year.

This time, in order to avoid films such as "Toy Story 2" on the Thanksgiving Day schedule, Disney chose to postpone "Santa Claus" to the Christmas file, and chose the slightly less "crowded" schedule on December 16th, trying to take the lead. . The idea is correct, but neither Simon nor the industry media are optimistic about the box office prospects of "Santa Claus".

"Santa Claus" in the original time and space was able to get a super high box office, thanks to the absence of phenomenal strong films in the same period.

Now, not to mention that "Toy Story 2", which is also very suitable for the festive atmosphere, is still gaining momentum. The feast of "Suicide Squad" is not comparable to "Santa Claus" as an appetizer.

In the first week of the large-scale painting, "Little Women" expanded the number of screens to 1,503.

The positioning of "Little Women" by Gaomen Films is that of "Steel Magnolia" that hit the box office a few years ago. It mainly targeted the female group at home for precision marketing, so it abandoned the radial distribution model of literary films that gradually expanded the number of shows. It is spread out all at once. Compared with "Santa Claus", which needs to directly grab the audience with "Suicide Squad", the pressure on "Little Women" is much less because of the audience.

Warner Bros. Pictures' documentary "Bauhaus" does not have the scale of "Little Women", and only 379 screens after the expansion.

Another Orion-produced biographical film "The Poet and His Lover", which opened with "Little Women" and "Bauhaus" on December 2nd, simply gave up its large-scale release due to poor market feedback.

With the opening of the Christmas period, many films from the two major periods of Halloween and Thanksgiving have entered the final stage.

In the past box office week from December 9th to December 15th, only "Toy Story 2" still has a strong harvest of 28.86 million US dollars in the box office. This 3D animation movie with a total investment of 130 million US dollars has reached a cumulative North American box office of 2 US$15.17 million.

The second and third place in the weekly box office list of "Ghost in Disguise" and "Interview with Vampire" are very similar, at $8.28 million and $8.26 million respectively. The two-week unpopular period has made the cumulative box office of the two films reach 97.29 million US dollars and 86.9 million US dollars respectively.

Obviously, "Ghosts in Disguise" will soon break 100 million.

"Interview with the Vampire", which was previously not optimistic about entering the billion-dollar box office club, also unknowingly accumulated close to 90 million US dollars in the box office. Not surprisingly, it will successfully cross the 100 million yuan threshold in the next few weeks.

Other new and old films such as "The Mortuary Haunted Incident", "Terror Zone", "Difficulty in Heaven" and other new and old films have fallen below US$5 million in a single week.

It is worth mentioning that "The Haunted Morgue" after the box office week from December 2 to December 8 successfully broke 100 million yuan at the local box office, becoming another billion yuan box office club movie in 1994. The film continued to earn $3.24 million in a box office week from December 9 to December 15, and the cumulative box office reached $106.96 million.

After dealing with the settlement between the three companies of "Cisco-AOL-Igreat" and the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation, Simon flew to New York again, mainly discussing with James Rebold, Joseph Schrapp and others The Tello system is deployed in the next phase of the two major areas of media and technology.

The mid-term elections are settled, and not surprisingly, a series of bills that were shelved will be passed next year.

After the more important media integration ban is lifted, Daenerys Entertainment Group will start another large-scale expansion next year. This is a long-established plan.

In addition, there is a capital gains tax reform bill.

The Reagan tax reform unified the capital gains tax to a high 28%, which largely hindered the circulation of capital in the stock and bond markets.

After Reagan left office, Bush, who inherited Reagan’s political legacy, tried to reclassify capital gains tax, but he left the White House without success.

After Bill Clinton came to power, although the moderate Democratic president preferred to reform capital gains tax, he could not reverse the overall tendency of the Democratic Party to increase taxes. Now, with the disastrous defeat of the Democratic Party in the mid-term elections, both houses of Congress are controlled by the Republicans that support tax cuts, and the biggest obstacle to the capital gains tax reform bill has been lifted.

The next step is just a matter of time.

In the past two years, it was not only Simon who spent money like water, but also the entire Westeros system. In the case of insufficient funds, he could only borrow heavily. Simon has always been a person who doesn't like debt very much. Even if calculated according to his personal assets, the debt ratio of the Westeros family is only about 10%, which is very, very high among most of the rich, but Simon Still don't like it.

As long as the capital gains tax is reformed, Simon can repay his debts by selling some shares in exchange for funds. It is expected that the lowest capital gains tax rate of 15% after the reform is much more acceptable than the high tax rate of 28%.

Finally, the most important one is the "Telecommunications Act" that the Clinton administration has been brewing.

Different from the rather targeted media integration ban, the "Telecommunication Act" promulgated in 1996 will be an all-round loosening of the two major industries of American media and technology.

At that time, the Westeros system can smoothly advance the triple play plan, integrating AOL, which focuses on broadband services at this time, and Verizon Telecom, which is mainly engaged in local fixed-line and mobile communications services under the name of Westeros. At the same time, it can also enter the field of cable TV operators to make up for Daenerys Entertainment’s lack of its own cable TV platform.

Since this bill is so beneficial to the Westeros system, of course, the sooner it is promulgated, the better, and the Westeros system must be quietly promoted among them.

Simon did not attend the premiere of "Suicide Squad" because of things in New York.

In fact, it was deliberate.

Simon intends to completely make himself an invisible person at the level of ‘behind the scenes’ so that the public can forget the existence of Simon Westeros.

Therefore, the project of "This Man From Earth" is actually a bit out of date.

Now that it has been launched, Simon has no idea of ​​cutting it off. What's more, it is not bad to give the public some fantasies about Simon's identity beyond ordinary people through this movie. He booked his schedule in advance and finished busy with things in New York. Simon came to visit Toronto on the afternoon of December 16th and planned to spend the weekend here.

Toronto in December is a bit colder than New York. It snowed a few days ago, and many areas were covered in white.

In the eastern suburbs of Toronto, the wealthy Crest district near the lake in Scarborough.

The time is around four o'clock in the afternoon.

Two young girls of Slavic descent walked out of a luxurious community theater arm in arm at a glance. Although their faces were a little green, they were taller than 1.7 meters tall and had the exquisite appearance of an elf in the snow, even if they were covered by a windbreaker. And the knitted hat on the head is slightly like this, and it has not been able to hinder the glances of passersby around.

Perhaps the two girls are so eye-catching. Just when they came to the parking lot, the two local youths who happened to get off their Ferraris nearby walked over and stopped the two girls. One of them put on a braggingly handsome posture: "Hey, Girl, my name is Peter, how about getting to know?"

The two women stopped talking and looked at the two handsome young men in front of them together. Then, one of them blinked innocently on his beautiful light-colored eyes and said awkwardly: "We, No, English."

Both young men were taken aback.

However, I don't know English, which is better. It just so happens that the two brothers can teach you.

I just came up with this idea, before I waited to speak further, a black Mercedes that had just moved out of the parking space was already parked aside, and a woman in a black suit with leather boots and sunglasses, flax-colored, got off the car. The hair is neatly tied into a ponytail, obviously also of Slavic origin.

What makes the two young people's instincts most confusing is that this girl is over 185cm tall, perhaps because she has stepped on high-soled leather boots, but the aura clearly makes the two young people feel that the two of them together are probably not enough. The other hand cleaned it up.

The other girl who was also blocked by the two youths showed a mischievous smirk on her face. She suddenly pointed to the woman in black in fluent English, and said to the two slightly dull youths: "This is Eve. Meet her?"

Listening to the ridicule in the girl's tone, the two young men still didn't understand what was going on.

The Crested District near the lake is a typical wealthy district. Two young people are born well, but they also understand that a girl who can have a full-time bodyguard as a driver is simply not that comparable.

The female bodyguard, who was as cold and sturdy as the winter in Toronto, ignored the two young people who struck up, but walked over to open the door for the two girls and waited respectfully.

The two women didn't bother to strike up a conversation with the young people either, bypassing them and got into the Mercedes Benz.

When the Mercedes-Benz started, one of them turned his head and glanced at the two young men who were still dumb-headed geese, and immediately hugged the girl next to them and laughed.

The bodyguard in the front row waited for the two women to frolic for a while, and said: "Miss Joplin just called. Mr. Westero has arrived in Toronto and will come over tonight."

The two women immediately calmed down when they heard this.

Looking at each other, one of them took off the knitted hat on his head and asked his companion: "Nana, how do I look?"

The two women are Ekaterina Noskova and Natalia Liudayeva who were arranged by Simon to travel.

Since becoming the woman of Simon Westeros, in the past six months, the six girls have been in the status of the six princesses in Livni, living the best life and enjoying the best education. Polite. Unconsciously, the girls also developed an arrogance.

However, even if they are not too old, they never forget who gave them all this.

As we learn more in private, coupled with the precepts and deeds of the people around us, the position of a man in the hearts of the girls is also elevated, almost like a god. Such a man who is the richest, strongest and most talented in the world, possessing six of them is entirely natural, and it is an honor for them to be his woman.

Even if I haven't seen each other for half a year, my heart's obedience and awe for a man are still unknowingly ingrained.

Seeing Natalia ask, Ekaterina looked at her carefully and said, "You seem to be a lot fatter."

"Ah?!" Natalia opened her mouth, really panicked, raised her hand to touch her cheek, then looked at Ekaterina, noticed the little cunning in the other's eyes, and suddenly understood Come over, rush over and tick the opponent: "Let you lie to me, I will let you lie to me."

"Haha, hahaha, no, you are obviously fatter."

"You are fat, fat man."

Just laughing and playing for a while, the two women quickly calmed down, and each took out the makeup mirror from the bag to check the makeup and clothing. The man said that he would come at night, and it was almost evening. In case it was early, he happened to run into it. bad.

The Mercedes-Benz car returned to a mansion on Lake Ontario in Crested in less than ten minutes.

Although it is winter and lacks the flourishing business of summer, this mansion covering an area of ​​more than six acres still carries an expensive atmosphere that no one can enter.

The car went through the corridor of the manor to the door of the villa built on the cliff.

As soon as the two women got out of the car, they immediately noticed that two other cars were still parked in the yard.

I thought that Simon had already arrived, and I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous in my expectation. It was only after entering the door that I found that the man did not appear, but another appearance and temperament that was not inferior to them. I have been with them as a guide and translator. Emily Joplin’s girl took over everything in the villa. At this time, some men and women who looked like bodyguards like Eve were inspecting the interior of the villa.