Hollywood Hunter

When Simon was in Ukraine, this year's 52nd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Gala opened at six o'clock in the evening on January 28th, West Coast time.

In the past year, as of December 31, 1994, the annual gross box office in North America not only exceeded the $6 billion mark for the first time, but also raised the record to an astonishing $6.61 billion in one go, compared to 1993. The total box office of 5.73 billion US dollars, an increase of 15.3%.

Those in the industry who have a little understanding of the North American film market can feel how amazing this data is.

In the past, the North American film market always showed a steady growth trend with the increase in ticket prices and the recovery of the film industry, but the usual annual growth rate rarely exceeded 10%.

Just like 1993, compared to the total box office of $5.36 billion in 1992, the annual increase was only 6.9%.

Whether it is past or never happened, only in the years when phenomenal box office blockbusters such as "ET Alien" and "Titanic" emerged, the annual box office growth of the North American film market could reach more than 10%.

This time in 1994, the same was true.

Not to mention other things, in the past year, it was the first time in Hollywood history that four local box office super blockbusters with a box office of 300 million US dollars appeared at the same time, namely "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", "Forrest Gump" and " Toy Story 2 and Suicide Squad.

Among them, the local annual box office champion "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" has a total local box office of up to 416 million US dollars.

Although the scheduled releases of "Toy Story 2" and "Suicide Squad" at the end of last year did not exceed the $300 million threshold as of December 31 last year, this did not prevent the entire 1994 film market from breaking out.

From "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "The Detective Plane" at the beginning of last year to "Stargate" and "True Lies" in the summer file to "Interview with the Vampire" and "Ghost in Disguise" at the end of the year, Wait, wait, it's dizzying.

Of course, in the past year, the entire Hollywood has also felt the unstoppable Daenerys Entertainment Group.

As of December 31, 1994, the top ten list at the annual box office, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", "Forrest Gump", "Toy Story 2", "Suicide Squad", "True Lies", " Calling the Soul, "Stealing the Line of Fire", "Burning Eyebrows", "The Mortuary Haunted Incident", "Stargate", ten movies, movies completely unrelated to Daenerys Entertainment, only "Burning Eyebrows" produced by Paramount Chase" this one.

Among them, the other five films that have reached the threshold of the 100 million yuan box office club, "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Life and Death", "Blood Romeo", "Interview with the Vampire" and "Ghost in Disguise", or because they are still Because of the release, even the top ten of this year's list did not enter.

Even though the box office rose sharply throughout 1994, the excessive strength of this series of blockbusters still squeezed the box office space of many other movies. Some movies that should have been sold in history, such as "The Gambler Horseman" etc. Wait, the box office has shrunk the most severely even by half.

It can be said that under the influence of Simon this super butterfly, Hollywood has advanced into the era of super blockbuster when the box office of the top movies of the list is so lawless that the space of the low-level movie market is severely compressed.

Even if Simon deliberately suppressed the frequency of manga movie development, he still failed to delay the occurrence of this trend.

Fortunately, because the new era has just begun, the situation has not deteriorated to the embarrassment of non-manga and non-sequel blockbusters, such as "Forrest Gump", "The Wire of Fire", "Four Weddings and a Funeral" are outstanding enough Movies still have the opportunity to realize their market potential.

At the same time, there is also considerable market space in the low-cost Hollywood literature and art field that Simon has fostered through Gaomen Pictures.

From the list of nominated films for the new Golden Globe Awards, it is not difficult to see that, just like the commercial film field, the past 1994 was also a bumper year for literary films.

In addition to "Forrest Gump", which can be listed as the pinnacle of literary and artistic films, the most popular films nominated for this year’s awards season include "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Born Murderer", "Little Women", "Burning "The Years of Love", "Niel's Heart", "Big Wisdom as Fool", "Bullets Fly across Broadway" and so on.

Whether it's business or art, Daenerys Entertainment's quietly promoted "God Watching Movies" year is worthy of the name.

The biggest difference in the details of this year’s Golden Globes is that many award-winning filmmakers have been clearly reminded in advance, and there is no need to thank Simon in the process of delivering the award.

The whole award season, or the award season for many years to come, will be the same.

Simon intends to become an invisible person, but it does not prevent Daenerys Entertainment's film from showing off at this year's Golden Globe Awards.

The core two awards for best film in drama and musical comedy, one for "Forrest Gump" and one for "Four Weddings and One Funeral", all fall into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.

Other important awards include best director, two best actor, one best actress and so on. Including awards in the TV drama category, the continuously hit "Friends", "Desperate Housewives", "Emergency Room Stories" and so on are also quite successful.

Neither Daenerys Entertainment nor the Golden Globe Organizing Committee have not considered balance.

However, such a dazzling movie year, for the so-called balance to dust those excellent films, it will appear deliberate.

During the three-hour Golden Globes dinner, the Eaglet portal broadcasted live pictures and texts of the award results, and immediately introduced the audience discussion mode.

According to audience feedback, compared to previous years, the results of this year's Golden Globe Awards were less controversial.

Ukraine time is ten hours earlier than the west coast of the United States.

When the Golden Globes dinner opened, it was already four o'clock in the morning on Sunday morning in Rivni.

Simon woke up at seven o'clock in the morning, and the results of the full awards just came out. The after-party after the awards dinner in Los Angeles has already begun.

While running, he simply glanced at the results of the awards. Simon just asked Girl A to send a greeting card to each winner in his personal name. This trick was learned from Michael Ovitz.

People do not blame.

At breakfast time, there is an extra Eve Besonoskova on the table today.

Women are probably born to compete.

After the first time on the night before, the tall Ukrainian girl tightly followed Simon's instructions and'rested' on the big bed in the master bedroom for a whole day. Then, in the various reactions of a group of women in the villa, it went smoothly. Occupied Simon for the second night.

This morning she was broken by Simon. The girl’s blush stretched from her face to her neck. She buried her head tightly in the pillow and did not dare to see anyone. Then she didn’t lie on the bed anymore, but her head was always hanging down when dining together at the table. Low, afraid to look at other people.

After breakfast, Girl A introduced Simon's schedule for today. She was about to set off. Celia thought of something temporarily. She sat with Simon on this excuse. Only after the convoy set off, he took out a document and handed it to Simon.

In the morning, we are going to the southwestern suburbs of Rivne.

Where does Simon plan to build an airport so that when he comes to Ukraine in the future, private jets can directly stop at Rivni, and as the city develops, the demand for commercial flights will also increase significantly.

Because it is a small city airport with only one main runway, including the hangar and terminal building and other supporting facilities, and considering the prices of Ukraine’s local prices, it ended up with a budget of only 15 million U.S. dollars. This figure is actually quite high. I don't plan to compress it anymore, after all, it's something I want to use.

The Rivne region government has no money to participate in the construction of such an airport.

Therefore, the planned city airport will be fully invested and wholly-owned by the Aldek company under the charge of Sergey Komorov. In the future, the city will develop. If the airport needs to be expanded, Simon will give up part of the shares. Give Ukrainian native capital.

In fact, there is another key to operating an airport, manpower.

This is the least problem in Ukraine.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited as many as 2,160 aircraft of various types from the former Soviet Union. Such a huge air force actually means a powerful air force that matches.

Now, because there is not enough financial support, many aircrafts are piled up in some abandoned military bases and eat ashes and decay.

In Simon's memory, more than a decade later, the number of aircraft owned by the Ukrainian Air Force is less than a fraction of 2,160, and a large number of outstanding air force personnel have been eliminated.

Therefore, not only this city airport, but also the military theme park to be built this year, will also carry out real experience projects of various types of aircraft.

For the military theme park, Simon originally thought it would be troublesome, but in reality, many senior generals in some Ukrainian military regions took the initiative to contact here, wanting to get orders for the military theme park from personnel to material.

tank? not a problem.

Airplane, no problem!

Do you want warships? Oh, Rivne Oblast does not face the sea, but a lake is fine.

This is so because Simon has promised equity.

The Westeros system only intends to occupy 40% of this military theme park. It does not intend to hold the remaining 60%. The Rivne state government took away 15% at the price of 20 square kilometers of land, and another 45 %, whoever gets it belongs to him.

As a result, this theme park has actually become a big project that the Kiev authorities cannot reject at all.

Days are difficult, compared to smuggling weapons secretly, this is a fair and long-term profit.

Especially when the planning team of the military theme park solved the biggest moral problem of this project, all kinds of problems became even more non-issues.

Prior to this, the Kiev authorities were mainly concerned that opening such a military theme park with national public equipment would attract ridicule from the international community and disgust from the public. The planning team easily resolved this.

In the name of peace.

Peace is a major trend of public opinion worldwide after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

No matter what is inside, on the surface, everyone thinks that mankind has entered a new era of peace.

It is inevitable to put knives and guns into Kuma and release Nanshan.

Ukraine opened such a military theme park in order to make tourists cherish peace even more while feeling the tragedy of war.

Therefore, the name of this alternative theme park was also locked in advance as the "Ukraine Peace Military Theme Park".

If anyone doubts.

Hey, don’t you love peace, don’t you want war?

In the car on the outskirts of Rivne, Celia gave Simon a completely handwritten agricultural loan application.

Ekaterina Noskova’s father, Maxim Noskov, one of the three remaining girls in the south villa, hopes to get an agricultural loan from Simon to fund the restoration of Rivne and some surrounding counties Agricultural Production.

Modern agriculture is very dependent on the means of production.

This is the main reason for the collapse of Ukraine’s grain output in the past few years.

After the disintegration, Ukraine quickly carried out land privatization reforms, not only distributed land to every citizen, but many large state-owned farms were directly converted into private joint-stock companies. This radical reform, which completely ignores national conditions, not only caused a serious loss of state-owned assets, but also directly led to the collapse of the country's agricultural production system.

Because although they have obtained land, most farmers simply do not have enough capital to carry out agricultural production. Many land operations are even similar to primitive slash-and-burn cultivation, sowing seeds and watching the harvest.

When Simon came to Ukraine for the first time in August last year, along the way from Kiev to Rivni, the biggest feeling was that the large tracts of crops that should have been overgrown were either directly barren or the crops were not as weed. Because of the lack of agricultural machinery, the lack of pesticides, the lack of chemical fertilizers, and in short, everything that modern agriculture needs.

Without these, only land, it is destined to not have too much output.

When the Westeros system was at the core of Ukraine’s banquet at the Chengnan Villa last night, Maxim Noskov, who was in charge of managing the layout of the Westeros system in Ukraine’s fertilizer industry, was also present, and Simon was quite impressed. After people adhere to the Westeros system, their clothes when attending parties are quite glamorous. Only Maxim Noskov is still dressed in a light gray old-fashioned Lenin outfit that is slightly washed out and can only be considered neat.

Privately, I pay attention to many core executives here.

Simon knew that Maxim Noskov was not pretending to be simple, but really simple.

After the middle-aged man retired from the former Soviet navy captain took over the fertilizer plant from Simon, Maksim has worked hard for the past six months to restore the production of the fertilizer plant and to keep the jobs of all the employees of the fertilizer plant.

Sergey Komorov once suggested that Maksim should first lay off several fertilizer plants that have been merged locally and elsewhere, but the other party did not do so. In such an era, if you lose your job, the end will be very bleak. .

However, Maxim did not regard Simon, the funder, as a fat sheep. Not only did he cut all employees' salaries, he also only received a minimum wage that barely maintains his family's livelihood for most of the year.

Now, looking at the handwritten documents that apply to him for agricultural loans, Simon realizes that this is probably the hope of a nation after falling into turmoil. A period of darkness is insignificant but strives to reflect more bright candlelight.

Every country and every nation has never lacked such people.

It's a pity that in the current country, the dark curtain is too heavy and the night is too dark, and it can't be changed with a candle or two.

Simon admires such people very much.

However, he did not intend to agree to the agricultural loan application in his hand.

Simon is not the savior, nor does he have any responsibility to revive this country.

Moreover, Simon does not doubt Maksim's original intention to apply for this agricultural loan, but doubts whether such a loan is actually used for agricultural production once it is approved.

Because it involves many agricultural production individuals, there is no guarantee that these people will get the loan directly into their pockets or embezzle them elsewhere, especially for some collective joint-stock farms. Know who to ask for a loan.

The two generations are human, and Simon has heard many similar cases even if he has not personally experienced it.

Of course, Simon can also use the Westeros system's intelligence system in Ukraine to supervise, but he does not want to spend this resource and thought.

There is no guarantee in the human heart.

This loan was originally intended to help others, but if the supervision is too strict and the crackdown is too harsh, it may unknowingly forge a lot of enmity, and the gains outweigh the losses.