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Malibu.

The time is Monday, July 10th.

In the villa on the west side of Cape Dumei, Simon woke up at six o'clock in the morning in the new week.

Last night, I was talking on the phone with Janet about the Boeing 767 cabin design until very late, when the bedroom was still scattered with many design drawings faxed from Melbourne.

Now that he has decided to buy a Boeing 767 first, Simon has contacted Boeing since his last return from Melbourne.

However, Simon then sent Boeing's sales representatives directly to Melbourne to discuss the specifics with Janet, and the only decision he made was the choice of the model.

The latest model in the Boeing 767 family is the 767-300er, but Simon chose the 767-200er.

The 200er is only slightly inferior to the 300er in terms of fuselage length and load capacity, but the cruising journey and other data are comparable to the 300er. It can easily complete a long-term trans-Pacific journey of more than 10,000 kilometers. Simon has been renting the 200er before.

Moreover, the most critical reason why Simon chose the 200er is that this medium-sized passenger aircraft has low requirements for take-off and landing airports, and the runway length required for full-load take-off is only 1.7 kilometers, and most airports in the world can meet the take-off and landing requirements. In comparison, the runway length required for a 300er takeoff is 2.4 kilometers, which many airports in smaller cities cannot support. On Simon's last trip to Europe, both Cannes and Florence, the city's airport runways were less than 2 kilometers long.

Selected models, Boeing's offer is 60 million US dollars.

The first thing Janet did when she approached a Boeing sales representative was bargaining. Simon isn't the kind of big customer who orders 10 or 20 planes at a time, but as a public figure, he can do better branding than those big customers by buying Boeing products for private jets.

Moreover, the purchase of private jets is indeed a bargain.

After negotiation, the transaction price between the two parties was finally determined at 50 million US dollars, which is almost 20% off. Of course, this is only the price of bare metal, and the internal equipment and decoration are also calculated separately.

Simon has never been a stingy person when it comes to spending money, but he hates being taken advantage of the most, and he is very pleased that his woman can save money for a top villa in this transaction. After signing the contract, including the assembly and decoration time, the aircraft will probably be delivered in November at the end of the year.

Get dressed and get up, simply tidy up the surrounding artwork, and the bedroom is tidy again.

This is actually Jennifer's credit.

Janet was not in Los Angeles, and Catherine went to New York. Simon's villa in Malibu, Palisades, Beverly Hills, and Janet's villa on the east side of Dumay Point were all managed by Jennifer, the female assistant. Taking time to clean several properties once a week on a regular basis doesn't require Simon to worry at all.

Two properties on the other side of New York were recently helped by Catherine, who will be in charge of Angela Ahrendts, president of Gucci America, when Catherine is away.

As for the European side, after completing the Gucci acquisition, in order to save expenses, Sofia originally planned to return a Falcon 50 business jet leased by the company, and finally in order to be able to quickly travel between different cities in Europe, in order to help Simon take care of many things The property is preserved.

Janet had warned Simon that too many vacant houses for too long could be dilapidated and weathered, and now with regular and meticulous maintenance, Simon no longer worried about this.

Wash, exercise, shower.

seven o 'clock.

Leave the house on time.

Breakfast was in a nearby restaurant, and by the way, I also asked the person in charge of the construction team of Dumeijia Manor to discuss the construction progress of the 'Iron Man Villa'. Simon's attitude towards the villa was the same as the Westeros Building in his imagination. It was built in full accordance with the high standards of art. He was not in a hurry. With a slow-moving mentality, he only pursued perfection.

After breakfast, drive to Santa Monica.

Simon opened today's "Los Angeles Times" in his car and looked at the cover index first.

Skip the words ''The Sixth Sense'' and 'Reverse Fall', find an article titled "The U.S.-Iraq Business Forum Comes to a Successful End," and turn directly to the international news page.

Today is the 11th day of the release of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality". What Simon can do has already been done, and the box office in the first week has reached the best expectations in his heart. He doesn't need to worry too much about the next things.

Relatively speaking, the just-concluded "US-Iraq Business Forum" is something Simon has been paying close attention to recently.

The Iran-Iraq war that lasted for 8 years finally ended at the end of last year. After 8 years of consumption, the domestic economy and people's livelihood in Iraq have been withered to the extreme.

Saddam received the "enthusiastic" help of many Western allies in the war with Iran, which lasted only eight years. Now, the postwar reconstruction of Iraq will certainly require the assistance of these partners.

The partners are also very enthusiastic.

Although it is a US-Iraq business forum, oil giants from major Western countries such as the United States, Britain and France all gathered in Baghdad.

At the two-week business forum, Iraq hopes to secure $40 billion in funding from Western allies to revive its domestic economy.

The allies are not stingy, they agree, but they also put forward their own

Iraq needs to privatize its own oil resources, or most of them, so that Mobil, Bankers, Shell and other international oil giants can better help Iraq develop oil resources and help restore Iraq’s domestic economy. .

According to the detection data of geologists from various countries in the 1980s, Iraq can be said to be the largest undeveloped oil producing area in the world except for the Soviet Union. Although its overall reserves are not as good as that of Saudi Arabia, it has huge potential.

Seeing that the 'allies' openly demanded that they hand over Iraq's oil sovereignty directly, how could Saddam agree without being kicked by a donkey in the head.

Without oil, what is left of Iraq?

Therefore, this business forum failed to reach any substantive agreement in the end, and all that was left was a superficial harmony.

Simon watched all this coldly, knowing in his heart that this was probably the beginning of many stories in the next two decades.

When he came to Santa Monica, Simon rushed directly to Daenerys' special effects headquarters, where he was going to discuss some final revisions of some cg shots with the special effects team of "Batman" in the morning.

Jennifer is already waiting for Simon at the Daenerys Special Effects HQ.

Telling the female assistant to collect more information about the "US-Iraq Business Forum", Simon also took over his work schedule today from her.

The content of the morning's work has been determined, and I have lunch with Jonathan Friedman at noon.

In the afternoon, it starts at one o'clock.

Check the production progress of Toy Story, one hour; video game demo of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one hour; listen to a brief progress report from the company's financial audit team, half an hour; Blockbuster chairman Wayne Hewizan Jia's visit, half an hour; watching the rough silhouette of "Angel God Sent" and discussing revisions with the creative team, two hours.

At six o'clock, the evening was still a working dinner with Amy.

In addition, the schedule lists some documents that Simon needs to review as soon as possible, which can only be arranged after returning home in the evening.

Walking into the office building of Daenerys' special effects headquarters, Simon read his work schedule while walking, and the female assistant handed over the box office data report for the past three days of the weekend.

Simon just skimmed over it and turned his attention to today's work.

Compared to Simon's calm, early this morning, seeing the box office data report for the past weekend, the whole of Hollywood was a little restless.

From July 7th to July 9th, "Sixth Sense" successfully withstood the pressure brought by all the new and old films. Compared with the first weekend, the box office of this film did not drop this weekend, but achieved 6.8. % of the box office rebounded, collecting another $24.73 million in three days.

Although some media judged that the weekend and whole week box office ratio of "The Sixth Sense" in the second week will return to the normal range of 60% to 70%, it is impossible for the weekday box office to return to the high proportion when word of mouth just fermented in the first week. , however, the $24.73 million three-day data for the next weekend still exceeded even the best expectations of Daenerys Entertainment's own team.

Ten days after its release, the total North American box office of "The Sixth Sense" has rapidly accumulated to $66.08 million.

In comparison, "Ghostbusters 2" had a 10-day box office figure of only $58.76 million in the same period due to a sharp drop in the box office the following week. If "Indiana Jones 3" does not count the first two days of the film's early opening, the box office figure for the corresponding ten days is only 67 million US dollars. Although the data is better than "The Sixth Sense", it is better than "The Sixth Sense". Reversing the decline and rebounding, the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" dropped by 27% in the second weekend.

After "The Sixth Sense", "Lethal Weapon 2" won the second place on the list with a three-day box office figure of $20.38 million.

The box office earned 20.38 million in the first weekend and three days. If it weren't for the sudden emergence of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", Warner Bros. could hardly wait to prepare a celebration party.

Disney's June release, "Honey, I Made My Kids Small," came in at No. 3 this week with $9.43 million and $59.24 million in two-and-a-half weeks. Relative to the $18 million production cost, the film was already a huge success.

Entering the sixth week, the box office of "Bodyguard" also fell by 27%, and it collected another $5.76 million over the weekend, ranking fourth on the list. This romantic film, which has bucked the trend despite a lot of bad reviews, has accumulated a box office of 93.69 million US dollars in five and a half weeks, and it is about to break 100 million.

The two films "Ghostbusters 2" and "Longwei Kid 3", which were ahead of "Bodyguard" last week, both suffered sharp declines at the box office this weekend, and were also overtaken by "Bodyguard".

"Ghostbusters 2" dropped by as much as 41% over the three-day weekend, collecting another $5.26 million, barely holding on to the fifth spot, with a cumulative box office of $85.52 million in three and a half weeks.

Outside of the top five on the list, "The Boss Goes On Vacation" is only No. 7, behind Indiana Jones 3, which grossed $4.5 million in its opening weekend.

In this week's box office data list, what Simon expected is "Sex, Lies and Videotapes". With 517 screens, this literary film earned $3.93 million at the box office in the first three days of the first weekend. It is estimated that the total box office in the first week Likely to top $6 million.

In all fairness, Simon was hopeful that the film would fail. However, the box office data of 6 million US dollars in the first week means that "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" has reached the level of a best-selling movie with an average of over 10,000 in the museum. Compared with commercial films, literary and artistic films are also more likely to walk out of a long line of slightly falling box office.

In this way, the North American box office of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" can at least match the original, or even higher.

Combined with some of the media feedback he saw over the weekend, Simon can only judge that "Sex, Lies and Videotape" itself has some blockbuster elements that can attract audiences to buy tickets, and not just rely on the film's awards and honors.

While Simon wouldn't be too upset about not getting a movie with a total North American box-office potential of only $20-30 million, he could not help feeling distressed.

The production cost of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" is only $1.2 million. If the North American box office can reach $30 million, the box office revenue alone is enough to exceed many large-scale movies that invest tens of millions of dollars.

It's no secret in the circle that Daenerys Entertainment first expressed interest in the film. The success of "Sex, Lies and Videotapes", Daenerys Entertainment will still face very fierce competition if she wants to easily win some projects and scripts in the future.

In fact, Lawrence Kasdan's "Bodyguard", which has been despised by the circle for more than ten years, sold unexpectedly at the box office, and it is destined that the entire Hollywood will continue to pay attention to Daenerys Entertainment for a long time.

Simon is concerned about "Sex, Lies and Videotape", but Hollywood is crazy about "The Sixth Sense".

"Why is this movie so successful?"

"Whoever seems to have a similar idea."

"Information about the main actors and actresses in the film."

"Can you try to sign the next film contract for the little protagonist of the film?"

"Do you want to let Daenerys Entertainment continue to be strong like this?"

"..."

"..."

Simon works step by step, and various discussions continue to spread.

Time waits for no one.

On July 14, the box office data for the new week was released.

The industry's prediction that the box office ratio of "The Sixth Sense" will return to normal over the weekend and the whole week has become a reality.

In the seven days of the second week, "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" failed to maintain the reversed state of last weekend, and the overall box office number fell by 9% compared with last week.

However, the box office figure of 39.26 million US dollars still makes too many people feel mixed. You know, "Indiana Jones 3" only made $30.85 million in its second full week, and "Ghostbusters 2" only made $19.92 million in its second week.

In its second week, "The Sixth Sense" still surpassed the best opening weeks of "Indiana Jones 3" and "Ghostbusters 2" with an average of $20,352 in a single hall, even though it increased the screen size last week. data.

Because of this strong box office performance, Daenerys Entertainment managed to grab an additional 379 screens from the theater this week, expanding the screen total of "The Sixth Sense" to 2,308 again.

In addition, the new films released in the new week have also been reduced to two, namely "007 License to Kill" by United Artists and the classic animation "Peter Pan" re-released by Disney.

However, although the sequel to the classic spy war series with such a big production as "007: License to Kill" was released this week, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is so aggressive, the 007 series, which has been going downhill over the years, is destined to be difficult to pose much threat to it. .

As for re-screening animations like "Peter Pan", it is obviously even less of a concern.

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