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Fox couldn't wait to hold a press conference the next day to announce the official launch of "Terminator 2" as one of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 planned film projects.

Counting "Terminator 2", 6 of the 10 films that Daenerys Entertainment plans to cooperate with abroad have been confirmed.

The global box office of "Terminator" that year was only more than 78 million US dollars, but it achieved Schwarzenegger's status as a first-line action actor in Hollywood in one fell swoop, which shows the influence of this film. Therefore, the establishment of "Terminator 2" immediately attracted strong attention from the media and fans.

James Cameron has already completed the script of "Terminator 2". With Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures jointly giving the green light, the film is expected to start shooting in the middle of the year and will be released next summer.

After the weekend, preparations for "Desperados" also made a breakthrough.

Harrison Ford officially joined the film, and the remuneration was also confirmed to be $10 million.

The continuous base salary of male stars such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Harrison Ford has exceeded 10 million, which means that the salary of Hollywood first-line stars has officially entered the era of tens of millions of dollars.

The salary of the filmmakers actually represents their status in Hollywood.

Without Simon, the 1990s would be the era when top filmmakers had the strongest voice in Hollywood because of the rapid expansion of the film market and the improvement of the economic situation, which led to the influx of hot money into Hollywood. This strength will continue until the rise of special effects movies after the new century.

Now, relying on the success of "Batman: Hour of War", Simon is actually opening up a movie operation mode driven by IP and technology rather than relying on stars.

Of course, most people don't realize this right now.

Entering the new week, although Schwarzenegger agreed to participate in "Terminator 2", Simon still looked for the project "Kindergarten SWAT".

The "Kindergarten SWAT" in my memory is not completely a dark horse project. Besides Schwarzenegger, the director of the film, Ivan Reitman, is also very famous in Hollywood. He is the director of the "Ghostbusters" series. A few years ago, I also collaborated with Schwarzenegger on the relatively alternative "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother".

At the reception at Joe Ross's house, Schwarzenegger's agent said that Arnold was considering participating in Reitman's new film "Kindergarten SWAT".

However, because most people regard the success of "Dragon Brother and Mouse" as an accident, Schwarzenegger did not have enough confidence in participating in another family-friendly comedy, so he finally chose "Terminator 2" .

Simon knew the general situation of "Kindergarten SWAT", so he gave up the idea of ​​competing for this project. This is not only because Reitman can only choose other actors after Schwarzenegger gave up, but the main reason is that the project has been signed by Universal.

As long as mca can be successfully merged this year, Simon is equivalent to getting this project, and now there is no need to do more.

Busy, another week passed quickly.

For the week of February 2 to February 8, "Batman: Hour of War" took in another $20.35 million with a 13% drop, bringing its cumulative box office to $347.11 million.

This week, however, the film that received the most media attention was still Driving for Miss Daisy.

In the ninth week of its release and the second week of its large-scale opening, due to the continuous spread of word-of-mouth and popularity recently, the box office of "Driving for Miss Daisy" not only did not drop, but instead experienced a reverse drop, although it was only a weak 0.5%. But it also exceeded the expectations of many people.

The $8.18 million in a single week brought the otherwise inconspicuous film's cumulative total to a sudden $27.55 million.

At $27.55 million, it doesn't seem to be comparable to any film at the top of the list. However, among all 502 films that entered the theaters in the past year, "Driving Miss Daisy"'s box office achievement of $27.55 million has made it the 43rd place in the box office list last year, and its box office performance can be said to exceed 90% of last year's movies.

And, this is just the beginning.

After last week's box office release for "Miss Daisy," various box office evaluation agencies generally predicted that the film's total North American box office is expected to exceed 60 million US dollars.

Now, with the second week of the film's massive opening, its excellent box-office results were nearly equal to the previous week, and Daenerys Entertainment's move to increase the film's screen count to 1,302 again this week. The North American box-office potential of "Driving for Miss Daisy" obviously exceeds the most daring predictions of many people.

This is likely to be another million-dollar box office club movie.

Moreover, it is definitely a 100 million yuan box office club movie with the lowest budget cost last year.

When the media was generally attracted by "Driving for Miss Daisy", Daenerys Entertainment's "Pretty Woman" was officially released on February 9. Because it was the off-season for movies, the distribution team easily raised 1,563 screens for Pretty Woman.

Compared with the original Richard Gere, the new actor Pierce Brosnan is less well-known, and Julia Roberts has only barely reached a familiar level in the audience's impression in the past two years. The advantage of having these two actors in the lead role is that the cost of the film is further reduced to only $10 million.

Because the previous internal previews have received very good feedback from the audience, Daenerys Entertainment has determined that the actor's reputation is not enough to announce the strategy, but the budget investment in the early stage of the announcement has reached 7 million US dollars, of which 5 million for US dollars

for advertising on various platforms.

As long as the film's box office hits expectations in the first week, it will immediately increase the marketing budget.

On the first day of the filming, "Pretty Woman with the Moon" has not been generally recognized by the media, and the average movie rating is only barely passing, which is still taking into account the public relations factors of Daenerys Entertainment.

Time magazine unceremoniously criticized the film as "an old-fashioned Hollywood production line."

The film critic of the Chicago Reader sarcastically commented that "the actor pays $3,000, and then they fall in love, which is very Hollywood." "Entertainment Weekly" also criticized "Pretty Woman" in a sarcastic tone: "The story is that Roberts' character suddenly changed for the better because he met a rich man, and he learned to cry at the opera house."

However, these evaluations with the unique sense of superiority of intellectuals did not affect the film's reputation in the minds of the audience.

The requirements of most ordinary people are actually not high, just a simple story that can resonate.

Moreover, the audience of "Pretty Woman" is also much larger than "Driving for Miss Daisy".

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment spared no effort to promote the offensive to cater to the atmosphere of Valentine's Day. In the three days of the opening weekend, "Pretty Woman" received a box office of 12.47 million US dollars.

In the entire following full week, due to the significant increase in the number of moviegoers around Valentine's Day on February 14, "Pretty Woman" finally reached $19.16 million in its first seven-day box office, pushing "Batman: War Hour" in one fell swoop. It was the No. 1 single-week box office for seven weeks.

In the eighth week of its release, the box office of "Batman: War Hour" fell by 19%, and it received another $16.51 million, ranking second, with a cumulative box office of $363.62 million, steadily advancing to 400 million at the box office.

This week's third place is no longer "Driving for Miss Daisy", but an action movie "Seven Years of Storm" starring Steven Seagal produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, which earned 12.14 million in the first week of filming. Dollar.

Under the impact of the two new films, "Driving for Miss Daisy" increased the number of screens this week to 1,302, and the box office still achieved a reverse decline of 11%. It collected another 8.95 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 35.5 million US dollars.

In the off-season of the box office in February, when the word of mouth is not very good, the box office can get 19.16 million US dollars in the first week, and the box office performance of "Pretty Woman" exceeded most people's expectations. This also allowed the film to gain more media attention, or controversy.

At the same time, in the audience group, although there are also some people who do not agree with the ideas expressed in the film, most of the audience like the film very much and begin to recommend it to those around them.

Therefore, in the second week of the painting, when Valentine's Day has passed, the box office drop of "Pretty Woman" is only a very weak 5.5%, and the box office of the second week is 18.11 million US dollars, which is almost not much compared to the first week. Significant decline. In just two weeks, "Pretty Woman" quickly accumulated $37.27 million at the box office.

There is no doubt that the first box office dark horse of 1990 was born.

And, still from Daenerys Entertainment, still from Simon Westeros.

Simon has kept himself out of the media as much as possible since Batman: Hour of War came out late last year. To that end, Simon's 22nd birthday on February 22 was simply spent in a quiet way with Janet.

Now, with the success of Pretty Woman in the Moon and the Moon, the media's attention is once again turning to him.

The first news that caught the attention of the media was that the richest man in the federation, who just turned 22, will marry his girlfriend Janet Johnston next month.

In fact, there have been media stations in Melbourne for a long time recently to follow up the preparations for the wedding in real time.

Naturally, the media began to open up various topics around Simon and Janet's wedding, and the most discussed was undoubtedly Simon's personal wealth and the various situations after the two got married. Because of the age difference between the two, there are still many media who are not optimistic about this marriage. An article in the "New York Times" also reminded Simon to remember to sign a prenuptial agreement.

Then, the topic naturally extends to how much money Simon has now.

$6 billion, a well-known and authoritative figure published by the Forbes Rich List.

However, this is already the data from last August.

now what?

With such a topic, the "Wall Street Journal" suddenly exposed a full-year financial report of Daenerys Entertainment last year on February 23, the day after Simon's birthday.

Although it has to pay a lot of large expenses for the company's expansion, because Daenerys Entertainment has so many successful projects in the past two years, it has continued to provide rich income for the company that has only been established for more than three years. Daenerys Entertainment last year. The scale of net profit after tax has reached a staggering $531 million.

This is indeed a very staggering number.

In the past year, although the financial reports of many companies in the United States have not yet been released, according to the data of previous years, the profit scale of more than 500 million US dollars is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to squeeze into the top 50 profit rankings of US companies. .

Moreover, compared with the qualifications of Daenerys Entertainment, other companies with the same level of profit are all giant-level companies that have been operating for more than ten years and decades.

Like Motorola.

In the fiscal year ending in September last year, Motorola's annual net profit for the electronics giant was only $490 million, which was the best financial report in recent years.

At the same time, with multiple projects last year, especially the post-operation of "Batman: War Hour", many media have predicted that Daenerys Entertainment's profit scale is likely to double this year. Once that happens, it will undoubtedly be even more terrifying.

You know, Daenerys Entertainment is a company that Simon Westeros personally holds 100% of.

Not to mention this year, just based on last year's profit scale of US$531 million and the most conservative price-earnings ratio of 10 times, compared with the US$3 billion valuation of Daenerys Entertainment made by Forbes last year, this rapidly rising Hollywood film company The company's market cap this year is also good enough to exceed $5 billion.

Not counting all the other assets of Simon Westeros, just this one is almost enough for him to maintain his position as the richest man in the Federation.

Some people not only ask, is Daenerys Entertainment really worth $5 billion?

Movies have always been a high-risk business, and the last few years may have been great, but the next few years could be in the doldrums.

However, as soon as this question was raised, it was met with the most solid refutation.

Marvel!

Yes, Marvel Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment.

Just the success of a project of "Batman: Hour of War" is expected to bring in a profit of $1 billion for all parties involved, and this is just a project at the beginning of the DC movie universe.

Now that the first song is successful, a huge plan of more than 10 movies has been announced recently. Under the personal control of Simon Westeros, even if it can't reach the opening results like "Batman: Time for War", it will definitely easily surpass Hollywood. most of the projects.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of the DC Cinematic Universe project is sustainability.

That means Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner no longer have to deal with the intense uncertainty of box office prospects every time they run traditional film projects.

Therefore, anyone with a little foresight can undoubtedly see how much potential Marvel, which is wholly owned by Daenerys Entertainment, will be in addition to the DC Cinematic Universe plan.

Warner Bros. Pictures planned to sell dc for tens of millions of dollars a few years ago. Now, it's just the success of "Batman: Hour of War", even if it is a billion dollars, Steve Ross will not Agree to sell. What's more, any popular superhero under DC may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Then, Marvel, which also owns a large number of superhero copyrights, is undoubtedly a super gold mine.

This alone is enough to support the value of Daenerys' entertainment.

As a society in which media is operated commercially, if there is attention, some people will dig for news.

After the "Wall Street Journal"'s revelations about Daenerys Entertainment's annual financial report aroused attention, another financial magazine, "Fortune" suddenly exposed another piece of information, which directly detonated public opinion: Simon Westeros to the United States Data on foreign assets registered with the Internal Revenue Service.

cash.

$4.5 billion!

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