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The Internet industry has just emerged, and the same type of online rental platform has not yet appeared.

Therefore, Blockbuster does not have an urgent need for transformation.

The launch of Blockbuster Online is more of a first-hand layout. In the early stage, it will only conduct business in several major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, which are relatively prosperous on the east and west coasts, so as to save costs and accumulate online operation experience in advance.

However, thanks to the good situation of Igreit's early opening in the field of e-commerce, Blockbuster Online opened in the United States during the U.S. Independence Day holiday, and the subsequent weekend also achieved very good results. In just three days, Blockbuster Only 160,000 members have activated online services, and more than 200,000 purchase and rental orders have been placed through the online platform.

After the Soldier Day holiday, with Simon's support, Nancy Brill also began pushing Blockbuster to gradually eliminate late fees.

Because of the existence of independent franchisees, even if the matter is approved by the board of directors, it is difficult to do it overnight.

Fortunately, Nancy Brill planned to use the opportunity of canceling the late fee to further strengthen Blockbuster's membership system and increase the stickiness of users, so she was not in a hurry.

On the Hollywood side, in the week from July 3 to July 9, three new films, "The Last of the Mohicans", "Honey, I Grow Up My Children" and "Patriot Games," will hit theaters in North America. ", although with the blessing of the Solitude Day holiday, the final opening box office performance was unsatisfactory.

As the sequel to Paramount's previous "Hunting Red October" and featuring Harrison Ford, "Patriot Game" had the best box office performance, earning $25.29 million in seven days in the first week, ranking the weekly box office list. Second place.

It is also a sequel, Disney's "Honey, I made the child bigger" but not as lucky as "Honey, I made the child smaller" three years ago, the production cost of 40 million US dollars, the opening of 2311 screens Scale, the sci-fi family comedy's first-week box office was only $18.39 million, far below Disney's expectations.

Moreover, the media and audience reputation of "Dear, I Grow My Child" is not satisfactory. The starting point in the first week is too low, and the box office may suffer a sharp drop in the next week. The box office prospects are difficult to predict.

"The Last of the Mohicans", a collaboration between Daenerys and Warner Bros., an adaptation of the repeatedly remade novel of "The Knight Saves the Princess", has been well received by critics after its launch, with a comprehensive media score of 9.5. .

However, probably due to the theme of ancient costumes, the box office of the film was not satisfactory in the first week. The opening scale of 2173 screens, the box office of "The Last of the Mohicans" in the first week was only 23.19 million US dollars, and the museum achieved more than 10,000 yuan. , it has reached the top selling level, but it can not be regarded as an explosion.

Of course, because of its excellent word of mouth, "The Last of the Mohicans" should be able to walk out a very good long line compared to Disney's "Honey, I Grow Up My Children".

The box office of the three new films was mediocre, making this week's box office champion still won by "Wonder Woman".

In its fifth week of release, because of the Solitude Day holiday, "Wonder Woman" dropped only 17% at the box office this week and continued to make $26.15 million. In five weeks, the female superhero film grossed $260.32 million in North America.

That number has already surpassed last year's "The Flash" in North America grossing, and is second only to "Batman: Hour of War" and "Batman: The Dark Knight."

Considering that "Wonder Woman" still has a weekly box office base of more than 25 million US dollars and maintains a good weekly box office decline curve, the film's total North American box office is very hopeful to exceed 350 million US dollars, and even catch up with "Batman: Darkness" Knight's $373 million is not out of the question.

With the release of The Last of the Mohicans, four major films related to Daenerys Entertainment in the summer of 1992 have been released.

Taken together, it is natural that "Wonder Woman" has the strongest performance.

Immediately afterwards, the opening box office performance of "Peachy Deal" surpassed the other two, reaching $32.27 million in the first week. However, in the second and third weeks, "Peachy Deal" ended up with a larger box office of 40% and 32%, respectively. It fell to $19.1 million and $12.99 million, respectively.

In three weeks, the total North American box office of "Peachy Deal" reached 64.37 million US dollars. After the subsequent release, the film's North American box office is expected to be between 80 million and 100 million US dollars, which is enough for the producer to withdraw all production and publicity. invest and possibly achieve a small profit.

Only the local box office will be able to make a return, which means that "Peachy Deal" will be very profitable through overseas release, video tape sales and TV broadcast.

Even if not a dark horse, this is clearly a very successful project.

After the first week of "Killing Hour" was 23.73 million US dollars, with its excellent word of mouth, the second week's box office fell by only 13%, and it collected another 20.64 million US dollars. The cumulative box office in two weeks was 44.37 million US dollars. This courtroom crime film involving racial discrimination and justice, apparently successfully replicating the box office trajectory of Harrison Ford's "Presumed Innocence," is expected to pass the long-running release and is expected to break the $100 million mark at the North American box office.

The reputation of "The Last of the Mohicans" is even better than that of "The Killing Hour". The opening 2,319 US dollars also reached the level of "The Killing Hour". Although it is the first week, the follow-up box office trend cannot be seen for the time being. However, two The box-office curves of the two films are likely to be very similar.

All in all, the three

It is estimated that the total box office of foreign cooperation films in North America will be around 100 million US dollars.

Such box office results are naturally incomparable to "Wonder Woman", but they are enough to squeeze into the forefront of the annual box office list.

After "Peachy Deal", "The Killing Hour" and "The Last of the Mohicans", Daenerys Entertainment has only four external cooperation projects left, of which it has been confirmed that they are "Sleepless in Seattle" with Disney. "," Gannet Assassination Order" finalized with Warner Bros. and two "Mission Impossible" films with Paramount Pictures.

After the Solitude Day holiday, half of the summer season is over.

On July 10, the North American theater chain continued to draw two new films, namely "One House and Half Wife" produced by MGM and "Dangerous Third Love" by Fox Pictures.

"One House and Half Wife" was originally an incubation project of Universal Pictures, starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. It tells a series of stories that happened after a hotel waiter moved into the hero's villa by himself and falsely claimed to be the other party's wife.

Daenerys Entertainment's project line is too full, "One House and Half Wife" was originally to be cut off.

However, considering that the box office of the film was not bad in memory, Simon transferred it directly to MGM.

Fox's "Dangerous Third Love" is another extramarital affair movie starring Michael Douglas in the "Fatal Attraction".

Going forward, in the list of follow-up films in July and August, except for Clint Eastwood's new film "Unforgivable", which will be released on August 7, Simon has not found any other movies with big selling potential. This tepid state of lack of strong box office competitors is just right for the long-term trend of four films including "Wonder Woman" and "Killing Hour."

For Daenerys Entertainment, this summer is still a bumper harvest.

In July, Daenerys Entertainment's other two key projects, "Sleepless in Seattle" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and the upcoming TV series "Desperate Housewives", which will be broadcast in the fall, have started filming one after another. . In addition, the publicity and distribution of projects such as "Midnight Bell", "Home Alone 2" and "Jurassic Park" scheduled for the end of the year have also officially started.

However, during this period, the most concerned is the 1992 US presidential election that has entered the second half.

After the game in the first half of the year, the current President George Bush has further confirmed the identity of the Republican candidate for this year's general election. On the Democratic side, with the gradual withdrawal of a series of competitors, Bill Clinton's advantage has become more and more obvious.

However, this time, the traditional candidates from both parties have not been able to overshadow the limelight of Ross Perot, the independent party candidate.

Because of George Bush's many ruling criticisms and the lack of popular candidates in the Democratic Party, and perhaps the economic downturn that makes Americans dissatisfied with the current state, Ross Perot, a powerful and showy billionaire, gradually attracted attention. received more and more attention.

Since officially announcing his participation in the election, Ross Perot's approval rating has reached 36%.

Gradually, both parties felt more and more threatened by Ross Perot.

Out of this fear, some people attacked Ross Perot more and more frequently.

And so on until July 13, a new week, just as Simon and Janet got up, James Raybould called. At nine o'clock in the morning, ET, Ross Perot suddenly held a press conference to announce the launch of this year's president. election.

Aside from a covert bet on Bill Clinton, Simon has shown almost indifference to the presidential election.

Even though there is information about Ross Perot's withdrawal from the election in his memory, Simon was still a little surprised to hear this news. He personally told Clinton one thing, if the other party wants to enter the White House in this presidential election, he must Secure Ross Perot's candidacy to split conservative votes.

However, something happened 'again'.

Janet was supposed to fly to New York alone today, but this happened suddenly. After breakfast, the couple boarded the plane to the East Coast together.

When we arrived in Manhattan, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon on the east coast.

In the evening, the Leibolds and Joseph Schlapp, the head of Schlapp Consulting, were invited to have dinner at the manor outside Greenwich, and Joseph Schlapp also passed on some of the information just obtained to Simon.

Ross Perot's withdrawal was actually just a delay.

Privately, Perot was very clear that he could not win the presidential election this year, so he was gradually attracted by the Democratic Party.

It's just that the current Ross Perot's approval rate of more than 30% will not only severely impact George Bush's vote, but in fact, the candidates of the two major parties will be seriously affected. If this continues, the conservatives may lose their share. effect of ballots.

After several exchanges, Ross Perot finally decided to temporarily announce his withdrawal from the election, which would cool down his originally high approval rating and give the Democratic Party enough time to perform at the critical moment in the next few months.

Simon heard Joseph Schlapp's explanation and reorganized some of the information in his memory, and immediately understood.

In memory, Ross Perot did announce the election in July. However, some people still seem to have not let him go, and even tried to disrupt Perot's daughter's wedding in August through some malicious gossip in the media.

If Ross Perot is serious about withdrawing from the election, as long as he is smart enough, he knows that this time should not be used to tease the powerful billionaire.

The reason why some people still do small things in private should also be aware of something

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However, this behavior just gave Perot an excuse to re-announce his candidacy in October.

Moreover, in memory, Ross Perot even named his name, accusing the Bush administration of using disgraceful means to try to ruin his daughter's wedding.

In fact, this disgraceful method is actually not that serious. It just published some photos of Perot's daughter suspected of being gay on the gossip media. Perrault insists the photos were artificial.

As for the truth, Simon didn't care.

In recent months, the Igret portal has been quietly promoting news that favors Bill Clinton. Although Simon did not appear in person, some senior officials of the Westeros system have quietly helped Clinton organize several fundraising receptions. .

And, whether it's Hollywood or Silicon Valley, a large number of people are on the side of the Democratic Party, largely because of the Westeros system.

Everything that should be done has already been done. After knowing the inside story of Perot's withdrawal from the election, Simon made a little arrangement, and then retreated back into the background and waited for it to change.

After completing the acquisition of ltd, the Apollo Management team will not do much in the short term.

The performance of the hedge fund team of Cersei Fund Management Company in the first half of the year was also officially released. Stimulated by the increasing popularity of technology stocks in the market, in the first half of 1992, the hedge fund team achieved 21% of the fund's net profit by buying long technology stocks. income.

After the routine settlement at the beginning of the year, the principal of about 3 billion US dollars has increased to 3.6 billion US dollars through the operation in the first half of the year.

Conservatively estimated that by the end of 1992, the hedge fund will also be able to achieve a net profit after tax of 1 billion US dollars.

Even if the rate of return is not as high as in the previous two years of the big market, the net profit margin of more than 30% will definitely exceed most competitors in the same industry.

Of course, it is definitely not as good as the Quantum Fund that is about to launch a sniping at European currencies.

However, Simon still did not have any chance to make this early bird.

If you make a fortune in the European currency, the rest of the Westeros system in Europe will surely lose more.

In addition, the three subsidiaries of Cersei Capital, Black Rock Asset Management, which has been relatively low-key, are actually developing the fastest.

Whether it is Cersei Fund Management Company or Apollo Management Company, the scale of funds is controlled in the billions of dollars.

Black Rock Asset Management, which mainly deals in low-risk fixed-income, treasury and large-cap stock investments, has rapidly expanded in size due to the recovery of North American stock markets after last year's Gulf War. The total size of funds under management has now exceeded 70 billion US dollars.

Of course, there is still a big gap between this number and the $6 trillion asset scale of Black Rock Asset Management at its peak in Simon's memory.

However, compared with other asset management companies of the same type, the current Black Rock Asset Management Company has been successfully promoted to a giant level. This growth rate is even more astonishing, considering that the company has been in existence for less than 10 years, even if it started as a subsidiary of Blackstone Group.

Moreover, the scale of assets of 70 billion US dollars is enough to have an impact on many industries that cannot be underestimated.

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