Hollywood Hunter

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On July 30th, the summer season began to end. There were as many as 7 films in North American theaters this week. However, 4 of them were opened within 300 yuan. "Duan Qing" only gave the screen size of 11 screens.

The three mainstream commercial films with a screen size of more than 1,000 are MGM's "Paradise", Fox's "Robin Hood is Crazy" and Columbia Pictures' "Naked Horror".

"Paradise" starring Robert Downey Jr. tells the story of a car accident that surrounded the actor Tommy with four ghosts. Obviously, he was following the trend of "Ghost Love". The number of screens in the film was 1263.

"Robin Hood is Crazy" is a spoof movie about Robin Hood, obviously following the popular "Robin Hood" by Kevin Costner two years ago, with 1,275 screens.

"Naked Horror" is a project similar to "Instinct" that Madonna personally promoted to Simon last year. The film uses Queen McQueen's large-scale performance as its selling point, and the number of opening screens exceeds that of the other two commercial films, reaching 2,070 yuan.

A box office week from July 30th to August 5th, because the box office of the new films released in the past two weeks has been very general, the first place on the list is "Gannet Assassination", which opened on July 16th.

In the third week of its release, "The Assassination of Gannets" dropped by 31% compared to last week's box office, earning 16.82 million US dollars, and the film's cumulative box office in three weeks reached 72.83 million US dollars. It is expected to exceed 100 million in the next three weeks. The box office is probably around 100 million US dollars, and it is unlikely to exceed 110 million US dollars.

Not only "The Assassination of Gannets", in August, the box office trend of a series of related films in Daenerys Entertainment's summer program has been basically determined.

Relying on the single-week box office of 10.37 million US dollars in the fifth week of its release, the North American box office of "Sugar-Coated Trap", which opened on July 2, officially broke the US$100 million mark, reaching a total of 104.93 million US dollars. Considering that the box office volume of "Sugar Coated Trap" in its fifth week of release has reached 10.37 million US dollars, the film's total North American box office is expected to reach between 140 million and 150 million US dollars.

Another Daenerys Entertainment-related film, Sleepless in Seattle, grossed $6.03 million this week and is a seven-week romance starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The cumulative box office is 11631, and the total North American box office is expected to be around 130 million US dollars.

Going forward, "Superman", which opened on June 4, was released in the ninth week, and the single-week box office officially fell to less than 10 million US dollars. From July 30 to August 5, it earned 9.39 million US dollars a week. At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 332.11 million US dollars, and the total North American box office is expected to reach about 360 million US dollars.

Because three of the four major commercial films are distributed by other Hollywood studios, Daenerys Entertainment is only responsible for the "Sugar-Coated Trap", which also makes New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures summer. The film received considerable distribution resources from Daenerys Entertainment.

Therefore, "Bruce Lee" on May 17, "Orlando" on June 11, and "What to Do with Love" on June 25, the three low-cost production films, compared with their budget investment, all Got a pretty good box office.

Among them, "Bruce Bruce" has been down, the film production budget is 15 million US dollars, 5 million US dollars for publicity, the total North American box office reached 35.11 million US dollars, New World Pictures basically only relied on the North American box office to recover all the production and publicity. The cost and the profit of the follow-up channel will be very considerable.

"Orlando" starring Tilda Swinton has a cumulative box office of $17.36 million as of August 5, and continues to steadily approach $20 million at the box office with more than $500,000 in a single week. The total investment in the purchase and promotion of "Orlando" was only US$6 million, and profits had already begun to be generated at this time.

The Tina Turner music biopic "What's With Love" was even more of a surprise.

The production and publicity investment of the film is equivalent to that of "Bruce Bruce", with a total cost of 20 million US dollars. After the release on June 25th, as of August 5th, the cumulative box office has reached 42.63 million US dollars, and the single-week box office from July 30 to August 5 still reached 3.81 million US dollars, and then hit the total box office of 50 million US dollars. Not much.

Compared to Superman, the earnings of these three films are nothing to mention, however, three films, or, including four major commercials, all seven films in Daenerys Entertainment's summer program have been successful, which is very important for Hollywood. For other studios, this time it's the scary thing about this latest rising star.

As a business that is almost gambling, how is it possible that someone will always win?

Simon didn't think it was anything special.

Of the seven films, the four main films are all good cards that he made based on his own prophetic advantages. The other three, since they were selected by New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures in the summer program, their quality will not be too bad. Not to mention the strong publicity support of Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Movies are a gambling business, however, the game can actually be counted on the table.

Like Disney in Simon's memory.

Disney, which integrates Marvel Entertainment, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Studios, also has a set of best trump cards with a great chance of winning, which also causes the top ten in the North American box office list to be divided into half by Disney every year. .

In the past few years, Simon was always worried that Daenerys Entertainment would bring unpredictable trouble if he was too showy, so he adopted external cooperation.

A profit-sharing strategy, until this summer, three of Daenerys Entertainment's four commercial hits were distributed by other studios.

With Daenerys Entertainment's successful merger of mca and the growing strength of the Westeros system, the concerns that once were no longer a problem.

As long as it successfully merges with a national public television network in the next few years and completely completes its own layout in the media field, Daenerys Entertainment can show Simon's dominance in Hollywood to his heart's content.

On the other hand, the most stark contrast to Daenerys Entertainment this summer is undoubtedly Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony.

In order to keep his position as CEO of Columbia Pictures, Peter Cooper is almost desperate.

Starting from "My Genius Family" on May 14, which is in the same period as "Bruce Lee", as of August 5, Columbia Pictures has released a total of 6 movies this summer, namely "My Genius Family", "The Greatest Mountain," "Phantom Heroes," "Honeymoon Dangerous," "Justins Who Wrote Poems," and "The Naked Horror."

The six films have a cumulative production budget of $230 million.

However, the total box office of the six films as of August 5 was only US$170 million. Columbia Pictures could only recover about US$90 million in box office revenue, and even the cost of the six films was not enough.

Among them, Madonna's new film "The Naked Horror", which was released on July 30, had a production budget of 30 million US dollars, and the box office in the first week was only 8.54 million US dollars. The market proved with facts that the audience did not have much interest in McQueen's nudes, and the failure of this project was also the epitome of a series of failures in Columbia Pictures' summer program.

Columbia Pictures' failure was no accident either.

When they were running Cooper-Peters, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters were producers in the circle, because they were all colleagues who knew the rules of the industry, so they didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and they achieved good results. score.

After taking over Columbia Pictures from Sony, the two Hollywood veterans also completely released themselves because of the Japanese attitude towards delegating power.

Indolence, profligacy, chaotic management, cronyism, blind investment... The two executives have almost committed the ills that can drag a company into the abyss in recent years.

For such a film company, losses are inevitable, and profits are accidental.

On August 6, with the disappointing box office results of the first week of "Naked Heart", Sony officially issued an announcement to remove all positions of Peter Cooper and Jon Peters. Hoff temporarily took over all the affairs of Columbia Pictures and reported directly to Sony CEO Noga Oga.

Not only that, but Sony also dispatched an accounting team to Colombia to begin a financial audit of the studio.

In the face of this sudden personnel earthquake, Sony kept quite silent, but Peter Cooper, who was dismissed from his post, expressed his dissatisfaction with being dismissed without reason during the contract period in an interview with the media, and revealed that he might initiate a campaign against Sony. litigation.

The North American media discussed the turmoil at Columbia Pictures throughout the ensuing weekend.

Until Monday, August 9, the front-page article in the Los Angeles Times was reporting the latest news from Columbia Pictures, which was rumored to be in a worse financial situation than everyone expected, and that Sony could face more than $1 billion. Writedowns of assets above the dollar.

However, Sony's recent market value is actually only around $17 billion.

Peter Cooper was fired from Sony two full years earlier than Simon remembers. In the original time and space, it was not until 1995 that Sony finally stopped letting Columbia Pictures run its course.

Simon is even more aware of Sony's real asset write-down amount, which is a full $2.7 billion.

When Sony bought Columbia Pictures, it offered only $3.4 billion for the equity of the major studio, and took on another $1.6 billion in debt, bringing the total transaction value to $5 billion. In recent years, Sony has invested no less than $1 billion in order to resolve various legal disputes and the funding needs of Columbia Pictures.

The $2.7 billion write-down is almost equal to the elimination of more than half of Columbia Pictures' assets.

Because of this failure, Akio Morita completely lost control of Sony and died a few years later.

This time, apparently influenced by Simon and Daenerys Entertainment, something has changed.

However, Sony's big somersault on Columbia Pictures will not change.

Just this summer, Columbia Pictures will lose more than $200 million in a series of projects. In a few years, the big studio has been severely damaged by the tossing of Peter Cooper and Jon Peters. It is expected that Sony will take over the company. The number of asset write-downs announced later will certainly not be much lower than Simon remembers.

This incident actually sounded a wake-up call to Simon.

It definitely doesn't mean that you give some people enough money, enough trust, enough room to play and you will be rewarded.

Doing so rashly will likely result in a mess.

The scale of the Westeros system is getting bigger and bigger. If you want your business empire to continue to expand, it is necessary to decentralize it. However, the decentralization without constraints is likely to be disastrous.

In the dining room of Shell Villa, while reading the newspaper in the morning and talking to Janet next to her about her thoughts, the woman nodded her head exaggeratedly: "I understand, I understand."

Janet is actually Simon's eye overseeing the Westeros system.

Seeing the woman doing something wrong, Simon smiled.

:"Any questions?"

"No," Janet shook her head, glanced at the man, and said, "Do you want my aunt to come and take my place and help you take care of some things? Don't worry, I won't let you succeed."

"..."

Wrinkling her little nose and eating the last bite of the pregnant woman's breakfast specially prepared by the nutritionist, Janet wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin, leaned over and kissed Simon's face, smiling, "Go to San Francisco today and have fun, you don't have to come back tonight. Yes. Well, you can tell Jenny that you're coming back, and I'll help you tell the lie."

Simon carefully followed Janet, who was next to him, and hugged him on his lap. He gently touched the woman's bulging belly. He didn't answer what he just said, and said, "Would you like to be in the UK next week?"

After several months of preparation, Nokia will be officially listed on the London Stock Exchange next Friday.

Janet put her arms around Simon's neck and put her face on Simon's head: "I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to stay at home."

Simon thought for a while and said, "In this case, I won't go."

"Go, go, it's boring to be around pregnant women all day."

"It's really boring and troublesome."

"Well, bite you."

Feeling that his ears were bitten by two rows of small teeth for a moment, Simon said: "After this month, I will try my best to leave work to accompany you on maternity leave."

Janet rubbed the shallow teeth marks on Simon's ear and said, "You have no credibility with me, workaholic."

"It's definitely this time. When the time comes, I will take Moore back to take care of him for a while. We can't let the little guy even know his parents."

Janet didn't mention Veronica on purpose this time. She gave a shallow hum, leaned her head on Simon's shoulder and talked for a while. It was almost nine o'clock when Simon left home and rushed to the airport to fly to the airport. San Francisco.

At ten o'clock, I arrived at the headquarters of Igret, and several executives here were already waiting for Simon.

Today's focus is on a new project that Igreit is about to launch, a classified information website.

This is a key project in the company's recent expansion plan since the last $1.5 billion financing.

There are many classified information websites in Simon's memory, such as 58.com, Ganji.com, People's Network, etc.

Since there are so many classified information websites, it shows the commercial potential of this type of website.

In the original time and space, unlike the contention of a hundred schools of thought on classified information websites in China, there is only one 'Craig Directory' in North America that is almost a monopoly. However, unlike many classified information websites in China, the Craig Directory is almost completely free. Yes, it is this free model that gives it a super monopoly advantage.

Moreover, the proposal for a classified information website was actually put forward by someone within Igreat a long time ago.

It was only under the pressure of Simon, and it has not started until now. Simon also applied for the subsidiary brand of '58list' and the corresponding independent website according to memory some time ago.

Among them, 58 naturally refers to the same city as 58, which is a small evil taste of Simon.

The project has been suppressed until now, mainly because starting this project will touch a big cake of tens of billions of dollars.

As we all know, the print media in this era in the United States is very developed. From the world-class metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles to some remote fishing port towns, they often have their own newspapers.

The American public also has a very common habit of subscribing to newspapers.

In the huge print media industry, most newspapers have lots of classified information advertisements such as 'recruitment' and 'rental', which often account for about half of a newspaper's total revenue.

The entire federal print media industry currently earns more than $20 billion annually in classified information advertising.

Now, once the free classified information website of Igreit Portal is launched, most users will be able to publish various classified information advertisements on the Internet without spending a penny. It is conceivable that once this online business develops, What a powerful impact it will have on the classified information advertising business of the existing print media platform.

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