Hollywood Hunter

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San Francisco at the end of September did not give people the feeling of autumn at all. It was still sunny and green.

Woodside Mountain House.

The time is Saturday, September 25th.

These days, Simon is basically in Los Angeles on weekdays and in San Francisco on weekends to accompany his female assistant.

In fact, Janet was driven to San Francisco.

Because Veronica flies over from New York every weekend to see the kids.

On vacation days, most of the time seems very leisurely, because it is maternity leave, it is inevitably monotonous.

I played guitar with the female assistant for a while and read a few pages of a book. The afternoon sun made me tired, so I curled up beside Simon and fell asleep. The outdoor environment is somewhat unsuitable for pregnant women to sleep. Simon carried the sleeping female assistant into the bedroom, and went back to the backyard porch, sitting at a round table drinking coffee and flipping through some of the materials that girl a had compiled today.

No longer entangled in various meticulous work every day, Simon can finally conduct a serious combing of the entire Westeros system.

The latest concern has been the impact of the Westeros system on Daenerys Entertainment's film distribution due to the launch of 58list.

Daenerys Entertainment's three labels, including Kieslowski's "Red, Blue and White Trilogy Blue", which was released yesterday by Gaomen Pictures, this year's Venice Golden Lion Award-winning work, released a total of this September. Four movies.

Among them, the more important is Brian De Palma's new film "Dawn of the Owl", which will be released on September 10. This old-fashioned gangster film that Palma is good at starring Al Pacino, the production cost of 30 million US dollars , the number of opening screens is 1679.

The other two, one is the Cold War period drama "Peach Indictment" starring Anthony Hopkins, released by New World Pictures. There is also "Golden Giants" launched by Goldman Pictures, which is a novel adaptation of Meryl Streep's film, which tells the ups and downs of a Chilean girl with prophetic ability in her life.

In fact, only one of the four films, "Dawn of Love Owl", was entirely produced by Daenerys Entertainment, and the other three were either bought out or distributed by agency.

Based on the word-of-mouth and box-office data of the four films, Daenerys Entertainment’s publicity and distribution department judged that the opposition between the Westeros system and the print media clearly had an impact on the company’s film distribution.

Taking "The Dawn of Love Owl" as an example, after the film was released on September 10, the comprehensive score of the media was 7.1 points, which was slightly stronger than the passing score and was not considered outstanding. Many critics gave the evaluation that Brian de Palma and Al Pacino repeated the previous "Scarface", so the plot is old-fashioned and lacks breakthroughs.

In contrast, the new Internet platform, the comprehensive statistics of the word of mouth can reach about 8 points.

The difference is very obvious.

However, in terms of box office, the box office of "Dawn of Love Owl" in the first week was 11.39 million US dollars, a drop of 26% in the second week, and another 8.36 million US dollars. The two-week box office totaled 19.75 million US dollars, and the total North American box office is expected to be around 35 million US dollars.

Such commercial performance basically met Daenerys Entertainment's expectations.

With a production cost of $30 million, a publicity expense of $10 million, and a North American box office of $35 million, the project is certainly not a success. However, relying on overseas distribution and follow-up channels, it is not a big problem to recover the cost and achieve a certain profit.

Simon had already anticipated this outcome when he approved the project.

Daenerys Entertainment can't be successful forever, and occasionally this kind of tepid project is needed to support the "facade".

After a comprehensive evaluation, the traditional paper media has obviously affected the reputation of the movie "The Dawn of Love Owl", but it has not caused too obvious impact on the box office, which is not surprising.

At this stage, only about 25% of the publicity expenditure of Hollywood movies is used for traditional paper media. The more important platform is the TV channel, which accounts for 50%. Other channels such as theater posters, street advertisements, and radio advertisements occupy the remaining 25%.

The proportion of print media in advertising expenditure also means the weight of this advertising channel on the commercial performance of a film.

25%.

not have decisive influence.

Of course, this ratio is actually for standard commercial films, such as literary films produced by Gaomen Pictures.

"Golden Giants" was released on September 17, and the media word of mouth directly hit the bottom, with a comprehensive score of only 2.6 points.

The quality of the film is indeed unsatisfactory, but the Gaomen Films team also stated that the mainstream print media are obviously too harsh on the film.

As a film with 513 screens, the box office in the first week was only 1.71 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be only about 5 million US dollars at most. However, the film's budget was as high as $25 million.

Simply lost.

Fortunately, the film is not produced by Daenerys Entertainment, and the budget is mainly from Europe.

A project that is doomed to fail, at the box office of $5 million or $7 million, the difference is actually not big. The change in attitude of traditional paper media towards Daenerys Entertainment is visible to the naked eye.

Daenerys Entertainment has been in the process of befriending film critics in recent years, and it's clear that Simon has somewhat overestimated the independence of film critics.

Also well understood.

Daenerys Entertainment Could Give Film Critics Some Kindness

Hui, however, this group has to rely on the manuscript fee of the paper media platform to make a living, and it is impossible to be completely independent.

This isn't actually a bad thing.

The lack of independence actually means that it can be influenced by external forces.

Simon thought for a moment, put down the materials, opened the laptop on the round table in front of him and started writing emails to several executives of Daenerys Entertainment.

The key to Daenerys Entertainment's next movie announcement is to ensure that key projects, such as movies in several important schedules, for other movies, just do your best.

If some paper media is too much, when necessary, you can kill chickens to show the monkeys.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the cooperation between Daenerys Entertainment and Ygritte Portal, and guide as many users as possible to log in to the Internet platform to check the reputation of the movie and participate in the movie discussion. As long as users can be introduced to the Internet, this will be the main battlefield of the Westeros system.

The number of netizens in North America has reached one-third of the total population, and they are all top-quality consumer users.

As long as it is operated properly, relying on the home field advantage of the Westeros system on the Internet platform can offset the negative impact of traditional paper media on Daenerys Entertainment’s film announcement to the greatest extent.

After writing an e-mail, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

Girl a appeared quietly, helped Simon sort out the scattered information on the table, and said, "Mr. Gates is here."

"Let him come here."

Alison nodded and turned to leave.

After a while, the door classmate came over under the guidance of girl a, Simon got up and shook hands with the other party, and the two sat down at the round table together.

When girl a left again, the classmates pretended to hold up the coffee and sip the door without a trace from Alison's wonderful figure wrapped in ol's suit.

I was a little dissatisfied with Simon's move that he didn't even show up to greet him, so Gates didn't talk too much, and went straight to the topic: "Simon, what's going on with Linux?"

Just this Wednesday, Igreit suddenly released a version of the fully open source Linux 1.0 operating system source code, which is the result of the Igreat Linux team's work for more than half a year. Watts' rough kernel, this version of the operating system kernel has 200,000 lines of code. Although it is not perfect, it can basically achieve practical applications.

The mainstream operating system in the computer industry has never been completely open source and free.

Therefore, we can imagine what kind of impact this completely free and open operating system will have on the industry.

For public reasons, Igreat released this product to further demonstrate the company's openness.

Of course, in private, this kind of opening is actually for long-term layout considerations.

For the computer industry, a piece of software, whether it is a large-scale operating system application or a simple program that only implements one or two instructions, can form an industry and even achieve monopoly goals only if there are enough users.

In the plan of Igreit, it will not directly target the linux operating system for commercial operation, but intend to rely on the linux platform to provide further application software and solutions and other services.

This is how Red Hat operates in memory.

Later, in order to strengthen its layout in open source applications, ibm acquired Red Hat with a huge sum of more than 30 billion US dollars, which is enough to prove the feasibility of this business model.

However, the premise of all this is that the Linux system must be popular enough.

Igreit released the source code of the Linux operating system that it invested a lot of money and manpower to develop, which is to promote this process in advance.

Facing the question of the classmates at this time, Simon just said plainly: "Bill, you must have already understood that this is a public open source operating system project. Moreover, Igret's goal is the field of server operating systems, and will not be interested in Microsoft. Too much impact. I know what you're thinking, Bill, and I can assure you that Igret won't go any further with a Linux-based desktop operating system."

The expression of the door classmate did not ease because of this. Instead, he was a little excited and raised his voice unconsciously: "But you should also know, Simon, Microsoft has just launched windows nt, you are disrupting the situation!"

"Unix is ​​open enough, and there are still many people who are worried about this product. Bill, do you think everyone can accept a completely closed-source server operating system?"

"Why not, as long as we can provide a more stable service?"

"Without absolutely stable services, any operating system will inevitably encounter various problems. What everyone needs is that once they encounter a problem, they can find the source of the problem very conveniently and quickly, and then solve it. A closed-source operating system, Like a car with a completely welded hood, even if you say the operating system is reliable, users will be worried."

The door classmate seemed to lose his patience: "How to sell the welded car is our business, Simon, you must stop the development of linux, don't forget, you are also the major shareholder and the second largest shareholder of Microsoft."

"Sorry, Bill, I can't promise you."

The door classmate stared at the young man opposite, only to realize after a while that he didn't seem to have much to do with the other party, which made him even more angry: "Okay, then, promise me, Igret will not continue to publish in the future. linux source code."

This 1.0 kernel, while a big improvement over Linus Torvalds' original

Other operating systems that have been widely used still need continuous improvement.

Simon is very simple: "Okay, I can promise you this."

Bill Gates was speechless for a moment.

Simon also did not explain to the other party that Igreit had supported Linus Torvac to set up the Linux Foundation to coordinate free software development volunteers around the world to continue to improve the operating system.

Even if Igreat no longer releases the latest Linux source code, the Linux Foundation will continue to release operating system versions above 2.0.

Of course, there is still the participation of Igreat's linux development team in order to guide this operating system to the direction Igreat hopes to develop.

Bill Gates also knew that Simon was hiding something from himself, but he couldn't continue to get to the bottom of it for a while, so he could only change the subject: "I think we can talk about the pre-installation of the IE browser."

Simon smiled and said, "Bill, you can discuss this with Jeff and the others."

At the beginning, Simon wanted to pre-install the IE browser directly on the Windows operating system, but was rejected by the classmates.

With the further popularization of the Internet, whether or not to pre-install IE browser software has also become one of the influencing factors when consumers purchase personal computers.

Therefore, even if the pre-installed IE browser on each computer will increase the cost of 10 US dollars, major mainstream OEM manufacturers have successively launched cooperation with Igret, even Apple is no exception.

Since the mainstream OEM manufacturers have been basically settled, it is not necessary to cooperate directly with Microsoft.

After all, doing so entails greater monopoly risk.

Simon also knew why the gate classmates suddenly changed too much.

Microsoft's msn portal recently launched.

The conditions that can be given to AOL are basically given to Microsoft by Igreit.

Microsoft is also imitating America Online and launching Microsoft's news box in cooperation with other Internet service providers in North America to increase the traffic of the msn portal.

The news box, similar to the later advertising pop-up window, was regarded as a window opened by Igret for the two competitors.

Compared to many other sites, AOL and Microsoft have been lucky enough.

It's just that the gate classmates are obviously not satisfied.

If the IE browser becomes the pre-installed software of the Windows operating system, the gate students probably think that Microsoft should be able to use this as a condition to require the default power of the IE browser's homepage, thereby further increasing the traffic of Microsoft's msn portal.

This is actually quite a big investment.

Even if Igreit can provide a certain price discount for Microsoft's pre-installation, according to the annual sales of Microsoft's operating system, it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

However, the Internet wave has begun to surge, and even Microsoft is inevitably worried that it will be left behind in this industrial transformation, so it believes that as long as it can get enough online traffic, this expense is completely worth it.

If Simon, he would actually make the same decision.

Therefore, at this time, it is even more impossible to agree to the requirements of the gate classmates.

Igreit's dominance in the Internet field cannot be challenged. Even if he knew that Microsoft would later fail in the Internet industry, Simon did not intend to open this hole to Microsoft. Who knows if there will be other variables in history.

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