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In addition to "Four Weddings and a Funeral", the films released in the same period on February 11 also include "Little Ghost Man" produced by Disney and "Baby Lover 2" produced by Columbia Pictures. A wedding is the equivalent of a funeral.

"Goblin Rich" tells the story of a young boy who accidentally gets a million dollars and a criminal who loses a lot of money. Macaulay Culkin starred in "Baby Lover 2" before, and this sequel has been replaced by another newcomer child star.

Even if you don't explain the content and just look at the names of the two new films, it's not hard to imagine that this is continuing to follow the trend of "Home Alone".

Daenerys Entertainment has already shelved the further development of the "Home Alone" series, but Hollywood has been obsessed with this children's film series that has created a box office miracle. Of course, others have also carried out 'innovations'. Festive little devil head and big vase plot mode.

North American mainstream newspapers still haven't reached a settlement with the Westeros system, but they are not polite to the two follower works that compete with Daenerys Entertainment.

After the official release, with the public praise of the film critics, the comprehensive media score of "Baby Lover 2" was only a pitiful 2.7 points. This is not the worst. The word-of-mouth of Disney's "Little Ghost Man" has completely collapsed. The mainstream media gave almost all negative comments. After the conversion, the comprehensive score was not even 1 point, only 0.9 points.

In comparison, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" bears the natural negative buff of Daenerys Entertainment in front of the paper media, and the overall score only slips from 9.5 points after the Sundance premiere to 8.6 points. It is a classic-level word of mouth, and "Variety" magazine generously praised "Four Weddings and a Funeral" as 'a smart, funny and alternative love movie, with the strong appeal of the warm sunshine on a winter afternoon'.

Not only the film itself, but Hugh Grant, who made his debut in the early 1980s but has always been unknown, has finally gained widespread attention by relying on his excellent performance in this film. Many film critics have deliberately mentioned Hugh Grant's restraint in their articles. Yet a humorous performance.

Model-turned-Andie McDowell has also been confirmed for another classic after Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

In terms of budget, the production cost of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" of $5 million and the same $5 million of publicity expenses are not generous, and they are not as high as the $15 million production cost of "Goblin", Simon. It was clear from the start that for the film to succeed, it had to achieve word-of-mouth influence.

After all, the Westeros system and the mainstream print media have not publicly torn their faces. If it is only a commercial film with a medium reputation, the traditional media can also screw up the reputation of the film through tendentious public opinion. For excellent works such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" , in the face of unanimous praise from a large number of film critics, more media have to follow the mainstream even if they are unwilling, otherwise they are testing the IQ of newspaper readers.

Moreover, for a film destined to be a classic, more media word-of-mouth is just the icing on the cake. The rapid popularity of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" among movie fans is the key. The influence of people around you began to buy tickets and enter the venue

The response from Daenerys Entertainment's distribution team was equally swift.

When the outstanding box office results on Friday and Saturday came out, Simon personally approved an additional $10 million budget.

In the end, from February 11 to February 13, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" grossed $9.81 million in the three-day opening weekend, directly allowing Daenerys Entertainment to recover the $5 million production budget.

This is followed by Valentine's Day on February 14th.

Although it was Monday, after three days of word-of-mouth fermentation over the weekend, the box office of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" on Valentine's Day in North American theaters reached 5.13 million US dollars, exceeding the single-day revenue of any day in the first weekend.

Immediately three working days later, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" was released in its first week at the box office, reaching a total of 21.79 million US dollars in seven days, easily winning the single-week box office champion of the Valentine's Day schedule, with an average box office of 13,000 US dollars. Big sale level.

The off-season of the film in February is not considered a popular Valentine's Day schedule. The low-budget romantic comedy produced at 5 million US dollars won the box office of 21.79 million US dollars in seven days in the first week. This market performance exceeded almost everyone's expectations.

Taking into account the film's excellent reputation and continued popularity among the basic audience, and the absence of strong box office competitors during the same period, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" is enough to walk out of a very beautiful long-term box office, eventually breaking through 100 million in North America. Not impossible.

Daenerys Entertainment thus won the seed player of the first 100 million yuan box office club in 1994.

Nice starter.

In addition to "Four Weddings and a Funeral", on this week's list, the dc movie universe blockbuster "Cyborg" has entered its eighth week of release, ranking second at the box office.

Because it was Valentine's Day, the box office of "Cyborg" dropped by only 17% this week, and it continued to make 7.98 million US dollars. The cumulative box office of the film has also reached 241.43 million US dollars. In 1993, this achievement is second only to "Superman". And "The Lion King", ranked third.

The first-week box office of Disney's crumbling "Little Ghost Man" was only $6.91 million, ranking third on the list. The number of screens for the film was as high as 1,841, and the first-week box office of less than $7 million was just over $3,700. The screen size is expected to be completed in two weeks.

will decrease rapidly.

The fourth place is Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List", which made $6.28 million at the box office this week, and the cumulative box office reached $37.2 million, which has basically recovered the production cost of $22 million.

Losing Macaulay Culkin's "Baby Lover 2", the opening box office performance was lower than that of the word-of-mouth "Little Ghost Man". The box office in the first seven days was only 6.05 million US dollars, ranking fifth on the list.

Similar to "Little Ghost Man", due to the failed word of mouth and bleak box office start, the total North American box office of the two films is expected to be around 15 million US dollars. Columbia and Disney want to recover the cost through the local box office. Make up for losses.

In the same week, when "Four Weddings and a Funeral" showed a dark horse attitude, "The Lion King", which was released in its 13th week, relied on this week's $4.35 million in revenue, and the cumulative box office officially broke through the $300 million mark, reaching 300 million. 02.56 million US dollars, officially becoming the first animated film in Hollywood history to exceed 300 million US dollars at the domestic box office.

At the same time, with the popularity of "The Lion King" being nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture at the end of January, the box office of this 3D animated film has rebounded to varying degrees around the world. Many overseas films that failed to achieve simultaneous release The market has also opened up recently.

According to the latest feedback data, the overseas box office of "The Lion King" has also reached 467 million US dollars, and the global total box office has accumulated to 769 million US dollars, which also set a new global box office record for Hollywood animation films.

Not only that, according to the current box office trends in various markets around the world, "The Lion King" has a box office potential of about 20 million to 30 million US dollars in North America, and the subsequent overseas revenue can reach at least 100 million US dollars, which means "The Lion King" It is expected to hit the global box office mark of 900 million US dollars.

Even if it is still regrettable that the threshold of 1 billion cannot be reached, such an amazing box office performance of a 3D animated film is enough to amaze countless people.

With the box office boom after the release of "The Lion King" at the end of last year, all other Hollywood studios have greatly increased their investment in 3D film technology, and Pixar has once again become the hardest hit area where Daenerys Entertainment was poached. "Toy Story" " and "The Lion King" two 3D animation films have been successful in the whole industry chain, which has really stimulated too many people.

You must know that it was also the most popular live-action movie "Cyborg" at the end of last year. Due to the limited overseas market of the all-black protagonist, the film's overseas box office is currently only about 270 million US dollars, including the domestic 240 million US dollars, and the cumulative global box office Also only $510 million.

Unlike "The Lion King", which has a long stamina, as a popcorn commercial film, the global screening of "Steel Bones" has begun. between $570 million.

Such outstanding box office results are beyond the reach of most commercial Hollywood films, however, the film immediately dwarfed in front of "The Lion King".

Even if it also has a wealth of peripherals, "Cyber" is expected to have a peripheral volume of less than 500 million US dollars in the next five years, which is completely different from the "Lion King" whose peripheral sales have exceeded 1.3 billion US dollars in just the past few months. , The same five-year operation cycle, the peripheral output value of "The Lion King" will reach the level of 3 billion to 4 billion US dollars.

It is just a phenomenal "The Lion King". After long-term operation, the omni-channel output value will reach tens of billions. Such commercial potential even makes the film's box office less dazzling.

Simon rushes to New York with Janet after Valentine's Day to formally discuss the looming Daenerys Entertainment IPO with Morgan and Goldman Sachs. With the domestic box office of "The Lion King" exceeding 300 million US dollars, the IPO that Daenerys Entertainment is promoting will inevitably become the focus of media attention.

In fact, as early as last month just after the New Year, an article in the "Wall Street Journal" had predicted that Daenerys Entertainment's net profit in 1993 would reach 2 billion US dollars, so the IPO valuation of this entertainment giant is the most conservative. It is also estimated to be no less than $30 billion.

There are many factors that need to be considered in the IPO valuation of a company. However, there are actually only two key points. On the one hand, it is the profitability of the company, and on the other hand, it is the long-term growth potential of the company.

When the "Lion King" North American box office exceeded 300 million, the global box office also reached an astonishing $769 million, and is expected to further hit the global $900 million mark, almost no one doubts the profitability of Daenerys Entertainment.

The focus of the media discussion has been on the future potential of Daenerys Entertainment.

In the past year, Daenerys Entertainment Group has launched a total of 46 films, of which "Reverse Wisdom 2", "Sugar-Coated Trap", "Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Lion King" four films independently produced by Daenerys Entertainment have been realized. The box office broke 100 million and entered the top ten ranks of the annual list. In addition, there are a large number of "Dawn of Love Owl", "Schindler's List", "What to Do with Love", etc., which have contributed greatly to Daenerys Entertainment. Box office videos.

Even without considering a series of foreign cooperation projects such as "Superman" and "Sleepless in Seattle", Daenerys Entertainment has also shared a share of US$1.7 billion in the total box office of US$5.6 billion in North America, and the market share is as high as 31%. If you include "Superman," "Sleepless in Seattle," "The Gannet," and "Mission Impossible," Daenerys Entertainment's market share will increase by another 15 percentage points.

Therefore, it can almost be said that Daenerys Entertainment is equivalent to half of Hollywood.

Such a high market share has actually wandered on the edge of monopoly, so it is very

Multimedia believes that the core business of the film business, which contributes most of Daenerys Entertainment's profits, is unlikely to grow much in the future. Even the Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs teams who are about to take on the task of Daenerys' entertainment IPO have no shortage of such views.

If Daenerys Entertainment does not grow much in the future, the price-earnings ratio of IPO valuation cannot be too high.

A relatively simple basic calculation formula for corporate valuation is the price-earnings ratio multiplied by the annual net profit.

The Apple company in Simon's memory has the world's strongest corporate profitability because of its peak growth, but the stock price-earnings ratio has been hovering at a low level of about 10 times for a long time, while Amazon and other companies that still maintain high growth can have a price-earnings ratio of nearly 100 times. .

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal at the beginning of the year, the conservative valuation of $30 billion was calculated at a price-earnings ratio of 15 times.

In fact, Simon has been aware of the problems faced by Daenerys Entertainment for a long time, so he has continued to focus more on Daenerys Entertainment's music, games and other business areas.

After all, the fact that the growth of the core film business has entered a bottleneck does not mean that the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group will stop rapid growth. As a comprehensive large-scale entertainment group, relying on the locomotive of the film business, Daenerys is still promising in music, games, peripherals, theme parks and so on.

What's more, even if the development of other fields fails, Daenerys Entertainment's future performance growth rate will not be too bad, just relying on the high-speed natural growth of the global film industry for at least 10 years.

Not only that, once the ban on the consolidation of the US media industry that the Westeros system has been secretly promoting is lifted, Daenerys Entertainment can take advantage of the trend to expand into the TV field. Although the Internet era has arrived ahead of schedule, the TV industry in North America, especially cable TV, also has at least a decade of rapid growth.

Therefore, no matter what the media talks about, Simon has no intention of backing down on the valuation of Daenerys Entertainment's IPO this time.

If the IPO valuation price-earnings ratio is less than 20 times, he would rather give up the listing plan.

According to the 20 times price-earnings ratio, the IPO valuation of Daenerys Entertainment can reach at least 40 billion US dollars.

A valuation of $40 billion will also make the listing of Daenerys Entertainment Group the world's largest corporate IPO. Moreover, if nothing else, as long as it can go public successfully, Daenerys Entertainment will easily enter the club with a market value of 50 billion US dollars and become the world's top super corporate giant.

Manhattan, New York.

The time is already February 19th, Saturday.

The couple came to New York after Valentine's Day and stayed here for a few working days. Janet returned to Los Angeles yesterday and took Veronica back to the West Coast by the way.

Simon remained in New York.

In fact, this is already a small tacit understanding formed unconsciously between Simon and Janet.

Simon never intended to be a quiet man at home, and Janet said very early on that her husband could not have only one woman, so he always reserved some personal space for Simon at the right time. After being together for so many years, the relationship between the two has not been affected too much. Except for Jennifer, who has given birth to a daughter, no other woman has been able to interfere with the lives of the two over the years.

In the evening, I accepted Murdoch's invitation to attend a party at the other party's house, in a high-rise apartment in Midtown, just south of Central Park, which is a property of the Murdoch family.

Because of some unknown evil taste, the female companion with Simon tonight is still Jerry Hall.

Jerry Hall divorced Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger last year.

The two have long since had no relationship. After Jerry Hall applied for divorce, Mick Jagger quickly fought back in order to avoid too much property being divided, and filed a request to the local court in London to declare that the two were in Bali. The private wedding was invalid, and Jerry Hall was not to be outdone, and the two sides went to court directly.

After a few months of tossing, Jerry Hall finally received a one-time divorce compensation of 5 million pounds, which is roughly equivalent to one-tenth of Mick Jagger's personal assets, and also received the two of them over the years. Custody of three children.

After the divorce, Jerry Hall moved to New York from London and began to focus on his TV career, and still maintains an ambiguous relationship with Simon, a towering tree in private.

Staying at Murdoch's house party with ease until more than ten o'clock in the evening, Simon saw that it was very late and took the initiative to bid farewell to the host's house.

Murdoch invited Simon this time mainly to discuss the possibility of further cooperation between the two parties in the Internet field.

Unlike the relatively conservative Redstone, although Murdoch has always regarded newspapers as the foundation of News Corporation for a long time in the future, he does not resist emerging industries. News Corp, Simon remembers, has invested in many Internet companies, such as hulu, the streaming platform that partnered with Disney to fight Netflix.

Seeing that Simon was about to leave, Murdoch did not keep him, but had someone take a portfolio and give it to him, explaining: "This is a press release intercepted by News Corp in the UK's News of the World, It's about a group of girls from Russia over there in London. Simon, News Corp won't cover that, but you know what's going on over there in the UK, other media are not what we promise you."

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