Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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In the sixth week of release, "007's Ghost Party" was squeezed to the third position of the weekly box office list, a single week box office still reached $15.52 million, opening more than two months now, the cumulative local box office is as high as $247.73 million, distance from the 300 million threshold itself 50 million of the beginning of the distance, basically locked 300 million box office club.

Two weeks behind the opening of James Bond's Ghostbusters, Daenerys Entertainment's only summer bombshell, "Brokeback," opened in its fourth week and debuted at No. 4 on the charts, grossing $15.17 million. In its first month of release, the film has grossed $129.56 million at the box office.

Obviously, the box office volume of "Brokeback" and "James Bond's Ghost Party" is not at all in the same order of magnitude. However, the box office success of this fantasy horror film, where every frame can be used as wallpaper, has met Simon's expectations, with the film's estimated local box office rising from $150 million to $170 million, and the local theatrical release alone allowing Daenerys Entertainment to recoup more than 90% of its $100 million investment.

After the top four, fifth on the list, "The Birdcage" falls right into the $10 million range in a single week, grossing $9.07 million in its third week of release.

Robin Williams starred in this alternative homosexual comedy original time and space cumulative box office in North America broke $100 million, this time, for a variety of reasons, the film is still only $47.95 million in three weeks of release, although the estimated $70 million or so box office still exceeded MGM's expectations, but failed to replicate the once historic outstanding performance.

The Birdcage, however, did better at the box office than Disney's Daredevil Island.

The new version of "Brave Island", which once had only three creators left to play the role of veteran 007 Sean Connery, still burned through a whopping $70 million of Disney's production budget, though, and the same third week of release left only $8.13 million for a single week and $46.25 million for a three-week total.

France's Vivendi ambitiously gobbled up the venerable American cultural icon last year, and like Sony, which bought the 'Statue of Liberty', a pot of cold water was poured down one after the other.

Chapter 7.

Last box office week because of the opening of the Olympics, the North American single-week box office body slipped from 167 million to 111 million, a 35 percent drop, a significant impact.

This crime drama won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, with a very good media reputation and an opening of 715 screens.

Heading into the weekend, the Atlanta Olympics, which lasted smoothly for a week, were abruptly changed.

In the early morning hours of July 27, an open-air concert in Atlanta's Olympic Century Park, purposely built to welcome the Olympics, exploded as a crowd of thousands gathered, injuring more than two hundred people, killing eleven outright, and sustaining serious injuries in the hustle and bustle that followed.

A bombing this bad shocked the entire world.

Clinton paid attention to the bombing overnight and asked the FBI to set up a task force to investigate the case, and the world has expressed concern and sympathy for the bombing, while condemning the perpetrators.

By the way, the U.S. bombings in the nineties were simply endless, such as the World Trade Center bombing in '93, the Woodfield Manor bombing in '94, the Oklahoma City bombing in '95, and even this time the Atlanta Olympics bombing in '96, and these are just some of the bombings that had a relatively high impact and casualties, and they were all on U.S. soil.

Other than that.

First of all, there were significantly more casualties in this bombing than Simon remembered from the information, as there had been a history of bomb backpacks being discovered early by a patrolling police officer, only to fail to defuse them, but instead exploding as the crowd was evacuating, thus resulting in very few deaths, whereas this one had failed to be discovered early, thus resulting in more than ten direct deaths.

Ironically, the cop who once spotted the exploding backpack early was once smeared as a suspect and his life was nearly ruined.

And, in the original time, the suspect in the 1996 bombing, Eric Rudolph, wasn't caught until 10 years later, and was interrogated as a repeat offender who had been responsible for a series of bombings starting back in 1977, targeting the Atlanta Olympics to protest the Clinton administration's deregulation of abortion.

Even though he knew what was going on, Simon just stood by and watched the whole thing.

The successive operations two years ago were purely to make a statement, to inform certain people that he would be willing to kill himself if they got the wrong idea about the Westerosi. Even interfering in the midterm elections that year was actually very risky.

If this meddling in the Atlanta Olympics bombing, it would definitely end up like some cop who was once wrongly accused to the point of collapse.

So, it's business as usual inside the Westeros system.

After a chaotic and tumultuous weekend, on July 29, Verizon Telecom officially announced the opening of an IPO roadshow, with a listing date set for August 15.

With a family vacation planned after the Verizon listing and a half month stay in Australia planned, Simon's recent schedule has been even more full.

Busy as it is, August is fast approaching.

The first major event in August was the inauguration of Yeltsin's second term on August 3.

While Yeltsin's re-election was widely followed by the Russian business oligarchs who have successfully penetrated the Kremlin, such as Berezovsky, who is rumored to be seeking the premiership, Simon noticed one detail. On the day of the inauguration ceremony, the Yeltsin government released a group photo of the new Kremlin's inner circle of authorities, in which a small, middle-aged man with thinning hair appeared casually in the corner of the photo.

More definitive news followed as well.

The day after Yeltsin's inauguration, the first reshuffle of the Kremlin's core was announced, and someone was among them. Although the two departments had similar names, their powers were very different, with the former being equivalent to the Deputy Director General of the Grand Interior, and the latter being the Deputy Director General of an important department directly responsible to the Führer, as well as being in charge of the formulation of foreign economic and legal policies of considerable importance.