Hollywood Hunter

"Hunting Hollywood ()"

After the release of "Charlie Girl", Simon continued to spend a weekend in Los Angeles, returning to the East Coast the day before Christmas Eve on December 23.On the same day, Daenerys Entertainment Group quietly and quickly completed the issuance of the last US$5 billion long-term bond of the Westeros system in 1996.

Since this time it was still mainly for overseas capital, coupled with deliberately low-key, it did not cause much disturbance.

The US$5 billion 10-year and 20-year long-term bonds were subscribed by investors all over the world on the day they were launched. After all, Daenerys Entertainment’s current corporate credit rating is completely comparable to US Treasury bonds. The interest rate of corporate bonds It is higher than the US Treasury bonds, which naturally attracts all kinds of investors seeking stable income.

Of course, as the leading company with the largest market value on the NYSE, media attention is inevitable.

Daenerys Entertainment’s annual net profit in the past fiscal year has exceeded 5 billion U.S. dollars. It is impossible to be short of money. Therefore, in many people’s eyes, there is no need for this Hollywood giant to issue bonds at all. Simon Wei Stro did this, naturally with other purposes.

As for why, since the beginning of this year, it has been repeatedly talked about by countless media.

The Westeros system is hoarding funds for the economic downturn after the bursting of the stock market bubble in order to survive the economic winter and even further expand at the bottom.

It’s just that, from the beginning of the year to the present, the Nasdaq index, which has the highest bubble component, has not burst for a whole year. On the contrary, it has risen more and more. This inevitably makes many people feel numb, so the relevant discussions are more limited to professional finance. In the media, most of the general public's attention is devoted to the coming Christmas.

on the other hand.

A box office week spanning Christmas quickly passed in a lively and warm festive atmosphere.

In a box office week from December 20 to December 26, even with Christmas Eve, the total box office in North America this week exceeded the $200 million mark with the stimulation of a crowd of hot movies.

First of all, the "Charlie Girl", which started last week.

In the first week of its release, with a higher popularity and reputation than "Game of the Brave", "Charlie Angels" succeeded in reaching the top. It earned 72.01 million US dollars in the first seven days, which is close to the film's 75 million US dollars production cost. In the first week, the museum average reached US$22,900, which was a full US$5,000 higher than the US$17,900 in the same period in "Game of the Brave".

It is conceivable that if the number of screens of "Girls in the Thunderbolt" is equal to that of "Game of the Brave", it is not impossible to hit $80 million in the first week.

Affected by the big sales of "Charlie Angels", "Game of the Brave" dropped by 34% the following week, and its revenue fell to 41.79 million US dollars, which was a total of 105.14 million US dollars in two weeks.

Frankly speaking, the bi-weekly box office exceeded 100 million, which is a success for most movies of this era, and "Game of the Brave" is no exception.Unfortunately, it should have been the hottest week of the year, and it is also the most popular type of CG special effects blockbuster, with a drop of more than 30%, which is obviously unsatisfactory.

However, "Game of the Brave" is actually lucky, because this week, "Wonder Woman 2", an absolute phenomenon blockbuster at the end of the year, was unexpectedly overtaken by a literary drama.

This movie is of course "Mind Catcher".

In the third week of its release, and also the second week of the large-scale opening, the number of screens for "Mind Catcher" increased from 1,746 last week to 2,125. Compared with other large-scale films released in the same period, this investment was only 10 million US dollars. The literary and artistic feature film became the only film that achieved a reverse decline this week. It received another 25.31 million US dollars with a 6% reverse decline. The cumulative box office reached 54.66 million US dollars in three weeks, completely recovering the total investment of 20 million US dollars in production and publicity. , Began to realize profitability.

The former "Mind Catcher" still won more than 130 million US dollars in local box office under the same period of "Titanic".

Under the impact of "Charlie Charlie", "Wonder Woman 2", which ranked fourth on the weekly box office list, dropped by 46% last week and collected another 20.95 million U.S. dollars, with a cumulative box office of 374.06 million U.S. dollars.

This result corresponds to the industry analysis after the first week of "Wonder Woman 2".

Thanksgiving's "Wonder Woman 2" in the first week of the week has won more than 150 million US dollars in box office, second only to last year's box office miracle "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", ranking second in Hollywood movie history.However, the industry media at the beginning judged that "Wonder Woman 2" is not a big problem at the local box office of 400 million yuan, and whether it can hit 500 million yuan or even higher. Instead, it depends on the market reaction of the two blockbuster films in the Christmas file.

Now, "Game of the Brave" and "Charlie Girl" are both successful, even exceeding the studio's expectations. This inevitably has an impact on the box office of "Wonder Woman 2", which is expected to have an impact. The local 500 million super blockbuster, from the current situation, 400 million is still safe, but it is also obvious to stop at the early 400 million, it is difficult to go higher.

In the final analysis, the movie market has such a big plate, one declining one.

Of course, this "regret" seems to other Hollywood studios to make people want to scratch the wall.The top four "Charlie Angels", "Game of the Brave", "Mind Catcher" and "Wonder Woman 2" are the four movies, even if "Charlie Angels" and "Game of the Brave" hang MGM and Warner Bros. label, but who doesn’t know that these are all projects led by Daenerys Entertainment.

The most popular one-week schedule, just these four movies, the total box office is close to 160 million, and this week's total box office is only 220 million US dollars, equivalent to four movies occupying 72% of the market share, in addition, enter the theater box office statistics this week Out of a total of 17 films, 13 other films such as "Jingle All the Way" and "Angel Bodyguard" won less than 30% of the remaining US$40 million at the box office.

Frustrated.

If you look at the whole year, Daenerys Entertainment is even more dominant. It is no longer as much as in previous years and there are several top ten shares that belong to other studios.

The layman just watched the excitement.

In Hollywood circles, the more people who understand the strong gambling nature of movies, the more they can appreciate how terrifying Daenerys Entertainment does.

Because of the strong uncertainty in the film industry, even if a studio can produce blockbuster movies, it is difficult to stop other film companies from launching similar blockbuster hits to share market share. This is also the case for oligarchs in other industries for nearly a century. Monopoly, Hollywood has always been the main reason for the coexistence of the six big seven and eight big ones.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment has miraculously reversed this accepted industry law.

"So, how did you do it?"

The manor on the northern outskirts of Greenwich was already in the afternoon of December 31.The villa is preparing for the New Year's Eve party in the evening. Catherine Bigelow and Simon, who haven't seen each other for a long time, leaned on the couch in the living room and asked with a smile while drinking the red wine in their hands.

What they discussed happened to be Daenerys Entertainment's current situation of almost dominating Hollywood.

In fact, the reason is not complicated.

First of all, of course, the golden finger of Simon II played the most direct guiding role, avoiding Daenerys Entertainment from stepping into a lot of minefields. This is the most critical point and a unique advantage of Simon.

Secondly, Simon completed the promotion of the Hollywood film industry model ahead of schedule.

Unknown people always talk about Hollywood's powerful film industry. In fact, when you look at it carefully, Hollywood before the 1990s is undoubtedly powerful. The industry is actually not perfect.This change actually started from the rise of the blockbuster in the 1990s, and truly formed the film industry that allowed Hollywood to dominate the world.

Simon not only pushed Hollywood into the blockbuster era in advance, but also mastered the most important core technology of CG special effects in this new era.In addition, through the DC Cinema Universe, the Conspiracy Cinema Universe and other film models, Simon has changed the gambling nature of the strong uncertainty of the film industry to the greatest extent, allowing Daenerys Entertainment to continuously produce blockbusters.

All in all, at its peak, Disney was able to easily occupy six or seven of the top ten films each year. With Simon’s advantages in all aspects, Daenerys Entertainment did this more naturally.

Simon leaned on the sofa and sat opposite Catherine, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, but did not answer the woman's question.

Staying with a woman in private and discussing too many things about work is actually very unpleasant.

The free hand fumbled and fumbled, catching a strand of long hair in front of the woman playing with it, but Simon's expression was very hurt: "If others ask, Catherine, I thought we met for the first time. You have already seen my talent."

Catherine gave someone a white look, but there were some memories in her expression.

Suddenly remembered that it seemed to have been a certain evening many years ago, a certain teenager with a harmless smile on his face said that he came from the'Watsonville Mental Hospital'.

after that.

It was a blockbuster and soaring into the sky. It took only 10 years to reach a level that everyone can only look up to forever.

"Does the more you think about it, the more you worship me?"

A voice in her ear interrupted Catherine's thoughts. After reacting, the woman rolled her eyes again, and she was unavoidably curious: "Will you feel like you have lost your goal now?"

Simon thought for a while, and said: "My goal was to win an Oscar Grand Slam, best picture, best director, best screenwriter, best soundtrack, etc. You know, except for the heroine, which is a bit difficult, I Anything can be tried. But when I have a trillion dollars, similar goals seem irrelevant. Just like a person with a doctorate degree, how can he care about a little red flower in the kindergarten. Stand alone In what position, of course, there is a vision of what position and different goals in life. At least, I know what I am doing and what I want to do."

Catherine let the little man in front of her play with her hair. After listening carefully, she didn’t really reveal some of her real goals, but she didn’t delve into it. She just couldn’t help saying: "Jenny said that she can feel that you occasionally very confused."

"It's inevitable. Anyone will have this situation." Simon said and curled his mouth: "So you have to care for me more."

Catherine resisted the small urge to roll her eyes: "Jenny also said that when you are lost, you often like to mess around."

"This is slander," Simon said with a righteous expression: "You know, Jeanne snatched me from your hands. In order to avoid your idea of ​​snatching me back, of course you must slander me in private. "

Catherine finally couldn't hold back and lost another glance.

Simon pretended not to see it, let go of Catherine's hair, and continued to look forward, trying to reach the woman's white neck that has been well maintained all these years.

This time he was beaten back.

Knocking off the little man's claws, Catherine pulled her hair to cover a neck of the black turtleneck, and screamed very harmlessly: "You will be seen."

Simon did not reluctantly, just moved closer without making a trace, enjoying the good smell of every woman, and asked: "Speaking of which, do you have plans for the next movie?"

Catherine shook her head: "I've read a lot of scripts, but I always feel dissatisfied."

"Then shoot whatever you want, and try various types."

Catherine was noncommittal.

In fact, it was because of the failure of "Detroit" last time.

If it was brought up by other investors, she would definitely not have too much scruples, and she would work hard to do it, even if she failed, she would at least be ashamed.

Which Hollywood director has not experienced failure?

Now, on the contrary, I can shoot whatever I want, but I dare not do it lightly.

Simon saw that Catherine did not respond, and did not force it.Catherine is definitely not the kind of person who can't live without the movie. On the contrary, although she has been alone, the life of a woman is wonderful, and he doesn't need to worry about it.

The two chatted without a word until the twilight hour.

The New Year's Eve party in the evening was very lively. Hundreds of guests gathered together. Not only did they have various performances, but also arranged a grand firework show at midnight and New Year's Eve, which was extremely lively.

In 1996, I also officially spent time in this hustle and bustle.

For Simon, this year seems to be a bit longer than the various ups and downs of 1994. Overall, it can be described as a major turning point for the Westeros system.

Simon's personal net worth exceeded $1 trillion in this year.

unprecedented.

During this year, Daenerys Entertainment's tendency to dominate Hollywood has become more and more obvious.Eaglet Corporation and Daenerys Entertainment Group, as well as Cisco, have entered the $500 billion club in market value, and continue to rise, leading the two major U.S. stock markets, dazzling.

The Westeros system has become more and more entrenched in North America, and it has begun to make a worldwide overall layout, and it is in the limelight.

In the final analysis, these changes all mean one thing.

Compared with the turmoil in 1994, in 1996 that just passed, Simon was promoted from a participant in this world to a chess player.