Hollywood Hunter

"The fund that Jenny asked me to be in charge of with Ulia, about nanomaterials and quantum computing projects, I don’t understand these. There is also the establishment of Solvay College in Boston. I have seen the materials. It is a very special school for extraordinary children. I am not sure if I can do it well."

"It doesn't matter if you don't do it well."

"what?"

"The projects you are responsible for are all for the little guy in your stomach. If they can't get anything in the future, they can only blame their own mother."

"..."

Boston the next morning.

In the manor mansion in the West suburb of the city's western suburbs, Simon took a helicopter after breakfast to visit Maria and the two daughters.

Today is January 12th, Sunday, which is the coldest season of the year on the East Coast. It snowed a few days ago, and the surroundings of the manor were covered in plain. Simon did not go out again after arriving, but just nested in the villa with Maria. While chatting in a living room, the three boys greeted Simon and took the initiative to find an excuse to leave, apparently to make room for Simon and his mother.

The topic was about a fund that Janet arranged for two women to take care of when she came to meet two women at the end of last year, mainly using the scientific research resources of several top universities in Boston to research a series of cutting-edge projects.

In addition, after the success of the Solvay Academy in Malibu, Los Angeles, Simon plans to gradually roll out similar academies worldwide from this year. The goal is to select children with high IQ to train targeted children, as in the Solvay Conference in 1927. Stan, Madame Curie, and other scientists who can influence the future of humanity.

The Solvay College project in Boston was of course handed over to the two women Maria and Ulyana.

At this time, looking at the woman who was hesitant on the sofa next to him, Simon couldn't help but probed his hand, stroked the woman's smooth face, and slowly moved his fingertips to the neck. After being held down by the woman in a panic, he did not continue downward. , Said: “As long as you and Ulia do it seriously, it’s okay if you fail. These things can’t be successful at one time or in a short time. Even before the end of our short life, if we can complete half of them, This life is not in vain."

Seeing the little man talking, Maria slowly retracted the big hand that had just been stretched out. She was a little bit unwilling to give up, moved her body, and said, "Actually, I can see that these arrangements of yours are for the future of our world. , Are very good."

Simon shook his head slightly: "I'm not as good as you think."

Maria blinked her eyes and nodded slightly red: "Of course I know this."

Good people do not occupy her like a robber.

A blushing woman is always more attractive, especially a woman with a dignified temperament that seems to always be meticulous and blush suddenly.

Simon stretched out his hand again, took the woman over, hugged him and kissed her lips.

Maria was forced to kiss for a while, and she managed to escape a little bit: "No, it won't work, baby... still young."

"Don't worry, I know," Simon soothed, seeing the woman's eyes still a little flustered, he just hugged her lightly, and took the initiative to return to the topic just now: "In fact, in recent years, more and more people have been asking me, Simon, what do you plan to do in the future when you have so much wealth that you will never spend it all?"

Seeing that Simon did not continue, Maria relaxed a little and asked, "Did you think of the answer?"

It was a little clearer.

Probably, the funds I am responsible for and the projects I fund are the answer.

Simon nodded: "From a personal point of view, as a selfish person, I certainly hope that I can leave it to my children in the future, so that the Westeros family will be passed on forever. However, this Obviously it's impossible. What's more, my ability to control these wealth now does not mean that the little guys will also have this ability in the future. Once they have no ability to control and inherit too much wealth, it will only cause disaster."

Maria nodded in agreement: "Then what?"

"then,

Maria started to wonder again: "Huh?"

Simon said: "It's unlikely to be passed on to the children completely. Donate out and set up various foundations. This is probably the best way to belong. However, I don't intend to let these foundations do the usual things in the past. In my opinion, education, medical care, environmental protection and even interference in politics to promote peace will only bring about stagnation and reincarnation."

Maria obviously still didn't understand.

Simon explained patiently: "In my opinion, human civilization can be divided into three stages: the prehistoric era, the agricultural era, and the industrial era. The prehistoric era is too long to talk about it. The most typical agricultural era lasted for thousands of years. Whether it’s Asia, Europe or America, it’s basically the dynasty change accompanied by intensive wars, civilization stagnation, and continuous reincarnation. Until the industrial age, that is, now, whether it is the subdivided steam age, the electrical age, or the information that has now begun The times, in my opinion, are still just different stages of the industrial age. If no one changes, the result is likely to be the same as the agricultural era that has lasted for thousands of years. It will continue to stagnate and reincarnate. What I want , Is a fundamental change, pushing mankind into the next era of civilization, and creating a new possibility for the lucky races in this universe. I can only say that it is a possibility, because I cannot judge the future of this era. And bad."

The little man explained that even though she focused on language, Maria, who was originally the top intellectual in this society, fully understood.

Inexplicably, there was a sense of admiration in my heart.

Compared to those politicians who keep saying that they want to make the world a better place, this little man of his is really thinking about the future of mankind.

Simon keenly noticed the change in the woman's expression, and asked with a smile: "Suddenly fell in love with me?"

Maria dodges her gaze, then she mustered up the courage to look over, and said, "I'm just sure, the little guy in my stomach has a good father."

Simon caressed the slightly raised belly under the woman's bottoming shirt. This time Maria did not dodge and felt it for a moment. Of course, there is no reaction now. She just said: "The little guy may not think so in the future, and there are many things I plan to do. Maybe it will cause strong controversy."

Maria gently pressed Simon's big hand and said: "Great people will always be questioned and slandered as they move forward, but history will give a fair evaluation."

"Oh, not as noble as you think, I just happen to stand in this position and have enough resources."

Maria shook her head: "Many people who can use more abundant resources than you have never thought of doing this."

With that said, Maria's mind came to mind that the empire that collapsed a few years ago, those who once stood at the pinnacle of power, ultimately left behind, only countless ambitions dissipated in the long history of history.

Simon felt the woman's sudden melancholy, and probably guessed what she thought of, but didn't say much.

Maria didn’t indulge for too long. After recovering, she chatted with Simon a few more words. She hesitated and said: "You should go and see Ulia more. I can see that she was pregnant. An accident, no...no intention to rely on you."

"I'll be there after lunch."

"Then, will you stay tonight?"

Simon glanced over the woman's warm body, nodded and said, "Okay."

Maria shook her head: "I mean, you stay with Ulia."

Simon ridiculed: "Are the women nowadays so magnanimous, pushing their men to other women?"

"I am your woman, but you are not my man."

"Oh..." Simon looked around: "You have other men? Just a reminder, don't let me find out, it will kill you."

Maria gave him a very innocent look: "I mean, I just grabbed it from you."

"It sounds like I am a robber."

Maria made a look like you, paused, and said, "Or, I'll call Ulia to come over and have lunch together."

"You don't mind, of course I am fine."

Simon said, seeing Maria took out the phone, smiled and stopped, called the housekeeper, and directly ordered her to send the driver to pick up people.

Seeing the man, Maria decided directly, and felt that she still had to call Ulyana to explain.However, after thinking about it again, I understand that when a man did this, he just didn’t want to make any misunderstandings between her and Ulia. After all, she was kind, and Ulyana might not think so, in case she thought she was demonstrating. Then do bad things well.

And if it is a little man like a robber who decides casually, it has nothing to do with her, and perhaps it can bring the two closer together.

Linked with fate.

However, in order to avoid Ulyana’s embarrassment, Maria made a call to her eldest son Victor and asked the three brothers to take care of it outside for lunch and come back in the evening.

Simon stayed in Boston for one day, and set off early the next morning to return to the West Coast, destination San Francisco.

Mainly discussing with the senior executives of Igreat about the 1996 annual financial report of Igreat, which will be released at the end of the month. A year ago, the Weijia intelligence team got the accusation that the Internet industry is a problem. In the article about the Ponzi scheme, Igreat was the target of the attack.

Therefore, this financial report will be related to the next important long-short game in the technology stock market.

For the full-year financial report scheduled to be released on January 22, Igreat will hold a special press conference. The bright revenue and profit data are second. The focus is to promote Igreat’s changes in public life. Helping local employment, promoting social efficiency, etc.

In short, it is to weaken the impact of a certain article and related public opinion operations on the new technology industry in advance.

When Simon returned from San Francisco, another box office week in January 1997 came to an end.

In the week from January 10 to January 16, the first thing that received attention was Wonder Woman 2 officially broke through the $400 million mark at the local box office, becoming the only movie released in 1996 with a local box office exceeding $400 million. heavy bomb.

Specific aspects.

Last year's Christmas file, Charlie Angels, after surpassing the Brave game last week, in the fourth week of the release, she still held the top spot at the box office in a single week with a good 29-week decline, and received another US$27.16 million, a total of four weeks. At the box office of 197.19 million U.S. dollars, breaking 200 million is about to break.Qiqi novel first published on the whole network

From the first week of the strong start of over 70 million US dollars on December 20 last year, to the three-week local box office that was released last week, the local box office achieved a surpassing of the brave game. A series of data of Charlie and Charlie has surpassed the two major producers, Daenerys and Mi. Gaomei's expectations.

At present, the blockbuster here is only the local box office, which is expected to exceed 250 million U.S. dollars, enough to recover the total investment of 105 million U.S. dollars in production and announcements and achieve profitability.Not only that, but the most important thing is that the continuous success of 007's Ghost Party and Charlie Angelina in the past year has made an amazing start to the planned spy movie universe.

After the Charlie Girl, the brave game barely held the runner-up position on the list.

However, compared with Charlie’s US$27.16 million, the box office of the Brave’s game has fallen to US$13.72 million in a single week. This is because the decline this week has narrowed since the sharp drop last week.

Within five weeks of its release, the box office of Brave's games totaled 169.71 million U.S. dollars, which is about 30 million U.S. dollars behind the 200 million threshold.Although the follow-up collection of 30 million US dollars is not a big problem, but the local box office of the film probably stopped in the early 200 million, and there is a high probability that it cannot exceed 210 million.

Fortunately, based on the production of the film of US$82 million and the announcement of US$35 million, the local box office is US$200 million. Given that this movie can obtain more than 60 shares in the theater chain, it is still enough to recover costs and achieve a small amount of profit. .It’s just that the industry is generally more optimistic about this cg blockbuster rather than the relatively traditional predictions of Charlie Girl before its release. The reality reversal makes it difficult to make Warner, who is responsible for the release, too happy.

Then it was the mind catcher who ranked third on the list almost on par with the brave game.

Counting from the screening, the Mind Catcher was in the sixth week of the screening, with the biggest single-week box office drop of 27 since the opening of the painting, and another $12.65 million was collected, which was only a little over $1 million away from the previous Brave game.

Compared to other successes, it is only natural that failures are unexpected super blockbusters, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale. The dark horse literary drama with a production cost of only 10 million U.S. dollars, this week's cumulative box office also smoothly broke through 100 million, reaching 1071.7 billion U.S. dollars.

This year's Golden Globe Awards is coming this Sunday, January 19th.

As a hot spot in the awards season, Soul Catcher was stimulated by a series of awards until the Oscars. The box office curve must be very good. It is conservatively estimated that the local box office can reach more than 150 million US dollars.

The fourth place is Madame Veron starring Madonna.

This biographical film, which opened on December 20 last year, made the producer Paramount regret that he wanted to hit the wall.

In order to avoid competition at the end of the year, Paramount has arranged a two-week screening for this film starting on December 20, spanning Christmas and New Year’s Day, completely avoiding the fierce competition at the end of the year, and starting the big game on January 3. The scale of the opening of the painting, and the result, the box office trend of the film, proved a serious mistake in Paramount's distribution strategy.

Still have to start from the beginning.

In the first week of the screening, with only 22 screens opened, Mrs. Veron won a box office of 1.02 million U.S. dollars, and the museum reached 46,000 U.S. dollars. This is already a very good result.But then, in the second week of the movie, which is the New Year's Day week from December 27 to January 2, the same 22 screens, the film gallery not only did not decrease, but jumped to 77,000 US dollars, a single week of revenue. Reached 1.69 million US dollars.

What this means is self-evident.

Even if the film’s reputation in the media is barely passing, the audiences in New York and Los Angeles who started the screening obviously liked the film, otherwise there would not be such a super-high museum that is crowded in the next week. all.

Unfortunately, Paramount didn't even seize the last chance.

According to the operation idea of ​​the award-winning film, on January 3, Mrs. Veron still got only 704 screens. Finally, from January 3 to January 9, the first week of the large-scale opening of the film, the box office of the movie was only 11.3 million. US dollars, in sharp contrast is that the museum average is as high as 16,000 US dollars.

In the past week, Paramount finally reacted and quickly increased the screening scale to 1,319 yuan.

Unfortunately, the best time was all missed.

The reason why the popular schedule is a popular schedule is that enough audiences have time and motivation to enter the theater to watch the movie. The unpopular schedule is just the opposite. This is not only because the holiday is past and restarting work, but also because people think that it is no longer. A good time to watch movies.

In short, she lacks a sufficient audience base and has to compete with other films that are still in momentum. After all, Mrs. Veron, who has only more than 1,300 screens, only barely managed a box office week from January 10 to January 16. A slight reversal was achieved, not even a single percentage point, and it received $60,000.

In the four weeks since the screening, Mrs. Veron's cumulative box office ended up at $25.47 million.

It is conceivable that if Paramount can be bolder and start paintings on a large scale in just one week, and grab a popular New Year's Day week, Mrs. Veron's box office and trend will be greatly changed.

Even if Paramount abandons the screening at the end of the year and directly opens the painting on a large scale, or adopts a distribution idea equivalent to that of a soul catcher, even if it is still squeezed by a lot of blockbuster films, it is after all a film that is not comparable to other films. Biographical song and dance films with conflicting themes can still get a lot of room for survival. Perhaps the box office has now exceeded $50 million.

Unfortunately, if there are too many in this world, there will always be only one result.

In the face of media discussions, the upright Queen Mai couldn't help but directly sprayed, saying that when she showed the movie to Simon, her good friends expressed optimism, but the conservative Paramount messed up the matter.Her Lady Queen moved out all her good friends, and Paramount, who had made mistakes, could only endure it and couldn't refute it.

Then there is Wonder Woman 2.

Although it grabbed the fifth place on the list, it was impacted by the brave's games, Charlie and even the soul catcher. Wonder Woman 2 has only $6.98 million left in the box office per week, although the cumulative box office has officially exceeded 400 million. The mark reached 405.71 million U.S. dollars, but there will probably only be a box office potential of 10 million U.S. dollars left. The initial local 500 million expectation is completely out of play.The fastest updated novels https://

In addition to the top five, it is worth mentioning the sixth British patient.

Unlike Mrs. Veron, who is actually more suitable for commercial operation, the same focus of the awards season is that this niche theme is not suitable for large-scale screenings. The fifth week of release, there is still only 636 screens, which has just been paid in the past week. 4.65 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 18.17 million US dollars.

With the arrival of the Golden Globe Awards, MGM only increased the number of screens of the film to 1,103 this week, and it will remain until the Oscars in March. During this period, various media awards and union awards continue to stimulate the audience to enter the venue. The ultimate goal is more than US$50 million, which is enough to recover the production cost of US$27 million.

If it succeeds in becoming an Oscar winner, the prospects for overseas issuance will be even brighter.

In the past, British patients relied on this stable long-term issuance strategy. The local box office was close to 80 million U.S. dollars, and overseas was even better. Because the Oscars in the 1990s had a strong gold content and appeal, audiences from other countries also bought it. The box office exceeded 150 million, and the global box office totaled 230 million US dollars. The production and distribution parties have made a lot of money.