Hollywood Hunter

Malibu.

The time is Monday, July 10.

In the villa on the west side of Dumei Point, Simon woke up at six o'clock in the morning the new week.

Last night, I discussed the design of the Boeing 767's cabin with Janet on the phone until very late. At this time, there were still many design drawings faxed from Melbourne.

Now that he decided to purchase a Boeing 767, Simon contacted Boeing after he returned from Melbourne last time.

However, Simon then directly sent Boeing sales representatives to Melbourne to let them discuss specific details with Janet. The only decision he made was the choice of specific models.

The latest model of the Boeing 767 series is the 767-300ER, but Simon chose the 767-200ER.

The 200ER is only slightly inferior to the 300ER in terms of fuselage length and load, but it is comparable to the 300ER in terms of cruise journey. Simon has been renting the 200ER before.

Moreover, the most critical reason why Simon chose 200ER is that this medium-sized passenger aircraft has lower requirements for take-off and landing airports, and the runway length required for full-load heavy take-off is only 1.7 kilometers. Most airports in the world can meet take-off and landing.In comparison, the length of the runway required for the 300ER to take off is 2.4 kilometers, which is not supported by airports in many smaller cities.During Simon's last trip to Europe, whether in Cannes or Florence, the length of the runway at the city airport was within 2 kilometers.

The selected model, Boeing's offer is 60 million US dollars.

After Janet contacted Boeing sales representatives, the first thing she did was bargain.Simon is not the kind of big customer who orders 10 and 20 aircraft at a time. However, as a public figure, he bought Boeing products as a private aircraft, but he can play a better brand promotion role than those big customers.

Moreover, the purchase of private jets is indeed negotiable.

After negotiation, the transaction price of both parties was finally determined to be 50 million US dollars, which was almost 20% off.Of course, this is only the price of bare metal, and other aspects such as internal equipment and decoration are also counted.

Simon has never been a stingy person in spending money, but he hates being treated as the wrongdoer. He is very pleased that his woman can save money in a top villa in this transaction.After signing the contract, including the time for assembly and decoration, the aircraft will probably be delivered for use at the end of November.

Get up in clothes, simply clean up the surrounding artwork, and the bedroom will become neat again.

This is actually a credit to Jennifer.

Janet is not in Los Angeles, Catherine also ran to New York, Simon’s villa in Malibu, Palisades, Beverly Hills and Janet’s east side of Dome Point were all managed by Jennifer, female assistant Take time every week to take someone to clean several properties once, without Simon worrying.

The two properties over there in New York were also recently stared by Catherine, who would be in charge of Angela Arendz, Gucci’s American president, when Catherine was away.

As for the European side, after completing the Gucci acquisition, in order to save money, Sofia originally planned to return a Falcon 50 business jet leased by the company, and finally in order to be able to quickly travel between different cities in Europe, so as to help Simon take care of many Property, this is retained.

Janet had reminded Simon that too many houses were left vacant for too long and might be worn out and weathered. Now with regular and careful maintenance, Simon is no longer worried about this.

Wash, exercise, shower.

seven o 'clock.

Leave the house on time.

Breakfast was at a nearby restaurant. By the way, the construction team leader of Dumei Cape Estate was also invited to discuss the construction progress of the'Iron Man Villa'.Simon's attitude towards the villa is just like the Westero mansion envisaged. It is constructed in full accordance with the high specifications of the artwork level. He is not in a hurry, holding a slow work and careful attitude, only pursuing perfection.

After breakfast, we drove to Santa Monica.

Simon opened today in his car,

Skip words like'','reverse fall', find a news headline, and turn directly to the international news page.

Today is the eleventh day of the release. Simon has done what he can do. The box office in the first week has reached the best expectations in his mind. The next thing does not need him to worry too much.

Relatively speaking, the recently concluded'U.S.-Iraq Business Forum' is something Simon has been paying close attention to recently.

The Iran-Iraq War, which lasted for eight years, finally ended at the end of last year. After eight years of consumption, Iraq’s domestic economy and people’s livelihood and other aspects have fallen to the extreme.

Saddam received the "enthusiastic" help of many Western allies in the war with Iran, and a war lasted for eight years.Now, if you want to restore the Iraqi economy, you definitely need the help of these partners.

The partners are indeed very enthusiastic.

Although it is a US-Iraq business forum, all major oil giants in the United States, Britain, France and other major Western countries have gathered in Baghdad.

In the two-week business forum, Iraq hopes to receive US$40 billion in financial support from Western allies in order to revitalize the domestic economy.

Allies are not stingy, they promised, but they also put forward their own conditions. Iraq needs to privatize its country’s oil resources, or most of them, so that Mobil, Xinfu, Shell and other international oil giants can better Help Iraq develop oil resources and help restore Iraq’s domestic economy.

According to the exploration data of geologists in various countries in the 1980s, Iraq can be said to be the largest untapped oil production area in the world except the Soviet Union. Although the overall reserves are not as good as that of Saudi Arabia, it has great potential.

Seeing the lions of the'allies' open their mouths to directly hand over Iraq's oil sovereignty, Saddam's head was not kicked by a donkey, so naturally it was impossible to agree.

Without oil, what else can Iraq have left?

Therefore, this business forum failed to reach any substantive agreement in the end, and all the parties left was a superficial harmony.

Simon looked at all this with cold eyes, and knew in his heart that this was probably the beginning of many stories in the next twenty years.

Coming to Santa Monica, Simon rushed directly to the Daenerys Special Effects Headquarters, and he had to discuss some final CG lens modification plans with the special effects team this morning.

Jennifer is already waiting for Simon at Daenerys Special Effects Headquarters.

Ask the female assistant to collect more information about the'US-Iraq Business Forum', and Simon also took over her work schedule from today.

The work in the morning has been determined, and at noon lunch with Jonathan Friedman.

In the afternoon, it starts at one o'clock.

Check the production progress, one hour; video game demo, one hour; listen to the brief progress report of the financial audit team, half an hour; visit by Blockbuster Chairman Wayne Huyzanga, half an hour; watched Thick silhouette film and discuss revision opinions with the original team for two hours.

At six o'clock, the evening is still a working meal with Amy.

The schedule also lists some documents that Simon needs to review as soon as possible, which can only be arranged at night.

Entering the office building of the Daenerys Special Effects Headquarters, Simon finished his work schedule while walking, and the female assistant handed over the box office data report just over the past three days over the weekend.

Simon just scanned it roughly and turned his mind to work today.

Compared with Simon's indifferent response, early in the morning today, seeing the box office data report just past the weekend, the whole Hollywood was a bit unsettled.

From July 7th to July 9th, it successfully withstood the pressure caused by all new and old films. Compared with the first weekend, this movie not only did not drop in the box office at the next weekend, but instead achieved a 6.8% box office rebound. Day time received another 24.73 million US dollars.

Although some media judge that the ratio of the box office at the weekend and the whole week of the second week will return to the normal range of 60% to 70%, it is impossible for the box office on weekdays to have a high proportion of the first week when the word of mouth has just fermented, however, $24.73 million The three-day data for the next weekend still exceeded the best expectations of even Daenerys Entertainment's own team.

Ten days after its release, the total box office in North America has quickly accumulated to $68.08 million.

By comparison, the box office figure for the same period was only $58.76 million due to the plunge at the box office the following week.If you don't count the two days before the drawing, the box office figure for the corresponding ten-day period is only 67 million US dollars. Although the data is better, but compared with the reverse rebound, the box office drop of the next weekend reached 27%.

Afterwards, he won the second place on the list with a three-day box office data of $20.38 million.

At the box office for the first three days of the weekend, 20.38 million was received. If it wasn't for the sudden rise, Warner Bros. could hardly wait to prepare a celebration party.

Disney's old film released in June ranked third this week, with a box office figure of 9.43 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office in two and a half hours reached 59.24 million US dollars.Relative to the production cost of 18 million US dollars, this movie has been a great success.

Last week's leading and two films both showed a sharp drop at the box office this weekend. The three-day decline last week was as high as 41%. The leading advantage of last week was very weak. The 53% drop this week directly caused it to slip out. The sight of many people.

However, entering the sixth week, the box office has also fallen by 27%, and it received another 5.76 million US dollars on the three days of the weekend, ranking fourth in the list.This romantic film, which bears a lot of bad reviews and succeeded in countering the trend, has accumulated a total of 93.69 million US dollars at the box office in five and a half weeks, which is just over 100 million.

Ranked fifth, it received another 5.26 million US dollars. This high-opening sequel movie accumulated a total of 85.52 million US dollars at the box office in three and a half weeks.

This new film only ranked seventh, behind, at the first weekend box office at 4.5 million US dollars.

In this week's box office data list, what Simon expected was that this literary film opened the screen with 517 pieces. At the first weekend, the three-day box office accounted for 3.93 million US dollars. It is expected that the total box office in the first week may exceed 6 million US dollars.

In all fairness, Simon hopes that the movie will fail.However, the box office data of US$6 million in the first week means that it has reached the level of the best-selling movie with an average of 10,000 yuan per museum.Compared to commercial movies, literary and artistic films are also easier to get out of a long-term decline in the box office.In this way, the North American box office can at least be comparable to the original, or even higher.

Combined with some media feedback I saw on the weekend, Simon can only judge that it has certain selling elements that can attract audiences to buy tickets, not just relying on the awards and honors of the film.

Although Simon will not be too frustrated by not getting a movie with a total box office potential of only 20-30 million US dollars in North America, he is inevitably distressed.

The production cost is only 1.2 million US dollars. If the box office in North America can reach 30 million US dollars, just the box office revenue is enough to exceed many large-scale production films with tens of millions of dollars of investment.

Daenerys Entertainment first expressed interest in this film, which is not a secret in the circle.To succeed, Daenerys Entertainment wants to easily win some projects and scripts, and it will still face very fierce competition.

In fact, Lawrence Kasdan's unexpected box-office sale, which was rejected by the circle for more than a decade, is destined to continue to focus on Daenerys Entertainment throughout Hollywood for a long time.

Simon is concerned, but Hollywood is talking frantically.

"Why is this movie so successful?"

"Who, who seems to have a similar idea."

"Information about the actors and actresses in the film."

"Can you try to sign the film's next protagonist?"

"Do you want to let Daenerys entertain this kind of strength?"

"..."

"..."

Simon worked step by step, and various discussions continued to spread.

Time will not wait for anyone.

On July 14, the box office data for the new week was released.

The industry's prediction that the proportion of box office at the weekend and the whole week will return to normal becomes a reality.

During the seven days of the second week, they were unable to maintain the decline of last weekend. The overall box office figure fell by 9% compared to last week.

However, the box office figure of $39.26 million still makes too many people feel mixed.You know, the box office for the second full week is only 30.85 million US dollars, and the box office for the next week is only 19.92 million US dollars.

In the second week of painting, even if a part of the screen size was increased last week, the average box office figure of $20,352 for a single library still exceeded the best first-week data of the sum.

Because of this strong box office performance, Daenerys Entertainment successfully won another 379 screens from the theater side this week, and the total number of screens expanded to 2308.

In addition, the new film released in the new week has also been reduced to two, respectively, the classic animation of the United States and Disney re-launch.

It's just that although this sequel to the classic spy warfare series with such a big production is released this week, it is so powerful that the 007 series, which has been going downhill for all these years, is destined to hardly pose much threat to it.

As for such re-screening animation, it is obviously even less worrying.