Hollywood Hunter

Fox held a press conference the next day and announced that "Terminator 2" was officially launched as one of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 movie plan projects.

Counting "Terminator 2", Daenerys Entertainment plans to cooperate with 10 foreign films that have been identified in six.

At that time, "Terminator" only had more than 78 million US dollars at the global box office, but it achieved Schwarzenegger's status as a first-line Hollywood actor in one fell swoop, which shows the influence of this film.The establishment of "Terminator 2" immediately attracted strong attention from the media and fans.

James Cameron has already completed the script of "Terminator 2". With Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures giving a green light, the film is expected to start shooting in the middle of the year and will be released next summer.

After the weekend, breakthroughs were made in the preparations for "Destiny".

Harrison Ford officially joined the film, and the remuneration was also confirmed to be $10 million.

Successive Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Harrison Ford and other actor basic remuneration broke through 10 million, which means that Hollywood's first-line star's remuneration officially entered the ten million dollar era.

The salary of filmmakers actually represents their status in Hollywood.

If Simon did not appear, because of the rapid expansion of the film market and the improvement of the economic situation, a large amount of hot money poured into Hollywood. The 1990s will be the era when the top filmmakers have the strongest voice in Hollywood.This strength will continue until the new century, special effects movies rise completely.

Relying on the success of "Batman: Moments of War", Simon actually developed a film operation mode driven by ip and technology instead of relying on stars in advance.

Of course, most people are not aware of this now.

In the new week, although Schwarzenegger agreed to participate in "Terminator 2", Simon still looked for the "Kindergarten Special Police" project.

The "Kindergarten Special Police" in memory is not a dark horse project. Outside of Schwarzenegger, the film's director Ivan Lightman is well-known in Hollywood. He is the director of the "Ghostbusters" series. Years ago, he also collaborated with Schwarzenegger on his relatively "Dragon Brother Rat".

At the Joe Rose reception, Schwarzenegger's agent said that Arnold was considering participating in the show, which happened to be Leitman's new film "Special Kindergarten.

However, because most people regarded the success of "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother" as an accident, Arnold did not have enough confidence in participating in another family-style comedy, and finally chose "Terminator 2".

Simon understood the general situation of "Kindergarten Special Police" and gave up the idea of ​​competing for this project.This is not only because after Schwarzenegger gave up, Reitman can only choose other actors. The main reason is that this project has been signed by Universal.

Obviously, as long as the mca can be successfully merged this year, Simon will also get the project, and now there is no need to do more.

Busy, another box office week passed quickly.

For the week of February 2 to February 8, Batman: Moment of War received another 20.35 million US dollars with a 13% drop, and the cumulative box office reached 34.71 million US dollars.

However, this week, the film that received the most media attention was still "Driving for Miss Daisy."

In the ninth week of the release, the second week of the large-scale painting, because of the recent continued spread of word-of-mouth and popularity, the box office of "Driving for Miss Daisy" not only did not fall back, but instead showed a reverse decline, although only a weak 0.5%, But it is beyond the expectations of many people.The weekly box office receipt of US$ 8.18 million made the cumulative box office of this less conspicuous movie suddenly reach US$ 27.55 million.

At the box office of $27.55 million, it seems that it cannot be compared with any of the top movies on the list.

However, of all the 502 movies that have entered the theaters in the past year, the "Boxing for Miss Daisy" has a box office score of $27.55 million, which has ranked it at the 43rd place in the box office last year.

Moreover, this is just the beginning.

After the box office of "Driving for Miss Daisy" was released last week, various box office evaluation agencies generally predicted that the total box office in North America of the film is expected to exceed 60 million US dollars.

Now, with the large-scale opening of the film in the second week and last week's excellent box office results, and Daenerys Entertainment this week again increased the number of screens to 1302 blocks.The North American box office potential of "Driving for Miss Daisy" clearly exceeds the boldest predictions of many people.

This is likely to be another 100 million box office club movie.

Moreover, it was definitely a 100 million yuan box office club movie with the lowest budget cost last year.

When the media was generally attracted to "Miss Daisy", Daenerys Entertainment's positioning of the upcoming Valentine's Day "Wind Moon Beauty" was officially released on February 9.Because it was the off-season of the movie, the distribution team easily raised 1,563 screens for "Wind Moon Beauty".

Compared with the original Richard Gere, the new actor Pierce Brosnan is very low in popularity, and Julia Roberts has barely reached the level of familiarity in the audience's impressions in the past two years.The advantage of enabling these two actors to star in is that the cost of the film is further reduced to only $10 million.

Because of the very good feedback from the previous internal auditions, Daenerys Entertainment determined the strategy of the actor’s lack of fame and publicity, but the initial budget for the announcement reached 7 million US dollars, of which 5 million US dollars Specifically used to serve ads to various platforms.

As long as the box office of the film meets expectations in the first week, the marketing budget will be added immediately.

On the first day of painting, "Wind Moon Beauty" has not been generally recognized by the media. The average movie score is just barely passed. This is still considering the public relations factors of Daenerys Entertainment.

Time magazine bluntly criticized the film as'an old-fashioned Hollywood pipeline'.

The critics of the "Chicago Reader" commented sarcastically that'the actor pays $3,000, and then they fall in love, which is really Hollywood'."Entertainment Weekly" also criticized "Wind Moon Beauty" with an ironic tone. "The story is that Roberts' character suddenly became better because he met a rich man, and he also learned to cry at the opera house."

However, these evaluations with the unique superiority of intellectuals did not affect the reputation of the film in the eyes of the audience.

The requirements of most ordinary people are not high, a simple story that can resonate.

Moreover, the audience of "Wind Moon Beauty" also exceeds that of "Driving for Miss Daisy".

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment has spared no effort to promote the offensive to cater to the atmosphere of Valentine's Day. In the first week of painting, "Wind Moon Beauty" received a box office of 12.47 million US dollars.

For the entire entire week that followed, due to the substantial increase in the number of viewers around February 14th, Valentine’s Day, the seven-day box office in the first week of "Fairy Moon Beauty" finally reached $19.16 million, squeezing out "Batman: The Moment of War" in one fell swoop. A single-week box office championship that lasted seven weeks.

In the eighth week of release, the box office of "Batman: Moments of War" fell by 19%, and received another 16.51 million US dollars, ranking second, with a cumulative box office of 363.62 million US dollars, steadily advancing to the local 400 million box office.

This week's third place was not "Driving for Miss Daisy", but Warner Bros. Pictures produced an action movie "Seven Years Storm" starring Steven Seger, which won $12.14 million in the first week of painting.

Under the impact of the two new films, the number of screens of "Driving for Miss Daisy" this week increased to 1302 blocks, and the box office still achieved an 11% reversal. It received another 8.95 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 35.5 million US dollars.

In the off-season of the box office in February, when the word of mouth was not too good, the box office in the first week was able to get 19.16 million US dollars. The box office of "Fengyue Qiaojia" was beyond the expectations of most people.

This also made the film gain more media attention, or controversy.

At the same time, in the audience group, although there are also some people who do not agree with the concept expressed in the film, most of the audience like this film very much and start recommending it to the people around them.

Therefore, in the second week of flowering, in the case that Valentine's Day has passed, the box office of "Fengyue Qiaojia" has only a very weak 5.5% drop. The box office of $18.11 million in the following week is almost not obvious compared to the first week. The decline in two weeks, "Wind Moon Beauty" quickly accumulated 37.27 million US dollars at the box office.

There is no doubt that the first box office dark horse in 1990 was born.

Moreover, it still comes from Daenerys Entertainment, still from Simon Westero.

Simon released Batman: Moments of War at the end of last year and tried to keep himself out of the media as much as possible.To achieve this, Simon’s 22nd birthday on February 22 was spent with Janet in a quiet way.

Now, with "Wind Moon Beauty" again successful, the attention of the federal media has once again turned to him.

The first news that once again attracted media attention is the federal richest man who has just passed his 22nd birthday. He will marry his girlfriend Janet Johnston next month.

In fact, the media has been stationed in Melbourne for a long time recently to follow up the wedding preparations in real time.

Naturally, the media began to develop a variety of topics around Simon and Janet's wedding. The most discussed is undoubtedly Simon's personal wealth and various situations after the two get married.Because of the age difference between the two, there are still many media who are not optimistic about this marriage. An article in the New York Times also specifically reminded Simon to remember to sign a prenuptial agreement.

Then, the topic naturally extended to how much money Simon now has.

6 billion US dollars, this is a well-known and authoritative figure published by the Forbes Rich List.

However, this is already data from August last year.

now what?

With such a topic, "Wall Street Journal" on the second day of Simon's birthday on February 23, suddenly exposed a full-year financial report for Daenerys Entertainment last year.

Although it has to pay a lot of large expenses for the company's expansion, but because of too many successful projects in the past two years, Daenerys Entertainment has continued to provide generous income for this company that has only been established for more than three years. The after-tax net profit scale reached a staggering US$531 million.

This is indeed a very amazing number.

In the past year, although the financial reports of many companies in the United States have not yet been released, according to the data of previous years, the profit scale of more than 500 million US dollars is enough to make Daenerys Entertainment squeeze into the top 50 companies in the US. .

Moreover, compared with the qualifications of Daenerys Entertainment, other companies of the same level of profit are all in the presence of giants that have existed for decades.

Such as Motorola.

As of September’s fiscal year, Motorola’s electronics giant’s full-year net profit was only $490 million, which was the best financial report in recent years.

At the same time, with many projects last year, especially the late operation of "Batman: Moment of War", many media predict that Daenerys Entertainment's profit scale will likely double this year.Once this happens, it is undoubtedly even more terrifying.

You know, Daenerys Entertainment is a 100% owned company by Simon Westero.

Not to mention this year, just based on the profit scale of last year’s $531 million and a conservative 10 times price-to-earnings ratio calculation, compared to the $3 billion valuation of Daenerys Entertainment made by Forbes last year, this rapidly rising Hollywood film company This year's market value is also enough to exceed 5 billion US dollars.

Not counting all of Simon Westero's other assets, just this one, almost enough for him to maintain his position as the richest man in the Federation.

Some people not only ask, is Daenerys Entertainment really worth $5 billion?

Movies have always been a high-risk business, and may have been excellent in recent years, but they may fall into a downturn in the following years.

However, when this question was just raised, it was met with the most solid rebuttal.

Marvel!

Yes, Marvel Entertainment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment.

Only the success of a project in "Batman: Moments of War" is expected to bring about 1 billion dollars in profits to all parties involved. This is just a project for the start of the dc movie universe.Since the success of the first song, the initial announcement of a huge plan for more than 10 movies, under the personal control of Simon Westero, even if it does not reach the opening score like "Batman: The War Time", it is definitely easy to surpass Hollywood Most of the projects.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of the dc film universe project is sustainability.

This means that Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner no longer have to bear the uncertainty of the box office prospects of related films every time they operate traditional movie projects.

However, anyone with a little vision will undoubtedly be able to see how much potential Marvel, which is solely held by Daenerys Entertainment outside of the dc movie universe plan, will have.

Warner Bros. Pictures planned to sell dc for tens of millions of dollars a few years ago. Now, with the success of Batman: Moment of War, even if it is a $1 billion, Steve Rose is no doubt. Will agree to sell.Even more, any of the popular superheroes under dc may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Well, Marvel, who also owns a large number of superhero copyrights, is undoubtedly also a super gold mine.

Only this point is enough to support the value of Daenerys Entertainment.

As a commercial society, if there is attention, someone will dig up the news.

After the Wall Street Journal's news of Daenerys Entertainment's annual financial report attracted attention, another financial magazine, Fortune, suddenly exposed another message, which directly detonated public opinion: Simon Westero to the United States Data on overseas assets registered by the IRS.

cash.

$4.5 billion!