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It was another Friday, and the time was June 28.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" ended its third week's release. From June 21 to June 27, the box office's decline in the film contracted to 25% compared with last week, and it received another $45.13 million.

At the same time, the cumulative box office of this superhero blockbuster in North America officially broke the $200 million mark, reaching $20.728 million.

Break 100 million in the first week!

Break 200 million in three weeks!

This box office record, in the eyes of many people, probably only other movies in the DC movie universe can break.

In addition, Paramount Pictures' new film "Baldhead Detective 2", which opened last week, received a box office receipt of $31.54 million in the first week, which exceeded Paramount's expectations.

As "Batman: The Dark Knight" began to quickly release market space, the industry gradually discovered that this unstoppable superhero movie actually played a very obvious role in stimulating the market.

In the week of the May 24 start of the summer, the one-time six new films were drawn, and the total box office of the North American theater was only more than $86 million per week.However, since the opening of the painting on June 7, the total weekly box office figures for the North American film market for three consecutive weeks have reached US$179 million, US$146 million, and US$131 million, respectively.

Calculated, the cumulative box office for three weeks minus $200 million in Batman: The Dark Knight, which is equivalent to the average of $83 million in other movies.

Obviously, many viewers watched more than one movie due to the recent movie-watching boom caused by Batman: The Dark Knight.

Specific to the movie in the same period, the first week's box office exceeded the expected "Bald Detective 2", the original fire-fighting movie "Tempering" produced by Universal Pictures, opened on May 24 to the present, and the box office totaled 5611 in five weeks. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Although the single-week box office has slipped to about 5 million US dollars, the film's final North American box office is still expected to hit the 70 million US dollar mark.

"City Sick" starring Billy Christo has been released for four weeks on May 31, and has accumulated to $52.22 million at the box office in the shadow of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Different from "Tempering", "Urban Ricks" still has a weekly box office of $14.18 million just after the past week. The weekly box office list is second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Bald Detective 2", ranking third .

According to this box office trend, the "Urban Sick" North American box office can easily achieve a breakthrough of 100 million.

Not only are these mainstream commercials, the Antarctic documentary "Snow World" produced by High Gate Pictures of Daenerys Entertainment has been like a small but very eye-catching "dark horse" since its release.

Although the box office is not large, but because of its excellent market performance, it is also an alternative to the mainstream movies in the summer. It has attracted the attention of the media and the public, even under the limelight of "Batman: The Dark Knight". Very good topic.

As a result, although this non-mainstream Antarctic documentary has the highest weekly box office of only $7.66 million in the second week, the cumulative box office continues to exceed the expectations of all parties.

As of June 27, the cumulative box office of "Snow World" has reached 31.12 million US dollars.This number is equivalent to a full 10 times the production cost of its insignificant $3 million, and it is definitely the movie with the highest return rate in this summer.

Moreover, with "Snow World" still receiving $4.61 million at the box office last week and its decline within 20% for four consecutive weeks, the next North American box office in the film is very promising to hit the $50 million mark.

There are movie sellers, naturally there is no shortage of cannon fodder.

The most bleak performance of this summer market is undoubtedly Bruce Willis' "Ultimate Condor" with a production cost of US$65 million, and the film's word of mouth and box office have both failed.

As of June 20, "Ultimate Condor" was only $16 million at the box office for four weeks.

Other movies, such as Disney's "Pony Hero", Fox's "Ugly", and Paramount's "Soap Platter", also did not perform well at the box office.

Spike Lee's new film "Jungle Fever", which was originally produced by Universal Pictures and cost $14 million to produce a budget, failed to meet expectations due to mistakes in the release schedule and distribution strategy. The total box office in North America is expected to be only $20 million.

The potential of the all-black lineup film in overseas markets is wired. Daenerys Entertainment can only look forward to recovering all the 19 million US dollars of production and distribution costs through subsequent local other channels.,

The problem of "Jungle Fever" is obvious. It directly hit the schedule with "Batman: The Dark Knight". During the integration of the two companies, the people's hearts were unstable. It was difficult to adjust the announcement strategy in a timely manner. The movie box office that caused this reputation is not good.

As Daenerys entertained a larger and larger scale, Simon knew that this problem was inevitable, and he could not take care of everything after all.

This is actually one of the reasons why Simon has recently insisted on streamlining and integrating the Daenerys entertainment production and distribution team.Big company sickness is inevitable for any corporate giant, but this negative factor can be mitigated by constantly adjusting the efficient company team.

On June 28, a new box office week, two new films were released in the North American theater.

The blockbuster movie "Terminator 2" which Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures have collaborated on has 2506 screens.

The final production cost of this sci-fi classic sequel reached 73 million US dollars, and Cameron still surpassed 3 million US dollars on the budget limit of 70 million US dollars set by Simon.

Fortunately, it is still a lot less than the original 102 million US dollars in space and time.

Since US$73 million was spent, Simon did not save any more and requested Fox to provide a US$30 million advertising budget, making the project's total production and advertising budget still exceeding the 100 million yuan mark.

Another new film is a gangster film "Block Boys" produced by Columbia Pictures. The screen size is only 876 pieces, which basically belongs to the foil.

Simon checked the next stage of the Universal Studios reconstruction plan in Burbank in the morning, had lunch with Nancy Brill who was still here, and returned to Malibu by car at two in the afternoon.

The car left Universal Studios, and went west along Ventura Avenue for more than 20 kilometers, and then turned south into the north-south mountain road leading to Malibu.Follow the No. 27 mountain road inwards for about 5 kilometers and turn into a newly constructed asphalt road.

Asphalt road leads directly to the administrative area of ​​Daenerys Studios. The entrance and exit is exactly at the top corner of the triangular cinema. This was originally a mountain path that can lead to the top of the water tower. After reopening and widening in recent months, There is a two-lane asphalt road.

With the further expansion of Daenerys Entertainment, transportation and accommodation of employees of Daenerys Entertainment have begun to become issues that the company needs to pay attention to.

In the past, Malibu Daenerys Studios had only one exit from the studio area to Linhai Highway 1.

Although the southern exit leads directly to Malibu to the west and connects to Sunset Boulevard to the east, neither Malibu nor Palisades, Bel Air, Beverly Hills and other rich areas connected by Sunset Boulevard are not Daenerys. Most employees can afford to entertain.

After the merger of Daenerys Entertainment and mca, the problem becomes more serious.

Because Universal Studios is in Burbank, most employees also live in valleys where house prices are relatively low.

As Simon moved most of the functional departments originally at Universal Studios to Daenerys Studios, many employees faced long-term commuting issues.

In the past, if you wanted to rush from Malibu Daenerys Studios to Burbank, you would need to enter the Linhai Highway from the southern exit of the studio, eastward to the entrance of Mountain Highway 27, and then northward.

After the construction of the asphalt road connecting the northernmost administrative area of ​​Daenerys Studios and the 27th mountain road is completed, employees can save time by at least 15 minutes. The entire road can be driven to the northern valley in less than 10 kilometers.

Moreover, there are actually many scattered residential communities on both sides of the No. 27 mountain highway.

After the administrative area is directly opened to the north of the asphalt road, many employees can also buy or rent houses in these cheap mountain resident communities.There is no need to drive a big bend from the southern exit. It is no problem to walk to work on weekdays.

From Universal Studios Burbank to Malibu Daenerys Studios, the total distance is about 35 kilometers. It took exactly an hour when the traffic was smooth in the afternoon.

Simon is not free in the car. When the car drives into the administrative area from the northern entrance, he has finished reading the project information of the "New York Wife" that will start shooting next month.

Robert Iger was also in Los Angeles recently, and happened to come from Universal Studios with Simon.

The two got off in the parking lot, Simon still holding the document, and turned to the previous page while asking: "The plot summary is very good, but what's wrong with this woman?"

On that page, the woman's name is Chris Jenna.

At the year-end party at Daenerys Studios last year, a woman called Chris Kardashian came.

Although the original history is like this, it seems too fast.

and.

It has also become a "New York wife".

Robert Egger glanced sideways, some weirdness flashed in his expression, glanced down at Simon, and asked, "Don't you know?"

Simon is more puzzled: "Should I know?"

Robert Iger looked at Simon's expression again, hesitated, and stopped, saying, "This, Ms. Jenna, was not in the finalists. However, she called me several times in a row , Um, implied, she is very, um... very familiar with you. So..."

Iger didn't say too much, but Simon realized that he could only smile bitterly and sigh that this woman was really... powerful.

Robert Iger is still not quite sure. If the woman in the data is not familiar with Simon, why would he ask this time again.

Moreover, thinking about the posture of the beautiful woman in her thirties, Iger thought it might be more in line with the taste of his boss.Therefore, this kind of "little thing" that only requires the subordinates to understand, Iger did not ask Simon for proof in advance.

Seeing that Simon closed the folder and handed it over, he continued to walk towards the office building. Iger thought about it and asked, "Simon, do you need to change?"

Simon shook his head and smiled: "No, this woman is very tossing, really suitable for this show."

Iger nodded and said no more.

Simon added: "I will stay in New York for a day before going to the UK next week. You can arrange for her to see me."

Iger froze for a moment, and then just answered again.

The two soon separated, Eiger went to a meeting, and Simon came to a screening room in Office 1.

In the afternoon, there are still two hours to arrange for Catherine Bigelow’s “The Last Flower”.

"The Last Road" is scheduled for September 6th, and the film has been launched. Only the last two days have been completely completed. The next week will be sent to mpaa for rating.

Entering the screening room, the film's screening is ready.

Obviously in order to enter into a relationship with Simonla, in addition to Catherine, the film's two heroines Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis have purposely rushed over, and also brought their respective boyfriends, also in the circle Filmmakers, Tim Robinson and Renee Haring.

Tim Robbins is the leading actor of "The Redemption of Shawshank" in time and space. He has also participated in Robert Altman's "Crossover of Life".

In recent years, Renee Haring has made a splash in the circle by directing "Tiger Gallbladder 2" and "Menggui Street 4", and is a rising new director.Harlem’s most recent movie is also “The Passion Rose”, which will also be released in the following September. The schedule is two weeks later than “The Last Flower”. The heroine of “Passion Rose” is destined to miss the new version of “Jurassic Park” "Laura Dunn.

If the history does not change, Renee Haring and Gina Davis will also complete the super-pit film "Cutting Throat Island" in Hollywood history that has created a Guinness record of loss in the film industry.

So, Hollywood is really small.

Simon actually wants to get rid of other'unrelated people' and get along with Catherine alone.

Of course, just think about it.

Everyone greeted each other, but Simon didn't hide it. He sat directly beside Catherine and motioned for the staff to start playing the video.

Aware of Simon's tendency to put his arm over, Catherine glared at him and said softly, "Don't do anything, someone."

Simon smiled and leaned into the woman's ear: "Do you think I look like a good person?"

"..."

"Oh, wrong, do you think I'm like a bad guy?"

Catherine rolled her eyes, intending to ignore the guy beside her.

Simultaneously with the opening of the show, Simon said again: "Let's have dinner at Dumei Cape in the evening, and I said to Jenny."

Catherine was helpless and suddenly said: "Are you going to Seattle on a business trip tonight?"

Simon pretends to be silly: "Huh?"

Catherine didn't give Simon a chance to change the subject and said: "That night, Jenny said she couldn't sleep, she had to call me to accompany her, saying you went to Seattle on a "business trip."