Hollywood Hunter

The Internet industry has just emerged, and online rental platforms of the same type have not yet appeared.

Therefore, there is no urgent need for transformation.

The launch of Blockbuster Online is more of a first-hand layout. In the early stage, it will only conduct business in several major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, which are relatively prosperous on the east and west coasts. This can save costs and accumulate online operation experience in advance.

However, thanks to the good situation that Igrid opened in the e-commerce field in advance, Blockbuster Online opened on the United States Day Day Holiday, and the subsequent weekend also achieved very good results. Blockbuster was just three days away. The number of online service activation members reached 160,000, and more than 200,000 purchase and rental orders were placed through the online platform.

After the holiday of Independence Day, with the support of Simon, Nancy Brill also started to push BesTV to gradually cancel the late payment system.

Because of the existence of strong independent franchisees, even if this matter is approved by the board of directors, it is difficult to achieve overnight.

Fortunately, Nancy Brill planned to use this opportunity to cancel the late fee step by step to further strengthen BesTV's membership system and increase user stickiness, so it is not urgent.

On the Hollywood side, from the week of July 3 to July 9, three new films on the North American theater, "The Last Mohigan", "My dear, I made my child bigger" and "Patriot Game" "Although it has the blessing of the holiday alone, the final box office performance was not satisfactory.

As a sequel to Paramount's previous "Hunting Red October", with the participation of Harrison Ford, "Patriot Game" has the best box office performance, winning $25.29 million in seven days of the first week, ranking the weekly box office list Second place.

The same is the sequel, Disney's "Dear, I made the child bigger" but not as good luck as "Dear, I made the child smaller" three years ago, the production cost of 40 million US dollars, the opening of 2311 screens Scale, the box office of this science fiction family comedy in the first week was only 18.39 million US dollars, far lower than Disney's expectations.

Moreover, the media and viewers of "My dear, I made my child bigger" are not satisfied. The starting point in the first week is too low, and the box office may fall sharply the following week. The box office prospects are difficult to predict.

Da Nellis and Warner Bros.'s "The Last Mosigan", this story of the adaptation of the repeated remake of the "Knight Rescue Princess" novel, was launched and received unanimous praise from the critics, with a comprehensive media score of 9.5 .

However, it is probably due to the theme of costumes. The box office of the first week of the film's opening was not satisfactory. The scale of the opening of the 2173 screens. The last week's box office of "The Last Moxigan" was only 23.19 million US dollars. , Has reached a high-selling level, but it can not be considered an explosion.

Of course, because of the excellent word of mouth, compared to Disney's "Dear, I made the child bigger", "The Last Moxigan" should be able to get out of a very good long line.

Three new films opened at the box office, making this week's box office champion still slashed by "Wonder Woman".

In the fifth week of the release, "Wonder Woman" had a box office drop of only 17% this week due to the holiday of Independence Day, and continued to receive 26.15 million US dollars.In five weeks, the cumulative box office of this female superhero movie in North America reached $26.03 million.

This number has surpassed the total box office of "The Flash" released last year, second only to "Batman: Moments of War" and "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Considering that "Wonder Woman" still has a single-week box office base of more than 25 million US dollars and a good weekly box office decline curve, the film's total North American box office is very promising to break through 350 million US dollars, and even catch up with "Batman: Dark" Knight's $373 million is not impossible.

With the release of "The Last Moses Man", four important films related to the 1992 summer file and Daenerys Entertainment have been released.

Taken together, it is naturally that "Wonder Woman" has the strongest performance.

Immediately afterwards, the "Peach Deal" opened more box office results than the other two, reaching $32.27 million in the first week, but in the second and third weeks, "Peach Deal" fell to a larger box office of 40% and 32%, respectively. The declines accounted for US$ 19.1 million and US$ 12.99 million, respectively.

In three weeks, the North American total box office of "Peach Trade" reached 64.37 million US dollars. Through the subsequent release, the total North American box office of the film is expected to be between 80 million and 100 million US dollars, which is enough for the producer to recover all the production and announcement. Invest and may realize a small amount of profit.

Only the local box office can pay back the capital, which means that "Peachy Deal" will be very profitable through overseas screenings, video tape sales and TV broadcasts.

Even if it is not a dark horse, this is obviously a very successful project.

"Killing Moment" after the box office of 23.73 million US dollars in the first week, with excellent reputation, the box office of the next week fell only 13%, and received another 20.64 million US dollars, the cumulative box office in two weeks was 44.37 million US dollars.This court crime film involving racial discrimination and judicial justice apparently successfully replicated the box office trajectory of Harrison Ford's "Presumed Innocence". It is expected that the North American box office will hopefully exceed the $100 million mark through a long-term screening.

"Last Mohigan" has a better reputation than "Moment of Kill". The opening of 2319 US dollars also reached the level of "Moment of Kill". Although it is the first week, I can't see the follow-up box office trend for the time being, but two The box office curve of the film is likely to be very similar.

All in all, the three foreign cooperation films are expected to total about 100 million US dollars at the box office in North America.

This kind of box office performance can not be compared with "Wonder Woman", but it is also enough to squeeze into the top of the annual box office list.

After "Peach Deal", "Killing Moment" and "The Last Mohigan", there are only four projects left for Daenerys Entertainment to cooperate with. Among them, the ones that have been identified are Disney's Sleepless in Seattle ", the "Goose Assassination Order" finalized with Warner Bros. and two "Mission Impossible" in cooperation with Paramount Pictures.

After the holiday of Independence Day, the summer season has also passed half.

On July 10th, the North American Cinema continued to draw two new films, "The House and a Half Wife" produced by MGM and "The Dangerous Third Love" by Fox Pictures.

"One House, Half Wife" was originally an incubation project of Universal Pictures, starring Steve Martin and Gordy Han. It tells a series of stories after a hotel waiter moved into the villa of the actor and lied that it was the other wife.

Daenerys Entertainment's project is too full, "Half Wife" was originally to be cut off.

However, considering that the box office of this film in memory is not bad, Simon directly transferred to MGM.

Fox's "Dangerous Third Love" is another extramarital genre film that follows Michael Douglas in the "Fatal Temptation".

Afterwards, the number of follow-up films in July and August is listed. In addition to the new Clint Eastwood new film "Unforgivable" that will be released on August 7, Simon has not found other films with great sales potential.This lack of enthusiasm for the lack of powerful box office competitors is just right for the long-term trend of the four films including "Wonder Woman" and "Killing Moment."

For Daenerys Entertainment, this summer season is still a bumper harvest.

In July, two other key projects of Daenerys Entertainment, "Sea Sleepless" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and the TV series "Desperate Housewives" that will be broadcast in the autumn file have started shooting. .In addition, the announcement of the projects such as "Midnight Bell", "Ghost House 2" and "Jurassic Park" at the end of the year was officially launched.

However, during this time, the most concerned thing is still the 1992 US presidential election that has entered the second half.

After the first half of the game, the current President George Bush further confirmed the identity of the Republican candidate for this year's election. As for the Democratic Party, with the gradual withdrawal of a series of competitors, Bill Clinton's advantage has become more and more obvious.

However, this time, the traditional two-party candidates failed to eclipse Rose Perot, the independent candidate.

Because of George Bush’s many criticisms of the ruling party and the lack of popular candidates in the Democratic Party, and perhaps the economic downturn that led to the dissatisfaction of Americans with the current state, Ross Perot, a billionaire with a strong personality, is gradually attracting attention. More and more attention.

Since the official announcement of participation in the elections, Ross Perot’s approval rating reached 36%.

Gradually, the two parties also felt the threat of Ross Perot more and more.

Out of this fear, some people attacked Rose Perot more and more frequently.

So until July 13, the new week, Simon and Janet just got up, James Rebold called, and at nine o'clock in the morning, Ross Perot held a press conference to announce the launch of this year’s president. election.

In addition to secretly Bill Clinton's bet, Simon was almost indifferent to this presidential election.

Even if there is a message in the memory of Ross Perot’s withdrawal, Simon is still a bit surprised when he hears this news. He personally told someone about Clinton. In this presidential election, if the other party wants to enter the White House, he must Make sure that Rose Perot runs in order to share the conservative votes.

However, some things happened again.

Today, Janet was supposed to fly to New York alone. This happened suddenly. The couple had breakfast and boarded the plane to the east coast together.

Arriving in Manhattan, it is already four o'clock in the afternoon on the east coast.

In the evening, the Raebolds and the head of the Schlapp consulting company Joseph Schlapp's family were invited to dinner in a manor outside Greenwich. Joseph Schlapp also conveyed some of the information he had just obtained to Simon.

Ross Perot's withdrawal is actually just a delay.

Privately, Perot knew very well that he could not win this presidential election, so he was gradually drawn into the Democratic Party.

However, the current Ross Perot, which has a support rate of more than 30%, will not only seriously impact George Bush’s votes, in fact, the candidates of the two major parties will be seriously affected. The effect of ballots.

After a few rounds of communication, Ross Perot finally decided to temporarily announce his withdrawal. This would allow his originally high support rate to cool down, and also give the Democratic Party enough performance time at the critical moment in the next few months.

Simon heard Joseph Schrap's explanation and reorganized some of the information in his memory, and he immediately understood it.

In memory, Ross Perot did announce the election in July. However, some people still seem to have not let him go, and even tried to mess up Perot's daughter's wedding in August through some malicious gossip in the media.

If Ross Perot truly withdrew from the election, as long as he is smart enough, he knows that this time he should not go to the powerful billionaire.

The reason why some people still do small actions in private should also be aware of what.

However, this behavior just gave Pero an excuse to announce his candidacy in October.

Moreover, in memory, Ross Perot even named the surname, accusing the Bush administration of using dishonest means to try to ruin his daughter's wedding.

In fact, this disgraceful method is actually not so serious. It just publishes some pictures of Perot’s daughter suspected of being gay on the gossip media.Perot insisted that these photos were artificially synthesized.

As for the truth, Simon does not care.

In recent months, the Igrid Portal has been quietly promoting news that is biased toward Bill Clinton. Although Simon did not personally come forward, some seniors in the Westeros system have quietly helped Clinton organize several fundraising receptions. .

Moreover, whether it is Hollywood or Silicon Valley, there are a large number of people on the side of the Democratic Party, most of which are the reasons for the promotion of the Westeros system.

Everything that has been done has been done. After knowing the inside story of Perot's withdrawal, Simon made a little arrangement, and then retreated into the scene to watch the changes.

After completing the acquisition of LTD, the team of Apollo Management Company will not have much action in the short term.

The performance of the Cersei Fund Management Company’s hedge fund team in the first half of the year was also officially released, stimulated by the increasing popularity of technology stocks in the market. In the first half of 1992, the hedge fund team achieved a 21% fund net by doing more technology stocks. income.

After the routine settlement at the beginning of the year, the principal amount of about US$3 billion has increased to US$3.6 billion through the operation in the first half of the year.

It is conservatively estimated that by the end of 1992, this hedge fund will also be able to achieve after-tax net profit of $1 billion.

Even if the rate of return is not as high as in the previous two years, the net profit rate of more than 30% will definitely exceed most competitors in the same industry.

Of course, it is definitely not as good as the quantum fund that is about to launch a sniping on European currencies.

However, Simon still does not have any chance to make this early bird.

To make a fortune in European currency, other businesses in the Westeros system in Europe will certainly lose more.

In addition, the three subsidiaries of Cersei Capital, the relatively low-key Black Rock Asset Management Company, actually developed at the fastest rate.

Whether it is Cersei Fund Management Company or Apollo Management Company, the scale of funds is controlled at about several billion dollars.

The Black Rock Asset Management Company, which mainly operates low-risk fixed income, treasury bonds and large-cap stock investments, has been rapidly expanding due to the recovery of the North American stock market since the Gulf War last year. The total amount of funds under management now exceeds $70 billion.

Of course, this number is still very different from the 6 trillion US dollars asset scale of Black Rock Asset Management Company in the peak period of Simon's memory.

However, compared with other asset management companies of the same type, the current Black Rock Asset Management Company has been successfully promoted to the giant level.Considering that this company started from the subsidiary of Blackstone Group and the establishment time is less than 10 years, this growth rate is even more alarming.

Moreover, the US$70 billion asset scale is enough to have an impact that cannot be underestimated in many industries.