Hollywood Hunter

Simon returned to Los Angeles on November 6, it was already Friday.

Tomorrow is the day when the Victoria's Secret Show is officially held.

In the past few days, the major development plans of Igrith have been finalized next year, mainly to further deepen the core products.

In order to increase the recognition of products, after the Amazon company, Igrid will officially launch the two sub-brands of Google and Facebook.

Google is naturally involved in the search engine business.

As Internet sites began to show exponential growth, the content of cyberspace increased significantly, and the role of search engines became more and more obvious. In addition to Simon's special attention, this network tool was specially divided.

The latest IE browser to be launched will also add a Google-specific search box next to the address bar.

Another Facebook is also a social networking business.

Of course, the new version of Facebook is definitely different from that in Simon's memory. Considering the current network environment, the Facebook service that will be developed separately is more inclined to Weibo in Simon's memory, mainly using celebrity superstars as traffic guides.

Simon also proposed the Igrid Portal to personally create a batch of'net celebrities' auxiliary plans.

Relying on the resources of the entire Westeros system, it is easy to do this.

In addition, the personal homepage and microblog that have been split up will be further divided into two products with the establishment of the Facebook sub-brand.

The personal homepage will gradually develop towards the personal column, mainly providing information content for the Igrid portal.

As for Facebook, the core is still social.

In addition to Google and Facebook, Amazon's e-commerce business will also begin to expand further, and it is expected that early next year will increase sales of video tapes and movie peripheral sales.

The video tapes and film surroundings clearly competed with BesTV, but Simon did not stop this competition from happening.

Amazon's business expansion is a necessity.

At this stage, in addition to books, video tapes with a relatively fixed type format are also very suitable for sale through a network platform.

Around the movie, it depends on the resources of the Westeros system in Hollywood.

If Amazon fears competition with Blockbuster and abandons these two businesses, there will inevitably be no other competitors in the future.

Simon very much recognizes one of Jobs' business ideas in his memory: Instead of being eliminated by others, it is better to eliminate himself.

Many veteran corporate giants just can't do it by themselves, and then they will die.

The most typical one is the original Blockbuster on the timeline. In order to avoid the erosion of the offline leasing business, Blockbuster even voluntarily gave up the opportunity to develop the online business and eventually went bankrupt.

Netflix is ​​exactly the opposite of Blockbuster. After sitting firmly on the top of the online rental, Netflix does not stand up like Blockbuster.Recognizing the industry trend of streaming media, Netflix's senior management, regardless of the streaming media business, may seriously impact physical online leasing, resolutely transform, and eventually become a media giant alongside Disney.

Therefore, as for the competition between Amazon and BesTV, as long as the two sides do not engage in a price war of both defeats or other non-influential means, Simon does not intend to interfere, and actually has an encouraging attitude.

The Internet industry is exploding quickly, because the lead will slow down, and the result will only be surpassed.

The competitive landscape between Amazon and Blockbuster can also urge both parties to develop rapidly in various aspects of operations and technology to avoid slacking.

Carol Bartz is responsible for the basic Internet services related business. The focus of next year's development is still cloud computing.

Although it has been successfully applied to support various products of Igrid Portal, there is still a lot of room for improvement in cloud computing technology.

The cloud computing technology team of Igret, the next goal is to further get rid of server equipment suppliers such as IBM in terms of hardware, and directly purchase chips, hard drives and other equipment from the lowest-level hardware manufacturers such as Intel and Seagate.

The presidential election clearly had an impact on the North American box office from October 30 to November 5.

However, in the first week of the painting, Daenerys Entertainment's Halloween Midnight Bells still achieved a very impressive box office score, with a total of US$28.79 million in seven days and an average dust of US$12,000, which reached the big sales level. .

In comparison, the horror movie "Sugar Man" launched by the Samsung subsidiary of Columbia, which was painted in the same period, had a box office of only US$ 5.19 million in the first week. However, it did not meet the expectations of the studio, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around 10 million US dollars.

On November 6th, only one new film was opened in the North American theater. The hijacking crime action movie "Passenger 57" produced by Warner Bros. starred Wesley Snipes, which originally starred in "Timeline". The black star in the Blade Warrior series.Basically, although the scene was moved to the plane, the film clearly referenced Bruce Willis' "Tiger Gallbladder" series.

Simon does not have much information about "Passenger 57", he is still concerned about "Midnight Bell".

The Japanese version of "Midnight Bell" on the original timeline is a phenomenon-level movie in Japan. This time, skipping the Japanese version and directly developing the US version, although Simon adopted the memory of the US version of the plot structure, but in the lens, soundtrack, etc. In terms of aspect, it is still more inclined to refer to the Japanese version. Therefore, the scenes where evil spirits drilled from the TV set have also become classic horror scenes in the minds of many viewers.

In the first week, US$28.79 million, in line with the film's word of mouth, the new version of "Midnight Bell", it is easy to break through 100 million. As for how high it can go, it still depends on the subsequent box office curve.

The Japanese have always lacked the dream of marching into North America in all aspects. The adaptation of the Japanese novel "Midnight Bell" sold at the box office, and it also caused a wave of public opinion in Japan.Daenerys Entertainment originally had the opportunity to release "Midnight Bell" in the same period in Japan. After all, this is a movie adapted from Japanese novels.

However, what is needed is the Japanese's "pride" after the film's success, so the distribution team decided to wait for the release of "Midnight Bell" before it was released in Japan.

The North American market has always been closed, and there are only a few Japanese movies that can be sold in North America.In the original plan, as long as "Midnight Bell" at the North American box office can exceed 50 million US dollars, it is enough to attract strong attention from the Japanese market.Now, the film's box office in North America is expected to exceed 100 million, and even squeeze into the top ten of North America's annual box office rankings. Then, the next big sale in Japan can be more anticipated.

The theme park team that is designing Universal Studios Osaka, soon after the box office of "Midnight Bell" was released at the weekend, soon decided to add "Sadako" to the haunted house attraction of Universal Studios Osaka.

Simon had been informed of the box office information for "Midnight Bell" in advance and returned to Los Angeles. He rushed directly to the Dorothy Chandler Theater in the city center.

The Victoria's Secret Show will be held tomorrow evening, and today is the last rehearsal.

Not only Simon, but also high-level executives such as Leslie Wexner, Chairman of the LTD, Grace Nickels, CEO of Wei Mi, came to watch the rehearsal.

The interior of the Chandler Theater has long been transformed into a show with a 20-meter-long T-stage. It is mainly distributed on both sides of the T-stage. The lights, planes and even some scenes in the theater hall are also completed.

Of course, what attracts everyone's attention most is a group of'big goblins' ready to go.

People who have seen the shape of a Victoria's Secret Angel finally finalized under Simon's personal guidance will almost always have a thought in their minds: stunning.

In the original space and time, Wei Mi's first catwalks in the 1990s can only be described as dirt. The models are wearing very conservative underwear, wearing lipstick and blush without level, as if they have just escaped from the ravine. come out.

This time, Simon directly raised Wei Mixiu to the level of maturity after 2000.

Beautiful underwear, stunning shapes, colorful wings and the top models in the fashion circle.

Of course, in the final analysis, it is still the effect of 10 million US dollars.

In the backstage of the theater, this big show is related to his future in Hollywood. In front of him, a large group of waist fines can only be seen and cannot be eaten. Michael Bay, who has been exhausted for this big show for several months, has already shown a little bit of later. Tyrant's breath, directed the units to start waiting in front of the headset. When the deputy director personally said that he could start, Michael Baye, who stood behind a row of real-time monitors in the background, yelled to start.

The music sounded.

To the last moment, in order to keep the secret, the music is still just the soundtrack form.

However, everyone also knows that the first-hand very powerful song is called "Angels" and the theme name: Psychedelic Angels.

Simon put the "Angels" of the Vicetone group in memory at the opening, not the "Paradise", mainly to rely on this very rhythmical dance music to ignite the atmosphere of the scene for the first time.

For this big show, the expectation of the outside world has reached the highest.

If the opening does not mobilize the long-awaited emotions of the audience, the final effect of the big show is difficult to achieve perfection.

In the hall, only a few people such as Simon, Wexner and Grace Nickles were on the stands. When the music came to mind, the people who were talking stopped the conversation and looked towards the T stage together.

In the dynamic opening music, the lights are also dominated by warm red.

Psychedelic angels, the theme is not white in people's inherent impression, but luxurious gold.

As the opening angel, Cindy Crawford first stepped onto the stage.

White underwear, golden accessories, along the two arms attached to a white feather-like wings.

For angel wings, Simon also simply adopted the wing shape in people's inherent impression without stereotypes. The opening dress of Cindy Crawford is actually the shape of Gisele Bundchen, the opening of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Show in Simon's memory. The whole is like a proud and wild golden angel.

Unlike the elegant pace common to models in this era, Cindy followed the rhythm of music, and also walked out of the scissors step with a strong sense of power and rhythm.

The first theme, the original angel costume design draft that Simon personally finalized was only the set of Cindy, and the rest were all played by the designer of Wei Mi.However, when Naga Allman joined, Simon was inspired by the golden style design that Naga Allman remembered in a catwalk similar to the Nordic goddess, and he personally caught the second set.

When the shape is different from the memory, Naka Allman’s angel costume has a hollow design, which can reveal the Wei Mi brand underwear. This is a must, but for the audience, the most impressed is definitely the girl. Two long legs that are despondent.

When Naga Allman appeared in the second half of the theme, even Leslie Wexner next to Simon couldn't help but shine, thinking of the young man's'legs' beside him, Weix Nai immediately dismissed some thoughts, but just said to Simon without envy: "This girl was the last to join, I think it's excellent?"

Simon explained: "It's just that this angel outfit is amazing and fits this theme. Naga's own style is still biased towards high fashion, lacking the kind of feminine feeling that Victoria Secret needs."

Leslie Wexner disagreed somewhat and smiled: "I think this set of angels will definitely become the most memorable set for the audience."

Simon nodded.

At the same time next year, it is mainly the perfect match between the model and the angel costume that produces this amazing effect. If you change a model to wear this suit, or if you change Naga Orman and another angel suit, probably all It is not easy to reach this level.

The creation of classics is often an accident made by a combination of various factors.

The first theme ended quickly and everything went smoothly and perfectly.

After a short break, the second theme soon began.

Love in heaven.

The theme song is of course "Paradise".

The first one was awesome, the second one was soothing, one piece relaxed.

Moreover, although there is no strong sense of rhythm like "Angels", the overall tune of "Paradise" still matches the atmosphere of the show and is suitable for models to step on.

Five themes, five openings, one chance for each of the five Victoria's Secret Angels.

This opening is Stephanie Seymour.

Speaking of which, the opening and closing are actually a reflection of the reputation of the fashion model.

The five themes this time, five openings and closings, especially the opening of the first theme and the closing of the fifth theme, but experienced a bit of open battle.In order to avoid a group of goblins tearing too much, in the end, Simon personally came forward and discharged 10 opening and closing places.

The second theme, the biggest feature is crystal and sequins, accompanied by the light, giving the audience a sense of paradise.

In the auditorium, just after reading these two themes, Leslie Wexner has been extremely confirmed. This big show to be held tomorrow night will be a watershed success for the brand for Victoria Secret.