Hollywood Hunter

On July 30, the summer program began to close. As many as 7 films were released this week on the North American cinema. However, four of them were within 300 blocks of opening. An Italian literary film "Four" released by Gaomen Pictures "Duan Qing" only gives the screen size of 11 screens.

The three mainstream commercials with a screen size of more than 1,000 are MGM's "Passenger Passing", Fox Pictures' "Robin Hood Is Crazy" and Columbia Pictures' "Naked Fright".

"Paradise Traveler" starring Robert Downey Jr. tells the story of a car accident that left the actor Tommy surrounded by four ghosts, apparently following the trend of "The Ghost Love Is Coming", the film opened with 1,263 screens.

"Robin Hood is also crazy" is a spoof film about the theme of Grand Theft Robin Hood. It is obviously also following the trend of "Grand Robin Hood" sold by Kevin Costner two years ago, with a screen number of 1,275.

"Naked Shock" is a project similar to "Instinct" that Madonna personally sold to Simon last year. The film uses Queen McQueen's large-scale performance as the selling point, and the number of screens on the screen also exceeds the other two commercials, reaching 2070.

A box office week from July 30 to August 5, because the box office of the new films released in the last two weeks is very general. The first place in the list is the "Gange Assassination Order" that began on July 16.

In the third week of release, the "Gange Assassination Order" was 31% lower than the previous week's box office. It received US$ 16.82 million. The cumulative box office of the film in three weeks reached US$ 72.83 million. It is expected to break 100 million in the next three weeks. The box office is also about 100 million US dollars, and it is unlikely to break through 110 million US dollars.

It is not just the "Gange Assassination Order". In August, the box office trends of a series of related films of Daenerys Entertainment's summer season have been basically determined.

Relying on the single-week box office of US$10.37 million released in the fifth week, the North American box office of the "Sugar Coat Trap", which was drawn on July 2 at the independent date, officially exceeded the US$100 million mark, reaching a total of US$10.493 million.Considering that the box office volume of the "Sugar Coat Trap" in the fifth week of release has reached 10 million tens of millions of dollars, the total box office of the film in North America is expected to reach between 140 million and 150 million US dollars.

Another movie related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Sleepless Sleep in Seattle", has a box office receipt of US$ 6.03 million this week. It is released in seven weeks. This love film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan The cumulative box office is 11631, and the total box office in North America is expected to be about 130 million US dollars.

Going forward, "Superman", which began painting on June 4, was released in the ninth week. The single-week box office officially slipped to less than 10 million US dollars, and a total of 9.39 million US dollars was received in the week from July 30 to August 5.At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 332.11 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to reach about 360 million US dollars.

Because three of the four main commercials are distributed by other Hollywood studios, Daenerys Entertainment is only responsible for the "Sugar Trap", which also makes the three summer vacations of New World Films and Gaomen Films. The film received considerable distribution resources from Daenerys Entertainment.

Therefore, in the "Bruce Bruce Lee" on May 17, "Orlando" on June 11 and "What to Do with Love" on June 25, the three low-cost production films, compared with their budget investment, are all Got a pretty good box office,

Among them, "Bruce Bruce Lee" has been downgraded, the film production budget is 15 million US dollars, 5 million US dollars announced, the total box office in North America reached 35.11 million US dollars, New World Pictures basically relied on the North American box office to recover all the production and announcement Cost, the profit of subsequent channels will be very considerable.

"Orlando" starring Tilda Swinton has a cumulative box office of $17.36 million as of August 5, and continues to steadily approach $20 million with a box office of more than $500,000 in a week.The total investment in film purchase and announcement of "Orlando" is only 6 million US dollars, and it has already begun to generate profits at this time.

Tina Turner's music biopic "What to Do with Love" is even more a surprise.

The production and dissemination of the film, which is equivalent to "Bruce Bruce Lee", cost a total of USD 20 million.After the release on June 25, as of August 5, the cumulative box office has reached 42.63 million US dollars, the single-week box office from July 30 to August 5 still reached 3.81 million US dollars, and then hit the total box office problem of 50 million US dollars. Not big.

Compared with "Superman", the revenue of these three films is not worth mentioning, however, three films, or, including four main commercials, Daenerys Entertainment summer film all seven films have been successful, for Hollywood For other studios, this is the scary part of this latest rising star.

As a kind of almost gambling business, how can someone always win?

Simon didn't think it was special.

Seven films, four main films are all good cards he made according to his prophet's advantage, and the other three, since they were selected by New World Film and Gaomen Film in the summer, their quality will not be too bad. What's more, there is strong announcement support from Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Movies are a gambling business, however, this table can actually count cards.

Just like the Disney in Simon's memory.

Disney, which integrates Marvel Entertainment, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Studios, is also equivalent to having a set of best winning cards, so it also causes the top ten of the North American box office list to be divided by half by Disney every year. .

Simon was always worried that Daenerys Entertainment would be too unpredictable to attract unpredictable troubles, so he adopted a strategy of external cooperation to share profits. Until the summer of this year, there are still three of the four main commercials of Daenerys Entertainment. It is distributed by other studios.

With Daenerys Entertainment's successful merger of the MCA and Westeros system, the previous concerns are no longer a problem.

As long as it successfully merges with a national public television network in the next few years and completely completes its layout in the media field, Daenerys Entertainment can fully demonstrate Simon's dominance of Hollywood.

On the other hand, this summer file, in contrast to Daenerys Entertainment, is undoubtedly the Columbia Pictures affiliated with Sony.

In order to keep his position as the CEO of Columbia Pictures, Peter Cooper is almost desperate.

From May 14th, "My Genius Family" with the same period as "Bruce Bruce Lee", as of August 5, Columbia Films has released a total of 6 movies in this summer period, namely "My Genius Family", "Awesome Winds", "Phantom Heroes", "Dangerous Period of Honeymoon", "Justins Writing Poems" and "Naked Shock".

The total production budget of the six films reached 230 million US dollars.

However, the total box office of the six films as of August 5 is only 170 million US dollars. Columbia Pictures can only recover 90 million US dollars at the box office. Even the cost of the six films is not enough.

Among them, Madonna's new film "Naked Shock", which was released on July 30, has a production budget of 30 million US dollars, and only 8.54 million US dollars at the box office in the first week.The market proved with facts that the audience did not have much interest in Queen Mai’s nudes. The loss of this project is also the epitome of a series of failures of the Columbia Film Industry’s summer program.

The failure of Columbia Pictures is no accident.

When operating the Cooper-Peters company, Peter Cooper and John Peters as producers in the circle, because they collaborated with peers who are familiar with the rules of the industry, they did not make too much a move, and also achieved good results. Grades.

After taking over Columbia Pictures from Sony, because of the decentralization attitude of the Japanese, the two Hollywood old guns also completely let themselves go.

Lazy, squandering, management chaos, cronyism, blind investment... The ills of being able to drag a company into the abyss, the two executives have almost made a mistake in recent years.

Such a film company, loss is inevitable, profit is accidental.

On August 6th, with the disappointing box office results of the first week of "Naked Thrill", Sony officially released an announcement to dismiss all positions of Peter Cooper and John Peters, and Michael Shure, President of Sony America Branch Hof temporarily took over all matters of Columbia Pictures and reported directly to Sony CEO Dai Hexiong.

Not only that, Sony also sent an accounting team to Colombia to start a financial audit of the studio.

In the face of this sudden personnel earthquake, Sony kept a considerable silence, but Peter Cooper, who was dismissed, expressed his dissatisfaction with his unreasonable dismissal during the contract period in an interview with the media, and revealed that it may be initiated to Sony. litigation.

North American media discussed the turmoil of Columbia Pictures throughout the weekend.

Until Monday, August 9, the front page article of the Los Angeles Times was still reporting the latest news of Columbia Pictures. It is rumored that the financial situation of Columbia Pictures is worse than everyone expected. Sony may face more than 1 billion. Asset write-downs above USD.

However, Sony's recent market value is actually only about 17 billion US dollars.

Peter Cooper was expelled from Sony two years earlier than Simon remembered. In the original time and space, it was not until 1995 that Sony finally stopped letting Columbia Pictures go.

Simon even knew that Sony's real asset write-down amounted to 2.7 billion US dollars.

At the time Sony bought Columbia Pictures, the price for the equity of this large studio was only 3.4 billion U.S. dollars, and it assumed another 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in debt, with a total transaction value of 5 billion U.S. dollars.In recent years, in order to resolve various legal disputes and the funding needs of Columbia Pictures, Sony has invested no less than US$1 billion.

A write-down of US$2.7 billion in assets is almost equivalent to a half of the assets of Columbia Pictures being emptied.

Because of this defeat, Shoda Morita completely lost control of Sony, and he died down a few years later.

This time, obviously influenced by Simon and Daenerys Entertainment, some things have changed.

However, Sony's leadership in Columbia Pictures will not change.

Only this summer, the loss of a series of projects of Columbia Pictures will exceed 200 million US dollars. In a few years, this big studio has been hurt by Peter Cooper and John Peters. Sony is expected to receive The number of asset write-downs announced below will certainly not be much lower than Simon's memory.

This incident actually sounded a wake-up call for Simon.

Absolutely not to say that you provide enough funds, enough trust, and enough room for some people to receive returns.

If you do it hastily, you will probably get a mess.

The size of the Westeros system is getting larger and larger. Decentralization is a must if you want your business empire to continue to expand. However, without decentralization, the result may be disastrous.

In the restaurant of Shell Villa, in the morning while reading the newspaper, she talked to Janet next to her thoughts, and the woman exaggerated her head a few times: "I understand, I understand."

Janet is actually the eye of Simon's supervision of the Westeros system.

Seeing the woman acting strange, Simon smiled: "Is there any problem?"

"No," Janet shook her head and glanced at the man. "Do you want your aunt to come over and take care of things for me? Rest assured, I won't let you succeed."

"..."

After wrinkling her small nose and eating the last breakfast of the pregnant woman specially arranged by the dietitian, Janet wiped the corner of her mouth with a napkin and leaned over and kissed Simon’s face. Yes. You can tell Jenny that you are coming back, and I will lie to you."

Simon carefully followed Janet on his leg and hugged it, gently touching it on the woman's bulging belly. Without picking the words just now, he said, "Will we be together next week?"

After several months of preparations, Nokia will be officially listed on the London Stock Exchange next Friday.

Janet hugged Simon's neck and put a face on Simon's head: "I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to stay at home."

Simon thought for a while and said, "In this case, I won't go."

"Go, go, it's boring to be with the pregnant woman all day."

"It's really boring and troublesome."

"Um, bite you."

Feeling that the ear was bitten by two rows of small teeth for a while, Simon said: "After busy this month, I will put down my work as much as possible to accompany you on maternity leave."

Janet helped Simon rub the shallow tooth marks on his ears and said, "You have no credibility here, workaholic."

"This time, I must take Moore back to take care of it for a while. I can't let the little one know even my parents."

Janet didn't mention Veronica deliberately this time. He yelled a little, leaned his head on Simon's shoulder and said a little while. Nearly nine o'clock, Simon left home and rushed to the airport to fly San Francisco.

At ten o'clock, I arrived at the headquarters of Igret, where several executives were already waiting for Simon.

Today I will focus on a new project that Igrid is about to launch, a classified information website.

This is a key project in the company’s recent expansion plan since the last $1.5 billion financing was completed.

There are many classified information sites in Simon's memory, 58 Tongcheng, Ganji.com, People's.

Since there can be so many classified information sites, it shows the commercial potential of this type of site.

In the original space and time, unlike the hundreds of contention of Chinese classified information websites, there is only one Craig directory in North America showing a near monopoly. However, unlike many classified information websites in China, the Craig directory is almost completely free Yes, it is this free model that gives it a super monopoly advantage.

Moreover, the suggestion on the classified information website was actually made by Igrid very early.

It was only depressed by Simone, and started to start until now. Simon also applied for the subsidiary brand of '58list' and the corresponding independent website according to memory some time ago.

Among them, 58 is naturally a reference to the same city of 58, which is regarded as a small evil in Simon.

The project has been suppressed until now, mainly because the launch of this project will touch a huge cake of tens of billions of dollars.

As we all know, the paper media in the United States in this era is very developed. From the world-class metropolises of New York and Los Angeles to some remote fishing port towns, they often have their own newspapers.

The American public also has a very common habit of subscribing to newspapers.

In the huge paper media industry, most newspapers will have a lot of classified information advertisements such as'recruitment' and'renting', and this part of the income often accounts for about half of the total income of a newspaper.

At this stage of the federal paper media industry, the annual revenue of classified information advertisements has reached more than 20 billion US dollars.

Now, as soon as the free classified information website of the Igrid portal is launched, most users can publish various classified information advertisements on the Internet without spending a penny. It is conceivable that once this online business develops, What a strong impact it will have on the classified information advertising business of the existing paper media platform.