Hollywood Hunter

In addition to "Four Weddings and a Funeral", the films released in the same period on February 11 also included Disney's "Ghost Man" and Columbia Pictures' "Baby Lover 2". The two films opened the screen size and "Four The wedding is equivalent to a funeral.

"Ghost Man" tells the story of a little boy who accidentally received $1 million and a criminal who lost huge sums of money.The predecessor of "Baby Lover 2" starred Macquarie Calkin, and the sequel was replaced by another newcomer star.

Even if you don't explain the content, just look at the names of the two new films, it is not difficult to imagine that this is continuing to follow the trend of "Being Alone".

Daenerys Entertainment has long shelved the further development of the series "The Alone", but Hollywood has never missed the children's film series that created the miracle of the box office. Of course, others have also carried out "innovation". For example, "The Alone" has created a very lover The pattern of the little ghost head with a large vase in the festival atmosphere.

The mainstream North American newspapers have not yet reached a settlement with the Westeros system, but they are also welcome in the face of these two follow-up works competing with Daenerys Entertainment.

After the official release, with the publicity of the film criticism, the media comprehensive score of "Baby Lover 2" was only a pitiful 2.7.This is not the worst. The reputation of Disney's "Ghost Man" has completely collapsed. The mainstream media gave almost all negative comments. After the conversion, the comprehensive score did not even reach 1 point, only 0.9 points.

In comparison, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" bears the natural negative BUFF of Daenerys Entertainment in front of the paper media, and the comprehensive score only fell from 9.5 points after the Sundance premiere to 8.6 points, still It is a classic word-of-mouth, and "Variety" magazine praises "Four Weddings and a Funeral" without hesitation as "a clever, fun and alternative love movie with a strong appeal like the warm sunshine of winter afternoon".

Not only the film itself, Hugh Grant, who has been debuting in the early 1980s but has never heard of it, has finally gained wide attention due to the excellent performance in this film. Many film critics specifically mentioned Hugh Grant’s restrainedness in the article. But without losing the humorous performance.

Model-born Andy McDowell was also confirmed to have participated in a classic again after "Sex, Lies and Videotapes".

As far as the budget is concerned, the production cost of US$5 million for "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and the same US$5 million in advertising expenses are not generous, and the sum of the production cost of the US$15 million for "The Imp" is high. Simon From the outset, it became clear that this film must have word-of-mouth influence to succeed.

The Westeros system and mainstream paper media did not tear their faces publicly. After all, if it is only a commercial with medium reputation, traditional media can also mess up the reputation of the film through the tendencies of public opinion. For excellent works like "Four Weddings and One Funeral" In the face of the unanimous praise of a large number of film critics, even more media have to follow the mainstream even if they are unwilling, otherwise they are testing the IQ of newspaper readers.

Moreover, for a film destined for classics, media word of mouth is more icing on the cake. The rapid popularity of "Four Weddings and One Funeral" in the fan community is the key. As the influence continues to spread, more and more viewers are affected. The influence of people around me began to buy tickets to enter the venue

The reaction of the Daenerys Entertainment distribution team was equally rapid.

When the outstanding box office results on Friday and Saturday were released, Simon personally approved a direct additional budget of US$10 million.

Finally, from February 11 to February 13, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" at the first weekend's three-day box office accounted for 9.81 million US dollars, directly let Daenerys Entertainment recover the production budget of 5 million US dollars.

This is followed by Valentine’s Day on February 14.

Although it was Monday, after three days of word-of-mouth fermentation on the weekend, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" reached US$5.31 million at the box office of the North American theater on Valentine's Day, which exceeded the single-day payment on any day of the first weekend.

Immediately after three working days, the box office of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was released in the first week, and the cumulative seven-day period reached 21.79 million US dollars. It easily won the single-week box office champion of Valentine's Day and the average box office of the museum also reached 13,000 US dollars. Big sale level.

The off-season in February was not a popular Valentine's Day schedule. The small-cost romantic comedy produced with $5 million won the box office of $21.79 million in the first seven days of the first week. Such market performance exceeded the expectations of almost everyone.

Considering the film’s excellent reputation and continued popularity among the basic audience, there were no strong box office competitors during the same period. "Four Weddings and One Funeral" was enough to get out of a very beautiful long-term box office, and eventually North America broke 100 million. Not impossible.

Daenerys Entertainment therefore won the seed player of the first 100 million box office club in 1994.

Beautiful start.

In addition to "Four Weddings and a Funeral", this week's list, the DC movie universe blockbuster "Steel Bone" was released into the eighth week, and the box office ranked second.

Because of Valentine's Day, "Steel Bone" had a box office drop of only 17% this week, and continued to record $7.98 million. The cumulative box office of the film has also reached $24.143 million. In 1993, this score was second only to "Superman". And "Lion King", ranked third.

Disney's word-of-mouth crash of "Ghost Man" has a box office of only 6.91 million US dollars in the first week, ranking third in the list, and the number of screens for the film has reached 1841. The first week's box office for less than 7 million U.S. dollars is only $3700 in the equivalent of the first week. It is expected that the screen size will decrease rapidly after two weeks.

The fourth place is Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List." The film received US$ 6.28 million at the box office this week, and the cumulative box office reached US$ 37.2 million, which has basically recovered US$ 22 million in production costs.

Losing McCawley Calkin's "Baby Lover 2" has a lower box office score than the crumbled "Ghost Man". The box office was only $6.55 million in the first seven days of the week, ranking fifth in the list.

Similar to "The Imp", because of the failed word-of-mouth and the bleak start of the box office, the total box office of the two films in North America is expected to be about 15 million US dollars. Columbia and Disney want to recover costs through the local box office at zero, and can only look forward to the follow-up Make up for the loss.

In the same week, when "Four Weddings and a Funeral" showed a dark horse posture, the 13th week of "Lion King" relied on this week's $4.35 million in receipts, and the cumulative box office officially exceeded the $300 million mark, reaching 300 million. $25.56 million, officially becoming the first animated film in Hollywood history with a local box office breaking through $300 million.

At the same time, as "Lion King" was nominated for Oscar nomination for best film at the end of January, this 3D animated film has shown varying degrees of rebound at the box office worldwide, many of which have not been released simultaneously The market has also started drawing recently.

According to the latest feedback data, the overseas box office of "The Lion King" has also reached 467 million US dollars, and the total global box office has accumulated 769 million US dollars, which also refreshed the global box office record of Hollywood animated films.

Not only that, according to the current box office trends in various markets around the world, "Lion King" has a box office potential of about US$20-30 million in North America, and overseas follow-up accounts can reach at least US$100 million, which means "Lion King" It is expected to hit the US$900 million box office mark worldwide.

Even if I still regret that I can’t touch the 1 billion threshold, the amazing box office performance of a 3D animation movie is enough to make countless people amazing.

With the release of "Lion King" at the end of last year, the box office is in full swing. All other Hollywood studios have greatly increased their investment in 3D film technology. Pixar has once again become the hardest hit area of ​​Daenerys Entertainment. "Toy Story" ”And “The Lion King” two 3D animated films have achieved great success in the entire industry chain, which has really stimulated too many people.

You know, it is also the most popular live-action movie "Steel Bone" at the end of last year. Because the overseas market of the black protagonist is limited, the overseas box office of the film is currently only about 270 million US dollars, accounting for the local 240 million US dollars. It is only $510 million.

Unlike the "Lion King", which has a long stamina, as a popcorn commercial, the global screening of "Steel Bone" has begun to close. It is expected that a total of about 50 million US dollars will be collected in North America and overseas. The global box office will eventually be 550 million US dollars and Between 570 million US dollars.

With such excellent box office results, most Hollywood commercial movies are difficult to match, however, the film immediately dwarfed in front of "The Lion King".

Even if it also has a wealth of surroundings, "Steel Bone" expects that the surrounding volume of less than US$500 million in the next five years will not be in the same order of magnitude as the "Lion King" that has exceeded US$1.3 billion in peripheral sales in recent months. In the same five-year operation cycle, the total output value of "Lion King" will reach the level of 3 billion to 4 billion US dollars.

It is just a phenomenon-level "Lion King". After long-term operation, the omni-channel output value will reach 10 billion levels. Such commercial potential even makes the box office of the film less brilliant.

Simon rushed to New York with Janet after Valentine's Day, and formally discussed with Morgan and Goldman Sachs the approaching Daenerys Entertainment IPO.With the "Lion King" local box office breaking through 300 million US dollars, the IPO that Daenerys Entertainment is promoting will inevitably become the focus of media attention.

In fact, as soon as the New Year passed shortly last month, an article in the Wall Street Journal had predicted that the net profit scale of Daenerys Entertainment in 1993 would reach $2 billion, so this entertainment giant’s IPO valuation is the most conservative It is estimated that it will not be less than 30 billion US dollars.

There are many factors that need to be considered in an enterprise's IPO valuation. However, the most critical thing is actually only two points. On the one hand, the profitability of the enterprise, and on the other hand, the long-term growth potential of the enterprise.

When the "Lion King" box office in North America broke through 300 million, the global box office also reached a staggering $769 million, and is expected to further impact the global $900 million mark. Few people doubt the profitability of Daenerys Entertainment.

The focus of media discussion is on the future development potential of Daenerys Entertainment.

In the past year, the Daenerys Entertainment Group has launched a total of 46 movies, including four films produced by Daenerys Entertainment, including "Counter-Star 2", "Sugar Trap", "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Lion King". After the box office broke 100 million and entered the top ten of the annual list, in addition to "Dawn of the Lovers", "Schindler's List", "What to Do with Love" and so on, a large number of contributions to Daenerys Entertainment Box office video.

Even without considering a series of external cooperation projects such as Superman and Sleepless in Seattle, Daenerys Entertainment has divided the share of US$1.7 billion in the total annual box office of US$5.6 billion in North America, with a market share of up to 31%.If you count the external cooperation films such as "Superman", "Seattle Never Sleeps", "Goose Assassination Order" and "Mission Impossible", Daenerys Entertainment's market share will increase by another 15 percentage points.

So it can almost be said that a company of Daenerys Entertainment is already equivalent to half of Hollywood.

Such a high market share is already on the verge of monopoly. Therefore, many media believe that the core business that contributes most of the profits to Daenerys Entertainment, the film business, cannot be increased in the future.Even the Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs teams who are about to take on the Daenerys Entertainment IPO mission have no shortage of opinions.

If Daenerys Entertainment will not grow much in the future, the price-to-earnings ratio of the IPO valuation may not be too high.

The simple basic calculation formula for corporate valuation is the price-earnings ratio times the annual net profit.

The Apple company in Simon’s memory peaked because of growth and has the world’s strongest corporate profitability. The stock price-to-earnings ratio has been hovering at a low level of about 10 times for a long time, while Amazon and other companies that still maintain high growth can have a price-earnings ratio of nearly 100 times. .

In the early article of The Wall Street Journal, a conservative valuation of $30 billion was calculated at a 15x price-to-earnings ratio.

Simon has been aware of the problems faced by Daenerys Entertainment for a long time, so he constantly put more energy into the music and games business areas of Daenerys Entertainment.

After all, the growth of the core movie business has entered a bottleneck, which does not mean that the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group will stop high-speed growth.As a comprehensive large-scale entertainment group, relying on the locomotive of the movie business, Daenerys still has a bright future in music, games, peripherals, theme parks and so on.

What's more, even if it fails to open up other fields, and only depends on the global film industry for at least 10 years, it will continue to grow at a high speed and natural growth, and Daenerys Entertainment's future performance growth rate will not be too bad.

Not only that, once the ban on integration of the US media industry, which has been secretly promoted by the Westeros system, is lifted, Daenerys Entertainment can expand in the TV field.Although the Internet era has arrived earlier, the North American television industry, especially cable TV, also has a period of rapid growth of at least ten years.

Therefore, no matter how the media discusses, Simon has no intention of yielding this time for Daenerys Entertainment's IPO valuation.

If the IPO valuation price-earnings ratio is less than 20 times, he would rather give up the listing plan.

Based on a 20x price-earnings ratio, Daenerys Entertainment’s IPO valuation can also reach at least US$40 billion.

The US$40 billion valuation will also make Daenerys Entertainment Group's listing the world's largest corporate IPO.Moreover, without any surprise, as long as it can be successfully listed, Daenerys Entertainment is also enough to easily enter the US$50 billion market capitalization club and become the world's leading super enterprise Big Mac.

Manhattan, New York.

The time is already Saturday, February 19.

The couple came to New York after Valentine's Day and stayed here for a few working days. Janet returned to Los Angeles yesterday and also brought Veronica back to the West Coast.

Simon continued to stay in New York.

In fact, this is already a little tacit agreement between Simon and Janet.

Simon never intended to be a quiet man at home, and Janet said early that her husband could not have only one woman, so he always reserved some personal space for Simon.Having been together for so many years, the feelings between the two have not been affected much by this.Except for Jennifer, who has already given birth to a daughter, no other woman has been able to interfere with the lives of the two in these years.

In the evening, accept Murdoch's invitation to participate in a party in the other party's home, located in a high-rise apartment in the midtown area just south of Central Park, where there is a property of the Murdoch family.

Because of some unknown horror, the female companion who was with Simon tonight was still Jerry Hall.

Jerry Hall divorced Mick Jagger, the lead singer of Rolling Stone last year.

The two had no longer any feelings. After Jerry Hall applied for a divorce, in order to avoid being separated from too much property, Mick Jagger quickly responded and submitted to the London local court to declare that the two were in Bali. 'S private wedding was invalid, and Jerry Hall was not willing to be outdone, and the two parties went directly to the court.

After a few months of tossing, Jerry Hall finally received a one-time £5 million divorce compensation, roughly equivalent to one-tenth of Mick Jagger’s personal assets, and also received the two Custody of three children.

After the divorce, Jerry Hall moved from London to New York, began to focus on his TV career, and still privately maintained an ambiguous relationship with Simon, the towering tree.

You are free to stay at the Murdoch house party until more than ten o'clock in the evening. Simon sees that it is very late and voluntarily resigns to the host.

Murdoch's invitation to Simon this time is mainly to discuss the possibility of further cooperation between the two sides in the Internet field.

Unlike the relatively conservative Red Stone, Murdoch, although he has been the foundation of the News Corporation for a long time in the future, does not resist emerging industries.News Corp., in Simon's memory, has invested in many Internet companies, such as Hulu, which cooperates with Disney to fight Netflix's streaming platform.

Seeing that Simon was leaving, Murdoch did not keep it, but asked someone to take a portfolio and give it to him, explaining: "This is a press release cut off by News Corp.'s "World News" in the UK. The content is about a group of girls from Russia on the London side. Simon, News Corp. will not be involved in related reports. However, you also know the situation on the British side. Other media are not what we can guarantee you."