Hollywood Hunter

Simon returned to the United States. The 1994 North American summer season had already ended, and the film market entered a period of unpopularity with a total weekly box office of less than $50 million.

It happened that during the box office week from September 16 to September 22, the most important summer season of this year's "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" was released in the 16th week. The box office received another $3.95 million in a single week, and the cumulative box office officially exceeded 4 The US$100 million mark reached US$403.1 million.

This is also the second movie in the DC Movie Universe series where the local box office broke the $400 million mark.

The last one was the opening masterpiece "Batman: The Moment of War".

According to the current single-week box office volume of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight", the film can continue to receive 10 million to 20 million US dollars in the follow-up, and the local box office will be between 410 million and 420 million US dollars.

Overseas.

According to a recent statistic, the overseas box office of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" has reached US$513 million, clearly exceeding expectations.

It is important to know that some important overseas ticket warehouses such as France and Germany deliberately delayed "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" to be released after the summer file in order to protect the local film industry. The film has only recently been opened for painting. Can bring about 200 million US dollars at the box office.

This means that "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" will not only become the first movie to break the global $1 billion mark, it is also expected to directly raise the record to more than $1.1 billion.

Such an amazing box office cashing out is naturally not accidental.

First of all, the success of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" is the result of the elaborate operation of the DC movie universe brand by Daenerys Entertainment for five years.The film is not only the finale of the Batman trilogy series, but also a concentrated popularity explosion after Daenerys Entertainment has set the stage for five consecutive years.

Secondly, the local box office of the film still maintains a volume of 400 million U.S. dollars, and there is not much breakthrough, but overseas accounts are expected to hit a new high of 700 million U.S. dollars. This is largely due to the globalization strategy of Daenerys Entertainment in recent years.

It's not just Melisandre, Daenerys Entertainment's globalization strategy actually started earlier.

Mark Belford, vice president of global operations for Daenerys Entertainment, ranks second only to Nancy Brill and Robert Egger within the group, even more than the two major sub-brands of Gaomen Pictures and New World Pictures. The status of the person in charge is slightly higher, not without reason.

Mark Belford has been drifting overseas for most of the past few years, and is planning a global layout for Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon only visited Ukraine for the first time last month, but Marc Belford has been running non-stop since the upheaval in Eastern Europe to establish Daenerys Entertainment Group in Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European or former Soviet countries. Movie distribution network.

This work that needs to get through all aspects of joints is arduous.

The result is also very gratifying.

At this stage, Daenerys Entertainment already has a complete and unique distribution network in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia outside of North America. Most countries and regions can directly issue in the name of their own branch of'Daenerys'. The entire In Hollywood, only Daenerys Entertainment can do this at this stage.

Therefore, if it was not Mark Belford himself who felt unnecessary, he could become the third president of the company group before the Daenerys Entertainment IPO.

Although the overseas release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rise" is still in charge of Warner Bros., in fact, many overseas markets rely on the resources and channels of Daenerys Entertainment, so this time will have a record box office of $700 million overseas. expected.

In addition to Warner, who is tight on the contract and fearing that Simon will do something, other film companies do not have too many concerns, such as the "Real Lies" and MGM's "Life and Death" in the summer file Daenerys and Fox, overseas Da Ni Li Si Entertainment is responsible for the distribution in many markets. If there are other major needs,

People are inert, and it is the same with enterprises.

Now that there is a ready-made distribution network available, it is often too lazy to develop it in person, and it may be too late to react in the future.

In the future, the average cost of Hollywood movies will only get higher and higher, especially blockbuster movies. By then, blockbuster movies want to recover costs and achieve profitability, the overseas market will become more and more important.

In fact, with the establishment of the World Trade Organization, many people in Hollywood have reacted now, but at this stage of Hollywood, except for Daenerys Entertainment, several other companies, including Warner, have no enough strength to support Start a global distribution network for movies.

It is not possible to invest heavily now, and in the future we will become more and more dependent on Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon is definitely not a herbivore.

When necessary, for the benefit of Daenerys Entertainment, other film companies naturally have to stand by.

Another phenomenon-level movie "Forrest Gump" this summer has also exceeded the local 300 million US dollar mark two weeks ago. From the week of September 16 to September 22, "Forrest Gump" Received 3.61 million US dollars, 12 weeks of release, the cumulative box office of the film in North America reached 31.137 million US dollars, and it is expected that subsequent re-shows during the Oscars will bring 20 million to 30 million US dollars. The total local box office drop is expected to be 330 million. Dollar up and down.

Relying on phenomenal word of mouth, "Forrest Gump" has already reached a total of 220 million US dollars in overseas box office, and a total of 530 million US dollars in the world. It is expected that overseas overseas will also receive another 150 million US dollars. The total global box office is expected to hit the 700 million US dollar mark. .

In addition to the two phenomenal blockbuster films, since the summer break that opened in May, a number of popular movies have entered the final stage.

The "Gate of the Stars", which opened in the summer, has been released in the North American theater, with a total of 112 million dollars at the local box office.

MGM's "Life and Death Speed" has also ended, with a total box office of $109 million.

The opening work of the soul movie universe, "The Spirit", also came to an end in 13 weeks, with a total box office of $129 million.

"The Real Lie" by Daenerys and Fox, a total of 1.22 million US dollars was received in the week from September 16 to September 22, and the total box office was US$141 million in 11 weeks. It is expected to be completely downgraded in the next four weeks. The local box office At around $145 million.

Because of the topic of "God watching movies" set off by Daenerys Entertainment, coupled with its own quality, two crime genre films "Blood Romeo" and "Theft of Fire" have broken 100 million.

As of September 22, "Blood Romeo" had a cumulative box office of US$10.296 million, with a single-week box office receipt of US$1.16 million. It is expected to be downgraded in the next four weeks or so. The local box office will fall to about 105 million US dollars.

The box office performance and stamina of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's "Theft of Fire" are much better than that of "Blood Romeo", although it is one week later than "Blood Romeo", the local cumulative box office of the film It has reached US$12.17 million, and has received US$3.11 million in the past week. It is expected that there will be a box office potential of about US$10 million in the follow-up, and the local box office will be around US$120 million.

Such a big year that can indeed be called "God watch a movie", the only film in the summer file that has nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment, "Burning Eyes" is released for ten weeks, and the local box office has accumulated $117 million. In the past week, the box office received US$1.51 million, and it is expected that the local box office will be around US$120 million, which is considered to break the monopoly of Daenerys Entertainment.

The undisputed fact is that Hollywood felt the fear of being dominated by Dee Baby in the original time and space two decades in advance.

In its heyday, when Disney’s global box office broke through 7 billion and is expected to further advance to the full-year goal of 10 billion US dollars, the second-ranked Warner Global box office has accumulated less than 2 billion US dollars. Hollywood’s other major totals cannot compete with Dibao. It can be said that there is no difference.

Daenerys Entertainment has now reached even further goals than Disney once had.

However, in order to avoid becoming a public enemy of Hollywood while enjoying this kind of spectacle, Simon also had to consider leaving a way for other movie companies.

Returning from Europe, Simon let people let out the wind.

Daenerys Entertainment will start a batch of foreign cooperation projects again, this time it will still be 10 movies.

In fact, the media has pointed out sharply that Daenerys Entertainment’s foreign cooperation projects in recent years are actually a disguised expansion. A reporter from The Hollywood Reporter even proposed a widely recognized "parasitic expansion" theory. However, even if drinking thirst quenches thirst, no one in Hollywood at this stage has the confidence to refuse the olive branch thrown by Daenerys Entertainment.

Because you don’t accept it, the others rush.

The trade-offs are long and short.

The result will only get worse.

Manor in northern suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut.

The time is already September 23.

In the evening, Sofia Fisher finally returned from the city because of a busy day of fashion week opening, and landed in a slightly smaller mansion next to Simon's Manor by Westeros' Black Hawk helicopter.

This is the new home of the Facies.

In the last incident, it was later discovered that an assistant in Sofia in Italy was coerced by the Mafia and revealed the detailed address of the Fisher family in Greenwich.

That assistant was naturally expelled.

While Sofia strengthened the privacy protection of her family, she simply installed her new house next to Simon's manor this time because it could be directly incorporated into the Westeros family security system.

Although it does not reach the 30-acre area of ​​Simon’s Manor, the new house of the Fishery House also reaches 12 acres. There is a long corridor between the main villa and the gate of the mansion, with sufficient buffer, plus the strictness of the Westeros family. Security, this time no one will be able to come directly to the door of the villa of the Facie.

Returning from Europe, the Westeros came to live on the east coast.

At this time, other women generally take the initiative to retreat consciously, but Sofia has no such concerns. Over the years, she and two Jenny have been quite familiar with, neither Janet or Jennifer, nor Sofia as a threat.

It was agreed in advance that the two would have dinner together.

Sofia got off the car outside the villa and saw that Little Gemma was playing with three little guys on the outdoor lawn, of course mainly in Melbourne. The other two children could only sit in the stroller to watch their brothers and sisters frolic.

There was also a female assistant and two other Uighur waitresses.

Pulling the Indian girl asked a question, and learned that Simon was still in the audience, Daniel pulled him to listen, and Sofia thought for a while, and said nothing.

Her son's precocity is also clear.

After going through the incident some time ago, Daniel changed obviously.

Simon directly took Daniel to participate in a meeting that must be very important. Although Sofia felt a little early, she still accepted her behavior as a little man.

It was already evening.

After saying hello to Jennifer, Sofia entered the villa, and Janet was arranging dinner, and she came to the kitchen to help.

In a study in the villa, more than ten minutes passed, and Joseph Schrap was sent away. Simon sitting on the sofa in the reception area smiled and asked Daniel who took the initiative to get up and help organize the information. "How do you feel?"

In the afternoon, he discussed with Joseph Schlapp three hours of political layout of the Westeros system.

After the summer, Daniel has started school, just after being called by Simon after school for less than half an hour, the final topic is mainly about the antitrust investigation of the three technology companies of the Westeros system by the Ministry of Justice.

Hearing Simon’s question, Daniel, who was wearing school uniforms more and more sturdy, thought for a while and said, "The Internet industry is expected to be the key to the fourth technological revolution. In the future, it will involve all aspects of the global industrial chain. Well, in the current global Against the backdrop of globalization, the three companies Cisco, AOL, and Eaglet maintain their strong status, which is actually conducive to the global expansion of the United States in the field of technology, right, Simon?"

Simon smiled and nodded: "Yes."

Daniel said: "In this case, for the sake of American interests, I don't think the White House and Congress should rush to curb the growth of the three companies, because only if they are strong enough can they have a sufficient advantage in global expansion."

Sofia’s two children were born in France and immigrated to Switzerland with women a few years ago. They are now Swiss nationals and have lived in the United States in recent years. Although Sofia did not change the nationality of the two children, Daniel still produced it unconsciously. A certain position.

Simon heard the words and said: "So, what do you think is the problem?"

Daniel thought for a moment, but shook his head.

Simon signaled that the boy didn’t have to clean up the information on the table, and when he sat down opposite, he said: "The national interest is the most important thing. This is what every politician in Washington will talk about. However, in reality, they actually have various There are very few positions that will really fulfill this sentence. So if we lobby the antitrust investigation in the interest of the United States in the global scientific and technological field, the result will only become a joke in the eyes of many politicians. Therefore, I want to To achieve our goal, we must deal with this matter in the way of politicians, not the so-called national interest."