Hollywood Hunter

After Thanksgiving, the box office week from November 18 to November 24 ended smoothly.

Because the box office potential that was suppressed by the wind and snow weather on the East Coast one week before was released, and across the Thanksgiving Day, there was a big explosion in the movie market this week, and the total box office in a single week reached 192 million US dollars, compared with last week. The US$123 million increased by nearly US$70 million.

Among them, the 3D animated movie "Toy Story 2" produced by Daenerys Entertainment is the most eye-catching.

In the first week of painting, relying on a large-scale 3216 open screens, "Toy Story 2" was released for seven days and won a total of 87.31 million US dollars at the box office. With more than 3,000 open screens, the museum still exceeded $27,000 and easily reached the top. One week box office champion throne.

Faced with the strength of "Toy Story 2", Paramount's classic sci-fi series "Star Trek 7: Fight to Star Shift", which ranked second in the weekly box office list, directly fell to 23.11 million US dollars in the first week of the painting.This new movie released at the same time as "Toy Story 2" has 2659 screens, and the average data of the museum is only $8,000.

The third place on the list is no longer last week's new film "Little Guy", but the "Disguised Geek" that started on the Halloween schedule on November 11.

The next week, "Disguised Geek" dropped 38% at the box office in a single week, and received $22.91 million, only behind the gap of $200,000 in the new film "Star Trek 7: Fight to Star Shift". In two weeks, this Kim Kerry fantasy comedy The cumulative box office has reached 60.01 million US dollars.

Gefen Pictures spent $60 million in the "Night Visiting Vampire" ranking fourth, with a 52% drop at the box office. It received $17.43 million in the seven days of the following week, and a total of $53.81 million in the two-week box office.The box office fell sharply the following week. This vampire movie with a box office of over 100 million in history has little hope of achieving its former goals.

MGM's "Terror Zone" ranking fifth.

The viral crisis genre thriller starring Sam Neal and Jessica Lange also saw a 49% drop at the box office the following week, continuing to receive $14.39 million.In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the film reached 42.5 million US dollars.

The comedy "Little Guy" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger ranked sixth.

This is the third comedy movie that Schwarzenegger and Ivan Lightman have collaborated after "Dragon Brother" and "Kindergarten Special Police". Unfortunately, this comedy with a man's pregnancy as a gimmick could not be reproduced. The success of "Dragon Brother" and "Kindergarten Special Police", a huge production cost of 60 million US dollars, 1749 blocks of screens, only 9.8 million US dollars at the box office for the first seven days of the first week.

Speaking of this, "Dragon Brother Mouse" and "Kindergarten Special Police", which were sold at the box office, are all Universal Pictures projects. Simon also had the idea of ​​cutting off the "Kindergarten Special Police", just because Ivan Lightman has already Only signed with Universal.

After Daenerys Entertainment acquired Universal, Ivan Reitman initially was still very happy to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment, which inherited Universal Pictures assets.

Simon refused this time this time.

On the one hand, Daenerys Entertainment now has no shortage of projects, and even some of them cannot be excluded. On the other hand, the "Little Guy" in memory can only be described as a box office defeat. Simon will naturally not be the wrongdoer.

Daenerys Entertainment is reluctant to take over "Little Guy", and Sony Pictures, which has suffered many defeats in Hollywood, has once again become the wrongdoer.

The $9.8 million in the first week meant that the $60 million bombshell local box office was hard to pass even the 30 million threshold, and Sony paid an expensive tuition again.

As for why "Little Guy" could not replicate the success of "Dragon Brother" and "Kindergarten Special Police", in Simon's view, in addition to the unsatisfactory story itself, mainly because Hollywood has entered a new era, 3D animated movies and The rise of CG special effects blockbuster has caused the audience's taste to be continuously raised,

Daenerys Entertainment produced the sixth Halloween movie "Haunted in the Morgue", which is the only movie in the Halloween calendar that has not been left behind.In the fourth week of the release, "The Morgue in the Mortuary" had a 35% drop at the box office, and it received another 9.53 million US dollars. The cumulative box office was 93.22 million US dollars, breaking 100 million soon.

November 25, a new box office week.

The holiday atmosphere is still here, but this week only Disney film produced a black comedy "Cool Note". The film production cost is only $10 million, and the opening screen is $13.79 million. The media reputation after the opening is general, it is difficult to correct "Toy Story 2" and other major productions pose a threat.

Therefore, this box office week, which starts on November 25th, provides an additional seven days of play for old movies. Whether the two films "Disguised Geek" and "Vampire at Night" can break through the 100 million yuan mark, just look at this One-week box office performance.

After Thanksgiving, although many media are still calling on the federal government to intervene, because the White House and Congress have not raised any objections, the French Vivendi Group’s acquisition of Disney has entered a formal delivery process.

Westeros system.

After diverting public attention to the mid-term elections through a series of big news, Simon has been faintly worried that some things still happen.

Monday, November 28.

The new week has just begun, and a Republican Congressman Kevin Moorehouse of Pennsylvania, who lost in this year's midterm elections, suddenly made trouble and asked Congress to investigate his elected competitor Joslin Byrne in suspected acceptance of Weiss. Matters related to illegal campaign funding in the Tello system.

The evidence cited by Kevin Moorehouse is clearly too large for the'free' volunteer team during the official Joslin Byrne campaign.

In fact, the Westeros system certainly does not make some obvious low-level mistakes.

During the mid-term election campaign, the volunteer team that served Joslyn Burn free of charge did not have any direct monetary contact with the Westeros system before November 8.However, in the mid-term elections, the dust was settled. The team that previously served for Joslyn Burne logically established a political consulting company in Pennsylvania, and immediately received a huge amount of $1 million from the Westeros system. The reason for the cooperation order and the agreement between the two parties is to investigate the Pennsylvania electorate.

Kevin Moorehouse caught this point.

He also tried to bring in Joseph Schlapura, the core of the political affairs of the Westeros system, and announced directly in the Pennsylvania newspaper that Schrap and John Phoebe, the head of the Pittsburgh-based emerging political consulting company Photos of Kniverville meeting.

At a related press conference, Kevin Moore House also mentioned the negative attitude of the former state legislator Jocelyn Byrne in response to the rising crime rate in Pennsylvania, meaning that the former Berne has obstructed The state legislature enacted stricter crime control laws.

This is obviously to drag the Woodfield bombing that has gradually disappeared from public view.

After several months of investigation, the Woodfield bombing case has been closed. The final result of the investigation was the tragedy that the former employee of the Menloville Machinery Company made in retaliation for the Woodfield family. As for how the other party obtained up to 5 kg C4 explosive is obvious because it lacks enough clues and can only be ignored.

Just like Kennedy was assassinated.

There are various local rumors about the truth of the matter, which basically point to other shareholders of Menloville Machinery Company and investors who have lost huge amounts of funds at the Gralf Foundation, and there are rumors that some Monroville The management of the machinery company operates behind the scenes.

In short, no rumors point to the Westeros family.

After the explosion, the main members of the Woodfield family were killed and wounded. In addition, the Monroeville Machinery Company went bankrupt and liquidated. The remaining few members of the Woodfield family fell from the local rich and old money to the ordinary people who were poor and white. This matter.

Certain truths can only be circulated in a few high-level Washington circles.

However, Simon has not relaxed his guard on this matter.

Kevin Mulhouse mentioned the fight against crime at a press conference that was supposed to expose election fraud. Simons began to pay attention to it whether it was intentional or unintentional.

On November 29, Simon came to the East Coast again in person.

Manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

In the study of the villa, Joseph Schlapp is reporting to Simon the evaluation result of this matter by Schlapp Consulting.

"At first glance, this is more of a warning, and a stricter targeted bill was drafted on this ground. Simon, although the public can easily see the connection, we have no violations after all. If the Republicans want to put If things go wrong, we should catch some more substantive cases. Our flaws in this respect are not without."

Simon leaned on the sofa in the reception area, and nodded slightly as Joseph said.

In fact, he also understands this.

However, many things are often not developed by human will.

Just like the Epstein case in memory, the Democratic Party has recaptured the Jeffrey Epstein case for many years. Originally, I just wanted to touch a plaster on Mr. President at the time, and it turned out that things were getting noisier Big, all the people who should be dragged in and should not be dragged in. Eventually Epstein could only commit suicide.

The situation is similar now.

Although the two sides reached certain agreements through the last meeting in the White House, some people were obviously still not reconciled, and had to sort out some moths to warn Simon.

It's just that some people obviously forget that this year's Central District elections simply cannot lift the lid.

Not paying attention a little is a big shock that neither party can escape.

At that time, the Westeros system could not escape, the National Rifle Association could not escape, and a large number of elected members of Congress involved in it could not escape either. At the end of the incident, many people would go to jail, many people would lose their reputations, many people would Being forced to resign from politics is the result that no one wants to see.

The reason why Craig Ames of Wisconsin accepted the result obediently after losing the election, and also actively issued a statement that he will no longer be involved in politics in the future, the key is that this politician has a very left-handed politician but is very mature. Seeing how widespread the whole matter is.In order to avoid being crushed by the general trend, he gave up investigatively.

By comparison, the political qualifications of the Kevin Moorehouse in Pennsylvania are much lighter.

Moreover, it may be used as a gun.

Thinking about this, Simon took a document on the coffee table in front of him, turned to a blank space, and used pencil to draw on the paper at random, while asking Joseph: "What are you going to do about this?"

Sitting across from Simon, Joseph glanced at a bowling-like bomb commonly found in a cartoon that his boss quickly painted on paper, and said, "I have talked to John and canceled the contract that I just signed last week. , Which can make Kevin Moorhouse lose the basis for blaming us."

Simon's strokes kept saying, "If you do this, someone must say that we are deliberately covering up."

"This is inevitable, but as long as there is no handle, public opinion will be easier to suppress," Joseph said, adding: "In addition, our similar arrangements in other parts of the Federation, I think we should slow down a bit."

Simon nodded: "You let it go."

Joseph paused and said, "And Paul's side."

In order to avoid eggs in a basket, Simon supported Paul Spitz in the past year.

Listening to Joseph mentioned, Simon looked up at him with a smile, and said, "Joseph, I will not let Paul accept your ownership. The Westeros system is large enough, and it will be even larger in the future, fully accommodating both of you. I'm looking forward to your cooperation, if you can't, you don't need to interfere with each other. At that time, don't let me see that you are squeezing each other. Once found, I will not tolerate it.

Facing Simon's straight blow, Joseph did not justify and nodded sincerely: "Simon, I understand."

"That's fine, I will talk to Paul over there. You just need to take care of your own affairs. So, are there any others?"

"I have sent people to contact some local media in Pennsylvania to fight back against the allegations of John Mulhouse, and others have begun to investigate Mulhouse. In addition, Simon, the layout of other areas has been delayed, we Still need to pay the due compensation, which requires your personal approval."

Simon nodded, knowing what Joseph meant.

It is no longer possible to pay through a large contract afterwards, Simon must definitely compensate, otherwise no one will be willing to serve the Westeros system in the future.

This is probably the purpose of some people to provoke this matter.

In any case, if the political network of the Westeros system cannot be laid out according to the original plan, Simon’s control over future major political elections in the Federation will definitely be affected.

"You take the time to draw up a list for me, and I will let someone arrange it."

The huge Westeros system makes it easy to arrange marginal, high-paying positions. This is also a common way for many politicians to leave the political arena. If someone finds trouble, it will affect the interests of the entire federal political community.

The two discussed for more than half an hour for some details. Simon finally handed a cartoon that he had just painted to Joseph Schrap: "A few copies are sent to the White House and the responsible persons of Congress, and they say yes I drew it."

Joseph Schrap took over the manga.

Many cartoon bombs were densely drawn on A4 paper, and the middle lead was ignited.

Apart from that, there are no other marks.

However, Joseph saw the meaning at a glance. The ignited lead was John Mulhouse, who caused the incident yesterday. The dense bombs around it were not just the Westeros system, but everyone. .

The subtext of this cartoon is very obvious.

Some people think that only a bomb was ignited, but the result may be a serial explosion.This is obviously a reminder from Simon to some restless forces in Washington: everyone is in a circle, and if things go wrong, no one can escape.