Hollywood Hunter

After winning the weekly "Toy Story 2", the second place in the ranking is still the film "Disguise" in Daenerys Entertainment.

After the 38% drop in the following week, the third week of "Disguised Geek" was released, the box office decline narrowed to 23%, and the receipt of $17.65 million was recorded. The cumulative box office in the three weeks of release reached $77.66 million. In 1994, another 100 million yuan box office The club work is confirmed again.

Paramount's sequel to the classic sci-fi series "Star Trek 7: Fight to Star Shift" fell from second place last week to third place this week.The following week, the box office of the film declined by 31%, with a receipt of 15.94 million US dollars, and a cumulative total of 39.05 million US dollars at the box office in two weeks.It's not a big sale, and its performance has been stable.

Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt starred in "Night Visit Vampire" ranked fourth, this week's decline narrowed to 19%, accounted for 14.11 million US dollars, three weeks cumulative box office was 67.92 million US dollars.Because of this good trend this week, the chance of "Visiting the Vampire" hitting 100 million yuan clubs has increased significantly.

The fifth place is MGM's "Terror Zone". In the third week of release, the box office of the film fell by 27%, with a receipt of 10.53 million US dollars and a cumulative box office of 53.03 million US dollars.

In addition to the top five, Disney's "Cool Note" opened the first week with a total of 9.64 million US dollars, ranking sixth in the list. This black comedy market with a production cost of only 10 million US dollars exceeded expectations.Of course, only in terms of relative cost, the local box office is expected to be around 30 million US dollars, which is a small profit, but it cannot be compared with a series of blockbuster bombs.

Last week's seventh-ranked Halloween horror film "The Haunted Mortuary in the Morgue" remained the same this week, with a 33% drop at the box office, a receipt of US$ 6.39 million, and a cumulative box office of US$ 99.61 million, nearly breaking 100 million.

Sony Pictures’ 60-million-dollar man pregnancy gimmick comedy “Little Guy” has lost 49% the following week after the start of the loss, and it has received $4.99 million, falling from the sixth place last week to the eighth place this week. The cumulative box office in two weeks was only 14.79 million US dollars.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film had a bleak start, and it fell 49% next week. Even the initially expected threshold of 30 million was far from hope.Because there are only more than 2,800 US dollars left in the pavilion the following week, most of the theaters have removed the canvas after December 1st and transferred the screen resources to the still powerful "Toy Story 2" and other films.

Frequent losses for a year in a row led to news again that Sony was planning to withdraw from Hollywood.

In the past history, Sony has been dead until it is barely clouded. In addition to supporting its own interests in hardware industries such as video recorders, DVDs, and high-definition Blu-rays with content, there are occasional successes by this company. It's so ugly.This time, because the overwhelming dominant position of Daenerys Entertainment Group in Hollywood severely squeezed the survival space of other studios, the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, Sony is difficult to maintain.

The rumors circulating in the circle, but Simon knew that Sony still had no plans to withdraw.

At least not in the short term.

In fact, it is the obsession of Sony founder Akio Morita.

Because Sony's previous investment in Columbia Pictures caused huge losses under the frustration of two unreliable managers, Morita Shofu resigned as chairman, but the influence of the business tycoon on Sony remains.

On the other hand, it is also the main reason.

The new generation of video playback technology DVD is about to be implemented, because the DVD standard is temporarily divided into two camps. In order to gain an advantage in the promotion of DVD, and no longer repeat the mistakes of the era of the recorder, Sony must keep its own advantages in content resources.

It is in the interest of Daenerys Entertainment Group that Sony stays in Hollywood.

Just as Simon secretly pushed Vivendi to buy Disney.

The big Hollywood studio controlled by foreign businessmen, Daenerys Entertainment, suppressed it either explicitly or implicitly.If Sony let Colombia fall back into the hands of local federal companies,

Since it was determined that Sony did not want to quit, Daenerys Entertainment's latest 10 cooperation projects, Simon did not intend to give each other.

After December 1, the Thanksgiving season ended.

On December 2, a new box office week opened, the public temporarily put their energy back into work, and the North American film market entered a deserted period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

This week there is still a commercial film "Paradise in Difficulty" with more than 1,000 screens. The film is produced by Fox and has 1,286 screens. It mainly tells a series of hilarious stories after three young people robbed a small town bank. It is obvious that Fox has little confidence in this film, so he will put it in a deserted period like December 2.

In addition to "Paradise in Difficulty", there are three other small-scale movies this week.

Respectively adapted from the classic masterpiece "Little Woman" produced by Damen Lisi Entertainment's High Gate Pictures, the biographical film "Poet and His Lover" released by Paramount's Orion Pictures, and the documentary "Package" produced by Warner Bros. House.

The previous "Little Woman" was produced by Sony Pictures. Both the box office and the awards were very good. Winona Ryder also nominated Oscar for best actress with this movie.

It is now a routine cut off for Daenerys Entertainment.

In addition, Simon also adjusted the main lineup of the film. The roles of Susan Sarandon and Kirsten Dunst have not changed, mainly the heroine. Simon has never been to Winona Ryder. Feeling, so I replaced Mia Kosina who met at the Sundance Film Festival early this year.

In Simon's view, the Russian actress from the Canadian child star's acting skills is not much worse than Winona Ryder. What's missing is only opportunity.

This is the case with Hollywood, or the whole world.

Some people are diligently seeking, and the result is nothing. Some people are sitting and enjoying their achievements, almost lavishly enjoying the resources that others dream of.

Already standing at the top of the pyramid, Simon did not have any idea to change this state.

In fact, it cannot be changed.

After all, Simon himself is the biggest beneficiary of this unfairness.

At the beginning of the year, Mia was captured. Simon hasn't had anything with the girl so far, but she really likes the gloomy temperament hidden behind her purity, and is looking forward to digging out this temperament and splashing it on the big screen.

The number of opening screens of the film is 23.

After the release, the film’s preliminary media rating reached 8.7, and Mia Kosina’s performance did not disappoint Simon. Most of the film review articles specifically mentioned the new actress, knowing that some film critics who were inside the cast were originally Winona Ryder did not appear in the show and publicly expressed regret, and now all changed her tone.

Of course, the film reviews about Mia Kosna are more or less driven by WMA.

After being selected by Simon, WMA designed the positioning for Mia Kosina to be tit-for-tat against Iona's Winona Ryder.

The biographical film "The Poet and His Lover" of Orion Pictures was obviously running for a prize. The number of screens on the film was 17 pieces. Unfortunately, after the release, the word of mouth is very general, not to mention the prize. The possibility is very low.

The "Bauhaus" released by Warner Bros. is obviously following the trend of documentaries in recent years. It has opened 31 dots on the screen, and the media has a good reputation. It is expected to nominate Oscar for the best documentary.

While Simon was busy with various key projects under Daenerys Entertainment in Los Angeles, "This Man From Earth" was quietly filmed in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada on December 7.

The plan will personally follow up for a day or two, before this, Simon rushed to San Francisco again on December 8.

On December 8, it was exactly one month away from the midterm elections.

Nothing happened during this time, and probably not in the future, Simon's continued tightness of heart relaxed a lot.

After the completion of this operation, the layout of the Westeros system in the political field will not be so radical, but will shift to a state of simmering and simmering.Simon promised to Washington's big brothers last month that the proportion of members of Congress will not exceed 10%, but there is no promise that the Westeros system will not force the electoral system of local states and counties, let alone the Westeros system. It will not deepen its influence on already connected politicians.

Interest groups are actually established in this way.

The purpose of the trip to San Francisco was to discuss the reconciliation plan between the three giants of the Westeros system, "Cisco-AOL-Igret" and the Federal Department of Justice.

Simon's remarks with the big brothers in Washington still played a role. Of course, there must be a factor in the Westero system in this election process. Now no one in Washington wants to offend Simon, so, The antitrust investigation and settlement negotiations that have been deadlocked for several months have begun to turn.

In fact, most antitrust investigations in the United States will not reach the point of final trial.The antitrust case in Microsoft, including the memory, ended up in a settlement between Microsoft and the US Department of Justice.

After Simon proposed to Clinton a plan to use the new federal technology giant to attack the world, the executives of Cisco, AOL, and Eaglet were invited to Washington to attend a series of secret meetings.

No matter what the politician's thinking pattern is, he can't resist Simon's plan.

Because once it succeeds, the United States will obtain unrivaled economic hegemony in the information age in addition to military power. Moreover, unlike the huge military expenditure required by military hegemony, this economic hegemony can continue to serve the world on a continuous basis. The United States grabs huge profits to make up for the budget deficit in the United States.

Who can oppose such a plan, and who dares to oppose it?

Don’t you love America?

As a result, after the Westeros system actively made the intended concessions to the Justice Department, the two sides had basically reached a settlement agreement in less than a month.

First of all, of the three companies, none of them needs to be split.

This is the absolute bottom line of the Westeros system.

At least the bottom line at this stage.

Cisco and AOL can't be separated. As for Igrid, Simon is well aware of the company's potential. If it goes all over the search engines, social networking sites and e-commerce, and it has maintained an unmatched industry advantage Then, two decades later, Igrid will be a collection of Google, Facebook and Amazon in Simon’s memory, coupled with a monopolistic Internet basic software business and Igrid’s huge investment holding portfolio, This is likely to be a super giant with a market value of more than 3 trillion US dollars.

Not to mention the federal government, Simon himself did not want such an oligarch with a market value of dazzling levels.

Therefore, Simon will definitely split Igrid at the right time.

It's just not now.

Eaglet wants to attack the city on a global scale, and this scale advantage is still needed for several years.

In the final agreement, Igrid agreed to open the homepage of the IE browser. The new version of IE will no longer lock the Igrid portal, but will change to a model similar to the Google Chrome browser in Simon’s memory. , Open the page is a search engine tool, below are six commonly used page boxes, users can set their own favorite six websites as a through train.

In fact, it is to increase the homepage from one to six.

Of course, the single homepage mode is still reserved, users can choose to open the software to automatically open the homepage mode, this homepage can also be set freely.

For ordinary people, this concession seems to be less important.

It is only clear to the industry that the current concession of Igret, although it has not let go of the browser software patents as some people expect, it is also equivalent to giving up the monopoly on the Internet interface directly. Strive for your customers in a relatively fair environment.

Although the final settlement agreement has not yet been signed, the industry is in a state of joy with the news.

Everyone's attention is on the hot portal business, and no one noticed that this time, Igrid was officially pushing the search engine business to the stage.

Outside of Igrid, Cisco’s promise is to ensure that Internet service provider equipment purchases across the Federation cannot be monopolized by Cisco. The maximum equipment supply ratio of a single equipment provider cannot exceed 80%. Congress will pass a similar bill in the near future. Clearly defined.

As for AOL, the most important point is to abolish the exclusive agreement with the operators of the three major east coast regions, and promise not to sign other similar exclusive agreements in the future.

The final settlement agreement is certainly not that simple.

In addition to the core main provisions, it also includes many details such as patent transfers and tandem prohibitions. The entire settlement agreement involves all aspects of negotiations between the two parties, totaling 170 pages.

Simon rushed to San Francisco on December 8 and held two consecutive days of meetings with the heads of the three companies. After finalizing some details with representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the two sides officially signed this on December 12 for a small period of half a year. Settlement agreement for time antitrust investigation.

Of course, whether the agreement is signed, whether it is followed, and whether it is strictly adhered to is bound to be another matter.

Microsoft used to accept antitrust investigations by the Ministry of Justice in the early 1990s. Continuous settlements and continuous defaults eventually developed to the point where they were almost split.

Striving for the maximum benefit is the nature of the enterprise.

Simon does not intend to interfere.

This settlement was far from the bottom line of the Westeros concession system. If there is a conflict in the future, then some chips will be thrown away, nothing more than soldiers to cover up the water.