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The premiere ended at 8:30 pm West Coast time, and in the next few hours, official materials about the "Suicide Squad", press releases, and fan discussions were released one after another, and with the help of the Igret portal, directly let Movies have become the hottest topic on Internet platforms.

Early in the morning of the next day, the word-of-mouth of the anti-hero masterpiece of the DC movie was officially lifted.

According to preliminary statistics, the "Suicide Squad" comprehensive media score reached 8.3. "Hollywood Reporter" praised the film'continuing the DC movie universe's consistent stunning and hot, anti-hero perspective and narrative structure innovation to make the quality of the film sublime again.'

After a full day of public opinion bombing on Thursday, the audience of "Suicide Squad" is expecting the highest.

Friday, December 16.

"Suicide Squad" was officially released in North America, with 3165 screens.

In addition to "Suicide Squad", Disney's holiday comedy "Santa Claus" was also painted in the same period, "Little Woman" produced by Gaomen Pictures and the documentary "Bauhaus" produced by Warner Bros. also continued for two weeks. After that, I started painting on a large scale.

Disney's "Santa" has 2183 screens and a media score of 7.4, which is not bad.

In the past history, Disney's "Santa Claus" was released during Thanksgiving, relying on a good reputation and a film theme that fits the festive atmosphere. North America's cumulative box office exceeded US$140 million, ranking fourth in the box office list that year.

This time, in order to evade Thanksgiving's "Toy Story 2" and other movies, Disney chose to postpone "Santa" to the Christmas stage, and chose the slightly less "crowded" December 16th schedule, trying to sword away. .The idea is correct, but neither Simon nor the industry media are optimistic about the box office prospects of Santa Claus.

The original Santa Claus was able to obtain a super box office, thanks to the absence of phenomenal strong films during the same period.

Now, let's not say the momentum of "Toy Story 2", which is also very suitable for the holiday atmosphere, is still the same. The big meal of "Suicide Squad" is not comparable to the appetizer of "Santa Claus".

The first week of large-scale painting "Little Women" expanded the number of screens to 1503.

Gaomen Pictures' positioning of "Little Women" was the "Golden Magnolia Flower" that was sold at the box office a few years ago. It mainly targeted precision marketing for female families. Therefore, it abandoned the radial distribution mode of gradually expanding the number of literary and artistic films. It is spread out at once.Compared with "Santa" who needs to grab the audience directly with "Suicide Squad", because of the audience, "Small Women" faces much less pressure.

The documentary "Bauhaus" of Warner Bros. Films does not have the scale of "Little Women", and only 379 screens after the expanded screening.

Another Orion biographical film, "The Poet and His Lover", which opened on December 2nd together with "Little Women" and "Bauhaus", simply gave up a large-scale screening because of poor market feedback.

With the opening of the Christmas period, many of the films before the two major periods of Halloween and Thanksgiving have entered the final stage.

In the box office week from December 9 to December 15, just now, "Toy Story 2" still strongly harvested 28.86 million US dollars at the box office. This 3D animated film with a total investment of 130 million US dollars reached a total of 2 at the box office in North America. $15.17 million.

The second and third place in the weekly box office list, "Disguised Geek" and "Night Visiting Vampire" scores are very similar, respectively, 8.28 million US dollars and 8.26 million US dollars.The unpopular period that lasted for two weeks made the cumulative box office of the two films reach USD 97.29 million and USD 86.9 million respectively.

Obviously, "Ghost in Disguise" will soon break 100 million.

"Vampire Night Visit", which was not previously optimistic about entering the 100 million yuan box office club, also unwittingly accumulated nearly 90 million US dollars at the box office. Unsurprisingly, it will successfully cross the 100 million yuan threshold in the next few weeks.

Other new and old films such as "The Haunted Morgue in the Mortuary", "Terror Zone", "There's Difficult Paradise" and other single-week box offices have already fallen within $5 million.

It is worth mentioning that "The Haunted Morgue in the Mortuary" successfully broke through the local box office after the box office week from December 2 to December 8, becoming another RMB 100 million box office club movie in 1994.The film continued to receive 3.24 million US dollars in the box office week from December 9 to December 15, and the cumulative box office reached 100.96 million US dollars.

After handling the settlement of the "Cisco-AOL-Igreat" three companies and the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation, Simon flew to New York, mainly to discuss Weiss with James Rebold, Joseph Schrap and others The Tello system will be deployed in the next stage of media and technology.

The dust of the mid-term elections is settled, and it is no surprise that a series of bills that were shelved will be passed next year.

After the lifting of the more important media integration ban, Daenerys Entertainment Group will start another large-scale expansion next year, which is a long-established plan.

In addition, there is the Capital Profits Tax Reform Act.

The Reagan tax reform unified the capital gains tax to a high 28%, which greatly hindered the capital flow of the stock market and bond market.

After Reagan left, Bush, who inherited Reagan's political heritage, tried to re-divide the capital gains tax into bins, but left the White House without success.

After Bill Clinton took office, although the moderate Democratic president tended to reform the capital gains tax, he could not reverse the overall Democratic Party's tendency to increase taxes.Now, with the Democratic Party’s disastrous defeat in the midterm elections, both houses of Congress are dominated by Republicans who support tax cuts, and the biggest obstacle to the capital gains tax reform bill has been lifted.

Next is only a matter of time.

In the past two years, it was not just Simon who spent his money on water. This was the case with the entire Westeros system. He could only borrow heavily if the funds were insufficient.Simon has always been a person who doesn't like debt very much. Even if calculated according to his personal assets, the Westero family's debt ratio is only about 10%, which is very, very high among most rich people, but Simon I still don't like it.

As long as the capital gains tax is reformed, Simon can sell part of the shares in exchange for funds to repay the debt.It is expected that the 15% minimum capital gains tax rate after the reform will be much more acceptable than the high tax rate of 28%.

Finally, the most important one is the Telecommunications Act that the Clinton government has been brewing.

Unlike the quite targeted media integration ban, the Telecommunications Act, promulgated in 1996, will be an all-round loosening of the two major industries of American media and technology.

At that time, the Westeros system can smoothly advance the triple play plan, integrating AOL, which focuses on broadband services at this time, with Verizon Telecom, which is a local fixed-line and mobile communications business under Westeros. At the same time, it can also enter the field of cable TV operators, making up for Daenerys Entertainment's lack of its own cable TV platform.

Since this bill is so beneficial to the Westeros system, of course, the sooner it is promulgated, the better. The Westeros system must be quietly pushed into it.

Because of things in New York, Simon did not attend the premiere of "Suicide Squad."

In fact, it is intentional.

Simon intends to completely make himself an invisible person at the level of "behind the scenes" in the future, which can make the public forget that Simon Westero's existence is best.

As a result, the project "This man is from the earth" is actually a bit outdated.

Now that it has started, Simon has no intention of cutting it off, not to mention, it is not bad to give the public some other fantasies about Simon's identity beyond ordinary people through this movie.By scheduling the schedule ahead of time and busy with New York, Simon rushed to Toronto on the afternoon of December 16 and planned to spend the weekend here.

Toronto in December was a bit colder than New York, and it snowed a few days ago, and many areas were white and capped.

Toronto’s eastern suburbs, Scarborough’s Lakeside Crest Rich Area.

The time is around four o'clock in the afternoon.

The two young girls of Slavic origin walked out of a community luxury theater arm in hand. Although their faces were slightly green, they were more than one meter seven tall and tall, and they still had the exquisite appearance of elves in the snow, even if they were dressed in trench coats. The knitted hat on the head is slightly like this, which has not blocked the eyes of passers-by around.

Perhaps the two girls were too eye-catching. They just came to the parking lot. Two local youths who just happened to step down their Ferrari sports cars came directly to stop the two women. One of them took a self-proclaimed handsome posture: "Hey, Girl, my name is Peter, how about meeting you?"

The two girls stopped talking and looked at the two handsome young men in front of them. Then, one of them blinked innocently with beautiful light eyes, and said awkwardly, "We, No, English."

Both young men were stunned.

However, I don’t know English. It’s better. Just two brothers can teach you.

As soon as this idea came into being, I didn't wait for further opening. A black Mercedes just moved out of the parking space was parked next to it. A woman wearing a black suit, leather boots and sunglasses, linen The hair was neatly tied into a ponytail, obviously also of Slavic origin.

The most instinctive thing about the two young people is that the girl is over 185cm tall, perhaps because of the stepping on high-soled leather boots, but that kind of momentum obviously makes the two young people feel that adding the two together is probably not enough. The other party picked it up with one hand.

Another girl who was blocked by the two youths showed a mischievous smirk on her face, and suddenly pointed to the woman in black in fluent English, and said to the two slightly dumb youths: "This is Eve, you can and Does she know?"

Listening to the ridicule in the girl's tone, how the two young men still did not understand what was going on.

The Crest area by the lake is a typical wealthy area. The two young people have excellent backgrounds, but they also understand that girls who can have full-time bodyguards as drivers are not so comparable.

The female bodyguard, who was as cold and sturdy as winter in Toronto, didn't pay attention to the two young men, but walked over to pull the door for the two girls and waited respectfully.

The two women no longer ignored the conversation with young people, bypassing them and getting into the Mercedes-Benz car.

When the Mercedes-Benz started, one of them turned his head and glanced at the two young men who were still like goose gooses, and suddenly hugged the girl next to him and laughed with joy.

The bodyguards in the front row waited for the two girls to play for a while, and said, "Miss Joplin has just called, and Mr. Westeros has arrived in Toronto. He will come tonight."

The two women heard the words and immediately calmed down.

Looking at each other, one of them directly took off the knitted hat on his head and asked his companion: "Nana, how do I look?"

The two women were Yekaterina Noskova and Natalya Lyudayeva who were scheduled by Simon for the travel itinerary.

Since becoming a woman of Simon Westeros, in the past six months, six girls have been treated like six princesses in the city of Rifney, living the best life and enjoying the best education, everyone treats them Polite.Unconsciously, the girls also developed an arrogance.

However, even if they are not old, they have never forgotten who gave them all this.

As the more I learned in private, and the words and precepts of the people around me, the higher the status of a man in the hearts of the girls, the more like a god.Such a richest, most powerful and talented man in the world, it is a matter of course for them to take possession of six of them. It is an honor for them to be his woman.

Even if I couldn't see each other for half a year, my heart's obedience and awe of a man were still more deeply rooted unconsciously.

Seeing Natalia asked, Ekaterina looked at her carefully and said, "You seem to be a lot fatter."

"Ah?!" Natalia opened her mouth, really kind of panicked, raised her hand to touch her face, and looked at Yekaterina, noticed the little cunning in the other person's eyes, suddenly understood Come over and scratch the other person's tickle: "Let you lie to me, I will let you lie to me."

"Haha, hahaha, no, you are obviously fat."

"You are fat, fat."

It was just a moment of laughter and playfulness, and the two women quickly calmed down, and each took out their makeup mirrors from their bags to check the makeup and clothing. The man said that he would come at night, and it was almost evening. bad.

The Mercedes-Benz sedan returned to a mansion on the shore of Lake Ontario in the Crest area in less than ten minutes.

Although it is winter and lacks the business of summer, this mansion with an area of ​​more than six acres still carries the expensive momentum of idlers.

The car crossed the manor road to the door of the villa built on the cliff.

The two women just got out of the car and immediately noticed that two other cars were still parked in the yard.

I thought that Simon had arrived, and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous in my inner expectation. It was only after entering the door that I found out that the man did not show up. Instead, another appearance and temperament didn't lose during this time. The girl of Emily Joplin took over everything in the villa, at this time some men and women who looked like bodyguards of Eve were inspecting the interior of the villa.