Hollywood Hunter

Celia Miller came to Los Angeles this time mainly to discuss various details of the formation of Uighur private military with Simon.

The plan started at the beginning of the year, the planning has been prepared for more than half a year, and has quietly been implemented recently.The training base is still mainly in Ukraine. Simon did not plan to select too many Ukrainians this time, but expanded the recruitment scope to all parts of Eastern Europe, North America, Africa, and Latin America, which is basically a global cast.

There are many benefits to avoiding soldiers from a concentrated area.

Maintain loyalty to the greatest extent, reduce the possibility of encountering infiltration, and eliminate the hidden dangers of ganging up the Lapa faction.

The recruitment conditions are 16-year-old males, orphans are preferred, and after the background check and physical examination tests are met, they will first receive two years of cultural training and preliminary training.

This process is mainly to develop language skills as well.

The most important thing is brainwashing.

Two years later, another batch was eliminated. At the age of 18, regular military training was started. The time is still two years and 20 years old. In addition to being eliminated again in this process or a small amount of advanced training, others began to join Uighur private military serviced and signed a formal employment contract for a period of 20 years and retired at the age of 40.

It is not a taboo to raise private troops in Western countries. The Rockefeller family had its own private army at that time, and many mercenary companies are actually private troops.

Last year’s war in Rwanda had already made the existence of Uighur private military a established fact.

This time, as long as it is properly operated, even if it is exposed, there is no need to worry about anything. Simon did not plan to train tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of troops, nor did he think of training thousands of private troops at one time, but still adopts the whole to zero Strategy, Eastern Europe, North America, Australia, Africa will put a little more.

Even if there are only one or two hundred people in a group, ten or two thousand people in ten years.

This cycle goes back and forth.

The most important thing is to form a sustainable training mechanism.

In the meantime, supplemented by ordinary mercenaries recruited by other channels, it is enough to ensure that the Westeros family has a powerful violent machine when needed.

After talking to Celia, it was already ten o'clock in the middle of the night.

The room arranged for the woman was in the cliff villa next door. Simon personally sent Celia out of the shell villa to the master bedroom upstairs. Janet, who had never been able to bear up late, was asleep, but Jennifer was still sitting in bed. Turning his head through the magazine while waiting for Simon.

After washing, Simon went to bed and came between the two women. Janet, who felt Simon's breath, naturally came over, humming and pulling the man to lie down as a pillow for himself.

The female assistant reached out and turned off the bedside lamp. She lay down and passed, and said softly to Simon: "The rooms for the two babies are ready. You can take a look after you get up tomorrow."

Simon agreed, and reached out to grab the female assistant.

Jennifer pillowed Simon's arm and said, "Sophie really wants to bring two babies here?"

"That's what I said, but it might be the same as you did." Simon said, and asked again: "Do you think you can't see it?"

"No, just worried about bad care."

"How is it possible, you have taken good care of the three little guys and taught you well. Seriously, without you, it's hard to say what Jenny and I would teach my children. You know, neither of us The child's talent."

Jennifer remembered that recently Janet had always snatched Melbourne Ducklings to play, laughed, and then said: "So you two can come together, the same person in the bone."

"Oh, what about you?"

"Me, as the book said, big girl."

"Accurately, it's the big girl who warms the bed."

"Los Angeles is not cold."

"It seems that you still haven't learned the essence of Chinese."

"Oh, it's too difficult, and you don't have that much time. By the way, Moore started to enter kindergarten next month. Do you think you need to increase Chinese language courses?"

Melbourne was born in December 1991,

In recent years, the female assistant has been personally operating the school for the little ones in Malibu. The private school for senior children of the Westeros system started operations last year and plans to provide a full range of education from kindergarten to high school. The little guy will officially start school next month.

In fact, starting from Melbourne’s language, both Veronica and Jennifer began to teach the little ones early. Simon once considered completely educating the children.

Finally, the idea was dispelled.

Let the children enter the school, learning knowledge is still second, mainly to contact the outside world, and master all kinds of skills to treat people.

Because of Simon, the little guy has been receiving Chinese education in recent years. At this time, the female assistant asked, Simon said: "No, joining the Chinese course may make other parents feel uncomfortable, but of course they still have to learn Yes, as usual, please hire a tutor for Moore."

Over the years, people around me have already felt too much about Simon's peculiarities, and are used to it.

However, for the outside world, even if it already possesses great fame, power and wealth, if not necessary, Simon still tries not to show too much as much as possible.

Chinese is one of them.

The two chatted in a whisper for a while, realizing that Jennifer's small hand was scratching on his chest. Simon understood it, and smiled to get rid of Janet on the other side, reaching for the slender and soft body of the female assistant and leaning into her ear. Bian whispered: "Come on your own, don't wake up Jenny."

Entering August, the North American summer file came to the end of the second half.

Across the box office week in July and August, the most striking is the box office comparison of the two new films "Future Water World" and "King of Fighting" started on July 28.

"Future Water World", which cost US$175 million, from July 28 to August 3, the box office accounted for only $25.19 million in the first seven days of the first week, unexpectedly lost to the "King of Fighting" produced by MGM.

The production cost of the action movie "King of Fighting" adapted from the video game "Mortal Kombat" is only $18 million. At this stage, it is not even a medium cost, and it also has a strong B-class film style. However, it is such a movie. The film, in the first week of opening, unexpectedly won a box office of $32.75 million, exceeding the opening score of "Future Water World" by more than 7 million.

According to the ladder-sharing agreement signed by MGM and the theater, the studio can get a 90% box office share after the basic expenses of the theater are excluded in the first week, which is actually equivalent to about 75% of the total box office in the first week. In the first week of painting, MGM received a total investment of US$25 million in production and publicity.

This success is not accidental.

Simon began to pay attention to fighting games when he developed the "Tolerate the Turtle" video game and achieved success. Therefore, the game department of Daenerys Entertainment has paid special attention to the production and distribution of such games in recent years. With the advantage of the Prophet, 1991 After completing the full acquisition of EA at the end of the year, the game department annexed Midway, a game production company in Chicago, in early 1992.

This happens to be the developer of Mortal Kombat.

In 1992, the first part of Mortal Kombat was released, and 900,000 units were sold in a year, which did not reach the level of several popular series in the Daenerys game department, but it was also a good success.

However, this is actually much lower than the history.

Simon can't remember how much Mortal Kombat sold in the original space, but it must have been more than a million, and even even later competed with the Street Fighter series.

After Simon personally paid attention to it, the game department was more attentive to the sequel. It took two years. Midway finally released Mortal Kombat 2 three months ago, and Daenerys Entertainment has also spared no effort in marketing and promotion.In early May, it was launched at the beginning of the summer. By the time the "King of Fighting" was released, in three months, the sales of Mortal Kombat 2 had exceeded 500,000 sets.

The sales curve of video games is different from the movie box office, but more like a music record, and it is still hot in one or two years.

In the three months since its launch, sales have already exceeded 500,000 sets, and the gaming department predicts that the total sales of Mortal Kombat 2 will reach about 3 million sets in the next two years.

Another explosion of Daenerys games was born.

MGM's film adaptation of this game is actually a linkage, and it has successfully benefited from the release of "Mortal Kombat 2", but only invested $7 million in the announcement budget, and achieved the same effect as other The film has invested 10 million to 20 million dollars in advertising.

Simon has been very cautious about adapting movies to games.

Because there are too many cases of tragic failure, but few successes.

Therefore, for the adaptation of Mortal Kombat, he actually gave the idea of ​​transferring risk to MGM, otherwise New World Pictures under Daenerys can make it by himself, and did not expect that the result will become A black horse.

With a start of US$32.75 million, even if the follow-up trend of the popcorn movie will not be too strong, the local US$70 million will certainly not be able to run, and it can sell a lot overseas.

Compared with Warner Bros., who is stuck in the mud of "Future Water World", and Disney, which has a big head on Stallone's "Special Police Inquisitor", it is just a "King of Fighting." MGM can be said to be rich in this summer. What's more, there is still a $12.07 million "Leadership" in the first week of the budget of $12 million, which is standard and small.

For Daenerys, handing over the adaptation of Mortal Kombat to MGM is definitely a mistake.However, in the end it can be regarded as a fertile field.

Like last year's "Xenogenous", with the release of the first week's box office results, MGM immediately announced the sequel of "King of Fighting" and announced that it will still adhere to the low-cost strategy.

In addition to the two new films, among the old films, this summer's most important "Jurassic Park 2" was released in the 9th week. The box office received another 8.07 million US dollars. The single-week box office officially fell into the range of 10 million US dollars. The cumulative box office reached US$38.176 million and continued to move steadily towards the threshold of 400 million.

"Apollo 13" released on the holiday of Independence Day, after receiving $56.31 million in the first week, the trend in the recent period has also been quite stable.

From the 28th of July to the 3rd of August 3rd, "Apollo 13" had a 29% drop at the box office in a single week, and received another 12.78 million US dollars. The cumulative box office was 143.57 million US dollars. The local box office of "Apollo 13" is between 170 million and 180 million US dollars.

The final box office of "Fighting Stars 3", which has been completely painted in June, is US$176 million. The local box office of "Apollo 13" is basically equivalent to this big comedy of the Easter period.

If there are other studios selling movies on the box office list last year, from 1995 until now, Daenerys Entertainment has completely demonstrated its dominance.

As of now, the four films that crossed the threshold of the 100 million box office club "Jurassic Park 2", "This Man From Earth", "Fighting Stars 3" and "Apollo 13", all from Daenerys Entertainment And, this time it was all a wholly-owned project of non-foreign cooperation.

In addition to Daenerys, although there are films such as "Tiger Dragon 3" and "Ghost Horse Elf" temporarily rushing into the top ten of the annual list, but these movies, the box office added up to a "Jurassic" "Ji Park 2", this situation, like many years after Simon's memory, other studios rushed into the top ten movies, the box office added up to a "Star Wars" or "Avengers" of the Dibao family. .

The trend of oligarchs is completely formed.

On August 4, a new box office week opened in the second half of the summer period.

Just like MGM's distribution strategy, in order to avoid a series of blockbuster bombs in the early summer period, many other studio projects have been placed in this period.

On this day, a total of 4 films with more than 1,000 screens were released. They are "Dangerous Game" starring Michelle Pfeiffer produced by Disney, "Magic Love" starring Julia Roberts produced by Warner Bros. Ramon produced "Time and Space" starring Denzel Washington and the low-cost family comedy "The Cursed Lawn" by Fox.

The production cost of the four new films is not more than 30 million US dollars. Although it inevitably impacted a lot of old films after the release, there were no explosions.

The best-performing Julia Roberts love movie "Love Magic" in the first week had a box office of only $16.61 million in seven days.In the first week of the painting, "King of Fighting" fell 54% the following week. The expected deep decline was the second in the list of 15.21 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office for the two weeks was 47.96 million US dollars.

Warner Bros.'s "Future Water World", the box office fell by 43% the next week, and received another 14.35 million US dollars. The cumulative box office was 39.54 million US dollars. It is estimated that the total local box office of about 60 million US dollars is less than 20 million US dollars in history .

Friday, August 11.

Another box office week opened, and the main opening new film was reduced to two, respectively, "The Online Horror" starring Sandra Bullock produced by MGM and the romantic comedy "Walking in the Cloud" produced by Fox.

Simon departed at noon that day and rushed to Europe to accompany Sofia for labor.

The direct flight from Los Angeles to Rome reaches 10,000 kilometers and takes about 12 hours. It is expected to arrive at the destination at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning local time.

Girl A is still with her.

In the front cabin of the Boeing 767, after the plane was stable, Alison handed over some documents to Simon before he left.

This is a stack of property information.

Girl A briefly introduces that these properties are mainly collected from Asia by the Westeros private real estate agent team.

It is still Simon's daily routine.

Hearing that there are several properties from South Korea, Simon turned directly to find the target. A total of three properties are located in Longshan District in downtown Seoul, South Korea, just like the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York.

Simon looked at the information in his hand and thought of something else.

In recent years, South Korea has been forgotten.

As one of the four little dragons in Asia, South Korea will have direct competition with the Westeros system in many industries in the future. Just like the electronics industry, game industry, and even movie music, if it cannot be controlled, it is best to suppress it, and The earlier the layout is, the better.

However, it is not too late.

To be precise, the most suitable time to deploy Korea should be 1997.