After the global box office exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars, in the complete box office week from February 27 to March 5, the local box office of "Titanic" was 23.16 million U.S. dollars in a single week, reaching a total of 504.11 million U.S. dollars.
At the same time, the film's overseas box office revenue in one week is estimated to be approximately US$71 million, bringing the total overseas box office to US$535 million.
Daenerys Entertainment seized the opportunity and launched another massive promotion of "Titanic" at just the right time.
As the news spread that the global box office of this film exceeded 1 billion, coupled with the film's still rapid box office growth momentum and the upcoming Oscar ceremony, and even the entire Westeros system spared no effort to build public opinion, "Titanic" ” instantly became the focus of heated discussions in media around the world, which in turn further promoted the popularity of the film.
Under the influence of the hot spot effect, many people from all corners of the world who did not often go to theaters began to buy tickets to enter the theater, and there were countless movie fans who watched it many times out of love for the movie.
On the other hand, "Titanic" shines brightly, but it does not completely overshadow the brilliance of other films of the same period.
"The Blair Witch Project," the second pseudo-documentary film also produced by Daenerys Entertainment, was released on February 6. It not only overturned "Titanic" in its first week, but also recently appeared in the shadow of the big ship. The downward trend is also quite stable.
In the fourth week of its release from February 27 to March 5, "Blair Witch", a low-cost horror film with a budget of only US$1 million, still earned US$14.93 million in a single week. In the past few months since its release, the cumulative box office has reached 98.65 million. The U.S. dollar is about to exceed 100 million. At the same time, it will also become the first film in North America to have a local box office of over 100 million in 1998.
The local box office cost-return ratio alone will exceed 100 times. Even if it is far inferior to the scale of "Titanic", the impact it brings to the Hollywood circle is not weak at all.
Because no one dares to easily spend 200 million to produce another "Titanic". However, if 200 million is spent to produce 200 "Blair Witch" movies, too many people are absolutely willing to take this risk, even if only a few of them reach the level of "Blair Witch" 》The results are not bad.
This also makes the pseudo-documentary movie, which has cooled down slightly after the release of "The Ghost Story" last year, once again reached its highest level of topicality.
Friday, March 6th.
At the beginning of a new box office week, it is worth mentioning that Blockbuster, which has a close relationship with Daenerys, and New World Pictures jointly launched a reboot of the popular "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series in the 1980s, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Street: Return".
Compared with the low-cost strategy that the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series has always adhered to, most of the previous film production costs were less than 10 million U.S. dollars. This latest reboot, which uses a lot of CG special effects, finally invested 25 million U.S. dollars, which is less than 10 million U.S. dollars. The $15 million budget that Nancy had just proposed to Simon had been increased by $10 million. Due to budget overruns, the project was moved from being produced solely by Blockbuster Productions to a partnership with New World Pictures.
Furthermore, the publicity budget this time has reached 10 million U.S. dollars, with a total cost of 35 million U.S. dollars.
Compared with the current rising investment in Hollywood film production, the total budget of US$35 million is actually not high. Because of the popularity of this series, the production team is also quite optimistic about achieving profitability. Worst of all, subsequent video tapes and TV broadcast channels will be enough to recover the cost. After all, horror films have always been a big player in the field of home entertainment.
In addition, choosing an unpopular schedule like early March is also based on various considerations such as the size of the project.
After all, the reputation of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is based here. Instead of squeezing into popular schedules, it can attract more viewers to the show.
Of course, there were some miscalculations this time. The schedule was set last year. No one expected that "Titanic" would be so popular, and "Blair Witch" was more or less a dark horse of the same type of horror film.
In any case, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Return" was released on time on March 6, with an opening of 2,562 screens.
Fortunately, the results were pretty good.
In the first three days of its opening weekend, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Return" has grossed US$16.91 million at the box office. The box office for the full week is expected to be around US$25 million, and the total domestic box office is expected to be between US$40 million and US$50 million.
The local box office of 40 to 50 million yuan, let alone "Titanic", is difficult to get in front of "Blair Witch", and it is difficult to recover the cost of local theater distribution.
However, this is actually the normal state that Hollywood movies should have.
The domestic revenue is 40 to 50 million. If the overseas performance is better, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Return" may even hit the global sales of 100 million. This will definitely achieve profitability, which is considered a good success.
Monday, March 9th.
New week.
Simon arrived at Daenerys Studios in the morning. After the new week's regular high-level meeting, he paid a little attention to the box office data of the past weekend, and then started another meeting with Nancy and the Daenerys Records team in charge to discuss the plans for PolyGram. Acquisition progress.
According to news from Washington and Europe, at the government review level, there will be basically no obstacles to this merger, so actions after the merger can be officially considered.
After the meeting, Simon took time to check out the latest team to be launched under the Infinite Records label: the Spice Girls, with Barry Weiss, who is responsible for the Teen-Pop business of the record group.
It was an idea that Simon casually proposed last year, and Barry Weiss promised to complete it this spring, and plans have been moving forward smoothly.
Completely different Spice Girls.
There are still five girls, even though the political correctness in the United States is not that serious at the moment. "Friends", which later made the creators shed tears and confess, all have white protagonists. This time, the five girls are quite politically correct, three white people and one Latino , a black man.
The first single to be released is still the original "Wannabe" that Simon provided based on his memory, which once made the Spice Girls a hit.
I briefly met five girls and watched the "Wannabe" MV shot with the same one-shot technique. It was already noon.
Simon's energy for this project is limited to this.
What happens next is up to chance.
In fact, after finding the right Barry Weiss, the historical godfather of American Teen-Pop, and giving him enough support, Daenerys Records' development in this part of the business has been quite impressive in recent years.
In addition to the Spice Girls this year, Christina Aguilera will also make her debut.
After Britney was eliminated due to the incident last year, Simon planned to make Christina Aguilera into a mixture of Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne, a little girl who looks the same and has amazing singing skills. Fairies also have this potential.
Of course, your weight must be under control so that the genie in the bottle cannot turn into the genie in the barrel.
There are a lot of things going on today.
After a busy day, I came home and had a video conference with the Australian side after dinner.
Discuss the situation in Africa.
Rwanda recently reached an agreement with Johnston Holdings to jointly invest in the mining of a diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to preliminary inspection estimates by a team sent by Australia, a diamond mine located in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is expected to be mined for more than 10 years and produce rough diamonds worth at least US$2 billion.
However, upon closer inspection, this is actually just a tack.
The Rwandan government wanted support from the Westerosi system in order to expand into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Not only in terms of funds, but also in terms of public opinion, the Westeros system can use a large amount of resources to at least ensure that the international community will not send troops to intervene after Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo go to war. As for condemnation and the like, it doesn't matter. After all, Rwanda still has some great righteousness, which is to hunt down the war criminals who committed the massacre a few years ago.
Simon knew that the next step would be another protracted world war in Africa.
Not only Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but most of sub-Saharan Africa will be involved, and behind the scenes are the Western forces actually waiting for a share of the meal.
Africa is indeed rich in resources. However, for the Westeros system, there is no rush to develop large quantities of oil, iron ore, coal, etc. They just need to occupy the pits first. After all, Johnston Holdings has operations in Australia and The mines controlled by Brazil and other places are sufficient for mining for many years.
In addition, Simon is very interested in battery-related metal resources, which is also a focus of the next layout.
As for the consequences of the next war, Simon will not care too much this time. Simon's intervention in 1994 was not really to prevent any humanitarian disaster, so this time it doesn't matter that the dragon slayer turned into an evil dragon.
Simon was never a dragon slayer, he was always an evil dragon.
At the end of the meeting, Anthony Johnston also mentioned another thing. Johnston Holdings has officially sent an acquisition invitation to BHP, another Australian mining giant. This was something Simon finalized with the old man when he was in Australia during the New Year. .
As long as BHP is successfully annexed and Billiton has been digested, the Johnston family will officially control a super mining giant that is even larger than the former BHP Billiton. It is involved in areas far beyond just iron ore. Speaking of all metals, including gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, lithium, tin, etc., as well as various rare earth metals, and even coal, oil, diamonds and the like other than metals, Johnston Holdings will be involved.
After finishing the video conference with the Australian side, Simon contacted Chen Qing in Seoul.
The wiretapping incident last weekend in San Lucas has been cleared up.
The four women all come from the same instigator, Kim Woo-jung, the head of South Korea's Daewoo Consortium.
I don’t know if Jin Yuzhong underestimated the seriousness of eavesdropping on Simon, or underestimated the connections of the Westeros system in South Korea, so he just asked his trusted assistants to contact two investigation and consulting companies that specialize in similar business. It was considered a reluctance. A third party was used as a springboard, and it was not too obvious to end personally.
In short, under the investigation here, things quickly came to light.
The Westeros family's intelligence team in South Korea also obtained the exact recording of Jin Yuzhong himself talking about the incident. Because the four poor women were temporarily told to stand still and only said that the matter failed to succeed, they probably learned something about that weekend. In the inside story, Jin Yuzhong still yelled that it was a pity in his office and said that he must arrange for secret filming next time.
After listening to the recording and Chen Qing's online translation, Simon inexplicably remembered the scandal in which Li Jianxi was secretly photographed. Jin Yuzhong probably wanted to do this, at least to make Simon disgraced in Korea. After all, the national sentiment in South Korea is very strong. The exposure of the incident and the pressure of public opinion may force the Westeros system to withdraw from South Korea. At least it will also relieve the Daewoo Group, which is currently being clearly targeted.
Simon could only say that it was a good idea, but unfortunately it was unrealistic.
Simon is a public figure, but at the same time he is not a public figure.
Simon is not a star who needs to rely on his public image to make money. Even if some negative news comes out, so what? Will someone jump out to boycott the entire Westeros system
Can you resist
You know, this kind of thing happened once four years ago, when the Hearst Group almost exposed Simon. What was the result
The public is always forgetful.
The public has an almost instinctive tolerance towards those in power, and feels that it is almost natural for those in power to do certain things. Therefore, when the matter is exposed, it will not cause too many waves.
In any case, Simon originally wanted to take things step by step with Daewoo, LG and other Korean chaebols that were unwilling to give in. However, since someone is seeking death, Simon will not be polite and directly orders Chen Qing to take action there to completely seal off the Daewoo Group and kill the monkeys to scare the chickens.
This matter is actually very simple.
For South Korea's chaebols in the current situation, the most important thing is funds. Daewoo Group, with liabilities reaching US$70 billion, has a capital chain that is in a precarious state.
It just so happens that it couldn't be easier for Simon to block the source of funds of a Korean chaebol.
Not only is the IMF team in South Korea, which is responsible for controlling the Korean economy and allocating aid funds, completely under the control of the Westeros system, but also, as long as Simon lets out the word, even outside the IMF, capital in any corner of the world will no longer Easily transferred to Daewoo Group.
Simon does exactly that.
After ending the video call with Chen Qing, Simon wrote an electronic message directly to Girl A, asking her to make a detailed list and then send an ultimatum to the relevant financial institutions.
During last year's IMF negotiations and the subsequent investment in South Korea, Simon brought a lot of capital with him to make a fortune. Since they got the benefits, those people had to listen to his orders. If they don't give face, let alone whether there will be a next time, even if they get the benefits this time, if Simon is unhappy, they can make them spit it out.
Seoul, Korea.
In the mansion in Itaewon, the time in Asia, which is 17 hours different, is around three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.
Chen Qing made an agreement with her boss and gave the instructions quickly.
First, the news that Jin Yuzhong was trying to eavesdrop on his boss was released in certain circles. Next, the relevant retaliatory measures were naturally taken as a matter of course.
For more than an hour that followed, Chen Qing kept making phone calls or summoning some people to come over and explain in person.
After all, it is definitely not that simple to deal with a corporate giant with a scale of tens of billions of dollars or a local snake.
Local snakes are not dead snakes, they will bite when cornered.
In the study room of the mansion villa, Chen Qing's cell phone rang immediately after she hung up the phone. When the call came through, it was Cheng Taixi calling. After hearing a few words said there, Chen Qing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. Instead of being angry, she was interested, and even felt a bit ridiculous.
What happened was that the Showbox production company that Cheng Taixi was in charge of was approached by a gangster just before getting off work.