After the top three, the fourth place at the box office in the second week of the Thanksgiving season was both unexpected and expected. "Tea Boy" starring Adam Sandler faced the pressure of three blockbusters and remained the same in the first seven days. It took in a box office of $23.78 million.
Although the film opened with 2,654 screens, it failed to achieve a blockbuster-level average of over 10,000, but considering the film's mediocre reputation and the intensity of market competition, it still exceeded the early announcements of both the media and New World Pictures. It was beyond the expectations of the development team, but within the expectations of Simon alone.
You know, the previous "Tea Boy" also had a low reputation, but its domestic box office was US$160 million.
However, Simon also understands that in addition to Adam Sandler's own appeal, this achievement is due to the fixed market demand for comedy movies on the one hand, and Daenerys's current promotion and channels on the other. Because they are very strong in all aspects.
Even so, with 23.78 million in the first week, given the popcorn nature of the film, the final domestic box office can reach half of the previous level of 80 million, which is considered a success.
After all, it’s still those two words.
Involution.
Further on, the fifth place on the list is "Gangs of New York". The long-term trend that a few movie fans expected failed to appear. The film's box office dropped as much as 47% in the next week, earning 16.57 million US dollars. In two weeks, Martin Scorsese's The cumulative box office of this gangster movie was US$47.99 million.
Average, tepid.
In addition to the top five, last week's other two new films, "Total Siege" and "This Life", basically withdrew from the competition for the Thanksgiving film, needless to say.
Also worth mentioning is the Halloween release of "Annabelle 2". After last week's 47% drop, the box office decline in the Thanksgiving week narrowed again, to a well-controlled 29%. The film continued to earn US$9.77 million, accumulating The box office reached 87.06 million US dollars, steadily moving towards the 100 million yuan threshold.
Immediately afterwards, the new box office week that started on November 27th occupied the popular Thanksgiving weekend, and three new movies were released again. However, Thanksgiving has passed after all, and there are no heavyweight movies worth mentioning this time. Three movies The premieres of new films held in advance failed to make any splash. Basically, it was the blockbusters in the previous two weeks that divided the market.
New York, Long Island.
In the past week, the first snow of this winter has fallen in the Big Apple. The snow in the urban area is not thick, but it is covered in snow in East Hampton, and the temperature has dropped to below zero.
This is Sunday afternoon, November 29th.
In a manor villa facing the sea in the southwest of East Hampton, Simon came before noon and had lunch with Nancy Brill, who also flew from the West Coast yesterday. Then, they went to the second floor together, which was paved by clear snow and winter sunshine. The master bedroom is full of things to do.
Until about two o'clock in the afternoon.
The little female executive had calculated the date and came here about wanting to have a child.
According to Nancy's request, Simon had already mentioned it to Janet in advance and got the 'official' permission. He came here today also on leave. Of course, the small female executive was actually a little worried about Janet's guilty attitude. Simon didn't say anything about asking for leave, and even joked that he ran out secretly to compete with others.
He didn’t have the habit of smoking afterwards. After finishing the work, Simon leaned on the bedside and flipped through most of a copy of The Economist magazine. He looked at the little woman still lying on the quilt next to him and reached out to caress the rosy childlike face. Face, asked softly: "Would you like to take a bath?"
Nancy didn't speak, she just moved her petite head, shook her head, and pressed the man's big hand under her head.
Simon let the woman rest on his palm and finished flipping through the Economist in front of him again, and then said: "Why don't you turn over, it's not big in the first place, be careful of squishing it?"
Nancy glared at someone, but this time she was not indifferent and climbed up on Simon's body.
Simon stretched out his hand to lift the small female executive into his arms, and carefully pulled up the quilt to wrap her up.
Nancy felt the thoughtfulness of the man beside her, paused, and said, "You can go back to Manhattan later."
Simon changed a copy of "Barron's" from the bedside table and opened it again, casually saying: "No, I will stay with you tonight."
Nancy followed and looked at the magazine in the man's hand, her mind obviously not on it, and insisted: "You'd better go back, I don't want Jenny to know."
“Don’t worry, Jenny won’t know.”
Nancy thought of something, curled her lips, raised her head that was resting on the man's chest, and looked up: "Why do you always quibble with Jenny when you don't come home at night?"
"Driving home, there was a tornado."
"And then taken to Oz?"
"Yeah, it was hard to escape."
"Didn't you bring Jenny a pair of ruby shoes as a gift?"
“I brought it, and it’s still burgundy. Jenny likes burgundy the best.”
Nancy reached out and grabbed a thick arm in front of her, put it to her mouth and took a bite. Of course, she didn't hesitate to exert any force. She let go and looked at the shallow teeth marks on it, and said again: "I know, Jenny must have known that I was coming. So, you have to go back."
Simon lowered his head and touched the woman’s head with his chin: “Are you so afraid of Jenny?”
Nancy tilted her head, unable to escape, and could only let the man press her. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "Jenny and I are good friends, and I don't want her to think that I am planning to fight for something from her."
"What a friend. You know that Jenny doesn't actually care."
“…”
Simon patted the woman in his arms across the quilt: "That's it, honey, there's no need to think too much, be careful of thinking too much and getting prenatal depression."
Nancy pouted a little, but didn't insist anymore. She changed the topic and asked in a sharp manner: "How many women have you called 'baby'?"
"Very few, just you."
Nancy firmly didn’t believe it: “Liar!”
"Of course," Simon said without denying it at all, smiling: "I tricked you."
"rhetoric."
"Of course you have to use sweet words to deceive women." Simon said, deliberately speaking in a very proud tone: "I am so rich, I can win over girls with just one look, and I am still willing to use sweet words like this, which shows that I am a very dedicated woman." Young Master.”
Nancy was speechless again and silently pulled someone's arm over again.
I bite!
This time I used a little more strength and persisted for a while. It wasn't until the man cried out in pain that he finally let him go.
A minute-long cold war ensued.
After the man turned over a few pages of "Barron's", it was Nancy who finally spoke first: "Don't you have a Chinese dance team here? I want to watch the dance too?"
Simon nodded: "Okay."
Nancy blinked: "Aren't they currently performing in Singapore?"
Simon smiled and kissed the woman's soft hair: "Then you still want to watch?"
Nancy is depressed.
You can't say that I just want to make things difficult for you. Your normal reaction should be to refuse
When Simon saw that the woman was silent, he continued: "There is still someone staying here, if you really want to see?"
The Guofeng Art Troupe started another global tour with the theme of "Tang Yun" this fall. This round of performances was much shorter than last year. It's not that the performance was not successful enough and no one watched it, but Simon didn't plan to let too many people watch it. , after all, for art, you often have to hold it, so the number of performances in various countries and cities has been greatly reduced.
Due to the reputation accumulated from last year's performance and Simon's deliberate hunger marketing, this tour has become even more difficult to get tickets for every place it visits.
So far, the tour in North America, Europe and Australia has ended, and is currently in Asia. It is expected to be completed before Christmas. By then, the girls will either return to China to visit relatives, or return to North America for Christmas, it is up to them to make their own arrangements.
Furthermore, after the first batch of girls from the Chinese style art troupe, some have left in recent years, and new ones have been added.
The current residents of the Guofeng Art Troupe are some newcomers added this year. Although they are newcomers, they are also carefully selected dancers. Their dancing ability is definitely top-notch.
Big bed.
Since the man said so, Nancy certainly couldn't show her timidity and nodded decisively: "I want to see."
Simon glanced at the expression of the little woman in his arms, reached to the side and took his mobile phone, dialed the housekeeper's number, gave a brief explanation, hung up, and said to Nancy: "They are very close to here, come right away, we Go take a shower first?"
Nancy actually didn't want to leave the man's arms anymore, but the matter had been settled and she couldn't continue to rely on it. However, she immediately said with a slightly red face: "No... let's take a shower. Maybe it will wash off?"
Simon held back his laughter, what's the idea
He stood up directly and picked up the woman's petite body: "Let's be careful, and we can continue at night."
Nancy subconsciously hugged Simon's neck, noticed the smile on the corner of his mouth, and angrily wanted to bite again, but unfortunately it was obviously not possible at the moment, so she could only yell with a little fear: "You barbarian."
Because of the little woman's worries, the two of them didn't take a bath, but just took a shower together.
Half an hour later, the two people, each dressed in casual home attire, walked out of the bedroom. Nancy was not wearing high heels and was holding the man's arm. The height difference made her feel more and more like a little girl, so she couldn't help but find a topic to divert her attention. : "I saw the news about your stock exchange plan, what are you going to do?"
Simon said succinctly: "Break it into parts."
Nancy thought of one thing instantly: "Or are you preparing for the inheritance of family assets?"
"You put it like that, I found this benefit," Simon said while leading Nancy to the stairs: "However, the main thing is not this, but a restructure of the assets of the entire Westeros system. Now it is just To get started, it could take years to complete.”
Now Nancy didn't understand.
Having said that, he had already arrived downstairs, and Simon made a look later.
The housekeeper in charge of the manor came forward and brought five or six young girls with Asian faces. Because they took off their coats when they entered the room, the six girls only wore close-fitting bottoms and tights, even if they were standing still. Movement can give people the graceful and graceful feeling of a professional dancer.
Nancy actually occasionally flirted with Janet. Dongfeng had seen these Chinese girls dancing more than once. However, at this moment, looking at the group of charming girls in front of her who made people's hearts flutter at just one glance, even though she understood men's preference for women, she still instinctively I felt a little apprehensive, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
And don't want to show it.
Simon was keenly aware that the little woman next to him was holding his arm tightly. He originally wanted to say a few words to these girls, but simply gave up and said directly to the housekeeper of the villa: "Let them change clothes, Tang Yun theme , starting from Feitianwu.”
The housekeeper agreed. When she saw the male host leading the small female executives around him to the corridor, she turned around and gave instructions to a group of girls who looked a little disappointed. She also took out the intercom to summon other maids in the villa to come over. help.
Simon has watched dancing here before. There is a special performance hall of more than 200 square meters on the first floor of the villa.
Leading the small female executive to the performance hall, Simon took the initiative to return to the topic: "I plan to run the Westeros system as a country. You know, if a country wants to be stable, it must have a reasonable system. As for the industrial structure, the current situation is that most of the core enterprises in the Westeros system belong to the tertiary industry, which is obviously unreasonable, so I need to transfer to the primary and secondary industries."
When Simon said this, Nancy quickly retracted her thoughts. She was also smart enough to realize why the man took the initiative to say this, and no longer struggled. She thought for a while and said: "You said the size of these companies in Ygriet." It will be very big in the future, and if we abandon the stocks of these companies and turn to basic industries, we will suffer a lot."
"It's just that it won't be a good deal on the books," Simon shook his head: "If I don't do this, no matter whether Igret or Daenerys holds a large proportion of the stock, they can only control one company, and, then It is only a book value and cannot maximize the impact of the wealth represented by those stocks.”
"I understand," Nancy said with some clarity this time, "However, although I saw that after the news was released, the response from all parties was very positive, the scale of your assets is too huge. It shouldn’t be that easy to replace.”
"Yes, so I just said that it may be a project that will last for many years."
Nancy shook her head slightly: "I mean, the value of your assets is too high. Even if you want to exchange them, other parties, whether companies or individuals, cannot provide too many assets, even if they have enough to influence the control of the company. The stock ratio of the rights, but no one will be willing to give up voluntarily?”
"This is indeed a problem," Simon nodded and said, "But again, I have enough time, ten or twenty years, it will be fine. During this period, I will continue to cash out funds directly. If I am more patient, I can always Complete the layout I envisioned.”
With that said, the two came to the door of the performance hall.
There was already a waitress preparing in advance. When she saw Simon appear, she took the initiative to greet him. Watching the male host and his female companion sit down on the sofa under the stage, she took the initiative to ask what she wanted, and then retreated.
After the two maids here left, Nancy, who was leaning next to the man and looking around, finally asked: "Then, what happens after you complete the layout?"
"Ha, then, it's the next layout." Simon put his arms around the woman's waist, leaned on the sofa, crossed his legs, and waved with a bit of heroism in his laziness: "This universe is big enough, baby, as long as If we don’t lose our fighting spirit and don’t feel that we are getting old, then there will definitely be enough goals for us to conquer.”