In the study room in the front cabin of the Boeing 767, Simon bid farewell to the women after breakfast and set off on his flight to the east coast just after 8 o'clock.
This is August 9th.
on Monday.
Simon's first concern is "Fight Club," which was released to great fanfare last Friday.
Due to the high popularity caused by the intense controversy, "Fight Club" opened with 1,263 screens. The three-day box office of "Fight Club" finally reached 15.46 million U.S. dollars in the first weekend. The box office directly exceeded 10,000 U.S. dollars, reaching the level of a blockbuster film.
Based on the weekend release, the film's first-week box office will be between $23 million and $24 million.
Compared with the total box office of the original "Fight Club" in North America, which was only over 30 million US dollars, it is only the first week, and it is undoubtedly a very bright start.
However, the next box office trend is actually somewhat unpredictable.
The key depends on next week.
According to the report given by the New World Pictures team, since the small number of screening screens has triggered discussions among the audience about Daenerys giving up on the movie, there will still be no additional screens immediately in the next week, and the number of screens will remain at 1,263 level.
On the one hand, this is to maintain the popularity of the topic. On the other hand, it can undoubtedly achieve a hunger marketing effect. After all, the topic is so hot, but there are very few films scheduled. The less the audience can see it, the more they want to watch it.
However, although it has only been three days since the film opened, and the specific local box office volume can only be roughly determined based on the trend in the following week, the New World Pictures team believes that it will not be easy for the film's total box office to exceed 100 million.
After all, the plot of this movie will indeed limit the audience to a large extent.
The premise of word-of-mouth is that everyone who has seen it will say it is good, and then it will be passed on to the people around you. If the people who have seen it say they can't understand it, or it's not as good as they imagined, the consequences can be imagined.
Therefore, the team predicts that the local box office of the film will be between US$60 million and US$80 million. Of course, since the topic in North America is so hot, the overseas market may be higher, and the global market may reach 150 million US dollars.
As long as it can reach this level, the film will basically be able to make back its money during the theatrical distribution stage.
Moreover, because of its genre, the follow-up peripheral channels for this film will happen to be very considerable.
First of all, people who like it will definitely rent video tapes or buy DVDs to watch it repeatedly in the future. Secondly, people who are not willing to go into the theater to watch this movie now will probably consume it in the relatively low-cost peripheral market in the future. movie.
Therefore, the bulk of profits will follow.
Simon basically agrees with this idea and has no intention of interfering with the New World Pictures team's subsequent publicity operations.
While browsing the box office data and related reports of other projects, Girl A knocked on the door and walked in.
Looking at Girl A, who was wearing a black OL suit as usual and putting down a stack of documents opposite her, Simon signaled, and Alison obediently turned to the desk.
Simon waited for Girl A to approach, put his arms around her slender waist, leaned his head against the girl, felt the refreshing feminine fragrance, and immediately relaxed.
Be The Absolute King
difficult.
Otherwise, why were there so few wise kings and so many foolish kings in ancient times
Too tired.
Girl A gently raised her hand to stroke her boss's hair, and said after a moment: "Boss, why don't you change the course and go to Florida for a few days, or Europe?"
Simon shook his head: "It's too hot in Florida. I want to go somewhere cooler."
"Ukraine?"
"No, there is no place for women."
Girl A curled her lips, understanding that her boss had no plans to change her itinerary, so she said no more.
Simon only leaned against her for a while, then let go of Girl A and said, "Okay, let's go."
Girl A hummed and left quietly.
Simon continued to read the report in his hand, and then turned to the documents sent by Girl A.
The first comes from Latin America.
Just last week, the Brazilian currency, the real, suddenly experienced a plunge, bringing with it the entire Brazilian stock and bond market.
On the surface, this is a continuation of the 1997 financial crisis.
It's not completely over after all.
But, in fact, Simon already knew this outcome would occur last month.
The cause of the matter is also very simple.
Just last month, Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, held a summit led by the European Union and actively responded by Latin American countries. It was called the EU-Latin America Summit to discuss the strengthening of economic cooperation between the two sides.
Then recently, as the largest economy in Latin America, Brazil's currency has plummeted, dragging down the stock and bond markets, and even other surrounding countries.
It's so fast that it can cover your ears and steal the bell.
That's right.
Still counts as another move in the United States' sniper attack on the euro.
If the EU wants to promote the euro, it cannot only operate on its own one-third of an acre. It will definitely need many partners. Then, I don’t know what the EU countries were thinking, and they focused on Latin America.
This is America's backyard.
All the flowers and plants are from my house. Can I let you open a field and grow vegetables here
Thinking too much.
Anyway, Simon used to know about the G8, the G20, or the Davos Forum, but he had no impression of the EU-Latin America Summit. I don’t know if it was quietly canceled later, or it was just a formality. Everyone occasionally The kind where we can chat and drink together and get down to business.
Speaking of the combination of attacks on the euro, in fact, China has also benefited from it.
Although the Clinton administration has been actively promoting China's accession to the WTO, the conservative US Congress has always been mostly opposed to it.
This year, however, there was suddenly less opposition.
Why
Quite simply, we are worried that a market like China with a population of 1.2 billion will completely turn to the EU.
This is why the WTO accession negotiations between China and the United States have suddenly accelerated recently.
However, while taking advantage of the market entry process, Simon also knew that in order to join the WTO, China finally adopted a monetary policy anchored to the US dollar to a certain extent, but in fact it also paid a considerable hidden price.
Not much to say about this.
Going back to the plummeting Brazilian currency, Simon understands that in order to make Latin American countries be more honest and not make trouble that they shouldn't, the federation's measures against them will not stop there, and must teach them an unforgettable lesson. Therefore, , this is just the beginning.
Therefore, after reading the information, Simon typed a simple reminder on the keyboard next to him and asked Girl A to send a copy of the information to Australia, reminding Anthony to pay attention to the economic situation in Latin America at all times and continue to buy various core stocks in Latin America at the appropriate time. Mining Assets.
After doing this, Simon put the document in front of him aside and took another one.
from China.
In addition to the daily routine of major investment projects, there are two other things that Simon paid special attention to, both related to the film and television industry.
Speaking of which, Simon has always wanted to let go, but unfortunately it was obviously impossible.
Just like Ren Jingxi sent an email to discuss strategies some time ago, Simon couldn't hold it back and typed thousands of words in a confident manner.
Just go with the flow.
Two things happened this time. One is that the authorities officially issued a document in response to petitions from people in the Hong Kong film and television industry, agreeing to open the mainland's film market to Hong Kong. One of the main conditions is that Hong Kong films can enjoy similar rights to mainland film and television companies in the mainland. status is no longer treated like an imported film.
However, compared with the mainland's complete liberalization of Hong Kong films after the previous petition, this time the gap is not too big.
First of all, it is still limited to the film field.
In terms of television, the original ban on entertainers from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan has not been lifted this time.
Secondly, although they enjoy the treatment of domestic films, in terms of distribution, Hong Kong companies still need to cooperate with mainland film companies with distribution qualifications, and they are not allowed to directly launch distribution business in the mainland.
Obviously it is still the result of a game.
The game between senior management and industry level.
After all, Simon believes that the mainland's top leaders do not lack the courage to completely liberalize Hong Kong. After all, the mainland is really digging its heart into Hong Kong. Not only does it not pay a penny of tax, it keeps all for its own use, but also delivers various supplies. According to the current situation, a poor mother who is not yet fully fed is scraping the bottom of the pot to let her rich son eat more.
Of course, if you don't raise them well enough, you won't raise them well enough.
Not much to say.
As for this matter, a poor mother has more than one son, so of course she cannot tolerate her blindly showing favoritism.
That's why we came up with this relatively compromise plan.
Even so, it is obvious that in the next few years, it will definitely be like before when the Hong Kong film and television industry collectively entered the mainland. Things did not go very well, but there were a lot of bullshit.
Not much to say about this.
The second thing is that film distribution qualifications are officially opened to private companies.
Unlike in 1999, when only one Bona obtained the qualification for private distribution, this time there were three in the first batch. Jinshu successfully occupied one, and the other two were one in Beijing and one in Shanghai. According to the data, how many Still have some background of state-owned assets.
The former Bona was lost to butterflies.
In fact, Simon also knew from the beginning that in mainland China, distribution was no longer a problem from very early on, and there were only countermeasures in place.
This time it was put on the table.
Of course, there are definitely many benefits, at least the uncertainty of purchasing factory labels from state-owned studios in the past is removed. After all, it is not compliant, and when it comes to money, it is still a lot of money, and it is inevitably messy.
Now that the qualifications are officially released, it is no longer easy to hide one's ears and steal the bell, and it is not so easy to go back to the past.
Dealing with work emails like this, time flies by.
When the Boeing 767 landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon on the East Coast due to the time difference.
Simon did not start his work schedule immediately and returned home to Westeros Tower first.
Speaking of which, it is August and the recent summer is coming to an end. Two Jennys and a group of little ones will return to Los Angeles again during this period. Although there is no shortage of private schools here that can be entered at any time, whether it is two mothers or a group of The children are more accustomed to the environment there.
After a night's rest, Simon continued to spin the next day.
There's one main thing here this week: opening a second animated film studio.
This starts with Pixar.
Simon has absolutely no problem with the quality of the animated films produced by Pixar, but the problem is that Pixar's production schedule is really slow.
Simon also initially tried to increase output by increasing the size of his team.
Not considered a success.
Just like the two recent animated movies, the last one, "A Bug", was released at the end of 1997, and this one, "Cars", was released at the end of 1999, a full two years apart.
Although the next projects will be faster, for example, "Finding Nemo" will be completed next year, and "Monsters, Inc." which has already been approved, will also be released smoothly in 2002.
In total, it actually takes about one and a half years.
Simon himself is absolutely unwilling to see Pixar affect quality in pursuit of output. In this case, the best way is of course to open up another battlefield.
We had a goal very early on: the former Blue Sky Studio.
The original Blue Sky Studio did not launch its first animated film "Ice Age" until 2002, but in fact, this company was established very early, in the 1980s. In the early days, it mainly produced CG advertisements. Later he dabbled in special effects.
Because it was established early, it has escaped the interference of the big butterfly Simon. Although, the development in recent years has inevitably deviated from the previous track, it has still existed and is developing well.
Simon had people investigate and found that Chris Wedge, who had been the creative core of "Ice Age", was also there this time.
Then it won't be a problem.
As for the changes in time and space that may affect inspiration, this is not a problem. Simon is most lacking in inspiration. After all, at Pixar, Simon's 'inspiration' has always been in charge.
Because it has been paying attention very early, under the quiet guidance here, Blue Sky Studio has completed its first animated short film in the first half of the year.
Yes, that's the squirrel.
Simon quietly sent the idea to Blue Sky Studio, and personally gave the initial look of the squirrel, and the director also chose Chris Wedge.
This time it is a further step to follow the trend.
First, complete the acquisition.
However, it is not an acquisition by Daenerys, but an acquisition by the brand new 20th Century Fox, which has basically completed the merger of three companies.
Simon's intention is to increase Hollywood's production of animated films, but not necessarily to significantly increase Daenerys' production of animated films. The main reason is that Pixar alone is not enough to fully meet the market demand for animated films. If Simon does not open a new animation studio, the corresponding market vacancies will undoubtedly fall into the hands of other unrelated studios in the future.
As for the new 20th Century Fox, although the Murdoch family still maintains a certain say, the leadership basically falls to Simon.
Since they are all from our own family, of course there is no need to distinguish each other too much.
In any case, if Blue Sky Studio is handed over to the new 20th Century Fox, some future cooperation, such as peripherals, will definitely only benefit others, and the first choice will definitely be its own Hasbro and the like.
Furthermore, Simon does not want the joining of Blue Sky Studio to affect the style of Daenerys’ animated films or even cause trouble to the audience.
Neither Blue Sky Studios nor some of the classic animated movie ideas in the pipeline, at least in terms of scale, are certainly close to Pixar's all-ages G-rating. For example, "Shrek", which was copyrighted by Simon very early on, is definitely not suitable for Pixar to do this anti-fairy tale. It will undoubtedly be very suitable to hand it over to Blue Sky Studio.
Moreover, with competition, the Pixar team will also have some pressure, and only when there is pressure will there be motivation.