The next morning I woke up in a private garden deep in Taohuawu. I drank wine last night, but I was in good health and didn't feel any discomfort.
This is a second-floor bedroom in a small building. There is a small window next to the big bed.
Lying on the window sill and looking out, you can see the flying eaves and green wind curtains. It is a beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. However, Chen Qing suddenly thought of another sentence: How deep is the courtyard
Then I thought, if my boss was here, he would definitely feel more emotional.
Speaking of which, Chen Qing can feel that her boss actually likes to come to China, but also restrains herself from coming to China often.
Thinking about it privately, it is probably because of his status and position. After all, the position a man is in receives too much attention, overtly or covertly, and it is easy for a single move to affect the whole body.
After a brief daze, I quickly got up and started a new day.
Sitting at the dining table and having breakfast, Jiang Shanwu talked about something. Over in Hangzhou, the boss saw an auction advertisement by chance when he read the newspaper last time. The Overseas Chinese Hotel by the West Lake has been acquired.
Lin Su sent a message and asked what to do
Explain something.
As the operation of Jinshu Film and Television City is getting more and more on track, Jinshu Hotel and Catering Company, a subsidiary of Jinshu Film and Television Tourism Development Group, has also become quite large in recent years. It operates a number of hotels of different grades in the Jinshu Film and Television City area from high to low. We have a fairly mature team.
So the plan is to send people from here, clean up the hotel from top to bottom, identify what went wrong, and then gradually get it back on track.
To be honest, in Chen Qing's opinion, it is not easy for a hotel in such a prime location by the West Lake to be able to operate at a loss for so many years.
But of course it’s understandable.
In the past, some things still had to continue, but some were dispensable. As long as they were eliminated, it would not be too difficult to make money.
What's more, according to the boss's thinking, the purpose of acquiring this hotel is not to make money from the hotel itself. The key is the land owned by the hotel.
Real estate.
Occasionally, when Chen Qing thinks about her boss's huge layout in China's real estate industry, she doesn't dare to think deeply about it, because she always thinks of Japan.
I have done a lot of understanding in private.
The development of the real estate industry can indeed drive economic development to a large extent, but once over-reliance occurs, it is not easy to get rid of it.
Then stop thinking about it.
Can you control so much about the future? What's more, it's beyond her control.
After breakfast, go see the girl in the morning.
The more resources you have, the easier it is to recruit beautiful girls, and gradually it becomes a habit. After all, your boss obviously likes her too.
Moreover, it is also an opportunity for girls: Do you want to immigrate
These days, ninety out of a hundred people must be thinking about it.
Think about it no matter what.
However, Chen Qing doesn't guarantee it.
It is certain that you will be allowed to go abroad, but whether you can immigrate depends on luck, such as whether you can win the favor of your boss
After another busy day, I flew to Seoul the next day.
I have discussed with my boss Clinton’s visit to Vietnam in August, and this time I will go to South Korea to further coordinate some planned investment projects.
After the private plane took off, Chen Qing remembered that she seemed to have forgotten something in the past few days since she returned to Suzhou.
But so be it.
Well, next time next time.
Olivia Fuji Chen Westeros: My biological mother? !
While everyone is busy, another box office week in July is coming to an end soon.
The first is mainland China. From July 14th to July 20th, Kung Fu collected another 187 million yuan at the box office in its second week of release. Counting the 236 million yuan in the first week, the total box office exceeded 4 100 million mark, with a cumulative total of 423 million yuan, reaching the top of the box office in mainland China's film history.
There was great joy.
It can be said that the release of Kung Fu in July 2000 has become a small event in China. Even though the film has broken film and television records, everyone is still paying close attention to the film's box office breakthrough. The 500 million mark was the moment when the record set by the Titanic was once again improved by a large margin.
Meanwhile, across the ocean.
300, released on the same day as Kung Fu, received an unsatisfactory comprehensive media score of 6.9, but with almost word-of-mouth popularity, it topped the box office in its first week this summer, second only to Finding Nemo. , 300’s box office decline in the second week was quite impressive at 37%, collecting another US$60.65 million.
The film's cumulative box office thus reached US$156.93 million.
There is no longer any suspense about 200 million. 250 million is the next stage goal. As for 300 million, we still can’t expect too much.
However, even if the film's final box office is around US$250 million, it is already a huge success. After Resident Evil, Zack Snyder easily advanced to the ranks of first-line directors with this 300.
Daenerys' film was originally scheduled to be a three-part film.
There is one left.
Faced with other studios' attempts to woo Zack Snyder, Simon is not too anxious.
The main thing is that Zack Snyder's skills are undoubted, but his shortcomings are also obvious. Of course, the director only made two movies this time, both of which were quite successful, and others did not notice his shortcomings.
Simon knew it.
To put it simply, Zack Snyder's narrative ability in movies is very weak, which is why he is better at projects with a novel or comic story foundation, but even if he has a story foundation, it often goes out of control and goes astray. Perhaps for die-hard comic book fans, I wish Zack Snyder would shoot the story for more than three hours every time, or even ten hours. But, commercially, this is definitely not feasible.
For theater movies, three hours is already the limit, but two hours is the best choice.
The director just lacked the commercial ability to compress the story into two hours and complete it neatly, which inevitably led to conflicts with the studio.
Then again, whether it was before or this time, Zack Snyder's first two films were actually well controlled within two hours. So, why did it frequently get out of control later
Very simple.
When a person has a higher position and has a stronger voice, he can't help but express himself freely.
This is why Simon has always insisted that film creators must be subject to sufficient constraints. No matter how high the position, they cannot act randomly. Rather, a certain compromise needs to be made between personal creative concepts and the commercial needs of the studio. Otherwise, the result will often be one disaster after another.
For example, a certain pilot who always used to say that we didn't care about anything except giving money, spent a lot of money, but from Bombshell to Schneider, all the great directors, all with various tricks, ended up with a lot of money. What kind of crap is this pile of stuff
Then came the gradual come-from-behind success of traditional studios.
The reason why traditional studios can catch up in the field of streaming media is very simple. They have a large number of classic works that have been tested at the box office or ratings. This cannot be done by throwing a few big directors into a bunch of assembly lines. realized.
The names of great directors are actually not that attractive. Spending money on them and letting them make bad movies will be even more counterproductive.
In short, since there are various olive branches from other studios, Simon is very happy for Zack Snyder to go out and let him go out. With his confidence that two consecutive movies have been successful, the control is definitely appropriate. As for the extent to which he can let go, it depends. God willing.
What if it were to succeed again
It's not a big problem either. After all, I have a film scheduled here at home and I will be back to shoot it sooner or later. Even if he never comes back, Simon still has enough talent reserves in his pocket.
While 300 unexpectedly maintained a good trend in the second week after its release, another new film released by Daenerys, Magic Mike 2, did not perform as well as expected.
The first part of Magic Mike, with an ultra-low cost of US$7 million, achieved a box office of US$123 million in North America. Although it was not satisfactory overseas, the global box office eventually reached US$170 million, making it a dark horse.
For this sequel, Daenerys once again invited Steven Soderbergh to direct, and the production cost more than doubled to US$15 million. However, it opened on July 14 and only earned 26.28 million in one week. US dollar box office.
Compared with the production cost, US$26.28 million is certainly not low. However, this is not even as high as the US$27.32 million in the first week of the first film.
Not only that, the first part was a complete dark horse trend. Even if it did not reach 30 million in the first week, it finally won a box office of 123 million US dollars with a good box office curve. This time, relying on the accumulated popularity of the first film and sufficient publicity before its release, the New World Pictures team responsible for this project predicts that the film will need to earn about 40 million in the first week to ensure that the sequel will still exceed 100 million.
26.28 million US dollars, obviously far lower than the expectation of 40 million US dollars.
According to this opening, the final North American box office of Magic Mike 2 will be around 60 million.
Of course, it is still a good result, but it is inevitably regrettable.
Because the box office gap is so big, even without Simon's strategy of delaying the development of sequels, it would be difficult to start the third film.
July 21st, another Friday.
It’s a new box office week, and Daenerys’ new film this week is The Black Dahlia .
This adaptation of a novel based on real events is much more popular than the previous L.A. Confidential, one of the "L.A. Quadrilogy". After the success of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia project was successfully approved and continues to be produced by the publisher Directed by Ryan De Palma.
Speaking of which, there was once a version of Palma's The Black Dahlia starring Scarlett Johansson, which turned out to be a box office disaster.
Simon still chose Parma this time, and was not affected by the memory of the past, also because the previous version of the Black Dahlia was originally a mess that Parma took over.
In the beginning, the project was being brewed by David Fincher. It turned out that the director wanted to shoot the film as a black and white film. Of course, the studio did not agree. After a long time of back and forth, it finally fell to Palma, a veteran. The director worked within the story framework that Fincher had been struggling with for a long time, but it was ultimately unsatisfactory.
This time, Simon tailored the script according to Palma's personal style from the beginning, combined it with the version he had remembered, and learned from each other's strengths. The result was satisfying.
The premiere was held two days in advance and word-of-mouth was released. Even if it is not as good as the previous L.A. Confidential, the comprehensive media score has reached 7.8 points. For a murder-type crime thriller, this is already a considerable result.
Among them, Simon reproduced Mia Kirschner's video performance in the 2006 version, which was frequently praised by film critics. They believed that Mia Kirschner could win another Oscar just with this performance. Supporting Actress nomination.
Therefore, all parties are quite confident that The Black Dahlia will continue the commercial success of L.A. Confidential.
The following weekend after July 21st, the Simons were in Atlantic City on the East Coast.
The 2000 elite world elite model competition finals will be held on Saturday, July 22. Again, out of the consideration of promoting the many casinos in Atlantic City that are part of the Westeros system, it was chosen to be held here again.
Simon, of course, did not attend the finals.
After all, everyone in the audience was watching him. It was unkind for him, a grown man, to steal the limelight from a group of little girls.
Just attended the after-party after the finals.
History continues to be disrupted by Simon, the big butterfly. On similar occasions, there are fewer and fewer familiar faces from the past. However, there are still two this time, one from Australia, the famous Miranda Kerr, and the other From Canada, the famous baby-faced supermodel, Jessica Stein.
In fact, it's not too accidental.
Both of them were accidentally discovered by Simon when he was looking through the list of elite contestants. Then, as a mastermind like himself, it was easy for two girls to take the lead.
However, the two women only made it to the finals.
In the end, I didn't win any awards.
This is not a deliberate arrangement by Simon. After all, the modeling competition has its own set of fixed procedures. Simon just picked out the two girls, and the rest will depend on their fate and let nature take its course.
Speaking of which, the experiences of the two models are quite different.
Even though she is a baby-faced type, Miranda Kerr is definitely a winner in life. Even after several marriages, with children, she can still marry a billionaire who is 7 years younger than herself.
The other one, Jessica Stan, originally had a very high starting point, but as a result, she was basically destroyed by drugs. She was only in her twenties, and her once delicate baby-faced appearance had already turned into a look of vicissitudes of life.
The two girls, one is 17 years old and the other is 14 years old, are both good starting points for the modeling career. I wonder what their life chances will be this time and how far they can go
As we all know, Simon is a tycoon who is very willing to help others, the kind of djinn.
Therefore, after Saturday’s finals, Simon invited a group of finalists, including Miranda Kerr and Jessica Stann, to fly to his private estate in the Bahamas for a vacation the next day, and generously taught a group of young scallions by the way. life experience.