Early the next morning, when Simon was jogging on the treadmill, Girl A sent him the first batch of media feedback on "The Conjuring 4: Deathstroke."
First of all, compared to "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", which scored a classic 9.3 in film history, the comprehensive media score of this sequel has declined, but it still reaches a very excellent level of 8.6.
Furthermore, as expected, the change in the style of the film has attracted the attention of many media people.
For example, the famous film critic Roger Ebert, who flew from Chicago to Los Angeles to attend the premiere last night, said tactfully in his personal column: "I found that "The Conjuring 4: The Dead" has done some very interesting things in terms of content. These adjustments are different from all other works in the Conjuring movie universe series, but may bring some different experiences to the audience."
Obviously due to Daenerys Entertainment's public relations reasons, Albert did not directly use his vicious tongue in the film review. However, careful readers can also feel that this film critic is not too sympathetic to Daenerys's response to the Conjuring series. adjustments made.
In addition, some film critics also pointed out similar thoughts to Lena Kane, regarding the idea that "The Conjuring 4: Deathstroke" is no longer so scary.
This is of course deliberate.
Although the previous "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" received a comprehensive media score of 9.3 points, which is a classic in film history, the local box office unfortunately failed to exceed 200 million U.S. dollars. This may be due to the fact that "The Conjuring Chronicle" was still very promising at the same time. It has impacted the horror film market. However, after an audience survey by Daenerys Entertainment, it was precisely the fact that it was too scary that limited the film's market performance to some extent.
After all, the frightening and phenomenal box office success of "The Exorcist" back then was largely due to the film's pioneering, unprecedented first time. "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" did not have this advantage. Even though it was still a hot topic at the time, when there were other options, it was said that it was too scary and the audience stopped watching it.
Based on market feedback and the fact that the Conjuring series must make breakthroughs if it wants to continue, the style change of "The Conjuring 4: Death" was made.
To put it simply, the horror is still there, but the additional fantasy elements will subtly neutralize the horror atmosphere of the film to a certain extent.
Simon personally cannot guarantee what impact this change will have on the box office. If it is negative, adjustments will definitely be made next time. But if the market performs well, the entire Conjuring movie universe series will actually have a way out to a higher level.
After all, after repeatedly attracting ghosts and chasing ghosts, over time, the audience will easily develop aesthetic fatigue.
This point is also another reason why "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" failed to break 200 million locally. At that time, this series had already made the audience a little tired.
In short, everything has to wait for the results after the official opening tomorrow.
After finishing his morning exercise, Simon washed up and changed his clothes and then went to the lobby of Shell Villa. It was seven o'clock in the morning, and everyone had not gone to the restaurant yet. Janet and Girl C were sitting on the sofa next to the curtain wall chatting, with Melbourne and Seattle beside them. Little guys, one is reading a book and the other is in a daze.
Claire Gein came to Los Angeles with Simon yesterday. There was only one reason. The girl once again had a little Westeros in her belly.
It probably happened during Tinker Beyer’s autumn conference last month.
Simon's 26th little one.
Coming closer, he leaned over and kissed Janet, and then greeted Girl C. Claire took the initiative to step aside, and Simon took the opportunity to sit down between the two women. He looked to the side and held Seattle in his arms, ignoring the obvious look of his baby son. Janet looked like a partial mother: "What are you talking about?"
"C is talking about Tinco Bayer's business expansion in China," Janet said: "It will achieve revenue of 1 billion US dollars this year. It is amazing. I never thought that the Chinese market would have such potential."
Simon smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's surprising."
Got to know it yesterday in San Francisco.
Mainly last month, also during the autumn conference, Tinkerber's first two flagship stores in China's BJ and Shanghai opened at the same time. Before that, it only developed its business through the agency model.
Not to mention other things, there are only two flagship stores. In the first month of opening, the revenue reached 53 million yuan, which surprised many insiders. If this momentum can be maintained, there are only two flagship stores. Every year, Tingko thanks The revenue brought by you will exceed 600 million yuan, equivalent to more than 70 million US dollars.
This is actually a microcosm of the booming development of Tinco Bayer's business in China.
China is poor now, but with a population of 1.2 billion, there are also a lot of wealthy people.
As Simon learned yesterday, China's tablet computer market is still mainly called PDA or handheld computer. Generally, basic models cost two to three thousand yuan. It is expected that the market sales volume this year will exceed 1.5 million. Taiwan, one of China's leading newspapers recently made a special report on this.
You know, yesterday Simon played with some PDA samples sold in the Chinese market at the Tinco Bayer headquarters. Not to mention domestically produced, even if they are from international brands such as Sony and Samsung, their functions are hard to describe. They can basically be described as tasteless.
However, such a "tasteless" product can sell millions of units in China a year and maintain a very high growth rate. This only shows that there are many more wealthy people in China than imagined.
Then, I have to mention the Tinker Bayer iPad series, which is absolutely high-end. In Simon's opinion, it is the only product that has escaped the tasteless label. Take the iPad-40 just released last month as an example. The North American price is 899 US dollars, equivalent to 7,500. RMB, and the pricing in mainland China, the basic standard version, is as high as 9,999 RMB.
In this way, you can buy two or three other brands of PDAs. It went on sale in mainland China at the beginning of the month. In less than a month, the sales volume has exceeded 20,000 units. Including old models, it is expected that in 2000, the iPad will be the only product in mainland China. It will reach about 230,000 units.
The iPad can be said to be one of Tinco Bayer's most expensive products, but this one is more popular in the Chinese market than iPlayer, iCam and other products. It is expected that this year's revenue from this part of the sales alone will account for About 20% of total revenue in China.
All these actually show that the potential of the Chinese market has reached a level that Tinker Bayer cannot ignore.
On the sofa next to the glass curtain wall.
Janet did not talk much about these business data, but said: "On my recent trip to Asia, I plan to temporarily add three days to China, which is considered a vacation, and I will take a look for myself."
Compared with Jennifer, who mainly focuses on her family, Janet has been responsible for many businesses in the Westeros system. The planned trip to Asia before Thanksgiving is mainly to sort out her husband's business layout in Southeast Asia. Originally, I have no plans to go to China.
The temporary change was obviously inspired by the topic that Girl C just mentioned.
Of course Simon had no objection, and after thinking for a while he said: “Take Jenny with you and treat it like you two are on vacation together.”
Janet nodded, but said: "Then all the children will be left to you?"
Simon: "This..."
Janet curled her lips slightly and pinched Simon's arm, then curled her lips: "Okay, I'll ask my aunt to come and take care of the child."
"Um!"
Janet's hand tightened and her smile turned evil: "However, my aunt probably doesn't have time recently, so she can only send her to the east coast and let Sophie come over to be a nanny. We happen to be there for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes, it has more atmosphere."
Simon: “…”
Claire watched the little action between her boss and his wife, skillfully pretending that she knew nothing and understood nothing.
I am also an innocent passerby.
Um…
Why do you say 'also'
Janet's prank succeeded. She let go of the man's arm and found that her precious son on the single sofa next to him, who was reading quietly, probably heard something from someone. He raised his head expectantly, suddenly lost his temper, and raised his chin slightly. He gestured: "Moer, come and talk with your father about your reading experience. This... um, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", who picked it?"
The little guy stood up obediently and said honestly: "Dad made the book list."
Janet glanced sideways, wondering if this was a book that children could understand, and then turned away: "Do you have any experience?"
Melbourne paused, and was keenly aware of the slight fire in his mother's tone. It was obviously not the time to talk about her reading experience in a serious manner, but just to find trouble, so she instinctively started to act stupid: "I think... it's very interesting."
Janet didn't let go, and even raised her tone: "What else?"
Melbourne looked at his father pitifully.
In a rare moment of being a 'good policeman', Simon began to smooth things over: "Mr. doesn't need to think too much now, he just needs to...well, this is the original Spanish version, not bad, just think of it as language training." The text of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" It’s very interesting. Just like the classic opening chapter, Melbourne can use it as a reference to imitate. For example, many years later, Mr. Melbourne, who inherited the Westeros family, stood by the glass curtain wall of the Shell Villa, facing the vast sky. and the sea, I will definitely think of that distant morning when my mother made random excuses to scold her. Look, what a good sentence."
After Simon finished speaking, the little guy continued to pretend to be innocent. Claire suppressed her laughter. Janet raised her hand and pinched him again. She waved to her son angrily: "You little rascal, disappear from my eyes immediately."
Melbourne fled.
Janet let go of her man and hugged her baby girl who was still in a daze next to her affectionately: "Sil is still the best, they will only make me angry."
His eldest mother was so affectionate. Seattle was interrupted from his thoughts. A little helplessness flashed across his expression, but he still cooperated with Janet. This made Janet very happy. She held up her baby daughter's little head and kissed her beautiful face continuously. Several mouthfuls.
Simon continued to be speechless,
Girl C next to her couldn't help it, and asked the man next to her softly: "Boss, Miss, is this always the case... Are you thinking about something?"
"Yes," Simon nodded, but couldn't help but joke: "Maybe he misses his home planet too much."
The eldest daughter of the Westeros family has an extraordinary IQ, or in other words, it is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. Even her father feels that her daughter is like an alien. You can imagine how others around her feel.
Simon could tease, but Claire didn't agree, she just laughed along.
But I couldn't help but think that it would be better for my baby not to be too smart in the future. Well, just a little smarter than Miss D's Elliot.
Miss D's son, Elliot Westeros, who was born at the end of last year, only turned one year old in December, but now he can talk and walk well, and is obviously a step ahead of most of his peers.
Based on the unanimous opinions of the other little guys in the Wei family and the girls, this is obviously because the boss has better genes.
While chatting like this, Jennifer came over to call someone, and everyone went to the restaurant together.
At the dinner table, Janet talked about the trip to Asia that had been added to the schedule and the man's wish to have Jennifer with him. The female assistant asked about the children's arrangements and agreed.
Still looking at Simon expectantly.
Simon could only regret that he couldn't leave recently, and besides, he didn't want to go to China so frequently anymore.
After breakfast, everyone started their day.
This is October 26th.
Thursday.
There's a birthday party tomorrow for the last of last year's batch of little ones, Roberta Chilko's Adam Westero, so Simon only has one morning before he flies off to New York again after lunch .
I arrived at Daenerys Studios at eight o'clock, processed a batch of daily documents, and started a meeting at nine o'clock. The content is to discuss a press conference that Daenerys will hold on this Sunday, October 29th.
This is something that was finalized with Amy Pascal after Daenerys released her financial report last week. The title of the press conference is "Embracing the Internet." Just looking at the name, you can imagine the content. In short, it is targeting Dany again. Liz Entertainment's informatization layout is a big pie, with the goal of stimulating the final jump in Daenerys Entertainment's stock price and sprinting towards a market value of trillions.
Because it was a big cake, Simon didn’t really care much about it.
The half-hour meeting ended, and Simon spent the rest of the morning discussing with his senior executives the release plans for the two major dates at the end of the year, until he left after lunch, carrying a demo of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on the plane. Look.
In the upcoming year-end period, the two most important films are "Justice League: Invasion" in the Thanksgiving period and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", the second part of the Lord of the Rings series in the Christmas period.
In addition to the two monster-level super blockbusters, Daenerys will also launch a series of other projects as usual.
"The Grinch", which won the North American box office championship in 2000, is the film that Simon attaches most importance to after the two major blockbusters. The samples reviewed in advance and the complete viewing of the finished film on the plane, even if The protagonist was changed from Jim Carrey to Ben Stiller, and the effect still satisfied Simon.
As for the box office, Simon does not have extravagant expectations this time, which was 260 million in North America. After all, the Christmas season has The Lord of the Rings blocking it.
Therefore, as long as the local market can exceed 100 million this time, it will be a satisfactory result. After all, compared to the production budget of Jim Carrey's version that exceeded 100 million, due to the overall reduction in production specifications, this time only spent 60 million US dollars.
If the local investment exceeds 100 million, most of the investment can be recovered directly.
To reach the goal of over 100 million, even if this project will not have much success overseas due to cultural factors, it will be easy to enter the profit cycle in the global theater distribution stage.
The day after Simon flew to the East Coast, on Friday, October 17, "The Conjuring 4: The Dead", which had reached the highest level of publicity, was officially released in North America, with an opening number of 3,745 screens. To a certain extent, this was also Consider it the beginning of the peak movie season at the end of 2000.