The closest mansion to the west side of Dumeijie Manor, the villa is a three-story modern-style building. The main body of the white building seems to be made up of many rectangular blocks, which is full of modernity.
Simon walked around the villa with his female assistant. The two came to the terrace on the third floor. The female assistant leaned on the railing and looked at the sea view. Simon naturally put his arm around her waist and asked, "How is it?"
"That's very good." The female assistant turned her face to Simon, then pointed to a row of mansions on the west side: "Have you bought all of these?"
"Yeah, how's it going?"
Jennifer said: "In recent years, there has always been a lot of media criticism of your extravagance."
"I don't care what other people say, I just do what I want to do."
The female assistant actually didn't care, and she had no idea of advising Simon to restrain himself or use the money for charity. From the first meeting to becoming the mother of his child, so many years have passed without her realizing it. She has watched him step by step and created a huge business empire with her own eyes. She feels that she is still the same person as when she first heard about it in Venice Beach. The nameless girl who secretly dropped $10 while he sang.
Until now, I still just want to stand by his side silently forever.
No matter what outsiders say, no matter what he does, she will always be on his side.
Noticing that the female assistant in his arms was looking at the east side of the bay in a daze, Simon followed and looked over there, which was the coastal line of Santa Monica: "What are you looking at?"
Jennifer said: "Suddenly I remembered the first time I saw you."
As he said this, he remembered that he still didn't know about the videotape, and he didn't intend to let him know. He wanted to keep it as a little secret in his heart forever.
Simon hugged the female assistant's waist tightly and said with a smile, "Did you secretly like me when we first met?"
Jennifer recalled that this was actually the second meeting between the two, and teased a little: "Are you talking about the guy who was rushed to the hospital?"
"Well, let's change the subject."
"Haha," the female assistant laughed, raised her wrist to look at the time, and said, "Let's go back, it's time for the children to wake up."
The two returned to Shell Villa, and Girl A happened to return from outside with a set of scrolls.
The female assistant first went to the nursery to see the two little ones. The children were still sleeping, and then came out to enjoy the scrolls Alison brought back with Simon.
This is a Chinese painting.
The painting, which is nearly three meters long and one and a half meters wide, shows a magnificent picture of an ancient war. Tens of thousands of ancient soldiers of all types fought hard on a vast battlefield, giant siege vehicles, and the awe-inspiring Mo Dao. Formation, cruel cavalry collision, crumbling dilapidated city, corpses strewn all around, blood-stained sun setting outside the distant mountains, on the right side of the banner is Cao Song's "Ji Hai Sui" written in cursive.
At first, I just asked Girl A to find someone to write Cao Song's poem.
Later, I felt that the thin poem scroll was a bit pale, so I gave some random instructions and got this painting.
The artist's skills as a painter are very profound. The female assistant did not recognize the poem on the right side of the painting, but she could not restrain herself from feeling slightly suffocated by this cruel war picture. Involuntarily holding Simon's arm, he whispered: "I don't like this painting."
Simon patted the back of the female assistant's hand and motioned to the four girls who were carefully displaying the huge paintings: "Put it away and put it in the showroom."
After speaking, he said to the female assistant: "Let's go see the child."
Jennifer took one last look at the painting that Allison and the four were carefully rolling up, nodded, and followed Simon to the nursery. After thinking about it for a while, she still didn't ask.
Simon didn't explain.
In New York, with David Dinkins losing to Rudy Giuliani in the mayoral election on November 1, with 41% to 59% of the vote, some things have been temporarily settled.
Of course there is a follow-up.
Now that he's decided to hit the entire David Dinkins council cabinet, Simon has no plans to stop.
It is true that the Westeros system tends to side with the Democrats, but if anyone takes it for granted or even needs to take any responsibility, this incident will be a clear warning.
Maybe there will be some discord between the two parties, but Simon doesn't care.
If Simon hadn't made a strong enough plan immediately after David Dinkins suddenly turned against him, he believed that many subsequent small moves would have followed.
In this world, too many people like to make trade-offs the more they are in a high position. Sometimes, this is a sign of weakness in the eyes of the enemy.
Simon's hard-line approach, which he did not hesitate to directly fall out with the Speyer family behind Tishman Speyer and even fall out with the Democratic Party, made many people aware of his personality. In his bones, Westeros has not turned to peace at all due to the increase in wealth and power. He is still the madman who can break other people's legs without hesitation.
Even considering the gang fight in Bowery Bay, a certain young man seems to be even more crazy.
For this kind of person, if he is not sure of victory, he will only gain more than he loses by playing small tricks.
Janet picked up matters with Cersei Capital again, and after the weekend, Simon also started to work again.
While many Hollywood filmmakers are still lamenting the unexpected box office performance of "Seven" during the Halloween season, this past weekend, "The Lion King" once again shocked everyone.
For a 3D animated film, Daenerys Entertainment not only invested 60 million U.S. dollars in production costs, but the promotion scale also reached 30 million U.S. dollars. Before the film was released, most media believed that Daenerys Entertainment dared to invest so much. The key lies in Potential peripheral income from 3D animated films.
Daenerys Entertainment probably doesn’t plan to make any profit at the box office.
You know, in addition to the global box office of "Toy Story" of 400 million U.S. dollars two years ago, the sales of toys surrounding the film in the past two years have exceeded 3 billion U.S. dollars. Counting the income from the movie's video tapes and TV broadcasts, the entire project is Net profits from Daenerys Entertainment have reached $1 billion, most of which comes from the sale of peripheral toys.
Moreover, "Toy Story" brought more than just monetary gains to Daenerys Entertainment. The success of this film not only broke Disney's long-term monopoly on animated films, but also led to the development of Daenerys Entertainment. The development of its entire industry chain including peripherals, games, and theme parks.
Therefore, this time "The Lion King" is viewed by many as just Daenerys Entertainment's further layout of the entire industry chain.
According to the "sophomore curse" phenomenon seen in Hollywood, whether it is a filmmaker or a studio, after the first movie is amazing, the second movie produced is often not as good as before.
There are even some media predictions that "The Lion King", an animated film with no fairy tale popularity and a partial animal theme, would be a success if the domestic box office could exceed 100 million. Daenerys Entertainment is likely to end up losing money and making a living this time.
Because "The Lion King" was not considered too much of a threat, there were a total of 6 films opening at the same time on November 19. Although three of them are very small-scale literary and award-winning films, there are also two blockbuster movies scheduled for the end of the year, namely "My Fair Daddy" starring Robin Williams produced by Fox and "The Biography" produced by Columbia Pictures The quasi-costume epic "Gronimo".
The domestic box office of "My Fair Daddy" in Simon's memory exceeded 200 million US dollars, and it was the runner-up to "Jurassic Park" in 1993.
"Gronimo" produced by Columbia Pictures tells the story of a hero named Gronimo who resisted the British rulers during the American War of Independence. The film has a budget of US$35 million and is the same A-level production level.
Simon didn't have much in his mind about Gronimo, which was clearly yet another one of Peter Cooper's legacy of expensive box office duds. After an audit that lasted several months, Sony finally announced a $2.5 billion asset writedown for Columbia Pictures.
Asset write-down is actually a disguised loss.
The loss of US$2.5 billion, although US$200 million less than Simon remembered, is definitely not to be underestimated.
After the news was announced, Sony's stock price has been falling for more than a month, and its market value has even returned to less than 15 billion US dollars. There are also constant rumors in the circle that Sony plans to get rid of this hot potato.
Although in the quagmire, Colombia has prepared 1,605 screens for the opening of "Gronimo", and the screening screen size of Robin Williams' "My Fair Daddy" has also reached 1,678. Although both films have reached It is less than the opening level of "The Lion King" of 2,691 yuan, but in the eyes of many people, it also poses an obvious threat to "The Lion King", especially "The Lion King", which is also a family-friendly film.
Daenerys Entertainment opened up the press for "The Lion King" after its premiere on November 17.
Because the media participating in the premiere were selected in advance, the first wave of media reviews for "The Lion King" were almost unanimously praised, and there was a lot of soft or hard publicity on the Internet platform.
However, even if it officially opens on a large scale on Friday, many people do not think that "The Lion King" will do well at the box office.
until Saturday.
When countless media reporters and film company executives were woken up by phone calls at one or two o'clock in the morning on Saturday morning and saw the box office data report of the previous day, many people's first reaction was even 'could there be a mistake? '
US$16.33 million on the first day.
The first day.
Is this still a cartoon
However, the Yigrit Portal reacted immediately and directly pushed the first-day box office data of "The Lion King" onto the headlines of the portal's homepage.
"A new box office record for animated movies, "The Lion King" US$16.33 million on its first day."
The box office on the first day was US$16.33 million. What is this concept
A comparison will make it clear.
"My Fair Daddy", which was released at the same time, only had a box office of US$5.31 million on its first day. It is expected that the revenue in the first three days of the first weekend will reach the first-day level of "The Lion King". Another film, "Gronimo," had a box office of only $1.29 million on its first day, less than one-tenth of "The Lion King."
At the same time, the first-day box office of 16.33 million U.S. dollars means that the first weekend box office of "The Lion King" is around 50 million U.S. dollars, and the first-week box office is expected to reach 70 million U.S. dollars.
70 million US dollars in the first week, which is already the same level as the DC movie universe project.
Two years ago, "Toy Story" surprised everyone with a total box office of US$211 million in North America. At that time, the box office in the first seven days was only US$46.73 million.
Daenerys Entertainment's massive promotion of "The Lion King" has already given the movie a very high profile.
Although a large part of the traditional paper media has remained quite indifferent to the news about the film's first-day box office, with the vigorous promotion of the Ygritte portal and the media close to the Westeros system, the topic of "The Lion King" quickly returned. Go up a level.
It was already very good in terms of word-of-mouth and popularity. Coupled with the gimmick of breaking the box office record, "The Lion King" unknowingly attracted more media to enter the theater and quickly formed a phenomenon-level movie viewing craze.
US$16.33 million on the first day.
$18.29 million on Saturday.
$17.31 million on Sunday.
Within three days of its opening, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King" quickly reached US$51.93 million.
A new box office record for the same animated movie.
Faced with the impact of "The Lion King", "My Fair Daddy", which had a fairly good first-day box office, ended up with a box office of only US$13.76 million in the first three days of the weekend. It is conservatively expected that "The Lion King" will suppress the box office by at least US$2 million.
Simon knows better that this kind of suppression spans two major periods at the end of the year.
The target group of "My Fair Daddy" is the same as "The Lion King", which is a family audience. This time, with "The Lion King" as a better choice, the box office of "My Fair Daddy" will inevitably shrink significantly.
No matter how hard the traditional media try to stir up some controversy, attacking "The Lion King" as imitating Disney style, criticizing the film for alleged implicit racial discrimination, etc., they can't stop the overwhelming momentum of this phenomenal 3D animated film.
In the end, from November 19th to November 25th, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King" reached US$70.31 million, second only to the US$72.17 million of "Jurassic Park" in the first week and the US$72.17 million of "The Flash" in the first week. With a box office of US$72.86 million and six movies including "Wonder Woman", "Superman", "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight", it ranks seventh in the first-week box office in North American film history.
The DC movie universe has been classified as another dimension of movies by Hollywood. "Jurassic Park" has also brought too many visual shocks to the audience. The success of these movies can be traced.
As a cartoon, it can be compared with a number of phenomenal films, which can only be described as a miracle.
With the box office success of "The Lion King", Daenerys Entertainment's increasingly complete peripheral sales channels have quickly introduced toys, posters, clothing and other products related to the film to the market. According to preliminary statistics, the revenue in the first week has reached 2 The US$100 million level is ultimately due to the genre. This result is not as good as "Toy Story", which has more peripheral products. But at this time, no one dares to question the commercial prospects of "The Lion King".
In addition, after the first week's box office was released, video games and theme park projects related to "The Lion King" have all been given the green light to enter the early planning stage.