After "Toy Story 2", which continued to hold the top spot in the week, "Ghosts in Disguise" ranked second on the list.
After experiencing a deep box office drop of 38% the next week, "The Man in Disguise" narrowed its decline to 23% in its third week of release, earning US$17.65 million, and its cumulative box office in three weeks of release reached US$77.66 million.
Daenerys Entertainment is confirmed to have won another 100 million dollar box office club production in 1994.
Paramount's sequel to the classic sci-fi series "Star Trek Episode 7" slipped from second place to third place on the list. In the week after its release, the film's box office dropped by 31%, earning US$15.94 million, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was US$39.05 million. The total local box office is expected to be 60 million to 70 million US dollars. It is not a big hit, but it is as stable as ever. Paramount will definitely continue this series.
"Interview with the Vampire" starring Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt ranked fourth. In the past week, its decline narrowed to 19%, taking in US$14.11 million. This vampire movie has a cumulative box office of US$67.92 million in three weeks. Because of this good trend, "Interview with the Vampire" has a greater chance of hitting the billion-dollar club.
Ranking fifth is "Terror Zone" produced by MGM. In its third week of release, the film's box office dropped by 27%, with a revenue of US$10.53 million, and a cumulative box office of US$53.03 million.
In addition to the top five, Disney's "Cool Cop" earned US$9.64 million in its first week, ranking sixth on the list. The market performance of this black crime comedy with a production cost of only US$10 million exceeded expectations. Of course, this is only relative to the cost. The film's total domestic box office is expected to be around US$30 million, which is a small profit, but far from being comparable to a series of blockbusters.
The Halloween horror film "The Haunting of the Morgue", which ranked seventh on last week's list, remains unchanged this week, with a box office drop of 33% and a revenue of US$6.39 million. The cumulative box office is US$99.61 million, and is about to exceed 100 million.
Sony Pictures' US$60 million male pregnancy gimmick comedy "Little One" fell as much as 49% in the second week after a disappointing start, with only US$4.99 million left at the box office. It dropped from sixth place on last week's list to eighth this week. position, the cumulative box office in two weeks was only 14.79 million US dollars.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film had a rather dismal start, and the next week it fell 49%, even the initially expected threshold of 30 million was nowhere to be seen. Because the average ticket price in the next week was only more than 2,800 US dollars, most theaters removed the canvas after December 1, which was basically a two-week drop.
After a year of frequent losses, news once again spread in the industry that Sony is planning to withdraw from Hollywood.
Historically, Sony has been holding on until the clouds are clear. In addition to supporting its interests in the video recorder, DVD, high-definition Blu-ray and other hardware industries with content, the company also occasionally achieves some success. The results are not that ugly.
This time, because Daenerys Entertainment Group’s overwhelming dominant position in Hollywood has severely squeezed the living space of other studios, the strong are getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker, making it increasingly difficult for Sony to survive.
There was an uproar in the circle, but Simon knew that Sony still had no plans to withdraw from Hollywood.
At least not in the short term.
This can also be regarded as the obsession of Sony founder Akio Morita.
Because Sony's previous investment in Columbia Pictures caused huge losses due to the tossing of two unreliable managers, Akio Morita resigned as chairman. However, the business tycoon's influence on Sony still remains.
On the other hand, and also the main reason, the promotion of DVD technology is imminent, because the DVD standard is temporarily divided into two camps. In order to gain an advantage in the promotion process of DVD and not repeat the mistakes of the video recorder business, Sony must stick to its position. Advantages in content resources.
It is in the interests of Daenerys Entertainment Group that Sony remains in Hollywood.
Just as Simon secretly pushed Vivendi to acquire Disney.
Daenerys Entertainment has been able to suppress the major Hollywood studios controlled by foreign companies, either overtly or covertly. If Sony lets go of Colombia and falls back into the hands of local federal companies, and Daenerys Entertainment continues to bully others, some people may not be able to stand it.
Simon once considered giving one of Daenerys Entertainment's latest 10 cooperation projects to the other party if Sony couldn't survive. Now that he was sure that Sony had no intention of quitting, Simon gave up the idea.
The box office week from November 25th to December 1st ended, and the Thanksgiving period ended smoothly.
On December 2, a new box office week begins. The public will temporarily return their energy to work, and the North American film market has entered a deserted period between the Thanksgiving season and the Christmas season.
However, this week there is still a commercial film "Trouble in Paradise" that has opened on more than 1,000 screens. The film is produced by Fox Pictures and has opened on 1,286 screens. It mainly tells the story of three young men who robbed a small town bank. A series of hilarious stories, Fox obviously has little confidence in this film, so it took every opportunity to put it on a deserted schedule like December 2, probably hoping for a miracle to happen.
In addition to "Trouble in Paradise", there are three other small-scale screenings of new films starting this week, namely "Little Women", an adaptation of the classic film produced by Daenerys Entertainment's High Gate Pictures, and Paramount's "Little Women". Orion Pictures released the biopic "The Poet and His Lover" and Warner Bros. produced the documentary "Bauhaus."
The previous "Little Women" was produced by Sony Pictures. It was very good both at the box office and in awards. Winona Ryder was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for this movie.
It can be regarded as a routine cut of Daenerys Entertainment.
Simon also made adjustments to the main creative lineup of the original film in his memory. The roles of Susan Sarandon and Kirsten Dunst remained unchanged, mainly the heroine, because Winona Ryder has always been No idea, this time I replaced Mia Kirschner, whom I met at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year.
In Simon's opinion, the acting skills of this Russian-born Canadian child star are not much worse than Winona Ryder. All she lacks is opportunities.
That’s how Hollywood is, or that’s how the world is.
Some people work hard and get nothing, while others sit back and enjoy the benefits, almost squandering the resources that others only dream of.
Already standing at the top of the pyramid, Simon had no idea of changing this state.
In fact, it cannot be changed.
After all, Simon himself is the biggest beneficiary of this injustice.
Having captured Mia at the beginning of the year, Simon has never had anything happen to the girl. He just likes her gloomy temperament hidden behind her innocence, and is looking forward to digging out this temperament and showing it off on the big screen.
The film opens on 23 screens.
After its release, the comprehensive media score of "Little Women" reached an excellent level of 8.7. Mia Kirshner's performance did not disappoint Simon. Most of the film review articles specifically mentioned this actress who suddenly started to rise to prominence. At first, she knew some Casting Insider critics who publicly expressed regret over Winona Ryder not being cast have now changed their tune.
Of course, the film reviews about Mia Kirshner are more or less driven by WMA.
After being selected by Simon, WMA designed the positioning for Mia Kirschner to be tit for tat with Winona Ryder under ICM.
Orion Pictures' biopic "The Poet and His Lover" is obviously aiming for awards. The number of screening screens for the film is 17. Unfortunately, after its release, the reputation is very average. Not to mention winning awards, the box office will make up for itself. The possibilities are very low.
"Bauhaus" released by Warner Bros. is following the trend of documentaries pioneered by Daenerys Entertainment in recent years. It is shown on 31 screens. It has a pretty good reputation in the media and is expected to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
While Simon was busy with various key projects under Daenerys Entertainment in Los Angeles, "The Man from Earth" quietly started filming on December 7 in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada.
The plan was to follow up in person for a day or two. Before that, Simon rushed to San Francisco again on December 8.
December 8th is exactly one month away from the midterm elections.
Nothing happened during this period, and the possibility of another accident in the future was greatly reduced. Simon's continuously tense heartstrings relaxed a lot.
After completing this operation, the layout of the Westeros system in the political field will shift to a state of intensive cultivation that is slowly simmering. Last month, Simon promised to several bigwigs in Washington that the proportion of influence over members of Congress would not exceed 10%, but he did not promise that he would not exert influence on the electoral systems of local states and counties in the future.
The electoral system in the United States is a bottom-up system. Due to the inertia of human subconscious thinking, starting from the most elementary municipal elections all the way up, the results of each stage of the election may be crucial to the final presidential election. Impact. While maintaining his influence in Washington, what Simon needs to do next is to quietly carry out political layout in some key states and counties in order to influence the direction of American politics at critical moments.
Having said that, the purpose of this trip to San Francisco is to discuss the settlement plan between the three giants of Westeros System Cisco-AOL-Igrit and the federal Department of Justice antitrust investigation.
Simon's words with several big guys in Washington still had an effect. Of course, there must be factors that contributed to the Westeros system's sharpness in the mid-term elections. Now, no one in Washington wants to offend Simon. Just like the Westeros system put the National Rifle Association on the stage as a target, it did not have much impact on it.
As a result, the antitrust investigation and settlement negotiations that had been deadlocked for several months began to turn around.
In fact, most antitrust investigations in the United States will not reach the final trial, including the famous Microsoft antitrust case in memory, which ultimately ended in a settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice.
After Simon proposed to the Clintons a plan to use the federal new technology industry giants to conquer the world, executives from Cisco, AOL and Eagle were invited to Washington for a series of secret meetings.
No matter what a politician's mindset is, they can't resist Simon's tempting plan.
Because once successful, the United States will gain unparalleled economic hegemony in the information age in addition to military power. Moreover, unlike the huge military expenditures required for military hegemony, this economic hegemony can continuously provide the United States with global benefits. Seize huge profits to make up for the growing domestic debt deficit.
Therefore, when such a plan that benefits the country and the people spreads among a small circle among top politicians, who can oppose it, and who dares to oppose it
Don't you love America
If you want the plan to proceed smoothly, you must first untie the technology giants. The Westeros system also very wisely took the initiative to make the planned concessions and provided the Ministry of Justice with the steps. In less than a month, both parties A settlement plan was roughly agreed upon.
First of all, none of the three companies needs to be split up.
This is the absolute bottom line of the Westeros system.
At least that's the bottom line at this stage.
Cisco and AOL cannot be separated. As for Ygritte, Simon is very clear about the potential of this company.
If it continues to develop its efforts in search engines, social networking sites and e-commerce, and maintains its current industry advantages, then in 20 years, Yigrit will be a collection of Google, Facebook and Amazon in Simon's memory. Coupled with the monopoly of the basic Internet software business and Igret's huge investment portfolio in the Internet field, this is likely to be a super giant with a market value of more than US$3 trillion.
Not to mention the federal government, Simon himself did not want such a dazzling enterprise to exist. Therefore, Simon will inevitably split Ygritte at the right time.
but not now.
Igret wants to conquer cities and territories around the world, and it will need this scale advantage in the next few years.
In the final agreement, Yigrit agreed to open the homepage lock of IE browser. The new version of IE will no longer lock the Yigrit portal, but will be changed to a mode similar to the Google Chrome browser in Simon's memory. , the software opening page is a search engine tool. Below are six commonly used page boxes. Users can set their favorite six websites as through trains.
In fact, it is to increase the home page from one to six.
Of course, the single homepage mode is still retained, and it also only requires users to set it freely.
To ordinary people, this concession may seem less important.
Only the industry knows that although Igret's concession does not open up browser software patents as some people expected, it is equivalent to directly giving up the monopoly on Internet interfaces. Next, everyone can exert all their efforts to build a relatively Strive for your own traffic in a fair environment.
Although the final settlement agreement has not yet been signed, the industry is already erupting in jubilation as the news spreads.
There are also objections within Igret to Simon's decision to give up the Internet interface monopoly. They believe that doing so is destroying the Great Wall and will affect next year's IPO. The four giants who were previously persuaded by Simon also believe that they should not be so eager, and calculations require If you give in, you can continue to fight with the Ministry of Justice for another year or two, so that Igret's advantage will become more entrenched.
Simon's attitude towards these objections was not to waste any more words, but to force the management to implement his requirements.
In the past, Microsoft had super interfaces like IE, and it wasn't like it had accomplished nothing in the Internet field.
The advantages that Ygritte has accumulated at this stage are enough.
Continuing to maintain a monopoly on Internet interfaces will only make the company itself slack.
Only with competition can there be progress.
Moreover, while most peers in the industry are focusing on the hot portal business, few people have noticed that this time, Igret has officially brought the search engine business to the forefront.
In addition to Igret, Cisco's commitment is to ensure that Cisco cannot monopolize the procurement of equipment for Internet service providers across the federation. A single equipment provider shall not occupy more than 80% of the ISP equipment supply. Congress will pass a similar bill in the near future. Make clear limitations.
As for AOL, the most important thing is to abolish the exclusive agreement it originally signed with the three major operators in the East Coast region, and promised not to sign other similar exclusive agreements in the future.
These are the main terms.
The final settlement won't be that simple, of course.
In addition to the core main terms, the settlement agreement also includes many patent transfer, series prohibition and other details. The entire settlement agreement involves all aspects of the negotiations between the two parties, totaling 170 pages.
Simon rushed to San Francisco on December 8 and held two consecutive days of meetings with the heads of the three companies. Finally, he adjusted some details with representatives of the Ministry of Justice. On December 12, the two sides officially announced the antitrust dispute that had lasted for several months. Investigation reaches settlement
Of course, whether the agreement is signed and whether it is followed and whether it is strictly followed is another matter.
The former Microsoft began to undergo antitrust investigations by the Department of Justice in the early 1990s. It experienced successive settlements and breaches of contract, and eventually developed to the point where it was almost split up.
The three companies will not discount the core terms. This is a clear explanation.
There is room for manipulation in other details.
It is the nature of enterprises to strive to maximize profits.
Simon wasn't going to interfere.
This reconciliation is already far away from the bottom line of concessions in the Westeros system. If there is another conflict in the future, it will be nothing more than throwing out some more chips.