The premiere ended at 8:30 pm West Coast time. In the next few hours, official materials, press releases and fan discussions about "Suicide Squad" were released one after another. Fueled by the Igrit portal, it directly made the film more popular. The video became the hottest topic on the Internet platform.
Early the next morning, this anti-hero masterpiece from the DC Cinematic Universe was released.
According to preliminary statistics, the comprehensive media score of "Suicide Squad" reached 8.3 points. The Hollywood Reporter praised the film as "continuing the stunning and popular DC movie universe. The innovation of anti-heroic perspective and narrative structure has once again sublimated the quality of the film."
After a full day of public opinion bombardment on Thursday, the audience's expectations for "Suicide Squad" are at their highest.
Friday, December 16th.
"Suicide Squad" was officially released in North America, with the number of opening screens reaching 3,165.
In addition to "Suicide Squad", Disney's holiday comedy "The Santa Clause" is also opening at the same time. "Little Women" produced by Gomen Pictures and Warner Bros.' documentary "Bauhaus" are also being screened for two weeks. Large scale painting.
Disney's "The Santa Claus" opened on 2,183 screens and received a comprehensive media score of 7.4, which is considered good.
In the past, Disney's "The Santa Claus" was released during Thanksgiving. Relying on good reputation and a movie theme that fit the holiday atmosphere, the cumulative box office in North America exceeded 140 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the box office list that year.
This time, in order to avoid films such as "Toy Story 2" on the Thanksgiving schedule, Disney chose to postpone "The Santa Claus" to the Christmas schedule, and chose the slightly less crowded December 16th schedule in an attempt to take a different approach. The idea is correct, but neither Simon personally nor the industry media are optimistic about the box office prospects of "Santa Claus".
In the past, "Santa Claus" was able to achieve extremely high box office, mainly due to the fact that there were no phenomenal films during the same period.
There are no tigers in the mountains, but monkeys are kings.
Now, not to mention that "Toy Story 2", which is also very suitable for the holiday atmosphere, is still going strong. The feast of "Suicide Squad", let alone the hors d'oeuvres of "Santa Claus", can not compete with it.
In its first week of large-scale production, "Little Women" has an expanded screen count of 1,503.
Gaomen Pictures' positioning of "Little Women" is similar to that of the box office hit "Steel Magnolias" a few years ago. It mainly targets female family groups for precise marketing. Therefore, it abandoned the radial distribution model of literary and artistic films that gradually expanded the number of screenings. But spread out all at once. Unlike "The Santa Clause" which needs to directly compete with "Suicide Squad" and "Toy Story 2" for audiences, "Little Women" faces much less pressure because of its audience.
Warner Bros. Pictures' documentary "Bauhaus" does not have the same treatment as "Little Women", and after expanded screenings, it only has 379 screens.
In addition, another biopic produced by Orion, "The Poet and His Lover," which was screened together with "Little Women" and "Bauhaus" on December 2, simply gave up its large-scale release due to poor market response. .
With the start of the Christmas season, many films in the two major periods of Halloween and Thanksgiving are entering the final stage.
In the box office week that just passed from December 9th to December 15th, only "Toy Story 2" still reaped a strong box office of 28.86 million U.S. dollars. This 3D animated film with a total investment of 130 million U.S. dollars, the cumulative box office in North America reached 2. US$15.17 million.
The second and third places on the weekly box office list, "The Man in Disguise" and "Interview with the Vampire" had very similar results, with US$8.28 million and US$8.26 million respectively. The two-week unpopular period brought the cumulative box office of the two films to US$97.29 million and US$86.9 million respectively.
It’s obvious that “The Man in Disguise” will soon exceed 100 million.
"Interview with the Vampire", which was previously not expected to enter the 100 million yuan box office club, has also unknowingly accumulated close to 90 million US dollars in box office. Not surprisingly, it will successfully cross the 100 million yuan threshold in the next few weeks.
Other new and old films such as "The Haunting of the Morgue", "Terror Zone", "Trouble in Paradise" and other new and old films have all fallen within 5 million US dollars in single-week box office, and generally began to reduce the canvas on a large scale.
It is worth mentioning that after the box office week from December 2 to December 8, "The Haunting of the Morgue" successfully exceeded 100 million yuan in local box office, becoming another 100 million yuan box office club movie in 1994. The film continued to earn US$3.24 million in the box office week from December 9 to December 15, bringing the cumulative box office to US$106.96 million.
After handling the settlement matters between the three companies 'Cisco-AOL-Egret' and the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation, Simon flew to New York again, mainly to discuss Weiss with James Raybould, Joseph Schlapp and others. The next stage of the Tello system's layout in the two major fields of media and technology.
The dust of the mid-term elections has settled, and as expected, a series of bills that were shelved initially will be passed next year.
After the more important ban on media integration is lifted, Daenerys Entertainment Group will embark on another large-scale expansion next year. This is a long-established plan.
There is also the Capital Gains Tax Reform Bill.
The Reagan tax reform unified the capital gains tax to a high 28%, which greatly hindered the circulation of capital in the stock and bond markets.
After Reagan left office, Bush Sr., who inherited Reagan's political legacy, tried to re-divide the capital gains tax into different brackets, but he left the White House before he could succeed.
After Bill Clinton came to power, although the moderate Democratic president tended to reform capital gains taxes, he was unable to reverse the overall tendency of the Democratic Party to raise taxes. Now, with Democrats reeling in the midterm elections and both chambers of Congress controlled by pro-tax-cut Republicans, the biggest obstacle to a capital gains tax reform bill has been lifted.
It's just a matter of time.
In the past two years, not only Simon has been spending money like water, but also the entire Westeros system. When funds are insufficient, they can only borrow heavily. Simon has always been a person who doesn't like debt very much. Even based on his personal assets, the debt ratio of the Westeros family is only about 10%, which is a very low level among most rich people. But Simon still dislike.
As long as capital gains taxes are reformed, Simon can sell some of his shares to get the money to pay off the debt. It is expected that the lowest capital gains tax rate of 15% after the reform will be much easier to accept than the high tax rate of 28%.
Finally, the most important one is the Telecommunications Act that the Clinton administration has been brewing.
Different from the rather targeted ban on media integration, the Telecommunications Act promulgated in 1996 in my memory will be a comprehensive loosening of the two major American media and technology industries.
At that time, the Westeros system can smoothly promote the three-network integration plan, integrating AOL, which is currently focusing on broadband services, with Verizon Telecom, which is mainly engaged in local fixed-line and mobile communication services under the name of Westeros. , and can also enter the field of cable TV operators to make up for Daenerys Entertainment’s lack of its own cable TV platform.
Since this bill is so beneficial to the Westeros system, of course the sooner it is enacted, the better, and the Westeros system must quietly give it a try.
Due to issues in New York, Simon did not attend the premiere of "Suicide Squad."
In fact, it was done on purpose.
Simon plans to completely make himself a 'behind the scenes' level invisible person from now on, and it would be best if the public forgets the existence of Simon Westeros.
Therefore, the project "This Man is from Earth" is actually somewhat inappropriate.
Now that it has been launched, Simon has no intention of cutting it off. What's more, it would be good to give the public some other fantasies about Simon's identity beyond ordinary people through this movie. After booking his schedule in advance and finishing his busy schedule in New York, Simon came to Toronto for a visit on the afternoon of December 16 and planned to spend the weekend here.
Toronto in December is a bit colder than New York. It snowed a few days ago and many areas were covered in white.
The eastern suburbs of Toronto, the affluent area of Crest near Lake Ontario, are located in Scarborough.
The time was around four o'clock in the afternoon.
Two young girls with Slavic ancestry walked out of a community luxury cinema hand in hand. Although their faces were slightly green, both women were taller than 1.7 meters tall and had delicate looks like elves in the snow. Even if they were covered in clothing, The windbreaker and knitted hat on her head were slightly covered, but they still couldn't block the gazes of passers-by around her.
Because it was so eye-catching, as soon as the two women arrived at the parking lot, two local young men who happened to get out of their Ferrari sports cars nearby came over and blocked the two women's way. One of them put on a pose that he thought was handsome and did not leave any trace Showing the Ferrari keys in his hand: "Hey girl, my name is Peter, how about you meet me?"
The two women stopped talking and looked at the two young men blocking the road. Then, one of them blinked his beautiful light eyes with an innocent expression and said awkwardly: "We, No, English."
Both young men were stunned.
However, if you don’t know English, it’s even better. It just so happens that my two brothers can teach you.
Just as I had this idea, before I could say anything further, a black Mercedes-Benz moved out of a parking space not far away and parked next to it. A woman got out of the car wearing a black suit, leather boots and sunglasses, which was equally obvious. He is of Slavic descent, with fair skin and flaxen hair neatly tied into a ponytail.
What made the two young men instinctively fear the most was that the girl was over 185cm tall, perhaps because of the high-soled leather boots, but her cold temperament that could not be concealed even with sunglasses made them feel that the two of them were Taken together, it's probably not enough for the other party to clean up with one hand.
Another girl who had not spoken just now showed a mischievous smile, pointed at the woman in black in fluent English, and said to the two dazed young men: "This is Eve, do you want to get to know her? "
Listening to the teasing in the girl's tone, the two young men still didn't understand what was going on.
The Crest District near the lake is a typical wealthy area. The two young men came from a privileged background, but they also understood that girls with full-time bodyguards as drivers were not easy to mess with.
The female bodyguard, who looked as cold as a Toronto winter, ignored the two young men who approached her. She just walked over and opened the car door for the two girls and waited respectfully.
The two girls ignored the blockers and got into the Mercedes-Benz around them.
When the Mercedes-Benz started, one of the girls turned around and glanced at the two young men who were still looking like goose-headed geese. She immediately hugged the girl next to her and started laughing.
Eve, who was driving in the front seat, waited for the two girls to play for a while and said, "Miss Joplin just called. Mr. Westeros has arrived in Toronto and will come tonight."
When the two women heard this, they immediately became quiet.
Looking at each other, one of them took off the knitted hat on his head, gently shook his beautiful blond hair, and asked his companion: "Nana, how do I look?"
The two women were Ekaterina Noskova and Natalia Lyudaeva, who had been arranged by Simon to travel.
In the past six months since they became Simon's women, the six girls have been treated like six little princesses in Rivni City, living the best life and enjoying the best education, and everyone is polite to them. Unknowingly, the girls also developed a sense of arrogance.
However, even though they are not too old, they have never forgotten who gave them all this.
As they learn more about him in private, and are influenced by the words and deeds of people around him, a certain man's status in the hearts of girls will rise, becoming almost like a god. For such a man who is the richest, most powerful and most talented in the world, it is completely natural for him to possess six of them. It is simply an honor for them to be his woman.
Even if I haven't seen each other again for half a year, the obedience and awe of a certain man in my heart has become more and more deep-rooted without even realizing it.
When Natalia asked, Ekaterina looked at her carefully and said, "You seem to have gained a lot of weight."
"Ah?!" Natalia opened her mouth, really a little panicked, raised her hand and touched her face, then looked at Ekaterina, noticing the little cunning in her eyes, and suddenly understood Come over, pounce on the other person and tickle him: "I let you lie to me, and I let you lie to me."
"Haha, hahaha, no, you are obviously fat."
"You're the one who's fat, fat man."
After another moment of laughing and joking, the two women quickly calmed down. Each took out a makeup mirror from their bags to check their makeup and clothing. The man said he would come over in the evening. It was almost evening now. If he arrived early and happened to meet her when he went back, he would definitely have to. Face it at your best.
The Mercedes-Benz returned to a mansion on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Crest District in less than ten minutes.
The mansion is located at the end of a block, backed by a cliff, and surrounded by a dense maple forest. The interior of the mansion is tightly surrounded by neatly trimmed two-meter-high junipers. The only door leading to the interior of the mansion is equipped with probes and sentries. Although it is winter and lacks the bustle of business in summer, this mansion covering an area of more than six acres still has an aura that no one can enter.
The black Mercedes-Benz walked through the manor corridor and arrived in front of the villa built on the cliff. Before getting out of the car, the two girls noticed several strange cars parked in the yard.
I thought Simon had arrived, and I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in my heart. However, after entering the door, I discovered that Simon did not show up. Instead, another person with a good appearance and temperament had been with them during this period, acting as a tour guide and translator. Emily Joplin's girl took over everything in the villa. At this time, some men and women who looked like bodyguards like Eve were inspecting the interior of the villa.