While Simon was in Ukraine, this year's 52nd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Dinner opened at 6 o'clock in the evening on January 28th, West Coast time.
In the past year, as of December 31, 1994, the total box office in North America not only exceeded the $6 billion mark for the first time, but also raised the record to an astonishing high of $6.61 billion in one go. Compared with 1993, The total box office total was US$5.73 billion, an increase of 15.3%.
Industry insiders who have a little knowledge of the North American film market can feel how astonishing this data is.
In the past, the North American film market always showed a steady growth trend with the increase in ticket prices and the recovery of the film industry, but the usual annual growth rate rarely exceeded 10%.
Just like in 1993, compared with the total box office of 1992 of US$5.36 billion, the annual increase was only 6.9%.
Whether in the past or in history, only in years with the emergence of phenomenal box office blockbusters such as "ET" and "Titanic" can the annual box office growth of the North American film market reach more than 10 percentage points.
This time in 1994, it was the same.
Not to mention other things, in the past year, it was the first time in Hollywood history that four super blockbusters appeared at the same time with local box office reaching 300 million US dollars, namely "The Dark Knight Rises", "Forrest Gump", " Toy Story 2" and "Suicide Squad."
Among them, the local annual box office champion "The Dark Knight Rises" has a total local box office of US$416 million.
Although "Toy Story 2" and "Suicide Squad", which were released at the end of last year, did not break the US$300 million threshold as of December 31 last year, this did not hinder the explosion of the movie market in 1994.
From "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Planet" at the beginning of last year, to "Stargate" and "True Lies" in the summer release, and then to "Interview with the Vampire" and "Ghost in Disguise" at the end of the year, Wait, wait, wait, it’s dizzying.
Of course, the entire Hollywood has become more aware of the unstoppable power of Daenerys Entertainment Group in the past year.
As of December 31, 1994, the top ten box office lists for the year include "The Dark Knight Rises", "Forrest Gump", "Toy Story 2", "Suicide Squad", "True Lies", " "The Conjuring", "The Wire", "The Blind Side", "The Haunting of the Morgue", "Stargate", ten movies, completely unrelated to Daenerys Entertainment, the only one produced by Paramount is "The Burning Eye" "Pursuit" this one.
Among them, the other five movies that have entered the 100 million yuan box office club are "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Speed", "Bloody Romeo", "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Man in Disguise", or because they are still there Due to its release, it didn't even make it into the top ten of this year's list.
Even though the box office rose significantly in 1994, the excessive strength of this series of blockbusters still squeezed the box office space of many other movies. Some movies that should have been big hits in history, such as "The Gambler" etc. Wait, the box office shrinkage has been as severe as half.
It can be said that due to the influence of Simon's giant butterfly, Hollywood has entered the era of super blockbusters in advance, in which the box office of the top films is so high that it is lawless and the market space of middle and low-level movies is severely compressed.
Even though Simon deliberately suppressed the frequency of development of comic book movies, it still failed to slow down this trend.
Fortunately, because the new era has just begun, the situation has not deteriorated to the point where it is difficult for blockbusters that are not comic adaptations or sequels to survive. "Forrest Gump", "The Wire", "Four Weddings and a Funeral" are outstanding enough Movies still have a chance to reach their market potential.
At the same time, there is also considerable market space in the field of Hollywood low-cost literary films that Simon has cultivated through Gaomen Pictures.
It is not difficult to see from the list of films nominated for the new Golden Globe Awards that, just like the field of commercial films, the year 1994 that just passed was also a bumper year for literary and artistic films.
In addition to "Forrest Gump", which can be regarded as the pinnacle of literary films, the most popular films nominated during this year's awards season include "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Natural Born Killers", "Little Women", "Burning" "Love Years", "Neil's Heart", "Wise Fool", "Bullets Over Broadway" and a long list.
Whether it is business or art, Daenerys Entertainment has quietly promoted the year of 'God Watching Movies', which is worthy of its name.
The biggest difference in details at this year's Golden Globe Awards is that many award-winning filmmakers were clearly reminded beforehand that they no longer need to thank Simon during their acceptance speeches.
This will be true throughout awards season, or award seasons for many years to come.
Simon plans to become an invisible man, but it does not prevent the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment from shining at this Golden Globe Awards.
The two core Best Picture Awards for Drama and Musical Comedy, one went to "Forrest Gump" and the other went to "Four Weddings and a Funeral," both of which went to Daenerys Entertainment.
Other important awards include best director, two best actors, one best supporting actress, etc. Including TV series awards, the continuously popular "Friends", "Desperate Housewives", "ER", etc. have also won quite a lot.
Neither Daenerys Entertainment nor the Golden Globes organizing committee have considered balance.
However, in such a dazzling film year, it would seem deliberate to let those excellent films get dusted for the sake of so-called balance.
During the three-hour Golden Globe Awards banquet, the Igret portal carried out a live broadcast of the award results with pictures and texts throughout the entire event, and immediately introduced an audience discussion mode.
According to audience feedback, compared to previous years, the results of this Golden Globe Awards were less controversial.
Ukraine time is ten hours ahead of the west coast of the United States.
When the Golden Globe Awards dinner started, it was already four o'clock in the morning in Rivni on Sunday morning.
Simon got up at seven o'clock in the morning, just as the complete award results came out, and the after-party after the awards dinner had already begun in Los Angeles.
After briefly glancing at the award results during the run, Simon simply asked Girl A to send a greeting card to each winner in his personal name. This trick was probably learned from Michael Ovitz.
People do not blame.
At breakfast time, there is an extra Eve Besonoskova on the table today.
Women are probably born to compete.
After the first time the night before, the tall Ukrainian girl closely followed Simon's instructions and 'rested' on the big bed in the master bedroom for the whole day. Then, amidst the different reactions of a group of women in the villa, the relationship went smoothly. Occupied Simon's second night.
Simon pointed out this morning. The girl's blush extended from her face to her neck. She buried her head tightly in the pillow and did not dare to see anyone. Then she did not stay in bed anymore, but her head was always hanging down when they ate together at the dining table. Low and low, not daring to look at other people.
After breakfast, Girl A introduced today's schedule to Simon and was about to set off. Celia suddenly thought of something and used this excuse to sit with Simon. After the motorcade set off, she took out a document and handed it to Simon.
In the morning we will go to the southwestern outskirts of Rivni city.
Simon plans to build an airport somewhere so that private planes can dock directly in Rivni when they come to Ukraine in the future. Moreover, as the city develops, the demand for commercial flights will also increase significantly.
Because it is a small city airport with only one main runway, including hangars, terminals and other supporting facilities, and taking into account the prices in Ukraine, the final budget was only 15 million US dollars. This number is actually a bit high, but Simon I don't plan to compress it anymore, after all, it is what I want to use.
The Rivne Oblast government has no money to participate in the construction of such an airport.
Therefore, the planned city airport will be fully invested and wholly owned by the Oldek Company headed by Sergey Komorov. As the city develops in the future, Simon will give up a part of its shares if the airport needs expansion. To Ukrainian local capital.
There is actually another key to operating an airport, manpower.
This matter is the least of the problems in Ukraine.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited as many as 2,160 aircraft of various types from the former Soviet Union. Such a huge air force actually means a matching powerful air force.
Now, because there is not enough financial support, many aircraft are piled up in some abandoned military bases to eat dust and rot.
In Simon's memory, more than ten years later, the number of aircraft owned by the Ukrainian Air Force was less than a fraction of 2,160, and a large number of outstanding air force talents were eliminated as a result.
Therefore, not only this city’s airport, but also the military theme park that will be built this year will also carry out real experience projects of various types of aircraft.
Regarding the military theme park, Simon originally thought there would be some trouble, but the reality is that many senior generals from some military districts in Ukraine have taken the initiative to contact here, hoping to get supply orders for this military theme park in all aspects from personnel to materials.
tank? not a problem.
Planes are no problem!
Do you want warships? Oh, Rivne Oblast is not close to the sea, but there is a lake.
This happened because Simon was promised equity.
The Westeros system only intends to occupy 40% of the shares of this military theme park, and does not intend to control the remaining 60%. The Rivne state government took away 15% at the cost of 20 square kilometers of land, and another 45%. %, whoever gets it belongs to whoever gets it.
As a result, this theme park has actually become a big project that the Kiev authorities cannot veto.
Life is hard, but compared to secretly smuggling weapons, this is a legitimate and steady stream of income.
Especially after the planning team of the military theme park solved the biggest moral problem of the project, various problems became even less of a problem.
Before this, the Kiev authorities were mainly concerned that using state property to open such a military theme park would attract ridicule from the international community and resentment from the public. The planning team easily solved this problem.
In the name of peace.
Peace, this is a general trend of public opinion around the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
No matter what's going on inside, on the surface, everyone thinks that mankind has entered a new era of peace.
It is inevitable that swords and guns will enter Kuma and release Nanshan.
Ukraine opened such a military theme park to allow tourists to appreciate peace more while experiencing the horrors of war.
Therefore, the name of this alternative theme park was also locked in advance as 'Ukrainian Peace Military Theme Park'.
If anyone questions.
Hey, don't you love peace? Do you want war
In the car rushing to the outskirts of Rivni, Celia handed Simon a completely handwritten application for an agricultural loan.
Maxim Noskov, the father of Ekaterina Noskova, one of the three remaining girls in the villa in the south of the city, hopes to get an agricultural loan from Simon to fund the recovery of Rivne and some surrounding counties. Agricultural Production.
Modern agriculture is very dependent on the means of production.
Ukraine's food production has plummeted in the past few years, which is mainly due to this reason.
After the disintegration, Ukraine quickly carried out land privatization reforms, not only distributing land to every citizen, but also converting many large state-owned farms directly into private joint-stock companies. This radical reform, which completely ignored national conditions, not only caused a serious loss of state-owned assets, but also directly led to the collapse of the country's agricultural production system.
Because although they have obtained land, most farmers simply do not have enough capital to carry out agricultural production. The management of many lands is almost the same as the original slash-and-burn cultivation, where they scatter seeds and wait for the harvest.
When Simon came to Ukraine for the first time in August last year, his biggest impression along the way from Kiev to Rivni was that the large fields that should be full of crops were either directly deserted or the crops were not as dense as weeds. Because of the lack of agricultural machinery, lack of pesticides, lack of chemical fertilizers, in short, lack of everything needed for modern agriculture.
Without these, there is only land, and it is destined not to have much output.
Last night, when we hosted a banquet for the leaders of the Westeros System in Ukraine at the Chengnan Villa, Maxim Noskov, who is responsible for managing the layout of the Westeros System's fertilizer industry in Ukraine, was also present, and Simon was quite impressed. Others After people attached themselves to the Westeros system, their clothes when attending parties were quite bright. Only Maxim Noskov was still wearing a light gray old-fashioned Lenin suit that was washed a little white and could only be considered neat.
Privately, I am paying attention to many core executives here.
Simon knew that Maxim Noskov was not pretending to be simple, but really simple.
This middle-aged man, a retired captain of the Soviet Navy, took over the fertilizer factory from Simon. In the past six months, Maxim had been working hard to restore the production of the fertilizer factory and to keep the jobs of all employees in the fertilizer factory.
Sergei Komorov once suggested that Maxim should first lay off several fertilizer plants that were being merged locally and elsewhere, but the other party did not do so. In this era, if you lose your job, the end will be very miserable. .
However, Maxim did not regard Simon as a free sheep at all. Not only did he reduce the salary of all employees, but for most of the year, he only received the minimum wage that could barely sustain his family's livelihood.
Now, looking at the handwritten document in his hand that applied for an agricultural loan, Simon realized that this was probably the hope of a nation after it fell into turmoil. A period of darkness was insignificant but it worked hard to reflect more bright candlelight.
Every country and every nation has never lacked such people.
It's a pity that the current country is too dark and the night is too thick, and it cannot be changed by one or two candlelights.
Simon admires such people.
However, he did not intend to agree to the agricultural loan application in his hand.
Simon is not a savior and has no responsibility for reviving the country.
Moreover, Simon did not doubt Maxim’s original intention of applying for this agricultural loan, but he doubted whether such a loan would really be used for agricultural production once it was approved.
Because it involves many agricultural production individuals, there is no guarantee that these people will directly put the loans into their own pockets or misappropriate them elsewhere, especially for some collective joint-stock farms. After a lot of trouble, Simon will not be able to Know who to approach for a loan.
Being a man of two lives, Simon had heard of many similar cases even if he had not experienced them personally.
Of course Simon can also use the Westeros system's intelligence system in Ukraine for supervision, but he does not want to spend this resource and effort.
There are no guarantees in the human heart.
The original intention of providing this loan is to help others, but the supervision is too strict and the crackdown is too harsh. Instead, it may unknowingly create a lot of hatred, and the gain outweighs the loss.