Chicago 1990

Blame me?

Why don't you care about it? Even if the genre doesn't like it, that is the theme song of a film that cost more than 200 million to produce. It's too late to take regret medicine now.

However, the ex-wife also complained that she couldn't finish the commercial performance at the end of the year, the signature Christmas song and the New Year's Eve meal ticket of Times Square, the heart of the empire, did not have much leisure time to entangle.

"I will not appear, nor will I show up in the cinema, let alone let me cooperate with you in the news."

The next day, the first full release day of the Titanic ended, and the box office performance improved. Fox Pictures President Bill McKennick personally called and asked for help.

Song Ya refused without even thinking about it. The disgusting rumors of buying a little plum for 60 million yuan and smiling were spreading as the ship opened. He would never risk being photographed to see Titanic, let alone show up. Help on the platform, "No, it's useless to persuade me, I, a black star, and your movie-watching group do not overlap very much, and Spike Lee and the others are supporting Morgan Freeman's heavy rain. It is not convenient for me..."

In the transatlantic route at the beginning of the twentieth century, regardless of whether the wealthy people in the upper class or the poor immigrants in the lower class, they were all whites, and blacks would only serve as waiters, musicians, cooks, and boiler workers. .

"APLUS! Anyway, everyone do their part! Okay? For your 60 million."

Bill McKennick cried and pleaded, "I'll do this at the box office...I have to jump off the building!"

At present, in the first weekend of North America’s box office, the Titanic is likely to catch up, at least tying the Empire of Tomorrow in 007, but this result may not be enough to return to the original. According to past experience, the Titanic must at least reach the starring Will Smith' Men in Black' global box office line of nearly 600 million can turn losses into profits.

In the hottest three weeks of this year's summer vacation, the box office of Beimi totaled 150 million!

For Christmas and subsequent New Year’s files, Titanic has only two weeks of time, one week less than the man in black. In the first week, the gap between the Empire of Tomorrow in 007 cannot be opened, and the overall box office will fall sharply in two weeks or later. Three weeks, together, it is impossible to exceed 150 million...

Fox Pictures’ plan is to grind the Titanic into the awards season after these two weeks, hoping to use movie awards to maintain subsequent buying, but there is a limit to the role of awards in boosting the box office, even if they get well in Oscars or other weight awards Achievements can't make up for the weakness of the Christmas files and the subsequent New Year files.

"Jump, it's not my **** that you and Cameron both jumped off the building."

Song Ya was very cruel and ruthless, just to repay the enemy's revenge for forcing Yeremov to continue to pay for the project while he was in a coma.

"APLUS..."

"Of course, don't think less of the share that should be allocated to me!"

The ship sank, it was a little bit that 60 million could be fished out. He hung up the phone and immediately called Yeremov to pay close attention to Fox Pictures, to prevent the other party from resorting to bankruptcy protection.

The entire Christmas Highland Park was very deserted. Aunt Susie and Tony came to reunite one night on Christmas Eve. Song Ya was still struggling with muscle-building meals and massive exercise, taking time to record songs.

"How much was the box office in the first week?"

On the 26th, Shakira was sitting under the beautiful Christmas tree in the hall, teasing the little Arianne in his arms, and Song Ya was talking on the phone with Yeremov.

"Nearly 50 million, the weekly box office number one, we defeated the Empire of Tomorrow in 007." Yeremov informed the good news, but he was sluggish, "but the advantage is not more than 10 million."

"Nearly fifty million, which means..."

The general box office performance of the New Year's stall next week is not as good as that of the Christmas stall, at most the same, "no more than 100 million in two weeks." When the office workers re-enter the rhythm of work in the third week, the box office will usher in a cliff-like decline that hits again. Twenty million?"

"Not so optimistic, there will be a drop in the box office in the next week, from 100 million to 110 million."

Yeremov replied: “However, women’s reputation is overwhelming, and Fox is preparing to continue to mobilize their enthusiasm for movie watching and fight for the award season.”

"Damn it, there will be no miracles?" Song Ya asked with a glimmer of hope.

"Probably not, look at long-term performance."

Yeremov comforted him, "From a good point of view, Titanic's situation is always better than that of Cutthroat Island, and the box office performance of other markets around the world is also far superior to the future water world."

Which pot does not open and which pot? "Even in the future Water World, the global box office is only 250 million yuan! It can't match our production cost plus publicity expenses!" Song Ya angrily scolded.

"Haha! Lost money in Hollywood? Don't worry about APLUS, this time we bring you something good at nuclear level!"

The 3DFX trio's gloating laughter suddenly spread outside the door, and Rose walked in first, "We are going to watch it tonight and contribute a few movie tickets to your project."

"Fxxkyou."

The relationship between the trio is frozen, and they will no longer bring large arcade machines to themselves. This time, on the eve of the Q4 financial report and annual report of 3DFX, Song Ya summoned all the senior executives of the company including the trio. Meeting.

Song Ya didn't have a good attitude towards them anymore, and coldly glanced at the president Ballard who was following the crowd, "have you not seen it yet?"

Ballard and the trio not only provoked Sega in the prospectus, they also lied. In 1997, the net profit of 3DFX could not reach the 60 million bragged in the prospectus. Even with the combined Videologic, the two companies The total operating income is less than 100 million, only nearly 90 million dollars.

The gross profit margin is okay because the 3D acceleration chip has no strong competitors, about 50%, and the net profit is less than 30 million because of the big failure of the VoodooRUSH project, and the market value of 3DFX is still more than 600 million.

The market has reacted in advance, and the stock price has fallen for days. Fortunately, there is a buffer for Christmas and New Year holidays.

"No, we watched 007, wow, it's a wonderful spy blockbuster, and it still tastes that way. The Chinese female spy (played by Michelle Yeoh) is really amazing, she looks beautiful, plays beautifully, and has great skills."

Rose said with a mean smile.

Song Ya also didn’t watch 007, but she probably understood a little bit. Like the musical Miss Saigon, the Orientalist plot from a western perspective. When a yellow woman meets a handsome white man, she can’t walk and fall in love with each other. James Bond is an enemy agent.

"Don't talk nonsense, solve your problem first!"

Song Ya gave Shakira a wink. The Latin woman knew how to give face to her man in front of outsiders, and without a word, she picked up Arianne and disappeared upstairs.

"I don't want to make false statements in the financial report, OK? Operating income, profit and other data must be auditable."

Firmly controlling the 3DFX board is a double-edged sword. Song Ya also doesn't want to get into trouble with this kind of thing. He is most worried about the trio of scammers playing cleverness, so they will be caught during the holiday. come.

"The stock price..."

CEO McLaren hesitated for a while, and tentatively said, "If the stock price falls too hard, we will be under a lot of pressure. APLUS, you know, the UK side was reluctant to see Videologic being merged by 3DFX at first."

"We can postpone some operating costs and equipment depreciation until Q1 next year to calculate." CFO Chief Financial Officer said.

"Yes, but I still say that. The financial report, especially the first annual report after the listing, must withstand the doubts and tests of Wall Street." Song Ya said: "We don't play with books or tricks, and focus on business. the company."

"That..." The CFO looked at McLaren and Ballard.

"The chairman has decided to do so," Ballard replied with a sigh.

"Ok."

The 3DFX executives were a little bit down, and the trio became happy, "We still have to rely on us, APLUS, your computer is still in the study? Show you something good."

Song Ya stood up on the armrest of the sofa, slowly leading the way without the help of crutches.

Naturally it attracted some compliments from McLaren and others.

"Let me introduce to you: VOODOO2!"

The trio directly disassembled the Compaq brand computer in the study into'parts'. CTO Chief Technology Officer Scott took out two densely packed new graphics cards from the bag, inserted them into the motherboard slots, and then connected them to various Cable.

"So VOODOO2 is just two cards?" Song Ya asked quietly.

"This is our unique SLi technology, which is roughly similar to the progressive scan of a TV. One is for odd lines and one is for even numbers."

Rose finished the explanation and turned on the computer, "Try it, APLUS."

"try what?"

"Oh yes, wait." Rose took out the game disk of Quake 2 and installed it.

"The annual report will cooperate with the shareholder letter in January next year, revealing the listing plan of the pure 3D accelerator card VOODOO2, and the recent progress of our 2D plus 3D VoodooRUSH2 project. I hope that the card with volume can win back the confidence of PC manufacturers. And stock price."

Taking the time of running the installation progress bar, McLaren said: "Videologic's 2D technology and 3DFX's 3D technology, I believe we have achieved the best balance of cost, stability and compatibility, and will not repeat the mistakes of VoodooRUSH."

"Of course there is still an old problem. Graphics card manufacturers are again trying to jointly manipulate the price of VOODOO2's terminal products. I think it is best to include the plan to acquire a self-owned graphics card manufacturer next year in the shareholder letter, so that they can vote for the mouse." Ballard suggested.

"You decide these things for yourself."

Song Ya thought for a while, there was no big problem, clicked on the icon of Thor's Hammer 2 on the desktop, and his eyes flickered. The two VOODOO2 graphics cards gave him a great visual experience, and the 3D effect was very close...even surpassed BabaYetu. 3D modeling in the Apocalypse MV?

"not bad."

He didn't want the trio to be too proud, so he quickly regained his face and played two casually. It was nothing more than the old FPS game shooting monsters. He gave a complimentary comment, "Let's look at the effect of a single card. So few users are willing to spend money to buy two special 3D accelerator cards, right?"

He pointed to the case, "Especially if you need a 2D card, then you have to buy three cards at once? The investment is too high."

The 2D card that the trio brought to work with is not even a product of its own company. It comes from a 2D chip from a friend company S3. The graphics card brand is Dimeng.

Maybe it was the sore spot, Rose silently removed one of the VOODOO2.

Sure enough, the 3D effect of the game was a bit worse, but Song Ya felt that it was still much better than VOODOO1. "Can other competitors catch up with us next year?" he asked.

"Absolutely impossible, no one can compete against Voodoo 2."

All the people around the computer answered in unison.

"I'm angry when I see him now."

After that, a long meeting was held around the Q4 financial report, annual report, and shareholder notice. The U.S. has no hard and fast rules on the disclosure time, but the annual reports of listed companies are generally launched from January to March, and 3DFX is scheduled for January.

The trio rushed to show off VOODOO2, but did not get the expected face-slapping effect from Song Yana. Rose left Highland Park and angrily shouted.

"Where are you going now? Back to the hotel?"

Asked Scott who was driving.

"No, go and see the Titanic who took him off his pants, my mother wants to see the pirated version, don't contribute a penny to that guy!"

"OK."

Scott drove to downtown Chicago and picked a theater.

The three big men walked into the ticket office and immediately felt a little embarrassed, because the surrounding was crowded with pairs of young men and women.

Many girls cried so that their eyeballs were swollen~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Holding a tissue box and asking the man next to him: "IJump, YouJump?"

"I jump..."

"You jump, I jump too."

"If you jump, I will jump..."

"In fact, can you find a way without death?"

The men answered in various ways, and then they hugged the girl, reaping moving tears and lips, or were thrown off on the spot.

"What the hell?"

Ross went to line up to buy tickets inexplicably, and the two pairs were hugged together, "Rose and Jack..."

"Do you know me?" He heard the little couple in front of him seem to mention his name, "Who is Jack?"

"You? Cut!" The girl turned her head, looked at him up and down in contempt, and rolled her eyes.

Lao Tzu is a multi-millionaire! Not better than your boyfriend in a cheap jacket? What a simple girl with no eyesight!

Ross is slanderous, but the other party does blame the good-looking, "Have you seen this movie?" He asked persistently, "Are you talking about the plot just now?"

"I've seen it, she has to do it again." The boy replied helplessly with a bitter face, "Oh!" He was quickly attacked by the girl's nails.

Rose slowly followed the long line to the ticket window in wonder.

"Sorry, the tickets for the Titanic are sold out." The conductor posted a sold-out notice to the top of the window.

"Then it will be the next one." Ross stuffed a big one-hundred-meter ticket in. "Will you wait for the next one?" He asked the two technical nerds who looked tormented among the lovers. .

"The next one is also sold out. As long as it is Titanic tickets, today's are all gone."

The conductor replied, there was an instant wailing in the ticket hall.

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