Hollywood Hunter

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In recent years, Apple is still strong, and old operating systems such as Unix still occupy a large part of the market share.

Therefore, apart from the attention in the field of new technology and the rise in the stock price, Westeros' increase of 10% of Microsoft's shares did not cause too strong repercussions. Most people do not see that Microsoft has become a sky-high level the potential of tech giants.

Once this was finalized, Simon's attention returned to Hollywood.

Another week in December has quietly gone.

During the week from December 8 to December 14, "Flying Innocent", which was released in its fourth week, received another $16.93 million with a 22% drop, with a cumulative box office of $101.25 million, officially breaking 100 million and becoming the first film in the year-end schedule. A million-dollar movie.

As the next popular Christmas season approaches, although the heavyweight films such as "Batman" and "Rocketman" are about to be released, "Flying Innocent" is a very festive family comedy that still has strong box office potential.

The industry originally expected that the film's North American box office may be between 150 million and 170 million US dollars. When the box office data for this week came out, both the film's production and distributor and external box office statistics agencies confirmed that "Flying Innocent" in North America. The box office is expected to reach $170 million or more.

In Simon's memory, "Flying Innocent" grossed only about $140 million in North America.

However, the original version of "Flying Over the Childhood" was released on an unpopular schedule in mid-October. The schedule is far less than Thanksgiving, and the actor's position cannot be compared with the starring Mel Gibson, let alone the strength of Daenerys and Warner Bros. Announced, therefore, it makes sense that the new version of the film surpassed the original $30 million at the box office.

"Flying Over Innocent" box office exceeded 100 million, and Daenerys Entertainment signed a contract with Warner Bros. for a film that exceeded 100 million at the box office in exchange for the two copyrights of "Wonder Woman" and "Bourne Bourne".

According to common sense, the development of a sequel is inevitable for a film that can break through $170 million at the North American box office. According to the original contract, Warner Bros. did not have the right to participate in the production of the "Flying Innocent" sequel, so the production of the sequel will be completely under the control of Daenerys Entertainment.

Amy is very interested in making a sequel to "Flying Innocent", but Simon can't bear to be enthusiastic.

This comedy with the baby talking as a gimmick is difficult to play new tricks in the sequel. The box office results of the two sequels of "Flying Innocent" in memory are completely halved. Simon doesn't think he can play too much this time. tricks.

Moreover, after participating in two blockbuster films with a box office exceeding 100 million yuan in one year, Mel Gibson's salary has further increased. For the total project of "Lethal Weapon 3" discussed with Warner, Mel Gibson directly offered a base salary of 8 million US dollars plus 20 % of net profit share.

"Flying Innocent" is expected to have a higher box office than "Lethal Weapon 3" in the summer. If a sequel is developed, Mel Gibson's salary offer will definitely be higher than that of "Lethal Weapon 3".

Although it has the foundation of the first part, "Flying Over Innocent" will definitely make some money to make a sequel, but if the production is started, the sequel will definitely occupy a high-quality time slot next year, and there are other better options. This potential time cost is not something Simon is willing to accept.

As such, Simon isn't going to lightly approve a sequel to "Flying Beyond" without a better idea beyond the original.

In addition to "Flying Innocent", "Scream 2" fell by 21% at the box office this week, and received another 5.11 million US dollars. The cumulative box office is 98.17 million US dollars, and it is expected to exceed 100 million next week.

However, next week's box office will fall below $5 million in a single week. Under the attack of heavyweight films such as "Batman", it will be very difficult for this teen horror film to break through the total North American box office of $110 million.

In the third week of its release, "Gucci Imprint" still maintained a very good 19% drop at the box office, and received another $6.39 million, with a cumulative box office of $23.86 million in three weeks.

Gucci has invested all expected profits into the film's publicity. However, according to Daenerys Entertainment's investment, the box office has exceeded 20 million US dollars, and the company has begun to generate good profits.

Encouraged by the success of Imprint, other well-known luxury brands and Hollywood studios have begun to approach each other in an attempt to replicate the success of Imprint in branding and box office. Daenerys Entertainment also officially signed a contract with Madonna, publicly announcing the establishment of a documentary project for Madonna's global tour next year.

Finally, in the first week of its release, "Driving for Miss Daisy", with 32 screens and excellent media reputation, won a weekly box office average of more than 23,000 US dollars, and the first-week box office reached 750,000 US dollars.

The film, adapted from a famous stage play about racial issues, cost only $7 million to make, and it earned $750,000 at the box office in its first week of screening. The film will obviously have a good box office prospect.

Then, on December 16, the day after last week's box office data was released, the nominations for the new American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were officially announced.

Daenerys Entertainment's two films, "My Left Foot" and "Driving Miss Daisy," produced by Goldman Films, have a total of five major nominations.

Among them, "My Left Foot" won two nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. "Driving Miss Daisy" was nominated for Best Picture in a Comedy Musical, Best Actor in a Comedy Musical and Best Actress in a Comedy Musical.

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Fang Dabao's "The Sixth Sense" is also very qualified to squeeze into the Golden Globe Award nomination list. If the film is declared, the four nominations of best drama, best screenwriter, best actor and best supporting actor are all nominated. is very possible.

However, Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily dropped the idea of ​​nominations for the film due to the controversy surrounding the film's screenwriting and making way for "My Left Foot" and "Driving for Miss Daisy."

It has to be said that "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is still released on December 7th. This phenomenal horror film has been released in North American theaters for 23 weeks. The total box office in North America is 295.38 million US dollars. It's a pity Failed to break the $300 million mark.

Because the weekly box office in the last few weeks is only 200,000 to 300,000 US dollars, unless you pay for the box office directly, it is impossible to make the box office rebound of "The Sixth Sense" exceed 300 million US dollars. Daenerys Entertainment will no longer fight for this title.

With a box office of more than 290 million US dollars, it has already ranked first in this year's box office list, and most media also tend to believe that there will be no more films surpassing the box office of "The Sixth Sense" by the end of the year.

Moreover, no matter whether it can break through the 300 million US dollars or not, Daenerys Entertainment has already made a lot of money, and it is impossible in all aspects to have something to do with the film because "The Sixth Sense" failed to break the 300 million mark. contempt.

New York.

Inside Simon's apartment on Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The time is Monday, December 18th.

Simon and Janet came here last Friday, mainly to record an episode of "The Tonight Show with John Carson," which was promoting "Batman."

Because of some entertainment, the two did not return to the West Coast over the weekend.

Last night I attended the reception of the new mayor-elect of New York, David Dinkins, who successfully defeated Rudy Giuliani in the election of the new mayor of New York in November.

The final stretch of the election coincided with a small October meltdown in the U.S. stock market, and David Dingkins' campaign reiterated that Rudy Giuliani's inappropriate comments during the investigation into Michael Milken's case were revealed by James Raybold. The scandal launched a fierce attack on the other side, in one fell swoop, established David Dinkins' dominant position in the late election, and finally won the election easily.

The Westeros Company spared no effort in the election process of David Dinkins, but Simon did not have a clear political appeal this time.

Or, if anything, it's an announcement to North American politics that Simon Westeros is getting into the game, along with Simon's own political stance.

Still get up early in the morning.

New York has just snowed recently, and Central Park outside the bedroom is still white and the weather is rather cold.

After breakfast, Simon said goodbye to Janet and rushed to the airport alone to return to the West Coast.

During this time, Janet never let go of the management of Cersei Capital.

However, compared with the previous operation of stock index futures that were constantly changing in the Japanese market, all types of positions in the North American bond market are basically long-term bearish contracts, so there is no need to closely follow the market every day. Cersei Capital’s The sub-fund team has also been granted a certain degree of autonomy, so that women can travel around with Simon.

The crisis in the U.S. junk bond market sparked by that mini-crash in October has continued in recent months, as Cersei Capital intends to liquidate all positions and exit the North American junk bond market by the New Year as planned, so Janet has recently Day intends to stay in New York to personally operate the final phase of the operation.

Planning to fly to Australia for Christmas after attending the premiere of "Batman" on December 20, Simon has been very busy in recent days.

Back in Los Angeles, because of the time difference, it was still just after nine o'clock in the morning on the West Coast, just after work time.

Jennifer and Simon returned together, and while on the plane, the female assistant told Simon that Australia's Qintex Group officially signed an acquisition agreement with MGM today.

Prior to this, Qintex Group's detailed plan to acquire MGM has been announced in the media.

Although the boss of MGM in recent years has been recognized as the casino tycoon Kirk Kerkorian, in fact, this one of the seven film companies has always been a public company. Kirk Kerkorian owns only 70% of MGM.

Kirk Kerkorian's several "capital operations" around MGM were also carried out on this 70% stake.

This time, Qintex Group will acquire a 70% stake in MGM-Lianmei from Kirk Kerkorian with $10 in cash, becoming the absolute controlling shareholder of this old-fashioned film company. The transaction also means that Qintex Group will undertake MGM's total debt of more than 700 million US dollars in various aspects.

The business situation of Qintex Group itself is in jeopardy. This matter has been excavated by the North American media with great power recently. The outside world is generally not optimistic about this transaction, and at the same time, some people think of Simon. It is believed that with Simon's girlfriend being Australian and Simon's close ties to Australian capital, Daenerys Entertainment is likely to help MGM recover.

You must know that behind the acquisition of MGM, not only the Qintex Group, but also many other Australian capitals who hope to get involved in the Hollywood media field are involved behind the scenes. Otherwise, with the strength of Qintex Group itself, it would be impossible to complete this acquisition.

Although Simon accepted that Christopher Skars, chairman of Qintex Group, participated in the signing luncheon for the acquisition of MGM at noon, he actually did not mean to help MGM.

At least, he had no intention of intervening until he realized control of the company.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon left LAX and headed straight to Daenerys Entertainment headquarters in Santa Monica.

There is already a meeting waiting for him here.

Last Wednesday, Daenerys Entertainment officially completed the acquisition of ea shares, and finally took over 35% of the shares of this PC game production and distribution company from several original major shareholders of ea at a price of 50 million US dollars, becoming ea's company. largest shareholder.

Compared with the initial total acquisition budget of up to 350 million US dollars, 50 million US dollars won 35% of ea's equity, and the company's valuation is only equivalent to 140 million US dollars, which is about 170 million US dollars before the transaction was concluded. The market value is much lower.

Obviously, the shareholders of ea company are looking at the content development capabilities of Daenerys Entertainment.

After Daenerys Entertainment becomes a shareholder, as long as ea can develop a game similar to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the business of selling 35% of the company's shares for $50 million is definitely not a loss. Moreover, because of the recovery of console games in recent years, ea originally planned to enter the field of console games, but was somewhat discouraged by Nintendo's harsh royalty system.

Now, according to the preferential agreement reached between Blizzard Studio and Nintendo and the negotiation between the two parties on this matter, after this stake, the games produced by ea can also enjoy the royalties of Blizzard Studio. This is also the reason why ea shareholders quickly and Dan Reasons for Nelith Entertainment's stock sale agreement.

You know, after the news was announced last Wednesday, the stock price of ea continued to rise sharply in the following three trading days. The stock price increased by more than 70% in the three days, and the market value had rushed to 290 million US dollars at the close of last Friday. Obviously, in just three days, Daenerys Entertainment's $50 million investment in ea has achieved a book profit of more than 100%.

This morning's meeting was also a tacit desire by both parties to continue to stimulate the stock price of ea company through some good news. At the same time, during the negotiation process with ea company, Simon had already instructed Nancy to contact some copyrights suitable for game changes. This meeting is what everyone wants to discuss.

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