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In the western suburbs of Melbourne, an abandoned factory originally bought by Daenerys, after continuous construction in recent years, has become a comprehensive film and television base covering an area of ​​50 hectares, covering an area similar to that of Malibu Daenerys in Los Angeles. Silk Studios are quite similar, the only difference is that the building density is sparser.

Melbourne Studios has a total of 9 large-scale studios, of which only 3 are conventional studios, and the other 6 are virtual studios for special effects shooting. Other post-production centers, special effects studios and other supporting facilities are also available.

Through the continuous lobbying of the Westeros system and other stakeholders, the film preferential policies of the Australian government and domestic states have not been reduced because more and more Hollywood movies are filmed here, but their support has continued to increase.

A large number of film projects have been filmed in Australia, which has kept the only large-scale modern film and television base in the southern hemisphere operating at full capacity.

Melbourne Studios has invested more than $300 million before and after, and was once thought to be a drag on Daenerys Entertainment Group. After all, Daenerys already owns two studios in Malibu and Burbank in Los Angeles. Now, this film and television base not only has no losses, but also meets its own needs, and also contributes very good income to Daenerys Entertainment through venue equipment rental and orders for other film and television projects.

After finishing his trip to Africa and completing the 'Sword of Damocles' project that has been advancing in secret, after Easter, Simon's attention finally turned to the "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" project, which will be completed at the end of April.

As a special effects-based blockbuster, through careful planning in the early stage, the shooting cycle of "Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice" is only 3 months. Shooting will start at the end of January and finish at the end of April. It is expected that the post-production will take up to 6 months. Time, probably in the second half of October will be completely completed.

I have been away from North America for two weeks, and it is impossible to stay outside for too long. In order to complete the work here as soon as possible, on April 17, the day after Easter, Simon began to spend more than 10 hours a day in Melbourne in the western suburbs. Inside the cinema.

Go through all the shots shot over the past few months one by one, finalize and participate in editing plans in person, discuss post-production VFX plans with the VFX team, and more.

The work is trivial and heavy.

People who don't know what to do always think that the film director is a designer role. In fact, this profession is more inclined to engineer, and it is still the kind of work that requires hands-on work.

Because a movie, especially a blockbuster movie, is a very big project in itself.

Simon hasn't personally directed the series since Batman: Hour of War, but as the helm of the entire DC Cinematic Universe series, his job isn't easy at all, as now, Roland Emmerich only It is necessary to focus on the project "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", which is only one of the dc movie universes, but Simon is distracted by this project, but also takes into account the planning of related projects for the next two years, this is not a mouthful things that can be accomplished.

From April 17th to April 21st, five days and more than 10 hours of work a day, Simon finally completed the follow-up work on "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice".

Not only that, these days, Simon has also sorted out the layout of the Westeros system in terms of private military power.

Mainly Africa.

For Africa, Simon's positioning is a disguised training ground for the Westeros system. Since the Rwanda genocide broke out last year, after Simon withdrew from the Westeros mercenaries stationed in Rwanda in the past year, he has continued to use these The troops have re-infiltrated into the industries of the Westeros family in African countries, and they have remained active in the African region again in the form of security teams.

The Westeros system already has enough core industries with lucrative benefits. Simon's series of industrial layouts in Africa are just for the purpose of raising soldiers, and making money or not is only secondary.

Any army, if it is separated from the battlefield environment for a long time, will inevitably lead to the continuous decline of its combat power.

And Africa, even after ten or twenty years, has never been completely peaceful.

African warlords are actually very smart.

For other countries' peacekeepers or government-backed mercenaries, such as South Africa's eo, they are actually very repulsive, because these people are very aware that the modern military of the West can easily affect their rule.

Simon swiftly withdrew the Westeros mercenaries from Rwanda in the second half of last year, which made many African countries, including the Rwandan authorities, put down a lot of their vigilance against the Westeros system.

Not only that, this year, the Westeros system has also used a lot of lobbying power to operate in Africa, with only one message, Simon is a businessman, has no interest in overthrowing their regime, and entered Africa just to do In business, as long as you give enough benefits, the Westeros system can also give you everything you want, weapons and equipment, very simple, recognized by Western society, no problem.

As long as you can give enough benefits.

In the face of Simon's message, the smart warlords certainly know how to choose.

Besides Rwanda, Angola quickly became another example of a happy partnership with the Westeros system.

This country, which was originally a Portuguese colony, fought a civil war for decades because of the game between the two sides during the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the faction that prevailed at the time was the faction supported by the Soviet Union, and it was also recognized by the United Nations. is beautiful

The other side that the country once supported has gradually declined, and a brief settlement reached by the two sides in 1992 has also plunged into civil war after a presidential election failed to satisfy the opposition.

After the Westeros system contacted Angola, the current president of Angola, Dos Santos, quickly gave a positive response. The Angolan leader, who was once supported by the Soviet Union, knew very well that if he wanted to completely eliminate the domestic opposition, he must put an end to it. Possible support from the US behind the scenes.

The two sides hit it off.

In the past year, the Westeros system not only provided Angola with a large number of cheap arms from Ukraine, but also promoted Dos Santos' visit to the United States. After the Black Hawk fell, Washington did not want to be too involved in African affairs. The visit, of course, had to be accepted, so it was also a hit and miss. This visit announced that the opposition in Angola had been completely abandoned by the United States.

In this process, the Westeros system obtained the development rights of many mineral deposits in Angola.

Moreover, Simon not only did not take it for nothing, but exchanged cash or arms at the same time, but also quietly took the initiative to take out shares to make friends with the Angolan government dignitaries. The relationship between the two parties has become closer unknowingly. In the Angolan market, although there is not much business for the time being, it is only to build a local mobile communication network limited to the Angolan capital Luanda, but it is definitely a pioneering work for closed Africa.

Most importantly, Simon also quietly deployed 300 Westeros mercenaries in Angola under the pretext of military advisers and corporate security.

The small number of people and the distribution of the whole thing did not arouse any objection from the Angolan side.

Not only that, Simon visited Angola during the first anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Dos Santos also offered to get the support of 200 Westeros mercenaries on top of the 100 military advisers to train the authorities’ army. Of course, there is no money. After so many years of civil war, Angola has been withered. However, it can be paid with minerals.

In addition to another negotiated arms order, the two transactions were exchanged for the right to operate a large coffee planting area covering an area of ​​about 150,000 acres, equivalent to 600 square kilometers, in southern Angola.

As long as taxes are paid in accordance with regulations in the future, the 150,000 acres of land are equivalent to Simon's private domain.

Unlike Simon's private land in Tasmania, Australia, which has unknowingly expanded to more than 2 million acres, such an area has considerable economic value.

The great cause of the landowners was extended to Africa.

Of course, it's nothing compared to the super-landlord families who own tens of millions of acres of land in Australia.

This is one of several options Simon himself has offered from Angola.

Because the Angolan opposition is entrenched in southern Angola.

The coffee plantation area selected by Simon was still in the hands of the opposition a few years ago. The two sides competed for each other. There are few local residents left, and large areas of high-quality coffee plantations have become unclaimed land. harassed by the infiltrating armed opposition.

Such an area is just right in Simon's arms.

If you are often harassed by the armed opposition, then the security task is quite heavy, and it is natural to send a few more people to guard it.

Moreover, such a large coffee-growing area always requires a large number of local labors to take care of it. After the situation is completely stabilized in the future, a gathering area will definitely be formed. At that time, it will be convenient for the Westeros system to carry out some other operations. It is easy to feel a sense of belonging to the Westeros system.

All in all, the success of Angola’s layout has made many African countries show goodwill towards the Westeros system.

Simon is no longer impatient now, and intends to moisten things quietly and quietly.

So until April 22, the Simon family finally left Melbourne.

However, the two women and children will go directly back to North America, but Simon is going to Europe, the first stop is Ukraine, to deal with some extensions of this African layout, then go to Italy to visit Sofia, and then go to the UK, The Conjuring Cinematic Universe's third project, The Conjuring 2, is being filmed there before returning to North America.

At the same time, Simon was away during this time, and the two-week Easter period in North America came to an end.

Daenerys Entertainment once again brought a surprise to Daenerys Entertainment with the release of "Fighting Wisdom 3" on April 7.

The development of this project can be described as bumpy.

At the beginning, Daenerys Entertainment and the main creator Mike Myers only signed a package contract for two movies. The first two "Fighting Wisdom Stars" were successful. The first domestic box office was 120 million, and the second was as high as 1.4 Billion, the third part, without the constraints of the package contract, Mike Myers can naturally start from the ground.

Simon did not make any concessions at all.

The budget for the first film was $20 million, the second for $30 million, and for the third, because of the success of the first two films, according to Hollywood practice, the budget doubled to $60 million. Of course, Simon insisted on only giving a budget of $40 million. . Daenerys Entertainment has no shortage of quality projects, with only $40 million to go ahead or cancel.

Of course, this time the division can be a little looser.

This is also out of risk aversion.

If the production budget of $60 million is doubled compared to the second, plus the halved $30 million announcement, the total cost of the third film will reach the blockbuster level of $90 million. As a vulgar spoof comedy relying on local culture, the overseas market potential of the "Fighting Wisdom" series has always been small, basically

Only rely on North America.

Therefore, even if the third film maintains the domestic box office of the second film of 140 million US dollars, including overseas, Daenerys can only barely make back the money.

Even though this new sequel has shattered Simon's memory of the franchise's second box-office fiasco, Simon isn't quite convinced that the third one will still be a big hit.

So stick to risk control.

Mike Myers did not intend to compromise at first, until the box office fiasco of "Honeymoon Dangerous Period" two years ago in the summer vacation. The total investment of 30 million US dollars in production announcement and distribution only brought less than 10 million US dollars to Sony Pictures. At the box office, the comedian was relieved.

The finalized plan was a base salary of $8 million plus a 15% project omni-channel profit sharing.

Because this series is a dual protagonist, the other male protagonist and the director who has been following up have all risen. This is the highest price that Simon can accept. On the basis of the salary increase, the other two main creators also received an equal 7.5% of the entire project. Channel profit sharing.

In the end, the production cost of this project was 40 million plus 20 million for publicity, and the total budget was 60 million US dollars.

Simon's original expectation was that the box office of the final episode of the series could break 100 million, even if the task was overfulfilled, and after deducting the cost through overseas and follow-up videotapes, Daenerys Entertainment could recover a good profit, and the three main creators could also get it. quite a considerable share.

If the domestic box office is less than $100 million, both parties may need to make up for it later.

The result now is that I don't know if the three main creators have found the audience's taste through the tempering of the first two films. The reputation of the third film has not only improved significantly compared with the second film, but the comprehensive media rating has increased from 7.3 points of the previous film. To the excellent level of 8.1 points, the box office is surprising.

With 2,893 screens in the first week, "Fighting Wisdom and Stars 3" hit $49.29 million in the first week of filming from April 7 to April 13, an increase of $6 million over the previous film.

It's not over yet.

At the beginning, the second week of "Fighting Wisdom 2" dropped by 39%. For this kind of comedy, this is a very normal trend. It is also the Easter schedule, probably because of Easter on April 16, April In the week following its release from April 14th to April 20th, the box office of "Fight for Wisdom and Stars 3" dropped by only a very good 27%, and it collected another 36.83 million US dollars.

In just two weeks, the cumulative box office for the series finale has reached $86.12 million.

Even, in an email correspondence with Simon, Danny Morris, head of New World Pictures, also suggested whether it is necessary to develop another one, after all, it has not been publicly announced that the series has ended.

You must know that the two-week box office of 86.13 million US dollars, although the Easter schedule has passed, but considering that there are no other competitors until the opening of the summer schedule, and the word of mouth of "Fighting Wisdom 3" is so good, the local box office is likely to be It will cross the $200 million mark.

The total cost of 60 million is more than 200 million US dollars at the domestic box office, and it would be a pity not to develop a sequel.

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