Made in Hollywood

"Didn't George send you an invitation?"

Walking on the sand on the Gold Coast, Ivanka Trump took Duke's hand and asked, "Why didn't you go to the premiere?"

"I'm very busy, I have to run announcements all over the world," Duke held Ivanka's hand, stepped on the golden sand, leaned over and kissed her cheek, and said, "You want to come here on summer vacation. While on vacation, I had no choice but to reject George."

It is autumn in Australia now, the temperature on the Gold Coast is not suitable for going to the sea, and it is also the off-season for tourism, but Ivanka wants to come over to vacation with him, and Duke will not refuse.

"The sea breeze is a little cold."

Ivanka rubbed her arm, Duke took off the coat hanging from the other hand, draped it over her shoulder, and said, "Let's go back."

"Um."

Nodding, Ivanka followed Duke's path. She could see that there were paparazzi moving in the distance, but she didn't care. She has gotten used to it over the past year. Gram chat, "I'm graduating from Wharton in one year."

"Time flies so fast?" Duke turned to look at her, "I still remember when I first met you, you were just a young student, and now you are graduating from college."

"My final year will be mostly internships."

With a sweet smile at Duke, Ivanka continued, "I have discussed with a few other people in the company that the company will move to Los Angeles next month."

"In terms of promotion, I need to say it directly."

Even if a small amount of share options were awarded to a few technical backbones, Duke still holds more than 40% of the shares. He is the same major shareholder as Ivanka, which is also working for the appreciation of his assets.

Ivanka found three technical experts in computer and network from the University of Pennsylvania, and introduced them to the instant sharing website that has been corporatized, now that the IT industry is developing rapidly. Such people are scarce resources. If you want people to contribute, you must give some sweetness.

How can that kind of person occupy 100% of the company's shares and still want others to serve, how is it possible in this commercial society?

And what they have in their hands is only options for the time being.

The two walked towards the rented seaside villa and stopped discussing the company's affairs. Ivanka's intention is very clear, relocate the company to Los Angeles as soon as possible.

"You have posted the poster of "The Return of the King" on instant sharing twice in a row, which has attracted the attention of many people."

Holding Duke's hand, Ivanka recalled the data she saw yesterday, "In the past two weeks, the number of users who have shared instant sharing has increased by nearly 200,000. My dear, you are still very attractive."

"It's the attraction of the Ring," Duke corrected. "If it weren't for the popularity of "The Two Towers", which aroused many people's expectations for "The Return of the King", how could it have such a good effect."

He laughed, "Actually, I'd love to upload a trailer, but instant sharing doesn't support video sharing yet."

"The technology department is perfecting this function." Ivanka's pace is slowing down. "After the company moves to Los Angeles, it will launch this video sharing function as soon as possible, but with the current network bandwidth, it can only support some small format videos."

"Don't worry." Duke also slowed down with Ivanka's footsteps. "The road always has to be taken step by step, and the development speed of the Internet is amazing."

Ivanka nodded. Suddenly asked, "Where's Tina? I haven't seen her since I got off the plane."

"Going to New Zealand." Duke reminded, "Did you forget that I still have a manor in New Zealand? Recently, it involves tax issues, and she has dealt with it in the past."

"Are you going to sell that manor?" Ivanka asked curiously.

Duke shook his head. "Keep it. It will be used as a holiday estate in the future. I still miss the scenery of New Zealand."

This small country can retain so many natural features, which is related to its geographical location and development strategy. New Zealand has almost no heavy industry. Heavy industrial products are basically imported.

Compared to the densely populated Los Angeles, New Zealand's climate and scenery are much better.

"What shall we do next?"

Walking to the beach house, Ivanka asked, "You can't just stay here, can you?"

Duke thought for a moment, "Let's change clothes and go to the movies together."

Although not a movie fan, and not much interested in watching movies not produced by Duke, Ivanka nodded, took Duke back to the room and changed into a couple's casual clothes, called to find a car, and only took ten After a few minutes, we arrived at the nearest theater.

She knew exactly what Duke wanted to see, so she went directly to the ticket office to buy two tickets for the just-released "Attack of the Clones", and went to the theater hand in hand.

Sitting in the couple's seat, Ivanka asked, "Will 'The Two Towers' lose this week's North American box office title?"

"Honey," Duke nodded heavily, "this is Star Wars."

"I was dragged by Jane to watch Star Wars 1," Ivanka obviously didn't have a Star Wars plot, "I think it's pretty average, except for the special effects..."

She shook her head, saw the big screen light up, and stopped talking.

I just watched less than half of the time, and Ivanka's brows furrowed tightly. For a non-Star Wars fan like her, this film is simply torture, and she simply leaned against Duke's body. , stop focusing on watching.

In her eyes, Duke's profile, carved like a marble, looks better than that movie.

Except for special effects, this film has almost nothing to compare with "The Two Towers", and Ivanka even mentioned it. If this is not George Lucas' Star Wars, I am afraid that the box office of the movie may crash.

In particular, the two characters of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala are not only completely out of balance, but also the way their emotions are transferred is very bloody.

It's true that the emotions in the movie are bloody, but the relationship between them is too abrupt.

Ivanka knows very well that Duke is not good at shooting love scenes, and it seems that George Lucas is not much better.

Frankly speaking, Padmé Amidala's performance is still great, but the actor's poor performance when standing with Anakin Skywalker...

Suddenly, Duke's voice came from her ear, "George still chose him."

"What?" Ivanka whispered in his ear.

Duke turned his head, kissed Ivanka, who was resting on his shoulder, and explained a few words, "I once suggested to George that Anakin Skywalker's actor should find an actor who is at least as good as Nata. Leigh Portman is too far short of candidates, but George..."

Speaking of which, Duke sighed, wondering what George Lucas was thinking. He still chose Christensen Hayden, one of the most famous and worst screen couples in film history, and got together again. Together.

Ivanka ignored other words and asked, "Is Natalie Portman's acting very good? Why do I think it's not much better than Kirsten Dunst?"

"It's okay." Duke shrugged, without any guilt, "She has the best acting skills among actresses of her age."

As Duke's former assistant, Ivanka knows quite a lot of things. She is actually very aware of the lace hyped by the tabloids and the lace that the media does not know.

However, this smart woman didn't say anything. Some things are in the past, and what she wants to see is the future.

The film ended in a wedding that no one paid attention to. Duke thought of Natalie Portman and shook his head slightly. The two are destined not to have too much contact again, and the idols they once were have become the past.

In the years he entered Hollywood, he did not do many stupid things, and Natalie Portman can be regarded as one of them.

"What are you thinking?" Ivanka deliberately pulled his arm down, "I've been distracted since I came out."

In this case, Duke will certainly not be stupid enough to tell the truth, that is to add conflict between them, "I'm estimating how much box office George's film will eventually get."

"Except for special effects, this movie..." Ivanka shook her head, "If it weren't for Star Wars, I think $500 million would be an extravagant hope."

"Over $500 million in the world is definitely not a problem." Dukera walked her to the car, shrugged, and said, "Who made this Star Wars?"

If I remember correctly, "Attack of the Clones" has the worst box office and audience reputation in Star Wars, it seems to have only more than 600 million US dollars at the global box office.

Even so, "The Two Towers" in its fourth weekend couldn't compete with "Attack of the Clones" in its opening weekend.

The latter opened in 3,520 theaters in North America, and won $80.02 million in three days in the first weekend, making it the No. 1 spot on the North American box office chart without any suspense.

After the third consecutive title in North America, "The Two Towers" slipped to the second place, but the decline was still healthy and stable, down 41% compared to last weekend, and got 22.6 million US dollars.

Including the $19.25 million in the previous four working days, the North American box office has reached $361.9 million, and has already seen the $400 million mark.

Overseas, "The Two Towers" entered the last few markets in North Africa and South Africa this weekend. The overseas trend is still strong. The overseas box office has exceeded the 450 million US dollar level, and the global box office has also successfully exceeded 800 million US dollars. $817.55 million!

In addition, peripheral products also have a strong response overseas. Although they are cold in a few markets such as South Korea and Southeast Asia, sales in the Western world and countries and regions deeply influenced by Western culture have been on the rise, excluding North America’s nearly 200 million US dollars In addition to peripheral sales, overseas sales of peripheral products are also close to this figure.

But with the release of "Attack of the Clones", the impact of "The Two Towers" is still relatively obvious, and the box office and surrounding areas are slipping. (To be continued ~^~)

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