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Daenerys Entertainment just happens to have the content resources that are crucial to film critics.

Well-known film critics can contribute articles to many newspapers, but if they are rejected by the film company and unable to participate in media test screenings to obtain first-hand information in advance, their own influence will inevitably decline rapidly.

A small meeting room in the administrative building of Daenerys Studios [-].

Daenerys Pictures President Tom Pollack, New World Pictures President Danny Morris, Highgate Pictures President Ella Deutschman and Daenerys Pictures as Amy Pascal enters the conference room Mark Belford, president of Silk Entertainment's global distribution business, and other executives have arrived, and everyone is discussing something, and the atmosphere is quite relaxed.

In fact, everyone was relieved after the first-day box office of "The Seven Deadly Sins" was released last Saturday.

At this moment, everyone's expressions were still filled with joy.

Before the movie was released, after several internal trial screenings and the data feedback from the film's two-month publicity, the publicity team set a box office target of 6000 million US dollars for "Seven Deadly Sins".

6000 million US dollars is already a very high figure, but it is not enough to recover the total investment of 4500 million US dollars in the project through the North American box office.

For that to happen, it needs to hit $8000 million at the North American box office.

Of course, as long as the local box office achieves 6000 million US dollars, through overseas distribution and follow-up channels, Daenerys Entertainment can easily recover costs and achieve profitability.

Of course, higher goals have also been expected.

For example, hit the [-] million box office club.

However, the distribution team generally believes that the theme of "Seven Deadly Sins" is too small and obscure, which will greatly limit the size of the audience.

With the official release of the film, the actual situation is that the box office revenue of the first day of "Seven Deadly Sins" reached 793 million US dollars.

$793 million on Friday.

$867 million Saturday.

On Sunday, because it was Halloween, the box office slipped to $681 million.

Even so, in the first three days of the opening weekend, the cumulative box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" has reached 2341 million US dollars.

The number of opening screens of the film was 2511, and the three-day box office in the first weekend was 2341 million US dollars. Although it failed to achieve the top-selling level of over [-] in the first three days, it was not far behind.

Moreover, the film distribution team originally expected the film's first seven-day box office to be only about 2000 million U.S. dollars. "Seven Deadly Sins" broke through the film's box office target for a full week in just three days of release.

In comparison, the other two opening films, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" written by Tim Burton, had a three-day box office of only US$821 million in the first weekend due to their high reputation.

MGM's "Fatal Instinct" had a box office of only US$376 million in the first three days, barely more than a fraction of "Seven Deadly Sins".

The three-day opening weekend was $2341 million, which means that the box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" will be between $3300 million and $3500 million in the first full week. Such an excellent box office start, as long as the subsequent box office curve is not too bleak, don't say $8000 million and $1 million in North America are easy.

Amy Pascale's assistant, Vanessa Lind, distributed a freshly printed report to everyone, and the conference room fell silent.

Waiting patiently for everyone to read the materials in their hands, Amy said: "This is the statistical report of the audience survey questionnaires from various places during the weekend. You must have seen one of the key data. Among the 1 questionnaires, the audience contacted through Internet channels The proportion of viewers who have watched "Seven Deadly Sins" reached 33%, and the proportion of viewers who entered theaters completely influenced by the Internet platform also reached 19%. As senior managers in the industry, you must understand what this report means, this material, etc. Next time, I will take it back and destroy it, and I hope everyone will try to keep it as secret as possible. Now, we are starting to discuss the next step of continuing to strengthen cooperation with Eaglet Corporation."

Before the rise of the Internet, the factors that influenced the audience's choice of a movie were very complicated.

Leading stars, TV commercials, newspaper reviews, street posters, word of mouth, random selection, etc., etc., if the film company wants to promote a film, it must work on all aspects at the same time.

Although "Seven Deadly Sins" this time is considered a rather special model, as many as 33% of the audience have been more or less influenced by the Internet platform, which is enough to prove the strong influence of Ygritte's portal.

Although Simon has repeatedly emphasized that the entire Westeros system is a community of interests, there are still many Daenerys entertainment executives who are more or less complaining about being involved in the confrontation between Ygritte and traditional paper media.

With this release of "Seven Deadly Sins", most of the entanglements have disappeared.

Ygritte may have affected the relationship between Daenerys and traditional paper media. However, it is obvious that the strong media strength of this platform not only completely offsets the disadvantages that Daenerys Entertainment encountered in traditional paper media, but brought Obvious gains come.

Chapter 582 Family Affairs (Revision)

Faced with the suppression of word-of-mouth by a large number of print media, the seven-day box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" still reached US$3376 million in the first week, far exceeding the original box office expectation of US$2000 million by the distribution team of New World Pictures.

Although there are many factors such as the film itself being good enough, the role played by the Internet platform in the film's announcement process is crucial.

Different from the open Internet environment where a hundred flowers bloomed in the original time and space, the current Internet platform can almost be said to be completely in the hands of the Westeros system, and the more than 6000 million ordinary Internet users in North America can only browse through the IE of Eaglet. device to surf the web.

In an open Internet environment, film companies need to invest a lot of money and resources if they want to hype the topic of a movie, and it may not be able to achieve a good advertising effect.

Now, what the Westeros system wants netizens to see, they will be able to see.

This time, netizens saw "Seven Deadly Sins".

According to the survey data of Daenerys Entertainment, as many as 3376% of the audience were more or less influenced by the information about "The Seven Deadly Sins" on the Internet platform.

Subtracting 33% of the first-week box office figures for "Seven" gives a result of $2261 million, which is exactly in line with the film's distribution team's original $2000 million box office forecast.

Simon saw the questionnaire before Daenerys Entertainment's executive meeting on Monday.

Amy's gag order at the meeting was also issued by Simon himself.

An all-round effort by the Ygritte Portal has brought a box office gain of more than 30% to a movie. The news will definitely make many people envious. The system is bound to face more pressure.

Making a fortune silently is the kingly way.

In fact, Simon has long expected the powerful public opinion guiding ability of the Igret Portal. The 2000 million user visits in a single day are already equivalent to the "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" and other top federal newspapers. ten times the amount.

In order to ensure the neutrality of the Eaglet Portal as a communication platform and prevent the Eaglet team from deviating from the development direction, Simon has never used the strength of this company to promote a movie in all aspects.

Even the previous DC movie universe projects were just natural cooperation. The film distribution team placed advertisements, and the Eaglet portal provided announcements. During this process, the Eaglet team did not deliberately guide the topicality of related films.

This "Seven Deadly Sins" is the first time that Ygritte and Daenerys have spared no effort to cooperate.

The development strategy of barbaric growth has been determined, and the cooperation between the various subsidiaries of the Westeros system will be greatly enhanced, including between Ygritte and Daenerys. Recommended, Simon does not intend to use it lightly in the future.

Simon has never underestimated the IQ of users.

If the Ygritte Portal becomes a soft advertising platform for the products of various subsidiaries of the Westeros system, when everyone logs on to the website, the movie information they see will be related to Daenerys Entertainment, and the financial information will be related to Cersei Capital. The channel always touts the brands owned by Melisandre, so if you fall into this narrow pattern of self-talk and self-entertainment, even if the Igret Portal is not abandoned by users, it will certainly not have much development .

After all, the Internet is going to be developed.

If Eaglet wants to maintain its status as a giant in the Internet industry, it must also be sufficiently open and inclusive.

Except for "Seven Deadly Sins", since the end of October, Simon has paid less attention to work matters, and both women have also been admitted to the hospital for delivery.

So until November 11rd, the female assistant quietly gave birth to the second child of the Westeros family in a private hospital in the Bay Area. The mother and child are safe. The little girl named Seattle Westeros has a pair of very beautiful His blue eyes always looked at the world with some curiosity.

Simon had to return to Los Angeles in a hurry after spending three days with Jennifer and her daughter in San Francisco.

Janet also successfully gave birth to the third child of the Westeros family on the night of November 11.

Nicholas Westeros, who cried a lot when he was born, weighed 9 pounds and was fatter than his brother at the beginning. Janet bit Simon's arm and shouted that she would never give birth again in the delivery room. for six hours.

According to the original agreement, the two little guys whose birth dates were only three days apart were registered under the name of Janet in the name of twins.

When she was just pregnant, Jennifer also said that she would completely hand over the child to Janet to raise her. However, as the pregnancy progressed, the female assistant began to regret it. After her daughter was born, she looked at the beautiful blue eyes of the little guy in her arms. The female assistant completely repented and planned to raise the child herself.

Simon has no objection to this.

Janet, who suffered from childbirth, even said that if the female assistant likes, she can throw her little villain there and let her raise it together.

While Janet would do her best to be a good mother when her kids were around, the woman who loves freedom in her bones is not very interested in raising the children herself.

So did Simon.

Simon has many ideas about the child's future, but it would be difficult for him to realize these in person.

After all, the Simons are not very qualified parents.

Two children were born one after another. Although Simon couldn't take care of both, both sides were not deserted.

The female assistant was surrounded by her family and George Norman's family who knew it well.

Here in Los Angeles, the Johnston family came together as they did when Melbourne was born.

However, unlike the big fanfare when Melbourne was born, this time, Simon did not disclose any news in the public media, and some media that heard about the birth of the little boy and wanted to report were suppressed by the public relations team of the Westeros system.

In addition to the Johnston family, Simon also declined visits from senior executives of the Westeros system, as long as the gifts were delivered.

Raymond Johnston and his wife did not stay long in Los Angeles this time. They saw their little grandson. Before leaving, the old man brought Melbourne back to Australia. The reason was that it was too cold in Los Angeles, and they were worried that their children would freeze. The Simons The two had no objection, Veronica was very reluctant, but she couldn't help her elder brother.

I finally got rid of my parents who didn't spoil me at all, and the little guy didn't miss it when he left.

The Raymonds returned to Australia, and Anthony and others also left one after another.

Simon continued to accompany the two women on maternity leave, and the time was approaching Thanksgiving without knowing it.

After the $3376 million in the first week, because of the continued popularity of the topic and even the effect of word of mouth, the box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" fell by only 22% in the second week, and continued to earn $2633 million.

The cumulative box office of 6009 million US dollars in two weeks easily exceeded Daenerys Entertainment's initial North American box office expectation of 6000 million US dollars.

From November 11th to November 12th, the week before the Thanksgiving schedule, the box office decline of "Seven Deadly Sins" was still well controlled at 11%, and it earned another $18 million. After three weeks of release, the cumulative box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" reached $26 million.

In three weeks, the film has basically recovered all the production and publicity costs, and it will start to generate profits in the fourth week of its release.

Even if it is about to enter the highly competitive Thanksgiving file, the three-week box office is close to 8000 million US dollars, and the film's total North American box office is expected to reach between 1.3 million and 1.5 million US dollars.

The North American box office of the original "Seven Deadly Sins" just exceeded 1 million U.S. dollars. This time, the North American box office of the film will increase by at least 30%, a large part of which is the gain effect brought by the Internet platform.

The Simons attended the premiere of "The Lion King" together on November 11.

This is Janet's first public appearance since giving birth.

Originally, this animation was given to Janet by Simon as a gift.

In the official version of the film, Simon also did not shy away from adding the words "for Jenny". Although the media was still prevented from using Janet who just gave birth to her second child as a gimmick, they did not conceal the little behind the animation. story.

Therefore, this unintentional dog food made many young people who were not very interested in animated films enter the cinema.

On November 11, "The Lion King" was officially released on a large scale in North America, and the number of screens opened reached 19.

Although Simon doesn't plan to use Ygritte portal's publicity resources too frequently, this time "The Lion King" is an exception.

As the second 3D animation film produced by Daenerys Entertainment, whether this film can be as successful as the first "Toy Story" is not only related to whether Daenerys Entertainment can gain a firm foothold in the animation field, but also It will have a very important impact on the IPO of Daenerys Entertainment next year.

However, after attending the premiere of "The Lion King", Simon put aside this matter again and continued to take a vacation with the two women.

The female assistant finally returned to Los Angeles after half a month of recuperation, and quietly moved into Cape Dume Manor.

When Simon and his wife attended the premiere of "The Lion King", the female assistant took care of the two little ones at the Point Dume Manor.

Janet always disliked the fat son who made her suffer during childbirth, but fell in love with Seattle with a pair of beautiful eyes at a glance, and began to teach the little girl to call mother in front of the female assistant, of course not There will be some response, but Janet believes that the little girl is talking to herself with her eyes.

In fact, Simon has long seen that Seattle's eyes are typical red phoenix eyes in oriental terms. This kind of eye shape is always more charming than other eyes. In memory, women with red phoenix eyes are often a symbol of intelligence.

What's even more rare is the kind of spirituality that always flashes in the little girl's eyes, like a pair of small blue radars, exploring everything that appears in her eyes. It's no wonder that Janet fell in love with her at a glance.

Simon can be very sure that his daughter will be very bright in the future.

"It doesn't matter if you are smart or not, I just hope Syl grows up happily."

"With me here, our children will of course be happy forever."

"I'm only worried when you're here."

In the afternoon of the weekend, the time is November 11th.

After feeding the two children, taking care of the two little ones to sleep, and instructing Zoe and Isabel, who were in charge of taking care of them, Simon and the female assistant left the Shell Villa together and walked to the west side of the manor along the corridor in the manor.

The original fence here has been demolished, and it is directly connected to a row of sea view villas on the west.

Cape Dume is situated on a very high ground, and Shell Villa is even more so.

Over the years, in order to avoid prying eyes from the surroundings, while building walls and planting tall trees to hide the view from the outside world, Simon has been continuously buying anniversary properties.

The previous few years happened to be the most downturn period in the US real estate industry, and the economic environment was not good. Under the premium offensive, many properties on the east and west sides of Cape Dume and due north became the properties of the Westeros family.

Among them, there is a whole row of 32 cliff mansions on the west side of Cape Dumei Manor, which is one kilometer long, and it is only this part of the property that cost Simon 700 million US dollars.On the east side, because some residents insisted on some outrageously high prices, it only extended 21 meters, and there are also 15 luxury houses.In the north direction, Simon took a total of 56 large and small properties in an area of ​​[-] hectares.

All calculated, around Cape Dume, Simon owns a total land area of ​​about 50 hectares, including a 32-kilometer-long private beach with 1 luxury houses on the west side.

It can be said that now there is only Simon’s family within a fan-shaped range of 500 meters around Dumei Cape, and all other residents who have been bought by Simon have moved out. For several years, Simon has been developing the brand new Dumeijiao The estate undergoes continuous renovation.

According to the current plan, all the smaller properties will be demolished, and only large mansions over 1 acre will be kept, scattered around Cape Dume Manor. Among them, a total of 53 mansions facing the sea will be preserved.

In addition, roads are being rebuilt in a planned way.

What Simon and the female assistant were planning to see was one of the mansions on the west side.

Living in the Shell Villa these days, although Janet has no objections, the female assistant has no plans to live in the manor all the time.However, she is already a mother, so it is definitely not suitable for her to continue to live in her uncle's house.

Simon and the female assistant had discussed several times these days, and Jennifer finally agreed to live in a mansion on the west side of the manor.

Although after the re-planning is completed, the row of cliff mansions on the west side will actually be counted as the Dumei Point Manor area, but they are not crowded together in the Shell Villa.After making such a decision, the female assistant no longer insisted on keeping the child with her, but raised her with Nicholas.

The female assistant can probably see these days that although the two children are nominally under Janet's name, she may be required to take care of them more in the future.

After attending the premiere of "The Lion King", Janet flew to New York just yesterday. Cersei Capital has accumulated too much work in the past six months, and the company plans to launch some big moves next year. All of these are Requires Janet to participate.

The female assistant has already planned to quit her job completely. She thinks that girl A can completely replace her job, and she plans to concentrate on taking care of her daughter in the future, and maybe there is a fat boy who is disliked by her mother.