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Therefore, from December 12th to December 17rd, "The Lion King" continued to be the champion of the box office list with a weekly box office decline of 12%. It earned another US$23 million in the fifth week of its release, and the cumulative box office reached 11 million. It officially broke through the $2839 million mark, and became the second film in 2 to break through the $968 million domestic box office, and at the same time it was steadily advancing towards the $2 million box office.

Daenerys and Paramount's "Mission Impossible" also achieved a 16% decline this week. The box office rebounded to 2553 million US dollars in the fourth week of its release, and the cumulative box office exceeded the 1 million US dollar mark, reaching 1 million. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

MGM's "Philadelphia Story" ranked No.3, earning $1367 million in the first seven days.

Considering the long-term nature of the film's award-winning nature and a budget of 2600 million US dollars, the box office of 1367 million US dollars in the first week is also considered excellent.

Disney's "Crazy Nun 2" earned US$1121 million in the first week and seven days, ranking No.4, and its defeat is set.

No.5 is "Slim Dad" starring Robin Williams produced by Fox Films. 25 million US dollars, considering that there will be a good harvest in the Christmas week next week, the possibility of the film entering the 1000 million yuan club has once again increased.

In terms of other new films, Warner Bros.'s "Forget Friends" earned only US$461 million in its first week, basically ending in two weeks.

Although Gaomen Films' "In the Name of the Father" once again encountered word-of-mouth attacks from traditional print media, the overall media score was still as high as 8.6.

Moreover, with the six nominations for Best Picture in Drama, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay won in the new Golden Globe Awards on December 12, "Because of the Father" The fame of "Famous" has greatly increased. Relying on the proficient promotion strategy of genre films by the Gaomen Films team, the film's first week of exhibitions successfully reached 20 U.S. dollars, earning 2.9 U.S. dollars.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to "Schindler's List", which is almost a predetermined award season, "The Lion King" produced by Daenerys Entertainment also won the new Golden Globe Awards as an animated film. Nominated for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category.

Chapter 586 Growth Point

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December 12th, Christmas Eve.

The much-anticipated "Steel Bone" officially landed in North American theaters on this day, and the number of screens opened reached 3106.

The strength of the DC movie universe has been confirmed by five consecutive movies, so "Steel Bone" can almost be said to dominate the schedule, and the other three movies released on the same day are all small-scale on-demand projects with only a few or dozens of screens.

Christmas Eve is a day for Westerners to reunite with their families, and it is usually not the best time to start filming.

However, under the promotion of Warner Bros., a large number of movie fans still regard watching "Steel Bone" as a kind of festival celebration, and choose to go to the theater to watch the movie at the first time.

Compared with DC superheroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman with a long history, Cyborg was born in 1980, and he is still black, so the disadvantage is very obvious.If this project is launched alone, Warner has no confidence at all. Fortunately, this is a continuation of the cross-integration of the DC movie universe. Disadvantages in terms of popularity and race.

Especially movie reviews.

The film once again uses a lot of new technologies in special effects, making the steel frame effect even better than the robot in "Terminator". The plot of the film has also been polished repeatedly. The origin of the superhero Cyborg also laid enough groundwork for the subsequent development of the DC movie universe. In addition, the black protagonist needs to maintain political correctness. Excellent level.

After all, because of Christmas Eve, the marketing of Warner Bros. cannot match the deep-rooted holiday traditions of Westerners. The box office on the first day of the large-scale opening of "Steel Bone" ended up being only US$1416 million, which ranked bottom among DC movie universe projects.

Before the media had time to exaggerate the failure of the film, the following Saturday, the single-day box office of the film directly soared by 39%, earning 1973 million US dollars.

On the following Sunday, the box office of "Steel Bone" also reached 1737 million US dollars.

When the first weekend of screenings ended, the cumulative box office of "Steel Bone" in the three days was finally 5126 million US dollars, surpassing the box office performance of "The Flash" which was also opened on the Christmas file two years ago, which was 4931 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Although it still ranks second to last among the six films in the DC movie universe, Warner's reference to "Steel Bone" happens to be "The Flash".The film announcement team's box office expectations for "Steel Bone" are only comparable to "The Flash".Now, this superhero movie with many disadvantages has a faint tendency to surpass the old and popular superhero The Flash under the aura of the DC movie universe, which completely surprises Warner.

After the first weekend, from December 12th to December 24th, the cumulative box office of "Steel Bone" in the first seven days of the week was 12 million U.S. dollars, and it became the single-week box office champion without any suspense.

With the addition of "Steel Bone," the total box office total for the last full box office week of 1993 skyrocketed to $1.93 million.However, the powerful "Steel Bone" inevitably suppressed other films in the same period.

Affected by the release of "Steel Bone", "The Lion King", which is the most popular and most suitable for the whole family to watch at the end of the year, failed to drop again at the box office during Christmas week, but the film's decline this week was only a negligible 3%. It received 2761 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office for six weeks was 2 million U.S. dollars.

No. 3 on the list, "Mission: Impossible" did not have such good luck. The box office fell by 19% during the Christmas week, earning 2052 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office was 1 million US dollars.

Other films rose and fell during the same period, but none of them could compare with the top three films on the list.

On December 12, the last day of 31, another box office week opened.

In order to avoid the edge of "Steel Bone", Fox's sci-fi thriller "Mechanical Ghost" chose to be released this week, with a total of 1031 screens. "Steel Bone" failed at the box office?What if the film is an unexpected dark horse?

After all, there are not so many things in this world.

The box office on the first day was only US$73, which also confirms that "Mechanical Ghost" is just a cannon fodder at the end of this year's end of the year.

1月1日的元旦恰好是周六缘故，12月31日到1月6日这个票房周，一众影片倒是没有出现往年节假日之后票房纷纷大幅下跌的场景。

In the second week of its release, the box office of "Steel Bone" fell by only 26% in the second week, and it received another US$5639 million. The cumulative box office in the two weeks was US$1 million. The original $3260 million domestic box office of "The Flash" was more than enough.

The phenomenal 3D animation film "The Lion King" still ranks No.2.

上映第七周票房跌幅也只有33%，继续进账1836万美元，累积票房达到2亿5565万美元，距离3亿大关只有不到4500万美元的差距。

Among the Big Three, "Mission: Impossible" saw a 36% box office drop this week, which is considered to be the one with the deepest drop in the box office on the list. The single-week box office earned 1310 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office increased to 1 million U.S. dollars.

Although the decline was deep, the overall box office trend of "Mission: Impossible" still broke through the haze of the box office that was initially hit by "The Lion King" and led to a lower box office. The local box office in North America is expected to be around 1.8 million US dollars, based on a share of about 55%. Calculated, it is enough for Daenerys and Paramount to recover the total investment of 1 million US dollars in production and publicity only relying on the North American box office, and the overseas box office revenue can basically be counted as profit.

Even if it can't be compared with the DC movie universe project or the blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" and "The Lion King", Paramount is satisfied with the market performance of "Mission: Impossible", and the sequel of the series has officially launched recently.

After spending more than a week with women and children at Christmas, Simon resumed work on January 1rd after New Year's Day, and Janet also flew to New York on the first working day after New Year's Day, leaving only the female assistant in Dublin. Meijiao Manor looks after the three children.

Veronica flew to Australia during Christmas and brought Melbourne back to North America after the holidays.

After Janet gave birth to Nicholas, Veronica mentioned the matter of letting go of her work again, but Simon and his wife bypassed it together, and Janet also added a burden of supervising Black Rock Asset Management Company.

Black Rock Asset Management has the most conservative investment strategy among the three core subsidiaries of Cersei Capital. It can't stand the fact that the company has a huge amount of funds. At present, the total assets have reached 1700 billion US dollars. If something goes wrong, it will inevitably be implicated. The entire Westeros system.

In order to prevent limited personal energy from hindering the rapid expansion of the Westeros system, the Simons have been delegating power to the management as much as possible. continue to strengthen.

Veronica was undoubtedly one of the most trusted people of the Simons and just right for the job.

At the beginning of the new year, Daenerys Entertainment's first large-scale commercial move was to acquire the remaining half of the shares of the USA TV network from the Canadian Seagram Group.

After the successful acquisition of Paramount Communications in October last year, the Seagram Group, as a foreign investor, could not continue to hold the USA TV network due to the restrictions of relevant federal regulations and could only choose to sell it.

USA TV Network was originally jointly owned by Paramount Communications and MCA, and the two sides held equal shares, both of which were 50%.Daenerys Entertainment merged with MCA, and half of the previous shares also fell into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment. Simon also gained absolute control of the USA TV network.

The USA network has grown rapidly in recent years through hit shows like The Wives and Desperate Housewives.In less than three years, the number of subscribers has increased from the initial 2100 million to the current 4300 million, and the annual revenue has also increased from the initial 6000 million US dollars to 1993 million US dollars in 3.3.

The preliminary estimate of the net profit of the TV network for the whole year in 1993 also reached about 4000 million US dollars.

If it weren't for the restrictions imposed by federal media regulations, Seagram Group would definitely not agree to sell such a basic cable network that is still growing at a high speed.

As a major shareholder, although Daenerys Entertainment has the priority to purchase the other half of USA's shares, it is unrealistic to want to take over at a low price after other federal media groups have expressed interest in this part of the shares.

After more than two months of negotiations between the two parties, the Seagram Group finally agreed to transfer the shares of the USA TV Network at a price of US$7 million in cash. Based on the profit scale in 1993, it was equivalent to a price-earnings ratio of 35 times. Not outrageous, but already very expensive.

Even so, the deal might have been around for a while if the success of Mission: Impossible hadn't made Seagram realize the need to maintain a good relationship with Daenerys Entertainment.

Successfully won the USA TV network, and Daenerys Entertainment announced the second major move of the group in mid-January, reorganizing its game business.

Four years as a shareholder of EA and two years of wholly-owned acquisitions, the development of this company is not bad. Together with Daenerys Entertainment's Blizzard Studios, which originally focused on console games, Daenerys Entertainment's video game business was fully developed in 1993. The preliminary annual revenue is 11.6 billion U.S. dollars, and the net profit is expected to be around 2.3 million U.S. dollars, which is roughly equivalent to one-tenth of the group's annual net profit.

The total output value of the global video game market in 1993 was about 130 billion US dollars.

The revenue of Daenerys Entertainment's video game department accounts for nearly 9% of the total global game revenue. If it is another company, it is very rare to have such an achievement in just a few years, but this does not satisfy Simon.

The most typical point is that for several years in a row, although the game business department has also launched a series of popular PC and console games, none of them have appeared as super hits like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". It is also inevitable that the popularity will decline.

With the development of Daenerys Entertainment up to now, the core film business has reached its peak. The future growth points will be TV on the one hand and games on the other.

The music business that Simon is also fancy will go downhill in the next 30 to [-] years, but the game is different.

At this stage, the total output value of games on various platforms is already comparable to the box office of global movies. In Simon's memory, this number will increase tenfold in the next 30 to [-] years, reaching the level of [-] billion.

According to the current development status of Daenerys' entertainment and game business, ten or twenty years later, as long as it can still maintain its current market share, it will still be a giant in the industry.

No company can last forever, Simon will not be blindly optimistic because of the current achievements, and he also expects the game business under the group to go further.

To achieve this, reorganizing the existing game business is inevitable.

Because Simon and Trip Hawkins, head of the group's game business, have serious differences in business philosophy.

According to the management structure of the group, Nancy Brill is responsible for the game business, and Trip Hawkins, the former founder, chairman and CEO of EA, only needs to report to Nancy under normal circumstances.

After Nancy successfully developed the Daenerys entertainment and game business, the focus of her work in the past two years has been on Blockbuster Entertainment and the DC movie universe and blockbuster projects such as "Jurassic Park", "Toy Story" and "The Lion King". With the increasingly prosperous Daenerys entertainment peripheral product business, it is inevitable that they will neglect the management of the game business department.

Trip Hawkins’ business philosophy for EA, on the one hand, is to produce top quality games, which is probably the principle that any game company upholds; on the other hand, it is to strictly dominate the control of game production, avoid Uncontrollable risks in the game development process.

It was this latter point that Simon could not approve of.

Video games, like movies, music, and books, are also creative industries, and creativity is crucial to the success of any game.

Trip Hawkins strictly controls the dominance of the game and develops the game completely as a pure commodity, which directly damages the creativity of the game development team.

In the original time and space, although it has maintained its status as a giant in the industry for a long time, because of the business philosophy inherited from the founder Trip Hawkins, EA always interferes excessively in the development of games by its studios, resulting in many excellent jobs. The studio gradually died out after being acquired by EA, leaving users with only a series of sequels that are more and more inclined to commercialization.

EA is therefore known as the 'industry cancer'.

In comparison, Blizzard Entertainment, which attaches great importance to game quality, although it has been established for decades and has developed a total number of games that can be counted with two hands, but because of its excellent game quality, it has won the recognition of a large number of users, and the number of games produced by this company is not many. The company's market value is higher than EA, which has a large number of game categories.

Simon has always attached great importance to the budget control of Daenerys Entertainment's film projects. However, if there is a choice between film quality and budget progress, Simon usually chooses the former. In his bones, he is still a person who pays more attention to film quality.

Because of this, Daenerys Entertainment will cooperate with James Cameron, a habitual overspending criminal, some projects in the DC movie universe, two Pixar animated films, and even many other projects under Daenerys Entertainment. Expectations are actually overspend.

The mediocre quality of movies can also be made up for through publicity and distribution and the company's own channel advantages.

Once the quality of the game is unsatisfactory, there will not be many users to buy and consume it. Therefore, the quality of the game is more important than the movie to Simon.

Therefore, under the personal leadership of Simon, EA founder Trip Hawkins left the company after receiving a generous compensation, and the new Daenerys entertainment game business unit was led by former EA president Larry Probst Responsible, still reporting to Nancy Brill.

After the reorganization, the EA production department and distribution team were separated, and the production team directly under EA was also reorganized into a highly independent studio model.

The future EA team will be mainly responsible for the release of games on platforms such as PCs and consoles. For each of its studios, the management team only has the power to supervise personnel and finance, and the creative leadership will be delegated to the responsible staff of each studio as much as possible. people.

The new operating philosophy given by Simon is that EA only needs high-quality products.

The creative team can overspend, skip tickets, overturn and start over, or even cancel unsatisfactory works entirely, and finally just come up with a high-quality game.

Of course, freedom has always been limited.

The creative team must be responsible for all their actions.

Simon can tolerate failure, but he will not condone consecutive failures.The studio's behaviors such as overspending and skipping tickets must also be based on considerations of game quality. If it is for other reasons, it will also be punished.

After completing the reorganization of the game department, Simon also personally finalized the acquisition plans of several game studios.

The most important one is a studio in Los Angeles called 'Silicon and Neural Synapse'. This studio has only been established for two years, and its results are not outstanding. However, a real-time strategy game that the other party is developing recently is Simon's favorite point, the name of the game is "Warcraft".

Chapter 586 Growth Point (Revised)

December 12th, Christmas Eve.

The much-anticipated "Steel Bone" officially landed in North American theaters on this day, and the number of screens opened reached 3106.

The strength of the DC movie universe has been confirmed by five consecutive movies, so "Steel Bone" can almost be said to dominate the schedule, and the other three movies released on the same day are all small-scale on-demand projects with only a few or dozens of screens.

Christmas Eve is a day for Westerners to reunite with their families, and it is usually not the best time to start filming.

However, under the promotion of Warner Bros., a large number of movie fans still regard watching "Steel Bone" as a kind of festival celebration, and choose to go to the theater to watch the movie at the first time.

Compared with DC superheroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman with a long history, Cyborg was born in 1980, and he is still black, so the disadvantage is very obvious.If this project is launched alone, Warner has no confidence at all. Fortunately, this is a continuation of the cross-integration of the DC movie universe. Disadvantages in terms of popularity and race.

Especially movie reviews.

The film once again uses a lot of new technologies in special effects, making the steel frame effect even better than the robot in "Terminator". The plot of the film has also been polished repeatedly. The origin of the superhero Cyborg also laid enough groundwork for the subsequent development of the DC movie universe. In addition, the black protagonist needs to maintain political correctness. Excellent level.

After all, because of Christmas Eve, the marketing of Warner Bros. cannot match the deep-rooted holiday traditions of Westerners. The box office on the first day of the large-scale opening of "Steel Bone" ended up being only US$1416 million, which ranked bottom among DC movie universe projects.

Before the media had time to exaggerate the failure of the film, the following Saturday, the single-day box office of the film directly soared by 39%, earning 1973 million US dollars.

On the following Sunday, the box office of "Steel Bone" also reached 1737 million US dollars.

When the first weekend of screenings ended, the cumulative box office of "Steel Bone" in the three days was finally 5126 million US dollars, surpassing the box office performance of "The Flash" which was also opened on the Christmas file two years ago, which was 4931 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Although it still ranks second to last among the six films in the DC movie universe, Warner's reference to "Steel Bone" happens to be "The Flash".The film announcement team's box office expectations for "Steel Bone" are only comparable to "The Flash".Now, this superhero movie with many disadvantages has a faint tendency to surpass the old and popular superhero The Flash under the aura of the DC movie universe, which completely surprises Warner.

After the first weekend, from December 12th to December 24th, the cumulative box office of "Steel Bone" in the first seven days of the week was 12 million U.S. dollars, and it became the single-week box office champion without any suspense.

With the addition of "Steel Bone," the total box office total for the last full box office week of 1993 skyrocketed to $1.93 million.However, the powerful "Steel Bone" inevitably suppressed other films in the same period.

Affected by the release of "Steel Bone", "The Lion King", which is the most popular and most suitable for the whole family to watch at the end of the year, failed to drop again at the box office during Christmas week, but the film's decline this week was only a negligible 3%. It received 2761 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office for six weeks was 2 million U.S. dollars.

No. 3 on the list, "Mission: Impossible" did not have such good luck. The box office fell by 19% during the Christmas week, earning 2052 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office was 1 million US dollars.

Other films rose and fell during the same period, but none of them could compare with the top three films on the list.

On December 12, the last day of 31, another box office week opened.

In order to avoid the edge of "Steel Bone", Fox's sci-fi thriller "Mechanical Ghost" chose to be released this week, with a total of 1031 screens. "Steel Bone" failed at the box office?What if the film is an unexpected dark horse?

After all, there are not so many things in this world.

The box office on the first day was only US$73, which also confirms that "Mechanical Ghost" is just a cannon fodder at the end of this year's end of the year.