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Maybe we will cooperate in the future.

What Ross wants to say is that Warner just doesn’t want to be Daenerys’s vassal, so it insists on shooting "Vapor Secret Order", and last summer's disastrous "Future Water World". Relying on the success of films such as "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", the performance of Warner Films will only get better.

Bombshells are indeed a trend in Hollywood.

However, this field is not so easy to play.Especially when Daenerys Entertainment is becoming more and more powerful, a lot of resources are occupied by the other party, and other studios invest in blockbuster movies, and the risk will only increase.

At this stage, entertainment with Daenerys is the safest strategy.

Just like the DC movie universe of Warner and Daenerys, like "The Mummy" released by Fox today, like MGM, which is increasingly being tilted by Westeros.

As for the future.

If the present is gone, who cares about the future?

Arnold Schwarzenegger also understands the unfinished subtext of Joe Ross. If it is still the peak of his popularity, he will definitely leave. So, Joe, if I find another company willing to invest in this film, can Fox transfer the rights to Terminator?"

Joe Rose was startled for a moment, and then he was very straightforward: "Arnold, it still depends on Daenerys's opinion. If the other party is willing, Fox will definitely be fine."

That being the case, Schwarzenegger understood that there was no need for him to stay any longer, so he got up and left.

Joe Ross sent Schwarzenegger away, and did not immediately return to the party to socialize. He came back to the reception room, took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, and connected after a while. Even through the microphone, Ross still showed a very sincere smile Meaning: "Good evening, Amy, I hope I didn't disturb you... Oh, it's the same on my side... That's right, Arnold just came over..."

After briefly talking about the meeting with Schwarzenegger, Ross hung up the phone and turned to the party outside.

Ross really didn't care about Schwarzenegger's aggressive words during the meeting, he was just a professional manager.What's more, even after a series of mergers and integrations, Hollywood is still Jewish Hollywood.

Even if a certain young man is in full swing now, the circle cannot survive without them.

Hollywood is the capital of flowing water, and the stars of flowing water.

Only the Jews are eternal.

Maybe there is an extra king now, but the king can't handle everything by himself, and needs their assistance, so they still have power.

In Palisades, which is not too far from the Brentwood area, Simon’s mansion on the mountainside is also holding a reception, but Amy Pascal is hosting a reception for a film industry investigation group from China .

It was an idea that Simon had on the plane when he returned from China.

Amy Pascal took over personally, and the Chinese side responded positively, and arrived in Los Angeles this morning for a two-week investigation and exchange.

Simon did not attend the reception.

Even if you attach great importance to it, some things go too far. In many cases, being arrogant can achieve better results.

After hanging up the call from Joe Ross, Amy thought about it for a while, called her assistant to give some instructions, and then picked up a glass of red wine and walked towards the three people who were chatting in the crowd: "Mr. Liu, Jack, Jeter, I'm so sorry , took a call temporarily."

One of the three is the deputy minister from the Ministry of Radio and Television of China, surnamed Liu, one is Jack Cheng, and the other is Jeter Li.

"Black Man" will be released next week, and Jeter Lee has been cooperating with the publicity in the United States recently.

Jack Cheng was temporarily invited by Daenerys Entertainment from the other side of the ocean, mainly to support "Black Man". After all, the influence of "Rush Hour" at the beginning of the year is still there. A kung fu star promotes another kung fu star, and the effect must be very good.

As for what Jack Cheng thinks in his heart, it is not something that needs to be considered here.Anyway, at the invitation of Daenerys Entertainment, the other party rushed over.

When the three of them heard what Amy said, the deputy minister surnamed Liu said first: "It's okay, Ms. Pascal."

Amy Pascal didn't have Simon's language talent. Cooperating with the translator around him, he asked with a smile, "What were you talking about just now?"

Deputy Minister Liu said: "Jite's "Black Man", I also learned some information beforehand. I really didn't expect that Daenerys Entertainment would put this Chinese movie in such a popular time as summer."

""Black Man" is a great movie, what's more, it was confirmed by Simon himself, and his vision has always been very accurate."

"Heh, we have also noticed that Daenerys Entertainment has actually released a lot of Chinese-language movies over the years."

"The main reason is that Simon likes Chinese culture very much. If he was here tonight, there would be no need for an interpreter. By the way, Simon is currently leading the preparation of a martial arts movie. I hope we can cooperate with the Chinese side by then."

Vice Minister Liu was very surprised: "I heard that right, Ms. Pascal, you mean the 'martial arts' movie?"

When Jack Cheng and Jeter Li heard the words, although they didn't interrupt rashly, their expressions moved slightly, and they looked at each other without any trace.

Amy nodded and said: "Yes, martial arts movies, maybe my pronunciation is not very standard, but Mr. Liu understands correctly, this is a movie adapted from a Chinese martial arts novel, called "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". If you With plenty of time, maybe we can arrange a meeting to exchange ideas."

Vice Minister Liu couldn't remember who wrote "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" for a while, but it didn't prevent him from keenly capturing the meaning contained in this project.This inspection involves the reform of China's film industry, which cannot be seen immediately, but if a film cooperation project is brought back, it will be a real political achievement, so there is faint excitement in the tone: "Of course, we must hand in it. "

Regarding the matter of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Simon explained to Amy in advance and revealed his tone to the Chinese side.Asking the delegation to bring a cooperation project back directly is also considered a favor.After all, as long as the Chinese side sees the general information of the project, they will understand that this is a good opportunity to promote Chinese culture to the outside world.

Of course, at the public level, this project will still keep a low profile as much as possible according to Simon's promise to Ang Lee.

I believe that as long as Daenerys Entertainment raises it, the Chinese side will cooperate to keep it secret.

After all, the recognition of Chinese-language films in the West is still very low. If they are publicized with great fanfare in advance, once the project fails, it may become a laughing stock.

The second day is Saturday.

Simon still got up early at Dumei Point Manor.

Exercise, take a bath, change into fresh and casual clothes, sit by the glass curtain wall of Shell Villa, take advantage of the short time before breakfast to read today's newspapers, and listen to some work reports of Girl A.After having five more little ones, the breakfast time at home always seems to be very lively, and it is impossible to read the newspaper while eating.

On the big picture, the 1996 US presidential election is in full swing.

Bill Clinton has not yet got rid of the quagmire of the Paula Jones case, and the Whitewater case broke out recently, which is dizzying.

With Clinton's current polling rate, unless he voluntarily gives up, or there are other irresistible changes, there is almost no suspense for his re-election. The Republicans' current toss is actually just continuing to attack the overall strength of the Democratic Party.

Although.

Simon felt that doing so would only disappoint the public with both parties in Washington.

The same is true.

After the new century, the United States has fallen into the vicious circle of elder politics. The main reason is that the public has completely lost interest in the intrigue in Washington, and they have a laissez-faire mentality that you can toss about casually.

Of course, this is actually good for plutocratic capital like the Westeros system.

It's like Japan's low-desire society.

The common people live in peace and order, neither fighting nor robbing nor making noise.

How good.

Here in Hollywood, the focus is still on the summer holidays.

The box office was released on the first day of the summer class week yesterday, which was unexpected and reasonable, which caused the media to be very lively.

First of all, "Vaporization Order" was overtaken by "Romeo and Juliet".

Although "The Mummy" is of course No.1 on the list.

In addition, Disney's "Ace Powers", which had high hopes for this summer, did not replicate the success of the "Wizards" series. Tello obviously didn't like it, so it was obvious and obvious.

Specifically.

On the first day of its opening, "The Mummy" with 2986 screens, counting the morning and evening shows, earned 1381 million US dollars on the first day, easily reaching the top. It is expected that the box office will be around 4000 million US dollars in the first three days of the weekend, and may break through 6000 million in the first seven days mark.

It may not be able to compare with the phenomenal DC movie universe series, but such achievements have fully met the expectations of the two producers.

According to the start of $6000 million, the domestic box office of "The Mummy" is expected to reach about 1.5 million, which is enough to recover the film's $7000 million production cost.The overseas box office of blockbusters with similar themes has always been higher than that in China, so "The Mummy" is expected to be profitable only in the stage of theater release.

So the sequel will start right away.

Maybe we can take advantage of the trend to develop the mummy universe, which still needs planning.

No.2 on the single-day list is "Romeo and Juliet".

This is also the most unexpected and reasonable.

Although the first week's box office fell behind "Vapor Secret Order", "Romeo and Juliet" has suppressed "Vapor Secret Order" in terms of popularity, word-of-mouth and museum average data. The team of New World Pictures will release it on the screen in the second week The number increased from 2017 to 2534.

Therefore, on the first day of the next week, "Romeo and Juliet" earned US$569 million, a year-on-year decrease of only 18% compared with the first day of last week.

Maybe there will be a subsequent drop, but even if calculated based on the 20% drop in the next week, "Romeo and Juliet" can earn about 2500 million U.S. dollars this week.

Because of the subject matter and audience, the powerful "Mummy" obviously did not have too much impact on "Romeo and Juliet", and the same is true of subsequent films such as "Mission: Impossible 2". Therefore, "Romeo and Juliet" is expected to have a very beautiful In the long-term, the total domestic box office can not only easily exceed [-] million, but can even go up a lot.

"Vaporization Order" was not so lucky.

On the first day of the next week, this blockbuster, which cost $1 million, plummeted from $869 million last week to $413 million, a 53% year-on-year drop.

Even if calculated based on the overall 50% decline in the next week, the box office of "Vaporization Order" in the second week of its release will only be about 1800 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative total in two weeks is about 5400 million.It seems to be almost the same as "Romeo and Juliet", but because of the sharp drop, the film's follow-up may only have a box office potential of 3000 million U.S. dollars, and it is estimated that the total North American gross will be around 8000 million U.S. dollars.

This is still a good estimate.

The North American box office is tepid, and overseas miracles are unlikely to happen. Warner Bros. will further expand its losses in the theatrical release stage of this film.

The final "Ace Powers" opened to $356 on its opening day, well below Disney's expectations.With such a start, it is estimated that the three-day box office in the first weekend will be about 1000 million U.S. dollars, and the first week will be around 1500 million U.S. dollars.

With a low opening in the first week, the total domestic box office of "Ace Powers" is expected to be around 3000 million US dollars, which is 3000 million less than the previous history, obviously due to the impact of "The Mummy" and other films.

Because it is a localized vulgar spoof comedy, it will only be more bleak overseas.

Considering the film's $4000 million cost and $2000 million announcement, Disney's theatrical release stage is destined to lose money as well.

Speaking of it, if the budget of the first "Ace Powers" is controlled within 2000 million US dollars like the original time and space, even if the first part is only 3000 million, it is still expected to start the sequel, and then it may continue to create the last two in history. The big-selling miracle of "Ace Powers".

Now, the first film failed, and the sequel must never be considered. Mike Myers can only look for other projects again.

This is not easy.

Because the new generation of comedy stars that Simon has quietly cultivated will gradually emerge in the next few years. This type of comedy is a novelty for the audience to watch. Otherwise, there will be no phenomenon that comedy movie sequels are prone to failure.

This freshness is not just for movies, but also for actors.

Of course, Simon didn't mean to deliberately suppress Mike Myers. With his current position, the more various actors in Hollywood flourish, the better it is for the Westeros system.

Chapter 930

"Also, there is an email from Ms. Pascal. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Joe Ross last night and proposed to restart "Terminator". After being rejected, Arnold tested whether Fox intended to sell the copyright. Hope to contact other studios to cooperate on this project.”

Simon, who was reading a copy of the "Washington Post", heard Girl A say this, thought for a while and said, "In this case, let them talk, and try to set the price as high as possible."

Although Schwarzenegger rejected "Jumanji" last year, Simon has no opinion on the actor.

Still the same as Mike Myers.

The more first-line stars in Hollywood, the greater room for bargaining for Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, except for some filmmakers whose conflicts were irreconcilable earlier due to various disputes, Simon has no feeling for these guys who are gradually disappearing from Hollywood's vision.

Alison paused, looked at her boss who was still looking at the newspaper in front of her, and said, "If "Terminator" is restarted, it will definitely be a blockbuster, and it may compete with our similar projects in the future."

Simon looked up at Girl A, shook his head slightly and said, "Even if I stop it, there will still be other big-budget movies, so it's better to launch a project that we expected. In fact, the box office after the restart of "Terminator" will definitely not It's too bad, but the cost of this project will be very high. Remember to remind Amy that if Arnold invites Cameron to continue participating, don't stop it. We have to actively promote it, so that the third part will not have 1.5 Billion dollars will definitely not work out, which will occupy a lot of resources of our competitors."

It is unlikely that James Cameron will continue to serve as the director of the "Terminator" series. However, even if it is a nominal producer, the money-burning nature of Kashen will inevitably lead to a surge in the budget of "Terminator 3".

Girl A quickly figured out the joints, nodded, wrote it down in the memo, and suggested: "Boss, the comprehensive copyright value of "Terminator" is very high. In addition to movies, we can also develop TV, games and other products. In recent years, the game division of the company has launched two very well-selling "Terminator" adaptation games. Therefore, I don't think we need to sell the copyright, but only grant the shooting right, and it is a single shooting right."

"Well, good idea."

The two discussed various work matters, until the Indian girl Aaliyah came to remind him that it was time for breakfast, and Simon got up from the sofa by the glass curtain wall.

Today is Saturday.

After breakfast, Simon didn't leave for work.

But he was not idle.

After breakfast, Simon continued to accompany the little ones for a while, leaving Shell Villa, and together with Janet came to another villa by an artificial lake on the northwest side of Cape Dume Manor.

The artificial lake has just been excavated in the first half of the year. It is an irregular oval and covers an area of ​​about two hectares.

The main purpose is to give my baby son a shelter for his two wild ducks.

Luxury houses of a slightly larger scale in Los Angeles will have independent swimming pools, and artificial lakes are rare, mainly because they do not conform to the planning of western luxury houses, and Los Angeles is a very water-scarce area. Maintaining an artificial lake and maintaining a swimming pool is absolutely necessary. two concepts.

Like the Manor at Point Dume.

In order to prevent this artificial lake from becoming a pool of stagnant water, several biology professors from the University of California were specially invited to carefully design a mini ecosystem before the project was excavated. In addition, six additional 24-hour pool water purification units were installed. device.The environment around the artificial lake has also been completely rebuilt to ensure coordination with the surrounding environment.

The lakeside villa is a two-story glass-steel structure building with a simple style, which looks more like an office building.

In fact, it is indeed used for office work.

The couple came to the terrace where they could have a good view of the nearby pool and the shell villas in the sharp corners a little farther away, and a batch of documents was soon delivered.

These are the latest information from the private intelligence team of the Westeros family.

From the perspective of outsiders, after marrying Simon, Janet seems to have become a housewife who does not care about worldly affairs. In fact, Jennifer after giving birth to Seattle is the one who became a housewife.

As for Janet, although she always looks lazy on weekdays, she is in charge of the two most important affairs of the Westeros family.

One is finance.

The absolute control of Cersei Capital is still firmly controlled by the Simon couple, and Simon only makes some general directions based on the economic trends in memory, while Janet is the specific operator of many layouts, and will also The crucial hedge fund team is in the hands, which is why Apollo Management and Black Rock Asset Management have executives like Leon Black and Lawrence Fink emerging, but Cersei Fund Management does not seem to be too outstanding The manager appears.