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The little girl looked up immediately: "Huh?"

Simon gestured to the little girl, and said to Chen Qing: "It's called MiuMiu, and MiuMiu runs the score."

When Ms. Liu heard that Simon was going to name a piece of software with her daughter's new name, she subconsciously dissuaded her: "Simon, is this not good?"

However, Chen Qing immediately said firmly: "It's MiuMiu, which is also a woman's name. Enterprises named after women in the Westeros system, Daenerys, Melisandre, Ygritte, etc., are all It’s amazing, it’s a good start.”

Hearing what Chen Qing said, Simon realized that he had accidentally 'created' another woman. He smiled and said, "I suggest you release this software in North America first, and then turn to China. Of course, the main target is China. , don’t get it wrong.”

Chen Qing nodded, and curled up her mouth, smiling like a little fox: "Boss, I planned to do this."

With the current trend in China, even ten or twenty years later, they are very superstitious about imported products.Since it is an American software, it must be very authoritative.

Who opposes?

After breakfast, Simon and his party took a helicopter to Manhattan, stayed for another morning, and departed for Europe at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Mostly a Ukrainian thing.

In order to ensure the layout of the Westeros system in Ukraine, Simon noticed that some people were becoming restless again, and Simon recently set off another "weeding" operation there again.In addition, it is estimated that the one-week trip will continue to Finland, Russia, Italy and other countries, and return next week.

Here in New York.

After Simon left, the girls of the Guofeng Art Troupe, who arrived last Friday, quickly got on track from the new week. With the help of the Westeros family team, they began to prepare for the public performance half a year later.

Moreover, two programs have basically been set by default.

The "Plucking Weeds" presented by Simon himself, and the solo dance "Jianjia" performed by Wei Canchai on Saturday.

Except for Li Youhu.

Meeting with Ang Lee on Monday morning, Li Youhu lived up to Simon's expectations and was successfully photographed by the director.

In Li An's view, the arrogance and arrogance of this girl are exactly the same as the Yu Jiaolong he imagined.Moreover, although he has not received much professional performance training, he is a dancer after all, and his foundation is not zero, and he is also full of talent for performance.

Through the performance training in the next few months, Ang Lee also believes that it will not be a problem for Li Youhu to reach the standard before filming starts.

At the same time, the North American summer vacation is still going on.

August 5 to August 24.

Another box office week is fast approaching.

In the third week of the summer vacation, Daenerys and Fox's "The Mummy" easily won the weekly box office champion. In the second week of its release, because there were no strong new films released, "The Mummy" fell only 34% in the second week, and received another 4193 million US dollars. .

Within two weeks of its release, the cumulative box office of this blockbuster, which is currently the most popular in the summer, has easily exceeded 1 million, reaching 547 million US dollars.

No.2 on the list is "Romeo and Juliet", which is both unexpected and reasonable.

In the third week of its release, this modern romance film based on a classic novel made another $1883 million, and the decline control was even better than that of "The Mummy", only 26%.In three weeks, the cumulative box office of "Romeo and Juliet", which cost only US$3000 million in production and publicity, reached US$7574 million.

So far, this romance film can be described as the biggest dark horse in the summer of 1996.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Evaporation Secret" barely held its No.3 position on the list this week. Although the weekly decline also narrowed to 27%, after losing the start and falling sharply in the next week, " "Vapor Secret" only had $1298 million left in its third week of release.

After a total of three weeks of release, the North American box office of this blockbuster movie that burned $1 million was only $6719 million.

Moreover, the most uncomfortable thing for the producer, Warner Bros., is the overseas market performance of "Vaporization Order".

Because it has also been impacted by films such as "The Mummy" and "Romeo and Juliet" overseas. At present, more than 30 overseas ticket warehouses have been opened one after another. In the same three weeks, the overseas box office of "Vapor Secret" is less than 5000. It is generally predicted that the North American and overseas box office of this super blockbuster will be basically the same, both at around 8000 million US dollars.

The total global box office is about 1.6 million.

In the past, action stars such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger have always had a strong appeal at the overseas box office. Even if they are not popular in North America, they can often recover a large amount of box office overseas and realize profits.This time, "Vaporization Order" did not bloom outside the wall, completely cutting off Warner's desire to make up for losses from the global market.

In comparison, "The Mummy", which was released a week later than "Vapor Secret Order", easily achieved over 1.5 million overseas box office in two weeks. This is on the premise that some large ticket warehouses such as Japan and France have not been released. The domestic box office of "The Mummy" is expected to be only about 3 million US dollars, but based on the performance at this time, the overseas box office of the film is likely to meet Warner's expectations for "Vapor Secret", reaching twice the domestic box office and hitting a high of [-] million US dollars.

No.4 is Leslie Nielsen's "The Ultimate Laughing Detective", a medium-production comedy film that followed "Vapor Secret", with a box office of 1249 million U.S. dollars in the first seven days of its opening week.

The gap between the two is less than $50 at the box office.

Moreover, the production cost of "Ultimate Laughing Detective" is 1800 million, and Sony's publicity fee is about 1000 million US dollars.

With a start of US$1249 million, the local income should be between US$2000 million and US$3000 million. Leslie Nielsen has some box office appeal overseas, and he will definitely recover a lot. Therefore, this project is not considered for the producer Sony. A success, but not a failure either.

It can only be said to be tepid.

No.5 is "Black Man".

This Hong Kong film from the other side of the ocean has no Western faces in its starring roles, unexpectedly squeezed out "Ace Powers", which failed at the start last week, and occupied the No.5 position on the weekly box office list.

After giving a small surprise in the first three days of the weekend, the full first-week box office of "Black Man" finally reached 1038 million US dollars.

Compared with Daenerys Entertainment's total investment of 500 million US dollars in production and publicity, the publisher directly recovered the cost and began to realize profitability after only one week of release.

In fact, until now, the media reputation of "Black Man" is not good at all.

It's kind of bad to be precise.

Even under the public relations operation of New World Pictures, the film's comprehensive media score was only 5.3 points, which did not reach the passing level.

Most of the criticism focused on the film's weak story and rough picture.

Both points are true.

Because the version released in North America has been edited again, the introduction of the background text at the beginning of the Hong Kong version is directly deleted, leaving only an opening wedge, so the opening has a long period of time, and it is not clear to the audience who are not willing to use their brains. What the hell is this story about.

As for the roughness of the picture, it's still excusable.

After all, the production cost of this movie is equivalent to only 700 million U.S. dollars. If you want to compare it with "Vaporization Order", which burned 1 million U.S. dollars, it would be too embarrassing.

However, despite the poor reputation, I can't bear the marketing of the publicity team.

It is strongly recommended by big names like Jack Cheng and Quentin Quentin, and it is in contrast with "Vapor Secret Order". The discussion on the Internet platform is even more lively. In short, the potential viewers who should know basically already know this film. , I shouldn't know, I also heard the name of "Black Man" intentionally or unintentionally.

So they bought tickets.

The end result is that this Hong Kong film, which was hardly favored by everyone in advance, accidentally squeezed into the top five weekly box office of the popular summer season.

Although the box office is only 1038 million US dollars, based on 1276 screens, the average number of museums in the first week of "Black Man" is as high as 8137 US dollars, which surpasses the 4 US dollars of No. 5466 "Ultimate Laughing Detective".

Just in order to free up screen resources for the upcoming "Mission: Impossible 2", Daenerys Entertainment's Easter schedule of "Detective Detective 2" and "Morgue Haunting 2" will be drawn together this week, allowing enough resources At the same time as "Mission: Impossible 2", because of the excellent performance of "Black Man", the New World Pictures team added more than 200 additional screens to the film in some areas with relatively few resources before, making the film the next week. The number of screens reached 1534.

After all, an average of more than 8000 US dollars is enough to meet the standard of adding screens.

Most of the time, the world is just that weird.

Same movie.

Someone is happy.

Someone is worried.

At the same time that "Black Man" was released in North America, Hong Kong on the other side of the ocean also started filming the film at the same time. It also used the publicity stunt of the film's successful entry into the North American summer season to create a lot of hype.

It's a pity that the Hong Kong box office of "Black Man" was only 379 million Hong Kong dollars in the seven days since the filming started.

Based on such an opening calculation, the total local box office of the film is likely to be only about 1000 million Hong Kong dollars. Even if New World Pictures as a partner assumed the production cost of 200 million US dollars, the Hong Kong production company still invested 4500 million Hong Kong dollars.

The mainland only recovered 1000 million Hong Kong dollars. Even if the box office in Southeast Asia is two or three times that of the mainland, the final loss may be as high as 3000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Huge loss.

Looking at North America, the first week was 1038 million US dollars. According to the current exchange rate of about 7.76 Hong Kong dollars to the US dollar, the box office equivalent to more than 8000 million Hong Kong dollars was recovered in one week.However, New World Pictures only invested a total of 500 million US dollars, and it started to make a profit in a week, and it will continue to be profitable in the future.

It's all profitable.

It was only released in North American theaters, and the first week was 1038 million US dollars. The total box office is expected to increase again compared with the initial one. 2500 million Hong Kong dollars.

That's not counting European distribution revenue.

And that's not counting follow-up videotapes and TV shows.

One side is a loss of 3000 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other is a profit of 6000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Moreover, according to the original investment agreement, the interests of the two parties are clearly divided.

There is no possibility of compensation at all.

On the other side of the ocean, a big man who invested in the production of "Black Man" saw such a comparison of loss and income, and he wanted to vomit blood, but he couldn't restrain the urge to kill people: Simon Westeros, don't let I saw you in Hong Kong!

Chapter 938 Strong

When the video call screen was connected, Amy Pascal, who was far away in Los Angeles, was slightly stunned, because the first thing she saw was a little girl as delicate as a doll, blinking a pair of light-colored eyes and looking at her curiously.

The screen shakes.

Simon appeared immediately, hugged the little guy into his arms, and motioned: "Nina, how about your manners?"

The little girl seemed to have realized it now, and greeted the camera obediently: "Good afternoon, ma'am, my name is Nina, how about you?"

Amy can be sure that this is not the illegitimate daughter of a certain guy, because if there is, her boss will not cover up such a thing at all, and it is the daughter of a lover again. Seeing that the little guy is so beautiful, the mother will definitely not Poor, besides, being able to sit in Simon's arms at this time is obviously the kind that is very favored, so he said patiently: "Hi, you can call me Amy."

"Amy, nice to meet you, are you far away from us?"

"Of course, this is Los Angeles. Nina, where are you?"

"Mum said it's called St. Petersburg."

"Oh, I know, a beautiful city."

"Yes, and many people here speak Russian, my mother said, because this is my hometown, and Russian is my mother tongue, Amy, what is your mother tongue?"

Amy soon found that the little girl on the screen was a bit talkative, but she was still patient and smiled: "English is the language we are speaking now."

"So, Amy, do you speak Russian?"

"will not."

"Why? Nina can speak Russian, so can father and mother, and Ivana, and Yulia, and Vera, but Vera is only two years old and has just learned to speak."

The little girl was babbling non-stop, and a pair of white and slender arms, which were obviously women, stretched out and picked up the little guy. Amy only recognized the identity of the woman who took the child away from the dissatisfied shaking of the little girl. Yulia Shulshikina.

During the live broadcast of the London girl two years ago, this elf-like woman with an exquisite face and perfect figure was once noticed by many people.And last year's amazing "Bach's Last Day" ballet solo MV once again made Yulia Shulshikina a blockbuster.

Then there was silence again.

Everyone knows that this woman has been hidden by Simon Westeros. No matter how indignant many fans who have watched "The Last Day of Bach" are, the other party has never shown her face again.

The outside world only knows that she lives in London.

At first, he was followed by the media for a while, and then the London tabloids were warned, and the matter cooled down again.

Didn't expect to see it in the video today.

And the other party has such a lovely daughter, although, a little talkative.

However, when the little guy was carried away by Shurshikina, Amy didn't say much about her boss's private life, and directly talked to Simon about the business: "Boss, you have read the news about the film industry in China yesterday." ?"

Simon nodded.

Today is May 5st, it's 31 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, and I just went to work.In St. Petersburg, the local time is 9 o'clock in the afternoon. In the evening, the time difference between the two places is exactly 7 hours.

And just yesterday.

On May 5, local time in China, the Chinese government officially issued two documents related to the film industry.

The first is the long-awaited "Film Management Regulations".

This document issued by the Ministry of Radio and Television mainly stipulates various matters such as the production, review, and distribution of Chinese films.

Simon had already skimmed the contents of the document before it was released.

In his opinion, what has had a slight impact on Hollywood is that it is clear that the duration of domestic films in domestic theaters should not be less than two-thirds of the total duration. Clarify domestic protection, as for others, there is basically no difference from the past.

At most, it just clarified some of the unspoken rules on paper.

The other one, Simon is more fancy, is the "Interim Regulations on Foreign Investment in Cinemas".

This is a result of Simon's last trip to China.

Needless to say the detailed terms, the core is China's opening up of foreign capital to invest in movie theaters in the mainland.

Of course, major constraints were also expected by Simon.

The mainland does not accept sole foreign ownership for the time being, only cooperation. Moreover, the shareholding ratio of joint venture theaters must not exceed 49%, and the controlling stake must be controlled by the Chinese side.

In front of the call screen.

Seeing her boss nodding, Amy said: "Boss, since this is the case, are we still sticking to the established plan? I have recently learned more about the film industry in Mainland China. Under the impact of TV and piracy, most theaters in Mainland China It’s all a loss, not to mention, we don’t even have control over it.”

Simon leaned back on the leather chair with his hands crossed in front of him, shaking his head: "Amy, the impact of TV and piracy is actually the same in the United States and even around the world. When TV and video first appeared, Hollywood It’s also like facing a big enemy, no matter what the result, these channels have only increased our income.”

"China is different."