Chapter 1574

After Simon's birthday, the second week of Valentine's day in 2000 also ended soon. Through the trend of the next week, the local box office volume of danilis's three films in the same period was basically determined.

First, Meg Ryan's embrace the dawn bucked the attack to become the top of the list, with a decline of only 19% the next week and a further $29.46 million, with a cumulative box office of $65.91 million. According to the data of the second week of the film, the follow-up of this love film will not only easily break through the $100 million mark and become the first 100 million yuan box office Club film in 2000, but also have spare efforts to sprint to a higher 150 million or so. It is not impossible for the top ten of the year.

With such an excellent box office trend, danilis has also increased the follow-up publicity of the film. She plans to get more box office at home and strive for a good result overseas.

The second is "I'm crazy about Mary".

With the strong publicity of danilis entertainment, "I'm crazy for Mary" scored $39.12 million in the first week, but compared with "embracing dawn", the stamina of this vulgar comedy is obviously insufficient. After Valentine's day passed that week, it directly fell by 37% the following week, with a revenue of US $24.65 million and a cumulative box office of US $63.37 million.

Breaking the billion is no problem, but it's definitely not as good as embracing the dawn.

In fact, this once again shows the uncertainty of the film industry like gambling. What Simon has done over the years is to adjust the winning rate of danilis's films in this' gambling game ', but it can't be 100% after all.

Paris bride, a romantic film, bucked to third place this week, closing at $10.57 million with a 36% decline.

However, because the box office at the beginning of the first week was only $16.53 million, in two weeks, Julia Roberts, who is also a woman in love film, grossed only $27.1 million in two weeks, less than the first week of embracing dawn.

It is estimated that the total local box office of about US $40 million is not a failure compared with the production cost of US $35 million. Considering the overseas and follow-up, it has nothing to do with success.

Then there is Shanger Winton's "late strike", which slipped from third to fourth.

In the third week of release from February 18 to February 24, "late strike" decreased by 51%. After all, it is a popcorn action film on the assembly line. Obviously, the stamina has passed. The revenue in a single week is $9.27 million, falling within the range of tens of millions. The cumulative box office is $55.03 million, and the total local box office is expected to be about $70 million.

Considering the production cost of $25 million, the box office in North America alone reached 70 million, which is also a considerable achievement.

After Valentine's day, the next film market, in addition to some off-season new films, is mainly the follow-up of Valentine's day and the films in the award season that are still continuing.

The Golden Globe Award has passed. The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony this year is on March 26, which is coincidentally the same day as the presidential election scheduled in advance by Russia on the other side of the Atlantic after Yeltsin's resignation.

Danilis's "Chicago" was opened on December 24 of the previous year. As of the week from February 18 to February 24, it has received another $6.31 million, and the cumulative box office has successfully exceeded the $200 million mark, reaching $221.46 million.

From the Golden Globe awards to the results of a series of recent association awards, Chicago has basically locked in the position of the big winner of this year's award season. Therefore, the subsequent until the Academy Awards ceremony, stimulated by the continuous large and small awards, the expected rebound of the Academy Awards and the subsequent long-term are expected to make another revenue of about 50 million, pushing the local total box office to $270 million.

Although it is still hopeless that the best local prediction is 300 million, the cost of US $45 million has reached 270 million in North America alone. As a song and dance film, it has been called a box office miracle.

When it comes to Chicago, it is also worth mentioning that a series of films scheduled at the end of 1999, such as steel bone 2 and the Lord of the rings: the guardian of the rings, have entered the final stage.

The box office volume of steel bone 2 and the Lord of the rings: the messenger of the ring are basically the same.

The former was originally the 400 million box office seed expected by many people. Unfortunately, the schedule competition is too fierce. According to the recent box office trend that has fallen to less than $100000, it is basically determined that the local box office is $346 million.

Unlike the "steel skeleton 2" which was released the previous year, the Lord of the rings: the guardian of the rings was released at Christmas. In the recent week from February 18 to February 24, the weekly revenue was still $5.16 million, with a cumulative box office of $329.73 million.

Because of the popular nature of the film, the recent decline has been maintained at about 20%, and the subsequent slow revenue of 15 million to 20 million box office is not a problem. Therefore, the total box office will be between 345 million and 350 million US dollars, up to two or three million different from steel bone 2. Who is higher and who is lower is uncertain for the time being.

As for "racing story", "game of the brave 2", "007 Casino Royale", "genius Ripley" and others, the final end point of the box office is basically the same as the prediction behind the scenes at the beginning of the year and the end of 1999.

In addition to the film, there are two things Simon will pay attention to in the past February.

The first is Eastern Europe. The second Chechen War is over.

About a month ahead of the Russian presidential election, on February 23, the day after Simon's birthday, Russian officials officially announced the withdrawal from Chechnya and handed over the management of Chechnya to local Pro Russian forces.

From a political point of view, this is a very good time node.

Compared with the disheartened face of the first Chechen War, the second Chechen War, which lasted six months since September last year, has been smooth sailing with the support of Yeltsin's decentralization.

The withdrawal of troops at this time not only avoids the pressure on Russia's finance caused by the continuous war, but also resolves the people's concern that the war may be protracted and bring a large number of casualties. It can be said that it has perfectly picked a mature political fruit and brought enough gain for someone to easily win the general election in March.

However, the fact is that for Russia, the Chechen problem has not been fundamentally solved.

The most direct impact was a series of terrorist activities in Russia, such as the "Beslan hostage incident", which lasted for many years.

Of course, even if it is not perfect, this decision is undoubtedly the best choice for someone.

This is what Simon appreciates most about someone. For the sake of the overall situation, he is willing to choose, understand balance, tolerate and coexist. In fact, this is a necessary quality for a good politician.

Politics really cannot go to extremes, especially among big powers.

Ordinary people are happy to take revenge. At most, they can't hide their bodies and splash blood for five steps. Extremes between big countries will result in blood flow floating in the world.

Another thing is that on March 25, the new SpaceX company established by Simon at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on the east coast of the United States, tested and fired the first heavy rocket, still according to the previous naming rules, Falcon 9.

It is less than two years since the successful one-time launch of Falcon 1 of SpaceX on April 16, 1998, and the progress is far more than that of SpaceX in the original space-time.

As for the reason, the SpaceX team is still in the stage of integrating existing technologies. Therefore, both the previous Falcon 1 and this time Falcon 9 are different from the Falcon series of SpaceX in history.

Simon personally flew to Florida to watch the launch.

Because the significance of this time is very special. Before that, SpaceX's Falcon 1 has launched 17 times in the past two years, of which only 2 failed. At the same time, SpaceX team has been quietly conducting rocket recovery test and reuse launch.

Among the 17 launches of Falcon 1, 7 were successfully recovered and 6 were successfully re launched, of which one rocket was reused twice.

This time, the new Falcon 9 will carry out recovery tests at the same time as its first launch.

In addition, an image satellite of igrit will be sent into space.

However, this is only incidental.

After all, it is the first time, and only igrit is willing to take risks and cooperate. Moreover, the new Falcon 9 has a design load of 30 tons, and igrit's satellite weighs less than two tons. Both sides can bear risks regardless of success or failure, not to mention insurance companies.

Although the premium has doubled as a result, it is understandable.

Again, one-time success.

The satellite successfully entered orbit. The planned recovered primary engine and two primary boosters successfully landed at the scheduled location. Therefore, the launch site was full of joy.

The outside world has been curious about the recycling test of SpaceX for the past two years. Simon has never been exposed too much. This time, he will no longer hide it. After the successful launch, videos, pictures and relevant press releases logged into major media platforms for the first time and soon became the focus of public opinion.

Simon did this to give enough glory and encouragement to the SpaceX team.

However, as far as Simon is concerned, this is far from satisfactory. After all, the new Falcon 9 has a load of 30 tons, which is more than 120 tons compared with the legendary Saturn 5. Even if it has a huge advantage in cost, the gap in technical parameters is still very obvious.

Moreover, what Simon most wants to see is the research and development of a new generation of space shuttle that has been quietly launched. And, the first stage, complete another landing on the moon.

In contrast, SpaceX's recovery rocket can only be regarded as an auxiliary.

Simon's requirement is to integrate the existing technology to the extreme and reduce the cost to the extreme, so as to complete the auxiliary functions of rocket products to the greatest extent.

In addition, the most critical is the space shuttle program.

Take off and land directly on the ground to ensure reaching the safety level of all kinds of manned aircraft and reaching the moon.

Achieving this goal, Simon feels, is another small step in human exploration of outer space. Moreover, only by taking this step can we break through the biggest limitation of the aerospace industry. There is only input and little output. After all, at this stage, most space projects are still forward-looking scientific research and exploration through financial subsidies from various countries.

This is the main reason why mankind lost the power to explore space after the end of the cold war.

Without relatively direct output, it is impossible to form a sustainable interest cycle. Even though many people understand that the indirect benefits brought by space exploration are immeasurable, the matter is therefore unsustainable, which is a reality that even Simon has to face.