Chapter 492

The Internet industry has just sprung up, and the same type of online leasing platform has not yet appeared.

Therefore, blockbuster does not have an urgent need for transformation.

The launch of blockbuster online is more of a first-hand layout. In the early stage, it will only carry out business in several major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, which are relatively prosperous on the East and west coasts. In this way, it can not only save costs, but also accumulate Online operation experience in advance.

However, thanks to igritte's early opening in the field of e-commerce, blockbuster online opened on the Independence Day holiday in the United States. The following weekend also achieved very good results. In just three days, the number of online service activation of blockbuster members reached 160000, and more than 200000 purchase and rental orders were placed through the online platform.

After the Independence Day holiday, with Simon's support, Nancy Brill began to push blockbuster to gradually abolish the late fee system.

Because of the existence of franchisees with strong independence, even if it is approved by the board of directors, it is difficult to achieve it overnight.

Fortunately, Nancy Brill planned to gradually take advantage of the opportunity of canceling the late fee to further strengthen blockbuster's membership system and increase users' stickiness, so she was not eager.

In Hollywood, during the week from July 3 to July 9, three new films, the last Mohican, honey, I've made my kids big and game of the Patriots, which were registered in North American Theaters, although they had the blessing of Independence Day holiday, their opening and box office performances were not satisfactory.

As a sequel to Paramount's previous "hunting Red October" and with Harrison Ford's participation, "game of the patriots" has the best box office performance, with $25.29 million in the first seven days of the week, ranking second in the weekly box office list.

It's also a sequel. Disney's "honey, I've got kids bigger" is not as lucky as "honey, I've got kids smaller" three years ago. With the production cost of $40 million and the opening scale of 2311 screens, the box office of this science fiction family comedy in the first week is only $18.39 million, far lower than Disney's expectation.

Moreover, the media and audience reputation of "honey, I've made my child big" is not as good as expected. The starting point of the first week is too low, and the box office of "honey, I've made my child big" may suffer a big drop in the next week, so the box office prospect is hard to predict.

"The last Mohicans" by danielis and Warner Bros., an adaptation of the novel "the knight saves the princess" which has been repeatedly remade, has won unanimous praise from the critics after its launch, with a comprehensive media score of 9.5.

However, probably due to the theme of ancient costume, the box office of the first week of the film's opening was not as good as expected. With the opening scale of 2173 screens, the box office of the first week of the last mosikan was only $23.19 million, and the museum reached the level of big sales, but it was not a big hit.

Of course, because of the excellent reputation, compared with Disney's "honey, I've made my child bigger", the last mosican should be able to make a very good long-term progress.

The box office of the three new films is mediocre, so that the box office champion of this week is still won by wonder woman.

In the fifth week, because of the Independence Day holiday, the box office of wonder woman fell only 17% this week and continued to earn $26.15 million. In five weeks, the female superhero movie grossed $260.32 million in North America.

That's more than the North American box office of "flash" released last year, second only to "Batman: the moment of war" and "Batman: the dark knight.".

Considering that wonder woman still has a weekly box office base of more than $25 million and maintains a good weekly box office decline curve, the total box office of the film in North America is very likely to exceed $350 million, and even catch up with the $373 million of Batman: the dark knight.

With the release of the last Mohican, four important films related to the 1992 Summer Program and danielis entertainment have been released.

All in all, wonder woman is the most powerful.

After that, the box office performance of peach trade surpassed that of the other two films, reaching US $32.27 million in the first week. However, in the second and third weeks, the box office of peach trade fell by 40% and 32% respectively, earning US $19.1 million and US $12.99 million respectively.

In three weeks, the total North American box office of "peach trade" has reached 64.37 million US dollars. Through the subsequent release, the total North American box office of the film is expected to be between 80 million and 100 million US dollars, which is enough for the producer to recover all the production and publicity investment and may achieve a small profit.

Only the local box office will be able to recover, which means that "peach trade" will make a huge profit through overseas release, video sale and TV broadcast.

Even if it's not dark horse, it's obviously a very successful project.

After the box office of "killing time" reached $23.73 million in the first week, with its excellent reputation, the box office of "killing time" fell only 13% in the next week, and received another $20.64 million. The cumulative box office of "killing time" in two weeks was $44.37 million. This court crime movie, which involves racial discrimination and judicial justice, has obviously successfully copied the box office track of Harrison Ford's presumption of innocence. It is expected that through long-term screening, the box office in North America is very likely to break the $100 million mark."The last Mohican" has a better reputation than "killing time". At the beginning of the movie, the price of US $2319 also reached the level of "killing time". Although it's the first week, we can't see the follow-up box office trend for the time being, the box office curves of the two movies are likely to be very similar.

All in all, the total box office of the three foreign films in North America is expected to be about $100 million.

Such a box office performance can't be compared with wonder woman, but it's enough to make it into the top of the annual box office list.

After "the peach trade", "the killing moment" and "the last Mohican", there are only four foreign cooperation projects of danielis entertainment, among which the ones that have been confirmed are "sleepless in Seattle" with Disney, "the order of Pelican assassination" with Warner Brothers and "mission impossible" with paramount pictures.

After the Independence Day holiday, more than half of the summer holidays have been held.

On July 10, North American Theaters continued to draw two new films, one is MGM's "a house and a half wife" and the other is fox's "dangerous third love".

"A house and a half wife" was originally the incubation project of Universal Pictures, starring Steve Martin and Gotty Han. It tells a series of stories about a hotel waiter who moved into the hero's villa and lied that he was his wife.

Danelis entertainment is too full, and "a house and a half wives" was supposed to be cut down.

However, considering that the box office of the film is still good in memory, Simon transferred it directly to MGM.

Fox's "dangerous third love" is another extramarital affair type movie starring Michael Douglas in "fatal temptation".

In addition to Clint Eastwood's new film unforgivable, which will be released on August 7, Simon has not found any other films with great potential. This lack of strong box office competitors is just suitable for the long-term trend of four films, such as wonder woman and killing time.

For Denise entertainment, this summer holiday is still a good harvest.

In July, two other major projects of danielis entertainment, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, "sleepless in Seattle" and the TV series "Desperate Housewives", which will be broadcast in the autumn, began shooting one after another. In addition, the publicity work of "midnight bell", "kid in charge 2" and "Jurassic Park" scheduled at the end of the year also officially started.

However, during this period, the most concerned is the 1992 US presidential election, which has entered the second half.

After the game in the first half of the year, the current President George W. Bush further confirmed the identity of the Republican candidate in this year's general election. On the Democratic side, with the gradual withdrawal of a series of competitors, Bill Clinton's advantage is becoming more and more obvious.

However, this time, the traditional candidates of both sides failed to overshadow rose Perot, the independent party candidate.

Because of many of George Bush's ruling criticisms and the lack of popular candidates in the Democratic Party, and perhaps the economic downturn has led to the dissatisfaction of Americans with the current situation, rose Perot, a billionaire with strong personality and love to be in the limelight, has gradually attracted more and more attention.

Since the official announcement of his participation in the election, rose Perot's approval rating once reached 36%.

Gradually, both parties feel more and more threatened by Rose Perot.

Out of this fear, some people are attacking Ross Perot more and more frequently.

So until July 13, the new week, Simon and Janet just got up, James Leibold called. At 9 a.m. Eastern time, Ross Perot suddenly held a press conference to announce the launch of this year's presidential election.

In addition to secretly comparing Bill Clinton's bets, Simon was almost indifferent to the presidential election.

Even though there is a message in his memory that Ross Perot withdrew from the election, Simon is still a bit surprised to hear this news. He personally asked someone to tell Clinton that if the other party wants to enter the White House in this presidential election, he must ensure that Ross Perot will run in order to share the votes of conservatives.

However, some things happened again.

Today, it was Janet who was going to fly to New York alone. Suddenly, this happened. After breakfast, the couple boarded the plane to the east coast.

Arriving in Manhattan, on the east coast, it's four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Leibold were invited to have dinner with Joseph schrap, the head of schrap consulting company, at the manor outside Greenwich. Joseph schrap also gave Simon some information he had just obtained.

Ross Perot's exit is actually a temporary solution.

In private, Perot knew very well that he could not win this presidential election, so he was gradually attracted by the Democratic Party.

However, with more than 30% support for Ross Perot, not only George Bush's vote will be seriously affected, but in fact, the candidates of both parties will be seriously affected. If this continues, the effect of apportioning conservative votes may be lost.After several times of communication, Ross Perot finally decided to withdraw temporarily, which can cool down his originally high approval rating, and at the same time give the Democratic Party enough opportunity to perform at the critical moment in the next few months.

Simon heard Joseph schrap's explanation and reorganized some of the information in his memory, and immediately understood it.

In my memory, rose Perot did announce the election in July. However, some people still didn't let him go, and even tried to disturb Perot's daughter's wedding in August through some malicious gossip in the media.

If Ross Perot is really out of the election, as long as he is smart enough, he will know that this time should not be used to tease this powerful billionaire.

Some people are still making small moves in private, should also be aware of what.

However, this kind of behavior just gave Perot an excuse to re announce his candidacy in October.

Moreover, in my memory, rose Perot is named, accusing the Bush administration of using dishonorable means to try to destroy his daughter's wedding.

In fact, this disgraceful means, in fact, is not so serious, just in the gossip media to publish some photos of Perrault's daughter suspected of homosexuality. Perot insisted the photos were synthetic.

As for the truth, Simon doesn't care.

In recent months, igritte portal has been quietly promoting news in favor of Bill Clinton. Although Simon has not personally appeared, some senior officials of westrow system have quietly helped Clinton organize several fund-raising parties.

Moreover, whether it is Hollywood or silicon valley, there are a large number of people on the Democratic side, which is largely driven by the westerlow system.

What should be done has already been done. Knowing the inside story of Perot's withdrawal, Simon made a little arrangement and stepped back behind the scenes to watch the change.

After the completion of the acquisition of Ltd, Apollo management team will not have much action in the short term.

Cersei fund management company's hedge fund team's performance in the first half of the year was also officially released, stimulated by the increasing popularity of technology stocks in the market. In the first half of 1992, the hedge fund team realized 21% of the fund's net income by long technology stocks.

After the routine settlement at the beginning of the year, the principal of about US $3 billion has increased to US $3.6 billion through the operation in the first half of the year.

Conservatively, the hedge fund is expected to achieve a net profit of US $1 billion after tax by the end of 1992.

Even if the rate of return is not as high as the previous two years, the net profit margin of more than 30% will definitely surpass most competitors in the same industry.

Of course, it's not as good as the quantum fund, which is about to launch a crackdown on European currencies.

However, Simon still does not have any chance to do this.

If you make a profit on the European currency, other businesses of the Westeros in Europe will certainly lose more.

In addition, the three subsidiaries of cersei capital, Heiyan asset management company, which has been relatively low-key, are actually developing at the fastest speed.

Whether cersei fund management company or Apollo management company, the capital scale is controlled at several billion dollars.

Black rock asset management company, which mainly deals in low-risk fixed income, treasury bonds and large cap stock investment, has expanded rapidly due to the recovery of North American stock market after last year's Gulf War. Now the total scale of funds under management has exceeded 70 billion US dollars.

Of course, there is still a big gap between this figure and the 6 trillion dollar asset scale of black rock asset management company in Simon's memory.

However, compared with other asset management companies of the same type, Heiyan asset management company has been successfully promoted to the giant level. Considering that the company is less than 10 years old even from the subsidiary of Blackstone Group, the growth rate is even more amazing.

Moreover, the asset scale of US $70 billion is enough to have a significant impact on many industries.