Chapter 745

It's not easy to get up early in winter. Simon and Chen Qing get up before 7 o'clock the next morning.

Men exercise, Chen Qing accompany.

Last night, Lin Su, who was a little refreshed in Sanguan, went to prepare breakfast.

My heart has already accepted my destiny.

In addition to some ridiculous guy who always makes her feel powerless, she has no dissatisfaction with the present life, and once dreamed of it.

In the gym, Chen Qing accompanies Simon to run while picking up all kinds of ideas from men like a tireless little squirrel.

There are so many things in Simon's memory that in most cases he needs to be stimulated to remember them.

Yesterday, she agreed with Chen Qing to play a role in XIAOBAWANG's management team and gave the two women a certain share of equity. Although XIAOBAWANG's team may still have to do their best "educational electronic products" after working alone, Chen Qing is not satisfied with this. Relying on her recent understanding of the westero system, Chen Qing feels that she is fully qualified to involve in more popular and profitable industries.

For example, personal computers.

Different from the Western PC market which has already started to explode, China's domestic PC industry is still in a very initial stage. It is estimated that the annual sales volume of China's PC in 1994 will only be about 700000 units, which is a huge market with more than 1 billion people, and the industrial scale is less than 2% of the total sales volume of the whole world. On the surface, it is a big blue ocean market.

Simon is not optimistic about this.

China's domestic PC industry is limited to the level of economic development, and its overall scale is very small. However, this field has been operated by many domestic and foreign brands for many years. Not to mention the overseas brands such as IBM, HP and Toshiba, it is just that in China, Lenovo, founder and Tongfang were founded in the 1980s, which has a deep foundation in both technology and market.

If that's all, it's OK to try now.

The most important point is that the CPU, hard disk, operating system and other core software and hardware technologies are in the hands of foreign manufacturers. If they go to China to set up a PC brand, they will only be the lowest end assemblers. In contrast, westero system, which holds a large number of shares in Microsoft and Intel, is more willing to enjoy the most high-end cake of PC industry.

No one can make all the money.

Has occupied the most lucrative part of the industry, and then to tangle those fur, the gain is not worth the loss.

Although Chen Qing is not optimistic about setting up a personal computer company, Simon thinks of another industry in the process of their conversation.

VCD。

This is the only popular electronic product in Greater China in the 1990s. Only VCD hardware itself, the overall market size reached tens of billions of RMB in the peak period

not only that, now in 1994, because the domestic VCD market has just sprouted, westero system is fully capable of maximizing profits by monopolizing the core components of VCD.

It has been discussed yesterday that if the XIAOBAWANG team continues to make products similar to the old company after leaving, it will inevitably encounter pressure from outside the business. The initial plan is to let the team leave as far as possible and set up a new company in other provinces and cities. Now, if we can skip the game console field and directly enter the emerging VCD Market, some potential conflicts will be much less.

After a deep talk in the morning, after breakfast, Chen Qing and Lin Su left in a hurry to collect VCD related information.

Simon continued to spend the day on the east coast.

At noon, Simon and the president received a phone call from the White House. They told him that Clinton had negotiated with the Republican Party, and that the incident provoked by Kevin Moorhouse, a former Republican congressman in Pennsylvania, would come to an end.

Certainly not absolutely.

However, Washington's attitude is quite satisfactory to Simon.

When he left in the afternoon, he met with Joseph schrap again and learned that the operation was still related to the Republican conservatives in the south. Simon was no longer polite and asked Paul Spitz to layout Florida according to the original "deep ploughing" plan.

There's plenty of time this time.

There is no need to consider the 1996 general election. There are still six years to go before the 2000 general election. With the strength of the westero system, the six-year layout is enough to slowly understand every constituency and every type of voters in Florida.

He who gains Florida gains the world.

After reading the book of Shang Jun recently, some of Simon's ideas have changed quietly.

I used to be very unhappy with the Bush family.

Now it's different.

If George W. Bush is allowed to take office for eight years, it is in line with the policy of "weakening the people" in the book of Lord Shang. The people are weak enough to get the most basic survival materials, which is the best state of governance. If you eat too much and you don't have enough, it's easy to make trouble.

Of course, this is on the premise that the Bush family will not threaten the westero system.

Otherwise, Simon doesn't mind completely changing history.After dealing with things here, Simon left for the west coast that afternoon.

The next day was December 1.

The last month of 1992.

The "information age" marketing plan led by westero system has entered the second stage and is still in full swing.

Half a month has passed before the mid-term election.

Many of the measures to divert public attention are still working, with the exception of a small number of restless media in some local states and counties, the topic of the mid-term election has been reduced to the lowest level. As long as a month goes by, the possibility of recurrence will be minimized.

So, back in Los Angeles, most of Simon's attention began to turn to a series of key film projects of Denise entertainment recently.

First, this man is from the earth.

When chatting with grace in private, the idea of a new version of "this man from the earth" came into being. The script has been completed under Simon's personal guidance and supplemented by a group of invited university professors.

Once upon a time, this man is from the earth, because the production cost is very low. Although it has become a classic of low-cost science fiction, it has many unsatisfactory rough details.

This time, although the production cost is still not high, because it is Simon's personal project, all the production specifications of the film have reached the highest standard.

In terms of actors, there are so many actors who want to participate in the new project of Simon westero's own drama, and the pay is the least important thing. As a result, given the basic pay standard set by the actors' Union, a large number of Hollywood first - and second tier famous actors still hope to show up in such a film.

After all, Hollywood is a circle of human feelings, and people around are lobbying for it. Simon's idea of looking for a group of pure new people simply doesn't work.

However, there is absolutely no problem with the acting skills of the actors selected in this way.

The second is the script.

The hero John is actually Jesus. The setting must be deleted.

Different from more than ten years ago, in the early 1990s, the proportion of religious believers in western society was still very high. It was also a very sensitive topic to deal with such subjects, not to mention the public figures such as Simon. If they did so, they would be tantamount to opening a hornet's nest.

For the new version of this man from the earth, Simon doesn't intend to give people any thinking. The fundamental orientation is just a very interesting alternative science fiction. If the purpose is to give Hollywood filmmakers an inspiration.

So I'm not going to stir up any controversy at all.

What's more, the idea that the hero is a series of historical celebrities in the initial conversation with grace was also dropped by Simon pass in the process of script creation. In the final script, John, the hero, will be a relatively pure passer-by in time and space. He did not leave his own name in history, but he has met with many historical celebrities and promoted it intentionally or unconsciously The development of history.

In a key plot detail, the father son relationship between John and will, a psychology professor, is no longer as abrupt as the original. Instead, it starts from the beginning, and the final answer will not be revealed by will's death as in the original. It is only discovered by the heroine, and the truth will be guessed when there are only two left.

The male owner neither admits nor denies this.

It's a suspense.

Generally speaking, the new story will tell the story of an immortal through the dramatic plot mode, which is rigorous and fluent from beginning to end, so that people can not find flaws, but it is difficult to prove this fact.

After the completion of the script, according to Simon's initial list of actors, the casting work started at the same time is coming to an end.

I didn't choose the well-known front line.

However, the finalists are basically well-known actors familiar to the public.

Even qusi Gough, who had no acting experience before, won the title of "supermodel" after the third Weimi show, relying on the rapid growth of popularity in the past half a year, she ranked seventh in the model popularity list of igritte portal.

What Simon values most is the hero.

Simon is actually the one who has a lot of say in what an immortal who has lived for more than 10000 years should be like.

After all the vicissitudes, the most important thing is the indifferent "bystander" temperament.

Because of too much experience, it is difficult for everything around him to have an impact on his mood, and it is hard to avoid indifference in his heart. However, as an immortal who can't remember his age, he has lived in the world for a long time, and he is almost at his fingertips when dealing with people. Therefore, he will instinctively have the tolerance and maintenance attitude of adults towards children, which is easy to make people feel close.

He is indifferent, indifferent and elegant.

All right.

Janet, who can see the script in advance, thinks that someone is obviously more suitable for the role.

Simon, of course, won't fight in person.

Back in Los Angeles, after Simon personally participated in the last round of audition, the actor was finally finalized, and Simon was very satisfied. This year, George Clooney, who just made his name with "the story of the emergency room".George Clooney is 33 years old. He is a late bloomer who has worked for many years.

For the time being, it's just a TV actor.

Although it is not the old diamond with gray hair, Clooney's character and temperament are very consistent with Simon's setting for John.

The heroine Sandy's request is between 30 and 40 years old.

Simon first thought of Katherine Bigelow.

Katherine has been busy this year. The film "Detroit", which tells about the riot in Detroit, is drawing to a close. Simon mentioned it when he had lunch with Katherine at danylis studios some time ago, but it was rejected. The reason for women is that they can't perform. Simon enthusiastically said that he could teach one-on-one hand. He was the best at giving speeches to women, and then he was rejected more simply.

Finally, Elizabeth Perkins was chosen.

Simon's temperament is 34 years old.

In 1988, after working with Tom Hanks on the box office blockbuster over the future, Elizabeth Perkins should have had a very good development. Unfortunately, it's not good luck. In recent years, the commercial performance of the films she received has not been very good. She has not been able to stand firmly in the first tier, but has fallen back to the second tier, even to the third tier.

In order to save his career, Perkins transferred from CAA to wma last year. This time, it was Jonathan's key recommendation, and the acting skills were OK. Simon agreed.

Other supporting actors are basically old Hollywood actors.

In terms of directing, Simon gave it directly to Brett Ratner, who just finished the third WIMI show.

The film maker, who was born as an MV director, worked hard for the third Weimi show. After the show was finished, Ratner took less than three hours off every day for a week in order to edit the TV version. Simon was also very satisfied with the final film.

The current film is a ticket for Brett Ratner to enter Hollywood.

The planned shooting cycle is only two weeks and is expected to be completed before Christmas.

While taking care of the crew, Simon has quietly set up a set outside Toronto, Canada.

The location was chosen in Toronto, not near Los Angeles, mainly for the sake of confidentiality.

Many Hollywood filmmakers are racking their brains to keep secret during the shooting process. The more famous the filmmakers are, the more anxious they are. Simon's new film, written by himself, has attracted too much attention. Recently, many entertainment media are asking for relevant information. If you shoot near Los Angeles, you can't think of any peace at that time. It's very likely that the content will be pulled out by paparazzi with great powers.

Although not despised, but in the final analysis, "this man from Earth" is just Simon's play ticket.

Simon's focus is still on a series of blockbusters owned by Denise entertainment.

Jurassic Park 2 and Apollo 13 will be released next summer, Batman vs Superman: Dark Dawn, the next work of DC movie universe series, Titanic, MGM's 007 series, the next phase of soul calling movie universe, and the recently finalized cooperation project "baby thunderbolt" "Espionage", "game of the brave", "Mummy" and so on.

These are the top priorities of Denise entertainment group.

The third week of Thanksgiving is officially over.

During the box office week from November 25 to December 1, Denise Entertainment's 3D animated film Toy Story 2 still took the lead.

Since no heavyweight new films entered the competition on November 25, Toy Story 2's box office fell only 29% in the next week after its first week's big sale, with a revenue of US $61.99 million. For a saturated film with a screen size of more than 3000, it is very difficult to keep the box office decline within 30% in the next week.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of Toy Story 2 has reached 149.3 million US dollars.

The domestic box office of Toy Story 2 was 240 million US dollars.

This time, it will earn 150 million yuan in two weeks. Considering that Toy Story 2 will cross the Christmas schedule next, the long-term trend can be determined. Therefore, the industry and the media generally raise the box office expectation of this 3D animated film to 300 million to 350 million US dollars. The total cost of making and publicizing Toy Story 2 is as high as US $130 million. At first, Simon didn't expect the local box office to make much profit. Now, it's just the local box office, and the profit has already made other Hollywood studios envious.