Chapter 1261

Thanksgiving in 1997 was on November 27.

In the early years, in order to save time and publicity budget, many films often choose the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day to start painting, which can span the long Thanksgiving weekend with a four-day viewing demand from Thursday to Sunday.

This kind of schedule selection is becoming less and less with the gradual rise of saturated full-scale issuance, which is more and more popular with Xuanfa.

Because a large amount of publicity budget has been invested in advance for publicity, the audience who should know has already known, so there is no need to use similar tricks.

Of course, things are not absolute.

This year is the exception.

After the first week of Thanksgiving from November 14 to November 20, on November 21, the next Thanksgiving week, only Disney's super blockbuster Terminator 3 and Pixar's latest 3D animated film "bug story" doubled the pressure on many films, so they chose to play tricks again.

It's still only a movie with more than 2000 screens.

On November 21, in addition to the blockbuster Terminator 3 and bug story, there was another new adaptation film rain maker by John Grimson, the author of the original novels of Pelican assassination order, sugar trap and kill time. The film was directed by Coppola and co directed by old Hollywood actor Denny DeVito and fresh meat Matt Damon 40 million dollars.

Then, on November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, Warner Bros.'s Midnight Garden of good and evil 'and another science fiction comedy from paramount, magic fly, began painting together.

"Midnight Garden of good and evil" is a thriller and suspense film that Clint Eastwood once again cooperates with Warner, directing and acting himself. It tells a series of complicated and confusing stories caused by the murder of a Midnight Party in a small southern town.

"Magic in the sky" is a blockbuster by John Hughes and paramount, who have been silent for several years. It costs 80 million US dollars. The film, starring Robin Williams, tells the story of a scientist who is addicted to research and invents a magic paint that can get rid of gravity.

In the box office week from November 21 to November 27, there are only five mainstream commercial films. Among them, "Terminator 3", "story of bugs" and "magic weapon" are all blockbusters. Even the lowest budget "Midnight Garden of good and evil" costs US $35 million to produce.

Taking into account the general downturn in the opening of three new films in the past week due to strong competition, five new films have been added this Thanksgiving week, and the executives of all studios are under great pressure.

Simon belongs to the more relaxed kind. For the current situation, even love to see and hear.

Because it's a long established strategy.

Even in the short term, it is inevitable that our family will suffer some losses because of the film clustering, but this kind of clustering competition makes Denise entertainment, who has a strong family background, totally affordable. Therefore, in fact, it is only squeezing the living space of other studios. When we find that the film market is becoming more and more crowded, other companies will naturally take the initiative to reduce the number of productions, while others will take a step back, and Denise entertainment can go further.

Finally, it will achieve a new pattern of reducing Hollywood's big seven to big three or even one super many.

Moreover, when other Hollywood studios are worried about the subtle changes in the film market, Simon's recent thoughts are not even on films.

In terms of major events, Simon's recent focus is still on South Korea.

As for the small things, when returning to New York from London, Simon paid more attention to the other things in the next few days than the film.

First of all, on Friday, November 21, Denise Entertainment's game Department launched "anti terrorist elite 3.0". After the final planning, the official name of the game was named "anti terrorist elite ol", in which "ol" naturally means on line.

Second, Saturday.

At the same time, there are two things. On Saturday morning, the long-standing tincobail stores will be officially opened. The first group of only three stores will be in the prime locations of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. On Saturday night, it was the annual charity party of Weimi, whose fundamental purpose was to fill the gap or promote the brand.

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Long island.

East Hampton east end of a waterfront manor.

It's already Friday night.

Chen Qing, who is connected to Simon's video communication, saw at first sight that her boss was holding a little girl with a red face like a doll in her arms, but she didn't ignore it and said with a smile: "Hello, Miao Miao."

Of course, the little girl remembers the same polite greeting from Miss Chen, who brought her mother and daughter together.

Chen Qing turned to her boss instead of rushing to get down to business as usual. Instead, she said, "boss, in yesterday's email, what do you think about the idea of acquiring the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul and the surrounding land?"

Simon has no problem.The main reason is that the location of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul is really too golden, and it can also catch up with a large piece of land he used to like, or the latter is the focus. Anyway, it's not expensive.

Nodded, Simon said: "you see to do it, don't worry, South Korea's most difficult time has not yet arrived, remember to pick the best time to take advantage of the fire."

Chen Qing nodded with a smile.

A little girl who was held in Simon's arms and listened silently raised her head and bent her mouth: "Dad, taking advantage of the fire is a derogatory word?"

Simon chin in the girl's forehead under the point, said with a smile: "of course, derogatory."

Miao Miao shrunk his neck: "Dad is good or bad."

On the other side, Chen Qing and others interacted with each other, and then said, "I don't think it's necessary to wait, boss. Now is a good time. After this time, the exchange rate of the Korean won against the US dollar should rise from below 2000 to above 1500. At that time, we may have to pay at least 25% more. Kim Yong San also said in his speech two days ago that the authorities should increase revenue and reduce expenditure, which is just right It's a good time to sell assets to the public. "

Simon did not object: "if you think you can do it."

And then we started to get down to business.

Because a girl is here, Chen Qing also changes to English, and Simon also switches. The little girl in her arms has been in the United States for more than two years. There is no problem in daily English conversation, but it involves all kinds of professional terms discussed by the two people. Even if they continue to use Chinese, they are not likely to understand it, especially in English.

It's Saturday in Asia.

In the past few days, although there have been sporadic disturbances in South Korea due to the harsh agreement signed between the authorities and the IMF, it has nothing to do with the overall situation and the matter has been basically determined. In view of the precarious financial situation in South Korea, the IMF will allocate $10 billion in advance this weekend to help the South Korean government deal with emergency.

Chen Qing also talked about the latest news.

South Korea will reopen its stock and bond markets next Monday, along with temporary exchange controls.

With the help of Washington, creditors in Europe, North America and Asia have promised not to run on South Korea any more. Today, several major financial giants in the United States also issued a joint statement, saying that as long as there is no more unexpected Black Swan incident and the financial market reopens next week, South Korea's economic situation will gradually stabilize.

As for the westero system.

The negotiations with Hyundai, Samsung and SK are also very smooth, but after all, it's a ten billion dollar business. Even if the intention has been finalized, it can't be completed in one or two days. If everything goes well, the transactions with the three chaebols can be basically completed by the end of December.

Simon listened to Chen Qing's general introduction, but he didn't have any objection. He just asked her to take along the British consortium that she had promised Blair when she was in London.

On the phone screen, Chen Qing agreed, and then said: "boss, recently Daewoo, LG, Shuanglong and other consortia probably understand their own situation, and they all try to contact me, but according to the boss's idea, I refuse. Next, what should we do?"

Simon read the information, LG certainly can't let it go. He hopes that LG can focus on LCD in the future, when the time is right, and spin off Samsung's related business in the past. Even if he can completely control Samsung in the future, Simon still doesn't intend to make Samsung too powerful, which is a strategy that has been set for a long time.

Daewoo also has a large semiconductor business, which can be integrated with SK at that time. In addition, there are other projects that Simon is interested in, such as Hanjin consortium, which operates shipping.

However, these are not urgent.

After a moment's consideration, Simon shook his head and said, "let's just ignore them and get Hyundai, SK and Samsung done."

It's still a matter of time.

When it comes time to beg for mercy, the South Korean plutocrats will not be able to kneel down for a year or two.

Let's let Samsung and other companies understand the value of early compromise. When the time is right, you can get what the westero system needs at a lower cost.

Chen Qing agreed, looked at the memo in front of her and talked about the layout of South Korea's entertainment industry.

Other parties have talked a lot in private through email and phone calls. This time, it's mainly about movies.

Simon has been looking through all kinds of scripts that Chen Qing has turned over in recent days, and said: "as for the selection of scripts, the team over there focuses on low-cost comedies, horror films and other types. This can be said to be correct and incorrect. Do you know what the problem is?"

Chen Qing tilted her head to think about it, and said: "this kind of project, the risk is very small, similarly, produced, the influence will be very small, unable to compete with Hollywood blockbusters. Just like in China, the boss supports big investment projects like "hero" just to create influence. "

Simon nodded: "that's right. However, it's not only about influence, but also to attract the audience's attention to the local films and activate the market. Therefore, if South Korean films want to get out of the downturn, they need to make a blockbuster in South Korea. As long as they live successfully, they will have more influence than a lot of low-cost small films, even if there will be dark horses in these small films. "