Chapter 1330

Chen Qing didn't delay her boss's enjoyment of life. There were too many things to do. After having lunch together and talking about what to talk about, she set off again in the afternoon and flew back to China first.

Simon spent another night doing scientific research on his estate in St. Lucas and returned to Los Angeles the next day.

Quite satisfied with a weekend, so decided to listen to Chen Qing's advice, select some of the women who come to raise as a ban. It's not bad for money anyway. What's more, considering the state of South Korea's entertainment industry, Simon doesn't want to think about a woman next time, but he doesn't know how many hands he has been turned.

Therefore, if you want to draw around the roster at breakfast time, you can choose about one-third of them. It's not limited to the familiar names, but the most important thing is to be satisfied with yourself.

It's March 2.

March is the beginning of a new week.

Just after boarding his private plane at St. Lucas airport, Simon received news that the global box office of "Titanic" officially exceeded $1 billion this past weekend.

Among them, North America earned $15.99 million at the box office in the past three weekend, with a cumulative box office of $496.94 million. It is expected that the box office week from February 27 to March 5 will definitely exceed $500 million.

Overseas, as more and more ticket stores begin to release, the box office of Titanic is still very fierce overseas. Only in the past three days, the total overseas revenue is about US $49 million. According to rough statistics, the total overseas box office is about US $513 million.

According to the current trend, "Titanic" still has at least $100 million box office potential at home, and even more overseas. Even though the total overseas box office has exceeded $500 million, considering that there are still some major ticket stores in France and China that have not yet been opened, the box office volume has more than doubled.

Therefore, the total global box office of this super blockbuster can at least reach the level of 1.8 billion, or even higher.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon went straight to Daniels studios to start the day's work schedule.

There are a lot of things as usual in March.

In Hollywood, the most important thing is the Oscars ceremony on March 23, because the Oscars are also very important when it comes to whether Titanic can further conquer the world.

On China's side, a conference related to China's political and economic trends for many years in the future is also in Simon's attention.

The meeting will open on March 5.

In addition, on the 28th of the end of the month, tingkobayer's 1998 spring new product launch was held.

In addition to the routine update, this time, tincobaier will also release a very important product, ibery-10 mobile phone. This is a product made by tincobaier after its acquisition of rim company in Canada under Simon's instruction last year. In fact, it was once a BlackBerry. In order to comply with tincobaier's product naming rules, tincobaier changed from BlackBerry to ibery.

In addition to these major events, a smaller one is Star Trek, which will be released on March 25.

Simon's expectation for this game is no less than that of "anti terrorist elite ol" at the end of last year. In addition, the new "StarCraft" will also attach great importance to the networking attribute, and daenerys will provide an online combat platform just like "anti terrorist elite ol".

Daniels studios.

Arrive at the company at about 9 a.m., first at Denise Entertainment's weekly high-level meeting, and then at a video conference with James Leibold in New York.

The latter is about the next reduction plan.

The early recovery of new technology industry is very obvious. However, this does not meet Simon's expectations, so some measures must be taken.

One of the most simple and effective options is to reduce the holdings.

Simon plans to reduce his holding of a batch of technology stocks again this year, cash in more funds and suppress the rebound of the NASDAQ index, so as to win more time for the bottom hunting layout of westrow system in the new technology field.

If you want to suppress a stock market, the scale of reduction can not be too small, at least it is the beginning of 10 billion US dollars.

In a word, even if Simon continues to make global investment and invests a lot of money in the 3G plan, the cash scale held by westero system is still very large. After this year's big reduction, together with the profits made by various enterprises, it is estimated that the total scale of cash and short-term convertible equivalent hoarded by westero system will reach 100 billion US dollars.

Simon talked to James about it in a video conference, and he couldn't help feeling something.

It's tiring to spend money.

Physical work.

At noon, I had dinner with Celia Miller from New York, and the topic was money.

In the executive dining room of Daniels studios.

After the lunch waiter left, Celia picked up the tableware and began to talk about the business: "Russia's economy has been deteriorating since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis in the second half of last year. Now, let alone the general public, even some government departments have been unable to pay wages. As a result, Yeltsin's relationship with the current Prime Minister chernomyrkin has become increasingly stiff, Yeltsin wants Gazprom to make a sum of money, but Chernomyrdin and his behind the scenes consortium do not agree. Therefore, Yeltsin has planned to open Chernomyrdin, reorganize the cabinet and select a new prime minister. "

The story of a short middle-aged man was very confidential. Simon didn't even tell Celia. Wen Yan just asked, "what does this have to do with me?"

"That's why I came to Los Angeles," Celia said. "I just came back from Eastern Europe. Before returning home, I was approached by Tatyana, Yeltsin's daughter. The other party conveyed Yeltsin's invitation and hoped that the boss would visit Moscow."

Simon shook his head directly: "no interest, Moscow is too cold."

Celia was not surprised, but continued: "besides, Tatyana also talked to me about the candidate for Russia's new prime minister."

Simon was quiet.

Celia took a sip of the wine next to him and then said, "Yeltsin is going to nominate the current energy secretary Sergei Kiriyenko. I made an early investigation. This is a very young Moscow senior who was born in 1962 and is only 36 years old this year. However, Kiriyenko's ability is very strong. After entering the energy sector, he has successively solved several crises involving the energy field in Russia. In addition, Kiriyenko is also very low-key and pragmatic. He is a non partisan and has no obvious political inclination. It is obvious that Yeltsin is choosing his own successor. "

"And then?"

Celia stopped her hand and looked at Simon: "that's the problem. I don't understand why Tatyana told me about it. It should be Russia's core secret. Boss, you know, in case of early disclosure, those opposition groups in Russia, as well as the current Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, will try to block it."

Celia looks puzzled, but Simon understands that this is another signal from the Yeltsin family.

In the full vigour of life, as well as like as two peas in the same age as 36, the new prime minister, who is 45, is also a very low-key, pragmatic and independent party.

Simon didn't know what was going on in the Russian political arena. At this time, Yeltsin asked his daughter to pass on such a message to him. In fact, it was also a kind of gesture. He attached great importance to Simon's choice of someone. However, he was still full of doubts, so he would choose a new person to try.

In addition, it is obvious that Russia's finance is really difficult at present. In addition to this invitation, Yeltsin also hoped that Simon could express that even if he did not have investment, as long as Simon went to Russia for a tour and made a slight statement, just like when he visited China at the beginning, the outside world would have more confidence in Russia's economy.

Faith seems to be very vague. In Simon's case, it is absolutely real.

The reason why the Russian economy continues to deteriorate is not only the chain effect brought by the Asian financial turmoil, but also the general lack of confidence of overseas investors in Russia's economic recovery. In fact, Soros also contributed a lot. Quantum Fund's massive withdrawal from Russia under Simon's lobbying last year will inevitably lead to capital flight.

All in all, there is no money to make trouble.

Celia, across the table, waited for a moment and whispered, "boss?"

Simon shook his head: "tell each other that I don't have time recently. Let's see what happens next."

Celia was still full of doubts. She nodded, her eyes still filled with inquiry.

Simon felt her eyes and explained with a smile, "maybe you think of it, but just don't know anything."

Her boss said that, and Celia could only agree.

It's still a paste.

Since his boss didn't agree, it's not Kiriyenko, who will be promoted by Yeltsin?

Simon said, took the initiative to talk about another thing, change the topic, but the heart is also thinking about it.

Simon still hopes that history will go to the track it used to be to a certain extent. However, on Yeltsin's side, this incident has obviously put a lot of pressure on the other side, with obvious worries.

It's no surprise.

If Simon is in that position, no matter he is worried about his family's future, or as a Russian, he is deeply hesitant about his country's future, he can not easily make a decision. Therefore, if Simon doesn't make enough statements about this matter, it is difficult to have a result. If the statement is too positive, it will make Yeltsin even more hesitant.

In any case, the next trip to Russia will not be able to run.

After lunch, Celia left with an obvious question mark, leaving behind a personal file of Kiriyenko.

Simon flipped through his schedule in the afternoon and found that although Yeltsin made a mess of Russia, he did not lack the ability to recognize and employ people.

Although he was only 36 years old, Kiriyenko was definitely a talent similar to a certain emperor.

Looking back carefully, I can recall that this man happened to be one of several prime ministers who had been appointed by Yeltsin in succession. The reason why he failed to become a successor was also due to bad luck. At the age of 36, after all, he was a little young, and his foundation was too shallow. This was what Yeltsin needed. However, because his foundation was too shallow, he could not stand the storm.

Just as it happened, 1998 was also a year of great storms for Russia. In this year, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian economy once again slid into the abyss.

Naturally, someone has to carry the pot.

Kiriyenko will inevitably become a scapegoat for Russia's economic collapse again.

Later, in the past history, as Yeltsin's successor, someone was in the last position. Besides being stronger than Kiriyenko, he also had a bit of luck. Because at that time, the Russian economy was at the bottom of the valley, and there was not much room for decline, and then it naturally rebounded.

Time makes heroes, and heroes need time.

Both are indispensable.

After reading Kiriyenko's information, Simon put the matter aside for the time being, and can generally confirm that the time to go to Russia should be the second half of this year when the Russian economy collapsed again and Kiriyenko was forced to step down. In addition, Simon can also guess that since Yeltsin has given himself such a signal, with the subsequent cabinet reorganization, someone will probably go further.

Anyway, from Simon's current horizon, he only hopes that this horizon will not become too bad, at least not be destroyed until the 3G plan is implemented to truly migrate to Mars.

Others, along with fate.

In the afternoon, there are several consecutive production or distribution meetings.

It involves biochemical crisis, Godzilla, public enemy of the whole people and other films.

What Simon values more is biochemical crisis.

In the first meeting in the afternoon, the game development team and film production team of biochemical crisis participated together, and Simon personally presided over it.

With the continuous progress of the project, Simon also found that "biochemical crisis" can create a mini movie universe. To be exact, it should be a movie plus game story universe.

You know, the world outlook and time line of the biochemical crisis series were very huge. This time, we can also build a perfect world outlook background in advance by launching two lines of games and movies at the same time. If the two series of games and movies can achieve the same results as before, the comprehensive income will far exceed the two separate blockbuster projects of "Godzilla" and "public enemy" discussed in the afternoon.

On the other hand, the production Conference on biochemical crisis also finalized the heroine.

Simon finally chose the original Mira Jovovich.

At first, she thought about Natasha henschucci, but after deliberation, Simon still thought that Alice should have more wild and strong breath. Natasha is strong enough in the alien series, but she is not strong enough. On the contrary, her temperament is always weak. After transformation, she can give people a kind of contrast, but it is not appropriate to use it directly in biochemical crisis.

As for Mila Jovovich, this girl has been active in Hollywood and fashion circles in recent years. Although she has not been able to catch up with Luc Besson as she used to, with the rise of the Internet, it is very easy for Simon to find her. He pulls her over for any reason.