Chapter 1331

After the global box office broke through 1 billion US dollars, the domestic box office of Titanic in a single week from February 27 to March 5 was 23.16 million US dollars, totaling 504.11 million US dollars.

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Danielis entertainment seized the opportunity to launch another large-scale publicity of Titanic.

With the spread of the news that the global box office of the film has exceeded 1 billion, coupled with the film's still rapid box office growth momentum and the impending Oscar ceremony, and even the whole westero system sparing no effort to build public opinion, Titanic has become the focus of hot media all over the world, which in turn further promotes the popularity of the film.

Under the influence of the hot spot effect, many people who don't often enter the cinema in every corner of the world begin to buy tickets one after another.

On the other hand, "Titanic" does not completely cover up the brilliance of other films in the same period.

After the release of the second fake documentary film "the witch Blair", which is also from danielis entertainment, on February 6, it not only overturned "Titanic" in the first week of the painting, but also has a stable trend under the shadow of the big ship recently.

From February 27 to March 5, in the fourth week of release, "the witch Blair", a low-cost horror film with a budget cost of only US $1 million, still made us $14.93 million in a single week. In recent months, the cumulative box office of "the witch Blair" has reached US $98.65 million, which is about to break 100 million. At the same time, it will become the first film in North America with a box office exceeding 100 million yuan in 1998.

Only the domestic box office cost return ratio will be more than 100 times, even if it is far less than the volume of "Titanic", which will not be weak in Hollywood circles.

Because no one dares to spend 200 million to make another "Titanic", but to spend 200 million to make 200 "the witch Blair", too many people are absolutely willing to take this risk, even if only a few of them reach the achievement of "the witch Blair", they will not lose.

This also makes last year's "ghost record" after the file down a little cooling pseudo documentary film topic once again to the highest.

March 6, Friday.

At the beginning of a new box office week, it is worth mentioning that blockbuster, which has a close relationship with danielis, and new world film jointly launched the popular series of "ghost Street" in the 1980s, "ghost Street: back.".

Compared with the low-cost strategy of the ghost Street series, most of the production costs were less than $10 million. The latest restart work, which used a lot of CG special effects, eventually invested $25 million, an increase of $10 million over the $15 million budget Nancy had just proposed to Simon. Due to budget overruns, the project has changed from being produced by blockbuster's production department alone to cooperating with new world film.

Moreover, the budget for this publicity campaign has reached US $10 million, with a total cost of US $35 million.

Compared with the current rising investment in Hollywood film production, the total budget of $35 million is not high. Because of the popularity of the series, the production team is also optimistic about making profits. Worst of all, the follow-up video and TV channels are also enough to recover the cost. After all, horror movies have always been a big player in the field of family entertainment.

In addition, the choice of such a popular schedule in early March is also due to the size of the project and other considerations.

After all, the fame of "ghost Street" is here. Instead of squeezing the hot schedule, it can attract more audiences.

Of course, this time there is some miscalculation. The schedule has been set since last year. No one expected that Titanic would be so popular, and "the witch Blair" is more or less the same type of horror film.

In any case, "ghost Street: return" was released on time on March 6, with a total of 2562 screens.

Fortunately, it turned out pretty good.

Three days after the opening of the first weekend, "ghost Street: return" has won US $16.91 million at the box office. It is estimated that the box office for the whole week will be about US $25 million, and the total domestic box office is expected to be between us $40 million and US $50 million.

Forty or fifty million yuan of local box office, not to mention Titanic, is hard to win in front of the witch Blair, and the cost of local cinema distribution is hard to recover.

However, this is the normal state of Hollywood movies.

Domestic revenue is 40 million to 50 million. If overseas performance is better, "ghost Street: return" may even hit the global billion, which is sure to be profitable and a good success.

Monday, March 9.

It's a new week.

Simon arrived at Denise studios in the morning. After the new week's regular high-level meeting, he paid a little attention to the box office data of the past weekend and held another meeting with Nancy and her Denise recording team to discuss the acquisition progress of polychrome.

According to the news from Washington and Europe, at the government audit level, there are basically no obstacles in this merger and acquisition, so we can formally consider the actions after the merger.

At the end of the meeting, Simon took the time to check with Barry Weiss, who is in charge of the teen pop business of the record group, the latest team to be launched under the infinity label: Spice Girls.

This is the idea Simon put forward casually last year. Barry Weiss promised to finish it this spring, and the plan has been progressing smoothly.

A totally different hot girl mix.

There are still five girls. Even if the political correctness in the United States is not so serious, friends, which later made the creator cry and repent, are all white protagonists. This time, the five girls are quite politically correct, three white, one Latino and one black.

The first single to be released is still the original version of "wannabe", which Simon provided according to his memory and once made hot girls a hit.

I met five girls and saw the same way of shooting "wannabe" MV. The time has come to noon.

Simon's focus on the project is limited to that.

Follow up how, with fate.

In fact, we found Barry Weiss, the godfather of teen pop in the United States in the past history, and gave enough support. In recent years, danielis records has made remarkable development in this part of the business.

This year, in addition to the spice girls, Christina Aguilera will also appear.

After Britney Spears was out last year, Simon plans to turn Christina Aguilera into a mixture of Britney Spears and Avril. A goblin with good looks and amazing singing skills also has this potential.

Of course, the weight must be controlled well, can't let the spirit in the bottle become the spirit in the bucket.

There's a lot more to do today.

After a busy day, I went home and had a video conference with Australia after dinner.

Discuss the situation in Africa.

Rwanda recently reached an agreement with Johnston holdings to jointly invest in mining a diamond mine in the DRC. According to the preliminary investigation and estimation of the Australian team, a diamond mine in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to be mined for more than 10 years and produce at least US $2 billion worth of raw diamonds.

However, when we look at it in detail, it is just an addition.

The Rwandese government wants the support of the westero system to expand into the DRC.

Not only in terms of funds, but also in terms of public opinion, the westero system can use a lot of resources to at least ensure that the international community will not intervene after the war between Rwanda and the DRC. ***

Simon knew that next, there would be another protracted World War in Africa.

It's not just Rwanda and the DRC, but most of sub Saharan Africa is involved, and behind the scenes are the Western forces actually waiting for the meal to be divided.

Africa is indeed rich in resources. However, for the westero system, large amounts of oil, iron ore and coal are not in such a rush to develop. They just need to occupy the pits first. After all, the mines that Johnston controls in Australia, Brazil and other places have been enough to develop for many years.

In addition, Simon is very interested in battery related metal resources, which is also the next layout focus.

As for the consequences of the next war, Simon won't care much this time. In the intervention in 1994, Simon didn't really want to stop any humanitarian disaster, so this time, it doesn't matter that the Dragon butcher turned into a dragon.

Simon has never been a dragon slayer. He has always been a dragon killer.

At the end of the meeting, Anthony Johnston also talked about another thing. Johnston Holdings has officially made an offer to another mining giant in Australia, Bihe company. This is what Simon and the old man decided during the new year when he was in Australia.

With the successful annexation of BHP and the digestion of BHP, the Johnston family will officially take control of a super mining giant even bigger than BHP Billiton in the past. They will be involved in far more than iron ore, almost all metals, such as gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, lithium, tin and so on, as well as all kinds of rare earth metals, even coal and other metals Oil, diamonds and so on, Johnston holdings will be involved.

After the video conference with Australia, Simon got through to Chen Qing in Seoul.

The last hacking in St. Lucas over the weekend has been cleared up.

The four women all came from the same emissary, Kim woo Chung, the leader of Daewoo Group in South Korea.

I don't know whether Jin Yuzhong underestimated the seriousness of wiretapping Simon, or underestimated the network of westero system in South Korea. So he just asked his trusted assistant to contact two investigation and consulting companies specializing in similar businesses. He barely set up a third party as a springboard and didn't go out in person.

In a word, under the investigation here, the matter soon came to light.

The intelligence team of the Westeros family in South Korea also got the exact recording of Jin Yuzhong talking about this incident, because the four poor women were kept still for the time being, saying that the incident had not been successful. After learning something about that weekend, Jin Yuzhong was still yelling in his office. Unfortunately, he said that he would arrange a sneak photo next time.

After listening to the recording and Chen Qing's online translation, Simon remembers the scandal in which Li Jianxi was secretly photographed. Jin Yuzhong probably wants to do the same, at least to make Simon disheartened in South Korea. After all, the national sentiment of South Korea is very strong. Under the exposure of the incident and the pressure of public opinion, it may force the westero system to withdraw from South Korea, at least let Daewoo Group, which is obviously targeted, breathe a sigh of relief.

Simon can only say that the idea is very good, but it is unrealistic.

Simon is a public figure, but not a public figure at the same time.

Simon is not a star who needs to rely on his public image to make money. Even if some negative things come out, what can he do? Will someone jump out to resist the whole westero system?

Can we resist it?

You know, four years ago, this kind of thing happened once, when the Hurst group almost exposed Simon, what happened?

The public is always forgetful.

The public has an almost instinctive tolerance towards the superior. They feel that it is almost natural for the superior to do something. Therefore, when something is exposed, it will not cause too many waves.

In any case, Simon wanted to go step by step with Daewoo, LG and other South Korean plutocrats who refused to give in at the beginning. However, since someone is looking for death, Simon will not be polite. He directly orders Chen Qing to take action there to completely seal up Daewoo Group and set an example to others.

It's actually very simple.

For the chaebol in South Korea, the most important thing is capital. The capital chain of Daewoo Group, which has a debt of US $70 billion, is in a precarious state.

Just as it happens, Simon now wants to block the source of funds of a South Korean Chaebol, which can't be easier.

Not only is the IMF team in South Korea responsible for controlling the South Korean economy and allocating aid funds completely under the control of the westero system, but as long as Simon gives a word, even outside the IMF, capital from any corner of the world will not easily flow to Daewoo Group.

Simon did.

At the end of the video call with Chen Qing, Simon wrote a text message to girl a, asking her to make a detailed list, and then sent an ultimatum to the relevant financial institutions.

Last year's IMF negotiations and subsequent investment in South Korea, Simon made a fortune with a lot of capital. Since they have taken advantage of it, those people can't listen to what he ordered. If you don't give face, and don't say whether there will be another time, even if it's the benefit you get this time, if Simon is not happy, they can spit it out.

Seoul, Korea.

In the mansion of Litai courtyard, the time difference of 17 hours in Asia is more than 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

Chen Qing and his boss agreed that the same order soon.

First of all, Jin Yuzhong's attempt to eavesdrop on his boss was released in a certain circle. Then, the relevant retaliation measures were taken for granted.

For more than an hour after that, Chen Qing kept calling, or calling some people to come and explain to her face to face.

After all, it is not so easy to deal with a multi billion dollar enterprise giant or a local leader.

The local snake is not a dead snake. It will bite even if it is pressed.

In the study of the luxury villa, just hung up a phone call, Chen Qing's mobile phone rings, connect, but Cheng Taixi calls. After listening to a few words, Chen Qing couldn't help picking her eyebrows. Instead of being angry, she was very interested and even felt a bit absurd.

The thing is that the showbox production company that Cheng Taixi is in charge of, just when he is close to work, the underworld comes to the door.