Chapter 1368

In the fourth week of release, "Los Angeles secret" faced the pressure of "Jurassic Park 3", the weekly decline was still controlled at 43%, and the revenue was $8.89 million.

Obviously, this is also due to the fact that the box office volume of L.A. secret itself is very small. In the face of 160 million big Mac in the first week and less than 10 million box office, it doesn't matter.

However, for the Los Angeles secret itself, in four weeks, the cumulative box office is 86.01 million US dollars, which is basically certain to enter the 100 million yuan box office club from the initial forecast range of 50 million to 100 million US dollars.

With the cost of 35 million US dollars, the publicity of 15 million US dollars and the local box office of more than 100 million US dollars, "Los Angeles secret" directly entered the profit cycle.

Considering that the film itself has a classic reputation of more than 9 points, it is obvious that Los Angeles secret will do something in next year's award season, which also determines that the film's follow-up video and TV channel distribution will be more profitable and long-term, rather than the general popcorn movie. After the theater stage, the follow-up is often weak.

In sharp contrast to Los Angeles secret is Sony Pictures' 2013 ultimate postman.

The next week, the 2013 ultimate postman dropped 53%, which is not too bad considering the crush of Jurassic Park 3.

The problem, however, is that the film's opening week box office was only $21.19 million.

The next week's decline reached 53%, and the weekly revenue immediately fell to within the range of 10 million, leaving only US $9.95 million. The cumulative box office in two weeks was US $31.14 million.

With a cost of 75 million US dollars, including the relatively conservative 25 million publicity, the production cost of 2013 ultimate postman also reached 100 million US dollars.

Now, two weeks worth US $31.14 million, according to the current box office trend, the possibility of domestic 50 million is very low, even if it is not a complete box office fiasco, such a failure is enough to make people hurt.

What's more, whether it's the budget overrun in the production stage of the film, or the week before the schedule is directly bet on a big Mac like Jurassic Park 3, Sony executives in Japan feel the frustration that Columbia Pictures completely lost control a few years ago.

In the 1990s, Sony announced that it was going to leave Hollywood more than once. Only in 1997, when the financial crisis happened, Sony Pictures produced a series of top ten blockbusters such as man in black, air force one, and perfection, which brought back a lot of blood to the tottering Sony film business. Only then did it survive the crisis, Not like Panasonic.

This time, Sony has no such good luck.

Los Angeles.

Sony Pictures headquarters in Culver City, June 12, Friday.

On the last day of the working day, or breakfast time, Chris Lee, President of Columbia Pictures, received a notice, asking him to rush to the company as soon as possible in the morning. He had a premonition in advance. When he saw Howard Stringer, President of Sony's US branch, who suddenly appeared on the west coast, Chris Lee was not surprised.

Some of them are uneasy.

Following Simon westero's suggestion, Chris Lee made a series of small moves. He was very worried that he would be swept out of the house. However, when he thought about Peter Cooper and John Peters, who had almost tossed Colombia to the end at the beginning, but still retired with rich salary, his small moves seemed nothing.

What's more, there is still a contract. Sony can't take out the evidence that he deliberately made small moves and abruptly terminate the contract. He can get a very generous compensation.

Not only that, through some private operations, Chris Lee transferred the air force one project that Simon westero and he mentioned last year out of Sony. If he really wants to leave, he can seamlessly become a freelance producer and start with air force one. I think Simon westero will not be reluctant to compensate him for this.

A conference room in Sony Pictures.

After hearing Howard Stringer's request that all projects in development be suspended and that a few films being filmed be subject to strict supervision, Chris Lee understood.

The overall situation has been decided.

The Japanese are really going to leave this time.

Howard Stringer was obviously in a bad mood. After a short meeting, only Sony Pictures chairman and CEO John Kelly was left to discuss the details, and the others were sent out.

Chris Lee understands that.

As the president of Sony's U.S. branch, in addition to considering the marketing and sales of Sony's electronic business in the United States, Howard Stringer's main work is music and film, of which the volume of film is obviously larger than that of music. Now, the film business is about to be abandoned, and the shrinkage of the music business in recent years is also visible to the naked eye. It's hard to say how long Howard Stringer's job will last.

This has nothing to do with Chris Lee.

Going back to his office and thinking about it a little bit, Chris Lee sent Amy Pascal a short email with his recently popular ibery-10 business mobile phone, talking about what happened.

Simon received the news in Geneva, Switzerland, where it was already Saturday morning.

Amy has already communicated with the head of Westinghouse, Michael Jordan, who is determined to enter the media industry.

In the current situation of Hollywood, Sony wants to take over the film business, and there is not much capital to take over. After all, except for the United States, Asian and European countries are still in the shadow of the financial crisis, while in the United States, there is nothing else except Westinghouse.

Simon's attention is still on the European side.

The first is the 50th anniversary celebration ceremony of GATT on Saturday, where all the world's WTO members and applicants gathered together.

However, the situation is not one-sided.

At the same time as the celebration ceremony was held, organized processions against globalization and WTO also appeared in various parts of Geneva City, with a large scale.

Simon specially asked the team around him to make a statistics, and found that most of the reasons given by these opponents were to protest against the outflow of local industries caused by globalization.

In fact, what we are worried about is the hollowing out caused by the outflow of real industries from western countries.

There is no shortage of smart people and forward-looking organizations in this world. The problem is that seeing the future never means being able to grasp it. The indifference of the mighty historical trend lies in that those who follow it prosper and those who go against it perish.

Since the trend can't be changed, the smartest way is to follow the trend instead of blocking it.

The traditional automobile industry is the best example.

The German automobile industry is undoubtedly the most outstanding one in terms of globalization, which makes the traditional automobile industry in Germany still quite prosperous until more than ten or twenty years later.

The opposite is Italy.

Not to mention the United States, because the domestic market of the United States is very large, even if the globalization of American automobile brands is not a success, they still live well. In addition, as a rising star, Japan and South Korea's automobile industry is constantly oppressed by the "sovereign state" of the United States.

Back in Italy.

As a local giant that basically controlled the Italian automobile industry, Fiat has entered China twice and failed twice. One of the reasons is that Fiat is complacent and has a negative attitude towards adapting to the trend of globalization to carry out industrial transfer. As a result, Fiat has missed the last opportunity of the traditional automobile industry, and finally in order to survive, Fiat had to merge with Chrysler to keep warm.

These are afterwords.

Simon stayed in Geneva for only one day, attended official celebrations, met with the heads of several of the countries' delegation, and left for Rome the next day.

Italy is mainly looking at the progress of the construction of Rome Universal Studios and some of the entertainment arrangements arranged by Sophia.

The last stop is livny.

Rivney, built according to the concept of China's Special Economic Zone in memory, is almost the same every day.

First of all, the urban airport in the southwest suburb of Livni has expanded from one runway to two runways. Before landing, it occasionally overlooks the airport, and the number of aircraft parked in the airport is obviously more than before, including the Boeing 747.

In addition to the expanded airport, the whole city is also spreading rapidly to the surrounding areas. There are construction sites everywhere, which is completely different from the current situation of Eastern European countries.

What are the Eastern European countries like now?

Refer to the economic data, you can imagine.

Take the most representative Russia as an example. In 1997, when the Asian financial crisis occurred, Russia's GDP data recovered briefly compared with previous years, rising from US $391.7 billion in the previous year to US $404.9 billion. This year, according to the statistics of the first five months, Russia's GDP in 1998 is likely to plummet to about US $270 billion.

Down more than 30%!

The shrinkage of GDP actually means a series of serious social problems, such as currency devaluation, unemployment surge and so on.

Similarly, even if Simon sets out a thriving experimental field in Ukraine, the GDP of Ukraine as a whole is expected to decline by more than 20%.

As soon as Simon arrived in livny, several core members of the Rovno Gang talked to Simon about these problems at the lunch party. There was also a report from the internal consultant team of the Rovno Gang on how to deal with the current situation.

With the sharp deterioration of the economic situation again, after all, it is the granary of Europe. Even if there is no famine just after the collapse of the Soviet Union this time, the living pressure of the Ukrainian people can be imagined. The unemployment rate of more than 30% almost makes ordinary people see no hope.

In this case, most Ukrainians want to escape.

The first target, of course, is western Europe. Even neighboring Poland is much better than Ukraine.

However, because Ukraine is not a member of the European Union, it is not easy for Ukraine to go to Western Europe in a legal way. Therefore, Livni has become the second top choice of Ukrainians.

With the rapid spread of economic deterioration again at the end of last year, the number of people from other parts of Ukraine gathered in Livni to look for opportunities increased significantly, which inevitably brought various problems.

In a word, the key to Livni's rapid development lies in the fact that the Rovno Gang controlled by the westero system has a strong control over the whole state of Rovno, and the westero system has sufficient financial support. Therefore, unlike the turmoil and chaos in other parts of Ukraine, including Kiev, the whole state of Rovno is thriving.

Development needs order, which is inevitable.

If there are too many immigrants, just like the problem of illegal immigration in developed countries, if they are not well controlled, the whole game will collapse.

To understand the seriousness of this, Simon specially changed his schedule. That afternoon, he called together a group of senior leaders of the Rovno Gang to discuss the Countermeasures in detail. In fact, Simon has a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of thing.

The general plan was soon finalized.

First of all, the first, seemingly irrelevant, is actually very important. Once again, the land policy of the state of Rovno should be tightened. Even the sale and circulation of private land must be strictly supervised.

Anyone who wants to settle in an area cannot do without land.

Just this one will firmly control the initiative of how many people can be held in the state of Rovno, especially in Livni, in the hands of the Rovno gang. Outsiders can't get a foothold in this land, and they don't have to drive them away, so they have to leave at last.

Secondly, we should tighten the settlement policy.

This is the plan made by Rovno for the consultant team, and Simon has made some changes.

For example, in the large resettlement community on the Northeast outskirts of livny, Simon's initial consideration was to introduce population as a family unit.

It turns out that's not appropriate.

The introduction of population as a unit of family can make the settled people feel at ease, but at the same time, it will also bring huge pressure on the city's education, medical and other resources.

Therefore, the core of tightening the settlement policy this time is very simple. Livni will try his best to absorb high-quality young labor groups who can create a lot of benefits for the city. As for the elderly and children who will only consume social resources but can not provide enough contribution, it is a pity to stay in their hometown.

Finally, we should crack down on crime in black and white.

Why is the business environment in Eastern Europe generally considered bad? Apart from the inefficient bureaucratic system, there is also the collapse of social security. In recent years, there have been too many cases of going to other places to invest, or at most to lose money, and going to Eastern Europe is likely to be hit by AK47.

In this case, who is willing to take risks?

Eastern Europe, which has experienced turbulence and decline, is like a dry pond. If we want to restore the ecology, we must introduce a lot of water

Capital is the "water" here.

Without the inflow of water, economic development will be impossible, and then fall into a vicious circle.

After several purges, Simon has a strong control over the government system of the state of Rovno, which is enough to ensure an efficient and good business environment. As for the underground forces, they are basically their own. Compared with the first two, this time it is only a precaution.

Simon decided on the plan, and the next day he personally arranged for the implementation, and finally returned to the established schedule.

The most important thing is to visit the ufms base.

The private forces of ufms and the Ukrainian Western combat command quietly incorporated by Simon are actually the basis for the vistro system to control the state of Rovno.

Just like later, a local snake governor of Dnieper was dismissed by the president. The oligarch governor directly used the private army to put pressure on the Kiev authorities in the name of protecting personal property. In contrast, a female oligarch who lacks her own armed forces can only end up in prison.

By the way, the local governor, who also controlled a lot of media in Ukraine, was behind the scenes of a later comedian president.

This is the real oligarchy.