On June 16, just as the working day began, news about abnormalities in the Southeast Asian foreign exchange market appeared in the Wall Street Journal. √

The exchange rates of several major foreign exchange exchanges in Asia, including the major Asian financial centers, the Thai baht, Indonesian rupiah, etc., began to show obvious fluctuations, and everyone in the circle felt the urgency of a black cloud over the city.

In recent months, as international foreign exchange speculators secretly absorbed currencies from Southeast Asian countries to build positions, the currencies of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries have experienced a brief sharp appreciation. The highest point of the Thai baht to the US dollar has even reached 22:1, with an appreciation rate of nearly 12%.

After the last two days of accumulation, on Wednesday, international foreign exchange speculators led by Soros, led by Tiger Fund, suddenly officially opened their fangs to the Southeast Asian monetary system. Since the opening of major foreign exchange exchanges that day, a large number of Thai baht orders appeared on major exchange platforms. The sudden attack caught the Thai government completely off guard, and even failed to organize an effective counterattack as soon as possible.

Subsequently, the continuous selling of the Thai baht for three consecutive days easily brought the briefly appreciated Thai baht back to its original form, and even fell from the average exchange rate of the Thai baht against the US dollar in recent years. As of Friday's closing, the Thai baht against the US dollar had plummeted to 26.3:1, and the depreciation in three days reached an astonishing 19.5%.

In 1997, the total amount of Thailand's currency was about 90,200 million Thai baht, which was calculated based on the average exchange rate of 25:1 in recent years, equivalent to 3.7 billion US dollars. But in just three days, when the exchange rate dropped to 26.3:1, the total value of Thailand's currency had fallen to 3.5 billion US dollars, and the wealth of 200 million US dollars disappeared. Many people know that all this is just the beginning.

At a time when the Southeast Asian currency market is filled with smoke, the competition for box office in North America's summer movies is also fierce.

After winning $70,250,000 in three days on weekends, the box office momentum of "Finding Nemo" has not diminished at all, and it continues to harvest the box office at a rate of $60,000 to $70,000 a day.

In the end, the weekly box office of "Finding Nemo" reached 97.45 million US dollars. Not only did the new film "Time and Space Contact" released at the same time exceed 660,000 yuan, but it is almost equivalent to the total box office of "The Lion King 2" in the first two weeks.

Influenced by Finding Nemo, the second-ranked "Contact of Time and Space" had a box office of only $31.29 million in the week.

The final decline of "The Lion King 2" expanded to 36%, and only earned $270,900 in the third week, with a cumulative box office of $125 million, ranking third.

The most tragic box office this week is undoubtedly the fourth-placed "Godzilla". Due to one-sided negative reviews and the strong impact of "Find Nemo", "Godzilla" fell nearly a terrifying 68% in the second week, with a box office of only a pitiful $570,000, and a cumulative box office of $970,000 for two weeks, which is even less than the weekly box office of "Find Nemo".

"Godzilla"'s extremely dismal box office performance not only made Sony's original $100 million box office ambitions around the world become a joke, but even the media was too lazy to comment on this bad movie that was destined to be forgotten.

Although Firefly Pictures' "Air Prison" ranked fifth, the performance of the two live-action blockbusters, "Godzilla" and "Contact Time and Space" was not satisfactory. The third week of "Sky Prison" still maintained a good 34%, and it collected another $15.28 million, and the cumulative box office steadily rose to $72.65 million. Although it is still unpredictable whether the film's North American box office can exceed 100 million, compared with the films "Fifth Element", "Godzilla" and "Contact Time and Space", "Sky Prison" performed quite well. What's more, the cost of "Sky Prison" of $7.5 million is the lowest among several live-action blockbusters, and the pressure to recover is not high.

With the box office data released the previous week, on Friday, June 2o, "Batman and Robin", which has been tightly covered by Warner, was finally released in many 29oo theaters in North America. The quality of the film did not disappoint the speculation of many media and film critics. It is hard to describe a bad word.

A comment from the Wall Street Journal can probably express some of the voices of the majority of film critics: "In the whole movie, the images of protagonists such as George Clooney, Uma Thurman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are undoubtedly very close to comic characters, but I really can't have any idea of ​​commenting on the story, movie lines, character acting and other things."

As a hero who has been selling well in North America for decades, Batman can be said to have the largest fan base in North America. However, with the series frequently changing its main creators and the quality of the movies has been declining, Batman fans' patience seems to have finally been exhausted. Although the film day still won the single-day box office championship with a box office of $16.11 million, the second day of the release, "Batman and Robin" was kicked off the single-day box office list by "Finding Nemo".

Even "Batman and Robin" set a record of the first Saturday of summer season box office decline. According to the usual box office rules, most films will have higher box offices on Saturday than Friday. Even "Godzilla", which also suffered a lot of bad reviews two weeks ago, had a box office of about 20,000 US dollars higher on Saturday than Friday. However, after the box office of "Batman and Robin" fell to $150,900 US dollars the next day after the box office of $16.11 million.

After experiencing a $140,000 box office briefly suppressed by "Batman and Robin" on Friday, the box office of "Fiber Nemo" jumped to a $1.75 million high the next day. The industry expects that the box office of "Fiber Nemo" will remain above $60,000 in the next week, and the box office performance is even better than the weekly box office of many big production films.

In comparison, the weekly box office expected of "Batman and Robin" is only $5.50,000. With the production cost of this comic-adapted movie of $12.500 million, since the current overseas box office appeal of the Batman series is even worse than "Godzilla", Warner will have to recover at least $80,000 back on the weekly basis to achieve a balance of revenue and expenditure by box office, but now it seems that this hope is obviously very slim.

The failure of "Batman and Robin" has completely lost confidence in the summer live-action blockbuster. MGM's upcoming "OO7 Casino Royale" will naturally be the brunt of it. Some entertainment media have even waited for the first box office Waterloo in Eric's directing career in his gloating tone.

Eric has no time to worry about these remarks in the media. The official outbreak of the Southeast Asian economic crisis has not only affected the entertainment business of Southeast Asia under Firefly Group. The entire Firefly system, Nokia, Qualcomm, and ltd have a large number of businesses in Southeast Asia. Nokia and ltd's main product factories are also located in countries such as Thailand, the Philippines, and Yahoo, Cisco and other companies have also invested huge sums of money to start making arrangements in Southeast Asia in recent years. Once the currencies of Southeast Asian countries completely collapse, these companies' local businesses will be severely impacted.

Eric has always liked to be a hand-off manager, and Chris usually helps to manage some business that should have come forward. But this time, Chris went to Tokyo to take charge of himself, and many things fell on Eric. After all, he has a lot of memories of the Southeast Asian economic crisis in his previous life, Eric is also willing to intervene at this time and uses his memories of his previous life to make a more reasonable layout of the businesses of several companies.

I spent a whole week busy with various documents and conference calls until Saturday afternoon when Eric returned to Los Angeles from Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego, and he had a brief leisure time and turned his mind to Hollywood again.

Kris Jenner's mood in the past half month can only be described as ups and downs.

At the beginning of the month, her daughter who ran to Los Angeles for summer vacation suddenly called her home in New York and claimed that she had gotten an opportunity from Eric Williams to produce a reality show. Cris Jenner's first reaction was naturally that her daughter was joking with her and connecting their family with big names like Eric Williams. That was a joke.

After her daughter repeatedly told everything about her child that day, she reported the phone number left by Eric. Kris Jenner called the number skeptically. Although she was immediately confirmed from Eric Williams's assistant office, Kris Jenner was still stunned for more than half an hour, and then she was ecstatic.

Kris Jenner has always been a woman who yearns for Hollywood's Vanity Fair. When she married Robert Kardashian, she also valued her own record company and had a wide range of connections in the TV, music and sports celebrity circles. When Robert Kardashian sold the record company and started an irrelevant juice business, Chris Jenner quickly parted ways with the other party. One month after the divorce, she quickly married TV sports celebrity Bruce Jenner.

However, although Bruce Jenner was a popular sports star in the 1970s, his influence has long been much worse than before since his retirement. Now he can only occasionally attend some TV shows or serve as a competition commentator on the sports channel, which is barely related to the entertainment industry and Hollywood.

As a loyal audience of lietime TV, the sudden arrival of the reality show producer opportunity made Chris Jenner realize that if she could seize it, it would definitely make her reach the top in one step. Just look at the two producers and hosts of "Proud of the Sky Bridge" and "American Model Contest".

There was no time to consider other things. On the day of confirmation, Kris Jenner rushed to Los Angeles with her husband and a bunch of children, living in her ex-husband Robert Kardashian's house, and once again asked her daughter about the ins and outs of the time. Kris Jenner bought a large number of reality show videos and related books and materials, and began to write the reality show plan while referring to it. As for the information her daughter talked about Eric Williams' words that allowed her husband Bruce Jenner to participate, she automatically ignored it.

A week later, Kris Jenner personally rushed to the Burbank Firefly Group headquarters and handed the completed plan to an assistant Eric. The next step was to wait for a long and tormental wait. In order to avoid Eric's assistant's disgust, Kris Jenner only dared to call once every three days to inquire about the news.
Chapter completed!