In the past week, the first wave of attacks by international financial speculators on Thai currency ended with the Thai government being slightly better. However, Chen Qing, who had privately seen a lot of economic information from her boss, knew that the Thai economy was already shaky.

For example, foreign exchange.

After the first battle, Thailand's official foreign exchange reserves still had 33 billion US dollars, which seemed sufficient, but in fact, through a large number of forward baht orders, more than 90% of Thailand's foreign exchange reserves have been locked in advance. According to the hedging contract, the Thai government needs to use these foreign exchange reserves to buy back the Thai baht of financial speculators in 3 to 6 months later.

Do overseas speculators have so many Thai baht?

No.

In addition to a small amount of Thai baht as margin, overseas speculators borrowed a large amount of Thai baht funds from Thailand and abroad and were converted into US dollars, which is also one of the main profit methods for foreign exchange operations.

First, we are sure to be bearish on the Thai baht. International speculators will exchange the borrowed funds for US dollars. At this time, the Thai baht worth US$10 will be worth US$5 in the future. In the future, as the Thai currency depreciates, it may only take 5 US dollars to buy them back for debt repayment. The remaining 5 US dollars is the profit of international speculators.

So this is a bet.

Because a large amount of foreign exchange reserves have been locked in advance, rash use will only bring greater risks. Therefore, the Thai government wants to fight against the attacks of international financial speculators again. After the remaining small amount of foreign exchange can be used, they can only borrow money after they are exhausted.

You have to pay back the borrowed money.

I can't afford it, the result is even worse.

Therefore, without breaking the rules, there is only one way to go, which is to give up the protection of the Thai baht exchange rate and allow the Thai baht to depreciate. In this way, we can take over the currency orders of international financial speculators at the lowest price. When the Thai baht currency in the hands of overseas speculators is exhausted, the crisis will pass.

Of course, it can also break the rules.

Just as this crisis once affected Russia in 1998, the Russian government said it could not afford to play and stopped playing, directly declared a sovereign debt default, and allowed the currency to depreciate infinitely. The incident spread and almost led to another world-class financial turmoil caused by long-term capital management companies in the United States.

This is a later story.

Now, the Thai government is obviously not as bachelor as Russia, and there is a high possibility of surrendering.

As for the Westeros system, the main focus is on South Korea.

What Simon is looking through is a group of information about senior executives of Korean companies or Korean elites from the United States collected by the headhunting company. Considering the sensitive and radical ethnic characteristics of South Korea and the special operating mechanism of Korean companies, it is obviously inappropriate to directly send Western executives into South Korea. It is best to use South Korea to make South Korea.

However, unlike other overseas layouts of the Westeros system, the people Simon selected must be absolutely controlled by the Westeros system, and there will be no too much delegation of power and prefer puppets.

Inside the cruise ship on Taihu Lake.

After casually turning over the information in his hand, Simon ignored Chen Qing who had just come in, and asked the woman on the other side: "I will return to North America the day after tomorrow. Do you want to go back together?"

Before Ms. Liu could answer, Miumiu beside her said: "Yes, Dad, it's so boring here."

Simon smiled and pinched the girl's face: "Who wanted to go back to China with me?"

When the little girl heard this, she was even more unhappy: "But, you will accompany us when you made an appointment. However, you have been busy these days and have not accompanied me and mother at all."

"Well, my fault, let's go back together."

On the other hand, the woman saw that the man and her daughter agreed, so she did not object. She actually thought so.

A few days ago, the Chinese Style Art Troupe ended its performance in the UK and did not start the next stop immediately. Instead, it chose to rest for a while. Simon happened to come to China, so he notified them that those who were willing to come together could go back to China to see, and some of them rushed over together.

After I came back, I found that there was nothing good to watch.

The mother and daughter returned home, which was considered a honor to return home. They were envious and jealous by their relatives and friends, but they were limited to this.

After chatting like this, Simon sent the mother and daughter away, then looked at Chen Qing, who had bright eyes beside her, and asked with a smile: "Did you bet with Southeast Asia?"

Chen Qing didn't expect her boss to suddenly ask about this, but nodded without any concealment and said, "The boss has revealed so much. If I don't bet some, then I'd seem too stupid."

Simon nodded.

Chen Qing talked about another thing: "Boss, if nothing unexpected happens, it will definitely be done recently."

Regarding "Hero", it is mainly about which movie is released in China.

Just like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", although Jinshu Media has assisted, it has not been included in Jinshu's list. The main reason is that this movie is mainly invested by Daenerys Entertainment, and China will still be released according to the standard of imported films.

Simon had no high expectations for the Chinese box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", so it doesn't matter.

Mr. Zhang’s “Hero” is different after all.

Although it is still more inclined to be tailor-made for overseas, considering the Chinese box office of "Hero" in China, if it is still released as an imported film, the 13% share ratio would be a bit of a loss.

So he took the initiative to contact the authorities, hoping to strive for the same treatment as domestic films for "Hero" through a joint venture with mainland film companies.

For this purpose, a plan that is quite inland-oriented is also designed.

Just like this time, "Hero", it was filmed entirely in mainland China and to promote Chinese culture. At the same time, foreign capital and domestic capital negotiated with domestic capital, through certain investments, domestic investors fully obtained domestic copyrights, so they enjoyed the sharing of domestic films during the distribution process of mainland China. Foreign capital only enjoys overseas income and does not participate in domestic sharing, and domestic capital also only enjoys domestic income in China.

The mainland partners Daenerys Entertainment hopes to choose this time are China Film and Jinshu.

Based on the total investment of US$30 million, China Film and Jinshu only needs to jointly bear 20% of the investment to obtain omni-channel copyrights from the mainland.

20%, equivalent to US$6 million, equivalent to approximately RMB 50 million.

With the theme of "Hero", the mainland box office has great expectations of exceeding 100 million yuan, and even 200 million yuan is not impossible. In addition, the surrounding channels can earn more or less, and it is very cost-effective to get the copyright at a 20% ratio.

Overall, this is a plan that is completely inclined toward China.

As for Jinshu, it is actually a chess piece of the Westeros system in China, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

What's more, whether the premise of this special plan can pass the review and the initiative is completely in the hands of the China Film Administration, there are only benefits but no harm.

Coupled with Simon's relationship, there will be no big obstacles to a special approval of a document.

After hearing what Chen Qing said, someone had probably spread the news, and it was basically finalized.

Simon nodded softly again, remembered another thing and said, "Don't interfere with the matter about Ukraine's aircraft carrier, just let it go."

Chen Qing blinked her eyes and looked at her boss again. It was clear that she agreed, "I understand."

It's just a little regretful.

What my boss means is that it is a bit of a pity that the Westeros system should not be involved in this favor.

From the standpoint of his boss, he should not be involved in this matter, but in fact, just a few days ago, the Rivni Free Trade Zone in Ukraine was established, and the representative team of China also attended the signing ceremony. Chen Qing knew that another task of that team was to negotiate the aircraft carrier.

After all, my boss has quietly given me a lot of convenience.

However, since you don't touch it, then don't touch it.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing changed to a relaxed topic and said, "Boss, there is still a foreign actress missing in "Love Call Transfer". Don't you specify it?"

When Simon gave a song, a creative idea, there was not much intervention in the subsequent script about "Love Call Transfer". Therefore, even if he found the original screenwriter, the new story was very different from the past.

Simon has also read the finished script recently.

The new story is more in line with this era. The male protagonist meets business women, overseas women, conservative women, star chasing women, gold-worshiping women, justice women and other types, which obviously have some meanings to discuss the current social phenomena in China. Among them, there is also a role of a "foreign woman", which is considered to explore the differences in Chinese and Western cultures.

When Simon heard Chen Qing mention it, he thought about it. For a moment, there was really no suitable candidate. He asked Chen Qing beside him with a smile and said, "Who do you think is suitable?"

"Of course the bigger the brand, the better," Chen Qing also said with a smile: "I know that the top actresses in Hollywood are very paid, but it's just a small character. The boss speaks out. They should be happy to come and make a guest appearance. Well, we can't afford to give money for free."

Because filming will start next month, it has been basically confirmed that the budget for "Love Call Transfer" is 20 million yuan, which is only 2.4 million US dollars. With such a price, it is less than half of the value of Hollywood first-line actresses, so they can only make their boss owe favors.

Of course, when a big star arrives in China, the food and accommodation will definitely be all inclusive.

Simon thought about it again and simply said, "Then let Linda ask, whoever wants to come over, just come over and treat it as a vacation in China."

In fact, although such a cameo opportunity is not profitable, it will definitely benefit a Hollywood actress in the long run. Just like the reason why Brooke Xiaosi is so well-known in China is because of the 'spicy chicken shreds' on the Spring Festival Gala. This time, if any actress is willing to show her face in a purely Chinese movie, she may gain great popularity here.

As long as you are determined, these popularity can be transformed into real benefits in the future.

Moreover, it is probably the last chance to accumulate this popularity at present.

With the advent of the Internet era, information explosion has exploded, and it is even more difficult to gain national attention.

Finally stayed in China for a weekend, Simon finally set off on Monday, May 12, ending his overseas trip to North America.

Although Simon basically stayed on a cruise ship on Taihu Lake in the last week, many things were not delayed during this trip to China. After all, when Simon is at his current location, there are indeed very few things that require him to do by himself, and there are countless people who are willing to do it for him.

In addition to some trivialities in Jinshu Media, before and after this trip to China, the Westeros system has more or less moved closer to China's real estate, food, technology, heavy industry and other investments.

Just the second day after Simon returned to China, a special co-production document tailored for "Heroes" was announced, which cleared obstacles for projects such as "Heroes" and even the planned trilogy of "Shushan" were published.

This side of the United States.

Simon left for more than a month and returned again, and the summer vacation in North America was approaching.

Before that, the releases of four Easter films, "Alien 2", "Cable TV Repair", "Hurricane Rescue" and "Horror Ghost" have come to an end. It is expected to be released next week on May 23, and in order to maneuver the canvas, it will basically be removed.

As of the last box office week before the summer season on May 15, "Alien 2" earned $82.73 million, which is expected to be completely down, with a box office of about $83 million.

The box office of "Cable TV Repairman" ended May 15 was $56.31 million, which is hard to exceed 57 million.

Next is "Hurricane Rescue", with a total local box office of 80.62 million US dollars, with an estimated total domestic box office of about 81 million US dollars.

"The Ghost of Terror" is $62.93 million, and the total box office is also above $63 million.

To sum up, only one movie "Hurricane Rescue" can recover all costs by relying on local box office, while the others rely on overseas revenue to make profits. However, compared with the box office performance of other Hollywood studios produced films in the past few months before the summer vacation, this result is already quite outstanding.

In addition, relying on the PR of Daenerys Entertainment and the characteristics of the films that are participated by Chinese movie stars such as Jet Lee, I think "Hurricane Rescue" has also been confirmed to be released in the mainland in the second half of the year.

There is also the "BJ Single Diary" for Valentine's Day in February, which was officially fully drawn on May 15. The cumulative box office in North America was US$145 million. The overseas release of the film is still continuing, and it is expected to exceed US$200 million. The global conservative estimate is also around US$350 million.

The production budget of $30 million, including $15 million in publicity and promotion, and $350 million in global revenue, also makes "BJ Single Diary" one of the highest returns in recent years.

Two other small films released at the same time as "BJ Single Diary", Christopher Nolan's "Following" and Guy Ritchie's "Two Big Blows", have also been drawn.

On the local side, the cumulative box office of "Following" is US$34.61 million, while "Two Smoke Bowls" is US$43.76 million. Compared with the cost of the two films, it is rare to sell it.

In addition to these main features, Daenerys Entertainment also launched other movies such as "Young Wong Feihong: Iron Monkey" in the 19 weeks before the summer vacation in 1997. In addition, the movie entered the box office in 1996 at the end of 1996. In summary, the cumulative North American box office of 1.54 billion in the 19-week summer vacation was only Daenerys Entertainment, which accounted for US$670 million, with a box office market share of up to 43%.
Chapter completed!