Monday, November 3rd, the new week.

Today is Seattle's 4th birthday.

Seattle and his younger brother Nicholas, who was three days late, registered under Janet as twins. Although the family is increasingly concerned about these things, they still spend their birthdays together and usually choose one on weekends.

This time it is different. November 3 is Monday and November 6 is Thursday, neither is it a weekend.

However, the eldest and second uncles of two children, who were two children, came to North America to visit relatives, so they planned to hold a birthday party tonight to have fun.

The two families deliberately delayed their return to Australia by one day.

Simon is still working normally today.

When he arrived at the company, Simon got the first document. The box office data for Halloween periods in North America just past weekend.

The three-day weekend from October 31 to November 2, "Soul Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", which once again caused widespread discussion, reached the top without any suspense. On the first weekend, with a large-scale opening of 3,354 screens and a very high reputation, "Soul Conjuring 3" earned 46.71 million US dollars in one fell swoop, which was higher than the $46.13 million US dollars in the seven days of the first week of "Soul Conjuring 2".

For the Soul Conjuring Movie Universe series, Simon has been deliberately guiding the establishment of a complete human-ghost confrontation system to form a certain pattern process, rather than just relying on accidents or verbal tricks to defeat evil spirits like many Western horror movies.

The results of these years are significant.

"Soul Conjuring 3" is a bolder attempt by Simon, which directly added a large number of new settings. Of course, as easily seen by a certain girl, most of the settings, such as ghosts hitting walls, such as wishful coins, newborn babies' tears, etc., are actually adapted and evolved based on various traditional Chinese legends across the ocean.

You can imagine the risks.

If Western audiences don't buy it and think that many settings are nonsense, then "Soul Conjuring 3" may not be a horror film, but a comedy film. Fortunately, this situation has not only not happened, but even, judging from the media and public feedback in recent days, more viewers believe it, which has caused various ridiculous social news.

Simon is even less surprised that "Blair the Witch" was believed to be a big hit.

Of course, the elite class in the United States is very elite, but the middle and lower classes... whether it is now or in the future, too many facts have proved that these people are really not very smart.

At the same time, various ghost costumes and other props in "Soul Conjuring 3" have also become popular during Halloween.

In an email from Amy Pascal to Simon, he regretfully mentioned that if he had known this, "The Conjuring 3" should have been released some days in advance.

If this happens, as public opinion ferments on a large scale, the relevant surrounding areas will sell better.

However, since "Soul Conjuring 3" was launched on Halloween on October 31, many publics have already purchased their Halloween themed props in advance, which is not easy to replace them temporarily. Although the series of props in "Soul Conjuring 3" have been released in advance and the sales volume is not bad, it ultimately lacks the popularity boost brought by the film, otherwise the sales volume will definitely be better.

Plans never keep up with changes, and no one can do anything about this.

After all, if it is released one week in advance, once the comments and feedback are not that good, you may not be able to get too many Halloween weekly bonuses the next week.

There must be some choice.

What's more, the high box office of US$46.71 million in the first weekend is not too regretful.

"Soul Conjuring 3", which ranked first on the list, occupies too much market share, resulting in severe impact on the box office of other new and old films.

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The second-place "Ghost Record" has lost the opportunity to impact the threshold of 200 million yuan in local box office. In the past three days, it has fallen by 35% year-on-year, earning 7.82 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 193.78 million US dollars. It is expected that in the entire week, there will be at least 4 million US dollars away from the threshold of 200 million yuan. We can only look forward to a breakthrough next week.

However, "The Ghost Record" is pretty good, and it still ranks second in its sixth week of release, which also shows the box office performance of other films recently.

The third-placed evil-themed film "The Undead" on the list is produced by Warner Bros. In order to avoid competing with "Soul Conjuring 3", the painting started a week in advance, and it became a typical example of the failure of reputation, which led to the inability to enjoy the Halloween schedule bonus.

With a media rating of only 4.7 points and the reputation of "Variety" magazine's "a clumsy imitation of the soul-suming movie universe", although Hollywood big name Al Pacino was invited to participate, after the box office of $14.93 million in the first week, even with Halloween popularity support for the next week, it still fell 43% year-on-year, earning only $6.03 million, four days, a budget cost of $30 million, and the cumulative box office was only $20.96 million.

Although it is not too failed, the local area is expected to be over 30 million, and some overseas sales are sold. If the surrounding channels are included, it will definitely recover costs and make profits, but this is obviously far lower than Warner Bros.'s expectations.

You know, during the promotional stage of the film, Warner was ambitious to express his hope to make a trilogy.

I didn't dare to mention the universe.

Now, it is expected that the total local box office is not as high as the three-day earnings of "Soul Conjuring 3" on the weekend, so the trilogy and other things will definitely become a joke.

The box office of the second and third place on the weekend list is less than 10 million, so you can imagine anything else.

Not worth mentioning.

However, Simon discovered one of the very interesting movies.

This is a science fiction film that was launched last Friday at the same time as "Soul Conjuring 3". It was produced by Paramount with a budget of 25 million US dollars. It is called "Gene Code". "Love Before Dawn" actor Ethan Hawke and this time he was converted from a Poison Ivy woman to a leopard girl who was once Simon to starring Uma Thurman, who played the Leopard girl in "Wonder Woman 2".

The film's three-day box office revenue in the first weekend was only $3.17 million, which was a complete failure. However, the setting of the story is very interesting.

The story tells the story of a gene that determines the future of a person's future. Ethan Hawke plays Vincent, who can only live to the age of 30 due to genetic defects. In order to realize his dream of space, he conspires with another young man with excellent genes but half-paralyzed due to an accident to exchange identities in order to get the opportunity to become an astronaut.

The subsequent plot is not worth mentioning. Just look at this setting, look at this setting... So, this once again proves that Hollywood is a circle.

This is true for people, and so is movies.

After browsing the box office of the past three days of the weekend, Simon processed some daily documents. At 10 o'clock, it was a joint meeting between Daenerys, Egret and Tinkobaier, which was a combination of on-site participation and video links. Some of the other two executives came from San Francisco in person, and Jeff Bezos of Egret and Tinkobaier's C girl participated through video communication.

About the game.

More precisely, it is a game console.

Simon has been thinking about this for a long time, and it has been a while since he has been doing this.

Should the Westeros system be the console in person?

I didn’t have enough strength in the early days, so I didn’t think too much about it.

Now, the right time, place and people are in harmony, and there is nothing to lack. Whether to do or not is just a matter of whether to do or not.

Simon finally decided to do it.

Then, the question is here.

Why do you need to be a host?

First of all, from the user's perspective, one is price and the other is experience.

Whether now or in the future, if you want to support the top-level games, your personal computer needs to invest more money to stack the top-level configurations. The customized and optimized game console can not only perfectly support various large-scale games, but the price will be much cheaper. As for the experience, whether now or in the future, the display effect of the TV is far behind the computer screen.

This is the biggest advantage of game consoles.

Secondly, from the perspective of game manufacturers.

It is difficult for game consoles to make profits, which was proven by Microsoft in memory for many years. However, through the console platform, Microsoft has become the world's top game production and distribution manufacturer, and its later game business revenue scale has firmly ranked among the top five in the world, leaving behind EA and Blizzard's peers behind.

It can be said that Microsoft is losing money on hardware, but the entire gaming business is not.

Not only Microsoft, but also Sony and Nintendo, which have their own gaming platforms, have long been among the top global game manufacturers in terms of related business revenue. It can be said that the top five game manufacturers in the world, including the top five console platforms, directly account for three.

This is enough to prove the power of the platform.

Due to the game industry environment she once lived in, Simon has always been more interested in online games. In the same global ranking, in addition to the three console manufacturers, the other two are basically locked by online game manufacturers. Even if it is a stand-alone player, Simon once preferred PC stand-alone game.

However, after learning over the years, based on various information in memory, he can also judge that console games have always occupied a large part of the global output value of the gaming industry over 100 billion US dollars in the future.

This is the reason why the Westeros system must be a host.

Moreover, the time is right now.

In terms of hardware, whether it is using Intel or AMD chips, or the self-development of PowerPC architectures that have been determined to be marginalized after the acquisition of Apple through Tincobaier, it is not a problem. In terms of operating systems, Apple's technical foundation and core patents, coupled with the long-term accumulation of Westeros system in Linux systems, can be solved.

Speaking of which, Sony launched the first generation of PlayStation three years ago, it uses the Linux system, or obtains the authorized version of Linux from Igrit. The Westeros system needs to develop game consoles. If nothing unexpected happens, the core of the operating system will also be Linux.

This is conflict.

Since it is imperative, of course I can't care about this.

However, because Sony is permanently authorized by the relevant version, the Westeros system cannot be reclaimed. The other party conducts subsequent updates and development based on the Linux version it obtained. In addition to the increase in costs, it is not a fatal problem.

Everyone’s future is free competition.

Simon made this decision and sniped more by Microsoft.

In recent years, facing the suppression of the Westeros system, Microsoft is destined to be unable to become the world's largest market-capital company in history in 2000. Even though the Internet bubble in this time and space has burst, Microsoft is still competing with Igret for the Internet business and has no intention of expanding to the direction of game consoles.

Simon happened to take up this pit.

In the future, it will still be a three-legged team. On the United States, the Westeros system will occupy the quota. If Microsoft wants to intervene, it will only be even more difficult.

Finally, it's the content.

Simon's plan is directly occupied by him in advance. The game console named Xbox was developed by Tinkobaier. In terms of content, Daenerys and Igrit are the main ones for the time being, and Tinkobaier will also participate in the future.

The game is a big cake, and you can't finish any of the three families, so just play it together.

Simon also has the meaning of raising a Gu in this regard.

Competing with each other is always better than outsiders to share the cake.

In order to more closely connect the interests of the three, the development of this game console will set up a separate subsidiary affiliated to Tinkobaier, which holds 40% of the shares and the other two companies each with 30%.

Although she is the main force in R&D, Girl C has no objection.

Simon explained it very clearly.

The hosting business is not only difficult to make money, but it is likely to require long-term investment and proactive subsidies to expand market share. This is likely to lead to huge losses. Therefore, this is not the advantage of the other two companies taking Tinkobaier, but the three companies will bear the losses together in the future.

Of course, while taking on losses together, we can also share the benefits brought by the Xbox platform in the future.

This is why Simon asked the three companies to hold shares together.

The relationship between human relationships and no direct interest relationship will come more stable.

If Daenerys and Igret do not hold shares, they do not have to bear the losses. Even if Simon has been coordinating with it, in the long run, it will definitely make Tinkobaier, who has invested solely. Why can you benefit from the platform I developed by myself?

After all, it is still a kind of personal sisters who settle the score clearly.
To be continued...