Simon arrived at Malibu Daenerys Cinema, and the first thing he did in the morning was a video conference with Asia.

It was late December.

In South Korea, Hyundai, Samsung and SK have had a tug-of-war with the Westeros system team. The acquisition or investment plan has basically been determined and will be signed in succession in the next few days.

The Hyundai side is to buy the entire electronics business unit of Hyundai Group.

SK involves both communication and electronic aspects.

Samsung is mainly Samsung Electronics.

The related businesses of the three companies and the Westeros system will achieve actual absolute control.

However, this is actually just the first step.

After obtaining the assets that the Westeros system wants, there will be large amounts of money in the future, such as assisting Samsung to accept Kia Automobile. As for the specific operation, it is even more a long-lasting matter.

When Simon held a video conference with Chen Qing, who arrived in South Korea again and the relevant team, in Hollywood, although it was Sunday, many people were still paying close attention to the single-day box office of the Christmas season.

The main thing is "Titanic".

On Saturday of the following week of release, "Titanic" earned $15.91 million in a single day, as if it had completely ignored the pressure of "Flash 2" and once again achieved a year-on-year counter-slide of up to 8%, which is weird.

When things have developed to this point, basically everything that should be reacted has already been reacted.

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This is going to explode.

Daenerys followed up with a direct market survey to the audience in time and concluded that this super bombshell costing 200 million US dollars has a reputation spreading among the audience with its shocking visual effects and touching love stories.

Word of mouth.

It has basically formed the popularity foundation for a phenomenal hit movie.

Next, there is the question of how many explosions are.

Simon got the report when he had a meal with Mark Belford, vice president of global operations at noon on Sunday when discussing some layouts involving the Korean entertainment industry. After just browsing it, he ordered Girl A to tell the Daenerys Film team to act cheaply.

He had nothing to interfere in the subsequent publicity.

It's a pity again "Shapes' Love History".

Compared with the original version, although the budget of "Shapes' Love History" is still well controlled at $25 million, the hero and heroine are Daniel Day Lewis and Kate Beckinsale.

Needless to say, Lewis, the Oscar winner was once the best actor for "Shakespeare".

As for the heroine Simon personally finalized, Kate Beckinsale, who became famous for "Charlie's Angels", has a better British rose temperament than the other two candidates Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow.

In a small preview on December 5, "Shapes' Love History" not only won a classic media score of 9.1 points, but also won a box office of 1.21 million US dollars with just 39 screens, with each museum exceeding 40,000 US dollars.

When the box office and reputation of the beginning must not be unpleasant, "Shapes' Love History" has been a bit unhappy since the large-scale release of 771 screens the next week.

The first week of large-scale paintings, that is, the last box office week that was released simultaneously with "Titanic", "King of Fighting 2" and "Excellent" was released. "Shapes' Love History" earned only $5.69 million in seven days, and the museums were only more than $7,300, which was far from the threshold for the big-selling 10,000-level champion.

A lineup with a better reputation than the original version, even the first week of the large-scale museum has not even reached the level of over 10,000 yuan. It can only be said that it is bad luck.

Moreover, the 55th Golden Globe nominations for the 55th Golden Globe Awards announced on December 19, and the total 6 nominations for "Shapes Love History" are less than the eight nominations for the leading "Titanic". There will be almost no surprises. Next, this movie will definitely not repeat the glory of the awards season, and then rely on the reputation of various awards to continue to stimulate the market, achieving a box office record of over 100 million in North America.

It would be nice to have 50 million.

Just as Simon thought, this is sacrifice.

Inside the executive restaurant at Daenerys Cinema.

Recognizing Simon's distractedness, Mark Belford asked, "Boss, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Simon smiled, facing Belford's curiosity, and said again: "It's a pity that "Shapes Love History". In the circle, they were very optimistic about this movie. If they hadn't encountered such heavyweights as "Titanic" and "The Flash 2", they would have achieved better results."

"This is inevitable, but we are the ones who benefited," Mark Belford said, thinking for a while, and then said: "Actually, this year is not bad. In the next few years, Daenerys Entertainment's film business is forming a trend. Boss, have you discovered it?"

"Which aspect do you mean?"

Mark Belford didn't care and said, "Boss, our three brands are working together to form a commercial dumping trend. Donation, you should know the word "Boss", right?"

Simon nodded.

Of course I know this.

Simon has been pushing three film labels under Daenerys Entertainment to work together to squeeze the living space of other Hollywood studios with increasing movie production. However, Simon reacted after Belford said this.

This is also a kind of dumping.

The biggest feature of dumping is to put it bluntly that it kills one thousand enemies and loses itself to eight hundred. However, as long as you can sweep all your competitors out of the chess game, the market will be your own.

Can do whatever you want.

"Where is..." Mark Belford saw Simon understand and smiled: "The short-term loss is just for our longer-term rich profits."

Mark Belford said this just to comfort Simon who was slightly regretful.

However, the executive's words once again awakened another thing Simon was the Korean entertainment industry that the two were discussing.

Dumping.

This method can be used in Korea.

Mainly movies.

During this period, a number of Korean brands have established 10 movies at one time in accordance with Simon's approval, including a super blockbuster film with a planned investment of US$10 million in South Korea.

But, thinking about it now is not enough.

Even if South Korea is not big, it is in demand for 46 million people. Every year, including domestic production and overseas introductions in South Korea, there are only two or three hundred films entering theaters.

Even if Simon's strategy is to use Korean local shell companies to carry out large-scale acquisitions and integration of Korean cinemas to achieve platform monopoly, if you want to completely occupy the Korean market, the Westeros system must show sufficient strength in content.

Because it is far away from the ocean, Simon cannot personally check the quality of the movie. So the best way is to replace the quality of the movie.

Just like what Belford just said.

Dumping.

Hollywood has reached its limit.

What Simon needs to do is to occupy South Korea's 146-day local film quota through localized dumping. At that time, it will cooperate with the theater monopoly, completely leaving other film companies outside the Westeros system in South Korea without the way out.

In this case, 10 pieces are definitely not enough.

Far from enough.

It will take about 21 weeks, and at least one new film will be opened every week before it can be considered dumped.

Then, if you add some more, you will calculate it according to 30 pieces.

According to Hollywood's tent theory, at least 3 blockbusters are required, all of which are calculated at 10 million US dollars. This is the tent pole. The rest, the average budget is calculated at 2 million, and the total total is only 86 million.

It's better to count $100 million.

Adding $50 million in publicity and promotion, a total of 150 million.

It's just the production cost of "The Flash 2".

As long as these 30 videos can be done well and strive for excellence, they can achieve a dumping effect in South Korea.

The recovery of Korean local films began with the cooperation system in 1996. It started to take off since the release of the review in 1998. Simon happened to be at a critical moment, just like the big Hollywood studios, in South Korea, it has been "dumped" for several consecutive years regardless of cost. Once the pattern of the film market is formed, it will be difficult to change.

Do it when you think about it.

After lunch, Simon sent Chen Qing an email, asking her Korean film projects to directly increase from 10 to 30.

No shortage of money.

In a movie-watching room at the second floor of Malibu Cinema.

It was not until after four o'clock in the afternoon that the team of "The Witch Blair" who was released yesterday that they met Simon. Considering that the subsequent editing would be discussed at least once, it would be impossible to handle it in less than three or four hours, today it would be very busy until at least eight o'clock in the evening.

However, Simon Westeros sacrificed his Sunday time to accompany a group of rookies to work hard. A small film with a cost of only one million, so of course no one else could say anything.

However, Lina Kane, who also came to participate in the discussion, had some resentment.

I had planned it yesterday. After discussing the post-production plan in the afternoon, I might as well fly to Mexico overnight for a weekend. Lina plans to bring her friend Annika Settle, who has been getting along more and more during this period, which is the screenwriter of "Blair the Witch".

Very white.

A man must like it.

Today, I don’t know if it’s possible. After all, tomorrow is Monday. Even if Christmas is approaching, men should work as well as men’s busyness.

In addition to director Paul Greengrass, screenwriter Annika Settle and Lena Kane, who actually worked as a producer, obviously Jerry Brookheimer, who had a good relationship with Simon, also came again.

After everyone greeted me, they inevitably talked about "Titanic" again.

This super blockbuster that cost $200 million has unexpectedly reversed decline in the past two days is indeed weird and makes people disagree.

Time is tight, so there is no need to talk too much nonsense.

After just a few chats, Simon sat down on a sofa in front of the big screen. Paul Greengrass sat on Simon's left, pressing the right position on Brookheimer. This Hollywood veteran gold medal screenwriter gave it to Lena Kane downtown. After all, this film, frankly speaking, the executive producer of the title is far from fully following up with Lena Kane who participated in the whole process and knows more.

Paul Greengrass first briefly introduced his editing ideas, and then the staff next to him played sample films, and everyone discussed them one by one, how to choose between different materials, whether certain shots need to be retained, and how to convert between different plots, all kinds of things.

This actually reflects that the engineer attributes of film creators are more than those of designers. A movie is a huge project similar to building blocks, and it is protracted and protracted. Perhaps the inspiration of designers is indispensable, but more often, the tenacity and perseverance of engineers are still the engineers.

Inspiration is often short-lived.
To be continued...