On the last day of this trip to Ukraine, Simon visited several universities in Rifni and the Institute of Life Sciences that are under construction or completed.

It's still one of the goals of the 3G plan.

Ukraine will be the main research base in Europe for the 3G plan to "break through time limits". The reason is just like the US military once set up a large number of biological laboratories in Ukraine. There is no need to be too rules here. Many research fields that may be subject to strict supervision in other countries will basically not have any obstacles in Ukraine, which is gradually disintegrating and declining.

Moreover, compared with the US military's biological laboratories, the Ukrainian authorities will definitely support the research of the Westeros system more.

No one doesn't want to live longer.

In addition, compared to Africa, which is more unruly, Ukraine has another major advantage, which is its talent.

Ten or twenty years later, Ukraine gave people the feeling of decline. However, Ukraine in the former Soviet Union can be said to be the essence of the once powerful red empire.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's literacy rate reached more than 90% very early. This land equivalent to less than 3% of the former Soviet Union. It not only has a European granary, but also has dozens of universities and universities. It also gathers cutting-edge industries such as aviation, military industry, shipbuilding, and nuclear energy in the former Soviet Union, and has a rich talent resource.

It is rare to play such a good deck of cards until they are broken.

Of course, these have little to do with Simon. Like many people, he is very happy to see the scattered Ukraine, so that he can easily draw a circle in a place and then use Ukraine as a test site for the 3G plan.

In addition to life science research, Simon will also make plans in Ukraine in the fields of aviation, nuclear energy, etc., which involves two other targets, but this aspect is mainly to hollow out Ukraine's wealth.

Finally, he stayed in Ukraine for a day, and Simon set off in the afternoon of the same day.

Back in New York, it was still Friday night on January 16th.

A box office week just passed from January 9 to January 15, and the complete box office data of "Titanic" was released in the full week, with the exact number being US$38.11 million, with a cumulative box office of US$279.7 million.

The super blockbuster with a serious out-of-control budget in the production stage of this project has accumulated twice the box office that many people initially expected. In the same week when "The Flash 2" was only $22.34 million left in a single week, the box office of "Titanic" in its fifth week was still as high as $38.11 million. In this unpopular period that should have cooled down, the momentum has not diminished at all.

Simon spent the weekend in New York and returned to Los Angeles, and the 55th American Film and Television Golden Globes was also held on Sunday, January 18.

With the efforts of Daenerys Entertainment, "Titanic" won four major awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Song and Best Original Training in the Drama category.

Even though controversy is inevitable, there is no doubt that "Titanic" completely overshadows all other films at this Golden Globe Awards, including a series of classic films produced by Daenerys Entertainment in the past year.

Moreover, because of the public's strong attention to "Titanic", the Golden Globes live TV broadcast has also reached the highest viewership in the past decade.

Stimulated by the Golden Globes victory, the film's attention has increased significantly again. In the week when Simon returned to Los Angeles, this phenomenal disaster love film achieved a counter-fall that everyone expected. In the sixth week of release from January 16 to January 22, the box office not only did not decline, but rose by 13%, returning to the range of more than US$40 million, reaching US$43.06 million, and the cumulative box office also reached US$322.76 million.

This time, everyone was once again unable to see the box office trend of the film.

In the sixth week of the release, the local box office was close to 300 million, and it was able to achieve a counter-slump again, pushing the single-week box office volume to more than 40 million US dollars. It is not a miracle, but what is it?!

Before the Golden Globe Awards, based on previous box office trends, the industry generally felt that the local box office of the film would be between 400 million and 500 million US dollars.

Now, returning to the 40 million single-week box office range, with the super long-term trend shown in this movie, there will definitely be more than 200 million box office potential in the future. Therefore, it may eventually reach 500 million to 600 million, or even more than 600 million, further catching up with the 703 million US dollar record set by "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" nearly two years ago.

In this case, it is just a local theater distribution. Apart from the extremely high production and promotion budget of a total of US$250 million, "Titanic" can still achieve quite a lot of profits.

The most distinctive contrast is "The Flash 2".

In the fifth week of release, this film that was expected to be popular last year's Christmas season, even though the decline narrowed to 26%, the single-week box office still dropped from $22.34 million last week to $15.79 million, and the cumulative box office was only $225.45 million, unconsciously lagging behind the Titanic box office of nearly $100 million.

Next, we will only fall behind more.

Sundance, Parker City.

"The Witch Blair", which has attracted attention during this period, premiered on Saturday, January 24th.

When Simon arrived in Park City at noon, the premiere, which started at 10 a.m., had already ended, and some critics had already given their first reviews on the Internet.

The most representative one is Roger Albert, who has always been strict with the horror genre because he wanted to become a horror screenwriter, and because of his failure to end, the famous film critic gave a preliminary short review on his personal Facebook page praised the film for its wonderful structure and sophistication, and successfully created another brand new pseudo-documentary template after "The Ghost Record".

Because the critics invited to attend the premiere have basically been screened for a certain amount of time, most of them have positive reviews such as Roger Albert.

Of course, there are no dissenting voices.

A column critic from the San Francisco Chronicle criticized the film for being just a "cluttered camping hunt with the skin of a pseudo-documentary film."

Camping and hunting movies are a very common type in Hollywood. The general structure is that a group of teenage girls go out for camping during holidays and are then killed by perverted murderers one by one. The typical one is the "Friday 13th" series.

It is actually true that "The Witch Blair" is another "camping hunt".

However, in the final analysis, Hollywood movies are actually just a few routines, and the key is who can play with new ideas. Just like the "Jurassic Park" series, if you are far-fetched, you can also apply a very clichéd camping and hunting template. A group of people gathered on an island and were hunted one by one by one by a big "killer". Think about it, is that true?

"The Witch Blair", which adopts the pseudo-documentary form and adds witch elements, has too many innovations compared to the truly traditional camping and hunting.

In short, Daenerys is not even too lazy to refute the criticism of the reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle. The overall positive feedback of the film has proved the attitude of most people towards this film. Next, it will be tested by the market when it is officially released on February 6.

Speaking of which, the New World Film team that operates this project, and even the main creators of "Blair the Witch", are actually the most worried about.

The momentum of this super bombshell is really too strong. Even if the momentum will slow down by early February, the key is that during this period, "Titanic" has occupied too many pages, which inevitably suppressed the exposure of "Blair the Witch". What this movie adopts a very traditional viral marketing model needs most is exposure and topics.

However, you can only worry.

No one knows how big the box office of "Blair Witch" can be, but the fierce momentum of "Titanic" is well known, so "Blair Witch" can only say that he is not lucky.

Mountaintop villa in the south of Sundance City.

At noon, I had only time to attend the premiere of "Blair the Witch", and Simon then returned here and started some work schedules.

As usual at night it was the ‘Villa Villas in Westeros.

In addition, Simon finally finalized his itinerary and would fly to China tomorrow. According to the lunar calendar, tomorrow is already the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, and arrived in Hangzhou on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Just like last year, this year is still a New Year's Eve without the thirty years, and the 29th is the Great Eve.

I happened to go to have the New Year’s Eve dinner with Lin Su’s family and stay for a few more days.

Therefore, some work must be handled as soon as possible.

In a reception room on the first floor of the mountaintop villa, Simon is chatting with a newcomer who participated in Sundance this time.

The newcomer is named Zach Schneider.

Of course it was that Zach Schneider.

Zach Schneider, 32, has a career journey similar to Michael Bay and David Fincher. He started with filming MVs and commercials. He finally made his first movie this year and sent Sundance to the exhibition. Compared to his first feature "Dawn of the Living Dead" until he was 37 years old, this time, Zach Schneider advanced to Hollywood, which was seven years earlier. It was obviously because of the influence of Simon, the big butterfly.

The former Zach Schneider liked it very much, and the annoying thing was very annoying, which was full of criticism.

Simon belongs to the type who likes Zach Schneider's movies very much. Of course, if you like it, Simon will not imitate many of the other party's directing styles, such as overly pursuing details and even the length of the movie is always out of control.

To be honest, the director editing versions of many Schneider's films are very outstanding, but as a theater movie, it is actually unqualified.

The requirements for theater movies, especially commercial movies, must be controlled within 3 hours, and two hours is the best. In this regard, the once huge controversial Justice League, Warner requires two hours. This is not wrong. The mistake is that Warner's two-hour version of Justice League is too mediocre, which creates the biggest tragedy in the DC movie universe.

I won't say much about this.

In short, Zach Schneider is an excellent director with enough abilities and his own personal style and even his thoughts. The key is whether he can use it well and whether he can find a project that suits him.

Just like Schneider's relatively successful commercial "Spartan 300 Warriors", costing 65 million US dollars, the global box office exceeded 400 million, which is a good example. In addition, the other party's feature film debut "Dawn of the Living Dead". Although it is a remake, the story rhythm of the film is also quite outstanding. With an investment of tens of millions, the global box office exceeded 100 million, which is also a shocking success.

Then, from "The Beautiful Girls' Team", Schneider began to controversy and worship together.

The former explosion later became worse and worse. In Simon's opinion, it was a result of no longer taking care of himself. Schneider finally withdrew from the DC movie universe in disgrace. As the same sentence can only be said to be inappropriate. What Warner wants is a business miracle like the Marvel movie universe. Zach Schneider just wanted to instill some connotations and thoughts that should not be endured by comic-adapted movies, and conflicts are inevitable.

In any case, since Schneider chose to debut, Simon will naturally not let it go.

The movie where the other party broke into the main competition unit of Sundance is a road film, combining science fiction elements from the apocalypse background, telling the story of a group of apocalypse survivors looking for a place for humans to gather to join for warmth. It can be said to be a brand new movie that was completely original under the influence of Simon, the big butterfly.

After chatting, I found out that Zach Schneider is a fan of the "Mad Max" series. The reason why he made such a movie similar to George Miller's famous work was also influenced by the "Mad Max" series.

Simon watched the video in advance, with a production cost of $10 million, and the story is just right, and the most outstanding thing is the camera.

Even with only 10 million budget, Zach Schneider successfully used his art skills. However, this can increase the film that can only count as 6 points in the plot to 7 points. In addition, as a director who is from an advertising film and MV, the soundtrack of the film also has Schneider's later style, and at least 0.5 points can be added.

The debut work can reach 7.5 points, which is quite successful.

Simon also told the New World Pictures team to try to buy the movie made by a single New York production company.

In addition to discussing Schneider's video, the two met this time was mainly another project: "Resident Evil".

This is a project Simon has been considering recently.

Daenerys Entertainment's game department has completed the story planning of the "Resident Evil" game. Because it was the creativity given by Simon, he intervened several times during this period. It is basically not much different from the previous ideas and story structure. The tasks and plots that should be had are basically there, and even, including the character design style of the game in the next game, Simon requires it to be more exquisite, unlike the realistic style common in Western games, which is too ugly.

At the same time, out of support for this series, Simon intends to make the movie ahead of time and not wait for the game to be released. Daenerys Entertainment's business focus in the next few years is the game business. Making the movie ahead of time is also a promotion of the game.

Simon also thought about the director of the film for a long time.
Chapter completed!