Chapter 1330: Physical labor
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Chen Qing did not delay her boss' enjoying her life. She had lunch and talked about what to do. She set off again in the afternoon and flew back to China first.
Simon conducted scientific research at the manor in San Lucas for another night and returned to Los Angeles the next day.
It was quite satisfactory on a weekend, so I decided to follow Chen Qing's advice and pick some women who came here this time to raise them as banned food. Anyway, it's not short of money. What's more, thinking about the state of the Korean entertainment circle, Simon didn't want to think of a woman next time. She called her over, but she was turned around for some time.
Therefore, when you have to come to the roster at breakfast, you will choose about one-third of them, regardless of familiar names, or whether you are satisfied with them yourself.
Time is coming on March 2nd.
March is also the beginning of a new week.
Just as he boarded his private plane at San Lucas Airport, Simon received news that the global box office of "Titanic" officially exceeded 1 billion US dollars in the past weekend.
Among them, North America earned $15.99 million in the past three days of the past weekend, with a cumulative box office of $496.94 million. It is expected that the full box office week from February 27 to March 5 will definitely exceed $500 million.
Overseas, as more and more ticket stores gradually begin to be released, the box office trend of "Titanic" is still quite fierce. However, in the past three days, the overall overseas revenue has been around US$49 million. A rough estimate of the total overseas box office is about US$513 million.
According to the current trend, "Titanic" has at least $100 million in box office potential, even more so overseas. Even though the total overseas box office has exceeded 500 million, considering that there are still some key large-scale ticket stores such as France and China, it is more than enough to double the box office size.
Therefore, the global box office of this super blockbuster can reach at least the global level of 1.8 billion, and may even be even higher.
Back in Los Angeles, Simon went straight to Daenerys Cinema and started his intensive work schedule.
As usual in March, there are many things.
The most important thing in Hollywood is the Oscars on March 23. Because whether Titanic can conquer cities and lands around the world is also crucial.
In China, a conference that concerns China's political and economic trends in many years is also within Simon's attention, and the conference will open on March 5.
In addition, there is the 1998 spring new product launch conference on the end of the month. In addition to routine updates, this time, Chingbear will also release a very important product, iBerry-10 mobile phone, which is a product made by Tingbear after acquiring Canadian RIM under Simon's instructions last year. It is actually the former Blackberry phone. In order to match Tingbear's product naming rules, it has been changed from Blackberry to iBerry.
In addition to these big events, a little smaller one is the upcoming "Starcraft" that Daenerys Game will be released on March 25.
Simon's expectations for this game are no less than the popular "Counter-Strike OL" at the end of last year. Moreover, the new "StarCraft" will also attach great importance to the Internet attributes, and Daenerys will provide an online battle platform like "Counter-Strike OL".
Daenerys Cinema.
Arrived at the company at about nine o'clock in the morning, first a weekly senior executive meeting at Daenerys Entertainment, and then a video conference with James Rebeld in New York. The latter is about another plan to reduce the share.
The early recovery of the new technology industry is very obvious.
However, this did not meet Simon's expectations, so some measures must be taken.
One of the solutions is the simplest and most effective, reducing holdings.
Simon plans to reduce his holdings of a batch of technology stocks again this year to cash out more funds, and at the same time, the rebound of the Nasdaq index in Asia is also a way to win more time for the Westeros system to buy bottom-up layout in the new technology field.
If you want to suppress a stock market, it is certainly impossible to insist on the scale, at least it will start with a 10 billion dollar scale.
Speaking of which, even though Simon continues to make global investments and invests a lot of money in the 3G plan, the cash held by the Westeros system is still very large. After this major reduction this year, coupled with the profits earned by various companies, it is expected that the total scale of cash and short-term convertible equivalents hoarded by the Westeros system will reach the level of 100 billion US dollars.
Simon couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he talked about this with James during a video conference.
Spending money is too tiring.
Physical work.
At noon, I had a meal with Celia Miller who came from New York, and the topic was related to money.
In the restaurant of Daenerys Cinema, when the waiter who delivered lunch left, Celia picked up the tableware and started talking about the important things: "Russia's economy has been deteriorating since the Asian financial crisis broke out in the second half of last year. Now, let alone the general public, even some government departments can no longer pay wages. Yeltsin's relationship with the current Prime Minister Chernomerkin has become increasingly tense recently. Yeltsin wants Russian Natural Gas Company to take out some money, but Chernomerkin and his behind-the-scenes consortium disagree. Therefore, Yeltsin has planned to open Chernomerkin, reorganize the cabinet, and select a new prime minister."
The matter of a short middle-aged man was quite confidential. Simon didn't even tell Celia. He heard this and just asked, "What does this have to do with me?"
"This is also my purpose in Los Angeles," Celia said. "I just returned from Eastern Europe. Before I returned home, I was approached by Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana. The other party conveyed Yeltsin's invitation and hoped that you could visit Moscow."
Simon shook his head directly: "No interest, Moscow is too cold."
Celia was not surprised, but continued: "In addition, Tatyana talked to me about the candidate for the new Prime Minister of Russia."
Simon remained silent.
Celia picked up the red wine next to her and took a sip, then said, "Yerticin plans to nominate the current Minister of Energy Sergey Kiriyanko. I have investigated in advance. This is a very young Moscow senior executive born in 1962 and is only 36 years old this year. However, Kiriyanko is very capable. After moving into the energy department, he has solved several crises in Russia in recent days. In addition, Kiriyanko is also very low-key and pragmatic, and is a non-partisan person, without obvious political tendencies. It is obvious that Yeltsin is choosing his own heirs."
"Then what?"
Celia stopped the movement in her hand and looked at Simon: "This is the problem. I don't understand why Tatyana told me about this. This should be the core secret of Russia. Boss, you know, if it is leaked in advance, the opposition in Russia and the current Prime Minister Chernomelkin will find ways to obstruct it."
Celia's eyes were puzzled, but Simon understood that this was the Yeltsin family who sent a certain signal to him.
The 36-year-old candidate for the new prime minister is low-key, pragmatic and non-partisan. These characteristics are very similar to that of another middle-aged man who is only 45 years old this year and is as strong as R&F and has almost the same label.
Simon didn't know what the Russian political arena was going. At this time, Yeltsin asked his daughter to convey such a message to him, which was actually a statement. He valued someone given by Simon very much, but he was still full of doubts, so he chose a similar newcomer to push him to the top to try.
In addition, it is obvious that Russia's finances are really difficult at present. With this invitation, Yeltsin obviously hopes that Simon can express his feelings. Even if there is no investment, as for Simon's trip to Russia and make a little statement, just like when he visited China, the outside world can have more confidence in Russia's economy.
Confidence seems to be very vague, but in Simon, it is definitely real.
Moreover, the reason why the Russian economy continues to deteriorate is not only the chain effect brought by the Asian financial crisis, but also the reason why overseas investors generally lack confidence in Russia's economic recovery. Among them, Soros actually made a lot of efforts. Quantum Fund's withdrawal from Russia with large-scale money last year under Simon's lobbying, which will inevitably trigger capital follow-up flight.
All in all, they are all making trouble without money.
Celia, opposite the dining table, waited for a moment and whispered: "Boss?"
Simon shook his head: "Tell the other party that I don't have time recently, let's see what's going on."
Celia was still full of doubts. She nodded when she heard this, but her eyes were still inquiring.
Simon felt her gaze and explained with a smile: "Maybe you think of it, just pretend you don't know anything."
The boss said so, and Celia had no choice but to agree.
Actually, it's still a ball of paste.
Since his boss did not agree, it is obviously not Kiriyanko, who is about to be pushed to the top by Yeltsin. Who is it?
After Simon finished speaking, he took the initiative to talk about something else and changed the subject, but he was also considering it in his heart. In general, Simon still hoped that history would go to the track of the past to a certain extent. However, for Yeltsin, this matter obviously put a lot of pressure on the other party and was obviously full of concerns.
This movie is unexpected.
If Simon was in that position, no matter whether it was due to concerns about his family's future or as a Russian, hesitation about his country's future in his bones, he would not be able to make a decision easily. Therefore, if Simon did not make enough statements about this matter, it would be difficult for him to have a result. If the statement was too positive, Yeltsin would be even more hesitant.
In any case, the next Russian execution will definitely not be able to escape.
After lunch, Celia still left with a clear question mark, leaving behind a personal profile of Kiriyanko.
Simon looked around before the afternoon schedule and found that although Yeltsin made Russia a mess, he did not lack the ability to identify and employ people. Although he was only 36 years old, Kiriyanko was definitely a similar talent to a certain emperor.
Looking back carefully, I remember that this person happened to be one of the several prime ministers who had changed their fates in succession. The reason why he failed to become a successor in the end was due to his bad luck. At the age of 36, he was a little young after all, and his foundation was too shallow, which was what Yeltsin needed. However, because his foundation was too shallow, he could not withstand any storm.
It just so happened that in 1998, it was also a year of great storms for Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian economy once again slid into the abyss.
Of course someone will take the blame.
Obviously, Kiriyanko will inevitably become the scapegoat for the collapse of Russia's economy again.
Later, in history, someone who was the successor of Yeltsin was at the last juncture. In addition to being stronger than Kiriyanko, he also had some luck. Because at that time, the Russian economy was at its lowest point and there was no room for decline, and then it naturally rebounded.
The times create heroes, and heroes need the times.
Both are indispensable.
After reading Kiriyanko's information, Simon put this matter aside for the time being, and roughly confirmed that the time he went to Russia was about the second half of this year. Russian economy collapsed again and Kiriyanko was forced to step down. In addition, Simon could roughly guess that since Yeltsin gave him such a signal, with the subsequent cabinet reorganization, someone would probably go further.
Anyway, with Simon's current vision, he only hopes that this vision will not become too early, at least not destroy it until the 3G plan is implemented until it can truly immigrate to Mars.
Others, follow the circumstances.
In the afternoon there are several consecutive production or distribution meetings.
It involves several films such as "Resident Evil", "Godzilla", and "Public Enemy".
What Simon values more is "Resident Evil". In the first meeting in the afternoon, the game development team of "Resident Evil" and the film production team participated, and Simon personally hosted it.
As the project continues to advance, Simon also discovered that "Resident Evil" can completely create a mini movie universe.
You should know that the worldview and timeline of the "Resident Evil" series were very large. This time, when the two lines of game and movie were expanded at the same time, a complete worldview background could be built in advance. If both game and movie series could achieve the same results as before, the overall benefits would be far greater than the two bombshell projects of "Godzilla" and "Public Enemy" discussed at the same time in the afternoon.
On the other hand, this production conference on "Resident Evil" also finalized the heroine.
Simon finally chose the original Milla Jovovich.
At first, I considered Natasha Hensquqi, but after considering it, Simon still felt that Alice should have more wildness and strength. Natasha is strong enough in the "Alien" series, but not strong, and her temperament has always been weak. After transformation, it can give people a contrast, but it is somewhat inappropriate to use it directly in "Resident Evil".
Chapter completed!