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After the global box office exceeded US$1 billion, the full box office week from February 27 to March 5, the local box office of "Titanic" was US$23.16 million, with a total of US$504.11 million. At the same time, the film's overseas box office revenue was roughly estimated to be approximately US$71 million, which further increased the total overseas box office to US$535 million.

Daenerys Entertainment seized the opportunity and carried out another large-scale publicity for "Titanic" just right.

As the news spread that the global box office of this movie exceeded 1 billion, coupled with the film's still rapid box office growth momentum and the approaching Oscars, and even the entire Westeros system spared no effort to build public opinion, it became the focus of heated discussions among media around the world, which in turn further promoted the popularity of this movie.

Under the influence of the hot spot effect, many publics who do not often enter theaters have begun to buy tickets in every corner of the world, and there are many movie fans who have watched this movie repeatedly out of their love for it.

On the other hand, the shining light of "Titanic" did not completely conceal the glory of other films of the same period.

The second pseudo-documentary film "Blair the Witch" also from Daenerys Entertainment was released on February 6, not only did it overturn the Titanic on the first week of the painting, but it has also been quite stable recently under the shadow of the big ship.

In the fourth week of release from February 27 to March 5, the low-cost horror film "The Witch" with a budget cost of only $1 million still earns $14.93 million in a single week. It has been released for nearly a month, with a cumulative box office of $98.65 million, and it is about to exceed 100 million. At the same time, it will also become the first North American movie to have a local box office of $100 million in 1998.

However, the local area will have a box office cost return ratio of more than 100 times, even if it is far less than the size of "Titanic", it will not have any impact on Hollywood.

Because no one dared to easily spend 200 million to produce another "Titanic", but spend 200 million to produce 200 "Blair the Witch", too many people are absolutely willing to take this risk, even if only a few of them achieved the results of "Blair the Witch". Therefore, the topic of pseudo-documentary films that were slightly cooled after the release of "Ghost Records" last year reached the highest level again.

Friday, March 6.

The new box office week begins. It is worth mentioning that Blockbuster, which is closely related to Daenerys, and New World Pictures jointly launched the popular "Ghost Street" series rebooting works in the 1980s, "Ghost Street: Return".

Compared with the low-cost strategy that the "Ghost Street" series has always adhered to, most of the films were previously produced within US$10 million. This latest restart work, which uses a lot of CG special effects, ended up investing 25 million US dollars, an increase of 10 million from the $15 million budget when Nancy just proposed to Simon. Due to the overspending budget, the project has gone from being a solemn production department to cooperating with New World Pictures.

In addition, the budget for publicity and promotion this time also reached US$10 million, with a total cost of US$35 million.

Compared with the current Hollywood film production investment, which is generally rising, the total budget of $35 million is actually not high. Because of the popularity of this series, the production team is quite optimistic about achieving profits. The least, the subsequent video tape and TV broadcast channels are enough to recover costs. After all, horror films have always been very popular in the field of home entertainment.

In addition, choosing an unpopular schedule like early March is also due to various considerations such as the size of the project.

After all, the reputation of "The Ghost Street" is here, and instead of squeezing popular schedules, it can attract more viewers to enter the venue. Of course, there are some miscalculations this time. The schedule was decided last year. No one expected that "Titanic" would be so popular, and "The Witch Blair" is somewhat of a dark horse of the same type of horror movie.

In any case, "The Ghost Street: Return" was released on time on March 6, with 2,562 screens.

Fortunately, the result is pretty good.

The first weekend started for three days, and "Ghost Street: Return" won $16.91 million in box office, with a box office expected to be around $25 million in full week, and the total local box office is expected to be between $40 million and $50 million.

With a local box office of 40 to 50 million, let alone "Titanic", it is difficult to make a move in front of "The Witch Blair", and it is difficult to recover the cost of local theater distribution.

However, this is actually the normal state that Hollywood movies should have.

Local income of 40 to 50 million yuan. If the performance overseas is better, "Ghost Street: Return" may even exceed 100 million yuan in global revenue, which will definitely be a profitable one, which is a good success.

Monday, March 9.

A new week.

Simon arrived at Daenerys Cinema in the morning. After a regular meeting of senior executives for a week, he paid a little attention to the box office data of the past weekend and held another meeting with Nancy and his responsible Daenerys Recording Team to discuss the acquisition progress of Polykin. According to news from Washington and Europe, there are basically no obstacles in this merger at the government review level, so the merger can be officially considered.

After the meeting, Simon took time to check out the latest team under the Infinite Records label, which is responsible for the other party, with Barry Weiss, the record group, to be launched by the latest team under the Infinite Records label: the Hot Girls Group.

This was an idea that Simon casually proposed last year, and Barry Weiss promised to be completed this spring, and the plan has been going smoothly.

A completely different hot girl combination.

There are still five girls. Even though the political correctness in the United States is not that serious, the "Friends" that later creators cried and confessed were all white protagonists, but the five girls are quite correct, three white people, one Latino and one black. The first single to be released is still provided by Simon More Memory, the original "Wannabe" that once made the hot girl group become a hit.

I met five girls briefly and watched the "Wannabe" MV, which was filmed in the same way as before. It was already noon.

Simon's energy to bet on this project is limited to this.

What's going on in the future?

In fact, I found the right Godfather of the American Teen-Pop in history and gave enough support. Daenerys Records' development in this business in recent years has been quite impressive.

In addition to the hot girl group this year, Christina Aguilera will also debut.

After Britney was eliminated because of last year's incident, Simon planned to turn Christina Aguilera into a mixture of Britney and the little witch Avril. A little fairy with a good looking and singing skills also has this potential. Of course, the weight must be controlled well, and the elves in the bottle cannot be turned into elves in the bucket.

There is a little extra thing today.

After a busy day, I got home and had a video conference with Australia after dinner.

Discuss the situation in Africa.

Rwanda recently reached an agreement with Johnston Holdings to jointly invest in the mining of a diamond mine in the Kindustry. According to a preliminary investigation by the Australian dispatch team, a diamond mine in the western Kindustry is expected to be mined for more than 10 years and can produce diamond rough stone worth at least US$2 billion.

However, if you look closely, this is actually just a big deal.

The Rwandan government hopes to get support from the Westeros system in order to expand to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Not only funds, but also public opinion, the Westeros system can use a large amount of resources to ensure that the international community will not send troops to interfere after the war between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As for condemnation, it doesn’t matter. After all, Rwanda still has some righteousness, which is to chase and suppress the war criminals who were killed in the massacre a few years ago.

Simon knew that next, there was another long-lasting African world war.

Not only Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most of sub-Saharan Africa will be involved, while behind the scenes are Western forces that are actually waiting for a meal.

Africa is indeed rich in resources, but for the Westeros system, bulk oil, iron ore, coal, etc. are not in such a hurry to develop, just take up the pit first. After all, the mines controlled by Johnston Holdings in Australia and Brazil have been enough to mine for many years.

In addition, Simon is very interested in battery-related metal resources, which is also the next focus of the layout.

As for the consequences of the next war, Simon won't be too concerned this time. In the 1994 intervention, Simon was not really trying to stop any humanitarian disasters, so this time it doesn't matter what the dragon slayer turns into an evil dragon.

Simon has never been a dragon slayer, he has always been an evil dragon.

At the end of the meeting, Anthony Johnston also talked about another thing. Johnston Holdings has officially issued an acquisition invitation to another Australian mining giant, BHH, which was finalized by Simon and the old man during the New Year.

As long as BHP is successfully annexed, and BHP has been digested, the Johnston family will officially master a super mining giant that is even larger than the BHP BHP. It is far more involved in iron ore. It can almost be said that Johnston Holdings will be involved in any metal, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, lithium, tin, etc., as well as various rare earth metals, and even coal, oil, diamonds, etc. beyond metals.

After ending the video conference with Australia, Simon connected with Chen Qing, who was in Seoul.

The last eavesdropping incident in San Lucas over the last weekend has been identified.

All four women come from the same instructor, Kim Woo-jung, the head of the Korean Daewoo Consortium.

I don’t know if it was Jin Woo-jung who underestimated the seriousness of the eavesdropping on Simon or underestimated the Westeros system’s connections in South Korea, so he just asked his credential assistant to contact two investigation and consulting companies specializing in similar businesses, which was a barely used as a springboard for a third party and did not end up in person in person.

In short, after the investigation here, the truth was soon revealed.

The Westeros family's intelligence team in South Korea also received the exact recording of Kim Woo-jung's talk about this incident, because the four poor women were temporarily stopped here, and only said that the matter failed. Perhaps he learned some inside information about that weekend. Kim Woo-jung was still screaming in his office, saying that he would arrange for a sneak shot of the camera next time.

After listening to the recording and Chen Qing's online translation, Simon inexplicably remembered the scandal in which Lee Kun-hee was secretly photographed. Kim Woo-jung probably wanted to do this, at least make Simon shabby in South Korea. After all, South Korea's national sentiment is very strong. Under the exposure of the matter and public pressure, it may force the Westeros system to withdraw from South Korea, and at least it will make Daewoo Group, which is obviously targeted, breathe a sigh of relief.

Simon can only say that his ideas are good, but unfortunately they are unrealistic.

Simon is a public figure, but he is not a public figure at the same time. Simon is not a star who needs to rely on his public image to make money. Even if some negatives are revealed, what can it be? Could anyone jump out and boycott the entire Westeros system? You know, this kind of thing happened once four years ago, and that time the Hurst Group almost exposed Simon, so what was the result?

The public is always forgetful.

The public has an almost instinctive tolerance towards the superiors, and thinks that it is almost natural for a superior person to do certain things, so when things are exposed, it will not cause too many troubles.

In any case, Simon wanted to follow the steps towards Daewoo, LG and other Korean chaebols who refused to surrender at the time. However, since someone was looking for death, Simon would not be polite and directly ordered Chen Qing to take action there to completely block Daewoo Group and kill the monkey and scare the chicken.

This matter is actually very simple.

For the current situation of Korean chaebols, the most important thing is capital.

Daewoo Group, whose debt reaches US$70 billion, is in a precarious state of capital chain.

It just so happened that Simon now wants to block the source of funds for a Korean chaebol.

Not only is the IMF team in South Korea responsible for controlling the South Korean economy and the allocation of aid funds completely under the control of the Westeros system, but as long as Simon speaks, even outside the IMF, capital in any corner of the world will no longer flow easily to Daewoo Group.

Simon did, too.

After finishing the video call with Chen Qing, Simon directly wrote an electronic text message to Girl A, asking her to make a detailed list, and then sent an ultimatum to the relevant financial institutions.

In the IMF negotiations last year and subsequent investments in South Korea, Simon brought a lot of capital to make a fortune. Since he had obtained benefits, those people must not ignore what Simon ordered. If he did not give face, not to mention whether there would be any other benefits he would get this time, if Simon was unhappy, he would also let them vomit.

South Korea, Seoul.

In the luxury house in Itaewon, there is a 17-hour difference in Asia. It is around 3:00 on Tuesday.

Chen Qing agreed with her boss and immediately gave instructions.

First, we release news from Jin Yuzhong trying to eavesdrop on his boss in a certain circle. Next, the relevant retaliation measures are naturally taken for granted.

For more than an hour, Chen Qing kept calling or summoning some people to come and give instructions in person.

After all, it is definitely not that simple to deal with a corporate giant with a size of tens of billions of dollars or a local snake.

After all, local snakes are not dead snakes, and they will bite people even if they are too impatient.

A phone call just hung up in the study room of the luxury villa. Chen Qing's cell phone rang on its own initiative and answered, but Cheng Tae-hee called. After hearing a few words from there, Chen Qing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, not angry, but was interested, and even felt a bit absurd.
Chapter completed!