Time slips into the new January, May 1.

It's Friday.

In Los Angeles, Simon arrived at the office of Daenerys Cinema early in the morning. While looking through the box office report of the box office week just past, he listened to Girl A's report on some of today's work schedules and important matters.

One box office week just passed from April 24 to April 30, Daenerys's World of Truman was released on Easter week. The film "Truman's World" still maintained its championship position. It started on April 10. After US$37.69 million in the first week and US$28.31 million in the next week, the third week of release, "Truman's World" won again US$17.82 million, with a cumulative box office of US$83.82 million in three weeks.

As the last film Daenerys Entertainment and Jim Carrey collaborated, both parties have never been very happy, Daenerys was not looking forward to this movie too much.

Now, the box office results of the film are significantly higher than expectations.

With a total box office of US$83.82 million in three weeks and the current box office trend, "Truemon's World" can easily exceed 100 million while lying down, becoming the second local film of Daenerys Entertainment in 1998.

Even Simon himself initially expected that the local box office of this film would be only about 80 million US dollars.

In any case, it is a good thing to exceed expectations after all.

As for how Jim Carrey and even the other party's next family will react, you can imagine, but Simon doesn't care. You can also imagine that the film company that will cooperate with Jim Carrey will basically make a big effort to make hard money with small heads. Daenerys Entertainment will definitely not accept this kind of cooperation.

Another featured "Extreme Cold" featured during the Easter schedule has just ended its fourth week.

Following the first week of 30.79 million, the next week, 15.31 million and 7.72 million in three weeks, the fourth week of box office earned $4.15 million. It has been released for nearly a month, with a cumulative box office of $57.97 million. There is still a box office potential of about $5 million in the future, which can ensure that the film exceeds 60 million locally. This trend is completely expected.

In addition, the Titanic is still worth mentioning.

Just now, it happened to be the 20th box office week of the Big Ship released in North America. The single-week data of the film even suppressed the release of "Extreme Cold" in the fourth week, and continued to earn US$4.23 million. After breaking the threshold of 600 million in the 18th week of release, the cumulative box office in North America continues to rise to US$611.39 million.

With the arrival of the summer season, the speed of "Titanic" withdrawal from the big screen will inevitably accelerate, but it will be able to earn at least another $10 million in the future, pushing the local data of this phenomenal super blockbuster to more than 620 million.

Unfortunately, this time, "Titanic" can only rank second in North American film history. Perhaps after several re-releasings in the future, it may exceed the 702 million box office data of "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" three years ago. The global side wants to catch up with the $1.938 billion of the Super War. At present, it is unlikely.

Moreover, breakthrough films like Super War will also be re-released in the future, and no one can predict what will happen in the end.

However, on the other hand, the Super War was shared by Daenerys and Warner Bros. "Titanic" belongs to Daenerys Entertainment alone, so it can also be said to be Daenerys' most successful movie. Even if it is just a box office, the revenue of "Titanic" in 1998 exceeded 400 million, which directly made Daenerys' North American box office share easily surpass other major studios this year.

Simon picked up a pen and wrote the comments he thought of in the blank space of the report, asking the relevant team to study the feasibility of projects such as "Titanic" Australian set tour and the global tour of the big ship props as soon as possible. He paused after hearing something reported by Girl A.

In the Russian side.

Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament have been tug-of-war for nearly two months and have gone through three rounds of votes. This morning local time, he finally passed the acceptance of Sergei Kiriyanko's appointment as the new prime minister.

This is actually expected.

The 36-year-old young prime minister is not easily accepted in any way.

This also destined that Kiriyanko could not stay in this position for too long.

In comparison, another appointment that Simon is more concerned about, the new director of the Russian Federation Security Agency has already passed early.

A noticed the pause of her boss and took the initiative to add: "Russia is currently facing very serious economic problems. Currently, Russia only arrears civil servants' wages and pensions to 4.5 billion rubles per month. According to the official exchange rate of 6.2 in Russia, it is approximately US$720 million. In the context of a large amount of funds still continuing to escape from Russia, Kiriyanko came to power. Unless extreme means of breaking the rules are taken, it is difficult to solve these problems. The only thing waiting for him is to step down and take extreme measures to anger a large number of vested interests, but it still leaves the office."

Simon just nodded slightly, remembered something, paused, but still didn't speak.

Simon originally wanted to ask Girl A to explain to Cersei Capital to collect position data on bonds in various countries in the hedge field, because he thought that this year, another hedge fund called long-term capital management company on Wall Street almost caused a large-scale financial disaster due to the liquidation of positions of hundreds of billions of dollars.

However, this is too obvious.

Still just wait and see what changes are going on.

After all, there is a crisis. At that time, whether it is proactive or forced, the federal government will pay the bill, and it was the same in history.

Seeing that her boss wanted to speak, she stopped waiting for a while, but without getting the order, she continued: "Also, boss, Miss Chen sent a copy of information about Korean online games. She said that this was part of the boss's explanation, and this copy."

Simon looked up and saw Girl A signaling in a stack of folders in front of him, nodding to show his awareness.

Last weekend, Simon asked Chen Qing to organize and prepare some information about role-playing online games for the Chinese market, but he didn't expect that the girl would list South Korea specifically.

Girl A glanced at the memo and continued to say something, and finally said: "9:30 is the summer movie promotion conference. I'll remind the boss later."

"Okay, by the way, take this and show it to Nancy."

Girl A took the box office report written by her boss with annotations, glanced at her, nodded, confirmed that nothing was wrong, and turned around and left.

When the female assistant went out, Simon looked at the table below. There were still 10 minutes left before 9:30, so he picked out the one Chen Qing sent from a bunch of documents at hand, opened it and read it.

I quickly got up.

Everyone's energy is limited, so cognition is bound to be limited.

In Simon's memory, the strength of Korean online games started from the legendary "Legend" until many years later, it was still a game content provider in major Asian markets, including China, making a big profit through this powerful industry. However, all of this could not have come out of thin air.

Before seeing this information, Simon's limitations on Korean online games were roughly after the millennium.

However, this is not the case.

Simply put, Korean electronic games have developed an industrial trend that is very different from the world's mainstream from the very beginning.

As we all know, before the millennium, the mainstream of the world's game industry was stand-alone games.

South Korea is of course also the main exporter of stand-alone games in North America and Japan. For example, StarCraft, which was once popular in South Korea in history. However, in terms of its own development, South Korea has ordered a technology tree that is biased towards online games since the early 1990s.

And it is directly biased towards large-scale multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).

According to the information provided by Chen Qing, four years ago in 1994, the Internet in this time and space just emerged, and a graphic MMORPG with the highest number of online users at the same time exceeded 10,000, which was called "The Kingdom of the Wind", and it was also a Western fantasy type.

Of course, whether it is the name or the relevant settings of the Chinese and Western Fantasy Continent, Simon can easily feel the Japanese style. Without thinking, he can guess that this is inspiration from some Japanese stand-alone games. However, whether it is the game positioning or the story background, it is basically in line with the mainstream popular online games in South Korea later.

Japan has drawn nutrients from American comic culture to develop its own comics industry, and South Korea has drawn nutrients from Japanese stand-alone players to develop its online game industry, which is also a tradition.

This is off-topic.

With South Korea's population base and the number of Internet users in 1994, the number of online users exceeded 10,000 at the same time, it has been quite successful.

On the other hand, this also proves how small the online game market in South Korea is. If it wants to develop, it must rely on output.

The information in his hand is very detailed, and it also comes with a CD. Simon stuffed it into the computer and quickly found the electronic document information of "The Kingdom of Wind". He didn't have time to open the included client, but just clicked on some pictures. From the perspective of four years later, it was very rough. However, according to the level four years ago, the picture quality equivalent to the 32-bit game console is already quite outstanding.

The information also mentioned that "Wind Kingdom" is developing the second generation. It was originally planned to conduct an IPO in the second half of last year and will be launched in the first half of this year. Because South Korea suddenly experienced an economic crisis last year, the IPO planned to abort. The capital chain of the developer named TDSoft also has problems and has been seeking financing in recent months.

Simon opened the information about the second generation of "The Kingdom of Wind" in the electronic document.

Looking at the picture directly is comparable to the picture quality of "Legend" in my memory.

Looking at the financial information, the budget for this game is 6 billion won. According to the current US dollar exchange rate of about 1,800, it is about 3.3 million US dollars, which is 6 times the development cost of the first generation of "Wind Kingdom". Because the current game industry in South Korea is not obvious. Even if the generation succeeds, TDSoft still failed to raise subsequent funds. It has now laid off most of its employees and has completed 70% of the project development almost stagnated.

Just as she was about to continue watching, A knocked on the door and reminded her boss that the promotional and promotion meeting for the summer videos was about to begin.

Simon picked up the thick printed materials and rushed to the conference room next door, and continued to work hard.

As May begins, the summer season is coming soon.

Not counting some non-key movies, Daenerys Entertainment will launch a total of 10 key projects this summer. Starting from May 15, in chronological order, namely "Los Angeles Secret", "Russy Hour 2", "Jurassic Park 3", "Morning Haunted Incident 2", "Singing and Dance", "Saving Private Ryan", "Hangover", "Horse Whisperer", "Hero", and "Magic Mike".

The most important one is "Jurassic Park 3". In the planning, this is the end of the dinosaur trilogy. After this movie is completed, the Jurassic series will be suspended for some years. The project only has a production budget of US$150 million. With a 70 million US dollar promotion, if the local box office is less than US$300 million, it will be a failure.

The project was completely completed in early April, and the schedule is still the most golden on June 5th. Simon saw the sample in advance. The current explosion is still very reliable and he has no worries about the box office.

After the most important Jurassic Park 3, the second gear is "Russian Hour 2", "Mortal Haunted 3" and "Save Private Ryan".

If the box office of these three films is less than $100 million, it will also be a failure.

Among them, "Rush Hour 2" and "Save Private Ryan", Simon's expectations both start at 200 million locally. The reason why "Mortal Haunted Incident 3" was included in the second level is because the success of last year's "Soul Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" has restored the popularity of the Soul Conjuring movie universe. This "Mountain Haunted Incident 3" is also the end of a trilogy. 150 million should be easier. If you are lucky, you will have a chance to gain 200 million locally due to the popularity of "Soul Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" last year.

Later on, "The Hangover" is more special.

In history, this film created an R-rated movie box office record. Simon used the once famous Lanzi Gang as the main creator. In order to promote the Atlantic City Casino under his name, the filming location moved from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. The time was so advanced that the variables were too great.

The production cost of the film is US$25 million, and the investment in publicity and promotion reached 25 million, of which 15 million came from the implants in Atlantic City and other fields. New World Pictures, which is responsible for the distribution, only paid 10 million US dollars. The promotion and promotion team's expectation is that as long as the film can exceed 50 million, it will be considered successful.

Simon's personal expectation is that he has exceeded 100 million yuan in local areas, otherwise it would be a pity to come up with this idea in advance.

Others, "Los Angeles Secret" and "The Horse Whisperer" are also the same. They are both creators of old filmmakers and are also less mainstream literary and artistic films. The box office expectations are between 50 million and 100 million.

Then there are "Singing and Dance" and "Magic Mike".

These are two films with less costly production during the summer season, one ended up with $15 million and the other spent only $7 million.

The reason why it was put into the summer season was Simon's decision himself, because the story of "Singing and Dance" is more suitable for the summer season and cannot be delayed until next year, so it has rushed some construction periods. The latter is Simon's special expectation for the film director Steven Soderbergh.
Chapter completed!