In the fourth week of the release, "Los Angeles Confidential" faced the pressure of "Jurassic Park 3", the decline in a single week was still controlled at 43%, earning $8.89 million.

It is obvious that this is actually due to the fact that the box office of "Los Angeles Secret" itself is already very small. Faced with the 160 million giant in the first week, the box office of less than 10 million yuan is irrelevant to the overall situation.

However, for "Los Angeles Secret" itself, the cumulative box office of US$86.01 million in four weeks is basically certain that it can enter the ranks of 100 million box office clubs from the initial forecast range of 50 million to 100 million US dollars.

The cost of $35 million, the promotion and promotion of $15 million, and the local box office exceeded 100 million, "Los Angeles Secret" directly entered the profit cycle.

Considering the classic reputation of the film itself exceeding 9 points, "Los Angeles Secret" will obviously have some achievements in the awards season next year, which is destined to release the subsequent video tapes and TV channels of the movie, and the profit will be richer and longer-term, rather than like ordinary popcorn movies, after the theater stage, the subsequent succession will often be weak.

In sharp contrast to "Los Angeles Secret" is Sony Pictures' "2013 Ultimate Postman".

The following week of release, "2013 Ultimate Postman" fell by 53%, which does not seem to be a terrible sight considering the crushing of "Jurassic Park 3".

The problem, however, is that the movie's first week started at only $21.19 million.

The decline in the next week reached 53%, and the single-week income immediately fell within the range of tens of millions, leaving only US$9.95 million, and the cumulative box office of US$31.14 million on both weeks.

The cost of $75 million is included in the conservative 25 million publicity and promotion, and the production cost of "2013 Ultimate Postman" also reaches $100 million.

Now, with US$31.14 million in two weeks, according to the current box office trend, the possibility of 50 million in the local area is very low. Even if it is not a complete box office defeat, such a failure is enough to make people feel pain.

Not only that, whether it was the overspending budget during the film production stage or the big-time custody of being directly entrusted to "Jurassic Park 3" a week ago, Sony senior executives in Japan once again felt the frustration of Colombia's total out of control a few years ago.

Sony once said it was going to evacuate Hollywood more than once in the 1990s. However, at the same time as the financial crisis in 1997, Sony Pictures happened to produce a series of top ten hit films in the year, including "Man in Black", "Air Force One", "Excellent" and other top ten hit films, which made the shaky Sony film business come back with a mouthful of blood, and survived the economic crisis and did not flee like Panasonic.

This time, Sony no longer has such good luck.

Los Angeles.

The headquarters of Sony Pictures in Culver City is Friday, June 12th.

On the last day of the weekday, it was breakfast time, Columbia Pictures President Chris Lee received a notice asking him to rush to the company as soon as possible in the morning and have a premonition in advance. When he saw Howard Stirlinger, president of Sony's American branch suddenly appearing on the West Coast, Chris Lee was not surprised at all.

There is inevitably some anxiety.

Following Simon Westero's suggestion, Chris Lee was worried that he would be swept out directly. However, thinking about Peter Cooper and Qiang Peters, who had almost scrambled Colombia to the end, still escaped with a generous salary, these small actions were actually nothing.

What's more, there is a contract, so Sony cannot provide evidence of his intentional small moves. If he rashly terminates the contract, he can get a considerable compensation.

Not only that, through some private operations, Chris Lee also transferred the "Air Force One" project mentioned by Simon Westero and he went to Sony last year. If he really wanted to leave, he could be a freelance producer seamlessly. I think Simon Westero would not be stingy with this compensation for him.

Interior of a conference room at Sony Studios.

When Chris Lee understood howard Stringer asked him to suspend all development projects and that a few films being filmed had to undergo strict supervision.

The overall situation has been decided.

Sony is really leaving this time.

Howard Stringer was in a very bad mood. After the brief meeting, only Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO John Kelly was left, and everyone else was sent out.

Chris Lee also understands this quite well.

As the president of Sony's American branch, in addition to taking into account the marketing and sales of Sony's electronics business in the United States, Howard Stringer's main job is music and movies, among which the size of movies is obviously larger than that of music. Now, the film business is about to be abandoned, and the shrinking of the music business is also visible to the naked eye. It is hard to say how long can Howard Stringer's job last.

None of these has anything to do with Chris Lee.

Back at his office and a little thought, Chris Lee sent Amy Pascal a brief email using the recently popular iBerry-10 business phone to talk about what happened just now.

Simon received the news in Geneva, Switzerland, that it was Saturday morning local time.

One thing that was expected, so there was no special explanation. Amy Pascal had communicated with Michael Jordan, the head of Westinghouse who entered the media industry.

With Hollywood's current situation, Sony has little capital to take over if he wants to sell his film business. After all, except the United States, Asian and European countries are still in the shadow of the financial crisis. There is nothing else in the United States except Westinghouse.

Simon's attention is still focused on Europe.

First, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on Saturday, with all WTO franchising countries and applicants all over the world, but the situation is not one-sided.

At the same time as the celebration ceremony was held, there were also organized marchs against globalization and the WTO in the city of Geneva, which were quite large.

Simon specially asked the team around him to do a statistics and found that most of the reasons given by these opponents were protesting against the outflow of local industries caused by globalization.

In fact, what I am worried about is the hollowing out of the later outflow of real industries in Western countries.

There has never been a shortage of smart people and organizations with forward-looking vision in this world. The problem is that being able to see the future never means being able to grasp the future. The indifference of the vast historical trend is that those who follow it prosper, and those who go against it perish.

Since the trend cannot be changed, the smartest way is to follow the trend rather than to block it.

The traditional automobile industry is the best example.

The German automobile industry is undoubtedly the best in globalization, which has also made Germany's traditional automobile industry still quite prosperous until more than ten or twenty years later.

The opposite example is Italy.

Not to mention the United States, because the domestic market of the United States itself is very large, even if the globalization of American automobile brands is not successful, it is still prosperous. In addition, as a rising star, Japan and South Korea, the automobile industry is always suppressed by the United States, the "society country" and there is little room for maneuver.

Let’s talk about Italy.

As a local giant that basically controls the Italian automobile industry, Fiat entered China twice and failed twice. One of the big reasons is that Fiat was self-confidence, had a negative attitude towards industrial transfer in accordance with the trend of globalization, and was petty, so it missed the last opportunity of the traditional automobile industry. In the end, in order to survive, it had to merge with Chrysler to keep warm.

These are all later stories.

Simon only stayed in Geneva for one day, participated in official celebrations, met with the heads of delegations from several of the countries, and left for Rome the next day.

Italy mainly checked the construction progress of Universal Studios Rome and some social events arranged by Sofia, and finally flew to Rivni, Ukraine.

Rifny, created according to the concept of the China Special Administrative Region in memory, looks almost the same every day.

Arriving again, first of all, the city airport in the southwest suburb of Rifney expanded from the initial runway to two runways. Before landing, the number of planes parked in the airport was significantly higher than before, including large aircraft such as Boeing 747.

In addition to the airport after the expansion, the entire city is also spreading rapidly to the surrounding area, with construction sites everywhere, and they don’t want to be what Eastern European countries should be like now.

What are the countries in Eastern Europe now?

Referring to economic data, you can imagine that the most representative Russia is the most representative. In 1997, when the Asian financial crisis occurred, Russia's GDP data was temporarily recovered compared with previous years, increasing from US$391.7 billion in the previous year to US$404.9 billion. This year, according to statistics from the first five months, Russia's GDP in 1998 is likely to plummet to around US$270 billion.

The decline exceeded 30%!

The shrinking GDP actually means a series of serious social problems such as currency depreciation and surge in unemployment.

Similarly, even though Simon set out a thriving test field in Ukraine, the GDP decline in the entire Ukraine is expected to be above 20%.

Simon had just arrived in Rivny, and several core members of the Rovno Gang talked about these issues with Simon at the lunch banquet, and there was also a report from the internal consulting team of the Rovno Gang to deal with the current situation.

As the economic situation deteriorates sharply again, it is a European granary after all. Even if there is no famine after the collapse of the Soviet Union this time, the pressure on the Ukrainian people can be imagined. The unemployment rate of more than 30% can almost make ordinary people unable to see any hope.

In this case, most Ukrainians want to escape.

The first target is Western Europe. Even the nearby Poland is much better than Ukraine.

However, because Ukraine is not a member of the EU, it is not easy to go to Western Europe by legal means, so Rivni became the second most preferred choice for Ukrainians.

With the rapid spread of the economy once again deteriorating at the end of last year, the number of people from all over Ukraine who gathered in Rifni to look for opportunities increased significantly, so various problems are inevitably brought about.

Speaking of which, the key reason why Rivni can develop rapidly is that the Rovno Gang, controlled by the Westeros system, can be regarded as a strong cemetery and independent control of the entire Rovno Prefecture, coupled with the sufficient financial support of the Westeros system, so unlike the turmoil and chaos in other parts of Ukraine, including Kiev, the entire Rovno Prefecture is thriving.

Development requires order, which is inevitable.

Too many foreign populations are often like the illegal immigration problem in developed countries. If the control is not well done, a complete game of big chess will collapse.

Understanding the seriousness of this, Simon deliberately changed the schedule and summoned a group of senior executives of the Rovno Gang to discuss the countermeasures in detail. Speaking of which, Simon actually had considerable experience in dealing with such things.

The general plan was also finalized soon.

First, the first point, seems irrelevant, but is actually very important. The land policy in Rovno Oblast is tightened again. Even the transaction of private land must be strictly regulated.

Anyone who wants to settle in an area cannot do without land.

This alone has firmly controlled the initiative of how many people can be held by the Rovno State, especially Rivni, to the Rovno Help. Outsiders cannot gain a foothold in this land and do not need to be driven away, and they can only leave in the end.

Secondly, tighten settlement policies.

This is a plan made by Rovno for the consulting team, and Simon gave some modifications.

Speaking of which, for example, the large resettlement community in the northeastern suburb of Rifney, Simon's initial consideration was to introduce population based on families.

It turns out that this is not appropriate.

Introducing population based on families can certainly make settlers feel at ease, but it will also bring pressure to urban education, medical care and other resources.

Therefore, the core of tightening the settlement policy this time is very simple. Rifney will absorb as much quality young labor groups as possible in the future that can create a large amount of benefits for the city. As for the elderly and children who will only consume social resources and cannot provide sufficient contribution, it is a pity that it should stay honestly in their hometown.

Finally, we will fight crime from both black and white.

Why is the business environment in Eastern Europe generally recognized as bad? In addition to the inefficient bureaucratic system, there is another way to collapse social security. In recent years, there is too many cases, if you go to other places to invest, or at most lose money, and go to Eastern Europe, you may be hit by AK47. In this case, who is willing to take risks?

And Eastern Europe, which has experienced turbulent and declining, is like a dry pond. If you want to restore the ecology, you must introduce a large amount of water.

Capital is the ‘water’ here.

Without water inflow, there is no way to talk about economic development, and it will fall into a vicious cycle.

After several cleanings, Simon had a very strong control over the government system of Rovno Prefecture, which was enough to ensure an efficient and good business environment. As for underground forces, they were basically their own. Compared with the first two, this time, it can only be considered as preventing problems.

After finalizing the plan, Simon personally arranged the implementation matters the next day before finally returning to the established schedule.

The most important thing is to go to the UFMS base for inspection.

The UFMS private army, the Ukrainian Western Operations Command, which has been quietly incorporated by Simon, is actually the foundation for the Westeros system to control the Rovno Oblast.

Just like later, a local tyrant governor in Dnieper Prefecture was removed from office by the president, and the oligarch governor directly used the private army to put pressure on the Kiev authorities in the name of protecting personal property. In comparison, a female oligarch who lacked his own armed forces could only end up being imprisoned.

By the way, the local governor who controls a large number of Ukrainian media was the driving force behind a comedian president later.
Chapter completed!