When Americans celebrated their own strength holiday, distant Africa began with a mutiny of thousands of pro-Rwanda Tutsi soldiers in the KMT Democratic Republic of Congo on July 5. Another large-scale African melee broke out, which was the first major international event in July.

This matter starts two years ago.

In the summer of 1996, Rwanda and Uganda and other countries invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the grounds of pursuing the war criminals of the Rwandan massacre. Together with the rebels of the Congo, they invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1997, overthrew the President Mobuto, who had ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 32 years, and supported the rebel leader Kabila to power.

In the following year, he thought that the domestic political situation had stabilized, and Kabila began to unload the donkey and demanded that the Rwandan coalition forces withdraw from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Of course, the Rwandan coalition was unwilling to give up, so the conflict occurred.

In 1994, Simon interfered in the Rwandan massacre by taking great uncertainty risks, fundamentally to show his own strength. This time, he would only watch coldly. Because this melee, after all, was a major reshuffle of Africa by various forces and re-dividing resources.

What the Westeros system can do is to strive for one's own benefit.

This is a tacit understanding formed in all aspects.

On the contrary, if you don’t overestimate yourself and get into it, it will be an enemy of the entire Africa and the Western society behind the scenes, and Simon will not do such stupid things.

As for the melee known as the Second World War in Africa, this time, which will cause millions of casualties, it is not something that many people care about. Just like there is no exact statistics on the specific death toll, some say five to six million, some say 8 million, and some say tens of millions, who knows?

Just talk about the current situation, compared to the wars that took place in Africa, even if they visited China, major Western mainstream media are still watching Clinton's increasingly fierce zipper door scandal.

Or in terms of entertainment, the visual shock brought by the real and cruel war scenes in "Save Private Ryan" and the moral conflicts caused by the eight rescues, triggered far more discussions than the wars that broke out in Africa.

This is reality.

The strong attract all the attention, while the weak have almost no sense of existence.

Simon's personal updates on Africa were just secretly convened a deployment meeting of the Weijia Army, and then he put it behind his mind.

The former "Save Private Ryan" won the 1998 North American box office championship with a local box office of US$216 million. This result is not compared with "Titanic", even the second-place "Men in Black" and the third-place "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" cannot compare with "Not only the previous year" (the man in black) and the third-place "Jurassic Park: The Lost World".

I can only say that 1998, which was originally on the timeline, belonged to a movie Little New Year.

Of course this time is different.

However, the current leading Jurassic Park 3 has exceeded 300 million and has steadily moved towards the target of 400 million.

In any case, Save Private Ryan is not bad either.

The popular One-time Day holiday was launched. In the first seven days of the first week, this war film with extremely high reputation and popularity won the box office of $53.46 million, easily winning the single-week box office championship position.

The question this time is whether "Save Private Ryan" can still achieve a good result of more than $200 million in North America.

The key is actually still to come.

In the new box office week on July 10, Simon-sponsored Rangers were logged into North American theaters with the brand new "Hangover".

Then, on July 17, there was Warner's bombshell "The Deadly Weapon 4", and on July 24, the "X-Files" movie version launched by Fox. Simon did not interfere with this popular TV series. It was still taken away by Fox a few years ago, and plans to make another shot when it is finished this year.

Until the end of the month, "Hero" will be released on July 29.

Speaking of which, starting this week, Simon's attention has begun to focus on China and the United States at the same time, because "Hero" is logged into mainland theaters on July 9 in advance.

Regarding "Hero" in China, Simon is the first thing he pays attention to is the public opinion.

Once, after "Hero" was criticized to be worthless after its release in China, Mr. Zhang almost felt depressed. This time, Simon asked someone to send media feedback from Cannes back to China, setting the tone in advance. The public opinion tendency is indeed much better, and it can even be said to be a flip.

Even if there is criticism, it is like "the story is very weak and the artistic is strong."

Not considered criticism.

Simon was too lazy to complain about anything about this.

If the criticism of "Hero" was not in line with the taste of the Chinese, the reason was probably that Balabala was specially filmed for foreigners. Then, the record-breaking 250 million yuan domestic film box office in mainland China cannot represent the attitude of the Chinese people, or is it that only those very few pens can represent the attitude of the Chinese people?

Now, no one scolds you. In addition, "Titanic" just set a box office record in mainland China in the first half of the year. Under certain emotions, Simon felt that "Hero" had a great hope of hitting the 300 million yuan mark.

Let’s talk about North America.

Compared to "Hero", Simon certainly pays more attention to "The Hangover".

On the one hand, this movie is Simon's support for the Robbery Gang, to avoid the situation where the Hollywood comedy circle is dominant. On the other hand, the filming location was replaced by the original Las Vegas in Atlantic City, and it also has the intention of promoting Simon to accept a large number of casinos and hotels from someone, and always activate this part of the assets.

The film was lifted the word of mouth the next day after its grand premiere in Atlantic City on Wednesday, July 8.

Even though many media realized that this was a promotional film from Simon Westeros to promote Atlantic City, even if the critics circle had a bias towards comedy movies, "The Hangover" still scored an excellent media score of 7.8.

Among them, the comments from a New York Times film critic can be said to be the most representative: "Before entering the theater, I had the lowest expectations for "The Hangover", and it turned out that it brought me more laughs than I thought."

In fact, to put it bluntly, the biggest task of comedy movies is to make the audience laugh.

Even Jim Carrey's highly praised "Trumen's World" in the first half of the year caused some thoughts on the basis of making the audience laugh, and the core was not putting the cart before the horse.

From the New York Times film critic and other feedback, Simon can be said to be quite optimistic about "The Hangover".

The facts did not disappoint Simon's expectations.

It only took three days to start the painting. With one-sided praise and the popularity of Daenerys Entertainment's efforts to promote marketing, "The Hangover" easily won $37.29 million in the first weekend, and it is expected that the box office of the first seven days of the first week will reach about 55 million, which is even higher than last week's "Save Private Ryan"'s opening performance.

Not to mention the outside world, even Simon himself will inevitably be confused about such achievements again.

Simon's initial expectation for "The Hangover" was only that the local area exceeded 100 million, which was enough to play a good role in promoting Atlantic City. Now, it is estimated that the first week is 55 million. Unless it hit the end of the world, it is almost certain that the local area exceeded 100 million, and it is even possible to break 200 million.

As a result, this inevitably sniped into "Save Soldier Ryan".

The subsequent facts prove this.

A full week later, The Hangover was a little higher than initially expected, and finally had a box office of $56.51 million in the first seven-day box office, easily recovering $25 million in production investment.

Under the impact of "The Hangover", "Save Private Ryan" fell by 36% the next week, earning $34.21 million.

The decline seems to be within an acceptable range, but within Daenerys Entertainment, due to its excellent reputation, it was initially predicted that the decline in the next week of "Save Private Ryan" would be likely to be controlled within 30%. Only with this trend can the film reach the box office of more than 200 million US dollars in Simon's memory.

Now, the next week's decline is 36%. Even if the third week narrows, due to a large drop, the hope of "Save Private Ryan" to reach a box office of 200 million is much smaller.

If I had known this, Simon would have moved the schedule of "The Hangover" for at least one week later.

But it's just thinking about it.

Choosing the schedule on July 10 is also a result of careful consideration. In the future, the most popular stage of the summer season will be passed. Unless it is a video that has no confidence in the film or has a long reputation like "Hero" and "The Horse Whisperer", it will be the end of the summer season.

In the final analysis, it is only 52 weeks a year, and it is impossible to become 104. With Daenerys' ambition to entertain, it is inevitable that he will beat himself.

In China, the results of "Hero" are also quite dazzling.

After the painting started on July 9, with the support of a series of strict anti-pirated measures such as a dedicated person to escort the film. The film successfully won a box office of RMB 91 million in four days after the painting started. As of July 16, in eight days, the cumulative box office quickly reached RMB 139 million.

The production of 139 million yuan was earned in eight days, and Chinese films generally have a good long-term trend, so there is a high possibility that the subsequent impact of 300 million yuan is very high.

Of course, even if it reaches 300 million, considering the production cost of RMB 250 million, even if the theaters are divided into 40% in advance, it is impossible to make a profit. This movie still has to be watched overseas.

This is second.

Taking advantage of the first week of sales, Jinshu launched another wave of propaganda offensive in time. The focus of public opinion was to compare "Titanic" with "Influence" to stimulate the public to buy tickets and enter the market. There is no reason why Chinese movies are worse than foreign movies.

Last year's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" only exceeded 100 million yuan in mainland China. This time, "Hero" exceeded 100 million yuan in the first week, and there was even hope of 300 million yuan. Overseas reputation is even more expected, and the result is that it has taken the "Chu and Han" trilogy, which has been tug-of-war, to go further.

July 17th, the new week.

Mainly, Warner's "The Deadly Weapon 4" was released. Because of the influence of Simon's big butterfly, the difference between "The Deadly Weapon 4" is that there is no more Jet Lee, who acts as the villain. However, regardless of whether Jet Lee is involved, Simon is actually not optimistic.

The key is that the old-school Hollywood action movies of the 1980s, such as the "Deadly Weapons", are outdated.

Warner rehearsed the rice this time and burned $120 million in costs. Simon seems even more unwise. After all, "The Deadly Weapon 3" was already six years ago. After six years, it is less than the time limit for people to develop feelings. There are a lot of people who forget about the "The Deadly Weapon" series.

Of course, Simon won't worry about Warner.

Hollywood is often helpless, especially when the cost of film production is getting higher and higher.

Even Daenerys Entertainment itself is not a big deal this year, such as "Russian Moment 2", "Jurassic Park 3" and "Mortal Haunted Incident 3". Speaking of which, this is also a big reason why Daenerys Entertainment can sweep the summer vacation.

By the way, in South Korea, Showbox's second horror film "The Strange Tale" was released on July 17 local time. It has been controlled by Hollywood movies for so many years. Except for the different box office statistics methods, the distribution model of Korean movies is basically the same.

In fact, in addition to "Rose Red Lotus" in June and this time "The Strange Tale of the Girls", in South Korea, the film companies supported by the Westeros system have launched many films this year. However, on the one hand, Simon did not pay special attention to it, and on the other hand, it was mainly because he did not splash himself.

Compared with the "Rose Red Lotus" adapted from the legendary Korean story book of 3 billion won, the original "Girls' Tale of the Higher Girl" is only 1 billion won. That is to say, as long as the total number of viewers in South Korea reaches one million, the number of viewers in Seoul, South Korea can reach 300,000, and you can make a profit.

This was a project in history and it was among the top ten Korean movies at that time. Simon had high expectations for the success of this movie.

Los Angeles.

After finishing his last day of the week, Simon returned to Dumei Point Manor, and Janet gave Simon a pair of surprises.

Twin sisters Gisele Bundchen and Patricia Bundchen.

The girls I raised in the past few years gradually began to grow up. Because they were strictly trained, they were basically placed near the Westeros family, and the same was true for the Gisele sisters this time.

The Gisele sisters celebrated their 18th birthday on July 14, and this time they officially joined the company.

To be honest, even though Simon didn't feel very interested even though he was a pair of faces that looked exactly like the world's number one supermodel in his memory.

Once upon a time.

I have experienced too many women in recent years, and my high status at this time, so it is difficult to have too many lustful thoughts on actress and supermodels like some rich people who pursue famous women to become themselves.

The same is true. People who have obtained a doctorate degree will no longer fluctuate the little red flowers in kindergarten.

Janet clearly remembered that his man was very special to those girls, Giselle, but now he is not special, but he is worried.

Is your husband going to take the 'evil path' again?

So the next day when Simon flew to the east coast, he deliberately stuffed the Gisele sisters over. The two sisters had obviously been told, so they started to take the initiative when they got on the plane.

This time the destination is not New York, but Atlantic City.

Arriving at this casino on the east coast, the two sisters who were obedient by Simon because of their own initiative to get angry and were sent to Simon's mansion here after getting off the plane.

Of course Simon has a serious business.

Tonight is the final of the 1998 Elite World Elite Model Competition, and Simon was invited by Grace to come and support it.
Chapter completed!