Scarlett Johnson had just had a brief confrontation with Li Youhu. Vanessa Johnson, who was tall and curvy in a silver low-cut dress, came over and hugged Simon gently, and took the man's arm. Seeing that his sister was still angry and coaxing a child, he pointed at the side casually: "Scar, don't make trouble here, go there to play."

Scarlett saw her sister treating her in a tone of talking to a child, especially the corner of someone's mouth, and she was so happy that she wanted to cry. She forced herself to stop the juice in her hand and did not throw the dress in her sister's enviable dress, but she didn't know what to do for a moment. She screamed and turned around and ran away.

Simon, who watched the whole process, only found it interesting.

I was so excited that I thought about what would happen if the Johnson sister became famous this time.

Although her sister is still more famous now, "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" starring Vanessa will not be released until the end of the year. However, Simon deliberately showed a little preference, which is quite fun. Moreover, Vanessa, who is much better than the petite Scarlett, has been raised by Simon for two years and is becoming more and more brilliant now.

After a brief episode, Simon took two goblins to socialize in the crowd, and finally sat on the sofa on the cliffside terrace overlooking Los Angeles and chatted with Amy Pascal, Danny Morris, Nancy Brill and other Daenerys entertainment executives.

Even though I have created enough miracles with Simon over the years, Amy Pascal still feels a little unreal about Daenerys Entertainment's sweeping posture during this summer. It is inevitable that I half-jokingly ask my boss how to do all this now?

As usual, Simon could not give an accurate answer.

However, if you have to say another reason, in Simon's opinion, the key is that Hollywood is actually a big workshop.

When outsiders look at Hollywood, they often look up to it, so various "Hollywood film industry" and "perfect film production system" Balabara is extremely tall and outstanding.

In fact, if you know this circle enough, you will find that Hollywood is far less high-end than the outside world imagines.

The most important point is that Hollywood, whether it was once, now, or in the future, is a system of rule of man.

Things are accomplished by others.

The result is that when you meet the right person, a studio can quickly prosper. On the contrary, finding the wrong person is like Sony just took over Colombia in the past few years, and the result is disastrous.

This is one aspect.

On the other hand, the reason why it is called a "big workshop" rather than a "film industry" is that the major studios have extremely low risk resistance.

If it is really a so-called perfect film industry, it will often not affect the entire industrial system because of the success or failure of one or two film projects. In fact, major Hollywood studios have almost gone bankrupt more than once due to the failure of one or two film projects.

Because these seemingly glorious large studios are actually big workshops.

If you concentrate your efforts on betting on a big project, if you fail, the entire workshop will be almost scattered. The next step is to find investors to invest, continue to save a project, and try again.

Originally, the major workshops in Hollywood were actually on the same level.

It all depends on luck.

Movie investment is a gambling game.

Therefore, in the timeline, it was not until the stable Super English series that Dibao and Warner joined forces, which gradually sluggished other workshops, that the Hollywood landscape changed significantly.

This time, Simon's anomaly broke the Hollywood balance twenty years ahead of schedule.

Because Simon doesn't rely on luck.

It is precisely because it is not luck that I understand that I have a high possibility of success, Simon can spend more in some areas in advance, such as 3D animation and CG special effects, which further widen the gap between Daenerys Entertainment, a super-large workshop and other studios.

Finally, it has come to this day.

Just like Daenerys Entertainment has produced special effects blockbusters like the DC Cinema Universe series or the "Jurassic Park" series, why don't other studios follow up and why are they still sticking to the old Hollywood action movies?

Because I can't keep up.

Many people think that special effects are a very common thing in Hollywood, but in fact they are not.

It was once the timeline that after the rise of Hollywood CG special effects, Industrial Light and Magic deserved it, Peter Jackson's Vita Digital was another one, and in the end, James Cameron's Light Storm Studio can only be counted as half.

Others can only be said to be CG studios, and they are not considered special effects giants.

Just like there are many people who know how to use Kung Fu, they are definitely not able to use one to be used as a guide for movement.

These are two different things.

Therefore, Hollywood's top special effects movies actually come from those few and other studios' CG special effects results... Well, the simplest comparison, Disney's Marvel Cinema Universe series, the special effects are basically handled by Industrial Light and Magic Studios after taking over Lucasfilm. Then, let's see what level of special effects are in the "Avengers" series, and then look at the next door, DC's "Justice League" and so on.

Why are DC's superhero movies always so many night scenes? They are dark, gray, and even like game CG?

To save money?

This is the most common saying.

However, is the production cost of Super War or Justice League very low?

Not low.

Then, the result may be another one.

It’s not that I don’t want to do it, but that I can’t do it.

So the same goes for the saying, the special effects studio is the special effects studio, and the CG studio is the CG studio. It doesn’t mean that you can create the top special effects if you know how to CG, just like you can become an action guide if you know how to Kung Fu.

Let’s talk about Hollywood now.

The reality is that even though Daenerys Entertainment has opened up the Maya series special effects software, until now, only Daenerys Entertainment can produce the top special effects such as DC Cinema Universe and the Jurassic Park series. If other studios want to follow up, first of all, can they make up their minds to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the team to practice. Secondly, even if they can make up their money, what is the chance of success?

The result is now.

The fundamental reason for all this is back to Simon's previous conclusion. Hollywood is not considered a film industrialization at all. In the final analysis, it is still a large workshop. The reason why Hollywood can conquer the world is not because of the film industrialization, but it just took advantage of the global trend after the end of the Cold War.

After all, it is very obvious that Hollywood movies have developed for more than half a century since the end of the 19th century. Why did they not conquer the world before, but only started in the 1990s?

In short, it is difficult to subvert a complete industrial system.

However, for people like Simon who can see the results of most investment bets, it is much less difficult to destroy one of the most primitive workshops.

After the weekend, it will be August 3rd.

on Monday.

Chen Qing returned from China that day and brought Cheng Tae-hee with her.

Simon last time invited Cheng Tae-hee to complete the summer film release and then played in North America. The woman did not come with Chen Qing until now.

At the same time, I also submitted a pretty good transcript.

Needless to say, "Red Flowers and Lotus", which has basically been settled, has been released in June until now. As expected, the number of viewers in Seoul has successfully exceeded one million, with about 3 million viewers in South Korea, with a cumulative box office of about 10 billion won.

Although the total cost of 3 billion production and 4 billion won of 1 billion promotional and 4 billion won loss caused the project to lose slightly in the theater stage, subsequent channels can easily achieve profitability.

Next is "The Strange Tale of the High Girl" released on July 10.

The production cost of this original campus horror film is only one-third of that of "Rose Red Lotus". After its release, the results were better than many people's expectations. In the first week of the painting, it won 193,000 viewers in the Seoul area. As of the end of July, the number of viewers in Seoul area in South Korea exceeded 500,000. It is estimated that the number of viewers in Seoul area will be around 700,000 as of the time being, and it may reach more than 2 million viewers in South Korea.

This means a box office of about 7 billion won.

Even if the current box office share in South Korea is low, only about 37%, the Showbox team can recover about 2.6 billion won. However, the net profit in the theaters stage exceeded 1 billion won.

In any case, it was a good start.

Therefore, Simon also considered whether to make a Hollywood version of "The Strange Tale of the High Girl".

After all, South Korea is just a small plate. Although it is already August, Simon's attention is still focused on Hollywood.

After the painting started on July 29, relying on its excellent reputation and spared no effort in the early stage, "Hero" finally reached a box office of US$32.16 million in the first week of North America, as expected.

When this result was released, Master Zhang returned to China with satisfaction and began to prepare for the long-standing trilogy of "Chu and Han".

When everyone thought "Hero" was the perfect ending of Daenerys Entertainment's summer season, on August 7, "Magic Mike" quietly released by Steven Soderbergh, who had attracted much attention and been silent for many years with "Sex, Lies and Video Tape", was quite unexpectedly surprised many people again.

Many people don’t pay much attention to this low-cost movie with a production cost of only $7 million, even within Daenerys Entertainment.

If the summer deadline is set to the end of August, this is actually not the last movie of Daenerys Entertainment. After all, with the release frequency of Daenerys Entertainment, the 52 weeks of the year is definitely more than the average new movie per week.

Moreover, at first glance, the plot of "Magic Mike" is not outstanding at all.

Mike, a down-and-out construction worker, entered the dancer circle by chance, then began to indulge, fall into depravity, and finally woke up.

This is such a clichéd plot.

Even if the schedule was finalized by Simon himself, the New World Film team only gave 1,635 screens to open in the first week, and all aspects of publicity and promotion were just right.

There is not even a premiere.

After the film was released, the only highlight was probably the comprehensive media rating of 7.9 points, but this is definitely not the reason why the film became a dark horse in the box office. After all, a 7.9 point film is barely excellent, but this summer season is also a lot.

However, it exploded like that.

In the first three days of the first weekend, "Magic Mike" unexpectedly earned $15.46 million. Compared with 1,635 screens, this is close to the level of exceeding 1,000 yuan for the museum.

The magnificence is prominent.

Then, in the first week, this small film, which cost only $7 million, finally reached $27.32 million in seven days, becoming another box office dark horse in the summer season of 1998.

Unlike another PG-level "Singing and Dance Youth", the first week data of this R-level musical film is worth mentioning, that is, the box office of the first three days of the first weekend is only 56% of the full first week, which is far lower than the 60% to 70% level of most films on weekends, which indirectly shows that the popularity of the first week of the film's painting has actually been rising, so many people go to watch this movie on weekdays.

It really makes no sense.

To be honest, Simon himself is not sure why this movie is loved by the audience?

Dancing man?

Forget it.

scale?

The film "The Dance Girl" by Paul Van Hoven two years ago is called scale.

music?

Actually not outstanding.

Steve Soderbergh?

Many people have forgotten "Sex, Lies and Video Tapes" almost the same. After all, this film did not win the Palme d'Or in this time and space, so Soderbergh did not win the title of Hollywood Golden Boy again.

Anyway, it just doesn't make sense.

This unreasonable small film with a cost of 7 million was unreasonable for $27.32 million, and unexpectedly won a weekly box office championship at the end of the summer season that was gradually turning cold in early August, which attracted more people's attention.

In any case, one thing that can be confirmed is that a large number of similar videos will definitely emerge next.

On the other hand, while "Magic Mike" was upset, "Hero" maintained a fairly stable trend, with a drop of 34% the next week. For a Chinese film, it was average, with an additional $21.23 million, with a cumulative box office of $53.39 million. The total box office expected in North America also relied on the previous forecast of 60 million to 80 million.

In addition to the movie, another thing that attracted Simon's attention during this period came from China.

On August 11, 1998, the Chinese authorities issued the "Notice on Further Deepening the Reform of the Urban Housing System and Accelerating Housing Construction", announcing that China began to carry out comprehensive and thorough housing commercialization reform.

The layout has already started a few years in advance. When it comes to this day, Simon will inevitably feel a little moved.
Chapter completed!