After the full first week, "Fight Club" finally opened for seven days and had a box office of $23.45 million. Although it still failed to pose a threat to "The Matrix" released in the third week, it became the most popular movie in early August.

Then, the next week that determines the total box office of the film.

With more and more attention and discussion, even though the number of screens of 1,263 yuan was still maintained, the film's box office performance in the next week was still impressive from August 13 to August 19, with a single week drop of only 17%, and another $19.46 million was closed.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of "Fighting Club" has reached US$42.91 million.

When the box office was released this week, the New World Pictures team had to adjust its initial box office expectations of $60 million to $80 million, because in the third week, the number of screens of "Fight Club" will double to 2,537 yuan.

At the same time, "The Matrix" is still the strongest film in recent times.

In the third and fourth weeks of the release of "Fight Club", "The Matrix" earned $47.96 million and $30.69 million respectively. It started for about a month. The cumulative box office of this science fiction blockbuster with a reputation of 200 million, reaching $223.41 million.

It is moving towards the target of $300 million quite steadily.

On the other hand, after Simon's fifteenth child was born, Nancy continued to cultivate on the East Coast. The two Jenny took a group of children to return to the West Coast quickly, ending the summer vacation, and the young guys who were old began to study in the second half of the year.

Los Angeles.

It is late August, and it is August 23rd.

on Monday.

In the new week, Simon first went to Fox Cinema in Century City, Beverly Hills.

The merger of the three companies has been basically completed, and Shirley Lansing has taken over most of the business of the new company. What we are going to discuss today are some subsequent developments of the new company.

Simon arrived at the cinema, and Rupert Murdoch rushed over at about the same time. Obviously, it was still to gain more initiative.

Simon had no objection, either.

After all, the initiative depends on both strength and ability. Just so, both Murdoch is worse than Simon.

Therefore, Simon is not needed to be too strong at all.

Simon is better at sneaking into the night with the wind, and has unknowingly completed the expansion of the Westeros system, but people around him noticed that this place is an unshakable behemoth.

Just like Daenerys' development.

This time, the main discussion is the development of a series of major film projects after the merger of the three companies.

First of all, the Star Wars series.

However, although Lucas messed up the first part of the Star Wars prequel, because of everyone's previous agreement, Simon did not interfere with the prequel trilogy, and Lucas continued to play the last two parts.

Of course, after the prequel trilogy is over, there will be no Lucas any more.

Simon is not in a hurry either.

Even if the trilogy is over, the Star Wars series will be refrigerated for a few years before taking it out. After all, feelings will only be brewed for a while before they can last.

Secondly, it is MGM's 007 series, and even the agent movie universe planned by Simon in the early days. However, the progress of this plan is quite slow. Three years ago, after "The Ghost Party of 007" and "Charlie's Angels" in 1996, Simon deliberately suppressed it. The new 007 will not be released at the end of this year, and "Charlie's Angels 2" will be released next summer, which is four years away from the first one.

After all, it's too crowded.

Moreover, Simon is increasingly disliked to see Hollywood full of sequels. At the moment, it is the right way to develop some originals as much as possible.

However, since the three companies merged, all parties took the initiative to propose at this meeting, hoping that the planned Agent Film Universe plan could be accelerated.

Simon did not object either.

In addition to the new 007 film at the end of the year and next summer "Charlie's Angels 2", this time, it is agreed to open a brand new agent series. Yes, "Spy Shadows".

The main creators have already confirmed in advance that Paul Greengras, who quickly became the first-line director through two consecutive movies "Blair the Witch" and "Public Enemy", and Mada, a classmate who is the male lead. However, the premise of the latter is that he must agree to sign a long-term agreement, otherwise Simon can only replace him.

In fact, Simon prefers to bring in the "Mission Impossible" series, but unfortunately part of the copyright of this series is in Paramount's hands. For this reason, Simon once again adopted a suppression strategy. After "Mission Impossible 2", even after Paramount repeatedly urged, he still suppressed the development of "Mission Impossible 3". So much so that after "Mission Impossible 2" in the summer of 1996, the third part was originally expected to be released at the end of 1998 as early as possible, but until now, there has been no trace.

In addition, overall it is the general direction of suppressing the sequel.

The result is that Paramount has been almost done. No matter how Simon says it, there will probably not be any objection, and Cage, as the male lead, will not have too much objection. Because Simon is also quietly suppressing Cage to avoid the actor having other outstanding works outside the "Mission: Impossible" series.

Therefore, except for Mission: Impossible, Cage's development in the 1990s was much worse than in the original time and space. If Mission: Impossible, it would only be a matter of time before it fell into the second and third lines.

Finally, after Star Wars and the Agents Cinema Universe, it is Fox's side.

The series that Fox can make the best of his past accumulation is probably a few of them, such as Die Hard and Alien. However, both series have completed the initial trilogy, and the subsequent ones are the kind of food that is tasteless and discarded.

In addition to the fully held series, there are two cooperative projects, the Terminator series and the Mummy series.

Disney received authorization to film "Terminator 3" and made a huge investment, but it was lukewarm, so there was no plan to continue. The copyright was still owned by Fox and Daenerys. In addition, "Mummy", two movies have been completed now, and according to the Hollywood trilogy curse, there is only one movie left. In the future, it is probably a pity to give up.

In general, Fox has been a family that has been heavily influenced by Simon, the big butterfly. The popular "Home Imperial" series, "Life and Death" series, "One Day" and even the super-god "Titanic" all belonged to Fox in recent years, but unfortunately they were all taken away in advance.

If it weren't for the few cooperation projects that Simon offered, Fox would have been even more difficult for the years.

However, in addition to the bombshell, this conference decided to restart two series, Simon's two famous works in his early years: "The God of Death is Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect".

Since Simon no longer participated in the subsequent series, as the box office continued to decrease and the cost continued to rise, both series ended after completing the trilogy.

This time, Simon is returning again, and the two series are about to restart.

After all, so many years have passed, I can still sell my feelings.

In general, the few things that were roughly finalized in this conference were that the Star Wars Prequel continued to let Lucas go and accelerate the construction of the Agents' Movie Universe, the project of "Mummy 3", the derivatives of "Die Hard 4" and "Alien" series were included in consideration, and the project of "Reaper 4" and "Butterfly Effect 4" were launched.

In fact, the most direct result of this series of actions is that it brings a large number of new opportunities to Hollywood.

The daytime meeting ended and as the news spread, many people began to take action.

Rupert Murdoch is currently living in New York. Since he is here on the West Coast, he will certainly not leave immediately. In the evening, he specially held a cocktail party in the Murdoch family's mansion in Cold Water Canyon in Beverly Hills.

Simon was invited to attend as promised.

In the brightly lit mountain mansion under the night, Simon got out of the car and Murdoch came over in person. She followed her to see the blonde white woman in her 30s, introducing her name Linda, who was Murdoch's new wife. Simon didn't know which one she was.

However, it looks like a very smart woman.

As he greeted the couple, Simon couldn't help but think of something.

This time, because of this big butterfly, a strange woman could not walk to Murdoch again.

What a pity, what a pity!

That was such a strange woman. Simon had no intention of ridicule at all, and it came from the heart.

What a pity.

If he could meet, Simon would definitely help him. However, after flapping his butterfly wings for so many years, he didn't know where the strange woman had been suffused, so Simon wouldn't deliberately search for it.

Speaking of which, Simon has another woman who was once related to Murdoch.

Jerry Hall.

When I met, I just wanted to try it out, but I didn't expect that I would become a long-lasting lover a few times. So, the idea of ​​pushing the other person to Murdoch was gradually dispelled. Let it be natural. After all, Simon couldn't do such a weird thing as actively planting grass, which was something that Simon could not do.

After greeting you, I came to the cocktail party and it was inevitable that there would be another social event.

Simon has always been a very conscious guest and knows that he can't steal the owner's limelight too much. Therefore, after some social engagements, he hid in a corner of the terrace on the edge of the cliff of the mansion as usual.

There is naturally no shortage of flowing water around me.

On the left is Mei Chen Amik, one of the three heroines in "Charlie's Angels".

Compared with Kate Beckinsale and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the big vase set as a femme fatale in the trio of gauze, is one of the worst developments in recent years. Appearing here tonight is probably because of hearing the news, and on the other hand, it is obviously looking for opportunities.

On the right is Shirelin Fen, also a beautiful Hollywood vase, the famous "boxed beauty".

When she said hello, Simon joked that if the other party came to audition, she would be more suitable for "Instinct" than Linda Fiorentino.

With the standards of "Instinct", actresses who pursue a slightly higher desire will hesitate.

However, because "Instinct" had proved very successful, not to mention that this was said by Simon Westeros, Shirelin Fen immediately looked flattered and unknowingly entangled with Simon's side.

Simon was sitting on a four-person sofa, so Shirelin Fen squeezed a girl named Melissa George, the former heroine of "Horror Cruise".

This is the female ICM president Nancy Josephson who led several young actors to greet Simon. The purpose is obvious. He happened to meet a "acquaintance" like Melissa. Although it was not Simon's dish, he pointed to the empty seat next to Xuelin Fen, allowing the other party to sit down, which also caused several other young men and women to lose their composure even if they tried their best to cover up.

What Simon is more curious about is Melissa George's age.

In my memory, "Horror Cruise" was produced in 2009, but I didn't expect that this girl had already debuted now.

Regarding Simon's inquiry, Melissa George, who looks like a little quail or pretends to be like a little quail, has no hesitation for women that he is not suitable for inquiry, saying that he is 23 years old this year.

Great achievements are late.

However, it seems that it has never been a big deal.

Simon had only such an idea, and then quietly labeled "Horror Game". Such a movie was in 2009 when the film and television industry had already begun to become impetuous. If it was made in advance, the market performance would definitely be very good.

In addition, there is certainly no shortage of women Simon is more familiar to the party, such as Nicole Kidman, who happened to be in Los Angeles recently, so he came to support his fellow countrymen, such as the alien girl Natasha Hensquatch, and the South African diamond Charlize Theron, who missed the chance to lead the heroine of "Chicago" last time because Madonna agreed to Simon's conditions.

But, OK, Simon prefers freshness.

The girl who came over to chat with Simon is quite new, Natalie Portman.

To be honest, Simon recognizes the artistic achievements of "This Killer Not Too Cold" and the outstanding performances of the actors, but Simon actually has no feeling about a little girl who came out of it.

Again, although Simon's big butterfly appeared, a little girl still got the role in "This Killer Not Too Cold" again, and once again became Queen Amidala in "Star Wars Prequel: The Ghost's Threat".

The former may be historical inertia or luck, but the latter can only be said to occupy the light of the ethnic group.

Natalie Portman is known to be Jewish.

Moreover, I don’t know if anyone has discovered that Hollywood actually has an interesting thing. Many famous symbolic female characters, such as Queen Amidala in Star Wars, Black Widow in Marvel, and Wonder Woman in DC. Their actors are, yes, all of them are Jews.
To be continued...