On November 13 and November 14, there were two consecutive election votes that Simon paid more attention to.

The first one is in Australia.

On November 13, Australia launched another national vote on whether to shift from a monarchy to a republic, to decide whether Australia will leave the Commonwealth system and move towards a completely independent republic.

During the prior poll, 67% of Australian voters expressed their willingness to leave the Commonwealth, but the result was unexpected, and the vote was ineffective at the end of the vote of 43% to 57%.

As a key area of ​​land for the Westeros system to operate as a base, Simon certainly would not ignore this matter.

However, it did not add fuel to the fire.

Although theoretically, completely separating Australia from the Commonwealth seems to be more conducive to the Westeros system's control over this country, it is not.

Inseparable from the Commonwealth, Australia is essentially a single country. Remaining within the Commonwealth system, under the current world pattern, it is more conducive to allowing the Westeros system to take Australia as its foundation and extend its tentacles to all aspects of the former Commonwealth countries. After all, the Commonwealth system is not only a political and cultural consistency, but also has many economic connections.

If you leave now, perhaps the result will be like the British rash Brexit in the original time and space, which is very unwise.

Of course, if necessary in the future, the monarchy will only be a matter of another vote.

The second is Ukraine.

The second round of Ukraine's first round of presidential election on October 31 was held on November 14 after no one got an absolute majority.

Without any suspense, the current Ukrainian President Leon Kuchima won the Ukrainian leader Petro Simonenko, who only won 37% of the vote with an absolute majority of 63% of the vote, and successfully achieved re-election.

Since it was an expected result, Simon just asked the spokesperson there to congratulate Kuchima on his behalf.

Speaking of which, Ukraine has already entered winter in October. Because the economic crisis continues, it has eased slightly compared to last year, but it is also very reluctant.

Even if Petro Simonenko had not been too fierce the policy proposed by him, it would not be impossible to defeat Kuchima in the current economic environment of Ukraine.

After all, ordinary people only value their own belly. Sometimes, even drawing a big cake is good.

The cakes painted by Leon Kuchima are well-founded, stable currency, introducing foreign capital, increasing agricultural support, etc. are all foreseeable. Moreover, the Rovno Gang cooperated to let Kuchima take his own success as an example.

As for Simonenko, such as interrupting the privatization process and re-nationalizing, it makes people feel a little scared.

Originally, everyone had nothing left, and they still had to be nationalized. Who would they be transformed?

Then, restore the Ukrainian economy to its level before the 1990s within five years.

It sounds strange. After all, under normal circumstances, no one would say that he would reach the economic level ten years ago in ten years.

However, that's the truth.

Just to say that the daily necessities that are currently in short supply in Ukraine and even the entire former Soviet Union were able to reach 80% before 1990. At present, Ukraine has a relatively high proportion, and the self-sufficiency rate is only 30%, and the rest needs to be imported.

By the way, half of the self-sufficiency rate of 30% comes from Rovno Prefecture, and all other states and counties in Ukraine can only contribute the other 15%.

This is because the Rovno Gang is more inclined to export, otherwise it will definitely provide more. After all, relatively speaking, export profits are higher, while in China, Ukrainian currency exchange rates are rising and falling, and they really can't make much money.

Probably like India.

India's food is definitely not enough, but a large number of food is used for export, so it has become the world's largest rice exporter. As for what to do in China, the landlords have no surplus grain and can't care about that much.

After the weekend, another Tuesday, Simon set off for China again.

Mainly Chen Qing's side, the little guy was born successfully on the morning of November 16th local time, on the ninth day of the 10th lunar month.

It was originally expected to be the end of the month, and it was a few days earlier, but it had nothing to do with premature birth. The fat girl who was six pounds and three ounces was healthy.

Simon has been in close contact during Chen Qing's pregnancy. It is probably understandable that it is because a girl wants to drive the little girl out of her belly. After all, she has been pregnant for more than half a year, and it seems to be sealed for Chen Qing.

And, if it is just sealed, it is nothing.

The key is that he is a girl.

Simon really doesn't mind being a girl, and finally she has a little cotton jacket. Unfortunately, a girl looks like she is obviously a boy who prefers boys. Therefore, she gave the girl a very traditional nickname, Bu Er.

Chen Buer.

Anyway, such things are unreasonable. If you say you prefer boys over girls, aren’t you a woman?

The answer is yes, so I don't even look down on myself.

What else can I say?

Simon arrived in Suzhou on Wednesday, November 17, and accompanied Chen Qing and his daughter here for three days. He then moved to Hangzhou and stayed for a weekend before leaving and flew to Beijing.

In just a few days, the first week of the official Thanksgiving schedule in North America has also come to an end.

November 12 to November 18.

The three blockbusters last week were not too disappointing, but if you only talk about the box office, there would be no surprises.

The first place is not Daenerys' "Racing Story", but MGM's "007 Casino Royale", which has a box office of 75.11 million US dollars in seven days in the first week. Compared with the production cost of 90 million US dollars and the promotion and promotion of 50 million US dollars, such a start is still the same sentence, not a success or a failure.

According to the trend of commercial films released in saturated form, the first week is US$75.11 million, and the total local box office is expected to be around US$150 million.

The original version of "007 Casino Royale" was released in 2006 and had a local box office of about 160 million yuan.

This movie is 150 million, seven years ahead of schedule. Considering inflation factors, it may be higher than before. However, compared with the previous movie "007: The Ghost Party", the gap is really obvious.

The summer of 1996 "007: The Ghost Party" started at 89.17 million US dollars in the first week. With its excellent reputation, the local area reached 307 million US dollars and 778 million US dollars worldwide, making a big profit.

However, it is undeniable that the unsatisfactory time of "007 Casino Royale" is largely due to the overcrowding schedule.

If it is still the summer season, at least 200 million yuan is fine. The global market is expected to steadily exceed 500 million yuan. Even if the total cost is 140 million yuan, it can still make good profits in the theater stage.

no way.

After all, looking at other second- and third-tier small brands that have been squeezed to the point where they have to actively compress production production in recent years, MGM is definitely good.

It's the second place's turn to "Racing Move".

In the first week of painting, this 3D animated film, which has to tell the story and themes, is somewhat indifferent to the young, earning $63.55 million at the beginning, which is also not as popular as the previous few.

However, as long as you can survive the impact of "Cyborg 2" in the next week, it will be fine for "Racing Movement" to have 200 million local areas throughout the end of the year.

What's more, Simon doesn't care much about the box office, the key is the surrounding area.

With the release of the film, Daenerys has more convenient monitoring of surrounding areas because of Hasbro channels.

Due to sufficient preparations for distribution in advance and the approaching Thanksgiving, the sales of toys in "Racing Story" are very popular. However, the first weekend of the film's release, the preliminary statistics on the toy sales in three days easily exceeded 100 million. Moreover, considering that there will be Christmas in the future, this sales growth rate will only continue to accelerate.

The Hasbro team even gave a very bold prediction. In this year's end of the year, the sales of peripheral toys in "Racing Story" are likely to quickly reach the $1 billion level in the United States.

Considering that most of the toys are produced and sold through their own Hasbro channel this time, the gross profit of this series of toys is only owned by Daenerys. The gross profit of toys is expected to reach more than 65%, with a sales of US$1 billion toys, and a gross profit of 65%...

Who cares about the box office!

As the news came to the report, in just a few trading days, Daenerys's stock price, which was already considered a bit outrageous by the capital market, increased by 6.3% again in one week. At the close of Friday, Daenerys' total market value had reached 778.1 billion US dollars, even surpassing Igret, who has been holding on here.

Igrit's market value closed on Friday was $765.3 billion.

In addition, Hasbro's original shareholders regretted it very much.

Losing!

It's really a loss!

However, of course there is no regret medicine to take, after all, the equity delivery process of both parties was completed in October.

What's more, according to Simon's original idea, if Hasbro did not submit, at the end of the year, the surrounding toys would be mainly handled by Hasbro, and whether they could cooperate again would be a question.

In short, although it failed to win the single-week box office championship, "Racing Story" has basically determined the position of the biggest winner at this end of the year.

After all, the sales of toys of $1 billion, and this data is limited to North America. There are no statistics in the overseas market yet. Even if the proportion overseas is not high, according to half of the calculation here, the profit margin may be lower, but it is enough to exceed the box office revenue of most films at the end of the year.

As for the same comparison.

Even "Cylinder 2", to be honest, there is no comparison, no.

Finally, there is Air Force One.

The Columbia Pictures team, which was acquired by Westinghouse Electric, had high hopes for this movie. The opening performance was a bit disappointing, but it was not a failure. It earned 45.69 million US dollars in seven days in the first week, and it was a little firmer in the future. It was no problem to exceed 100 million. Even if the trend was not satisfactory, it would be more than 80 million.

This is equivalent to $80 million in production costs.

If overseas can be slightly better than local, most of the production and promotion investment can be basically recovered, and if the surrounding area is operated, you can start to make a profit.

Of course, there is a big gap between the hope of Westinghouse.

After three major hits, last week's four new films, "The Genius Ripley", which relies on the plot to win, barely fell behind, and ranked fourth, with a drop of 39% the next week, and another $19.97 million, with a cumulative box office of $52.76 million.

Next is "The Ghost Nun", which ranked fifth, faced a 53% sharp drop in the third week of release, and continued to earn US$14.56 million, with a cumulative box office of US$101.89 million. It successfully entered the 100 million box office club, but in the future, there is only 20 to 30 million potential, and the local box office is expected to be around US$130 million.

Except for the top five, other videos have fallen within the range of tens of millions of dollars, which is considered to be a withdrawal from the competition for gratitude, so there is no need to say anything.

On November 15, a new box office week will begin, and it will be the week that will be crossing Thanksgiving.

More than one new film is still released this week, but only one new film is worth mentioning, that is "Cylinder 2".

Warner Bros. officially held its global premiere on Wednesday in advance, and the word-of-mouth was lifted on Thursday. Not only did the media score reach 8.7 points to affirm the reputation of the film. This time, the joining of new DC superheroes such as Aquaman and Mars Hunter has also made movie fans excited.
Chapter completed!