The next day, I got up early and was used to hugging left and right. Only one foot was bound, Simon subconsciously kicked out.

Amid the voices of the woman, she woke up.

There are some lingering around me.

Scarlett Johnson, who was like a petite cat in his arms, Simon sat up and saw Demi Moore, who was climbing up from the bed with a look of pain. When he saw Simon, the woman immediately looked pitiful again and rubbed her stomach: "Simon, why did she kick me?"

"Sleepwalking."

Simon smiled and gave an answer, without disturbing her, she got out of bed from the end of the bed. She was about to go directly to the bathroom, but saw the woman on the ground, and kicked her again: "Come on."

Demi Moore noticed the expression on the man's face and knew that nothing good was going to happen, but he changed to a pleasing smile and followed obediently.

This man is the king of Hollywood now. Even though she turned over because of "The Matrix", there was no room for bargaining in front of him. Not only that, Demi Moore took the initiative to pester over last night and lied that her husband went to New York to discuss projects. In fact, Bruce Willis was in Los Angeles and there was a Golden Globe Awards ceremony together. However, at the subsequent party, Moore took the initiative to send the other party away and did not allow him to attend.

Otherwise, how can you stick to Simon Westeros?

After washing up, I had morning exercises, took a shower and changed my clothes again, and sat in the restaurant. It was seven o'clock in the morning.

She didn't let the women of last night come over to disturb her, Simon had a meal alone, and by the way, she followed the feedback from the Golden Globes in the media today. If nothing unexpected happens, she still cannot escape the controversy.

For example, the double yolk eggs of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna, The Hollywood Reporter criticized the Golden Globes judges for giving up their professional principles again. After all, even though both women performed very well, Catherine Zeta-Jones was obviously better.

Speaking of which, an old man killer also complained to Simon on the bed last night.

However, this is the operation of the people below, and Simon ignored the details. As long as the general direction is fine, he did not ask about it.

Then there is the best film in the plot category, which is also criticized. The focus of criticism is on the Golden Globes' pork, so that "The Matrix" and "The Genius Ripley" are ignored. Some media also mentioned the "Lord of the Rings: The Rings" which is still popular, and believes that this movie has more power to win the Golden Globes' best film in the plot category, but it has not even won a nomination, which is simply an unjust case.

Anyway, Hollywood Awards Season has always been like this.

After breakfast, the women here were not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles. They obviously wanted to stay here for fun. After all, this place was too luxurious and they didn't have to spend money on their own.

Simon just sat on the Boeing 767 flying back to Los Angeles alone.

Still not to be too lazy.

After the Boeing 767 took off at the airport in San Lucas, Simon started working for the day in the study in the front cabin.

First, I paid attention to a business plan from China, about Jinshu's plan to cooperate with China Film and Television to establish a large-scale film, television, audio and video product sales and leasing chain company, with the goal of promoting genuine products.

In history, Simon didn't remember any genuine rental chain in China, but this does not mean that China does not have this market.

Still the same shoe theory.

In fact, there is a prerequisite for the shoe theory, that is, sellers must first determine whether people who don’t wear shoes are capable of consuming shoes in a region. If there is, it is worth promoting. If it is not because of habits, but because of poorness, they really can’t afford shoes, then promotion is still useless.

In China, the answer to this question is yes.

China has a broad mass base for consuming genuine audio and video products, and the population has a large number of people with consumption capacity. At present, if it is used as rental, the price will definitely drop significantly compared to directly purchasing genuine CDs, and the consumer group will definitely be larger.

Just like the video website later.

To a certain extent, video websites are also a kind of film and television rental. Just like Netflix's development from online physical rental to streaming media, China has not experienced a previous stage because the 1990s happened to be a period of the lowest level of China's film industry.

At present, there is a sudden situation in this industry.

Thinking of this, Simon made annotations after this plan. In addition to the company that can cooperate appropriately with Blockbuster, such as introducing the management system here, or if conditions permit, you can also try to directly form a joint venture. However, in addition, the most important suggestion Simon gave there is a video website.

Currently, the YouTube video website in the United States has been developing for several years and has expanded its business to most developed countries in the West. In China, as the construction of basic network facilities continues to advance, it can also try to build its own video website there.

Of course, Simon did not forget how the first video websites in China developed.

Or pirated.

After all, it still involves resource issues. There are not enough genuine resources, or even if there are enough genuine resources, the public just likes to watch various types of films that cannot be reviewed in the mainland. If there is no way, they can only look for them on video websites or download websites.

This time, if you can get official support and establish the rules from the beginning, although subsequent development will not be too easy, you will eventually gain the upper hand.

As for what to do next, Simon is not sure.

However, there is one thing that as long as the concept is hyped up, even if you make an IPO next time, at least the return on investment on the books will definitely be very generous.

In short, in the current era of Chinese business barbarism, whether you want to do something or just want to make money, you actually have enough soil for development. The key is to do it, and at the same time you also need to know how to do it.

Back in Los Angeles, it is January 24th.

on Monday.

Simon arrived directly at Daenerys Cinema from the airport, but the first thing he paid attention to had nothing to do with the film and television industry.

Celia Miller, who flew over the east coast early, was already waiting here to report something to Simon. In Eastern Europe, the time was 11 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. Local time this morning, the Russian army completely cleared the last military stronghold outside Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and achieved a complete siege of Grozny.

Next, unless the United States or NATO directly sends troops to Chechnya, the Chechnya war situation will basically end completely within the next half month.

Simon has been quietly paying attention to the matter in Russia.

During this period, there has been a different story from the past.

In the original time and space, Yeltsin should have voluntarily resigned from his post as Russian president on the last day of 1999 and promoted someone to acting president. Then, Russia also held a new presidential election in advance. However, this time, until now, something has not happened.

Since a trip to Moscow more than a year ago to ease Russia's financial crisis, Simon has no direct connection with Yeltsin. However, half a region apart, Simon can understand Yeltsin's mentality now compared to the past.

Once, someone was carefully selected by Yeltsin himself.

And this time, at least in Yeltsin's view, someone was completely Simon pushing him step by step.

After all, as the president of a big country and a Russian, even though he had made a statement long ago, even now, there was no turning back, and Yeltsin was inevitably hesitant.

After all, should we really sell our country completely?

...

Simon was right.

Moscow, Yeltsin has been hesitating since the end of last year.

Simon only said something once, which was the proposal when he first met Yeltsin's daughter. One of them was that Yeltsin needed to give up power in advance, so that someone would first take over the state's power as a president, and then hold the presidential election.

As the Russian army completed its encirclement of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Yeltsin also discovered that he seemed to have been forced into the perspective.

In recent years, Yeltsin has read someone's files more than once, and has read them many times. In addition, in recent years, those who have arranged the other party to observe them, he is a very capable person.

If Simon Westeros, Yeltsin felt that handing over the country to the other party would be a good result.

The problem is Simon Westeros.

Even though Yeltsin's process of seizing power was not very glorious, Yeltsin himself was always firm. He hoped that his country would have a better future, and never had the idea of ​​bringing this great country that once confronted the United States into the abyss.

Never.

Now, if you... carelessly, you may be the real abyss.

This entanglement and anxiety have even made Yeltsin's physical condition worsen again in recent months, so that he spent most of his time lying in the hospital ward.

Starting from the Russian army's encirclement of Grozny on January 24, day by day, hesitating for another week. Until the evening of January 30, Yeltsin, who was still in the hospital during the day, suddenly returned to his office at the Kremlin. Late at night, he urgently summoned the last prime minister.

A long talk overnight.

The next day, on January 31, a very sudden news broke out and spread quickly all over the world.

Yeltsin suddenly issued a statement saying that on that day, he resigned from the position of Russian president and temporarily transferred Russia's supreme power to his prime minister. Then, in the evening of that day, Yeltsin left the Kerge Palace by car and moved into a villa in the western suburbs of Moscow.

It's like hanging a crown.

This time, Yeltsin did not even notify anyone in advance, whether it was the heads of other countries in the world, or a young man who had agreed on all this, or even Yeltsin's daughter only knew about it when her father announced the news through live TV.

Then, after a second daughter of the Yeltsin family who had just ended her marriage recently, who was temporarily restored to her original surname Tatyana Yeltsin, communicated with her father who seemed to have suddenly let go of everything, she was at a loss for a moment, and could only ignore the tacit understanding that both parties maintained at one time and tried to contact Simon.

The call between the two sides lasted for more than ten minutes. Simon could feel the sudden panic of a woman, but just comforted her. As for Xu Nuo, frankly, he really couldn't promise anything to the other party.

Because before this day, if someone was still a chess piece that Simon could mobilize, he would no longer be able to control many things after this day.

Simon had never thought about control, it was unrealistic.

Simon's original goal was to make history follow the direction he was more familiar with, so as not to be unrecognizable too early and make him at a loss.

Of course, Simon could not confess such a thing so stupidly.

Just like someone who is really in a certain position for the moment, even if he is firm in the future, it is absolutely impossible to completely cut off the involvement with the Westeros system, because the other party is a smart person, not a reckless man. Unless the Westeros system completely wants the other party to be a puppet, it will not be difficult to fight for the benefits that various Westeros systems want here.

The second day after the sudden political turmoil in Russia, Simon set out again, with the goal of Asia.

In China, this year's Lunar New Year will be made in advance on February 5th, and Simon will certainly not miss the appointment.

However, I went to Korea first.

As usual, I paid attention to the development of projects in South Korea and the routine inspection of the declared territory.

Regarding the major pillar industries in South Korea, the Westeros system is still conducting in-depth penetration and control step by step. Simon only knows one thing that he is not familiar with and will not rashly interfere in micromanagement.

As for the more familiar film and television entertainment.

During this period, South Korea was very lively.

First of all, the two previous films "The Strange Talk of the Girls" released on December 31, 1999, the American version of "The Strange Talk of the Girls" and the Korean version of "The Strange Talk of the Girls 2", were widely hyped in advance, and the quality of the two films could stand the test, and the final box office results were excellent.

As of the week before Simon arrived, it was released for four weeks. Two horror films that were in low-cost in each market, and the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea exceeded 2 million. Moreover, as expected, the Korean version of "The Strange Talk of the Girls 2" was slightly better, with a cumulative number of viewers in four weeks reaching 2.59 million. It is expected that after the next Spring Festival, the total number of viewers can easily exceed 3 million.

According to the average ticket price of about 3,500 won in South Korea, the number of viewers of 3 million is 10.5 billion won. The production cost of "The Strange Talk of the Girls 2" is still only 1 billion won, so it is only 1 billion won in the theater stage, so it can make a big profit this time.

Next is the American version of "The Strange Tale of the Girls", which was released for four weeks, with a total of 2.13 million viewers, and the total number of viewers is expected to be around 2.5 million.

Not as good as the Korean version of "The Strange Talk of the Girls 2", but one thing that cannot be ignored is that the film makes a lot of profit in South Korea. After all, the North American local area has achieved all costs and achieved profitability. Moreover, even if the Korean version surpasses the American version, the current total box office of the current 100 million yuan is not comparable to the Korean version.

In addition to the two "The Strange Talk of the Girls", there is also the "Mingliang Battle" that is being promoted in full swing recently.

This is the last of the three blockbuster movies.

Compared with the first two films "The Life and Death Transformation" and "The Common Guard Area", the initial $10 million was not actually spent so much, because it was a costume drama or a war film, and it was still a naval warfare film that was difficult to shoot. Many special effects were used in it. The final budget cost of "The Battle of Mingliang" reached 16 billion won, which is equivalent to 12 million US dollars at the current exchange rate of around 1,300.

At present, coupled with the same huge amount of publicity and distribution expenditure, even if the Korean authorities still receive a large subsidy, if the number of Korean viewers in this film does not exceed 10 million, the possibility of making a profit is not too high.
Chapter completed!