The next morning, I woke up in a private garden deep in Taohuawu. I drank wine last night, but I was in good health and had no discomfort.

This is a second-floor bedroom in a small building, with a small window beside the big bed.

Lying on the windowsill, looking out, the eaves of the building and the green curtains are the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. However, Chen Qing suddenly thought of another sentence: how deep the courtyard is.

Then I think, if my boss is here, I will definitely feel more.

Speaking of which, Chen Qing could feel that her boss actually likes to come to China very much, and she vaguely restrains herself from coming to China often.

Think about it privately, it is probably because of the identity position. After all, the position where a man is in has received too much attention, either openly or secretly, and it is easy to affect his whole body.

I was in a daze for a while and then got up quickly to start a new day.

While sitting at the dining table and having breakfast, Jiangshanwu talked about one thing. In Hangzhou, the boss occasionally saw an auction advertisement when he was reading the newspaper last time. The Overseas Chinese Hotel by the West Lake has already been won.

Lin Su came over to ask what to do?

Explain it.

As the operation of Jinshu Film and Television City becomes more and more regular, Jinshu Hotel and Catering Company, a subsidiary of Jinshu Film and Television Tourism Development Group, has also been quite large in recent years. It operates many hotels of different grades in Jinshu Film and Television City from high to low, and has a very mature team.

Therefore, the plan is to draw people from here, clean up and down the hotel first, confirm that something went wrong, and then gradually introduce it to the right track.

To be honest, it is not easy for Chen Qing to operate a hotel in such a prime location on the shore of West Lake to suffer continuous losses for so many years.

But of course, it can be understood.

Here, some things have to continue, but some are dispensable. As long as you eliminate them, it will not be too difficult to make money.

What's more, according to the idea of ​​his own boss, winning this hotel is not largely about making money from the hotel itself. The key is the piece of land owned by the hotel.

Real estate.

Occasionally, Chen Qing didn't dare to think about her boss's huge layout in the Chinese real estate industry, because she always thought of Japan.

I've done a lot of understanding in private.

The development of the real estate industry can indeed drive economic development to a large extent, but once it is overly dependent, it is not easy to get rid of it.

Then I no longer think about it.

Is there so much to manage in the future? What's more, it's not something she can manage.

After breakfast, I went to see the girl in the morning.

The more resources you have, the easier it is to collect beautiful girls, and gradually the habit is formed. After all, your boss obviously likes them very much. Moreover, for girls, it is also an opportunity: Do you want to immigrate?

These days, ninety of them in a hundred must have thought.

Think about it at all costs.

However, Chen Qing doesn't make any promises.

It is certain that you can go abroad, but whether you can immigrate depends on your luck, such as whether you can win the favor of your own boss?

I had such a busy day and flew to Seoul the next day.

I discussed with my boss about Clinton's visit to Vietnam in August, and this time I would go to South Korea to further coordinate some of the planned investment projects.

After the private plane took off, Chen Qing remembered that she seemed to have forgotten something in the past few days she came back to Suzhou.

But.

Next time, next time.

Olivia Bu Er Chen Westero: My real mother?!

...

With everyone's busyness, another box office week in July ended soon.

First of all, it is mainland China. From July 14 to July 20, "Kung Fu" received another 187 million yuan in the second week of its release. Including the 236 million yuan in the first week, the total box office broke through the 400 million mark, reaching a total of 423 million yuan, ranking first in the box office championship in mainland China's film history.

There was joy.

It can be said that in July 2000, the release of "Kung Fu" has become a small event in China. Even though the film has broken the film and television records, everyone is still paying close attention to the moment when the box office of the movie broke through the 500 million mark, increasing the record set by "Titanic" a lot.

At the same time, across the ocean.

"Spartan 300 Warriors", which was released on the same day as "Kung Fu", had an unsatisfactory 6.9-point comprehensive media rating. However, with its almost word-of-mouth popularity, it won the box office opening of this summer, which was second only to "Finding Nemo" in the first week. "Spartan 300 Warriors"'s box office decline was considerably controlled at 37% in the next week, and it received another $60.65 million.

The cumulative box office of the film thus reached US$156.93 million.

There is no suspense about 200 million, and 250 million is the next stage goal. As for 300 million, we still can’t expect too much.

However, even if the film finally had a box office of around 250 million US dollars, it was already a huge success. After "Resident Evil", Zach Schneider easily advanced to the ranks of first-line directors with this "Spartan 300 Warriors".

Daenerys's three-piece film contract was originally made.

One movie is left.

Faced with other studios' appeal to Zach Schneider, Simon was not very anxious.

The main reason is that Zach Schneider's skills are doubtful, but his shortcomings are also obvious. Of course, the director only made two movies this time, and both of them were quite successful, and others did not find his shortcomings.

Simon knew it.

Simply put, Zach Schneider has a weak narrative ability in movies, which is why he is better at projects with a foundation of novels or comics, but even if he has a foundation of story, he often loses control and goes off the line. Perhaps for hardcore comic fans, it doesn't matter if Zach Schneider shoots the story for more than three hours, or even ten hours at a time. But, at the commercial level, this is definitely not feasible.

In theater movies, three hours are already the limit, and two hours are the best choice.

The director just lacks the commercial ability to compress the story into two hours and complete it simply, which inevitably leads to a contradiction with the studio's previous appearance.

Having said that, whether it was once or this time, Zach Schneider's first two films were actually well controlled within two hours. So, why did they frequently lose control later?

Very simple.

He has a high status and a strong voice, and then he can't help but exert his freedom.

This is why Simon has always insisted that film creators must be subject to sufficient constraints, and no matter how high the status is, they cannot do anything randomly. Instead, they need to make certain compromises between personal creative concepts and studio commercial needs. Otherwise, the result will often be disasters after disaster.

For example, later, I was always used to threatening that we didn't care about anything except giving money, but from the explosion to Schneider, each of them was very excited, and all of them were smashed out.

Then the traditional studios gradually came from behind.

The reason why traditional studios can come from behind in the streaming field is very simple. They have a large number of classic works that have been proven and have been tested in box office or ratings. This is not something that can be achieved by spending a few big directors to make a bunch of assembly lines.

The name of a big director is not that attractive, and spending money to let them make bad movies will backfire.

In short, since other studios have various olive branches, Simon is happy to go out and let Zach Schneider go out and let him go. With his confidence in selling two consecutive movies, the control is definitely true. As for how much it is released, it depends on God's will.

What if it succeeds again?

It's also not a big problem. After all, there is still a film that is on offer at home and will come back sooner or later. Even if you really don't go back, Simon has enough talent reserves in his pocket.

While "Spartan 300 Warriors" unexpectedly maintained a good trend the next week of release, Daenerys's new film, "Magic Mike 2", performed worse than expected.

The first part of "Magic Mike" was ultra-low cost of $7 million, and North America won $123 million in box office. Although it was not satisfactory overseas, the global box office eventually reached $170 million, which is a dark horse.

In this sequel, Daenerys once again invited Steven Soderbergh to direct it, and the production cost more than doubled to $15 million. However, the painting started on July 14, and in a week, it only won $26.28 million in box office.

Compared with the production cost, $26.28 million is certainly not low, but this is not even as high as $27.32 million in the first week of the first drama.

Not only that, the first part was a completely dark horse trend. Even if it did not reach tens of millions in the first week, it eventually won $123 million in box office due to its good box office curve. This time, with the popularity accumulated by the first part and the full promotion and promotion before its release, the New World Pictures team responsible for this project predicted that the first week of the film would need to reach about 40 million to ensure that the sequel would still exceed 100 million.

$26.28 million is obviously far below the 40 million expectations.

According to this start, the final North American box office of "Magic Mike 2" will be around 60 million.

Of course, it is still a good result, but it is inevitable that it is regrettable.

Because the box office gap is too big, even without Simon's strategy of delaying development of the sequel, the third part will be difficult to start again.

July 21, another Friday.

The new box office week begins, and Daenerys's new film this week is "Black Dahlia".

This novel based on real events is much more popular than the previous "Los Angeles Secret", one of the previous "Los Angeles Secret". After the success of "Los Angeles Secret", "Black Dahlia" was successfully launched and continued to be directed by Brian de Palma.

Speaking of which, there was once a version of "Black Dahlia" directed by Palma, with Scarlett Johnson participating, and the result was a box office tragedy.

Simon still chose Palma this time, and was not affected by his past memories. It was also because the former version of "Black Dahlia" was originally a mess that Palma accepted. At the beginning, the project was David Fincher's brewing. As a result, the director wanted to shoot the film into a black and white film. Of course, the studio did not agree. After a long time of pulling, it finally fell on Palma. The veteran director performed under the framework of the story that Fincher had been tossing for a long time, but it was not satisfactory.

This time, Simon tailored the script from the beginning according to Parma's personal style, and combined with the version I remembered, learning from his strengths and weaknesses, and the result was satisfactory.

The premiere was held two days in advance, and the reputation was lifted. Even if it was not as good as the previous "Los Angeles City Secret", the comprehensive media score reached 7.8 points. This is a considerable result for a murder-type crime thriller. Among them, Simon replicated the video show passage of Mia Koschna in the 06 version, which attracted frequent attention from film critics, believing that Mia Koschna could get an Oscar nomination for an Oscar female supporting actress just by relying on this performance.

Therefore, all parties have considerable confidence in the commercial success of "Black Dahlia" to continue "Los Angeles Secret".

...

After July 21, the following weekend, the Simons were in Atlantic City on the East Coast.

The 2000 Elite World Elite Model Competition Finals was Saturday, July 22. Similarly, in order to promote several casinos in Atlantic City that belong to the Westeros system, they chose to hold them here again.

Simon certainly did not attend the finals.

After all, when I went there, the audience watched him. It was too unkind to be a big man to go to steal the limelight from a group of little girls.

Just attended the after-party after the finals.

History has been continuously disrupted by Simon, the big butterfly. In similar occasions, fewer and fewer familiar faces can be found. However, there are still two more this time, one is from Australia, the famous Miranda Kerr, and the other is from Canada, the famous baby-faced supermodel, Jessica Stan.

Actually, it's not too accidental.

Both of them were discovered by Simon while reading the list of Elite contestants. Then, it was easy to find a mastermind behind him as he was so big that it would be easy to support two girls.

However, the two women only entered the finals.

In the end, I didn't get any awards.

This is not Simon's deliberate arrangement. After all, the model competition has its own fixed process. If Simon can pick out the two girls, it depends on their luck in the future and let it go.

Speaking of which, the experiences of the two models are very different.

They are all considered baby face types, and Miranda Kerr is definitely the winner in life. Even after a few marriages, she can still marry a billionaire who is 7 years younger than her. The other one, Jessica Stan, was originally very tall, but as a result, she was basically destroyed by drugs. She was only in her twenties, and her once exquisite baby face has turned into a vicissitudes of life.

The two girls, one is 17 years old and the other is 14 years old, both of whom are good at modeling careers. I wonder what their respective life opportunities will be and how far can they go this time?

Anyway, as we all know, Simon is a very helpful tycoon, the kind of lamp god.
Chapter completed!