San Jose City in San Francisco Bay.

It was December 20, in Willoughlon District, south of downtown San Jose, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" officially started filming here from December 12.

The original "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" story takes place in Philadelphia on the East Coast. Simon's body has never been to Philadelphia yet. Instead, he has too many memories of San Jose, so he sets the story here.

Simon flew here from Los Angeles yesterday morning. During the visit, he visited several technology companies that Westeros have invested in.

Because this is the first time Simon has returned to the place where he grew up since he became famous, both the Bay Area media and the local government are very excited about it. However, Simon did not arrange various visit schedules as many people expected, but instead spent most of his time working.

As December begins, media from all sides have been very keen to discuss how much money Daenerys Entertainment has made this year. Even the most conservative estimates are enough to make most Hollywood film companies jealous.

Since he occupied this body, Simon was destined to be unable to escape from everything in the past.

Before Simon left San Jose, Pat Kingsley announced that the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation would donate $1 million to several schools and welfare institutions in San Jose. This money is a drop in the bucket compared to Simon's current net worth, but since it has been done, the media will no longer say that Simon is too indifferent to where he grows up. Although, this is the case.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon began to conduct a final plot link to the upcoming "Batman".

Over the past few months, Simon himself and the storyboard artists he hired have accumulated more than 2,000 concept pictures and storyboard drafts, and some very important shots have also specially made short reference animations. After such a long time of preparation, the whole movie can be said to be completely contained in Simon's mind, and all we have to do is to display them on film.

After all, "Batman" will not be released until next year. In recent days, Hollywood's most popular one is undoubtedly "Rain Man", which has been silently counterattacking.

After the first day of $2.1 million, "Rain Man" not only unexpectedly achieved a three-day box office for the first weekend of $7.28 million. On the working day, the movie's box office revenue of nearly one million US dollars in a single day was also unexpected.

Premonition of this unusualness, Daenerys Entertainment immediately conducted a questionnaire survey on "Rain Man" directly to the audience.

As a result, 36% of the 1,000 viewers surveyed in major cities in North America only chose to watch the movie after being recommended by relatives and friends around them. At the same time, up to 91% of the viewers said they would recommend this video to people around them.

For these two data, Amy Pascal and Robert Rem, who are experienced in the industry, determined that "Rain Man" is having a rare word-of-mouth effect.

Although Simon's "Running Roll" successfully evolved into an "event movie", it mainly relied on Simon's age gimmick, media hype and audiences' strong curiosity. "Rain Man" really attracted audiences into cinemas with its content.

Therefore, although it is not clear what the next box office trend of "Rain Man" will evolve into a "event movie" again, at least one thing can be confirmed that "Rain Man" will definitely not fail as everyone predicted before.

As word of mouth continues to ferment, many media that were originally affected by CAA have also published positive reviews of "Rain Man".

Among the complex and difficult-to-understand emotions such as countless expectations, doubts, fear, etc., the box office data for the new week was officially released on December 23.

Universal Pictures' unexpectedly sold "Dragon Brothers and Rats" still holds the weekly box office championship position. In the second week of its release, the film received another $12.17 million.

Following "The Dragon Brother and the Rat Brother" is "Rain Man".

In the seven days of the first week, the final box office of "Rain Man" reached 11.65 million US dollars, almost exceeding the 50% expected of the first week of $8 million. People who were not expecting this movie at all found that such a box office start, coupled with the ever-expanding reputation of the film, it is not impossible for "Rain Man" to hit a 100 million box office club.

In addition to "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment's "Steel Magnolia" and "Scream" continued to win a box office of $7.66 million and $5.73 million, ranking fourth and fifth on the list.

The second week of painting, "Dead Poetry Club", has received another $2.08 million this week after the box office of $1.63 million last week. In just two weeks of preview, the cumulative box office of "Dead Poetry Club" has reached $3.71 million.

"Dead Poetry Club" officially opened a large-scale screen this week as many as 1,693, which is more than the 1,621 screens after the emergency deployment of Universal Pictures' "Dragon Brother and Rat Brother". In addition, the reputation accumulated by the film's preview for two consecutive weeks, almost few people would suspect that "Dead Poetry Club" will win the box office championship of Christmas week.

In addition to "Death Poetry Club", there are three more films released this week, namely Disney's 2D animation "Adventures of Oliva" adapted from Dickens' "Orphans of the Fog", Fox's "Working Girl" with a series of nominations but mediocre quality, and "My Stepmother Is an Alien" which MGM took over from Columbia Pictures after giving up "Rain Man".

Compared with the 1,693 screens of "Death Poetry Club", the opening screen size of these three new films is relatively low, with "Oliva's Adventures" being 952 yuan, "Working Girl" being 1,051 yuan, and "My Stepmother is an Alien" being 1,106 yuan.

Just like "Dragon Brothers and Rat Brothers", due to its strong reputation, the release scale of "Steel Magnolia" this week has also expanded again, reaching 1,613 yuan, becoming the third film in the Christmas season with a release scale of more than 1,600 yuan.

This year's Christmas Eve is still spent together with Simon and Janet. After Christmas, the crew of "Batman" began to set off to Melbourne one after another, but Simon has to wait until after New Year's Day.

Perhaps because the previous few months were too deserted compared to previous years, with the arrival of Christmas, the market in North America this week showed an explosive growth. Although there were only four new films that were launched on a large scale, from December 23 to December 29, many old films that had been released for several weeks showed strong box office rebounds.

However, there are always people in this world who are happy and others are sad.

Since the box office and reputation of "Rain Man" began to counterattack, MGM has been in a strong sense of uneasiness.

If the box office of $11.65 million in the first week is not so unacceptable, when the box office data for the new week is released, Tony Tomopoulos, chairman of United States, who decided to give up the distribution rights of "Rain Man", only feels that his job may be lost.

On December 30, the box office will be released on seven days during Christmas Week.

Compared with the total box office of $73.19 million last week, the market soared 68% this week to $122.36 million.

"Death Poetry Club", which has the largest number of screens, has accumulated reputation in the previous two weeks, and achieved a box office of $19.01 million in the first week, successfully winning the single-week box office championship for Christmas week, with a cumulative box office of $22.72 million.

It is obvious that Daenerys Entertainment's 1988 box office member was born.

However, compared to the expectations of "Death Poetry Club", what surprised everyone this week was "Rain Man".

In the second week of the release, "Rain Man" was still only 1,136 yuan on the screen, but with the further ferment of reputation, the box office of this movie, which obviously has successfully evolved into a phenomenal film, not only did not fall in the next week, but instead soared by 45%, reaching US$16.67 million.

Even though the box office of other films such as "Dragon Brothers and Rats" and "Steel Magnolia" has increased to varying degrees this week, the counter-decline of "Rain Man" of up to 45% is still amazing.

You should know that the reverse decline of "Dragon Brothers and Rat Brothers" was only 18%. "Steel Magnolia" increased the number of screens to 1,613, and the theme was very consistent with the festive atmosphere. The reverse decline of this film was only 25%.

Moreover, because of the different box office base last week, "Dragon Brothers and Rats", which fell by 18%, had a box office of US$13.67 million this week, and the box office of "Steel Magnolia" was actually only US$9.21 million.

With the unchanged screen number, "Rain Man" achieved a box office downturn of up to 45%, and the single-week box office figure jumped from $11.65 million last week to $16.67 million. In two weeks, this film, which was originally predicted by many people in North America, may only have a box office of $20 million, and the total box office figure has reached $28.32 million.

At the same time, such box office data officially means that the six films produced by Daenerys Entertainment this year have completely achieved a Grand Slam with a box office of over 100 million yuan. Of course, a horror comedy taken over from New World Entertainment was naturally ignored.

In comparison, MGM gave up on "My Stepmother Is an Alien" that he took from Colombia, because his reputation collapsed after the painting was opened, and there was no wave at all in the hot Christmas market.

In the first seven days of the week, the family comedy with a budget of up to $20 million only earned $3.81 million in box office.

When the media noticed this, all that was left to MGM was pure ridicule.

MGM gave up on "Rain Man" and chose "My Stepmother is an Alien" when she was not favored. The original plan was actually quite perfect.

A family comedy with science fiction, like "My Stepmother Is Alien", is completely in line with the schedule of Christmas compared to the two men's magical road movies. Although Columbia Pictures is not optimistic about this movie during the internal preview stage, MGM executives generally believe that even if "My Stepmother Is Alien" is worse, it should be better than "Rain Man".

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

"My Stepmother From Alien" has a box office of $3.81 million in the first week. Even if MGM can get a 55% box office share from theaters, she can only recover $2.09 million.

If we follow the contract signed with Daenerys Entertainment, the Rain Man has a total box office of US$28.32 million in two weeks. At a 15% release commission ratio, MGM can get a gap between US$4.25 million and US$4.25 million. It doesn't need to be said that the expected share of the two weeks is close to the 5 million quotation when MGM let go of "Rain Man".

There is a rumor in the circle that just after Christmas, Kirk Cokerian, the big boss behind MGM, flew to Los Angeles from Las Vegas because of the "Rain Man" incident, gathering a group of MGM executives and scolding him.

Although there were media reports that MGM would file a lawsuit against Daenerys Entertainment, trying to claim compensation based on some loopholes in the contract between the two parties, there is obviously no follow-up to this matter. Not to mention that Daenerys Entertainment is unlikely to leave the beginning and end of MGM. The now-destroyable MGM does not have the financial strength to sue Daenerys Entertainment.

Faced with the unexpected box office of "Rain Man", in addition to MGM who beat his chest and stamped his feet, the most tangled ones are undoubtedly the biggest names under CAA.

When the box office curve of "Rain Man" counterattacked all the way gradually became clear, Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise all became the targets of close pursuit of paparazzi. Their previous disdain for "Rain Man" is still vivid in their minds. Now, the thing paparazzi likes to do the most is to chase behind the three and ask their views on "Rain Man".

Faced with media tracking, Barry Levinson attempted to completely disappear, but this strategy obviously failed to work in front of the uncrowned king who had made up his mind. Barry Levinson disappeared for only two days during Christmas and was dug out from Tokyo by the powerful media.

Dustin Hoffman, who had been hiding in the UK for a "vacation", tried to express some intentions of "Rain Man"'s success and his own contributions, but he was even more intense ridicule.

On the other hand, media harassment even affected Tom Cruise's filming "Born on July 4th". Oliver Stone had no choice but to stop work. Tom Cruise hid in his mansion in Los Angeles for most of the time and did not leave his home.

However, Cruise's agent Paula Wagner generously congratulated Daenerys Entertainment's success in "Rain Man". In addition, Cruise did not directly conflict with Daenerys Entertainment like Barry Levinson before "Rain Man", nor did he talk like Dustin Hoffman, which made him clearly better in this public opinion storm than the other two.

With the dust settled in the box office form of "Rain Man" and "Death Poetry Club", Hollywood was surprised to find that among the six films produced by Daenerys Entertainment this year, "When Harry Meets Sally", "Rain Man" and "Death Poetry Club" were not scripts written by Simon himself. Even "Scream", although it is rumored to be Simon's creativity, he has no signature.

This situation undoubtedly proves one more thing again, Simon Westeros’s vision of choosing scripts is no less than his creative talent.

As a result, a series of film copyrights that Daenerys Entertainment had already possessed suddenly became the target of attention of the entire Hollywood. The media and film companies that once mocked Simon as the sucker for winning the copyright had to start re-examine those projects.

As for the projects that Daenerys Entertainment expressed interest but had not yet obtained, it has undoubtedly become the target of close attention of the entire Hollywood.
Chapter completed!