Another Friday is June 28th.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" ended its third week screening. From June 21 to June 27, the box office decline of the film shrank to 25% compared to last week, earning $45.13 million again.

At the same time, the cumulative box office of this superhero blockbuster in North America officially exceeded the $200 million mark, reaching $207.28 million.

It exceeded 100 million in the first week!

Over 200 million in three weeks!

In the eyes of many people, such a box office record is probably only possible for other films in the DC Cinema Universe to break.

In addition, Paramount Pictures' new film "Detective Whitehead 2", which started painting last week, earned $31.54 million in the first week, and the data exceeded Paramount's expectations.

As "Batman: The Dark Knight" began to quickly release the market space, the industry gradually discovered that this unstoppable superhero movie actually played a very obvious role in stimulating the market.

On May 24, the week when six new films were intensively painted, the total box office of North American theaters was only more than 86 million US dollars in a single week. However, since the opening of "Batman: The Dark Knight" on June 7, the total box office numbers of the North American film market for three consecutive weeks reached US$179 million, US$146 million and US$131 million respectively.

Calculated, the cumulative box office in three weeks minus the $200 million in "Batman: The Dark Knight", which is equivalent to the average weekly earnings of other films.

Obviously, due to the recent movie viewing craze triggered by "Batman: The Dark Knight", many viewers have watched more than one movie during this period.

Specifically for movies of the same period, in addition to "Detective Whitehead 2", which exceeded expectations in the first week, the fire-fighting film "Backfire" produced by Universal Pictures has been released on May 24 and has a total box office of US$56.11 million in five weeks.

Although the box office in a single week has dropped to around $5 million, the final North American box office of "Backfire" is still expected to hit the $70 million mark.

The production budget of "Back Temper" is $40 million. The North American box office is $70 million. The expected overseas box office revenue is basically enough for the film to recover the production and distribution costs.

"The Urban Countryside" starring Billy Cristo has also reached $52.22 million in the shadow of "Batman: The Dark Knight" four weeks after its release on May 31.

Unlike "Backfire", which fell into the $5 million range, "City Countryside" has a single-week box office of just over the past week, and the weekly box office rankings are second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Detective Whitehead 2", ranking third.

According to this box office trend, it is easy for "City Countryside" to achieve a local box office of over 100 million in North America.

Not only these mainstream commercial films, but also the Antarctic documentary "Ice and Snow World" produced by Gaomen Pictures, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, has been like a small but very eye-catching "dark horse" since its release.

Although the box office is not large, because of its outstanding performance in the market and an alternative theme other than the mainstream films in the summer, it has attracted much attention from the media and the public. Even under the limelight of "Batman: The Dark Knight", it still maintains a very good topic popularity.

Therefore, although this non-mainstream Antarctic documentary had the highest box office in a single week only with a counter-loss of US$7.66 million in the second week, the cumulative box office continued to exceed expectations from all parties.

As of June 27, the cumulative box office of "Ice and Snow World" has reached $31.12 million. This figure is 10 times the film's insignificant $3 million production cost, and it is definitely the movie with the highest return rate this summer.

Moreover, with the box office level of "Ice and Snow World" which still earned $4.61 million last week and its decline in the four consecutive weeks, the film's next North American box office is very promising to hit the $50 million mark.

If there are movies to sell, there is naturally no shortage of cannon fodder.

The most bleak market performance in this summer is undoubtedly the "Ultimate Condor", which cost Bruce Willis $65 million in production. Both the reputation and box office of the film have failed.

As of June 20, "Ultimate Condor" had only received over US$16 million in four weeks of release, and even the promotional expenses could not be made back. Most theaters quickly removed the film after completing two to four-week screening contracts.

Other films such as Disney's "The Horse Hero", Fox's "All of Ugly" and Paramount's "Soap Platter" have also been unsatisfactory in the box office.

The new film "Jungle Hot", produced by Universal Pictures, which spent $14 million in production budget, did not meet expectations due to the mistakes in the release schedule and promotion strategy. It is expected that the total box office in North America will be only over $20 million.

The all-black lineup video has limited potential overseas markets, and Daenerys Entertainment can only look forward to recovering all production and promotion costs of US$19 million through subsequent local distribution channels.

The problem with "Jungle Hot" is very obvious, and it directly coincides with "Batman: The Dark Knight". During the integration of the two companies, people are unstable and it is difficult to adjust their promotional and promotion strategies in time. All departments within the company cannot be completely united, which ultimately led to the unsatisfactory box office of this movie with a good reputation.

As Daenerys Entertainment became larger and larger, Simon knew very well that such a problem was inevitable and that he could not take care of everything alone.

This is actually one of the reasons why Simon has recently insisted on streamlining and integrating Daenerys Entertainment's production and distribution team. The disease of large companies is inevitable for any corporate giant, but it can mitigate the impact of this negative factor through constantly adjusting and efficient corporate teams.

On June 28, in a new movie box office week, two new films were released in North American theaters.

The bombshell film "Terminator 2" jointly developed by Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Films has 2,506 screens.

The final production cost of this sci-fi classic sequel is $73 million, and Cameron forced over $3 million on Simon's budget cap set by $70 million.

Fortunately, it still saves a lot of money than the budget of 102 million US dollars in the original time and space.

Since all $73 million was spent, Simon did not save any more and asked Fox to give a $30 million promotional budget, which made the project's production and promotional budget still exceed the 100 million yuan mark.

Another new film is the gangster film "Boy in the District" produced by Columbia Pictures. The screen size of the opening is only 876 yuan, which is basically a foil.

Simon checked Universal Studios' next phase reconstruction plan in Burbank in the morning, had lunch with Nancy Brill, who was still here, and took a bus back to Malibu at 2 pm.

The car left Universal Studios and drove for more than 20 kilometers west along Ventura Avenue, then turned south and into the No. 27 Mountain Highway leading to Malibu, about 5 kilometers inward along the No. 27 Mountain Highway.

The asphalt road leads directly to the administrative district of Daenerys Cinema. The entrance and exit happen to be at the tip of the triangular cinema. This place was originally a mountain path leading to the top water tower. After reopening and widening in recent months, a two-lane asphalt road has been found.

With the further expansion of Daenerys Entertainment, the transportation and accommodation of Daenerys Entertainment's employees have begun to become issues that companies need to pay attention to.

In the past, Malibu Daenerys Cinema had only one exit from the studio area to Linhai Highway 1.

Although the southern exit directly reaches Malibu and connects Sunset Avenue to the east, it is not something that most Daenerys Entertainment employees can afford to live in, whether it is Malibu or the wealthy areas leading to Sunset Avenue, such as Palisade, Belaire, Beverly Hills, which lead to, are not affordable by most of Daenerys Entertainment’s employees. Santa Monica is also a high-consumption area.

After Daenerys Entertainment merged with MCA, the problem became even worse.

Because Universal Studios is in Burbank, most of its employees also live in valleys where housing prices are relatively low.

As Simon moved most of Universal Studios’ functional departments to Daenerys Cinema, many employees would have to face long commute problems.

In the past, if you want to rush from Malibu Daenerys Cinema to Burbank, you need to enter Linhai Highway from the southern exit of the cinema, go east for a period of time to reach the entrance of the mountain road No. 27, and then head north.

After the construction of the asphalt road connecting the northernmost administrative district of Daenerys Cinema and the mountain road No. 27 is completed, employees can save at least 15 minutes in time when entering and leaving. The entire road can enter and enter the northern valley within less than 10 kilometers.

Moreover, there are actually many scattered residential communities on both sides of the mountain road No. 27.

After the asphalt road directly to the north of the administrative region is opened, many employees can also purchase or rent houses in these cheap mountain residents' communities. There is no need to drive around a big bend from the southern exit. It is fine to go to work on weekdays, even if you walk.

From Universal Studios Burbank to Malibu Daenerys Cinema, it was a total distance of about 35 kilometers. It took just one hour to go when the traffic was quite smooth in the afternoon.

Simon had no time in the car, and when he was about to drive into the administrative district from the northern entrance, he had already read the information of the "New York Wife" project that will be launched next month.

Robert Iger was also in Los Angeles recently and happened to be here from Universal Studios with Simon.

The two got off the car in the parking lot, and Simon took the information and turned to the previous page while walking and asked: "The plot summary is very good, but what's going on with this woman?"

On that page of information, the woman's name is Kris Jenner.

At the year-end party at Daenerys Cinema last year, a woman was named Chris Kardashian.

Although the original history is like this, it seems to be a little too fast.

and.

He also became a 'New York wife'.

Robert Eiger glanced at him, and some weirdness flashed in his expression. He glanced at Simon and asked, "Don't you know?"

Simon was even more puzzled: "What do I know?"

Robert Eiger looked at Simon's expression again, hesitated, and said, "This, Ms. Jenner was not originally among the finalists. However, she had contacted me several times, that, hinted that she and you are very, well... very familiar. So..."

Egg didn't say it too thoroughly, but Simon understood it and could only smile bitterly and sigh that this woman is really...awesome.

Robert Eiger was still a little uncertain. If the woman in the information was not familiar with Simon, why would he ask again this time?

Moreover, when thinking about the posture and posture of the beautiful woman in her thirties, Eiger thought that it might be more in line with her boss's taste. Therefore, this kind of "small thing" that only needs to be understood by his subordinates, Eiger did not verify with Simon in advance.

Seeing Simon closing the folder and handing it over and continuing to walk towards the office building, Eiger thought for a while and asked, "Simon, do you need to change someone?"

Simon shook his head and smiled, "No, this woman is very capable of making trouble, and it is indeed very suitable for this show."

Eiger nodded and said no more.

Simon added, "I will stay in New York for a day before going to the UK next week. You can arrange it and let her come to see me."

Egg was stunned for a moment, then he just responded again.

The two then quickly separated, Egg went to a meeting, and Simon came to a screening room in the No. 1 office building.

There are two hours left in the afternoon, and the schedule is for the internal preview of "The End of the Flower", which Catherine Bigelow just completed the final edit.

The schedule for "The End of Flower" is September 6. The film promotion and distribution work has started, but it was completed only two days ago. It will be sent to MP for rating next week.

Entering the screening room, the movie is ready.

It was probably confirmed that Simon would attend, and the small screening room with more than 30 seats was very lively.

In addition to Catherine, the film producer and staff of the publicity and distribution department, the two heroines of "The End of the Road" Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis also rushed over. They also brought their respective boyfriends, both filmmakers in the circle, Tim Robbins and Renney Haring.

Tim Robbins is the male lead in "The Shawshank Redemption" in the original time and space. He has previously participated in "The Intersection of Life" by Robert Ultraman.

Renney Harlem has made his mark in Hollywood in recent years with directing "Die Hard 2" and "Ghost Street 4", and is a rising new generation of new directors.

Moreover, Renney Harlem's latest directing film is called "The Rose of Passion", which is also released in September, and is two weeks behind "The Rose of Passion". The heroine of "The Rose of Passion" is Laura Dunn, who is destined to miss the new version of "Jurassic Park".

If history does not change, the pair of Rainey Harlem and Gina Davis will also jointly complete the super-blockbuster "Seed Throat Island" that sets the Guinness record of the film industry's losses in Hollywood history.

So, Hollywood is really small.

Simon actually wanted to drive away all the other "unrelated people," and get along with Catherine alone.

Of course, just think about it.

Everyone said hello, but Simon didn't hide it. She sat directly with Catherine in the back corner of the screening room, and then signaled the staff to start playing the video.

But Catherine was not as shameless as Simon. Fortunately, it was the last row, so it was not that embarrassing.

And, even if it is absolutely not admitted to anyone.

But there is probably no one in Hollywood who doesn't know the relationship between the two.

After a brief shyness, Catherine quickly adapted to the feeling of sitting with Simon in public.
To be continued...