Simon believed that as long as the Hurst family did not lose their minds, things would end there.

A family that has accumulated for a hundred years may be deeply rooted, but it will inevitably lose its vigor.

It is difficult for the Hurst Group to do anything to make "creative moves" such as provoking the Spanish-American War. When encountering opponents who do not play according to common sense and are strong enough, they will inevitably have some fear of being afraid of porcelain and not placing tiles.

What's more, this time the opponent is not a tiled, but more like an iron lump.

In the following days, news came from North America that William Hurst III fired most of the servants in the family. The matter was not only stuck in the newspaper, but also tried to initiate a lawsuit.

It was obvious that the Hurst family also reacted.

Of course, it would cost $1 million to bribe Simon's people. Simon bribes the other party's people to deliver gifts to the Hurst family, and the price is much cheaper.

There are also newspapers focusing on anecdotes and interesting stories that reported that a man and a woman in San Francisco were captured by aliens during a date. When they woke up, they appeared in a remote harbor town on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and were sitting in their original car.

It is winter in the southern hemisphere, and Tierra del Fuego is already in the Antarctic Circle.

It is rumored that two people who were sleeping for a week in a row were extremely weak after waking up, and they were almost frozen to death. Many people in Harbour Town proved that they had seen the white Toyota sedan with photos taken by San Francisco and the two people in the car who were in a very embarrassing manner.

But the news disappeared quickly without spreading on a large scale.

It seemed that a big hand was preventing the matter from further expanding. Even the photos taken by residents of the Harbour Town of Tierra del Fuego were bought, and the identity of the man and woman was never exposed.

Obviously, it is another news that the evil government is monopolizing the alien kidnapping case.

Traditional media cannot obtain more information, and many mysterious event forums on the Internet are discussed in a solid manner, and some people call on the federal government to announce the truth.

Naturally, there is no response.

The Simon and his wife arrived in Melbourne on June 15 and set off for return on June 25.

Meanwhile, another box office week from June 18 to June 24 has passed.

"Superman" in the third week of release shrank to 32% this week, continuing to earn US$41.33 million, easily winning the single-week box office champion. In three weeks, the cumulative box office officially exceeded US$200 million, reaching US$214.76 million.

The second place on the list is not the most popular "Phantom Hero", but the romance film "Sleeping in Seattle" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, whose reputation continues to spread. This romance film with a screen size of 2,369 yuan relies on its excellent reputation and popularity to win a box office of US$33.81 million in seven days in the first week, with the all-time reaching US$14,000.

What makes other Hollywood studios feel the most complicated is probably the cost of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle".

As a romantic film, although Tom Hanks' pay reaches the top $8 million, the final cost of the film is only $25 million.

The box office in the first week has exceeded the production cost of the film. Considering the long-term attributes of the topical sex film, the film started at 33.81 million US dollars, and the total local box office exceeded 100 million. Daenerys Entertainment and Disney can make a big profit just by making local box office.

"Phantom Heroes", which ranked third on this week, is in a very sharp contrast with "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle".

The production cost of $85 million and the promotion budget of $30 million was only $21.93 million in the first seven days of the week, and the opening of the art gallery was even less than $10,000.

In contrast to the sluggish box office, the film's reputation is also bleak.

The media generally predicts that the box office of "Phantom Heroes" will drop by more than 40% in the next week, and the final North American box office will probably be only about 50 million US dollars.

With a total investment of $115 million and a North American box office expectation of $50 million, it is obvious that the huge losses of the project are unavoidable. Even if Schwarzenegger's overseas box office appeal can double the overseas box office to $100 million, Columbia Pictures can only recover more than $60 million. At least in the next year, Columbia will bear a huge loss of at least $50 million.

With the huge losses of "Phantom Heroes", Sony can no longer allow the film company that it acquired for a huge amount of money and actively dispatched a working group to Los Angeles. Hollywood media predicted that Peter Cooper, who was in charge of Columbia Pictures, was not far from stepping down.

The last new film "The Stunning Scheme" that opened last week was $11.69 million in the first week of the opening. Compared with the 1,517 screens, the museums were $7,705. The box office performance was not too bad, but it was far less than the "Hands of Shaking the Cradle" three years ago.

Based on the film's opening and reputation status, it is initially predicted that the total box office of the film in North America will be around 30 million US dollars.

The production budget of "Trilling" is $12 million and the North American box office is $30 million. In a popular schedule like the summer, it obviously did not meet New World Pictures' expectations, but the profit of the project is a foregone conclusion.

On June 25, on the same day Simon returned to North America, he released three new films again during the summer season, namely "Super Star Dad" produced by Disney starring Michael Fox, "Body Heat Edge" produced by MGM, and "What to do with Love" produced by rock actress Tina Turner, "What to do with Love" produced by Gaomen Pictures.

"Super Star Dad" and "Body Heat Edge" are both typical commercial films in the summer. Simon is more concerned about Tina Turner's biopic "What to do with Love" produced by Gaomen Pictures.

Tina Turner, a rock female singer who is in her fifties this year, is a typical example of late becoming a big hit. As a mixed-race descendant of blacks and Indians, Tina Turner, who debuted at the age of 16, did not taste the popularity until the early 1980s. At that time, the singer was over 40 years old.

Then it became popular throughout the 1980s, and also participated in "Mad Max 3" starring Mel Gibson.

The film "What to Do with Love" tells the story of Tina Turner's experience after becoming famous, but her 16-year-old rough marriage. The singer married her mentor and Bole Ike Turner at the age of 16. The marriage lasted for 16 years. During this period, Ike Turner abused Tina Turner for a long time. After the last conflict, the actress finally decided to leave and failed to even get a piece of the property during the marriage.

Later, when many people thought that Tina Turner would be in a slump after leaving Ike Turner's resources and channels, Tina Turner, after a few years of silence, became famous again, and was very popular, which surprised everyone.

"What to Do with Love" is one of Tina Turner's best-selling album titles in the 1980s. Because it fits the story theme, it happened to be used as the name of the movie.

Music biopics are a very important subject in Hollywood. However, two years ago, Oliver Stone's film "The Door" directed by the Doors band, the box office failure is still close to us. When the project "What to do with Love", the Gaomen Film team was not sure whether the project could be successful. The budget for the film was $15 million, which is not high in the entire Hollywood level, and it is not low for Gaomen Film, which focuses on low-cost art films.

In the end, Simon made the decision to pass the matter himself.

It's a risk.

Because there is not much information about this movie in my memory, the movie obviously did not reach the sales level. However, with a $15 million investment, even if the box office failed, Gaomen Pictures was enough to bear the loss.

Due to uncertainty about the film's box office prospects, the number of screens of "What to Do with Love" is only 107, which is a very conservative distribution strategy this summer.

In the end, the box office of "What to Do with Love" did not disappoint.

The museums that opened the paintings for the first three days exceeded US$17,000. From June 25 to July 1, the seven-day halls of "What to Do with Love" reached US$33,000. They only relied on 107 screens to earn US$3.61 million in box office.

You should know that the Disney comedy "Super Star Dad" released at the same time has 1,366 screens, which is ten times more than "What to do with Love", and the box office in the first seven days is only US$4.39 million.

"Body Heat Edge" starring Nick Kidman performed the best in the box office of the three new films during the same period. The box office in the first week of the painting was $16.38 million, exceeding MGM's expectations. The total box office in North America is expected to be between $40 million and $50 million. The production budget of "Body Heat Edge" is $20 million and the promotion budget is $8 million. It can basically recover the production and promotion investment by relying on the North American box office.

In terms of old films, after a sharp drop of more than 30% for two consecutive weeks, the box office decline in the fourth week of "Superman" finally narrowed to 23%, earning $31.83 million this week, maintaining the single-week box office championship position for the fourth consecutive week. In four weeks, the cumulative box office of the film also reached $346.59 million.

Because the three new films this week were not strong, the box office of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle" fell by only 21% the next week, earning $26.72 million again.

After two weeks of painting, the cumulative box office of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle" reached 60.53 million US dollars. The project has begun to make profits so far. The total box office of the film in North America is expected to reach 120 million to 130 million US dollars, becoming another Hollywood work with a local box office of over 100 million in 1993.

Moreover, with the success of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle", the videotape of the old Hollywood classic romance film "Jinyu League" that is frequently mentioned in the film suddenly became popular.

Just two weeks after the film was released, the "Jinyu League" videotape quickly sold 300,000 boxes. In this unexpected videotape best-selling event, Blockbuster responded immediately by relying on Nancy Brill's continuous optimization of the corporate information feedback system. The 300,000 boxes of "Jinyu League" videotapes in the previous two weeks, more than 200,000 boxes were sold or rented on the Blockbuster channel.

Of course, the biggest winner is Fox, which holds the copyright of "Golden and Jade Alliance".

It sold 300,000 videotapes in two weeks. With the popularity of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle", the total sales of "Golden and Jade League" videotapes are expected to reach 2 million boxes, and Fox is completely equivalent to having obtained tens of millions of dollars in profits. "The Hollywood Reporter" even joked that "Golden and Jade League" may be the most profitable movie Fox made this summer.

In Simon's opinion, it is almost the same.

Fox has a total of four new films released this summer. The original 3D animated film "The Forest" has ended in failure, and the other three are not Simon's favorites in memory.

On July 2, North American cinemas entered the most important week of summer. Although this year's solo day holiday is on Sunday, according to custom, the enthusiasm of North American audiences to watch movies will increase significantly this week.

"The Sugar-Coated Trap" invested and released by Daenerys Pictures was released on this day, with 2,393 screens.

The other two new films are heavyweight.

"The Rising Sun" produced by Fox starring Sean Connery, with a production budget of 35 million US dollars and a screen number of 2,177 yuan.

The comedy "Honeymoon Dangerous Period" produced by Samsung, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, is starring Mike Meiers. It is also the first movie of the movie star outside the "Anti-Wisdom Stars" series. The budget cost is 20 million US dollars and the number of screens to be opened is 1,731 yuan.

In addition, after winning $33,000 in the first week, "What to do with Love" produced by Gaomen Pictures, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, has increased the number of screens screens this week from 107 yuan to 863 yuan, and it is planned to reach about 1,500 yuan next week.

The competition has intensified significantly, and "Superman", which maintained the four-week single-week box office champion, was finally squeezed out of the first place.

However, from July 2 to July 8, affected by the sharp increase in the number of moviegoers during the single-day holiday, Superman's single-week decline narrowed to 19%, and closed another $25.76 million in the fifth week of release, with a cumulative box office of $272.35 million, and is expected to exceed the 300 million mark in the next two weeks.

The Warner Bros. distribution team also adjusted the total box office expectations of Superman in North America to the range of $350 million to $370 million.

Three new films that started painting on July 2, "The Rising Sun" starring Sean Connery and "The Dangerous Honeymoon" starring Mike Meiers seem to be the most likely to make a big hit, but in the end, "The Sugar-Coated Trap" starring Keanu Reeves won the highest box office and squeezed "Superman" out of the single-week box office championship.

In the first week of the painting, relying on the popularity of the original novel and the $20 million promotion budget directly invested by Daenerys Pictures, the box office of "The Sugar-Coated Trap" reached $36.18 million in the first seven-day box office. As a large-scale commercial film, the museums all reached a very successful $15,000.

From the initially declining boyfriend in "Running Lola" to the cute teenager in "Abbi's Adventures" to the tough guy in "Shock Point", this time, Keanu Reeves successfully created a struggling and contradictory image of a lawyer.

With the success of "The Sugar-Coated Trap", well-informed Hollywood media inevitably contributed to the flames or fanned the flames, indicating that Keanu Reeves had replaced Tom Cruise's popular young actor in the 1980s.

As long as the box office of "The Sugar-Coated Trap" in North America exceeded 100 million, this matter will basically become a fact.

The box office of the first week was 36.18 million US dollars, and the "Suillet Trap" exceeded 100 million yuan.

In comparison, despite the glory of "Top Gun", Tom Cruise's downhill tendency in recent years is very obvious, and no new films have been released this summer.

Sean Connery's "The Rising Sun" ranked behind "The Sugar-Coated Trap" and "Superman", ranking third on the list of the Only Day holiday week, earning $22.08 million in seven days in the first week. The specific box office prospects depend on the subsequent trend.

Mike Meiers' "Honeymoon Dangerous Period" is a complete failure.

The first seven days of the first week of the painting, "Honeymoon Dangerous Period" only earned $5.36 million in box office, and the museums were less than $3,000, which was far lower than the producer's expectations. It is expected that the theaters will be launched in two weeks.
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