In the second week of the Christmas schedule that started on December 23, North American theaters ushered in seven new films at one time, four of which were mainstream commercial films with screens of more than 1,000 yuan, namely "The Little Monster" produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, MGM's "Street Fighter", Disney's "Prince of the Forest" and Paramount's "IQ Love".

"The Little Monster Richie" starring Macaulay Calkin, the male lead of "Home Imperials", tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who inherited the large inheritance of his missing parents resisting his uncle's pursuit of property. Although Macaulay Calkin withdrew from the "Home Imperials" series, he is still the most popular and highest-paid child star in the United States. The production cost of the film reached 40 million US dollars. Warner Bros. still gave 1,913 screens after "Suicide Squad". This project can be seen once again that Warner tried to get rid of his dependence on the DC movie universe.

As the name suggests, "Street Fighter" is adapted from the fighting game of the same name. The film is starring the famous action movie star Shanger Yundon. The game copyright holder Capcom and MGM jointly invested. The production cost reaches 35 million US dollars. MGM has prepared 1,671 screens for the film.

"Prince of the Forest" is a live-action version of Disney's classic animation from the 1960s. The production cost also reaches US$27 million, and the number of screens to be opened is 1,880 yuan.

"IQ Love" is starring Hollywood sweet sister Meg Ryan, and also brought "Einstein" as a guest star, telling the comedy story of Einstein's heartbreaking over his niece's marriage. The film's production cost is US$25 million, and the number of screens to be opened is 1,406 yuan.

In addition to the four mainstream commercial films, the other three preview films, "Neil's Heart", "The Great Wise" and "The Years of Love" should not be underestimated.

"Neil's Heart" starring Hollywood actress Judy Foster, a typical Olympic-storing seed.

The male lead of "The Wise" is the veteran Hollywood actor Paul Newman, and there are also stars such as Jessica Standy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, etc., telling a series of warm stories that took place in a small town in northern New York. The style is still similar to the "Steel Magnolia" that was sold a few years ago. However, this time it is no longer the heroine movie, and the audience has become much wider.

"The Years of Love" is the most expensive film among the three pre-production films. It is produced by Sony Pictures and starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. It has an investment of $30 million. In my memory, it is a movie with both box office and reputation, and it also won some awards in the awards season.

Simon has paid attention to this project before, but he just gave it to Sony with a mentality that Daenerys Entertainment could not take all the benefits. In fact, many movies such as "Neil's Heart" and "Night Visit to the Vampire" that Daenerys Entertainment could have won are like this.

With seven new films rushing in, you can imagine how fierce the competition spans the Christmas box office week.

According to the outstanding results of "Suicide Squad" that exceeded 100 million in the first week, the possibility of the total local box office of this film exceeding 300 million is very high. Whether it can be done is the key to whether the film can withstand the impact brought by a number of new films this week.

After Simon personally visited Toronto, after filming in the following working days, "This Man from Earth" was successfully completed on December 23. The crew returned before Christmas. Bright Ratner immediately entered post-production, and more news materials were released in the film.

Next year's 11th Sundance Film Festival has been confirmed to open on January 19.

With the announcement that Simon's new film will be held at the Sundance Film Festival, many people started preparing for the Sundance itinerary half a month in advance. What happened during Sundance last year is still vivid in my mind. In the circle, David Russell, director of "Fighting Monkey", Mia Coschna, the heroine of "Little Women", and Paramount's bombshell next year's bombshell "Cutting the Throat Island", were all the encounters that Simon's villa party during Sundance last year.

This time, since Westeros has joined Sundance in all new films, the other party is likely to hold a party in Park City again, which is a rare opportunity to directly contact this Hollywood tycoon.

Before Christmas, after several communications, Daenerys Entertainment and Tim Burton signed an intent agreement on the adaptation project of "The Legend of Sleeping Valley", indicating that this famous director with a strong Hollywood personal style started his first collaboration with Daenerys Entertainment.

"The Legend of Sleeping Valley" is a novel from the early 19th century. It has no copyright at all. The key to the project adaptation is the script.

Simon personally drafted a simple outline and invited Andrew Kevin Walker, the screenwriter of the original "Blackhead Valley", to be the writer of "The Seven Deadly Sins" that made David Finch famous last year.

Speaking of which, David Finch's new film "Psychological Game" has been completed in the early stages of the film, with an estimated budget of $50 million. The original film starring Michael Douglas is expected to start filming early next year, and the summer season will definitely not be able to catch up. The end of the year is too crowded and may become cannon fodder. Therefore, it will probably be at the end of the summer season at the end of August and early September. This is also a typical distribution strategy for many dark horse thrillers in recent years. This is the box office hit "The Deadly Temptation" starring Douglas in 1987.

This is also a kind of helplessness.

There are only so many movie schedules every year, and the best schedules must be left to the movies with the greatest box office potential. "Psychological Game" budget reaches $50 million, which is already a bombshell level. In other film companies, it will basically be arranged in the summer or the end of the year. For Daenerys Entertainment, because next year there are heavyweight projects such as "Jurassic Park 2", "Apollo 13", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", 3D animation "Beauty and the Beast", "Psychological Game" can only reclaim unpopular schedules.

Simon also knew that this situation was inevitable and would even become more and more popular.

More than ten years later in my memory, even Marvel or DC's superhero movies can only be arranged in unpopular schedules such as February or September, because Disney and Warner have too many key projects. Moreover, these bombs went to erode the box office of unpopular schedules, further squeezed the living space of other studio movies, making the stronger the stronger the weaker the weaker.

Simon began taking vacations on December 23.

In order to enjoy a stronger festive atmosphere, the family rushed to the east coast again. The manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich happened to be covered with recent snow, and the world was covered with silver. Simon also personally brought his eldest son who knew that Santa existed and piled up many snowmen by the small lake in the north of the manor.

The Fessi family is here, and the manor on Christmas Eve is even more lively.

It is impossible for three women to play together, if there is no small thought between each other, fortunately, several women cherish this warm family atmosphere and no one wants to destroy it.

After dinner, Fessi's parents returned to the villa next door early, and Daniel took the initiative to avoid it. However, Gemma looked like she didn't care much. The girl who felt that she was not smart enough liked Seattle, and held the little girl and refused to let go. The other two little guys also snuggled in their parents' arms. Everyone sat in front of the fireplace and chatted about various things until late at night.

Because Sophia had accidentally exposed something, Simon slept miserably on Christmas Eve night.

Sofia is pregnant.

It was probably during the first snowfall on the East Coast last month.

Sofia didn't want to tell others too early, even Simon was like this. When the women were preparing dinner together in the afternoon, Janet saw signs of morning sickness in the kitchen. When asked, Sofia had to admit it.

After giving birth to two children with Melbourne and Nick, Janet didn't want to have a third little guy anyway.

I really can't stand it.

However, Janet knew Simon's thoughts. Although her man did not take care of her children, she hoped to have many children in her bones. It would be good that the Westeros family's huge industry would have a few more heirs in the future. Therefore, she did not oppose other women getting pregnant with Simon's children, especially after confirming a certain blood relationship, Janet felt that as long as she was Simon's children, she would definitely be inseparable from her.

Of course, you still have to show your attitude, otherwise you will be too embarrassed as a wife.

So Simon was punished to go to the sofa.

But in the middle of the night, I couldn't help but run out of the bedroom, holding a pillow, and crawled into Simon's arms like a little girl, and then I went to bed.

The next morning, Aliya, who got up early and started preparing housework, saw the strange scene of the hostess sleeping on the sofa in the living room hugging each other.

Jennifer got up very early, too.

They shouted the two of them, and did not forget to check, and confirmed that they had no colds or the like, so they rushed to the bedroom to take a break.

So, Gemma, who stayed to sleep with Seattle last night, found that there were only Jennifer and three little guys on the table except for herself. When she asked curiously, the female assistant only said that Simon and Janet were sleeping in. The little girl didn't know about her mother's pregnancy. When she heard that Simon and Janet were actually sleeping in, she felt it was new.

It's Christmas.

Simon and Janet simply were really lazy and didn't get up until after ten o'clock.

I wanted to stay in bed all day, but I made an appointment to go to the Rebelds house in Manhattan for lunch at noon, so I must not be late.

Janet could invite the Fessi and his family to spend Christmas Eve together, but obviously would not go to Rebel's house with Simon. At around 11 o'clock, Simon and his female assistant boarded a helicopter flying to Manhattan.

It’s also a family dinner at noon.

In addition to the Rebels and his wife, Jennifer's younger brother Philip also brought his girlfriend back, who is also a girl growing up in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Although she tried her best to restrain herself during lunch, she was obviously too attentive to Simon, which made her sister's female assistant a little dissatisfied with the girl and quietly warned Simon.

After lunch, I talked about a lot of topics, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when I left.

In the evening, the Blackhawk helicopter returned to the northern suburb of Greenwich Manor, got off the helicopter, and walked towards the villa with Simon's arm intimately. The female assistant leaned into the man's ear and asked in a low voice: "Do you start to feel troublesome?"

Knowing what the female assistant means, Simon smiled and said, "Of course not, I enjoy it."

Jennifer rolled his eyes lightly.

In fact, mainly during the afternoon chat, the Rebels and his wife once again hinted that Simon and Jennifer could have one or two more children, which inevitably puts some pressure on Simon.

Simon himself is nothing. He is a person who doesn't care about secular rules at heart.

The key is the women around you.

And, when the little guys grow up in the future, will they blame themselves for bringing them to this world, and if one or two incompetent playboys appear, it will be a misfortune for the family. In the past, they joked that they wanted to raise a group of little bastards who harmed the world, but now they are parents, but they cannot really do this.

Back at the villa, Janet was having coffee and chatting with Sophia.

Seeing Simon come in, Janet, who was originally smiling, immediately put away his expression, as if I hadn't forgiven you yet.

Sophia smiled and stood up to pour coffee for Simon and Jennifer. Everyone sat down. Simon next to Janet, hugged the woman's waist and asked Sophia: "What were you talking about just now?"

Sofia looked at Jennifer: "Let's discuss it again, I wonder if you would like to take another child, Jenny?"

The female assistant who had just picked up the coffee was a little surprised. She looked at Janet, then looked at Sophia, hesitated for a while, and then asked, "Sophie, don't you want to bring it yourself?"

"You know I'm very busy on weekdays. In recent years, Danny and Gemma have been taken care of by my parents. It will definitely be better to keep the child on your side in the future. And..." Sophia paused and said, "I discussed it with Jenny, and the child is like Sear, and she is in her name."

Seattle was born last year and was under the name of twins in Janet's name for a legitimate statement.

In the first half of the year, because the news of the confrontation with the Hurst family was exposed, the outside world already knew that Seattle was actually the child of a female assistant. However, because of this naming, although many people learned the truth, the outside world recognized Seattle's identity, even in Australia.

This external mentality is very subtle, and some are even similar to the concubine's son who was raised by his wife in ancient China.

However, no matter what, this is good for children. Seattle can be named "Westero" openly in the future, instead of being a illegitimate child.

Sofia is a very rational woman and it is impossible to see the benefits of all this to the child. This afternoon when Simon and her female assistant were not around, she took the initiative to mention it to Janet.

Judging from the two of them chatting and laughing when they entered the door, Janet obviously agreed.

Of course, Janet didn't take care of her children very much. Melbourne was fresh and threw it to Veronica after it was fresh. If Nick hadn't been born with Seattle, the female assistant could take care of her. I'm afraid her second son would have been handed over to Veronica. Now, I just agreed to a position that the child's raising would definitely fall on the female assistant.

Jennifer looked at Janet again, got confirmation, and said, "If you don't worry, I'll have no problem here, but maybe you will be reluctant to leave it in the future."

At the beginning, the female assistant also thought about giving the child completely to Janet to take care of, but after her daughter was born, she looked at a little bit in her arms and changed her mind.

Sofia smiled. After so many years, a woman has experienced worldly affairs and is much more determined than Jennifer. She also knows that this is the best choice for the child in her womb, so she will not change her mind temporarily: "As long as you are willing, I want to thank you first."
Chapter completed!