After the New Year, the last hot box office week that spans 1994 to 1995 will soon end.

From December 30 to January 5, the box office decline in the third week of "Suicide Squad" narrowed to 17%, earning $47.91 million again, easily maintaining its weekly box office championship position. After three weeks of release, the cumulative box office of this DC movie universe anti-hero masterpiece reached $197.38 million.

The cumulative box office of "Suicide Squad" was close to $200 million in three weeks. Even if the film market cooled down quickly after the festival, the total local box office of "Suicide Squad" was very easy to exceed $300 million.

Without competition for new films, it coincides with the New Year. The total box office in North America fell by only 15% compared to the Christmas week from December 30 to January 5. Other subsequent films basically maintained the box office volume of Christmas week, and the films achieved a counter-down decline.

The 3D animated film "Toy Story 2" is still ranked second on the list, with a box office drop of 13%, and another $16.29 million, with a cumulative box office of $270.98 million, which is only a $30 million gap from the threshold of $300 million.

The third place is "The Little Richie" by Macaulay Culkin.

After losing its first week of the holiday comedy of Warner Bros. Pictures, it unexpectedly achieved a 14% counter-loss in the second week, earning $14.03 million, and a cumulative box office of $26.35 million in two weeks. Unfortunately, compared with the huge cost of this movie, the counter-loss of the next week cannot change the loss outcome of Warner Bros. on this project.

Disney's holiday comedy "Santa Claus" ranked fourth, with a box office drop of 11% in the third week of release, with a box office of $10.62 million, and a cumulative box office of $38.97 million in three weeks.

The fifth place is "Street Fighter" jointly produced by MGM and Capcom.

The box office trend of the popular game adapted action movie, which ranked second last week, was the most disappointing. The box office fell by 36% the next week, and the box office fell directly to tens of millions of dollars. The second week of release earned $9.01 million, with a cumulative box office of $23.12 million.

Outside the top five.

The sixth-ranked "Little Woman" fell by 21%, and the large-scale paintings earned $8.73 million in the third week, with a cumulative box office of $31.76 million.

The seventh place "IQ Love" probably because of the only romance film in the Christmas season, it achieved a 16% counter-slide in the next week, surpassing last week's "Prince of the Forest", earning $7.71 million, with a total of $14.36 million in two weeks.

The eighth-ranked "Prince of the Forest" fell by 12%, earning $7.27 million in the second week of opening the painting, and a cumulative box office of $15.54 million in two weeks.

In addition to these films, after "The Disguised Strange" which entered the box office of 100 million yuan last week, "The Night Visit to the Vampire" earned the eighth week of the release of US$3.32 million, and also achieved a local box office of over 100 million yuan, with a cumulative box office of US$100.37 million.

January 6th, the first box office week after the New Year's Eve.

In terms of new films, there are still only two sporadic films in the single studio with less than 500 screens added up to be released this week, which is not worth mentioning.

However, on December 23, in order to obtain the awards season nomination qualification, the three previews "Neil's Heart", which were launched and received praise. "The Wise Is the Fool" and "The Years of Love" were both launched on a large scale this week, with screen counts of more than 1,000 yuan. The screen count of "The Years of Love" that received the best response during the preview period even reached 2,005 yuan.

Daenerys Entertainment will launch its own new year movie from January 13. However, the first more important new film this year is the Hong Kong film "Red Anime" which will be painted on January 27. This is another attempt by Jack Cheng to sprint towards Hollywood.

Speaking of which, the past year has been a turning point in Hong Kong films from prosperity to decline.

Although Hong Kong film classics such as "A Chinese Odyssey", "East Evil and Western Poison", and "Chongqing Forest" appeared in 1994, due to severe overinvestment, hundreds of movies in Oriental Hollywood on the other side of the ocean were not delivered on time this year, causing huge losses to many film companies and seriously impacting the enthusiasm of investors. Hong Kong films began to decline rapidly.

Moreover, this also has the result of the continuous impact of Hollywood bombs.

Since 1994, Hong Kong films have become smaller and smaller in living space, and Hollywood has gradually dominated the vast Southeast Asian market.

It is precisely in this context that filmmakers such as Jack Cheng and Bai Gewu have chosen to enter Hollywood.

In addition to the upcoming "Red Agent Zone" that will be released on January 27, "Broken Arrow" co-starred by Bai Gewu and Daenerys Entertainment last year has also been completed, with a schedule of February 10, during Valentine's Day. Like David Finch's new film "Psychological Game" with a planned schedule at the end of the summer season, "Broken Arrow" with a budget of $50 million was placed in February, which is also because Daenerys Entertainment has too many high-quality projects.

Even the Easter period, which is similar to the "Broken Arrow" schedule, is occupied by Daenerys Entertainment's series of comedy "Anti-Witness 3".

"This Man from Earth" written by Simon himself is expected to be included in the Sundance Film Festival at the end of the month, and it is expected to be placed in the even more unpopular end-of-February schedule. "Broken Arrow" at least accounts for one Valentine's Day.

As the local market is becoming increasingly difficult to implement, Simon proposed the main proposal at the first Daenerys Entertainment high-level meeting at the beginning of the year to maximize the expansion of overseas markets. In fact, Daenerys Entertainment has been doing this for the past few years, but it will pay more attention to it in the future, so as to use the vast overseas market space to maximize the commercial potential of a series of film projects produced by Daenerys Entertainment and share the risks brought about by the differences in the local market schedule.

After New Year's Day, he returned to Los Angeles and was busy with Daenerys entertainment. Simon rushed to San Francisco on January 9.

The 20-hectare Igrit Park, which was planned in the early 1993, has been developed and built for more than a year and was officially put into use after more than a year. The Igrit Company, which had previously been able to rent office buildings in various parts of Silicon Valley, moved into a brand new office space as a whole in the first week after the New Year.

Simon originally placed up to 300 hectares of land in the coastal area of ​​Mountain View under the name of Westeros, and Egret occupied only one fifteenth of it.

In addition to Igrit, who has enough financial resources to build his own park, Simon also built an additional office area under the name of Westeros. The office area that this plan to be leased to a new technology startup in Silicon Valley was also put into use at the same time as the year.

So, while Igret relocated, companies such as Tinkobaier, Broadcast, Instagram, who had close ties with Igret also moved into the office park area of ​​Mountain View City.

The residential areas that have invested heavily in Linhai, the northern part of the office park area were also opened to employees of Igret Company or affiliated companies earlier, and only rentals are allowed for the time being. Moreover, the prices for employees of Igret Company are very low. The residential areas are mainly single-family villas and three-story apartments, with 500 units respectively, and a total of 1,000 units of housing are enough to easily accommodate 5,000 people.

With the rise of new technology industries, the Bay Area's real estate growth is now ahead of other cities in the United States.

Perhaps the housing pressure is not too great for employees of Bay Area technology companies now. However, ten or twenty years later, even the top technology company employees will not be so easy to buy a house in the Bay Area. Simon even remembers that employees of companies like Google and Facebook have lived in RVs for a long time.

Because Simon is mainly for lease, the huge amount of funds invested in the early stage cannot be recovered in the short term. However, in the long run, not only will the continued appreciation of the property itself bring huge profits to Simon, but it can provide employees with cheap rental housing, but it will also become a major advantage for Igret to compete with other technology companies in the future.

Of course, even if it is rented at a cheap price, Simon will not suffer any losses.

Because the "cheap" here is only for employees of related companies. If you want this kind of cheapness, whether it is Igrit or other companies that want to provide similar discounts to employees, they need to make up for the rent difference in the form of subsidies.

Moreover, this business is not a loss for Egret or other park companies.

Because the competition for human resources in Silicon Valley is in a very fierce stage, housing subsidies are undoubtedly a highlight of new technology companies attracting employees. Not only that, because this part of the property is very close to the office space, it can save employees' commuting time to the greatest extent and can even greatly promote employees to work overtime.

In addition, although the efficiency of collecting rent is very low than directly selling real estate payments, Simon can use this part of the property as collateral to obtain loans from banks as long as it is needed. Due to the high growth trend of housing prices in the Bay Area, if the loan is only the annual increase in the housing prices itself, it is enough to offset the relevant interest expenses and achieve a surplus.

In short, no matter from any perspective, this business is very cost-effective.

Arriving in San Francisco, Simon spent the whole day in the modern office building of the Igret Park FRP structure, with the main topics being a review of 1994 and a planning outlook for 1995.

Due to the overall explosion of new technology industries in the past year, Igrit, whose businesses are in the monopoly position of the industry, also showed a more rapid and explosive growth in the whole year than in 1993. Igrit has begun various audits before the IPO. In order to increase investors' confidence, the company will also announce its 1994 financial report next month.

At that time, many people will inevitably be shocked.

Simon's requirement for Igrit's core management is no longer to make rapid progress, but to calm down and slow down further deepen the work of Igrit's series of core products.

Another core issue is overseas expansion.

Simon did not forget the words of several Washington core members in the White House and Clinton, and Washington did not forget them either.

Overseas expansion does not conflict with Igret's strategy of slowing down its pace of deepening its core products.

It is not difficult to imitate more basic technologies for portals, emails, search engines and other businesses. Not only in the United States, but also many new technology industry peers overseas have also begun to launch similar products. Igrit wants to maintain its advantages in this kind of competition, but only by constantly improving and optimizing its own products.

Users are actually very smart.

Whether it is a search engine or a social network, you can tell whether a product is good or bad after using it a few times, and then you will naturally tend to use the best one.

In history, Yahoo actually launched the content search function very early. Why did it lose to Google afterwards? In addition to the serious mistakes in corporate strategy, the original and poor search tools of Yahoo itself are also an important reason why the company was quickly overtaken by its competitors.

In fact, relying on the accumulation of the past few years, the series of products of Igrit Company have already had considerable advantages. However, Simon did not dare to take it lightly at all. Every time he met, he would drive him to instill a sense of crisis into Igrit's senior management. In an era of great explosion of information technology, if you slack off, you may be overtaken by your competitors in a blink of an eye.

Especially at this stage, Igret is still in the early stage of the development of new technology industries, and Igret is far from being able to take it lightly.

After a busy day, he attended another in-circle party organized by John Chambers in the evening. Simon did not return to his mountain villa in Woodside until after ten o'clock in the evening.

After taking a shower and relaxing, she just discussed a few words with the former housekeeper Alice Ferguson who returned with her tonight about the satellite map business that Igret has recently launched. Girl A came over to remind her that she was called from Kiev.

Celia Miller and Ken Dixon set off for Ukraine on January 2.

Things didn't go too far.

Upon hearing that Simon wanted to replace the governor of Rovno Prefecture, Ukrainian President Leon Kuchima began to react very negatively and unconcealedly told Celia that this requirement of the Westeros system was too out of line.

Simon is not polite about this either.

On the one hand, Celia continued to lobby against Kuchima.

On the other hand, the arms trading company of the Westeros system directly stopped negotiations with the Ukrainian side.

Ukraine, which inherited the Soviet Union's large heritage, is a major arms power.

This is true.

In the past 1990s, Ukraine basically relied on arms sales to restore some vitality to this economically declining country.

However, Ukraine actually does not have much arms sold to foreign countries.

Other countries have very little demand for more basic individual weapons or old Soviet heavy weapons. High-end strategic missiles and nuclear weapons cannot be sold to the outside world, at least they cannot be sold publicly. In addition, the separation of ways with Russia has led to the restriction of the production of many more popular helicopters or ships. Ukraine's arms trade is actually selling the assets left over from the Soviet era.

Moreover, these arms sales are often difficult to fall into private pockets, and most of them are still included in the treasury.

The Westeros system is similar to an intermediary arms trading company, but it builds a bridge for the export of low-end weapons that Ukraine originally had very little demand.

The most important point is that there is still a lot of room for operation.

Ukraine has many low-end weapons, and Europe, Asia, and North America do not need them. If you want to sell them directly to Africa with the largest demand, the countries there can't afford them at all. The Ukrainian government cannot barter like the arms trading companies in the Westeros system. What Ukraine lacks is money, not resources, and getting oil drilling and other minerals that are thousands of miles away is of no significance to Ukraine.

Therefore, the arms trading companies in the Westeros system become crucial.

Simon decisively asked the arms trading company to stop negotiations on new transactions, which immediately made Kuchima realize the seriousness of the matter. A large number of people in the Kuchima administration rely on this bag. In comparison, a governor seems to be irrelevant. After all, Ukraine is not a big country like the United States. A governor is similar to a mayor in the United States.

After bargaining for a few days, Kuchima finally agreed to all the requirements of the Westeros system.

The time difference between Los Angeles and Kiev is ten hours.

Simon received a call from Celia. It was already nine o'clock in the morning of January 10th local time in Kiev. Celia had just had breakfast with Kuchima and received a warrant for the President to lift the position of Governor Yuri Miloslav. After the call with Simon, he finally confirmed a series of actions with his boss. Celia would rush to Rifni, the capital of Rovno State, in the morning to officially launch a cleaning plan.
Chapter completed!