The media hot discussion of the Igrit Company's huge $25 billion equity reward program has directly led to the surge in both global data on personal computer sales and Internet user access these days. The Wall Street Journal also proposed the concept of a "new gold rush era" in an article on February 20.

Because not only many employees of Igret will become rich with the IPO of this new technology company, but more and more entrepreneurs in the Internet field will start to get rich overnight.

During the "Information Age" marketing plan at the end of last year, the Westeros system has focused on promoting many cases of relying on the Internet industry to earn huge wealth. Recent discussions on the Egret equity reward plan have once again led to many inspirational stories about starting from scratch in the Internet field.

Among them, an ordinary restaurant chef in Iowa, central America, knew only some basic computer knowledge, and through more than a year of self-study, using the full set of basic tool software and simple and easy-to-use data center services launched by Igret Company, the food sharing website created in his spare time unexpectedly won the welcome of a large number of users. Recently, he received a huge financing of up to $15 million in a Silicon Valley venture capital with a 20% stake, with a website value of $75 million.

This middle-aged man in his forties, who once had an annual salary of only $50,000, thought he would be unknown in his life, but in a blink of an eye, his personal net worth reached $60 million.

There are definitely more than one similar case.

Therefore, while proposing the concept of "New Gold Rush Age", the Wall Street Journal article further commented that this is a new round of wealth redistribution that is started without violence and plunder. Not only that, the threshold for wealth redistribution is also very friendly to ordinary people, just like anyone could flock to the gold rush in San Francisco back then. As long as you have a computer connected to the Internet, you have the opportunity to create a wealth miracle.

Such news is beneficial to stimulate the development of the Internet industry or to divert the outside world's attention to Igrit's large-scale employee stock ownership plan, and the Westeros system soon began to fuel the fire.

Simon and two Jenny returned to the West Coast from Florida on February 20.

Simon's 27th birthday was followed.

He held a party very low-key to be considered a holiday, and only invited some people who were close to each other. However, he received a lot of gifts, many of which came from the women around him. Janet was not jealous this time and let the gifts disappear. Instead, he opened them and checked them out with interest and commented one by one.

The production of that song "Young and Beautiful" continues.

At the instigation of Janet, this time it was planned to release it publicly, and will also bring another song "The Last Day of Bach" which is also being produced and the female assistant secretly treasured the pure music that was changed from "The Overture" to "Blizzard" by Simon for a long time.

I never thought about making money.

So I planned to make it into an MV and place it directly on the Internet platform to increase traffic to Igrit.

Among them, "Bach's Last Day" for Yulia Schulhikina uses a woman's solo dance as the MV, and the other two songs are impossible to let two Jenny appear.

Simon quickly came up with a good idea.

Video mixed clipping.

This is a common splicing and editing mode on many video websites in my memory. It selects various shots from many movies and TVs based on the tone of a song to form an MV, which is very popular.

At this stage, because the Internet has just become popular, movie piracy is not so popular, and video websites are even more indisputable, and few people can see wonderful video mixed clippings.

However, all these problems are not a problem for Simon.

Simon not only owns the copyright of thousands of film and television dramas accumulated through acquisitions and produced in recent years, but also, if necessary, borrowing footage from other studios, obviously no one will refuse.

Of course, Simon did not intend to flow into the outsiders' fields.

Not to mention the longer-term copyright reserve, just the videos produced by Daenerys Entertainment over the years are enough for Simon to make two wonderful mixed-cut videos.

The plan was finalized soon.

The first song "Young and Beautiful" will focus on the beautiful shots of famous Hollywood actresses.

However, in order to avoid the editing of all actresses related to her, Simon plans to start with actresses in the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, etc., until recent years, and all the plans to capture are the most classic shots, and the main films of Daenerys Entertainment Library should be as much as possible.

After all, after the MV of mixed videos is released, it is likely to lead to a wave of movies related to MV shots.

Even if you don’t plan to make money directly from this song, you will not let go of such peripheral benefits.

In another song "Blizzard", Simon plans to make a wonderful DC movie universe mixed clip. From the original "Batman: The Moment of War" to "Suicide Squad" at the end of last year, the tune of "Blizzard" itself is consistent with the epic temperament of the DC movie universe series, and it happens to be a warm-up for "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" at the end of this year.

After Simon's 27th birthday, immediately after, on February 24, the long-awaited "This Man from Earth" was released.

Because it was an unpopular schedule at the end of February and there were no other high-quality films, major theaters were happy to take out more screen resources to release the movie. Gaomen Pictures raised 3,107 yuan to open the screen at one time.

Before that, the action movie "Broken Arrow" starring John Travolta, which was launched during Valentine's Day, has been released for two weeks.

The reputation of the film disappointed Simon, with only 5.3 points in total, and even failed to pass the exam.

Fortunately, with the strong promotion of Daenerys Entertainment as a supplement, watching movies during Valentine's Day is also a must. As the only bombshell during Valentine's Day, Bai Gewu's unique violent aesthetic style also illuminates North American audiences. The film has a screen opening scale of 2,638 yuan. The first box office week from February 10 to February 16 earned 24.53 million US dollars in seven days, and the single week of the museum exceeded 9,300 US dollars. Although it failed to exceed 10,000, it met expectations.

Subsequently, in the second box office week from February 17 to February 23, Valentine's Day passed, and there were still no strong competitors, the film's decline remained a pretty good 27%, earning $17.86 million. The cumulative box office in two weeks was US$42.39 million, which is still about US$8 million away from the production cost line of US$50 million.

Considering that the box office week that started on February 24 will face the impact of "This Man from Earth", Daenerys Film's publicity and promotion team predicts that the total box office of the film in North America will be about 70 million US dollars. According to the overseas painting opening situation at the same time, the total box office overseas is roughly equivalent to that of North America, and the global total box office is about 150 million US dollars.

The production cost of $50 million, three times the global box office, is just the cost of recovery.

If it is other second- and third-tier film companies, it will definitely be more sad to face such a situation, because the capital chain of small studios is usually relatively tight and they are very dependent on box office revenue. Once the box office fails, even if they just don’t lose money or make money, they may often encounter trouble if they can’t wait for the post-production videotape and TV broadcast revenue.

A behemoth like Daenerys Entertainment Group does not have such a problem.

Because the body is large enough, the complete omni-channel operation has formed sustainability, which not only can keep as much profit as possible within the omni-channel scope of a movie on the studio system itself, but also enables its films to get rid of the dependence on box office to the greatest extent.

In short, relying on the box office to recover costs and enter the profit stage directly in the later stage, this project is a success for Daenerys Entertainment.

With the advent of the Hollywood bombshell era, it is difficult for more and more film companies to make a profit directly from the box office, and most of them rely on peripheral channels. This is also the reason why Hollywood second- and third-tier film companies are becoming increasingly difficult to survive. Even if there are occasional successes, such as the Lion Gate Peak in Simon's memory, etc., it will soon become silent because of the lack of support for omni-channel operations.

In addition to "Broken Arrow", the same period released on February 10 are also "The McMurlen Brothers", which won the jury award at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Relying on the reputation of the Sundance Awards and the good reputation after the film itself was released, it opened the screen with 513 yuan, earning $3.96 million in the first week, and then fell by only 19% the next week, and then received $3.21 million. The good curve means that this small film, which costs only $500,000, was a big success in the box office, and the total local box office is expected to be between 10 million and 15 million.

Simon has always admired Barry Diller's "tent theory" when he was operating Paramount. The bombshell was the backbone of the "tent". Other low- and medium-cost films are the support and curtains of the "tent".

For a tent, only if the main trunk and support curtain are all in place can shelter from wind and rain, and both are indispensable.

The same is true for film companies.

The key to the fact that large studios have stronger risk resistance is that their 'tent' is large enough to form a complete system. After the large studios further integrate into a comprehensive media group, they evolved from 'tent' into 'castle' and were completely fearful of wind and rain.

Therefore, although the box office sizes of "Broken Arrow" and "The McMurlen Brothers" are very different, Simon did not underestimate the latter at all.

Then came "This Man from Earth".

After its official release on February 24, "This Man from Earth" is still full of controversy, and the people who like it are very much, and the people who hate it are disappointed.

However, compared with "Broken Arrow", which did not even reach the pass score two weeks ago, "This Man from Earth" is still mostly recognized, with a comprehensive media score of 8.2, which is already an excellent level. It is just because the movie was written by Simon himself and is not an adaptation like the DC Film Universe project, and his personal tendency is very strong, which has attracted a lot of dissent.

After all, criticism of Simon is definitely more attractive than praise.

In short, not only in the United States, but also in all the film markets that opened at the same time, countless media are talking about "This Man from Earth".

Because of the content of the video, this argument inevitably extends to Simon himself again.

Is this what Simon Westeros suggesting to the immortal who survived for 14,000 years?

Just like the "Supernatural Sixth Sense" in previous years.

Because of this suspicion, some people even began to become interested in Simon's "biological samples".

A maid from the family quickly reported quietly that someone offered $100,000 to buy a piece of Simon's hair.

After the death of Doris Fiercher, the Westeros family's loyalty to the maid guards and male bodyguard teams around them was more stringent. During the training period, Doris Fiercher was used as a counterexample, or, to be blunt, as a warning. At the same time, it was promised that when someone attempted to infiltrate the Westeros family through them, they could receive corresponding rewards as long as they reported in time.

Simon is not stingy at all about this.

Because of these measures, from the Doris Fitch incident to the present, at least within the close monitoring of the Westeros family intelligence team, no betrayal was discovered. Once something happened, all of them were reported in a timely manner. Simon also arranged several "fishing" tests, and all the test subjects involved passed the test.

Of course, they did not tell these people the truth, but directly and generously distributed a reward.

This time, it can only be said that Simon is a little amused and crying.

100,000 US dollars is too underestimated by the loyalty of the Wei family's maid guard team. Moreover, if some people contact Simon directly, he is willing to sell it himself. The amount of hair that normal people have is about 100,000. Usually, they cut hair and cut it one by one, and calculated based on a $100,000 US dollar, even for Simon himself, it is a huge sum of money.

After so many years, Simon believes that his "biological samples" must have been carefully studied by many secret laboratories, and even he has done so himself. The conclusion is that Simon's personal physique is indeed beyond ordinary people, but it is far from the level of "superman", and is completely within the physiological range of human beings.

Such a small episode was just a joke by Simon in private, and he was too lazy to even investigate the victim.

In any case, under the strong topic, the North American film market unexpectedly ushered in a movie viewing craze during this unpopular schedule at the end of February.

From February 24 to March 2, the seven-day opening score of "This Man from Earth" finally reached 76.19 million US dollars, with an average of up to 24,000 US dollars, which is a bombshell opening score.

The whole Hollywood can only express envy.

Everyone understands that this kind of success is difficult to replicate.

Because the success of this movie is the strong popularity halo of Simon himself, other studios may be able to create a similar story, but without the popularity brought by Simon Westero, you can only make a small profit at most.

The Gaomen Pictures promotional and distribution team had previously expected that the opening performance of "This Man from Earth" would be very good, but they still did not expect that it would exceed US$70 million in the first week.

You know, the production cost of "This Man from Earth" is only $1.5 million.

Because the film has its own topic popularity, Gaomen Pictures invested only US$10 million in publicity and distribution budget, and a large part of it was still 3,107 yuan in copying costs for opening screens. The main promotional channel was only for the main creators to log in to various late-night shows and graphic posters for theater releases.

Also, as Ella Deutchman and Simon said, it is used in various public relations to avoid spoilers.

The most expensive TV commercials are useless at all.

It's mainly because it's difficult for this movie to cut a trailer that is neither spoiler nor attracts audiences, so I'd rather not do that.

In this case, it was still an unpopular schedule at the end of February. The first week of the opening of the painting of US$76.19 million directly set the highest record for Hollywood's films in February, and it far behind the previous data, which can only be described as a miracle.

Affected by "This Man from Earth", "Broken Arrow" in the third week of release expanded to 43% in a single week, earning $10.17 million, with a cumulative box office of $52.56 million.

The single-week box office fell into the 10 million range. Whether it will continue to earn 20 million in the future to reach the expected $70 million, it can only see whether the decline in "Broken Arrow" narrows again in the fourth week.

The other "McMullen Brothers" was not affected much. It fell by 25% in the third week of release, and it closed at another $2.39 million, with a cumulative box office of $9.56 million, which is about to exceed tens of millions.

Subsequently, another box office week that started on March 3rd, because of the box office hit in the first week of "This Man from Earth", many viewers who had not entered the theater because of the controversy of this movie inevitably developed strong curiosity and began to buy tickets to enter the venue.

As a result, from March 3 to March 9, the weekly decline of "This Man from Earth" was not halfway as many media expected, with a drop of only 26%. The next week's income was still as high as US$56.37 million, and the total box office of US$132.56 million in two weeks, even surpassing the trend of many blockbuster movies.

According to this box office trend, the total box office of "This Man from Earth" in North America exceeded US$200 million. Even if it was sprinting to the threshold of US$300 million, it was not completely impossible.
Chapter completed!