Chapter 903 Six hundred million
When time came March 7, another box office week from March 1 to March 7 passed, North American film history ushered in a new historical moment.
The 11th week of release of "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" officially exceeded $600 million in the local box office, becoming the first movie in Hollywood history to exceed $600 million in the box office, and it is also the first movie to exceed $600 million in the single film market.
North American media and the majority of movie fans were in full swing for a moment.
On the Internet platform, the number ‘600M’ can be seen everywhere this day, and various websites of all sizes are rushing to report on this entertainment event.
And further speculation about whether Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice can be further analyzed.
Because during this box office week from March 1 to March 7, the local box office exceeded 600 million US dollars, the single-week box office of the Super War was only 11.56 million US dollars. If it was a general commercial movie, even the top-notch blockbusters such as the "Jurassic Park" series, the single-week box office fell to the range of 10 million US dollars, and it is unlikely that the subsequent box office will be collected by 10 million US dollars.
Of course, the phenomenon of super-war is different.
What's more, there is an Oscar coming soon.
Although the Super War did not apply for the Golden Globe Awards held in January, this awards season has also been a variety of union awards or other media hosted awards that are also pre-emptive Oscars. The Super War has achieved great success during this period, and in turn, it has continuously stimulated the popularity of this movie.
Therefore, no matter from the perspective of media and public relations, there is no suspense that the Super War will become the big winner of this Oscar.
The first film in North American film history that exceeded 600 million US dollars and could even go further to 700 million US dollars. So much so that you can't say you are not qualified to win the Oscar?
Oscars never stipulate that commercial films cannot win awards.
In fact, Oscars went to the extreme of literary and artistic direction and political correctness, but instead happened in the next ten or twenty years. Before the millennium, Oscars were very inclusive. Not to mention the "Titanic" in the original time and space, further forward, "Forrest Gump", and even the "Rocky", "Out of Africa", "Field Platoon" and so on, they were all very popular commercial movies.
What's more, the huge benefits involved in this movie.
Not only did the local area exceed 600 million and go straight to 700 million, overseas, in the past two months, the Super War has come from behind. In order to protect the local film market, many countries and regions are still slow to release this movie in order to protect the local film market, the overseas cumulative box office of "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" has reached 870 million US dollars according to statistics last week.
It can be imagined that once the Super War wins the Oscar and overseas releases are further promoted, this DC superhero blockbuster, in the overseas market, is expected to be no less than US$1 billion.
If anyone dares to interfere with such a project, then he will never be able to survive in Hollywood at the very least.
To put it seriously, if the profit scale of billions is delayed by others, it is not impossible to kill you in a car accident and commit suicide.
Interest drives everything.
Therefore, although the box office in a single week is only 11.56 million US dollars, the Super War has hit 700 million locally, which is already the same goal of film companies, media, movie fans and other parties. Even if you buy the box office quietly, you have to go through it, so that you can be considered a complete success.
Under the light of the Super War, it was also this week that "Pulse Hour" produced by New World Pictures, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, had a cumulative box office of over 100 million yuan in four weeks of release. At least in the media and the public, it seems not so conspicuous.
"Pulse Hour", released on Valentine's Day schedule on February 9, saw the box office drop of more than 30% in the first week and three weeks, which is obviously far from being as strong as the Super War. However, four weeks after the release, the film also reached a total of 101.66 million US dollars in a single-week box office of US$14.38 million last week, successfully crossing the threshold of the 100 million yuan club department.
The outside world seems to care less, but there is no such support in the Hollywood circle.
The Super War has not yet ended. Last year, the local gratitude period was finally $256 million. "Beauty and the Beast" has just been completely painted recently, and "Rush Hour" has been put on the stage. This is really no way out.
However, three years ago, five years ago, or a little earlier, if Daenerys Entertainment performed so strongly, other Hollywood studios would definitely unite. If you don’t let me live, I will certainly not let you live. At that time, if several studios joined forces, even if Daenerys Entertainment could not be completely killed, Simon Westeros would definitely know who has the final say in Hollywood.
Now, it's too late.
Hollywood is still the top seven. However, except for Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group, the other five companies, Colombia was directly digested by Sony, Disney became French, Paramount was bought by Canadian capital, Fox and MGM, to be precise, are both Australian capital.
Time Warner and Daenerys are not likely to turn against each other when they wear a pair of pants.
Fox and MGM are similar.
The remaining three are, well, the Japanese, French and Canadians unite to fight an American business in the United States, who do you think would agree?
What's more, Daenerys Entertainment is still backing the Westeros system that controls trillions of dollars in assets.
This is even more terrifying.
Unless Daenerys Entertainment makes serious mistakes, it is simply impeccable.
Therefore, don't say anything weird about suppressing Daenerys Entertainment. Simon Westeros doesn't do this the other way around, and everyone is already grateful.
The only thing other big studios can do now is to make as good movies as possible and let the market speak.
However, this is really not an easy task.
Many studio executives even had the idea of giving up again when they saw their company's bleak film business.
Malibu, Daenerys Cinema.
It is March 8th.
Simon arrived at the company at 8 o'clock in the morning and processed various documents for an hour. He then discussed the late stage of the project with the "Charlie's Angels" team, which has been officially completed and scheduled to be held at the end of the year, and participated in the production meeting of "One Day". Finally, he met with several senior executives such as Amy Pascal to discuss the design plan of Universal Studios Italy. Before he knew it, it was already noon.
The meeting ended, Simon and Amy walked out of the conference room together and said, "Next month's trip to China, Jeff of Egret, Chambers of Cisco and Raymond of Verizon will go with me, Daenerys, you should know, I'm sure it's Ella, without you, it's mainly unnecessary. Although "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" has become China's first local movie to exceed 100 million yuan, the entertainment industry there, you know, maybe it's still difficult to make it in the next ten years."
Amy smiled and listened to Simon's words, nodded and said, "Boss, I understand, I really only need Ella to go."
Ella Deutschman is responsible for Gaomen Pictures, mainly based on art films. At this stage, the film and television industry in China basically focuses on winning awards overseas. In recent years, Gaomen Pictures has been responsible for publishing many Chinese films, allowing Deutschman to accompany him, which is just right.
In the last few days, through the communication between Chen Qing and Westeros team and the official Chinese government, Simon's trip to China was completely finalized.
It is mainly formed by official.
April 22 and April 23.
Visiting Beijing.
In addition to the official itinerary, it is not that important how long Simon will stay in China and where he will go.
At the invitation of China and also out of the need for Westeros system to expand in China, Simon will lead a very large visiting team this time, including Jeff Bezos of Igritte, John Chambers of Cisco, Raymond Smith of Verizon, Ella Deutschman of Gomen Pictures, Leon Black of Apollo Management Company under Cersei Capital, Frances Levison of Levison Group, etc.
Including in Australia, Janet's elder brother, Anthony Johnston, who has completely taken over from the old man to become the head of Johnston Holdings and Billiton, will also go there together.
All of these people were selected purposefully.
It mainly aims to further develop the Westeros system in China's science and technology, finance, steel, real estate and other fields.
Simon will definitely not do something that is so ostentatious.
At first, Simon only planned to conduct a second private itinerary, but later agreed to the official invitation and started to only take Janet to eat, drink and have fun. If we only showed our face publicly, China actually achieved its goal, but the effect was still not obvious enough. Therefore, we hope that Simon can bring some senior executives of the Westeros system.
In this way, the influence of this visit itinerary will definitely increase by several levels.
Even though the economy has recovered rapidly in recent years and even after a series of reforms, China's overall demand for foreign investment is still hungry. The severe inflation in the past few years has made the official realize that the move to start the printing press is simply not feasible, and it is best to introduce foreign investment.
However, since 1978, for nearly 20 years, despite reform and opening up, China's economic policy changes have been a bit erratic, which has made most foreign capital have various concerns about investing in China. Although foreign capital has increased its efforts in recent years, it is still capital in Southeast Asia, mainly Chinese capital, which still has considerable feelings for China.
Of course these are not enough.
When it comes to capital, European and American capital is the key point. However, in addition to the Westeros system's vigorous entry into China in recent years, the capital focus of all parties in Europe and the United States is still a bit disliked by China.
Therefore, if Simon Westeros can lead the senior management of the entire Westeros system to visit China, this embarrassing situation will be completely opened immediately.
Obviously, Simon Westeros is optimistic about China. If you don’t follow up, wouldn’t you be stupid?
Therefore, in order to promote this large-scale visit to the Westeros system, China was full of sincerity and gave a "big gift package" with a total value of more than 10 billion yuan, including cooperation in several aspects such as telecommunications, finance, real estate, steel, etc. These industries that were not very large and relatively closed may not be bad in the past if foreign capital wanted to enter, but it was very difficult. This time, it can be said that it is a comprehensive special task.
In addition, Simon finally had no shortage of feelings for the land on the other side of the ocean, and after some consideration, he agreed.
These days, Chen Qing's work there is actually just a coordination of Simon's private stay, but it is actually just equivalent to Simon's private housekeeper. The real business cooperation is all about Westeros and other subsidiaries contacting China.
In North America, the Westeros system will certainly not wait.
As the world's first trillion-dollar super rich man, Simon's every move will affect too many things. What's more, although the relationship between China and the United States has been very harmonious on the surface, it is actually bumpy. Compared with the Bush family's favorable impression of China, Clinton is a truly black-hearted person.
In order to ensure that there will be no embarrassing incidents during this visit, the Westeros system also held various consultations with Washington.
Stop me any messy arms sales.
In recent months, no one should make any discordant remarks, either in the White House or Congress, or wait for us to settle the score later.
In addition, Simon simply invited some senior Washington officials to accompany him. He knew very well that someone was the biggest private sponsor of the White House and even the Democratic Party. Clinton gave very positive feedback and called Simon himself and recommended the Secretary of Commerce to accompany him.
Of course, you still have to have a position.
Some agreements in this regard are not worthy of being spoken by outsiders.
In the office building of Malibu Daenerys Cinema, Amy certainly knew Simon's consideration of taking Ella with him this time. Even if Simon didn't say anything, she wouldn't have any grudges. She felt it was unnecessary. Now her boss explained a few words to her, which made Amy feel more about her boss's importance to her.
The two of them laughed and entered the elevator. Amy and others were going to have a meal, while Simon returned to Dumei Point Manor.
Anthony Johnston came here today and made an appointment to have lunch at home together. Simon would not come to work again in the afternoon.
When she got home, Anthony Johnston was talking by Janet beside the glass curtain wall of Shell Villa, holding Little Nick in her arms, and her thumb was bitten by the little guy. Anthony was not angry, but just smiled and teased.
Seeing Simon come back, Anthony handed the child over to a waitress next to him and stood up to hug Simon.
After Janet waited for the two of them to greet him, he smiled and said, "You guys talk, I'll go and see how lunch is prepared."
He said that he took the people around him to leave.
Simon and Anthony sat down on the sofa together. Anthony directly picked up a silver suitcase that had been put at his feet and said, "This is what you want. Our people bribed the three experts from the Southern Design Bureau of Ukraine, including rockets, nuclear energy, satellites, etc., all of which were included, with more than 2,000 copies. Haha, I can't understand anyway, but it must be true. My father personally asked some people to identify them."
Simon pulled the box over, and heard Anthony say the password again, so he opened it.
More than 2,000 copies of cutting-edge technological information. If it is made of paper, a suitcase will certainly not be able to hold it. The items inside are very complicated, including film, CD, and hard disk.
Of course Simon couldn't understand it either. He just opened it and locked it again, looked up and asked Anthony, "Where is the person?"
Anthony said: "This aspect is a little troublesome. It will take some time to immigrate to Australia. Don't worry, if Ukraine wants to investigate, first of all, we will only find Russia. What's more, Ukraine's current state and the influence of the Westeros system. Even if we find out, no one has the energy to pursue such a rotten country. In fact, many people are doing this, not just ours."
Simon nodded, knowing that this is the truth.
Of course, these things are for Simon's recent plans. If they want to steal information from Russia, Simon will definitely not do this. Although Russia is still in a mess now, it has its roots.
Ukraine.
No scruples at all.
Chapter completed!