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"Hmmmm."

"so……"

Janet rubbed her head against Simon, and suddenly asked softly, "Would you, um, bully others?"

"Who else can make me bully like this?"

"Anyway, absolutely not allowed to do that."

"Well, I promise."

Veronica Johnston lives in Janet's original villa on the east side of Cape Dumay. Patrick Johnston took his girlfriend to the city and obviously won't be back tonight. Dinner is still Simon and Janet for two.

I continued to spend a day with Janet on Sunday, and a new week of work began.

The box office for the first weekend of the Halloween schedule is also officially released.

Three days after the opening, the box office of "Scream 3" in the first weekend finally reached 2711 million U.S. dollars. Compared with the opening screen size of 2672 yuan, it has achieved a sales level of more than [-] per museum.

Although the finale is still meticulously crafted and the budget has reached 3000 million US dollars, but a routine has been used three times, and the word-of-mouth of the film is naturally unsatisfactory.

Moreover, although the start is not bad, neither Daenerys Entertainment's internal nor external media are too optimistic about the sequel's subsequent box office trend.

Released at the same time as "Scream 3" is John Hughes' new film "Best Q File", which tells the story of a homeless man and an orphan girl who form a partner "bluffing", which is still John Hughes Various fixed routines, but also clearly followed the style of "Home Alone", which was a big hit at Christmas last year.

Because of the success of "Home Alone", John Hughes' position in Hollywood has been improved. This "Best Q File" has no big-name stars, but the budget has reached 3000 million US dollars.

However, the quality of the film is obviously unsatisfactory, otherwise, this film that is more suitable for the year-end schedule will not be left by Warner in the relatively inferior Halloween schedule.

"Best Q File" still failed to bring any surprises to Warner.

With 1634 opening screens, only $497 million was earned in the first three days in the first weekend, and the box office in the first week was only about $600 million.

After the success of "Home Alone", John Hughes has hastily produced two similar children's films this year. The box office of "Little Elf" in the summer file is even more dismal, with a budget of 1700 million US dollars and a popular schedule in July. It grossed only $7 million.

The consecutive failures of the two children's films basically exhausted John Hughes' aura won by relying on "Home Alone".

John Hughes signed a very lucrative profit-sharing contract in these two children's films. Now, both films have ended in losses. Except for the basic salary, there is no way to talk about the share. This trick is popular all over the world. Many filmmakers have also begun to turn more attention to the production of "Home Alone 2".

In my original memory, "Home Alone" is not only the pinnacle of John Hughes, but also the beginning of John Hughes going out of style in the 90s. Some film techniques have been used for too many years, and the audience has finally developed aesthetic fatigue.

With the opening of the Halloween schedule, a series of film lists for the annual schedule have also been finalized.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are two major schedules. Daenerys Entertainment, including Universal Pictures, which has been merged, will launch a total of four films, namely "Toy Story" and "Fearful Corner" in the Thanksgiving schedule. The opening date is November 11nd and November 22th.

"Farewell to the Piano" and "Fried Green Tomatoes" in the Christmas schedule, the opening date of "Farewell to the Piano" is December 12th, which is a small-scale opening of the usual award-winning film, and the schedule of "Fried Green Tomatoes" is December 6, the last week of 12.

"Toy Story" and "The Piano" are self-produced films by Daenerys Entertainment, "Cape Fear" starring Robert De Niro and Kathy Bates and other female stars starring female drama comedy "Green Tomato" is a project taken over from Universal.

After "Cape Fear" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", Universal's distribution department will be officially abolished, and only Universal Pictures' production label will remain.

Not only that, after a few years, the production label of Universal Pictures will also be completely integrated by Daenerys Entertainment.

Although it is a classic label that has lasted for more than half a century, the current Daenerys Entertainment also has the strength to replace this brand.

In this world, after all, nothing is eternal.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

After this period of discussion, the director of "Midnight Ring" was finally determined, named Philip Noyce.

Simon roughly browsed the box office report of the past weekend, and has been discussing the production details of "Midnight Ring" with the director in the morning.

Last time I told Danny Morris that he could choose some new directors with good potential. Philip Noyce should be regarded as a newcomer in Hollywood, but he is not young. The director is 41 years old this year.

The reason why Simon took a fancy to the other party was mainly because of the director's resume.

Philip Noyce is from Australia. He has been interested in movies since he was very young. He made his first film at the age of 18, and has been in the Australian film circle since then. He did not meet Hollywood until two years ago. Beyond the Horizon, the first George Miller-produced sea-drifting thriller starring Nicole Kidman.

That's right, the choice of Philip Noyce still has the human factors of George Miller and Nicole Kidman, and it is also because of Simon's deliberate support of the Australian Gang.

However, if the director does not have enough strength, of course Simon will not use the other party.

Philip Noyce not only has a professional background graduated from a professional film school, but also has experience in the film industry since he was 18 years old. There is no doubt about his personal strength.

Moreover, in the original time and space, Philip Noyce also directed Harrison Ford's "Patriot Games" and Angelina Jolie's "Agent Sauter" and other blockbusters. Although these things have not happened yet, this It is also enough to prove the director's film skills.

In addition, Philip Noyce has also tried horror films in recent years. Although it is not a Hollywood film, directing "Midnight Ring" is enough.

As a 'newcomer' who had only tried one Hollywood film, Philip Noyce cherished this opportunity very much.

After being contacted by Danny Morris, the director flew to Japan and spent a few days discussing the plot style of the film with Koji Suzuki, author of the original novel of "Midnight Ring", and by the way, Japanese horror. The film does a lot to understand.

Many famous film directors' early film works are very amazing, but they gradually become mediocre in the later stage. In Simon's view, talent is only a small part of the factor. I put too much effort into my own work.

After more than two hours of interviews, Simon instructed Danny Morris to discuss signing a contract with Philip Noyce.

After dealing with this matter, Simon had just opened the list of patents that were about to be implanted into the World Wide Web Consortium Foundation from San Francisco, when the female assistant knocked on the door: "Boss, Ms. Johnston is here."

Simon didn't respond: "Huh?"

The female assistant explained: "Veronica Johnston."

Simon paused, nodded and said, "Let her in."

The female assistant retracted from the door, the door was pushed open, and Veronica Johnston, who was still in a black women's OL suit today, walked in.

Looking at Simon who didn't get up behind the desk, Veronica stood not far from the door and said softly: "I, the plane in the afternoon."

Simon and Veronica glanced at each other, gestured to the sofa in the reception area, and then continued to look through the list of patents in their hands.

Veronica no longer expected that Simon's attitude towards her would change too much, so she walked to the sofa and sat down facing Simon.

After a while, the female assistant came in with coffee and noticed the weird atmosphere in the office, but it was because Simon gave Veronica a cold look at the man behind the desk, put down the coffee, and sat down in the reception area herself.

After chatting with Veronica for a while, with work in hand, the female assistant could only get up, and when she left, she used her eyes to signal Simon not to neglect the guests too much.

Of course, the female assistant didn't understand why Simon and Janet's aunt got along so strangely, but she instinctively felt that Simon should be warmer.

After Jennifer left, the atmosphere in the office remained unchanged.

Veronica quietly drank a cup of coffee, hesitated for a moment, and asked softly, "Do you know what I promised Jenny?"

Simon nodded.

Seeing that Simon didn't speak, Veronica didn't know how to continue for a while.

Fortunately, he finally didn't speak coldly to himself this time.

Janet's proposal to ask Veronica to help take care of the child yesterday was just a whim, but Veronica agreed, deep down, out of some kind of guilt or compensation.

I have never been able to take up my responsibilities.

Now, that's some small compensation.

Although……

There was another moment of silence, Veronica put down the empty glass, and originally planned to leave, but suddenly couldn't help asking a question that had been buried in her heart for a long time.

"Back then, the Levinsons, why did they disappear? You...how did you end up in San Francisco alone?"

behind the desk.

Simon mechanically flipped through the documents in front of him, but frowned slightly, as if he was recalling some memories he didn't want to recall.

There is plenty of light in the office.

However, at a certain moment, Veronica felt that Simon, who was not far away, seemed to be plunged into some kind of cold shadow, and this feeling even made her heart stop.

Snapped--

There was a snap of a pencil.

A certain atmosphere dissipated in an instant.

Veronica was still sitting there blankly. I don't know how long it took before a voice came from a place that seemed far away but actually very close: "Let's go."

Inexplicably, Veronica's eyes overflowed with uncontrollable tears again.

She raised her hand to cover her mouth, trying to restrain herself from crying.

It's just that the tears couldn't be restrained no matter what, and soon merged into a line on that cold face, and turned into the gap between the palms.

Simon silently flipped through the documents in his hand until he had read all the dozen or so pages. Then he looked up at the woman on the sofa who had calmed down a little, and said, "Come and have lunch with me."

She agreed softly: "Yeah."

After Simon finished speaking, he got up and walked towards the door.

Veronica watched the distance carefully, got up and followed quietly.

Realize that you may be ignoring, or simply not knowing, too many things.

There is simply no way to make up for it.

How can it be made up? !

Deep down in my heart, I made up my mind to never, ever, never bring up certain things again.

Chapter 450 Surroundings (Revision)

After $2711 million in the opening weekend, "Scream 3" finally reached $3713 million at the box office in its first week.

Calculated, the film's four-day box office accounted for only 27% of the entire week's box office. As Halloween is getting closer, this once again confirms the fact that the end of this horror film lacks stamina.

With the arrival of a new week, which also spans the weekend of Halloween, three new films will be released in North American theaters again.

The industry predicts that under the impact of the three new films, the box office of "Scream 3" may drop by 50% in the next week, and the total North American box office of this sequel may therefore stop at between 8000 million and 9000 million US dollars.

Of course, although it is not as good as the box office performance of the first two films, the box office of "Scream 3" exceeding 8000 million US dollars is still beyond the reach of most horror films.

After Halloween, time entered November of 1991.

The "Scream" series has been settled, and the successor project "Midnight Ring" has entered the production stage. Daenerys Entertainment's November film release focus has also begun to shift to the two major schedules at the end of the year.

Of the four films scheduled for the end of this year, the most important one is of course "Toy Story".

In Simon's memory, "Toy Story" in 1995 not only won the North American box office champion that year, but also stepped on the third part of Warner's 90s Batman series "Batman Forever".

However, this time, if "Toy Story" still maintains the box office level that Simon remembers, it is definitely impossible to surpass "Batman: The Dark Knight" this summer.

After nearly six months of screenings, "Batman: The Dark Knight" was officially released in North America a week before the release of "Scream 10" at the end of October, with a total North American box office of 3 million US dollars.

At the same time, in the past six months, the overseas box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has reached 4.6 million U.S. dollars. It is expected that after the overseas markets are fully rolled out by the end of this year, it will be able to earn another 5000 million to 7000 million U.S. dollars.The film's global gross is thus expected to hit $9 million.

In this era, a blockbuster with a global box office of more than 3 million US dollars has already satisfied the studios.

Although the global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is not as high as the US$9.6 million of the first "Batman: Beginning of War", such box office results, including other channels such as video tapes, TV broadcasts and toys, etc. brought by the film The income still supports a large part of the film business of Time Warner and Daenerys, the two major media groups.

Looking back on the past few years, Hollywood can't help but find that Daenerys and Time Warner, who are getting closer and closer, are gradually leading other Hollywood film companies in terms of film business.

Not to mention other things, but this year, besides "Batman: The Dark Knight", Daenerys Entertainment has cooperated with several blockbusters in the summer file, "Terminator 2", "The Fugitive" and "Few Good Men" , all squeezed into the top ten of the year-end list.

Not only that, but Daenerys Entertainment itself also independently produced two blockbuster projects with a box office of over [-] million at the box office, "Fighting Wits" at the beginning of the year and "The Silence of the Lambs" at the end of the summer.

For Time Warner, in addition to "Batman: The Dark Knight", Warner Bros. also collaborated with Daenerys on the blockbuster "The Fugitive", and also produced another blockbuster project "Robin Hood".

Just the seven films mentioned above have occupied seven of the top ten box office charts as of early November in 7.

If it is distinguished by the distribution label, three of the seven films belong to Warner Bros., which naturally means the huge profits behind the project.

Although the only films released by Daenerys Entertainment are "Wisdom" and "The Silence of the Lambs", and the box office rankings are very low, but no one can ignore that among the seven films, there is actually only one "Robin Hood the Robin Hood". is not affiliated with Daenerys Entertainment.

The other six films are either Daenerys Entertainment's wholly-owned projects or Daenerys Entertainment's external cooperation films.

In the original time and space, probably only Disney in its peak period after 2000 could reach such a level.

After successive acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, Disney has three core brands of 3D animated films, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Star Wars series, and may also add live-action adaptations of traditional fairy tales. Disney's films Every year, it occupies nearly half of the North American annual box office list.

Relying on this super content advantage, Disney's market value at its peak was close to 2000 billion US dollars, which was almost the sum of the market values ​​of Time Warner, Fox and Paramount at that time.

With his prophetic advantage, Simon has achieved achievements comparable to Disney's peak period. If this is the only way, this advantage will be difficult to last for a long time.

Pixar is a very important layout in Simon's plan.

In fact, Simon has unknowingly laid the groundwork to replicate Disney's movie business in recent years.

Pixar is already a studio under Daenerys Entertainment, and Marvel Entertainment is more completely in Simon's hands than Simon remembers. Simon even poached DC's core Big Three.

In addition, the Tol King series, "Jurassic Park", "Mission: Impossible", "Bourne Shadow", "Men in Black" and other IPs collected by Simon based on his prophetic advantage are also waiting Developed treasure.

Although there is no Star Wars series, just these resources in hand are enough for Daenerys Entertainment to run rampant in Hollywood in the next 20 years.

In the traditional Hollywood film industry, everyone is gambling, and no one knows the box office prospects of a film. Therefore, in many cases, the films that rank at the top of the box office list basically have a share in the major studios.