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For example, Pixar, the 3D animation studio that has maintained Disney’s long-term dominance in the field of animated films, has been bought by Simon very early, and “Toy Story” has also become an important IP under Daenerys Entertainment.

In addition, some Disney 90s blockbuster projects such as "Pretty Woman" and "The Lion King" were also blocked by Simon.

Miramax, which was originally an important sub-label of Disney, is still an unknown small workshop.

Even Disney's crucial 2D animation film business, because Simon's early acquisition of Pixar led to the fact that animation production technology did not shift from manual to digital, and the scale of Disney's 2D animation film production was therefore limited.

It can be said that although the current Disney is doing well among the major Hollywood studios, it is impossible to have enough strength to annex Metropolis/ABC Group.

The wave of consolidation in the US media industry has already begun.

If Disney cannot develop into a comprehensive media group through its own expansion, in the industry trend of American media industry tending to concentrate resources, this old film company that has been operating independently for many years may end up being defeated by other large media groups in the future. annexation.

Twenty or thirty years later, the most powerful major studios in Hollywood, whether it is Disney, Warner Bros. or Universal, are actually attached to a huge media system.

Rising stars such as Lionsgate Films, because of their independence, have not been able to truly stand alongside the traditional major studios. They have been popular for a few years with one or two blockbuster series, and soon fell silent.

Moreover, in Disney now, signs of instability have emerged within the management.

In the original time and space, Disney's slump around the new millennium was officially caused by the management's infighting and damage to its vitality.

High-level infighting will undoubtedly further hinder the development of Disney.

Simon couldn't help but began to think that maybe one day, this old studio could also be included in his pocket.Or, let it be completely silent like United Artists, RKO and later MGM.

Such a heavy burden on Euro Disney has undoubtedly played a very good 'booster' to promote the decline of Disney.

While thinking, suddenly a pair of small hands reached out, held Simon's face and rubbed it for a while, interrupting his thoughts.

Simon made a gesture to bite one of the hands, but the two little paws leapt forward together without fear, and he quickly shut up.

Dissatisfied with pinching the man's face again, Janet let go of Simon, put her arms on his chest, still staring at a pair of beautiful eyes and said: "Don't think about things, think about where we are going tomorrow?"

Simon put his arms around the woman's waist lying on him, and said, "Why don't you go to Chateau Latour tomorrow."

Janet nodded, and remembered something again, and said, "Dad told me last time that I should help prepare some red wine for David's wedding at the end of the year."

Although the old man has always been dissatisfied with David Johnston's fiancée, his face-saving character remains the same as before.

Scratching the woman's waist with his fingers, Simon pretended to be in pain and said, "Just pick something that's about the same. If it's too good, I'll feel bad."

Janet snorted twice with threatening eyes, looking like a little daughter-in-law who was planning to turn her elbows out.

However, after looking at Simon for a moment, Janet was a little puzzled: "You really don't seem to care at all?"

Simon pretended to be displeased: "Am I a very stingy person in your heart?"

"of course not."

Janet said, tilting her head slightly, as if she was thinking seriously.

Simon wanted to imitate the way the woman rubbed his face just now, but was suddenly attacked by Janet and directly bit his hand.

After playing for a while, Janet became quiet again, and suddenly said, "I see."

"Ok?"

"You seem to really regard the Johnston family as your own relatives."

Simon's heart skipped a beat, but there was nothing abnormal on the surface, and he said as a matter of course: "You are my relatives. :"

"No, no!"

Janet shook her head, as if entangled in some crucial question.

Simon stood up, pulled her up, kissed the woman's face, and leaned into her ear and said, "Let's go back. I'll help you deal with it if your chest swells today."

Janet blushed instantly.

The little guy was born in December last year, and it has only been half a year now.After sending her baby to Australia, she often faced a certain distressing problem without breastfeeding herself.

Being led out of the paradise by the man, Janet did not forget to give Simon a sideways glance.

It's so clumsy to change the subject so obviously.

However, the question just now is really confusing.

Moreover, this is not the first time this feeling has appeared. It seems that there has always been a dead end in her thinking that makes it difficult for her to figure it out.

After six years of getting along with him, she knew him very well.

In his bones, he was almost like a person from another planet, with an almost indifferent sense of alienation from the world he lived in.

After so many years, there are only a few people who can really break into his heart.

However, she felt more than once that he regarded all her family members as his own family members in many things.

The nuances in it are definitely not detectable by ordinary people, but she feels them keenly.

For example, when she got along with Patrick Johnston several times, she could feel that his attitude towards Patrick was exactly the same as that of his own ineffective youngest. Just send it aside.

He didn't have the politeness of the uncle who was separated by a floor at all, but was almost the same as her sister in normal times.

and also.

Ok.

Small annoyance.

Apart from the experiences and insights of more than a dozen people in two lifetimes, Janet is definitely smarter than Simon, but she rarely reveals this.

Sorting out the many details accumulated in my mind, I always feel vaguely that I am about to grasp something, but there is always something short of it.

What's wrong?

Before they knew it, they got into the car, and the couple returned to their manor in the western suburbs of Paris together.

Back home, Simon seemed to have forgotten the evil thoughts he had in Disneyland not long ago, and Janet once again let go of a vague problem that had entangled her for a long time.

The couple entered the villa together, and A-girl Alison Norris greeted them and handed Simon an invitation card, which was sent by the Blockley family. They hoped that Simon could attend a meeting held by the Blockley family in London tomorrow night. party.

Obviously, the Blockley family wanted to talk to Simon about 007.

After the last fallout, Simon had already decided to put the 007 series on hold for a few years. The Broccoli family chose to back down now, and it was already too late. Simon did not intend to change his decision.

Casually throwing the invitation aside, Janet began to instruct the staff to prepare dinner, Simon went to the study by himself, and emailed some ideas generated in Disneyland today to Amy Pascal in Los Angeles and the person in charge of Universal Osaka in Japan. Executive of the movie theater project.

The layout of Disney may be a long line of five to ten years, but Universal Studios Osaka is an important layout for Daenerys Entertainment in theme parks.

The successful experience of Tokyo Disneyland and the lessons learned from the failure of Euro Disney are enough to provide enough reference for this theme park under preparation.

After sending the e-mail, Simon clicked on the box office data report of the past weekend in North America in the mailbox.

Mel Gibson's "Lethal Weapon 3" was released last Friday. It earned $2510 million on a scale of 3324 screens in the first three days of the first weekend. It is expected that the box office in the first week is expected to reach about $4500 million.

Just a few years ago, a $4500 million opening week would have been enough to break some box office records.With the rise of full-blown saturated releases, that number looks remarkably ordinary for an A-line blockbuster.Even if "Wonder Woman," which opens on June 6, takes in just $5 million in its opening week, the film will be considered a flop.

Originally planned to fly to Cannes tonight to attend some party activities after the closing ceremony of the film festival, Janet didn't want to go temporarily, and Simon canceled the trip.

However, Simon still got the award result of the film festival immediately.

The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 45th Cannes Film Festival was won by Swedish film master Ingmar Bergman's "Betrayal of Kindness" written based on his parents' experience.

Ingmar Bergman's cinematic talent is beyond doubt.

However, the result of such an award, in Simon's view, is more of an affirmation of the film master.

Daenerys Entertainment's entry this year is Howards End, an adaptation of the novel by British novelist E. M. Forster, starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, starring three Hollywood stars, received unanimous praise from the media during its screening in Cannes.

However, although "Howard's End" entered the main competition unit, it ended up with nothing.

Ingmar Bergman's screenplay won the prize, which has been predicted.

Daenerys Entertainment's performance at major film festivals in the past few years was quite 'eye-catching', but at this time it is still in the stage of keeping a low profile just like the Oscars in March.

Although his own films failed to win awards, Ella Deutschman, the director of Gaomen Films, who came to Cannes in person as usual, also began to get in touch with several award-winning works this year, such as "Beautiful Betrayal" and "The Spring of the Little Thief". Copyright of the film.

A few years ago, Simon had planned to replace Miramax's position in Hollywood with Grand Gate Films, and planned to use greater efforts to promote overseas films in North America.

The rise of Hollywood in recent years has made film practitioners in overseas countries feel a clear threat.

Daenerys Entertainment vigorously supports the entry of overseas films into North America, which is not only in line with its own interests, but also to a large extent eases the resistance of the overseas film market to Hollywood, at least the resistance to films produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

Chapter 486 Heavy Prelude (Revised)

In the first week of seven days, the opening box office figure of "Lethal Weapon 3" ended up being 4294 million US dollars, slightly worse than the expected 4500 million US dollars.

The production cost of "Lethal Weapon 3" is only 3500 million US dollars due to the bias towards action comedy.

Starting with 4294 million US dollars, compared to the cost, it has completely reached the big-selling level.

However, because the share contract signed by several main creators such as Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and director Richard Donner cut more than half of the film's net profit share, Warner Bros. The expected income is not as much as that of the main creators.

Considering that the cost and risk of continuing to make sequels will increase, the key to whether "Lethal Weapon 4" will be launched depends on the profit distribution game between Warner Bros. and Mel Gibson and other main creators.

In Simon's memory, "Lethal Weapon 4" was not launched until 1998, largely because of the above reasons.Moreover, because it has been too long, the production cost of "Lethal Weapon 4" has reached 1.4 million US dollars, but the North American box office is still below the cost line.

Hollywood's trilogy curse, sometimes, is not a bad thing for the studio or the main creator of the film.

On May 5, the second week of the summer season, Disney released the black comedy "Crazy Nuns" starring Whoopi Goldberg. The budget of the film reached 22 million US dollars, but the number of opening screens was only 3100.

The opening screen size of 1430 yuan was already a large-scale production level a few years ago, but now in 1992, it is an indication that the film's box office prospects are not optimistic.

Disney plans to launch several movies this summer, not to mention the sequel "Honey, I Made the Child Big" and the 2D animated film "Aladdin", even if it is another upcoming movie. The classic 7D animation film "Pinocchio", which will be re-screened in mid-July, is expected to have more than 2 opening screens than "Crazy Nuns".

In addition to "The Nun is Crazy", the film released on the same day also includes "Fire Lover" released by Daenerys Entertainment's New World Pictures.

"Lover on Fire" is directed by the famous French director Louis Malle, starring Oscar winner Jeremy Irons and famous French actress Juliette Binoche. It tells the story of a British MP who has an affair with his son's girlfriend.

New World Pictures is promoting "Fire Lover" as a remake of the blockbuster "Fatal Attraction" starring Michael Douglas a few years ago.

Of course, compared to the horror and suspense of "Fatal Attraction", the actual selling point of "Fire Lover" is only one word: sex.

Under the operation of the distribution team of New World Pictures, mainstream newspapers and magazines are serious about the deconstruction and analysis of various plots of "Fire Lover". The 'conflict' that occurred was raging.

Because of the multiple large-scale love scenes in "Fire Lover", MAPP initially positioned "Fire Lover" as NC 17. After some disputes between the two sides, New World Pictures finally made some concessions, and the film finally became "difficult". Received an R rating.

This kind of rating conflict is of course deliberately done by the New World Pictures team.

There are countless disputes and conflicts between Hollywood studios and MPs every year because of ratings, and Daenerys Entertainment is also the same, but most of them are resolved relatively low-key.

So, once in a while with a lot of fanfare in the media, the effect is really good.

The film opened with 516 screens, and earned a box office of 539 million U.S. dollars in the first seven days, breaking through the hot-selling standard of [-] U.S. dollars.

Considering that the works of French directors have a limited audience in the North American market after all, and now it is a highly competitive summer vacation, and it has to play some kind of hunger marketing effect. Although the box office started off well, New World Pictures did not increase the box office screens in the next week. number of plans.

However, the opening box office of 539 million US dollars has roughly ensured that "Lover on Fire" will earn at least 1500 million US dollars at the North American box office.

Although it is the work of Louis Malle, who has directed famous films such as "Atlantic City" and "Embarrassing Baby", due to mediocre reputation, the box office of "Lover on Fire" in the early stage of its European release was only average. The North American omni-channel copyright of "Fire Lover" was bought out for US$200 million, and the investment in publicity and distribution was also US$200 million.

This is actually an adventure.

Louis Malle was never a box office director.

The distribution team of New World Pictures initially predicted that the North American box office of the film may only be 500 million US dollars.

With a total investment of 400 million U.S. dollars, if only 500 million U.S. dollars are won in the North American box office, this project can only expect to recover the cost through channels such as video tapes in the later stage.

The several European production companies of "Lover on Fire" probably also foresaw this possibility, so they were willing to sell off the North American copyright at one time, and it was safe.

Similarly, it is precisely because of the buyout that "Fire Lover" was able to get such a good schedule as the summer file.Otherwise, if it is released in splits, the film can only get unpopular schedules such as January, February or September and October.

The total North American box office is expected to be US$1500 million, which is enough for New World Entertainment to recover all the investment in the early stage of the project and realize profitability.

Many people in Hollywood have been unable to understand why Daenerys Entertainment, which owns the DC movie universe and a large number of other super-grossing IPs, is involved in the field of low-cost independent films and art films.

Now, with the passage of time and the continuing success of Daenerys Entertainment in this field, other studios are gradually realizing that a niche film with a box office of 2000 million US dollars in North America may not earn less than "Fatal". Weapon 3" half of the box office in the first week.

However, if there are more than ten similar movies a year, coupled with the low-cost advantage, the comprehensive income will be very impressive.

For Daenerys Entertainment, starting with films such as "Reservoir Dogs", "Heroes of Dancing Kingdom" and "Double Dragon" at the beginning of the year, including the just-released "Fire Lover", Daenerys Entertainment's new world movie The two sub-labels of Yiye and Gaomen Films have released a total of 9 low-cost niche projects with a box office of more than [-] million US dollars.

Even if each film only earns a net income of 300 million US dollars at the box office, it is enough to contribute more than [-] million US dollars to Daenerys Entertainment in the whole year, including the income from peripheral channels such as video tapes and TV broadcasts. profit.

And this is limited to low-cost niche projects.

Gaomen Films and New World Films also have major projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Fighting Wits", and "Farewell to the Piano" every year.

All calculated, the profit scale brought by the two sub-labels to Daenerys Entertainment will easily reach [-]-[-] million U.S. dollars or more.For the other seven major Hollywood studios, if the year is average, their annual net profit is often only two to three billion US dollars.

But even with this growing understanding, it won't be easy for other studios to catch up to established Daenerys Entertainment in the low-budget independent space.This is just as it is difficult for other studios in the original space and time to surpass the specialized New Line and Miramax in the two fields.

In addition, this time New World Pictures and High Gate Pictures are already subsidiaries of Daenerys Entertainment, and there is no possibility of being acquired by other studios.