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This time, because of the strong impact of "Wonder Woman", although the total North American box office of "The Nun is Crazy" is still expected to exceed 1.1 million, it is difficult to exceed 2000 million US dollars, and the shrinkage scale has shrunk by more than [-] million US dollars.

"Lethal Weapon 3", which was released for the sixth week, had a box office of US$685 million this week, ranking No.6, with a cumulative box office of US$1 million.

Because of the earlier opening time, "Lethal Weapon 3" is not greatly affected by "Wonder Woman", and the total box office in North America is still expected to hit the 1.4 million US dollars mark in the original time and space.

Tom Cruise starred in "Ambition for Earth", which cost US$6000 million. In the fourth week of its release, the box office has only US$381 million left, and the cumulative box office has reached US$3391 million.

Because the attendance rate is too low, in the new week, "Ambition for the Earth" has been continuously reducing the screen scale. Because most of the theaters' screening contracts expired, more than half of them were directly withdrawn, leaving only 612 screens. The total box office will basically stop at less than 4000 million US dollars.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", which started drawing in the Easter schedule, will be released for exactly 6 weeks as of June 25.

Because of the popcorn nature of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchise, the sequel began to shrink its canvas from its fourth week of release.

When "Wonder Woman" opened on June 6, the canvases of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5" in mainstream theaters were basically transferred to this superhero movie, and only the 2 yuan screens in some remote theaters were still there. Continue to show.

6月19日到6月25日一周，《忍者神龟2》依靠263块银幕规模继续进账29万美元，累计票房1亿1317万美元。

It can be said that the total North American box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", which will be completely canceled in the next few weeks, is basically fixed at the figure of 1.13 million US dollars.For a sequel to an animated Popcorn movie, that's a huge box office success.

San Francisco Bay.

Inside a villa in the Woodside Mountains on the western outskirts of Palo Alto.

The time is June 6th, Saturday.

I have been here on Thursday and Friday to participate in the affairs of several technology companies. I worked until [-] o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and I participated in the dinner with several high-level executives of Eaglet in the evening, so I did not return to Los Angeles.

Opening her eyes first in the morning, Jennifer Leibould felt the breath of the man behind her on her neck, and her waist was tightly hugged by a strong arm, and she subconsciously stuck the post behind her.

So I felt the unique tension of a man in the morning, and his cheeks were slightly hot.

The light penetrating through the gaps in the curtains showed that the sky outside had already lit up, and the probe caught the watch on the bedside table and glanced at it, it was 55:[-].

A little bit sad, but I also knew it was time to get up.

After several body movements, Simon also woke up, took the female assistant into his arms, kissed the girl's neck, and said softly: "Morning, baby."

"morning."

I really like his tone every time he casually calls his baby (Honey), it's really sweet.

It's just always embarrassing to respond like that.

I'm also a little curious, how he called Janet in private, it's also 'Honey', or 'baby;', it shouldn't be 'Darling', it's too formal.

I wanted to ask, but I was worried that he would feel that I was fighting for something.

Thinking so wildly, the hand that was originally holding her began to swim and swim on her body, her body was getting hotter and hotter, and she almost gave up on herself, and finally she endured it and said, "It's time to get up."

"Ah."

The man pretended to be weak, she couldn't help but curled up her mouth, pulled his arm over, kissed the back of the man's hand, and said, "You can sleep for another 15 minutes, I'll get up first, and help you prepare breakfast. "

"I was very tired last night. I think it would be more appropriate to sleep for half an hour."

"You are a man, you can't be lazy than a woman."

After haggling for a while, the man finally let go, and the female assistant started to get out of bed, get dressed, and wash up.

After walking downstairs, Zoe Parks and Isabel Dunn who came with them had already gotten up.

Knowing the habits of the female assistants, the two girls simply explained that the ingredients for breakfast and today's newspaper were ready, and then disappeared voluntarily.

Simon didn't stay in bed for half an hour, and got up quickly after the female assistant got out of bed.

Habitually ran a few kilometers in the morning in the quiet and fresh mountains of Woodside, and met Larry Ellison again as usual.Since meeting in this mountain road last year, Simon has been to San Francisco many times, and he can meet each other during morning jogs. The late blooming Oracle founder is really good at managing contacts in such small places.

After a painful adjustment, Oracle has already survived the previous crisis, and the early outbreak of the Internet industry has made this database software company even more prosperous.

Most professional Internet sites require a database.

Moreover, because Westeros continued to buy 25% of Oracle's shares, Eaglet was naturally more inclined to adapt to Oracle's database software in the process of developing World Wide Web technology.

It didn't involve any substantive topics, the two jogged and chatted for a while, and soon parted ways.

Simon returned to the villa, took a shower and changed his clothes. The female assistant had already prepared breakfast, and put the newspaper he was used to reading at breakfast and yesterday's North American theater box office report on the dining table.

In the new box office week that opened yesterday, two new films were released in North American theaters, namely Daenerys and MGM's "Killing Time" and Columbia Pictures' "Two-Faced Girl".

The female assistant looked at Simon looking at yesterday's box office report, and said while serving the man sweet soup: "On the first day, it was only 479 million, which seems to be low."

What I'm talking about here is of course "Time to Kill".

Compared with the original version, the new version of "Time to Kill" stars Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson. The story is similar to the original version in Simon's memory. It is also an adaptation of John Grimson's novel A crime drama film involving racial discrimination and judicial justice.

The first day was 479 million US dollars, and the box office in the first week should be between 2000 million and 2500 million US dollars.

Such an opening box office, let alone "Wonder Woman" and "Lethal Weapon 3", is not as good as last week's "Pleasant Deal".

However, Simon had no worries, saying: "The key still depends on the follow-up box office trend. The box office curve pursued by "Time to Kill" should be comparable to Harrison Ford's "Presumed Innocence"."

Two years ago, "Presumed Innocence" had a box office of just over US$1000 million in its opening week, but due to its strong follow-up trend, the film's total North American box office continued to exceed the studio's expectations, and finally exceeded US$8000 million.

In comparison, "Killing Time", which has a similar genre and theme, started with a box office of 2000 million to 2500 million US dollars, which is already very good.

After "Wonder Woman" in early June, there are no blockbuster-level films released in this summer, and the word-of-mouth of "Killing Hour" has also been recognized by the critics. The follow-up long-term trend will definitely not be a problem.

Having been by Simon's side for so long, the female assistant certainly knows this, but she just habitually feels that the box office of projects led by him should be better.

After chatting casually and having breakfast, the two flew to Chicago together in the morning.

For the matter of "Home Alone 2".

The sequel to this phenomenal children's comedy has basically completed its post-production.

Simon handed complete control of the "Home Alone" series to John Hughes, whose film company is in Chicago, where most of the filmmaker's films are shot and post-production.

Although it was possible for Hughes to send the film to Los Angeles, Simon did not do so, but rushed over in person.

After watching the film in this way, by the way, I can fly to Toronto, Canada to go shopping with my female assistant.

Unlike Los Angeles and San Francisco, where there are always a lot of eyes on the need for attention, in these cities, as long as you keep a low profile, no one will notice.

And so on until Sunday night, back in Los Angeles, and another week of work.

The acquisition of LTD company has been finalized in the near future, and the plan of Victoria's secret fashion show is also advancing rapidly.

In the confirmed schedule, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be held in early November and will be broadcast on the TV network in mid-November, before the peak consumption season at the end of the year.

Because it is a project led by Simon himself, the four major TV networks in North America have shown strong interest in this fashion show.

After several bidding negotiations, the ABC television network bought the TV broadcasting rights of this big show at a high price of 500 million US dollars.

Although the $500 million price includes the first broadcast and rebroadcast rights for the next 5 years, such a transaction price still made LTD founder Leslie Wexner marvel at Simon's influence.

The budget for the entire big show is only 1000 million US dollars, and ABC offered 500 million US dollars for the TV rights, which is equivalent to taking out half of it directly.

If it had known this earlier, LTD would not need to transfer half of the copyright of this big show to Daenerys Entertainment.However, Leslie Wexner also understands that without the participation of Daenerys Entertainment and the leadership of Simon Westeros, ABC would certainly not have paid such a high price.

To put it simply, ABC's offer is more aimed at the influence of Simon Westeros.

In addition, the [-] Victoria's Secret Angels and five Victoria's Secret Angel spokespersons in the big show plan have also become the focus of competition in the model circle recently.

The catwalk team of 40 people seems to be not small, but it is insignificant when counted in the whole circle.

There are almost no thresholds in the modeling industry. As long as you have a decent skin, you can basically enter the industry.

Although beauties around ordinary people are always scarce resources, in the whole world, a group of people with the best skins can reach a million if they get together a little bit.

Of course, in this industry, there are very few who can really climb to the top.

Several supermodels who have risen to fame in recent years, such as Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangeline Star, Claudia Schiffer, etc., all of them are full of luck.

The Victoria's Secret fashion show has attracted intense media attention just after it was exposed. All major modeling agencies in North America and Europe have realized that, compared to top luxury brands that are well-known brands but have a low rate of catwalk exposure, this time Simon · Westeros will lead the underwear fashion show that will also be broadcast on TV, which will become a very rare upper platform.

Models want to be in the top position, whether it is to participate in beauty pageants, gossip with star singers, appear on the cover of fashion magazines, or participate in top brand catwalks, etc. In the final analysis, what they are pursuing is exposure.

Many luxury brands always give the general public a very cold feeling, but in fact, these brands, whether they are catwalks or endorsements, tend to choose more famous models.

This can be seen from the fact that many luxury brands have been vying to hire IT Girls or Internet celebrities to participate in catwalks many years later.

Especially internet celebrities, whose style is not high at all, but this group has tens of millions of fans, and has an exposure rate that is difficult for ordinary supermodels to match.

In recent years, as long as things related to Westeros, the exposure rate is usually not too low.

Therefore, major modeling agencies have recently used various connections to hope to send their own models to the 40 Victoria's Secret Angel quota. Among the [-] people, the five most popular angel spokespersons, whether they are supermodels who have already achieved fame or young talents who have just emerged, are all closely watched.

Chapter 490 Blockbuster's Problem (Repair)

Burbank, Universal Studios.

When Grace Nichols, the CEO and president of the Victoria's Secret brand, was led by a staff member to a setting community like a fairy tale town, Simon had just finished a production meeting of "Desperate Housewives".

This 'fairy tale town' is naturally the Wisteria Street setting that Simon built according to his memory.

After saying goodbye to the main creators of "Desperate Housewives", Simon greeted the short black-haired woman with glasses in front of him, and the two walked together along the neat asphalt road.

Leslie Wexner's main energy is still on the transformation of LTD's fashion business to the "fast fashion" operation mode, and it is impossible for Simon to spend too much time staring at this matter.Therefore, Grace Nichols is still responsible for the preparation and execution of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Grace Nichols was an executive in the marketing department and was promoted to the top of Victoria's Secret by Leslie Wexner last year.

From this we can also see Wexner's management style.

Therefore, Simon does not have [-]% confidence in whether Wexner can transform LTD's fashion business from a marketing-focused business style to a 'fast fashion' mode of business operation.However, as long as the Victoria's Secret brand is established, Cersei Capital's acquisition of LTD will be considered a success.

I have been in contact with it several times before, so I am familiar with it.

Simon and Grace Nichols just chatted casually, and the topic quickly turned to the main topic.

Grace Nichols still has scruples about some of the feedback from the media on the Victoria's Secret show: "Recently, the media has been accusing us of showing off sexiness and objectifying women for the fashion show we are preparing. I think maybe we should Be conservative."

Simon did not have Grace Nichols' worries, saying: "Leslie and I have discussed this issue, and controversy is inevitable. No matter what the outside world thinks, we should first confirm a position for this catwalk: Victoria's Secret The fashion show hopes to convey a fashionable, charming, healthy and romantic underwear consumption concept to consumers."

"I know that," Grace Nichols continued, "but the media often doesn't see it that way."

"Some things, even if it's a lie, you tell the public a hundred times, and most people will believe it," Simon said, suddenly realizing something, turned to look at the woman beside him, and said with a smile: "Okay Well, for media matters, I will help to say hello."

The freedom advertised by the Western media is more of a freedom without interests involved.

If some big money owners may withdraw their advertisements on media platforms because of your remarks, then this kind of freedom will suddenly be extinguished.

Daenerys Entertainment, or the entire Westeros system, is undoubtedly an advertising funder that cannot be ignored by any mainstream media.Whether it is mainstream newspapers and magazines or professional film, technology or fashion newspapers and periodicals, whether it is cable TV network or wireless broadcasting stations, there are advertisements from various companies in the Westeros system.

Moreover, the media platforms in North America basically belong to some large comprehensive media companies.

For example, the Hearst Group, which owns countless newspapers and magazines, and the Metropolis/ABC Group, which owns the ABC TV network and cable networks such as ESPN and AE. Therefore, even if a certain newspaper or TV station had no interest in the Westeros system , there is no guarantee that other media under the same parent company will do the same.

There are many things in this world, when you get to the bottom of it, there are only two words left in the end, interest.

Grace Nichols mentioned some encounters with the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in the media, and also hoped that Simon would use the contacts in the Westeros system to reverse some public opinion situations.

Simon noticed this, and readily agreed, mainly because of this. The current LTD company is already a part of the community of interest in the Westeros system. In terms of media, LTD company is also a large advertising funder.

In order to make it easier to prepare for the Victoria's Secret show, Simon specially set aside a studio in Universal Studios for the Victoria's Secret team.

In fact, it seems better to directly choose this studio in Malibu Daenerys Studios.However, the studios in Malibu are basically used for movie shooting now, and more than half of them are professional virtual studios for front-screen shooting.Only the old-fashioned soundstages on the Universal Studios side are still available.

After completing the acquisition of MCA last year, after reconfiguration, many buildings on the Universal Studios side will be demolished to build new attractions. As for the functional studio and post-production center, they will be mainly used to produce TV dramas.

Hollywood film production is more and more inclined to live-action shooting. In terms of TV dramas, until many years later, studio shooting is still widely used.

The Victoria's Secret team chose a small studio with a length of 45 meters and a width of about 25 meters.

As soon as Simon and Grace turned into the corridor where the studio was located, they saw many slender figures waiting at the entrance of the studio.Those figures obviously saw Simon for the first time, and there was obviously a commotion.

Today is the last round of interviews for Victoria's Secret Angels.

The 40-member Victoria's Secret Angel team, of which about 10 positions are basically determined by default, including the planned five Victoria's Secret Angel spokespersons, and several other famous models who will participate in the Victoria's Secret catwalk but will not act as spokespersons.The remaining 5 places will be selected from various modeling agencies.

In order to select a batch of finished ODYs, Simon also put forward very high requirements.

Those whose height is below 175cm are eliminated, those whose face is not beautiful enough, those whose steps are not good enough, and those who cannot accept the whole set of harsh contracts of Victoria's Secret Angels.

The first three conditions are actually very easy to choose.

There is only the last one. To participate in this catwalk, for non-famous models, the Victoria's Secret team only gave a salary of 5000 US dollars, which is basically equivalent to a salary of a salaryman for a month.

However, after the contract is finalized, the selected models will start preparing for the November catwalk, further exercise, control diet, participate in catwalk rehearsal, participate in media activities according to the schedule of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and so on.In addition, the subsequent TV broadcasting and video tape sales of this catwalk have nothing to do with these models.

Of course, in the next four months, additional expenses such as the models' fitness and transportation will still be borne by Victoria's Secret.

What the modeling industry eats is youth rice.

Focusing on one thing for as long as four months, the result is not sure, and the salary is pitifully low. These requirements discourage many models who have already opened up their careers and are expected to advance to the next level.