Hollywood Hunter

In the week before Easter, the tragic stock market crash culminated in a five-day drop of 24% for the Nasdaq, with the Nasdaq plummeting from a high of 7,045 on March 24 to close on Friday, March 28. 5346 points. As a result, the total market value of Nasdaq plummeted from a maximum of 9.3 trillion US dollars to 7.1 trillion US dollars, equivalent to the 2.2 trillion US dollars wealth of the sum of the gdp of the UK and China in 1996, which evaporated in just five days.

The capital market is in mourning.

The liquidation of Tiger Fund in February injected another dose of adrenaline into all the bulls who were still optimistic about the Internet industry at that time, and thus triggered hundreds of billions of dollars in various types of purchases and positions in technology stocks in just one month, many of which were large Use of financial leverage.

The highest position takes over, and the tragedy is inevitable.

For five consecutive days, investors around the world due to the collapse of the Nasdaq index have committed suicide, but no less than 20 cases have appeared in the newspapers. More former millionaires and multi-millionaires have returned overnight like the Tiger Fund that collapsed a month ago. before liberation.

The biggest loser in this stock market crash is undoubtedly a young tycoon with a peak fortune of $2.3 trillion.

Compared with the Nasdaq's 23% overall decline in one week, because a series of new technology leaders under his name bear the brunt, Simon's personal net worth has fallen by 31%. As of Friday's close, there are only 1.6 trillion US dollars left. In just five days, The loss reached 700 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to one person resisting the loss of nearly one-third of the market value of the Nasdaq.

Pretty tragic.

Of course, this is only the tragic on the books.

Even if many spectators who are inexplicably gloating over the misfortune are celebrating the 'collapse of the oligarchs', some sensible people can still see that even if their personal wealth has evaporated by 700 billion US dollars, the personal assets of 1.6 trillion US dollars will be more than last year. "Forbes" America's 400 rich list of 1.5 trillion, a full $ 100 billion higher.

Even, what if Simon Westeros' personal net worth falls back to less than $1 trillion next?

The other party is still the super-rich person in the world whose personal net worth far exceeds the second place on the list. Ordinary people can't beat it for ten lifetimes.

Unlike most investors who are in the middle of the game and see the value of new technology stocks under their names depreciate day by day and feel anxious or even extreme, Simon is indeed the most peaceful and indifferent in this storm.

While continuing to commute between a group of pregnant women as an expectant father, the Westeros system these days has begun to form a financial audit team headed by Veronica Johnston, with plans to begin investigating Westeros in April. Enterprises such as Igreat, Cisco, and AOL in the system conduct a comprehensive investigation and sorting out.

Simon is confident that the companies in the Westeros system that he has been closely watching will not have serious financial loopholes like Enron and WorldCom, but he is also very clear that there must be many small-scale problems and loopholes.

Doing so is actually equivalent to repairing the house before winter.

Prevent the future.

Then, officially entering the Internet winter, Simon will start large-scale layoffs, thoroughly purify the impetuous emotions within the company that are inevitably brought about by the surging new technology bubble for several consecutive years, and achieve a nirvana, so that after the cold winter, Igre Special-class companies can flourish further and reach higher peaks.

At the same time, entering the Easter weekend, a series of new products of Tincober were officially launched in major markets around the world.

In the previous week's pre-sale, a series of main products such as iplayer, icam, irec, imac and other online and offline platforms in North America and abroad exceeded the total pre-sale total of 12 million, which became a quite dazzling positive in the context of the collapse of the Nasdaq.

Throughout the weekend, a large number of media were tacitly promoting the hot pre-sale data of Tincober, and it was predicted that in 1997, the cumulative sales of Tincobel's four main electronic products, not including various peripherals, would exceed 150 million units. Catching up with the total global PC shipments, creating another miracle.

In fact, even without this momentum, Tinkobeier's stock price fell by the lowest level among all new technology companies in the past week, with a cumulative decline of only 8.3% in five days.

On the other hand, for most ordinary people, the stock market crash is a little far from them.

This time is closely related to life or Easter.

Similarly, on the Hollywood side, everyone is most concerned about the Easter schedule.

Before and after the 69th Academy Awards ceremony on March 24, the box office of films such as "The English Patient", which won the award, and "Good Will Hunting", which has increased its exposure again, have rebounded. However, these films, which are mostly in the final stages, have fallen out of the Easter competition.

Among them, the domestic box office of "The English Patient" has exceeded 70 million US dollars. With the Oscar for best picture crown, it is expected to receive about 10 million US dollars in the subsequent box office, and the total domestic box office is around 80 million US dollars.

At the same time, after the Oscars, "The English Patient" officially started overseas distribution by the main agent of Daenerys Entertainment.

This is actually the big one.

Relying on the halo of Oscar's best picture, the overseas box office of "The English Patient" exceeded 150 million US dollars, almost twice the domestic box office, and this time it will not be too bad.

Another "Good Will Hunting", the recent domestic box office has been close to 160 million US dollars, and only the best original screenplay at the Oscars will make the film will soon be withdrawn from the theater. The total domestic box office is expected to be around 165 million US dollars.

As for "Wonder Woman," which was scheduled at the end of last year

2", "Jumanji", "Charlie's Angels" and other films, with the advent of Easter, in order to free up screen resources for the new film, the files have been dropped during this period of time.

During the Easter schedule, which opened on March 21, a total of three new films will be released in North American theaters, namely the Jim Carrey comedy "Cable Repairman" produced by Daenerys Entertainment, "Xenogeneic 2" issued by MGM and Fox. The spin-off movie "King Kong Warrior" from the TV series of the same name.

The most talked about "Cable Repairman" and "Xenogeneic 2" obviously didn't start very well.

After all, it took a $35 million budget and $15 million to announce, and even if there is a private discord, the work that needs to be done has to be done. Daenerys Entertainment's publicity team created a gimmick of Jim Carrey's transformation for "Cable TV Repairman". However, the film's media score was only a passable 6.2 points, and there is obviously a public relations. Element.

The long-awaited "Alien 2" by movie fans has basically similar encounters.

The plot of the story ranges from the hunt for aliens in the first episode to the duel between two generations of aliens in the second. Although the budget has risen to 40 million US dollars, the production team has also been more attentive, and Simon personally serves as an advisor, but compared to the first part, the overall score is 4.3 points. , the media comprehensive score of this sequel has only slightly increased to 5.5 points, still failing.

The Hollywood Reporter's review very directly pointed to the key to the sequel's lack of critical acceptance: the assembly-line popcorn that has no meaning, and, too, too meaty.

The reality is, it can't stop the audience from watching it!

Two beauties tearing each other naked on the big screen, who can stand this?

As a result, in the first week of the Easter schedule from March 21 to March 27, in the gossip that MGM was able to downgrade from nc-17 to r due to multiple revisions of exposed scenes, "Xenogeneic Species" 2" opened with a screen size of 2,619 pieces and won a box office of 33.14 million US dollars in seven days in the first week, easily reaching the top.

As the first film of the packaging project planned by Simon led a multi-party cooperation, the result of "Xenogeneic 2" is a good start.

The production budget of the film is 40 million US dollars, the publicity expenditure is 15 million US dollars, and the total expenditure is 55 million US dollars. It starts with 33.14 million US dollars in North America. Although the local recovery is definitely difficult, the global distribution is very hopeful to recover the full budget.

And the bulk of this project is actually the videotape.

Not to mention that the videotape market of the "Alien" series in Simon's memory is hot, this time the first "Alien" three years ago has also proved this.

The first "Xenogeneic" has a domestic box office of over 60 million and a global total of 110 million US dollars, which has achieved profitability. However, subsequent videotape sales, just to date, have sold 4.6 million boxes, or nearly $140 million in sales, more than the global box office.

In addition, the TV broadcast income of the film is also rich.

Simon was more worried that the sequel to the project would be coldly received in the theaters like "Xenogeneic 2", so it was delayed. Now, the re-conceived "Alien 2" earned $33.14 million in the first week, which means that "Alien 3" can be directly approved.

Because of the combination of the two films, it has been regarded as a mini alien movie universe.

In recent years, Hollywood's concept of the movie universe may have been a bit flooded, but "Alien" is a more apt description.

Let's talk about box office charts.

Following "Xenogeneic 2", "Cable Repairman" ranked second on the weekly list with $27.07 million.

Although the reputation is also mediocre, Jim Carrey’s box office appeal accumulated from three consecutive blockbuster films is still there. Even if many fans express their dislike of Jim Carrey’s transformation after watching the movie, the box office is still considerable, only the local box office. Depends on the follow-up.

The third place on the list is "Bj Singles Diary".

This love movie, which caused strong repercussions in the UK and the US at the same time, was hit by two new films in the sixth week of its release, with a drop of 32%. The single-week box office fell within the range of 10 million US dollars, with a revenue of 8.37 million US dollars, but the cumulative box office was Has reached 122.53 million US dollars, temporarily ranked in the 1997 crown.

The fourth place is Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi, which was re-screened last week. After the film earned $16.29 million in the first week, it was also hit by two new films in the next week. The box office dropped by 54% and received another 7.51 million. Dollar.

Different from the big box office sales when the first Star Wars movie was re-released two months ago, Star Wars 3 accumulated a total of 23.8 million US dollars in two weeks, and the total domestic box office is expected to be only over 30 million. Obviously, the more feelings are sold, the less.

The fifth place is not Fox's new film "King Kong Warrior", but an urban comedy "Savage City" by Disney, starring Hollywood comedy star Tim Allen, and its creativity is similar to the "Crocodile Deng" that was a big hit in the 1980s. Di", tells the story of the 'primitive man' breaking into the modern city.

The film opened on March 7, and in the third week of its release, it earned $6.01 million and accumulated a box office of $28.17 million. Although the production budget reached $30 million, the estimated domestic box office of $40 million is not bad in such an unpopular period. .

As for Fox's "King Kong Warrior", it ranked eighth on the list after several other old films.

This sci-fi movie with a children's theme similar to the later "Dinosaurs" cost 45 million US dollars, which is considered a little ambitious, but it did not splash at all. The first seven days of the first week was only a pitiful 3.01 million US dollars. Pounced to the bleak level that Murdoch would have to cover his heart.

After that, the more competitive Easter week.