Hollywood Hunter

Time slides into a new January, May 1st.

It's Friday.

In Los Angeles, Simon arrived at the office of Daenerys Studios early in the morning. While looking at the box office report of the past box office week, he listened to a girl report on some of today's work schedule and important matters.

In the past box office week from April 24th to April 30th, Daenerys' film "The Truman Show" released on Easter week still maintained its championship position. After the third week of its release, "The Truman Show" earned another $17.82 million, with a cumulative box office of $83.82 million in three weeks.

As the last film between Daenerys and Jim Carrey, Daenerys didn't look forward to this movie too much when both parties have been unhappy.

Now, the film's box office performance has clearly exceeded expectations.

With the cumulative box office of 83.82 million US dollars in three weeks and the current box office trend, "The Truman Show" can easily exceed 100 million in the follow-up, becoming Daenerys Entertainment's second local film that broke 100 million in 1998.

Even Simon himself was initially expected to make only around $80 million domestically.

In any case, box office beats are a good thing after all.

As for how Jim Carrey's side and even the other party's next family will react, it is conceivable that Simon doesn't care. He can also imagine that the film company that will cooperate with Jim Carrey next will basically make a big effort to make a small profit. Money, Daenerys Entertainment will definitely not accept this kind of cooperation status.

"Extremely Cold", another major feature of the Easter schedule, has just ended its fourth week.

After 30.79 million in the first week, 15.31 million in the second week, and 7.72 million in the third week, the box office revenue in the fourth week was 4.15 million U.S. dollars. It was released for nearly a month, and the cumulative box office was 57.97 million U.S. dollars. There are still about 5 million U.S. dollars in potential box office revenue , can ensure that the film breaks through 60 million local audiences, and this trend is completely expected.

Still worth mentioning is "Titanic".

It just happened to be the 20th box office week of Dachuan’s North American release, and the film’s single-week data is still suppressed. It was only the fourth week of release, and "Extreme Cold" continued to earn 4.23 million US dollars, after breaking through the 600 million threshold in the 18th week of its release. , the current cumulative box office in North America continues to soar to 611.39 million US dollars.

With the arrival of the summer holidays, the release of "Titanic" on the big screen will inevitably speed up. However, it will be able to earn at least another 10 million U.S. dollars in the follow-up, pushing the North American local data of this phenomenal blockbuster to more than 620 million.

Regrettably, this time "Titanic" can only rank second in North American film history. Perhaps after several re-screenings in the future, it is possible to surpass the 702 million box office data of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" three years ago , the world wants to catch up with the $1.938 billion of Super Bat Wars. At present, it is unlikely.

Moreover, breakthrough films like Super Bat Wars can also be re-screened in the future, and no one can predict what will happen in the end.

On the other hand, Daenerys and Warner Bros. share revenue in Super Bat Wars, while "Titanic" belongs to Daenerys Entertainment exclusively, so it can also be said to be Daenerys' most successful movie. Even if it's just box office, "Titanic" earned more than 400 million yuan when it was released in 1998, which directly made Daenerys' North American box office share this year easy to get rid of other major studios.

Simon picked up a pen and wrote down some impromptu comments in the blank space of the report, asking the relevant team to study the feasibility of projects such as the "Titanic" Australian film tour and the global tour of the big ship props as soon as possible. Hearing a report from a girl, a little paused.

Russia side.

Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament have been in a tussle for nearly two months. After three rounds of voting, this morning local time, they finally passed the appointment of Kiriyenko as the new prime minister with difficulty.

This was actually expected.

The 36-year-old rootless young prime minister is not easy to accept no matter how you look at it.

In fact, it is also doomed that Kiriyenko cannot stay in this position for too long.

In comparison, another appointment that Simon is more concerned about, the new director of the Russian Federal Security Service, has been approved early.

Girl a noticed the pause of her boss and took the initiative to add: "Russia is currently facing very serious economic problems. At present, Russia's arrears of civil servant salaries and pensions have reached 4.5 billion rubles per month. Calculated according to the official Russian exchange rate of 6.2, about 720 million US dollars. Against the background that a large amount of funds are still fleeing from Russia, Kiriyenko came to power, unless extreme measures to break the rules are adopted, it is difficult to solve these problems, and the problem cannot be solved. The only thing waiting for him is to step down and take extreme measures to provoke angered a large number of vested interests, and ended up stepping down."

Simon just nodded slightly, remembered something, paused, and still didn't speak.

Simon originally wanted Girl A to tell Cersei Capital to collect data on the positions of bonds in the hedging field against various countries, because he thought that this year, another hedge fund on Wall Street called Long-Term Capital Management almost lost its position due to the default of the Russian national bond. The liquidation of hundreds of billions of dollars in positions triggered a large-scale financial crisis.

However, doing so is a bit too obvious.

Still wait and see.

After all, if a crisis does occur, the federal government will pay the bill no matter whether it is voluntary or forced, as it has been in history.

Seeing that her boss was about to speak, girl a stopped, waiting for a while, but did not get the order

, and continued: "Also, boss, Ms. Chen sent a piece of information about Korean online games. She said that this is part of the boss's explanation, and this is it."

Simon raised his eyes and saw Girl A beckoning from a stack of folders in front of him, and nodded to express his understanding.

Last weekend, Simon asked Chen Qing to sort out and prepare some information about role-playing online games for the Chinese market, but she didn't expect that Nizi would specifically list South Korea.

Girl A glanced at her memo, continued to finish some things, and finally said: "9:30 is the summer movie announcement meeting, I will remind the boss later."

"Okay, that's right, take this and show Nancy."

Girl a took the annotated box office report from her boss, glanced at it, nodded, confirmed that there was nothing wrong, turned and left.

When the female assistant went out, Simon looked at his watch. There were still 10 minutes before 9:30, so he picked out the file Chen Qing sent from a pile of documents at hand, and opened it to read.

Quickly lifted the spirits.

Everyone's energy is limited, so cognition is also quite limited.

In Simon's memory, the strength of Korean online games began with the legendary "Legend", until many years later, it is still a game content provider in major Asian markets including China, making a lot of money through this industry. However, of course, all of this cannot happen out of thin air.

Before seeing this information, Simon's limitations on Korean online games were roughly after the millennium.

However, this is not the case.

To put it simply, Korean video games have developed an industry trend that is quite different from the mainstream of the world from the very beginning.

As we all know, before the millennium, the mainstream of the world game industry was stand-alone games.

Of course, South Korea is also the main export destination of stand-alone games in North America and Japan, such as "StarCraft", which was once a big hit in South Korea. However, in terms of its own development, South Korea has directly focused on the Internet since the early 1990s. The game's tech tree.

And it is directly biased towards massively multiplayer online role-playing games (orpg).

According to the information provided by Chen Qing, four years ago, in 1994, when the Internet of this time and space was just emerging, a graphic orpg appeared in South Korea with the highest number of simultaneous online users exceeding 10,000, called "Kingdom of the Winds", and it was still Western fantasy genre.

Of course, Simon can easily feel the Japanese style in both the name and the setting of Western Fantasy Land in the introduction, and he can guess that this is inspired by some Japanese stand-alone games without thinking. However, whether it is the game positioning or the story background, they are basically in the same line as the mainstream online games in South Korea.

Japan developed its own comics industry by absorbing nutrients from American comic culture, and South Korea developed its online game industry by absorbing nutrients from Japanese stand-alone machines.

This is off topic.

Based on the population base of South Korea and the number of Internet users in 1994, the number of online users of Ditto exceeded 10,000, which is quite successful.

On the other hand, this also proves how small the online game market in South Korea is. If you want to develop, you must look at the output.

The information in his hand is very detailed, and there is also a CD attached. Simon stuffed it into the computer and quickly found the electronic documents of "Kingdom of the Wind". From a visual point of view, it is very rough, but according to the level of four years ago, it is equivalent to the picture quality of a 32-bit game console, which is already quite brilliant.

The information also mentions that "Kingdom of the Winds" is developing the second generation. Originally planned to launch the IPO in the second half of last year, the second generation will be launched in the first half of this year. Because of the sudden economic crisis in South Korea last year, the IPO plan was aborted. Something went wrong and it has been seeking financing in recent months.

Simon opened the information about the second generation of "Kingdom of Winds" in the electronic file.

Looking directly at the screen, it is already comparable to the picture quality of "Legend" in memory.

Looking at the financial information again, the planned budget of this game is 6 billion won. According to the current US dollar exchange rate that has risen to around 1800, it is about 3.3 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 6 times the 1 billion won development cost of the first generation of "Kingdom of the Wind". The game industry of tdsoft is not obvious. Even if the first generation is successful, tdsoft still fails to raise follow-up funds. At present, most of the employees have been laid off, and the development of 70% of the projects has been completed and almost stagnated.

Simon was about to continue watching when Girl A knocked on the door, reminding her boss that the promotion meeting for the summer film was about to begin.

Simon directly picked up the thick printed materials and rushed to the meeting room next door, continuing to focus on two tasks.

Entering May, it will be the summer vacation soon.

Not counting some non-key small films, Daenerys Entertainment will launch a total of 10 key projects this summer, starting from May 15th, and in chronological order, they are "LA Confidential", "Rush Hour 2", "Jurassic Park 3", "The Haunting of the Mortuary 2", "High School Musical", "Saving Private Ryan", "The Hangover", "The Horse Whisperer", "Heroes", "Magic Mike".

The most important of these is "Jurassic Park 3". In planning, this is the end of the dinosaur trilogy. After this is completed, the Jurassic series will be suspended for a few years. The project's production budget will eventually reach 1.5 If the domestic box office is less than 300 million US dollars, it is actually a failure.

The project has been completely completed in early April, and the schedule is still the most golden on June 5th. Simon has seen the sample in advance, and the current explosion is still very reliable. For the box office

And nothing to worry about.

After the heaviest "Jurassic Park 3", the second file is "Rush Hour 2", "Haunting of the Mortuary 3" and "Saving Private Ryan".

All three films were failures if they grossed less than $100 million.

Among them, "Rush Hour 2" and "Saving Private Ryan", Simon's expectation is to start with 200 million in the local area. The reason why "The Haunting of the Mortuary 3" is included is because of the success of "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" last year , which has restored the popularity of the Conjuring film universe. This "Haunting in the Mortuary 3" is also the end of a trilogy. 150 million should be relatively easy. If you are lucky, it is very popular with last year's "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon". Hope to hit the local 200 million.

Later, "The Hangover" is more special.

Historically, this movie set an R-rated movie box office record. This time, Simon used the once-famous gangsters as the main creator. In order to promote the Atlantic City Casino under his name, the filming location moved from Las Vegas to In Atlantic City, the time has moved forward so many years, so there are too many variables.

The production cost of the film was 25 million U.S. dollars, and the publicity and distribution investment also reached 25 million, of which 15 million came from the implantation of Atlantic City and other aspects. As long as it can exceed 50 million, it will be considered a success.

Simon's personal expectation is to exceed 100 million locally. Otherwise, it would be a pity to come up with this idea in advance.

Others, "L.A. Confidential" and "The Horse Whisperer" are in the same category. They are both created by established filmmakers, and they are also relatively less mainstream literary and artistic films. The box office expectations are between 50 million and 100 million. between.

Then there's High School Musical and Magic Mike.

These are two of the cheapest summer movies to make, with one making $15 million and the other just $7 million.

The reason why it was put on the summer file was Simon's own decision, because the story of "High School Musical" is more suitable for the summer file, and it is impossible to delay it until next year, so some construction schedules were rushed. The latter is Simon's special expectation for the film's director, Steven Soderbergh.

Generally speaking, Daenerys Entertainment, whose film business has entered the strongest track, does not need Simon to worry too much. Therefore, throughout the meeting, he still focused a lot of his thoughts on the Korean online game industry materials in his hands.

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