Hollywood Hunter

After the full first week, Fight Club finally opened its seven-day box office with a box office of 23.45 million U.S. dollars. Although it still failed to pose a threat to The Matrix in its third week of release, it became the most watched movie in early August.

Then, enter the next week that determines the total box office volume of the film.

With more and more attention and discussions, even if the number of screening screens is still maintained at 1263, from August 13th to August 19th, the film’s box office performance in the next week is still impressive, with a weekly decline of only 17%. Another $19.46 million was collected.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of Fight Club has reached 42.91 million US dollars.

When the next week's box office came out, the New World Pictures team had to adjust its initial box office forecast of $60 million to $80 million, because in the third week, the number of screens for Fight Club will double to 2,537.

Meanwhile, The Matrix remains the strongest recent film.

In the third and fourth weeks of its release at the same time as Fight Club, The Matrix earned US$47.96 million and US$30.69 million respectively. About a month after the filming started, the cumulative box office of this sci-fi blockbuster with a classic reputation has exceeded 200 million, reaching $223.41 million.

Quite steadily toward the $300 million goal.

On the other hand, after the birth of Simon's fifteenth child, Nancy continued to cultivate on the east coast, and the two Jenny returned to the west coast with a group of children. study.

Los Angeles.

The time comes to late August, which is August 23.

on Monday.

In the new week, Simon first went to Fox Studios in Century City, Beverly Hills today.

The merger of the three companies has been basically completed, and Shirley Lansing has taken over most of the business of the new company. Today we are going to discuss some follow-up developments of the new company.

Simon arrived at the studio, and Rupert Murdoch rushed over at about the same time. Obviously, it is still to gain some more initiative.

Simon didn't mind either.

After all, the initiative is based on both strength and ability. It just so happens that Murdoch is worse than Simon in both.

Therefore, in fact, there is no need for Simon to be too strong.

Simon has always been better at sneaking into the night with the wind, and has completed the expansion of the Westeros system without knowing it, but people around him have noticed that this side is already an unshakable behemoth.

Like Daenerys' development.

The main discussion this time is the development of a series of major film projects after the merger of the three companies.

The first is the Star Wars series.

However, although Lucas messed up the first part of the Star Wars prequel, because of everyone's previous agreement, Simon did not mean to interfere with the prequel trilogy, and the latter two will continue to be played by Lucas.

Of course, after the prequel trilogy is over, there will be no more Lucas.

Simon is in no hurry.

Even if the trilogy is over, the Star Wars series will be refrigerated for a few years before being released. After all, feelings need to be brewed for a long time to last.

Secondly, it is MGM, the 007 series, and even the spy movie universe planned by Simon in the early days. However, progress on this plan has been rather slow. Three years ago, after 007's Spectre and Charlie's Angels in 1996, Simon deliberately suppressed it. The new 007 will not be released until the end of this year, and Charlie's Angels 2 will be scheduled for next summer, which is different from the first one. for four years.

After all, it was too crowded.

Moreover, Simon also increasingly dislikes seeing Hollywood full of sequels. With such a good momentum, it is the right way to develop as many originals as possible.

However, since the three companies have merged, at this meeting, all parties have offered to hope that the planned secret agent movie universe plan can be accelerated.

Simon didn't object either.

In addition to the new 007 at the end of the year and Charlie's Angels 2 next summer, the agreement this time is to develop a brand new spy series, yes, The Bourne Shadow.

The main creators have been determined in advance, Paul Greengrass, who quickly became a first-line director through two consecutive films of Blair the Witch and Public Enemy, and classmate Ma Da, who is the leading actor. But the premise of the latter is that they must agree to sign a long-term agreement, otherwise, Simon can only make substitutions.

In fact, Simon prefers to bring in the Mission: Impossible series. Unfortunately, part of the copyright of this series is in the hands of Paramount. For this reason, Simon once again adopted a suppression strategy. After Mission: Impossible 2, even if Paramount repeatedly urged, he still suppressed it. The development of Mission: Impossible 3 was such that after Mission: Impossible 2 in the summer of 1996, the third part was originally expected to be released by the end of 1998 at the earliest, but until now, there has been no shadow.

In addition, the overall direction is to suppress the sequel.

The current result is that Paramount has almost worn out. No matter what Simon says, there will probably be no objection there, and Cage, who is the leading actor, will not have much opinion. Because Simon is also quietly suppressing Cage to prevent the actor from having other outstanding works outside of the Mission: Impossible series.

Therefore, apart from Mission: Impossible, compared to the original time and space, Cage’s development in the 1990s was much worse. If there was no Mission: Impossible, it would only be a matter of time before he fell into the second and third tiers.

Finally, after Star Wars and the Agent Cinematic Universe, there's Fox.

The series that Fox can produce, the previous accumulation is probably a few such as Die Hard and Alien, but both series have completed the initial trilogy, and the follow-up belongs to the kind that is tasteless to eat and discarded.

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In addition to the series, there are two cooperative projects, the Terminator series and the Mummy series.

Disney got the authorization to shoot Terminator 3 at the beginning, and invested a lot, but the result was tepid, so there was no plan to continue. The copyright is still jointly held by Fox and Daenerys. Then there is The Mummy, two of which have been completed so far. According to the Hollywood trilogy curse, there is only room for one. Afterwards, it is probably a pity that it will be tasteless and discarded.

Generally speaking, Fox can be regarded as a family that has been heavily influenced by the big butterfly Simon in recent years. The Home Alone series, the Speed ​​series, Independence Day and even the super god-level Titanic, which were popular in the 1990s, were originally all It belongs to Fox, but it is a pity that it was taken away in advance.

If it weren't for the several cooperation projects offered by Simon, Fox's life in these years would definitely be even more difficult.

However, in addition to blockbusters, this meeting decided to restart two series, Simon's two famous works in his early years: Death is Coming and Butterfly Effect.

At the beginning, because Simon no longer participated in the follow-up, as the box office continued to decrease and the cost continued to rise, both series ended after completing the trilogy.

This time, Simon is equal to returning again, the two series, and it is time to restart.

After all, after so many years, you can sell your feelings.

In general, a few things that were roughly finalized at this meeting are that the prequels of Star Wars will continue to let go to Lucas, speed up the construction of the agent movie universe, the establishment of the Mummy 3 project, Die Hard 4 and the derivatives of the Alien series will be considered , Reaper 4 and Butterfly Effect 4 projects.

In fact, the most direct result of this series of actions is to bring a large number of new opportunities to Hollywood.

By the end of the day's meeting, as the news spread, many people had already started to take action.

Rupert Murdoch lives in New York now. Since he came to the West Coast, he certainly won't leave immediately. In the evening, he specially held a reception at the Murdoch family's mansion in Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills.

Simon was invited and attended as scheduled.

In the brightly lit mountain mansion under the darkness of night, Simon got out of the car, and Murdoch greeted him in person, followed by a blond white woman in her 30s, who introduced her name as Linda, this is Murdoch Simon is not too clear about the specific number of his new wife.

However, she looked like a smart woman.

Greeting the couple, Simon couldn't help but think of one thing.

This time, because of this big butterfly, a certain strange woman failed to come to Murdoch again.

What a pity, what a pity!

That was a strange woman, Simon didn't mean to be sarcastic at all, it was from the heart.

What a pity.

If you can meet, Simon will definitely help. However, after so many years of flapping the wings of the butterfly, I don't know where the strange woman has been fanned, and Simon will not deliberately look for it.

Speaking of which, there is another woman beside Simon who was once related to Murdoch.

Jerry Hall.

When we first met, I only wanted to try something new, but I didn't expect to become a long-term lover after a few times, so the idea of ​​pushing the other party to Murdoch's side gradually dispelled, let it be, after all, put Simon can't do such a weird thing of actively planting grass by pushing his own woman to other men.

After saying hello and arriving at the reception, it is inevitable to have another social occasion.

Simon has always been a very conscious guest, knowing that he should not steal the show too much from the host, so after some entertainment, he hid in the corner of the terrace by the cliff of the mansion as usual.

There is no shortage of vases of flowing water around.

On the left is Mechen Amick, one of the three heroines of Charlie's Angels.

Compared with Kate Beckinsale and Catherine Zeta-Jones, this big vase who is set as a femme fatale in the Angels trio is considered to be the worst in recent years. Appearing here tonight, on the one hand, is probably Hearing the news, on the other hand, is obviously looking for opportunities.

On the right is Xue Linfen, the same Hollywood glamorous vase, the famous 'beauty in a box'.

During the greeting, Simon joked that if the other party had auditioned, she would have been a better fit for Instinct than Linda Fiorentino.

On an instinctive scale, actresses with a little higher pursuit would hesitate.

However, because the instinct of the year has proved to be very successful, not to mention that it was Simon Westero who said this, Xuelin Fen suddenly had a flattered expression, and she entangled Simon unknowingly.

Simon was sitting on a four-seater sofa, so Xue Linfen was on the right side, and a girl was squeezed in, named Melissa George, the former heroine of the horror cruise ship.

This is Nancy Josephson, the female president of icm, leading a few young actors to greet Simon. The purpose is obvious. I happened to meet an 'acquaintance' like Melissa. Although she is not Simon's favorite, she pointed to Xue Linfen He asked the other party to sit down in the vacant seat, which caused several other young men and women to lose their composure even though they tried their best to conceal it.

What Simon is more curious about is Melissa George's age.

In my memory, Horror Cruise was produced in 2009, but I didn't expect this girl to debut right now.

Regarding Simon's inquiry, Melissa George, who looked like a little quail or pretended to be a little quail, didn't hesitate to ask any woman's age, saying that she was 23 years old this year.

A late bloomer.

However, it seems that it has not been considered a "success".

Simon only came up with such an idea, and then quietly labeled the horror game. Such a movie is already in the film and television industry.

In 2009, which started to be impetuous, the sales were not very good. If it is made in advance now, the market performance will definitely be very good.

In addition, in fact, there are certainly no shortage of women Simon is more familiar with at the party, such as Nicole Kidman, who happened to be in Los Angeles recently as an Australian, and came to cheer for her fellow countrymen, such as the heterogeneous girl Natasha Henstridge, such as the last time because Madonna agreed to Simon's conditions and missed the opportunity of Chicago actress Charlize Theron.

Well, though, Simon prefers novelty.

The girl who came over to chat with Simon at the moment is very fresh, Natalie Portman.

Frankly speaking, Simon appreciates the not-so-cold artistic achievements of this killer and the excellent performances of the actors, but he doesn't really feel much about a certain little girl who walked out of it.

Again, this time, despite the appearance of the big butterfly Simon, a certain little girl got the role of the killer again, and once again became Queen Amidala in Star Wars Prequel: The Phantom Menace.

The former may be due to historical inertia or luck, but the latter, it can only be said, takes advantage of ethnicity.

Natalie Portman is Jewish, it's well known.

Moreover, I don’t know if anyone has discovered that there is actually a very interesting thing in Hollywood. Many famous symbolic female characters, such as Queen Amidala in Star Wars, such as Black Widow in Marvel, such as DC’s magical The heroines, their actors, yes, are all Jews.

Coincidentally?

As for whether it is really a coincidence, different people have different opinions.

Simon personally does not see this as a coincidence.

Digression.

Besides the prequels of Star Wars, the failure of the entire series can almost be said to have started with casting.

The performances of the original heroine and heroine, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman, in the series, in short, not only did not produce any chemical reaction, even the two alone are really difficult to produce So many impressions that this series hardly provided much help to the career development of the two in Hollywood. Even if you don't pay attention, many people will forget who played the leading actor in the prequel series.

This time too.

Although the hero has been replaced by a newcomer who is completely a butterfly, the heroine is still the same, but again, it still failed from the casting.

Then again, the failed casting of the Star Wars series seems to have become a tradition since the prequels. For example, in the Star Wars 9 series that was launched again later, the male and female protagonists are even more difficult to describe.

Simon doesn't think that this series is so famous that it doesn't matter who plays the role at all. After all, the success of the founding series is inseparable from the outstanding performance of the first series of actors. Harrison Ford became popular all his life because of Han Solo.

In short, it's hard to say.

At the moment, since Lucasfilm has been included in the bag, needless to say, the prequel series has already done so, but in the future restart, Simon will not allow what happened in the past to happen again.