Hollywood Hunter

Long Island, East Hampton.

After finishing work yesterday, I came here to watch a group of girls dancing at night, and stayed at the nearby manor at night. Simon always thought of a group of women who always thought of the word "too soon".

Before you know it, another winter is coming, and the first snow has fallen on Long Island recently. Standing outdoors, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, it is easy to give people a feeling that the sky is high, the land is vast, and everything is vast.

Inevitably got up late.

Reflecting on the outdoor snow scene, he walked around the manor, returned to the restaurant in the villa, and just sat down, a certain woman came in with the waitress who brought in the food. Simon was looking through a box office report for the past weekend, Seeing the woman approaching, he raised his head and took a look. It was Yu Zhijin, the younger sister of Cai Mulberry. The woman's face was rosy, but she looked timid.

Simon didn't signal her to sit down with him, but just asked, "What's the matter?"

Yu Zhijin glanced at the waitress next to her, until they put down their breakfast and left, then said softly: "Mr. Westeros, I, I want to go to Canada to see my son."

Simon nodded: "Yes."

The woman blinked her eyes and asked, "Mr. Westeros, did you agree?"

"Well," Simon nodded again: "Go out."

After receiving confirmation from Simon, Yu Zhijin looked a little happy, then thought of something, and said with a sad expression: "Mr. Westeros, you, I mean, Miss Chen, she may not agree, can you talk to her?" Say it."

Simon frowned slightly, looked up at the woman beside him, raised his hand and patted on his knee: "Come on."

Yu Zhijin immediately knew that he was talking too much, so he didn't dare to resist, so he stepped forward carefully, and was immediately hugged by the man on his lap, then he continued to silently flip through the documents full of English and numbers in his hand, and picked up the tableware, eating slowly Things, she could only shrink her body as much as possible so as not to hinder him.

I haven't had breakfast yet, so I'm a little hungry.

Simon ate a few pieces of lamb chops, took a sip of a cup of warm milk next to him, and then remembered something, and asked the woman with a tempting fragrance in his arms: "How old is your son?"

Yu Zhijin swallowed a little. Hearing this question, he felt inexplicably guilty, paused, and said, "Seventeen years old."

Simon seemed to remember: "Xiaoqing said, you have two sons?"

Yu Zhijin felt even more guilty and nodded slightly.

Simon didn't let her go: "What about the other one?"

Yu Zhijin hesitated for a while, not daring to lie, but whispered: "Twenty-three."

Simon shook his head: "They are all adults, and they are not children. What are you going to see? Can't they all take care of themselves?"

The woman's eyes were red and pitiful. She turned her head and looked at Simon beggingly: "Mr. Westeros, please, Xiaoguang and Xiaoyi, they have never traveled far before, please this time."

Simon saw the woman start to cry, and because he was in a good mood, he made an exception: "Okay, let's go, Xiaoqing also said that I said it."

The woman immediately turned from sadness to joy, and turned around in Simon's arms: "Thank you, Mr. Westeros."

Simon turned his face slightly: "Is it just a verbal thank you?"

The woman's tears were still there, and she turned shy again, but she still leaned over and kissed Simon on the face.

Simon smiled and gestured to the large dining table: "Climb up and put on my favorite pose."

The woman obeyed obediently.

Simon turned over a page of the document in his hand, looked up, shook his head and said, "Turn around, it's good to be facing me."

Breakfast is more pleasant with the addition of a beautiful and delicious beauty.

Forcibly restraining the idea of ​​staying another day, after breakfast, Simon set off to fly back to the west coast.

It was November 8, 1999.

on Monday.

Because of the fierce competition for the schedule at the end of the year, the Thanksgiving schedule in North America started last Friday, and Simon looked through the official North American box office data for the past weekend during breakfast.

Three days ago, on November 5th, the production of Mt. Everest in China was busy. At the same time, there were four new films released in North America. One of them came from Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films, directed by Anthony Minghella. New film, The Talented Ripley.

After Simon was only willing to give a budget of 30 million U.S. dollars, the main creative team failed to invite Ma Da to participate. The two male protagonists in the new version, one is the original Jude Law, and the other, who plays the protagonist of Ripley, is finally determined to be Christie Amber, once Nolan's version of 'Batman'.

Christian Bale was born as a child star and starred in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun very early. He is only 25 years old this year, but he has more than ten years of acting experience. Moreover, Bell's degree of dedication is also well known.

Let’s just say this time, because Bell and Jude’s images are quite different, in order to adapt to the setting of the story, Bell, who has an awl face, not only gained a certain amount of weight, but also wore a special Braces, so that, when the role was finalized, coupled with the cooperation of Jude Law, who was also aroused by the desire to play, Simon didn't recognize who was who at a glance, but felt that the two male protagonists really resembled each other.

In addition to the two male protagonists, the heroine once belonged to Gwyneth Paltrow's role, and this time it naturally fell to Vanessa Johnson.

The final film effect is obviously beyond the past.

In the original Damon version, classmate Ma Da really doesn't look like a high-intelligence liar, after all, he is more suitable to play the role of being rescued by others.

Saved Ryan, well, the not-so-bright kind. The result is that throughout the film, watching Ma Da change his identity and shuttle between different groups of people, he is not at all as comfortable as he should be. Instead, he is clumsy and embarrassing everywhere.

This time, instead of Bell, it was only the samples during the filming that caught Simon’s eyes. Bell’s acting skills and his thorough devotion have blown away too many motors. At that time, Eladoy, the president of Gaomen Films, watched the samples together. Kierman directly stated that this time at least one Oscar nomination for Bale.

The premiere was held on November 3 ahead of schedule, and the word-of-mouth ban was lifted the next day. Compared with Minghella’s last British patient’s comprehensive media score of 8.5 points, this time, the genius Ripley scored a classic score of 9.2 points, of which Bell His performance was specifically mentioned by most film critics, which obviously added a lot to this excellent score.

Good word-of-mouth blessing, coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's strong publicity, and the original book itself has a very broad popularity base in the West. In the first weekend of painting, 2746 screens, four new films competing at the same time, the genius Ripley three In just one day, it quickly earned a box office of 21.45 million US dollars.

It failed to reach the blockbuster $10,000 average in the first weekend, but it will definitely be no problem in seven days. Moreover, this is already the best result of the four new films this week, not only surpassing the other three new films this week, but also replacing Last week's Halloween schedule, the ghost nun, topped the weekend box office list.

It is estimated that the box office of The Talented Ripley will reach about 32 million U.S. dollars in the first week.

The former Genius Ripley, as Miramax's key award-winning film in 1999, earned more than 80 million US dollars at the local box office. It is not a problem to still reach the box office of 80 million US dollars.

Moreover, due to the failure of the Oscars, the overseas box office of the original version is very mediocre.

This time, although Daenerys is focusing on Christmas in Chicago, even if it doesn’t rely on awards, it’s just the quality of the film itself and Daenerys’ perfect overseas distribution network. Simon believes that this new version can at least be successful overseas. Achieved a box office equivalent to that of the mainland.

Immediately afterwards, there was a complete box office week from November 5th to November 11th, without any surprises.

Ripley, a genius with excellent word-of-mouth, successfully climbed to the top. For seven days a week, this crime drama film with a production cost of 30 million US dollars and a publicity expenditure of only 10 million US dollars finally reached 32.79 million US dollars at the opening box office, and successfully won the No. 1 weekly box office list. a position.

The second place was won by last week's The Ghost Nun, the latest branch of the newest branch of the Conjuring film universe, and the film received another US$30.98 million in the following week. In two weeks, the cumulative box office was 87.33 million U.S. dollars, and it is expected to exceed 100 million next week.

In addition to the two self-owned films, the third place is an animation produced by Disney, which is not an old-fashioned Disney fairy tale, but an animated film adapted from a classic game in cooperation with Japan's Nintendo, Pokémon.

With the same cost of 30 million US dollars, the box office of the animated film here reached 19.14 million US dollars in the first week, ranking third this week.

Then, the fourth place was taken back by Daenerys. The American version of Girls' Tale of High School, in the third week of its release, continued to earn 8.37 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office of the film reached 51.73 million US dollars.

The other two new films released on November 5th, one from Paramount and one from Fox, ranked fifth and sixth respectively, but the opening box office was only 7.46 million US dollars, and the other was only 6.83 million US dollars. Basically, they were out in two weeks. The results are not worth mentioning.

Immediately afterwards.

On November 12, dinner came.

Compared with last week, there is one less large-scale release film with more than 1,000 screens opened this week, but the volume is getting bigger and bigger.

The first is another 3D animation film produced by Daenerys Entertainment, Cars. The production cost of the film reached 100 million U.S. dollars. Daenerys headquarters and many peripheral manufacturers cooperate, and the joint publicity resources invested are equivalent to 50 million. The dollar is a big deal, and Hasbro, which has been officially incorporated into the Daenerys system, has also made a big bet this time, rolling out a full set of peripheral toys related to this animated movie on a large scale in advance.

The number of screens in the film is 3041.

It's not too high, because animated films pursue a long-term, as long as the word-of-mouth is not too bad, they can go all the way through the two end-of-year schedules.

Then, MGM's latest 007 masterpiece still refers to the naming pattern of the 007 series, and with Simon's slight intervention, this time it is 007 Casino Royale. Compared with the previous 007 Spectre , the order is disturbed.

The film tells the story of James Bond's further pursuit of the truth after the appearance of the last Spectre Party. To a certain extent, it refers to the former Casino Royale, but it also has considerable changes.

At the same time, compared with the previous 007's cost of 75 million US dollars, the budget of this 007 Casino Royale has reached a new high of 90 million US dollars. MGM invested a budget of 50 million U.S. dollars in publicity and distribution for the film, and the number of screens opened was 3,776.

The third one comes from Columbia Pictures, which is now affiliated to Westinghouse Electric, and it happens to have some "relationships" with Simon. It is the Air Force One that Simon quietly let Chris Lee suppress.

Because of Simon's optimism, although Daenerys did not follow the original tacit agreement to participate together, they still boldly invested a budget of 80 million U.S. dollars. Reached 3563 blocks.

Three new films, three super blockbusters, considering that Steel Bone 2 will be next week, it is conceivable that various Hollywood studios will be crowded at this Shura field level

What is the mood of the schedule.