Hollywood Hunter

On the weekend of November 13th and November 14th, there were two consecutive election votes that attracted Simon's attention.

The first is in Australia.

On November 13, Australia once again launched a referendum on whether to switch from a monarchy to a republic to decide whether Australia will leave the Commonwealth system and move towards a completely independent republic.

During the prior opinion poll, 67% of Australian voters expressed their willingness to leave the Commonwealth of Nations. However, when the vote really started, the result was unexpected. In the end, it failed with a vote ratio of 43% to 57%.

As a piece of land that the Westeros system regards as a base, Simon certainly will not ignore this matter.

However, it did not fuel the flames.

Although in theory, letting Australia completely separate from the Commonwealth of Nations seems to be more conducive to the control of the country by the Westeros system, it is not the case.

Inseparable from the Commonwealth of Nations, Australia is already an independent country in essence, and staying within the Commonwealth system, under the current world structure, is more conducive to allowing the Westeros system to take Australia as its foundation and expand its reach. Reaching out to every aspect of the former Commonwealth of Nations. After all, the Commonwealth system is not only politically and culturally consistent, but also has many connections economically.

If we leave now, perhaps, the result will be like the United Kingdom's reckless exit from the European Union in the original time and space, which is very unwise.

Of course, if necessary in the future, the transition from the monarchy to the republic is just a matter of one more vote.

The second one is Ukraine.

In the first round of the Ukrainian presidential election on October 31, after no one got an absolute majority, the second round was held on November 14.

There is no suspense, the current Ukrainian President Leon Kuchma won the Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Simonenko who only got 37% of the votes with an absolute majority of 63% of the votes, and successfully achieved re-election.

Since it was the expected result, Simon just asked the spokesperson over there to congratulate Kuchma on his behalf.

Speaking of which, Ukraine has already entered winter in October. Because the economic crisis is still continuing, compared with last year, this year has eased a little bit, but it is also very reluctant.

Even, if the policies proposed by Petro Simonenko were not too drastic, it would not be impossible to defeat Kuchma in Ukraine's current extremely depressed economic environment.

After all, ordinary people only look at their own belly more. Sometimes, even drawing a big cake is good.

The cakes drawn by Leon Kuchma are well-founded. Stable currency, introduction of foreign capital, increase of agricultural support, etc. are all predictable. Moreover, the Rovno gang also cooperated very well to let Kuchma regard his own success as example.

As for Simonenko, such as suspending the privatization process and re-conducting full-scale nationalization, it sounds a little scary.

Originally, the big guys have lost everything, and they want to be nationalized, who should be nationalized?

Furthermore, within five years, the Ukrainian economy will be restored to the level before the 1990s.

It sounds weird. After all, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to say that ten years later it will reach the economic level ten years ago.

However, it is what it is.

Let’s talk about the daily necessities that are lacking in Ukraine and even the entire former Soviet Union. Before 1990, the self-sufficiency rate could reach 80%. At present, in Ukraine, the proportion is still high, and the self-sufficiency rate is only 30%. Both need to be imported.

By the way, 30% of the self-sufficiency rate, half of which comes from the Rivne region, and all other regions of Ukraine can only contribute another 15%.

This is because the Rovno gang is more inclined to export, otherwise it will definitely provide more. After all, relatively speaking, exports are more profitable, but domestically, the Ukrainian currency exchange rate goes up and down, and it is really not much money.

Probably like India.

There is definitely not enough food in India, but a large amount of food is exported, so that it has become the world's largest rice exporter. As for what to do in the country, the landlord's family has no surplus food, so they can't take care of so much.

After the weekend, on another Tuesday, Simon set off for China again.

Mainly on Chen Qing's side, the little guy was born successfully on the morning of November 16 local time, which is the ninth day of October in the lunar calendar.

It was originally expected to be at the end of the month, but it was a few days earlier, but it has nothing to do with premature birth, a fat girl who weighs six catties, healthy and healthy.

Simon has been in close contact with Chen Qing during her pregnancy. It is probably understandable. It is because a certain girl really wants to drive the little girl out of her stomach. After all, it is more than half a year pregnant. For Chen Qing, it is like being sealed.

Moreover, if it is only sealed, it is actually nothing.

The point is, it's a girl.

Simon really doesn't mind being a girl, and finally got another little padded jacket. Unfortunately, a certain girl made it clear that I am patriarchal and I just want a kid, so I gave the girl a very A traditional nickname, no two.

Chen Buer.

Anyway, this kind of thing is unreasonable. You say you are patriarchal, aren't you a woman yourself?

The answer is yes, so I even look down on myself.

How can this be?

Simon arrived in Suzhou on Wednesday, November 17th, stayed here with Chen Qing's mother and daughter for three days, then transferred to Hangzhou, stayed for a weekend, and then departed for Beijing.

In just a few days, the first week of the official Thanksgiving schedule in North America has also come to an end.

From November 12th to November 18th.

Last week's three blockbusters don't count

It is too disappointing, but if you only talk about the box office, there are no surprises.

The first place is not Daenerys's Cars, but MGM's 007 Casino Royale, with a seven-day box office of US$75.11 million in the first week, compared to the production cost of US$90 million and the announcement of US$50 million. The beginning of the game is still the same sentence, neither success nor failure.

According to the trend of saturated commercial films, the first week was 75.11 million U.S. dollars, and the total domestic box office is expected to be around 150 million U.S. dollars.

The original version of Casino Royale 007 was released in 2006, with a domestic box office of about 160 million.

This 150 million, 7 years ahead of schedule, considering inflation factors, may be higher than before. However, compared with the previous 007 Spectre, the gap is really obvious.

In the summer of 1996, 007's Spectre started with US$89.17 million in the first week. With excellent word-of-mouth, it finally reached US$307 million locally and US$778 million globally, making a huge profit.

However, it is undeniable that the unsatisfactory 007 Casino Royale this time is largely due to the overcrowded schedule.

If it is still in the summer, at least 200 million in the local area is no problem, and it is expected to steadily exceed 500 million globally. Even if the total cost is 140 million, it can still make a good profit in the theater stage.

no way.

After all, if you look at other second- and third-tier small labels that have been squeezed to the point where they have to actively reduce their production output in recent years, MGM is definitely good.

The second place is the turn of Cars.

In the first week of filming, this 3D animation film, which has to say that the story and themes are somewhat childish, earned 63.55 million US dollars at the beginning, and it was also not as popular as the previous few films.

However, as long as they can successfully survive the impact of Cyborg 2 in the next week, throughout the end of the year, it is still no problem to mobilize the local 200 million in Cars.

What's more, Simon doesn't care too much about the box office, the key is the peripherals.

With the release of the film, because Daenerys owns the Hasbro channel, it is more convenient to monitor the surrounding area.

Due to the sufficient preparations for distribution in advance and the approach of Thanksgiving, the sales of Cars toys are very hot. It is only the first weekend of the film's release. According to preliminary statistics, the sales of toys in three days easily exceeded 100 million. Moreover, considering that there will be Christmas in the future, this sales growth rate will only continue to accelerate.

The Hasbro team even gave a very bold forecast. In the complete year-end schedule, the sales of Cars peripheral toys, just in the United States, are likely to quickly reach the level of 1 billion US dollars.

Considering that most of the toys are self-produced and sold by Hasbro this time, the gross profit of this series of toys only belonging to Daenerys is expected to reach more than 65%, and the sales of toys at the level of 1 billion US dollars , 65% gross profit

Who the hell cares about the box office!

As the news hit the newspapers, in just a few trading days, the stock price of Daenerys, which was considered ridiculously high by the capital market, increased by 6.3% in a week. At the close of Friday, the total market value of Daenerys It has reached 778.1 billion US dollars, even surpassing Ygritte, who has been pressing here.

Eaglet's market capitalization at Friday's close was $765.3 billion.

In addition, the original shareholders of Hasbro greatly regretted it.

loss!

It's really a loss!

However, of course, there is no medicine for regret, after all, the equity delivery procedures of both parties have been completed in October.

What's more, according to Simon's original idea, if Hasbro didn't give in at the beginning, the Cars at the end of the year, not to mention the peripheral toys, will be mainly in charge of Hasbro, and whether it can cooperate is a problem.

In short, although it failed to win the single-week box office championship, Cars has basically determined the position of the biggest winner of this year-end schedule.

After all, the sales of toys at the level of 1 billion US dollars, and this data is only limited to North America. There is no statistics for the overseas market for the time being. Even if the proportion of overseas markets is not high, it is equivalent to half of that here, and the profit margin may be lower. , but also enough to exceed the box office earnings of most films at the end of the year.

As for the same than the surrounding area.

Even Cyborg 2, honestly, there's no comparison, no.

And finally Air Force One.

The Columbia Pictures team, which was acquired by Westinghouse Electric, had high hopes for this movie. The opening results were a bit disappointing, but it was not a failure. It earned $45.69 million in the first week and seven days, and the follow-up was a little stronger. The trend is not satisfactory, and more than 80 million is sure.

This already equates to an $80 million production cost.

If overseas can be slightly better than local, most of the investment in production and publicity can basically be recovered, and the surrounding area can be operated a little more, and it can start to make profits.

Of course, the gap with Westinghouse's hope is not small.

After the three blockbusters, last week's four new films, relying on the plot to win the not-so-popcorn genius Ripley, barely lagged behind, ranked fourth, with a drop of 39% in the next week, and another $19.97 million. The cumulative box office reached 52.76 million US dollars.

Then there is the fifth-ranked ghost nun. Faced with a large number of new films, it ushered in a sharp drop of 53% in the third week of its release, and continued to earn 14.56 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 101.89 million US dollars. It successfully entered the 100 million box office club, but in the follow-up, there is only about 20 to 30 million potential left, and the local box office is expected to be around 130 million US dollars.

Outside of the top five, other films have slipped to tens of millions

Within the range of the US dollar, it is regarded as having withdrawn from the competition for the Thanksgiving file, so there is no need to elaborate.

On November 15th, a new box office week opens, which is also the week that will span Thanksgiving.

There is still more than one new movie released this week, but there is only one new movie worth mentioning, and that is Cyborg 2.

Warner Bros. officially held the world premiere on Wednesday ahead of schedule, and the word-of-mouth ban was lifted on Thursday. Not only did the overall media score of 8.7 points affirm the word-of-mouth of the film, this time, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and other DC new superheroes Joining is even more exciting for movie fans.

Warner Bros. claims that the entire project has spent a publicity budget of 80 million U.S. dollars, plus a huge production cost of 160 million U.S. dollars, with a total investment of 240 million U.S. dollars. The number of screens opened for the film also reached 4166, unabashedly heading straight for the goal of breaking 100 million in the first week.