Hollywood Hunter

Early the next morning, when Simon stepped on the treadmill for a jog, Girl A delivered the first batch of "The Conjuring 4: Reaper" media feedback to him.

First of all, compared with the 9.3 points of "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", the comprehensive media score of this sequel has declined, but it still reaches a very good 8.6 points.

Furthermore, as expected, the change in the style of the film has attracted the attention of many media people.

For example, the famous film critic Roger Ebert, who specially flew from Chicago to Los Angeles to attend the premiere last night, said euphemistically in his personal column: "I found that "The Conjuring 4: Reaper" made some interesting content. These adjustments are different from all other works in the Conjuring Cinematic Universe series, but they may bring some different experiences to the audience.”

Obviously because of Daenerys Entertainment's public relations, Albert did not bluntly use his poisonous tongue in the film review, but careful readers can also feel that this film critic is not very in favor of Daenerys. adjustments made.

In addition, some film critics also pointed out that Lena Kane's thinking is no longer so scary about this "The Conjuring 4: Death".

This is of course deliberate.

The previous "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", although it got a comprehensive media score of 9.3 points at the classic level of film history, but the domestic box office unfortunately failed to break through 200 million US dollars, which may be due to the fact that "Ghost Story" was still full of stamina at the same time The reason for impacting the horror film market. However, according to the audience survey conducted by Daenerys Entertainment, it is precisely this point that is too scary, but it also limits the market performance of the film to some extent.

After all, the frightening and phenomenal box office of "The Exorcist" was largely due to the groundbreaking of the film, an unprecedented first time. However, "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" does not have this advantage. Even though the topic was still very hot at the time, if there were other options, it was too scary to hear that the audience would not watch it.

Based on market feedback and the fact that the Conjuring series needs to make breakthroughs if it wants to continue, the style of "Conjuring 4: Reaper" has changed.

To put it simply, the horror is still there, but the extra fantasy elements will subtly neutralize the horror atmosphere of the film to a certain extent.

Simon personally cannot guarantee that this change will have any impact on the box office. If it is negative, it will definitely be adjusted next time. But if the market performs well, the entire Conjuring Movie Universe series will actually have a way out to a higher level.

After all, it takes a long time to repeatedly recruit ghosts and catch ghosts, and the audience is prone to aesthetic fatigue.

This point is also another reason why "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" failed to break 200 million in China. At that time, this series had already made the audience a little tired.

In short, everything has to wait for the results after the official opening of the painting tomorrow.

After finishing the morning exercise, Simon washed and changed his clothes and came to the lobby of Shell Villa. It was seven o'clock in the morning, and everyone had not gone to the restaurant. Janet and Miss C were sitting on the sofa by the curtain wall chatting, and there were two people from Melbourne and Seattle beside them. Little guys, one is reading a book and the other is in a daze.

Claire Gein came to Los Angeles with Simon yesterday for only one reason, there was a little Westeros in the girl's stomach again.

Probably during Tinkber's autumn conference last month.

Simon's 26th little one.

When he came close, he leaned over and kissed Janet, and then greeted Miss C. Claire stepped aside, and Simon sat down between the two women, looking to the side and hugging Seattle, ignoring his baby son. Janet, who looks like a partial mother: "What are you talking about?"

"C is talking about Tinkber's business expansion in China," Janet said: "This year, it will be able to achieve a revenue of 1 billion US dollars, which is amazing. I never thought that the Chinese market would have such potential."

Simon nodded with a smile: "Yeah, it's surprising."

There was an understanding yesterday in San Francisco.

Mainly last month, also during the autumn conference, the first two flagship stores of Tinkobel in BJ China and Shanghai opened at the same time. Before that, they only developed their business through the agency model.

Not to mention other things, there are only two flagship stores, and the revenue in the first month of opening has reached RMB 53 million, which surprised many insiders. If this momentum can be maintained, only two flagship stores will give Ting Kebai a year The revenue brought by Seoul can exceed 600 million yuan, equivalent to more than 70 million US dollars.

This is actually a microcosm of Tinkber's booming business in China.

China is poor now, but the base of 1.2 billion people is there, and there are quite a lot of rich people.

Just like what Simon learned yesterday, China's tablet computer market is still mainly called pda and handheld computer, and the price of basic models generally costs two to three thousand yuan. It is expected that the market sales volume for this year will exceed 1.5 million In Taiwan, a leading newspaper in China recently made a special report on this.

You know, Simon played with some pda samples sold in the Chinese market yesterday at Tinkber headquarters. Not to mention domestically produced, even international brands such as Sony and Samsung have functions that cannot be described in words. Basically, they can only be described as tasteless.

However, it is such a "chicken rib" product that can sell millions of units a year in China, and maintains a very high growth rate, which only shows that there are many more rich people in China than imagined.

Furthermore, I have to mention the Tinkobel ipad series, which are absolutely high-end. In Simon’s view, they are the only products that get rid of the tasteless label. For example, the ipad-40 just released last month is priced at US$899 in North America.

, equivalent to 7,500 yuan, while the pricing in mainland China, the basic standard version, is as high as 9,999 yuan.

In this way, you can buy two or three other brands of pdas at the price of two or three. In the beginning of the month in mainland China, the sales volume has exceeded 20,000 units. Including the old models, it is estimated that in 2000, only one product, ipad, will be sold in mainland China. It will reach about 230,000 units.

The ipad can be described as one of the most expensive products under Tinkobel, but this item is more popular in the Chinese market than iplayer, icam and other products. It is estimated that this year only this part of the sales will account for the revenue. About 20% of China's total revenue.

All of these actually show that the potential of the Chinese market has reached a level that Tinkber cannot ignore.

On the sofa by the glass curtain wall.

Janet didn't talk too much about these business data, but said: "I plan to add a three-day trip to China temporarily during my recent trip to Asia. It's considered a vacation, so let's take a look for myself."

Compared with Jennifer, who mainly focuses on her family, Janet has been in charge of many businesses in the Westeros system. The planned trip to Asia before Thanksgiving is mainly to personally sort out the business layout of her man in Southeast Asia. I don't plan to go to China.

Temporary change, apparently inspired by the topic just mentioned by Miss C.

Of course Simon had no objection. After thinking about it, he said, "Bring Jenny, it's like the two of you are on vacation together."

Janet nodded, but said: "The children are all left to you?"

Simon: "This..."

Janet curled her lips slightly and pinched Simon's arm, then curled her mouth again: "Okay, I'll ask my aunt to come and take care of the child."

"Um!"

The strength in Janet's hands increased, and her smile turned bad: "However, my aunt probably doesn't have time recently, so I can only send it to the East Coast and let Sophie come over to be a babysitter. It just so happens that we are there for Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, it has more atmosphere."

Simon: "..."

Claire watched the small movements between her boss and his wife, skillfully pretending that she didn't know anything, didn't understand anything.

I am also an innocent passerby.

Um……

Why do you say 'also'?

Janet succeeded in playing a prank, let go of the man's arm, and found that the baby son who was reading quietly on the single sofa next to him probably heard someone, raised his head expectantly, suddenly became angry, and raised his chin slightly He gestured: "Moore, come, talk to your father about your reading experience, this...well, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", who picked it?"

The little guy stood up obediently, and said honestly, "Dad's book list."

Janet glanced sideways, is this a book that children can understand, then turned around again: "Do you have any experience?"

Melbourne paused, and keenly noticed that there was a small flame in the mother's tone. It was obviously not the time to talk about reading experience in a serious manner. It was just to find fault, and instinctively began to play dumb: "I think...it's very interesting."

Janet didn't let it go, and raised her voice: "What else?"

Melbourne looked at his father pitifully.

When he was rarely a 'good cop', Simon began to smooth things over: "Moore doesn't need to think too much now, just... well, this is the original Spanish version, yes, it can be used as language training. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" The writing is very interesting, just like the opening chapter of the classic, and Moore can use it as a reference to imitate. The sky and the sea will definitely remind me of that distant morning when my mother made excuses to scold her. Look, what a good sentence."

After Simon finished speaking, the little guy continued to pretend to be innocent. Claire suppressed a smile. Janet raised her hand and pinched it again, and waved at her son angrily: "Little villain, disappear from my eyes immediately."

Melbourne fled.

Janet let go of her man, and hugged the baby girl beside her who was still in a daze: "Sill is the most obedient, they will only be angry with me."

The eldest mother was so affectionate, Seattle was interrupted from thinking, a little helplessness flashed in his expression, and he posted a post with Janet in cooperation, which made Janet very happy, holding her precious daughter's little head and kissing continuously on that pretty face I took several mouthfuls.

Simon remained speechless,

The C girl next to her couldn't bear it, and asked the man next to her softly: "Boss, Miss is always like this... thinking about something?"

"Yeah," Simon nodded, and couldn't help joking: "I probably miss my home planet too much."

The eldest lady of the Westeros family has an extraordinary IQ, or in other words, has surpassed the cognition of ordinary people. Even her father thinks that her daughter is like an alien, and the feelings of other people around her can be imagined.

Simon could tease, but Claire didn't agree, just smiled along.

But he couldn't help thinking in his heart, his baby, it's better not to be too smart in the future, um, just a little bit smarter than Elliott of Girl D.

Elliott Westeros, the girl's son who was born at the end of last year, only turned one year old in December, but now he can speak and walk without any problems, clearly surpassing most of his peers.

Referring to the unanimous opinion of the other little guys in the Wei family and all the girls, this is obviously because the boss has better genes.

After chatting like this, Jennifer came over to call someone, and everyone went to the restaurant together.

At the dinner table, Janet talked about the increased trip to Asia and the fact that the man wanted Jennifer to be with her. The female assistant asked the children

They agreed to their arrangement.

He also looked at Simon expectantly.

Simon can only regret that he can't leave recently, and he doesn't want to go to China so frequently anymore.

After breakfast, everyone started their day separately.

It's October 26th.

Thursday.

There's a birthday party tomorrow, the last of last year's bunch of little guys, Roberta Chilco's Adam Westeros, so Simon only has one morning to fly to New York again after lunch .

Arrived at Daenerys Studios at eight o'clock, processed a batch of daily documents, and started a meeting at nine o'clock. The content is to discuss Daenerys' upcoming press conference on this Sunday, October 29th.

This is something that was finalized with Amy Pascal after the release of Daenerys' financial report last week. The title of the press conference is "Embracing the Internet". Just by looking at the name, the content can be imagined. Simply put, it is aimed at Dany again. The informatization layout of Lisi Entertainment is a big cake, and the goal is to stimulate the last jump of Daenerys Entertainment's stock price and sprint to a market value of trillions.

Because it is a big cake, Simon is actually not very concerned.

The half-hour meeting ended, and the rest of the morning, Simon spent the rest of the morning discussing with his executives the release plans for the two major release dates at the end of the year, until he left after lunch, and brought a sample of "The Grinch" on the plane Look up.

In the upcoming year-end file, the two most important films are "Justice League: Invasion" in the Thanksgiving file and "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", the second part of the Lord of the Rings series in the Christmas file.

In addition to the two behemoth blockbusters, Daenerys will launch a series of other projects as usual.

"The Grinch", which won the North American annual box office championship in 2000 in the original time and space, is the one that Simon attaches the most importance to after the two major blockbusters. The protagonist was replaced by Ben Stiller from Jim Carrey, and the effect still satisfied Simon.

As for the box office, Simon did not expect the figure of 260 million in North America this time. After all, the Lord of the Rings stopped there at Christmas.

Therefore, as long as the domestic market can break through 100 million this time, it will be considered a satisfactory result. After all, compared to the previous production budget of over 100 million yuan for the Jim Carrey version, because the production specifications were completely reduced, this time it only cost 60 million US dollars.

If the local market exceeds 100 million yuan, most of the investment can be recovered directly.

Reaching the goal of breaking 100 million, even if this project will not have much impact overseas due to cultural factors, it is still easy for the global theater distribution stage to enter the profit cycle.

On the second day after Simon flew to the east coast, on Friday, October 17th, "The Conjuring 4: Reaper", which has reached the highest publicity, was officially released in North America, and the number of screens opened reached 3,745. To a certain extent, this also It is considered a beginning of the movie season at the end of 2000.