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Back home, two Michaels, who happen to be neighbors, have been discussing coping strategies almost awake all night because of concerns about Wonder Woman and the trends in the Hollywood film industry as a whole.

While the whole of Hollywood is closely watching everything about "Wonder Woman", the Simons have already rushed to Australia.

"Superman" officially started shooting recently, and the filming location of this superhero movie is still in Australia.

The difference is that this time the main shooting city is in Sydney.

Because of Daenerys Entertainment's connections in Australia, "Wonder Woman" also achieved simultaneous release in Australia and North America. During this time, the Australian film circle was also quite lively.

After attending the premiere of "Wonder Woman", I set off on Friday, June 5, and arrived in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon local time.

In order to take care of the children, Veronica, who quit her job, no longer lives in a high-rise apartment in downtown Melbourne. The nest is not far.

Raymond Johnston loves this grandson very much, and specially arranged a room for the little guy in the mansion.

When the Simon couple arrived, they saw a little guy in the baby room of the mansion for the first time.

The half-year-old Melbourne Westeros is now able to do and crawl. Compared with the ugly little appearance when he was born, the now white and tender appearance makes people can't help hugging and kissing.

Janet hugged the child at first sight when she saw the 'little annoying' she often talked about, and said ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. After the last Easter, I haven't seen each other for more than a month, and the little guy doesn't recognize birth at all. He is very cooperative with his mother.

The mother and son 'interacted' for a moment before Janet handed the child over to Simon.

The little guy inherited his mother's beautiful eyes and looked at the man in front of him. Maybe he thought he had seen it somewhere, and he didn't resist. He raised his tender little hand and grabbed Simon's collar. Hearing Simon asking, "Do you want to be daddy?", of course, he wouldn't answer, but he was also very skilled in replying twice.

Veronica, whose temperament was much softer than before, stood beside the family of three, watching Simon and the little guy talking, what she wanted to say, but she still didn't say a word, just looked at the situation in front of her with a bit of satisfaction in her eyes. .

After playing for a while, the little guy soon fell asleep tiredly.

The three of them left the room together while being kept in the crib by the babysitter.

There was still some time before dinner. In addition to Raymond Johnston and his wife, Anthony Johnston also brought his family over, and everyone gathered in the living room of the mansion to discuss some recent affairs.

After Australia liberalized the control of foreign investment in the telecommunications industry last year, after more than a year of deployment, the Internet access services of the Westeros system and the Igret portal have initially established a firm foothold in this country.

Affected by the recession in Japan, Australia's economy has also entered a recession.

The rise of the emerging Internet industry against the trend has made the Australian government begin to pay more and more attention to this field. Of course, there are also the results of the secret lobbying of the Westeros system and the Johnston family.

Just last month, the Australian Federal Parliament just passed a bill to promote the development of the Internet industry. The Australian government plans to invest 10 billion Australian dollars in the construction of infrastructure related to the Internet industry in the next five years. At the same time, the bill also formulated support measures in terms of talents and taxation.

Under Simon's secret operation, the US "Information Superhighway Act" has entered the agenda of Congress in advance, but it will be at least next year if it wants to be passed and implemented.

Europe has not completely ended the turmoil, and it has no intention of taking care of this emerging field.

Therefore, Australia's bill on promoting the development of the Internet industry has become the first national-level policy document in the related field.

Due to the size of its own market, the scale of the Australian Internet industry cannot be too large after all.

However, taking this step ahead of time and taking the lead in the Internet field can definitely bring unexpected benefits to this country.

In addition to the Internet field, Verizon's Australian branch has also successfully started mobile communication business in Australia. Although Nokia cannot enter North America temporarily, it took this opportunity to cooperate with Verizon's Australian branch to enter North America in advance. The market lays the technical foundation.

Finally, of course, the film industry.

Australia's support for the film industry in the 1980s was very strong, and George Miller's "Mad Max" series was born in this context.

However, this kind of policy support is still far less than the promotion brought by the launch of a series of blockbuster movies in Australia.

In the original time and space, just because of the "Lord of the Rings" series, not only has New Zealand become a Middle-earth world that movie fans around the world yearn for, this small country in the southern hemisphere has also become one of the most famous film production bases in the world.

The situation in Australia is almost the same as that of New Zealand.

In addition to "Wonder Woman", which could not be filmed in Australia due to framing, a series of projects in the DC Cinematic Universe, "Batman: Hour of War", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "The Flash", all started filming in Australia, including A lot of post-production work is also done directly here.

Driven by the dc movie universe series, Australia quickly formed a film industry chain foundation with Melbourne as the core, and then

Coupled with Australia's generous tax rebate measures, some other Hollywood studios are increasingly inclined to make movies here.

Australia's Internet industry, mobile communication industry and film industry are all booming, and a series of companies in the Westeros system have just occupied a pivotal position in these fields in Australia.

This is actually an infiltration.

The next goal of the Westeros system is to take over the shell of the Johnston family and get involved in Australia's core mining resources.

After completing this layout, Simon will have a pivotal influence on the country.

June is the winter in the southern hemisphere, and cities such as Melbourne on the coast are not too cold.

The couple spent a weekend in Melbourne and went skiing in the nearby mountains on Sunday, and on Monday Simon travelled to Sydney to follow up on the filming of the film.

The straight-line distance between Sydney and Melbourne is about 700 kilometers, which is just a take-off and landing of a private jet. Therefore, when working in Sydney during the day, Simon will basically fly back to Melbourne at night.

At the same time, North American box office data for "Wonder Woman" kept coming.

With the support of excellent word of mouth, "Wonder Woman" received $19.21 million at the box office on its first day.

Then, over the first three days, the superhero movie grossed $61.39 million.

When Simon returned to North America after a week of work in Australia, the first seven-day box office of "Wonder Woman" was officially released: $91.12 million!

Stimulated by "Wonder Woman," the weekly box office total in North American theaters reached $162.86 million in the week from June 5 to June 11.

However, because the "Wonder Woman" one has scraped more than half of the weekly box office share, the box office of "Lethal Weapon 3", "Nun is Crazy" and "Ambition of the Earth" released in the previous few weeks have all appeared in the city. A 30% drop at the box office.

Because the word of mouth is far inferior to "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Nuns Are Crazy", and the subject matter is not popular with the audience, "Ambition of the Earth" starring Tom Cruise started far below expectations, and this week's decline was even worse. Reaching 46%, compared to the $15.62 million in the first week, the box office in the second week was only $8.39 million.

In two weeks, it made $24.01 million, and the box office in a single week has shrunk to just over $8 million. Even if the next box office decline eases, the total North American box office of "Ambition" is expected to be difficult to exceed $50 million.

However, the total production and distribution budget invested by Columbia Pictures for the project is $90 million.

Even without considering the time cost, "Ambition" still needs to earn about $60 million at the North American box office before it can recover the full investment through subsequent overseas releases, videotape channels and TV platforms.

The North American box office of less than $50 million means that Columbia Pictures will have a hard time recovering the full $90 million total cost of the film over the entire effective film release cycle of 5 to 7 years.

With the lessons of "Ambition in the Land", it is obvious that Hollywood will not be able to get involved in similar themes for a long time in the future.

Tom Cruise's already declining popularity was also severely impacted by the failure of "Ambition in the Land".

Next, the Hollywood actor can only return to the low-budget realm.

It is true that low-budget films can be small and big. However, of the hundreds of low-budget films in Hollywood every year, less than one-tenth of them can really be small and big.

And, as usual, Cruise can only fail at most two more times next.

If the subsequent two consecutive films do not sell well, the popularity of the other party will drop.

The three movies that have been released in the DC Cinematic Universe, "Batman: War Hour", which grossed $82.39 million in its first week; "Batman: The Dark Knight", which grossed $102.07 million in its first week; "The Flash", which grossed $102.07 million in its first week. $72.86 million at the box office.

"Wonder Woman"'s opening week of the four films is second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Moreover, "Batman: The Dark Knight" obviously has the popularity bonus of the sequel. If this factor is not considered and only the first song is counted, "Wonder Woman" is in the three movies of "Batman: War Hour" and "The Flash". is undoubtedly the highest.

As a dc movie universe project that was not favored in advance because it was a heroine superhero movie, the first week results of "Wonder Woman" really surprised many people.

In the original agreement, "Wonder Woman" was jointly invested by Daenerys and Warner Bros., and Daenerys was responsible for publishing.

Even with half the investment in the film, Terry Semel half-truths complained about Simon's bias during a call with Simon.

The box office of "Wonder Woman" will exceed 90 million US dollars in the first week of its opening, and the total box office in North America will break through 300 million US dollars. It is almost a certainty.

Among the first films of the three series, although the North American box office of "The Flash" has reached 250 million US dollars, it is obviously the lowest in terms of opening and expected box office.

Compared with "Superman", which had just started filming and went to Australia to sit in person, Simon was simply 'ignoring' the original "The Flash".

Moreover, the comparison between "The Flash" and "Wonder Woman" is not only at the box office, but also in the sales of peripheral products of the two projects.

With the popularity of "Wonder Woman", the simultaneous release of the original soundtrack album was triggered by Diana Prince's own background music in just one week.

It was a big hit, and 870,000 copies were sold in seven days. It is expected that the total sales in the future will exceed 10 million.

The character dolls in the movie and the weapons and props of Wonder Woman also sold far more than the original "Flash".

Among them, 10,000 sets of limited-edition full sets of Amazon's female warriors, although the price was as high as $ 1,000, were still sold out within a week, and only this one brought in $ 10 million.

Is Simon eccentric?

Of course.

At the beginning, Simon hoped to exchange half of the investment rights of "Superman" for half of the investment rights of "The Flash" and "Cyborg". This is actually a very cost-effective business, but Simon's proposal was eventually rejected by Warner.

In order to maintain the unity of the DC movie universe, Simon still accepted the two superheroes. As a producer with a strong voice, Simon has actually put enough energy into these two projects.

But it's not realistic to want him to treat "The Flash" and "Cyber" as hard as "Batman", "Wonder Woman" and "Superman".

After the first week, on June 12, the North American theaters again registered two new films, namely "The Difficult Brothers" produced by Warner Bros. and "Remade Warriors" launched by Samsung, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures.

"Bad Brother" is a comedy, and "Reconstruction Warrior" is an action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Vandon.

However, just in terms of the scale of the opening screen, the two films are basically cannon fodder that was thrown after "Wonder Woman". The number of screens in "The Difficult Brother" is only 1140, and the "Reconstruction Warrior" is only 1281. paint the screen. The opening scale of the two films combined is not as good as "Wonder Woman".

The thinking of Warner Bros. and Columbia is probably that they neither want to give up this summer season nor have confidence in these two films, so they chose this distribution strategy.

However, under the crushing popularity of "Wonder Woman", the two films that were originally regarded as cannon fodder failed to make any splash after their release.

At the end of its second week of release, "Wonder Woman" dropped only 25% at the box office, taking in another $68.39 million.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of this superhero blockbuster has reached 159.51 million US dollars, directly surpassing all the movies that have been released in 1992 and ranking first in the annual total box office list.

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