Recent pressure from the media and politics has not had much impact on Daenerys Entertainment, which is already a behemoth.

Entering the end of March, Daenerys Entertainment's internal employee stock subscription plan has come to an end, and all subscription quotas have been cashed out. The company's film, television, cinema, peripherals, games and other businesses still maintained very good growth in the past first quarter.

One of the most important film businesses, as of last Friday, Daenerys Entertainment's three labels had released a total of nine films in 11 box office weeks in 1994.

"Four Weddings and a Funeral", which was released on Valentine's Day on February 11, has reached $80.76 million at the box office in five and a half weeks, counting the $5.15 million earned in the three days of the sixth weekend of its opening.

It is expected that the box office will be around $7 million in seven days across the Oscars from March 18 to March 24, and with the arrival of the Easter schedule, there is no suspense that the film will break the 100 million yuan box office mark through subsequent releases, so it will become the first film to break 100 million at the North American box office in 1994.

On the other hand, as of March 17 last Thursday, the total North American box office in 1994 for 10 box office weeks was $670 million, and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" alone took $75.61 million, or 11.1 percent.

The release cycle extended to 1994 at the end of last year, including "The Lion King," "Schindler's List" and "In the Name of the Father," which grossed $43.56 million, $55.39 million and $18.79 million respectively in the first ten weeks of 1994, while other films such as "The Seven Deadly Sins" also contributed $22.19 million sporadically.

These previous year's films shared $129 million in the first 10 weeks, or 19.2 percent, at the box office this year.

In addition to last Friday's "Sexy Club" starring Mia Koschner and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" on Valentine's Day, the other 7 films that are not too blockbuster have a cumulative box office of $51.79 million, accounting for 7.6%.

There is no shortage of highlights in the seven films.

New World Pictures bought the rights to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series to shoot "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with a budget of $5 million, and the cumulative revenue reached $23.79 million after its release on January 14.

Gordon Pictures' basketball-themed documentary "Basketball Dream" launched on January 21 has earned a total of $7.83 million at the box office with a budget of $700,000, which is another small success in the documentary distribution resume that Gorgate Pictures is increasingly good at.

Kevin Smith's "Crazy Clerk" at the Sundance Film Festival, which was bought by Gorgate Pictures and released on February 4, cost $27,000 and earned $5.19 million in six weeks in theaters, which is also a big success.

Ron Howard, who had been a die-hard Universal Pictures collaborator, re-entered the process with Daenerys Entertainment after filming "Earth Ambition" with Columbia Pictures and Tom Cruise.

In addition to the blockbuster film "Apollo 13" that has just been signed recently, Howard also cooperated with New World Pictures last year to complete a low-budget satirical comedy "Media Vanguard", the film budget is only 6 million US dollars, released on March 11, the first week of income reached 7.05 million US dollars, New World Pictures, which is responsible for the distribution of the film, increased the number of screens from 1017 to 1531 last Friday, and the total box office in North America is expected to be between 30 million and 40 million US dollars, which is a small dark horse.

Simon casually approved the project last year, and he didn't expect the film to do so well at the box office, which also strengthened his desire to keep Ron Howard firmly under Daenerys Entertainment.

There are successes, and of course there are failures.

Gaomen Pictures' investment in "The Wind Gusts" director Dario Argento's new film "Trauma" was completed last year, but it was left on the January 28 schedule because of the film's poor effect, and the film stayed in theaters for two weeks because of poor word-of-mouth and no one cared about it, and the total box office was only $930,000, and the $5 million investment was basically lost.

Also belonging to Simon's selection last year from the tentative name of the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Romeo Stained Blood" and "Love in the Depths of My Heart" three projects, scheduled for March 4 "Love in the Depths of My Heart" is a bigger drift, 20 million US dollars production budget, 523 screens in the first week, the first seven days of box office revenue of only 1.21 million US dollars, the average museum is barely more than 2300 US dollars, two weeks of 1.81 million US dollars completely painted.

Finally, there is a B-grade sci-fi thriller "Puppet Life", which tells the story of aliens invading the earth and parasitic human bodies, with a production budget of 5 million US dollars, scheduled on February 11, with a cumulative box office of 5.19 million US dollars before the next gear, and the North American box office is temporarily losing money, and it can be easily recouped through overseas distribution and videotape sales, which can be described as tepid.

In ten weeks, the main hit "Four Weddings and a Funeral", a series of old films last year, and seven new films this year, the three parts together accounted for 37.9 percent of the $670 million box office share in the first ten weeks of 1994, and all other Hollywood studios could only share the remaining 62.1 percent.

And that's not even counting collaborations like "Mission Impossible" and MGM, a Hollywood studio that also controls Simon's de facto control.

See big from a small age.

It can be said that the situation of Daenerys Entertainment dominating Hollywood with one enemy and many others has been completely stabilized.

While Simon continues to work on the company's recent affairs in the Daenerys Studios office, the results of the Chandler Theatre's Oscars continue to report.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" won a number of technical awards in the early stage, such as Best Score, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction, and the phenomenal animated film "The Lion King" also won Best Score and Best Original Song.

Around eight o'clock, Simon's private cell phone rang.

But it was Catherine Bigelow calling.

Catherine had just had dinner in Santa Monica with some friends and tried to contact Janet to no avail, so she called Simon.

Having known each other for many years, they are both friends and intimacy, and the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Simon and Catherine has always been the same. The woman has lived in New York for the past two years, and Simon and Janet spend most of their time on the East Coast getting together with Catherine, especially Janet, who rarely appears in photos in the media, just shopping and eating with Catherine in Manhattan.

Simon deliberately pretended to be pitiful on the phone and said that he was still working overtime, Janet went to Australia, and she was very lonely, lonely, cold and pitiful.

You can feel Catherine's helpless expression on the other side of the phone, but she still asks if she wants to bring Simon over for dinner.

Absolutely.

Catherine arrived in about twenty minutes later, and when she entered, she carried a small box of food.

Simon, who was buried in the pile of papers, raised his head from behind the desk, the woman habitually wore long hair and shawls, and her delicate face did not show the years, and she wore a light gray high-neck women's windbreaker tonight, with a section of washed jeans exposed at the hem of the windbreaker, and leather boots on her feet.

Seeing that the little man looked at herself as unabashedly as before, Catherine glared at her with some anger and asked, "Why are you still working so late?"

Simon closed a document in front of him and put it aside, and said with a smile, "Work makes me rich." ”

Thinking of the recent news in the media, Catherine didn't know how to speak for a while, so she had to hand over the box in her hand: "Salt and pepper shrimp, the restaurant I just ate is doing a very good job, take it to you as a snack." ”

Simon didn't talk nonsense anymore that he hadn't eaten yet, got up and took the box, turned out from behind the desk and walked to the reception area to sit down, and asked while opening the carton, "Who are you having dinner with?"

Catherine sat on the sofa next to Simon, still with a straight back, with a bit of pleasing to the eye, looking at Simon eating with soft eyes, and said, "Rockwell, them." ”

Simon nodded.

understands that they are all filmmakers in New York circles, Alexander Rockwell, Alison Anders, Whitt Stillman, etc., and Ang Lee, who is sitting in the Chandler Theater at this time waiting for the results of the Best Foreign Language Film award for "The Wedding Banquet", is also a member of the New York Gang.

Li's Best Foreign Language Film Award this time is basically nine out of ten, and, counting the time, the results of the award have probably been released. Catherine was here, and Simon didn't call out to Girl A outside to ask.

Catherine didn't continue the topic, but said: "Last week, Jenny said that I came over and had dinner together, why did I suddenly go to Australia?"

Simon said, "I'm homesick, go back and have a look." ”

Catherine looked at Simon suspiciously, and asked cautiously, "Is there a conflict?"

Men's recent events, especially the group of goblins in London, she has specially seen them, and they are really some of the top beauty embryos.

Think about his temperament.

It's ridiculous.

If it were me, I would be angry.

Simon smiled and shook his head: "This is really not, you don't expect Jenny to give you a chance to take advantage of it." ”

Catherine looked left and right, there was nothing to throw around, so she could only raise her leg and kick him gently.

Simon took a slap without hiding, and changed the subject: "How's the script for Detroit going?"

After relying on Simon's recommendation of "Flowers of the End" to get an Oscar nomination, Catherine has not made another film in the past two years, and occasionally helps a friend as a producer is to research some famous political and historical events in recent American history that are enough to make people reflect, from the Detroit riots in 1967 to the Iran-Gate in 1979 to the Los Angeles riots in 1992, and last year she also focused on the Black Hawk fall of the US military in Somalia.

What women most wanted to shoot was the Los Angeles riots.

was only dissuaded by Simon on the grounds that the time was too close to judge the incident from the perspective of a bystander, as for Iran Gate and even the fall of the black shadow, this kind of movie is likely to go abroad, which is too dangerous, and finally chose the "Detroit" that Catherine once filmed in Simon's memory.

Simon also helped Catherine make a simple outline of ideas based on the information in memory, and she left it to her to supplement and complete the content.

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You can feel Catherine's helpless expression on the other side of the phone, but she still asks if she wants to bring Simon over for dinner.

Absolutely.

Catherine arrived in about twenty minutes later, and when she entered, she carried a small box of food.

Simon, who was buried in the pile of papers, raised his head from behind the desk, the woman habitually wore long hair and shawls, and her delicate face did not show the years, and she wore a light gray high-neck women's windbreaker tonight, with a section of washed jeans exposed at the hem of the windbreaker, and leather boots on her feet.

Seeing that the little man looked at herself as unabashedly as before, Catherine glared at her with some anger and asked, "Why are you still working so late?"

Simon closed a document in front of him and put it aside, and said with a smile, "Work makes me rich." ”

Thinking of the recent news in the media, Catherine didn't know how to speak for a while, so she had to hand over the box in her hand: "Salt and pepper shrimp, the restaurant I just ate is doing a very good job, take it to you as a snack." ”

Simon didn't talk nonsense anymore that he hadn't eaten yet, got up and took the box, turned out from behind the desk and walked to the reception area to sit down, and asked while opening the carton, "Who are you having dinner with?"

Catherine sat on the sofa next to Simon, still with a straight back, with a bit of pleasing to the eye, looking at Simon eating with soft eyes, and said, "Rockwell, them." ”

Simon nodded.

understands that they are all filmmakers in New York circles, Alexander Rockwell, Alison Anders, Whitt Stillman, etc., and Ang Lee, who is sitting in the Chandler Theater at this time waiting for the results of the Best Foreign Language Film award for "The Wedding Banquet", is also a member of the New York Gang.

Li's Best Foreign Language Film Award this time is basically nine out of ten, and, counting the time, the results of the award have probably been released. Catherine was here, and Simon didn't call out to Girl A outside to ask.

Catherine didn't continue the topic, but said: "Last week, Jenny said that I came over and had dinner together, why did I suddenly go to Australia?"

Simon said, "I'm homesick, go back and have a look." ”

Catherine looked at Simon suspiciously, and asked cautiously, "Is there a conflict?"

Men's recent events, especially the group of goblins in London, she has specially seen them, and they are really some of the top beauty embryos.

Think about his temperament.

It's ridiculous.

If it were me, I would be angry.

Simon smiled and shook his head: "This is really not, you don't expect Jenny to give you a chance to take advantage of it." ”

Catherine looked left and right, there was nothing to throw around, so she could only raise her leg and kick him gently.

Simon took a slap without hiding, and changed the subject: "How's the script for Detroit going?"

After relying on Simon's recommendation of "Flowers of the End" to get an Oscar nomination, Catherine has not made another film in the past two years, and occasionally helps a friend as a producer is to research some famous political and historical events in recent American history that are enough to make people reflect, from the Detroit riots in 1967 to the Iran-Gate in 1979 to the Los Angeles riots in 1992, and last year she also focused on the Black Hawk fall of the US military in Somalia.

What women most wanted to shoot was the Los Angeles riots.

was only dissuaded by Simon on the grounds that the time was too close to judge the incident from the perspective of a bystander, and the shadow fell, this kind of movie is likely to go abroad, which is too dangerous, and finally chose "Detroit", which Catherine once filmed in Simon's memory.

Simon also helped Catherine make a simple outline of ideas based on the information in memory, and she left it to her to supplement and complete the content.