It's another Friday in the blink of an eye, and it's June 28th.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" ended its third week of release, and in the seven days from June 21 to June 27, the box office decline of the film shrank by 25% compared to last week, and it once again earned $45.13 million.

At the same time, the cumulative North American box office of this superhero blockbuster also officially exceeded the $200 million mark, reaching $200.728 million.

Broke 100 million in the first week!

Break 200 million in three weeks!

Such a box office record, in the eyes of many people, is probably only broken by other films in the DC Cinematic Universe.

In addition, Paramount Pictures' new film "Bald Detective 2", which opened last week, earned $31.54 million at the box office in the first week, exceeding Paramount's expectations.

As "Batman: The Dark Knight" began to quickly release market space, the industry gradually discovered that this unstoppable superhero movie actually played a very obvious role in stimulating the market.

On May 24, the week when six new films were released at the beginning of the summer season, the total box office of North American theaters in a single week was only more than $86 million. But since the opening on June 7, the North American film market has grossed $179 million, $146 million and $131 million in three consecutive weeks.

Calculated for three weeks, minus the $200 million for "The Dark Knight," the cumulative box office over a three-week period equates to an average of $83 million per week for other films.

Obviously, affected by the recent movie-watching boom caused by "Batman: The Dark Knight", many viewers have watched more than one movie.

Specific to the movies in the same period, in addition to "Bald Detective 2", which exceeded expectations at the box office in the first week, the fire-fighting film "Backfire" produced by the original Universal Pictures has been filmed since May 24, with a total box office of $56.11 million in five weeks.

Although the weekly box office has slipped to around $5 million, the film's final North American box office is still expected to hit the $70 million mark.

"City Hillbilly" starring Billy Crystal has unknowingly reached $52.22 million at the box office in the shadow of "Batman: The Dark Knight" since its release on May 31.

Unlike "Tempered", "City Hillbilly" still had a single-week box office of $14.18 million just over the past week, ranking third only to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Bald Detective 2".

According to such a box office trend, it is easy for "City Hillbilly" to break 100 million at the local box office in North America.

Not only these mainstream commercial films, but also the Antarctic documentary "Ice and Snow World" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Pictures has been like a small but very eye-catching 'dark horse' since its release.

Although the box office volume is not large, because of the excellent market performance and the fact that it is an alternative to many mainstream films in the summer file, it has attracted a lot of attention from the media and the public, and even under the limelight of "Batman: The Dark Knight", it still maintains a very good topicality.

As a result, although the highest box office of this non-mainstream Antarctic documentary in a single week was only $7.66 million in the second week, the cumulative box office continued to exceed all expectations.

As of June 27, the cumulative box office of "Ice and Snow World" has reached $31.12 million. That's a full 10 times its paltry $3 million production cost, and it's definitely the highest-return film in the summer slot.

Moreover, with "Ice World" still earning $4.61 million at the box office last week and its decline of less than 20% for four consecutive weeks, the film's next North American box office is very promising to hit the $50 million mark.

There are blockbuster movies, and naturally there is no shortage of cannon fodder.

The most dismal performance in the summer market is undoubtedly Bruce Willis's $65 million production cost of "The Ultimate Condor", and the film failed both in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.

As of June 20, the box office of "The Ultimate Condor" was only more than $16 million in four weeks after its release, and it couldn't even earn back the publicity and distribution costs.

Other films, such as Disney's "Prancing Horse," Fox's "Ugly," and Paramount's "Soap Platter," have also failed at the box office.

Spike Lee's new film "Jungle Fever", which was originally produced by Universal Pictures with a production budget of $14 million, also failed to meet expectations due to mistakes in the release schedule and publicity strategy, and the total box office in North America is expected to be just over $20 million.

The all-black cast film has the potential to be released overseas in the overseas market, and Daenerys Entertainment can only look forward to recovering all the $19 million in production and publicity costs through subsequent local releases. ，

The problem of "Jungle Fever" is obvious, it directly collides with "Batman: The Dark Knight", the people are unstable during the integration of the two companies, it is difficult to adjust the publicity strategy in time, and all departments within the company cannot be completely united after all, which ultimately caused the box office of this movie with a good reputation to be unsatisfactory.

As Daenerys' entertainment grew larger, Simon knew that this kind of problem was inevitable, and he couldn't do it all alone.

This is actually one of the reasons why Simon has recently insisted on streamlining and integrating Daenerys Entertainment's production and distribution team. The disease of a large company is inevitable for any corporate giant, but the impact of this negative factor can be mitigated by a team of high-performing companies that are constantly adapting.

On June 28, a new movie box office week, two new films were released in North American theaters again.

Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Films' blockbuster film "Terminator 2" has 2,506 screens.

The final production cost of this sci-fi classic sequel reached $73 million, and Cameron still forcibly exceeded the $70 million budget cap set by Simon.

Fortunately, in the end, it is still a lot less than the budget of $102 million in the original plane.

Since $73 million has been spent, Simon has not saved any more, and asked Fox to give a $30 million publicity budget, so that the total budget for the production and publicity of this project still exceeded 100 million yuan.

Another new film is the gangster film "Block Boys" produced by Columbia Pictures, which has only 876 screens, which is basically a foil.

Simon reviewed the next phase of Universal Studios' redevelopment in Burbank in the morning, had lunch with Nancy Brill, who was still here, and drove back to Malibu at 2 p.m.

The vehicle left Universal Studios and traveled more than 20 kilometers west along Ventura Avenue before turning south onto Highway 27, which leads north-south to Malibu. Follow the mountain road 27 for about 5 kilometers inward and turn into a newly built asphalt road.

The asphalt road leads directly to the Daenerys Cinema district, with the entrance and exit at the very top corner of the triangular studio, which was originally a mountain trail leading to the top water tower, but has been reopened and widened in recent months to create a two-lane asphalt road.

With the further expansion of Daenerys Entertainment, the transportation and accommodation of Daenerys Entertainment employees began to be a concern for the company.

Previously, Daenerys Studios Malibu had only one exit from the studio area to Waterfront Highway 1.

Although the southern exit goes west to Malibu and connects to Sunset Boulevard to the east, whether it is Malibu or Sunset Boulevard connecting to Palisades, Bel Air, Beverly Hills and other affluent areas, it is not something that most employees of Daenerys Entertainment can afford.

After Daenerys Entertainment merged with MCA, the problem became even more serious.

Because Universal Studios is in Burbank, most of the employees also live in valleys where housing prices are relatively low.

With Simon moving most of his functions at Universal Studios into Daenerys Studios, many employees were facing long commutes.

In the past, if you wanted to get from Daenerys Studios in Malibu to Burbank, you needed to take the southern exit of the studio onto the waterfront highway, go east for a while to the entrance of Mountain Road 27, and then head north.

The construction of the asphalt road connecting Daenerys Studios' northernmost borough to Mountain Highway 27 will save employees at least 15 minutes of time and the entire road will be less than 10 kilometers into the Northern Valley.

Moreover, on both sides of the No. 27 mountain road, there are actually many scattered residential communities.

With the asphalt road directly to the north of the district, many employees will be able to buy or rent housing in these low-cost mountain communities. You don't need to take the southern exit to drive around a big bend, and you can even walk to work on weekdays.

From Universal Studios Burbank to Daenerys Studios in Malibu, a total distance of about 35 kilometers, it took exactly an hour in the afternoon when the traffic was relatively smooth.

Simon wasn't in the car either, and by the time the car pulled into the borough from the northern entrance, he had finished reading the materials for the New York Wife, which will start filming next month.

Robert Iger was also in Los Angeles recently, and happened to be here from Universal Studios with Simon.

The two got out of the car in the parking lot, Simon was still holding the information, and as he walked, he turned to the front page again and asked, "The synopsis of the plot is very good, but what's going on with this woman?"

On that page, the woman's name was Chrissy Jenner.

At the end-of-year party at Daenerys Studios last year, a certain woman named Chrissy Kardashian.

Although the original history was like this, it also seems to be a little too fast.

And.

She also became a 'New York wife'.

Robert Iger glanced sideways, his expression flashed with some strangeness, glanced at Simon, and asked, "You don't know?"

Simon was even more puzzled: "Should I know?"

Robert Egger re-examined Simon's expression, hesitated, and simply stopped, saying, "This, Ms. Jenner, was not originally among the finalists. However, she called me several times in a row, um, hinting, she and you are very, um...... It's familiar. So ......"

Iger didn't say it too thoroughly, but Simon understood, and could only smile bitterly and sigh that this woman was really ...... Terrible.

Robert Iger was still a little unsure, if the woman on the information was not familiar with Simon, why he would take the initiative to ask again this time.

Moreover, thinking about the posture and figure of the beautiful woman in her thirties, Iger thinks that it may really be more in line with the taste of his own boss. Therefore, this kind of 'little thing' that only needs to be understood by subordinates, Egger did not ask Simon for confirmation in advance.

Seeing Simon close the folder and hand it over, and continue to walk towards the office building, Egg thought for a while and asked, "Simon, do you need to be replaced?"

Simon shook his head and said with a smile: "No, this woman is very capable of tossing, and she is indeed very suitable for this show." ”

Iger nodded, no more.

Simon added: "I'm going to stay in New York for a day before I leave for England next week, and you can arrange for her to come and see me." ”

Egger was stunned for a moment, then just answered again.

The two soon separated, with Iger going to a meeting and Simon going to a screening room in Office One.

There were still two hours left in the afternoon, and it was arranged for Catherine Bigelow's "Crazy Flower of the End", which had just been completely completed.

The schedule of "Crazy Flower of the End" is September 6, and the film publicity and distribution work has been launched, but the final cut was completely completed only two days ago, and it will be sent to the MPAA for rating next week.

Enter the screening room and the screening of the film is ready.

Apparently in order to get into a relationship with Simon, in addition to Catherine, the two heroines of the film, Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis, both came over on purpose, and also brought their respective boyfriends, who are also filmmakers in the circle, Tim Robinson and Rennie Haring.

Tim Robbins is the male protagonist of "The Shawshank Redemption" in the original time and space, and previously participated in Robert Altman's "The Intersection of Life".

Renny Haring has made a name for himself in the circle in recent years with directing "Die Hard 2" and "Ghost Street 4", and belongs to the rising new generation of new directors. Harlem's most recent film was "Passion Rose", also released in September, two weeks later than "Flowers of the End", and the heroine of "Passion Rose" is Laura Dern, who is already destined to miss the new version of "Jurassic Park".

If history doesn't change, the pair of Rennie Haring and Gina Davis will also work together to complete "Cut Throat Island", a super big hole film in Hollywood history that set a Guinness record for film industry losses.

So, Hollywood is really small.

Simon actually wants to get rid of the other 'irrelevant people' so that he can be alone with Catherine.

Of course, just think about it.

Everyone said hello, but Simon did not hide it, sat directly next to Catherine, and motioned for the staff to start playing the video.

Sensing that Simon seemed to be inclined to put his arm over him, Catherine glared at him and said softly, "Don't make it bad, someone." ”

Simon smiled and leaned into the woman's ear: "Do you think I look like a good person?"

“......“

"Oh, that's wrong, do you think I'm a bad person?"

Catherine rolled her eyes, intending to ignore the guy next to her.

While the opening of the film was playing, Simon said, "Let's have dinner with Cape Dume in the evening, I agreed with Jenny." ”

Catherine was a little helpless, and suddenly said, "Are you going to Seattle for a 'business trip' tonight?"

Simon pretended to be stupid: "Huh?"

Catherine didn't give Simon a chance to change the subject, saying, "That night, Jenny said she couldn't sleep, and she had to call me to accompany her, saying that you were going to Seattle on a 'business trip.'" ”

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