Chapter 88 Swiss Holidays
The two siblings were arguing, and the sound of cars sounded outside, and Blake saw Mark reversing into the garage and said, "Mark is here." She immediately ran out as fast as she could, and soon Blake and Mark came in with a pile of gifts.
Mark saw Tom reading the newspaper and greeted him politely, and Blake explained: "Yesterday Mark went to San Francisco in a hurry. ”
Tom just sighed, he knew that Mark didn't come because of a quarrel yesterday, but Mark didn't know what kind of ecstasy trick he used to make Blake radiant and happy, and now he took the initiative to explain to him that it should be a misunderstanding, which is even sweeter.
Only Mason sarcastically said, "It's busy, busier than Mr. President, who has gone to Camp David for the holidays." ”
Mark pretended not to hear and began to hand out the gifts.
In the general normal family, it is the parents who put the gift in the bedside socks after the child falls asleep, saying that it is given by Santa Claus, and the older one, who does not eat this set, puts the gift on the child's door, and the next day when he gets up, he sees that the family eats breakfast and opens the gift, which is very happy and warm, so Mark did not come last night, which is very disruptive to the atmosphere.
Mark's gifts were all small in size, a total of five, even Blake's sister in the field had one, and they happily opened the gifts, Tom's was a Parker gold pen set with broken diamonds, Claire's was a VIP annual card from a nearby beauty salon, Mason's wallet, and Blake's was a diamond item, all of which were valuable gifts.
Claire said: "Mark, you broke the bank, it should have cost a lot of money." ”
Mark said as he helped Blake bring it, "The most important thing is to be happy!" and he flattered Blake with a mirror.
Blake looked left and right and asked Mark, "How is this chain?"
Mark said: "It's not good at all, it's not worthy of you, next time I'll choose a matching one." ”
Blake smiled, kissed Mark, took Mark's arm, and looked like he wouldn't let go of anything.
Mark said, "It's a nice day!," and he continued, "I'm going to Switzerland tomorrow with Blake for a holiday, and I'll take care of her." ”
"We go skiing in the Alps and we'll send you postcards," Blake said. ”
Blake said so, and Tom knew that it was invalid, and he said, "Be careful. ”
Mark said happily, "Of course, thank you Tom." ”
Christmas is a public holiday, generally three days off, to New Year's Day and New Year's Day and three days off, Sophia they are high-level people, how many days off to decide what to say, they are used to going to Switzerland around the New Year for a holiday, until New Year's Day before returning to work, this is the tradition of the Ronaldson family, they are descendants of Swiss immigrants, now there are ancestral houses and villas in Ruitu, all at the foot of the Alps and on the shore of Lake Geneva, after more than 200 years of development, has formed a big family, Sophia they are just a branch of this big family, but it is the best branch, Sophia and their family was only born in World War II, and it can be called an old family, which has a great influence in the financial world.
Sophia flew to Switzerland on a Liuwan V private jet, and when she arrived in Switzerland, Sophia and David went to the family annual meeting, while Mark, Blake, Kayla, and Donald's girlfriend Margaret stayed in a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Switzerland has beautiful scenery, known as the "world park", the tall Alps traverse the central and southern regions, there are many rivers and lakes in the territory, Lake Geneva is a moraine lake formed in the Quaternary glacial period, during the Quaternary glaciation, the moraine accumulated near Lake Geneva, forming a low depression, and the Rhône River accumulates water here into a lake, so some people say that "the Rhône River contributed to Lake Geneva", but some people say that "the Rhône is constantly destroying it".
Donald has been here many times, the old horse knows the way to take them around, Mark and Blake after this little misunderstanding, the relationship is deeper and sweeter, the sweet appearance of being tired of being together makes Kayla unbearable, in this picturesque place, they are like fairy couples in heaven.
After Sophia and their annual meeting, they all went to ski at the foot of the Alps, Mark is a person whose brain does not turn fast, but he is very athletic, almost all sports are taught as soon as they are taught, and they play very well, Mark can't ski, Donald taught him, but an hour later, Donald has nothing to teach him, Mark has become a master skier, and easily makes fancy moves that only those ski masters do, and at the same time he serves as Blake's ski instructor.
Mark took advantage of this period of time, by the way, to finish writing "Twilight 2 Blood Moon", the last time he wrote "Blood Moon", it was fast, who knew that he would not write half of it, he was busy filming "The Hangover", which almost made Peter angry, the market was hungry and thirsty to the extreme, "Twilight" sold more than 8 million copies, and more than 10 million copies were just around the corner, Peter was eager to write it himself, Mark promised to deliver the manuscript before New Year's Day and New Year's Day under his repeated coercion and temptation, otherwise Peter would scold his mother.
Mark and the others spent more than a week in Switzerland and had a great time before returning to the United States to get back to work.
During her stay in Switzerland, Sophia had hinted to Mark that Ronaldson Sr. had acquiesced to Mark's proposal, and they would start deploying after the holiday, Sequoia owed a lot of money to the bank, and it should not be difficult to speak, and then let Brother Gu spit out some of it, it would not be difficult to achieve the goal, but Mark's 100 million must be taken out by himself, and Mark was overjoyed, which meant that he had a ticket to the super-rich club.
Since he came to Switzerland, the king of clocks and watches, naturally wants to buy a batch of watches back as gifts, Sophia knows the owner of the Swiss watch company of Plum Watch, Mark specially ordered a batch of handmade mechanical watches, this batch of customized version is called the hangover version, which is Mark is ready to read "Hangover" Founded in 1919 by the Schlop family in Greenen, the Swiss Plum Watch has been passed down for three generations and is still owned and operated by the Schlopp family.
Accompanied by Slopp, they visited the watch factory, where Mark ordered three couples' watches, each costing $100,000 US dollars, a pair of Davids, a pair of Mark and Black, and a pair of Donald and Margaret, all of which were unique.
Mark is on vacation in Switzerland, MM starts working under Will's leadership, and "The Hangover" There are still more than two months to go to the release, the time is quite tight, they lobby to join the screening of only 1,000 cinemas, the distance from 2,000 is quite large, MM distribution has just been reorganized, to face such a tough battle, the pressure is quite large, under strong pressure, their various shortcomings are highlighted, the leadership control is not, the prestige is not enough, the enthusiasm of employees is not high, the lack of corporate culture, the team has no cohesion, and there is no sense of identity, the company's network in publicity and distribution is insufficient, there is no cable TV, newspapers, media, Internet and other publicity platforms, all of which are borrowed from Warner, and in this regard they are competing with Warner, always squeezed by the other party intentionally or unintentionally, in the response to many problems, they seem to be overstretched, and the response measures are not effective.
These problems were improved to a certain extent after Meghan appointed her assistant Jessica as vice president, Jessica first fired more than a dozen employees who were ineffective and passive and slack, and then implemented the last elimination system, which caused a great shock, and this loose atmosphere was changed, and everything became efficient.
Mark finished his vacation and returned to China, but he also joined the propaganda side, constantly appeared on TV talk shows, promoted movies, and organized a large number of publicity activities.
And Mark's opponent, J Pusen's "The Passion of the Christ" because of its success in provoking controversy in the religious and cultural circles, became famous, and the giant companies did not dare to take over the distribution, and the New Market Distribution Company in New York took over the distribution.
Mark is a little envious of this guy, he doesn't have to be as busy as himself to promote the movie, this "The Passion of the Christ" is a super blockbuster, and the 370 million US dollars in Beimi are the eighth in the film history of Beimi, second only to Spider-Man, 680 million in the world, and it is conservatively estimated that J Pusen's pre-tax income is more than 200 million, such an income, drug trafficking and arms smuggling are nothing more than that, it can be called extremely successful, but he never imagined that his end would be so tragic.
Mark doesn't envy this, he has to be able to digest it if he can eat it, and it's not good to swallow a hard bone and crack his anus, this is too smart, and that's not how money is earned.
Mark's hard work is hard now, but the return is predictable, whether it is Warner or MM, they all think that "The Hangover" is earned, it depends on how much it earns, and Warner's marketing department is bold to make the "arrogant" idea of breaking 100 million in North Rice.
"The Passion of the Christ" was released on February 15, "The Hangover" was released a week earlier than it, Mark was afraid of the other party's premiere results of 80 million US dollars, but he can't say that, his reason is that he is the first to harvest the box office, make all the money in the audience's pockets, and let them have no money to make, both Warner and MM understand that "The Hangover" has no big blessing, and if you want to do well, you must rely on beer, and this kind of movie is often the key to the box office in the second week.
For example, the comic book blockbuster "Hulk Hulk", directed by Ang Lee, starring Eric Barner, Jennifer Connelly, and Nick Knott, produced and announced that it reached 150 million, and topped the North American box office with $62.6 million in its premiere, setting the best box office record for its debut in North America in June as of 2003, and the film also set a record for the highest box office for the premiere of a new film in North America as of 2003, breaking through the original 1999 "Ace Spy" maintained a performance of $54.9 million.