On June 16, just after entering the working day, the Wall Street Journal appeared in the news about the anomaly in the foreign exchange market in Southeast Asia. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the major foreign exchange exchanges of Tokyo, Hong Kong Island and Singapore, the main financial centers in Asia, the exchange rates of currencies such as the Thai baht and the Indonesian rupiah began to show obvious fluctuations, and the insiders in the circle all felt a sense of urgency that a black cloud was pressing down on the city.

In recent months, as international foreign exchange speculators have secretly absorbed the currencies of Southeast Asian countries to build positions, the currencies of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries have experienced a brief sharp appreciation. The Thai baht even peaked at 22:1 against the US dollar, an appreciation of nearly 12%.

After the last two days of accumulation, on Wednesday, the international foreign exchange speculators led by the quantum fund and the tiger fund led by Soros suddenly opened their fangs to the Southeast Asian monetary system.

Subsequently, three consecutive days of continuous selling of the Thai baht easily knocked the short-lived appreciation of the Thai baht back to the prototype, and even fell out of the average exchange rate of the Thai baht against the US dollar of 25:1 in recent years, and as of the close of trading on Friday, the Thai baht has plummeted to 26.3:1 against the US dollar, and the depreciation rate has reached an astonishing 19.5% in three days.

In 1997, Thailand's total currency issuance was about 9.2 trillion baht, equivalent to $370 billion based on the average exchange rate of 25:1 in recent years. But in just three days, when the exchange rate fell to 26.3:1, the total value of Thailand's currency had fallen to 350 billion, and $20 billion of wealth had been wiped out. And as many people know, this is just the beginning.

At a time when the Southeast Asian currency market is full of gunsmoke, the competition at the box office of North American summer movies is also fierce.

After grossing $70.25 million in three days of its opening weekend, "Finding Nemo" continues to reap the box office momentum of $600 to $7 million a day on weekdays.

In the end, the box office of "Finding Nemo" reached $97.45 million in the first week, which was not only more than 66 million more than the new film "Time and Space Contact" released in the same period, but also almost equal to the total box office of the same type competitor "The Lion King 2" in the first two weeks.

Affected by "Finding Nemo", the second-ranked "Chrono Contact" only grossed $31.29 million in its first week.

Immediately afterwards, "The Lion King 2" finally expanded its decline to 36%, earning only $27.09 million in the third week, with a cumulative box office of $125 million, ranking third.

The most tragic box office this week is undoubtedly the fourth-place "Godzilla", due to the one-sided bad reviews and the strong impact of "Finding Nemo", "Godzilla" fell by nearly a terrifying 68% in the second week, with a pitiful $23.57 million at the box office, and a total of $97.23 million at the box office in two weeks, which is not even as good as the first week box office of "Finding Nemo".

The dismal box office performance of "Godzilla" not only made Sony's original $1 billion global box office ambition a joke, but even the media did not bother to comment on this bad film that was destined to be forgotten.

Although Firefly Pictures' "Prison in the Air" ranked fifth, due to the unsatisfactory performance of the two live-action blockbusters "Godzilla" and "Temporal Contact", "Prison in the Air" still maintained a good decline of 34% in the third week, collecting another $15.28 million, and the cumulative box office steadily climbed to $72.65 million. Although it is still unpredictable whether the North American box office of the film will exceed 100 million, compared with "The Fifth Element", "Godzilla", and "Chrono Contact", the performance of "Prison in the Air" is still quite good. What's more, the cost of $75 million for "Prison in the Air" is the lowest among several live-action blockbusters, and there is little pressure to return on investment.

With the release of the previous week's box office data, on Friday, June 20, "Batman and Robin", which has been tightly held by Warners, was finally released in more than 2,900 theaters in North America, and the quality of the film did not live up to the speculation of many media and film critics.

A review in the Wall Street Journal probably sheds some of the sentiments of critics: "The characters of George Clooney, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other protagonists in the whole movie are undoubtedly very close to the characters of the comics, but I really can't think of any comments on the storyline, movie lines, character acting and so on." ”

As a superhero character that has been selling well in North America for decades, Batman can be said to have the largest fan base in North America. But with the frequent change of creators throughout the series and the decline in movie quality, the patience of Batman fans seems to have finally been exhausted. Although the film still won the single-day box office championship with a box office of $16.11 million on the first day, "Batman and Robin" was kicked off the top of the single-day box office list by "Finding Nemo" on the second day of release.

Even, "Batman and Robin" also set a record for the first box office drop on the first first Saturday of the summer season. According to the usual box office rules, most films will grossed more on Saturday than on Friday in their first week of release, and even "Godzilla", which also received a lot of bad reviews two weeks ago, grossed about $2 million more on Saturday than on Friday. But "Batman & Robin" dropped to $15.09 million the next day after grossing $16.11 million on the first day.

After briefly squeezing $14.3 million by "Batman & Robin" on Friday, "Finding Nemo" rebounded to a high of $17.5 million the next day, and the industry expects "Finding Nemo" to remain above $60 million the next week, even better than many big-budget films in the first week.

In comparison, "Batman and Robin" is expected to only have a first-week box office of $55 million. With the production cost of $125 million for this comic book adaptation, because the current overseas box office appeal of the Batman series is not even as good as that of "Godzilla", Warner will have to recoup at least $80 million in the first week to break even with the box office, but now it seems that this hope is obviously very slim.

The failure of "Batman and Robin" again has made many people completely lose confidence in the summer live-action blockbusters, and MGM's upcoming "007: Casino Royale" next week will naturally bear the brunt, and some entertainment media have even waited with a gloating tone for the appearance of the first box office Waterloo in Eric's own directing career.

Eric has no time to care about these remarks in the media, the official outbreak of the Southeast Asian economic crisis, affected not only the entertainment business of the Firefly Group involving Southeast Asia, the entire Firefly system, Nokia, Qualcomm, LTD three companies have a large number of businesses in Southeast Asia, Nokia and LTD's main product factories are also located in Thailand, the Philippines and other countries, Yahoo, Cisco and other companies have also invested heavily in Southeast Asia in recent years, once the currencies of Southeast Asian countries completely collapsed, These companies will all have a strong impact on their local operations.

Eric has always liked to be a hands-off shopkeeper, and Chris usually has Chris to help take care of some affairs that should be his involvement. But this time, Chris went to Tokyo to take charge of it himself, and a lot of things fell to Eric. After all, he has a lot of memories of the economic crisis in Southeast Asia in his previous life, and Eric is also willing to intervene at this time, using the memories of his previous life to make a more reasonable layout for the business of several companies.

After a full week of paperwork and conference calls, it wasn't until Saturday afternoon that Eric returned to Los Angeles from Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego to take a brief break to turn his attention to Hollywood.

Chrissy Jenner's mood in the past half a month can only be described as ups and downs.

At the beginning of the month, her daughter, who was on a summer vacation in Los Angeles, suddenly called home in New York and claimed that she had been offered an opportunity from Eric Williams to oversee a reality show. Chrissy Jenner's first instinct was that her daughter was joking with her, associating their family with a big man like Eric Williams, and that wasn't a joke.

After her daughter repeated the details of what had happened that day, and reported the phone number left by Eric, Chrissy Jenner dialed the number suspiciously, although it was immediately confirmed from Eric Williams' assistant office, Chrissy Jenner was still stunned for more than half an hour, and then ecstatic.

Chrissy Jenner has always been a woman who yearns for Hollywood Vanity Fair, when she married Robert Kardashian, she also valued that the other party had her own record company, and had a very wide network of TV, music and sports celebrities, when Robert Kardashian sold her record company and turned to an unrelated juice business, Chris Jenner quickly parted ways with the other party, and quickly married TV sports personality Bruce Jenner a month after the divorce.

However, although Bruce Jenner was a glamorous sports star in the 70s, since his retirement, his influence has long been much less than before, and now he can only occasionally appear on some TV shows or work as a match commentator on sports channels, and can only barely get close to the entertainment industry and Hollywood.

As a loyal viewer of Lifetime TV, the sudden arrival of a reality TV producer opportunity made Chrissy Jenner realize that if she could seize it, it would definitely take her to the sky, just look at the two producers and hosts of "Flyover" and "America's Top Model".

There was no time to think about anything else, on the day the news was confirmed, Chrissy Jenner rushed to Los Angeles with her husband and a bunch of children in a hurry, and stayed at her ex-husband Robert Kardashian's house, and asked her daughter again in person about the ins and outs of the matter, Chrissy Jenner bought a large number of reality show tapes and related books and materials, and began to write reality show plan materials while referring to them. She automatically ignored it.

A week later, Chrissy Jenner personally arrived at the headquarters of the Burbank Firefly Group and handed over the completed proposal to one of Eric's assistants, and a long and torturous wait followed. In order to avoid the disgust of Eric's assistant, Chrissy Jenner only dared to call once every three days to ask for news.

I was expecting my daughter, who was in Drew Barrymore's circle of girlfriends, to help find out some information, but then I found out that because of her daughter's companion, the Hilton girl, she inadvertently offended someone, and both of them were kicked out of the circle.

As for the husband and ex-husband, when they inquired, they found out that the two men who were barely celebrities in Los Angeles were so far away from the inner circle of Hollywood, and their social circles could not contact any useful people at all. Although the Sharp Corner Manor is located in a prominent location in Malibu, Chrissy Jenner did not have the courage to come to the door, so she could only continue to wait, until the second weekend, when the news came from the Fireflies that Eric would take the time to meet her, and before she could be happy, the meeting was cancelled at short notice, followed by a whole week of silence. (To be continued.) )