Chapter 454: Who Made This a Star Wars?
"Didn't George send you an invitation?"
Walking on the sands of the Gold Coast, Ivanka? Trump took Duque's hand and asked, "Why didn't you go to the premiere?" ”
"I'm busy, I'm going to make announcements all over the world," Duke said, holding Ivanka's hand and stepping on the golden sand, leaning over and kissing her on the cheek, "You want to come here for a vacation during the summer vacation, and I have to refuse George." ”
It's autumn in Australia, the temperature on the Gold Coast is not suitable for going to the sea, and it's also the off-season for tourism, but Ivanka wants to come over and spend a vacation with him, and Duke won't refuse.
"The sea breeze is a little cooler."
Ivanka rubbed her arm, and Duke took off the coat that hung on her other hand, draped it over her shoulder, and said, "Let's go back." ”
"Hmm."
Nodding, Ivanka followed the path Duke had always come from, she could see that there were paparazzi who seemed to be moving in the distance, but she didn't care, she had gradually gotten used to it in the past year, and just chatted with Duke by herself, "I will graduate from Wharton in one year." ”
"Time flies so fast?" Duke turned to look at her, "I remember when I first met you, you were just a young student, and now you're about to graduate from college. ”
"My final year will be dominated by internships."
With a sweet smile on Duke, Ivanka continued, "I've talked to a few other people in the company that the company will move to Los Angeles next month. ”
"In terms of promotion, you need me to say it directly."
Even if a small number of share options are awarded to a few technical backbones, Duke still has more than 40% of the shares in his hands, and he is a major shareholder like Ivanka, which is also working to increase the value of his assets.
Ivanka found three computer and networking technologists from the University of Pennsylvania and introduced them to the company's Instant Sharing website, which is now a fast-growing IT industry. Such people are scarce resources, and if you want people to contribute, you must give some sweetness.
How is it possible for one person to occupy 100% of the company's shares and want others to work hard?
And what they have in their hands is only options for the time being.
The two of them walked towards the rented seaside villa, and did not continue to discuss the company's affairs. Ivanka's meaning was very clear, as far as possible to relocate the company to Los Angeles.
"You have twice in a row let people release the poster of "The Return of the King" on Instant Share, which has attracted a lot of attention."
Holding Duke's hand, Ivanka recalled the number she saw yesterday, "In the last half month, the number of users who share instantly has increased by nearly 200,000. My dear, your attraction is still great. ”
"It's the attraction of the Lord of the Rings." Duke corrected, "If it weren't for the popularity of "Two Towers", it would arouse many people's expectations for "The Return of the King". Where would there be such a good effect. ”
He laughed, "Actually, I'd love to upload a trailer, but Instant Share doesn't support video sharing yet." ”
"The technical department is working on perfecting this feature." Ivanka's pace is slowing, "After the company moves to Los Angeles, it will do its best to launch this video sharing feature, but with the current network bandwidth, it can only support some small format videos." ”
"Don't be in a hurry." Duke also slowed down with Ivanka's footsteps, "The road always has to be taken one step at a time." The speed at which the internet is evolving is astonishing. ”
Ivanka nodded, and suddenly asked. "What about Tina? I haven't seen her since I got off the plane. ”
"Went to New Zealand." Duke reminded, "Have you forgotten that I still have an estate in New Zealand?" Recently, it came to the tax side of things, and she went to deal with it. ”
"Are you going to sell that estate?" Ivanka asked curiously.
Duke shook his head, "It's better to keep it, and use it as a holiday estate in the future, I still miss the scenery of New Zealand." ”
This small country in the land of projectiles. Being able to retain so much of the natural landscape has to do with the location and development strategy, New Zealand has almost no heavy industry, and as one of the five friends of the English-speaking area, it is completely a little brother who follows the ass. Heavy industry products are basically imported.
Compared to the densely populated Los Angeles, New Zealand's climate and scenery are much better.
"What are we going to do next?"
Walking to the beach villa, Ivanka asked, "You can't just stay here, can you?" ”
Duke thought for a moment, "Let's go change and go to the movies together." ”
Although she is not a movie fan and has little interest in watching movies produced by non-Duke, Ivanka still nodded, pulled Duke back to the room to change into couple's casual clothes, called to find a car, and arrived at the nearest theater in just over ten minutes.
She knew what Duke wanted to see, so she went directly to the box office and bought two tickets for the just-released "Attack of the Clones" and went into the theater hand in hand.
Sitting in a couple's seat, Ivanka asked, "Will 'The Two Towers' lose this week's North American box office title?" ”
"Honey," Duke nodded heavily, "it's Star Wars." ”
"I was dragged by Jane to watch Star Wars 1," Ivanka obviously didn't have a Star Wars plot, "I think it's very average, except for the special effects......"
She shook her head, saw the big screen light up, and stopped talking.
After watching it for less than half the time, Ivanka's brows furrowed tightly, for non-Star Wars fans like her, the film was simply torture, and then she simply leaned on Duke and no longer focused on watching it.
In her eyes, Duke's side face carved like marble is better than that film.
Aside from the special effects, there is almost nothing in this film that can be compared to "The Two Towers", and Ivanka even cites it, if this is not George? Lucas's Star Wars, I'm afraid the movie may hit the box office.
Especially Anakin? Skywalker and Padmé? Amidala's two characters are not only completely unbalanced, but also the way their feelings turn into a very bloody one.
Indeed, the feelings in the movie are very bloody, but they are too abrupt between them.
Ivanka knows very well that Duke is not good at filming love scenes, like George? Lucas wasn't much better.
Frankly, Padme? Amidala's performance is still excellent, but with Anakin? When Skywalker stood together, the actor looked clumsy......
Suddenly, Duke's voice came to her ear, "George still chose him." ”
"What?" Ivanka whispered in his ear.
Duke turned his head, kissed Ivanka on the shoulder, and explained a little, "I once mentioned it to George, Anakin?" Skywalker actors, looking for an actor who is at least no better than Natalie? Portman was too far off, but George ......"
Speaking of which, Duke sighed, not knowing George? What exactly did Lucas think that he still chose Christensen? Hayden, one of the most famous and worst screen couples in film history, got together again.
Ivanka ignored the other words and asked, "Natalie?" Is Portman's acting good? What do I think of Bicklsten? Not much stronger than Dunster? ”
"It's okay." Duke shrugged his shoulders, without any guilt, "She has the best acting skills among actresses of her age." ”
As Duke's former assistant, Ivanka knows quite a lot of things, and she actually knows a lot about the lace that some tabloids hype and the lace that the media doesn't know.
However, this wise woman didn't say anything, some things are in the past, and what she wants to see is the future.
The film ends at the end with a wedding that no one is paying attention to, and Duke thinks of Natalie? Portman shook his head slightly, the two were destined not to have much contact anymore, and the former idol was a thing of the past.
He has not done many foolish things in Hollywood over the years, and Natalie? Portman can be counted as one of them.
"What do you think?" Ivanka deliberately pulled his arm, "I've been distracted since I came out." ”
In this case, of course, Duke would not be stupid enough to tell the truth, which is to add contradictions between them, "I am estimating how much George's film will end up at the box office." ”
"In addition to the special effects, this film ......," Ivanka shook her head, "If it weren't for Star Wars, I think five hundred million dollars would be a luxury." ”
"More than $500 million is certainly not a problem worldwide." Dukla walked towards the car, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "Who made this a Star Wars?" ”
If memory serves, "Attack of the Clones" is the worst box office and audience reputation in Star Wars, and it seems to have only a global box office of more than $600 million.
Even so, "The Two Towers" couldn't compete with "Attack of the Clones," which was released in the first weekend, in its fourth weekend.
The latter opened in 3,520 theaters in North America, and won $80.02 million in the first three days of the first weekend, and it was undoubtedly the top of the North American box office charts.
After winning three consecutive North American titles, "The Two Towers" slipped to second place, but the decline was still healthy and steady, down 41 percent from last weekend, and it received $22.6 million.
Counting the $19.25 million in the previous four working days, the North American box office has reached $361.9 million, and has already seen the $400 million mark.
Overseas, "The Two Towers" entered the last few markets such as North Africa and South Africa this weekend, and the overseas trend is still strong, with the overseas box office exceeding the $450 million level, and the global box office has also managed to exceed $800 million, with a cumulative total of $817.55 million!
In addition, there has been a strong response to merchandise overseas, and although it has been cold in a few markets such as South Korea and Southeast Asia, sales have been rising in the Western world and countries and regions that have been deeply influenced by Western culture, and in addition to the nearly 200 million US dollars in North America, the sales of merchandise products in overseas are also approaching this figure.
But with the release of "The Clone Attack", the impact of "The Two Towers" is still relatively obvious, and the box office and peripherals are declining. (To be continued......)
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