After the release of "Breaking Bad," Simon continued his busy weekend in Los Angeles, returning to the East Coast the day before Christmas Eve on December 23. On the same day, Daenerys Entertainment quietly and quickly completed the issuance of the last $5 billion long-term bond of the Westeros system in 1996.

Since this time it is still mainly for overseas capital, coupled with the deliberate low profile, it has not caused too many waves.

The $5 billion 10-year and 20-year long-term bonds were sold out by investors around the world on the day they were launched.

Of course, as the largest leading company on the New York Stock Exchange by market capitalization, media attention is inevitable.

Daenerys Entertainment has a net profit of more than $5 billion for the whole year of the past fiscal year, and it is impossible to be short of money, so in the eyes of many people, the Hollywood giant has no need to issue bonds at all, and Simon Westeros naturally has other purposes in doing so.

As for why, in fact, since the beginning of this year, it has been repeatedly talked about by countless media.

The Westeros system is to hoard money for the economic downturn after the stock market bubble bursts, so that it can survive the economic winter, and even further expand the bottom.

It's just that from the beginning of the year to the present, the Nasdaq index, which has the highest bubble content, has not only not burst, but has become higher and higher, which inevitably makes many people feel numb, so the relevant discussion is more limited to the professional financial media, and most of the attention of the general public is focused on the upcoming Christmas.

On the other hand.

A box office week that spans Christmas passes quickly in a lively and warm festive atmosphere.

During a box office week from December 20 to December 26, the total North American box office for the week broke the $200 million mark, spurred on by a number of hot films.

First of all, it was "Thunderbolt Baby", which opened last week.

In the first week of its release, with its higher popularity and reputation than "Game of the Brave", "Breaking Baby" successfully took over the baton and reached the top, earning as much as $72.01 million in the first seven days of filming, which is close to the film's $75 million production cost, and the average in the first week reached $22,900, which is $5,000 higher than the $17,900 in the first week of "Game of the Brave".

It is conceivable that if the screen count of "Breaking Bad" is comparable to that of "Game of the Brave", it is not impossible to hit $80 million in the first week.

Hit by the big sales of "Breaking Bad", "Jumanji's Game" fell by 34% the next week, and the revenue slipped to $41.79 million, accumulating $105.14 million in two weeks.

Frankly speaking, the bi-weekly box office exceeded 100 million, which can be called a success for most movies in this era, and "Jumanji" is no exception. It's a pity that it should be the hottest week of the year, and it is the hottest CG special effects bombshell genre, with a drop of more than 30%, which is obviously a bit unsatisfactory.

However, "Jumanji's Game" is actually quite lucky, because this week, "Wonder Woman 2", which is an absolutely phenomenal blockbuster at the end of the year, was unexpectedly overtaken by a literary feature film.

This movie is, of course, "Soul Catcher".

In the third week of its release, it was also the second week of large-scale opening, and the number of screens screened in "Soul Catcher" increased from 1,746 last week to 2,125, compared with other large-scale films released in the same period, this literary drama with an investment of only $10 million became the only film to achieve a reversal this week, with a 6% reversal and another $25.31 million, and the cumulative box office reached $54.66 million in three weeks, completely recovering the total investment of $20 million in production and publicity, and began to achieve profitability.

The former "Soul Catcher" still won more than $130 million at the local box office under the crushing of "Titanic" in the same period, and this time, the combination of the three blockbusters of "Wonder Woman 2", "Brave Game" and "Breaking Bad" also failed to suppress the edge of this movie, which is rare.

Affected by "Breaking Bad", "Wonder Woman 2", which ranked fourth on the weekly box office list, fell by as much as 46% last week, collecting another $20.95 million, with a cumulative box office of $374.06 million.

This result is in line with the industry analysis after the first week of the release of "Wonder Woman 2".

"Wonder Woman 2" on Thanksgiving Day earned more than $150 million at the box office in its first week, second only to "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", which created a box office miracle last year, ranking second in Hollywood film history. It's just that the industry media judged at the beginning that the local box office of "Wonder Woman 2" with 400 million is not a big problem, and whether it can hit 500 million or even higher, but it depends on the market reaction of the two blockbusters in the Christmas file.

Now, "Jumanji" and "Breaking Bad" are both great successes, even exceeding the studio's expectations, which will inevitably have an impact on the box office of "Wonder Woman 2", which was expected to hit the local 500 million super blockbuster, from the current situation, 400 million is still safe, but it is obviously to stop at the early 400 million, and it is difficult to get higher.

In the final analysis, the plate of the film market is so big, and one trades off the other.

Of course, this 'regret' seems to other Hollywood studios to make people want to scratch the wall. The top four movies "Breaking Bad", "Juman's Game", "Mindcatcher" and "Wonder Woman 2", even if "Breaking Bad" and "Jumanji's Game" are on the MGM and Warner Bros. labels respectively, but who doesn't know that these are all projects led by Daenerys Entertainment.

The hottest week schedule, just these four movies, the total box office is close to 160 million, and the total box office this week is only 220 million US dollars, which is equivalent to four films occupying 72% of the market share, in addition, among the total 17 films that entered the theater box office statistics this week, the other 13 films such as "Jingle All the Way" and "Angel Bodyguard" did not get 30% of the remaining $40 million at the box office.

It's crazy.

If you look at the whole year, Daenerys Entertainment is even more dominant, and there are no longer a few top 10 shares of the annual list that belong to other studios as in previous years.

The layman just watched the excitement.

In Hollywood, the more people who understand the strong gambling nature of movies, the more they can appreciate how terrible it is for Daenerys Entertainment to do this.

Because of the strong uncertainty in the film industry, even if a studio can produce a blockbuster film, it is difficult to prevent other film companies from launching equally blockbuster blockbusters to share the market share, which is also the main reason why there has been an oligopoly in other industrial fields for nearly a century, but Hollywood has always been the main reason for the coexistence of the big six, the big seven and the eight.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment has miraculously reversed this accepted law of the industry.

"So, how the hell did you do that?"

The manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich was already on the afternoon of December 31. As the villa was preparing for an evening New Year's Eve party, Catherine Bigelow and Simon, who hadn't seen each other for a while, were leaning together on a living room couch, sipping red wine in their hands and smiling.

The two happened to discuss the current pattern of Daenerys Entertainment's almost monopoly in Hollywood.

Actually, the reason is not complicated.

First of all, of course, Simon II's golden finger played the most direct guiding role, avoiding Daenerys Entertainment from stepping into a lot of minefields, which is the most critical point and a unique advantage of Simon.

Secondly, Simon completed the promotion of the Hollywood film industry model ahead of schedule.

People who don't know what is going on always talk about Hollywood's powerful film industry, in fact, if you put it carefully, Hollywood before the 90s was undoubtedly powerful, and the industry was not perfect. This change actually began with the rise of the blockbuster in the 90s, and really formed the film industry that allowed Hollywood to dominate the world.

Simon not only pushed Hollywood into the blockbuster era in advance, but also mastered the most important core technology of CG special effects in this new era. In addition, through the DC Cinematic Universe, The Conjuring Cinematic Universe and other series of movie models, Simon has changed the gambling nature of the film industry's strong uncertainty to the greatest extent, allowing Daenerys Entertainment to continuously produce blockbuster blockbusters.

All in all, Disney was able to easily occupy six or seven of the top ten films a year at its peak, and with Simon's advantages in all aspects, it is even more natural for Daenerys Entertainment to do this.

Simon reclined on the couch and sat across from Catherine, also holding a glass of red wine in his hand, but did not answer the woman's question.

Staying with a woman in private and discussing too many things at work is actually a very unsightly thing.

The other free hand groped for it, grabbed a strand of long hair of the woman in front of him and played with it, but Simon's expression was very hurt: "If other people ask it's nothing, Catherine, I thought you would have seen my talent the first time we met." ”

Catherine gave someone a slight look, but there was a hint of memory in her expression.

Suddenly, I remembered that it seemed to be an evening many years ago, and a teenager with a harmless smile on his face said seriously that he was from the 'Watsonville Mental Hospital'.

And then later.

It took only 10 years to reach a level where everyone can only look up to it forever.

"Do you worship me the more you think about it?"

A voice in her ear interrupted Catherine's thoughts, and when she reacted, the woman rolled her eyes again, and then she couldn't help but wonder: "Will you feel like you've lost your goal until now?"

Simon thought for a moment and said, "My original goal was to win an Oscar Grand Slam, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Score, etc., you know, except for the actress who is a little difficult, I can try everything else." But when I have a trillion dollars, similar goals don't matter. It's like how can a person who has a doctorate care about a little red flower in kindergarten. What position a person stands in, of course, has a vision of what position, and different goals in life, at least, I know what I am doing and what I want to do. ”

Catherine let the little man in front of her play with her hair, listened carefully, and saw that he didn't reveal some of his real goals, but she didn't delve into it, but couldn't help but say: "Jenny said that she can feel that you are occasionally confused." ”

"It's inevitable, and it can happen to anyone. Simon said and curled the corners of his mouth: "So you have to care for me more." ”

Catherine resisted the little urge to roll her eyes: "Jenny also said that when you are confused, you often like to mess around. ”

"This is slander," Simon said, "You know, Jenny snatched me from you in the first place, and in order to prevent you from having the idea of snatching me back, of course you had to slander me in private." ”

Catherine finally couldn't help but roll her eyes again.

Simon pretended not to see it, let go of Catherine's hair, and continued to probe forward, wanting to reach for the woman's fair neck, which was still so well maintained all these years.

This time, he was beaten back.

Knocking on the little man's claws, Catherine brushed her hair to cover a piece of her neck outside the black turtleneck, and said in a non-lethal manner: "It will be seen." ”

Simon didn't force it, but just leaned closer without making a trace, enjoying the good smell that every woman is different, and asked, "Speaking of which, do you have a plan for your next movie?"

Catherine shook her head: "I've read a lot of scripts, but I always feel dissatisfied." ”

"Then shoot whatever you want, shoot whatever you want, and try all kinds of genres. ”

Catherine was noncommittal.

In fact, it was because of the failure of "Detroit" last time.

If it were other investors who proposed this, she would definitely not have too many scruples, and she would work hard to do it, even if she failed, at least she would be worthy of it.

What director in Hollywood hasn't experienced failure?

Now, on the contrary, I can shoot whatever I want, but I don't dare to do it easily.

Simon saw that Catherine did not respond, and did not force it. Catherine is definitely not the kind of person who can't live without movies, on the contrary, although she has always been alone, a woman's life is very exciting, and he doesn't need to bother with anything at all.

The two chatted without saying a word until the twilight before they knew it.

The evening New Year's Eve party was very lively, with hundreds of guests gathered for a variety of performances, as well as a grand fireworks display at midnight and New Year's Eve.

In 1996, it was officially spent in this kind of hustle and bustle.

It was a year that seemed a little longer for Simon than the tumultuous year of 1994, and overall, it was a major turning point for the Westeros system.

Simon's personal net worth exceeded $1 trillion during the year.

Unprecedented.

Daenerys Entertainment In this year, the tendency to dominate Hollywood has become more and more obvious. Egrett and Daenerys Entertainment Group, as well as Cisco, have entered the $500 billion club in terms of market capitalization, and continue to rise, leading the two major U.S. stock markets.

The Westeros system became more and more entrenched in North America, and began to have a comprehensive layout around the world, and the limelight was unparalleled.

At the end of the day, these changes all mean one thing.

Compared with the turmoil of 1994, in the past 1996, Simon was truly promoted from a participant in this world to a chess player.