Chapter 1543

On October 29, the new week, Halloween schedule officially opened. Danilis entertainment launched the first song of the latest branch of the universe, the ghost nun.

Although it belongs to the evocative film universe series, as the first song, the production cost of sister ghost is still not high, and the production level is still maintained at US $15 million. However, in order to promote this branch series, the publicity budget issued by the new world film team for the project has also reached US $15 million, which is the same as the cost.

The film has 3137 screens, with the highest Halloween schedule.

Compared with the core "soul summoning" and the other two branches, after the early Premiere of "sister ghost", the reputation is slightly unsatisfactory, and the comprehensive media score is only 7.1, so people are worried about the market performance of the film.

Fortunately, the universal reputation of soul summoning films operated by three consecutive series is still strong, and 7.1 points is not bad after all. Since the first day of release, the market performance of the film has put danilis at ease.

After the lively Halloween night, the first weekend ended. From October 28 to October 31, sister ghost opened for three days, with a box office revenue of US $37.19 million, which is quite excellent. Then, for the whole week, the total box office of this halloween themed horror film reached 56.35 million, another brilliant performance of entering the profit cycle in the first week.

In addition to the popular "ghost nun", the market performance of the American version of "female high strange talk" released the next week was as expected. The box office fell by 41% in the second week, and continued to earn $16.15 million, so the cumulative box office reached $43.36 million.

The total investment in production and publicity is only US $15 million, and the biweekly box office is US $43.36 million. Considering the overseas and follow-up, the income brought by the American version of "female high strange talk" to danilis entertainment is second only to the soul summoning film "ghost nun" in the same period of Halloween, which is enviable.

In contrast, among the new films released on October 29 on Halloween in 1999, only MGM's crime thriller "fatal encounter" can slightly keep pace with danilis. The film is starred by Australian male star Russell Crowe and tall beauty UMA Thurman, who have also developed well in Hollywood in recent years, as well as the partner of old male star ed Harris, The production cost is 35 million US dollars, the publicity of 10 million US dollars, and the box office in the first week is 37.76 million US dollars.

It is estimated that the total domestic box office of US $70 million to US $90 million will enable MGM to recover costs only by relying on the local market, and overseas distribution will start to make profits.

Among other things, Warner launched a science fiction thriller this Halloween, inviting Matt Damon and Sean pan, as well as Hollywood beauty Jennifer Connery, called AI crisis, to tell the story of the hero played by motor stopping the artificial intelligence with independent intelligence from trying to destroy mankind.

Perhaps saving the world violates moto's life. After all, comrade Damon has always been saved. Therefore, at a cost of $55 million, the box office of AI crisis in the first week was only $17.96 million, ending in a loss.

As for the others, the market performance of the new film is even worse, needless to say.

The time entered November 1999.

These days, Simon pays more attention to two major events.

The first is the official presidential election of Ukraine, which is the first presidential election since the promulgation of the constitution of Ukraine in 1996.

Compared with various undercurrents surging in Russia for next year's presidency, Ukraine's presidential election is relatively peaceful because it is a small country after all.

Unlike the United States, Ukraine's general election adopts the universal suffrage system and unified counting of votes. If no candidate obtains more than 50% of the absolute majority of votes in the first round of election, the top two with the most votes will be elected for the second time.

After the voting day on October 31, the results showed that the current president Leon Kuchma obtained 36% of the votes, and the second representative of the Ukrainian Communist Party, petro simonenko, obtained 22% of the votes. No one obtained an absolute majority, so he entered the second inning smoothly.

However, with the difference between the votes of the two candidates in the first round of elections, the results of the second round are basically no surprise.

On the side of the Westeros system, the Ukrainian Progressive Alliance party formed by the Rovno Gang is a strong supporter of the current president Leon Kuchma in this presidential election.

At present, the outcome is basically determined, and then some strategies need to be adjusted.

After his successful re-election, according to some memories of Simon, Kuchma started preparations for the third term just at the beginning of his second term.

Simon would never allow this to happen.

After all, just like later Russia or neighboring Belarus, a president has been in office for too long. Deep rooted, the country's political situation will tend to be stable.

The other two don't say, but Ukraine and Simon won't allow the country to be too stable. Otherwise, how can the Westeros system easily penetrate and eventually completely control it.

Simon's plan, the next term, will push the former American spokesman Yushchenko up and let the other party serve one or two terms, depending on the situation. The Rovno gang will continue to stand behind the scenes. From now on, it will take another 10 to 15 years to operate in Ukraine. Then, when Yushchenko's term of office ends, the Rovno gang will officially stand in front of the stage.

Of course, this is only an ideal goal.

If the outcome is not ideal, for example, at worst, even if the whole Rovno state is reduced to ruins in the unpredictable war, Simon is not unacceptable. After all, it has nothing to do with the foundation of the Westeros system.

Another thing is that on November 3, Pfizer's acquisition of Warner Lambert, another large pharmaceutical giant in the United States, with the participation of Apollo management company of cersei capital, was officially launched, and the senior executives of both sides launched the first private acquisition negotiation on this day.

The United States is not a country with universal health insurance, but the expenditure on health care in the national budget has reached an outrageous level.

In 1999, the total budget of the United States was $1.7 trillion, of which military spending was $270 billion, but health care spending was as high as $330 billion, equivalent to the current 280 million population of the United States, with per capita spending close to $1200.

In contrast, China's per capita annual income in 1999 is expected to be only $870.

Some people may think that such a high investment just proves that the US government cares about people's health and well-being.

Standing in the present position, Simon has a million approval.

Then, as a super capitalist, Westeros will spare no effort to enter the medical field of the United States.

There are great benefits.

Westrow system has quietly absorbed about 10% of Pfizer's shares in recent years. For Pfizer, which has long been a publicly held company, it is already the largest shareholder. In addition, westero's shareholding in Warner Lambert has also reached 7%. With the continuous withdrawal of the Mellon family, westero is also the single shareholder with the largest shareholding at present.

Therefore, it is obvious that the merger of the two companies is still their own merger.

After the merger, the new Pfizer will become the world's largest pharmaceutical group.

Although westrock system is far from absolute shareholding, as the largest shareholder and the shareholding of subsidiary capital such as BlackRock asset management company, westrock system takes the opportunity to plug in its own board of directors and management of the new company. Westrock system is basically the actual controller of this super pharmaceutical giant.

New York.

It's Friday, November 5.

In China, "Mount Everest" was painted today. Chen Qing mentioned in her email that there was a grand premiere a week in advance. The scene was very lively. It is expected that the box office will not be too bad.

He also talked about the project of exploring the Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon.

Simon also remembered that he had seen news about the world's longest and deepest canyon in the media in the past two years. It happened to be a sequel to Mount Everest. It was very good, so he directly agreed to let himself contact danilis there.

Simon didn't say anything about excluding China Film and CCTV and cooperating with Jiangsu Province this time.

The two families must try their best to win over. After all, it's easy to imagine that if their own son doesn't mix well and is adopted more than, who will be unlucky to run to complain to his parents?

Therefore, it must be provided.

Just like the big projects discussed last time, not only me and my motherland, but also some other films will actively attract China film to participate. This can not only share financial risks, but also reduce other risks. In short, China's film and television industry should not put making money first, but be more capable of being a man in order to last a long time.

Simon flew to the east coast yesterday. His main work in the morning was to discuss Pfizer's acquisition of Warner Lambert with the Apollo management team. James Leibold, who is in charge of Westeros, also participated.

For Westeros system, the real goal of this acquisition is to achieve the maximum control over the new company in the future.

After all, after the merger of the new company, the management must be adjusted.

Westeros, cersei capital, Goldman Sachs, First Boston and other companies that have made friends here, of course, are led here. At that time, it will be easy to change cages for birds.

That's the same truth. For a public holding company with extremely dispersed equity, controlling the board of directors and management of the company is tantamount to controlling the company.

Simon has long set the goal to control the major corporate giants in the United States one by one through a similar model.

Controlling as many corporate giants in the United States and even the world as possible is tantamount to controlling the global economy and, further, the world.

Great goal, but in fact, it is not as difficult as expected.

Just like in ancient China, it only takes a few years for a founding king to accumulate enough strength, master the general trend, defeat all opponents and control a country, and even establish a new empire.