Chapter 1547

On the weekend of November 13 and November 14, there were two consecutive election votes that attracted Simon's attention.

The first is in Australia.

On November 13, Australia once again launched a referendum on whether to change from monarchy to Republic to decide whether Australia will break away from the Commonwealth System and move towards a completely independent republic.

In the prior opinion poll, 67% of Australian voters expressed their willingness to leave the Commonwealth. However, when they really started voting, the result was unexpected. Finally, they failed to pass with 43% to 57% of the votes.

As a key operation site of Westeros system as a base area, Simon certainly will not ignore this matter.

However, it did not add fuel to the fire.

Although in theory, making Australia completely separate from the Commonwealth seems to be more conducive to the Westeros system's control of the country, it is not.

Without leaving the Commonwealth, Australia is essentially an independent country and remains in the Commonwealth system. Under the current world pattern, it is more conducive to let the Westeros system take Australia as the foundation and extend its tentacles to all aspects of the former Commonwealth countries. After all, the Commonwealth system is not only politically and culturally consistent, but also economically connected.

If we leave now, perhaps the result will be like Britain's rash brexit in the original time and space, which is very unwise.

Of course, if necessary in the future, the transition from monarchy to Republic will only be another vote.

The second is Ukraine.

In the first round of Ukraine's presidential election on October 31, no one got an absolute majority, and the second round was held on November 14.

There is no suspense. Leon Kuchma, the current president of Ukraine, won petro simonenko, the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party, who received only 37% of the votes, with an absolute majority of 63%, and succeeded in re-election.

Since it was the expected result, Simon just asked the spokesman over there to congratulate Kuchma on his behalf.

Speaking of, Ukraine has entered winter in October. Because the economic crisis is still continuing, it has eased slightly this year compared with last year, but it is also very reluctantly.

Even if the policy proposed by petro simonenko was not too fierce, it is not impossible to defeat Kuchma in the current extremely depressed economic environment of Ukraine.

After all, ordinary people only like their belly more. Sometimes, even drawing a big cake is good.

Leon Kuchma's cakes are justified. It is predictable to stabilize the currency, introduce foreign investment, increase agricultural support, etc. Moreover, the Rovno Gang also cooperated with Kuchma to take his own success as an example.

As for simonenko, such as interrupting the privatization process and re carrying out comprehensive nationalization, it sounds a little scary.

Originally, everyone has lost everything. Who needs to be nationalized?

Another is to restore the Ukrainian economy to the level before the 1990s within five years.

It sounds strange. After all, under normal circumstances, there is no place to say that it will reach the economic level ten years ago.

However, this is the case.

In other words, Ukraine and even the whole former Soviet Union were short of daily necessities. Before 1990, the self-sufficiency rate could reach 80%, while at present, Ukraine, which has a high proportion, has only 30% of the self-sufficiency rate, and the rest need to be imported.

Incidentally, half of the 30% self-sufficiency rate comes from Rovno state. All other states and counties in Ukraine can only contribute another 15%.

This is because the Rovno Gang is more export-oriented, otherwise it will certainly provide more. After all, relatively speaking, the profit of export is higher, while the domestic and Ukrainian currency exchange rates rise and fall, they can't make much money.

Probably like India.

India's grain is certainly not enough, but a large number of grain are used for export, so that it has become the largest rice exporter in the world. As for what to do in China, the landlords have no surplus food, so they can't care so much.

After the weekend, another Tuesday, Simon set off for China again.

It's mainly Chen Qing. The little guy was born on the morning of November 16 local time. The lunar calendar is the ninth day of October.

It was expected to be the end of the month, a few days earlier, but it had nothing to do with premature delivery. The fat girl of six kilograms and three Liang was healthy.

Simon has been in close contact with Chen Qing during her pregnancy. I can probably understand that it is because some girl wants to drive the little girl out of her stomach too much. After all, she is pregnant for more than half a year. For Chen Qing, it's like being sealed.

And if it's just sealed, it's nothing.

The point is, she's a girl.

Simon really doesn't mind being a girl. Finally, he has a little cotton padded jacket. Unfortunately, a girl clearly shows that I value boys over girls. I just want to be a boy, so he gives the girl a very traditional nickname, no two.

Chen Buer.

Anyway, this kind of thing is unreasonable. You say you value men over women. Aren't you a woman yourself?

The answer is yes, so you can't even look at yourself.

What do you say?

Simon arrived in Suzhou on Wednesday, November 17, where he spent three days with Chen Qing's mother and daughter, and then transferred to Hangzhou for a weekend before leaving for Beijing.

In just a few days, the first week of the official Thanksgiving schedule in North America also ended.

November 12 to November 18.

Last week's three blockbusters were not too disappointing, but if only the box office, there was no surprise.

The first place is not "racing story" by danilis, but MGM's "007 Casino Royale". The box office in the first seven days of the week was $75.11 million, compared with the production cost of $90 million and the publicity and distribution of $50 million. Such a start is still that sentence. It is neither a success nor a failure.

According to the trend of saturated commercial films, the first week is US $75.11 million, and the total local box office is expected to be about US $150 million.

The original 007 Casino Royale was released in 2006, with a local box office of about 160 million.

This film is 150 million, seven years ahead of schedule. Considering inflation, it may be higher than before. However, compared with the ghost Party of 007, the gap is obvious.

The ghost Party of 007 in the summer of 1996 started with us $89.17 million in the first week. With excellent reputation, it finally reached US $307 million locally and US $778 million globally.

However, it is undeniable that the unsatisfactory performance of 007 Casino Royale is largely due to the overcrowded schedule.

If it is still in the summer, at least 200 million local people will be OK, and the world is expected to steadily exceed 500 million. Even if the total cost is 140 million, they can make good profits in the cinema stage.

no way out.

After all, looking at other brands and even more second - and third tier brands that have been squeezed to actively reduce production output in recent years, MGM is definitely good.

The second place is motor racing.

In the first week of painting, this 3D animated film, which has to tell stories and themes that are somewhat biased towards young people, made a start of $63.55 million, which is also not as popular as the previous films.

However, as long as it can successfully survive the impact of steel bone 2 in the next week and run through the whole year, there is still no problem for the local 200 million of racing story.

What's more, Simon doesn't care too much about the box office. The key is the surroundings.

With the release of the film, danilis has more convenient monitoring around because of Hasbro channel.

Due to sufficient preparations for distribution in advance and the approach of Thanksgiving, the sales of toys around "motor racing" are very popular. Only the first weekend of the film, the toy sales in the first three days easily exceeded 100 million. Moreover, considering that there will be Christmas in the future, the sales growth will only continue to accelerate.

Hasbro's team even made a very bold prediction. The sales of toys around motor racing is likely to quickly reach the level of $1 billion in the United States.

Considering that most of the toys are self-produced and sold through Hasbro channel this time, the gross profit of this series of toys only belongs to danilis is expected to reach more than 65%. The toy sales at the level of US $1 billion and 65% of the gross profit

Who cares about the box office!

With the news in the newspaper, in just a few trading days, the share price of danilis, which has been considered by the capital market to be ridiculously high, has increased by 6.3% in a week. At the close of Friday, the total market value of danilis has reached US $778.1 billion, even surpassing igrit, who has been pressing here.

Igrit's market capitalization at Friday's close was $765.3 billion.

In addition, Hasbro's former shareholders regretted it.

Lost!

It's a loss!

However, of course, there is no regret medicine to eat. After all, the equity delivery procedures of both sides were completed in October.

What's more, according to Simon's original idea, if Hasbro didn't comply at the beginning, it would be a problem whether Hasbro could cooperate with the surrounding toys, let alone the main responsibility of Hasbro, in the "racing story" at the end of the year.

In short, although it failed to win the box office championship in a single week, racing story has basically determined the position of the biggest winner of the schedule at the end of the year.

After all, the sales volume of toys at the level of US $1 billion is limited to North America. There are no statistics on the overseas market for the time being. Even if the overseas proportion is not high, the profit margin may be lower according to half of that here, but it is enough to exceed the box office revenue of most films at the end of the year.

As for the same than the surrounding.

Even steel bone 2, seriously, there is no comparability, No.

Finally, air force one.

The Columbia film team, which was pocketed by Westinghouse Electric, had high hopes for the film. The opening performance was somewhat disappointing, but it was not a failure. It received $45.69 million in the first seven days of the week, and it was a little stronger in the follow-up. It was no problem to exceed $100 million. Even if the trend was not very satisfactory, it was certain that more than $80 million would be.

This is already equivalent to a production cost of $80 million.

If overseas is a little better than local, it can basically recover most of the production and publicity investment. If the surrounding areas operate more, they can start to make profits.

Of course, there is a big gap with Westinghouse's hope.

After three blockbusters, the four new films last week, relying on the plot to win the less popcorn, genius Ripley, barely fell behind and ranked fourth. The next week, the decline reached 39%, closed at $1997 million, and the cumulative box office reached $52.76 million.

Then came the fifth place "ghost nun". In the face of a number of new films, it ushered in a sharp decline of 53% in the third week of release, continued to earn US $14.56 million, and the cumulative box office reached US $101.89 million. It has successfully entered the 100 million yuan box office club, but in the follow-up, there is probably only 20 or 30 million potential left, and the local box office is expected to be about 130 million US dollars.

In addition to the top five, other films have fallen within the range of tens of millions of dollars, which is considered to have withdrawn from the competition of gratitude. Needless to say.

On November 15, a new box office week opened, which is also the week that will cross Thanksgiving.

There is still more than one new film released this week, but only one new film is worth mentioning, that is steel bone 2.

Warner Bros. officially held the world premiere on Wednesday in advance. The ban on word-of-mouth was lifted on Thursday, which not only affirmed the film's word-of-mouth with a comprehensive media score of 8.7 points, but also excited the fans with the joining of DC new superheroes such as sea king and Mars hunter.

Warner Bros. claims that it has spent US $80 million on the publicity budget of the whole project, plus a huge production cost of US $160 million, with a total investment of US $240 million. It can be said that it has broken the boat and is full of confidence. The number of opening screens of the film also reached 4166, and went straight to the goal of breaking 100 million in the first week.