Chapter 275

Malibu.

It's Monday, July 10.

In the villa on the west side of Cape Dumay, Simon wakes up at six o'clock in the morning in the new week.

Last night, I talked with Janet on the phone to discuss the cabin design of the Boeing 767. Until very late, there were still many design drawings faxed from Melbourne in my bedroom.

Since he decided to buy a Boeing 767 first, Simon contacted Boeing after returning from Melbourne last time.

However, Simon then directly sent Boeing's sales representatives to Melbourne to discuss the details with Janet. The only decision he made was the choice of the specific model.

The latest model of Boeing 767 series is 767-300ER, but Simon chooses 767-200er.

The 200ER is only slightly inferior to the 300er in terms of fuselage length and load, while the cruising journey is comparable to the 300er. Simon has been renting the 200ER before.

Moreover, the key reason why Simon chose 200ER is that this medium-sized airliner has low requirements for takeoff and landing airports. The runway length required for full load and heavy takeoff is only 1.7km, and most airports in the world can meet the takeoff and landing requirements. In contrast, the runway length required for 300er to take off is 2.4km, which can not be supported by airports in many smaller cities. Simon's last trip to Europe, whether in Cannes or Florence, the length of the city airport runway is within 2 km.

Boeing's offer for the selected aircraft is $60 million.

The first thing Janet did after contacting Boeing sales representatives was to bargain. Simon is not a big customer who orders 10 or 20 airplanes at a time. However, as a public figure, he can play a better role in brand promotion than those big customers who buy Boeing products as private airplanes.

Moreover, the purchase of private aircraft is indeed negotiable.

After negotiation, the transaction price of the two sides was finally determined to be US $50 million, nearly 20% off. Of course, it's just the price of bare metal, and the internal equipment and decoration have to be calculated separately.

Simon has never been a miser in spending money, but he hates being treated as a big wrongdoer. He is very pleased that his wife can save money for a top villa in this transaction. With the signing of the contract, and the time for assembly and decoration, the plane will probably be delivered in November at the end of the year.

Dress and get up, simply clean up the drawings around, the bedroom will become clean and tidy again.

It's actually due to Jennifer.

Janet is not in Los Angeles, and Catherine has also gone to New York. Simon's villa in Malibu, palisade, Beverly Hills and Janet's villa on the east side of domay Cape are all managed by Janet. The female assistant takes time to clean several properties every week, so Simon doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Catherine is also helping to keep an eye on the two properties over there in New York recently. Angela arenz, President of Gucci America, will be in charge of the two properties when Catherine is away.

As for Europe, after the acquisition of Gucci, Sophia originally intended to return a falcon 50 business plane rented by the company in order to save money. Finally, in order to be able to travel quickly between different cities in Europe and help Simon manage many properties, Sophia kept it.

Janet had warned Simon that too many houses could be dilapidated if left vacant for too long. Now with regular and careful maintenance, Simon is no longer worried about this.

Wash, exercise, shower.

Seven o'clock.

Leave home on time.

Breakfast was at a nearby restaurant. By the way, I had an appointment with the head of the construction team of domay point manor to discuss the construction progress of iron man villa. Simon's attitude towards the villa is the same as that of the imagined westero building, which is built completely according to the high specifications of the art level. He is not in a hurry. He has a mentality of slow work and meticulous work, and only pursues perfection.

Finish breakfast and drive to Santa Monica.

Simon opened today's Los Angeles Times in his car and looked at the cover index first.

Skip over the words like "the sixth sense of the supernatural" and "reverse fall", find a news headline of "the successful conclusion of the U.S. - Iraq Business Forum" and turn directly to the international news page.

Today is the 11th day of the release of the sixth sense. What Simon can do has already been done, and the box office of the first week has also reached his best expectation. He doesn't need to worry too much about the next things.

Comparatively speaking, the just concluded "US Iraq Business Forum" is something Simon has been paying close attention to recently.

The Iraq Iraq war, which lasted for eight years, ended at the end of last year. After eight years of consumption, Iraq's domestic economy and people's livelihood and other aspects have been in dire decline.

In the war with Iran, Saddam gained the "warm-hearted" help of many Western allies, and a war lasted only eight years. Now, if we want to restore the Iraqi economy, we certainly need the assistance of these partners.

My friends are really enthusiastic.Although it is the U.S. - Iraq business forum, the oil giants of the United States, Britain, France and other major western countries all gather in Baghdad.

At the two-week business forum, Iraq hopes to get 40 billion US dollars from its Western allies to revive its domestic economy.

The allies are not stingy and agree, but they also put forward their own conditions. Iraq needs to privatize its own oil resources, or most of them, so that Mobil, Xinfu, shell and other international oil giants can better help Iraq develop its oil resources and restore its domestic economy.

According to the exploration data of geologists from various countries in the 1980s, Iraq is the largest undeveloped oil producing area in the world except the Soviet Union. Although its overall reserves are not as good as Saudi Arabia, it has great potential to win.

Seeing that the "allies" want to hand over Iraq's oil sovereignty directly, and that Saddam Hussein has not been kicked in the head by a donkey, it is impossible to agree.

What's left of Iraq without oil?

Therefore, this business forum failed to reach any substantive agreement in the end, and all that remained was superficial harmony.

Simon looked on coldly, knowing that this was probably the beginning of many stories in the next 20 years.

When he comes to Santa Monica, Simon goes directly to Denise's special effects headquarters. In the morning, he will discuss with the special effects team of Batman about the final modification of some CG scenes.

Jennifer has been waiting for Simon at Denise special effects headquarters.

She asked the female assistant to collect more information about the U.S. - Iraq business forum, and Simon took over her work schedule today.

Morning work has been confirmed, and I have a lunch appointment with Jonathan Friedman at noon.

In the afternoon, it starts at one o'clock.

Check the production progress of toy story for one hour; the video game demo of Ninja Turtle for one hour; listen to the brief progress report of the financial audit team for half an hour; visit the chairman of blockbuster, Wayne hueyzanga for half an hour; watch the rough cut film of angel miracle and discuss with the creative team for two hours.

At six o'clock, the evening was still a working meal with Amy.

The schedule also lists some documents that Simon needs to review as soon as possible, which can only be arranged in the evening.

Walking into the office building of danielis special effects headquarters, Simon finished his work schedule while walking, and the female assistant handed over the box office data report of the past three days.

Simon just skimmed through it and turned his mind to today's work.

Compared with Simon's insipid reaction, early this morning, when I saw the box office data report of the past weekend, Hollywood was a bit uncertain.

During the three days from July 7 to July 9, psychic Sixth Sense successfully withstood the pressure brought by all the old and new films. Compared with the first weekend, the box office of the film did not fall in the next weekend, but rebounded by 6.8%, with another $24.73 million in three days.

Although some media judge that the box office proportion of the second weekend and the whole week of the sixth sense will return to the normal range of 60% to 70%, and the box office proportion of the first week is unlikely to rise again. However, the $24.73 million three-day data of the next weekend still exceeds the best expectation of even Denise Entertainment's own team.

Ten days after its release, the total box office of sixth sense in North America has rapidly accumulated to 66.08 million US dollars.

In contrast, the box office of ghost hunters 2 fell sharply next week, with only $58.76 million in the same period. If we don't count the first two days of the movie's opening, the box office figure of the corresponding ten days is only 67 million US dollars. Although the data is better than the sixth sense, compared with the rebound of the sixth sense, the box office decline of the movie's next weekend is 27%.

After psychic Sixth Sense, lethal weapon 2 won the second place on the list with $20.38 million in three-day box office data.

The box office of Warner Bros. made 20.38 million yuan in the first three days of the weekend. If it wasn't for the sudden rise of sixth sense, Warner Bros. could hardly wait to prepare a celebration party.

Disney's old movie "honey, I've made my kids smaller," which was released in June, ranked third this week with $9.43 million at the box office, reaching $59.24 million in two and a half weeks. Compared with the $18 million production cost, the film has been a huge success.

Last week, the box office of Ghost Busters 2 and Longwei boy 3, which were ahead of bodyguards, fell sharply this weekend. Ghost Busters 2 fell as much as 41% in three days last weekend. Longwei boy 3's advantage over bodyguards last week was very weak. This week's 53% decline directly made it out of the sight of many people.

However, in the sixth week, the box office of "bodyguard" also dropped by 27% and closed another $5.76 million three days over the weekend, ranking fourth on the list. In five and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of this love movie has reached 93.69 million U.S. dollars, which is about to break 100 million U.S. dollars."Ghost catchers 2" ranked fifth with another $5.26 million. The box office of this high opening and low going sequel was $85.52 million in three and a half weeks.

The new movie "boss on holiday" only ranked seventh, behind "Raiders 3", with a box office of $4.5 million in its first weekend.

In this week's box office data list, "sex, lies and videotape" is more unexpected than Simon expected. This art film starts with 517 pieces on the screen, with a box office revenue of $3.93 million in three days of the first weekend, and the total box office revenue is expected to exceed $6 million in the first week.

To be fair, Simon really wants the film to fail. However, the box office figure of US $6 million in the first week means that "sex, lies and video" has reached the top selling film level with an average of more than ten thousand. Compared with commercial films, art films are easier to walk out of a long-term box office decline. In this way, the North American box office of "sex, lies and videotape" can at least equal or even higher than that of the original.

Combined with some media feedback over the weekend, Simon can only judge that "sex, lies and video" itself has some elements that can attract audiences to buy tickets, not just relying on the awards and honors of the film.

Simon won't be too depressed because he didn't get a film with a total box office potential of only $20 million or $30 million in North America, but he can't help feeling distressed.

The production cost of "sex, lies and videos" is only 1.2 million US dollars. If the box office in North America can reach 30 million US dollars, the box office revenue alone will be enough to surpass many big production films with tens of millions of US dollars.

It's no secret in the circle that Denise entertainment first expressed interest in the film. With the success of sex, lies and video, danielis entertainment will still face fierce competition if it wants to win some projects and scripts easily.

In fact, Lawrence Kastan's bodyguard, which has been disliked by the circle for more than ten years, has sold out unexpectedly at the box office, which means that the whole Hollywood will continue to focus on Denise entertainment for a long time to come.

Simon is following sex, lies and videos, while Hollywood is talking about sixth sense.

"Why is this film so successful?"

"Who seems to have a similar idea."

"Information about the main and supporting actors in the film."

"Can you try to sign the next film contract of the little protagonist?"

"Don't let Denise entertainment be so strong."

“……”

“……”

Simon worked step by step, and all kinds of comments continued to spread.

Time will not wait for anyone.

On July 14, the box office data of the new week came out.

The industry's prediction that the proportion of the box office of the sixth sense will return to normal over the weekend and the whole week has come true.

For seven days in the second week, psychic Sixth Sense failed to maintain the reverse decline of last weekend, with the overall box office down 9% compared with last week.

However, the box office figure of $39.26 million still makes too many people feel mixed. You know, the box office of the second full week of "Raider 3" is only $30.85 million, and the box office of the next week of "ghost hunters 2" is only $19.92 million.

In the second week of painting, even if the screen size was increased last week, the average box office figure of "sixth sense" was US $20352, which still exceeded the best first week figures of "Raiders 3" and "ghost hunters 2".

Because of this strong box office performance, danelis entertainment successfully won another 379 screens from the cinema this week, and the total number of screens for sixth sense expanded to 2308.

In addition, the number of new films released in the new week has been reduced to two, namely, the United States' 007 license to kill and Disney's remake of the classic animation Peter Pan.

However, although the sequel to the classic spy series of 007's license to kill was released this week, the sixth sense of the supernatural is so fierce that the 007 series, which has been on the decline over the years, is bound to pose little threat to it.

As for the "Peter Pan" such a replay animation, obviously not to worry about.