Chapter 1442

The day Chen Qing left New York for Hong Kong, another box office week in North America ended.

The box office data of the box office week from November 27 to December 3 are very important for the Thanksgiving file of heavyweight films such as the collision between heaven and earth and mummy 2, because the local total box office volume of a film can be basically determined from the box office and decline trend of relevant films.

In terms of specific data, mummy 2, which opened last week, has no suspense and won the championship in a single week. It continued to earn US $50.65 million with an excellent 29% decline in the second week, and the cumulative box office in two weeks reached US $121.99 million.

The next week's decline was only 29%, and the cumulative total box office exceeded 120 million. It is basically certain that the local total box office of mummy 2 will exceed the threshold of 200 million US dollars.

The local box office is more than 200 million. With the inevitable big head overseas of mummy 2, even if the total cost of film production and publicity reaches 150 million US dollars, it is only the stage of global cinema distribution. Like the collision of heaven and earth, it will also reap considerable profits.

The second place is the collision between heaven and earth.

In the third week of release, "the clash of heaven and earth" decreased by 37%, earning another $32.31 million.

Not a good or bad trend.

The cumulative box office of the film in three weeks was $176.87 million.

Judging from the remaining box office volume and decline trend in a single week, the local total box office of the film can certainly exceed mummy 2, but it is unlikely to impact US $300 million, which can only ensure about 250 million.

The total cost of production and publicity of US $180 million is calculated as US $250 million locally. Because danilis entertainment is so strong that it can get about 60% of the share from the cinema. Only locally, it can recover US $150 million, leaving only a balance of 30 million from the balance of revenue and expenditure.

For the same big overseas leaders, the collision between heaven and earth must be equally profitable.

Unfortunately, it's just that the local government can't rush 300 million, which also means that it can't achieve the most optimistic expected income.

After two big pounds, the third is paramount's American police officer.

White dove Wu's another thriller action blockbuster after "broken arrow", "changed face" and "mission impossible 2" had a tepid start. In the next week, the decline plunged directly to 46%, leaving only $21.16 million in a single week. In two weeks, this blockbuster with a total investment volume equivalent to that of "Mu Nai 2", with a cumulative box office of only $60.33 million.

Not a box office failure, but, obviously, it has nothing to do with success.

In addition, although there is only $21.16 million left at the box office in the next week, considering that the total box office has exceeded 60 million, it is expected to break through the threshold of 100 million yuan as expected, becoming the first local work that has nothing to do with danilis entertainment this year.

Now it depends on whether the overseas performance of American police officer can meet expectations. For example, it is equivalent to twice the local revenue, and the global total box office reaches US $300 million. In this way, paramount can recover most of the investment in the cinema stage, and then make a little revenue in the future, so as to achieve a balance between revenue and expenditure.

Moreover, after the success of three consecutive sales, with the tepid of "American police officer", the influence of white dove Wu in Hollywood has also been slightly frustrated. Of course, there is still no lack of film appointment.

The discerning person may also find that the Asian director's previous success is obviously inseparable from the tireless support of danilis entertainment. After leaving danilis, it seems that she has begun to be acclimatized.

Simon, who got the relevant data in Australia, just looked on coldly.

In fact, it's easy to completely suppress the white dove Wu, and then give the other party a war film, such as the Whisperer, and then send Lao Wu back to the other side of the ocean to shoot all kinds of epic films.

Simon just didn't mean to do that.

With Simon's current status, it's boring to deliberately toss about these things.

As for the recurrence of rumors that Lao Wu Rong returned to his hometown and took the artists from curved and Hong Kong with ambition to carve up the mainland market, it still doesn't matter.

Just watch it.

After all, Simon is neither a bad man nor a savior.

He who can never save himself is only himself. If you don't work hard, you deserve to be tossed about by others.

Back to the list.

The fourth place is the comedy tea boy starring Adam Sandler, produced by danilis's new world film.

After an unexpected first week, "tea boy" fell 31% the following week to $16.41 million. Because the starting point is not high, this trend is also regular. In two weeks, the cumulative box office of this "Saturday night live" style comedy has reached $40.19 million.

Judging from the volume and decline trend of a single week, the total local box office of the film is expected to reach about 80 million.

For Simon, it is far less than 160 million in history, which is obviously a failure. However, for danilis and the media of all parties, under the pressure of a number of super blockbusters, it is a surprise that such a reputation and even some smashing prank comedy can reach 80 million. After all, the production cost of the film is only $25 million.

Anyway, after completing the film, the packaging contract signed by Adam Sandler and danilis was fully fulfilled. Based on the performance of Adam's previous three films, if you want to continue to cooperate, the film salary is lower than the first-line 8 million, and the production cost is less than the medium 30 million, it's definitely not necessary to talk about it.

With the box office of "tea boy" coming out the next week, other Hollywood studios have begun to contact Adam.

On danilis' side, Simon's explanation from Australia is to stay as much as possible, but if Sandler's price is too high, it can only be regretted.

In fact, it is basically certain that there is no hope of cooperation between the two sides in at least the next film.

Because Simon expects the budget of the next cooperative film to be about 35 million, he can give more sharing conditions. However, after two consecutive local works of 80 million level, when each family competes to chase, the production cost of Adam Sandler's next film will certainly pile up to more than 40 million US dollars.

With the popularity accumulated by Adam's several consecutive films, the cost is more than 40 million. Maybe the profit is still no problem, but it will also fall into the state that Simon's favorite filmmaker makes hard money with a big head studio.

Danilis doesn't lack projects, nor does she lack comedy projects. For example, this year's hit hangover is already preparing a sequel. Therefore, for Adam, danilis took the initiative to give up cooperation.

The last film in the top five on the list is still an old film from the previous two weeks. Old Martin's "New York gangster" was released in the third week, with a good decline of 31%, with a revenue of US $16.41 million and a cumulative box office of US $57.6 million.

Expected trend.

The expectation of 80 million yuan floating up and down at home can only be expected overseas.

After the top five, other films are no longer in the competition at the end of the year. They either start to finish or lose the start.

For example, among the three new films opened on November 27, the best performance is a comedy film produced by Warner, named "town doctor", starring Leslie Nelson, the "white headed detective". The production cost is $25 million and the painting screen is 1925. The revenue in the first seven days of the first week is only $4.59 million, which is not even as good as Annabel 2.

Annabel 2, released in the fifth week, continued to earn US $7.33 million with an excellent decline of 25%, and the cumulative box office reached US $94.39 million, breaking US $100 million.

Next.

On December 4, the last month of 1998, a new box office week, the main film is "Elizabeth" in next year's award season.

The film about the life of the famous "Bloody Mary" Queen Mary I of Britain basically used the original creator. The heroine Kate Blanchett was excavated from Australia by Simon. Therefore, the film quality has been guaranteed, and she has won a good reputation in the internal trial stage.

The former "Elizabeth" collided directly with Miramax's "Shakespeare's love history" at the 71st Oscar, but it was a pity that it was defeated by the strong public relations offensive of the Weinstein brothers.

The key reason why Gwyneth Paltrow was attacked as the most popular water film is that compared with Kate Blanchett in Elizabeth, Paltrow's performance can only be described as mediocre.

History has changed.

Once, Shakespeare's love history was one year ahead of schedule by Simon. Although it was crushed by a big ship and reduced to sacrifice, it won nothing in the award, compared with the cost of 25 million, it was finally released, and the box office of more than 57 million local and 120 million global dollars was not bad.

This time, after the premiere, the ban on word-of-mouth was lifted, with a comprehensive media score of 8.6. Elizabeth, which was highly praised by the media, is expected to receive better results at the box office and awards than ever with the strong resources of danilis.

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China.

When Chen Qing returned from New York, she first came to Hong Kong and held a reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Saturday evening, mainly entertaining a group of Chinese businessmen from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia to promote her boss's stock exchange plan.

Simon's plan is to replace or cash out stocks or cash worth no less than $100 billion through closed trading next year, so it is bound to face investors all over the world.

US $100 billion seems a lot. Compared with Simon's personal wealth, it is nothing. According to this year's Forbes list, it is only equivalent to one eighteenth.

Moreover, the replacement plan is actually quite flexible.

Simon tends to obtain short-term cash out stocks or direct cash, but if there are other high-quality assets, whether real estate, mines, oil fields, etc., they can also be exchanged.

Frankly speaking, the replacement mode of mines and oil fields is very simple, which is prepared for some countries in Africa or Eastern Europe.

At the reception of Grand Hyatt Hotel, various details were confirmed from Chen Qing. Many guests expressed their intention to replace on the spot. Others directly proposed to exchange some properties in Hong Kong for shares of a number of core enterprises of Westeros system, a total of three buildings. Even after the financial storm, the property market on Hong Kong Island plummeted, and the valuation exceeded US $1.5 billion.

Chen Qing wrote it down one by one and said she would contact her boss as soon as possible.

After finishing her schedule in Hong Kong, Chen Qing rushed to Shenzhen the next day.

Excellence technology started in Dongguan at first, then followed the advice of its boss and settled its headquarters in Shenzhen. After its rapid development, it also set up R & D centers, assembly plants and other branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and other places.

It was established in early 1996 and launched the first personal computer product in June that year. Until now, excellence has only been established for just three years. However, in these three years, taking advantage of the explosive growth of the domestic information industry, excellence technology has also achieved three-level rapid growth.

In the coming 1998, the total PC shipments in mainland China are expected to be 13 million units, of which the outstanding computer shipments, calculated in the last month, will reach 1.9 million units, accounting for more than 14% of the mainland PC market share.

This is actually less than 20% of the excellent internal estimate under the initial rapid growth momentum.

However, the problem is not excellence, but the rapid growth of the PC market in mainland China. In 1996, when excellence was established, the domestic PC shipment volume just exceeded 5 million units, and then reached 8 million units last year. This year, it has increased by leaps and bounds again, reaching 13 million units, with an increase of about 60% for two consecutive years.

In the face of such a huge and attractive market, more manufacturers enter, resulting in more and more fierce fighting in the domestic PC field.

Excellence can steadily seize 14% of the market in such an environment, which has been regarded as a business miracle. You know, Lenovo, which ranks first this year, is expected to have a market share of only 21%, with an annual shipment of about 2.8 million units.

Of course, it has to be said that any success is not accidental.

After all, the outstanding success is due to the abundant resources backed by Westeros system. Among them, the CPU, as the core of PC, has a more advantageous price than parallel bulk manufacturers who can avoid the cost of switching tax by establishing a potential alliance with AMD through Westeros system.

Then there is the team.

This is what Chen Qing is very proud of.

In the past three years, excellence has established a highly efficient and competent management team from R & D to sales, which is why Chen Qing came here in person after a teleconference with us last week.

It is determined that the plan to sell excellence will not change. However, Chen Qing certainly does not intend to hand over the whole company. At least, a group of talents highlighted by Chen Qing intend to take away this time.

Although it is impossible to open up another excellence and continue to sell computers without restraint, Lenovo will not make such a mistake and will certainly sign the corresponding competition agreement, such a team will certainly be able to do other businesses under the current reform wave of rapid domestic economic development.

Chen Qing stayed in Shenzhen for one day, basically determined who to go and who to stay, and then set off for Beijing.

Accompanied by the high-level team that is about to officially open the sale negotiations.

Arrived in the capital on the morning of December 7, arranged the contact between Zhuoyue and Lenovo. After lunch, Chen Qing hurried to a big yamen near the imperial city.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a large yamen led several high-level departments to review Ningbo refining and chemical project, which will basically determine whether this large-scale refining and chemical integration project with a planned capacity of 5 million tons can be approved.

In addition to Chen Qing, the Zhejiang provincial local government and state-owned assets representative team led by Lin Lan, the investment team of Westeros and the operation team of South Korea SK group have all arrived in advance. The three parties will accept the authorities' questions on various details of the project.

So, compared with others, Chen Qing seems to come to watch.

Of course, people who know the inside story will not regard Chen Qing as an insignificant listener.