Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1547: : Not comparable

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

The first is in Australia.

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

During the preliminary poll, 67% of Australian voters expressed their willingness to leave the Commonwealth. However, when the vote actually started, the result was unexpected. In the end, the vote ratio of 43% to 57% failed to pass.

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

However, it did not help.

Although in theory, to allow Australia to completely separate from the Commonwealth may seem to be more conducive to the Westeros system’s control of this country, but in fact it is not.

Inseparable from the Commonwealth, Australia is essentially an independent country, and remains within the Commonwealth system. Under the current world structure, it is more conducive to let the Westeros system take Australia as its foundation and make it more tentacled. Reach out to all aspects of the Commonwealth countries. After all, the Commonwealth system is not only political and cultural, but also economically connected.

If we leave now, perhaps, the result will be like the Brexit of Britain in the original time and space, which is very unwise.

Of course, in the future, if necessary, the transition from the monarchy to the republic is only a matter of one more vote.

The second one is Ukraine.

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

Without any suspense, the current Ukrainian President Leon Kuchma won with an overwhelming majority of 63% of the votes, winning only 37% of the vote, the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party, Petro Simonenko, and successfully achieved re-election.

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

Speaking of it, Ukraine entered the winter in October. Because of the ongoing economic crisis, this year has eased a bit compared to last year, but it is also very reluctant.

Even if it were not for the policies proposed by Petro Simonenko that were too drastic, it would not be impossible to defeat Kuchma in Ukraine’s current economic environment that is dying to the extreme.

After all, ordinary people are more interested in their own belly. Sometimes, even drawing a pie is good.

The pie drawn by Leon Kuchma is justified. Stabilizing currency, introducing foreign investment, increasing agricultural support, etc., are all predictable. Moreover, the Rivno Gang also cooperated with Kuchma to let Kuchma take advantage of his own success. As an example.

As for Simonenko, such as interrupting the privatization process and re-nationalization, it sounds a little scary.

Originally, the big guys have nothing to do, so who should be nationalized?

Furthermore, within five years, the Ukrainian economy will be restored to the level before the 1990s.

It sounds weird, after all, under normal circumstances, how can it be said that it will reach the economic level of ten years ago after ten years.

However, this is the case.

Just say that Ukraine and the entire former Soviet Union are in short supply of daily-use materials. Before 1990, the self-sufficiency rate could reach 80%. Now, in Ukraine, the proportion is fairly high, and the self-sufficiency rate is only 30%. All need to be imported.

By the way, 30% of the self-sufficiency rate, half of which comes from Rivne Oblast, all other Ukrainian states and counties can only contribute the other 15%.

This is because the Rivno Gang is more export-oriented, otherwise it will definitely provide more. After all, relatively speaking, exports are more profitable, while domestic, Ukrainian currency exchange rates go up and down, it is really not possible to make much money.

Probably like India.

India’s food is certainly not enough, but a large amount of food is used for export, so that it has become the world’s largest rice exporter. As for what to do in the country, the landlord’s family has no surplus and can’t take care of that much.

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

Mainly from Chen Qing’s side, the little guy was born on the morning of November 16th local time. The lunar calendar is the ninth day of October.

It was originally expected to be the end of the month, a few days earlier, but it has nothing to do with premature delivery. The fat girl is healthy and healthy.

Simon had been in close contact during Chen Qing’s pregnancy, and he probably understood that it was because a certain Nizi wanted to kick the little girl out of her belly. After all, she was pregnant for half a year. To Chen Qing, it was like being sealed.

Moreover, if it’s just being sealed, it’s actually nothing.

The key is that she is a girl.

Simon really doesn’t mind being a girl, and finally there is a little padded jacket, but unfortunately, a certain Nizi made it clear that I am a patriarch and I just want the attitude of a kid, so I gave the girl a very The traditional nickname is no different.

Chen Buer.

Anyway, this kind of thing is unreasonable. If you say that you are patriarchal, are you not a woman yourself?

The answer is yes, so I don’t even like myself.

How can this be said?

Simon arrived in Suzhou on Wednesday, November 17, stayed with Chen Qing’s mother and daughter for three days, then transferred to Hangzhou, stayed for a weekend, and then set off for Beijing.

In just a few days, the first week of the official Thanksgiving holiday schedule in North America has also come to an end.

November 12 to November 18.

The three blockbusters of last week are not too disappointing, but if you only talk about the box office, there are no surprises.

The first place is not Daenerys’s “Cars”, but MGM’s “007 Casino Royale”, with a box office of $75.11 million for the first week of seven days, compared with a production cost of $90 million and a production cost of $50 million. Announcement, such an opening, still the same 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 domestic box office is expected to be around US$150 million.

Once the original “007 Casino Royale” was released in 2006, the local box office was about 160 million.

This is 150 million, 7 years ahead of schedule. Considering inflation, it may be higher than before. However, compared with the previous “007 Ghost Party”, the gap is really obvious.

In the summer of 1996, “The Ghost Party of 007” started with 89.17 million US dollars in the first week. With its excellent reputation, it eventually reached 307 million US dollars in the local area and 778 million US dollars in the world, making a lot of money.

However, it is undeniable that the unsatisfactory performance of “007 Casino Royale” this time is largely due to the overcrowding of the schedule.

If it’s still a summer vacation, at least 200 million locals are no problem, and the world is expected to steadily exceed 500 million. Even if the total cost is 140 million, good profits can be made in the theater stage.

no way.

After all, looking at other small labels and even more second- and third-tier small labels that have been squeezed to the point that they have to actively compress their production output in recent years, MGM is definitely a good one.

The second place is the turn of “Cars General Mobilization”.

In the first week of the painting, this 3D animation film, which has to be said that the story and themes are somewhat biased towards the young, has an initial revenue of 63.55 million US dollars, which is also not as popular as the previous ones.

However, as long as it can successfully survive the impact of “Steel Bones 2” in the next week, through the end of the year, “Racing Story” local 200 million is still no problem.

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

With the release of the film, Daenerys has made it easier to monitor the surroundings because of the Hasbro channel.

Due to the adequate preparations for the distribution in advance, and the approach of Thanksgiving, the sales of toys around “Cars” are very hot. Only the first weekend of the movie’s release, the preliminary statistics of toy sales for three days easily broke. And, considering that there will be Christmas in the future, this sales growth rate will only continue to accelerate.

The Hasbro team even gave a very bold prediction. For the complete end of the year, the sales of peripheral toys in “Cars” will reach the $1 billion level in the United States alone.

Considering that most of the toys this time are produced and sold in its own Hasbro channel, the gross profit of this series of toys is only attributable to Daenerys’s side and is expected to reach more than 65%, and the sales of toys at the level of 1 billion US dollars. , Sixty-five percent of gross profit…

Who cares about the box office!

With the news in the newspapers, in just a few trading days, the stock price of Daenerys, which had already been considered to be ridiculously high by the capital market, increased again by 6.3% in a week. At the close on Friday, the total market value of Daenerys It has reached 778.1 billion U.S. dollars, even surpassing the Igreat who has been pressing here.

Eaglet’s market value at the close of trading on Friday was $765.3 billion.

In addition, all the original shareholders of Hasbro regretted it.

loss!

It’s really a loss!

However, of course there is no regret medicine to take, after all, the equity settlement procedures for both parties have been completed in October.

What’s more, according to Simon’s original vision, if Hasbro didn’t submit to the norm, at the end of the year, the peripheral toys of “Cars” will not be the main responsibility of Hasbro. It is a question of whether it can cooperate again.

In short, although he failed to win the single-week box office championship, “Cars General Mobilization” has basically determined the position of the biggest winner at the end of the year.

After all, the sales of toys at the $1 billion level are limited to North America. There are no statistics on overseas markets. Even if the proportion of overseas markets is not high, the profit margin may be lower if calculated based on the equivalent of half of this side. , But also enough to exceed the box office revenue of most films at the end of the year.

As far as it goes, it’s the same as the surroundings.

Even “Steel Bones 2”, to be honest, there is no comparability, no.

Finally, “Air Force One”.

The Columbia Pictures team, which was acquired by Westinghouse Electric, has high hopes for the film. The opening results are a bit disappointing, but it is not a failure. The first week and seven days of the income are 45.69 million US dollars. The follow-up is slightly stronger. Over 100 million is no problem. The trend is not very satisfactory, and it is also certain that the value is above 80 million.

This is equivalent to 80 million US dollars in production costs.

If overseas can be slightly better than the local, most of the investment in production and publicity can basically be recovered, and the surrounding operations can start to make profits.

Of course, the gap with Westinghouse’s hopes is not small.

After three blockbusters, last week’s four new films, relying on plots to win the not-so-popcorn “Genius Ripley” barely fell behind, ranking fourth, with a 39% drop the next week and another 19.97 million. US dollars, the cumulative box office reached 52.76 million US dollars.

Then there is the fifth place “Ghost Sister”. In the face of many new films, the third week of the release ushered in a sharp drop of 53%, continuing to earn 14.56 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 101.89 million U.S. dollars. Successfully entered the 100 million box office club, but in the future, there will probably only be a potential of 20 to 30 million, and the local box office is expected to be around 130 million US dollars.

Except for the top five, other films have fallen within the ten million dollar range, which is considered to have withdrawn from the competition in the gratitude file, so there is no need to go into details.

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

There is still more than one new movie released this week, but there is only one new movie worth mentioning, and that is “Steel Bone 2”.

Warner Bros. officially held its world premiere on Wednesday in advance. On Thursday, the word-of-mouth ban was lifted. Not only did the comprehensive media rating of 8.7 points affirm the film’s word-of-mouth, this time, new DC superheroes such as Aquaman and Martian Hunter Joining is even more exciting for fans.

Warner Bros. claimed that the entire project has spent US$80 million in the publicity budget, plus a huge production cost of US$160 million, and a total investment of US$240 million. It can be described as a broken ship and full of confidence. The number of opening screens of the film reached 4,166 yuan, unabashedly heading for the goal of breaking 100 million yuan in the first week.