Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1696 : 26th

The next morning, when Simon stepped on the treadmill for a jog, Girl A delivered the first batch of media feedback from The Conjuring 4: Reaper to him.

First of all, compared to the 9.3 points of the classic movie history of "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", the comprehensive media score of this sequel has declined, but it still reaches a very good 8.6 points.

Furthermore, as expected, the change in the style of the film has been noticed by many media people.

For example, the famous film critic Roger Ebert, who flew to Los Angeles from Chicago to attend the premiere last night, euphemistically said in his personal column: "I found that The Conjuring 4: Reaper made some quite interesting content in the content. These adjustments are different from all other works in the Conjuring Cinematic Universe series, but may bring some different experiences to the audience."

Apparently due to the public relations of Daenerys Entertainment, Albert did not express his vicious tongue in the film review. However, attentive readers can also feel that the film reviewer is not too in favor of Daenerys' opinion on the Conjuring series. adjustments made.

Also, some critics pointed to Lena Cain's thinking that The Conjuring 4: Reaper is less scary.

This is of course also intentional.

Although the previous "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" received a comprehensive media score of 9.3 points at the classic level of film history, the domestic box office unfortunately failed to exceed 200 million US dollars. Among them, there may be "Ghost Records" at that time. Because of the impact on the horror film market. However, after the audience survey of Daenerys Entertainment, it is precisely this point that is too scary, but it also limits the market play of the film to some extent.

After all, the phenomenal box office of "The Exorcist" was largely due to the groundbreaking, unprecedented first time in history. "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" did not have this advantage. Even though the topic was still very hot at the time, if there were other options, I heard that it was too scary, and the audience would not watch it if they didn't watch it.

Based on market feedback, and if the Conjuring series wants to continue, there must be breakthroughs, so there is a change in the style of "The Conjuring 4: Death".

To put it simply, the horror is still the same, but the extra fantasy elements will subtly neutralize the horror atmosphere of the film to a certain extent.

Simon personally can't guarantee what impact this change will have on the box office. If it is negative, it will definitely be adjusted next time. But if the market performs well, the entire Conjuring Cinematic Universe series will actually have a better way out.

After all, repeatedly recruiting ghosts and chasing ghosts, after a long time, the audience is also prone to aesthetic fatigue.

This point is also another reason why "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" failed to break 200 million locally. At that time, this series had already made the audience a little tired.

In short, everything has to wait for the results after the official opening of the painting tomorrow.

At the end of the morning exercise, Simon washed and changed his clothes and went to the lobby of Shell Villa. It was seven o'clock in the morning, and everyone had not gone to the restaurant. Janet and Lady C were sitting on the sofa by the curtain wall chatting, with Melbourne and Seattle beside them. The little guy, one is reading, the other is in a daze.

Claire Gein came to Los Angeles with Simon yesterday for only one reason, another little Westeros in the girl's belly.

Presumably it was during Tin Coble's fall presentation last month.

Simon's 26th little guy.

Came to the front, leaned over and kissed Janet, and said hello to Girl C. Claire took the initiative to make way to the side, and Simon sat down between the two women, looking at Seattle and ignoring the baby son. Janet, who looks like a eccentric mother: "What are you talking about?"

"C is talking about the expansion of Tinkobel's business in China," Janet said. "This year, it can achieve a revenue of 1 billion US dollars. It's amazing. I didn't expect the Chinese market to have such potential."

Simon nodded with a smile: "Yes, it's surprising."

Already had an understanding yesterday in San Francisco.

Mainly last month, also during the autumn conference, the first batch of two flagship stores of Tinkerbell in China BJ and Shanghai opened at the same time. Before that, the business was only developed through the agency model.

Not to mention the other, it is just two flagship stores. The revenue in the first month of opening has reached 53 million yuan, which is amazing to many insiders. If this momentum can be maintained, it will only be two flagship stores. The revenue brought by Seoul can exceed 600 million yuan, equivalent to more than 70 million US dollars.

This is actually a microcosm of the booming business of Tincober in China.

China is poor now, but the base of 1.2 billion people is there, and there are quite a few rich people.

Just like what Simon learned yesterday, China's tablet computer market is still mainly called PDA and handheld computer. The basic models generally cost two or three thousand yuan. It is expected that the market sales volume will exceed 1.5 million this year. Taiwan, a leading newspaper in China has recently carried out a special report on this.

You know, Simon played with some samples of PDAs sold in the Chinese market yesterday at Tinkerbell headquarters, not to mention domestic ones, even for international brands such as Sony and Samsung.

However, it is such a "chicken rib" product that sells millions of units a year in China and maintains a fairly high growth rate, which only shows that there are more rich people in China than imagined.

Then, I have to mention the Tinkbell iPad series, which is absolutely high-end. In Simon’s view, it is the only product that can get rid of the tasteless label. For example, the iPad-40 just released last month is priced at $899 in North America, equivalent to $7500. RMB, and the pricing in mainland China, the basic standard version, is as high as RMB 9,999.

In this way, you can buy two or three PDAs from other brands. The sales in mainland China started at the beginning of the month. In less than a month, the sales volume has exceeded 20,000 units. Counting the old models, it is estimated that in 2000, it will only be an iPad product, and the sales volume in mainland China will reach about 230,000 units.

The iPad can be described as one of the most expensive products of Tinkbell, but this one is more popular in the Chinese market than iPlayer, iCam and other products. About 20% of China's total revenue.

All of these, in fact, show that the potential of the Chinese market has reached a level that Tinkber cannot ignore.

On the sofa by the glass curtain wall.

Janet didn't talk much about these business data, but said: "For the recent trip to Asia, I plan to temporarily add a three-day trip to China, which is considered a vacation, so I can see it for myself."

Compared with Jennifer, whose main focus is on the family, Janet has been in charge of many businesses in the Westeros system. The planned Asian itinerary before Thanksgiving is mainly to sort out the business layout of her man in Southeast Asia in person. I don't plan to go to China.

Temporary change, apparently inspired by the topic C girl just mentioned.

Of course Simon had no objection. After thinking about it, he said, "Take Jenny and treat you two on vacation together."

Janet nodded, but said, "Then the children are left to you?"

Simon: "This..."

Janet curled her lips slightly and pinched it on Simon's arm, and then bent her mouth again: "Okay, I'll ask my aunt to come and take the child."

"Um!"

Janet's strength increased, and her smile turned bad: "However, Aunt probably doesn't have time recently, so I can only send it to the east coast and let Sophie come over to be a nanny. We happen to be there for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes, it's more atmospheric."

Simon: "…"

Claire watched the small movements between her boss and his wife, skillfully pretending that she didn't know anything or understood anything.

I am also an innocent passerby.

Um…

Why say 'also'?

Janet succeeded in her prank, let go of the man's arm, and found that the precious son who was reading quietly on the single sofa beside him probably heard someone, and raised his head with anticipation, and suddenly became angry and raised his chin slightly. He gestured: "Mer, come, talk to your father about his reading experience, this... um, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", who picked it?"

The little guy stood up obediently and said honestly, "Dad's book list."

Janet glanced sideways, was this a book that children could understand, and turned around again: "Do you have any experience?"

Melbourne paused, keenly aware that there was a small flame in the mother's tone, obviously not when talking about reading experience seriously, just to find fault, and instinctively began to pretend to be stupid: "I think... very interesting."

Janet didn't let it go, and raised her voice a little: "What else?"

Melbourne looked at his father pitifully.

When it is rare to be a 'good policeman', Simon began to round up the field: "Morrow doesn't need to think too much now, just...well, this is the original Spanish version, yes, it's just language training." The text of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" It is very interesting, just like the classic opening, Melbourne can be used as a reference to imitate, for example, many years later, Mr. Melbourne, who inherited the Westeros family, stood by the glass curtain wall of the Shell Villa, facing the vast sky. And the sea, I will remember that distant morning when my mother made excuses to reprimand me. Look, what a good sentence."

Simon's words fell, the little guy continued to pretend to be innocent, Claire suppressed a smile, Janet raised her hand and pinched it again, and waved to her son angrily: "Little villain, immediately disappear from my eyes."

Melbourne fled.

Janet let go of her man and hugged the baby daughter who was still in a daze next to her: "Sill is the best, they will only be angry with me."

The eldest mother was so affectionate, Seattle was interrupted, and her expression flashed a little helpless, but she still posted a post with Janet, which made Janet very happy, holding up the baby daughter's little head and kissing continuously on that beautiful face took several mouthfuls.

Simon continued to be speechless,

The girl C next to her couldn't help it, and asked the man beside her softly, "Boss, Miss is always like this... Are you thinking about something?"

"Yeah," Simon nodded, and couldn't help joking: "Probably misses his home planet too much."

The eldest lady of the Westeros family has an extraordinary IQ, or in other words, it has exceeded the cognition of ordinary people. Even her father thinks that his daughter is like an alien, and the feelings of others around him can be imagined.

Simon can tease, but Claire doesn't agree, just smiles along.

But I couldn't help thinking, my baby, it's better not to be too smart in the future, um, just a little bit smarter than Elliot, girl D.

The D-girl son, Elliot Westeros, who was born at the end of last year, was only one year old in December, but now he can speak and walk without any problem, obviously surpassing most of his peers.

Referring to the other little guys in the Wei family and the unanimous opinion of the girls, this is obviously because the boss's genes are better.

After chatting like this, Jennifer came over to call someone, and everyone went to the restaurant together.

At the dinner table, Janet talked about the travel in Asia that added to her itinerary and what the man wanted Jennifer to be with. The female assistant asked about the children's arrangements and agreed.

There is still some anticipation to look at Simon.

Simon can only regret that he can't leave recently, and he doesn't want to go to China so often.

After breakfast, everyone started their day.

It's October 26th.

Thursday.

There's a birthday party tomorrow, the last of last year's little guys, Adam Westeros of Roberta Chilco, so Simon only has one morning to fly to New York again after lunch .

Arrived at Daenerys Studios at eight o'clock, processed a batch of daily documents, and started a meeting at nine o'clock. The content is to discuss a press conference that Daenerys will hold on this Sunday, October 29th.

This is one thing that was finalized with Amy Pascal after Daenerys's earnings report was released last week. The title of the conference was 'Embrace the Internet'. Just looking at the name, the content can be imagined. In short, it was aimed at Dany again. The informatization layout of Liz Entertainment is a big pie. The goal is to stimulate the last jump of Daenerys Entertainment's stock price and sprint to the trillion-dollar market value.

Because it's a flatbread, Simon doesn't really care.

The half-hour meeting was over, and the rest of the morning, Simon spent the rest of the morning discussing the release plans for the two major schedules at the end of the year with his executives, until he left after lunch, and took a sample of "The Grinch" on the plane. Look up.

The two most important films in the upcoming year-end file are "Justice League: Invasion" in the Thanksgiving file and "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", the second part of the Christmas Lord of the Rings series.

In addition to the two behemoth-level super blockbusters, Daenerys will launch a series of other projects as usual.

"The Grinch", which won the annual box office championship in North America in 2000, is the one that Simon attaches the most importance to after the two major blockbusters. The samples reviewed in advance and the complete viewing of the finished film on the plane, even if The protagonist changed from Jim Carrey to Ben Stiller, and the effect still satisfied Simon.

As for the box office, once the figure of 260 million in North America, Simon did not expect this time. After all, there is a Lord of the Rings blocking there at Christmas.

Therefore, this time, as long as the mainland can break through 100 million, it is a satisfactory result. After all, compared to the previous production budget of Jim Carrey's version that exceeded 100 million, because the production specifications were completely reduced, this time it only cost 60 million US dollars.

If it breaks through 100 million locally, most of the investment can be recovered directly.

To reach the goal of breaking 100 million, even if this project will not play much overseas due to cultural factors, it is still easy to enter the profit cycle in the global cinema distribution stage.

The second day Simon flew to the East Coast, on Friday, October 17th, "The Conjuring 4: Reaper", which had the highest publicity, was officially released in North America, and the number of opening screens reached 3,745. To a certain extent, this also It is the beginning of the peak movie season at the end of 2000.