Chapter 388 (1/2)
Hollywood's three major unions filed a lawsuit in Delaware Federal Court on Monday, November 19, in an attempt to prevent danielis Entertainment's acquisition of MCA. The whole westrow system is busy dealing with this matter, but it does not prevent Thanksgiving.
This year's Thanksgiving is November 22.
It happened to snow on the east coast. Simon loved the atmosphere of snow during the festival and spent this Thanksgiving together with Janet at the Greenwich manor.
After Thursday, another Hollywood box office week came.
Prior to November 16 to November 22, the first week of Thanksgiving schedule, Stallone's new film ”Rocky 5” successfully won the box office champion in a single week.
However, the popularity of this action film series, which once created a box office miracle, is still not as good as before. In its first week, it only got $19.6 million at the box office, and its film review reputation is not satisfactory. The comprehensive score of the media is only about 5 points. The industry generally predicts that the film will drop by 40% to 50% in the next week, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than $50 million. Producers can only expect to rely on overseas box office and other channels to recover costs.
Danylis Entertainment's dance with the wolf ranked second, with a box office of $12.67 million in the first week of large-scale painting. Compared with only 1031 screens and three hours of film time, the box office performance of more than $12000 in a single studio is excellent.
Taking into account the previous screening results, dancing with wolves grossed $17.3 million in three weeks, which is close to the production cost of $20 million.
”Ten days in danger,” which was released on Halloween, fell 22% this week, and it's a pity that it didn't rebound on Thanksgiving. The film received another $6.87 million in seven days and grossed $43.99 million in four weeks.
Disney's ”Three Dads and one baby”, which is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, November 21, has earned US $5.32 million in two days with its excellent reputation and festive atmosphere, which is a bit of a dark horse.
Disney's two-dimensional animated film ”little hero in distress” grossed $4.79 million in the first seven days, ranking fifth.
Besides the top five, there are basically a lot of old movies.
On November 23, the second week of Thanksgiving, there are also three new films, namely, Denise Entertainment's ”pink alliance” with Columbia Pictures, fox pictures' ”iron soldier 2” and Warner Brothers' 2D animated film ”Little Prince Nutcracker”.
Among them, ”red powder alliance” and ”iron soldier 2” have more than 2000 opening screens, while ”little Nutcracker Prince” has only 906 screens, which is equivalent to Disney's ”little rescue hero”, and belongs to the standard distribution mode of 2D animated films of this era.
In the northern suburb of Greenwich.
In addition to the main road, the other areas of the manor are still snow-white and have not been cleaned up.
Sophia fishy stops outside the villa, gets out of the car and opens the back door. The two kids can't wait to get out of the car and run to Janet.
Today is November 25th, Sunday.
It happened to be a sunny day. At ten o'clock in the morning, the air was still cold, but the sun was shining.
Sophia, as usual, came from Europe for the weekend to see the children. Simon and Janet did not leave the east coast after Thanksgiving.
She said hello to Janet, listened to a couple of children chattering with Janet, and soon ran to make a snowman. Sophia walked into the villa by herself.
Villa is very warm, take off the windbreaker to meet the B Girl Becky, asked, that Simon in the upstairs study, along the stairs to the second floor.
Simon is on the phone. There are many papers scattered on his desk. Hearing the knock on the door, he answered casually. Seeing Sophia's hesitation after pushing the door, he laughed at the woman and indicated that she was OK. Then Sophia came in.
Trying to look as if nothing had happened, Sophia paced to Simon's desk, helped the man sort out the papers on the desk, and listened to him talking to him.
It is the recent MCA acquisition that we are discussing.
As for how to deal with the lawsuits of the three major trade unions and other problems that follow, these things are not suitable for anyone to hear, but men do not deliberately lower their voice to avoid themselves, which makes Sophia feel warm.
After putting together several papers, the woman went to the bookshelf and pretended to look at the books on it. Back to Simon, wondering if he was looking at himself.
Just after a while, the man's phone call is still not over.
Walking from one side of the bookshelf to the other, she couldn't write down anything.
Put down Lola's hand for a while, turn and look, Simon just hung up a phone, but directly transferred to another.
I can't help but have some grudges.
Then I felt that I was really hopeless. This little man, after all, was younger than myself So many years old.
Simon flipped through a piece of information, holding a microphone in his hand, discussing with the opposite side. He looked up and noticed Sophia's expression. He paused, and made a gesture to the woman with a smile.What did you do in the past?
With that in mind, Sophia walked over.
As soon as he got to his leather chair, he was held by a man with his waist in his arms.
Body a little stiff, gently earned earned, but dare not too hard.
What if he let go.
I dare not speak. I'm on the phone.
Moreover, just holding himself, he didn't do anything too much.
When I just entered the door, it seemed that I locked it behind me.
Find a good reason, completely let go, obediently sit on the man's lap.
Looking at the man's appearance of several uses, he leaned over and stretched out his hand to help him hold the microphone in his ear. With one hand free, the man touched her earlobe, gently took off the silver stud that he had put on today and threw it on the table.
It turned out that he didn't like women wearing earrings.
Remember in silence.
Next time I change earrings, well, maybe he doesn't like it either. It's probably nothing to wear.
Then don't wear anything.
More than ten minutes later, Simon finally put down the microphone and quieted down in his study. There was the sound of children laughing outside the window. Sophia was a little nervous and worried that he would not help what to do at this time.
It's almost noon.
Quickly found a topic, asked: ”MCA thing, this is not very troublesome?”
Simon put his chin on the woman's shoulder and smelled the good smell of women. He picked up a document on the desk and continued to look at it. He said, ”if the three major trade unions just make a fuss, it will be really troublesome, but as long as you understand what they want, it will be much easier.”
I just heard him discuss with others. It seems that the most dissatisfied part of the three major trade unions about danielis entertainment is that Simon moved a lot of films overseas to shoot.