Chapter 561 (1/2)
Simon believes that as long as the hursts don't lose their heads, it will be over.
The family that has accumulated for a hundred years may be deeply rooted, but it will inevitably lose its spirit.
It is very difficult for the current Hurst group to make such ”pioneering efforts” as provoking the war between the United States and Spain. When it comes to opponents who are not playing cards according to common sense and are strong enough, it is inevitable that they will feel a bit timid that they are porcelain and do not care about tiles.
What's more, the opponent this time is not a tile, it's more like an iron pimple.
A few days later, news came from North America that William Hurst III had fired most of his servants. The incident was not only in the newspapers, but also in an attempt to initiate a lawsuit.
It's obvious that the hursts are responding.
Of course, it costs $1 million for Hurst to bribe the people around Simon. Simon bribes the people around him to deliver gifts to the Hurst family, and the price is much cheaper.
Some newspapers focusing on anecdotes reported that a couple in San Francisco were captured by aliens when they were dating, woke up in a remote seaport town on Argentina's Tierra del Fuego, and were still in their original car.
The southern hemisphere is in a cold winter, and Tierra del Fuego is already within the Antarctic circle.
It's said that the two people who had been sleeping for a week were extremely weak after waking up, and even nearly frozen to death. Many people in the harbor town proved that they saw the white Toyota car with San Francisco photos and the two people on the car.
But the news did not spread on a large scale and quickly disappeared.
It seems that a big hand is preventing the further expansion of the matter. Even the photos taken by the residents of the port town of Tierra del Fuego have been bought away, and the identity of the couple has never been exposed.
Obviously, the evil government is monopolizing the news of alien kidnapping.
Traditional media can't get more information. Many mysterious events on the Internet are discussed in a systematic way, and some people call on the federal government to disclose the truth.
Naturally, there is no response.
Simon and his wife arrived in Melbourne on June 15 and left for Melbourne on June 25.
Meanwhile, another box office week from June 18 to June 24 is over.
Superman, which was released in the third week, shrank to 32% this week, and continued to earn $41.33 million, easily topping the box office in a single week. In three weeks, the cumulative box office officially exceeded $200 million, reaching $214.76 million.
No. 2 on the list is not phantom hero, the most popular movie, but Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who star in the Love Movie Sleepless in Seattle. Relying on its excellent reputation and popularity, the 2369 block love movie won $33.81 million in the first seven days of the week, with an average of $14000 in the museum.
What most complicates the mood of other Hollywood Studios is probably the cost of sleepless in Seattle.
As a love movie, although Tom Hanks's pay reaches the first-line $8 million level, the final cost of the movie is only $25 million.
Only the box office in the first week has exceeded the production cost of the film. Considering the long-term nature of the topic love film, the film starts with 33.81 million US dollars, and it is not difficult for the local box office to break 100 million US dollars. Denise entertainment and Disney can make a lot of money only through the local box office.
This week's No. 3 movie, phantom hero, is in sharp contrast to sleepless in Seattle.
With the production cost of 85 million US dollars and the publicity budget of 30 million US dollars, the box office in the first seven days of the week is only 21.93 million US dollars, and the opening of the gallery is even less than 10000 US dollars.
Compared with the low box office, the film's reputation is bleak.
Media generally predict that the box office of ”phantom hero” will drop by more than 40% in the next week, and the final box office in North America is likely to be only about $50 million.
With a total investment of US $115 million and an expected North American box office of US $50 million, it is obvious that the huge loss of the project can not be avoided. Even if Schwarzenegger's overseas box office appeal can double the overseas box office to US $100 million, Columbia film can only recover more than US $60 million, and Colombia will bear a huge loss of at least US $50 million in the next year.
With the huge loss of ”phantom hero”, Sony can no longer let the film company, which was bought with a huge amount of money, take the initiative to send a working group to Los Angeles. Hollywood media predict that Peter Cooper, who is in charge of Columbia Pictures, is not far from stepping down.
The box office of the last new film ”shudder plot” opened last week was 11.69 million US dollars. Compared with the opening scale of 1517 screens, the box office performance of the museum was 7705 US dollars. It was not too bad, but it was far less than that of ”shaking the cradle's hand” three years ago.
According to the box office and word-of-mouth of the film, it is preliminarily estimated that the total box office of the film in North America is about 30 million US dollars.
The production budget of ”shudder plot” is 12 million US dollars, and the box office in North America is 30 million US dollars. In such a hot summer season, it obviously does not meet the expectations of the new world film industry, but the profit of the project is certain.On June 25, Simon returned to North America. On the same day, the summer season released three new films, including Disney's ”superstar dad” starring Michael fox, MGM's ”hot edge” starring Nick Kidman, and gaomen's rock star Tina Turner's ”what do you want to do with love?”.
”Superstar dad” and ”edge of body heat” are both typical commercial films in summer season. Simon pays more attention to Tina Turner's biographical film ”what to do with love” produced by gaomen pictures.
Tina Turner, a rock star in her fifties this year, is a typical late bloomer. As a black Indian hybrid, Tina Turner, who started her career at the age of 16, didn't get a big hit until the early 1980s, when the singer was over forty.
Then it became popular throughout the 1980s, during which he also starred in Mel Gibson's Mad Max 3.
The movie ”what do you want to do with me” is not about Tina Turner's experience after her popularity, but her 16-year-old bumpy marriage. The singer married her mentor and bole Ike Turner at the age of 16. The marriage lasted for 16 years, during which Ike Turner raped Tina Turner for a long time. After the last conflict, the actress finally decided to leave, and even failed to get two A share of property during a person's marriage.
Later, when a lot of people thought that Tina Turner would be down without Ike Turner's resources and channels, after several years of silence, Tina Turner, who was over 40, became popular again, which surprised everyone.
”What do you want to do with love” is one of Tina Turner's best-selling albums in the 1980s. Because it fits the theme of the story, it is used as the name of the film.