Chapter 565 (1/2)
On July 30, the summer program began to close. This week, as many as seven films landed in North American theaters. However, four of them were all within 300 yuan in size. An Italian art film ”four love stories” released by gaomen pictures only gave 11 screen sizes.
The three mainstream commercial films with a screen size of more than 1000 are MGM's paradise traveler, fox's Robin Hood is crazy and Columbia's naked surprise.
”Passer by in heaven” is starred by Robert Downey Jr. it tells the story of a car accident that makes the hero Tommy surrounded by four ghosts. Obviously, it is following the trend of ”the ghost is still alive”. The film has 1263 screens.
”Robin Hood is also crazy” is a spoof Robin Hood theme film, obviously also in the follow-up two years ago, Kevin Costner's big sale of ”Robin Hood”, the number of screen painting 1275.
”Naked surprise” is a project similar to ”instinct” that Madonna personally promoted to Simon last year. The selling point of the film is the large-scale performance of Queen Mai, and the number of screen opening is more than the other two commercial films, reaching 2070.
In the box office week from July 30 to August 5, the box office of new films released in the last two weeks is very average. However, Sony's recent market value is only about 17 billion US dollars.
Peter Cooper was fired by Sony two years earlier than Simon remembered. In the original time and space, it was only in 1995 that Sony finally stopped letting go of Columbia Pictures.
Simon knows the real write down amount of Sony's assets, which is $2.7 billion.
When Sony bought Columbia Pictures, it offered only $3.4 billion for the equity of the big studio, and assumed $1.6 billion in debt, with a total transaction value of $5 billion. In recent years, Sony has invested no less than $1 billion to settle various legal disputes and meet the capital needs of Columbia Pictures.
The $2.7 billion write down is almost equivalent to clearing more than half of Columbia Pictures' assets.
Because of this failure, Akio Morita completely lost control of Sony, and died a few years later.
This time, obviously influenced by the entertainment of Simon and Denise, something has changed.
However, Sony's big fall in Columbia Pictures will not change.
Just this summer, Columbia Pictures will lose more than US $200 million in a series of projects. In a few years, this big studio has been greatly damaged by Peter Cooper and John Peters. It is expected that Sony's next asset write down figures will not be much lower than Simon's memory.
In fact, this incident also sounded an alarm for Simon.
It doesn't mean that if you provide some people with enough funds, enough trust, enough space to play, they will receive returns.
If you do this rashly, you may get a mess.
The scale of the westero system is becoming larger and larger. If you want to continue to expand your business empire, decentralization is necessary. However, the result of decentralization without restriction is likely to be disastrous.
In the dining room of shell villa, while reading the newspaper in the morning, she talked about her ideas with Janet beside her. The woman exaggerated a few times: ”I understand, I understand.”
Janet is actually Simon's eye on westrow.
”What's the problem?” Simon said with a smile
”No,” said Janet, shaking her head and glancing at the man, ”do you want my aunt to come over and take care of something for you? Don't worry, I won't let you succeed. ”
“……”
Wrinkling her little nose, Janet wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin after eating the last breakfast specially prepared by the nutritionist. She came over and gave Simon a kiss on the face, and said with a smile, ”have a good time in San Francisco today, and don't have to come back in the evening. Well, you can tell Jennie that you want to come back, and I'll help you with your lie. ”
Simon carefully put the next Janet on her lap, gently touched the woman's bulging belly, didn't pick up the words, and said, ”would you like to join the UK next week?”