Chapter 634 (1/2)
Simon ended his meeting with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and flew directly to New York after breakfast.
Through last week's relentless retaliation against the mastermind behind the March assassination, Simon sent a warning to some people not to try to use unconventional means against the Westeros, or he would tit for tat.
The operation in Rwanda is also a demonstration of the capital strength of the westero system.
There are always people who think that the amount of money to a certain extent is just a series of numbers. Simon makes them feel what it means to have enough money.
Arriving in New York, the morning schedule is to meet with the heads of several well-established media groups.
In addition to the failure of the U.S. military action in Vietnam, another important reason why the Vietnam war once formed more and more turbulent waves of anti war in the United States is the complete failure of the federal government in the control of public opinion.
In the Gulf war three years ago, the Bush administration learned a good lesson from the Vietnam War. Relying on the excellent control and guidance of public opinion, the American government gained a great reputation through that war.
The failure of last year's operation in Somalia was met with a domestic one-sided Crusade, which led to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops in Somalia. It was also a major failure of the Clinton administration in terms of public opinion.
As a lesson from the past, even though he has occupied the moral commanding height, Simon still dare not take it lightly when the media all over the world turn their attention to Rwanda and thousands of journalists fly to Africa.
It has been proved too many times that in order to gain attention and gain newspaper sales or ratings, the media without integrity will never mind reversing black and white, or even rendering a just war as an evil invasion.
In order to avoid this situation as much as possible, the westero team in Rwanda has been collecting information since the outbreak of the Rwanda massacre. The theme of the Rwanda massacre released by igritte portal is only a small part of it. Now the vast amount of evidence in the hands of the westero system is enough to prove that the massacre of racism broke out in Rwanda in the past 10 days is 100% real.
Even if he has made sufficient preparations, Simon still needs to guard against the attempt of reversing black and white in the next period of time. This requires the cooperation of westrow system and other news media with wide social influence to jointly control and guide public opinion.
In addition, Simon has also equipped a special public relations team for the mercenary forces of the westero system in Rwanda, and formulated strict media regulations. All members of the mercenary forces are not allowed to accept media interviews without authorization, and the garrison is not allowed to accept Reporters without authorization. All actions of the forces will prevent the following reports of the media not designated by the westero system News will only be released regularly through the official media public relations team, and so on.
The real war will be in the charge of thousands of professional soldiers in Rwanda. For Simon, the control and guidance of media opinion is also a war, which he will personally lead.
Simon does not expect any return from this military action to stop the racist massacre, but he absolutely does not allow anyone to try to reverse and distort the justice of this action.
At noon, I accepted Rupert Murdoch's invitation to have dinner together. It was more than one o'clock in the afternoon after lunch.
In the afternoon, I went to Greenwich Village in Manhattan to deal with some business of danielis entertainment.
After submitting the prospectus, the next IPO related issues will be in the charge of Amy Pascal and other senior executives and cersei capital team, and Janet will also help to keep an eye on them. Simon doesn't need to worry too much, but Simon still needs to deal with many affairs of the group himself.
So busy until five o'clock in the afternoon, it's time to get off work. Girl a knocks on the door and begins to report some things Simon needs to know before getting off work: ”boss, Kim Carrey's agent has just asked us to change the initial five contracts into three contracts.”
Simon is writing his own comments on the budget document of ”broken arrow” project, and without raising his head, he throws out a word: ”no way.”
Although the release of ”detective plane head” on April 8 failed to win the recognition of media reviews, Kim Carey's exaggerated and unique comedy performance mode still won the favor of the audience as in the original time and space. In addition, Denise Entertainment's publicity of ”detective plane head” is far more than ever, and the schedule is much better than the original cemetery schedule in February, which is only the first week In seven days, the revenue of the first painting of ”detective plane head” reached 23.91 million US dollars, and the average weekly income of the museum was as high as 13 thousand US dollars, even exceeding the opening score of ”Ninja Turtle 3” in Easter week.
Moreover, from April 15 to April 17, after rapidly increasing the number of screens from 1837 in the first week to 2315, even if the two-week Easter Spring break for American students generally ends and the film market returns to the cold, the three-day drop of ”detective airplane head” in the next weekend is still only 23%, and it continues to earn $12.88 million. It is expected that the box office of the next week will be 18 million to 19 million Between US dollars.
Ten days after its release, the cumulative box office of ”detective plane head” has reached $36.79 million.According to the ladder sharing contract signed by danielis entertainment and the cinema, danielis entertainment can take 90% of the box office share in the first two weeks, excluding the basic operating costs of the cinema, and actually get about 70% of the total box office. It will be reduced by 20% every two weeks until the lower limit of 30%.
Therefore, the $36.79 million box office revenue of ”detective plane head” in only 10 days is enough to make Denise entertainment recover all the $15 million production cost and $10 million publicity investment, and begin to enter the box office profit period.
According to the next week's decline and audience feedback, the new world film publicity team predicted that ”detective plane head” is likely to become the second local box office work of danielis entertainment to exceed 100 million yuan this year after the Valentine's day schedule ”Four Weddings and a funeral”.
The success of detective airplane even affected Ninja Turtle 3.
Due to the audience's attention shifting, Ninja Turtle 3's decline in the next week and three weeks exceeded expectations. Danielis entertainment had to reduce the total box office of the $60 million sequel in North America from $80 million to $60 million. Fortunately, Ninja Turtle 3's overseas box office performance is still good, and the company is still expected to release it only through global theaters On cost recovery and profitability.
Kim Carrey has been on the stage since the early 1980s. In the past, he could only play various roles in some films.
Now, with the 100 million yuan box office potential of detective airplane head, the club has leaped into the ranks of first-line stars. This comedian, who was once famous for his money addiction in history, is immediately restless and can't wait to try to amend the contract signed with Denise entertainment with a maximum of 5 million US dollars for five films.
Other Hollywood studios usually agree to amend some contracts in order to have a good relationship with each other and maintain follow-up cooperation after the sudden popularity of actors. However, Denise entertainment has never been used to the bad habit of stars.
Simon has always been a man who attaches great importance to contracts.
Moreover, if you agree to Kim Carey's request, DC movie universe has signed all the low pay long-term contracts, and the core actors are noisy, many projects will not be able to continue smoothly.
When a girl heard Simon's decision, she didn't explain it too much. She just wrote down her boss's decision in the memo, then took out an invitation from the folder and handed it to her: ”also, boss, this is a pair invitation sent by elite President John Casablanca in the afternoon. He said that she will invite Ms. Graff to join us tonight.”
George Graff, who was involved in planning Simon's assassination, was shot in the head last week, and his wife and daughter are not going well these days.