Chapter 749 (1/2)
The premiere ceremony ended at 8:30 p.m. west coast time. In the next few hours, official materials, press releases and fans' hot discussions about ”suicide team” were released one after another. With the help of igrit portal, the film became the most popular topic on the Internet platform.
Early the next morning, the DC movie universe anti hero was released.
According to preliminary statistics, ”suicide team” scored 8.3 in comprehensive media. Hollywood Reporter praised the film as ”continuing the amazing and hot DC movie universe, and the innovation of anti hero perspective and narrative structure makes the film quality sublimate again.”.
After a full day of public opinion bombardment on Thursday, the audience expectation of ”suicide team” reached the highest level.
December 16, Friday.
”Suicide squad” was officially released in North America, with 3165 screens.
In addition to the suicide squad, the Disney holiday comedy Santa Claus, the little woman by gaomen pictures and the documentary Bauhaus by Warner Bros. were also painted on a large scale after two weeks of screening.
Disney's Santa Claus has 2183 screens, with a media score of 7.4, which is considered good.
In the past, Disney's ”Santa Claus” was released during Thanksgiving. Relying on good word-of-mouth and festive themes, the cumulative box office in North America exceeded 140 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the box office list of that year.
This time, in order to avoid the Thanksgiving schedule of ”Toy Story 2” and other films, Disney chose to postpone ”Santa Claus” to the Christmas section, and chose a slightly less crowded schedule of December 16, trying to take the lead. That's right. However, neither Simon nor the media are optimistic about the box office prospects of Santa Claus.
”Santa Claus” used to be able to get a super high box office, mainly due to the absence of phenomenal blockbusters in the same period.
If there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey is king.
Now, not to mention that Toy Story 2, which also fits the festive atmosphere, still has the same momentum, the big meal of suicide team is not as good as the appetizer of Santa Claus.
In the first week of large-scale painting, the number of enlarged screens of little women was 1503.
Gaomen film's positioning for ”Little Women” is the box office blockbuster ”steel magnolia flower” a few years ago, which mainly carries out precision marketing for family women. Therefore, gaomen film has abandoned the radial distribution mode of gradually expanding the number of theatrical films, instead of launching them at one time. Unlike Santa Claus, who needs to compete directly with suicide squad and Toy Story 2, little women faces much less pressure because of the audience.
Warner Bros documentary ”Bauhaus” does not have the same treatment as ”Little Women”. After the expansion, it has only 379 screens.
In addition, another Orion biographical film ”the poet and his lover”, which was screened together with ”little woman” and ”Bauhaus” on December 2, simply gave up its large-scale release due to poor market feedback.
With the opening of the Christmas season, many films in the two major seasons of Halloween and Thanksgiving have entered the closing stage.
Just in the past box office week from December 9 to December 15, only Toy Story 2 still reaped $28.86 million. The cumulative box office of this 3D animation film with a total investment of $130 million in North America reached $215.17 million.
The second and third highest grossing films in the weekly box office list were ”the freak in disguise” and ”the vampire in the night”, with the results of $8.28 million and $8.26 million respectively. The two-week unpopular schedule made the cumulative box office of the two films reach US $97.29 million and US $86.9 million respectively.
It's obvious that ”the disguised geek” will soon break through 100 million yuan.
”Night visit vampire”, which was not expected to enter the 100 million yuan box office club before, unknowingly accumulated nearly 90 million US dollars at the box office. No accident, it will successfully cross the 100 million yuan threshold in the next few weeks.
The box office of other old and new films, such as ”the haunted mortuary”, ”the zone of terror” and ”paradise in trouble”, has fallen below $5 million a week, and they have generally begun to reduce their canvases on a large scale.
It is worth mentioning that after the box office week from December 2 to December 8, the local box office of ”the haunted mortuary” broke through 100 million yuan, becoming another 100 million yuan box office Club movie in 1994. The film continued to earn $3.24 million in the box office week from December 9 to December 15, with a cumulative box office of $106.96 million.
After settling the settlement between Cisco AOL igrit and the Department of justice, Simon flew to New York to discuss with James Leibold, Joseph schrap and others about the next stage layout of the westero system in the two major fields of media and technology.
It is no surprise that the dust of the mid-term election has settled. A series of bills that were shelved will be passed one after another next year.
After the lifting of the ban on media integration, which is more important, Denise Entertainment Group will start another large-scale expansion next year, which is a long established plan.In addition, there is the capital gains tax reform act.
The Reagan tax reform unified the capital gains tax to a high 28%, which greatly hindered the capital flow in the stock market and bond market.
After Reagan left office, the elder bush, who inherited Reagan's political legacy, tried to reclassify the capital gains tax, but left the white house without success.
After Bill Clinton came to power, although the moderate Democratic president tended to reform the capital gains tax, he could not reverse the Democratic Party's tendency to increase taxes as a whole. Now, with the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the mid-term elections, both houses of Congress are dominated by Republicans who support tax cuts, and the biggest obstacle to the capital gains tax reform bill has been lifted.
It's just a matter of time.
In the past two years, it's not just Simon who spends money like water. It's the same with the whole westrow system. When the funds are insufficient, he can only borrow heavily. Simon has always been a person who doesn't like to be in debt. Even according to the scale of his personal assets, the debt ratio of the Westeros is only about 10%, which is very low among most of the rich, but Simon still doesn't like it.
As long as the capital gains tax is reformed, Simon will be able to sell some of his shares in exchange for money to repay his debts. It is expected that the minimum capital gains tax rate of 15% after the reform will be much easier to accept than the high tax rate of 28%.
Finally, the most important one is the telecommunication act that the Clinton administration has been brewing.
Unlike the quite targeted ban on media integration, I remember that the telecommunication act of 1996 will be an all-round deregulation of the two major industries of media and technology in the United States.
At that time, westero system can smoothly promote the three networks in one plan, integrate AOL, which focuses on broadband services at this time, with Verizon Telecom, which is mainly engaged in local fixed line and mobile communication business under the name of westero company. At the same time, it can also enter the field of cable TV operators to make up for the lack of its own cable TV platform of Denise entertainment.
Since this bill is so beneficial to the westero system, of course, the sooner it is enacted, the better. Westero system will surely be quietly promoted.