Chapter 1082 (1/2)
Simon continued to spend a busy weekend in Los Angeles after the release of ”baby thunderbolt” and returned to the east coast the day before Christmas Eve on December 23. On the same day, daenerys Entertainment Group quietly and quickly completed the last issue of $5 billion long-term bonds in 1996.
Because this time it is still mainly for overseas capital, and it is deliberately low-key, it has not caused much trouble.
The 10-year and 20-year long-term bonds of US $5 billion were sold out by investors all over the world on the day they were launched. After all, Denise Entertainment's current corporate credit rating is completely equal to that of US Treasury bonds, and the interest rate of corporate bonds is higher than that of US Treasury bonds, which naturally makes all kinds of investors pursuing stable returns flock to them.
Of course, as the leading enterprise in the market value of the New York Stock Exchange, media attention is inevitable.
The net profit of danielis entertainment in the past fiscal year has exceeded $5 billion, so it is impossible to be short of money. Therefore, in many people's eyes, there is no need for the Hollywood giant to issue bonds. Simon westero naturally has other purposes in doing so.
As for why, since the beginning of this year, it has been repeatedly talked about by numerous media. The
vistle system is hoarding funds for the economic downturn after the stock market bubble burst, so as to pass the cold winter and even further expand the market.
has only been talking about the whole year from the beginning of the year to the present. The nascent index, which has the highest bubble content, has not only failed to break down, but has been getting higher and higher. This inevitably makes many people feel numb. Therefore, more discussions are confined to professional financial media, and most of the public's attention is focused on the coming Christmas.
On the other hand.
A box office week across Christmas is fast passing in a lively and warm holiday atmosphere.
In the box office week from December 20 to December 26, even with Christmas Eve, the total box office in North America broke the $200 million mark under the stimulation of a lot of hot movies.
First of all, the painting ”Thunderbolt baby” started last week.
In the first week of release, with a higher popularity and reputation than the game of the brave, ”Thunderbolt baby” successfully took over the baton and reached the top, earning as much as $72.01 million in seven days, which is close to the production cost of the film of $75 million. In the first week, the average cost of the museum reached $22900, which is a full $5000 higher than the $17900 in the same period of the game of the brave.
It can be imagined that if the screen size of ”Thunderbolt baby” is equal to that of ”game of the brave”, it is not impossible to hit $80 million in the first week.
Hit by the big sale of ”Thunderbolt baby”, game of the brave fell 34% the next week, and its revenue fell to $41.79 million, totaling $105.14 million in two weeks.
Frankly speaking, the box office in two weeks is over 100 million, which is a success for most films of this era, and the game of the brave is no exception. Unfortunately, it was supposed to be the hottest week of the year, and it was also the most popular CG special effects blockbuster type, with a decline of more than 30%, which was obviously unsatisfactory.
However, ”the game of the brave” is actually lucky, because this week, ”wonder woman 2”, an absolute phenomenal blockbuster at the end of the year, was unexpectedly overtaken by an artistic feature film.
This movie is, of course, ”the catcher of hearts.”.
In the third week of release, which is also the second week of large-scale production, the number of screens of ”mind catcher” has increased from 1746 last week to 2125. Compared with other large-scale films released in the same period, this art drama with an investment of only 10 million US dollars has become the only film to reverse the decline this week, with another 6% reverse decline of 25.31 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office in three weeks has reached 54.66 million US dollars The company fully recovered the total investment of 20 million US dollars in production and publicity, and began to make profits.
The former ”mind catcher” still won more than 130 million US dollars at the local box office under the same period of ”Titanic”. This time, the combination of ”wonder woman 2”, ”game of the brave” and ”Thunderbolt baby” also failed to suppress the edge of the film, which is rare.
Under the impact of ”Thunderbolt baby”, magic woman 2, which ranked fourth in the weekly box office list, fell 46% last week and closed another $20.95 million, with a total box office of $374.06 million.
This result is in line with the analysis of the industry after the first week of the release of wonder woman 2.
In the first week of the Thanksgiving season, ”wonder woman 2” took more than 150 million US dollars at the box office, second only to the box office miracle ”Batman vs Superman: Dawn of justice” last year, ranking second in Hollywood film history. However, at the beginning, the media in the industry decided that the 400 million box office of ”wonder woman 2” is not a big problem. Whether it can impact 500 million or even higher depends on the market reaction of the two Christmas blockbusters.
Now, ”game of the brave” and ”Thunderbolt baby” are both successful, even exceeding the expectations of the studio, which inevitably has an impact on the box office of ”wonder woman 2”. This super blockbuster, which was expected to impact the local 500 million, is still stable in the current situation, but it is also obvious that it is difficult to get out of a higher level if it has to stop at more than 400 million.In the final analysis, it's still the film market with such a big plate.
Of course, in the eyes of other Hollywood studios, this ”regret” makes people want to scratch the wall. The top four movies, including ”baby thunderbolt”, ”game of the brave”, ”mind catcher” and ”wonder woman 2”, even though ”baby thunderbolt” and ”game of the brave” are branded by MGM and Warner Brothers respectively, who doesn't know that they are all projects dominated by danielis Entertainment.
The most popular weekly schedule is just these four films, with a total box office of nearly 160 million, while this week's total box office is only 220 million US dollars, equivalent to four films occupying 72% of the market share. In addition, in the total 17 films entered into the cinema box office statistics this week, other 13 films, such as ”jingle all the way”, ”angel bodyguard” and so on, only get less than 30% of the remaining 40 million US dollars Box office.
Crazy.
If you look at the whole year, danelis entertainment is a monopoly, no longer as much as in previous years, there are several other studios that belong to the top ten of the annual list.
The layman is just watching.
In Hollywood circles, the more people understand the strong gambling nature of movies, the more they can realize how terrible Denise entertainment is to achieve this.
Because of the strong uncertainty of the film industry, even if a studio can produce a blockbuster film, it is difficult to prevent other film companies from offering the same blockbuster money to share the market share. This is also the main reason why there will be oligopoly in other industries for nearly a century, but Hollywood has always been the main reason for the coexistence of the six big seven big eight.
Now, danielis entertainment has miraculously reversed this recognized industrial law.
”So, how on earth did you do it?”
The manor in the northern suburb of Greenwich is already in the afternoon of December 31. The villa is preparing for a new year's Eve party. Catherine Bigelow and Simon, who haven't seen each other for a long time, are leaning on a sofa in a living room, drinking red wine and smiling.
What they are discussing happens to be the situation where Denise entertainment is almost dominating Hollywood.
The reason is not complicated.
First of all, of course, Simon's golden finger of two generations has played the most direct guiding role in avoiding danielis entertainment from setting foot in many minefields. This is the most critical point and Simon's unique advantage.
Secondly, Simon completed the promotion of Hollywood film industry model ahead of schedule.
People who don't know always talk about Hollywood's powerful film industry. In fact, carefully speaking, before the 1990s, Hollywood was undoubtedly powerful, and industry was not perfect. In fact, this change started with the rise of the blockbuster in the 1990s, and really formed the film industry that allowed Hollywood to dominate the world.