Hollywood New Century

The economic situation is getting worse and worse, but the North American summer film market is still hot. As the most important film period of the year, the summer period has always been the best time for various film companies to capture the box office.

Throughout the summer, only one movie was released by Xinghai Pictures, which was Mamma Mia! " released.

After three days in New York, Amanda Seyfried and Simon traveled with the cast to the UK for Mamma Mia! ' world premiere.

7.10, Mamma Mia! will be released in the UK and Australia first, followed by North America a week later.

In the huge Long Island manor, Simon sat in the viewing room upstairs, put down the newspaper, and enjoyed the sea view of the Atlantic Ocean.

Oil futures were shorted. In less than a week, the price of crude oil rose by $2 per barrel. Because it was short, Simon lost a lot of money. After all, it was 10 times leveraged at $1.5 billion.

Simon is very stable, knowing that this is the limit. If he persists until the end of the month, the price of crude oil will fall off a cliff.

Back to the light, it should be the most vivid word.

On the other hand, the film, which has spent so much money to set up a distribution network this year, has not released its own film this summer. "Mamma Mia" is the last film to be released under a contract with 20th Century Fox.

It will be released in North America on 7.18, but the blockbuster "Dark Knight" by Warner Bros. will be released on the same day. Look down on this movie.

The summer theater line is tight, and there is no competition for the original resources of Summit Entertainment. Simon’s acquisition of the United Theater is all for the future movies to compete for the screen.

MPAA grading, cinema resources, and the two mountains of film distribution are problems that distribution companies cannot avoid.

Publicity and distribution are too expensive, especially for commercial films. "Iron Man", which will be released at the end of the year, is a top priority. With the projects underway, next year's film production and publicity costs are also astronomical.

Fortunately, as long as several films in the second half of this year continue to be successful, the North American distribution network of Xinghai Pictures can be set up; Xinghai Entertainment, which has just paid off its loan, can gather a large amount of funds to start its business next year through overseas copyrights and bank loans. .

MPAA can’t get around it, but the channels of the cinema will definitely be more abundant next year, and the quantity and quality of movies is the guarantee of Xinghai Films.

After all, in terms of film investment, Xinghai Pictures' current self-made films are no less than those of the Big Six, and they are more secure.

What's worse is the strong distribution system established by the Big Six over the years. After all, the Big Six, as the world's largest film distributors, produce many movies every year with other film companies and hand over the distribution rights to them.

"Alas!" Simon sighed while leaning back on the chair, time, heritage, influence, the difference is too much.

Just as Simon was thinking about it, the beautiful housekeeper Sofia Vergara had recruited from Colombia came to announce the arrival of the guests.

Private business jets, villa caretakers and other jobs that require people, Sofia Vergara has brought about 10 young girls with the American dream from South America to serve Simon.

For these Miss South American beauty pageants who have written letters and have non-disclosure agreements, Simon is very relieved, after all, one sentence can decide their lives.

After a while, Anne Hathaway came to Simon's side, put her arms around Simon's shoulder from behind, bowed her head and kissed Simon's face.

"Well, you're not going to the celebration party of Warner Bros.'s "Confused Detective", it's supposed to be in Los Angeles?" Simon laughed.

"Well, I just flew in from Los Angeles today, and I didn't come home. I came directly from the airport," Anne Hathaway said, putting her handbag aside.

"So it is!" The comedy action film "Confused Detective" starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway was released in North America in late June, and it has already exceeded 100 million US dollars at the North American box office!

The supporting actor Dwayne Johnson in "Confused Detective" is also a Hollywood actor that Simon is concerned about. After "The Scorpion King", Dwayne Johnson also seems to have encountered a bottleneck.

It seems that it will have to wait until "Fast and Furious 5" is released before Dwayne Johnson will start to emerge!

However, Universal Pictures is still filming "Fast and Furious 4", and the restarted series has also found Vin Diesel, the protagonist of the first film, and Paul Walker of the first two films.

A series to take off, of course Simon will pay attention to this kind of movie, and in this movie, the model from Israel, the future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot has also begun to step into Hollywood.

"Simon, are you under a lot of pressure now?" Anne Hathaway asked concerned as she sat down next to Simon.

The Nine-headed Bird Fund suffered a loss in shorting oil futures; the "The Incredible Hulk" co-operated by Marvel Pictures and Universal did not fare well at the box office, and Xinghai's Marvel Pictures will release "Iron Man" this year, another "Thor". " has also started filming, and the market is looking down.

The newspaper shouted: "Simon Pike, who is not going anywhere, is planted on Marvel, and the huge amount of production and announcement capital cannot be recovered!"

"A lot of pressure?" Simon turned to look at Anne Hathaway and smiled:

"What pressure? I don't even know how much money I made this year!"

"Well, yes!" Anne Hathaway thought about it, indeed, the wave of the subprime mortgage crisis has made the Nine-headed Bird Fund a huge profit!

The New Jersey Nets, the stadium project in Brooklyn, the Xinghai Building in Manhattan, and the Xinghai headquarters in Burbank, aren't these big projects that Simon is working on?

Anne Hathaway knew that Simon was not interested in these reports in the newspaper, and changed the subject: "I have seen a news these days that Rafael Farriere was arrested by the United States federal government for fraud last month. The Bureau of Investigation has arrested!"

"Well, who?" Of course Simon didn't remember this person, and he thought of something as soon as he asked,

"Your ex boyfriend?"

Anne Hathaway also nodded embarrassedly. Although she had broken up with Rafael Farrier for two years, and she had forgotten about that guy, reporters still found themselves to ask their opinions on this matter!

If I hadn't met Simon Pike through Emily Blunt, and had not developed this relationship with Simon, I would have been kept in the dark by the fraudster Rafael Farrieri; then, this year There will be news that Anne Hathaway's boyfriend is a fraudster and has been arrested by the FBI.

Simon suddenly realized, gently lifted the girl's chin, scratched her fingers on the girl's lips, and said with a smile:

"How can I thank me!"