I’m in Hollywood Chapter 880: Nothing to say
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On June 16th, just after entering the working day, news about the abnormality of the Southeast Asia foreign exchange market appeared in the Wall Street Daily.
The major financial centers in Asia, Tokyo, Hong Kong Island and Singapore ’s major foreign exchange exchanges, the exchange rates of Thai baht and Indonesian rupiah have begun to show significant fluctuations, and everyone in the circle feels a black cloud. A sense of urgency.
In recent months, due to international foreign exchange speculators secretly absorbing the currencies of Southeast Asia countries to open positions, the currencies of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries have experienced a brief rapid appreciation. The highest point for the exchange of Thai baht to USD even reached 22: 1, and the appreciation was close to 12%.
After the last two days of accumulation, on Wednesday, the international foreign exchange speculators led by the Ross-led Quantum Fund and Tiger Fund suddenly officially opened their fangs to the Southeast Asia currency system. Since the opening of major foreign exchange exchanges on that day, a large number of baht The sell-off appeared on the major exchange platforms, and the sudden attack made the Thai government completely caught off guard, even failing to organize an effective counterattack in the first place.
Subsequently, three consecutive days of continuous baht selling, it was easy to beat the temporary appreciation of the baht back to the prototype, and even fell out of the average exchange rate of the baht to USD25: 1 in recent years. As of the close of Friday, the baht against the USD exchange rate has plummeted to 26.3: 1. The depreciation of the three-day period reached a staggering 19.5%.
In 1997, the total currency issuance in Thailand was about 90,200billion baht, calculated at the average exchange rate of 25: 1 in recent years, which is equivalent to 370billion USD. But in just three days, when the exchange rate fell to 26.3: 1, the total value of Thailand ’s currency had already fallen to 350billion, and the wealth of 20billion USD disappeared. And many people know that this is just the beginning.
At a time when the Southeast Asia currency market is filled with smoke, the competition for the North America summer film Box Office is also fierce.
After three days of 70250,000 USD Box Office on the first weekend, entering the working day, the Box Office momentum of "Finding Nemo" has not decreased, and continues to harvest Box Office at a rate of 600 to 7million USD per day.
Finally, Box Office in the first week of "Finding Nemo" reached 97450,000 USD. Not only did the new film "Macro Contact" released over the same period rise by more than 66 million, it is almost the same as the sum of Box Office in the first two weeks of "The Lion King2".
Due to the influence of "Finding Nemo", the second-ranked "Time Out Contact" has only 31.29 million USD in the first week of Box Office.
The final decline of "The Lion King2" expanded to 36%. In the third week, it only harvested 27.09 million USD, accumulating Box Office1.2.5 billion USD, ranking third.
The most tragic Box Office this week is undoubtedly the fourth place of "Godzilla". Due to the one-sided negative reviews and the strong impact of "Finding Nemo", "Godzilla" fell by nearly 68% in the second week. Box Office only has a pitiful 23.57 million USD, and two weeks of Box Office accumulatively 97.23 million USD, not even as good as the first week of "Finding Nemo" Box Office.
The bleak Box Office performance of "Godzilla" not only made Sony's original global 1 billion USD Box Office ambitions become a joke, and even the media was too lazy to comment on this bad film destined to be forgotten.
Although Firefly Pictures's "Con Air" ranked fifth, due to the unsatisfactory performances of "Godzilla" and "Macro Contact", the third week of "Con Air" still maintained a good decline in the third week. At 34%, another 15.28 million USD was collected, and the cumulative Box Office climbed steadily to 72650,000 USD. Although the film North America Box Office is still difficult to predict whether it can break through 100 million, compared with the films of "The Fifth Element", "Godzilla" and "Macro Contact", "Con Air" is still quite good. What's more, the cost of "Con Air" 75 million USD is the lowest among several live-action blockbusters, and there is little pressure to pay back.
With the release of the Box Office data from the previous week, on June 20, Friday, "Batman and Robin", which had been tightly covered by Warner, were finally released in more than North America2900 theaters, and the quality of the film was not at all inadequate. Many media and film critic guess that a bad word is hard to describe.
A comment in the "Wall Street Daily" may be able to show some of the voices of the majority of film critic: "In the whole movie, the images of the protagonists such as George · Clooney, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger are undoubtedly very close Comic characters, but for story lines, movie lines, character acting, and others, I really ca n’t think of any comments. "
As a Superhero character who has been selling on North America for decades, Batman has arguably the largest fan community in North America. However, in the case where the entire series has frequently changed the original and the quality of the movie has been declining, the patience of Batman fans seems to have finally been exhausted. Although the film still won the single-day Box Office championship with 16.11 million USD Box Office on the first day, but only the second day of the release, "Batman and Robin" was kicked off the top position of the single-day Box Office list by "Finding Nemo".
Even, "Batman and Robin" set a record for the first Saturday of the summer Box Office decline. According to the usual Box Office rules, most of the films are released in the first week, Saturday Box Office will be higher than Friday, even if it is also "Godzilla" that suffered a lot of bad reviews two weeks ago, Saturday Box Office is also higher than Friday Box Office Probably 2 million USD. But "Batman and Robin" after the first day of 16.11 million USD Box Office, the next day Box Office fell to 15.09 million USD.
"Finding Nemo" after 14300,000 USD Box Office, which was temporarily suppressed by "Batman and Robin" on Friday, the next day Box Office jumped to the high of 17.5 million USD again. The industry expects that "Finding Nemo" will remain above 60 million USD and Box Office even after Box Office Better than the first week of many big production movies Box Office.
Compared to the first week of "Batman and Robin", Box Office is expected to be only 55 million USD. In terms of the production cost of this man-made movie 100 million 25 million USD, as the current overseas Box Office appeal of the Batman series is not even as good as "Godzilla", Warner must recover at least 80 million USD in the first week to achieve a break-even with Box Office, but now It seems that this hope is obviously very slim.
The failure of "Batman and Robin" again caused many people to completely lose their confidence in the summer live-action blockbuster. Metro Goldwyn Mayer's upcoming "Casino Royale" will be the first to bear the brunt of it. Some entertainment media have even waited for Eric with a tone of misfortune. The appearance of first part Box Office Waterloo in his career.
Eric has no time to worry about these remarks in the media. The formal outbreak of the Southeast Asia economic crisis has not only affected the entertainment business of Southeast Asia under Firefly Group, the entire Firefly system, Nokia, Qualcomm, LTD three companies have Southeast Asia A large number of businesses, the main product factories of Nokia and LTD are also located in Thailand, the Philippines and other countries. Yahoo, Cisco and other companies have also invested heavily in the past few years to start the layout of Southeast Asia. Once the currencies of Southeast Asia countries completely collapse, these companies have local Business will be strongly impacted.
Eric always likes to be a shopkeeper, and usually has Chris to help take care of some things he should come forward. But this time, Chris went to Tokyo to sit down in person, and many things fell on Eric. After all, previous life has a lot of memories of the Southeast Asia economic crisis, and Eric is also willing to intervene at this time, using his previous life memory to make a more reasonable layout for the business of several companies.
After spending a whole week in various documents and teleconferences, until Saturday afternoon, Eric returned from San Diego Qualcomm Headquarters to Los Angeles. It was only a short leisure time and once again turned my mind to Hollywood.
Chris · Jenna's mood in the past half a month can only be described as ups and downs.
At the beginning of the month, her daughter who had gone to Los Angeles for the summer vacation suddenly called New York's house, claiming that she had obtained an opportunity from Eric Williams to allow her to produce Reality Show. Chris · Jenna's first reaction was naturally that her daughter was joking with her, connecting their family with big figures like Eric Williams. That's not a joke.
After the daughter repeatedly told what happened in detail on the day, the telephone number left by Eric was reported again, and Chris · Jenna only dialed the number suspiciously, although it was immediately confirmed from the assistant office of Eric Williams , Chris · Jenna still froze for more than half an hour, even though she was ecstatic.
Chris · Jenna has always been a woman who longed for Hollywood Vanity Fair. When she was married to Robert · Kardashian, she also valued that the other person has her own Record Company, and has a very wide network in TV, music and sports celebrities. After Robert Kardashian sold Record Company and switched to an irrelevant juice business, Chris Jenna soon parted ways with the other party and quickly married TV sports celebrity Bruce Jenna one month after the divorce Got married.
However, although Bruce Jenna was a sports star in the 1970s, his influence has long since been retired, and now he can only occasionally attend some TV shows or serve as a sports channel. Event commentators, with the entertainment industry and Hollywood can only be regarded as barely involved.
As a loyal audience of LifetimeTV Station, the sudden arrival of Reality Show producer opportunities made Chris · Jenna realize that if you can seize it, it will definitely make her a step into the sky. For this, see "Project Runway" and "America's Next Top Model" The two producers and presenters of just knows.
There was no time to think about anything else. On the day of the confirmation, Chris · Jenna dragged her husband and a bunch of children to Los Angeles, and lived in the house of her ex-husband Robert · Kardashian. Once again, she asked her daughter clearly At that time, Chris · Jenna bought a lot of Reality Show video tapes and related books and materials, and began to write Reality Show program materials while referring to the pondering. As for the daughter's talk about Eric Williams, her husband Bruce Jenna could participate in the message. She was automatically ignored by her.
One week later, Chris · Jenna personally rushed to Burbank Firefly Group Headquarters and handed over the completed planning book to an assistant of Eric, followed by a long and painful wait. In order to avoid the dislike of Eric assistants, Chris · Jenna only dared to call once every three days to ask for news.
I was originally looking forward to the daughter who entered Drew · Barrymore's girlfriend circle to help listen to some news, but then I found out that because of her daughter's companion, the girl of the Hilton family had been kicked out of the child because of offending circle. As for the husband and the ex-husband, upon inquiry, it was discovered that the two men who were barely regarded as Los Angeles celebrities were so far away from the core circle of Hollywood and could not reach any useful people at all. Although Cliff Peak Manor is located in a prominent position of Malibu, but Chris · Jenna did not have the courage to take the initiative. (To be continued.)