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No film can be completely useless.

What's more, since the original "sleeping with the enemy" can earn more than $100 million in North American box office, there must be some elements that can arouse the audience's interest.

After the public relations between Denise and fox, when the film was released on June 15, the mainstream media commented on the film, either favoring the performance of Michelle Pfeiffer, or praising the soundtrack of the film, or exploring the film's deeper revelation and accusation of domestic violence.

In a word, they are mainly positive.

When the comprehensive media score statistics came out, the score of "sleeping with the enemy" was 6.7, which was even higher than the 6.4 of "supreme detective" in the same period, and it was far higher than the low score of less than 5 estimated by the distribution team according to the feedback from the preview before the release of the film.

In addition, "sleeping with the enemy" is the first of 10 foreign cooperation films of danielis entertainment, which has been concerned by the media and fans for a long time, and the popularity foundation has been laid before the film started shooting. In the end, sleeping with the enemy won $18.86 million at the box office three days after the first weekend of the painting, with 1719 screens.

In three days, the average number of museums exceeded ten thousand, making it one of the best-selling films in one fell swoop.

In contrast, the box office of Disney's "supreme detective" was $22.54 million in the first three days, which was more than that of "sleeping with the enemy", but the number of screens of the film reached 2332, and the average box office of the three days on the weekend was not as good as that of "sleeping with the enemy".

The three-day painting cost 18.86 million US dollars, which is equivalent to the data of 19.76 million US dollars in the first seven days of ghost.

According to the weekend equivalent to 60% to 70% of the box office of the first week, sleeping with the enemy is expected to reach US $27 million to US $30 million in the first week. Even though sleeping with the enemy can not get out of the beautiful long-term like ghost because of word-of-mouth, theme and audience, as long as the next week's decline does not exceed 30%, the total box office of sleeping with the enemy in North America will hit US $100 million It's quite easy to talk.

What's more, even if it can't break 100 million yuan, compared with the total production cost of sleeping with the enemy and the publicity budget of 7 million US dollars, even if fox only accounts for half of the investment share, with 10% of the distribution Commission, the return on investment of this film can easily exceed that of "die hard 2" on June 29.

Unlike sleeping with the enemy, which costs a total of 22 million dollars in production and publicity, Bruce Willis's die hard 2 costs 70 million dollars in production alone. Taking into account the huge local and overseas publicity budget, the global box office of the film needs to reach at least three times the production cost, that is, 210 million US dollars, in order to make ends meet.

Simon's memory, "die hard 2" global box office is roughly more than 200 million level.

In the new week, Simon flew to the east coast on Monday, June 18, in order to guest star in Madonna's concert on Saturday.

Originally last year decided to relax for a year, after all, because there are always too many things at hand, Simon simply took this guest as a relaxation. After his guest appearance, Simon will fly to Melbourne to follow up the shooting of Batman: the dark knight.

During this time, Simon and Madonna's team have maintained a very close communication.

Madonna just sold her live rights to the concert for 6 million yuan, which is equivalent to five times of her ticket revenue for each concert at Brenda berry arena and 10% of the total ticket revenue for this round of concerts. In order to achieve the best stage effect and make all partners feel value for money, she forced Denise entertainment to make two free movie guest appearances. After that, Madonna got two new songs from Simon.

Of course, it was all her own.

If Simon doesn't want to, it's impossible to get a song from him.

However, Madonna's debut time is not too long after all, and there are not many songs suitable for live guitar playing. Although Simon took the guest appearance as a rest, he didn't want to go on and off in a mediocre way, so he promised.

Simon's guest appearance did not mention the cost of playing, but it involved two new songs. Besides, Madonna's previous song "bad romance", which Madonna plans to cover to her next album, should be divided into two parts. Of course, Simon doesn't have to worry about that.

Madonna ended her tour in Toronto on June 17. Without Simon's participation, Madonna moved to New York. She only needed to do proper rehearsals to get familiar with the scenes. However, with Simon's participation, except for the night concert that started on June 20, all the time during the day was spent rehearsing the three songs that Simon participated in.

Considering that the live income from a concert is equivalent to one tenth of the total box office income of her 60 tours, Madonna is also energetic.

Busy, time soon came to Friday again.

The box office data for the whole week from June 15 to June 21 are also officially released.

Disney's "supreme detective" finally won the box office title this week with $34.74 million.The box office data of sleeping with the enemy, which started the same week, was $27.62 million in the first seven days of the week, ranking second. Such box office data has obviously exceeded the initial expectation of the distribution team. It is expected that after next week, the film will be able to recover all the production and distribution costs by relying on the North American box office, and then only wait for profits.

Although both of the summer films related to danielis entertainment have not won the box office title once a week, the third most popular film is ghost, which is even more eye-catching than sleeping with the enemy.

In the third week of its release, after a substantial increase in the number of screening screens, "ghost is still alive" fell only 12% compared with last week, and the box office closed for another $18.01 million a week. In three weeks, the fantasy love movie, which started less than expected, grossed $58.33 million.

Denise entertainment has started to make a profit.

Moreover, the nearly flat box office curve for three consecutive weeks indicates that the total box office of ghost is not likely to stop at about $100 million in North America. It is generally predicted in the industry that the North American box office of ghost will at least reach the same level as that of pretty girl.

Hollywood originally thought that danilisi's entertainment strength has always been horror movies. In recent years, the series of "death is coming", "Butterfly Effect" and "scream" are really too famous. It can be said that, in addition to the unexpected "Lola Run", Simon westrow started mainly on horror movies.

Looking back at this time, we find that danelis entertainment has created three classic love movies that can be recorded in Hollywood film history: when Harry meets Sally, pretty girl and ghost.

At the end of last year, the success of "Batman: the moment of war" proved that Simon westero has more infinite potential in improvising action movies.

With the blockbuster art films produced by gaomen pictures, it's obvious that danilisi entertainment has no shortcomings at all.

Although the box office decline of 41% in the third week was significantly narrowed compared with that of last week, only 26% this week, the box office of comprehensive memory, which started to suppress ghost, has slipped to the fourth place on the list, with only $15.74 million and a total of $72.14 million.

According to this box office trend, the total box office of full memory in North America is expected to be only about 120 million US dollars.

Warner Bros., No. 5, produced the crime thriller presumption of innocence starring Harrison Ford, which also gave an unexpected box office trend. Although the opening was not high, the next week saw only a slight drop of 13% to close at US $10.17 million, and the total box office is expected to reach more than US $50 million.

In addition, in the new week, two new films will be released in North American Theaters, namely, Eddie Murphy's "48 hours in the sky" and Steven Spielberg's fantasy horror comedy "little monster 2".

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In an apartment on 68th Street East of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Simon and Janet sit in the dining room, eating breakfast and flipping through the box office figures of the past week.

The two films "ghost" and "sleeping with the enemy" that have been released in the summer season are all decided. Depending on the box office results of these two films, Simon is not too worried about the Ninja Turtle on July 6, the hand shaking the cradle on July 27 and the ghost chasing 3 on August 10.

Janet waited for Simon to put the box office report aside and said, "we've basically agreed on that mattress company named Simmons. Would you like to go and have a look this morning?"

Simon noticed Simmons because the mattress company is so well-known on the other side of the ocean that it is a synonym for mattress.

However, according to the previous information, the business situation of this time-honored mattress company with a long history is unsatisfactory in recent years. Before Simon noticed the company, Simmons had been changed hands twice in 1986 and 1988.

The first time was a private equity fund. In 1986, it bought Simmons for us $124 million. After two years of operation, Simmons got rid of the original business dilemma and still showed a prosperous state after the 1987 stock market crash.

The Simmons management team, who thought that they had made great contributions in this process, proposed a management buyout to the private equity fund in 1988. The private equity fund did not insist on it. It readily chose to cash out and eventually took us $240 million.

Simmons has also become an employee stock company.

Then, obviously overestimated its own ability, coupled with the high debt undertaken in the process of MBO and the untimely reform of internal interest distribution, Simmons, which had been good, had a sharp decline in its business situation in the past two years, just like Reynolds nabesk, a tobacco giant, which was also in trouble at this time.

Simon heard Janet talk about it and asked, "what's the exact price?"

"96 million dollars, 100% equity," Janet said, "but after the acquisition, we have to take on 136 million dollars of debt."More than $100 million in debt, which is clearly a legacy of the last MBO.

Simon thought to himself, "isn't Apollo management alone?"

Janet shook her head and said, "of course not. We have two other private equity funds. We have invested $36 million, accounting for 37.5% of the shares, and we have the follow-up control of Simmons."

Simon nodded approvingly.

Apollo management, which still has $500 million in cash, has invested $96 million, even with $136 million in debt. But this is not in line with the investment style of private equity funds. Putting all the funds on one project will not only increase the risk, but also prevent the fund from withdrawing from cash out at the right time.

In Simon's opinion, the best way to invest is to undertake only part of the investment and gain control of the acquired company.

After thinking about it, Simon said: "after the collapse of the junk bond market, the original model of using highly leveraged means to swallow enterprises and quickly split and sell assets to cash out is no longer applicable. Next, private equity should focus on improving the operation of the acquired company. Perhaps, at the same time of enterprise merger, cersei capital can also cultivate a group of professional managers. "

Janet nodded seriously and said, "I'll have a discussion with them in the morning."

Simon listened to Janet's promise and added, "of course, I'm not necessarily right. You're the experts."

Janet leaned over Simon and said, "even if you're wrong, I'll listen."

Simon pretended to hide and said with a smile, "don't do that. It's too easy for men to inflate."

Janet's eyes flickered, her eyes moved down Simon's body: "are you expanding? Can I help you? "

Simon raised his hand and knocked on the woman's forehead.

After a few laughs, Janet whispered again, "I've asked them to start building long crude oil futures. If you make a mistake this time, we'll lose a lot."

Although Saddam has threatened to fight for Iraq's oil interests, there is no sign of war in the Middle East, and most people do not believe that he really dares to fight again.

Recent crude oil prices have fluctuated between $14 and $15. Simon knows that the lowest point of the crisis is about $13.

However, many analysts predict that the international crude oil price may drop to about US $10 due to the continuous increase of oil production in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other oil producing countries.

If the war on August 2 does not happen as scheduled and the crude oil price falls to $10 a barrel, cersei capital will not only spit out all the profits earned by shorting in the previous few months, but may even lose the principal.

It's really a risky bet.

Of course, high risk also means high return.

If we don't make bets in advance now, and when the situation becomes clear and we see the signs of war, we will be able to establish bulls in a rush, and then there will be little profit for cersei capital.

Simon thought about this and said to Janet with a smile, "if you lose, you lose. These years have been so conspicuous. I really want to lose somewhere now."

Janet laughed and said nothing more.

After breakfast, Janet rushed to cersei capital headquarters in midtown, but Simon didn't go to Jersey City. Madonna had a concert last night and probably didn't get up in the morning.

Simon's destination is the East Coast branch of Denise entertainment in Greenwich Village.

In the morning, there is a new film project to be discussed, which is called "fighting against smart stars" and adapted from "Saturday night live". The creator is Michael Meyers, who later starred in the "ace spy" series.

Simon guided the director of new world film, Denny Morris, to determine the expansion target of developing vulgar comedy market in the next step, and soon found this alternative comedy with box office exceeding 100 million in North America in a batch of projects Morris was looking for.

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