Blame me?

Who told you not to care, even if you don't like the genre, it's the theme song of a movie with a production cost of more than 200 million, and it's too late to take regret medicine now.

However, his ex-wife also complained twice, she couldn't finish the commercial performance at the end of the year, the signature Christmas song and the New Year's Eve dinner ticket in Times Square, the heart of the empire, and there was not much spare time to worry about.

"I won't show up, I won't show up in the cinema, and don't expect me to cooperate with you in the news."

The next day, the first full release day of Titanic ended, and the box office performance improved, and Bill McKennick, president of Fox Films, personally called to ask for help in publicity.

Song Ya refused without thinking about it, the disgusting rumor of 60 million to buy Xiao Li Zi and smile was already spreading with the opening of the big ship, he would definitely not risk being photographed to see the Titanic, let alone come forward to help stand on the platform, "No, it's useless to persuade anyone, I, a black star, don't have a high degree of overlap with your movie-watching group, and Spike Lee and they are supporting Morgan Freeman's heavy rain, it's inconvenient for me to ......"

On the transatlantic routes of the early twentieth century, both the wealthy and the poor immigrants in the upper class were white, and the blacks would only appear as waiters, musicians, cooks, and boilermakers.

“APLUS！ In any case, let's do our part! All right? And for your sixty million. ”

Bill McKennick cried and begged, "I'll do this again at the box office...... I'm going to have to jump off the building! ”

At present, the first weekend box office of North Rice, the Titanic is very likely to catch up, at least draw 007's Tomorrow's Empire, but this result is far from enough to return to the original, according to past experience, Titanic must at least reach the global box office line of nearly 600 million yuan starring Will Smith 'Men in Black' in order to turn a profit.

And the man in black has been the hottest three weeks of this year's summer file, and the box office of Beimi has a total of 150 million!

And the Christmas file and the subsequent New Year's file, the Titanic only has two weeks, one week less than the man in black, and the first week can't even close the gap between 007's Tomorrow's Empire, and the third week of two weeks or the subsequent overall box office will fall sharply, it is impossible to exceed 150 million at all......

Fox Film's plan is to grind the Titanic into the awards season for a long time after these two weeks, hoping to use film awards to maintain follow-up buying, but the role of awards in boosting the box office has an upper limit, even if it gets good results in the Oscars or other heavyweight awards, it can't make up for the weakness of the Christmas file and the subsequent New Year's file.

"Jump, it's none of my business that you and Cameron both jump off the building."

Song Ya was very ruthless, just in revenge for the other party's forced Yeremov to continue to pay for the project while he was unconscious.

“APLUS……”

"Of course, don't think about missing any of my shares!"

The big ship sank, and the 60 million could be fished out a little bit, and he hung up the phone and immediately ordered Yeremov to keep an eye on Fox Films, in case the other party used bankruptcy protection to repay the debt.

Highland Park was deserted all Christmas, and Aunt Susie and Tony had a Christmas Eve reunion, while Song Ya was still wrestling with the muscle-building meal and the huge amount of exercise, taking time to record songs.

"How much was the box office in the first week?"

On the 26th, Shakira sat under the beautiful Christmas tree in the hall, teasing little Arlene in her arms, while Song Ya talked to Yeremov on the phone.

"Nearly 50 million, the first at the weekly box office, we defeated 007's Tomorrow's Empire." Yeremov told the good news, but was in low spirits, "but the advantage did not exceed ten million." ”

"Nearly 50 million, that is, ......"

Next week's New Year's stalls generally perform at the box office as well as Christmas stalls, at most flat, "no more than 100 million in two weeks." "When office workers re-enter the rhythm of work in the third week, the box office will usher in a cliff-like decline in half," 300 million a week? ”

"I'm not so optimistic, the box office will drop in the second week, 100 million to 110 million."

Yeremov replied: "However, the reputation of women is booming, and Fox is preparing to continue to mobilize their enthusiasm for watching movies and compete for the awards season." ”

"Damn it, there won't be a miracle?" Song Ya asked with a glimmer of hope.

"Probably not, let's look at the long-term performance."

Yeremov comforted him, "On the bright side, Titanic is always in a much better situation than Cut Throat Island, and the box office performance of other markets around the world is far better than that of Future Water World." ”

Which pot is not opened? "Even if the water world is in the future, the global box office will only be 250 million! It's not worth our production costs plus publicity costs! Song Ya reprimanded.

"Haha! Lost money in Hollywood? Don't worry about APLUS, this time we've got you a nuke-grade goodie! ”

The 3DFX trio's gloating laughter suddenly came from outside the door, and Rose walked in first, "We're going to go tonight and contribute a few movie tickets to your project." ”

“Fxxkyou。”

The relationship between the trio is stiff, and they will no longer bring a large arcade machine to themselves by the way, this time on the eve of the release of 3DFX's Q4 financial report and annual report, Song Ya summoned all the company's executives, including the trio, to this meeting.

Song Ya didn't have a good attitude towards them, and glanced coldly at the president Ballard who was following the crowd, "Haven't you gone to see it yet?" ”

Ballard and the trio not only provoked Sega in the prospectus, they also lied, the net profit of 3DFX in 97 was not enough to reach the 60 million boasted in the prospectus, even if the combined Videologic was added, the total operating income of the two companies was less than 100 million, only nearly 90 million.

The gross profit margin is about 50% because the 3D acceleration chip does not have strong competitors, and the net profit is less than 30 million because of the big failure of the VoodooRUSH project, and now the market value of 3DFX is still more than 600 million.

The market has reacted in advance, and the stock price has been falling for days, but fortunately there is a buffer from the Christmas and New Year holidays.

"No, we watched 007, wow, it's a wonderful agent blockbuster, it's still that taste, the Chinese female agent (played by Michelle Yeoh) in it is really amazing, beautiful, beautiful, and very good kung fu."

Rose smirked.

Song Ya also didn't watch 007, but she probably understood a little, like the musical Miss Saigon, the Orientalist plot from the central perspective of the West, the yellow woman fell in love with each other as soon as she met a handsome and dashing white man, even if James Bond was an enemy agent.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's solve your problems first!"

Song Ya gave Shakira a look, Latin women know how to give face to their men in front of outsiders, and without saying a word, they obediently picked up little Arlene and disappeared upstairs.

"I don't want to do anything fake in the financial report, OK? Operating income, profit and other data must stand up to audit. ”

Firmly controlling the 3DFX board of directors is a double-edged sword, and Song Ya doesn't want to get into trouble in this kind of thing, he is most worried that the trio of liars will be clever again, so they will 'arrest' everyone during the vacation.

"That stock price ......"

CEO McLauren hesitated for a moment and said tentatively, "If the stock price falls too hard, we will have a lot of pressure, and APLUS you know, the UK side was not willing to see Videologic merged by 3DFX at first." ”

"We can postpone some operating costs and equipment depreciation until Q1 next year." said the CFO.

"Yes, but I still say that the financial report, especially the first annual report after listing, must stand up to the doubts and tests of Wall Street." Song Ya said: "We don't play with the ledger, we don't play tricks, we focus on running the company. ”

"That ......," the CFO looked at McLaren and Ballard.

"The chairman has already decided, so I'll do it." Ballard replied with a sigh.

"Okay."

The 3DFX executives were a little depressed, but the trio was happy, "It's still up to us, APLUS, and your computer is still in the study?" I'll show you something good. ”

Song Ya stood up with the armrests of the sofa, without the help of crutches, and slowly led the way in front.

Naturally, it attracted some compliments from McLauren and others.

"Let me have the honor of introducing you: VOODOO2!"

The trio directly disassembled the Compaq brand machine in the study into 'parts', and the CTO Chief Technology Officer Scott took out two new graphics cards with dense chips from his bag, inserted them all into the motherboard slots, and then connected various cables.

"So VOODOO2 it's just two cards?" Song Ya asked silently.

"It's our proprietary SLi technology, which is roughly like progressive scanning on a TV, with one for singular lines and one for even."

Ross explained, turned on the computer, "Try it, APLUS." ”

"Try what?"

"Oh yes, wait." Rose took out the game disc of Quake 2 and installed it.

"The annual report will be in January next year with a letter to shareholders, revealing the listing plan of the pure 3D accelerator card VOODOO2, as well as the recent progress of our 2D plus 3D VoodooRUSH2 project, hoping that the card can win back the confidence and stock price of PC manufacturers."

"With Videologic's 2D technology and 3DFX's 3D technology, I believe we've achieved the best balance of cost, stability and compatibility and won't repeat the mistakes of VoodooRUSH," McLauren said. ”

"Of course, there is still an old problem, graphics card manufacturers have begun to try to jointly manipulate the price of VOODOO2 end products, I think it is better to write the plan to acquire a self-owned graphics card manufacturer next year into the shareholders' letter, so that they can be jealous." President Ballard suggested.

"It's up to you to decide."

Song Ya thought about it, there was no big problem, clicked on the icon of Thor's hammer 2 on the desktop, his eyes flashed instantly, and the two VOODOO2 graphics cards brought him a very good visual experience, and the 3D effect was very close...... Even better than the 3D modeling in BabaYetu's Apocalypse MV?

"Not bad."

He didn't want the trio to be too proud, so he quickly re-put his face up and played two casually, which was nothing more than the old set of FPS games to shoot monsters, and gave a faint complimentary comment, "Let's look at the effect of a single card, there shouldn't be many users willing to spend money to buy two special 3D acceleration cards, right?" ”

He pointed to the case, "In particular, you need a 2D card, that is, you want to buy three cards at once?" The investment is also too high. ”

The 2D card that the trio brings to use is not even a product of their own company, it comes from the 2D chip of the friend S3, and the graphics card brand is Dimeng.

Perhaps poked in the sore spot, Rose silently removed one of the VOODOO2.

Sure enough, the 3D effect of the game is a little worse, but Song Ya feels that it is still much better than VOODOO1, "Can other competitors catch up with us next year?" He asked.

"Absolutely impossible, no one can compete with voodoo 2."

Everyone gathered in front of the computer replied in unison.

"Lao Tzu is angry when he sees him now."

After that, there was a long meeting around the Q4 financial report, annual report and shareholder notice, and there are no hard and fast rules on the disclosure time on the side of the United States, but the annual report of general listed companies is launched from January to March, and 3DFX is scheduled for January.

The trio rushed to show off their VOODOO2, but they didn't get the expected slap in the face from Song Yana, and Rose left Highland Park and scolded angrily.

"Where to go now? Back to the hotel? ”

Scott, who was driving, asked.

"No, go and see the Titanic who took him off his pants, damn me want to see piracy, don't contribute a penny to that guy!"

“OK。”

Scott drove to downtown Chicago and picked up a theater.

The three big men walked into the ticket hall and immediately felt a little embarrassed, because the surroundings were crowded with pairs of young men and women.

Many girls cried so much that their eyes were swollen, and they hugged the tissue box and asked the man next to them, "IJump, YouJump?" ”

"I ...... jump"

"You jump and I jump."

"If you jump, I'll jump ......"

"Actually, you can find a way not to die, right?"

The men responded in a variety of ways, and then either hugged the girls and received tears and lips that touched them, or they were thrown off the spot.

"What the hell?"

Rose inexplicably went to line up to buy tickets, and the two pairs hugged each other as if no one was around, "Rose and Jack ......"

"You know me?" He heard the young couple in front of him seem to mention his name, "Who is Jack?" ”

"You? Cut! The girl looked back at him with contempt and rolled her eyes.

Lao Tzu is a multimillionaire! Not better than your boyfriend in a cheap jacket? What a simple girl with no eyesight!

Ross scolded, but the other party was really weird and good-looking, "Have you seen this movie?" He persistently asked, "Were you talking about the plot just now?" ”

"I've seen it, she has to brush it again." The boy replied helplessly with a bitter face, "Whew! "Soon he was attacked by the girl's nails.

Rose, puzzled, slowly moved to the ticket window with the long line.

"I'm sorry, the Titanic is sold out." The conductor posts a sold-out notice above the window.

"Let's see the next one." Ross stuffed a large ticket with a 100-meter knife into it, "Wait for the next one?" He asked the two tech-savvy friends who were tormented by the lovers.

"The next one is also sold out, as long as it's a ticket for the Titanic, it's all gone today."

The conductor replied, and there was an instant wail in the ticket hall.