Vol 2 Chapter 454: Who made this Star Wars

"Didn't George send you an invitation?"
Walking on the beach on the Gold Coast, Ivanka? Trump took Duke's hand and asked, "Why didn't you go to the premiere?"
"I'm very busy. I want to run announcements all over the world." Duke shook Ivanka's hand, stepped on the golden sand, leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, and said, "You want to come here for summer vacation. While on vacation, I had to refuse George."
It is autumn in Australia. The temperature on the Gold Coast is not suitable for the sea. It is also the off-season for tourism, but Ivanka wants to come and spend a holiday with him, and Duke will not refuse.
"The sea breeze is a bit cold."
Ivanka rubbed his arms, and Duke took off the coat hanging from his other hand, put it on her shoulders, and said, "Let's go back."
"Ok."
Nodded, Ivanka followed Duke’s usual path. She could see the paparazzi seem to be moving in the distance, but she didn’t care. In the past year, she gradually got used to it. Ke chatted, "I will graduate from the Wharton School in one year."
"Time flies so fast?" Duke turned his head to look at her, "I still remember when I first met you, you were just a young student, and you are about to graduate from college now."
￥, "My last year will focus on internship."
With a sweet smile to Duke, Ivanka continued, "I have discussed with several other people in the company, and the company will move to Los Angeles next month."
"In terms of promotion, I need to speak directly."
Even if a few stock options are awarded to a few technical backbones, Duke still has more than 40% of the shares in his hands, and he is a major shareholder like Ivanka. This is also working for the appreciation of his own assets.
Ivanka found three computer and network technology experts from the University of Pennsylvania, and introduced them to the company's instant sharing website, which is now developing rapidly in the IT industry. Such people are scarce resources, and if they want people to contribute, they must give some sweetness.
How is it possible for one person to occupy 100% of the company's shares and want others to work hard, in this business society?
And they are only options for the time being.
The two of them walked towards the rented seaside villa, do not continue discussing the company. Ivanka's intention is very clear, to move the company to Los Angeles as soon as possible.
"You posted the poster of "The Return of the King" on Instant Sharing twice in a row, which has attracted a lot of attention."
Holding Duke's hand, Ivanka recalled the data she saw yesterday, "In the last half month, the number of instant sharing users has increased by nearly 200,000. My dear, you are still very attractive."
"It's the attraction of the Lord of the Rings." Duke corrected. "If it weren't for the enthusiasm of "The Two Towers", it aroused many people's expectations for "The Return of the King". How could such a good effect be."
He laughed, "Actually, I really want to upload a trailer, but instant sharing does not support video sharing yet."
"The technical department is improving this function." Ivanka's pace is slowing down. "After the company moves to Los Angeles, it will launch this video sharing function as soon as possible. However, with the current network bandwidth, it can only support some small formats. video."
"Don't worry." Duke also slowed down with Ivanka's footsteps. "The road always has to go step by step. The speed of the Internet is amazing."
Ivanka nodded and asked suddenly. "How about Tina? I haven't seen her since I got off the plane."
"Go to New Zealand." Duke reminded, "Did you forget that I still have a manor in New Zealand? Recently, there was a tax issue, and she handled it in the past."
"Are you going to sell that manor?" Ivanka asked curiously.
Duke shook his head, "Keep it, and use it as a holiday estate in the future. I still miss the scenery of New Zealand."
A small country in this tiny place. The ability to retain so many natural features has something to do with its geographical location and development strategy. New Zealand has almost no heavy industry. As one of the five basic friends in the English-speaking area, he is completely a little brother behind. Heavy industrial products are basically imported.
Compared to the densely populated Los Angeles, New Zealand's climate and scenery are much better.
"What shall we do next?"
Walking to the beach house, Ivanka asked, "You can't just stay here, right?"
Duke thought for a moment, "Let's change clothes and go to the movies together."
Although not a movie fan, I didn’t have much interest in watching non-Duke movies. Ivanka nodded, took Duke back to the room and changed into casual couples’ clothes, and called to find a car. It only took ten. After a few minutes, I arrived at the nearest cinema.
She knew what Duke wanted to see, and went directly to the ticket office to buy two tickets for the newly released "Attack of the Clones" and went into the theater hand in hand.
Sitting in the couple seat, Ivanka asked, "Will "The Two Towers" lose this week's North American box office champion?"
"Honey," Duke nodded heavily, "This is Star Wars."
"I was dragged by Jane to watch Star Wars 1," Ivanka obviously has no Star Wars plot, "I think it's very general, except for special effects..."
She shook her head, saw the big screen lit up, and stopped talking.
Just less than half of the time I watched it, Ivanka's brows frowned tightly. For her non-Star Wars fans, this film was simply a torture, and she leaned back on Duke's body. , No longer concentrate on watching.
In her eyes, Duke's profile face carved like marble is better than that movie.
Except for special effects, there is almost nothing in this film that can be compared with "The Two Towers". Ivanka even said that if this is not George Lucas's Star Wars, I am afraid the movie box office might hit the street.
Especially the two roles of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala are not only completely out of balance, but also the way the emotions are transferred is very bloody.
It is true that the feelings in the movie are very bloody, but they are too abrupt.
Ivanka knew very well that Duke was not good at shooting love scenes, and it seemed that George Lucas was not much better.
Frankly speaking, Padmé Amidala's performance is still outstanding, but when standing with Anakin Skywalker, the actor's poor performance...
Suddenly, Duke's voice came in her ear, "George chose him anyway."
"What?" Ivanka asked in a low voice in his ear.
Duke turned his head, kissed Ivanka, who was resting on his shoulders, and explained a few words, "I once suggested to George that Anakin Skywalker's actor should find an acting skill at least as good as Nata. Li Portman is too short of candidates, but George..."
Having said that, Duke sighed. I don’t know what George Lucas thinks. He still chose Christensen Hayden, one of the most famous and worst screen lovers in film history. together.
Ivanka ignored the other words and asked, "Is Natalie Portman's acting very good? How do I feel that Kirsten Dunst is not much better than Kirsten Dunst?"
"It's okay." Duke shrugged, without any guilty conscience. "She has the best acting skills among actresses of the same age."
As a former assistant to Duke, Ivanka knows quite a lot about the lace that the tabloids have hyped up and the lace that the media doesn't know.
However, this smart woman didn't say anything. Some things are in the past. What she wants to see is the future.
The film ended in a wedding that no one paid attention to. Duke thought of Natalie Portman and shook his head slightly. The two were destined to not have too much contact. The idols that were once were gone.
He has not done many silly things during his years in Hollywood, and Natalie Portman can be regarded as one of them.
"What do you think?" Ivanka deliberately pulled his arm, "I've been distracted since I came out."
In this case, Duke is certainly not stupid enough to tell the truth, that is to add contradictions between them, "I am estimating how many box offices this George film will eventually get."
"Except for special effects, this film..." Ivanka shook her head, "If it weren't for Star Wars, I think half a billion dollars is a luxury."
"It's definitely not a problem for the world to exceed 500 million US dollars." Dukla walked her to the car, shrugged, and said, "Who makes this Star Wars?"
If I remember correctly, "Attack of the Clones" is the one with the worst box office and audience reputation in Star Wars, and it seems to have only a global box office of more than 600 million US dollars.
Even so, the fourth weekend of "The Two Towers" was unable to compete with the "Attack of the Clones" released on the first weekend.
The latter opened paintings with 3,520 theaters in North America, and won US$80.02 million in three days in the first weekend, making it the top of the North American box office charts without any suspense.
After three consecutive championships in North America, "The Two Towers" has fallen to second place, but the decline is still healthy and stable. Compared with last weekend, it fell by 41% to $22.6 million.
Counting the 19.25 million US dollars in the previous four working days, the North American box office has reached 361.9 million US dollars, and has already seen the 400 million US dollars mark.
Overseas, "The Two Towers" entered the last few markets in North Africa and South Africa this weekend. The overseas trend is still strong. The cumulative overseas box office has exceeded the US$450 million barrier, and the global box office has successfully exceeded US$800 million, with a cumulative total of US$817.55 million!
In addition, peripheral products have also responded strongly overseas. Although they are cold in a few markets such as South Korea and Southeast Asia, sales in the Western world and countries and regions that are deeply influenced by Western culture have been rising all the way. Excluding North America, which is close to 200 million US dollars In addition to peripheral sales, overseas sales of peripheral products are also approaching this figure.
But with the release of "Attack of the Clones", the impact of "The Two Towers" is still relatively obvious, and the box office and surrounding areas are falling. (To be continued...)
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