Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 419 What I Want Is Global Access

Under Tang Huan's candid communication, especially the endorsement of "don't have any psychological burden, I'll take care of it", the production team of 007 finally reached an agreement, and it will be officially launched in August, which is next month.

After dismissing these people, Tang Huan couldn't help but smile. If everything goes as he expected, Warner, an old enemy, will suffer a lot.

The global promotion of Xiaobawang game consoles launched by EA is ostensibly to combat the proliferation of bad games, but in essence it is also to follow the general trend and squeeze out the last value of this wave of home video game market in North America.

Anyway, I missed this village and there is no such store. Everyone is holding on to the idea of ​​​​getting a little bit without any lower limit. Of course, EA does not need to pretend to be aloof.

As a result, Atari, which ranks second in the market, and Mattel, which is third, feel the most obvious pressure.

Atari contributed $[-] million in sales to Warner last year, making it a satisfactory answer to Wall Street, so Warner has too many reasons to support Atari, a cash cow.

Tang Huan admitted that Steve Ross should have belonged to EA's "ET Aliens" video game adaptation authorization. He filmed "Cruise Missile" and United Artists' "007" to fight in the ring. The tricks are very sophisticated, but the effect only exists in In theory only.

The North American home game console market is so chaotic this year. Not only is Warner not vigilant, but it is also trying to attack itself aggressively through aggressive expansion. It is simply seeking its own death.

Perhaps, these mall veterans, including Warner, only think that the chaos in front of them is an inevitable situation during the market adjustment period, so they want to continue to expand their territory so confidently.

Next, Tang Huan plans to continue to expand the influence of the movie "ET Alien" in the world. It is estimated that Steve Ross, who has seen this scene, will be more optimistic about the "ET Alien" video game, and then invest more in it. resource.

Such a thing that can be achieved in one fell swoop, really has to hurry up and do it.The more Tang Huan thought about it, the more interesting it became.

……

Although Tang Huan felt uncomfortable with the performance of the first lady of France, Danielle Mitterrand, when she came to visit, the business was not delayed.

As a kind of reciprocity, Tang Huan was soon invited to visit the Elysee Palace and met the current French President François Mitterrand.

Celebrities at this stage have already begun to be enthusiastic about various foundations, and Danielle is no exception.

Tang Huan has set up philosophy training and certification centers all over the world. Although the main purpose is to cultivate IT work skills, he does not refuse cooperation in computer popularization education, which arouses the interest of the first French lady.

Otherwise, Danielle, who faintly felt some unhappiness between herself and Tang Huan, would not have such a positive attitude.

It has to be said that Danielle is a maverick social activist in the West. He supports Marxism-Leninism and appreciates Cuban leader Castro, which has attracted dissatisfaction from many French allies.

In fact, this ideological tendency does not mean that it is close to the Eastern camp. It is nothing more than the value choice of social elites to settle down.

After Tang Huan understood that Danielle had something for him, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, it seems that the price paid for suppressing BBC Mciro was really worth it.

In order to popularize computer education, the British government allocated at least half of the funds to the BBC Mciro project, but the effect was not satisfactory. France, which noticed this, was obviously in a dilemma.

During the talks with French President Francois Mitterrand, this topic was also emphatically mentioned.

Like the United States and the United Kingdom at this stage, France currently has a high unemployment rate.

However, unlike the so-called neo-liberal economic policies pursued by Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher, which are marked by big markets, small governments, and privatization, Francois Mitterrand, who belongs to the left-wing camp, promotes The policy is to accelerate the process of nationalization, reduce statutory working hours, expand paid holidays, abolish university entrance examinations, and abolish the death penalty.

As far as the effect of these economic policies is concerned, although they have won popular popularity, they have not been successful.Just like this year, some economic policies have to turn to liberalism.

Among the many economic policies promoted by François Mitterrand, there are increasing funding for scientific research, developing high-tech and so on.

It can be seen from this that the development of the world now attaches great importance to the element of high technology, which is also a major reason why Tang Huan is popular no matter where he goes.

Products such as telecommunications equipment show no signs of opening up in France in a short period of time. However, microcomputers are basically unimpeded, especially for products with obvious electronic consumer goods attributes such as personal computers. The mechanism of state-owned enterprises is basically It was unable to cope with its rapidly changing market conditions, as evidenced by the setbacks on the British side.

Tang Huan was very satisfied with the pragmatic attitude of the French side, which seemed to have eliminated the unhappiness with Danielle before. When the other party held a charity banquet, he and Christina both felt sorry for them.

……

Soon, another important guest that Tang Huan was waiting for - Yuri Brezhnev, finally arrived in Paris, and he held a low-key but elegant welcome banquet for him.

Under the attention of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Tang Huan’s business with the European Eastern camp now only includes personal computers and video game consoles. As for Fangyuan personal workstations, Fangyuan network servers, Fangyuan supercomputers and other high-end products, they are all restricted for sale. on the list.

Logically speaking, Tang Huan, who has already achieved "global communication" in his old IT business, can't be so deliberately befriending Yuri Brezhnev, the prince who is about to pass away, but the movie is not yet What about the aura of "Global Access"?

Since the 1970s, the attitude of the West toward the Soviet Union has generally been moderate. Only after its invasion of Afghanistan, the sanctions led by the United States, such as the boycott of the Moscow Olympics and the food embargo, eased the relationship between the two camps. Went for a while.

The big stick of economic sanctions is very powerful. The domestic economic situation of the Soviet Union, especially the problem of food supply, can be said to be under great pressure.

In politics, there has always been peace in fighting, and fighting in peace. The Soviet Union may not want to make some gestures of reconciliation.

Therefore, Tang Huan intends to take advantage of the time before Reagan announced the Star Wars plan, and to label his own films, especially the Chinese-language films of DreamWorks, with the label of "Global Access".

After watching "ET Alien" and "Fang Shiyu", Tang Huan smiled slightly, "For these two films, the box office of "ET Alien" in the United States has approached 3000 million U.S. dollars, and "Fang Shiyu" has the box office of Hong Kong movies. It reached [-] million Hong Kong dollars, there is no doubt that they are all momentary masterpieces."

"Movies are too special, and I don't want to fail in Moscow." Yuri Brezhnev put on airs and shook his head.

"But these two movies, especially "ET", do not contain any political factors at all. Moreover, they were released in the name of the film company in Hong Kong." Tang Huan emphasized, emphasizing.

"But it is a Hollywood movie in the final analysis." Yuri Brezhnev shrugged, "If "ET" is released in Moscow, you will definitely use it to promote it. At that time, Western media will I can't bear the pressure to report on this topic. But this "Fang Shiyu", I can help run it."

"But I think you must have a solution." Tang Huan took a deep look at Yuri Brezhnev, took a folder from his subordinate, and then slowly handed it to the other party, "Swiss bank account , you take it to help clear up the relationship, and after the matter is completed, there will be the same amount of reward."

"I admire you, what are you doing with these things?" Yuri Brezhnev showed displeasure.

"I know. But no matter where you are, you have to clear up the relationship when you do things. I can't let you pay for it yourself." Tang Huan laughed and said bluntly: "There is no recording equipment or the like that can't be on the stage. I don't want to get in trouble for a billion-dollar guy."

Hearing this, Yuri Brezhnev raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and opened the folder, and then took a deep breath, "Compared to this investment, your movie will suffer a lot."

"You have already said that I will definitely use the capital released in the Soviet Union to promote it. What I want is this global gimmick." Tang Huan explained leisurely, "Just like my personal computer and video game console, they can Specifically pointed out in the publicity that the products are sold to the whole world, while other peers dare not say so.”

"Is this kind of action worthwhile for the purpose of publicity rather than profit?" Yuri Brezhnev couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.

"Of course it's worth the money." Tang Huan nodded affirmatively, "Being able to do business across the Eastern and Western camps is itself a manifestation of ability."

Yuri Brezhnev glanced at the document again, and then pondered: "I definitely wouldn't take this risk in Moscow, but in places like Ukraine, you can try it. What do you think? It also belongs to the European region. "

"That's fine." Tang Huan sighed regretfully, "But I hope that a long-term cooperation mechanism can be established in these regions to release "Fang Shiyu" that was born in Xiangjiang. Anyway, they are not as good as Hollywood in the United States. It doesn't matter, it shouldn't be difficult to do, right?"

Seeing that Yuri Brezhnev was pondering and did not answer right away, Tang Huan continued to add: "I think this is a very serious business."

Yuri Brezhnev, who was moved by Tang Huan's repeated rhetoric, finally nodded in agreement.

Compared with the difficult problem of movies, Tang Huan and Woz's joint music festival, planning to interact with Soviet musicians through satellite air links, was much simpler, and it almost became an addition to this meeting.

……

Seeing that Tang Huanming gave Yuri Brezhnev so many things secretly, Christina said very depressed: "You spend so much money, you don't know that Yuri Brezhnev is so_ How long will the son be able to be?"

"It won't be long. It is estimated that the era will change at the end of the year?" Tang Huan once again made a prophecy in front of the female ship king.

After being stunned for a moment, Christina became coquettish, "Then why are you wasting resources on him?"

"Because Yuri Brezhnev is the biggest Soviet dignitary I've met so far." Tang Huan waved his hand disapprovingly, without pointing out the root of Christina's resentment towards the Soviet Union, "Although this wife The halo on Ziye's head will fade soon, but the demonstration effect of buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars will always be there."

Because he didn't want to entangle with Christina about whether the goal of "global connectivity" is worthwhile, Tang Huan quickly changed the subject and asked: "Where is our son, let me take a look, I will end my trip to Europe soon gone."

"It's in the prefab room, go and see for yourself. I guess these two little things are looking at themselves in the mirror." Christina couldn't laugh or cry when she thought of the hobbies of the twin sons.

Tang Huan looked for it, and found that as expected by Christina, the pair of brothers dressed as little players were holding a football, standing in front of the mirror, writhing around.

"Why, you two, aren't you used to the appearance of a half-breed?" Tang Huan joked in an adult tone with great interest.

I don't know if the twins understood the meaning of Tang Huan's words. After staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes, they played football and competed with their father whom they rarely met.

……

Celine Dion's guest appearance and interlude singing in "First Contact 2" were successfully completed. Claude Binodeau was very satisfied and said that he hoped to have another chance to cooperate.

Seeing that Celine Dion had completed the task, and even had time to visit Paris briefly, Tang Huan simply took Celine Dion, a small team, to Silicon Valley One and sent them to Tokyo, Japan in person to participate in the Yamaha Music Competition.

At this time, not only "Fang Shiyu" broke through the box office record of more than 2600 million Hong Kong dollars created by "Best Partner" in the Lunar New Year file at the beginning of the year in Xiangjiang, reaching 3000 million Hong Kong dollars, and also set a record in Taiwan, winning more than 4100 million Taiwan dollars. At the box office, it surpassed "God Is Crazy", which was released at the same time and performed well.

It has to be said that Hu Yinmeng's family background played a subtle positive role in the treatment of DreamWorks in Taiwan.

Although Hu's father did not hold any important official positions when he was young, he still had a considerable status in Baodao in name.

Especially for an old man with solid qualifications like him, being able to survive until now is a resource that cannot be ignored.

In this way, Hu's father's political resources, together with the commercial resources that Hu Yinmeng now possesses, invisibly played the role of one plus one greater than two in Treasure Island.

(End of this chapter)