America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 333 331. No less than 4 billion US dollars

"The 77th Academy Awards ceremony has come to an end. Various awards have been awarded, and MGM has become the biggest winner."

"MGM won 11 of the 17 nominations, becoming the most dazzling winner on Oscar night. This lion is restoring the glory and majesty of the last century."

"Oscar host Chris Rock went too far with his jokes and was slapped in the face by Sean Penn. Jude Law was revealed to be very angry."

"Jamie Foxx became the third black actor after Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington."

"Nicole Kidman surpassed Meryl Streep and took the lead in completing her goal of being banned for the second time. She is firmly at the top of the list of contemporary female stars, and her salary quotation exceeded US$15 million."

"Eric Cooper once again made history, breaking various records continuously since his debut, and became a god again at the age of 25!"

"'Inception' became the most watched film at the Oscars, winning two box office awards."

Although it has been some time since the Oscars, the heat has not completely dissipated, and many people are still discussing it.

It's such a pity that so and so, this award should be awarded to so and so, Oscar shady, MGM bribed the judges.

Anyway, there are both good and bad, and ordinary people and netizens can always interpret various conspiracy theories from various angles.

Eric admitted that he did do public relations, but the question is which company doesn't?

If everyone does this, as long as it's not blatant bribery like Weinstein's, it's fair competition.

As for whether MGM has become the new leader in the industry and the academy has received preferential treatment because of it, Eric himself doesn't know.

Anyway, thanks to this trend, "La Vie en Rose", which was still being released on a small scale, immediately received many filming invitations.

The screening scale suddenly increased to more than 3,300 theaters, and finally a wave of Mane was harvested to make a good profit.

"It rained all night."

“My love overflows like rain.”

“Leaves falling in the yard.”

"My thoughts are thick with you."

"A few words of right and wrong."

"It can't cool down my enthusiasm."

"You appear on every page of my poems."

On the set of "Dragon Ball", during lunch break, everyone happily watched Jay Chou singing his new song "Qili Xiang" which was just released last year.

Although most people can't understand Chinese, they just listen to a melody. They are not professional singers anyway, and they don't understand technical things at all.

Jay Chou's scenes have been filmed and he will leave by plane in the afternoon.

If there is no need for reshoots and reshoots, we won’t see each other again in a short time, at least until the movie is released, maybe at the end of the year, maybe next year.

Bang bang bang bang!

After singing the song, everyone immediately applauded.

Classmate Xiao Liu couldn’t help but nod his head: “It sounds really nice, but there are some words where I can’t hear what you are singing.”

"Uh" Jay Chou thought for a moment.

Eric chuckled: "This is Jay's singing style. In the entertainment industry, it is very important to have your own characteristics so that the audience can remember you at a glance."

"Hey! What you said is probably a reason. The main reason is that I have a bad memory and often forget the lyrics. If they are unclear, it is easy to get past them."

"Hahaha, I heard your new album is selling well?"

Speaking of album sales, Jay Chou nodded proudly: "It's almost there. 3.5 million copies were sold in Asia, and it barely managed to win the championship."

"3.5 million copies! You're a bit fierce, young man. The record environment is getting worse and worse now. This sales volume is already amazing. Are you interested in trying the European and American music scene?"

Jay Chou, who was proud just now, immediately shook his head like a rattle: "I'm not interested. I had this idea before when I was immature, but I stopped thinking about it later."

"Why?"

"The road is not going to be easy, brother. To be honest, Chinese singers are struggling not to mention the European and American music scene, even the entire Asian region is struggling."

"In 2002, two years after my debut, I released songs such as "Nunchuck" and "Ninja", and I was already dubbed the Little King."

"Heavenly King, it sounds very cool and awesome, right?"

"Then I held TheOne concert and brought the concert to the United States, right in the casino city of Las Vegas."

"In my imagination, I really thought that the concert would be full again. The fans below were holding light sticks and shouting jay, jay!"

"But the reality gave me a slap in the face. There is no stadium, no venue that can accommodate 10,000 people, or even a venue with several thousand people."

"But even if it is a venue with a thousand people, it is still not full. Most of the people you can see are familiar faces, all overseas Chinese."

"Some of the few foreigners were brought here by Chinese friends."

Eric nodded silently: "So you recognize the reality?"

"It's about accepting the reality. There are too many interfering factors. The first is the language barrier. Not being able to understand the lyrics is an insurmountable mountain."

"You can't expect fans to learn a language just to understand it. There are too few of them."

Eric remembered his chats with Mike, Ivy and others: "But I heard professionals explain that lyrics are not the most important, the melody is more important."

"Yes, this is the second reason I want to talk about. The Chinese music scene generally does not pay attention to arrangement, which is exactly the opposite of the European and American music scene."

"The arrangement is relatively simple and homogeneous, but it is catchy and highly accepted by fans."

"But it also causes singers to immerse themselves in this style. For example, the ones I sing are already unorthodox and very avant-garde."

"But even my songs rarely use more trendy things such as electronic music, while the European and American music scene is paying more and more attention to electronic dance music."

"Everyone is not on the same channel at all. How can others accept you? To be precise, you can't fit into their environment."

Eric sighed: "The road is walked step by step. At least you should have the courage. Look at Jackie Chan and Jet Li. After conquering Asia, they embarked on the road to conquer Hollywood."

"And they are doing very well and have been recognized by the mainstream market of Hollywood. ”

Jay Chou continued to shake his head: "It's too difficult. The question is who has the courage? No one is willing to sacrifice themselves to pave a bloody path for their peers. ”

"And under the premise that even if you sacrifice yourself, you may not succeed. Wouldn't it be better to enjoy the present comfortably? Anyway, I can't do it. ”

"But the market of Chinese music is too small. If you want to make a lot of money and get a big name, you still have to go global. ”

"We Chinese have an old saying that two birds in the forest are not as good as one bird in the hand. The one you get in your hand is the best. And now I'm making a lot of money, and I can't spend it all in my lifetime."

"Anyway, I don't plan to break out of Asia for the time being. I hope someone can achieve this goal in the future."

Eric couldn't help laughing in his heart. Even you, the leader and flagship of the Chinese music scene, have an attitude of being content with pleasure. How can you count on others?

It will only get worse and worse in the future, and be left further behind by the European and American music scene.

In the afternoon, I sent Jay Chou away and finished work after a busy day.

It can be seen that Xiao Liu and Daddario both have expressions of longing, and want to ask him to sleep.

But the last battle was too exhausting, and he had been resting in peace these days, so he reluctantly refused.

During this period, he also felt that this was not a solution, and he didn't want to die in bed at a young age.

After asking his father, he recommended an Asan yoga master, saying that many people followed him to learn, and the effect should be good.

But Eric didn't like Asan, so he contacted Lao Han and asked him if he knew a more powerful Chinese medicine master, preferably one who mastered the secret method of strengthening yang.

Lao Han was also shocked when he heard that he was now living in the same room with six women.

Young people can't toss so much, and if they continue to play like this, they can't make up for it by drinking health wine as water.

But there is a way, this wine was passed down from an old Chinese medicine doctor, so Eric has time to come over and adjust it in person.

It just so happens that the post-production of "The Meg" is about to be completed, so I will go there and take a look at the results of the factory expansion.

Time flies into the end of March, and "La Vie en Rose" was taken off the screen after two weeks of large-scale release.

In the end, the North American box office won 85 million US dollars. For an art film without fierce conflicts, this result is quite ideal.

There are still some countries in the world that have not landed, but it has sold very well in Europe, especially in France, and has entered the top ten of the French box office.

It is expected that it will not be a problem to get a box office of nearly 200 million US dollars in the end, which is also a big profit.

In addition, MGM has no movies on the big screen, and the two-month schedule has been given to its younger brothers.

Because there were too many backlogs of movies last year, the competition is still very fierce.

Disney and Warner did not participate much in this schedule, and only released a few low-cost movies. It seems that they are also holding back and want to compete with MGM again.

This month, Lionheart released four works, "Daredevil", "Rick and Morty", "Lonely in the Wild" and "Family Quiz", all of which received good reviews.

The punch-to-the-flesh fighting style of "Daredevil", the realistic painting style and the portrayal of the dark atmosphere of Hell's Kitchen made the comic party very satisfied.

Although the portrayal of superpowers is a little weak, Daredevil is a street hero after all, not "Smallville" next door.

Do you know how uncomfortable everyone is watching Smallville?

A man who everyone knows can fly, but he hasn't been able to fly for 4 years. Come on, that's Superman, Superman who can reverse time when he goes crazy.

In contrast, watching Daredevil, there is only one word, cool!

Also compared is Ben Affleck's movie version, which was criticized at the time, and was pulled out again two years later. Many bloggers on YouTube compared and criticized it.

At the same time, "Daredevil" also let Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage each guest-star in one episode.

The audience response was so good that Marvel and MGM announced the opening of independent series for the three.

And more popular than "Daredevil" is "Rick and Morty".

The appearance of the two protagonists is obviously imitating the male protagonist and doctor in "Back to the Future", which makes people feel very intimate and familiar.

The story is even more imaginative, with elements of warmth, perversion, heavy taste, ethics, and passion.

And a lot of tributes to classic movies, such as Alien, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Nightmare on Elm Street, Animal Farm, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, Pokémon, and Ghostbusters

There is no most imaginative, only more imaginative.

The extreme novelty and abundant creativity have detonated the young group as soon as it was launched, and many viewers who originally did not watch cartoons have also been attracted.

It has only been online for less than a month, and there are already many arguments that "Rick and Morty" is a masterpiece that can be compared with "The Simpsons" and "South Park".

In just one season, tens of millions of solid fan groups have been built, and they are all clamoring for the program team to work overtime to produce the next season.

But what the audience does not know is that "Rick and Morty" is actually the most difficult of all Lionheart Network's self-produced dramas.

After Eric proposed the conceptual framework, it took more than a year for the screenwriters to expand from 3 to 6, from 6 to 8, and finally from 8 to 11.

The number of screenwriters alone is several times that of other dramas, and only 15 episodes were produced in the end.

If this were placed in China, hundreds of episodes would have been written.

Of course, it is also because of the first production. The efficiency will be much higher in the second season, but the screenwriter team cannot be reduced.

Not only can it not be reduced, but it must be well cared for to prevent being poached by interested people.

The original time and space were poached by Marvel, and the highly acclaimed "Loki" was written by the screenwriter of "Rick and Morty".

With such a high cost, the economic benefits created are naturally far beyond ordinary dramas. The peripherals of "Rick and Morty" sold very well, and once again became a money-making tool for Double Star Entertainment and Hasbro.

"Alone in the Wild" is also very popular with its novel variety show format, while "Family Questions" is of an entertaining and funny nature, and Steve Harvey was invited to be the host.

He is experienced and often makes witty remarks, making the audience laugh.

Why did Lionheart release so many new works at once?

The answer is of course to increase the company's valuation. Paramount, Fox, Sony and Universal are all urging Eric to sell his shares to them quickly.

Before selling, it is natural to increase the value as much as possible, at least to make a few hundred million dollars more.

When the time came to mid-April, the whole Hollywood was like a thunderbolt.

Lionheart, Paramount, Fox, Sony and Universal issued a joint statement to the outside world, and four of them officially joined the big family.

All the movies, TV series, and variety shows of the four companies, as long as they have works in the film library, will be uploaded to Lionheart.com, which will instantly increase the latter's film and television resources several times.

It is completely worthy of being called the world's number one.

The market finally understood why the two sides suddenly stopped fighting and made peace. The reason is here.

As for how much money the four companies spent, it was not announced to the public.

But there are many rumors flying around, and one of them is the most credible.

Each company spent no less than 800 million US dollars, and the transaction cost at least 4 billion US dollars.