Heads Up Hollywood

Chapter 147 Economic Crime

Dunn is too familiar with the name of starz TV station. The large-scale drama "Spartacus" once attracted a large number of enthusiastic audiences.

It's a pity that this TV station does not have a strong backer like hbo, and amc. It has insufficient funds and a limited number of episodes. It is destined that the main business of the TV station depends on leasing copyrights, which severely limits its development. At its peak, it only had more than 11 million subscribers.

Now, Dunn Pictures intends to change this pattern and is destined to rewrite the fate of starz. Challenging hbo and confrontation is definitely not an illusion!

Dunn went to Marvel's branch in California and brought some greetings to Marvel's bosses, mainly to inspect the office building.

This is an old house for more than 40 years. It is located in the city center.

Dunn has already thought about it, and when the headquarters building of Dunn Pictures is completed, he will directly move Marvel Entertainment there. Now this old office building, as well as the headquarters building in New York, can be demolished and converted into other institutions, or sold directly, and there will be at least 10 to 20 million US dollars in revenue.

Since Dunn filmed "Spider-Man", the sales of Marvel's comics have soared. In the first quarter of 2000 alone, the sales reached 50,000 copies, and in 1999, the sales were only 120,000 copies!

Movies are the leader in entertainment. Before "Spider-Man" was released, the bigwigs of Marvel Entertainment have already seen the hope of Marvel's rebirth.

This is completely different from the past with New Line, shooting "Blade".

New Line shoots a niche action thriller, Dunn shoots a popular entertainment series, and there is nothing comparable.

Alan Vann, the CEO of Marvel Entertainment, personally led Dunn to visit, and while walking, he told Dunn about the glorious history of Marvel in the past.

Before arriving at a huge cartoon of Captain America's portrait, Alan Vann said with emotion: "Back then, before Spider-Man was born, Captain America was the backbone of Marvel!"

Dunn put his hands behind his back, followed him, and agreed with a smile, "Yes, Captain America is the symbol of the American Mirror God. At that time, the country was at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy, and such a Mirror God leader was needed to lead the country through the war. Difficulty."

Alan Vann said: "This situation continued until after the Vietnam War. When peace came, Captain America's popularity was gone, and we had to re-launch a new Mirror God leader."

"It's not Spider-Man, is it?"

"It's Spider-Man. Didn't you notice that his suit, Yan Cesium, like Captain America, is also the incarnation of the flag?"

Dunn smiled, "It turns out that Spider-Man is the captain of Ping Shiling!"

Alan Vann suddenly said: "Captain America will also be adapted into a movie, right?"

Dunn paused and didn't hide it, "It's true, superhero movies need thawing time. After "Spider-Man 2" is released, we will officially launch our superhero to the market! Captain America should be the first choice!"

Alan Vann sighed, "I'm really looking forward to that day."

Tang En smiled and shook his head, "By the way, has the copyright of Blade's Edge been recovered?"

Alan Vann snorted and was a little embarrassed, "We had already talked to New Frontier. Bob Shea had a good relationship with us and agreed to return the copyright of Blade. But at the last moment, Warner Bros. intervened. , they asked New Line to delay the return of copyright."

"What else?" Tang En's face changed.

Alan Vann said helplessly: "Now that your 'Spider-Man' is so famous, the whole Hollywood is staring at you, if you can save the superhero movie market, then Warners must be happy to see it, and I heard that Got some gossip."

"But it doesn't matter."

"I heard that Warners actually don't want to have a dispute with you because of a Blade. After all, they are sitting on dc comics, and they have two trump cards, Batman and Superman, and they don't care about a little Blade. They want to achieve more with you. Cooperation."

Dunn immediately understood and smiled coldly, "Harry Potter?"

Ellen Vann said with a smile: "I don't know the specifics, hehe. But since the first trailer of "Spider-Man" was released, the sales of "Harry Potter" have also increased significantly."

Tang En sighed, "Alan, this is a company secret, don't leak it. Since the copyright of the Blade Warrior cannot be recovered, it will be put on hold for the time being. As for Warner, I will find a way to deal with it."

At this moment, Ella Fisher, Dunn's secretary, ran over in a hurry. A bit of fear appeared on his flustered face, and he glanced at Alan Fan carefully, "Don!"

Dunn raised his brows, and when Alan Vann walked away consciously, he asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"

"FBI, FBI is here!" Ella Fisher's voice trembled, "They said you were involved in a major economic crime and asked to be investigated, Dunn, what the **** is going on?"

After all, it was a young girl, and her eyes turned red as she spoke.

Dunn is the backbone of the entire company, as well as her future and hope. Not to mention her acting career, just talking about the book "Gone Lover" is enough to obtain all of Ira Fisher's dependence.

"Economic Crime?"

Tang En's face was no longer calm, his face was pale, his whole body was tense and stiff, and he couldn't understand the situation.

I got in the car, returned to Tang En Pictures, calmed down and finally figured out a bit.

Now, Nasdaq is wailing. Every day, there are reports of investors committing suicide in newspapers. Wall Street is in a cold state, and Internet companies go bankrupt every day.

The federal government has intervened. Bank of America teamed up with a number of top Wall Street venture capital banks and securities institutions to try to rescue the market, but the results were not good and could not reverse the general trend.

At the same time, the Ministry of Justice also took action to actively investigate the suspected economic crimes behind the Nasdaq stock market crash.

Don't talk about democracy and freedom, when it is related to the lifeline of the country's economy, it must have a political flavor.

The sterling crisis in 1992 and the Asian crisis in 1997 were both claimed to be absolutely free economic markets. Aren't they full of government intervention?

Otherwise, in terms of the British pound and Hong Kong dollar, it would have been smashed and bankrupted by tens of billions of dollars of international hot money.

In the United States now, it is no surprise.

"Dawn, you you." Ella Fisher's face turned pale with fright. She instinctively believed the FBI's statement that Dunn was suspected of economic crimes.

Otherwise, how to release Tang En's huge amount of money?

As soon as the shot is made, it will inject 1 billion US dollars into Dunn Pictures, which is not something that filmmakers can play. DreamWorks has three big bosses, doesn't it also need to invest in Microsoft founder Paul Allenra?

Dunn took Ira Fisher's hand and found that his hand was cold, and said with relief: "Don't worry, I didn't commit a crime."

"But where did you get so much money?"

"Haha, it's all legal income." Tang En patted her on the forehead with a smile, "I won't tell you more, I'll contact a helper."

Isla Fisher calmed down a lot when she saw that Dunn could still laugh now.

Dunn called Brian Lord. Brian was Dunn's agent. It was his job to deal with the public relations crisis.

"Brian, I'll make a long story short, you'll deal with it right away"

Before Dunn could finish speaking, Brian Lord interrupted, "Don, Bill has informed me. When you meet the fbi, don't say anything until the lawyer arrives. In addition, I'm in contact with Bai Wei, Ask for a statement on the matter."

"Bai Su?"

In addition to being surprised, Tang En also sighed at the power of caa. He smiled and said, "Brian, there is no need to make a fuss. My assets are all legal income, and there is no economic crime."

Brian Lord said: "I know, but this is a public relations crisis, and the Justice Department's investigation of you must be dismissed as soon as possible, otherwise it will seriously affect your public image."

Dunn was silent for a moment and agreed with his statement, "In this case, it's up to you to help. Brian, if you need political donations, just tell me."

"You kid!" Brian Lord laughed. "Don't worry, things haven't gotten to that serious level, aren't they just making some money in the stock market? Let's follow the regular procedures and resolve it in an open and aboveboard manner."

Tang En smiled slightly, and then his face changed, "Huh? Brian, I didn't seem to have said that my funds come from the stock market, right?"

Brian Lord said angrily: "The FBI says it's an economic investigation. Do you think I, Bill, is a fool? Let's think about how to deal with the investigators, my stock god!"

"Stock God?" Dunn laughed, "I like this statement."

When I returned to Tang En Films, I found that the employees of the company were all worried and looked at Tang En with concern, panic, tension and hope.

Most of them were promoted by Tang En from the grassroots, and they not only had a public need for Tang En, but also had a personal kindness.

No one wants the big boss Tang En to have an accident during the company's prosperous development stage.

Tang En was as sunny and confident as always, without the urgency and panic of the criminal investigation at all. He smiled and beckoned to everyone, "What are you doing standing up? Don't you work?"

"boss!"

"Donne"

The eyes of the employees couldn't help showing a bit of moving.

Tang En calmly waved his hand, "Go back to work, I'm fine!"

Seeing Bill McNick hurried over, Dunn was a little angry, lowered his voice, but his tone was very serious, "Bill, what are you doing? Before anything happened to me, the company started chaos!"

Bill McNick said bitterly: "I have already started to deal with it, but everyone cares too much about you."

"It must be resolved immediately!" Tang En's tone was indescribably resolute, "If this matter cannot be resolved as soon as possible, it will definitely be exposed by the media. At that time, Tang En Pictures will face huge pressure, and the company must stabilize."

Bill McNick's face was ugly, "I'm just afraid that Disney and Fox will be in trouble."

Tang En's face was also sinking. He didn't care about being investigated by the FBI, but the headache was that so many things came together, especially his personal image was also involved in the "Spider-Man" box office market.

"How is the acquisition of starz?" Tang En asked suddenly ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ ah? "Bill McNick was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that at this time, Dunn was still in the mood to care about the TV station.

Dunn frowned and said: "In terms of price, we will make some concessions. Within this week, we will complete the acquisition, and then hand over our cable TV operations to Comcast."

Bill McNick immediately understood what Dunn meant.

Boy, the brain is alive!

This is to make a gang!

Dunn Pictures has provoked the two giants Fox and Disney. Although there are also Universal and DreamWorks alliances behind them, their strength is still inferior.

If at this time, there is support from Comcast, then the power behind Dunn Pictures will be much greater.

Comcast, the largest cable operator in the United States, competes with Disney's TV operations, while Fox's television network is run by Cox Communications, which also competes with Comcast.

An opponent's opponent is a friend!

At this critical moment, even if we pay a little more, we have to get through this public relations crisis.

It would be nice if things could settle down quickly, but if not, a PR battle would be necessary!

Dunn is not sure whether he can defeat the powerful alliance of Disney and Fox, but at least he has the ambition to fight to the death!

"Let's go, now, let's see the investigators of the fbi, what means are there!"

Tang En took firm steps, held his head high, and walked towards his office upstairs.

Bill McNick looked at this sunny and confident young man from behind, and seemed to see the hope of breaking through the barriers.

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Chapter 147 Economic Crime