Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

This woman that Jade found familiar was not the future actress or song queen of mainland China, but a person behind the scenes——Wang Jinghua, a woman known as "the number one manager in mainland China".When she joined Huayi Brothers, she single-handedly turned Huayi Brothers' agency from nothing into the number one brokerage company in mainland China; then she led most of Huayi Brothers' artists to join Chengtian Entertainment, and transferred the originally unknown Chengtian Entertainment became the sworn enemy of Huayi Brothers; in the end, they left Huayi Brothers to start their own business.

From a personal point of view, Jed admires Wang Jinghua very much; but from a boss's point of view, Jed doesn't appreciate Wang Jinghua at all.But now that he met Wang Jinghua, Jade suddenly ordered: "Although we don't interfere with the daily affairs of Huayi Brothers, we must do a good job in management and regulation. Now your Universal Entertainment basically refers to the rules of the United States and combines the local customs of Hong Kong. , This is very good. When the time comes, you have to help the Wang family brothers to get Huayi Brothers' management contract in place, and don't let a manager change jobs, and in the end, most of the company's artists also change jobs."

In fact, in the United States, many people only know the brokerage company, not the broker.Because whether it is a creative artist (CAA) or William Morris (WMA), it is the company that deals with the artist, and American brokerage companies never regard the artist as the property of their company, but their company's customers.Therefore, after many Asian artists switch to an American agency, they often feel that their treatment has changed from being oppressed to a caring God. This may be why there are few large-scale artist defections in American agencies. The root cause.Lin Jianyue's Huanyu Entertainment borrowed from the concept of American economic companies, and provided different distribution plans according to the artist's level. At the same time, there were a series of measures to solve the worries of the artists.For example, buying insurance for the artist and finding a more reasonable investment plan for the artist. To put it bluntly, the artist and the agency are still united because of economic interests. If the agency can bring more benefits to the artist, who will break the contract? ?

Although he only stayed in the mainland for less than a week, Jade has quickly signed a cooperation agreement with Huayi Brothers and Ryefield Music. As for Tangren Film and Television, the company has not yet been established, so Jade had to give up temporarily.After all, the TV production companies of Asia TV, Hunan TV, and Seoul TV have enough episodes to digest, so Jed temporarily put out the idea of ​​finding another TV production company.

And when Jed returned to Hong Kong, the merger agreement between East Asia Bank Group, Bank of East Asia and First Pacific Bank had been negotiated, and First Pacific Bank was wholly sold to East West International Bank Group. However, Bank of East Asia sold 70% of its shares to Huamei International Bank Group, and formed Huamei Hong Kong Bank Corporation with Huamei International Bank Group. The original shareholders of Bank of East Asia only accounted for 30% of the shares of the new company.Jed didn't think about driving Li Guobao out completely. To survive in Hong Kong, he still had to rely on these local bankers.However, as compensation, Jade immediately set up a Hualin Hong Kong investment fund from Hualin Investment Bank and handed it over to Li Guobao.

After everyone was finally satisfied, East West Bank posted a suspension announcement on the New York Stock Exchange, informing that major restructuring information would be announced.Although American financial reporters have been chasing news of East West Bank's reorganization, they did not expect East West Bank to announce the results of their reorganization after only suspending trading for two hours.The original East West Bank Company was reorganized into East West International Banking Group, which has three subsidiaries, East West Commercial Bank Company, East West Hong Kong Bank Company and Waram Investment Bank Company.

Huamei International Bank Group is wholly owned by Huamei Holdings, whose shareholders include Jed Sherman, San Francisco Huamei Foundation and Wal Buffett.In fact, Jed Sherman and the San Francisco Huamei Foundation did not surprise financial reporters, but the newly emerged name of Wal Buffett made financial reporters crazy.You must know that Buffett is the god of American stocks, and he generally only makes long-term investments.His investment in Huamei Holdings means that he is very optimistic about the future of Huamei International Banking Group.

Sure enough, as soon as the new East West Bank resumed trading, the stock price immediately soared by three dollars.The good performance of East West Bank has forced Americans to re-examine this very special bank stock.In the midst of discussions among American financial reporters, Jed also returned to Los Angeles from Hong Kong by plane.After all, it was already the end of October, and for the release of "The English Patient", it was time for me to come back.

Because Jade once shifted his work focus to his other industries, the work of Galaxy Films in the second half of the year was somewhat slack.This made Jed a little dissatisfied, but he also knew that he was the CEO of Galaxy Film Entertainment Group, and his inattention was the important reason for his subordinates to slack off.Therefore, the first thing he did when he returned was to announce his work plan for next year. Everyone in Galaxy Films knew that the most important movie next year would be the movie "Titanic" that the company invested in and was responsible for distributing.

However, due to the lack of funds for the original Galaxy movie, there are actually three producers of this movie. In addition to the Galaxy movie, there are Paramount and Cameron himself.However, according to the agreement, Galaxy Films will be solely responsible for the distribution of this film.At the same time, since the distribution contract between Galaxy Films and Bowei International does not include the movie "Titanic", Galaxy Films must independently distribute the film.

Jed thinks this is also good, just to exercise the Yinhe film distribution company in Meribo's hands, so that his subordinates don't know how to distribute movies after the contract with Bowei International is terminated in the future.

In addition, Luc Besson has formed the Europa Film Company. The company's production department is located in Europe and is mainly responsible for the production of Luc Besson's own films.The distribution department merged with Galaxy Film Distribution Company to become one of the label labels of Galaxy Film.According to Meribo's arrangement, Galaxy Films will be responsible for distributing Galaxy's commercial films and mainstream films; Europa Films will be responsible for distributing art films and independent films; and the remaining Galaxy Pioneers will be responsible for distributing genre films and cult films.

As the first work of the Europa movie, Luc Besson's sci-fi comedy "The Fifth Element" has almost finished filming, and is now completing post-production at Industrial Light and Magic.In addition to "The Fifth Element", next year's Galaxy Films, Jed and Woo will each have a movie to shoot. The work that Woo will shoot has already been confirmed, and it is "Face Changing".

However, after visiting Wall Street, Jed decided to perform a major operation on "Face Changing", and an extremely exciting scene will appear at the beginning of the film.At the same time, because of his own Pacific giant screen technology, IMAX had to sell its shares to cooperate with Galaxy Films, so Jed also felt that John Woo should directly use IMAX cameras to shoot "Face Changing", and in addition to the ordinary 2D and 3D versions of "Face Changing" "In addition, Jade will also try to release the IMAX version of 2D and 3D "Face Changing".

Compared with the big cost of "Changing Face", the script Jed found for himself was a bit small. It was a remake of Lowell Canning's comic "Men in Black".It's just that at this time, Galaxy Films has not negotiated with Lowell Canning's comic book authorization, and Jed may need to come forward.But what gave Jed a headache was that Quentin, who hadn't made a film for a long time, suddenly said that he would shoot a gangster movie next year, and it was expected that the schedule would conflict with "Titanic".Although Jade hopes that Quentin will compromise the schedule, Quentin said that his movie is completely different from the type of "Titanic", so he is not worried about the box office.Fortunately, Jed didn't expect Quentin to bring much box office, so he agreed to his request.

Now that the work for next year has been arranged, the enthusiasm for work within Galaxy Films has finally been mobilized.But the imminent task at this time is the distribution of the film "The English Patient" produced by Tiger Moth.Jade has no worries about how good the film is, as Anthony Minghella's directing art and John Hill's shooting skills are already top-notch in Hollywood.Moreover, this movie is a biographical theme that film critics like very much, and it has a bit of historical theme, not to mention that the whole movie tells a story of "extramarital affairs".I don't know if these old pedants have ever been young and frivolous, so all kinds of movies with the theme of unrequited love are very popular in the history of Oscars.

"Maribo, you also know why I am looking for you." Jed deliberately asked the manager of the distribution company to talk to Maribo, ""The English Patient" can be regarded as our first outsourced film, and we only participated in the distribution But I didn’t participate in the production. The reason why I found this movie is mainly to prepare for our independent release of the movie in the future. "The English Patient" is a movie that I think is pretty good. What do you think? And the release plan you arranged? What is it?"

"The English Patient is definitely a movie that pleases the critics. It is also a historical story, a biography, and a bit of a romantic relationship... As long as the director and actors do not have convulsions, this is definitely a movie that can be nominated for an Oscar. .” Meribo said confidently. "We will arrange premieres in Los Angeles and New York in early and mid-November, respectively. At that time, film critics from the east and west will be arranged to comment on the filmmaker. The final national screening will be arranged in the second half of the year, because This movie needs to use word of mouth to accumulate box office, we need to give critics a little time to comment and accumulate influence. This movie will definitely perform well at the Golden Globes at the end of this year and the Oscars early next year, and then It is arranged to go to the European Film Festival for some gold plating. The British Academy Award should be no problem, after all, this is a film produced in the UK. In terms of the three major film festivals, the theme of war has always been the favorite of the Berlin Film Festival, especially this kind of war destroys For the theme of love and human nature, I think we may also gain something from the Golden Bear Award. In addition, we should get courtesy from some second-tier awards in Europe, such as the European Film Festival, the Cesar Award and the Goya Award. Finally, As for the awards in Asia, the awards in the Greater China region and South Korea are relatively closed, and we basically don’t have much to do, but the awards in Japan can still be won.”

Meribo's proposal is actually the distribution method of most art films. Jed thought about it for a while and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so he nodded in agreement.

If it wasn't enough, he still ordered, "It may be wasteful to hold premieres on the east and west coasts, but I think the tastes of film critics in New York and Los Angeles are still somewhat different, so it's better to be cautious."

"I understand!" Meribo nodded.