Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

There are three main entertainment magazines in the American film industry, "Hollywood Report" based in Los Angeles, "Variety Show" based in New York, and "Vanity Fair" which reports various movie gossips.

Compared with ordinary readers, "Vanity Fair" is obviously much more famous. After all, it is an official partner of the Oscar Organizing Committee, and the annual Oscar Night Charity Party is organized by them.In addition, compared with "Hollywood Report" and "Variety Show", which are full of film reviews and professional analysis articles, "Vanity Fair" is obviously much more intimate with all kinds of gossip and sensational news.

And just three weeks after "Pearl Harbor" was released, "Vanity Fair" suddenly published a poster on the cover.The style of the poster is full of magical colors, and there is only one metal piece in the middle of the poster.And the title pressed on the poster was "Pearl Harbor?Harry Potter?Exclusively revealed the main movie of Galaxy Films this year".

"This magazine's exclusive report, according to the hidden staff of Galaxy Films, Galaxy Films formulated the 'New Century Giant Production Plan' as early as three years ago. According to this plan, Galaxy Films will put The focus of shooting has shifted to a series of big-budget movies. According to the information we have so far, the "Harry Potter" series of movies is just a test of this plan. The real content of this plan will be divided into two parts, "Epic Legend" ' and 'Super Heroes'. Due to the high degree of secrecy of these two shooting plans within the Galaxy Films, the special correspondent of this publication almost gave up on continuing to interview. But during an overtime work, the special correspondent of this publication accidentally picked up this According to the content of the poster, we boldly guess that the "epic legend" of Galaxy Film's "New Century Project" should refer to "Lord of the Rings". According to the investigation of this magazine, the copyright owner of "Lord of the Rings" The Erkin Cultural Heritage Foundation has stated that they have signed a 21-year exclusive adaptation license agreement with Galaxy Films, but they refused to disclose more content of the agreement. At the same time, we have inquired about Galaxy Films from the database of the Screenwriters Union. Recently, there are dozens of names of scripts related to "Lord of the Rings" registered in the Screenwriters Union. Although we can't know which scripts are true, it is very certain that Galaxy Films is shooting the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies. It is said that Mr. Jed Sherman went to the UK to film the "Harry Potter" series of movies and TV series to cover the "Lord of the Rings" crew. It is said that the "Lord of the Rings" crew has been in Scotland for at least a year. During this period, they have shot a lot of scenes in Scotland, Norway and France. Although this magazine has not yet confirmed the release date of the "Lord of the Rings" movie, according to the production cycle, it is either this year or next year."

The cover report of "Vanity Fair" was once considered to be a hype in conjunction with Galaxy Films, but soon the reporters discovered that Galaxy Films not only did not announce further publicity plans, but instead contacted the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office and the Los Angeles Police to complain about "theft of commercial secrets". "Because I hope that the two agencies can enter the investigation as soon as possible.So the reporters discovered that it was "Vanity Fair" who discovered the real information, and Galaxy Films was the victim.

With "Vanity Fair" recklessly eliciting secrets, the other gossip magazines naturally pulled out all the stops to dig out more secrets.After all, Galaxy Films' shooting of "The Lord of the Rings" is not a shameful thing, it just keeps the whole thing in a small range.If you really want to know, you can go to the Screenwriters Union, Directors Union and Screen Actors Union to look at the relevant records and you can guess a thing or two.Under pressure from the public, Jia Fei had no choice but to hold a press conference a week after the leak, acknowledging that Galaxy Films was indeed producing a series of films based on The Lord of the Rings.However, Jia Fei refused to answer the specific number of adaptations and the title and plot of each adaptation, citing "company secrets".

At the same time, Jia Fei also expressed his indignation at Vanity Fair's lack of business ethics, and said that the company's lawyers are already studying whether to sue Vanity Fair.And Jed was also very angry when he heard the news in the UK. Although he is only an entertainment company and will not have any secrets that endanger public safety, it is not a good thing that his business secrets are kicked out by such a gossip magazine. things.

What's more, the follow-up "Superhero Project" has not been fully implemented. If it is noticed at this time, then the loss of Galaxy Movies will not be a matter of a little bit of face.Jed made a special call to Shannity and ordered the company's original internal security department to protect financial and technical secrets, as well as general corporate business secrets.At the same time, Jed ordered Shannetti to catch the traitor earlier than the police, and to determine whether this commercial spy had anything to do with other companies.

After hanging up the phone, Jed was glad that the "Superhero Project" hadn't been leaked for the time being.

"Superhero Project" is a filming plan formulated by Jed, Jafei, Meribo, and Lansing. For this plan, Galaxy Films will acquire a century-old store in the United States, and at the same time form one or several brand new sub-brands. The brand supports this shooting plan.This plan not only involves the company level, but also involves signing work contracts with a series of directors, screenwriters and actors for at least five to ten years. From this, we can know how huge this plan is.

Jiafei and Lansing, who have been in the film industry for decades, are also terrified of this plan.It can be said that as long as Galaxy Movie takes one wrong step, it will be beyond redemption.The least is that Galaxy Films fell from the second group of Hollywood to the third group or even the fourth group and fell into a slump, and the most important thing is that the entire Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group collectively declared bankruptcy.

Although a series of measures by Galaxy Movies have prevented further leaks of secrets, a lot of news still fell into the hands of the media, especially the director of the "Lord of the Rings" series turned out to be an unknown director named Peter Jackson.This director hasn't made a movie since 1996, and his works before 1996 are either some bad comedies or some B-movies that can't be shown in mainstream theaters. Readers of "Lord of the Rings" were originally happy to have a film company adapt their beloved novel, but after seeing such an unreliable director, they all jointly requested Galaxy Film to replace the director.After being rejected by Galaxy Films, they jointly signed the Tolkien Cultural Heritage Foundation, hoping that they would cancel the authorization of Galaxy Films.

And at the time of these disturbances, Jed suddenly left the entire Harry Potter crew and appeared in New York.However, since Jed's itinerary was kept very secret, almost no one noticed it happened.After all, there are multiple directors supervising the film and TV series of "Harry Potter", and it doesn't really matter whether Jed, the nominal chief director, is there or not.And Jed returned to New York for the "Superhero Project". Although this plan was not leaked, it still changed some people's minds.The so-called "Superhero Project" is Jed's plan to wholly acquire the famous American comic company - Marvel Comics.

Although Marvel’s rival DC Comics has two superheroes, Batman and Superman, DC Comics is formed by multiple comic companies, so the world view in the comic world is very chaotic, unlike Marvel, which can be unified together.In addition, at this time, DC Comics has already hooked up with Warner Corporation, so Jed does not intend to tear down the station of his closest ally.Therefore, after Jed took the adaptation rights of "Batman" from DC Comics for the next ten years, he never touched DC Comics again.As early as 1997, Jed thought about forcibly acquiring Marvel Comics through his huge cash flow.But later, I spent a lot of money because of the company's restructuring, and the acquisitions in Asia have restricted my funds.Originally, Marvel was almost acquired by Jade last year, but it cost Jed a lot of money to form Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company.Although the acquisition of Marvel has been delayed, the plan is still moving steadily.

Jed and Marvel’s major shareholders formed Marvel Entertainment, which currently controls about 43% of Marvel Comics’ shares, while Jed owns about 2003% of Marvel Entertainment’s shares.Now Jade still needs to take two steps. The first step is to completely control Marvel Entertainment, and the second is to initiate a wholly-owned acquisition of Marvel Comics through Marvel Entertainment.Jed knows that later generations of Disney spent nearly [-] billion US dollars to acquire Marvel comics, but the current Marvel is not worth the price.The main reason is that Marvel's superheroes did not appear on the big screen until [-], which made people see the value of comic heroes.

The biggest difficulty in Jade's acquisition of Marvel is the shareholders of Marvel, who are extremely conservative and completely incapable of accepting new things.The only one who currently supports Jed is Marvel's editor-in-chief Joe Quest. From Jed's description, he sees the great power of the combination of comic companies and film companies.Comics companies will become an inexhaustible source of scripts for film companies, and film companies will develop a larger reader market for comic companies.It was under the lead of Quest that Jed was able to acquire the shares of many small and medium shareholders at a fair price, and then became the largest private shareholder of Marvel Entertainment.At present, the shares of Marvel Entertainment are mainly concentrated in four pieces, [-]% are in the hands of Jade's Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, [-]% are in the hands of the Atlas Trust and Investment Company established by the founder, and the remaining [-]% It belongs to core cartoonists such as Stan Lee and Jack Kobe, and the last [-]% is in the hands of executives such as Quest.The current problem is that the relationship between the core cartoonists and the founders is very good, and they support the founders.Jed can't use force against them, otherwise it would be the scariest thing to acquire Marvel but lose a bunch of cartoonists.

Jed appeared in the conference room of Marvel Entertainment to explain his plan for the future of Marvel Entertainment to the company's senior executives and core cartoonists for the last time, hoping to obtain their approval and formally initiate a proposal to the Atlas Trust Company. Offer to buy.Jed still has about $15 billion in cash in his hand, but Jed doesn't want to spend all of it on Marvel's acquisition at one time.You must know that the upcoming sequel to "Lord of the Rings" also needs a lot of money, and the promotion plan of the wE TV network under Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company to launch the wEPLUS digital sub-channel needs money.

While Jed was meditating with his eyes closed, the executives, founders and core cartoonists of Marvel Entertainment appeared in the conference room one after another.They are well aware that this will be a meeting that will determine their future destiny.