Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Although the Galaxy Film Group no longer intends to discuss the box office results of "White Night Chaser", because Jia Fei and others originally positioned this film as Christopher Nolan's sixth-generation work.Judging from the current box office results and word-of-mouth, Hollywood still quite accepts Nolan. The failure of "White Night" at the box office is only due to the wrong schedule and the audience's lack of awareness of Nolan, not the true performance of the film.

As far as a director who has just entered Hollywood, the results of "White Night Chase" are actually very good, but this film is produced by the Galaxy Film Group, which makes people involuntarily raise the box office requirements for this work.However, according to the news from Meribo, "White Night Chasing Murder" is still quite popular in the DVD market and TV network demand.However, the entertainment industry has never lacked that kind of "self-righteous" film critics, so there are still many negative comments on "White Night Chase" in some tabloids.

Just when "White Night Chaser" was controversial, the most senior film magazine "Movie Shunpo" from Sony Group's headquarters in Japan suddenly launched a special issue to analyze "White Night Chase".Like Japanese music, Japanese movies also love to entertain themselves. Knowing that they can no longer compete with Hollywood in commercial films, Japanese movies simply turn all their energy to small fresh and cartoons, and of course the so-called pink movies.Therefore, Japanese local movie magazines rarely comment on Hollywood movies, and even if they do, they don't have a good tone.But this time "Film Xunbao" actually praised "White Night Chasing Murder" in the form of a special issue, which surprised Hollywood filmmakers a little.

But after receiving the news in London, Jed just sneered: "It seems that Sony has begun to show goodwill."

John naturally knows what Sony needs from Galaxy now. Since Jed was willing to buy MGM with Gusta, Gusta has visited Comcast Group and Sony Pictures Entertainment Group one after another, and some agreements have been reached.Comcast Group currently has no conflicts with Jade. On the contrary, Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group’s History Channel Cable Network and Art Entertainment Cable Network still need to enter the United States, Canada and even the United States through the cable system operated by Comcast. The Mexican area is popular with families, so the two companies are happy business partners.

But the relationship between Sony Group and Sony Pictures Entertainment Group and Jade is not so good, but the Japanese's kung fu of "nin" is the best in the world.They now know very well that they must ask Jed, because there are not many companies willing to take over MGM and have this capital, not to mention Sony Group and Samsung Sherman Technology Group are allies to a certain extent.That's why the Sony Group did public relations in Japan, spending money to open the door of "Film Xunbao" and let them promote "White Night Chase".

"Tsk tsk, the Japanese are so naive and cute!" John shook his head and said, "They know that the organization behind them is closely related to the people who assassinated your parents and you, but they still believe that they can cooperate happily with you? You this time It seems that the ultimate move to cheat Sony Group when buying MGM seems to have worked!"

"It's not that simple!" Jed shook his head. "The Japanese are powerful because they are like poisonous snakes. They are dormant until they are not 100% sure to kill their opponents. They can even make compromises with their opponents, just to Get to know each other. You have to know that in order to conquer the Chinese, the Japanese started to understand their opponents 1 years ago, and finally succeeded by relying on a national luck gamble in the Yellow Sea War. During the American occupation of Japan, their prime minister You can bribe the occupying army in a low voice, and even arrange for their women to be raped by American soldiers. When their economy develops, look at the Japanese and American economies in the 80s. The Japanese almost bought the entire United States. So the Japanese They will definitely investigate my intentions, and if they are smart enough, they will definitely leave a way out so that they can get away with peace of mind."

"So?" John asked.

"Let them have no way out." Jed sneered, "The Japanese are very gamblers. They won the national fortune in the Sino-Japanese War, but they lost the national fortune in World War II. Regardless of whether they win or lose, their gamble It has been deeply rooted. So we have to find a way to force them to fully participate in the acquisition of MGM."

"What's your plan?" John asked with a smile. "Don't tell me you don't have a plan."

"You tell Gusta, in order to express our determination to acquire MGM and manage MGM in the future, I think we should set up a holding company, and then use the funds from everyone's acquisition of MGM as equity. Form the board of directors of this company." Jed said, "Regardless of whether the future acquisition is successful or not, the money will be sealed from Sony Pictures Entertainment Group first. I guess the Japanese want to keep MGM in the future. If they have the right to speak, they must want to become a major shareholder. It is best if they can hold a controlling stake. If they can’t hold a controlling stake, they must become a key shareholder. In this case, they must prepare at least 1 billion in capital.”

"It's also very common to form a holding company to acquire other companies, but you're forcing Sony's people to make a decision: should they follow you without hesitation? Or stand outside the pit and pretend?" John said with a smile. "I will take the time to talk to Gusta. I think he should have enough capital, and Comcast Group will not have too much trouble."

After explaining to John about the establishment of MGM Holdings, Jed took his notebook and rushed to BBC's film and television production center in Manchester.Regarding the bbc's production center, Jed really wanted to yell at the bbc headquarters.How can there be a company whose film and television production departments are scattered all over the country?Moreover, in order to improve utilization efficiency, the first season of BBC TV dramas is often produced by Department A, but the second season is Department B, so Jed will go to Manchester to supervise the work this time.

Moreover, the notebooks of this era are also very cheating. The weight can be compared with the future Dell Alien, but the computing power is worse than that of domestic netbooks.In order to have a better notebook, Jade himself invested in IBM's PC department and provided many suggestions for future ThinkPad design. Unfortunately, due to the current technical capabilities, Jade's idea is currently only a concept machine.Fortunately, this super heavy but super slow laptop can run ppt just fine, so Jed was able to communicate his thoughts with the BBC. The quality of bbc's TV dramas is naturally above the average line of American dramas, and the actors under bbc have many years of acting experience, even a few child stars are old actors with several years of stage experience.

Therefore, the TV series version of "Harry Potter" is very good, not only the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards favored it, but even the extremely serious TV awards such as the Peabody Awards have expressed their attention to "Harry Potter".Therefore, the reason why Jed came here is to maintain the quality of "Harry Potter", and the quality cannot be reduced because the film length is doubled compared with last year.

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is actually the first climax in the movie version, because in this version, Harry Potter will face his lifelong opponent-Voldemort for the first time.At this time, Jed is reviewing the scenes of the secret room and the underground passage department produced by the props team. These scenes are actually very well-made, but unfortunately the effect of shooting is a bit dark.

Jed had to call Rowling to confirm the details of the secret room. When talking about the setting of the sewer being too dark, Rowling said with a smile: "When the heir of Slytherin opened the secret passage, the snake eyes embedded in the secret passage The gemstones will start to work. The snake eye gemstone is green, but the light is not dim, you can design it enough to capture the effect."

With the settings of Harry's mother, the members of the props team began to deploy lighting.Of course, the production of the big snake also took several months of preparation work by the special effects team.Fortunately, there is an example of shooting "Ice Age", so the design and production of the snake have not changed much, and the final effect is more realistic than the original "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".The prototype of the snake chosen by the special effects team is Titanoboa, a creature that has become extinct on earth.Because only the length and volume of the Titanoboa would meet the requirements of the Harry Potter novels.

Several young actors also ran to see what the Slytherin snake looked like, and when they saw the 14-meter-long snake in the picture, little Harry immediately exclaimed: "Wow! It's incredible, it's true Is it?"

"It really existed in South America 6 years ago." Jed explained with a smile the Titanoboa. "However, if it is assumed that the current average annual temperature rises to 19 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees Celsius, perhaps within a few decades, the current anaconda may evolve into the Titanoboa."

"Wouldn't that be able to swallow a child in one bite?" Ron suddenly sighed.

"I don't think a grown-up would be a problem." Little Hermione corrected Ron's answer.

While the three children were discussing whether the Titanoboa would like to eat children or adults, an emergency call came to Jed's cell phone.As soon as Jed answered the phone, he heard David Geffen's exasperated voice, "Jed! Something happened to Britney!"

"What's the matter?" Jed asked quickly.Jed knew that the later Britney was indeed a troublemaker, but now she is still a good singer.Moreover, Britney's relationship with Justin is stable at this time, so there is no problem.

"Justin said in a radio interview that he and Britney had broken up, and he also released a single called "cryariver" at the same time. He said that he will explain clearly on the "cryariver" mv premiered on mtv this weekend I have already seen this MV, Justin found an actor who looks like Britney in the MV, and at the same time, this MV tells the story of the heroine cheating and infidelity. You know, Bran With Britney's third album Britney still charting and her concert tour going on, it's doing too much damage to her commercial image."

Of course, Jed knows how big the breakup between Britney and Justin was in later generations, and the war of words between the two sides is also exciting!