Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In October, the Disney Pictures Group suddenly announced that an important matter was about to be announced, and a press conference would be held in Burbank, California.In view of Disney's previous large-scale acquisition of Miramax Films, entertainment reporters and financial reporters have speculated which independent production company Disney has acquired this time.Of course, the Galaxy Film Production Company under Jade is also on the reporter's guess list. After all, many people are optimistic about the potential of Galaxy Film.Now that there is a list, it is necessary to talk about Disney's bids for these companies.However, analysts believe that although Disney intends to acquire Galaxy Films, Jed Sherman, the largest shareholder of Galaxy Films, will not sell the company's stock.Some Hollywood analysts said that Jade should be the kind of very old-school filmmaker, the kind of person who insists on independent production.

However, when the media was guessing, Jed led the crew to catch up with the shooting progress in the studio. Since a large number of shots of "12 Monkeys" were shot in front of the green screen, it was a very difficult time for photographers and actors. Quite a difficult challenge.Fortunately, with Jed's continuous explanation, although the shooting progress was a bit delayed, there was no difficulty at all.

In Jed's version of "12 Monkeys", Jed deliberately weakens the boundary between "good guys" and "bad guys", because if it is simply and roughly divided, James, who travels through time and space to save the earth, is naturally a good guy, and releases the research animals. And Jeffrey, who caused the global plague, is naturally the bad guy.But James, who is unprecedented in time travel, is an imprisoned prisoner, and he is by no means a good person.And when he traveled through time and space for the first time, he didn't want to save mankind, but preached his theory, and his theory just affected Jeffrey.When it came time to travel through time and space for the second time, James really wanted to save mankind, because he was attracted by the doctor Catherine.At this time, Jeffrey is realizing his lifelong dream of saving animals and realizing the equality of life on earth.

Can you say Jeffrey is wrong?If it wasn't for human beings to wantonly conduct all kinds of terrible biological experiments on animals, how was the super virus discovered?Jeffrey just happened to be the Pandora who opened the magic box, but it doesn't mean that he himself is bad.In the movie, Jed seems to be advocating some fatalism, discussing whether human beings have the ability to promote the change of history with the power of one person.Also as a horror movie, Jed once again brought his "horror psychology" to an extreme.Jed requested that the entire movie be shot in dark tones, and the appearance of characters was deliberately reduced to create a sense of psychological alienation, making the audience feel a sense of emptiness and emptiness.

Jed was completely impressed by Brad Pitt's performance. He played a mental patient vividly, especially Jed's positioning of Jeffrey's role made Pitt completely liven it up.According to the description of the script, Jeffrey is a mental patient.But Jed didn't simply treat Jeffrey as a crazy person. On the contrary, Jeffrey was a paranoid and slightly crazy person under Jed's setting.He's normal, even suave, a lot of the time, but when it comes to topics like animal protection, he can become paranoid.But his paranoia is not that kind of inexplicable madness. On the contrary, his paranoia can convince many people that he is not a lunatic, but a persistent person.The character performance that favors normal and crazy makes Jed think that no one can shoot well, but Pete almost meets Jed's requirements.Under Pete's superb performance, James played by Bruce Willis is a bit weak.

However, Jed himself did not intend to give this role too much performance range, because Jed wanted to make this movie an "anti-hero" theme in his heart.James, played by Bruce Willis, fits the definition of a hero in American movies. He has a bad background but takes on the heavy responsibility of saving the earth.In the process of evading and failing, he gradually realized his own strength and responsibility, so he walked towards his mission without hesitation.According to the setting of general American movies, the hero should complete the task and reap his love at the same time.But Jed overturned this result, James did not complete the task, and the love he gained was nothing in the end.

According to the time announced by Disney, the reporters rushed to the Disney office center in Burbank.When seeing Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios Group, with three presidents: Aaron Bergman, Sean Bailey and Robert Chapok Ziqi appearing in front of the camera, all reporters realized that today There is big news.

Sure enough, Eisner smiled and announced an important piece of news, "With the approval of Galaxy Film Production Company, Bowei International Distribution Company under Disney Pictures Group will hold shares in Galaxy Film Distribution Company and Galaxy Family respectively at a price of US$5000 million." 15% of the shares of the entertainment company. At the same time, the two parties agreed that starting from this year, the North American distribution rights of Galaxy Films for the next ten years will be fully entrusted to Bowei International, while the overseas distribution rights will be shared by Bowei and Galaxy. The reason why so many people were called The reporter friends came here, in addition to announcing such a news job, but also want to express the goodwill of cooperation to the vast number of independent film companies. In addition to acquisitions, we also have cooperation plans."

Mai Ruibo in the backstage frowned when he heard it. When he wanted to say something to Jia Fei, the public relations personnel had already notified them to come on stage.Naturally, the representatives of both sides signed the contract symbolically, and then held champagne together, as if everyone was a close family.When it was time for the reporter to ask questions, to the surprise of both parties, everyone was concerned about whether Jade agreed to this cooperation. If Jade agreed willingly, why did this cooperation conference fail?

Jia Fei hurriedly explained: "This cooperation plan is naturally approved by Mr. Sherman. After all, he is the largest shareholder of the company. Without his approval, any cooperation would be impossible. The reason why Sherman Mr. Mann is not promising. This press conference is because Mr. Sherman is rushing to shoot a movie and cannot attend due to a time conflict."

The reporter of "Variety Show" asked: "Didn't Mr. Sherman express his position that his film company will always be an independent production company. But now that he has signed a ten-year distribution contract with Disney, doesn't this mean that Galaxy Films must comply. What about Disney's distribution plan, producing and filming some films that Galaxy Films is not happy about?"

"Galaxy Movies and Disney only have a cooperative relationship in distribution. What kind of movies Galaxy Movies will produce in the future will still be decided by Galaxy Movies." Jia Fei explained. "Galaxy Films is still an independent film company."

Seeing that the reporter of "Variety Show" did not poke the pain point of Galaxy Film, the reporter of "Daily Variety Show" who is a fellow student of the same school stood up and asked, "Let's assume a question, if Galaxy Film insists on independent production of the film, Bowei International refuses to release it. What should I do? It may be no problem for one film to be rejected, but what about two or three? Is there no pressure on Galaxy Movies to make a profit? If so, wouldn’t Galaxy Movies accept Disney’s filming plan under the pressure of capital? Then you guys How is it different from the acquired film company?"

Jia Fei looked at the nameplates of these two reporters and knew that it was Jed's old enemy who came to the door. "Variety Show", "Daily Variety Show" and "Gotham Daily Variety Show" three "variety show" newspapers have always been based on Hei Jie. In particular, "Variety Show" and "Daily Variety Show" are weekly and daily magazines based in Los Angeles, and they have cross-fire power; at the same time, they echo "Gotham Daily Variety Show" in New York.Now that Galaxy Film is cooperating with Disney without Jed, it will naturally arouse many associations.

As the general manager of Galaxy Film Distribution Company, Mai Ruibo hurriedly added at this time: "The distribution contract between Galaxy and Bowei is actually a priority distribution contract. If Bowei gives up distribution, then Galaxy Film Distribution Company will cooperate with other companies. The distribution company or independently release the film. We have independently released "The Blair Witch", "Pulp Fiction", etc., so we are not worried about what will happen if we are rejected by Bo Wei. Therefore, the production company does not have to worry about the distribution department. any pressure."

Now that "Variety Show" and "Daily Variety Show" have been exhausted, there is absolutely no need for other newspapers to continue to worry about this topic.Everyone who came here received more or less preferential treatment from Disney's public relations department. It would not do them any good to offend a big company like Death, so everyone changed the topic and asked why Disney launched such a cooperation method.Not beyond Meribo's expectations, Disney has completely made Galaxy Movies another model of cooperation.

If you are not willing to fully integrate into the Disney family like Miramax, then you can also become a satellite company of Disney like Galaxy and form a Disney galaxy together.For Disney, looking for satellite companies to form allies is more suitable for the company's rapid expansion.It doesn't cost much and doesn't worry about the "Antitrust Law" of the Ministry of Commerce. More importantly, once there is a problem with the satellite company, Disney can completely abandon the company as quickly as possible without causing trouble to the upper body.If the satellite company is really promising, then Disney also has many ways to completely control the satellite company.

It's just that it's not so easy for Disney to control the Galaxy movies, because Disney actually controls only the distribution company of the Galaxy. If there is a war between the two sides, Jed can completely abandon the distribution company by cutting his wrists.At the end of the press conference, Bowei and Galaxy announced the latest release plan for the Galaxy movie. The cartoon "Toy Story" produced by Galaxy Animation Studio will be released on November 11, and the adventure film directed by Hong Kong director John Woo The movie "Game of the Brave" will be released on December 15.

At the press conference, Galaxy Films also played the 1-minute trailers of the first films of the two films. The promotional video of "Toy Story" mainly shows the super-high anthropomorphism of the toys in the movie; while "Jumanji" shows the exciting action scenes in the film.After the announcement of the promotional videos of the two films, it naturally aroused the curiosity of the reporters. The vivid expressions of the toys in "Toy Story" amazed the reporters, and at the same time the unimaginable scene design of "Jumanji" also amazed the reporters.

These two works, which incorporate the most advanced virtual technology today, will soon bring another wave of climax to today's press conference. Unfortunately, the people from Galaxy Films refused to answer any questions about these two films.