Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

After making the conspiracy call with Wang Zheng, Su Yun simply packed up her things, and then took a ride to the CAA head office.

After bidding farewell to Chen and Zhang in Bangkok, she flew directly to New York from there, and started to observe the release of "Legally Blonde" and "The Rooftop Postman" in the North American film market with Ovitz .

On the other side of Xiangjiang, there are cousins ​​and brothers who are helping to watch, and if there is any important event, they will send a telegram and call her as soon as possible, so she can finally get out of Xiangjiang, which is full of people's hearts, and go to the present where she is more inclined to take "swords" strength" against the dry North American market.

Sure enough, Ovitz lived up to her expectations, and carried out corresponding marketing and publicity for the two films. The North American box office of an exotic literary film such as "The Rooftop Postman" directly returned to its original value. "Pretty Woman" even surpassed five levels in a row and cut six generals, and narrowly climbed to the second place at the box office in the first week.

It is time and fate. In recent years, women's rights activities in North America have been raging. "Legally Blonde", a movie with a heroine that breaks stereotypes, has emerged in response to the current situation, and is increasingly grasping the right to speak Women in the new era are extremely respected, dragging family members, friends, boyfriends, etc. to contribute round after round of box office... Many people doubt that this movie will reach the top next week.

After all, "Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi" and "007: The Octopus Girl", two box-office blockbuster series movies, have been released as early as May and June respectively, and then they mercilessly kill Finished all the commercial movies that can compete with it in recent months-this just opened up a sunny avenue for Su Yun's slanted chick movie, so that there is nothing in the summer vacation that can compete with her for the box office big blockbuster movie...

"Such an achievement has a lot to do with the quality of the movie." Facing Su Yun's delighted praise, Ovitz replied without hesitation to Su Yun's commercial exchange, "There are miracles in "The Postman" The legendary Kowloon Walled City is already a point that can attract many people to the cinema."

"And "Legal Blonde" is aimed at the young people's market here in the summer vacation, and there is a gimmick that Jackson's cameo can get money out of young people's pockets, and taking advantage of the wind direction during this period to vigorously break through public relations Women stereotype these points, unless there are some special accidents, it is difficult to have problems."

When Ovitz said this, he couldn't help saying to Su Yun with relief: "Meg and Tom, the two lucky children, have now become famous stars with "Legally Blonde" and "Crazy Boys" respectively. Super idols among young people, especially Tom - he danced in a pink shirt and was imitated by many people, it became a trend..."

Although "Crazy Boys" is not a movie of his own company, Tom is an artist of his own company. If he has good results, Ovitz, a high-level executive who is particularly short of young artists, will definitely be sincerely happy for it.

The big names signed from outside, such as Sean Connery, have reversed the title of box office poison and returned to the first-line superstar level through the efforts of their company, but Connery is still a bit old no matter how good he is, follow-up Without fresh blood, it is easy to slowly decline from prosperity to decline like other small and medium-sized companies.

And it is not a long-term solution to rely on Su Yun and Zhuang Long, two foreign faces, to support the younger generation.

Fortunately, both he and Su Yun have good vision, and the two seedlings that have been cultivated have the hope of becoming useful.

"By the way, there is one more thing I have to tell you." Ovitz helped Su Yun finish the backlog of documents, and then took out a document from the shelf next to him, "There is a man named Peter You Burrows people, want to talk to us about the co-marketing business of the Los Angeles Olympics."

"He is the owner of a travel company, and he has managed to develop his travel company into the second largest travel company in North America, but outside the industry, no one knows him." Ovitz nodded Uber Ross Another job title under the name, "He was recommended to be elected as the chairman of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 80."

"So he asked us to do marketing and promotion of the 84 Los Angeles Olympics business?" Su Yun scanned the information slightly.

"There is this business, but the most important thing is that he wants to cooperate with us to help attract investment." Ovitz actually doesn't really want to take this business: counting the old history of hosting the Olympic Games in major cities in the past, it is full of big losses and special losses To the point where investors and advertisers are frightened by the news, even patriotic businessmen who are overwhelmed with favor with the country basically show a difficult expression when they hear the words of Olympic donations.

Leaving aside, let’s talk about the tragic case of the past ten years: the cost of hosting the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 amounted to 10 billion US dollars, of which the loss was as high as 6 million. The tragedy of the robbery and killing of members of the regiment directly led to the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games in the next four years. In order to respond to the security requirements of the International Olympic Committee, the cost of hosting the Olympic Games soared to US$58 billion.

The cost of the 58 billion US dollars brought back a loss of 24 billion US dollars, which almost prevented the Montreal city government from going bankrupt. Now I heard that the debt will be repaid in installments until 30, 2006 years later...

In the next four years, the 1980 Moscow Olympics, because of the relationship between location and folk customs, almost doubled the cost again, reaching a shocking 90 billion U.S. dollars!

It's a pity that after the real 90 billion investment was spent, it didn't bring back much income to the Moscow city government. It was a waste of people and money to a certain extent, dragging down the economy for a long time, which is a typical example of losing money and making money.

It is also because of these precedents of successive loss-making Olympic games that Los Angeles became the only candidate for a major city eligible to host the Olympic Games when it applied for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, and in the end it won without a fight—because other candidates Cities were frightened by the previous examples of losing money, and they all chose to give up the election...

"Prior to this, the source of funds for the Olympic Games basically came from the government's financial appropriation, which is also the most important source of funds." Seeing Su Yun's puzzled look, Ovitz patiently explained to her, "Second These are the three ways of raising funds by issuing lottery tickets, appealing for charitable donations, and attracting commercial sponsorship.”

"However, for the Los Angeles Olympics, I have not heard any news of the federal government providing financial support, and after learning that Los Angeles has once again won the right to host the Olympics, the California government and the public also jointly expressed their opposition to the use of public funds to host the Olympics."

"California still prohibits the issuance of lottery tickets, so the way of issuing lottery tickets to raise funds will not work; and charities have clearly stated that they will never allow the Olympic Organizing Committee to compete with them for donation funds-then, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has worked hard for the past two years If there are too many endings, the only way left is to attract commercial sponsorship."

"But now, attracting commercial sponsorship is the most difficult way to do, and it also has the fewest sources of funds?" After listening to this, Su Yun almost exclaimed in her heart: I can't imagine that the Olympic Games will be a favorite in the eyes of major businessmen in the future. , in the 80s, it was actually an existence that people could not avoid.

"Yes, in order to prevent the Los Angeles Olympics from being held due to financial problems, the US Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee reached an agreement after many discussions to hand over the qualifications to host the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and recruit the Los Angeles Olympic Team from all over the United States. committee chairman."

"Uber Ross, a businessman, is just like this, so he became the chairman of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee." Ovitz was shocked when he saw Su Yun's eyes that were getting more and more eager to try, "Mary, don't you want to..."

"I am." Su Yun nodded honestly.

"I'd rather you buy a few more "Back to the Future" or "Terminator" than see you interested in next year's Los Angeles Olympics." Ovitz looked at Su Yun with a look of hatred Wu Chenggang, "Even if the sci-fi movie you bought loses money, it won't fall directly from heaven to hell; but if you go to participate in such a giant as the Olympic Games, one mistake will be an abyss..."

Su Yun herself and her cooperating company Industrial Light and Magic can handle most of the post-production special effects of sci-fi movies. Tooth promised the root cause.

Otherwise, even if it is a partner with a high proportion of shares, he will throw back the plan if he makes random investments.

He has already done research on those two movies, and the investment is not too high but they are still worth watching. By then, he might be able to make some money by working hard on public relations... and the Olympic Games, which have been lost for many years, are huge. No matter how adventurous he is, he doesn't have the courage to step on a sinkhole that seems to have a 99% chance of falling badly.

And there are gossips that Uber Ross didn't want to go up at first, but he couldn't bear to be entangled with his friends in the sports agency company, so he reluctantly accepted this hot potato.

Even when he took office, he had to rent an office for the Olympic Organizing Committee out of his own pocket-because everyone thought this was another sinkhole that lost a lot of money, and worried that the Olympic Organizing Committee would not be able to pay the rent, so no one wanted to rent out the office at all. To the people of the Olympic Organizing Committee!

"Then he came to our company because of my previous investment experience that seemed easy to discuss?" Su Yun asked again.

"What he is looking for is not only our company, but also the ancient country behind you." Ovitz sighed, "Sponsorship by an individual or a few companies is difficult to make up for the huge amount behind the preparations for the Olympic Games." The funds are vacant, but Uberroth heard the news from some friends, knowing that Huaxia intends to return to the Olympic family in the Los Angeles Olympics next year..."

"It's like the United States is gradually choosing to show favor to China in order to fight against the big powers in the north."

"As long as the interests and goals are the same, then we are the best 'friends'."

"The reform and opening up in the past few years has made my motherland earn some money, but I don't think they are interested in paying for it now..." Su Yun recalled contacting relevant departments before about the broadcast of the movie "Rooftop Postman". The cautious and even pathetic tone of the staff on the other side of the phone couldn't help but feel sad: Obviously funds have always been tight and difficult, but they still want to continue to develop the entertainment industry, broaden the horizons of the people and experience.

"The Rooftop Postman" failed to enter the mainland film market during the summer vacation, and it was also because Su Yun struggled with Zhao's side in order to win more favorable terms for that side, so she kept procrastinating and betting again and again. Afterwards, it will be released in mainland China.

"I also suggest that you don't get involved in this. If it weren't for the fact that this is a major event that can influence many things, I don't even want to tell you." Ovitz's face improved a little after hearing Su Yun's words.

Probably because he felt that the tone he spoke with earlier was too strong, so his tone softened a lot at this time: "You are also tired recently, I heard that Alain Delon and your friend Bourne went to St. Tabarbara is on vacation there, do you want to meet them before returning to Xiangjiang?"

"Okay, I haven't seen them for a while." Su Yun nodded her head obediently, but there was an unknown light in her eyes.