The Best Entertainment Era

Nearly two hours later, Lin Jian walked out of the Theory of Relativity Building, got into the car with his assistant, and returned to the hotel where he stayed.

The car drifted away, and the Theory of Relativity Building quickly disappeared among the buildings in Century City.

Lin Jian changed into a local accent and asked his assistant, How do you feel?

The assistant has followed Lin Jian for many years and is one of Lin Jian's most trusted people. After thinking about it, he said: As far as all the people and companies we have come into contact with in Los Angeles, Ronan Anderson and Relativity have the best entertainment attitude. , but the first meeting, how they actually are, it is difficult to judge for the time being.”

Lin Jian nodded slightly, and said, Aside from Relativity Entertainment, we actually have no better choice. He sighed: Sony bought Columbia Pictures back then through Michael Orvis of CAA. We have also seen CAA Now, with a look of nostrils upturned, not to mention how much we have to pay, just this attitude makes me sick to my stomach.

The assistant said: I feel that such an arrogant attitude will inevitably continue to the cooperation process, leading to many unexpected situations.

This is not our home court. Lin Jian saw it clearly: Attitude sometimes determines everything.

He said to his assistant: You keep in touch with Relativity Entertainment, Ronan Anderson is not simple, I can't understand him.

The assistant replied: Okay, boss.

Lin Jian recalled the first meeting between the two parties, just like what he heard from those who had worked with Relativity Entertainment when he was in China, that Ronan Anderson was very friendly to Dongfang, at least they respected each other.

And based on his decades of life and social experience, he can tell that this is not a disguise, but respect from the heart.

As far as this aspect is concerned, if Qianlu Group wants to make a move in Hollywood and find a suitable partner, Ronan Anderson and Relativity Entertainment are undoubtedly the best choices.

What Ronan Anderson said also sounded full of sincerity.

Since Lin Jian wants to set foot in this industry, he must have done enough homework before coming here. Based on what he has done and what Ronan Anderson said, it is not difficult to find that there is no deception in the words of this film industry boss. Also critical.

For example, Lionsgate has no international distribution rights. Even if the acquisition is successful, can it really achieve the international influence he wants?

However, things are definitely not that simple.

Lin Jian's many years of business experience told him that Ronan Anderson is likely to be a friendly person to the East, but he is also a businessman!

It's too early to get nothing, what's behind Ronan Anderson's sincerity?

Lin Jian couldn't see or think of it for the time being, so he could only raise his vigilance and observe carefully.

He will maintain close contact with the Pacific Investment Fund and Relativity Entertainment, and will go to the Relativity Building in the last two days to visit Robert Iger, CEO of Relativity Entertainment.

Lin Jian is also reminding himself to stabilize his mentality and not to rush for success.

When I came to Los Angeles this time, I didn't want to achieve my goal at once, but I also wanted to establish a smooth communication channel with Hollywood to lay a solid foundation for the follow-up work.

In the reception room of the Theory of Relativity Building.

Ronan said to Scott Swift: You have more contact with them, do you feel that they have a strong willingness to acquire in Hollywood?

It's very strong. Scott Swift said: They have funds in their hands, and they still have very terrifying liquidity. They are not the only ones. At present, many Eastern companies are going abroad, entering the international market, and starting in the whole market. The pace of crazy acquisitions.

He also reminded: In addition, Qianlu Group is a company whose main business is real estate.

This industry can become bigger and stronger, and all of them have a deep background in the East.

Ronan naturally knew a lot, thought for a while, and said, Scott, you maintain close contact with Qianlu Group, and Relativity Entertainment may have the possibility of cooperating with them in the future.

I get it. Scott Swift responded, I will list Qianlu Group as a first-class client.

Ronan nodded slightly, and didn't say any more. After all, some ideas are still in the preliminary planning stage, and it is not suitable to disclose them to Scott for the time being.

Leaving the reception room, he went directly to Robert Iger's office and discussed until noon.

Since the topic was still to be continued, Ronan simply called Jessica Felton, rejected their lunch at noon, had lunch with Robert Iger, and continued the morning topic.

Ronan needed Robert Iger's rich field experience and strong execution ability to help him refine those initial ideas.

To turn an idea into an executable plan, it also needs to be done step by step.

Besides, Qianlu Group and that Mr. Lin are quite difficult.

Even if Ronan hadn't studied it carefully, he knew that Mr. Lin must have an unusually large force behind him. Considering the huge size of the Eastern market in the future, he was in line with the entertainment interests of the theory of relativity and maintained sufficient vigilance from the very beginning. On the surface, showing the sincerity of cooperation.

Later, it depends on whether the other party is willing to hold the hand extended by Relativity Entertainment.

While Ronan has certain hopes, he will not put the key to the plan on Qianlu Group. If the two parties can reach a cooperation, Qianlu Group can take advantage of Relativity Entertainment's advantages in Hollywood, and Relativity Entertainment may take advantage of Qianlu Group. The group's huge capital flow reduces the difficulty of financing.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Qianlu Group doesn't want to cooperate, as Relativity Entertainment will follow the original plan.

Ronan then asked Connie to issue a notice to the Dongfang branch to further collect relevant information about Lin Jian and Qianlu Group in an all-round way.

In the next few days, Relativity Entertainment had several conversations with the business visit team led by Lin Jian, and Ronan and Robert Iger also had talks with Lin Jian.

In the words of the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the talks were conducted in a friendly and cordial atmosphere. They fully exchanged views, enhanced mutual understanding, and presented gifts to each other. They reached preliminary cooperation intentions on many business initiatives, and established a foundation for the next stage. The foundation of strategic partnerships was laid.

Although the two sides have not reached any other cooperation outside the Pacific Investment Foundation, a smooth communication channel has been established after many contacts and interviews.

The most important thing is that Lin Jian himself has great ambitions. With Luo Nan's full sincerity cooperation, he also feels that the acquisition of a small company will not be of great help to the international film and television industry that Qianlu Group plans to develop.

For people like Lin Jian, they either don’t do it, or do it bigger and stronger.

Therefore, for a company of the caliber of Lionsgate, Lin Jian somewhat looked down on him.

Today's Lionsgate is not the same Lionsgate that once approached the six major companies.

Since a few years ago, Lionsgate has been greatly influenced by Relativity Entertainment unknowingly, and its development speed has been relatively slow. Although it has also become a medium-sized film company in Hollywood, it is at best a medium-sized company with a tail It exists, and the status is somewhat embarrassing.

Ronan still has the impression that the former Qianlu Group’s goal at the beginning was the Big Six in Hollywood, but the Big Six cannot be bought with money, and then they settled for the second best and shifted their target to Lionsgate Films. Was rejected, and finally had to choose a small film company.

Now that there is Relativity Entertainment, a company that seems quite reliable and intends to cooperate, Qianlu Group naturally wants to have a goal that is big enough and strong enough.

Although the two parties are far from being trustworthy, they have already made a good start, and Lin Jian is willing to spend time conducting necessary investigations.

While the business delegation of Qianlu Group was communicating with Relativity Entertainment in a friendly atmosphere, The Dark Knight spent its second weekend in North American theaters.

This superhero movie is still invincible in the North American market, and the box office trend is quite stable. The second weekend only dropped to a little over 50% compared to the first weekend, and it closed at $83.66 million in three days.

In just ten days, the North American box office of The Dark Knight has accumulated as high as 333.21 million U.S. dollars!

Almost every step of the film's North American screening is creating a new North American box office record.

At the same time, the film also started to be screened overseas this weekend, and it also exploded overseas, earning nearly US$200 million in box office in the first week.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the North American box office of The Dark Knight has a high probability of exceeding US$500 million, and it is not too difficult for the global box office to exceed one billion.

The Dark Knight is completely popular all over the world!

With this film, the clown has become a god! Bruce Wayne is basically a god! Christopher Nolan has also gained countless fans.

In the past ten days, the related news events that caused the most uproar were no longer the Joker and Heath Ledger, but The Godfather, Shawshank's Redemption and The Dark Knight, which topped the T0P250 list of the IMDB website. fight.

In order to compete for the first place, the fans of these three films have given up the most basic face. While giving high scores to their own films, they have given low scores to the other two. head.

Ronan did not allow Relativity Entertainment to participate in the battle of scoring points promoted by Warner Bros., just watching from the sidelines.

As an established film company, Warner Bros.'s promotional methods are also emerging in an endless stream. First, it kills people, and then stirs up the emotions of movie fans to create explosive points...

But it is hard to say whether this explosive point is good or bad in the end.

Frankly speaking, many behaviors of brain-dead fans are very easy to attract black people.

With The Dark Knight spending its second weekend in North America, the 2007 North American film summer season has come to an end.

In this day and age, the summer season of the North American film market is still limited to May to July, and August has not been included for the time being.

It won't take too long, the concept of summer vacation will not only add August, but even the last week of April will be included.

As long as you can make money, it has never been a problem to expand your schedule or something.

The North American film summer file, North America is the result of the commercial film operations of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.