Milner took a sip of wine and said regretfully: "Of course, it is, but it is a pity that YouTube was acquired by Google and did not accept my funds. Youtube has great potential, and is even more valuable than Facebook to some extent, because videos have it
The particularity, you know..."
"Yes, the video is special."
Yao Yuan nodded to express his understanding and said: "You should know that I have a video website with tens of millions of registered users in mainland China, and I own the copyrights of more than 10,000 movies and more than 100,000 episodes of TV series."
"The diversity of your industries is truly amazing..."
Milner's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked quickly: "You mean investing in your website?"
"It's an investment, but it's not the one from mainland China."
Yao Yuan explained, "First of all, I will use Hong Kong's Golden Harvest to acquire Rogge Pictures. Do you know Golden Harvest? Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan!
After the acquisition, I will create another video website specifically for overseas markets in the name of Jiahe. At that time, the mainland can provide it with copyrights and produce it itself. With the addition of Hollywood Rogge, we will have a rich film library.
Source content, and after it has reached a certain scale, it will attract capital from all sources, expand the global market, raise the stock price and reap the dividends.”
"..."
Milner suddenly became confused.
Today's video websites are all uploaded by netizens and purchased film and television rights, but according to the other party's wishes, we want to build a video website mainly based on self-made videos.
There is no precedent yet.
But he was very tempted and felt that this project was promising and could cost a lot of money.
“How do you guarantee your homemade content will be popular?”
"What movies do Russians like to watch?" Yao Yuan asked.
"Oh, this has something to say..."
Miner paused, very interested in this topic, and said: "Some of our audiences, I mean middle-aged and older people, they were the first group of people to come into contact with Hollywood, but now they are tired of Hollywood stories.
They would rather watch French literary films or old Soviet films. There is a 1975 comedy film "The Trick of Destiny". For decades, yes, for decades, domestic TV stations have shown it every New Year.
Movie, I used to be devastated by it.
But those young people, probably like most young audiences, like to watch exciting action movies, romantic love movies, funny comedies, and Hollywood special effects productions... There are also some domestic directors who want to develop local industries. You know that is not the case now.
The Soviet Union is short of money, people, and creativity, so they can only occasionally produce excellent works."
Yao Yuan listened very seriously and asked: "So if when we open up the Russian market, we fund and support them in making a movie called "Chernobyl", do you think anyone would want to watch it?"
Milner was stunned.
"Or make a movie, let me give you an example, make a movie about a few young people traveling through time and space and returning to the Great Patriotic War. Do you think anyone wants to watch it?!"
Snapped!
Milner was amazed and said excitedly: "I understand what you mean, you want to do globalization + localization."
"So to speak, how about it? Are you interested?"
"..."
Milner was even more excited than before. After thinking for a moment, he asked: "What is the price quoted by Rogge Films?"
"180 million, don't worry, I can cut at least half of it."
"Although I have sufficient funds, I have to be responsible for the investors. The film industry is extremely risky. I can invest upfront with you to acquire Rogge, but you have to prove your ability to produce content. We can talk about it later."
"A very reasonable request, I accept it."
Yao Yuan nodded, sighing inwardly, what a waste of money! What the other party meant was to spend tens of millions of dollars to test the waters first, and if a few good movies were made, he would continue to invest in the video website.
At the end of the conversation, we were about to leave.
Yao Yuan reminded: "One of our games, "FarmVille", will be launched soon. You may wish to pay attention."
"Okay, if you hadn't said it, I would have forgotten the original purpose..."
Milner shook his head and smiled. He originally came to the game studio today.
…………
Georgia.
In a house in a middle-class community, Miles, who had just returned from school vacation, had nothing to do.
American universities have Thanksgiving, winter vacation, summer vacation and spring break, a total of three months of vacation. Now is the winter vacation and Christmas time for family reunion.
Miles is like thousands of children from middle-class families. He has sufficient resources for growth, and he went to a good university. He will be able to find a good job in the future and maintain himself in the middle class, or even further.
The American-style "happy education" advocated by the public is aimed at the poor, but not the middle class and the rich.
"ha!"
Miles yawned and got up to play on the computer.
He looks handsome, has a strong body, and has many girlfriends. He will log on Facebook to see what the girls are doing.
Oh! Emily from the cheerleading team went on vacation again. We got back together three times last month. Once I caught her having sex with Tom from the football team, and once she caught me giving sex to the drama club in the dressing room.
Scarlett applied hair removal cream, and once woke up in bed to find her exes lying next to her...
Miles looked at it and shook his head.
With the rapid popularity of Facebook, everyone seems to have lost a secret place. From their respective dynamics, we can analyze who is fooling around with whom, who is fighting with whom, who is being cheated on, and who is being ridiculed.
He also posted a message about returning home, took a photo, and then ran to the game platform to perform "Grab a Parking Space" and "Buy Friends", and then he discovered that a new game "FarmVille" was online.
Miles clicked in.
I chose the image of a white spiritual boy, and then there were several simple terrains to choose from, including plains, riversides, valleys, etc.
After selecting, the game begins.
I saw a large piece of land, divided into several small grids, with a dilapidated cabin on the side, and my character stood in front of the door of the cabin.
"You got cauliflower seeds x10!"
"You've gained some tools!"
“You got herbicide!”
"Start sowing seeds below, but before that, let's repair our dilapidated warehouse first!"
According to the instructions, Miles repaired the warehouse with jingling tools, turning it from a dilapidated log cabin into a simple log cabin. Then he used tools to plow the ground, sow seeds, water, etc.
There is basically no difference, just some details have been added to make the game appear more "hardcore".
Soon, the cauliflower was harvested.
Sell for money, sow again, upgrade to unlock new seeds and gameplay...
Miles flipped through a piece of gray content that had not yet been unlocked and found that he could also build a house, dig a pond, buy a tractor, hire workers, open a small workshop, etc.
oops!
The manor owner's genes soaked in his blood awakened, and he felt very regretful at the same time: Why can't we grow cotton? Why are there no black employees???
Georgia!
In the place where the story of "Gone with the Wind" takes place, growing cotton is an old tradition.
When he upgraded again and unlocked the friend function, Miles finally couldn't help but hug his girlfriends: "Come and play with this dick!"