Time flies, and with the box office and word-of-mouth success of "The Devil Wears Prada", Hollywood's October schedule, which originally did not receive much attention, has become one of the most shining schedules this year.
Soon, it was the Halloween season in November, and the momentum of "The Queen" began to gradually slow down. Instead of "The Queen", three newly released horror films were replaced by "Saw 3".
”, “Dead Silence”, and “Death is Coming”.
Among them, "Chainsaw" and "Dead Silence" are both produced by Fantasy Pictures, while "Dead Man" is produced by New Line Cinema.
As mentioned before, New Line Cinema, Dimensions Pictures, and Lionsgate Pictures were originally known as the "three golden flowers" in the field of Hollywood horror, but no one could have imagined that Yi Feiyang would emerge from the sky, and Dream Movie
The sudden establishment of karma has completely lost the luster of these three budding golden flowers.
According to data from the most authoritative financial survey company in the United States, Fantasy Pictures, after only three years of development, has reached an astonishing total strength of 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, an average of nearly 430 million U.S. dollars per year. If Yi Feiyang is willing to list the company
If so, according to conservative estimates, we can immediately raise three times the amount of funds, which is 4 billion to expand the company's scale. However, Yi Feiyang has been delayed, which makes the three golden flowers secretly relieved, at least for themselves.
His "status in the world" can still be maintained. However, according to Lionsgate Gusta, who has a good relationship with Yi Feiyang, "Yi is not unwilling to expand the company, but wants to do it step by step!"
This sentence has a broad meaning. You must know that in the United States, listing a company is often the dream goal of many entrepreneurs. As long as the company is listed, it will have enough funds to support its expansion and development of its business. However, Yi Feiyang did the opposite.
It's puzzling to understand.
In fact, these people don't know that the United States is now falling into the quagmire of an economic crisis. Especially the expansion bubble of the Internet economy is spreading. Yi Feiyang will never throw away the company he has worked so hard to build and wait until the economic crisis hits to be slaughtered by others.
Yi Feiyang is confident that as long as he leads this team, he will be able to win every battle!
This is indeed the case. Careful people carefully studied the development path of Fantasy Pictures, and were surprised to find that this company has never made a movie that lost money!
Further research revealed that almost every film produced by Dreamland has a box office of over 100 million!
Miracle, miracle!
Such a miracle was created by Yi Feiyang. The achievements of Fantasy Pictures have eclipsed Hollywood's "Three Golden Flowers".
It can be said that today Yi Feiyang and his company have become a hot new talent in Hollywood.
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In November, the two new Halloween dramas won new glory for Dream Company, but Yi Feiyang was not happy. He was looking forward to the upcoming Christmas period.
Among the big money-making projects, Yi Feiyang is preparing to launch three dramas from his company in one go, "High School Musical 2", "School of Rock", and finally the hugely invested science fiction film "Planet of the Apes"!
Yi Feiyang's hope for this drama is not the box office performance, but whether the director of this drama, Tim Burton, feels his sincerity.
Yes, Yi Feiyang really wants to take this great director under his wing, because with the growth of Fantasy Pictures, the company is in urgent need of such talents. In addition, there is also the great director Gore who is filming the sequel to "Pirates of the Caribbean"
, Yi Feiyang also made him a target to win over.
It can be said that the Yi Feiyang in front of him no longer cares about the movie box office. What he wants is talents! All kinds of movie talents!
The North American Christmas season in 2000 was as smoke-filled and bombarded as ever.
Just as Yi Feiyang expected, this period is almost dominated by a few super giants in Hollywood, and many films from small and medium-sized companies have directly become cannon fodder under these super blockbusters.
Fantasy Pictures' three films are very strong, but the box office results are not much better than those cannon fodder.
So many people lamented that God is still fair. Fantasy Pictures had bad luck in October. And it was a lot of good luck. It deserves to suffer some losses now. In the words of Abbas, the chairman of the Film Association, "God
She’s not China Yi’s aunt, so she won’t always protect him!”
Yes. China's Yi Ye is famous enough. In the past two months, almost all the headlines in newspapers and magazines were about him stealing the limelight. The "Queen" is all-powerful and proud of Hollywood. Now, although this drama is underrated in North America, it is still popular.
Yes, but the Christmas season is not about playing house. As soon as the Hollywood giant's heavyweight movie came out, it immediately brought China Yi's three new films back to their original form. Facts have proved that China Yi is not a god! His companies are not deified either.
The Miracle Company will also become cannon fodder, right?!
Rumors, rumors!
The ridicule and sarcasm that originally had nowhere to vent my jealousy!
Everything broke out at this moment.
It seems that with these ridiculing words, these Hollywood people can wash away the shame weighed on their heads by Yi Feiyang.
It seems that only with these sarcastic words can these Hollywood people vent their frustration at being trampled underfoot by Yi Feiyang.
This is how glamorous Hollywood is, speak with strength and performance!
When you do well, thousands of people will applaud you!
When your grades are poor, there will be tens of thousands of people booing you!
But what is surprising is that just when those narrow-minded Hollywood filmmakers were laughing and satirizing Yi Feiyang and his company in a happy mood, one week after its release, "Planet of the Apes" directed by Tim Burton under Fantasy
The film's box office performance actually started to counterattack. The black science fiction film that was originally disliked by many people became the only blockbuster film that can compete with the seven major Hollywood giants in this Christmas season. And Fantasy Pictures has also become the only one that can compete with the seven major Hollywood giants.
The film company that made a successful counterattack during the Christmas season!
December 13, 2000.
Just when the outside world was talking about Fantasy Pictures and Yi Feiyang himself, and when Christmas movies were in full swing, Fantasy Pictures purchased a five-story building near Hollywood Boulevard and quickly moved.
past.
Compared with the three-story building renovated from an old factory in Chinatown, the new company's site is very large, twice the size of the original company. It is definitely more than enough as an office building. Now everyone in the company happily praised Yi Feiyang's work.
A feat. After all, with the development of the company's strength and the continuous increase of the company's employees, the previous company has become too small.
Who would have thought that what was originally a small-scale film company with just over 30 people has now transformed into a large company with nearly a thousand people. After re-adjustment, the members of the company opened the first store in the company’s new address for the first time.
In fact, most of the meetings were attended by administrative staff. Even so, the large conference room that could accommodate a hundred or ten people was almost full. It only took him more than a year to move the company from Chinatown to Hollywood.
, Yi Feiyang felt very happy and felt very accomplished.
He glanced at the company executives in the conference room. Then he smiled and said: "Hey, guys, are you happy, like me now?!"
"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed.
The spacious and bright conference room, breathing the air of Hollywood up close, makes people feel extremely exciting.
Yi Feiyang continued: "Okay, guys, now that the company has enough development funds, it will officially enter the track. Let's briefly talk about the company's recent achievements."
It’s the end of the year anyway, and the company has to summarize its performance report during this period. There is no need to describe the details one by one, but Dream Company’s results in the second half of the year are quite good. Currently, there are six works that have been released, respectively.
It's "The Devil Wears Prada", "Saw 3", "High School Musical 2", "School of Rock", as well as "Dead Silence" and the blockbuster "Planet of the Apes".
The only regret is that Yi Feiyang's original plan of eight films has not been achieved. According to the original plan, two of the eight films have not been released, namely "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and the animated film "Despicable Me".
As the financial director of the company, the fat man Gao Jiabao has always been good at reporting on profit performance. Now he is familiar with the business. Under the expectation of everyone, he picked up the financial report and stood up. After coughing a little, he announced the profits of the six dramas in the second half of the year.
"According to incomplete statistics, the average weekly box office of "Planet of the Apes" currently in theaters is 23 million U.S. dollars. Calculated based on eight weeks. The North American box office will reach 174 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office will reach 230 million U.S. dollars, totaling 404 million U.S. dollars.
"Youth 2" has a weekly box office of 13 million U.S. dollars. Based on eight weeks, the North American box office will reach 104 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office will reach 130 million U.S. dollars, totaling 234 million U.S. dollars.
"School of Rock" has a weekly box office of 9 million U.S. dollars. Based on eight weeks, the North American box office will reach 72 million U.S. dollars and the overseas box office will reach 96 million U.S. dollars, totaling 178 million U.S. dollars.
In addition, "Chainsaw 3" and "Dead Silence" during the Halloween period received a total box office of 280 million and 190 million US dollars respectively, and "The Devil Wears Prada" directed by our boss and director Mr. Yi Feiyang, this drama
The result is..." The fat man paused deliberately and looked at the people who were looking at him eagerly.
"Damn it, this fat guy is showing off again!"
"God, what kind of myth has the boss created?!"
"Come on, fat man, stop tempting people!"
…
Everyone knows that Yi Feiyang's drama is incredible, but no one knows what the result will be. Now that it is about to be revealed, it's hard to avoid feeling itchy.
Seeing that public outrage was aroused, Fatty did not dare to play any more tricks, and hurriedly coughed and announced: "The North American box office of this drama is...275 million US dollars!"
Wow! Everyone was shocked. He is indeed a boss. North America alone has exceeded 200 million!
"As for the overseas box office, it reached...343 million US dollars!"
Boom! Everyone was knocked unconscious. Overseas, it broke 300 million?! Oh my god!
You know, this is a female-themed movie! How is it possible?! How is it possible?!
"So the total box office of this drama is... 618 million US dollars!" Fatty solemnly stated the number.
Those who were stunned were almost numb. A fashion drama, a female inspirational drama, a workplace movie with no big cast, actually exceeded 600 million worldwide!
What concept is this? What concept?!
Could it be said that the boss really needs to be blessed by God, the Son of God?!
OH,MYGOD!
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"Okay, everyone, be quiet and let the fat man...oh no, the senior manager finish his words." Under the fat man's sad eyes, Yi Feiyang hurriedly closed his mouth and changed the fat man to the supervisor.
Dures, Rabbit Bill, Jack Black, Cindy, James Wan, and the newly joined Fantasy players Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage and others calmed down.
The fat man straightened his hair, which was shaking due to excitement, and then announced the final result with a smile.
"To sum up, the total box office of our six dramas in the second half of the year is as high as 2.304 billion U.S. dollars! Excluding the shooting costs, theater sharing, high taxes, etc., our actual profit reached 830 million U.S. dollars!
"Oh my God! Eight hundred million! What a shocking number!"
"Oh my God. I made a profit of 800 million in half a year. It's easier than robbing a bank!"
"I can't believe this number, it's so scary!"
…
"In addition to the above movie profits, we have an initial profit of US$270 million from the Asian hotel plan we have invested in in partnership with the Hilton Group, the real estate plan we have invested in in partnership with the Trump Group, and our Google Internet Company.
The financial strength of Menghuan Pictures Company has exceeded 2 billion US dollars! And our big boss, Mr. Yi Feiyang, is already a veritable 2 billion tycoon!" The fat man did not forget to praise Yi Feiyang in the end.
Yifei Yang smiled, are you a two billion tycoon? There seem to be a lot of such tycoons in the United States. Let’s not talk about anything else. Just talk about those future IT upstarts. Which one does not have a wealth of more than ten billion?!
In fact, Yi Feiyang is a bit presumptuous in thinking this way. You must know that many of those so-called tens of billions of tycoons are water-injected, especially in the IT industry, and they are water-injected pork. They rely on stock market figures to become tens of billions. But in fact
If the stock market fluctuates slightly, their tens of billions of net worth may immediately disappear. Unlike Yifeiyang, the company has not been listed, but the actual net worth is more than 2 billion... I don't know how much higher it is than those water-injected pork.
To use another analogy, let those tens of billions of tycoons come up with two billion now. It is estimated that none of them can come up with it, because their money is just numbers on the stock market, not real dollars. For another example, if Yi Feiyang now asks
The company went public. Not to mention anything else, just his actual net worth of 2 billion, he immediately raised tens of billions of stocks!
I don't know how long it took before everyone calmed down. Everyone could see the company's development and growth, but they were still shocked by Fatty's data. Even those with strong hearts couldn't help but beat for a long time. Especially the new ones.
Neither Johnny Depp nor Nicolas Cage, who joined Fantasy Pictures, expected to witness the amazing profitability of this miracle company shortly after joining the company. According to what people nearby said, the boss Yi Feiyang is a very generous person.
, the more profit the company makes, the more dividends will be shared by the people below. Johnny and Nicolas Cage are both looking forward to how much they can share? Especially Cage, who was attracted by Depp to join the company, for the dream at the beginning
He didn't have much hope, but now, he suddenly felt that this was a rare opportunity. Fortunately, he didn't miss it...
After Gao Jiabao, the fat man, reported the profits for the second half of the year, and listened to everyone here briefly report on their work achievements, Yi Feiyang glanced around with a smile, and then slowly said: "In terms of entertainment, the company's future will be
The strategy for this year is to transform from a pure film production company into an entertainment group company that integrates film, television, and album production. As for the specific content, Dures, please tell me."
As the vice president, Dures has lost a lot of weight in the past six months, but looks more energetic. He stood up and scanned the week, and said to everyone: "Hollywood now produces more than 600 films every year, and every year it returns 600%.
The number of ten is increasing. There are many truly outstanding films among them, but there are definitely not many films that can be released globally."
"Survey statistics show that the Hollywood film market will gradually become saturated, so we need to diversify investment and diversify entertainment. In addition to movies, we should also involve the TV and record markets. Strive to achieve diversified entertainment and do not
Eggs are put in one basket. Of course, we have done statistics before. There is still a lot of room for development in the North American record market and the TV market, such as rap songs for teenagers and talent shows for the general public.
Real-life variety shows, these are endless resources, and what we have to do now is to polish the spear in our hands and occupy this market in the spirit of Don Quixote."
"Preliminary survey results show that although the North American record market is not as developed as in previous years, especially as online song downloads become easier and easier, the record market has even begun to shrink. However, we should clearly see that no matter how much online downloads continue,
How to prosper? One thing it can never achieve is the high requirements for sound quality and high fidelity. Therefore, our records must be based on these two basic points and make high-quality records; in terms of TV entertainment programs, we currently
We don't have the strength to build our own TV station yet, but we have had successful cases like "American Idol", so we can continue to cooperate with TV stations to create new entertainment variety shows. Now we have made a new proposal to FOX TV station, called "Hell"
"Kitchen" is a reality show in the food category. This show has been reviewed and will be released in March next year at the latest..."
It feels great to have Dures standing here and talking. He used to be very talkative, and even when he spoke, he was concise and to the point. Now he talks endlessly as soon as he stands up, as if he has become a different person.
In fact, this is indeed the case. In the past, Dures was forced to join Fantasy Pictures. To be precise, it was to pay off debts. But now, he is constantly being promoted in the company, which makes him feel that he is very capable here, and the company boss is still ambitious.
People who are vigorous have more room to exert themselves.
"To sum up, from now on, our company Dream Pictures must diversify towards entertainment and can no longer stick to one aspect of movies. Therefore, our company name will soon be changed from 'Fantasy Pictures' to '
Fantasy Entertainment Company', everyone, come on."
Yi Feiyang nodded appreciatively. He just admired Dures' serious attitude in everything.
Knocking on the table heavily, Yi Feiyang said in a solemn voice: "Entering the music and television industries will be the focus of the company next year, but film production cannot be ignored. In terms of production, I have no requirements. Strict and exquisite are enough.
No, I don’t want rough works.”
"In terms of production, I would also like to mention that commercial films are important, but art films cannot be ignored either!" At this point, Yi Feiyang showed a faint smile: "But the most important thing is experimental films. We have to give enough to newcomers.
To give them the opportunity to show themselves, in order to promote newcomers, I decided to acquire a small art theater chain to exclusively screen unpopular art films and experimental films!"
"In short, I want to tell everyone that talents are the most important at any time!" Yi Feiyang's smiling expression suddenly retreated like a tide, and he knocked on the table sternly: "If anyone allows talents to drain away from him,
That is a big mistake that must be punished!"
Everyone was in an uproar. They didn't expect Yi Feiyang to pay so much attention to talents. They all felt very honored. After all, those who can sit here are all talents among talents!
