No one could have imagined that the sudden death of a black man would trigger protests in the new year, which would then disrupt the entire United States.
"Discrimination, this is racial discrimination and persecution!" At the entrance of the court, when the white young man who was convicted of "accidental injury" came out, a large group of black people held protest banners and shouted loudly.
"We demand a new trial and verdict! This verdict is unfair!"
"White people protect white people and don't treat us black people as human beings!"
"Even though we live in the slums, we are still Americans!"
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Demonstrations similar to the one before us slowly grew in size, spreading from Los Angeles to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and across the ocean.
At the same time, due to the "accidental death" of black people in the slums, the fantasy entertainment movie "Slumdog Millionaire" that is currently being released has once again become a hot topic.
The life in the slums that was originally ignored, and the people in the slums who were originally despised and disdained, are all deeply reflected in this play.
Reporter interview: "What did you see from this play?"
Audience: "I have re-understood the miserable life in the slums. Yes, the slums in India are like this, and so are ours in the United States!"
"I suggest that everyone go into the cinema and watch this drama. Yes, it will make us understand what kind of poor people are around us!"
Reporter interview: "May I ask why you want to watch this drama?"
Audience: "Didn't an old black man die a few days ago? This incident made a big fuss and let us know how serious racial discrimination is in the United States. If there are slums in the United States, then I hope the government can pay more attention to it.
them!"
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With such a series of reports, the drama "Millionaire" has completely become a hot topic.
Black people want to watch it, white people want to watch it, and of course Indians, Chinese, and other disadvantaged groups... The reason is for no other reason than that Yi Feiyang's drama reflects how a disadvantaged group survives and lives.
With such a good trend, the attendance rate of "Millionaire" continues to rise, all the way up to more than 92. In big cities like Los Angeles and New York, even the most deserted morning shows have reached an attendance rate of 95.
Many theaters during prime time have reached the point where it is difficult to get a ticket.
Looking at the box office rankings, the North American box office performance of "Millionaire" in the first week was finally fixed at 137 million. In the last few days, in the big city of Los Angeles, even the first show ticket at 10:30 during the day was
Already sold out early.
In the end, this result defeated Disney's "Enchanted" with a total box office of 112 million. It became the second highest box office deal of the week, but it was still worse than the total box office result of Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" of nearly 400 million.
Far Away. As expected, the cumulative box office of these two movies has been unprecedented, and no subsequent drama can catch up.
Taken together, Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" seems to be higher at the box office, no, it should be much higher. However, the astonishing results of Yi Feiyang's "Millionaire" still surprised everyone.
Think about it, "Millionaire" was shot entirely in India, with cheap markets, cheap actors, and cheap shooting locations. The total cost was only 8 million U.S. dollars. Compared with Spielberg's big-production "Artificial Intelligence"
"Intelligent", because it is a science fiction film with grand scenes, the cost of special effects alone is as high as 43 million, plus the salary of actor Jude Law and other big names, as well as the rental of shooting scenes, post-publicity expenses, etc., the total investment is as high as 160 million
Dollars!
In other words, the cost of Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" is 20 times that of Yi Feiyang's "Millionaire"!
In terms of box office, the current financial performance of "Millionaire" can definitely be called a "miracle". It is roughly estimated that when the two movies are completed, the total box office at home and abroad may be similar. In other words, Yi Feiyang
With one-twentieth of Spielberg's money, similar box office results were achieved. Such a return on investment made the media praise Yi Feiyang's crazy directorial ability.
Yi Feiyang is very satisfied with the current results. Although he cannot beat Spielberg in terms of box office, he is a big winner in terms of profitability.
Of course, this war is not over yet, because as we all know, Spielberg is not the box office king, but the famous Oscar king, which means that this guy is an award-winning professional, and he can win Oscars every time he shoots a movie, and this
Not once is an exception.
News soon came that Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" and Yi Feiyang's "Slumdog Millionaire" were both shortlisted for the 2003 Oscars and received multiple nominations.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately triggered a controversy between the two major directors who were competing for the Oscars.
In other words, from this moment on, the war between Yi Feiyang and Spielberg directly escalated from being equally matched at the box office to Oscar awards.
For Yi Feiyang, the success of "Millionaire" can be said to be inevitable, or it can be said to be accidental. If there hadn't been the brilliant premiere of tens of thousands of people, and if there hadn't been the death of the poor black old man on the street...
...Then the current box office of "Millionaire" is absolutely impossible to exceed 100 million. To put it bluntly, this result is the result of many factors, including the right time, location, and people.
But for the U.S. government, the greater the influence of "Millionaire", the more negative it will bring to the government. Especially the fiery black demonstrations in front of them with slogans protesting, it is simply a slap in the face, yes, it is
It's a slap in the face of the government.
As the demonstrations and protests continued to expand, moving beyond Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, New York, etc., to other major cities in the United States, the current US President George W. Bush could no longer sit still.
As the ruling Republicans, everyone couldn't help but scold Yi Feiyang, a damn Chinese guy, for why he made such a big fuss over nothing.
You know, the U.S. economy has just recovered and needs political stability. The temporary line designated by the U.S. government is "harmonious development", racial harmony, political harmony, industrial harmony, agricultural harmony... But at this time, what kind of slums did Yi Feiyang create?
Premiere. Well, as the government, we have tolerated it. Your motivation for inciting everyone to show love is also good. The government can also follow suit and show that it is close to the people. But then the development of things is out of control, especially when black people begin to show their love on a large scale.
Protests, mass indictments started in the ghetto. This fucking thing has gone from a movie premiere to a full-blown political battle!
How can I put it this way, those democratic parties that have long been displeased with the Republican Party, as the opposition party, took the opportunity to hold high their "democracy" banner and constantly attack the ruling Republican Party. President George W. Bush is bitter, very bitter, especially
Hillary Clinton teamed up with her husband Clinton to stir up trouble within the Democratic Party and formed cliques outside the party, causing George W. Bush a headache.
China Yi is all caused by that damn China Yi! If he hadn’t created slums, premieres, and movies, none of this would have happened!
But George W. Bush couldn't call and scold this shameless guy - even if he scolded him, he probably wouldn't care. George W. Bush knew very well that Yi Feiyang's shameless skills were by no means inferior to his own political skills.
What's more, the current Yi Feiyang is not a small filmmaker, nor is he a Chinese who can be scolded casually. Behind him are the increasingly powerful Fantasy Entertainment Company and thousands of people at home and abroad who are pursuing him.
Movie fans, and even the Democratic Party, support him.
George W. Bush couldn't figure it out. He showed his kindness to this guy several times, but he always shirks and shirks, saying that he doesn't participate in politics or discuss politics. He bows his head to be a coward and only knows how to make movies... But now, your grandma
Xiong, your movie is almost a coup!
Faced with this situation, George W. Bush had no choice but to take measures, take the initiative to appear and accept interviews from major media, and then broadcast them through the public channels of national television.
In many countries, the dominance of television media and the power of public opinion have always been in the hands of the government. As the core part of public opinion, television media plays an irreplaceable role.
On TV, Bush Jr. righteously criticized the narrow-minded racism and continued to inherit the will of the great President Lincoln to build the United States of America into a peaceful and harmonious beautiful homeland where all ethnic groups live in harmony. Regarding the recent black incidents
, he expressed deep regret and extended deep condolences to the black people who had been harmed.
Finally, President George W. Bush affirmed a series of measures and policy agenda to alleviate the national conflicts at this stage. In his words---
"We are all children of God and citizens of the United States of America. We have the responsibility and obligation to maintain the stability and unity of this country. We do not want anyone to use any means, such as movies and other things, to
Inciting that kind of terrible national sentiment, we despise such people and despise such behavior! The United States of America will win!"
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George W. Bush's move of "pointing fingers and scolding Huai" was very good. At least he scolded the troublemaker Yi Feiyang.
In George W. Bush's opinion, this shameless guy should be given a good scolding, otherwise we don't know what trouble he can cause in the future.
The public opinion attacks on American national television were extremely powerful. At least this "scandal" made Yi Feiyang feel the invisible dominance of the American government.
It was rare for the government to start by criticizing someone. In addition to Fox and Paramount, the remaining five major Hollywood film companies also began to use their own TV stations to vilify "someone" one after another.
Nonsense, Yi Feiyang played too wildly and too much this time, which directly affected the interests of these film companies. How could he vent his anger without scolding him?
As a result, for the first time in the history of the entire American film industry, collective swearing incidents occurred, and major television stations even became the organizers of swearing contests.
Faced with such a situation, Yi Feiyang sneered.
However, Yi Feiyang suddenly became interested in the media controlled by these companies.
Yes, in the past, Yi Feiyang was interested in their theater chains, but now he is interested in their various media, or to be precise, their promotional tools.
Although Fantasy Entertainment controls thousands of cinemas, it no longer depends on the faces of these large companies and does not have to be restricted by them in the theater chain. However, if these large companies join forces, it will be enough to put a lot of pressure on him. Fortunately, these companies
Faces and hearts are incompatible. As long as you are smart enough, you can slowly erode and divide them, until one day you will become the new master of the Hollywood movie empire!
Don't doubt Yi Feiyang's ambition.
The advantage he has is not only the memory of future films, the advantage of directing films, but also the grasp of the direction of the general climate. He has full hope that with the help of the newly established film and television kingdom of Dream Entertainment, he will be like Qin Shihuang.
Become the emperor of Hollywood by unifying the six countries!
At present, the comprehensive strength of Fantasy Entertainment cannot be underestimated, especially the diversified development has brought huge profits to the group's funds. It can be said that in terms of capital development and hard power, there are no big problems at all. The real problem is
It lies in the publicity channels...
Yi Feiyang understands that since ancient times, the establishment of an empire requires a huge intelligence network and an external publicity agency that can control the direction of public opinion and make many external reports on behalf of the company.
Newspapers, magazines, radio, and mainstream television. These are the roots of propaganda.
In short, if you want to become a powerful imperial company, you need a lot of resources in the channels. Only if it has its own powerful media as a propaganda backing, will it be invincible, otherwise it will be blinded and blocked.
The mouth has become blind and deaf, and it has completely lost the competition. Just like now, being scolded but unable to retaliate, isn't it very sad?
Nowadays, the publicity resources that Yi Feiyang has in his hands, in addition to the official website of Fantasy Entertainment and the "Entertainment New World" newspaper, the largest publicity platform is the Google website platform. When the Internet spreads around the world, his publicity and influence will be
It will increase geometrically, but at present, it seems that this will take time.
And even if he owns Google's Internet resources, relying on this alone is still a bit weak. Think about it, America Online, the company behind Time Warner, owns television, the Internet, publishing, music...not to mention the 20th Century
Fox is behind News Corporation.
Google alone is obviously unable to compete with these media giant groups that cover various fields. It also needs some media carriers that are closer to ordinary people, such as social networking sites, video sites, magazines, newspapers, TV stations...
Among various media, Yi Feiyang quickly chose TV station as his next target without any consideration. This is natural, because not only is the American TV series a piece of the jigsaw puzzle of his director's dream, but more importantly
,TV is the most influential media in people’s lives now.
You don’t have to read newspapers, magazines, or video websites, but you always have to watch TV... Acquiring a TV station is undoubtedly the best choice to expand your media influence.
Nowadays, Fantasy Entertainment has only had in-depth cooperation with Fox TV Station. However, this TV station is the parent company of Fox Film Company and will never really be aligned with Fantasy Entertainment. Therefore, Yi Feiyang feels that it is necessary and must control a TV station by himself.
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And taking advantage of the fact that he definitely has nothing to do during the Christmas period, it is just in time to do this. Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang also picked up the phone and called Alex from the investment department:
"Alex, please help me collect information on all TV stations in the United States."
"All of them?" Alex asked in surprise on the other end of the phone.
"Well, everything." Yi Feiyang replied with a smile.
Although Alex was surprised, he still hung up the phone without saying anything. In just one day, all the information from the American TV stations was transferred to Yi Feiyang's computer.
Yi Feiyang was once again surprised by his amazing efficiency. You know... it took Yi Feiyang three full days just to sort the huge data from these TV stations...
The information provided by Alex is very detailed, including basic information about these TV stations, such as which TV programs have been produced and which TV series have been released; there is also information and analysis on the current situation of these companies, including which company has launched a bad TV show
The ratings of the TV series were dismal, resulting in a large loss; a certain company made another bad deal, and it is estimated that it is currently in a debt crisis; the chairman of the certain company is willing to sell the company.
Yi Feiyang looked at this information carefully and couldn't help but sigh. No wonder the seven major Hollywood corporate groups have been standing in Hollywood for nearly a hundred years. If you look at this information, you can understand that the seven major groups basically control most of the public opinion in the United States.
Well...when their movie is released, they can carry out various pre-promotions through their own TV stations at any time. They don't have to try their best to attract people's attention like they do.
Even many companies on this list that seem to have nothing to do with the Seven Groups are actually controlled by them... It seems that it is not unreasonable for Michael Jackson, the former King of Pop, to be cornered by them...
But the good news is that in addition to the TV stations controlled by the seven major film groups, there are many other TV stations. These TV stations are not doing very well. A considerable number of them are losing money, and many of them are suffering huge losses.
Looking for buyers everywhere and ready to sell.
Public television cannot be considered. Yi Feiyang has removed all television stations that require approval from the US government and serve as propaganda tools for politicians. Although these television stations have a great influence on public opinion, they do not consider the issue of profitability. The most important thing is
These TV stations are too political, and the TV programs they produce are subject to review and monitoring by relevant US departments, making it difficult for them to express themselves freely.
In contrast, cable television stations in the United States are very popular, which means they are highly commercialized. The most important thing is that this kind of TV station is a fee-based TV station, which is guaranteed to be profitable and has greater freedom in creation. However, the communication channels are not
It's a bit narrow, which weakens its influence. But in Yi Feiyang's view, such a TV station is actually easier to control. As long as you are willing to lower the charging threshold, your influence can be increased anytime and anywhere.
There are more than 20 cable TV stations left. Some of them only have a projection system and do not have a production department. They simply make a living by buying programs to broadcast;
Some TV companies have their own production departments and are capable of producing programs and TV series, but the quality is average. They often cannot compete with large TV stations and cannot sell any broadcast rights. They can only broadcast them on their own TV stations, and many times they watch them.
The rate is extremely dismal and we cannot make ends meet.
In fact, it is not difficult for a TV station to establish its own production department, but having more production departments means that the company has many more departments and many more employees. The production cost is not only a huge expenditure, but also the personnel and
The consumption of equipment is also very large.
Generally, TV stations prefer to purchase programs and TV series from independent production companies, which will reduce the burden a lot. Even if they have their own production department, it is still very rudimentary.
Of course, Yi Feiyang prefers to acquire a cable TV station that has a mature production department. He has resources for programs and TV series in his mind, and what he needs is an experienced production team to bring them into reality.
He dragged the mouse and searched for information, and finally found only one suitable target-amc cable TV station. (To be continued...)
