Although a director of Spielberg's level can already talk directly with the boss of a major studio, this does not mean that Spielberg is at this level. In the end, he is only the top director and producer.
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Regardless of whether it is the domestic entertainment industry or the foreign entertainment industry, in the final analysis, it is all about capital.
When Wu Jianye and Phantom didn't get together, Spielberg could choose to suppress Wu Jianye with overwhelming force. But when Phantom Media got together, Spielberg was no longer important to Phantom Media.
Even several other studios in Hollywood are no longer rivals of Phantom Media.
Phantom Media's opponents are now only a few other major media groups. Of course, there are also media groups owned by Hollywood Studios. In the end, everyone will only fight in two directions, film and television!
Perhaps for other studios, if they can get Spielberg's alliance, it will be like adding a nuclear weapon to their arsenal.
But for Phantom Media, they already have their own nuclear weapon Wu Jianye. Whether it is in terms of personnel, control of movies, or contribution to the movie box office, Wu Jianye is stronger than Spielberg!
Everyone in Hollywood knows one thing, that is, if Wu Jianye had stayed in Hollywood at this time, he would have broken even more box office records!
At this time, Phantom Pictures invited Spielberg to put it bluntly, it was a strong alliance. As for everyone's previous grievances, under this kind of cooperation, they have become insignificant!
Wu Jianye understands this truth, and Spielberg naturally understands this truth too!
So after receiving the invitation from Phantom Pictures, after reading the script of the movie, Spielberg readily agreed to the invitation from Phantom Pictures, and Phantom Pictures would also pay Spielberg the market price!
Later, Spielberg personally called Wu Jianye and discussed with Wu Jianye the story in the script and Wu Jianye's original intention of creation. Later, the two met in an unknown coffee shop.
We chatted for a long time over a cup of coffee.
It was as if all the previous grudges had never happened.
At the beginning, the chat between the two was actually limited to the movie "Saving Private Ryan", but then the two chatted about more and more topics, but still did not leave the scope of the movie. The two talked about the movie.
Special effects, the story of the movie, the shots of the movie.
A meeting that was supposed to last only half an hour allowed the two of them to chat for an entire afternoon.
Then the media in North America suddenly saw a lot of news about Phantom Media through the ABC TV network and print media owned by Phantom Media during this period!
First, there is news about the abc television network.
When several other TV networks saw that ABC TV Network had obtained the screenwriters of Wu Jianye's two TV series and the planning of variety shows at once, they could not calm down for a long time!
The situation when "Friends" was aired instantly came to the minds of the heads of major TV networks. Not to mention that time, "Friends" is still the ratings leader in North American TV series. Whenever a new season of "Friends" is released,
When it is broadcast, other TV networks will strategically release their own TV network's cannon fodder TV series. It's not that they don't compete, but after several failures, they really can't compete!
Well now, Wu Jianye took action again and produced two TV series at once!
This damn thing is not letting anyone live anymore...
What’s even more infuriating is that Wu Jianye, just take the script of the TV series, why do you want to take the planning of the variety show? This is driving people to death!
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" has long been a phenomenon-level variety show in North America. Now, it has come up with two more damn variety shows, and ABC TV Network even announced that the frequency of these two variety shows
Definitely no worse than "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
For the North American entertainment industry, this sentence is the most appropriate to describe Wu Jianye!
Although I am no longer in the world, my legend is still there!
In the past few years, Wu Jianye has stopped making movies in Hollywood, but whenever Phantom Pictures releases an extremely popular movie, Wu Jianye's name is always written in the screenwriter column.
Just as Linda would not doubt Wu Jianye's ability to tell stories, no one in the North American entertainment industry would doubt Wu Jianye's ability to tell stories.
So when the ABC TV network announced that it would produce two TV series, "Will & Grace" and "Desperate Housewives", actors from the North American TV series circle came out one after another, hoping to get roles in them, especially after confirming that this movie
After the TV series production team, producers and directors receive countless calls from actors and agents almost every day!
The related reaction is that Hera Economy has signed many potential actors through this wave of publicity from the ABC TV network!
However, it is obvious that Phantom Media has not given up on this wave of enthusiasm, and has successively announced that it will start filming two movies written by Wu Jianye next year, especially the movie "Saving Private Ryan", which is a collaboration with Spielberg.
This former rival of Wu Jianye is also working with the top director in Hollywood!
The intimidating power of the powerful alliance made several other production companies tremble at this time!
They don't know how serious the consequences this combination will have, but one thing they can be sure of is that their lives will not be easy in the past two years!
For a time, almost the entire North American entertainment industry was shrouded in the shadow of Wu Jianye.
And those enemies who once wanted to deal with Phantom Media suddenly discovered that they seemed to have only done some useless things before. When Wu Jianye really took action, even the initial move was enough to make them unable to parry.
Got it!
Wu Jianye rarely accepts interviews from reporters in North America, so many reporters approached Spielberg to ask Spielberg about his views on the cooperation between the two!
Spielberg's answer was that there was no conflict between Director Wu and I. What happened before was just what the media said. In fact, we were exchanging scripts for the movie "Saving Private Ryan."
Later, I found that Director Wu and I had many similar ideas. I believe that we will become good friends in the future!
Looking at Spielberg who was boasting about Wu Jianye's rainbow at this time, everyone did not agree with Spielberg's thoughts. Instead, they thought that Spielberg was beginning to be afraid of Wu Jianye's influence!
At this moment, they suddenly realized that Wu Jianye's influence in Hollywood was already terrifying!
Some people marvel at Wu Jianye's influence in the North American entertainment industry at this time, but there are also people who hate Wu Jianye so much that their teeth itch!
This person is the current... or should I say former president of Universal Pictures, Cameron Black!
Cameron Black initially participated in the design of Phantom Media, thinking that he could win over Oceanwide Cinemas, but in the end, Wu Jianye resolved the crisis.
At that time, Cameron Black just felt very sorry, but he didn't take it too seriously. After all, Universal Pictures had nothing to lose at the time.
But when Universal Pictures released their blockbuster "Waterworld" this year, Phantom Pictures also released the movie "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, the most handsome actor in Hollywood today.
To be honest, when the two movies were competing, Cameron Black didn't take it to heart. Although "Mission: Impossible" had Tom Cruise, "Waterworld" also had Bruce Willis guaranteed at the box office!
Moreover, in terms of production costs, the two movies are not at the same level. "Mission: Impossible" only required an investment of US$80 million, while the investment in "Future Water World" exceeded US$250 million!
More than three times that of "Mission: Impossible".
In addition, in order to shoot this movie, Universal Pictures built a one-to-one replica of the scene, which can be said to be a large-scale production scene!
It can be said that Cameron Black was full of confidence in this movie at that time. Although the script of "Mission: Impossible" was written by Wu Jianye, Wu Jianye was also very optimistic about "Future Water World"!
So when the two movies were released at the same time, Cameron Black could be said to be full of confidence.
But what happened...
Now it has been more than three weeks since the last two movies, and the box office of the two movies is very different. The cumulative box office of "Mission Impossible" in the three weeks at this time has exceeded 140 million US dollars, and the North American box office is expected to reach 200 million US dollars.
Dollars and above!
What about "Future Water World"?
The box office didn't even reach 50 million. It can be said that it went to grandma's house. The most important thing is that this movie has aroused criticism from critics and audiences. There is no hope of turning around. The latest news about this movie
The box office is expected to only reach about US$60 million in the end!
The box office of "Waterworld" with an investment of US$250 million was only US$60 million!
Obviously Cameron Black is responsible for this!
So last week, Cameron Black took the blame and resigned...
At that time, a reporter found Linda and interviewed her about why Wu Jianye was optimistic about this movie in the first place.
Linda's answer was: Director Wu was indeed very optimistic about this movie at the time, but it is not unreasonable for the movie's box office to be like this now!
The reporter asked Linda why this was happening?
Linda replied: Director Wu himself once told me that his ability to write stories is first-rate, but his ability to read stories is average, so maybe he was mistaken!
When Cameron Black saw this answer in the magazine, he vomited blood. It was because of your compliment that I invested an additional 50 million yuan in this movie...
Of course, no one can believe such an answer, and we don’t know who revealed the news. Universal Pictures was one of the forces that originally targeted Phantom.
When this news appeared, everyone suddenly realized that this was not because of their lack of ability to read the story. It was Wu Jianye who deliberately set up a trap, but Cameron Black jumped in happily!
Later, Linda followed Wu Jianye's suggestion and asked Universal Pictures to acquire the copyright of the theme park of "Future Water World".
In fact, in another time and space, Universal Studios' theme park for "Water World" had been completed at this time. However, because Cameron Black had additional investment in the movie "Water World", it directly led to "Water World".
》The theme park’s funding has broken.
As a result, the theme park of "Waterworld of the Future" has not yet been completed. Coupled with the current box office failure of the movie, Universal Studios has completely lost confidence in this theme park!
In fact, when Phantom City proposed to Universal Pictures to acquire the theme park copyright of "Waterworld", Universal Pictures was still a little skeptical. After all, judging from the current box office, this movie must have been a hit.
The theme park will not improve, but why did Phantom City propose to acquire it?
They are puzzled!
If it had been acquired by another movie theater, Universal would have sold it immediately, but they were so deceived by Phantom that they subconsciously thought they had not discovered the hidden means of making money in the "Waterworld" theme park?
However, Cameron Black, who was still the president of Universal Pictures at this time, put forward his own opinion. Now that the Phantom City has not been established for too long, they urgently need a variety of theme parks to expand their Phantom City.
To put it bluntly, in Cameron Black's opinion, Phantom City is just filling up its own theme park with garbage!
At the same time, he believes that this is the last remaining value of "Water World of the Future", so he urges the board of directors of Universal Pictures to sell the copyright of "Water World of the Future"!
In the end, Universal Pictures listened to Cameron Black's suggestion and sold the rights to "Waterworld" to Phantom Studios!
As a result, at the end of this year, the "Waterworld of the Future" theme park at Phantom City was officially opened. What everyone did not expect was that the movie "Waterworld of the Future" was a hit because the theme park perfectly restored the movie.
The water castle in the city attracts countless tourists...
Becoming one of the theme parks with the strongest ability to attract money in Phantom City.
At that time, the board of directors of Universal Pictures had the intention to kill Cameron Black!
In fact, it was no longer necessary for the board of directors of Universal Pictures to kill Cameron Black. On the same day, he was seen in a hospital in Los Angeles who was admitted to the hospital for vomiting blood for no reason!
That was the last time Cameron Black appeared in the media's newspapers after leaving Universal Pictures!
But that was all a thing of the past. For Wu Jianye, Cameron Black at that time could no longer attract any of his attention!
Now there is something about one person that gives Wu Jianye a headache.
Yang Zhun, who came to North America nearly a month earlier than Wu Jianye, suddenly found Wu Jianye the day before Wu Jianye was about to return to China. Without saying anything, he took Wu Jianye and just drank with him. The two of them were very happy.
After drinking all night, Wu Jianye realized that Yang Zhun had finally fulfilled his wish!
"That person is bankrupt. Not only is he bankrupt, he is also burdened with tens of millions of dollars in debt."
Wu Jianye asked: "Are you happy?"
Yang Zhun: “I don’t know!”
ps: Let me tell you something. The book "Huayu" should be finished this month. In order to ensure that the book ends without any unfinished business, Huangshan can only maintain two updates this month. However,
The number of words in each chapter will definitely be above 4,000. There is a lot to say, but I’d better wait until I finish the book to have a good chat with you!