Chapter 610: The big moves continue (12,000 daily changes~)
After finalizing the Marvel deal, Wu Jianye can concentrate on filming "The Love of Ghosts" in New York. As for the specific negotiation of terms, Linda will be responsible for it.
When a person focuses on one thing, the event will pass very quickly. For example, if you are a writer who concentrates on coding and maintains 12,000 updates every day, you will feel that time passes very quickly, and even
It’s okay, it’s already night after typing three chapters...
The same was true for Wu Jianye. When he put all his thoughts on the shooting task, time passed quickly. Mel Gibson was still a little tempered at first, but after learning about Wu Jianye's situation in Hong Kong,
After revealing his true identity, he became more well-behaved. The tough guy on the screen is now as well-behaved as a porcelain doll every day.
And Linda also had good news coming one after another.
First of all, Dakota finally negotiated all the shares of Lane Publishing Company. Phantom Entertainment, which holds more than 75% of Lane Publishing shares, immediately announced that it has officially acquired Lane Publishing and will also apply to fully acquire Lane Publishing and transfer it to
News of delisting.
Once the news was announced, it attracted the attention of the media groups behind several major Hollywood studios.
Murdoch, who had always been very concerned about Phantom Entertainment, immediately contacted Linda and inquired about the possibility of acquiring Phantom Entertainment. However, this was naturally rejected by Linda.
Nowadays, the development of Phantom Entertainment is going well. If the future development can really go as Wu Jianye said, Phantom Entertainment will develop into a large media consortium surpassing News Corporation. How can it be possible to sell Phantom now?
What's more, even if she wants to sell, she can't. The major shareholder of Phantom is Wu Zang Investment, and her shares have an agreement with Wu Jianye. If she wants to sell the shares of Phantom Entertainment, Wu Zang needs to be given priority.
Investment, if acquired at the same price, can only be sold to Wuzang Investment.
After being rejected, Murdoch found that he had no way to deal with Phantom for a while, because 20th Century Fox had previously signed an agreement with Phantom Entertainment to borrow the studio in order to obtain the distribution rights in Southeast Asia.
As for the European distribution rights, everyone knows that Phantom Entertainment has been working hard to establish its own European distribution network in the past two years. They also have no way to cause any kind of blow to Phantom Entertainment in this area.
Now the only remaining means to deal with Phantom Entertainment are the North American distribution network and television copyright issues. However, this kind of thing cannot be done by one company, and requires the simultaneous efforts of several major media groups.
It just so happens that Phantom Entertainment now has what they want. At this time, no one is sure whether there will be a traitor in their alliance. After all, the entire Southeast Asian market is too tempting!
However, this also served as a wake-up call for several major companies, which have begun to prepare for their own distribution networks in Southeast Asia. However, it is a simple matter to establish a complete distribution network, which will involve countless funds.
And everyone also wants to see how much revenue the distribution network in Southeast Asia can bring them.
To put it bluntly, it is the distribution network in Southeast Asia. Nowadays, everything in North America looks beautiful, but the specific effect is still unknown. They can use part of their rights and interests and find someone to take the lead. In the end, they will be the first.
If you are a fool, you still have to shoot the first bird, just look at the movie "The Love between Ghosts and Humans" that Wu Jianye is currently filming.
It is precisely because of this that the movie "The Last Love" has attracted more and more attention. Unlike ordinary audiences, who just want to see the quality of this movie, several major studios value it.
How much profit can this movie bring to Phantom?
If the revenue is as huge as it seems, then this movie will be a signal for Hollywood studios to expand abroad.
Then came Phantom's acquisition of Marvel. With the success of the acquisition, Time Warner felt pressure. The biggest news in Hollywood this year was not the rise of Phantom, but the establishment of Time Warner. Just this year, Time Inc.
Warner Media was acquired at a record price of 14.1 billion US dollars to establish Time Warner. The establishment of Time Warner also officially announced the establishment of the world's largest media conglomerate!
Time Warner not only owns Warner, an old Hollywood production company, but also owns Castle Rock, New Line, and Good Line, three major independent production companies. It also has its own theater chain, N, HBO and other American ratings miracles.
It is a high-paying TV station and the publishing company owns first-class publishing companies and magazines such as Little Publishing, Brown Publishing, Warner Times Books, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and People.
Warner Music also belongs to Time Warner!
It can be said that Time Warner is now the giant of Hollywood!
Compared to the past, this year in Hollywood can be said to be the year with the most major events. The Rise of the Phantom can only be ranked third. In second place is RB, which owns CBS Records. Sony acquired Columbia Pictures and founded
Sony Pictures Entertainment.
At the same time, with the help of Sony's huge funds, Sony Pictures Entertainment also acquired a chain of multiplex theaters in North America called Rockwell Hall. Coupled with Sony's influence in RB, it can be said that Sony Pictures Entertainment is the only one in Hollywood besides Phantom.
It is a Hollywood film company with a certain distribution network in Southeast Asia.
The reason why Time Warner was said to be under increased pressure was mainly because Phantom Entertainment was so successful in film production. Now they have acquired Marvel and Lane Publishing. With the support of huge amounts of money, Marvel
, they will definitely no longer sell their own sons to beg for food all over the world as in the past. If Phantom relies on its own production capabilities to launch Marvel's superhero movies in the future, will it change the current movie pattern?
Although this kind of thing seems unlikely now, in the future, people who have no foresight will have to worry about the near future. Although this is a Chinese proverb, it does not mean that these Hollywood companies cannot think of it.
At the same time, some fluctuations occurred at Disney due to something announced by Phantom Entertainment, which was Phantom Entertainment’s decision to acquire Toybiz toys!
This is obviously Phantom Entertainment paving the way for Marvel. Everyone knows that when superhero movies have problems, the biggest profit for comics is superhero peripherals, and character toys are the biggest one. In the past, although Disney did not
Comics are added, but Disney animation has always been the number one in Hollywood.
And the dolls around it are an important income for Disney. Now that Phantom has acquired Toybiz toys, maybe Marvel's superheroes are just average now, but don't forget that Phantom has always held a doll in his hand that is the envy of all production companies.
The animated IP is "The Lion King"!
In the past, Phantom Entertainment did not have a toy company, so it could only sell "The Lion King" peripherals. But now that Phantom Entertainment has its own toy company, this kind of thing can no longer be done.
There have been rumors that Athena Animation, which produced "The Lion King" under Phantom Entertainment, has been carefully preparing a new animated film. This is a very serious problem for Disney.
The last thing Phantom Entertainment announced was news that made Lucas, Spielberg and others angry.
Because not long ago, Phantom Entertainment announced that it would establish a special effects company called Digital Realm, and the head of this special effects company appointed James Cameron.
The first thing Digital Domain announced after its establishment was that it would contract the special effects for the two movies "The Last Days" and "Jurassic Park".
Especially for "Jurassic Park", dinosaur models have now begun to be produced in the digital field.
To outsiders, this is a step for Phantom Entertainment to expand itself, but to Lucas, this is just poaching.
On the day Digital Domain was established, he received the resignations of one-third of the employees of Industrial Light and Magic, including Dennis Mullen, Stan Winston, Feltippe, Michael Lantry and others whom he relied heavily on. Almost all of them
He poached more than half of Industrial Light & Magic's top special effects artists.
This was almost a devastating blow to Lucas at the beginning of the road.
"It's too much to bully others, it's too much to bully others!" Lucas rarely roared angrily in his office.
At this time, there was only Spielberg in Lucas' office, and no one else dared to enter Lucas' office.
"I am also responsible for this matter. If it were not for me, not only would you not have lost these people, but you would also have made a good profit!" Spielberg said to Lucas with some disappointment.
Lucas sat on his sofa angrily and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you. I finally understand that even without you, Phantom Entertainment would have established its own special effects company."
After he rejected Phantom Entertainment's invitation to cooperate, the other party immediately established a new special effects company without further discussion with him, which shows that the other party had already had such an idea.
"This matter is not over yet!" Lucas said angrily.
Spielberg nodded. They had never suffered such a big loss. Naturally, it couldn't be over like this. This included not only his own reputation, but also the reputation of the entire Jewish circle.
Now that they have suffered such a big loss, they naturally have to make up for it.
"When will the movie 'The Last Day' be released?" Spielberg asked.
Lucas said: "According to the news from Phantom Entertainment, it will be Valentine's Day on February 14th next year!"
"Then we will release "Back to the Future 3" ahead of schedule and on the same day as "Back to the Future". In front of the "Back to the Future" series, it will be difficult for "Back to the Future" to win!
"Spielberg is also rare to get really angry.
Although the digital field was poaching people from Industrial Light and Magic, the whole thing happened because of him, so he couldn't just sit back and watch.
The "Back to the Future" series has a deep popularity among audiences in North America and around the world, and as it is the final episode of the trilogy, it will definitely attract countless viewers into the theater.
As long as they can successfully block Wu Jianye's movie, many of the things that worry them will not happen, and the most important thing is that this will dampen Phantom's arrogance and strengthen his own momentum.
Lucas said with some worry: "Will this cause a certain degree of box office loss because it is not long before the release of "Back to the Future 2"? And this matter also needs to be discussed with Universal."
The first part of "Back to the Future" was released in 1985, but the second and third parts were filmed together. The trilogy of "Back to the Future" was directed by Robert Zemeckis, but the production
The filmmaker is Spielberg, and Universal is responsible for distribution.
As for the investment and production, it is Spielberg's film company Amblin Entertainment. It can be said that Spielberg has a very big say in this series.
"I will be responsible for this matter. I will communicate with Universal. If the second and third parts can be released consecutively, it may be a better catalyst for the box office. After all, the audience is still fresh.
Yes!" Spielberg said.
Lucas thought for a moment, nodded, and said: "This is the only thing we can do now!"
Spielberg comforted: "Things are not that bad. Although Phantom Entertainment seems to be developing better and better now, the better it develops, the more cakes it will bring to other people. As long as we
Being able to connect these forces together, it is not certain whether Phantom Entertainment can survive by then!"
Lucas also regained his composure at this time and said: "I understand, I was too angry just now. Although the development of Phantom Entertainment seems to be prosperous, they have ignored one problem after all, and that is the problem of theater chains in North America.
North America is the world's largest box office. If we can unite other theaters, the number of screens for Phantom's "The Last Days" will be limited. I'd like to see how they do it then.
success!"
The two discussed the plan for a long time.
The two then split up and contacted production companies and theaters with which they had close cooperative relationships.
For example, Spielberg found Universal, and Lucas found 20th Century Fox...
At this time, Wu Jianye did not know that a wave of attacks on him was about to begin again. When it entered late September, the filming of "The Love of Humans and Ghosts" was already in the late stages. In about a month, the filming would be completed.
Now that it's done, all that's left is post-production.
Although this movie involves some movie special effects, this level of movie special effects is not a problem in the newly established digital field.
Just after completing today's shooting task, Johnson got a call: "No money!"