Chapter 943: Pit the world to death (12,000 daily updates~)
Wu Jianye didn't have time to care about how Zhao Lei dealt with Zhao Miao's affairs. Because of Zhao Lei, Wu Jianye had already given enough face by not touching Zhao Miao. Now there are only two things left in front of Wu Jianye.
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The first thing is that since Universal Pictures wants to deal with you, they must be prepared to fight back.
The second thing is to deal with the hearings of the North American federal government.
Wu Jianye once again stepped into the headquarters of Phantom Media.
"Spread the news to me and say that I am personally very optimistic about the movie "Waterworld". Phantom Pictures hopes to release this movie together with Universal Pictures!"
Wu Jianye said to Matthew Murphy.
Linda on the side looked at Wu Jianye in surprise and asked: ""Future Water World"? Is it the big production currently being filmed by Universal?"
Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Yes, this is the movie."
The movie "Waterworld" is Universal's most important movie next year, with an investment of more than 150 million U.S. dollars. According to Hollywood's calculation of publicity costs, the entire investment in this movie will exceed 200 million U.S. dollars, which will be the first of its kind in this era.
Even with the most top-notch production, the investment in the movie "Jurassic World" was only US$65 million.
"I think Universal will not agree. They are very optimistic about this movie internally and will not allow us to distribute it with them!" Linda said.
Wu Jianye smiled: "Of course I know this!"
Linda looked at Wu Jianye suspiciously, and then asked: "You are so unfavorable about this movie and want Universal Pictures to make additional investment in this way?"
"good!"
After knowing that Universal wanted to take action against him, Wu Jianye asked Linda to collect all the information about Universal, including Universal Pictures' movie plans for next year, and among them the movie "Future Water World"
This is Universal Pictures’ desperate attempt to save themselves!
Years of losses have made Universal Pictures overwhelmed. For a listed company, their annual financial report is very important. For a film and television company like Universal Pictures, the box office of their movies is a barometer of their stock price.
Especially for a blockbuster like this with an investment of over 100 million US dollars, if the movie fails at the box office, it will be a fatal mistake for Universal.
I believe that no one knows the future box office of the movie "Future Water World" better than Wu Jianye.
In fact, in another time and space, the movie "Future Water World" had a total investment of US$230 million including promotional expenses, but the box office in North America was only US$88 million, the overseas box office was US$176 million, and the global box office was only US$264.
One hundred million U.S. dollars.
It was just enough to recover the cost, but in fact this did not include the money allocated to theaters, taxes and a series of expenses. According to the profit rule of the film market of three times the cost, the film lost more than 140 million.
Such losses are just adding insult to injury for Universal Pictures, which is already in difficulty.
In fact, it was for this reason that Panasonic had to sell Universal to the Vivendi Group.
Although Wu Jianye is currently in the whirlpool of public opinion, no one can underestimate Wu Jianye's achievements in movies. Now that Wu Jianye has publicly stated that he is optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", it will naturally make the world
The film industry is paying more attention to this movie.
This is also the reason why Wu Jianye did not directly attack Universal Pictures. If he directly attacked Universal Pictures, it would show that he knew that Universal was going to deal with him. In this case, if he said he was optimistic about this movie, he would let Universal
The film industry has become more vigilant.
Sure enough, as Wu Jianye expected, when Matthew Murphy officially proposed to Universal Pictures that because Director Wu Jianye was optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", they hoped to jointly distribute the movie with Universal Pictures.
, Cameron Black directly expressed his rejection.
Then this news immediately appeared in major media newspapers in Hollywood, and the headlines were: Wu Jianye is optimistic about "Future Water World"!
Once such news was published, it immediately attracted the attention of many movie fans, and Universal Pictures immediately issued a statement, saying that they were very optimistic about the movie and would agree to additional directors Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner.
Investment request.
After this additional investment, the production cost of this film has reached US$200 million!
Cameron Black stood in front of reporters with high spirits and said: "Of course we did not invest additional money in this movie because of Director Wu's optimism. In fact, our company is very optimistic about this movie, and the additional investment has already been made in our company."
It has been discussed at the meeting, and now it is just announced at this time!"
"Of course, we can understand that Director Wu is optimistic about this movie. After all, Director Wu is a very discerning director. He can naturally tell which movie is bad!"
But what about actually?
According to later media reports, Universal Pictures did receive requests for additional investment from directors Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner during this period. However, Universal Pictures had no money. At the same time, considering that this film
The film's investment had been increased several times, so it was decided not to invest more in this film. However, after receiving a request from Phantom Pictures for distribution, Universal Pictures immediately changed its previous decision.
I borrowed 50 million from a Wall Street investment institution as a mortgage again and continued to invest more!
This additional investment was later reported by Wall Street media as: the stupidest investment!
Cameron Black is called the stupidest general manager in the history of Hollywood movies!
And Wu Jianye was also succumbed to the cunning fox of the judges. In one word, the company that was once the most successful in the history of Hollywood movies was brought to a standstill, and it has not recovered for more than ten years.
"No matter how much money the movie "Future Water World" suffers next year, we must buy the copyright for the movie's movie theater renovation!" Wu Jianye was ready to make Universal angry.
Although the box office of the movie "Waterworld" went to grandma's house, the theme amusement park of the movie "Waterworld" is the most profitable project in Universal Studios Park.
It is developed based on the movie setting and world view, and highly faithfully restores the movie scenes and props. It is the most exciting and popular live water stunt show and explosion show in Universal Studios Park. Combined with the construction of the real floating island scene in the movie, it creates a powerful effect for the audience.
Attraction.
Among the Universal Studios parks in Los Angeles, Osaka and Singapore, "Water World of the Future" has always been the most popular project.
In the Universal Studios parks in the three places, more than 100 million people have experienced this project. Since the first "Water World of the Future" park project opened after its construction, it has been enduringly popular, with a total grandstand that can accommodate thousands of people.
It was a packed house, and the derivative plot of "Future Water World" was performed day after day.
The movie failed at the box office, but the theme park sold well, finally making up for Universal Pictures' losses!
"I'm afraid it's not that easy to buy this copyright!" Linda said: "I heard that Universal Studios Park is now preparing to develop this theme park!"
This is also the reason why Universal Studios is optimistic about this movie. Otherwise, it would be impossible to start planning to build a theme park before the movie is released.
But in fact, after the movie "Waterworld" failed at the box office, Universal Studios once wanted to stop the development of the "Waterworld" theme park, but at that time it was on the line and they had already invested so much.
Well, it was with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse that it finally decided to open the "Water World of the Future" theme park.
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Only when it is difficult can you test your ability. I don't care how you do this, I only care about the final result!"
Linda nodded helplessly. If this movie really hit the box office as Wu Jianye said, then it would not be too difficult to buy the movie studio copyright.
"When will the movie "Waterworld" be released?" Wu Jianye did not intend to let Universal Pictures go so easily.
"According to the news announced by Universal Pictures, it will be July 28 next year!" Matthew Murphy replied.
"Put the movie "Mission: Impossible" in this schedule." After Wu Jianye recalled the movies released by Phantom Pictures next year, he decided to put this masterpiece of Tom Cruise in this schedule to finish "Future Waters".
"The World" movie!
The "Mission: Impossible" series, as a long-lasting series of Hollywood movies, has always been a box office guarantee. When it was released in another time and space the year after, it took a super high box office of US$181 million in North America.
Because Wu Jianye came up with the script for this movie in advance, and now he has to deal with Universal, it is naturally more than enough!
Matthew Murphy nodded and said: "No problem."
Wu Jianye nodded with satisfaction.
Then Johnson on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "The federal government specifically set the time to question you at the time of the premiere of "Eternal Night" in North America. Is this simply making trouble!"
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "I believe that when they know the truth of the matter, the expressions on their faces will definitely be even more exciting!"
Before that, Johnson had already been found. Wu Jianye informed Wu Jianye about Cameron Black going to their family to acquire shares of Oceanwide Cinemas. Otherwise, Johnson would not be able to serve as the general manager of Oceanwide Cinemas today.
Sitting here.
The federal government's inquiry time has also been set, which is the day "Eternal Night" is released!
January 3, 1995!
In the end, the movie "Eternal Night" did not have a simultaneous global premiere, but this is no longer important to Wu Jianye.
"Okay, now that everything has been settled, let's each do our own thing. This matter should be settled!" Wu Jianye stretched his body.
The issue about the Phantom has been going on for nearly a month, and now there is only one last move left. Wu Jianye's previously depressed mood finally got better.
Linda was still a little worried and said: "I'm still a little worried. Even if you make advance plans, the specific way to judge this matter still depends on the federal government's intention!"
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Then prepare the second plan. If the federal government is still against Phantom by then, then we will fight to the death. The worst is that the Paramount case will happen again!"
Linda said helplessly: "If you do this, you will really offend the entire Hollywood!"
"So what, my purpose is, if anyone doesn't make it easy for me, I will make it easy for anyone." At the end of the sentence, Wu Jianye started to spit out sweet things: "Grandma, I'm doing this for you.
I have spent tens of millions of dollars to hire lawyers and another 200 million dollars to those congressmen. If they still look for trouble and cause trouble, as long as I am still here, Hollywood movies will not be able to enter the Chinese market!"
Linda was stunned for a moment and said: "Is this your plan C?"
Wu Jianye smiled: "You always have to make more preparations!"
In order to cope with the federal government's sanctions, Wu Jianye prepared a total of three plans. He naturally hopes that with his concession, this matter will be over. But if the federal government still refuses to let Phantom go, then
He was going to have a good chat with them.
Although Wu Jianye's snobbery is strong enough now, compared with the United States, it is naturally insufficient. However, there is still no problem in causing trouble for them in certain areas and industries!
Wu Jianye didn't care about these losses, but those politicians in North America couldn't care less.
Wu Jianye is only responsible for himself, while those politicians are responsible for their own political achievements, and they have more fetters.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes!
Of course, if he really does this, Wu Jianye will never come to North America again, and all his business in North America will definitely be affected!
But does Wu Jianye care about these?
No one knows the answer to this.
"Okay, everyone, let's get ready. I'm going home!" Wu Jianye stood up and walked out of the conference room.
Linda and others didn't say anything, but they all went about their own business.
Wu Jianye did not go back to Beverly Hills Manor directly, but went to pick up Wu Luoxin first, and then the father and daughter returned to Beverly Hills together.
A few days passed quickly, and Wu Jianye was leaving for Washington today.
When I got up in the morning, I sent Wu Luoxin to school first, then went to the airport to fly to Washington to attend his hearing.
When Wu Jianye got off the plane, he saw countless reporters waiting at the airport to interview Wu Jianye. As the protagonist of the hottest news in North America during this period, Wu Jianye has not accepted interviews from reporters. Today, everyone
The major media knew that Wu Jianye was going to attend the hearing in Washington, so naturally they would not give up this opportunity.
"Director Wu, what do you think of this hearing?"
"I don't have any opinion, I just feel they have found the wrong person!"
"At this point, Director Wu, you still don't admit that you are the boss of Phantom Media?"
"I'm not!" Wu Jianye smiled, put on his sunglasses and drove directly to the hearing site!