"You're finally here. If you don't come, I really won't be able to stand up to those people!"
Kelly went to the airport to pick up Chu Huan in person. He had not yet returned to his estate in Los Angeles. In the car, Kelly couldn't help but complain to Chu Huan about the current situation at Apex Pictures.
"Those people rely on their long-term operation in Disney and the support of Jewish businessmen in Hollywood. They simply don't take the company's orders seriously. If they want to deal with them, they will definitely be targeted by the entire Hollywood, and this
The problem this time is different from the last time Apex Pictures gained a foothold in Hollywood.
This time, even Spielberg and George Lucas spoke for the management. I don’t know how they knew each other before, but their friendship is so good!"
Spielberg is now the mainstay of Vertex Pictures. Since joining Vertex Pictures, Spielberg has directed the two films "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" respectively.
Although the box office of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is not as good as "Jaws", it has also earned more than 300 million U.S. dollars at the global box office, making it a real money-making blockbuster!
Not to mention George Lucas, the US box office of "Star Wars" reached 460 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was infinitely close to 800 million U.S. dollars!
Although George Lucas is not a contracted director with Vertex Pictures, both parties on "Star Wars" are collaborators.
Now that these two people have become members of the enemy camp, how could it not give Kelly a headache?
"And Stallone now has some thoughts of joining those people!" Kelly continued to say helplessly.
Stallone is not Jewish, but the rights of Jews in Hollywood are too great. In Chu Huan's view, this matter is a bit similar to the political correctness of later generations in North America.
No matter how much trust Vertex Pictures gave Spielberg and George Lucas before, or how much Vertex Pictures supported Stallone to become a first-line star in Hollywood with "Rocky".
Now if you don't listen to Disney management when it comes to Disney issues, then you are doing something wrong!
Is there a reason?
No!
Political correctness in later generations has reached such an absurd level. "Gone with the Wind" was canceled because the nobles were all white and the slaves were black. Snow White could have been played by a Latina girl. "Friends" was all white people.
, the entire creator came forward to apologize.
Is there a reason for all these things?
No!
But it actually happened. The problem Disney is encountering now is actually this problem. As the parent company of Disney, Apex Pictures manages Disney. Is there any problem with personnel adjustment?
No!
But the Jews in Hollywood just don’t agree with this. If Apex Pictures touches the Jewish people in Disney’s management, it will be declaring war on the Jews in Hollywood.
No, it’s not about touching their people, it’s about listening to them completely.
To put it simply, you can be the parent company of Disney, or you can be a full shareholder of Disney, but you don’t have to worry about the operation of Disney itself. Just stand aside and watch how we do things for Disney.
Got it!
This is the problem Kelly is facing now!
After listening to Kelly's cry, Chu Huan and his party also came to his estate in Beverly Hills.
Although Chu Huan doesn't come to Los Angeles a few times a year, there are still dedicated people responsible for cleaning here every day, and there are servants responsible for pruning here, so no matter when Chu Huan comes, the place will not lack popularity.
"This matter is indeed a bit troublesome!" Chu Huan sat on the sofa. After listening to Kelly's words, he also had a headache. At first, he just thought that after acquiring Disney, he could supplement the shortcomings of Apex Pictures, but it didn't
I didn't expect this, and the current situation of Apex Pictures is also a bit difficult!
"To be honest, I regret the acquisition of Disney now. I didn't take advantage of it, but ended up making a mess!"
Kelly sat next to Chu Huan and couldn't help but complain.
Chu Huan looked at the angry Kelly and said with a smile: "I remember when you asked Apex Pictures to buy Disney, that's not what you said!"
Kelly rolled her eyes at Chu Huan and said, "I didn't expect it would be so troublesome."
Chu Huan asked: "What is the most critical issue for the company now?"
Kelly said: "Disney's management is now monolithic, and outsiders can't get involved at all. The management I sent was directly eliminated by Disney's original management. In addition, Spielberg and George Lucas
People's problems must also be solved in time. They are now the company's cash cow. If problems arise with them, it means that the company has lost these two cash cows."
Wu Shuhan asked with some confusion: "I remember that Spielberg still has a new director contract with Vertex Pictures, and at the same time, isn't the main copyright of George Lucas's "Star Wars" also with us?
, aren’t they worried that the company will suppress them?”
Kelly explained: "It's useless. The two of them can definitely file a lawsuit with the company over this matter. This incident has made all Jewish businessmen in Hollywood stand together. You may not know the role of Jews in Hollywood."
Influence, let's put it this way, Hollywood is an independent kingdom in the North American film and television industry. Although Wall Street is constantly providing them with funds, Wall Street capital has not really entered Hollywood at all.
In other industries outside, Wall Street capital can influence the management of a certain company, and can even change the pattern of an industry, but for Hollywood, they can only simply invest to make money, invest to make money, and have other influences.
limited.
In other words, if we sue Spielberg and George Lucas on this matter, we will completely stand against the Jews in Hollywood. In addition, according to the infiltration of Jews into the political and business circles of North America, we will not be involved in this lawsuit at all.
Way to win!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wu Shuhan couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this. She had never thought that Jews would have such a big influence in Hollywood.
There is a convention in Hollywood that your movie can slander any nation in the world, but it cannot slander the Jews.
The next year, Marlon Brando made this hidden rule public in an interview with Playboy. He was then protested by Jewish organizations and labeled "anti-Semitic" and had to apologize for it.
Tears burst into tears.
However, it is not certain whether Brando's "crying out" was due to true repentance or a display of superb acting skills.
Not only Marlon Brando but also Mel Gibson, who played "Braveheart" because this alcoholic uncle was arrested for drunk driving. When he swore to the police, he also cursed "Jews are the world."
"The cause of all wars" caused a heavyweight Hollywood producer to initiate a boycott of Mel Gibson. As a result, Mel Gibson was hidden for eight years.
Over the past eight years, Mel Gibson has almost occasionally sought forgiveness from Hollywood Jews.
In addition, the founders of several major Hollywood production companies are basically Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia...
"There is no way to play this at all. If this is the case, Disney's problem is simply an unsolvable problem!"
Wu Shuhan couldn't help but preach at this time.
Kelly nodded in agreement and said, "I think so too!"
Then Kelly looked at Chu Huan and asked: "Dear, I think if this is the case, we might as well sell Disney directly. This pot is really too big and we can't afford it now!"
Chu Huan was leaning on the sofa, thinking about Kelly's words. To be honest, at this point, selling Disney seems to be the best solution.
Otherwise, just relying on Disney management's messing around, it is very likely that Disney will become Colombia in advance.
Sony's acquisition of Columbia in later generations was actually largely due to their inability to reconcile the issues between the controlling shareholder and the management. Simply put, it was the inability to reconcile the Jewish forces in Colombia, which then led to Sony's acquisition of Columbia, which became the largest acquisition in Sony's history.
A failed acquisition!
But if Disney is sold in such a dejected manner, Chu Huan will be very unhappy!
Although this emotion should not appear in this matter.
But Chu Huan just felt unhappy.
After all, if it is sold like this, the acquisition of Disney will become the only failure in Chu Huan's business history, although others do not know that it is Chu Huan who actually acquired Disney.
But failure is failure!
Others don’t know, but Chu Huan knows it himself!
At this time, Chu Huan was a little envious of other seniors of Hong Kong Entertainment Time Travel. How did they manage to acquire Disney without encountering any problems?
"And there is another problem with this matter." Wu Shuhan added: "Now the outside world thinks that it is Apex Pictures who acquired Disney, so Kelly can only be responsible for handling this matter. If the boss comes forward, then
The relationship between the boss and Apex Pictures may be guessed, and problems may arise with Apex Pictures as well!"
Nowadays, Apex Pictures is only facing possible counterattacks from the Jews in Hollywood, but if they are made aware of the relationship between Apex Pictures and Chu Huan, then there is no doubt that they will definitely attack Apex Film immediately.
industry to attack.
"This is not a big problem. If my dear is just helping, it can actually be explained. After all, everyone in Hollywood knows that my relationship with my dear is very good. In addition, we both jointly own "Star Wars"
This project," Kelly explained.
As long as Chu Huan is not fully involved in this matter, there is still no problem with partial participation based on the mysterious relationship between Chu Huan and Kelly in Hollywood.
Seeing that Chu Huan had not spoken, Kelly couldn't help but ask: "Dear, what do you think about this matter?"
Chu Huan temporarily put away his dissatisfaction with this matter, and then said: "I will think of a solution for this matter. Now I will suspend the filming of movies with Disney's investment exceeding 2 million US dollars. In addition, Apex Pictures will check
The reason for the company’s accounts is to officially send people into Disney to investigate all the company’s accounts since it acquired Disney!”
Kelly was shocked after hearing this and investigated Disney's accounts. This can be said to have directly affected Disney's existing management. Kelly had also sent someone to take over Disney's financial department before, but the person Kelly sent directly
It was sidelined by Disney's existing management, and eventually became a mascot for Disney's finance department, without any other function.
"They won't let us investigate so easily!"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said: "Of course I know that they can't let the investigation find anything, but this is our attitude. No matter whether Disney is sold or not, we can't let them think that we will give in to them so easily.
If this is the case, the one affected now is Disney, and in the future it will be Apex Pictures."
Kelly thought about it briefly and understood what Chu Huan meant. This was indeed a very important matter. She thought about it and said, "Okay, I will arrange for someone to do this!"
Chu Huan said: "To put it bluntly, this matter is no longer just the interference of those Jews in Disney affairs, but more of a test of Apex Pictures. At this time, if Apex Pictures does not confront them,
If we give up Disney, more people will start to support the idea of Dim Pictures in the future!"
If before the release of "Star Wars", Apex Pictures was just a film company that was rising in Hollywood but without much foundation, then with the popularity of "Star Wars" and George Lucas's idea of a sequel, this company
At that time, Apex Pictures had become the fattest piece of meat in the North American film industry.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! I believe many people are thinking about this piece of meat!
To put it bluntly, what Apex Pictures encountered in Hollywood at this time is the same problem that the early Xiangjiang Jiaku and Japanese Jiaku encountered in Hong Kong and Japan.
When this company has not yet formed a large scale in this industry or region, people will not take this company seriously.
But when this company has grown, the big guys in this industry and this region will appear one after another, wanting to get a piece of this company's pie.
Previously, Chu Huan chose to use a hard-on approach to solve Xiangjiang's troubles in Xiangjiang. That was because Xiangjiang was Chu Huan's home court and Chu Huan had absolute financial resources, connections, and influence in Xiangjiang.
In Japan, although Chu Huan prepared a hard-on approach, in the end he used a relatively peaceful method to solve the situation of Jiaku in Japan.
However, Chu Huan's method is still based on strong financial resources and balanced means!
But things are different now. In Hollywood, this is the world of Jews. Here, Chu Huan's previous advantage is no longer as obvious as it was in Hong Kong and Japan.
Therefore, this matter is definitely not something to be rushed into. Chu Huan needs to carefully study the specific situation of Disney and Jews in Hollywood!
"Have you prepared all the specific information I asked you to prepare?"
After Chu Huan made the decision, he preached to Kelly.
Kelly said: "It's ready to come out, right here!"
After speaking, Kelly took out a piece of information from her bag and handed it to Chu Huan.
After receiving Kelly's information, Chu Huan did not watch it immediately, but continued to ask Kelly: "How much cash can the company mobilize now?"
Kelly calculated it and said: "Including part of the income from "New Ball War", the funds that the company can mobilize now are..."
After "Jaws" ended, Apex Pictures has released a total of three important movies in the past two years.
They are Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", George Lucas's "Star Wars", and Stallone's "Rocky"!
Among them, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" cost US$20 million to shoot and had a global box office of US$306 million. However, except for the North American box office, the box office returns from other regions of the world have not yet reached the account of Apex Pictures. In North America, this film
The movie made $116.3 million!
According to the box office share, Apex Pictures received a share of 70 million US dollars. This was a figure that Apex Pictures obtained only by increasing the share of the movie with the help of North America's Loart Cinemas.
In addition, because this movie is still being released around the world, its peripherals have not been sold yet. However, according to Apex Pictures’ estimates, the peripheral copyrights of this film and the sales and rental of video tapes can at least be provided to Apex Pictures.
Bringing in $150 million in revenue.
If you add in the share of overseas box office and deduct production expenses and publicity expenses, the film can ultimately bring in revenue of US$255 million to Apex Pictures.
This is why Spielberg is so important to Apex Pictures!
However, this movie now brings only US$30 million in available funds to Vertex Pictures.
Stallone's "Rocky" cost US$1.1 million and had a North American box office of US$120 million, even surpassing Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". However, the global box office is not as high as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", except in North America.
, only US$105 million, with a total global box office of US$225 million.
According to the split, Apex Pictures, as the sole investor in the film, ultimately received a profit of US$114 million.
In addition, this movie was released in 1976, so Apex Pictures has already received all the proceeds from the sale of the copyright of this movie, as well as the sales and rental income of the video tape, to Apex Pictures' account.
As a hard-hitting movie, this movie is very popular in the video tape market, but it is not as good as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in terms of sales of peripheral rights such as other televisions, so this movie has received a total of 1.15 in this regard.
billion in revenue.
After deducting production costs and publicity costs, the film generated a total of $213 million in revenue for the company.
Finally, the big one is Star Wars.
The North American box office was US$460 million. Apex Pictures and Black and White Media jointly held 80% of the revenue. After deducting the theater chain's share, the film brought the North American box office revenue to these two companies was US$220.8 million.
The box office in other regions around the world was US$310 million. After deducting the box office share of theaters, it was US$99.2 million!
In terms of box office share alone, Apex Pictures and Black and White Media received US$320 million in revenue, and the production cost of this movie was only US$30 million. Of course, the publicity level of this movie is also top-notch. The entire movie
The promotional cost of "The Movie" reached 25 million US dollars, which is the highest cost for promoting a single film in North America today.
In other words, the box office revenue alone brought US$265 million to Apex Pictures and Black and White Media.
But this is just the beginning. With the help of the North American and global marketing network of Toys "R" Us, a subsidiary of Jiaku, "Star Wars" peripherals have brought 350 million in sales to the company so far. However, according to Apex Pictures
, the sales sharing agreement signed between Black and White Media and Lucasfilm and Teen Toys R Us can get 60% of the profit sharing, so as of now, the peripherals of the "Star Wars" movie have brought a lot of benefits to these three companies.
generated $210 million in peripheral revenue.
Allocated to Apex Pictures, Black and White Media has US$168 million.
However, this movie is somewhat similar to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and is still being released in some countries around the world, so the video business has not yet started.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After that, there is a series of income from comic peripherals, TV rights, etc., which is 78 million US dollars. Although the TV rights are sold, according to the agreement, we have to wait until the movie is released globally.
It can only be broadcast on TV stations after the painting is included!
In the end, Apex Pictures and Black and White Media received a total of US$511 million for this movie. Based on the average equity ratio of both parties, Apex Pictures finally received US$255.5 million!
In other words, these three movies alone brought a profit of US$498.5 million to Apex Pictures.
In addition, Apex Pictures has invested in seven movies on its own in the past two years, earning a total of US$68 million in revenue.
But at the same time, Apex Pictures itself has spent almost US$110 million in the past two years.
In other words, by this time, Apex Pictures has a total of US$456.5 million in cash available!
When Kelly talked about this incident, all the previous depression caused by Disney disappeared.
It can be said that this income is the highest in Hollywood.
Even the old and top film production companies do not have half of this revenue.
However, Chu Huan would be able to understand this.
After all, these three movies, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars" and "Rocky", are all the most representative movies at the box office in North America in the late 1970s.
In addition, Apex Pictures also has the joint support of Brothers Audio and Video and Toys R Us, which are not comparable to other Hollywood film companies.
Seeing Kelly's proud look, Chu Huan couldn't help but said: "You haven't factored in Disney's losses yet, have you?"
The reason why Kelly has lost interest in Disney now is that Disney has been losing money since it was acquired by Apex Pictures.
No one can tell whether Disney management is lining their own pockets.
"Honey, can't you just make me happy for a while?" Kelly said helplessly.
Fortunately, Disney and Apex Pictures now belong to two companies, each with independent financial systems. Up to now, Disney itself can still bear the losses, but according to this situation, in less than two years, Apex Pictures will be
It’s time to give Disney a blood transfusion.
"Set aside the company's working capital, and buy the rest of the Dow Jones index futures with ten times leverage. When the Dow Jones index rises to 845 points, then sell them all, and then use the funds to add additional funds at that time"
The profits from the "Star Wars" video together increased the leverage tenfold to buy Swiss francs, Japanese yen, German marks, and British pounds."
Originally, Chu Huan was not prepared to let Kelly make this wave of money in the North American stock market, and he was not prepared to use leverage to purchase foreign exchange. But now after listening to the questions about Disney, Chu Huan found that the available funds in his hands were still
Too little.
If Apex Pictures had enough funds to change this industry, then there would be no need to worry about Disney now!
Maybe Apex Pictures does not have the ability to change the Jewish control of Hollywood, but Apex Pictures has the ability to completely muddy the waters of this industry. Then at that time, the Jews in Hollywood will need to carefully consider targeting Disney and targeting Apex Film.
It’s a matter of industry.
Although Kelly is in charge of Apex Pictures, she still knows about the Dow Jones Index in North America. After all, she also buys stocks herself. Now that she heard that Chu Huan was bullish on the Dow Jones Index, she immediately made a calculation in her mind.
After all, among the people around Chu Huan, Kelly was the first to make money in the futures market with Chu Huan. It was Kelly who was responsible for the first amount of money Chu Huan made in foreign exchange futures.
At this time, Kelly also remembered the days when she and Chu Huan made money together, and said with a smile: "I understand, I will personally take responsibility for this matter!"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said, "Okay!"
Then Chu Huan said to Wu Shuhan: "Remember to remind me that when I see David, I will also tell her about preparing to increase leverage in the foreign exchange market!"
This time, the Jews in Hollywood inspired Chu Huan's ambition again. Since they want to play, let's have a good game!
"clear!"
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"Has Chu Huan from Xiangjiang Jiaku arrived in Hollywood?"
In an estate in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Armand Hammer, who was nearly 80 years old, sat in his study and asked his assistant.
Assistant Cole nodded and said: "I just got off the plane this morning, and now I have returned to his estate in Beverly Hills!"
Armand Hammer laughed and said: "This kid from the East really knows how to enjoy it. I also like his manor very much. I was thinking of buying it at the beginning, but I didn't expect that this kid would beat me to it!"
Cole asked very curiously: "Boss, I haven't seen you be so interested in someone for a long time. I also know this Chu Huan. His business is indeed quite large around the world.
He is a very outstanding businessman, but do you value him so highly? Isn’t it a bit too much?”
Armand Hammer waved his hand and said: "You don't understand. I have dealt with Easterners many times and have an in-depth understanding of the people in their country. It is a mysterious country and a mysterious nation. Now something has happened there.
Great changes have occurred. Our business in North America has reached a bottleneck. If we want to expand our business, we must find new markets.
I am very optimistic about that country, and my investigation of that country is unimaginable to you. Chu Huan was able to return to that country last year when the situation was unclear. In their country, such behavior was criticized
It's called root seeking.
But Chu Huan's identity is too special. In his past, he is bound to meet the leader of that country, and this is why I want to meet him, because if we want to do business in that country, we must
We must have an introducer, this will make our business twice the result with half the effort!”
"Got it!" Cole could only say this.
"Call him again in my name and tell him that I very much welcome his visit!" Armand Hammer said excitedly.
"But you have already called before, and he has already replied that he will visit you personally after coming to Los Angeles!" Cole said.
"I just made it clear!" Armand Hammer said with some dissatisfaction: "Just follow my instructions!"