Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

"Yes, we are very fed up!" Columbia Pictures CEO Belgrade blew in an interview with NBC morning news show "Today." Ways to promote their own movies! "Air Force One" lost because it didn't lose face and adopted some inappropriate publicity methods. What we want to say is that we still have our own scale and style! Here, I would like to remind some companies The person in charge, don't take my tolerance as your arrogant capital!"

When Jed saw this interview, he was holding a three-person regular meeting with Shannity and John.As the Sherman Group started to get on the right track, Jed didn't need to do everything by himself. He only needed half an hour every morning to listen to Shannette and John's briefing.Of course, Jed's secretary office will also collect various news for Jed.

With the completion of the new Sherman Twin Towers, Jed's secretary's office more than doubled in size.Except for two secretaries who are in charge of Jed's schedule and administrative work, the rest of the secretaries mainly read newspapers, watch TV, and surf the Internet to provide Jed with useful information.So when Belgrade complained about Jed on NBC, the secretarial office quickly cut the show to Jed's office.

"Do you need us to contact ABC?" Shannetti frowned, "I haven't seen a thief call a thief yet."

"Everyone is not a fool, why bother? The dog bit you, can't you bite back?" Jed smiled and shook his head, "Besides, they didn't call the name, why did we jump out on our own initiative? Don't you It can be seen that people want us to hype the news with them. "Air Force One" has been in theaters for three weeks, and the box office performance has plummeted. God knows if it can last until the sixth week? If we jump out at this time and hype them, then Aren't you helping them?"

"We have prepared nearly 2 million US dollars in cash reserves for the Asian plan, and we can't add more for the time being." Shannity changed the topic, "Although we have used many methods to reserve, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are not Fool, we have a plan to hoard so much currency. But although we can raise another 3 million through Hualin Investment Bank, that means we can get at least 5 million in cash next year. Through leveraged transactions With the funds raised by Huamei Hong Kong Bank by virtue of the Hong Kong interbank offered rate, we can probably mobilize nearly 50 billion to 60 billion funds in the Asian market."

"I see." Jed nodded.Although it is not as good as the tens of billions of dollars raised by Soros' Quantum Fund, 50 billion dollars is enough for him to eat and drink after Soros.And he also knew that Soros would definitely lose in the Hong Kong foreign exchange market, and he didn't mind eating part of Soros' profits in Hong Kong.The important thing is that Hong Kong's property market will almost collapse because of Soros' troubles. At this time, it is naturally a good way to help the Asian Broadcasting Group accumulate business.

With the formalization of the Asian Broadcasting Group, the Asian News Center will also be put into use on July 7, while Lin Jianyue and Jade formed the Asia Broadcasting Holding Company to hold the Asian Broadcasting Group. The development company is not only the owner of the Asia News Center, but also an upstart in the real estate industry in Hong Kong in the future.

According to Lin Jianyue’s report, ABC Industrial Development Co., Ltd. has won the construction plan of the future Taipei Arena and Kaohsiung Arena. In order to repay Lin Jianyue’s kindness, the Taiwan authorities finally agreed to the second Asian Broadcasting Group to enter the Taiwan market after TVB .Asia Satellite TV News Channel and Finance Channel will launch in Taiwan in early 1998. At the same time, Asia Broadcasting Group will cooperate with Taiwan's local TV media to form two cable channels, a comprehensive channel and a movie and drama channel.That is to say, the future Asian Broadcasting Group will have two satellite channels and two cable channels in Taiwan, stabilizing the three channels of TVBS.

However, Jed also has to admit that he lags behind TVBS, which is a local snake, in terms of layout. As early as 1995, TVBS opened Taiwan's first 24-hour news channel - TVBS News.Therefore, Jade's Asia TV news channel is suspected of picking up people's teeth. Fortunately, Jade launched Asia TV's financial channel more relentlessly, which is very attractive to Taiwan, whose economy is taking off.

Of course, the Korean and Japanese channels of Asia Satellite TV established by Jade are still waiting to enter the Korean and Japanese markets after the financial turmoil, and have completed what Chinese TV people wanted to do but failed to do.

"In the second half of the year, we should also start the work of the movie "Titanic", which we will release mainly. Because there is no assistance from Bowei International, all theater companies have to handle it by ourselves." Shannity said, "At present we It has a good relationship with AMC, but it means that it has problems with theater companies such as Royal Entertainment and Cinemark. How to convince the bosses of these two companies, Jed, I think you need to step in."

"No problem, just ask their boss for me." Jed nodded. "By the way, next year I plan to start the 'Reality Show Project'. I plan to set up another Dongfeng Studio outside of Dongfeng TV Production Company to be responsible for the production of reality shows. But before we will make a movie to criticize reality shows."

"Since we want to promote, why do we still criticize?" Shannetti was a little puzzled.

"Because reality shows are full of controversy, the greater the controversy, the higher the ratings will be." Jed said with a smile, "If all goes well, we will launch the first reality show on ABC next summer, "Big Brother" "."

"Big Brother?" John pronounced the name. "Is that from Nineteen Eighty-Four?"

"Wow, John, you really know me!" Jed nodded, "We locked eight couples in a mansion. There are cameras and recording equipment in all places in the mansion. They will have no privacy in the room." Live a summer vacation. Whether it is their ambiguity or their disputes, whether it is their glamorous side or their down-and-out side, they will all be displayed in front of the audience at a glance. We will hold a competition every week, and the champion of the competition will become the "house" Lord'. The homeowner has two privileges, one is that he will get a luxury single room to live in; the other is that he can nominate two people as candidates for elimination this week. As for who will be eliminated in the end, it will be voted by all the tenants. Voting will be in a room It will be held in a secret room, and the video recorder will record everyone's voting results and reasons. When there are only two people left in the show, all the eliminated tenants will choose who is the champion. We will prepare a cash reward of 25 US dollars for the champion ! If the sponsorship is good, maybe there will be weekly championship rewards every week."

"Peeping! Gossip! Reversal! Tsk tsk! Your program really has no limit." John said, "But you have satisfied the voyeurism deep in everyone's heart. I bet this will create a miracle in the ratings of the United States! "

"What's that movie?" Shannity asked.

""The Truman Show"!" Jed smiled and took out a script, "Truman is the first human being who belongs to a legal person organization in human history, he lives on a small island, but in fact this small The island is a studio set up by a film company. Except for Truman, the rest of the people on this small island are extras, and only Truman thinks he is living in the real world. In fact, he All the details of daily life are broadcast live to the world through the TV station's 24-hour live channel."

"This is disgusting!" Shannetti couldn't help but shuddered, "Did you reveal all your privacy without knowing it?"

Seeing Shannity like this, Jed couldn't help but think of future generations. With the popularity of the Internet and smart phones, as long as you have the heart, how can you not know any secrets?The simplest thing is that Jade used to be an investment bank in Hong Kong, and often received investment demands for Hong Kong stocks from some small and medium investors in the Mainland.Due to the non-standard management of mainland banks, it is easy to issue some doubtful asset certificates. At this time, it is the best way to investigate the user's provident fund.As a result, Jed learned from some investigation companies in later generations that it is a very easy way to check a person's provident fund.Even dealing with some important clients, Jed was able to learn about his case through the investigation company.

"It's a reminder to everyone. This movie." Jed said.

As expected, "Men in Black" led the box office results throughout August and continued into the Thanksgiving schedule.And since entering November, whether it is a national TV network or a popular cable station in major cities, a strange promotional video has been broadcast.The promotional video was actually 3 minutes long, and the cost of broadcasting alone made many people speechless.And the most surprising thing is that this promotional video was actually broadcast at the same time on the same day.Almost any channel you switch to can see this promotional video. At one time, many people thought that the cable TV station had been smashed.

In the quiet and deep blue sea, a probe boat is sinking continuously.In the depths of the dark ocean, there is only the faint light on the detection boat, and as the light moves, a sunken ship appears.

At this point someone has already shouted, "Oh my God! That's the Titanic!"

The detection boat entered the interior of the sunken ship through a breach. Although it was dilapidated, it was still possible to see the luxury of the ship in the past.And surprisingly, as the cameras come in, the ship appears to come to life.All the dilapidated decorations are being restored to their original appearance, the water is gradually receding, and the sun is shining in from the beautiful windows...

As soon as the camera changed, a huge cruise ship docked at the port, with puffs of white smoke coming out of the huge chimney... Crowded and cheering crowds at the port!Immediately afterwards, the speed of the picture increased, and the captain and designer of the Titanic all appeared on the stage, as well as Rose's stunning glance and Jack's ascent... Then, there was another picture of the Titanic lying quietly on the seabed, At this time, "My Heart Is Still" by Celine Dion sounded.

On the screen, words such as "Works of James Cameron", "Titanic", "True reproduction of the largest shipwreck in history", "Produced by Galaxy Films", and "released in North America on December 1997, 12" were printed on the screen.

"This is actually a movie promotional video! It's still a movie about the 'Titanic'!" Everyone understood.

At the same time, news of the movie's $2 million budget has also been leaked...