Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

On the weekend of the first week, "Saving Private Ryan" became the champion with a box office of 3 million US dollars, and even set an average revenue of 12 US dollars for a single hall.With such a good single-house revenue, Paramount will naturally be able to persuade more small and medium-sized theaters to join the screening ranks.In addition to national cinema chains such as Royal Entertainment Group, AMC, and Cinemark, there are also small and medium-sized cinema companies such as Marcus Family Cinemas in second- and third-tier cities in the United States, and of course there are a small number of independent cinemas.When the distributor came to negotiate with these small and medium theaters and independent theaters with an average single-house revenue of 12 yuan, they naturally joined the screening ranks obediently.Originally, they were not optimistic about a restricted-rated historical movie, but they did not expect such a good single-house revenue. Therefore, the number of movie releases of "Saving Private Ryan" expanded to more than 25 in the second week, and the second The average income of a single hall in the week remained around 1 yuan, and the total box office continued to lead the weekend box office with 26 million yuan.

"Saving Private Ryan" has the concerns of DreamWorks and Paramount, so Jed doesn't need to invest too much manpower and material resources to participate in it, so he held the group's annual planning meeting when he was free at the end of the year.In terms of movies, since both Michael Bay and John Woo said they want to take a break, there is still Jed who can continue to make movies.Fortunately, the Galaxy Animation Studio has brought good news. The two cartoons "Toy Story 2" and "Little Elf Mouse" are expected to be released in summer and Christmas next year.And Jed's currently confirmed script is only "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", so the work of Galaxy Films next year will be relatively easy.

As far as Dongfeng TV is concerned, in addition to several comedy and drama dramas that are still on the stage and need to produce sequels, the new film "Sex and the City" released this autumn has actually achieved good ratings. If there is no accident, it will also be produced next year sequel.As for the new film, Aaron Sorkin took out the script of "The West Wing", hoping to cast it, and Jed naturally agreed.It's the big favorite at the Emmys for years to come.

In addition, the successfully reorganized Chinese Broadcasting Network (cBn) was officially launched. In addition to producing two sets of programs in Chinese and English for Chinese and Asian groups in the US headquarters, the other six channels were given to Hunan TV International Channel, CCTV Chinese International Channel, China TV Global Channel, Asia TV Finance and Asia TV News.Because Jade is the largest shareholder of directTV, the largest satellite TV service provider in the United States, the landing of cBn in major cities across the United States is naturally very smooth.

As for the new generation music company, after Jessica Simpson's success this year, David Geffen has stepped up training for Britney and Christina, and they will join forces next year.In terms of mobile phones, although Jade proposed the concept of large-screen mobile phones and touch-screen mobile phones, Samsung did not take it seriously.Therefore, Jed had to set up another technology company called Touch to accumulate patents for touch-screen mobile phones and large-screen mobile phones, but the current development progress is not very satisfactory, and Jed is wondering whether Apple will take the lead again. .Moreover, the operating system of the smartphone has not yet been finalized. Fortunately, Jed knows about the Android system of later generations, and has ordered someone to develop it while looking for someone to buy it.

"Now is the time to give up Yahoo." Jed suddenly announced.

Regarding Jed's move, there are not many objections within the group.Since Yahoo and Softbank hooked up, they have made a lot of small moves behind the scenes to target the major shareholder of the Sherman Group.If it weren't for the Sherman Group's deep roots in the United States, I'm afraid that the Taiwanese (Jerry Yang) and the Japanese (Masayoshi Son) would push Jade out of Yahoo's board of directors.

"However, Yahoo's income is still very generous. We have already beaten America Online to the ground. If we give up Yahoo at this time, it will be very unfavorable to the company's layout on the Internet. The products we can currently offer are B1og .com’s blog aggregation website and goog1e.com’s search engine are too weak!” Someone objected.

"The group can't tolerate Judas!" Jed was also very tired of Yang Zhiyuan and Sun Zhengyi's flirting.The important thing is that 1999 was the harbinger of the Internet winter, and Yahoo's stock would reach its peak in this year, and then never recover from it.Starting from 2, the first important feature of the recovery of the Internet is that the user's network entrance has changed from the so-called "portal website" to a "search engine", and then by 3, it will be transformed into a "social networking site" again.News portals represented by Yahoo and America Online will be completely abandoned in the new century, and they will eventually become content providers.

This is why after Jade acquired Google, he has been letting Google practice martial arts internally, and they are not allowed to participate in the competition of the Internet at all.Now Google's search engine technology has far surpassed that of Yahoo, and with Google's unique user behavior tracking technology, the things Google's search engine finds out are more in line with the needs of users.So not only Yahoo's mortal rivals like America Online have used Google's search engine technology, but other neutral websites have also joined Google's camp after comparison.At this time, Google was still a technical service company, not a complete Internet company, but Jed had already bought various domain names and was waiting for Google to join the battle.

As a reborn person, Jed naturally tailored the future development direction for Google.In addition to the search engine technology that Google is proud of, when Jade launched Google, he planned to launch gmail1, a great email service.It is precisely because of the powerful email service gmail1 that Google was able to monetize traffic and accumulate a large number of initial users.Then there are three services, goog1eana1ytics, goog1eadsense and goog1eadwords, which have allowed countless small and medium-sized websites to join the Google camp.The next step is to merge Blog.com into the goog1e camp, and then bring the future youtube, Facebook and Twitter into the goog1e camp, which can basically guarantee that goog1e will be in the leading position in the next 1 years.

As for Apple's iTunes program, Jed is preparing to launch goog1ep1ayer in conjunction with Microsoft's Zune, but the premise is that Microsoft can hand over the control of Zune to Jed.As a latecomer, Jed certainly knew that Microsoft's Zune failed because it relied too much on its own wma technology, and at the same time, the shape of the Zune was really ugly.

"What? The Sherman Group is finally planning to sell Yahoo's stock?" Jerry Yang jumped off the bed happily, "Contact Mr. Masayoshi Son, our plan to revive Yahoo will be realized soon! Thank God, Yahoo is finally from This demon is freed, and our beautiful tomorrow is coming!"

Sun Zhengyi soon got the news that the Sherman Group sold Yahoo, and his plan to dismember Yahoo could finally begin.Since the Sherman Group basically controlled Yahoo, Sun Zhengyi's plan to separately form Yahoo Japan, Yahoo Taiwan, and Yahoo China was rejected.Now that the American is finally not blocking the way, then his plan will naturally come true.

The reason why Jade has always opposed the establishment of a separate Yahoo branch was to block Masayoshi Son’s conspiracy and tricks. Yahoo is actually not making money. Yahoo Japan is the number one website in Japan, and it also operates the top five Internet access services in Japan. ; and after Yahoo Taiwan acquired the Kimo website in Taiwan, the new Yahoo Kimo is also the number one portal in Taiwan, especially its Kimo Club and the nameless website, which used to be must-visit websites for Taiwanese people every day, even on Facebook and WeChat. In the age of bloggers, Wuming Xiaozhan is also an important website for young people in Taiwan; as for Yahoo China, it is a master who has been entangled with the behemoth Baidu for several years... It is a pity that these three Yahoo websites and Yahoo America, which have both status and money, do not It doesn't matter if it's a penny, Yahoo is losing money, and these three companies will not pull their fathers.

The actual result of later generations is that Jerry Yang played Yahoo America more and more badly, and finally forced the board of directors to dismiss the boss collectively; while in Asia, the three Yahoos under Masayoshi Son lived happily.If Sun Zhengyi hadn't been put together by Ma Yun later and lost the control of Yahoo China, I am afraid that Sun Zhengyi's income would have been higher. After Ma Yun used Yahoo China to kill Sun Zhengyi, he also crossed the river and demolished the bridge to announce the closure of Yahoo China and shut down all services. It is all thrown to the Chinese Yahoo in Hong Kong.But since Jed intends to abandon Yahoo, he will no longer care about Yahoo's life and death.If Yang Zhiyuan felt that Masayoshi Son was the savior who saved Yahoo, why would he bother him.

He said to Sun Zhengyi and Yang Zhiyuan: "It's very simple, each share is sold at a price of 1 US dollars."

"Mr. Sherman, are you kidding me! Now Yahoo stock is only 5 dollars a share, even if the premium is 15%, it is only 75 dollars!" Jerry Yang roared, "If Mr. Sherman is not sincere, then we don't have to talk go down."

"I didn't expect that even the founder, Mr. Yang, would look down on his website so much?" Jed sneered, "We can definitely sign a gambling agreement, if Yahoo's stock price does not rise to $2 before January 1, 1 , my stock is sold at Yahoo’s listing price of $1 per share. But if it rises to $23, Yahoo will not only buy all of my stock at $1 per share, but as your partner, Mr. Sun Do you want to win some prizes too?"

Although Sun Zhengyi was cautious, he found that there was basically no disadvantage for him in this bet.If Yahoo’s stock price rises to less than $2 on January 1, 1, you can buy Yahoo’s stock at the lowest price; "I don't know what Mr. Sherman is interested in in the next company? But what happened beforehand, SoftBank's industries in Japan will never participate in gambling."

Jed secretly despised Masayoshi Sun in his heart, and didn't even have the courage to gamble bigger, so Jed pretended to be reluctant and said: "I have always been very interested in the Chinese market, so I will trouble Mr. Sun to take the money from Alibaba Group." Let's gamble all the shares."

Jed was actually very depressed. He obviously formed Hualin Investment, and he had created a great reputation in Asia, and even took the initiative to negotiate with Ma Yun, but Ma Yun actually chose Softbank in the end.Sun Zhengyi naturally knew about this matter, but at this time, Sun Zhengyi hadn't seen Ma Yun's ability, nor had he anticipated the future trend of online shopping, so he readily agreed.Now that the three parties agreed, their own lawyers would naturally sign a series of agreements.