Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In the eyes of many film critics and critics, the "Harry Potter" series of novels is nothing more than a decent best-selling teenage book, but they did not expect that this book not only turned a single mother into a famous rich woman in Britain, It also made the adapted TV series and movies become box office monsters that are rampant all over the world. After "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" won the weekend box office champion for three consecutive weeks in the North American market, it began its journey to Europe and Asia.

When Jade and Luc Besson formed the Galaxy Europa Film Company, they have been nurturing this company to become the agency of Galaxy Film in Europe.And with Hollywood's abundant capital, Galaxy Europa Film Company immediately left a large number of established European film companies behind.This made European film colleagues, who have always paid attention to the artistic attributes and literary characteristics of films, have a lot of opinions on Luc Besson, but Luc Besson launched the "European Young Director Training Fund" shortly afterwards to support young European directors. Those who are loose are not good at saying anything.Moreover, Luc Besson himself also formed the Luc Besson studio, and began to shift his focus of shooting to documentaries.

Although Luc Besson rarely manages the affairs of Galaxy Europa Films, the company has gradually become one of the most important film companies in Europe.It is precisely because of the assistance of the Galaxy Europa Film Company that the release of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in Europe has become extremely smooth, especially in the Eastern European and Russian markets where piracy is rampant. Get the protection you deserve.Interestingly speaking, apart from mainland China, the regions that cause Hollywood filmmakers the most headaches are the Eastern European and Russian markets.The piracy in mainland China is at most only individuals entering theaters to remake, while in Eastern Europe and Russia, theaters and even distribution companies are completely involved.Due to the participation of the distributors, the quality of the pirated movies left in the Eastern European and Russian markets is the best. After grafting the English audio tracks stolen from other regions, it becomes a well-known r5 pirated DVD in the pirate market. .

However, because of Jed, the foresighted person, the Galaxy Europa Film Company has mainly adopted two methods in the Eastern European and Russian markets. One is to cooperate with AMC Cinemas to directly acquire theaters and act as the theater company itself; The local cultural department and economic supervision department should do a good job in public relations and let them come forward to fight against piracy.Because the Galaxy Europa Film Company is very willing to spend money, the relevant local departments are particularly effective in cracking down on piracy of Galaxy movies.Under multiple protections, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" swept across major European countries, but there were no pirated copies of the cam or ts versions on the market.

Most parts of Europe can understand or speak English, so basically the releases in Europe and North America are considered to be synchronized.However, it is generally produced in German, Spanish, Russian and Italian a week or two later and re-released to gain the remaining users.But it is not so lucky in the Asian market. Although Asian countries have promoted English education for many years, it is almost impossible to expect Asians to understand the original English movies without any subtitles.Therefore, on the one hand, Yinhe Films seized the time to produce subtitles in major countries, and on the other hand, invited famous local artists or actors to act as dubbing actors.The subtitle version attracts die-hard fans, while the dubbed version uses the fame of the voice actor to attract surrounding users.

In recent years, Jade has focused his work on North America and Europe, and his concern for the Asian market is not as high as before 1997.However, Lin Baixin and Lin Jianyue's father and son have made the Asian Broadcasting Group flourish. Not only does the Asian Broadcasting Group own four wholly-owned subsidiaries of Asia (Hong Kong) Television Company, Asia Satellite Television Company, China Television Company and Zhongtian Television Company, Indirect holdings of South Korea's sbs Seoul Broadcasting Co., Ltd. and Japan's tvtokyo Tokyo Television Co., Ltd.In addition, Media Asia Entertainment Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABC, also owns Media Asia Films and Media Asia Records.Now ATV is already an opponent that TVB must look up to, and even Shao Daheng privately admires Lin Baixin.You must know that Shao Daheng's tvb was the first to send a Chinese channel to Japan. Unfortunately, Shao Daheng was born at an untimely time, and the Japanese channel of tvb disappeared not long after it existed.Today's ATV actually owns one of the three major terrestrial broadcasts in South Korea and one of the five major TV networks in Japan.

Lin Baixin and Lin Jianyue father and son also have a clear division of labor. Lin Baixin is fully committed to developing Asia Broadcasting Group, while Lin Jianyue is fully committed to promoting Media Asia Entertainment Group.It took nearly three years for Lin Jianyue to finally unify the five major cinema chains in Hong Kong, namely Jiale, Jinsheng, Xinbao, Yonggao, and Dongfang, and formed Media Asia Hong Kong Cinema Company.Originally, many Hong Kong filmmakers believed that after the monopoly, Media Asia Hong Kong Cinema Company would become a vassal of Media Asia Film Company, and Hong Kong films would completely decline.However, Lin Jianyue unexpectedly announced that Media Asia Films will no longer participate in film production, but only participate in film investment and distribution. Media Asia Films will become the best choice for Hong Kong films to be exported overseas.

In fact, with the support of Galaxy, Media Asia, and the original influence of the Lin family in Southeast Asia, the integrated Hong Kong movies have regained their brilliance in the new century. For a while, there have been Korean movies and Hong Kong movies competing for hegemony in Asia. situation.And what surprised Jade the most is that Lin Jianyue is not only doing his best to integrate Taiwan's theater chains, but also focusing on the mainland market.The most important thing is that Lin Jianyue's chosen partner in mainland China is actually Lin Jianwang from Group D.

Jed didn't know what to say when he heard the name, the d cinema chain under the later d group is the number one cinema company in China!With Lin Jianyue as a strong helper, the release of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in Asia went smoothly.Even the film review agencies in mainland China did not embarrass this film. You must know that Jed was worried that it would be shot if it was too magical.However, according to the information revealed by Lin Jianyue, mainland officials still have a good impression of Galaxy movies.First of all, most of the themes of Galaxy movies are positive; secondly, Galaxy movies have never produced any works that discredit the mainland or Chinese; lastly, China in Galaxy movies is relatively neutral and objective.Therefore, the mainland thinks that Galaxy movies tend to be mainland-oriented, so they were a lot more lenient when reviewing the films.

This inside news surprised Jed a little.Lin Jianyue not only managed the distribution of the film, but also introduced the first season of "Harry Potter" TV series to the TV stations of the Asia Broadcasting Group, which also set off a boom in ratings.

Four weeks after "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released in North America, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has appeared in most parts of the world. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" grossed more than $1000 million in its first week overseas, and that was without the Asian market.After the opening of the Asian market in the second week, the overseas box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" soared to 2500 million US dollars in an instant.In addition to the blockbuster movies, Lian Rowling's first three novels of "Harry Potter" once again topped the bestseller lists in various countries.

Most importantly, various peripherals of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" authorized by Galaxy are selling like crazy all over the world.Whether it's Hogwarts school uniforms or various small accessories, they have all become the most anticipated gifts for children this Christmas or New Year's Day.Jade is quite conscientious, and has launched different versions of peripherals and pricing for each country.In fact, the cost of this peripheral is not high, but many people cannot understand why Asians cannot afford it.For this kind of thinking, Jed often wants to confuse them with the classic Chinese story "Why don't you eat minced meat".

When Jade was working in an investment bank, he once did a Chinese market analysis for a football giant.The marketing director of this giant has never understood why the Chinese only buy their pirated jerseys, and they don't have the quality of fans at all.Jade had to explain to them at the time that the income of Chinese fans is only about 2000 yuan, and a genuine jersey of 300 to 500 yuan is already a luxury for them.I am afraid that such a jersey will only be bought on a very important day and kept at home for "offering", and it is impossible to wear it on the court to sweat.

Therefore, Jade's sales of "Harry Potter" peripherals in the Chinese market are not particularly "black", but are priced according to the actual situation in the Chinese market.However, in order not to impact other markets, Jade's sales in the Chinese market are limited and limited.

"Mr. Jed Sherman can find a cash cow when he travels. We can only be jealous of God, which is sometimes unfair." The Hollywood Reporter, who has always had a good relationship with Jed Sherman, learned that " After the sales of Harry Potter” series peripherals, he couldn’t help but joked, “However, we are very happy that Mr. Sherman announced that he will use part of the profits from this profit to help African children improve their education.” At the same time, it will also fund domestic scientific research institutions for children's heart diseases. Among the Hollywood tycoons we know, Mr. Sherman may have donated the most."

Before Jed had time to be complacent about the praise from The Hollywood Reporter, John came over to tell him the news, "At the beginning of the year, you were dissatisfied that our development progress was behind Apple, but the thing you wanted It has been successfully developed. At present, we still have two problems, one is the authorization of major record companies, and the other is that the portable playback device you mentioned is too difficult. And some people question you, Sony has already launched On the premise of alkman, discman and md multi-level products, is it necessary for us to enter the player market?"

"Don't you think it's troublesome to download an mp3 and then play it on a disc?" Jed asked with a smile, "Let's break this!"

The product that Jade has been asking Google to develop is actually itunes. After all, the future iphone, ipod and ipad are all derived from itunes.Jade named this product GooglePlay, and the portable player is called Gplayer.The prototype of the first generation is naturally ipodclassic. In the future, the market will be segmented, the touch for the high-end market, the nano for the mid-range market, and the shuffle for the low-end market.

However, Jed will not plagiarize for the sake of plagiarism. You must know that Google also has its own unique aesthetics, and Jed does not want to destroy all of this. Both Google and Apple are companies that advocate minimalist design, but Google prefers square design because it is full of mechanical sense; while Apple prefers circular design because Jobs is a Buddhist. Google has more tones, but it is not cumbersome; Apple always only loves black, white and gray.

The googleplay and gplayer launched by google may be Apple's ideas from that time and space, but the internal and external design is completely google technology.