Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

The news that Jed Sherman intends to redeem Michael Jackson's life broke out in the Christmas file.There is a very strange kind of audience in the world. He may never go to the cinema to watch your work in his life, but he likes to criticize the works he has never seen.For example, among the book fans of "The Lord of the Rings", some people vowed to boycott the "Lord of the Rings" movie because of the director Peter Jackson's "insufficient qualifications". It has nothing to do with a director's qualifications. Senior directors will also make unacceptable bad works. If you just think that a director has not made too many movies, you will preconceive that this movie is a "bad movie" ', please don't call yourself a 'film critic'. In my opinion, you are not even an 'ordinary audience'. Is "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" good or not? Please watch it in the cinema before evaluating it. .”

As the only boss in Hollywood who expresses his views on the public media, Jade's blog will inevitably be followed by film and television reporters and entertainment reporters.Jed's short essay defending Peter Jackson quickly spread, and it was also recognized by most film critics and audiences.Some viewers posted on the Rotten Tomatoes community: "Is a dish delicious, at least you have to eat it before you can comment? Even if you go to a restaurant to take a look, you can say 'it looks terrible'. Now The problem is that "The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings" has not been released yet, and there are a group of people who say it is not good-looking. Will not break their oath."

"According to the current contact situation, Avex Records is very happy to join our upcoming Sherman Music Entertainment Group." John in Tokyo called Jed, "But they are confused now. Yes, will we buy Polly Canon after acquiring them? If we are going to acquire Polly Canon, then what is the positioning of Avex? From my observation, Avex feels unwilling to bend Under Polly Jiayin. As for Polly Jiayin, they are currently developing well, and they are not very willing to be acquired. In addition, through the news from Taiwan, relatively small record companies such as UFO, Shanghua and Fenghua They are willing to be acquired and agree that we will not keep their label. But Rolling Stones is relatively strong, and now Rolling Stones is developing very well. Both their main brand Rolling Stones and their sub-brand Magic Rock are impressive. And Rolling Stones are unwilling to succumb The relationship between major international companies, especially our relationship with Warner.”

Jade actually admires Rolling Stone Records. In fact, from a certain point of view, most of the Chinese pop music is supported by musicians from Taiwan. Of course, musicians from Hong Kong also contributed part of their strength.When major international record companies swept across Asia, Hong Kong had almost fallen into a "music colony". Taiwan's two major record companies, Kolin and Haishan, also announced their bankruptcy, but Rolling Stone still persisted.Jade is actually very clear that with the advent of the new century and the prevalence of online piracy, the global record industry will enter a recession, and it will be fatal to the small and weak Taiwan records.UFO Records will be fully acquired by Warner Music next year, and Shanghua will also be acquired by Universal Music next year. Although Fenghua Records will return to the acquisition of Poli Jiayin Taiwan next year, it will soon be acquired by Warner, Universal and other major records. The company was dismembered, and in the end only a few veteran singers were left to entertain themselves.In a sense, Rolling Stone Records has become the last totem of Chinese music, and Jed is unwilling to end this legend as a foreigner.After thinking about it, Jade called Lin Jianyue, hoping that he would acquire Rolling Stone Records as Media Asia Records and form Media Asia Rolling Stone Music Group.Media Asia Rolling Stone Music Group, as the parent company of Media Asia Music and Rolling Stone Records, represents the distribution rights of the two companies' records, and Media Asia Music will focus on the discovery of Cantonese pop music and Hong Kong singers; Rolling Stone Records will focus on the entire Chinese-speaking region and Mandarin Discovery of popular music. "You can assure Mr. Duan Zhongyi and Duan Zhongtan that we will never interfere with the operation of Rolling Stone Records, and we will inject more funds into the development of Rolling Stone Records and its five major brands of Magic Rock, Tornado, Big Tsunami, Fengyun and Volcano. The development of sub-labels. The only thing they have to accept is that we are positioning the entire record."

Lin Jianyue is of course also very concerned about entering Taiwan's record industry. After all, Taiwan's market and music environment are better than Hong Kong's.Although it is backed by the Asia Broadcasting Group, it is very difficult for Media Asia to start again in Hong Kong.After Lin Jianyue and Jade chatted about the positioning of Rolling Stone and its sub-brands, they flew to Taiwan with confidence to negotiate.According to Jade's plan, Rolling Stone Records will appear as a Chinese pop music brand, and Magic Rock will appear as a Chinese rock music brand.Fengyun Records mainly focuses on discovering original musicians in mainland China; Great Tsunami focuses on discovering Chinese singers in Southeast Asia such as Xingmatai; Tornado appears as a local music brand in Taiwan.With Lin Jianyue as a strong man, Jade believes that his integration of Chinese records will go much smoother.As for whether it will cause a monopoly, Jed is not worried about it. He is still thinking about how to make Chinese music break out of the encirclement of the five major record companies.

Putting the Taiwan issue aside, Jade continued to discuss the layout of the Japanese record with John.The reason why Abex took the initiative to seek refuge with Jed is nothing more than Abex knew that he could not play Sony Music no matter what, and they were unwilling to be inferior to others, so finding a big backer was naturally a good choice.And more importantly, Abex is also one of the shareholders of South Korea's SM Entertainment, and the controlling shareholder of the largest brokerage company in South Korea is Jade.Since the two parties can cooperate closely in South Korea, there is no problem in other markets.And besides Abex's own willingness, Li Xiuman's promotion is also inseparable. The overseas record distribution rights of SM Entertainment's artists are all in the hands of Avex, Li Xiuman naturally hopes that Avex will be better tomorrow, isn't it?Naturally, Boli Jiayin is not in such a hurry. They have been scarred in the overseas market anyway, so they decided to return to the domestic market to recuperate.What's more, the relationship between Polly Jiayin and Johnny's and other Japanese brokerage companies is very good. The record contracts of their idol singers or crossover singers (referring to actors who sing across borders) are generally handed over to Polly Jiayin.Although the chances of these singers winning awards are not high, the records are basically not worried about selling.So Boli Jiayin naturally didn't care about the acquisition, and she was greeted by the Mitsui family, so she was not so motivated.

On December 2001, 12, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" was released in 19 theaters across the United States.Naturally, Jed also stood for Peter Jackson at the Galaxy Theater. After all, he is a director signed by his company, so he must give some support.When interviewed on the red carpet, Jed said that the film's box office revenue should be around 3359 million US dollars. Although it did not enter the billion club, it was because the audience had no confidence in Peter.When the reporters heard Jed's bold statement that the movie would have a box office of 8 million US dollars, they all expressed their shock.But Jed didn't give them a chance to ask questions, and went straight into the theater.

The nearly three-hour film fully demonstrated Peter Jackson's scene scheduling and screen narrative abilities. Some film critics who thought Peter Jackson was not qualified enough after watching the film said that Peter Jackson is one of the directors with the most scene control ability in these years.And some "Lord of the Rings" fans also said that the movie version basically conforms to the plot of the original book, and the special effects are very wonderful.The audience's enthusiasm was reflected directly at the box office, where "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" stunned journalists and critics with $1900 million despite opening Wednesday.And when it came to the weekend box office rankings in the first week, the box office in the three days of the weekend was as high as 5000 million U.S. dollars, kicking "Eleven Angry Men" off the championship in one fell swoop.

The box office performance of 5000 million in the first weekend naturally shows that the audience has greater confidence in the quality of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". It has a box office score of nearly 4000 million.At this time, the total box office in North America has reached 2 million US dollars.Starting from the second week, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" was officially released in Europe and South America. That week, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" also won a weekend box office of 8000 million US dollars.In the third week, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" continued to dominate the North American weekend box office with a box office of 3000 million US dollars, and the Asian market also joined the contribution of overseas box office this week.Within three weeks of its release, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" has grossed 5 million worldwide.As a supporter of Jed Sherman, "Hollywood Reporter" made a special report on "Knowing Heroes with Eyes, The Birth of a New Generation of Big Box Office Directors".The report first affirmed Peter Jackson's director skills, but at the same time, he also expressed admiration for Galaxy Films' daring to use Peter Jackson, a relatively junior director, to shoot a masterpiece.

"You throw that audition plan to Polly Jiayin. If you are interested, you can join my New Century Record Company. If you are not interested, we will hand over this plan to Abex for production." Jed said on the phone Instructed, "Our positioning for these two Japanese record companies is that Abex will be responsible for high-quality music works, and Boli Jiayin will focus on idol singers. One is the base camp of powerful singers, and the other is the home of idol stars. The production base has strong complementary advantages.”

"akb48? 'An idol you can touch'? 'The world's largest girl idol group'?" John was a little confused.As an American, he is actually not optimistic about the group.But Jade said that he wants to be the largest idol group in Japan, each group has 48 official members, and there may be nearly a hundred informal members. This is simply a crazy plan.But Jed knows how popular akb48 is in Japan and even in Asia in later generations. Now that he is reborn, it makes no sense not to make this money-absorbing girl group.But John came to Polly Jiayin's high-level office with a simplified AKB48 plan with suspicion.

"The fire in Japan's backyard is already big enough. It depends on whether Michael is willing to come out." Jed sighed. He knew that there were many Sony people around J, and they would definitely discourage J from quitting. .