Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Although "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still showing in some theaters in North America, the summer promotion plan of Sherman Entertainment Group has come to an end.Basically, Sherman Entertainment Group once again led the Hollywood summer box office. Whether it is "Batman Begins: The Dark Knight" or "Iron Man", the superhero blockbuster created by Sherman Entertainment Group has become Hollywood. box office guarantee.

But to the embarrassment of other production companies, Marvel, the major American comic company, is already a subsidiary of Sherman Entertainment Group, while DC Comics is jointly developed by Time Warner and Sherman Entertainment.Although some people plan to provoke the relationship between the two companies with the spirit of not letting others feel better, Times Entertainment is not a fool. Before their "Batman" and "Superman" are accepted again, they will Will fight Sherman Entertainment Group.

Fortunately, there are other comic companies in the United States besides Marvel and DC. First of all, 2th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures announced that they will jointly develop the works of Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic company in the United States.Compared with DC and Marvel, Dark Horse Comics is simply an unknown junior, but they also have a series of copyrights such as "Alien", "Spartan 3 Warriors", and "Hellboy".But what makes Murdoch and Redstone more painful is that most of the works of Dark Horse Comics do not have a coherent timeline and a unified world view, so the first thing the two companies did after buying Dark Horse The screenwriters have sorted out a whole set of worldviews for the superheroes of Dark Horse Comics.

And shortly after the acquisition of Dark Horse Comics, Comcast Group also announced the acquisition of the fourth largest comics company in the United States - Imagine Comics, and Imagine Comics has since become one of the copyright providers of nbc universal group.It's just that compared to the other three comic companies, the works of Imagine Comics are very new, and there are no die-hard comic fans for the time being.However, Imagine Comics has always aimed at Marvel Comics, so its superheroes all have a unified world view, which saves nbc universal a lot of time.

While other giants in Hollywood are encircling the comics market, Sony and Disney have remained surprisingly silent.Disney can still understand that they are from an animation background, and they have copyrights and future creativity. Of course, they don't need to buy comics copyrights to enrich their film library.However, Sony Group does not have a tradition of creating animated films, and at the same time, it does not participate in this big acquisition, which makes it easy for the media to guess.However, a more reliable but unconfirmed statement is that Sony Group of Japan intends to abandon Sony Pictures Entertainment Group and other North American Sony subsidiaries. into the endless abyss.It's just that this statement was denied by both Sony Group and Sherman Entertainment Group.

"Is this the Sony Group's final offer?" Jed Sherman narrowed his eyes as he looked at a letter from Akio Morita.

Akio Morita said he was willing to sell Sony Computer Entertainment Group and Sony Music Entertainment Group to Jed Sherman in a package for only $12 billion.At the same time, the Sony Group and the Mitsui Consortium are willing to settle the long lawsuit between Jade and Sony with a settlement of up to 15 billion US dollars.At the same time as this letter came, the Sony Group announced its latest split plan.

Sony Group will unpack its own business into Japanese business and global business (including North America), the Japanese business will form Sony Japan Co., Ltd., and the global business will form a new Sony Group.Sony Japan will be one of the important shareholders of Sony Group, but Sony Group has introduced several new shareholders in one go, including American capital such as Goldman Sachs Bank and Lehman Brothers.In other words, the new Sony Group will become a US-based company.That being the case, the U.S. courts will naturally not force the Sony Group too hard. On the contrary, the American capital who has newly become the Sony Group is eager for Jed to accept Akio Morita's settlement plan as soon as possible.What Sony Music?What Sony computer?They are all loss-making businesses, and the new Sony Group should sell these bad assets.In the new Sony Group, electronic hardware and film and television entertainment are the main businesses.

Just when Jed was angry that the Sony Group planned to offset most of the compensation with worthless assets, he got many phone calls from Jed.The power behind these people is the existence that Jed has to succumb to. In the end, even Microsoft announced that it will launch the acquisition of Sony Computer Entertainment Group, and even Jed's motion sensing technology is not wanted.Seeing such an ending, Jed can even imagine that the top executives of the Sony Group are celebrating with each other, right?Unexpectedly, not only did the Sony Group not intend to give themselves those loss-making deals, but their original plan was to be empty-handed, to force themselves to settle at a low price.

"Tell Akio Morita that $2 billion is the settlement price I accept. Don't haggle with me, otherwise I really don't mind suing the Sony Group and the Mitsui consortium in Japan and the United States at the same time. By the way, I want Sony Music and Sony Computer too , according to the price he said. However, the relevant game copyright and cooperation agreement must guarantee to me that there will be no change within five years."

"2 billion US dollars?" Akio Morita had a sneer on his face when he saw the figure of the settlement agreement. "Mr. Sherman's appetite is really big. This will catch up with our Sony Group's profit for half a year. However,...we will sign this settlement agreement, and at the same time use Sony Music and Sony Computer to offset two-thirds of the profit." Compensation, the rest will be paid in cash.”

"You shouldn't have signed this settlement agreement." John couldn't help sighing when he saw the final agreement. "After losing MJ, Sony Music Group is actually a loser in the North American market. Even if you integrate it into the Asian Music Group, it is not worth that much money. And Sony Computer Entertainment is completely a hot potato. The sales of ps3 The situation is very bad, and you have to face the strangling of the two giants of Nintendo and Microsoft. The important thing is that the Sony Group can make a comeback in five years. At that time, you, a fledgling rookie, will face the three giants. Blizzard Interactive Most likely it will be lost."

"Of course I know that after the Sony Group is split into Sony Japan and the new Sony Group, Sony Music and Sony Computer will be useless." Jed sighed heavily, "But who made the Japanese devils cut off their wrists so cleverly to separate Goldman Sachs and Lehman, the two gold-eating beasts supported by the US government, has become its own shareholder? If I don't choose to compromise with Akio Morita now, do you think Sony, which is backed by the US and Japan, will care about my feelings? Politics is always dirty and dark, and I can only compare the two evils as the lesser. What's more, chicken ribs also have the beauty of chicken ribs?" Jed smiled slyly, "Sony Music's artists are actually of little value. All I want is their copyright library and their distribution channels in North America. The important thing is that they own Atlantic Records and Capital Records. After all, Asian music groups directly entering the North American market will make the American record industry feel uncomfortable. Comfortable, so Sony Music Group will transform into Atlantic Music and Capital Products. Atlantic Music will be mainly responsible for the distribution work, including the business of Asian music in North America and the business of Capital Records; and Capital Records will become the vest for Asian Records to cultivate North American singers. Lanny and their contracts can all be transferred to Capital Records, and Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry, who we plan to train recently, will all transfer to Capital Records. As for Sony Computer Entertainment, it is really It’s a chicken rib, what they value is the development of hardware equipment, and the game copyrights are in the hands of relevant companies. PS3 is actually not a failure, and PS2 has at least five years of life, as long as these two big killers are still in our hands , Those game companies have to look at our faces. As for the psp product, I think I will continue to make it, and the psn plan must be accelerated."

Jed actually knows that ps2 is still Sony's best-selling host even after being forced to stop production by Sony. Secondly, although the sales volume of ps3 is not as good as ps2, it is more than enough to deal with xbox and wii, and ps3+, which introduces motion sensing technology, will be an even better host product.As for the painful psv products, although Jade will encourage the development, he will never give up the psp. It is actually very stupid to force users to upgrade the console. Sony will do such stupid things in the future.Stop producing ps3 for the sake of ps2 sales, and give up psp for psv market, Jade will not follow the path of Sony's failure.Of course, Sony's psn products are the most exciting to Jade, and now steam is still struggling, once psn can become the most important game software distributor on ps consoles and pc consoles, then he can really create a game empire.

As the autumn passed, the lawsuit between Jade and Sony Group, which had been disturbing for a long time, finally came to an end.Sony Computer Entertainment Group and Sony Music Entertainment Group became the most important assets to pay Jade, and after Jade got it, he reorganized the two companies into Condor Computer Entertainment Group.In fact, the Condor brand should have been a sub-brand of Blizzard, that is, the famous Blizzard North Company in later generations. It contributed the classic masterpiece "Diablo" to Blizzard.Just because of his own intervention, Blizzard did not have the so-called Blizzard North, so even its predecessor Condor Studio did not appear.However, in order to compensate for his past life experience, Jed deliberately changed Sony Computer Entertainment Group's name to Condor.Of course, the classic p1aystation trademark is still to be retained.

After finishing his own lawsuit with Sony, Jed started the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" project.This will be the clarion call of the "Harry Potter series of movies", and it will also be the prelude to the release of many foreshadowings.Because of the importance of the Half-Blood Prince, Jed discussed the adaptation of the script with Rowling early on.Jed doesn't want to be like Warner who deliberately split the Deathly Hallows in order to make an extra year of money.Of course, Jed also believes that the last two books need at least three episodes of movies to accommodate them, so he intends to follow Nolan's example and complete the final Harry Potter trilogy.

In fact, the Harry Potter movies after the Order of the Phoenix have long been separated from the category of children's movies or school movies. The last three Harry Potter movies are actually real Hollywood genre films.Like other superhero movies, Harry Potter is the superhero of this movie.In the last three episodes, Harry has completed the transformation from a boy to a man, from a reckless little boy to a responsible man.Such a theme is actually not much different from the Batman trilogy, but if it is to be transformed into this, Jed still needs to convince Rowling.