Director’s Legend - Chapter 343

“Ape Ball is 780 million U.S. dollars, Dawn is 725 million U.S. dollars, Hunger is 650 million U.S. dollars, Teddy Bear is 613 million U.S. dollars, Iron Man Two is 625 million U.S. dollars, Dance Out is 90 million U.S. dollars, Chi Flame is 167 million U.S. dollars, plus “The Expendables” which is currently in theaters. At present, the global box office exceeds 150 million U.S. dollars. Summit Entertainment has crazy gross box office of 3.8 billion U.S. dollars this year, surpassing last year’s 2.37 billion U.S. dollars and 1.93 billion U.S. dollars the year before, creating a new height!”

“The two box office bombs of Detective 2, The Hangover 3 have not yet been released. Will Summit Entertainment create a $5 billion box office miracle this year?”-“National Geographic”.

With the madness of Summit Entertainment and the brilliance of “Rise of the Apes”, the whole world wants to interview Shao Shuaijun. Shao Shuaijun stayed at home and stayed with the pregnant Li Xiuxiu all day. Until the end of September, the Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting and Television planned to issue a document on theater reform, and invited Shao Shuaijun, an entertainment oligarch, to the ministry and held a full day of meetings.

The way out was blocked by the reporters, and the bodyguards couldn’t stop him. The reporters would never give up without getting Shao Shuaijun’s interview today.

In desperation, Shao Shuaijun had to let reporters interview.

“Director Shao, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is 780 million in the world, becoming your second best-selling film. How do you personally think that the film can achieve good results? What is the secret of success?”

Shao Shuaijun said in an official tone: “There are many factors for the success of Apes. The fans of the old version of “Planet of the Apes” are one factor. The world’s first outdoor expression capture technology from Weta is one, Andy Serkins, Jack Gillen Hill and Freida Pinto’s wonderful performance is one, and the whole crew’s sincere cooperation is one, or we have to thank this year’s schedule is very good, there are no blockbusters to compete for the market.”

“Director Shao, double-open “Teddy Bear” and “Rise of the Apes”. Both movies are selling globally. Will you be the next king of the world?”

“Hehe, as long as I am the king of the world in my wife’s mind, it is enough.”

“How are Mrs. Shao and the child?”

“very good.”

“Are you going to direct the sequels of “Teddy Bear” and “Rise of the Apes”?”

“I don’t know, the script is still being created, everything is unknown.”

“What is your next plan?”

“Come back home.”

“I’m talking about your plans for the next movie?”

“It hasn’t been determined yet. It may be until next year to direct the “Avengers”, or it may be that another movie will be directed at the end of this year.”

“Today, the Ministry of Culture is approaching you to discuss the reform of the cinema chain. Is it because Wanda Cinemas monopolizes the domestic market and the film arrangement is unreasonable?”

“Wanda Cinemas is only responsible for the unified operation of the theater, and the film arrangement is arranged above.”

“As of today, “China-Style” has become the first video on Time.com with more than 100 million hits, and more than 100 million hits on the peak video that followed, and more than 500 million hits on Youtube and other websites that landed later. The album is more It has swept the markets of various countries and regions and created brilliant results. Huang Bo has already started his global concert tour. Does Director Shao have any plans to enter the music industry?”

The “China-Style” MV has set a number of records. Mtime.com has broken 400 million views, Youtube has 500 million views, and Pinnacle video has broken 100 million views. It has become the most popular video this summer, and the lead singer Huang Bo has become popular all over the world. , Even with Yang Ying, Xu Ceng, and Shao Shuaijun, they became familiar faces.

Imitating horseback riding dance has become a worldwide trend. The album has sold 3.1 million records in the United States, 1 million of which are platinum, becoming a triple platinum record. Not only the United States and Asia, but the world has been conquered by “China-Style”. The entire album has sold more than 8 million copies, becoming the most Chinese record!

“”China-Style” is just a game, I don’t have any thoughts of singing…Well, it’s half an hour, should I let me go?”

After being blocked by the reporters for about half an hour and meeting their needs, Shao Shuaijun was finally able to get in the car and go home.

After becoming famous, this is trouble, you have to be careful when you go out.

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On October 1, New York time, the first film independently directed by Shao Shuaijun’s great apprentice Gao Zhisheng, “The Warm Corpse” began to be shown in 3,027 theaters in North America. “The Warm Corpse” was produced at a small cost. There were no celebrities, no well-known directors, and no premiere.

This does not mean that Summit Entertainment does not pay attention to this movie. Although the expected box office is not high, the company still promotes it hard, and posters are plastered all over the door of major theaters. Shao Shuaijun is also on the collar and recommended this movie. He and Gao Zhisheng do not have any formal mentorship. In fact, Gao Zhisheng is older than him, but he has a mentorship.

Gao Zhisheng has made several films for Shao Shuaijun, and Shao Shuaijun is not hesitating to give him advice and tell him all his experience in directing. And the training for him is also great. First, let him come to the mainland to direct TV dramas, and now he is coming to Hollywood to direct movies. It is not without cultivation.

Therefore, Gao Zhisheng has always treated Shao Shuaijun as his master.

The movie was about to be released, and I made a special call from the United States, babbling nonsense of gratitude, and finally greeted the unborn Shao Qikai.

Shao Shuaijun fooled over with a smile, because he was not in China at the moment. He was having dinner with Carl Icahn in a luxury restaurant in New York. At the time, in conjunction with Mark Racheski, he rejected the plan to acquire Karl MGM. Shao Shuaijun thought he would offend the financial crocodile. Who knew Karl invited Shao Shuaijun to the United States to visit his company and his hedge funds. , The attitude is very kind.

It seems that there is no dissatisfaction because of the abortion of the merger.

Carl’s company is a leather bag company, or a shell company, which does not engage in any production, but only participates in investment. This shell company controls entertainment companies such as MGM and Lionsgate. It also holds decisive shares in ARI, FM, PS, biopharmaceutical IC, and telecommunications XO.

In addition, he holds two hedge funds, one is the Icahn Cooperative Fund and the other is the AREP Fund. The funds he can hold can even exceed 100 billion US dollars. With billions of dollars in profits generated every year, he is definitely the king of Wall Street investment.

“Shao, what do you think after reading my company?” Carl was a Jew and looked like a gentle old man, but his eyes were sharp and infiltrating.

Of course, the aura is invisible and intangible, it is a feeling brought by status.

Shao Shuaijun owns a large company with tens of billions of dollars. He is completely unafraid of Karl Icahn’s pressure. He wiped his mouth and said, “To be honest, I don’t see anything. You are not engaged in production. The employees in the company are all fighting. On the phone, looking at the computer screen, thinking about which company to carve up today, it’s pretty scary. No wonder Wall Street CEOs hate you.”

“Haha, I think this is the best compliment for me.” Carl was not angry at Shao Shuaijun’s words at all. “You know, in my eyes, the company has only one purpose, which is to go public for cash. Management or strategy are all imaginary. , Only the U.S. dollar can truly represent the American dream.”

“Huh?”

Carl stared at Shao Shuaijun and smiled a little unpredictable: “You know, I didn’t plan to acquire MGM from the beginning, or I did it very early, but gave up this plan in the last two years.”

“what?”

“MGM is a stagnant pool. There is no cure for it. The organization is bloated, the shares are complicated, and the staff is aging. I originally planned to use MGM to drag Sony into the company, and then reverse MGM’s profit in a short time and let the stock rise. Directly cash out and get out. But Sony is not stupid. After being fooled by me for two years, it simply showed it to me, to compete with me for perseverance, to see if I couldn’t help getting out, or if they reluctantly cut off this piece of rotten flesh. “

Carl poured himself a little red wine and continued: “Sony’s attitude made me a bit helpless. In the end, there were only two results. One was that Sony and I did not let go and MGM went bankrupt. The other was that I let go. Sony took the opportunity and got rid of me at a small price. No matter what I count, I will suffer. Therefore, I was eyeing Lionsgate Pictures at that time and prepared to use Lionsgate to achieve MGM’s turnaround.”

“So I still mixed up your plan?”

“After hearing what I said, my original plan was indeed Lionsgate. However, the operation of Lionsgate in the past two years has deviated from my plan. The stalls are too big, but there is no sustainable plan. It has become a platform to reverse MGM. It just so happens that Lionsgate’s neighbor, the summit, has risen miraculously in the past two years, and I knew that the opportunity was here.”

Eyelids jumped, Shao Shuaijun said in a deep voice, “What then?”

“I sent someone to investigate Summit Entertainment carefully. Of course, I want to apologize, and I also sent someone to investigate your background.” Carl smiled, “Time is right. Your movie kingdom has risen. You The era of entertainment has come. Dreaming Entertainment Group has created too many miracles. Moreover, you are not only a nouveau riche, but also a solid foundation, which is based on the Internet, from a single movie and TV entertainment to more Peripheral products.”

“maybe.”

“Our research found that the layout of the Dream Chasing Entertainment Group is very purposeful. At present, you have three listed companies Chasing Dream Golden Harvest, Summit Entertainment, and Marvel Painting Man, and a quasi-listed company Dream Chasing Game, and a reserve listed company Chasing Dream South Asia. We even predicted that if possible, Dreamland Golden Harvest will spin off with Mtime.com, let Mtime.com go public separately, Summit Entertainment will spin off from Obvious, and let Obvious go public separately. In this way, the future dream chase The entertainment group has seven listed companies, forming a pan-entertainment industry chain spanning the United States, China, and India, which is healthy and reasonable.”

Carl said in detail, the more he talked about it, the more it made Shao Shuaijun’s heart beat. This old guy had a perfect understanding of the strategy of the Dream Entertainment Group. Shao Shuaijun heard Li Xiuxiu talk about it. Dreaming Entertainment is doing its layout like this.

Noting Shao Shuaijun’s movement, Carl said more vigorously. He is in his 70s and 80s, and he is still like young people: “We also found that the layout of Dream Chasing Entertainment has a focus. Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics are used to create entertainment. Content-oriented, focusing on upstream development, that is, making movies and TV series, and seldom participates in downstream management of the entertainment circle. On the contrary, Dreaming Golden Harvest is not passionate about the production of TV series and movies. On the contrary, it actively participates in downstream infrastructure. Over the past two years, it has built more than one hundred movie theaters in China and Southeast Asia, and it has also established its own surrounding stores and production enterprises.

Summit Entertainment attacks the upper reaches of the entertainment circle, Chasing Dream Golden Harvest attacks the lower reaches of the entertainment circle, with a perfect layout! In addition to the holdings of various subsidiaries, the group company actively participates in charity to improve reputation, builds schools to train talents, supports filmmakers, reserves new technologies, and even influences the layout of China’s entertainment industry from the ranks of brokers.

If I am not mistaken, this is to converge with the Chinese government. There is a saying that if you master public opinion, you will master power, and your plan will become the public opinion platform of the Chinese government? “

After Carl finished speaking, while tasting the red wine, he looked at Shao Shuaijun as if he was holding the winning ticket.

Shao Shuaijun rolled his eyes: “You may be thinking too much. I never knew Dream Entertainment Group had such a plan.” (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)