Wu Jianye didn't have time to care about how Zhao Lei dealt with Zhao Miao's affairs, because of Zhao Lei's relationship, Wu Jianye didn't move Zhao Miao, it was already enough to save face, and now there are only two things left in front of Wu Jianye.

First, since Universal Pictures wants to deal with you, then they have to be prepared to fight back.

The second is to deal with the hearings of the North American federal government.

Wu Jianye once again stepped into the headquarters of Phantom Media.

"Give me the news, just say that I am personally very optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", and Phantom Pictures hopes to release this movie with Universal Pictures!"

Wu Jianye said to Matthew Murphy.

Linda on the side looked at Wu Jianye in surprise and asked, "Future Water World? is the big production that Universal is filming now?"

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Yes, it's this movie." ”

The movie "Future Water World" is Universal's most important film next year, with an investment of more than $150 million, and if Hollywood calculates the cost of publicity, the entire investment of this film will exceed $200 million, which will be the top production of this era, and the investment in the movie "Jurassic World" is only $65 million.

"I don't think Universal will agree, they are very optimistic about this film internally, and they will not allow us to release it with them!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye smiled: "I naturally know this!"

Linda looked at Wu Jianye suspiciously, and then asked, "You are so optimistic about this movie, let Universal Pictures make additional investments in this way?"

"Not bad!"

After knowing that Universal wanted to deal with him, Wu Jianye asked Linda to mobilize all the information of Universal, including Universal Pictures' film plan for next year, and the movie "Future Water World" is Universal Pictures' desperate self-help work!

For a listed company, their annual financial report is very important, and for a film and television company like Universal Pictures, the box office of their film works is a barometer of their stock price.

Especially for a blockbuster like this with an investment of more than 100 million dollars, if the film has a box office waterloo, it will be a fatal mistake for Universal.

I believe that no one knows better than Wu Jianye the future box office of the movie "Future Water World".

In fact, in another time and space, the movie "Future Water World" has a total investment of $230 million including publicity costs, but the box office in North America is only $88 million, the overseas box office is $176 million, and the global box office is only $264 million.

is just enough to recover the cost, but in fact, there is no money allocated to the theater, taxes and a series of expenditures, according to the profit law of three times the return of the film market, the film has lost more than 140 million.

Such a loss is tantamount to adding insult to injury for the already difficult Universal Pictures.

In fact, it was for this reason that Panasonic had to sell Universal to the Vivendi Group.

Although Wu Jianye is now in the whirlpool of public opinion, no one can underestimate Wu Jianye's achievements in movies, and now Wu Jianye has publicly stated that he is optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", which will naturally make Universal Pictures pay more attention to this movie.

This is also the reason why Wu Jianye did not directly open Universal Pictures, if he opened it directly, it shows that he knows that Universal will deal with him, in this way, if he says that he is optimistic about this movie, then it will make Universal Pictures more vigilant.

Sure enough, as Wu Jianye expected, when Matthew Murphy officially proposed to Universal Pictures that because director Wu Jianye was optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", they hoped to release the film together with Universal Pictures, Cameron Black directly refused.

Subsequently, this news immediately appeared in major media newspapers in Hollywood, and the headlines were: Wu Jianye is optimistic about "Future Water World"!

As soon as such news was published, it immediately attracted the attention of many fans, and Universal Pictures immediately issued a statement, saying that they were already very optimistic about the film, and would agree to the request of directors Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner for additional investment.

And after this addition, the production cost of this film has reached 200 million US dollars!

Cameron Blake stood in front of the reporter in high spirits and said: "Of course we didn't increase the investment in this film because of Director Wu's optimism, in fact, our company is very optimistic about this movie, and the additional investment has been discussed at our company's meeting, and now it is just this time to announce the news!"

"Of course, we can also understand that Director Wu is optimistic about this movie, after all, Director Wu is a very discerning director, he can naturally see which movie is not good!"

But in reality?

According to later media reports, Universal Pictures did receive additional investment requests from Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner during this time period, but Universal Pictures had no money, and considering that the investment in this film had been increased several times, it was decided not to invest in this film, but after receiving a request from Phantom Pictures for distribution, Universal Pictures immediately changed its previous decision.

I re-mortgaged to the investment institutions on Wall Street, and only then did I borrow 50 million and continue to make additional investments!

And this additional investment was later reported by Wall Street media as: the stupidest investment!

Cameron Black is known as the stupidest general manager in the history of Hollywood cinema!

And Wu Jianye was also the most cunning fox of the judges, in a word, who made the most successful company in the history of Hollywood films, slump from then on, and has not recovered for more than ten years.

"No matter what happens to the movie "Future Water World" next year, I must buy the copyright of the movie's cinema reconstruction!" Wu Jianye was ready to vomit blood.

Although the box office of the movie "Future Water World" hit the street at Grandma's house, the theme playground of the movie "Future Water World" is the most lucrative project in Universal Studios Park.

It is based on the development of the movie setting and world view, and highly faithfully restores the movie scenes and props, which is the most exciting and popular live water stunt show and blasting show in Universal Studios Park, combined with the construction of the floating island in the movie, to produce a strong attraction to the audience.

Among the Universal Studios parks in Los Angeles, Osaka and Singapore, "Future Water World" has always been one of the most popular projects.

More than 100 million people have experienced the project at Universal Studios Park in the three places, and it has endured since the opening of the first "Future Water World" park project after the construction of the park, and the stands that can accommodate thousands of people are always full, and the spin-off story of "Future Water World" is performed day after day.

The movie hit the street at the box office, but the theme park was a big hit, finally making up for the loss of Universal Pictures!

"It's not that easy to buy the rights!" Linda said, "I've heard about Universal Studios Park, and I'm already preparing to develop this theme park!"

This is also the reason why Universal Studios is optimistic about this movie, otherwise it is impossible to start preparing for the theme park before the movie is released.

But in fact, after the box office hit the street with the movie "Future Water World", Universal Studios once wanted to stop the development of the "Future Water World" theme park, but at that time, they had already invested so much, and they finally decided to open the theme park of "Future Water World" with the attitude of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "It's difficult, you can test your ability, this matter, I don't care what you do, I only look at the final result!"

Linda nodded helplessly, if this movie is really like Wu Jianye said, the box office hit the street, then it is not too difficult to buy the movie studio copyright of this movie.

"When will the movie "Future Water World" be released?" Wu Jianye did not plan to let Universal Pictures go so easily.

"According to the news released by Universal Pictures, it will be July 28 next year!" replied Matthew Murphy.

"Put the movie "Mission Impossible" on this schedule. After Wu Jianye recalled the movie released by Phantom Pictures next year, he decided to put this Tom Tom's masterpiece on this schedule to clean up the movie "Future Water World"!

The "Mission Impossible" series, as an enduring series of Hollywood films, has always been a guarantee of the box office, and when it was released in another time and space the year after, it won a super high box office of $181 million in North America in one fell swoop.

Because Wu Jianye took out the script of this movie in advance, it is naturally more than enough to clean up the world now!

Matthew Murphy nodded and said, "No problem." ”

Wu Jianye nodded with satisfaction.

Then Johnson on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "The federal government deliberately set the time to ask you at the time of the premiere of "Eternal Night" in North America, is this simply a matter!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "I believe that when they know the truth of the matter, the expressions on their faces will definitely be even more exciting!"

Prior to this, Johnson had already found out, and Wu Jianye informed Wu Jianye that Cameron Black went to their family to acquire the shares of Oceanwide Cinemas, otherwise Johnson would not be sitting here today as the general manager of Oceanwide Cinemas.

And the federal government's inquiry time has also been set, that is, on the day of the release of "Eternal Night"!

January 3, 1995!

The movie "Eternal Night" did not achieve its simultaneous world premiere in the end, but this is no longer important to Wu Jianye.

"Okay, now that the matter has been decided, let's go about our own business, and this matter should be over!" Wu Jianye stretched his waist.

The question about the phantom has been going on for almost a month, and now there is only one last move left, and Wu Jianye's suppressed mood before finally getting better.

Linda was still a little worried and said: "I'm still a little worried, even if you plan ahead, but how to judge this matter depends on the meaning of the federal government!"

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Then prepare the second set of plans, if the federal government is still dead by then, then we will break the net, it's a big deal to let the Paramount case happen again!"

Linda said helplessly: "If you do this, then you will really offend the whole of Hollywood!"

"So what, my aim is that if anyone doesn't make me feel better, I'll let no one think about it. At the end, Wu Jianye had already begun to spit out fragrant mouths: "Grandma's, Lao Tzu spent tens of millions of dollars to hire a lawyer for this matter, and spent another 200 million yuan to those parliamentarians, if they are still looking for trouble, they will be in a hurry, as long as I am still here, Hollywood movies will not want to enter the Chinese market!"

Linda was stunned for a moment and said, "This is your Plan C?"

Wu Jianye smiled: "You always have to make a few more preparations!"

In order to deal with the sanctions of the federal government, Wu Jianye prepared a total of three sets of plans, and he naturally hoped that with his concessions, this matter would pass, but if the federal government still refused to let go of the phantom, then he would have to talk to them well.

Although Wu Jianye's snobbery is strong enough now, it is naturally insufficient compared to the United States, but there is still no problem in finding trouble for them in certain areas and industries!

Wu Jianye didn't care about these losses, but those politicians in North America couldn't care less.

Wu Jianye is only responsible for himself, while those politicians are responsible for their own political achievements, and they have more fetters on them.

The barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes!

Of course, if he really does this, Wu Jianye will not want to come to North America again after seeing the night, and all his own businesses in North America will definitely be affected!

But do these Wu Jianye care?

No one knows the answer.

"Okay, let's get ready, I'm going home!" Wu Jianye stood up and walked out of the conference room.

Linda and the others didn't say anything, but they were all busy going their separate ways.

Wu Jianye did not go back to Beverly Hills Manor directly, but went to pick up Wu Luoxin first, and then the two father and daughter returned to Beverly Hills together.

A few days passed quickly, and Wu Jianye was about to leave for Washington today.

When he got up in the morning, he first took Wu Luoxin to school, and then went to the airport and took a plane to Washington to attend his own hearing.

When Wu Jianye got off the plane, he saw that countless reporters were already waiting at the airport to interview Wu Jianye, as the protagonist of the hottest news in North America during this time, Wu Jianye has not been interviewed by reporters, and today the major media know that Wu Jianye is going to participate in the hearing in Washington, so naturally they will not give up this opportunity.

"Director Wu, what do you think of this hearing?"

"I don't think so, I just feel like they're looking for the wrong person!"

"Director Wu At this time, do you still not admit that you are the boss of Phantom Media?"

"I wasn't!" Wu Jianye smiled, put on sunglasses and went directly to the hearing site!