It's not been long since Wu Jianye left North America.

The release time of "Jurassic Park" has been confirmed, and on June 11, it will be released simultaneously except for China!

During the release of the movie, Wu Jianye will return to China, and during this period, he will completely set the development direction of Phantom Media, only in this way can he rest assured!

Linda looked at Wu Jianye in surprise, in her opinion, the development of Phantom Media is fast enough, since Wu Jianye arrived in North America, Phantom Entertainment wants to get on a plane with wings and soar into the sky.

From a simple production company to a media group that is now the largest media group in North America, this is something that many companies cannot accomplish in a lifetime.

Now Wu Jianye actually said that the acquisition of ABC TV Network is just the beginning, and there are bigger plans in the future?

"What's your plan?" Linda didn't dare to guess Wu Jianye's follow-up plan at this time.

"Although Phantom Media has its own TV network, it is still not perfect, and now Phantom Entertainment still lacks a pay channel with enough influence!" Wu Jianye directly told Linda about his plan.

And Wu Jianye's plan is to make Linda, a little confused, not that his plan is too big, but in Linda's view, this plan is a bit light, and now the public channel in North America is the leader in the TV industry, as for the pay channel, although there are already HBO, MTV, Show time and other TV channels, but its business situation has not been very good.

"The development of premium channels is not very good right now, and we already have a paid channel like ESPN....... "Linda expressed her concerns.

Wu Jianye smiled and nodded, for Linda, what he sees is the development now, even two or three years later, but Wu Jianye is different, the advantage of rebirth lets him know the development in ten years, twenty years, and thirty years.

At present, it seems that the North American TV network is still the world of the three major TV stations, but in the future, with the rise of pay TV stations such as HBO, it is still their world that really makes money and influence.

For example, in later generations, HBO has more than 100 million paying users worldwide, and more than 50 million paying users in North America!

It can be said that in the future, premium channels will be the best in the global TV industry!

"ESPN is different, as a sports channel, his achievements are undoubted, but we have to do not just a sports channel, but a full range of paid channels!"

"Phantom Media's core business is movies, and if we have our own paid channel, we can truly complete our own internal ecological closed-loop chain!" Wu Jianye said.

The reason why I talked so much with Linda is because for a long time in the future, Linda will be at the helm of Phantom Media, and Wu Jianye's own ideals are destined to make him unable to stay in the United States for a long time.

This time, if it weren't for the fact that he had to deal with the domestic form of the year before last, Wu Jianye might not even come to North America to direct films, just as he told Wu Tianming and others, the roots of their movies are in China, and Wu Jianye's film roots are also in China!

However, unlike Wu Tianming and others, Wu Jianye can actually mix well anywhere.

But since Wu Jianye has a chance to be reborn, he naturally has to do something that he thinks is interesting and meaningful.

His roots are different from the roots of Wu Tianming and others, even if Wu Tianming and others are successful, no matter how good they are, they are only in China, what about Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others?

If it weren't for Wu Jianye's appearance, they would be the best directors in China in the next 20 years, but their international influence is still limited, and they still haven't really come out with Chinese films.

When Wu Jianye was reborn, Huaxia's film industry was booming, but what could it do?

is still in the nest, and the outside world still has nothing to do with Chinese movies!

What Wu Jianye has to do is to let Chinese filmmakers see the outside world in advance, so that Chinese movies can really go to the world!

What Wu Jianye wants to do is the towering tree of Chinese movies, while others are watching the world and going to the world under his protection!

Since she is destined to return to China, Wu Jianye naturally has to arrange the affairs of the United States as much as possible, and Linda, as the helmsman of Phantom Media, Wu Jianye naturally has more tolerance for her.

In Wu Jianye's plan, the core business of Phantom Media should be movies, and it must be movies for at least the next thirty years, and everything else is for Phantom Pictures and Marvel Studios.

"I can understand this, but it is not easy to win an influential paid channel now, especially now that Phantom Media has just been established, it has become a thorn in the side of several other media groups, and it is not easy to take down a paid channel in their hands!" Linda also has her own concerns.

Now that Phantom Media has been established, the opponent has changed from the first few major production companies to international media groups such as Time Warner, Viacom, and News Corporation.

Although mergers and acquisitions and expansion are powerful tools to expand the influence of the group, they may also become uneasy factors for self-destruction of the city!

Wu Jianye said: "You can't stop moving forward because you have an opponent, there is an opponent at any time, there is a saying in Huaxia, it is called one force to ten meetings, as long as we are strong enough, then we don't have to worry about what conspiracy the opponent uses!"

Seeing that Wu Jianye was so determined, Linda had no choice but to ask, "Then which pay channel is your acquisition target?"

Linda still knows Wu Jianye well, and now that Wu Jianye is so determined to let himself continue to expand, that is to say, he has already had the object he wants to acquire, and since the road of expansion is unavoidable, he has to follow Wu Jianye's footsteps to move forward.

Luckily, up to now, Wu Jianye has never made a mistake!

Wu Jianye showed a satisfied smile at this time: "HBO!"

HBO's influence in the future has just been talked about, when Wu Jianye was reborn, the only one who could compete with HBO in overseas regions was flix, but now flix has not been established, and Wu Jianye has no time to wait for him to be established, so he has to win HBO!

Linda smiled wryly: "You have a problem for me, HBO is a cable TV station owned by Time Warner, even if Time Warner doesn't value this TV station too much now, it is still very difficult to buy them!"

Wu Jianye was still smiling, and said: "It's because Time Warner doesn't value HBO now that it's our best opportunity, and now the North American TV market doesn't have a high degree of recognition for premium channels, you can let it out, let's just say that Phantom Media is extremely optimistic about the development prospects of pay channels in the future, and at the same time, in order to make up for ABC's shortcomings in pay channels, it is willing to buy HBO at a high price, so Time Warner will not run out of ideas!"

Linda was slightly stunned and asked, "Didn't we make it more difficult for us to acquire?"

Wu Jianye had no choice but to continue to explain: "Let me ask you, if everyone doesn't recognize paid channels now, and we just say that paid channels are the future development direction of the TV industry, what will these people think of us?"

"Stupid!" Linda said directly, but after finishing speaking, she felt that something was wrong and she looked a little embarrassed.

Wu Jianye smiled, didn't care about Linda's attitude, and continued: "So what if this idiot still says that he will invest a lot of money to do this project?"

At this time, Linda seriously thought about Wu Jianye's statement.

After a long time, Linda's eyes slowly glowed, and she said, "If I were our opponent, I would sell this hot potato to my opponent at a high price, so that he could focus more on this aspect, and then use it to consume the other party's cash flow......."

Wu Jianye nodded, "This is just the outline of a plan, I want to do it well, make the other party believe that he is stupid, and at the same time make the other party willing to jump into this set, this is the task I left for you, I hope that before the release of "Jurassic Park", you will be able to complete this task!"

Although Linda often doubts Wu Jianye's decision on weekdays, she has an advantage, that is, as long as Wu Jianye decides to do it, then she will conscientiously complete the task assigned by Wu Jianye.

This is also the reason why Wu Jianye has always let Linda be his spokesperson in North America!

"I see, I'll take care of this!" Linda said, but then Linda also talked about an important problem in order to complete the acquisition: "If you want to buy HBO, you have to use a lot of cash, and now the group has used a lot of cash to buy ABC TV network, and now the group only has $1.5 billion in liquidity, and if we buy HBO again, the financial side is ........"

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said: "Funds are not a problem, hasn't the group already acquired the ABC TV network now?

Phantom is different from Wu Jianye's other industries, he is the most complex equity distribution among Wu Jianye's industries, although compared to other companies, it can be regarded as a clear stream.......

Since Wu Jianye will not stay in North America for a long time, he cannot inject capital into the Phantom without restrictions, although this will dilute the shares of other shareholders, but it is also easy for these people to have no more sense of belonging to the group.

Therefore, in the future development of Phantom Media, Wu Jianye will make more use of bank loans!

Linda thought for a moment and said, "If this is the case, the company's loan ratio will reach a relatively alarming level, have you thought about such consequences?"

Now Phantom Media's loan is as high as $6.2 billion, and the annual interest alone is nearly $220 million, although these interests are not too big a lot for Phantom, but if you add the principal to be repaid, the pressure on Phantom is not small.

Now, if the acquisition of HBO requires a loan, the loan that the Phantom will have to repay every year will be a very staggering number!

Wu Jianye is not worried about this, ABC's profit last year was close to $1 billion, and Phantom's profit last year was even more amazing, plus the earnings of several other subsidiaries, these loans are not a huge number for Phantom Media.

"Okay, since you already have a comprehensive plan, then I will deal with this matter personally!" Linda saw that Wu Jianye had already thought through all the problems, so she naturally did what Wu Jianye asked!

The meeting between the two was very long, from about 9 o'clock in the morning to more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

But what needs to be said is still not finished.

"This year's Academy Awards are about to be held, will you participate then?"

This year's Academy Awards have announced the date and location of the awards, which will be held on March 25 this year at the Holy Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

As a film that has been nominated for five nominations, and it is also the highest-grossing film last year, "Ghost Love" has naturally attracted much attention!

Although Wu Jianye knows the honor of Best Picture and has no chance with "The Love of People and Ghosts", as the director of this movie, Wu Jianye still has to cheer for others.

"Participate, just remember to remind me when the time comes!" Wu Jianye said.

This year's Phantom Entertainment's two films, "Ghost Love" was shortlisted for five awards, and "Dances with Wolves" is the film with the most nominations for the Academy Awards this year, and "Dances with Wolves" was shortlisted for a total of 12 awards!

Phantom Entertainment spent 15 million on public relations expenses this year for the movie "Dances with Wolves", of which 10 million is to compete for the best picture, and the other awards and public relations expenses are shared with the nominees.

In this Oscar Awards, Wu Jianye is actually not without results, and the best original screenwriter nominated for the movie "Ghost Love" is nominated by Wu Jianye and the original screenwriter Bruce Robin!

At the same time, Phantom Entertainment also has a movie shortlisted for this year's Academy Awards, but this movie is not made by Phantom, but by the Chinese film "Ju Dou" invested and distributed by Phantom!

Lao Mouzi finally started his own road to the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but Wu Jianye knew that this road was destined to be a journey with no successful end for Lao Mouzi.

Of course, the public relations that Phantom should do will still be done, but the possibility of success of "Ju Dou" is no less difficult than the difficulty of "Ghost Love" to win the best picture!

But it's still February, and Lao Mouzi won't come to Los Angeles until mid-March!

After saying the last thing, the conversation between the two was over.

Linda finally got up to say goodbye, and when Linda left the manor, Wu Jianye said to Lauren Donner, who was waiting outside: "Did I make an appointment with the three young people I asked you to make an appointment with Aniston?"

Lauren Donner immediately replied: "It's all agreed, those three young people, they are scheduled to meet tomorrow morning, and Aniston is tomorrow night!"