"God Killing" is "Fast Pursuit"...

Kill my dog, I'll kill your whole family.

There is a consensus in the North American market that when a film is judged to be R-rated, the box office momentum will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, most of the films in North America are trying to avoid being classified as R before they are released.

However, movies can't always be one of the same!

The six major are all moving closer to the Disney model of commercial blockbusters, and the background of small and medium-sized genre films is missing.

It's the right thing to do to invest in the creation of R-rated genre films...

The main Lu Xiaoran himself really can't afford to play a big production, and the investment of one or two hundred million dollars is simply scary!

Keanu Reeves, although the current salary is not as good as in its heyday, it is still as high as $8 million, mainly supported by Wanda - "Tai Chi"...

When "Tai Chi" fails miserably, Keanu Reeves returns to North America in a gloomy manner, and Lu Xiaoran will invite him at a price of $3 million, as for the follow-up, then sign a long-term contract, anyway, Keanu Reeves doesn't love money...

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Lu Xiaoran came to Silicon Valley, of course, to invest in Netflix!

According to Assistor, from 2013 to 2019, Netflix's market capitalization increased sixtyfold!

Three times as much as Amazon and four times as much as Apple!

And it is easy to find the capital to take over - Orange Image has been transferred from the New Third Board to A-shares, and the most important reason is that it is difficult to find a successor on the New Third Board...

From the point of view of making money, investing in Netflix is quite appropriate!

Of course, Lu Xiaoran wants to be the exclusive agent of Netflix's works...

Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, welcomed Lu Xiaoran's investment of $500 million.

According to the current market value of Netflix, $500 million accounts for about 18% of the shares, making it the second largest individual shareholder after Hastings...

Lu Xiaoran is not just here to send money, he wants to buy out "House of Cards" produced by Netflix...

Hastings may think that Lu Xiaoran is a rich man with various activities: "Streaming is the trend of the future, and the Internet is a winner-takes-all world, and Netflix's future is immeasurable..."

"All Netflix lacks now is money, we're making content..."

"I'll admit that what you said makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't matter much to me, I can keep the voting rights on the board, or just give you the voting rights..."

“... So what is the purpose of your investment in Netflix?"

"What else can you do if you make money?"

"You don't want to go online about Chinese culture?"

“... I'm not that stupid, and I don't think there are a few Americans who are interested in Chinese things. ”

"Then we can invest in a Chinese Netflix..."

"You think too much, Netflix is unlikely to enter the Chinese market!"

“... Why?"

"For no reason, even Google has withdrawn from the Chinese market, and Facebook has withdrawn... Why do you think Netflix can get in?"

Hastings was stunned for a moment...

Then he asked rhetorically: "Then how did you introduce Netflix dramas?"

“... We set up a third party to run the Netflix show and then select the right partner. ”

The so-called suitable partner is the exclusive broadcast platform...

In fact, the price of American dramas in recent years has generally not been very high.

Last year, Spielberg was the producer and executive producer of "Under the Dome", which set a record for auction prices - $60,000 for a single episode, and only 13 episodes in a season, that is, a season cost less than $1 million, which is already a record!

Because only video companies have introduced broadcasts - until 2017, the general price code is about $100,000 per episode...

Therefore, even if Lu Xiaoran wins the agency of Netflix dramas, he actually won't make much...

The main thing is to make some cash...

The movies made after Netflix also have good ones, and they can be launched simultaneously with watermelon video...

Or it will be released in Orange Theaters.

Anyway, Hollywood boycotted Netflix...

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Hastings was relieved, Boss Lu invested in Netflix, just optimistic about Netflix's development, not wanting to meddle...

Boss Lu's base is in the mainland, and he only stays in North America for two months a year at most, how can he interfere with Netflix?

This time he came to North America, Boss Lu brought a total of 800 million US dollars, 500 million invested in Netflix, leaving 200 million to make films and maintain the normal operation of the company, and there is still 100 million left...

I wanted to play The Hunger Games...

Thinking about it too much, the author of that thing is a famous Hollywood screenwriter, and Lionsgate opened the price that Boss Lu would not open at all: $35 million in film and television copyright fees + 25% revenue share...

Such a price code is actually unruly.

And people don't want to work with a newbie...

Lionsgate is a second-tier distributor, can Orange open 2,000 theaters?

Then again, what can you do with $100 million?

Not even the cost of a big production!

Just keep it!

I spent two weeks in North America, attended some cocktail parties, gave a few interviews, and made a few awesome remarks like, 'The film industry itself should be global!'

Then Lu Xiaoran returned to China...

Lao Mei still doesn't have any projects worth investing in!

Especially in the film industry, if you look at the list of films released this year, except for a few anime works, most of the big productions are sequels.

Iron Man 3, The Hunger Games 2, Fast & Furious 6, Star Trek 2: Dark, The Hobbit 2, Thor 2...

Why do you always make sequels?

The ultimate goal of the filmmaker is to make box office, it is not easy for a brand to be able to play, and when the first film is brilliant, the filmmaker will naturally want to make a sequel.

If the director can satisfy his own idea of making a movie, the actor can have a scene, the producer can make money, and can satisfy the audience's curiosity about the development of the story, why not?

No wonder Martin always lamented that Hollywood has no room for movies...

People always say that the world is divided, but in fact, in the field of art, it is also divided.

There is a group of filmmakers who are quite obsessed with "film" itself.

They hope to use film as an art form to express emotions, express opinions, or show their understanding of life and the world, and in addition, they also hope to use their own thinking to explore the future or end of film.

Especially this kind of master creators, their primary purpose in making movies is not to make money, but to express.

Old Martin has never made a sequel in his life!

relied on "Taxi Driver" to become an instant hit, but he did not choose "Taxi Driver 2", but changed hands and made "New York, New York", you must know that this is a romance film.

Then came the biopic "Raging Bull", then "The King of Comedy"...

But these have nothing to do with Lu Xiaoran - Ya's layout in the United States is just to make money!

Knowing that these R-rated movies can be box office hits in the future, if you don't make them, I'm sorry for the helper's mention!

The money earned is used to supplement the cash flow of the mainland...

Contrary to a certain thought, people use the mainland to subsidize the losses of North America...

From this point of view, Lu Xiaoran is more qualified to blow - national enterprises!

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