Nearly two hours later, Lin Jian walked out of the Relativity Building, got into the car with his assistant, and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

As the car drifts away, the Relativity Building soon disappears between the buildings of Century City.

Lin Jian changed to a local accent and asked the assistant, "How do you feel?"

The assistant has followed Lin Jian for many years and is one of Lin Jian's most trusted people, thought about it and said: "In terms of all the people and companies we have contacted when we came to Los Angeles, Ronan Anderson has the best attitude towards Relativity Entertainment, but when we meet for the first time, it is difficult to judge how they actually are. ”

Lin Jian nodded lightly and said, "Except for relativity entertainment, in fact, we don't have a better choice. He sighed: "Back then, Sony acquired Columbia Pictures through Michael O'Vis of CAA. CAA we've also seen it, with nostrils facing the sky, not to mention how much we have to pay, just this attitude makes me sick to my stomach. ”

The assistant said: "I feel that such an arrogant attitude is bound to carry over to the cooperation process, resulting in a lot of unexpected situations. ”

"It's not our home turf. Lin Jian saw it clearly: "Attitude sometimes determines everything. ”

He said to his assistant: "You keep in touch with the entertainment of relativity, Ronan Anderson is not a simple man, I can't understand him." ”

The assistant replied, "Okay, boss." ”

Lin Jian recalled the first meeting between the two sides, just as he had heard from those who had worked with Relativity Entertainment when he was in China, that Ronan Anderson was quite friendly to the East, and at least there was no need to say that they respected each other.

And with his decades of experience in life and society, he can tell that this is not a disguise, but a respect from the heart.

In this regard alone, if Qianlu Group wants to make a move in Hollywood and find a suitable partner, Ronan Anderson and Relativity Entertainment are undoubtedly the best choices.

Ronan Anderson's words also sound sincere.

Since Lin Jian wants to set foot in this industry, he must have done enough homework before coming here, according to what he has done, combined with what Ronan Anderson said, it is not difficult to find that there is no deception in the words of this film industry bigwig, and the reminder is also crucial.

For example, Lionsgate does not have international distribution rights, even if the acquisition is successful, can it really achieve the international influence he wants?

However, it is definitely not that simple.

Lin Jian's years of business experience told him that Ronan Anderson was most likely a friendly person to the East, but he was even more of a businessman!

What is behind Ronan Anderson's sincerity?

Lin Jian couldn't see it for the time being, and he couldn't think of it, so he could only be vigilant and observe carefully.

He will maintain close contact with the Pacific Investment Foundation and Relativity Entertainment, and will visit Relativity Tower again in the last two days to visit Robert Iger, CEO of Relativity Entertainment.

Lin Jian is also reminding himself that he must stabilize his mentality and not rush to success.

This time I came to Los Angeles, not to achieve the goal at once, but also to establish a smooth communication channel with Hollywood to lay a good foundation for the follow-up work.

In the reception room of the Relativity Building.

Ronan said to Scott Swift: "You have a lot of contact with them, do you feel that they have a strong desire to buy in Hollywood?"

"Very intense. Scott Swift said: "They have funds in their hands, or very scary liquidity, not only them, at present, many Oriental companies are going abroad, entering the international market, in the whole market began the rhythm of crazy acquisitions." ”

He also reminded: "In addition, Qianlu Group is a company with real estate as its main business, and this industry can become bigger and stronger, and it has a deep background in the East." ”

Ronan naturally knew a lot, thought for a while, and said, "Scott, you maintain close contact with the Qianlu Group, and Relativity Entertainment may have the possibility of cooperating with them in the future." ”

"I see. Scott Swift responded, "I would rank Qianlu Group as a first-class customer." ”

Ronan nodded lightly and didn't say anything more, after all, some ideas were still in the preliminary planning stage, and it was not suitable to reveal them to Scott for the time being.

Leaving the reception room, he went straight to Robert Iger's office and consulted until noon.

Since the topic was going to continue, Ronan simply called Jessica Felton, pushed off the lunch for the two, and had lunch with Robert Iger to continue the morning topic.

Ronan needed Robert Iger's extensive field experience and strong execution skills to help him refine those initial ideas.

It takes a step by step to turn an idea into an executable plan.

Besides, the Qianlu Group and that Mr. Lin are not simple.

Even if Ronan hadn't studied it carefully, he knew that there must be an unusually large force behind that Mr. Lin, and considering the huge size of the Eastern Market in the future, he showed his sincerity to cooperate from the beginning on the basis of being in line with the interests of Relativity Entertainment and maintaining sufficient vigilance.

Later, it depends on whether the other party is willing to hold the outstretched hand of Relativity Entertainment.

If the two sides can reach a cooperation, Qianlu Group can take advantage of Relativity Entertainment's advantages in Hollywood, and Relativity Entertainment may take advantage of Qianlu Group's huge capital flow, thereby reducing the difficulty of funding.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Qianlu Group is unwilling to cooperate, Relativity Entertainment will just implement it according to the original plan.

Ronan then asked Connie to send a notice to the Dongfang branch to further collect relevant information about Lin Jian and Qianlu Group in an all-round way.

In the days that followed, Relativity Entertainment had several conversations with the business visit team led by Lin Jian, and Ronan and Robert Iger also met with Lin Jian.

In the words of the other side of the Pacific, the talks were held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere, with a full exchange of views, enhanced mutual understanding, and gifts to each other, and reached preliminary cooperation intentions on a number of business initiatives, laying the foundation for the next stage of strategic cooperation.

Although there was no cooperation between the two parties outside of the Pacific Investment Foundation, a smooth communication channel was established after many contacts and interviews.

The most important thing is that Lin Jian himself is ambitious, and with Ronan's "sincerity" cooperation, he also feels that the acquisition of a small company will not be particularly helpful to the international film and television industry planned by Qianlu Group.

For people like Lin Jian, either don't do it, or do it to become bigger and stronger.

Therefore, for a company of this grade like Lionsgate, Lin Jian is somewhat unsightly.

Today's Lionsgate is not the Lionsgate that once approached the six major companies.

Since a few years ago, Lionsgate has been unknowingly greatly influenced by Relativity Entertainment, and its development has been relatively slow, although it has also become a medium-sized Hollywood film company, but at best it is only a medium-sized tail-hanging, and its status is somewhat embarrassing.

Ronan still has the impression that the former Qianlu Group's initial goal was Hollywood Six, but the six major companies could not be bought with money, and then retreated to Lionsgate to turn the target to Lionsgate, but was still rejected, and finally had to choose a small film company.

Now that there is Relativity Entertainment, which seems to be a very reliable intended cooperative company, Qianlu Group naturally wants to be big and strong enough.

Although the two sides are far from trusting, they have made a good start with each other, and Lin Jian is willing to spend time on the necessary investigations.

While the business delegation of Qianlu Group communicated and negotiated with Relativity Entertainment in a friendly and cordial atmosphere, "The Dark Knight" spent its second weekend in North American theaters.

The superhero movie remained invincible in the North American market, and the box office trend was quite stable, falling to just over 50 percent the next weekend compared to the opening weekend, and it grossed $83.66 million in three days.

In just ten days, the North American box office of "The Dark Knight" has accumulated a whopping $333.21 million!

Almost every step of the film's release in North America is setting a new North American box office record.

At the same time, the film also began to be screened overseas this weekend, and it also exploded overseas, earning nearly $200 million at the box office in its first week.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the North American box office of "The Dark Knight" has a high probability of exceeding 500 million US dollars, and it is not too difficult to exceed one billion at the global box office.

The Dark Knight is a complete hit all over the world!

With this film, the Joker has become a god! Bruce Wayne has basically become a god! Christopher Nolan has also gained countless brainless fans.

In these ten days, the most uproarious related news events are no longer the Joker and Heath Ledger, but the battle for the top spot on the T0P250 list of the IMDB website of "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Dark Knight".

In order to compete for the first place, the fans of these three films don't want the most basic face, and while they give high scores to their own films, they have to give low scores to the other two, and the heads of the three parties are all beaten into dog heads.

Ronan didn't let Relativity Entertainment participate in this scoring war behind Warner Bros., just watched from the sidelines.

As a veteran film company, Warner Bros. has an endless stream of promotional methods, first playing the death card, and then stirring up fans' emotions to create explosive points......

But it's hard to say whether this flashpoint is good or bad in the end.

Frankly speaking, many of the behaviors of brain-dead fans are very easy to attract black.

With "The Dark Knight" spending its second weekend in North America, the 2007 North American film summer season has come to an end.

In this era, the summer vacation of the North American film market is still limited to May to July, and August has not been included in it for the time being.

It won't be long before the concept of summer season will not only add August, but even the last week of April will be counted.

As long as you can make money, it is never a problem to expand the schedule or something.

North American film summer file, North America is the result of the operation of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's commercial films that year.