With the signing of a preliminary cooperation agreement between YouTube and Paramount, Zhou Shi and Warner have basically reached a new cooperation, which is nothing more than the payment of benefits, such as the free publicity of the friend network, etc., under the premise that Huang Bai passed the assessment of the director team, he finally won the role of the clown.

When the news spread, various media reported one after another, and they had not seen the clown's makeup photos, and they all made unfavorable remarks, but fortunately, Warner had been prepared, and Zhou Shi also had his own views on the control and guidance of public opinion. soon changed the focus of public opinion to the impact of YouTube video on reality, and whether excellent actors would be discovered by major film and television companies.

"The Tuner" also further expanded its influence in this wave of craze, and the number of hits climbed up slowly, and soon broke 50 million, and breaking 100 million is just around the corner. DB's rating dropped to 9.0 to 8.8. But it's still a very powerful video short.

However, in a week or two, with the joint efforts of Friends.com, Twitter and YouTube, although there are still a lot of noises, the mainstream opposition has been suppressed, and the role of new media has been further recognized. Yes, Zhou Shi's actions on Twitter have been much smoother. Lehman also released the idea of wanting to compromise, but unfortunately Zhou Shi had already decided to follow the general trend of the times and kill him to sacrifice the flag, so he would not compromise with them.

Zhang Zhao, who was in China, learned that Huang Bai could star in Hollywood's A-level productions and was still the main supporting role, and immediately began large-scale publicity in China. Starlight's compulsion in China has also been infinitely raised. Attract a large number of potential artists to join and become the company's reserve force. The company is also preparing to set up a drama theater in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, learning the model of happy twist in the previous life, giving more outstanding actors a chance to survive and more remuneration for screenwriters. In a few years, maybe the screenwriter will get millions of remuneration plus dividends for a project.

For the development of Starlight, it basically depends on Zhang Zhao, Zhou Shi did not take out all the works that he was impressed by in his previous life, one is that he is not impressed by the time when these works came out, and the other is that he thinks that the company's own creative ability is the most important, and from now on, it is far better to cultivate a group of outstanding screenwriters and acquire a group of potential IPs, which is far better than Zhou Shi himself. For example, Starlight acquired the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" sung by Tianxia Ba Sing, and when the market matures in the future, this kind of adventure movie is still very valuable.

Queen Fan, who had not been in touch for a long time, also took the initiative to contact Zhou Shi, originally thinking that he would be the most special one, but he didn't expect that this was just his own imagination. Queen Fan herself doesn't think so. After filming the donkey, Queen Fan completely let herself go, and all kinds of scandals and rumors flew all over the sky, some of which may still be true. Zhang Zhao also tactfully suggested not to get too close to Queen Fan, so as not to be laughed at. I haven't seen each other for a few months, and Zhou Shi has forgotten about her a little. It can be seen that others are not stupid, and they don't have a good thing if they know men.

It was not difficult to guess what Queen Fan's phone call was, but Zhou Shi just shirked it, saying that this opportunity was an accident and an opportunity won by Huang Bai himself. Not to mention the price they paid. Mainland stars have never been in Hollywood, maybe those people are quite stupid, thinking that they can break into Hollywood with their own strength, but they don't know that the support of capital is the king. Without capital support, Oscar winning is delusional!

However, there are exceptions, such as the fact that Da Tian Tian was not popular in her previous life, but it is not that she has no resources, but her own strength is not good, and she does not care about promotion and hype. I want to take the people-friendly route, but I also want to maintain a high and cold style, and in the end everything is cool.

It wasn't until September that "The Dark Knight" officially started filming, and the final film may have to compete for the Christmas schedule. Even worse than them is "Iron Man", a comic book adaptation made by Marvel in a desperate way, which was filmed in June. However, there is still a lot of expenditure for post-production and release, and Marvel has approached Paramount and wants them to release it on their behalf. Zhou Shi also found out by the way when he was investigating Paramount. So the White Tiger Fund, a subsidiary of Galaxy Capital, realistically approached Kevin Feige, CEO of Marvel Studios, and then found Isaac Palmart, chairman of Marvel Entertainment, to discuss investing in Marvel by way of capital injection. But they couldn't talk about it for a while, so the release negotiations with Paramount were also delayed. It's a pity that both Kevin Feige and Isaac Palmat are worried about Wall Street's money, and although they need more money, they still twist and turn. As a last resort, Zhou Shi walked to the front desk and faced these two legendary figures.

Kevin Feige is very proficient in the background setting of Marvel Comics, the structure of the Marvel Universe and other related knowledge, can connect the characters of various series of movies, and fully caters to the taste of the audience, and has a strong business acumen. In 2007, he became the CEO of Marvel Studios and devoted himself to the production of "Iron Man", and since then Marvel has gone from despair to glory. Isaac Palmat is an Israeli Jew, retired from the army in the late sixties and immigrated to the United States, starting a business in Brooklyn, New York, he founded Toybiz Toys, whose products are mostly based on superheroes or movie characters, in the early nineties, Toybiz Toys and Marvel carried out mergers and acquisitions, and Isaac Palmat entered the Marvel board of directors under the recommendation of Ronald Perelman, then chairman of the Marvel board.

After the "Wolf of Wall Street" Carl Icahn drove out the speculative businessman Perelman, the large and small shareholders of the Marvel board of directors joined forces and drove out Carl Icahn, who wanted to spin off and sell Marvel, under the leadership of Isaac Palmart. He also became the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marvel.

Unlike other celebrities and entrepreneurs, Isaac Palmat himself is very low-key, not the kind that pretends to be mysterious, but really shy away from appearing in the public eye, except for the company's employees and partners, almost no one knows what he looks like, never participates in entertaining drinking parties, and never accepts media interviews. Zhou Shi's understanding of him is very limited, and it is only recently that he has found a little bit of information. He didn't have much to do to convince such people. Only rely on sincerity to impress the other party and let interests conquer the other party.

Zhou Shi first found Kevin Feige and told him in detail his thoughts on Marvel: a more specific Marvel Universe plan. Shoot the stories of each character first, and then shoot the hero team Avengers, so that the setting of each film is unified, and the foreshadowing of interconnection is also planted in each film to form a unified world view. In addition to movies, it has also expanded to comic books and a series of video shorts.

Zhou Shi frankly said that he didn't know much about Marvel's superhero stories, only the level of ordinary enthusiasts, but he didn't want Marvel to sink and hoped that more superheroes could appear on the big screen. And the huge market value of these superheroes is also worth his gamble. Marvel Studios is actually also betting that if the movie fails, Marvel's bankruptcy is almost its only way out!

Kevin Feige talked to him in detail about the plans of the Marvel Universe, and was obviously very interested in it, and he was also very satisfied with Zhou Shi's idea. Soon after, Zhou Shi met Isaac Palmat!

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