Chapter 419: Hope

On the morning of December 10th, Wang Yang and Jessica's baby was born!

The news came out of the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and immediately became the entertainment news headlines of many websites around the world, especially the North America and Asia that paid the most attention to Wang Yang and his wife rushed to report the good news, and the media and the public inquired about the situation of the miracle baby, it is certain that this is a healthy and strong baby girl, as for the weight, height, name and other specific circumstances, I don't know, Wang Yang and his wife's confidentiality measures are very good, and their spokesperson, family and friends have not disclosed the situation.

"Congratulations to the magical Jan, congratulations to Jessica!" fans and fans happily congratulated and blessed the fans, to a certain extent, they witnessed the love and life of the two, and some fans put the two together in different periods from 1998 to 2005, from love to marriage to childbirth, from a young teenager to a charming adult, which perfectly interprets what it means to grow up. When the relationship between the two was first exposed, many gossip media asserted that they would finish playing within half a year, and the result was ...... There are a lot of celebrity couples who are annoying, but they are not the couple.

However, such a beautiful moment still cannot stop some extreme interest in blackmail, sarcasm and ridicule, and even racial discrimination with words such as "Chinaxican", which also arouses the crusade and disgust of fans and neutrals, who are eager to punch these ugly faces. More Yang fans ignore the clamor of boring people, anyway, these cowards don't dare to say this in their circle of friends, and they don't dare to take the battle book of Magical Yang, but when the film is a big success in the future, they will still feel frustrated!

"I'm sure the baby will be very beautiful!" Yang fans and friends chatted about it on the Internet and in life, all looking forward to seeing the baby's photos. Evelyn and her best friend Kelly laughed and chatted on the phone: "Jan is so handsome, Jessica is so beautiful, oh my God! How beautiful will their baby be? I think it must be very, very, very beautiful." Kelly smiled and said, "I don't doubt it, the baby is really a lucky girl." Evelyn smiled, "Kai, you're good-looking! Me too, haha!"

"I'm kind of missing the baby. The women who participated in Operation Juno in ignorance are now very happy for Jan &Jessica, Claire remembered the October pregnancy, remembered the baby, and couldn't help but feel a little sad, she said to Janet insistically: "I will definitely marry my magical Jan in the future and become a real mother!" Janet's voice was also full of determination: "Of course, so am I! We are all different, we will be a good mother." ”

"It's weird! I'm looking forward to it. Alice also laughed and chatted with her best friend about the girl's thoughts: "Seeing Jan and Jessica so happy, I actually have some yearning for marriage and baby, I was originally a cool person! ”…… Taking advantage of the fact that Keke was occupied by her grandparents and grandparents, Wang Yang and Jessica, who returned to the delivery room, also had time to come out of the state of being full of children, happily sharing the joy of becoming parents with their friends, and also told some reassuring close friends about their weight of 7 pounds and the name HOPE-JUNO.

"Hope-Juno-Wang, Wang Ke, the name is really nice, Yang, congratulations again!" Wang Yang's hearty laughter came from Natalie's mobile phone, and she smiled: "I don't know why, I saw you become a father...... I'm just excited. Wang Yang smiled and said thank you, glanced at the baby who was being held by his grandmother on the sofa, and said: "This name actually makes me a little uneasy, I hope I won't be a grandfather in 16 years." Natalie laughed, "How is that possible? You must have taught her well." ”

"Who knows? Her mother said she was a rebellious girl. Wang Yang laughed a few times, walked to the bedroom of the room, accompanied Jessica, who was resting on the bed, and said seriously: "Anyway, the moment I saw her in the delivery room, I already knew that I wanted to protect her and prevent her from being harmed, this is my father's mission!" Natalie's voice showed yearning: "I really want to know what it feels like." Wang Yang was quite surprised and laughed: "You won't, I mean, you will only know your mother's, haha, I wish you to become a mother as soon as possible!" Natalie smiled: "Yes, thank you! I can't be much worse than me on the screen." ”

The two chatted a few more words before closing the line, Wang Yang sat on the edge of the bed, laughing and talking with Jessica, while checking the text message box of his mobile phone. The news should have spread, the SMS box was about to be crowded with congratulatory blessing messages from all sides, and soon the greeting cards and gifts received at home and in the office would be a pile, he looked at the text messages, and the senders were Mark Slunter, Chen Shijun, Valley Pfister, Harry George, Margaret...... There are also acquaintances with the Nolan family, Anne Fletcher, Joss Whedon, Lin Yibin, Wen Ziren and others, in addition to some San Francisco friends, in addition to some San Francisco friends, other actors and actresses who are very concerned about this matter Anne Darren, Michael Pitt, Zachary Levy, Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr., Will Smith and others also sent congratulatory letters, for the enthusiastic crowd, Wang Yang was a little too busy, he or sent a group reply, a separate reply and a call, happy silly laughter in the bedroom non-stop.

"Congratulations, Jan! Remember to send me a picture of Hope when you have time, I would love to see her!" Rachel's voice was full of happiness, Wang Yang responded happily, and after chatting about the phone call, he immediately sent her one, and then Rachel texted back: "Haha, she's an angel!" In the evening, Helen also sent a text message: "Jan, congratulations to you and Jesse on becoming parents, I wish the baby eternal health and happiness!" Wang Yang smiled and pressed the mobile phone button: "Thank you, Helen, her name is HOPE." ”…… Los Angeles gradually became night, the moon hung high in the sky, the dimly lit bedroom was very quiet, the baby slept sweetly between mom and dad, and the two adults also slept peacefully, the corners of their mouths were slightly upturned, not knowing what good dreams they were having.

Just when Wang Yang and Jessica were happy, another big event happened in the film and entertainment industry on the 10th, Paramount Pictures announced the successful acquisition of DreamWorks for $1.6 billion!

In fact, due to Spielberg's long-term partnership with Universal, DreamWorks has been negotiating the acquisition with NBCUniversal before, and at the beginning of July this year, the two sides almost signed a contract of 1 billion purchase price + 500 million all debts, but the poor results of "Escape from Clone Island" made NBCUniversal try to lower the price by 10%, and the DreamWorks triumvirate angrily withdrew from the negotiation table, which gave Paramount, who had been eyebrows, a chance.

Although NBCUniversal did not give up on throwing an olive branch similar to the first plan in October, it only got a slap in the face, just like begging to find Prince Charming's ex-girlfriend to get back together. According to media reports, Paramount's parent company Viacom officially approved the acquisition plan on the 8th, and yesterday Paramount signed an agreement with Spielberg, $1.6 billion to be paid by Viacom, in the form of $775 million in cash + $825 million in all debts, finally drew the end of this acquisition soap opera.

Because DreamWorks Animation was spun off and profitable last year, it was not part of the acquisition, but Paramount acquired the distribution rights to DreamWorks Animation for seven years. The acquisition is mainly a change of boss, from an independent kingdom to Viacom, and there are no layoff plans, of course, Paramount got the ownership of 59 films in the DreamWorks library, including "Saving Private Ryan", "Gladiator", "Shrek", etc., and the superstar Spielberg joined. In addition, according to people familiar with the matter, in order to raise funds, Viacom will sell those films to other investors.

Seeing the collapse of the long-term boss Dream Factory, independent filmmakers are inevitably a little sad, and some people in the industry even shouted that "the dark age of independent filmmaking is coming", anyway, it is getting more and more difficult!

As the emerging absolute leader, Flame Films silently bought the ownership of many films including "Memory Rift" (sci-fi adventure, Paramount joint venture, 06,000 production fee/96 million global box office), "Time Machine" (sci-fi adventure, Warner Bros. joint venture, 80 million/123 million) and many other films, but because of the same competitors, despite FF's higher bid, Paramount still refuses to sell more, and at the same time only sells those "rags" that lose money, don't expect "Artificial Intelligence" and "Minority Report" and other hugely successful films, those that belong to private equity investors, don't even give "Galaxy Pursuit" (sci-fi adventure, sole proprietorship, 45 million/90 million).

Despite buying bad movies at a high price, FF certainly won't suffer, which stems from the business strategy of "package rental" and refined type services, the types of film rental markets in the past were very simple, science fiction films are science fiction films, and no matter how detailed they are, they are science fiction horror and science fiction comedies, but FF, which is based on the long-tail theory, carefully reorganizes and launches very humanized classifications and introductions, so that customers can find their favorites.

When other companies began to follow suit, FF had already opened up a market of its own, and its huge film and television library supported it to combine some films into packages, such as "Memory Rift" + "Time Machine" + "Firefly" sci-fi adventure weekend package, "Memory Rift" + "League of Assassins" John Wu directed two-film package, "Memory Rift" + "Memory Fragment" + "Death Hallucination" suspense package, using big hits to drive bad movies and fully digest what customers often have for certain types of thingsWith the psychology of "whims", "Memory Rift" can turn waste into treasure, which greatly increases turnover.

Flame movies are like a black hole, the more films that swallow in, its quality will only get bigger and bigger, and because there are really no science fiction films in the film and television library where the main body comes from the artist, and there are only North American distribution rights, so these big-budget science fiction films are really a treasure on top of a treasure for FF.

"We weren't able to make enough successful films to make the company financially successful. David Geffin, one of the Big Three at DreamWorks, explained the company's collapse this way, but the Wall Street Journal analyzed: "It's DreamWorks that has made enough failed films that have brought down the company's finances." ”

There seems to be no difference between the two, but in fact the way they operate is completely different. Founded in October 1994, DreamWorks (film), David Geffen (music), and Jeffrey Katzenberg (animation) dreamed of building DreamWorks into a new media and entertainment empire with their expertise and influence in their respective fields. But it can be said that the seeds of failure were planted at the beginning, and the three of them only took out 100 million yuan each, raised another 800 million, and opened a loan line of 1 billion to Chase Bank at that time, and had to bear high investment returns and interest from scratch.

The Big Three's ambitious offensive into television, film, music, and the Internet took too many steps, and as an independent studio, and lacking the support of big entertainment groups, DreamWorks was unable to do so in a few years that it began to shrink its front, abandoning plans to build a high-tech film studio in Los Angeles in 1999, ending its music business and reducing its television production by selling its record label to Universal Music in 2004, and abandoning its website Pop.

As for the film business, although DreamWorks has big-hit films from time to time, the success of 1 of the 3 films and the failure of 2 will also cancel out the results, and at the same time, it is a lot of debt all the time, and a few big fiascos can make it collapse. In this situation, which is not fatal at any time, DreamWorks has stumbled through 10 years, and this year it still can't hold on. There is no doubt that it should expand more cautiously, rather than slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, and eventually stun itself.

"The sale of DreamWorks heralded the fall of an independent film empire and the end of a beautiful dream. The Wall Street Journal's words sent countless fans to a sigh, and then they turned their eyes to the flames, the moths and butterflies that surrounded them.

Nowadays, there are not many really powerful independent film companies, mainly two very "weird" companies, Flame Films and Lionsgate Films, of which Flame is the leader.

If there is any company that is most likely to develop into a new media and entertainment empire now, it must be the Flame Group, FF is like the other side of the mirror of DreamWorks, DreamWorks is heavily in debt, it has no debt, no listing and no financing; DreamWorks is attacking everywhere, it is willing to maintain the status of a mini studio in the main business of film and television, and the law of 28 and the long tail theory are used to the fullest, and it has long been rumored that Flame is going to establish Flame Music, and everyone in the industry thinks that the music business is the most suitable next step for Flame, but they have not done it for a long time; DreamWorks has global ambitionsFlame's overseas distribution business still adopts the method of cooperating with local distributors, and has not established branches...... The most praised thing about Flame is the attitude of both step-by-step and crazy, some businesses have expanded too slowly, the film business has been crazy to throw money at sole proprietorship, crazy snake swallowing elephants, animation companies, special effects companies, technical research companies, studios, ...... It can still be digested!

Industry analysis After the fall of DreamWorks, the strong rise of flame movies has officially become the biggest banner of independent film studios in terms of reputation, image, status, box office results, etc., but its future development blueprint is still a mystery, because Magic Young is too unique, and I don't know how long he will play. But as we all know, now is "fire time", the Wall Street Journal report article on the 11th concluded: "Flame is the beautiful new hope of independent films." ”

On the evening of December 11th, after more than a day of staying at the UCLA Medical Center, Wang Yang and Jessica were discharged home with their baby!

"Danny, good boy!" Seeing Danny running enthusiastically and excitedly, the two walked up to stroke and hug it with a smile, Wang's father, Wang's mother, Mark, Cathy and Joshua all came together, Keke was held by Wang's mother, and handed it back to Jessica, who got up, and the whole family walked into the house with a smile.

Keke, as a 4/8 China 2/8 Mexico 1/8 Denmark 1/8 France four countries and three ethnic mixed races, is really a collection of the essence of the sun and the moon world aura, her little face is chubby, with a pair of open round eyes, black eyes are as bright as jewels, very cute, maybe the world is still blurry in her eyes, but she can find her own beauty, big eyes blink and look around, eyes turn from time to time.

Danny followed the two of them, and when he saw Jessica with no big belly and a baby holding the scent of new life in her hands, and saw Jan and her loving smiles and teasing the baby's laughter, ?......he realized that something was different! Although Wang Yang is a Chinese American who loves Chinese culture, he doesn't think Jessica has any need for "confinement", he doesn't know if this is due to the different circumstances of birth and upbringing, which leads to different postpartum needs in different places, anyway, Jessica is very mentally healthy, and the new grandmother and new grandmother also think that there is no need to worry about this aspect, so the doctor naturally asked: "What are you kidding?" Wang Yang replied at the time: "I just want to find out if there are any of these differences." In the end, he still didn't quite figure it out.

In fact, Jessica's entire pregnancy and delivery process from beginning to end have no traditional Chinese elements, such as "confinement" can not eat ice food, and UCLA Medical Center many mothers give birth while eating ice, Jessica has not yet stepped off the delivery bed and eats wildly, and has been sitting on the ice pack for a long time to accelerate the swelling as soon as she delivers the placenta on the delivery bed, and now she takes a comfortable bath as soon as she gets home. Yoga and so on, a week later, he was ready to swim, and two weeks later he recovered and returned to work, accompanying him to attend various award ceremonies.

The 12th is the day when the National Review Association Award, one of the "three weather vanes of the Oscars", was announced, and it was the early hours of the morning in the dead of night, and the grandparents and others had already returned to their residences, Keke slept in the light blue crib in the baby's room, and Wang Yang and Jessica slept in the master bedroom not far away.

"Wow wow-" A shrill and immature cry came from the monitor of the baby monitor, and immediately woke up the two people who had not slept very well in the bed, and they got up and walked to the baby room: "Is the baby hungry?", "It should be, it's time to feed her." Since Jessica hadn't finished milking yet, the two of them brewed a bottle of formula milk to feed Keke, and watched her sucking on the pacifier with her innocent and cute appearance, and the two laughed while arguing to manipulate the bottle.

"Don't, don't! Don't rob!" In the rustic-style baby room, Jessica on the chair held the bottle tightly, hugged Keke and turned to the side, Wang Yang walked around his wife and daughter with a anxious expression, and shouted: "Please, give it to me! I can't feed it for a few days!" Jessica looked up and smiled: "No, this is my mother's patent." Wang Yang was anxious: "Hey! I really don't know what the use of a man's **" Jessica was also anxious: "HEY! The baby is listening!" ...... After feeding, Keke lay down in the crib and fell asleep obediently, the two went back to the bedroom and just slept for a while, Keke cried again: "Wow wow-" Wang Yang pressed Jessica's shoulder, he took the monitor on the bedside table, got up and smiled: "I'll go and see, you sleep well, don't worry about leaving it to me!" Jessica smiled and nodded.

"Hey, my angel, why are you crying again?" came to the baby's room, Wang Yang smiled and picked up Keke from the crib, the little sweetheart still cried non-stop, a gesture of only kissing her mother, but those clear tears and crisp cries broke Dad's heart.

Wang Yang hugged her for a few laps, coaxed her with a baby tone for a while, saw that it didn't work, and sang again, he tried to sing several English songs, Michael Jackson, Maria Kelly, Madonna, Avril Lavril and others couldn't coax the baby, and seemed to cry more and more. His chest was uncomfortably blocked, and he was about to cry, and he thought of Chinese song again, and smiled at Keke, who was crying: "Then Chinese song, I don't know too much......"

"Two tigers, two tigers, run fast, run fast...... "Woo wow-wow-", "A vine in front of Amen, the green of Amen-Anon has just sprouted...... Okay, okay, I don't like this one, so I'll change it to ......"

"Don't cry, baby, tears, tears are pearls, crying too much will make your life miserable, gambling will lose ...... You can't play 21 o'clock, no, if you count cards, it's not gambling......" There was a gentle hum in the baby's room, Wang Yang shook her gently with both hands at the same time, and with this time the singing that tended to be normal, Keke suddenly quieted down and watched with round eyes. Wang Yang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and continued to sing gently: "Don't cry baby, baby, tears are pearls, crying too much will make life miserable in the future, marry the old man and ......."

Keke in his arms suddenly laughed: "Yiya! Yiya......" Wang Yang opened his mouth with a bright smile, lowered his head and kissed her on the cheek, he continued to laugh and sing: "Shhh......h Don't cry baby, tears are pearls, people who don't cry are the happiest, know how to surf the Internet......" He slowly came to the window, looked at the quiet night outside, the bright moon in the sky, and sang: "Baby don't cry, tears are pearls, work hard to study, marry a good husband......"

In the corridor outside the door of the baby's room, Jessica, who was dressed in pajamas, also looked inside with a smile on her face, the two people she loved the most.

(To be continued)