Chapter 864: Target: Hollywood's Seven!
"Understood!"
Including Henry Williams, when he heard Lin Cheng's words, while breathing a sigh of relief, he unconsciously lifted his heart.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "The Matrix 2", "The Hangover", "Chainsaw", and "Fast and Furious" are the five projects that Lin Cheng handed over to everyone.
"The Matrix 2" is a continuation of "The Matrix", with the huge audience of the first movie as the foundation, and it is undoubtedly the most popular project for the audience.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a big IP project, the "Harry Potter" series has long been popular all over the world, with global book fans as potential audiences, and has attracted the attention of countless enthusiastic book fans from the beginning of the project.
"Fast and Furious" is a standard Hollywood popcorn movie, as long as you find the right director to shoot it, coupled with a dazzling array of luxury cars, it is not a problem to attract audiences.
"The Hangover" is a-pee-fart-style comedy movie, although it has no style, but it still has quite a lot of specific audiences, as long as the plot is coherent and relaxed, it may become a big dark horse with a small and big picture.
As for the final "Saw Horror", it is impeccable from the script, as long as the production team is not outrageously bad, coupled with strong publicity, success is not a problem.
The high-level executives didn't know that the five scripts that Lin Cheng took out were all series of movies by Changhong at the box office in later generations, especially the "Harry Potter" series, if Mrs. Rowling can learn the routines of Chinese online texts and put "Harry Potter" infinitely under water, the throne of the total box office of the highest series of movies in history will definitely not be snatched away by "Star Wars".
"Fast and Furious", the first four parts are still a little bit of a fight, but after the world premiere, each of them is a box office bomb, especially in China after the 10s, all of them are big hits.
"Chainsaw" is the most classic horror film series in film history, each of which has been a huge success, and "The Hangover" and "The Matrix" are also blockbuster movies, each series has been shot three times, and the box office is very impressive.
Lin Cheng came up with these five film projects, as long as the production team was not outrageously bad, it was completely predictable that Emperor Pictures would become an instant hit.
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After the meeting, when everyone left the conference room, Lin Cheng left Henry Williams behind.
"Henry, to be honest, I changed the name of Williams to Imperial Pictures, will you hate my ruthlessness?" Lin Cheng said with a smile.
"Boss, if I say that I don't have a pimple in my heart at all, I am definitely lying to you, but I also know that the company's original name has a strong family atmosphere, and there is nothing wrong with changing the name.
And Williams Film has not left a deep imprint among fans since its establishment more than ten years ago, and its brand value is almost worthless. Williams replied honestly.
"Henry, since you are knowledgeable, then I will not unload the grind and kill the donkey, after all, during your tenure as CEO, Imperial Pictures completed a smooth transition, and "The Matrix" also became an instant hit, and you, the CEO, are still qualified. Lin Cheng said with a smile.
“boss。 Now that Imperial Pictures is working on five film projects at the same time, all of which are big projects of more than $50 million, can you tell me about your goals?" Williams asked.
When Lin Cheng heard this, his smile gradually retracted, and he said in a deep voice: "As the third richest man in the world, if I buy a film company just for a small fight, it will be too boring.
My real goal is to take one of Hollywood's Big Seven studios out of the country and replace it with Imperial Pictures as one of the new Big Seven. ”
"What?" Even though Williams was mentally prepared and knew that Lin Cheng's acquisition of the film company must have a huge strategic purpose, he was still stunned by Lin Cheng's huge ambitions.
Lin Cheng actually wanted to pull down one of the seven Hollywood majors as a Chinese and replace it with Imperial Pictures, Williams heard this target at first scoffed, and couldn't wait to point at Lin Cheng's nose and scold: Wishful thinking!
However, when Williams calmed down and thought of Lin Cheng's $48 billion fortune and those five wonderful scripts, the dream of Emperor Pictures becoming one of the seven major companies may not be unrealizable!
Later history is really like this, although now Hollywood's seven major shocks around the world are crazy about the box office, but in 2002, our Chinese director Wu Baige made a "Wind Whisperer" that made MGM Film Company lose bankrupt, which made MGM enter the auction ranks, and was acquired by US Emperor Sony for $5 billion in 2005.
However, MGM still did not improve, and due to the inability to repay the huge debt and release a new game, it declared bankruptcy again on the morning of November 3, 2010, and died completely.
Since then, Hollywood's seven have become six, and MGM, who once called for wind and rain in Hollywood, has been removed.
Lin Cheng's goal at this time is undoubtedly aimed at MGM three years later, as long as history does not change much, Wu Baige and Nicolas Cage, the king of bad movies, will shoot "The Wind Whisperer", which is the bottom pants that are lost, Lin Cheng will take MGM as soon as possible, complete the feat of swallowing an elephant, and send Emperor Pictures to one of the seven Hollywood in one fell swoop.
Of course, this is a later story, Lin Cheng will not be stupid enough to reveal it to Williams now, he just put forward the seven goals to motivate Williams, so that he can be a cow and a horse and work for himself.
"That's a really ...... goal Magnificent, boss, can we do it?" Williams asked, still a little unconfident, rescuing the excitement in his heart.
"Of course!" Lin Cheng waved his hand to enhance his momentum: "In my Lin Cheng's dictionary, there is no such thing as 'impossible'!"
In three years, I, Lin Cheng, will only need three years to pull down one of the seven major Hollywood films, and you can open your eyes to see how Imperial Pictures ascended to the seven thrones of Hollywood, and you will be the CEO of the seven major Hollywood film companies at that time. ”
Williams really wanted to say to Lin Cheng: I don't believe it, I'm middle-aged now, and I'm past the age of dreaming!
But remembering that Lin Cheng has become the third super-rich person in the world in just two years, and now he is just sending Emperor Pictures to the throne of the seven major Hollywood companies, it doesn't seem to be a difficult thing.
If you can...... , then didn't I become the CEO of Hollywood's Big Seven!
Thinking of this, Williams stood up and said solemnly to Lin Cheng: "Boss, I am happy to serve you and fight to become one of the top seven in Hollywood!"
"Very well, so be it, I've always disliked people who just talk and don't do it, show me how you perform next. Lin Cheng nodded and smiled.