Chapter 862: Imperial Pictures
After in-depth exchanges with Google's three veterans, although Lin Cheng did not fully explain the core strategy of Google in later generations, he relied on some new Internet concepts that he casually heard in later generations, which was enough for him to easily impress everyone.
At this point, Larry Page and Sergey Brin no longer regard Lin Cheng as a money-hungry angel investor, but like them, they have comrades who change the world and benefit mankind.
Don't get me wrong, this comrade doesn't mean fagots, but like-minded.
In fact, Larry Page and Sergei Brin both thought wrong about Lin Cheng, who had a tragic experience in his previous life, Lin Cheng had long been a realist of Chiguoguo, and as for the ideal of changing the world, the dream of benefiting mankind? Hehe, it doesn't exist.
It's just that Larry Page, Sergei Brin, and Susan Wojcicki, including Susan Wojcicki, are all young people in their twenties, just a few years out of college, and they are still branded with a strong idealist label, so Lin Cheng did what he liked and talked to them about changing the world and benefiting mankind.
In terms of actual interests, Lin Cheng also fully respected them, and did not arbitrarily increase capital and dilute their shares by virtue of his status as a major shareholder, but on the contrary, he took the initiative to tell them that he would not interfere in Google's management affairs, and assured them that the shares held by Google's management team would never be less than 30%.
Whether it is an ethereal ideal or a tangible benefit, Lin Cheng has fully satisfied the Google veterans, for Lin Cheng, what can the Google veterans do except bow down?
After getting the Google team, Lin Cheng's hasty trip to the United States can be said to have completed more than half of the task, and then Lin Cheng came to Hollywood.
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The United States has three iconic regions, namely Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood, each of which is like thunder and shocks the world.
Wall Street, the world's largest financial center, Silicon Valley, the world's largest technology center, and Hollywood, the world's entertainment center.
Lin Cheng has already visited Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and the next area he will visit will naturally be Hollywood.
I don't want to waste more information about Hollywood authors, after all, everyone knows that Hollywood is the center of world cinema, and Hollywood-produced films are sold all over the world.
In later generations, the online literature industry from which the author was born exported culture to foreign countries, so that some foreigners became addicted to online literature and quit drug addiction, so some people forcibly put together Chinese online literature, Japanese animation, Korean TV dramas, and Hollywood movies as the world's four major cultural wonders.
As a writer who fights the streets, the author still feels honored to hear this sentence.
It's just that to be honest, the influence of China's online literature, juxtaposed with the other three major cultural wonders, has the meaning of putting gold on his face, and there is a sense of shame of touching porcelain.
However, in terms of potential, as long as the stick of harmony does not disrupt the situation, the potential of China's online literature is still very huge.
With the advent of the era of big IP, as long as Chinese online literature can make a popular and popular fantasy masterpiece, it is really possible to compare with the other three major cultural wonders.
It's a pity that plagiarism ruined "Three Lives and Three Worlds", and was ruined by the high hopes of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", the plot of "Chosen Heaven" was mediocre, and "Zhuxian Qingyunzhi", which was pinned on by countless writers, was made into "Street Fighting".
Back to business, Lin Cheng, under the leadership of Zhang Jingxiang, came to Hollywood to inspect his Williams Film Company, which has now been renamed Imperial Pictures.
The reason why it was called Williams Film in the past was because the founder's surname was Williams, and Lin Cheng didn't care at first, after all, there was a Williams team in F1.
However, after being reminded, Lin Cheng found out that the film company he bought kept calling other people's surnames, as if the film company still belonged to someone else.
I didn't notice it before, but now that he noticed it, he naturally felt very awkward, so he acted arbitrarily again, regardless of everyone's opposition, and forcibly renamed Williams Films, which had a history of more than ten years, to Emperor Pictures.
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Henry Williams, the CEO of Imperial Pictures, has been depressed recently, as the former boss of Imperial Pictures, due to poor management, he failed to be optimistic about his family heirloom film company, not only lost the ownership of Williams Films, but now even the name Williams has been lost.
But this is also normal, after all, he should have expected it when he sold his stake in Williams Films.
It's just that the new boss seems to have forgotten to change the company's name, which allowed the name of Williams Film to remain in use until June this year.
It's a pity that the new boss seems to remember that since the film company has been acquired by him, how can he still take someone else's surname as the name, so with a wave of his hand, Williams Film Company has become an ancient and domineering Imperial Pictures.
Today he said that the new boss is finally coming to Imperial Pictures to inspect, and Williams is ready, as long as the new boss does not want to keep him, he will take the initiative to hand in his resignation, so as not to end up being swept away.
Thinking of this, Williams was even more depressed, the film company was the biggest thought left to him after his parents died in a car accident, and in order to run the film company, he even sold his ancestral villa.
However, few of the dozens of films he produced could make money, so he was forced to hand over the film company to others because he was in debt.
Fortunately, the new boss had no time to manage the company, which allowed him to stay as the company's CEO for two years, sharpening his sword for two years, and this year's "The Matrix" they produced also became a big dark horse in the summer file, with a North American box office of $220 million, plus $260 million overseas box office, a total of $480 million at the box office.
Because the overseas box office is more than the domestic box office, the box office revenue of Imperial Pictures is only 130 million, but the surroundings of "The Matrix" are very popular.
Whether it is DVD income or sales to TV stations, or windbreakers, sunglasses, and leather pants developed in cooperation with garment factories and glasses factories, they are all selling very hotly, earning nearly 300 million US dollars in peripheral income for film companies, and film companies can also take the lion's share of these peripheral incomes.
On the other hand, the production budget of "The Matrix" is only $60 million because the protagonist uses Chinese actors Wu Jing and Liu Tao.
After deducting costs and various account sharing, Imperial Pictures earned more than $300 million in net profits on the "Matrix" project alone.
What shocked Williams even more was that "The Matrix" is still a series of movies, and the projects of "The Matrix 2" and "The Matrix 3" are already being discussed and planned, and they can be launched in the summer next year.
With the huge reputation and generous box office of "The Matrix", the probability of a box office explosion of Series 2 and Series 3 is more than eighty percent, which is a gold mine of red fruits!
In the world, I never see the new laughing but not the old crying.
Before the success of The Matrix, the company's management and employees didn't like the new boss, but loved the old man.
But with the success of The Matrix, it became clear to Williams that the new boss was starting to win hearts and minds within the company.
On the contrary, his old boss is getting colder and colder, and now few people report to him in person, but Zhang Jingxiang, the representative of the new boss, is crowded.
"Pedaling, Pedaling, Pedaling......"
Williams' thoughts were disturbed by the sound of footsteps at the door of the studio, and Williams soon saw a tall, handsome Chinese man striding towards him.
"Are you Henry Williams, the CEO of our Imperial Pictures?