The warm sunlight poured through the window, and Zhang Ran drank coffee comfortably, chatting slowly with Gusta. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This year, Lionsgate released two movies in Zhang Ran's hands, "Time and Space Warrior" and "Fahrenheit 911", both of which successfully exceeded 100 million yuan, bringing more than 20 million revenue to Lionsgate. By the end of the year, the DVD release of the Two Points movie will bring Lionsgate a lot of revenue. In Gusta's eyes, Zhang Ran is a living cash cow.

Gusta has been dealing with Zhang Ran for more than a year, and he knows that in Zhang Ran's eyes, "The Aviator" is a thousand times more important than "Time and Space Warrior". Like in Lucas's eyes, the favorite is the "Five Hundred Years Later" that no one cares about, and "Star Wars" is just a tool to make money. In order to continue to cooperate with Zhang Ran, Gusta is not only preparing to release "The Aviator", but also plans to impact various awards including the Oscars, even if he does not win the award, he must strive to get some nominations.

The Oscars have no restrictions on foreign-language films, and films released in North America before the end of December can compete for various awards. However, the Oscars are a game of public relations, and they need to spend money on public relations and publicity, and the box office of foreign language films in North America has always been dismal, and not many film companies will use foreign language films to impact awards outside of Austria.

"The Aviator" is of high quality, and with proper PR, it is possible to get a nomination. However, due to the problems of "Fahrenheit 911", Zhang Ran offended Harvey to death. With Harvey's character, he will definitely make small moves behind his back, which is very difficult. But now that Harvey and Miramax are separated, and the films belong to Disney, and Harvey doesn't have a movie in his hands, it is impossible to make a mess of the wind and rain, so it will be much easier to make public relations for "The Aviator".

However, Zhang Ran didn't look for Gusta because of this, after chatting with Gusta for a while, he said his own purpose, hoping to get Gusta's authorization.

The YouTube website has begun to be built, and after the website is built, you need to upload the content, otherwise there will be no content to watch even if others go to YouTube. Zhang Ran has persuaded UCLA Film School to allow students to upload their own short films to the website to share when the website is launched. However, the students' homework alone was not enough, so Zhang Ran planned to convince Gusta to agree to put some of Lionsgate's TV shows and movie footage on the Internet.

Zhang Ran was talking to Gusta about the benefits of putting these on the website when his mobile phone suddenly rang, it was Li Junwei's phone.

As soon as he connected the phone, Li Junwei's hearty laughter came from his ears: "Zhang Ran, you kid, you have assets of more than 100 million." A lot of people think you're the big boss behind creative advertising, so ask me for your news!"

Zhang Ran didn't understand: "How did I become the big boss behind the creative advertising? Why do I sound so confused?"

Li Junwei said with a smile: "This year's China Forbes rich list is out. This year's list of rich people has changed from 100 to 200. You're on the list this year! I'll read it to you, 162 on the rich list, Zhang Ran, male, 27 years old, with assets of 100 million, creative advertising, engaged in industry media. As soon as this list came out, many people asked me about your situation, and there were a lot of women among them!"

Zhang Ran couldn't help but scolded: "This Forbes is sick, and he got it in the top fifty." What to do with so much posting, it hurts me to keep a low profile. ”

Li Junwei said speechlessly: "You want to be low-key even if you are in the entertainment industry!"

Zhang Ran corrected: "To borrow a sentence from teacher Chen Daoming, I am from the literary circle, not the entertainment industry. And it's not low-key, it's not okay, how scary is Wu Ruofu's kidnapping case in the first half of this year, what if he is targeted by someone with a heart?"

Li Junwei smiled: "You haven't been exposed for the time being. Ordinary people who would pay attention to more than 100 people! Those who inquired about you were all in contact with us, but I didn't tell them. By the way, the creative advertising will be launched on December 3rd, and you must be present at that time, and the bell ringing ceremony will not be complete if you are not present!"

Zhang Ran groaned: "No. 3, that can't be helped. No. 3 Golden Horse Awards, I got the field. ”

Li Junwei said: "You even won the Golden Lion Award, do you still care about the Golden Horse Award? Just let the others go, and you come to the bell ringing ceremony!"

Zhang Ran said: "I promised Hou Xiaoxian to attend, I can't be untrustworthy!"

After hanging up Li Junwei's phone, Zhang Ran continued to talk to Gusta about licensing, explaining in detail the benefits of uploading programs and movie footage to the Internet.

After learning more about YouTube and its benefits, Gusta was impressed by what Zhang Ran did: "The Internet can change the world, and your website is probably going to be amazing." I always thought you were going to be Spielberg, but I didn't expect you to be George Lucas!"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "Why do you think that? I don't want to be Lucas, although he is a legend and has made a great contribution to the film industry, he is not a great director." He doesn't love movies anymore, how many movies do you see he makes now?"

Gusta laughed: "If a person is too rich and has too a comfortable life, he will lack the motivation to create." When you're as rich as him, maybe you won't want to make movies!"

Zhang Ran sat up straight and said firmly: "Absolutely not." I make money to make the movies I want to make. With billions of dollars, Spielberg has not given up, and creation is still the main goal in his heart!"

Gusta asked curiously, "I don't know what kind of movie you really want to make? A movie like "The Aviator"? I see that you have a very casual attitude towards "Time Soldier", and you attach great importance to "The Aviator"!"

Zhang Ran was suddenly stunned, the next "Three Fools" was filmed for the students in the class, and then planned to shoot a big heroine for Zhang Jingchu. He still likes these two dramas, but they can't be said to be what he really wants to film, at least not like "The Aviator", which can make him fully devoted, have a strong desire to create, and he will not hesitate to spend ten years. In addition, the few novels he bought did not make him feel that he had to shoot like "The Aviator".

Is it really like Gusta said, a lack of creative motivation?

Absolutely not!

I just haven't come across a story that touches me like The Aviator!

Zhang Ran said firmly: "Yes, it is a movie like "The Aviator", a movie that can really move me and make me empathize!"

After the matter was settled, Zhang Ran returned to the hotel, called Zhang Jingchu, and then turned on the computer to check this year's Forbes China Rich List on the Internet. Among the top three on the list, the Rong Zhijian family topped the list with a holding of 1.49 billion US dollars in CITIC Pacific, and Huang Guangyu and Chen Tianqiao ranked second and third on the rich list with a value of 1.3 billion and 1.27 billion respectively.

Zhang Ran remembered that Li Junwei said that he was more than 160, and along the ranking, Zhang Ran quickly saw his ranking, 162nd, in front of him was Baidu's Li Yanhong, and behind him were Yang Lan and Wu Zheng.

Ranked in front of Yang Lan and Wu Zheng and his wife, Zhang Ran didn't think there was anything, he didn't think this couple was amazing, but being able to rank behind Li Yanhong made him a little proud. You must know that Li Yanhong is one of the three giants of the Internet in the future, and being able to be lined up with Li Yanhong gives him a sense of accomplishment.

The old man is on an equal footing with Li Yanhong!

Although he only caught up with them temporarily, Zhang Ran was really a little proud and satisfied.

The future Internet triumvirate is BTA, Li Yanhong ranks 162, so what about Ma Huateng and Ma Yun?

Zhang Ran hurriedly checked on the list, Ma Huateng ranked 99, with assets of 140 million US dollars, and there was no name of Ma Yun? Zhang Ran read the entire list and checked it again, and there was indeed no name of Ma Yun.

Now that Zhang Ran has suddenly calmed down, what is the point of being successful for a while? How many of the people on the list will be on the list in 10 years? Whether it is Ma Yun, Li Yanhong, or Ma Huateng, their current rankings are not too high, and their assets are not amazing, but how many people will be able to compete with them in the next ten years?

Now they have their own core products and hundreds of millions of users in their hands, but what about themselves? The peak of the century has just been established, and the website is still being tested, which is too far behind.

There is nothing to rejoice about at all!

Zhang Ran slid the mouse, flipped to the top of the rich list, and saw Chen Tianqiao's name again, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In the first half of this year, Shanda was listed on the NASDAQ, and Chen Tianqiao had a billion dollars of capital in his hands and began an almost crazy strategy, preparing to build a "network Disney", with Shanda Box as the core, integrating nine major businesses, including PC, TV, mobile phone, movie, music, game, advertising, prepaid and e-commerce.

The grand box is the core of Disney on the Internet, through the box, users can play games on TV, watch news, stocks, movies, and listen to music. According to Chen Tianqiao's vision, the box is essentially a product of telecommunications network, TV network and Internet integration, and its function is more powerful than the various boxes that will be popular ten years later.

The starting point of the acquisition, the acquisition of Actoz Company, the acquisition of Haofang, etc., Chen Tianqiao spent billions in the capital market, in fact, he was buying content for the grand box.

But Chen Tianqiao is running too fast, and the current Internet conditions cannot support his ambitions. In 2004, there were 28.33 million broadband users in China, and 80% of these broadband users had download speeds of less than 100 kb/s.

Half a step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a madman. Even Steve Jobs had to restrain his desires. Jobs foresaw the future of iPads and smartphones early on, but it wasn't until touchscreen and wireless networking technology matured and commercialized on a large scale that it was implemented.

Chen Tianqiao's steps were too fast, so he finally failed, and a billion dollars were wasted.

Before Zhang Ran's rebirth, various boxes began to rise, these were Chen Tianqiao's original ideas. Even what Zhang Ran wants to do is actually a copy of Chen Tianqiao's online Disney. Lei Jun and Ma Huateng's various boxes they made later were also Chen Tianqiao's strategies.

Thinking carefully about the development of the Internet in the next ten years, in fact, many things Shanda has been involved in a long time ago, but Shanda's footsteps have been too early, he has opened up the market, but he has played himself. When this market is ripe and can harvest fruits, Shanda can only watch others pick the fruits.

The reason why Zhang Ran waited three years to do YouTube was because he learned the lesson of Chen Tianqiao and waited until the three conditions for making a video website were ripe.

Zhang Ran thought for a while, thought about whether he had been too aggressive recently, and then clicked on the news page. Suddenly, a piece of news caught his attention, "Zhang Chunru, the author of "Nanjing Massacre", committed suicide.

His heart sank, what, how could it be?

Nanjing, November 10. Zhang Chunru, a Chinese-American female writer who used her pen to expose the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China, died of depression and shot herself in her car on the morning of November 9 at the age of 36.

In 1997, Zhang Chunru published in English the best-selling book "The Nanjing Massacre: The Nanjing Massacre of 1937", which truly exposed the massacre committed by the invading Japanese army in Nanjing, and made the world, especially the American people, understand the ...... of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army that had been forgotten for more than half a century" (to be continued). )