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Throughout the history of Hollywood, its first stage is, of course, the period when the founders were founded. Chaplin, Hitchcock, Chaplin, Garbo and other movie stars made their debuts, and at that time there was not even Audrey Hepburn, and the world belonged to silent films and early sound films.

The second stage of Hollywood's development was from the post-World War II period to the Reagan administration. Around 1948, Hollywood's vertically integrated system entered its heyday, and the theater box office reached an all-time high, with two-thirds of the country's population, or 90 million people, frequenting movie theaters. With nearly 500 films a year, strong contracts with all the big stars, and more than 300,000 employees, the studio is no slouch.

But the situation quickly went downhill, and as the post-World War II suburbanization accelerated, film companies that did not have time to build more theaters naturally felt embarrassed. It was at this time that the rise of the television industry made broadcasters a lot of money and further suppressed the industrial system of old Hollywood. There were reasons for the depression in the film industry in the 60s and 70s, and looking at the past 20 years, there are really only a handful of classics that can be mastered.

In the early stages, several of Hollywood's giants looked down on the TV industry, but the audience voted with their feet and gave them a slap in the face. The number of television sets owned by the American people increased rapidly from 17,000 in 1946 to more than 40 million in 1957, which is almost equivalent to the total number of households in the United States. By 1960, there were 85 million television sets in the United States—two per household on average.

With such a high penetration rate, it is no wonder that the number of movie-watching times per capita in the United States plummeted from 31 million in 1945 to 19 million in 1950 and even 8 million in 1960. By the time the 80s arrived, that number had dropped to 4.5 million people.

In the face of this situation, of course, the Hollywood giants will not sit still, but fortunately, those broadcasters do need the rich strength that Hollywood has accumulated over the years, and it has become the general trend to operate cooperatively.

After the introduction of the Paramount Act, the disintegration of the film industry played a role in promoting the development of the television industry, and after the film industry moved towards the split of theaters and poor box office, the production of TV programs naturally became a new direction for Hollywood studios to break through, and this happened to quickly open the bottleneck of program production that restricted the popularity of television. The two sides hit it off, and the acquisition was launched.

At present, the strongest in the single-round broadcasting industry is NBC, that is, NBC. Founded in 1926 and headquartered in New York's Rockefeller Center, it was acquired by General Electric in 1986 and has the ability to provide programming to more than 200 U.S. television stations.

CBS, known as CBS, founded in 1927, was also founded in New York. Considering that it and ABC TV have always had a predominantly elderly audience, it is also affectionately known as the "Senior Channel". From Alice's point of view, it is roughly the same as "CCTV8" and a soap opera station and a housewife station!

As for ABC, although it is also one of the three major commercial radio and television companies in the United States, it is independent of the first two and has its headquarters in two. One is undoubtedly in Times Square in New York, but the other happens to be in Burbank, Los Angeles, not far from DreamWorks!

"It costs a lot of money to swallow ABC, and even if I can barely buy a controlling stake in it, it will not be easy for DreamWorks to drive it." Alice said to Lawrence: "And this will also touch the whole Hollywood landscape change, after all, for the past few years, ABC has been ownerless, and no one else has moved, but we swallowed it...... Gee. ”

Lawrence pondered Alice's proposal in silence. When it comes to development prospects, DreamWorks is certainly not worried, Alice's average movie per year can always remain hot, and there is enough back-up financial support, and his Roger Lawrence connections in Hollywood are not bad, so as long as it develops steadily, it will only be a matter of time before the company wins the "Big Eight" - unless it dies rashly.

It is true that the cooperation between major film companies and radio and television is the current mainstream trend, but as Alice mentioned, the newcomer king DreamWorks has taken food from the mouths of companies such as Paramount, Universal and Disney, and even if it can buy a controlling stake in ABC in front of it, it is estimated that there will be troubles in the future. For example, in the future of cinema distribution of films, and even the joint shooting of individual films, DreamWorks is likely to be stretched.

"So you took advantage of the stock market crash to buy a small broadcaster and use it as a stepping stone for DreamWorks."

Lawrence smiled lightly, and said a word to break Alice's finger knock two years ago, the stock market to buy a company, this is not just any businessman can play, especially during the stock market crash, with less than a third of the price to win the target in one fell swoop, this courage is not even ordinary venture capitalists dare to play. After all, who can guarantee how long it will take for that falling stock price to come back?

But now it is clear that since the aftermath of the "87" stock market crash has gradually subsided, the small TV network company has regained its former prosperity. Calculate the time, since you have been raising it for so long, it is indeed time to make some moves.

Gulping down a cup of black tea, Lawrence frowned and said, "By the way, I've forgotten a little bit for so long, what is the name of the TV station to be acquired?" ”

"AMC, the classic American movie cable TV station, was originally owned by Rainbow Media Holding Group." Alice said calmly as Sophie passed by the living room, watering the potted plants on the windowsill.

"The date of establishment of this company is October 1, 1984, that's right, Uncle Roger, it's China's National Day, so I'm very optimistic about it~" foamed in her mouth again, and Alice immediately grinned: "The year before last, that is, before the '87' stock market crash, it had just established a basic cable TV channel, that is, the audience only needs to pay a certain fee to the cable TV system service provider, and they can watch the programs of AMC cable TV station without paying an additional fee." ”

Lawrence, who knows a lot about the television industry, nodded with a smile: "When I was about to make a big difference, I suddenly suffered a stock market crash, and I can fully imagine how depressed Rainbow Media would be." Since it is a small company that has only been established for three years, it is better to abandon it quickly. It's no wonder that you can pick up a big bargain, but I know that until now, Rainbow Media is still dragging oil bottles for several of its subsidiaries. ”

After investing a large amount of money, it suddenly hit a trough, and it didn't make a profit but lost a lot of money first, and I can think of the vegetable market of the board of directors.

Alice smiled silently: "AMC uses a cable TV system, so there is no need to set up its own infrastructure, and it can directly let the people of the whole country see its programs." As of this year, it has about 40 million subscribers, but the source of the film is still a problem. Therefore, as long as we go through the legal process and merge AMC into DreamWorks, we can immediately use the power of the film company to shoot a TV series for it on a large scale. ”

The project that hit it off, with DreamWorks' current level of development, is completely affordable to make a movie and a TV series at the same time. Of course, the root of everything lies in the amount of money, Mo said that after five years of continuous development, the company itself already has this strength, and if necessary, Alice, who has made a fortune, can also directly serve as a producer. With her financial support, even if it burns money like $10 million in a single episode of "Friends", what is it?

Well, of course, the salary is also proportional to the income.

The merger matter is easy to handle, just leave it to Lawrence to do it himself, and the development of the TV station itself can be directly handed over to the people of the TV station themselves, so the key question is what TV series to launch, which is what Alice needs to figure out personally.

Remember, it's April 1989.

So in the selection of TV series, Alice needs to consider the masterpieces that can be done in the early nineties. After all, a true classic is not only a script, not even special effects to support it, but also requires the aesthetic cooperation of the audience in the entire market, as well as the cooperation of appropriate actors.

Without Keanu Reeves' "The Matrix" and Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible", would it still be watched? In the same way, "24 Hours of Counter-Terrorism" and "Homeland Security" were filmed before 911, and who would buy it?

At the same time, filming the TV series in advance, you also need to take into account that the characters can't be "too young", just like Alice definitely can't shoot "Harry Potter" in '97 or 98, at this time, Emma Watson and they are all still in the lower grades of elementary school.

So, what American dramas in the nineties were dominated by middle-aged people? At the same time, it is better to conform to Alice's inherent label?

I'm sure no one would believe that Alice Wang, a Silicon Valley girl, would write something like "Desperate Housewives"?

"The X-Files."

Sending Lawrence off and returning to her bedroom, Ellie thought of this classic play without any stress.

Well, the FBI searches for the possibility of aliens, and this kind of theme is quite loving~

There is no doubt that the geeks of the entire Silicon Valley will love her to death~

And the two leading actors are also real students in the 60s, and there is no pressure at all to shoot three years earlier~

"Oh, why am I so genius~"

Say action, action, someone turned on the computer, ready to start her code word business!

"Ahh

Then, the door was opened just right, and Oscar, with a bandage on his head, walked in, looking depressed.

"I said sister, your brother and I are injured! Don't sue me that you've crossed half the world to come home, and it's just a drop by to visit me! ”

Alice blinked and looked back at her brother.

Hey, the lad is lonely?