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Lei Ting listened to Li Xiaole's analysis and fell into deep thought, but the driver in front of her suddenly turned around and shouted unwillingly:

"Boss~! weishenme wants to be like this, since we have to discover the script, we have to contact CAA, find actors, find directors, and do so much, so weishenme We don't have to find the bank to raise funds ourselves, we have to find the six major fundraisers, and then distribute the accounts to them? Why should we cheap them~! ”

Lei Ting looked at Ah Gai and said coldly: "You are really a genius, Spielberg's dream factory is just like you think, it just went bankrupt last month." ”

"How so!? That's fake news ~ Their "Saving Private Ryan" is so blockbuster ~ Spielberg is a legend in the film industry. Agai raised his sunglasses and said disapprerovingly, although the public has received the rumors, but in Hollywood, where there are as many fake news as real news, many Americans still think that this news is just a rumor.

"Even with your IQ, you shouldn't understand, all the channels for film distribution, theaters, TV stations, DVD rental groups, are all controlled by the six major companies and the media group behind them, do you know that "Saving Private Ryan" sold $500 million at the box office worldwide, but DreamWorks only got $30 million?" Lei Ting looked at Ah Gai like an idiot:

"And Paramount, who co-distributed him, made $300 million from the film's DVD rental, TV station screening rights, and box office dividends, didn't I ask you to look at the materials collected by the company?"

Ah Gai quickly turned back and continued to drive, not daring to squeak.

In fact, MGM's bankruptcy is also the same reason, the shrinking of the channel has benefited them very much, look at the other big six, Warner owns AOL, Disney has Bowell Pictures, Fox is behind News Corporation, Columbia is owned by Sony, Universal was acquired by Vivendi, and all studios are supported by this powerful media group, which is the key to their continued profitability.

Lionsgate, for example, suffered this loss in the next few years, and then began to buy the media industry in radio and television.

"So." Li Xiaole Zuihou made his summary: "If I want to make the movie I want to make, and keep shooting without losing money, we must buy the empty shell of Luen Mei Company." "With Luen Mei, he can carry out multi-faceted resource integration operations.

Seeing that Lei Ting seemed to have reluctantly accepted his reason, Li Xiaole turned his head and looked at her with a smile and asked a reason why he had always had questions:

"Weishenme Tom Cruise wants to buy Luen Mei? Didn't he have his own Cruise Wagner company? "He is good at things in terms of film and television expertise, but Lei Ting's analysis of business things is more intuitive.

"I'm not sure about the specific situation, I can only say my analysis." Lei Ting glared back, and knew in her heart that Li Xiaole didn't want to give her a chance to refute, but she could only pay attention to herself, the biggest competitor: "It's not an exaggeration to say that Tom Cruise is in a very dangerous situation right now. ”

"Hey, hey~ Boss, I, a Californian, know better~" Ah Gai turned around and said again.

"Oh~~ Then you can talk about it first." Li Xiaole rarely gave Ah Gai a chance to finish speaking, because he wanted to hear what happened to Tom Cruise in the eyes of ordinary people in the United States now, weishenme In the three years from 2005 to 2007, Tom Cruise will suddenly change from a top superstar in Hollywood to a box office poison, and this falling speed is really abnormal.

"Ha~ Actually, everything is because Cruise, a stupid person, joined some Scientology, and his brain has become problematic." Agai held the steering wheel in one hand and pointed to his head with the other:

"Look at what he's been doing recently, divorcing a big beauty like Nick Kidman, suddenly going insane and jumping off the sofa on the Oprah show, and telling Brooke Xiaosi not to take medicine~ It's because the damn Scientology doctrine is natural medicine~ Claiming not to take medicine~~Not taking medicine~ Oh my God~ This is simply ridiculous, I used to mistakenly think that he was a real great actor, but I didn't expect this guy to destroy himself now, it has become a joke in the whole of America~"

"Is that so?" Li Xiaole said exaggeratedly, turned her head and looked at Lei Ting curiously, she was wearing a black evening dress at the moment, and her expression was quite disdainful when she felt cold and scummy.

"Cruise may be a nasty paranoid, but he's definitely not stupid, and a lot of people have a bad brain to think things that simple." Lei Ting said expressionlessly: "To put it bluntly, it's because of money." ”

Although Lei Ting has limited experience in commercial acquisitions, she is a top person in data and intelligence analysis, and her previous complaints are just to express her emotions, and Tom Cruise Weishenme has to buy Luen Mei She is clear.

"Money? Is Paramount doing it? Li Xiaole frowned and asked.

"Yes." Lei Ting began to explain the reason in a cold tone:

"Cruise is actually the same as you, he set up his own production company and signed under Paramount, using its channels to release his own "Mission Impossible" series of movies, the first part of which his producer was only 22%, but because of the big sales of the movie, his company still received 70 million US dollars.

According to the profit growth share ratio in the contract, his total share of the second "Mission Impossible" production reached 30%, this time he got 92 million US dollars, and the final profit even exceeded the Paramount company that distributed it, and this year's "Mission Impossible 3", which is about to be released in the summer, his production share has risen to 32%, which is already unbearable for Paramount, this year, Cruise's production company and Paramount's contract expired, Paramount hopes to reduce the proportion of Cruise Productions in the new contract, And Cruise disagreed, and the two sides were in a standoff. ”

"That is to say, all the negative news about Cruise that is now being reported in these media outlets is a deliberate public pressure from Paramount and the Viacom Group behind it." Li Xiaole frowned.

"Well, that's it, Cruise's drug speech about Brooke Xiaos, and the couch jumping on the show were deliberately edited by the TV station, and the words taken out of context made ordinary people think that Cruise was completely crazy after joining Scientology...... They just want to force Cruise to give in and sign the new contract they have set, or else they will destroy him, lest he join other agencies and become their opponent. Lei Tingzuihou's analysis seems quite reasonable.

"Really~!? Viacom Group's movie stations won't be so insidious~~" After analyzing this layer of powerful relationships, Agai, an American, couldn't help but sigh dumbfounded.

"It must be so." Li Xiaole fully understands the media's manipulation of public opinion. The entertainment industry in the United States is dominated by large corporations, but there are always a few talented superstars who can shake the entire interest group with their own power and become a new shili in an individual way, and the entertainment companies that have once made these superstars popular, when they feel that their own interests are threatened, they will use public opinion to destroy the superstar and defend their supremacy.

Back then, a series of unwarranted scandals of the music superstar Michael Jackson were the most haode examples, when the king of pop was in full swing, and the value of the record contract exceeded more than half of the market value of Sony Records, so the superstar began to try to control Sony Records, and since then, Sony has started his famous media offensive, and Michael Jackson's nightmare has begun, the original positive image of the king of pop has gradually been shaped by the media into a pervert who hates his black identity and has pedophilia, Spurned by all Americans, it was not until after his death that the parties came out one by one to clarify the facts.

Tom Cruise and Spielberg are powerful people similar to Michael Jackson in Hollywood, and when they set up their own companies, they faced a strikingly similar situation.

Spielberg, on the other hand, was more far-sighted, and at the beginning of his establishment of DreamWorks, he brought in Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen two famous bigwigs in the entertainment industry, which avoided the tragedy of being scandalized by the media, but to Zuihou DreamWorks was still under the strong pressure of the six major distribution companies and was acquired by Paramount.

It looks like this...... Tom Cruise now needs to throw himself into the arms of Sony MGM more than he does, and Li Xiaole touched his chin to roughly understand the other party's current situation.

"The bad news for us is that I've checked Tom Cruise's money flow, and they can come up with about 20 million more funds than us, and if we fight for the purchase price war later, we still can't beat him." Lei Ting's tone was cold, wanting to hit Li Xiaole's confident mentality.

"Don't worry, let me think about it first...... I want to think about it......" Li Xiaole leaned back in his seat, closed his eyes and began to analyze all the situation, now the three parties are in a stalemate, although the situation on his side is very passive, but the use of haode words is a rare opportunity.

To put it bluntly, the business model in Hollywood Major League is actually very similar to the NBA basketball league, and the major movie companies are like the team owners of the NBA.

The director is the coach of the team.

Actors, lighting, cinematography, and so on are the players.

And the blockbuster series of movies is like the traditional tactics of a strong team, such as Harry Potter, 007, Batman, etc., these tactics are powerful when used.

In the league, these six teams are like the San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Lakers, such traditional giants, with top coaches, first-line star players, and super traditional tactical routines, the team is super combative, and has the strength to compete for the annual championship in the summer finals every year.