Chapter 245: Propaganda in the United States
When Zeng Xiaoxian's new album "Half of One" was released, "Mythology" had already been screened in different regions, and the first round of publicity work had come to an end, and there was no need for large-scale publicity in Chinese-speaking areas. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is mainly the promotion in Asia, and a few main creators need to run separately.
Zeng Xiaoxian will also occasionally run the promotion of "Myth", but most of the time it is the new album "Two Parts" that is running the promotion, after all, now the new album is his own highlight, and this time "Two Points" is sold in mainstream countries throughout the world, Zeng Xiaoxian wants to fly all over the world, no longer with the first domestic and the second Asia as the chessboard, and it is impossible for Asia Zeng Xiaoxian to take care of too much.
In China, there are basically only two stops in Beijing and Shanghai. Together with Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo, there are a total of six stops in Asia, and the rest is to go to other big states, such as Los Alum in the United States, and Washington, New York, and Washington. San Francisco, Vancouver Canada, Sydney Australia, London (UK), Paris (France) and Palin (Germany), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy)!
Predictably, the promotion period of Zeng Xiaoxian's third album is definitely much longer than that of the first and second chapter albums.
After completing the promotion in Asia, Zeng Xiaoxian quickly stepped on a plane to the United States, but Zeng Xiaoxian did not go directly to Washington, the first stop of American propaganda, but went to the company of Lion Pictures in Santa Monica, California.
Zeng Xiaoxian and Fang Qing arrived at the gate of Lion Pictures. Like all Zeng Xiaoxian's companies. After getting Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, Lion Pictures also changed its guns, and the originally rented office building was also bought later, of course, this price is naturally expensive, but compared to Zeng Xiaoxian, who has deep pockets, there is no problem at all, anyway, Zeng Xiaoxian is also a lot of money.
Of course, the scale of Lion Pictures is still very large, and they can't use such a large office building, at most a few floors are about the same, so what to do with the rest, or it will be wasted, it can't be said to be a warehouse, it's too wasteful, so in the end it was decided to rent it out, although it is not worth mentioning compared to the money to buy an office building, but no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is meat.
Zeng Xiaoxian went directly to find Frank and asked Fang Qing to wait downstairs first, Frank is now full of spring breeze and is very proud.
Although the company is no longer his, but with Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, the company has been revitalized and vigorous again, the company has been founded for so many years, Frank's feelings for the company are very deep, if this time it is not a last resort, he will not sell, although the company is not in his hands now, but he is also very happy to see the company's growth.
"Hey, why are you here?" Frank smiled and gave Zeng Xiaoxian a big hug and said.
Zeng Xiaoxian sat down with a smile and said, "I'm just coming to the United States."
"Yes. Lobsters, now lobsters everywhere! Saying that, Frank swayed his fat body and learned Zeng Xiaoxian's now popular lobster dance.
Zeng Xiaoxian couldn't help but laugh when he saw Frank's funny appearance, it was so funny.
Seeing Zeng Xiaoxian laughing, Frank shrugged helplessly and said, "Eh, dear Zeng, it's obvious that I'm not suitable for this dance!" To be honest, aside from Zeng Xiaoxian's unknown where he got so much money, it is really not easy for Frank to achieve such great success in Europe and the United States as a yellow person, not that he has any racial discrimination, but that such difficulties do exist.
"You're here just in time, I just have a proposal for you to see!" Frank said.
"Proposal?" Zeng Xiaoxian said with some doubts, "Oh, Frank, just like we said before, I usually don't interfere in the operation of the company, you can decide many things yourself!" ”
"Yes!" Frank nodded, indeed as promised when Zeng Xiaoxian bought the company and hired him as president, he would not interfere in the operation of the company, except for sending the financial director, all the same as before, so many times he will forget that the original company has been acquired, so he is very grateful, but although Zeng Xiaoxian promised not to interfere in the company's food, but he can't forget that he is no longer the company's CEO,
"That's right, I think it's necessary to discuss this matter with you!"
"What's so important?" Zeng Xiaoxian said that he could make Frank have to report to himself, so Zeng Xiaoxian also put on the boss's style, sat on the sand and said, "Say it, I'll listen!" ”
"That's right, you have an impression of Viacom!" Frank asked.
"Huh!" Zeng Xiaoxian nodded, "I know!" ”
Speaking of Zeng Xiaoxian, some information about Viacom came to his mind, Viacom Group is the third largest media company in the United States, including the television group that owns local television stations, Paramount Television Group, Paramount Pictures, CBS, and is also one of the largest television networks in the United States.
In China, the Beijing office was established, and its global network began to enter China in the form of program exchange with China. In the same year, it obtained the landing rights in China's three-star hotels and foreign-related communities Chinese Channel is a music TV channel specially created for Chinese-speaking audiences, and it penetrates into every household through various cable TV stations in Chinese mainland Chinese mainland largest provider of foreign music programs.
Among them, Zeng Xiaoxian's most impressive is Viacom, which jointly held an annual music festival with CCTV, which can be regarded as a relatively famous music festival in the mainland, and Zeng Xiaoxian has also watched several sessions.
"Does it have anything to do with Viacom?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked.
"Well, Viacom and MGM sent representatives back home, hoping to join us in launching pay TV and movie channels!" Frank looked at Zeng Xiaoxian and said.
"Pay TV and movie channels?" Zeng Xiaoxian frowned slightly, about pay TV and movie channels, of course he knew, in his previous life, China seemed to have been engaged in it for a while, but it was basically a failure. There are many reasons, the most important of which is that Chinese are used to watching free TV programs, where are they willing to pay to watch TV programs, and besides, they don't have to watch programs on demand themselves, right?
The most important thing is that there is still an Internet, anyway, the Internet is also free, and you can order whatever you want on the Internet, which is much simpler than pay TV.
Zeng Xiaoxian knew as soon as he thought about it, what idea Viacom was playing, after all, if this kind of channel wanted to be run without a huge source of films as a backing, it would not be possible to run it at all, and it would be a joke for any company to run it alone, and although Lion Pictures is not a particularly big company in Hollywood, it is definitely a powerful company, and there is no problem at all with thousands of movies to play.
It's just that Zeng Xiaoxian is strange, why did Viacom suddenly want to launch such a channel?
One of the strangest things is that Viacom is actually involved, and there are actually two paid channels running before the launch of this syndicated channel. That's Time Warner's, and Viacom takes over the boss Lei Shidong's own Meng, isn't Viacom competing with himself when he does this?
I don't know if Lei Dongshi himself is dizzy, or is Viacom's CEO making his position in the group stable through competition? Anyway, Zeng Xiaoxian can't figure it out!
In fact, it is not so complicated, you must know that not all companies are companies like Zeng Xiaoxian who basically completely control their own companies.
In fact, the world's large companies are jointly owned by many shareholders except for freaks like Zeng Xiaoxian, Viacom seems to be naturally his own person in Zeng Xiaoxian, but in fact, as the co-boss of the two companies, Lei Dongshi is only a holding, in addition to Lei Dongshi, there are many shareholders Viacom's CEO, in addition to Lei Dongshi, is also responsible for the interests of many small shareholders, so it is not surprising that there will be competition between the two companies, although the major shareholders are the same, but the small shareholders are completely different.
"It's good for you to make up your own mind about this, as long as it's good for the company, I will support you." Zeng Xiaoxian finally said that the so-called art industry has a specialty, although it is also in the entertainment industry, but it is a completely different field. Therefore, Zeng Xiaoxian knows his shortcomings and will not meddle casually, and may not start to learn this aspect of management until he retires a few years later.
"Is it just profitable?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked, Zeng Xiaoxian really didn't know anything about the Tao in it.
"Of course, each movie is only three dollars on demand, which can be said to be very cheap, much cheaper than going to the cinema!" Frank said with a smile.
Zeng Xiaoxian shook his head and smiled, what question did he ask, if he didn't make money, would Comvia and Lianmei run in? And what can't be said about the survival of the two channels owned by Time Warner and Viacom boss Lei Shidong himself?
"Okay, after that's said about you, it's time to talk about the purpose of my here, first of all, I recently acted in a movie, do you know?" Zeng Xiaoxian said eloquently.
"Know". Poison Frank has heard of it, and the reason is his boss, so he must pay more attention: "I've seen it, it's good!" ”
In fact, the movie "Myth", aside from the culture of the East and the West, is indeed a very good movie, much better than most Hollywood movies, nine out of ten Hollywood movies are piled up with countless computer stunts, empty and boring commercial blockbusters, just from the perspective of computer stunts, specially invited stunt teams from the United States make this movie no worse than Hollywood blockbusters in this regard, and it has more moving emotions and basically reasonable plots, if this is made by a Hollywood company, There is no doubt that there will be a very good box office,
Not to mention that the box office has exceeded one billion dollars worldwide, but it is no problem to easily win three or four billion US dollars at the box office.
"That's right; I made this film at my studio in Asia, and now I want it to be released in theaters under Lion Pictures! Zeng Xiaoxian said with a smile.
"Yes, no problem at all!" Frank said without even thinking about it.
The Lions always bet on small films or spend a lot of money and then market them, but at the same time the Lions also rely heavily on the cash provided by the industry's largest studios and TV repositories to keep the company turnover, which is a clever business plan, and Philtimmel and Burns have been doing very well, and the problem now is that the Lions are running too successfully.
Many of the films produced and promoted by the Lion cost less than a million dollars, making a small profit at a minimal cost compared to the average dollar standard in the film industry.
Due to the high stakes of production, Lion usually only buys finished art films. Although there are some signs that the Lion has deviated from its usual business plan, such as setting up its own independent film studio in New Mexico, low-budget films are still the main production direction and promotion direction of Lion Pictures.
Of course, with Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, Lion Pictures can be regarded as wealthy, and there will definitely be movies with large investments in the future, but small-scale movies are still very important to Lion Pictures.
And "Myth" is a movie that meets this standard very well, counting "Myth" with shooting, with post-production, plus publicity expenses or something. It's only 130 million yuan, less than 20 million US dollars, and it's definitely a low-budget movie.
There is definitely money to be made by promoting this movie, and besides, it is my boss himself, even if it is a loss, I have to try it.
"In addition to this, there is another thing, that is, I have written two scripts, you can take a look, if there is no problem, you can start filming!" Zeng Xiaoxian smiled and took out the scripts of "Prison Break" and "Youth Singing and Dance" from behind him.
Boss Zeng Xiaoxian can write scripts, Frank knows, he has also learned about Zeng Xiaoxian's past before, in addition to the identity of a singer and actor, he also has the identity of a writer, and several scripts he has written before are also popular in Asia, this "Myth" is said to be the script brought by Zeng Xiaoxian, but it is one thing to write a script that sells well in Asia, but in Europe and the United States, the cultural differences can definitely be called a world of difference, and what is suitable in Asia is still suitable for Europe and the United States?
However, Frank thought of the previous "Twilight" series, which was not also written by him, but it was also a big hit in Europe and the United States, so with Zeng Xiaoxian's strength, it was too simple to write a work that would also interest Europeans and Americans!
After taking the script given by Zeng Xiaoxian, Frank read it. Let's take a look at "Prison Break" first. Tense and gripping plot. The body collision between prisoners and jailers, the intrigue between prisoners, the perseverance and courage to break through the cage, and the broken toe of the maze tattoo scissors weave into one thrilling adventure after another.
When Zeng Xiaoxian's new album "Half of One" was released, "Mythology" had already been screened in different regions, and the first round of publicity work had come to an end, and there was no need for large-scale publicity in Chinese-speaking areas. The main thing is that the publicity in Asia still needs a few main creators to run separately.
Zeng Xiaoxian will also occasionally run the promotion of "Myth", but most of the time it is the new album "Two Parts" that is running the promotion, after all, now the new album is his own highlight, and this time "Two Points" is sold in mainstream countries throughout the world, Zeng Xiaoxian wants to fly all over the world, no longer with the first domestic and the second Asia as the chessboard, and it is impossible for Asia Zeng Xiaoxian to take care of too much.
In China, there are basically only two stops in Beijing and Shanghai. Together with Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo, there are a total of six stops in Asia, and the rest is to go to other big states, such as Los Alum in the United States, and Washington, New York, and Washington. San Francisco, Vancouver Canada, Sydney Australia, London (UK), Paris (France) and Palin (Germany), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy)!
Predictably, the promotion period of Zeng Xiaoxian's third album is definitely much longer than that of the first and second chapter albums.
After completing the promotion in Asia, Zeng Xiaoxian quickly stepped on a plane to the United States, but Zeng Xiaoxian did not go directly to Washington, the first stop of American propaganda, but went to the company of Lion Pictures in Santa Monica, California.
Zeng Xiaoxian and Fang Qing arrived at the gate of Lion Pictures. Like all Zeng Xiaoxian's companies. After getting Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, Lion Pictures also changed its guns, and the originally rented office building was also bought later, of course, this price is naturally expensive, but compared to Zeng Xiaoxian, who has deep pockets, there is no problem at all, anyway, Zeng Xiaoxian is also a lot of money.
Of course, the scale of Lion Pictures is still very large, and they can't use such a large office building, at most a few floors are about the same, so what to do with the rest, or it will be wasted, it can't be said to be a warehouse, it's too wasteful, so in the end it was decided to rent it out, although it is not worth mentioning compared to the money to buy an office building, but no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is meat.
Zeng Xiaoxian went directly to find Frank and asked Fang Qing to wait downstairs first, Frank is now full of spring breeze and is very proud.
Although the company is no longer his, but with Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, the company has been revitalized and vigorous again, the company has been founded for so many years, Frank's feelings for the company are very deep, if this time it is not a last resort, he will not sell, although the company is not in his hands now, but he is also very happy to see the company's growth.
"Hey, why are you here?" Frank smiled and gave Zeng Xiaoxian a big hug and said.
Zeng Xiaoxian sat down with a smile and said, "I'm just coming to the United States."
"Yes. Lobsters, now lobsters everywhere! Saying that, Frank swayed his fat body and learned Zeng Xiaoxian's now popular lobster dance.
Zeng Xiaoxian couldn't help but laugh when he saw Frank's funny appearance, it was so funny.
Seeing Zeng Xiaoxian laughing, Frank shrugged helplessly and said, "Eh, dear Zeng, it's obvious that I'm not suitable for this dance!" To be honest, aside from Zeng Xiaoxian's unknown where he got so much money, it is really not easy for Frank to achieve such great success in Europe and the United States as a yellow person, not that he has any racial discrimination, but that such difficulties do exist.
"You're here just in time, I just have a proposal for you to see!" Frank said.
"Proposal?" Zeng Xiaoxian said with some doubts, "Oh, Frank, just like we said before, I usually don't interfere in the operation of the company, you can decide many things yourself!" ”
"Yes!" Frank nodded, indeed as promised when Zeng Xiaoxian bought the company and hired him as president, he would not interfere in the operation of the company, except for sending the financial director, all the same as before, so many times he will forget that the original company has been acquired, so he is very grateful, but although Zeng Xiaoxian promised not to interfere in the company's food, but he can't forget that he is no longer the company's CEO,
"That's right, I think it's necessary to discuss this matter with you!"
"What's so important?" Zeng Xiaoxian said that he could make Frank have to report to himself, so Zeng Xiaoxian also put on the boss's style, sat on the sand and said, "Say it, I'll listen!" ”
"That's right, you have an impression of Viacom!" Frank asked.
"Huh!" Zeng Xiaoxian nodded, "I know!" ”
Speaking of Zeng Xiaoxian, some information about Viacom came to his mind, Viacom Group is the third largest media company in the United States, including the television group that owns local television stations, Paramount Television Group, Paramount Pictures, CBS, and is also one of the largest television networks in the United States.
In China, the Beijing office was established, and its global network began to enter China in the form of program exchange with China. In the same year, it obtained the landing rights in China's three-star hotels and foreign-related communities Chinese Channel is a music TV channel specially created for Chinese-speaking audiences, and it penetrates into every household through various cable TV stations in Chinese mainland Chinese mainland largest provider of foreign music programs.
Among them, Zeng Xiaoxian's most impressive is Viacom, which jointly held an annual music festival with CCTV, which can be regarded as a relatively famous music festival in the mainland, and Zeng Xiaoxian has also watched several sessions.
"Does it have anything to do with Viacom?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked.
"Well, Viacom and MGM sent representatives back home, hoping to join us in launching pay TV and movie channels!" Frank looked at Zeng Xiaoxian and said.
"Pay TV and movie channels?" Zeng Xiaoxian frowned slightly, about pay TV and movie channels, of course he knew, in his previous life, China seemed to have been engaged in it for a while, but it was basically a failure. There are many reasons, the most important of which is that Chinese are used to watching free TV programs, where are they willing to pay to watch TV programs, and besides, they don't have to watch programs on demand themselves, right?
The most important thing is that there is still an Internet, anyway, the Internet is also free, and you can order whatever you want on the Internet, which is much simpler than pay TV.
Zeng Xiaoxian knew as soon as he thought about it, what idea Viacom was playing, after all, if this kind of channel wanted to be run without a huge source of films as a backing, it would not be possible to run it at all, and it would be a joke for any company to run it alone, and although Lion Pictures is not a particularly big company in Hollywood, it is definitely a powerful company, and there is no problem at all with thousands of movies to play.
It's just that Zeng Xiaoxian is strange, why did Viacom suddenly want to launch such a channel?
One of the strangest things is that Viacom is actually involved, and there are actually two paid channels running before the launch of this syndicated channel. That's Time Warner's, and Viacom takes over the boss Lei Shidong's own Meng, isn't Viacom competing with himself when he does this?
I don't know if Lei Dongshi himself is dizzy, or is Viacom's CEO making his position in the group stable through competition? Anyway, Zeng Xiaoxian can't figure it out!
In fact, it is not so complicated, you must know that not all companies are companies like Zeng Xiaoxian who basically completely control their own companies.
In fact, the world's large companies are jointly owned by many shareholders except for freaks like Zeng Xiaoxian, Viacom seems to be naturally his own person in Zeng Xiaoxian, but in fact, as the co-boss of the two companies, Lei Dongshi is only a holding, in addition to Lei Dongshi, there are many shareholders Viacom's CEO, in addition to Lei Dongshi, is also responsible for the interests of many small shareholders, so it is not surprising that there will be competition between the two companies, although the major shareholders are the same, but the small shareholders are completely different.
"It's good for you to make up your own mind about this, as long as it's good for the company, I will support you." Zeng Xiaoxian finally said that the so-called art industry has a specialty, although it is also in the entertainment industry, but it is a completely different field. Therefore, Zeng Xiaoxian knows his shortcomings and will not meddle casually, and may not start to learn this aspect of management until he retires a few years later.
"Is it just profitable?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked, Zeng Xiaoxian really didn't know anything about the Tao in it.
"Of course, each movie is only three dollars on demand, which can be said to be very cheap, much cheaper than going to the cinema!" Frank said with a smile.
Zeng Xiaoxian shook his head and smiled, what question did he ask, if he didn't make money, would Comvia and Lianmei run in? And what can't be said about the survival of the two channels owned by Time Warner and Viacom boss Lei Shidong himself?
"Okay, after that's said about you, it's time to talk about the purpose of my here, first of all, I recently acted in a movie, do you know?" Zeng Xiaoxian said eloquently.
"Know". Poison Frank has heard of it, and the reason is his boss, so he must pay more attention: "I've seen it, it's good!" ”
In fact, the movie "Myth", aside from the culture of the East and the West, is indeed a very good movie, much better than most Hollywood movies, nine out of ten Hollywood movies are piled up with countless computer stunts, empty and boring commercial blockbusters, just from the perspective of computer stunts, specially invited stunt teams from the United States make this movie no worse than Hollywood blockbusters in this regard, and it has more moving emotions and basically reasonable plots, if this is made by a Hollywood company, There is no doubt that there will be a very good box office,
Not to mention that the box office has exceeded one billion dollars worldwide, but it is no problem to easily win three or four billion US dollars at the box office.
"That's right; I made this film at my studio in Asia, and now I want it to be released in theaters under Lion Pictures! Zeng Xiaoxian said with a smile.
"Yes, no problem at all!" Frank said without even thinking about it.
The Lions always bet on small films or spend a lot of money and then market them, but at the same time the Lions also rely heavily on the cash provided by the industry's largest studios and TV repositories to keep the company turnover, which is a clever business plan, and Philtimmel and Burns have been doing very well, and the problem now is that the Lions are running too successfully.
Many of the films produced and promoted by the Lion cost less than a million dollars, making a small profit at a minimal cost compared to the average dollar standard in the film industry.
Due to the high stakes of production, Lion usually only buys finished art films. Although there are some signs that the Lion has deviated from its usual business plan, such as setting up its own independent film studio in New Mexico, low-budget films are still the main production direction and promotion direction of Lion Pictures.
Of course, with Zeng Xiaoxian's capital injection, Lion Pictures can be regarded as wealthy, and there will definitely be movies with large investments in the future, but small-scale movies are still very important to Lion Pictures.
And "Myth" is a movie that meets this standard very well, counting "Myth" with shooting, with post-production, plus publicity expenses or something. It's only 130 million yuan, less than 20 million US dollars, and it's definitely a low-budget movie.
There is definitely money to be made by promoting this movie, and besides, it is my boss himself, even if it is a loss, I have to try it.
"In addition to this, there is another thing, that is, I have written two scripts, you can take a look, if there is no problem, you can start filming!" Zeng Xiaoxian smiled and took out the scripts of "Prison Break" and "Youth Singing and Dance" from behind him.
Boss Zeng Xiaoxian can write scripts, Frank knows, he has also learned about Zeng Xiaoxian's past before, in addition to the identity of a singer and actor, he also has the identity of a writer, and several scripts he has written before are also popular in Asia, this "Myth" is said to be the script brought by Zeng Xiaoxian, but it is one thing to write a script that sells well in Asia, but in Europe and the United States, the cultural differences can definitely be called a world of difference, and what is suitable in Asia is still suitable for Europe and the United States?
However, Frank thought of the previous "Twilight" series, which was not also written by him, but it was also a big hit in Europe and the United States, so with Zeng Xiaoxian's strength, it was too simple to write a work that would also interest Europeans and Americans!
After taking the script given by Zeng Xiaoxian, Frank read it. Let's take a look at "Prison Break" first. Tense and gripping plot. The body collision between prisoners and jailers, the intrigue between prisoners, the perseverance and courage to break through the cage, and the broken toe of the maze tattoo scissors weave into one thrilling adventure after another. (To be continued.) )