Whether to go in the direction of a large listed company, or to continue the current boutique production route, before Cesare raised this question, Jenny really didn't think that it would be a problem that needed to be made immediately - or she didn't realize that it would be a problem, maybe one day in the future, Big Dream will need to face the decision of whether to go public or not, but she didn't expect Paramount's sense of smell to be so keen, Big Dream began to develop her own exclusive copyright series, and only then did she start "Twilight", Paramount realizes the threat of Big Dreams: at the end of the day, she still takes the series a little too little.

Why is Brad afraid of big dreams? In addition to the fact that Big Dream is too profitable and the momentum of its rise is too rapid, more importantly, they can not only make well-made small productions, but now they have begun to dig out series, which is a significant sign of the expansion of a small film company, the significance of an ace series for a film company is simply indescribable, it means stable financial resources, continuous influence, and also means the improvement of hard power, especially large-scale series, which is not what the film company wants to do, So when Miramax wanted to get involved in a big production of over 100 million dollars, or even explore commercial series, Disney began to have conflicts with the Weinstein brothers, so the new line lasted a few years after getting "The Lord of the Rings", but it still had no choice but to lose its last autonomy and was completely taken down by Warner, so before the rise of Big Dreams, Lionsgate, the most successful independent film company, only had one "Saw Horror" - you don't have the corresponding financial flow, distribution ability and ambition, you won't enter this field, And if you have a firm foothold in this field, you will really grow bigger.

In the case of Big Dream, if this momentum comes for another two or three years, and then a few more blockbuster series are discovered, as long as it is listed and financed, the market value can exceed the film department of the six major in minutes, of course, it may be that after the listing, in terms of equity, Big Dream will belong to a giant media group, or it will simply be completely bought by Disney in the second round of financing, and it will no longer be Jenny and Cesare's company, but this has nothing to do with Paramount, what Brad sees is that as long as this momentum is maintained, once it is listed, Big Dream will be difficult to control, At that time, if you play dirty, you may not be able to play with the same backer, so under the premise that the North American box office is almost constant, the rise of Big Dream also means the decline of at least one of the six majors......

One in six odds, which president would love this? Robert. Iger cares a lot about Jenny, because he is the CEO of the entire Disney Group, and Big Dream is also half of his child, the chairman of Disney Films. Cook doesn't like Big Dream so much, although it won't stumble Big Dream, but Jenny estimates that he may hate Big Dream more than Brad, because Big Dream is directly competing for resources within the Disney Group, and it has been overlapping with the film business since a long time ago, especially after Big Dream started to make his own hero films, and even cooperated with Warner, Jenny didn't call to congratulate him when he won the Oscar, fully expressing his perception of Big Dream - the resources are just a little, in places that the audience can't see, There is fierce competition within the group, not to mention the outside. So, even if this time the Big Six didn't notice what it meant for Big Dream to pass the test on their own, and didn't feel threatened, as long as Big Dream continued to develop, after the first commercial blockbuster series developed by themselves was launched, the conflict would still come sooner or later, and then it might even be that Big Dream would be crippled together, and then Disney would swallow Big Dream in one bite, and let Jenny and Cesare out - yes, Big Dream can continue to dig out blockbuster series in your Jenny's hands, bringing huge profits to Disney, But there is still a large part of it to be distributed to your two major shareholders, and instead of choosing to spend a lot of resources to protect you, I Disney may not be able to succeed, but it is better to watch the five big ones teach children to be people, and then eat the copyrights of the most valuable movies in Big Dream, as well as the executives who have been trained within the company for many years and know the details, and move the successful model of Big Dream to Disney for application.

As for Jenny, when the time comes, you have to start over, and then stand on your own, of course, it is not impossible, and when you develop again to the point where you can threaten the status of the Big Six, it will be more than ten years later, and who knows what accidents will happen in the middle, or you will directly join one of the Big Six again in the form of a small number of shares as we did when Weinstein and Disney cooperated, and use your wise film selection vision to make money for the Big Six - by that time, in the field of producers and company managers, she can also enjoy the current princess treatment, It is estimated that by then, if Bullard. If Gray was still in power, he would still be able to go back and reconcile with Jenny with a shy face, begging Jenny to join Paramount and make money for him.

After five or six years in the business world, Jenny is also interested in the Big Six. Deeply confident', she believes that the Big Six will definitely be able to do such a thing, if Big Dream wants to continue to shoot his own commercial series, and even wants to develop a new series, the copyright is completely in his own hands, to do it in the direction of a large company, and the head-to-head battle with the Big Six will definitely come, among which Disney's main film company, it is even possible to stab within the group, which will definitely be a catastrophe for Big Dream, it may not be a clear sky to go over, but if you can't go over, it will definitely be a heavy loss, the exact Sary is right, according to her nature, Jenny does not like this kind of real knife and real gun, rationally speaking, the chance of winning is very small, If she is the Chen Zhen who has just crossed over to Hollywood, according to the character she has cultivated over the years, she is likely to choose the road of a more aggrieved and insured, boutique small-production movie - this is a manifestation of her psychology of being a little rich, although the current status of Big Dream cannot be described as a small rich, but there is no change in mentality.

This is to say if-if she is still Chen Zhen who has just crossed over......

Having washed off the expensive mask on her face and replaced her loose seaside loungewear, Jenny is now wearing a sports headband, a pair of light running shoes, and running unhurriedly on the wet concrete sidewalk after the rain, the beach house has become a small black spot on the edge of the skyline - a deserted highway connecting the island to the mainland, with rocks on both sides of the road, and two seawalls farther away, and the waves washing over the seawall, constantly making 'whoa, 'Whoa', all Jenny could hear except for the wind and her own heartbeat.

Years of non-stop workouts, martial arts studies, and high-intensity shooting schedules have almost made Jenny an iron man, and after the first short warm-up period, she no longer feels strained, only the regular sound of breathing and a slightly accelerated heartbeat, and the slight pleasure of dopamine released after exercise accompany her - this is the first time she has been running outdoors in many years, although she also has concerns about sun exposure, Jenny has to admit that she prefers the feeling of jogging in the wild, which makes the decoration not gorgeous, With almost nowhere to go but the beach, the beach cottage overcame those resorts in the Maldives, Tahiti and the Caribbean to become her favourite seaside abode. - This is almost incredible for Chen Zhen in the past, when it comes to going on vacation, her first choice has always been a five-star hotel, and the facilities and services inside the hotel are important: the needs of children and husbands to consider, including that she has been pampered for a long time, this kind of villa on a desert island is simply uninhabitable for her, if Chen Zhen in the past, seeing the photos of Jenny running on the seaside road now, may feel that this is unique to foreigners, especially foreign stars, This is one of their daily weird behaviors, and it is not a normal person's choice.

Yes, it was a completely inevitable choice for Chen Zhen in the past, and it may not be the same thing for Chen Zhen now: give up and become bigger, stay honestly in the safe zone, enjoy Robert's shade and favor, dedicate his prophetic vision, and exchange peace between the six majors...... What may sound like a win-win idea may sound fairly safe, but ......

She continued to run, silently counting her steps in her heart, feeling the sweat sliding down her forehead and being absorbed by the headband, there was almost no wind on the beach after the rain, her hair was sweaty and hot flashes from the hood, Jenny pushed her hat behind her head, enjoying the comfortable cool air, counting to a hundred and starting again: 99, 100, 1, 2, 3, 4......

From the beginning of almost impossible to produce a movie independently, to now several movies brought down, the box office exploded, the company expanded, Big Dream has become a medium-sized production company with more than 100 permanent employees, it still shares some resources with Disney movies, such as digital copy production, it uses the machine's internal group, and there is no independent copy department, but the basic production department and distribution department have all four corners, the distribution department can release 2-3 movies within a year, and 3 movies in a row at the end of last year, Let the distribution department expand a lot in one fell swoop, in Jenny's view, there can be the ability to regularly distribute 4-6 movies a year, that is to say, the average production of a minimum of 4 movies per year, otherwise human resources will be in a state of redundancy and waste, the company always gives people a feeling of instability, besides, if the output does not go up, the expansion of the film library is too slow, and it is impossible to achieve a long stream, and new films are added to the film library every year, bringing copyright income, then the company's cash flow will indeed not be too stable. Not to mention challenging the Big Six or something, I'm afraid it's a problem to compete with Lionsgate.

This year, Big Dream's plan is to release two homemade films, "Twilight 2" and "Slumdog Millionaire", to make Jenny's hero films, and if possible, to buy a few potential films and try to fill the library with small-scale releases. However, the latter is full of variables, and now the movies that are watched by Big Dream are likely to be instantly hyped to a high price, Jenny even suspects that many filmmakers will take the initiative to let go after contacting Big Dream, because for them, Big Dream is like a quality inspection system, and Big Dream's license will attract the six with stronger distribution capabilities - Big Dream is the cheetah on the African savannah, which is extremely fast and has a strong hunting ability, but after killing the prey, many times if you can't eat a few bites, you will be driven away by the lions and hyenas who come to hear the wind, and there is no force value to compete with them.

In this case, after giving up the big-budget series with self-abandonment, it is a bit difficult for Big Dream to maintain the scale of 4 films a year, Jenny can rely on her influence to bring two movies to Big Dream every year, or it is a wholly-owned production of Big Dream, or a joint venture production, and Big Dream is released, but the remaining 2 small productions can only be turned around in the fields of teen films, women's films, love movies and art films, horror films, etc., and Jenny can't really turn stones into gold, so that each of these movies becomes "Prada", In fact, as far as Jenny's own memory is concerned, among the movies from 09 to 14, even if you count the movies with high expectations in 15 years, she knows that one "The Hunger Games" belongs to the above category, and the rest she has an impression of, what "Gravity", "The Fantasy Drift of Young Pi", "Interstellar"...... Which one is not a big production with an investment of hundreds of millions? In addition to "Fantasy Drifting", there is also the potential to make a sequel?

Choosing the latter path is tantamount to giving up his biggest gold finger, and he can only rely on his real eye to pick a piece to mix, maybe without knowing the premise of the gold finger, and not knowing that the intuition will one day be invalid, Cesare will feel that both roads can work, but Jenny herself knows that if you choose the hegemony route, the gold finger can still be managed for 6 years, and choosing the boutique route is tantamount to abandoning your martial arts, after all, according to common sense, the probability of making a profit from a small production film is countless times lower than that of a large production film. On the premise of not opening the lucky buff, her film selection myth will definitely fall very quickly - when the time comes, she will really not be a threat to the Big Six, and the environment will be much more relaxed, but it is conceivable that her status will also plummet and be kicked away from the chess table: she will still be very rich, she will still be very famous, maybe her status in the actor industry will be higher than before, but on the whole, the peak of her life will pass, and now, it is the present running by the sea, which will become the high point of her life, For Jenny for the rest of her life, it is slowly walking downhill......

Jenny stopped, put her hands on her lap and took a few breaths, she raised her head and drank a few sips of water, stuffed the water bottle, turned around and ran towards the villa that had become a faint little point, she didn't think about anything along the way, just enjoyed the feeling of jogging at a constant speed, she was the only creature between the sea and the sky, Jenny watched the sunset change on the horizon while running, halfway through the run, she put on her hat, because the sun showed half of her body on the sea, and sprinkled half of the sky with sunlight and glow.

When she wiped her sweat and walked inside, the living room was already lit up, wet footprints stretched up the back door all the way upstairs, it looked like Cesare had just returned from the beach, Jeanne grimaced at herself, walked into her suite, took a shower, then changed into her loungewear and walked into the dining room, opened the fridge and took out her box of salad.

"Is there anything I have to let know while I'm out for a run?" She asked as she bit her fork and walked to the kitchen, leaning against the door frame.

Cesare turned from the fire, still with a stew spoon in his hand, and he was stirring the stew in the casserole: every morning an hourly worker would come from the other side of the sea to clean the house for them and prepare two meals, she was not very good at it, but Jeanne was very fed, she ate almost only salads and boiled meats, and there happened to be a family farm in the town that provided greens - Cesare would sometimes drive to the Italian restaurant in town and pack back some stews, which he would just need to reheat and eat.

"I don't know." He seems to be back at home, "Since we're on vacation now, I don't always check my phone and email – there are no missed calls, and the outside world should still be calm." ”

Jenny shrugged, "OK - do you want to have dinner together?" ”

Aside from the brief experience of living together, this is still her and Cesare's real living under the same roof, of course, they have shared the same suite many times before, but the design of the presidential suite makes them more like roommates, and the dinner they share together is more like a working meal, they will talk about work, of course, there is some industry gossip, talking about the public part of Jeanne's life (that is, most of her life), in general, there is always no end to work-related topics, although they are alone, But there is no sense of life - the outside world seems to be around them all the time, but in this isolated house, when they start to spend 24 hours together, the real life finally begins to emerge, Jeanne and Cesare do not have much to talk about, many times they will even have dinner in their own rooms, not uncomfortable with Cesare's presence, at least for Jeanne, this loneliness makes her feel very comfortable, just like Cesare said, although this vacation also has its purpose, But it was more or less a vacation, and she wanted to enjoy some personal life, to get away for a while from work that was not urgent, and between her and Cesare, if not work,

Jeanne didn't know what she was resisting, and it made sense that the more casual her and Cesare's body language were, the more convincing the whole story of love and marriage became, so they probably did know more about it than they used to be, and it was a job necessity - but because it was a work necessity, she didn't like it so much, and it felt like talking about private matters, or even sharing some daily hobbies, and knowing some details about Cesare's life, which would further blur the boundaries between work and private life. There was a sense of unease, and she guessed that this was why she felt a bout of discomfort from time to time, even fear, and it had something to do with what Maggie had told her about her personal space: when work oppressed personal space, when a person was forced to give up privacy, her subconscious felt extremely stressful, and it was likely that this was the source of the uneasiness.

She hadn't communicated with Cesare on this point, but Cesare seemed to be comfortable with their way of getting along, and didn't mind, he was completely of the type where he had more fun alone, and Jenny guessed that this might be because he always had to take care of others, his profession, his identity, and his personality all determined that he was the one who made the arrangements and coordinated the overall situation, although this arrangement may not be liked by others, but he adjusted his ideas for the sake of the other person, in order to get the two sides to agree, Swimming, surfing, exercising, and reading alone seemed to be very rejuvenating to Cesare, so that although they had largely ignored each other's presence until this afternoon, and had only spoken a few short words a day, the atmosphere in the room was not awkward, but rather tacit and pleasant.

Now, when Cesare sat down across from Jeanne with his casserole stew, she felt a little nervous—she had eaten so many meals with Cesare, many of them personal, with a certain amount of affection, but ...... In the new relationship, groping for a new way of getting along seemed imperative, and Jeanne did not want to be dominated by her insecurity, she did not want her to be affected by the marriage contract and the fact that 'everyone in the world thought she and he were passionately in love', and instead let the intimate cohabitation distance them.

Suppressing the discomfort, and no longer looking at Cesare's eating, Jeanne picked up a carrot and threw it into her mouth, ordering herself to let her guard down - if they were to make a choice about the future in this moment, then Cesare had the right to know all the chips of the big dream, and he had to know when Jeanne's instincts would fail, and how many flashes she would have in the intervening years.

"What would you think if I told you," said Jenny as she chewed, somewhat inarticulately—"if I told you that in six years there was a good chance that I would never be able to make such an accurate judgment again?" ”

Cesare scooped up a spoonful of stew and poured it over the rice, and he glanced at Jenny.

"I can't make such a precise judgment anymore," he said, "and you mean your intuition is going to be invalid in 2015?" ”

Jean-Nesser winced: it was still a little frightening to hear Cesare's voice tell her a secret that she had kept secret.

"That's pretty much it." She took a sip of water, trying to calm her tone, as if she didn't care.

"Okay." Cesare shrugged his shoulders and put the rice in his mouth, he didn't look surprised, "That explains a lot. ”

"Explained a lot?"

"When you started Big Dream, including investing in Prada, you had a much more impatient style than you gave me." Cesare said that it seemed that these details had been buried deep in his heart, but that he had not chosen to point it out before—that Jeanne had the feeling that she had been seen through, as if she had been defeated by Cesare—as if Cesare had been quietly conceding to her on certain matters, "It gives me the feeling that you are in a hurry to accomplish something, and that time seems to be very precious to you—and now, in combination with your statement, it all makes a lot more sense." ”

In the end, his tone was a little subtle, as if to suggest that Jenny would never ask where this intuition came from, and hoped that Jenny would not shock his worldview with her answers, and Jenny was amused by his insistence, which always refused to be surprised, and she relaxed, laughing and biting on a leaf.

"So you're going to leave me behind in 2015?" She asked, "Kick me out of the company and leave me with nothing." ”

"I'm also going to sell you into the Sultan's harem." Cesare said solemnly, glancing at Jenny from the plate, "I've already found a buyer - otherwise why do you think I'd come to receive Said myself?" Al Nahyan? ”

Jeanne couldn't help it, she banged on the table and laughed, Cesare swallowed the food, took a sip of water, he shook his head, and laughed with Jeanne rarely, like every real smile he made, this smile made him look very young, cheerful, and even like him at work.

In the midst of the laughter, the atmosphere of the restaurant became more relaxed - as if the world had found a more tacit way to work, and a tension that had been brewing for a long time quietly dissipated, and Jenny wiped the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes, put down her fork, and held her chin.

"Well, let's assume -- if you don't sell me to Said," she asked with interest, "then, knowing that after 2015, we won't have the cheap, obscure, and lucrative options of 'Twilight' and 'Slumdog Millionaire', all of which have lost all of these advantages—would you still choose to try to become the seventh-best?" ”

Cesare thought for a moment, "It depends on how much leverage we can accumulate over the next few years - if your instincts can only provide a few small productions, then the squeeze of the Big Six will not be a problem because it will not continue to exist, and if your intuition can provide us with six to eight big productions a year-"

"Then we won't be able to eat it." Jeanne said, and Cesare shook his head, "But then I could use those chips to earn us a lot of space." ”

"Okay," Jenny sighed, "there's only one series of small productions and big hits, and the rest I can think of, The Hangover that we didn't take at the end of last year—"

"The Hangover" is also a series that Jenny wants to win, but unfortunately, the script of this film has existed for several years, and the screenwriters, directors, and producers are very uninterested in the idea of 'the copyright of the series belongs to the film company', so they simply set up their own company to pull the investment, and when Jenny heard about this film, their funds were also in place one after another, and Big Dream just took a kick and invested a little money into it, but did not get the copyright, and as for the distribution right, it was also marked by Warner - after Big Dream invested, "The Hangover" It immediately attracted considerable attention in Hollywood, and Big Dream had no advantage over Warner in terms of distribution, which was that the typical cheetah only ate one bite of meat, and gave the rest to the lion.

"There are also adaptations of two best-selling novels," she counted with her fingers, and the more she talked, the more she felt empty, "In addition to this, there are also super-powered works of manga, as well as visual spectacles adapted from classic fairy tales for all-age popcorn films...... Science Fiction Movie ......"

Looking at Cesare, Jenny shook her head apologetically, "There are also some sprint films that I'm not sure if I'll be able to make a lot of, and that's pretty much it." ”

Cesare's eyebrows were raised, and his hand holding the spoon paused in the air, as if to make a wordless comment, and Jenny spread her hands to him, "Yes, basically every production is -- series, high-budget, commercial...... Each set can make a company rise, if we win them all, if we can all run successfully and grow at full strength in the meantime—"

"Big Dream has a good chance of becoming the seventh largest film company in Hollywood, or the second largest film company after the Big Six." Cesare's eyes seemed to be burning as he finished speaking for her, "Big dreams are going to be a big movie company once and for all." ”

"At the same time, it will inevitably arouse the covetousness and jealousy of the Big Six," Jenny pointed out, "and at the same time, we will lose the confidence to develop new collections, and we will lose one of our core strengths."

"It sounds like it's going to put Big Dream in a big problem," Cesare said, his expression returning to normal, he put the meal in his mouth and chewed it, "yes, you're right, Big Dream will have a very difficult time by then, and there's a good chance we'll not get through it, and you really should think about that." ”

"And that doesn't seem to shake your confidence," said Jeanne, taking a sip of water, her eyes still not taking off Cesare's, "aren't you worried that you're going to fail?" You must know that we are only talking about the most ideal situation, and in this ideal situation, the situation that Da Meng will face can also be described as nine deaths and one life-"

She looked at Cesare, at his calm, nonchalant expression—

Without further along, Jenny changed her position and propped her slid elbow back onto the table.

"I decided to keep the commercial series," she announced, "and I chose the same as you – I decided I wanted to dream big." ”

This time, she finally saw a hint of consternation on Cesare's face, and although it faded quickly, it still made Jeanne feel a little excited and proud, as if she had invisibly won Cesare once—she had exceeded his expectations once, and he had expected her to be stable, but she had surprised him-

"May I ask why?" Cesare swallowed the rice, took a sip of water, and washed the rice from his mouth, and he glanced at Jenny as if to explore her inner thoughts, and it was hard to tell if he was excited or not, this man's self-control was sometimes as good as steel.

"Because I'm who I am," said Jenny, with a deliberate and solemn look, "I'm a girl who strives for excellence. ”

She laughed, thinking of the parting words Cesare had given her in Big Dream's office, and sometimes she felt that Cesare really liked to pretend to be cool, though he would never admit it, of course. "Remember? The pursuit of excellence, always the pursuit. ”

In the end, it's just a joke, Jenny knows she has to make some explanations, which can also strengthen her and Cesare's confidence and make them agree on the future of the big dream, maybe it's a development idea, maybe even just a spirit, a spirit of excellence - a spirit that when you are close to having everything, but still never afraid to meet challenges, even attracted by challenges, and take the initiative to seek challenges, a spirit that always maintains firm confidence in the face of great difficulties, a spirit of knowing people and being good at their jobs, With absolute trust in his partner and a spirit of never abandoning, there was no doubt that Cesare would have chosen to rise to the occasion of the two choices, but he gave her the choice.

Jenny wanted to say that, she wanted to say after laughing, "Because your choice is an important reference to my choice, and I know what you will choose—"

- But in the laughter she saw Cesare's eyes, she saw the change in his blue eyes, she saw the curve of the corners of his mouth - she saw the change in Cesare's expression -

That familiar tension returned, and she pursed her lips and changed the subject without a trace, "No, seriously, because excellence means that you always have a choice, and I hope I still retain the power to choose......"