"Planet of the Apes $780 million, Daybreak $725 million, Hunger $650 million, Teddy Bear $613 million, Iron Man II $625 million, Dance $90 million, Red Flame $167 million, plus the current global box office of "The Expendables" is currently over $150 million, Summit Entertainment has achieved a total box office of $3.8 billion this year, which has surpassed last year's $2.37 billion and the year before last's $1.93 billion, creating a new height!"

"Detective 2 and The Hangover 3 have not yet been released, will Summit Entertainment create a $5 billion box office miracle this year?" -- National Geographic.

With the madness of Summit Entertainment and the glory of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the whole world wants to interview Shao Shuaijun. Shao Shuaijun hid at home and did not come out, accompanying the pot-bellied Li Xiuxiu all day long, until the end of September, when the Ministry of Culture and Radio and Television planned to issue a document on the reform of the cinema chain, and invited Shao Shuaijun, an entertainment oligarch, to the ministry and held a meeting for a whole day.

On the way out, he was blocked by reporters, and the bodyguards couldn't stop him, and the reporters would not stop if they didn't get Shao Shuaijun's interview today.

In desperation, Shao Shuaijun had no choice but to let reporters interview.

"Director Shao, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has 780 million worldwide, becoming your second highest-grossing movie, what do you think about the movie being able to achieve good results? What is the secret of success? ”

Shao Shuaijun said in an official tone: "There are many factors in the success of the Planet of the Apes, the fans of the old version of "Planet of the Apes" are a factor, and the world's first outdoor expression capture technology from Weta is one. Serkis, Jack. Gyllenhill and Freida. Pinto's great show is one. The sincere cooperation of the entire crew is one, or thanks to this year's schedule, there are no blockbusters to compete for the market. ”

"Director Shao, double open "Teddy Bear" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", both movies are global hits, will you be the next king of the world?"

"Hehe, as long as I am the king of the world in my wife's mind, it is enough."

"Are Mrs. Shao and the child okay?"

"Very good."

"Sequels to Teddy Bear and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, are you still directing them?"

"I don't know, the script is still being written, and everything is unknown."

"What's your next plan?"

"Go home."

"I'm talking about your plans for your next movie?"

"It's not yet determined. It is possible to wait until next year to direct "The Avengers". It is also possible that he will direct another film at the end of this year. ”

"Today, the Ministry of Culture is talking to you about the reform of the cinema chain, is it because Wanda Cinema has a monopoly on the domestic market and the film schedule is unreasonable?"

"Wanda Cinema Line is only responsible for the unified operation of the theater, and the film schedule is arranged from above."

"China-Style is as of today. It has become the first video on Time Network to exceed 100 million hits. It also surpassed 100 million views on the subsequent summit video. Websites such as Youtube, which later landed, also received more than 500 million hits. The album has swept the markets of various countries and regions and created brilliant results. Huang Bo has started a global tour. Does Director Shao have any plans to enter the music industry? ”

The MV of "China-Style" has set a number of records, with Time.com hits breaking 400 million, Youtube hits breaking 500 million, and peak video hits breaking 100 million, becoming the most popular video this summer, and also making the lead singer Huang Bo popular all over the world, even with Yang Ying, Xu Earn and Shao Shuaijun, have become familiar faces.

Imitation of horse riding dance has become a worldwide trend. The album sold 3.1 million records in the United States, and 1 million were platinum, becoming a triple platinum record. Not only the United States and Asia, but the whole world was conquered by "China-Style", and the entire album sold more than eight million copies, becoming the most Chinese record!

"China-Style is just a game, and I don't have any ideas about singing...... Okay, it's half an hour, it's time to let me go, right? ”

After being blocked by reporters for about half an hour, Shao Shuaijun was finally able to get in the car and go home.

After becoming famous, this is trouble, and you have to be careful when you go out.

……

On October 1, New York time, Shao Shuaijun's eldest apprentice Gao Zhisheng's first film directed independently, "Warm Corpse" began to be released in 3,027 theaters in North America. "Warm Corpse" is a small-budget production, no stars, no well-known directors, and no premiere.

This does not mean that Summit Entertainment does not pay attention to this movie, although the expected box office is not high, the company still works hard to promote, and posters are plastered all over the doors of major theaters. Shao Shuaijun was also on the neck and recommended this movie, he and Gao Zhisheng have no formal mentorship, in fact, Gao Zhisheng is older than him, but he has a master-apprentice relationship.

Gao Zhisheng gave Shao Shuaijun several movies, and Shao Shuaijun did not hesitate to give him advice, telling him all his directing experience. And the cultivation of him is also great, first let him come to the mainland to direct TV series, and now he is coming to Hollywood to direct movies, which can be said to be uncultivated.

Therefore, Gao Zhisheng has always treated Shao Shuaijun as a master.

The movie is about to be released, and I specially called from the United States, babbled some nonsense of thanks, and finally said hello to the unborn Shao Qikai.

Shao Shuaijun smiled and fooled over, because, he was not in China at the moment, he was in a luxury restaurant in New York, and Carl. Icahn had dinner together. At the beginning, Union Mark. Rachesky vetoed Carl's plan to acquire MGM, Shao Shuaijun thought that he would offend this financial predator, who knew that Carl actually invited Shao Shuaijun to the United States to visit his company and his hedge fund, and his attitude was very kind.

It seems that there is no dissatisfaction because of the abortion of the merger and acquisition.

Carl's company is a leather bag company, or rather a shell company, which is not engaged in any production, but only participates in investment. The shell company owns entertainment companies such as MGM and Lionsgate, and also holds decisive stakes in ARI, FM, PS, biopharmaceutical IC, telecom XO and other companies.

In addition to this, he holds two hedge funds at his disposal. One is the Icahn Cooperative Fund, the other is the AREP Fund, and the amount of money he can control can even exceed 100 billion dollars. With billions of dollars in profits generated every year, it is definitely the king of investment on Wall Street.

"Shao, what do you think of my company after reading it?" Karl was a Jew, and he looked like a mild-mannered old man, but the gaze in his eyes was very sharp and penetrating.

Of course, momentum is something that can't be seen or touched. It's all a feeling of status.

Shao Shuaijun himself owns tens of billions of dollars in large companies. Completely unafraid of Karl. Icahn wiped his mouth and said, "To be honest, I don't see anything, you are not engaged in production, and all the employees in the company are calling." Look at the computer screen. Thinking about which company I went to carve up today. It's scary, no wonder Wall Street CEOs hate you. ”

"Haha, I guess that's the best compliment for me." Karl was not at all angry at Shao Shuaijun's words. "You know, in my eyes, the company has only one purpose, which is to go public and cash out. Business or strategy, it is all imaginary, only the dollar is real and can represent the American dream. ”

"Huh?"

Karl stared at Shao Shuaijun and smiled a little incomprehensibly: "You know, I didn't have any plans to acquire MGM from the beginning, or I had it very early, and I gave up this plan in the last two years. ”

"What?"

"MGM is a pool of stagnant water, there is no cure, the organization is bloated, the shares are complex, the staff is aging, I originally planned to use MGM to drag Sony, and then turn MGM's profits in a short time, let the stock rise, and then directly cash out. But Sony is not stupid, after being fooled by me for two years, they simply showed me the rotten, to compete with me in perseverance, to see if I couldn't help but get out, or if they reluctantly cut off this piece of rotten flesh. ”

Carl poured himself a little red wine and continued: "Sony's attitude made me a little helpless, and in the end, there were only two results, one was that Sony and I didn't let go, and MGM went bankrupt. The other is that I let go, and Sony took it and got rid of me at a small price. No matter how you calculate it, I'm going to lose. So, I had my eye on Lionsgate and was ready to use Lionsgate to turn MGM around. ”

"So I'm messing up your plans?"

"After listening to me, my original plan was indeed Lionsgate, but in the past two years, Lionsgate's operation has deviated a little from my plan, and the spread has been expanded, but there is no plan that can support it, and it is difficult to become a platform to turn MGM around. And it just so happened that the peak of Lionsgate's neighbors had risen miraculously in the past two years, and I knew that the opportunity had come. ”

His eyelids jumped, and Shao Shuaijun said in a deep voice: "And then? ”

"I sent someone to investigate Summit Entertainment carefully, and of course, I want to apologize, I also sent someone to investigate your background." Carl smiled, "Time Magazine is right, your movie kingdom has risen, your time has come. Dream Chaser Entertainment Group has created too many miracles, and you are not only nouveau riche, but also have a solid foundation, which is based on the Internet, from a single movie and TV entertainment to more peripheral products. ”

"Perhaps."

"Our research has found that the layout of Dream Chasing Entertainment Group is very purposeful, and at present, you have three listed companies, Dream Chasing Golden Harvest, Summit Entertainment, Marvel Painting, and a quasi-listed company Dream Chasing Games, as well as a reserve listed company Dream Chasing South Asia. Even we predicted that if possible, Dream Chaser Golden Harvest would be spun off from Time.com and let Time.com be listed separately, and Summit Entertainment would be spun off from Obvious and let Obvious be listed separately. In this way, the future Dream Chasing Entertainment Group will have seven listed companies, forming a pan-entertainment industry chain across the United States, China, and India, which is healthy and reasonable. ”

Carl said in detail, the more he talked, the more frightened Shao Shuaijun became, this old guy has too perfect a strategic understanding of Dream Chasing Entertainment Group. Shao Shuaijun heard Li Xiuxiu talk about it, and Dream Chasing Entertainment is laying out like this.

Noticing Shao Shuaijun's emotion, Carl said more energetically, they are all seventy or eighty, and they are full of enthusiasm like young people: "We also found that the layout of Dream Chasing Entertainment has a focus, Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics mainly focus on the production of entertainment content, focusing on upstream development, that is, the production of movies and TV series, etc., and rarely participate in the downstream strategy of the entertainment industry." On the contrary, the production of TV dramas and movies is not enthusiastic, on the contrary, it actively participates in downstream infrastructure, and has built more than 100 cinemas in China and Southeast Asia in the past two years, and has established its own peripheral stores and production enterprises.

Summit Entertainment attacks the upstream of the entertainment industry, and Dream Chase Golden Harvest attacks the downstream of the entertainment industry, with a perfect layout! In addition to the holding of various subsidiaries, the head office of the group actively participates in charity to improve its reputation, builds schools to cultivate talents, supports filmmakers, reserves new technologies, and even influences the layout of China's entertainment industry from the ranks of agents.

If I'm not mistaken, this was done in order to merge with the Chinese government. There is a saying that if you have public opinion, you will have power, and your plan will become a platform for public opinion of the Chinese government? ”

After Carl finished speaking, while sipping red wine, he looked at Shao Shuaijun, looking like he was winning.

Shao Shuaijun rolled his eyes: "You may be thinking too much, I never knew that Dream Chaser Entertainment Group had such a plan." (To be continued......)