Chapter 302: Cameron
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With the newcomer joining, Li Mingbao and Jiang Zhiqiang have become a lot easier, Mary is not a waste material, on the contrary, her ability is appreciated even by John, if it weren't for Mary's development talent and Twentieth Century Fox Company, Li Mingbao wants to get Mary, it is impossible at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In just one week, Mary had come up with a detailed plan for the administrative structure of DreamWorks and put it in front of Li Mingbao. As for Mary's aggressive plan, Li Mingbao also nodded in agreement.
The most important thing in Mary's plan is not how to expand the influence of DreamWorks, but to use limited funds to expand DreamWorks' related industries as much as possible. In Mary's plan, DreamWorks' distribution in Europe could be entrusted to Twentieth Century Fox, but any related distribution in North America should be done by itself, except for peripheral industries, including film releases and video tape distribution, which can no longer be entrusted to others as they are now.
Although this can be concentrated, but that is because there was a problem with the positioning of DreamWorks before, according to Mary, DreamWorks' main profit point is in the distribution of videotapes, and it is easy to have problems if these tasks are handed over to outsiders, and if there is a problem, it will be a disaster for DreamWorks, so whether it is the distribution channel of the videotape or the production company of the videotape, it must meet the development needs of DreamWorks, and it is not possible to save money on this.
Mary, who has entered the working state, is quite self-conscious. Although she knew that the previous plan of DreamWorks was determined by Li Mingbao, the boss, but on this issue, she did not hesitate to criticize, saying that Li Mingbao faced such a good situation in DreamWorks, but made such a thing, it is simply a waste of DreamWorks' development potential, and now it is time to make up for it, and it is necessary to expand DreamWorks' videotape business to the whole of North America in the first half of 83 years, regardless of distribution channels or videotape production, we must keep up with the pace of the company's development. Otherwise, when others are jealous, DreamWorks will be in trouble.
And on this basis, it is necessary to completely determine the existing directors and behind-the-scenes people in DreamWorks, and the people who should sign the contract will sign the contract, and even in order to retain these people, Li Mingbao, the boss, should set up an agent company in Hollywood to do single-piece bundle sales, and there is no problem in following the example of CAA.
Mary's opinion coincides with Li Mingbao, the income of small-budget movies is now the mainstream of DreamWorks, and Li Mingbao has not yet figured out the way of blockbusters, in such a situation, there must not be too many changes in the people under him. Therefore, some mandatory measures are not hesitated, coupled with the establishment of an agent company, which is one of the reasons why Li Mingbao came to Hollywood.
The main purpose of the brokerage company that he planned to set up before was still in the periphery of the industry, but after going to Hollywood and carefully understanding the actual situation, Li Mingbao felt that such an approach was unrealistic.
Because Hollywood is not Hong Kong, the surrounding industrial chain is quite developed here, and there is no need to hang an agent company to sell dog meat. Either you set up a pure brokerage company, or you buy a peripheral industry company with a complete channel, and that is what is really in line with the development of Hollywood.
So after understanding it, Li Mingbao had no intention of continuing to set up an agent company in Hollywood, what he wanted to set up was a peripheral industry company. In this way, it will not be wasted around DreamWorks, those horror films made by DreamWorks, the peripheral industry is still very marketable, and some classic roles, in some small circles, should be very popular.
Unexpectedly, Mary now put this issue in front of Li Mingbao again, and also said that it was a CAA model.
Seeing Mary dressed as OL in front of him, Li Mingbao rubbed his head and said, "Dear Mary, hasn't CAA applied for a patent for their company's business model?" Are you doing this to get our DreamWorks to sue them? ”
Even if Li Mingbao doesn't know Hollywood anymore, he knows that this is the United States, a country with a fairly sound patent law, not to mention that things in the nature of things can be patented, even if they are creative, they can also be patented.
This is why a bigwig like John knows how terrifying the development prospects of CAA are, and he will not make another one and use their strong strength to grab business with CAA. It is because CAA registered a patent for their creativity at the beginning, and it is not open to licensing, so that they are the only ones in North America who can do what CAA does, and even if others understand their development ideas, it makes no sense to start, unless they want to deal with those rich lawyers in the Federation, so it is clear that it is a matter of giving money, and no one with a shrewd mind will be willing to do it, and Li Mingbao will not either. ”
Seeing Li Mingbao's appearance, Mary smiled charmingly: "Of course I don't want the boss to get into trouble because of these things, after all, I never thought of challenging the CAA." It's just to put some variants of things into the brokerage company, and the most important thing is to serve our company itself, rather than expanding externally to grab business. In this way, it is easy to break through the limitations of CAA.
Fortunately, our company has basically occupied the Hollywood horror film market now, otherwise it would be quite difficult for us to implement this approach. Boss, don't worry, I won't cause you trouble. ”
Li Mingbao only listened to half of Mary's language, who really regarded this woman as a harmless animal, then he couldn't complain about others if he suffered. Mary doesn't usually get into much trouble, but as long as she does, it's big trouble. Fortunately, Mary is not purely the goods of the pit boss, otherwise no one would dare to use her.
Now that Mary has made such a request, Li Mingbao will also give her power, anyway, after she returns to Hong Kong, what should Mary do, or what will she do, who told Li Mingbao to give Mary a lot of power? Since she is relieved to let her sit in this position, then Li Mingbao has to be ready to be a hands-off shopkeeper, otherwise such a subordinate with personality will be a waste in his hands, Mary's real greatest value lies in her control, if Li Mingbao does not let go of power, Mary's value will have to drop by more than half, she was chosen because of her control, as long as she does not get into trouble that cannot be resisted, Li Mingbao is really reluctant to give up her.
After giving Mary the power of DreamWorks, in addition to Mary's initial plan, Li Mingbao was in a state of letting go of DreamWorks, and then Li Mingbao began to find someone in Hollywood, a person destined to become a legend in Hollywood.
James? Cameron, a great director across the generations. Li Mingbao's most urgent thing now is to find him. As a person who knows history very well, Li Mingbao knows that Cameron at this time is creating an extremely classic movie, and it is not easy for this movie to be released from its inception to its birth.
Originally, Li Mingbao's biggest purpose in coming this time was to find him and inject money into his new movie, so the money-grabbing activity should have been completed from the beginning. It's a pity that after Li Mingbao came to Hollywood, because of the development of DreamWorks, he had to deal with all the things that should be dealt with first, and he was so busy that he didn't have time to find him.
But now that the affairs of DreamWorks have been handed over to Mary, and there are still such a group of capable personnel working part-time, Li Mingbao doesn't need to worry about the affairs of DreamWorks at all, which makes Li Mingbao return to the original trajectory of action.
This year, Cameron, has not yet begun to emerge in Hollywood, although he made a "Piranha 2" before, but the results are not very ideal, and now, he has begun to make a second movie, that is, the famous "Terminator", from this movie, Cameron's career began to really go to glory, and more than ten years later, made a big ship to sweep the world, opening up countless markets that Hollywood had not opened before, and even Hong Kong films, to some extent, It was the ship that broke their backbones, and then they fell completely.
This is a dangerous figure and at the same time a genius figure. For a truck driver, he dared to say that he was the king of the world on the Oscars, and his awesomeness did not need to be explained at all.
Of course, that was Cameron in the future, and as for now, the truck driver may still have a headache for the investment in the movie. So it is not very difficult for Li Mingbao to find him, even if he is a very short-tempered guy, but for investors, his sanity will not be completely lost.
After Li Mingbao sent an invitation to Cameron, Cameron did not have a good impression of Li Mingbao at the beginning, for a guy who is worried about funds, he will not have a good face if any irrelevant outsiders disturb him.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao told Cameron about his identity and his company on the phone, and also said that he intended to make some film investment. Cameron didn't go into rampage mode.
But the first session between Li Mingbao and Cameron was obviously not a success. Because there are thousands of Hollywood studios, Cameron doesn't know what kind of company this dream factory is, and whether it really has the strength to invest in his own films.
Cameron in this time and space is even more difficult than in another time and space, and I don't know if it's because of the confusion of time and space, or some other reasons, the script of "Terminator" has not been favored by any film company. Even Orion didn't give Cameron a clear answer, so until now, the movie "Terminator", even the crew has not been completely completed...