Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. But that one percent of inspiration is the most important, even more important than the ninety-nine percent of sweat -- Thomas? Alva? Edison

In Sun Ziming's education, the latter sentence was deliberately deleted, and without the latter sentence, it became a complete denial of the meaning of inspiration. But in Edison's home country of America, the vast majority of people think, 'Genius requires effort, but inspiration is the most important thing!' ’

However, the stock market crash of 2000 made the American people waver in this sentence. Those Internet companies with brilliant ideas and inspirations have fallen on the NASDAQ, and those that have not fallen are those IBM and Motorola who seem to have entered their twilight years......

However, the impact of the stock market crash on Hollywood was not very large, because most practitioners were not in the habit of investing in the stock market. In this colorful circle, rich people come too fast and are obsessed with luxury houses, luxury cars, yachts, private jets, luxury goods, and art; If you don't have money, it's even difficult to live, so how can you have spare money to invest? As for the middle class, who will have the patience to invest in this drunken circle?

However, in Hollywood, many people pay attention to one thing, and that is AOL's acquisition of Time Warner Group. They are concerned not only because of the staggering $181 billion in acquisitions, but also because it may represent a new model of cooperation that could lead to the creation of a new market. Over time, however, the $181 billion merger seemed to become more and more of a costly joke. was used as a talking point by Hollywood people, and its protagonist, Warners, became the object of ridicule.

(After AOL and Time Warner officially merged in 2001, the new company quickly jumped from 271st to 37th place in the Fortune 500 rankings, but AOL? Time Warner had 542 for the fiscal year ended March 3, 2002. The massive loss of $200 million set a record for a quarterly loss in U.S. history. In 2002, the company fell to 80th place, with a loss of $98.7 billion, equivalent to the combined GDP of Chile and Vietnam. ）

But the joke is far from over, and there are new joke creators, and there is more than one. First of all, Viacom Group announced that within two years, they will establish a subsidiary similar to AOL to screen and sell its CBS and Paramount films and television works on the Internet. Immediately afterwards, News Corp. and Disney Inc. announced that they would set up similar departments for the screening and online sales of their programs.

This time it can make Hollywood and the media blow up. Since everyone is so optimistic about this project, it means that if it succeeds, a market will be born independent of cinemas, traditional VCD rentals, and TV broadcasts. This also indirectly proves that the merger and acquisition of AOL and Time Warner is actually successful, but the current technical conditions are not yet met.

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Sun Ziming, who was working hard to promote "Pirates of the South Seas" in Boston, saw the news on TV, and said to Cao Qiang with a wry smile: "Old Cao, I am not good for this year!" ”

'Phew', Cao Qiang, who is nearly forty years old, took a sip and scolded: "If you are all unfavorable for the passing year, do others still want to live?" Mom, you became famous at a young age, your family wealth is hundreds of millions, and you have three wives and four concubines, what kind of benefits have you fallen? ”

"That's right, if you say that, I'm much more comfortable."

Sun Ziming comfortably rested his legs on the messy coffee table, and said with emotion: "I still remember that when you and Lao Zeng received a notice from Massachusetts, they made a group of us greedy, and they all said that you two will play with golden cats in the future, which is not the same grade as us." ”

Cao Qiang was stunned, when he was admitted to the Massachusetts master's degree, this guy was in Hong Kong all day by day, and he would envy himself and Lao Zeng?

'Ahem, cough, cough', Sun Tzu, who knew that he had missed his mouth, coughed one or two times, and hurriedly remedied: "It's not us, it should be them." When I went back to Beiping, those bastards said that Lao Tzu played with female stars in Hong Kong, and you played with foreign girls in the United States. At that time, I didn't often watch Western movies in the dormitory, and I thought that the United States was so open that the two of you would definitely be chased by those foreign girls. ”

"Envy a fart, Lao Tzu has been in Massachusetts for three years, if it weren't for the VCD and became famous, which girl would look at Lao Tzu twice?"

Cao Qiang, who divorced Casey two years ago, said indignantly: "I understand, why did you insist on letting me notarize my premarital property in the first place?" ……”

Sun Ziming didn't want to talk about this topic, so he hurriedly diverged and said: "Okay, don't mention the past, do I have an eyebrow for you to do?" ”

When it came to work, Cao Qiang was immediately diverted, "Difficult, we have been cooperating with Cisco's research, if you really want to meet your requirements, it is estimated that you will have to study for two to three years, and this is still a qiēshun lì situation." ”

After pondering for a while, Sun Ziming said without giving up: "What about increasing investment?" ”

"It's useless, it's a system engineering, involving photoelectric conversion, digital jù exchange ......"

As soon as he heard these professional terms, Sun Ziming gave up, and as his most trusted brother, he also said so, which means that it is impossible for him to roll out on a large scale in two or three years, and at most he will build a small website to accumulate experience.

After nagging for a while, Cao Qiang was puzzled: "Little San, the website you are talking about, is it really funny?" ”

"Didn't make a head, I'm going to come to Boston?"

Sun Ziming replied angrily, disappointed and a little surprised. Although Viacom and News Corp. are ahead of the curve and have abundant resources, they have a buffer period of two or three years, and their companies may not be able to win in this competition.

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After going around the United States, Sun Ziming and the crew returned to Los Angeles and began to prepare for the premiere of "Pirates of the South Seas". What made him feel a little troubled was that after his movie was released, the theater arranged "The Lord of the Rings 2".

"Pirates of the South Seas" is not "Pirates of the Caribbean", and Fa Ge is not the unruly and righteous Johnny Depp, a pirate film starring a yellow race, and a pirate film with many white people as supporting roles, can it still achieve the same glory as it is remembered?

To be honest, Sun Ziming doesn't have much confidence in his heart, even if everyone says yes after watching it, the theater chain has arranged more than 2,000 theaters and more than 4,000 big screens without hesitation, and he still has no bottom in his heart.

As long as the movie is not released, no one knows if it will be a box office success. is like those obscure art films, which one is not applauded by film critics, and the audience does not sell it? Although he has set up Fa Ge as a pirate who has received Western education since he was a child, and has completely Westernized the character, can those ghosts accept a pirate ship under the command of a yellow race?