Roland didn't know that at the same time as the disaster broke out, those guys who were liquidating losses would be the first to think of themselves.

Let's be reasonable!

He's just a newcomer who has been in the industry for five years, but he's just lucky to hug a few thighs, and those guys don't need to target him like this at all!

Besides, the movies he buys and invests in are all garbage that everyone is too lazy to ask for, since you regard the project as dung, then why laugh at him for losing money?

Belch...... All right......

Roland admits that they pay attention to themselves, in fact, there is not much problem, after all, he is the first guy in the circle to play the game upside down - according to normal development, the growth of a film company is basically divided into five processes, cooperative investment, independent investment, peripheral operation, local distribution, overseas distribution, and the input cost of each link is several times that of the previous link.

Take Lucasfilm as an example, George Lucas used the most popular entry method and co-invested in "American Painting" with Coppola Productions, and co-produced "Star Wars" with Fox, in these two projects, George Lucas only contributed a certain amount of his own funds, even if he lost his money, it would only lose a few million, and the company would not go bankrupt.

After that, with the explosion of "Star Wars", George Lucas, who had money, kicked out the co-investors and independently invested in the production of "Star Wars 2 Empire Strikes Back" and "Star Wars 3 Return of the Jedi".

Immediately afterwards, the explosion of the series allowed Lucasfilm to officially enter the stage of peripheral operation, and a series of derivative products such as comics, toys, games, and clothing are the company's biggest money-absorbing machines.

Because George Lucas is too lazy to beep, he has no consciousness of a filmmaker at all, and never tries to show his sword to the giants, so the development of the entire company has come to a standstill.

Not to mention the local and overseas distribution in the fourth or fifth links, even the normal film and television investment revolves around the two IPs of "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", this guy is not even bothered to do new projects, and no one expects him to single out the Big Seven.

What about the Warcraft film and television created by Roland?

If it's nice, it's called a film and television company, and if it's not good, it's an empty shell!

No film and television company has no content to do overseas distribution first!

It's not that I haven't learned to walk yet, and I'm starting to run away!

Instead, he has already flown into the sky and stood shoulder to shoulder with the sun!

Your company didn't even have a movie that it made itself, so it started to make channels?

Isn't this a panic when there is too much money?

After spending money to buy content, as well as the investment method of just paying money and not producing, those giants were speechless.

Big brother, what entertainment sells is content, you have an attitude that I have nothing but money, who is it for!

If you can make content just by throwing money, then Rockefeller's thunderbolt is the biggest film and television giant now!

This is actually the real reason why those giants are eyeing him.

I don't want to see Roland's jokes about losing money, but I want to see when this guy who dares to drag racing backwards will overturn.

But the question is, would Roland not know these things?

What a joke!

Even if he didn't understand all this in his previous life, he only knew that Chenggong learned to teach you the operation method of drawing a horse in five steps, but in this life, there are not too many bigwigs who can tell him that your company is problematic!

However, it is not necessary.

The perfect company production system is simply a burden for the current Roland, because he makes the decision to choose films and buy copyrights, and the production operation is outsourced to Catherine Kennedy, and in terms of distribution, Sony can take over, and in the face of this kind of assembly line operation mode that can get rid of it, it also needs a fart of its own system!

As for the incidents that the film companies are worried about being choked?

Katherine Kennedy, president of Amperin Entertainment and vice president of Lucasfilm, won't backstab him, while Sony ......

Not to mention the issue of issuing company shares, just in terms of their own profits, they are now counting on two bigwigs to fly!

Therefore, the outsourcing links that film companies think will have problems are actually the safest for Roland, because he doesn't have to worry about hiring some idiots to take care of the company, not only that, but Katherine Kennedy's fees are also the average price in the industry, and he is so picky...... Ahh It is a thrifty housekeeper.

In this case, what is the need for a stable content production system?

The grass platform team is the grass platform team!

What's more, the grass platform team is for giants, and in front of the second-tier companies in the new line, this is already a luxury team!

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In August, the weather is still hot, but compared to the flaming mountain-like climate in July, it is much better.

But even so, the viewing of movies in America has not improved.

For no other reason, it is purely a movie released in August, and there is no phenomenal gimmick.

Michelle Pfeiffer's Dangerous Games is one of the movies that people are most interested in because she is beautiful.

This is followed by "Mortal Kombat", that's right, the movie adapted from that game, although the plot is very cliché, but Brigitte Wilson's papaya is big! Coupled with the support of game fans, it sells much better than Resident Evil!

After that, it was "Piggy Baby", as a movie that pleases children, because of the weather, the children of America couldn't go to the scene to support it, but the overseas box office was unusually high, selling 1.9 billion.

Of course, entertainment is only an indicator of people's life index, and it does not represent everything.

When the entertainment market in America pulled its crotch again, the capital was still carnival.

On August 9, Netscape went public.

The IPO was a huge success, with the highest price per share at the close of the first day.

While Netscape's stock price soared, Microsoft finally couldn't sit still, and on August 16, they held a product launch event to launch IE 10, and on August 24, they released DOWS 95 again.

Microsoft's response to this kind of action surprised David, not only that, but he also vibrated in Roland's ear, saying that if he had invested in Netscape, the 40 million would have become at least 140 million.

If Roland doesn't invest, it doesn't matter, he can invest his own money!

Regarding this idea of 'regretting not being in the first place', Roland did not say anything.

Although he can tell David that Netscape will not be long before it will be defeated by Microsoft, which has united companies such as IB and HP and made the decision to bundle browsers and systems, ...... How did he explain to David that Microsoft would not be spun off by the Antitrust Act after the monopoly decision was made?

Could it be that after Bell Labs is broken up, America's scientific and technological development path will completely disappear, and in the field of communications alone, 2G will be lost to Europe first, 3G will be lost to Japan, 4G will be relieved by Google's group of Internet companies, and 5G will be thrown out again? In the face of this bitter fruit of splitting up technology companies gradually losing their high-end technology competitiveness in order to complete the anti-monopoly bill, the emerging technology companies will not be told to each other as a last resort?

It's too much trouble.

Besides, Roland couldn't explain why Bell Labs was officially spun off this year, and he could see the result of the other party's defeat - this kind of thing that most experts agreed to pass, he couldn't find anyone to take over the pot of foresight!

So, in the face of David's 'complaining', he could only shrug his shoulders and say, "Uh...... So you're going to make me a mistake in judgment? ”

Such irresponsible words made David shake his head again and again.

Although he didn't care much about missing Netscape, he did care about Roland's attitude in terms of spending money.

"Oh, oh, oh, Roland, I can understand your previous investment ideas, but recently, it may be because it is too easy for you to make money, so I doubt that you have seriously considered profit and loss when investing."

"Investing is not that I like me to invest, or rather, you are far from the strength of I like something, I can spend money to make them, I don't like to interfere with your ideas, if you really want to do something, I will also support it, but, I hope you can think clearly before you do it, whether this matter is really beneficial to yourself, okay?"

In fact, David has long wanted to talk to Roland, but he has never been able to find a suitable opportunity.

Roland's so-called dumping investment method, although it can block David's mouth, but the cross-industry investment behavior, in fact, still makes this guy wonder, in his opinion, unless you have achieved quite proud results in a certain field, otherwise, cross-industry investment, it is no different from throwing money into the water.

As an extremely cautious guy, he thinks that Roland should do a good job in film and television first, instead of making up film and television as now, while throwing money to game companies, and investing in websites, this kind of behavior is exactly the same as the stars in Hollywood who spend money.

Money comes too easily, and it doesn't hurt to spend it!

But the problem is that if the star plays well, the actor doesn't matter, no matter what the identity is, its essence is still a commodity, as long as it is a commodity, then there will be a day when it will be eliminated, and before, if they were infected with the habit of lavish spending, then they are destined to have a miserable old age of bankruptcy and liquidation!

Looking at David's serious eyes, Roland, who already felt inexplicable, nodded, he knew that David was a qualified parent, so he would not be disgusted by David's preach.

"Oh, David, I see what you mean."

"You can rest assured that any decision I make is carefully considered."

"Not investing in Netscape is really for the sake of DreamWorks' operational harmony, although you will feel that the stock price returns are not in line with my idea of harmony, but this is actually the difference in the direction of thinking between the two of us."

"You're thinking in terms of benefits, and I'm thinking in terms of relationships."

"You're here to make money, and I'm here not to ruin Steven and William's relationship."

"For you, a net profit of 100 million in a short period of time is very impressive, but for me, it is more important for Steven and William to maintain a good relationship than that 100 million, just like Ronald and Karl, although I don't have close contact with them, but the names of the two of them are there, which can help me block most of the problems, and many of those problems, we can't solve them."

"So, you can't say I'm wrong, can you?"

Hearing this, David, who was still with a straight face, laughed, "Oh, I'm relieved to see you so shameless." ”

Uh-huh?

Roland, who thought he could convince David, frowned.

"Oh, oh, don't show this expression, I'm complimenting you......" David stretched out his arms and put himself on the top of the sofa, "I'm talking about whether it's good for yourself, and the benefit here doesn't mean money, but everything in general." ”

"Since you think this relationship can be co-opted, as long as you think about it, I won't object."

"What I want to see is your thought process, not the result, that you live for yourself, not for me."

"As long as it's not a hot-headed investment, even if I feel something wrong in my heart, I will support you, because now you can afford to lose, and if you fail once or twice, you will have the right to pay the tuition."

Cha......

If he had known that David thought so, Roland would definitely have thrown out the reason directly.

"Alright, don't keep a straight face." After discovering that Roland was blackened by his own face, David took the initiative to change the topic.

"Are you going to New York in early September?"

When David speaks of early September, he is naturally referring to the premiere of "The Seven Deadly Sins" in New York on September 15.

Although David Fincher is not well known, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey and others still deserve a premiere.

Not to mention......

September is actually a very good schedule for Roland.

Because none of the blockbusters launched by those giants were released in September.

Not only because this schedule in September is not worthy of a blockbuster with an investment of more than 50 million, but also because the results of the Simpson wife murder case in early October will be pronounced - don't think of those giants as beautiful, they don't have a hard time with Roland, they are not just letting the juniors who have just entered the industry a horse, but because this group of guys is afraid that after Simpson is found guilty, the black people in the country will start marching again, if they bump into this thing, then the movie will be a special mother's white!

Therefore, in the eyes of those film companies, the court dominated by whites will most likely convict Simpson, and when the result comes out, even if Roland's movies are record-breaking, it is useless, under the wave of racial issues, all movies are cannon fodder!

"I'm going, what's the matter, are you going too?" Hearing David mention this, Roland suddenly felt a little strange.

"Don't you hate this kind of gathering?"

"No, no, no, I'm not going." David saw Roland's affirmative answer, and a strange smile appeared on his face, "I just saw the red carpet list faxed by Sony that day and remembered one thing......"

"What's the matter?" Roland was a little confused.

"You'll find out then." David sold the guanzi, but after seeing Roland's frowning toothache expression, he added, "Don't worry, it's definitely something you like." ”

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