Paramount Pictures was founded in May 1912, a month before Universal Pictures, and is the oldest of the eight Hollywood companies. From the very beginning, Paramount owned a large number of movie theaters and also operated a production business.

With many stars, high-quality films and chain theaters all over the United States, this company has been sitting on the throne of Hollywood hegemony, and it can be said that the early Paramount is the most powerful existence among the eight major Hollywood studios, and has produced popular and popular films such as The Godfather and Forrest Gump.

However, the biggest problem with this company is that his boss is a layman, a rich layman, and the most troublesome thing is that he is still a layman who is engaged in minerals.

Paramount's boss is the Gulf West Oil Company of the Moldy Country, in fact, there is no difference between the oil boss of the Moldy Country and the coal boss of the original Time and Space Huaguo, it is understandable that the bosses of mining companies are all about money with a hoe, and their thinking mode is extensive, and they just want to make quick money.

So you will find that Paramount, as the largest film company in Hollywood, has the least profitable series of movies among the eight, because although the series of movies is the most profitable, the investment is also the largest, and the payment cycle is also the longest, so the coal boss, oh, the oil boss doesn't like it.

So Paramount has been gradually going downhill in the last decade, in fact, it has not been without its rise, and Barry Diller, who came into the television industry, and his two assistants, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Kazenberg, brought Paramount back to the top of Hollywood.

However, Barry Diler's specialty is high-concept films, which have been hugely successful with simple and powerful stories and massive publicity, and he is ready to develop his old business and build a new television network, but oil boss Martin Davis has no intention of taking such an adventure.

So Barry threw himself into the arms of media tycoon Murdoch and he tinkered with the Fourth Television Network, and Lesnar and Jeffrica who stayed behind were also unintentionally in love, Eisner fell into the beauty trick of the boss of Mickey Mouse, became his son-in-law and turned around to take charge of Mickey Mouse, and finally brought Mickey Mouse to the throne of Hollywood's top companies, but because of his strong style, he was also dissatisfied with the board of directors of Mickey Mouse, so there was the scene of poaching Robert Iger from Colombia above.

Now the boss of the oil in the west of the Gulf, Martin is ready to take care of the film company himself, and in his opinion, there is no essential difference between making movies and digging for oil, they are both simple and crude work.

The first thing he did when he came up was to invest in David Fincher's film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

David Fincher is a very high-quality director, he must be one of Hollywood's top directors, and he is a director with a very high input-output ratio, with a production cost of less than 30 million for the Seven Deadly Sins and a global box office of more than 320 million.

So Martin set his sights on him, but David Fincher didn't buy it, in his opinion, the current technical conditions were not enough to support the special effects that Benjamin needed, and he didn't plan to start the project so early.

But I had to admire Martin's eloquence, he pointed to the picture of a Chinese ghost story's flying sword slashing demons across thousands of miles, and said to David.

"David, you look at such a cool picture, don't you want to realize it in your own hands?

So he successfully dug a pit for himself, Martin thought very simply, the production cost of A Chinese Ghost Story does not exceed 50 million moldy gold, and the special effects scene is so huge, David Fincher is just a love film, no matter how big the investment is, it will not be able to exceed A Chinese Ghost Story.

But obviously he was wrong, A Chinese Ghost Story has the unstable factor of being handsome, he knows the direction of the future, it can be said that the special effects shots are not wasted at all, and the cost is compressed to the minimum, which is impossible to compare with any other director, and the price of Daming can be compared with the moldy country, less than one-third of the labor alone.

In addition, he also underestimated David Fincher's strict requirements for the camera, and the effect is not good?

So the budget of the film increased little by little, and finally reached a terrifying 150 million, which is just the production cost, please this is a romance film, even if there is a bit of sci-fi gimmick in it, it can't change his essence.

After the film, Martin is going crazy, as an oil boss, he can't understand the emotion of the impermanence of life in the film, and he can't accept the emotional line between the two protagonists that is gradually drifting apart with age.

150 million has already been spent, and he has no ability to reverse time and space, so naturally there is no way to change it, but it is impossible for him to spend a lot of money to do publicity, so Martin only arranged some regular publicity methods, fortunately, there are no strong competitors in this schedule, except that this killer is not too cold.

Yingshuai is not well-known among ordinary people in the moldy country, although A Chinese Ghost Story swept the North American box office, but ordinary audiences who will pay attention to a director from the East, even in Hollywood, only a few directors like David Fincher will be noticed by the audience, and only actors and stars will make the audience remember.

But people in the industry are different, they know that for a film, the director is the key, so no one will not pay attention to Yingshuai's new film.

Of course, Martin also noticed the hero, but it is impossible for him to invest a lot of money in publicity, what should he do?

In this world, where the boss is involved with oil and coal, the background is not as clean as a blank piece of paper. The oil workers who do rough work are all muscular and rough tempered masters, these people get together and have no means, which boss can control the oil field, Martin is the same, he will always use some gray means to manage his oil field, so he naturally thought of using similar means to compete with the hero, but his plan to buy Paul unfortunately failed.

"Fake, is this big guy crazy? This is 30 million mold gold, and it will be burned in half a minute?"

Martin stared at the TV screen where the Super Bowl was being streamed live during halftime ad time.

Seeing that Yingshuai actually made a big deal to promote this killer is not too cold, Martin is a little cold, and no film company has ever dared to play like this, a one-minute advertisement is 30 million, and it will not be constantly replayed like other advertisements, it is a hammer deal.

It wasn't until 2,000 years that a company dared to play like this, because it was too expensive, but the effect of this attempt was surprisingly good, so since then, showing movie trailers at the Super Bowl has become a regular means for major companies to promote new movies.

Yingshuai naturally knows the situation of his world, and when he sees that this world is not yet available, he decisively uses it, and he chose the most prime time of the Super Bowl, and the price is naturally high and scary, in fact, ordinary film trailers will only be inserted in the interval between the pauses of the game, and it is only five million moldy gold in one minute.

But Yingshuai thinks that either you don't do it or you have to be a blockbuster, and it's a heartbeat to play.