Time is in a hurry, and with the invincible box office and word-of-mouth of the drama "The Queen Wears Prada", Hollywood's October schedule, which was not paid much attention to, has become one of the most shining schedules this year.

Soon, it was the Halloween file in November, and the momentum of "Queen" began to slow down gradually, and instead of "Queen", there were three newly released horror films, namely "Saw 3", "Dead Silence", and "Death is Coming".

Among them, "Chainsaw" and "Dead Silence" are both produced by Dream Pictures, and "The Grim Reaper is Coming" is produced by New Line Pictures.

As mentioned earlier, New Line Pictures, Emperor Pictures, and Lionsgate Pictures were originally known as the "three golden flowers" in the field of Hollywood horror, but no one could have imagined that Yi Feiyang's birth and the establishment of Dream Pictures made these three budding golden flowers completely lose their brilliance.

According to the data of the most authoritative financial survey company in the United States, Dream Pictures, only three years of development, the current total strength has reached an astonishing 1.3 billion US dollars, an average of nearly 430 million per year, if Yi Feiyang is willing to go public, according to conservative estimates, it can immediately raise three times the amount of funds, that is, 4 billion to expand the scale of the company, but Yi Feiyang has not moved, which makes the three golden flowers secretly relieved, at least their "status in the rivers and lakes" can be maintained. However, according to the words of Lionsgate Gusta, who has a good relationship with Yi Feiyang, "Yi, it's not that he is unwilling to expand the company, but he has to work steadily step by step!" ”

This sentence has a wide meaning, and it is important to know that in the United States, the listing of companies is often the dream goal of many entrepreneurs. As soon as the company goes public. You will be able to have enough funds to support your own expansion and development of your business. But Yi Feiyang did the opposite, which is incomprehensible.

In fact, these people don't know what to say, the United States is now mired in the quagmire of economic crisis, especially the expansion bubble of the network economy is spreading, Yi Feiyang will never throw out the company he worked so hard to build, and let others slaughter it when the economic crisis comes. Yi Feiyang has the confidence to believe that as long as he leads the team. You will definitely be able to win every battle!

In fact, it is true that someone who cares carefully studied the development path of Dream Pictures, and was surprised to find that this company has never made a loss-making movie!

After further research, I found that almost every drama filmed in fantasy exceeded 100 million at the box office!

Miracles, miracles!

Such a miracle was created by Yi Feiyang, and the achievements of Dream Pictures overshadowed Hollywood's "Three Golden Flowers".

It can be said that today's Yi Feiyang and his company have become hot rookies in Hollywood.

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In November, two new plays for Halloween. won new glory for the dream company, but Yi Feiyang was not happy. He's looking ahead, looking ahead to what's to come.

In this big money file, Yi Feiyang is ready to launch the company's three dramas in one go, "Youth Musical" 2, "Rock Campus", and the last is the huge investment science fiction film "Planet of the Apes"!

Yi Feiyang's hope for this drama is not how well it will be at the box office, but whether Tim Burton, the director of this play, feels his sincerity.

Yes, Yi Feiyang would like to take this big director under his command, because with the growth of Dream Pictures, the company urgently needs such talents. In addition, there is also the great director Gore, who is filming the sequel to "Pirates of the Caribbean", and Yi Feiyang also took him as a target.

It can be said that Yi Feiyang in front of him has no regard for the box office of the movie as unimportant, what he wants is talents! All kinds of film talents!

The 2000 North American Christmas stalls were as full of gunsmoke and artillery fire as ever.

As Yi Feiyang expected, this schedule is almost dominated by a few Hollywood super predators, and many small and medium-sized companies' movies have directly become cannon fodder under these super blockbusters.

Dream Pictures' three films are very strong, but the box office results are not much better than those cannon fodder.

So much so that many people sighed that God is still fair, Dream Pictures took shit luck in October, and it was good luck, and it should be eaten some deflated now. In the words of Abbas, chairman of the Film Association, "God is not the great aunt of China Yi, and he will not always bless him!" ”

Yes, China's Yi is also beautiful enough, in the last two months, almost all the front-page headlines of newspapers and magazines are him in the limelight, what "Queen" is dominant, smiling at Hollywood, now this drama is painted in North America, but the residual heat is still there, but the Christmas file is not a playhouse, as soon as the heavyweight movie of the Hollywood giant came out, it immediately brought the three new films of China Yi back to their original shape, and proved that China Yi is not a god! His company is not a deified miracle company, and it will become cannon fodder, right?!

Gossip, gossip!

The ridicule of the original jealousy that has nowhere to vent, sarcasm!

It all erupted at this moment.

It seems that with these ridiculous words, these Hollywood people can wash away the shame of being pressed on the head by Yi Feiyang.

It seems that only with these mocking words can these Hollywood people vent the depression of being trampled under the feet of Yi Feiyang.

Bright and bright Hollywood is like this, speak with strength, speak with results!

When you do well, thousands of people will applaud you!

When you have poor grades, there will be tens of thousands of people cheering you on!

However, what is surprising is that just when those narrow-minded Hollywood filmmakers ridiculed and satirized Yi Feiyang and his company with a happy mood, a week after its release, the box office performance of "Planet of the Apes" directed by Tim Burton under Fantasy began to counterattack, and the black sci-fi film that was originally not favored by many people became the only blockbuster that can compete with the seven Hollywood giants in this Christmas file. And Dream Pictures has also become the only film company that has successfully counterattacked in the Christmas file!

13 December 2000.

Just when the outside world was talking about Dream Pictures and Yi Feiyang himself, when the Christmas movies were in full swing, Dream Pictures purchased a five-story building near Hollywood Avenue and quickly moved over.

Compared to the three-story building in Chinatown, which was renovated from an old factory, the new company is twice as large as the original company. It's definitely more than enough as an office building. At this time, the whole company happily praised Yi Feiyang's feat. After all, the previous company has developed with the strength of the company. With the increasing number of employees in the company, it has become too small.

Who would have thought that a small film company with only more than 30 people has now turned into a large company with nearly 1,000 people, and the members of the company after readjustment held the first meeting at the company's new address for the first time. It was almost full, and Yi Feiyang, who had a great sense of accomplishment, was very happy when he thought that it only took him more than a year to move the company from Chinatown to Hollywood.

He glanced around the company executives in the conference room before smiling and saying, "Hey, guys, are you happy, like me now?!" ”

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed.

The spacious and bright conference room, breathing the Hollywood air up close, makes people feel extremely excited.

Yi Feiyang continued: "Alright, guys. Now that the company has enough funds for development, it is about to officially enter the orbit. Let's talk about the company's recent achievements. ”

In any case, at the end of the year, the company should also summarize the results report for this period. The specifics don't need to be described one by one, but the results of the dream company in the second half of the year are quite good. At present, six works have been released, namely "The Queen Wears Prada", "Saw 3", "Youth Musical" 2, "Rock School", as well as "Dead Silence" and the blockbuster "Planet of the Apes".

The only regret is that Yi Feiyang's original plan for eight films has not been reached, according to the original plan, two of the eight plays have not been released, namely "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and the animated film "Despicable Me".

As the company's financial director, the fat man Gao Jiabao has always been a good hand at returning profit results, and now he is familiar with the road, and under the expectation of everyone, he picked up the financial report and stood up, coughed slightly, and announced the profitability of the six dramas in the second half of the year.

According to incomplete statistics, the weekly box office of "Planet of the Apes", which is being released, averages $23 million, and according to eight weeks, the North American box office will reach $174 million, and the overseas box office will reach $230 million, totaling $404 million.

"Song Youth 2> box office is $13 million in weeks, and according to eight weeks, the North American box office will reach $104 million, and the overseas box office will reach $130 million, for a total of $234 million.

"Rock 'n' Roll School" grossed $9 million a week, and on an eight-week basis, the North American box office will reach $72 million, and the overseas box office will reach $96 million, for a total of $178 million.

In addition, "Chainsaw 3" and "Dead Silence" in the Halloween schedule received a total box office of 280 million and 190 million US dollars respectively, and "The Queen Wears Prada" directed by our boss and director Mr. Yi Feiyang, the results of this drama were ......" The fat man deliberately paused and looked at the people who were looking at him.

"Damn, this fat man is selling off again!"

"God, what kind of myth did the boss create?!"

"Hurry up, fatty, don't hang people's appetites anymore!"

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Everyone knows that Yi Feiyang's drama is very against the sky, but what the results are, no one knows Lu Dao, and now it is about to be revealed, and the mood is inevitably itchy.

Seeing that it aroused public indignation, the fat man didn't dare to play tricks anymore, and hurriedly coughed and announced: "The North American box office of this drama is ...... $275 million! ”

Wow! Everyone was shocked, worthy of being the boss, North America alone broke 200 million!

"As for the overseas box office, it has reached ...... $343 million! ”

Rumble! Everyone was stunned, and it directly broke 300 million overseas?! Oh my God!

You know, this is a female-themed movie! How can it be?! How can it be?!

"So the total box office of this drama is...... $618 million! The fat man solemnly said the numbers.

Those who were stunned are about to become numb, a fashion drama, a female inspirational drama, and a workplace movie with no big casts, which broke 600 million worldwide!

What is this concept? What concept?!

Could it be that the boss really has to be blessed by God, son of God?!

OH，MYGOD！

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"Okay, everybody, be quiet and let the fat man ...... Oh no. Director Gao finished speaking. Yi Feiyang was under the fat man's complaining gaze. Hurriedly closed his mouth and changed the fat man to a supervisor.

Dures. Bunny Bill, Jack Black, Cindy, James Wing, and new signings Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage and others have just quieted down.

The fat man straightened his hair, which was shaken with excitement, and then announced the result with a smile on his face.

"To sum up, the total box office of our six dramas in the second half of the year is as high as 2.304 billion US dollars! Except for the cost of shooting. Cinema sharing, as well as high taxes, etc., our actual profit reached 830 million US dollars!

"Oh my God! Eight hundred million! What a shocking number! ”

"Oh my God, making a profit of 800 million in half a year is even easier than robbing a bank!"

"I can't believe it, it's terrifying!"

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"In addition to the above movie profits, we have cooperated with Hilton Group to invest in the Asian hotel plan, and the Trump Organization to invest in real estate projects, as well as its Google network company, with a preliminary profit of 270 million US dollars. In other words, at present, we Menghuan Pictures Company. The financial strength has exceeded 2 billion US dollars! And our big boss, Mr. Yi Feiyang, is already a veritable billionaire! "The fat man didn't forget to hold Yi Feiyang after the most embarrassing.

Yi Feiyang, two billion tycoons? There seem to be many such tycoons in the United States, not to mention anything else, just those future IT upstarts, which one is not more than 10 billion?!

In fact, Yi Feiyang is a bit arrogant to think like this, you must know that many of the so-called tens of billions of tycoons are injected with water, especially in the IT industry, and even more water-injected pork, relying on the stock market figures, they have become tens of billions, but in fact, if the stock market fluctuates slightly, their tens of billions of net worth may immediately disappear. How can it be like Yi Feiyang, the company is not listed, and it is worth more than 2 billion...... Compared with those water-injected pork, I don't know how much higher the road is, and then for example, now let those tens of billions of tycoons take out two billion, it is estimated that none of them can take it out, because their money is the number on the stock market, not the real dollar. For another example, if Yi Feiyang now asks the company to go public, if nothing else, his real net worth of 2 billion yuan alone will immediately raise tens of billions of shares!

I don't know how long it took to calm down, everyone's mood calmed down, the company's development and growth is obvious to all, but I was still stunned by the fat man's data, even if those hearts are strong, I can't help but beat for a long time. Especially Johnny Depp and Nicolas Cage, who newly joined Dream Pictures, did not expect to witness the amazing profitability of this miracle company not long after joining the company. According to the people next to him, the boss Yi Feiyang is a super generous person, and the more the company profits, the more dividends the people below will share. Johnny and Nicolas Cage are looking forward to it, how much can they score? Especially Cage, who was pulled over by Depp to join the company, didn't have much hope for the dream at first, but now, he suddenly felt that this was a rare opportunity, fortunately he didn't miss it......

After the fat man Gao Jiabao reported the profit in the second half of the year, and listened to everyone present roughly report the achievements of the work, Yi Feiyang smiled slightly and glanced at the week, and then said slowly: "In terms of entertainment, the company's strategy in the next year is to transform from a simple film production company to an entertainment group company integrating film, television, and record collection production." In terms of specific content, Dures, you can talk about it. ”

As vice president, Dures has lost a lot of weight in the past six months, but he looks more energetic. He stood up and glanced around and said, "Hollywood now produces more than 600 films a year, and the number is increasing by 10 percent every year. And there are many really good films among them, but there are definitely not many films that can really be released around the world. ”

"The results of the survey show that the Hollywood film market will gradually become saturated, so we need to diversify our investment efforts and diversify our entertainment into the TV and record markets in addition to movies. Strive to be multifaceted in entertainment, and don't put all your eggs in one basket. Of course, before this, we have also made statistics, the North American record market, and the TV market still have a lot of room for development, such as rap songs for teenagers, as well as talent shows for ordinary people, these are endless resources, and what we have to do now is to polish the spear in our hands and occupy this market in the spirit of Don Quixote. ”

"Preliminary survey results show that although the North American record market is not as developed as in previous years, especially as online songs become easier to download, the record market has even begun to shrink, but we should clearly see that no matter how prosperous online downloads are, there is one thing it can never do, that is, the high requirements and high fidelity of sound quality. Therefore, our records must be based on these two basic points to make high-quality records; In terms of TV entertainment programs, we don't have the strength to build our own TV station at the moment, but we have a successful case like "American Idol", so we can continue to cooperate with TV stations to create new entertainment variety shows, and now we have put forward a new proposal to FOX TV, called "Hell's Kitchen", which is a food reality show, which has been reviewed and will be released in March next year at the latest......"

It was a great feeling for Dures to stand here and talk eloquently, he used to be very talkative, and even when he spoke, he was concise, but now when he stood up, he talked endlessly, as if he had changed to a different person.

In fact, it is true, in the past, Dures joined Dream Pictures as a last resort, to be precise, to pay off debts, but now, he is constantly promoted in the company, which makes him feel that he is very valuable here, and the boss of the company is still an ambitious person, so there is even more room to wield.

"To sum up, from now on, our Dream Pictures Company must diversify towards entertainment, and can no longer stick to one aspect of movies, so our company name is about to change from 'Dream Pictures' to 'Dream Entertainment Company', let's come on."

Yi Feiyang nodded appreciatively, he just appreciated Dures's serious attitude in every detail.

Knocking on the table heavily, Yi Feiyang said in a solemn voice: "Entering the music and TV industry will be the focus of the company next year, but film production cannot be ignored either." In terms of production, I don't have any requirements, strict and delicate is enough, I don't want rough works. ”

"In terms of production, I also want to mention the importance of commercial films, but art films should not be ignored either!" Speaking of this, Yi Feiyang showed a faint smile: "But the most important thing is the experimental film. We want to give newcomers enough opportunities and give them space to show themselves, and in order to promote newcomers, I decided to buy a small art theater chain to specialize in unpopular art films and experimental films! ”

"In short, I want to tell you that talent is the most important thing at all times!" Yi Feiyang's smile suddenly retreated like a tide, and he knocked on the table sternly: "If anyone allows talents to drain from their faces, they have made a big mistake that must be punished!" ”

Everyone was in an uproar, but they didn't expect Yi Feiyang to pay so much attention to talents, and they all had an honor to think, after all, they can sit here, but they are all talents among talents! (To be continued......)