Chapter 228: Bullying Outsiders Is a Hollywood Tradition (Part 3)
Xuluo's desire to capture is still effective.
Junko just hung up the phone, and in less than half an hour, Akio Morita made an unprecedented phone call in person, and under Junko's translation, he expressed his gratitude to Xuluo.
Although it was a few words of thanks, he hadn't said that he had invited Xuluo to dinner, but as the head of Sony, Akio Morita's attitude was destined to have achieved Xuluo's goal.
As long as there are no major changes, Sony will definitely become a friend of Xuluo in the future.
Even Nobuyuki Idei, who was not involved in the laptop project, called immediately afterward, congratulating Yura for inventing another genius idea.
Xuluo talked to him for a long time.
Nobuyuki Idei told him more details about the release of "My Fair Daddy" this time, as well as the chaos of Sony Columbia.
Two years ago, Sony, at the peak of industrial production, directly overwhelmed Philips in the Netherlands and became the world's No. 1 existence in small household electronic products.
Therefore, they look forward to the fact that in addition to the production of electronic products, they can also carry out the global integrated strategic layout of "hardware + content production" through the film industry, so as to further strengthen Sony's vitality and development.
Coupled with Akio Morita's own dream since childhood, the acquisition of a top Hollywood production company has become their most important strategic goal.
At that time, among the six giants of Hollywood, only Columbia was willing to sell and sell all the rights.
But Colombia is in a terrible financial position and has a market value of just around $2.3 billion.
The team of bankers in charge of the negotiation keenly grasped Sony's eagerness and Sony's confidence in having a lot of cash, and made a big bid and used various favorable conditions to exert pressure, and finally sold the Columbia company at a crazy price of 3.2 billion US dollars.
This acquisition was directly listed as a classic business case by Harvard University.
The Japanese people must have suffered a big loss.
Not only did they pay a high price for Columbia, but they also spent $1.6 billion on Columbia Pictures, Columbia Teletext, Samsung Pictures, and Samsung's @
But this is about Sony's face, about Akio Morita's face, Sony can only grit his teeth and give it.
Because of this, Sony was very dissatisfied with Michael Schulhoff, who facilitated the negotiations and poached the CEO of Sony's Miguo branch.
This is the most important reason why Nobuyuki Idei became the "Superintendent of Sony North America".
Akio Morita kept a close eye on Columbia, and if any more moths appeared there, he would immediately replace the top management of the branch with Nobuyuki Idei.
Nobuyuki Idei is also a smart person.
After discovering Xuluo, a genius of screenwriters, and knowing Xuluo's record, he immediately asked Xuluo for help, thus getting the script of "My Fair Daddy".
Nobuyuki Idei didn't tell Xuluo, he got the script, and he secretly found several producers who came to the dock, but they were not optimistic about "My Fair Daddy", they felt that it was too absurd and unreasonable.
Especially if you look for Robin Williams, that short and fat middle-aged man dressed as a woman, it is simply disgusting.
But after thinking about it again and again, Nobuyuki Idei finally chose to believe in Xuluo.
This is why "My Fair Daddy" has been produced now and is waiting for the results of its release.
"My Fair Daddy" arranged for 870 movie theaters to open simultaneously, although the number is not much, but this is also the best result that Nobuyuki Idei can achieve under the crazy complaints, dissatisfaction and pressure of the Colombian high-level.
And the time period is very bad, it's February.
The most turbulent season in Hollywood is February.
The best season for action movies and blockbusters is summer vacation, the best season for horror movies is Halloween, and the best season for comedy is Christmas and New Year's slots, almost all of which are in the second half of the year.
The schedule in the first half of the year was average, and February was the season in the middle of the season.
But if it is not released in February, the number of open movie theaters obtained by "My Fair Daddy" is less than 500.
This was unacceptable to Nobuyuki Idei, so he withstood the huge pressure and chose February.
Oh yes.
If it weren't for the late November last year, director Chris Columbus's "Home Alone" produced at the beginning of last year was released, which directly hit the ultra-high box office of 280 million US dollars, and "My Fair Daddy" would have opened even fewer movie theaters!
Now it seems that no matter whether "My Fair Daddy" can succeed or not, Nobuyuki Idei and Xuluo are already a clever move.
Nobuyuki Idei has no doubts about Xuluo's selection vision.
Who knew that Chris Columbus, who was just a small director at the beginning, broke the box office record of comedy movies in the history of Mi by making a comedy movie on a small budget?
Xuluo excavated Chris Columbus, but before he was developed!
This kind of vision is not powerful, so who dares to say that he has the wisdom to know people?
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Xuluo hung up the phone and reflected.
Sony actually suffers because they are outsiders, not natives of Haolaiwu.
Not to mention them, even Murdoch, a super media mogul from Australia, was not the same when he bought 20th Century Fox?
Xenophobia is an inevitable stage in any mature market.
If you don't have enough strength and strong confidence, then it is easy to be eliminated, and you will be ridiculed for not being capable.
Xuluo has not officially entered Haolaiwu yet.
Bubu Stitching Monster is only a TV drama production business, and it doesn't involve the focus of Hollywood at all.
In the eyes of many people, even if the cloth stitching monster has produced two popular TV series, it is still a small company with no weight.
For example, everyone has always known that Xuluo has the copyright of "Jurassic Park" in his hands, and the books of "Jurassic Park" are selling very well, but none of them really cooperate with Xuluo.
It's not that they don't like Jurassic Park.
On the contrary, very
Many people are optimistic about "Jurassic Park" and are willing to develop "Jurassic Park".
But only if they take it all themselves.
They are constantly suppressing and devaluing the value of "Jurassic Park", and want to obtain the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park" and the rights and interests of peripheral product development at a very cheap price.
Not only the six major Hollywood studios, but even medium-sized film production companies think so.
Xuluo also couldn't attract directors like Spielberg and James Cameron to shoot.
Be.
Your script is well written, the variety of big dinosaurs is also very attractive, and the constructed dinosaur world is also very attractive.
But who can guarantee that this will succeed?
Several Hollywood companies have calculated that no matter how small the total investment is, it will not be less than 30 million US dollars!
Such a big production, fortunately, there are not five in a year!
And you refuse to give up the fattest piece of meat, when my interests cannot be guaranteed, why should I work for you?
Very realistic.
It's also very true.
Now the Jurassic Park card is stuck on it.
That's why Xuluo knows that good things don't necessarily get good results, and the valuable goods you have in your hands may not be able to sell at a good price.
It's not just Nobuyuki Idei who is waiting for the success of "My Fair Daddy", but Xuluo is also waiting.
If "My Fair Daddy" can reach 100 million dollars at the box office, then it is very likely that Xuluo will convince James Cameron, who has not yet produced a masterpiece like "Terminator 2".
If "My Fair Daddy" explodes and the box office exceeds $200 million in one go, then even Spielberg may consider it.
Because smart people know that in the production of any movie and TV series, the first and foremost ingredient for success is - content is king!
Since Xuluo can write a TV script, he can rank in the top ten of the year, and he still uses unknown young actors; At the same time, writing a movie script can make a super high box office of one or two hundred million US dollars, isn't that enough to prove his ability to write stories?
Something that far outweighs the odds of failure, many people will try.
Film directors are no exception.
Maybe at that time, Xuluo will be able to find a more suitable director for "Jurassic Park".
It's so big, it's not just Spielberg and James Cameron!
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