"Okay, these two tricks are really good, you kid. It seems that you kid really has research, so what other tricks do you have?"

"If there is another thing, it is good to kill it, buy foreign film and television companies, and invest in co-production special effects blockbusters. We're already working on that. A few days ago, I learned that James Cameron's "Titanic" is seeking additional investment from institutions, and our Citigroup company has contacted them, and has negotiated several rounds at present, and it is very promising to win all the rights and interests of the mainland distribution and production of this film. ”

"How much is the investment in this film?"

"Fox has invested $135 million, and we will invest $65 million to acquire 25% of Citigroup's box office and all rights to China's film production and distribution. ”

"So what do you expect the film to do at the box office?

"It must be possible, I feel that the box office of this movie in Citigroup will be 600 million US dollars, and it will have about 2 times the box office overseas, which is 1.2 billion US dollars. How can it be 400 million, 500 million in China? ”

"How much? 500 million? Now the domestic annual box office is only 800 million, 900 million plates, you have to take half of a film?"

"Third master, this is the power of super blockbusters. This film will probably start to be released worldwide at the end of next year, so my cinema chain must form a certain scale at that time, and this big cake should be eaten more by myself. ”

"It seems that the establishment of China Film Group should also be accelerated. ”

"Well, Third Master, our cooperation can be started first to create momentum for your side. ”

"No problem, I understand the summer file you said just now, the Chinese New Year file refers to the Spring Festival schedule, right?"

"Yes, the period from mid-December to mid-February coincides with several festivals, Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Valentine's Day, close together, and there is also the Spring Festival holiday, students have winter vacation, which is a good schedule not inferior to the summer file. We can release some comedies, big productions, and some love films on Valentine's Day in this schedule, which are all good choices. ”

"The "Titanic" you invested in is aimed at this schedule, right?"

"Yes, but I'm going to build a lot of multiplexes, and it's not a problem to have two or three films on the same schedule and release them together. Of course, it's better to have a different subject matter. ”

"I don't know, do you know Feng Xiaogang?"

"You know, little steel cannon, a very good comedy director. ”

"Why don't you invest in him to start a Chinese New Year film?" Han Sanye proposed.

Isn't Xiaogang Cannon Huayi's person? Hey, no, Huayi has just been established for two years, and now it is still filming a TV series. Well, Xiaogang Cannon's movie is good, enough comedy, enough commercial. This can really be had.

"Yes, I really like Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style comedy, I can invest 5 million yuan to let him shoot a Chinese New Year film, which will be released next year. By the way, Third Master, where is Director Xiaogang's relationship now? Can I dig it up?"

"He, what about the Forbidden City Pictures now, do you want to poach him? It's not impossible? Let Xiaogang go to you, this film will be your company's opening work. This investment brings the Forbidden City to compensate for the loss of them being poached by you. In this way, you will pay 4 million, Yanying Factory will pay 1 million, and the Forbidden City will pay 1 million, and Yanying Studio will do it. ”

"Okay, no problem. Xiaogang's remuneration for making this movie is set at a minimum of 1 million plus 5% of the box office share, when you call, Sanye, you tell him, and sign the contract when my company is registered. ”

"Ogura, aren't you giving a little too much?"

"Where is this? Third master, Xiaogang is worth this price. ”

"By the way, Xiao Cang, what is the name of your company, I have to talk to Xiao Gang and the Forbidden City. ”

"Well, I originally planned to call it CQ Pictures, but then everyone said that I had to take a Chinese name, so I took a pinyin word that starts with CQ, which is Legendary Pictures." If the theater is a theater, it is called a legendary theater. ”

"Okay, the name is good, then you hurry up and register the company, let's hurry up and prepare for this movie. That's all for today, your car is going to send Ruxia and hasn't come back yet, take my car and go. ”

"Okay. Cang Yaozu asked Han Sanye's driver to send Sanye home first before heading to Houhai, sitting in the car, Cang Yaozu's heart was happy, and after getting the company's first film, Legendary Pictures will definitely become a legend. As for the legendary Hollywood studios that were acquired by Wanda in the future, there is no need to appear. Well, that legendary film company was not founded in Los Angeles until 2000 by Thomas Toole, a master of finance and private equity.

Thomas Toole was a financial whiz, a fan of comics and monster movies, and later, Legendary Pictures was committed to creating a monster cinematic universe where monsters fight monsters, mechs fight monsters, and all kinds of monsters are everywhere.

Of course, the legend also wants to create a Pokémon Cinematic Universe and make Pokémon their money-absorbing weapons.

All in all, Thomas Tur is a master, with one hand in finance and the other hand in movies, and he still plays very well. Although Legendary Pictures was heavily indebted and finally acquired by Wanda, it is more likely that it is due to commercial reasons, and Legendary Pictures' ability in content production and control is remarkable.

So, the question is, do you want to poach Thomas Toole, this guy should still be working in finance on Wall Street now, well, you can poach him, manage private equity funds first, and then enter Hollywood when the opportunity comes, and then make a legend.

When Cang Yaozu returned to Houhai, he first went to Meiyuan and communicated with Melissa about poaching Thomas Tool, and asked him to be the head of the management of a private equity fund and be directly responsible to Melissa.

Melissa reported to Cang Yaozu that the English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese versions of ICQ have all been launched, with less than 3,000 registrations for the Chinese version and more than 20,000 registered users for the rest of the version. ICQ's 5-digit and 6-digit numbers have been bought out by Mountainside Technology. The foreign language version exclusively occupies the 7-digit number and the 9-digit number, the Chinese version exclusively occupies the 8-digit number, if it develops to a 10-digit number, it will continue to be divided according to the odd and even of the first number, the range of the two party numbers is clear, but the user data is registered in both directions, and the Chinese version and the foreign language version can be communicated, and you can directly enter the other party's number to add as a friend.

"At the moment, the ads have not been launched, and the number of registrations is already good. Citigroup's print and TV commercials have been finalized, and will it be possible to ask Cameron to shoot the endorsement ad this time?"

"In time, the footage has been filmed, and director Cameron is editing and working on special effects. The main material was to pick out some suitable shots from some of the shots he took, and then reshoot some shots to complete this endorsement advertisement. ”

"I think this old boy is perfunctory to us, he doesn't want to delay him from making a movie, and this advertisement also promotes his movie. When his movie is finished, let's find him to shoot it again. ”

"Okay. At present, the fundraising materials of private equity funds have been almost prepared, and Greta has registered an offshore fund company, and the names of the companies are called Panda Capital and Penguin Capital according to your meaning. I'm going to fly back to Citigroup on Sunday, and we're going to have to give it our all. ”