Chapter 070 - Developing the DVD Market (Thanks to Le for the handsome reward)
"Jenny, $1 billion is just a running water, the purchase price is less than $500 million, and I pay in installments, so I don't need to pay it all at once. My profits are huge.
If you think about it this way, if I can sell these 1 million DVD players, we will not only win 1 million website members, but also make a profit of about 250 million US dollars.
Haha, just this one means is enough for Reed Hastings to chase that guy for three and a half years. As for the problem that the DVD player can't be sold, then I'm going to have to trouble Bob, well, if Mark Randolph joins our entrepreneurial team, he will have a share of the responsibility. ”
Cang Yaozu explained it to Jennifer Aniston.
"Ah Yao, I see that Mark Randolph and Reed Hastings have a very close relationship, and they are dominated by Hastings, if Mark Randolph is involved, will he leak our plans and disrupt our layout?" Robert Iger asked him a question.
"No, Mark Randolph doesn't have a stake in Hastings, after all, Hastings' company hasn't been founded yet, and if he joins us, then he will have a great interest on our side. The cost of sabotaging our plans would be too great.
And we can't break our plan if we want to, because they don't have so much money to put into it. If Hastings insists on touching us, then we'll stone him to death with money!
The DVD player has been solved here, and the rest is the problem of DVD discs, Bob, Twentieth Century Fox, you have to continue to contact them, and strive to take down their film sources to produce and distribute DVD discs, especially "Titanic".
I think this movie will be a big hit, so if you can get its DVD disc license will have a huge profit, this movie I communicated with director Cameron, the length of the film is estimated to be about 3 hours, VHS tape is estimated to be two boxes, so our DVD disc has a cost advantage. ”
"Sony Pictures is going to release their own DVDs, and they won't be slow, and I'll ask Toshiba to push Sony Colombia to do more.
Then there's your old club, Disney, which is a big chunk of copyrighted content, and it's a big plus for Michael Eisner to be able to open up a huge DVD market in addition to VHS discs, or you brought it to him.
In this way, give them a guaranteed deposit of $20 million per year, pay the license immediately, and then calculate the license fee according to the number of burns of each film, and refund the excess and make up for the deficiency. Several others did the same. Blockbuster on Paramount's side is mainly engaged in VHS videotapes, and there is not much conflict with our DVD business. ”
"It seems that I have to be busy again, not only to open a flagship store, but also to do a regional center warehouse, but also to make movies, and acquire the digital field, Ah Yao, you still covet Blue Sky Studio, my God, I hate to have to sleep. ”
"Bob, you have to increase your recruitment and poaching efforts, you must build your own team, leave the big and small things to them, and only when they can't do it, you will come forward to solve it. I know you don't have the right people at your disposal, this is your problem, there are headhunters, and your connections for so many years?
Tired is also your problem, you can only solve it yourself, I have given you all the methods, Mark Randolph has a set of marketing, Netflix can hand over the piece to him, his problem is that the management is soft, more kind to people, in this regard, you give him a strong human resources director.
Also, let me tell you, there are a couple of good producers at New Line Pictures that you can dig into, one is Mary Pyrent and the other is Donna Langley, both of whom were born in 1968. Mary Orient should be ready to change jobs, you can go and get in touch with the next one. ”
"Okay, Yao, I'll go and get in touch with them. On the digital side, Director Cameron nodded, and Stan Weston agreed to stay, but Scott Ross was a little difficult. ”
"It's good to raise the offer for him, take all his shares, and let him out, I hope that the digital field will surpass ILM in the future, and I will invest a lot of money in research and development of special effects technology, especially motion capture technology. ”
"By the way, director Peter Jackson founded a special effects company Weta Digital in New Zealand, this special effects company is also very promising, Thomas, you use Legendary Pictures to buy him, all kinds of conditions can be negotiated, but Peter Jackson can't go, leave him a certain share.
I heard that he wants to shoot "The Lord of the Rings", I don't know if the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" is in the hands of Miramax or whom, Thomas, you go check it out, and then take down this copyright, they should have no shooting plans in the near future, and "The Lord of the Rings" can't be filmed without a $300 million investment.
When you win the filming rights of "The Lord of the Rings", you will negotiate with Peter Jackson, and let him shoot if he wants to. and the copyright of "The Hobbit" was also won, and it was okay to give a slightly higher amount, you have this degree.
If the film and television adaptation rights are really in the hands of Miramax, and Miramax cannot participate in the profit sharing of the film's box office, I don't like the Weinstein brothers very much. Cang Yaozu instructed Thomas Tool.
Thomas Toole is happy that his legendary film industry has finally entered the buy-buy-buy mode? This is going to be a big move, "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", this is a big production, an absolute big production.
"Okay, boss, I'll take care of this, and I'll ask Bob for help if I need to. ”
"No problem, Bob's connections at Disney need to be used. Disney is lackluster in live-action films, and they're not going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in The Lord of the Rings. By the way, Legendary Pictures can also start the shooting of a pirate movie. ”
"Uh, boss, pirate movies are not a good subject now, after the box office fiasco of "Cut Throat Island", no one dares to touch this theme in Hollywood. ”
"The pirate movie I'm planning is not an ordinary pirate movie, but a magical pirate movie, which sells special effects, and I'm going to make it into a five-part series or more. If it's called Pirates of the Caribbean, it's called "Pirates of the Caribbean".
This name is a scene in Disneyland, see if you can register a trademark or something, if you can't do it, discuss with Disney and get the right to use this name, it just so happens that no one dares to touch the pirate-themed movie now, I believe Disney will not be embarrassed.
By the way, don't talk too much about Disney, just say that you want to make a low-budget pirate film, and I'll tell you about the storyline and what you need to pay attention to. ”
Magical theme, five-part trilogy, this is the rhythm of a blockbuster again, Thomas Toole is now full of energy and energy.