Chapter 1166 Hollywood's business model lags behind

From an aesthetic point of view, Kristen Stewart's status among American fans is the same as Liu Tianxian's status among domestic movie fans. She looks impeccable and her acting skills are terrible.

Zhou Buqi felt it, that's it!

Very cold, not very cooperative.

I don't know, I thought someone owed her how much money. Zhou Buqi lost all interest, and originally wanted to write a check to her the next day, so let's not talk about it.

The service attitude is too bad.

After staying in the United States for seven or eight days, Zhou Buqi is ready to return home.

Xu Baihui said sarcastically: "It seems that I had a good time last night, and the real purpose of coming to Hollywood has been achieved."

Zhou Buqi glared at her, and said: "Stop talking nonsense, I'm going back to deal with important national affairs. Microsoft is going to make a serious move this time. If the timing is delayed, the country will suffer huge economic losses."

Xu Baihui pouted, "What about Hollywood?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Isn't it almost the end of the discussion? You can just stay and finish it. "The Agent Next Door" has already been obtained for you, aren't you satisfied?"

"What about Marvel?"

"The assortment investment for 13 films has already been confirmed, and they can't go back on their word. Just go and sign the contract. You are the boss of Jieyu Media."

"What about financing?"

"For people from Goldman Sachs to operate, they need to audit their net assets and do due diligence. The whole process will be relatively long. I will pay for it, and the negotiation process will be left to you. It's just a comic book company, and it's not worth me personally."

Between the words, Zhou Buqi was quite arrogant.

At the moment, he really doesn't pay much attention to Hollywood, and Silicon Valley is his main target of crusade.

Xu Baihui rolled his eyes wide and mocked, "I can ruin you!"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Anyway, you can do it yourself, um... Let me set a standard for you, take 25% of Marvel's shares, and the funds should not exceed 500 million US dollars. The valuation of 2 billion US dollars, I feel worse."

"Oh," Xu Baihui nodded, she has a daring personality, "Don't blame me if you mess up."

Zhou Buqi laughed, "It's okay, if you succeed, it's your fault, if you lose money, it's mine."

The corner of Xu Baihui's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a bit of a smile, "Boss Zhou, when are you going back to China?"

"Let's go tonight, tomorrow morning."

"That's right, you can accompany me to meet someone in the afternoon."

"Who is it?"

"A director of the CBS television network in charge of the film business is the head of CBS's Hollywood business. Her name is Jia Le. She has been in the United States for seven or eight years, and her current name is Jessica. She graduated from China Communications. I would like to invite She's coming over to take care of Jieyu Media's Hollywood booth."

Zhou Buqi agreed, "Well, it should be. I heard that CBS's corporate culture is not good, and sexual harassment in the workplace is very serious. She should be willing to change jobs."

Xu Baihui curled her lips and said, "Which company is not serious in this business? When I was in China, I seldom helped you find it?"

Zhou Buqi coughed lightly, and said with a serious expression: "Don't be too picky when employing people. Men are better at this job. I can help you in China, but we can't do it in the United States."

Xu Baihui nodded lightly, "I know, I will continue to look for people. Anyway, I only need a little, and there must be Chinese people who have connections in China. When Sony bought Columbia back then, they found a few Americans to take charge of it, and they were miserable. You have to rely on your own people, wait a few years for the business to stabilize, and then find Americans.”

"As long as you have the numbers."

"In addition to platter investment, I also want to control the movie myself."

"Hollywood movie?"

"Um!"

Xu Baihui has beautiful eyes, conquering Hollywood, how exciting? It doesn't matter how well it is done, as long as it is done and a few similar films are made, it will become popular.

What Huayi couldn't do, Jieyu Media has done, who will compete for the number one in the industry?

Zhou Buqi felt that this idea was feasible, thought for a while, and said from a high-level view: "After all, we are outsiders. It is not easy to start a business in Hollywood. Sony has used it for ten years and spent two to three billion US dollars. The normal operation of Columbia Pictures. In the short term, it will still focus on platter investment. This is the employer, the producer requires us, and no one dares to offend."

Xu Baihui raised his eyebrows, "Are you saying that apart from the platter investment project that you took over this time, as well as the super-English blockbuster that you cooperated with Marvel, you will continue to invest in platters in the future?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, do it! This is a shortcut to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood. With the outbreak of the financial crisis, the platter investment model that has been popular for many years is likely to stop. In the future, Legendary Pictures and Relativity Media will The platter business will be launched one after another, and it will start to transform into a production company. Jieyu Media is likely to be the only platter investment partner. The whole of Hollywood must hold you in the palm of your hand. When the time is right, make your own movie .”

Xu Baihui was a little worried, "What should I do if I lose money?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "If you lose, you will lose. What are you afraid of? Try boldly, just do it!"

Taking advantage of the bottom-buying orders of this wave of financial crisis, it is difficult to lose money!

Unless the film company dares to play tricks and make a fuss on the books.

For example, Time Warner Group owns Warner Pictures, and also has many media platforms such as TV networks and magazines that can advertise. There can be related transactions here.

The most typical example is the "Harry Potter 5" released last year. It sold 4 consecutive movies, and it was impossible to change the main actors in the 5th movie. The actors took hold of Warner, and offered sky-high prices one after another, trying to kill Warner severely.

Warner had no choice but to admit it, signed a humiliating contract, and gave a large amount of profit dividends before happily finishing the film.

If the contract is completed honestly, Warner will not earn as much as the actors. There are internal operations, left-handed and right-handed, production fees, consulting fees, publicity fees, distribution fees, and the high interest that Warner has to repay on the loan from Time Warner...

After Lin Lin finally figured it out, this movie, which sold a global box office of 1 billion US dollars, lost 167 million US dollars.

If there is a loss, there will be no profit, and there is no need to share profits with the actors.

With the lessons learned this time, the actors learned to be good, and made big concessions in the follow-up contracts, so that the glory of this series can continue.

Jieyu Media doesn't need to worry about this.

This is the employer, not only can't play tricks, but also serve the patron's father properly.

...

Zhou Buqi returned home by private plane.

A little rushed.

But I am very satisfied with this trip to the United States.

First of all, the operation in the financial market is really perfect. Although there is no income of tens or hundreds of times, the current income is already impressive enough.

Ziweixing earned more than 5 billion US dollars, and Zhou Buqi's personal overseas account jumped from 330 million US dollars in cash to 3.86 billion US dollars.

The next step is to set up a family fund, put the 3.86 billion US dollars in it, and invest in various diversification to maintain the appreciation of wealth. Take out 250 million US dollars to invest in Facebook, lend 500 million US dollars to Jieyu Media for platter investment, and set aside 500 million US dollars to strive for a 25% stake in Marvel.

Half of the remaining funds is enough to go to the UK to buy a wealthy team.

very satisfied!

This wave of platter copyright bargain hunting in Hollywood is even more amazing.

It spent 150 million US dollars to buy the rights to a platter of 16 films owned by 20th Century Fox. Although there are only two well-known films, "Avatar" and "Mouse", this is enough! The investment ratio is as high as 33.8%!

Spent 200 million U.S. dollars and bought two "Fast and Furious" 4 and 5, "Twilight" 2, 3, and 4, "Despicable Me", "The Expendables", "Public Enemy" and "Neighborhood" Special Agent" has a total of 9 film platter investment rights.

These 9 movies are actually three cases.

They belong to Universal Pictures, Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate respectively.

Each case has a different percentage.

Universal's films are the "Fast and Furious" series, "Despicable Me" and "Public Enemy", accounting for 30%; Summit Entertainment's "Twilight" series, because it is a small company, so the proportion of the platter It is extremely high, reaching 43%; Lionsgate has two films, "The Expendables" and "The Agent Next Door", and the proportion of the platter is 37%, which is relatively high.

Then, there is the cooperation with Marvel.

1 billion US dollars, bought the right to invest in Marvel's next 13 comic blockbusters, and the investment shares are expected to be between 35% and 45%.

With these three big orders, Jieyu Media has the basic conditions for its international operation.

Overall, it was a very successful trip to the United States.

On the plane, Feng Mu'er put down her chair early to rest.

Sun Guanran was lying in Zhou Buqi's arms, watching the movie "Life in a Rose" together.

"By the way, you said that Hollywood would kneel down to Silicon Valley, is that true or not?"

"Of course it is."

"Netflix?"

"Um."

"I watched Netflix, and that's it. There are not many sources, and there are a small number of people."

Zhou Buqi said: "Take your time and look at the long-term. Hollywood's production level is very high, but the exploration of business models is too conservative. The merger of AOL and Time Warner has become a joke of the century. Hollywood lacks the Internet. Genes, they are still playing the business model of 50 years ago.”

Sun Guanran was not very interested in this slow-paced movie, so he sat up and asked, "Is the business model more important than the product?"

Zhou Buqi said: "This is the case in the mass sector. Business models and market awareness are more important than product quality. If it is a literary film, Hollywood can continue to dominate the world. But in the mass sector, Netflix dominates. There are only 2 billion people watching movies every year, but many people can watch a few hours in front of a small screen every day."

Sun Guanran blinked, "Hollywood also has a video site, and it wants to compete with YouTube and Netflix."

"Um?"

"Hulu is produced by NBC, Fox, Disney, and Sony Columbia. They take out some of their own film sources and exclusively license them to Hulu. Netflix has no films, so it can't do it?"

"Hulu?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "They built this website?"

Sun Guanran said: "I did it, I watched it, there is a high-definition video. It is said that an executive was hired from Amazon to manage it."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "So, success is all forced."

"What's the meaning?"

"Hollywood is teaming up to monopolize film sources and kill Netflix."

"right."

"Without Netflix's film sources, there is only one road left in Huashan."

"what to do?"

"Shoot it yourself!"

"Well……"

Sun Wanran opened her eyes wide.

She has been working in Hollywood during this time, and she also knows some market information. Filming in the U.S. is not as simple as it is in China. You can get a film crew and find good actors and you can start the film. There are a lot of trade unions in the United States, and even the Animal Protection Association is involved. If you shoot animals for too long, it is animal cruelty...

Zhou Buqi didn't think about it, narrowed his eyes slightly, and muttered to himself: "Hulu..."