Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 868 Lao Mouzi, You Are Still A Little Timid
The doubts of his friends, Mark Hana also has in mind, while he suspects that the cat doctor company is behind the Deep Space Company, and at the same time wonders why the Deep Space Company wants to take over the pets.

Based on the information he has obtained so far, it is only possible that Deep Space took over pets for Amazon. After all, Amazon spent more than 5000 million U.S. dollars on pets before.

But this kind of bailout behavior is really unimaginable, and it is by no means something normal people can do.

If Deep Space really has so much money to save the market, it would be better to invest all the money in Amazon. At least it can keep Amazon alive for a while, maybe it can pull up the stock price, and then sell the shares in their hands. Throw it out and harvest a wave of retail investors.

"The chain pet hospital you mentioned..."

"Mao's Sky was originally a relatively well-known pet hospital in the local area. However, their development speed has been relatively slow. They have only developed a few stores over the years, but after being acquired by Deep Space Corporation, their expansion speed has become much faster. And now the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. It can be seen that their goal is to become a national chain of pet hospitals."

Hana thought for a while and asked, "Does pets need pets for the development of their pet hospital?"

"Uh... Although they all serve pets, pets are not very useful to Maotian. Pets does not have a pet medical business. If Deep Space Corporation wants to use the Internet to expand the scale of pet hospitals... "

"You've already assumed that the Deep Space Corporation is behind Doctor Cat?"

"I was led astray by you... If the cat doctor wants to use the Internet to expand the scale of the pet hospital, then they can open another website, there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy pets. In my opinion, the most valuable pets are theirs Warehouses, channels, and their mascot."

He had talked about this with Yu Dong before, and wanted to hear from Yu Dong from a professional point of view, but when it came to martial arts novels, Yu Dong, who always liked to encourage people, kept admonishing him not to make martial arts movies.

"Hey, there's something I'm too embarrassed to tell you."

Before Zhang Yimou, the two directors with a box office of over [-] million for a single film were Liu Weiqiang, the director of "Infernal Affairs" and Wu Yusen, the director of "Changing Face".

Like the mainstream view, Alan Abelson is also not optimistic about this transaction, thinking that it is an "ignorant of current affairs" transaction. In this transaction, the happiest person should be the entire pets company, because if Dr. Cat If they don't do it, their company will face liquidation.

Hana sneered, "According to what he said, both Amazon and Deep Space Company will go bankrupt, but in fact, I won't talk about Amazon. If Deep Space Company can go bankrupt, I'd like to take off my clothes and run under Wall Street for a while." Circle. This time pets is acquired, and Alan Abelson will definitely publish another article, so I want to see what he has to say."

In addition to the main creators of the film, many other deep space celebrities also reposted the tribe.

Whether it can surpass "Face Changing" is uncertain. Although "Face Changing" has a box office of only [-] million US dollars in North America, its global box office is close to [-] million US dollars.

Perhaps with the follow-up capital investment of Deep Space Company, pets can continue to live, but it will definitely not last for too long. After Deep Space Company loses two to three hundred million U.S. dollars, it will let it go.

After the news that pets was about to be acquired, many people speculated that Deep Space Company was behind Doctor Cat, but the official tribe of Deep Space Company quickly came out to clarify that the company had no contact with Doctor Cat, and Deep Space Company even There are no shares in Dr. Cat.

"Yes, I am looking forward to it too."

Hearing the price of 650 million U.S. dollars, Zhang Yimou took a deep breath. Let alone 650 million U.S. dollars, even if it was 650 million yuan, he couldn't afford it now.

But there is one book that is an exception, and that is "Old Book", which is both literary and best-selling among Yu Dong's many works, and it is even more popular than those popular novels.

Hearing that Yu Dong was about to hang up, Zhang Yimou hurriedly said, "It's not that the signal is bad."

As soon as this news came out, it really diverted the attention of many netizens, because everyone has been paying attention to the news of the release of "The Martian" for more than half a year.

He also knows that he is not good at telling stories with structure, but good with color.

Such an approach is undoubtedly successful.

According to the current situation, it is already a certainty that the box office of "Golden Dreamland" will surpass that of "Infernal Affairs".

At the end of the article, Alan Abelson specifically praised Dr. Cat and his boss, saying that what Dr. Cat did was no different from doing charity.

Hana shook his head, "It's useless for the two of us to guess more, let's see the follow-up development."

A few years ago, he wanted to make a martial arts film because he liked Gu Long, but he never had a suitable script. He wanted to write it himself, but he couldn't feel it.

With this experience, Zhang Yimou has also tasted the sweetness. Recently, besides paying attention to the box office of "Golden Dreamland", he is also thinking about what to make in his next movie.

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This argument is mentioned in almost every article of Alan Abelson, and this time is no exception. He believes that compared with the previous acquisition of BenQ Dentsu, there is no future for winning pets this time.

Moreover, the article also hints everywhere that the deep space company is behind Doctor Cat, because only the deep space company has both the motivation and the ability to do this.

Earlier, the sales volume of "Old Book" exceeded 4000 million copies, and now the sales volume has reached [-] million copies.

In addition to "Old Books", Zhang Yimou also wanted to shoot "The Da Vinci Code". Before chatting with Yu Dong, he often talked about semiotics, and he was also very interested in semiotics.

In fact, Zhang Yimou already had a script in his heart that he wanted to shoot, which was also Yu Dong's novel, but he was embarrassed to ask for it directly, because the weight of the book was too heavy.

A company like pets has very few fixed assets. If it really needs to be liquidated, there is nothing that can be realized. Most of the money invested by early investors has been spent on marketing.

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After Zhang Yimou forwarded this tribe, many netizens congratulated Zhang Yimou, because just yesterday, the North American box office of "Golden Dreamland" exceeded [-] million US dollars, and Zhang Yimou became the third single movie with a box office of over [-] million US dollars. The Chinese director of the dollar.

"Not anymore."

But now it seems that the North American box office alone exceeds [-] million US dollars, and the problem is not particularly big. The global box office is completely aiming for more than [-] million US dollars.

Zhang Yimou had never mentioned that he wanted to shoot "Old Book" before. One was because of embarrassment, and the other was because the book was too famous and the filming was too stressful.

The filming of "Golden Dreamland" this time still uses the structure of the novel, and then fills the original skeleton with flesh and blood and paints it with color.

"If the company behind Doctor Mao is really Deep Space, do you think their move is good for Internet companies or..."

Zhang Yimou was taken aback: "Not here? To whom?"

"I don't know." Hana sighed, "I have no idea what the Deep Space Company wants to do, and I can't tell whether what they are doing is correct or not. Maybe we have to wait until the tide calms down before we know." What the hell is the Deep Space Corporation going to do?"

Alan Abelson believes that there is a lot of cash lying in the account of the Deep Space Company, which makes the Deep Space Company irrational when making decisions.Combined with the recent mergers and acquisitions of Deep Space Corporation, it seems that Deep Space Corporation wants to get involved in any industry, and this investment strategy of spreading the net everywhere is very risky.

Because of Yu Dong's persuasion, Zhang Yimou put the matter aside.

Now after Dr. Mao takes action, the employees don't have to lose their jobs, and the investors can get back part of their blood, so that they won't lose everything.

Because according to the previous style of Deep Space Company, if Dr. Mao had no shadow of their company behind them, then they would definitely not come out to say anything, but now they come out to clarify, but it feels like there is no silver 300 taels here.

Zhang Yimou was among the first to retweet. After "Golden Dreamland" was released, he stayed in the United States and did not leave. He paid attention to the box office of the movie every day. When he saw the tribe of "The Martian" released, he retweeted it.

Yu Dong's novels include popular popular novels such as "Second World", "Resident Evil" and "The Martian", as well as literary novels such as "Xiang Xi", "Curse" and "Widow's Death". strong serious novels, and the sales of the latter tend to be much lower than those of the former.

After "Golden Dreamland", Zhang Yimou also figured it out. He still doesn't want to write the script himself.

"Alan Abelson is now commenting on "Barron's Weekly" every few days. Every time he talks about Deep Space Corporation and Amazon, but the old man can't talk about anything now."

Judging from the current data, there is still great hope that the North American box office of "Golden Dreamland" will eventually exceed [-] million US dollars.

And "The Da Vinci Code" is quite suitable for him. If this novel is to be adapted into a movie, the original structure is difficult and does not need to be broken. On the contrary, the color requires some genius ideas.

He has quite a few scripts on hand, some of them are not bad, but none of them can make him have a strong impulse.

Zhang Yimou has been hesitating between these two novels recently, not knowing which one to choose.

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "Then what the hell are you doing? You falter."

Although marketing is not for nothing, it can also create brand value, but your company can't do it any more, so why talk about brand value with others?Not to mention that pets has only been established for a short time, and it does not have much brand value itself.

"I'm a little interested."

If other directors knew Zhang Yimou's thoughts, they would probably vomit blood. It would be even more difficult for others to get the film and television adaptation rights of Yu Dong's novels.

A few days after Yu Dong returned to Jinling, he received a call from Zhang Yimou from the United States.

However, just because Deep Space came out to clarify, many people firmly believe that the company behind Doctor Cat is Deep Space.

After the call was connected, Zhang Yimou hesitated, and Yu Dong thought it was because the signal was not good, "The signal is not good today, so hang up first, and dial again later."

However, no matter what the media speculated, Deep Space Corporation did not come out to give any other explanations. Instead, it announced the release of "The Martian" a few days after the incident came out.

Now that the movie is out, the reviews are pretty good, and the box office is also good, but some voices can still be heard saying that the movie is far inferior to the novel, but compared to the good reviews, these voices are relatively few, and have little impact on Zhang Yimou.

"If you're embarrassed, then don't open your mouth, or I'm embarrassed to refuse." Yu Dong smiled.

Yu Dong said with a smile, "All the copyrights of my works are entrusted to Deep Space Corporation, so naturally they are no longer in my hands. Now the film and television adaptation rights of "The Da Vinci Code" have not been sold out. Why do you ask this, if you are interested ?”

If the North American box office of "Golden Dreamland" can finally exceed [-] million US dollars, then the global total box office can basically surpass "Face Changing".

Mark Hana and the others guessed right. Just two days after the news of pets' imminent acquisition came out, Alan Abelson published an article focusing on analyzing this transaction.

Zhang Yimou chuckled, "It's nothing else, I just want to ask if you still have the film and television adaptation rights of "The Da Vinci Code"?"

On the surface, this was a compliment, but it was actually a mockery. He was mocking Dr. Cat's boss, who had a lot of stupid money. This time, the investment would definitely fail.

Moreover, it is very difficult for the theme of "Old Books" to get a high box office. No matter how bad "Golden Dreamland" is, there are some hunting plots in it, which can stimulate the audience's attention.

"Okay, we didn't sell it for 800 million US dollars before. If you want to buy it, I will give you a friendly price, only 650 million US dollars."

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After the official deep space tribe released the new tribe that day, the main creators also forwarded this tribe one after another.

Even if the North American box office of "Golden Dreamland" cannot exceed [-] million US dollars, Zhang Yimou is actually satisfied at the moment, and his goal is not high. As long as the global box office of "Golden Dreamland" can exceed [-] million US dollars, he will be satisfied up.

When filming "Golden Dreamland", he was under a lot of pressure. He was afraid that the film would not be effective and would be scolded by readers of "Golden Dreamland".

But "Old Books" is different. The pressure of shooting old books must be far higher than "Golden Dreamland".

"Well, how can I afford this... No, I didn't say I would buy it either."

Yu Dong laughed, "I know what you're thinking, you want our company to find the money to shoot, and then hire you as the director, right?"

"Yes."

"Old Mouzi, I'm not talking about you, you're still a little timid. Now that "Golden Dreamland" is doing so well at the box office, and your reputation in Hollywood has been established, it's not easy to make some money to make a movie? You first Use the price of 650 million to borrow the film and television adaptation rights of "The Da Vinci Code" from me, and then use the film and television adaptation rights to find people to invest, and guarantee that a lot of people will give you money."

(End of this chapter)