Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1417 Short-sighted Hollywood
Hollywood is such a vanity fair.

Every night there will be various invitations, including carnival parties, business banquets, charity gala, awards gala, and premieres of various Hollywood blockbusters.

Over the past month or so, the project "Ziweixing Global" has spread.

Zhou Buqi, who was already well-known in Hollywood, became more and more popular, and invitations flew over like snowflakes.It was Friday, which was equivalent to half the weekend. Zhou Buqi received an invitation and chose to attend an important dinner party.

The organizer is Hulu, the most well-known streaming media platform in the United States. Jason Kilar, chairman and CEO of the company, organized a cocktail party at home. MGM, Fox, Warner, Lions Gate, Sony Entertainment, NBC, Executives from companies such as ABC will participate.

Right now, Zhou Buqi is being trapped by a problem of Sun Zhengyi, and he was not in the mood to participate in these messy things.

However, Hulu is different, this is a streaming platform!

Hulu has invited so many content providers. Needless to say, Hulu must be trying to persuade content providers to provide them with more content.

This is what Zhou Buqi cares most about.

He had to go there himself.

Explore!
Take a look at what these people in Hollywood know about the combination of content and streaming media!
On such occasions, formal attire must be worn.

In the cloakroom, under the staff of Sun Guanran and Ning Lu, Senior Sister Zhen Yu tried on various dresses.

Zhou Buqi is very simple. After she has chosen the dress, she can choose a matching suit.

Appreciate Senior Sister Zhenyu changing clothes, eh!She has such a good figure, her skin is so fair, her waist is so thin, and a set of black underwear becomes more and more tempting the more she looks at it.

"No, no, no! Who bought the clothes? Don't wear low-cut ones, pick conservative ones." Seeing her holding a low-cut evening dress in front of the mirror, Zhou Buqi resolutely objected.

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at the person in the mirror, and handed the skirt to Ning Lu, "Then change it again."

Then, he asked curiously, "Have you thought about it?"

"what?"

"Sun Zhengyi!"

"Damn!" Zhou Buqi had a headache, "Senior Sister Zhen, don't leave any pot unopened, I'm so irritable."

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said, "It's okay to be annoying, you have to make a choice."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "This Sun Zhengyi is really dark-hearted. I thought this operation was a cooperation between the two parties. The result is good. He wants me to come forward to work for him!"

"It's not like what you said." Zhen Yu couldn't laugh or laugh, and said seriously, "I think what he said is right, your thinking... others can't keep up. Sun Zhengyi said that he has prepared up to 200 billion US dollars, If you didn’t get off the game yourself, would he be relieved? Let me tell you, he was planning to get you off the game from the very beginning.”

Zhou Buqi hummed: "There is nothing to worry about. This is an investment in the entertainment industry, which is different from Internet investment."

"what?"

"Investing in the Internet, if it fails, it will be over. All investments will be in vain. But this project is different. The acquisition of Universal Pictures, MGM, and DreamWorks all have real assets. Even if Ziwei Star Universal fails to It can be operated as expected, and it can be easily recouped if it is disassembled and sold.”

In order to think about victory, first think about defeat, Zhou Buqi had already thought about it.

As long as it's not like MGM, the company's value is only 20 billion U.S. dollars, and the external loans are as high as 37 billion U.S. dollars... The annual income is not enough to repay the interest, and this is dead.

It is now in a state of bargain hunting.

Even if it doesn’t manage well and can’t continue, it doesn’t matter. If you sell it in three or four years, you can still have a 25%-30% rate of return.

This is why Sun Zhengyi dared to spend 200 billion U.S. dollars at one time. As long as you don’t play too much with fire, the business will have a lower rate of return at most, and it is unlikely to lose money.

The "lipstick effect" under the economic crisis has already been reflected!
For example, DreamWorks Animation, the net profit in the first quarter reached 6200 million US dollars, an increase of nearly 30% over the same period last year.The revenues of other Hollywood companies have also increased significantly.

Under the economic downturn, the bright signal of film and television entertainment has been released.

So before others react, enter the market quickly and buy the bottom!
The only trouble is that Sun Zhengyi wants Zhou Buqi to end himself.

Sun Guanran didn't quite understand, and asked suspiciously: "Let's end it, this case was originally planned by you. It is definitely better for you to do it yourself than to order others to do it."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "How do I have so much time?"

"what?"

Sun Guanran had a complicated expression.

You don't have time?

It's been a day, and I didn't see how busy you are?

When power was not delegated in China, it was indeed very busy.But after promoting Zhang Yiming to vice chairman and president, you didn't do anything serious?

Just go to Colombia, Venezuela and other countries to go to beauty pageants, right?

Or did he go to film schools everywhere in the country to adopt his daughter?
Ning Lu suggested: "You become the chairman, and then hand over the work to others."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "That's the difficulty. It's not a shortage of people. Not only do I want to be the chairman, but I also have to be a part-time president to manage all businesses."

Ning Lu looked back at him, "Can't you?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. It's hard to make a movie."

"Then do it."

"Forget it, let me think about it again."

Zhou Buqi was a little unwilling.

Obviously he and Sun Zhengyi cooperated and used Hollywood as a pawn together, which feels good.But after going on and on, he was going to end in person, and Sun Zhengyi was enjoying the hot food behind his back.

Most importantly, he is not interested in the film industry!

What he does is the Internet!
Although his blueprint design for "Ziweixing Global" is part of the Internet industry, it will take many years until the streaming media industry develops.

The current "Ziweixing Global" still has to operate in a relatively traditional way.

After the film is produced, it will be shown in cinemas first; then videotapes, DVDs, and Blu-ray plus DVDs will be released; then there will be high-priced on-demand broadcasts, which are mainly used on screens in museums, coffee shops, airports, and airplanes; and then promoted to TV. Cable TV, Wireless TV, Satellite TV, Overseas TV...

In short, the "Ziweixing Global" in the next few years has nothing to do with the Internet.

If Zhou Buqi does this, it is not doing his job properly.

What does Ziweixing's executives think?
Don't care about your own company and go to take care of other companies?

Senior Sister Zhenyu saw it clearly, and said softly: "It's actually not that complicated. If you want me to tell you, you might as well agree to him. Universal Pictures, comics, and DreamWorks are all doing well now, and they just need to develop according to the past model." That’s enough. After you take office, your main task is to smooth out MGM’s business, and then discern talents with a discerning eye, and cultivate and promote a group of executives with Internet thinking.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Let me think about it!"

Senior Sister Zhen Yu's last sentence was quite correct, probably this is Sun Zhengyi's true intention.

Hollywood is short of talent!
Hollywood executives are basically transformed from producers.

What kind of business thinking can a film producer have?

Therefore, if "Ziweixing Global" wants to start, it needs Boss Zhou to step down in person and use a few years to train and promote a group of executives who understand both the new Internet model and the Hollywood content business.

With a mature, strong and capable executive team, Zhou Buqi can have a chance to step down.

……

Hollywood entertainment has never been without female stars.

However, Zhou Buqi had no interest in them, the more he got in touch with, the less interested he was, and his main focus was on the business socializing at the reception.

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar organized this event mainly to get more content resources from major film companies.

Zhou Buqi is starting to set up "Ziweixing Global", and the probability of success is very high.In the current economic crisis, whoever has money is the uncle.

At the reception, Zhou Buqi saw Frank, a vice president of MGM.

The other party came forward to chat enthusiastically, humble and flattering in front of the future boss.This kind of exaggerated superficial flattery is really surprising, it is really rare.

Zhou Buqi was a little flat, "What is MGM's attitude towards Hulu?"

Frank quickly said: "MGM is looking for a sale, and there will be no major business moves."

Zhou Buqi remained calm, "What about before? Was there any cooperation?"

"Have."

"Tell me specifically?"

"That is, MGM provides some content, puts it on Hulu, and then Hulu will pay a licensing fee. Well...mainly some less popular TV series, and some old black and white movies."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Old black and white movies?"

Frank said: "Yes, if it is a color film, our focus is still on the sale and rental of DVDs, as well as the authorization of broadcasting to TV stations, and we will not let viewers watch it for free."

Hulu is now a free model.

That is, you can watch a movie on the Internet for free after watching a few minutes of advertisements.

This is too normal in China, but it is almost impossible for countries with strict intellectual copyright protection.Don't expect to see any high-quality content without spending money.

Zhou Buqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "So, MGM just licensed some leftover content to Hulu?"

"Yes."

"What about other people's homes?"

"It's almost the same," Frank smiled. "That guy Jason has been looking for us for more than a year, but it's impossible. No one wants to disrupt the current Hollywood model."

Zhou Buqi is very happy!

Jason Kilar used to work at Amazon and was one of the nine top executives who reported directly to Bezos. His vision and philosophy are absolutely fine.

However, he is facing a short-sighted Hollywood.

From this point of view, the entire Hollywood is still stuck in the traditional concept of the past, and has not changed because of Hulu's super high hit rate, and is still guarding the old tradition.

Hulu should be suppressed as much as possible.

Frank said in a low voice: "Over the Hulu matter, Universal and NBC almost had internal strife, and there was a lot of trouble."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi was even more surprised.

(End of this chapter)