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Chapter 673 News Leakage (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)

When the time entered September, the filming of "Jurassic Park" in Kauai was coming to an end. After the filming in Kauai was over, the crew went to Oahu to shoot a few more shots. In September In the middle of the day, I finally returned to Los Angeles!

After returning to Los Angeles, everyone did not rest, but directly entered the studio of [-]th Century Fox and started shooting the interior.

At this time, everyone's cooperation has been very tacit, so the shooting is also very smooth!

However, this is the first time that Wu Jianye has shot under the green screen in the studio. technology, which also benefits from the overall rise of digital green screen technology.

Although such technology already existed before this, due to technical problems, there is no large-scale application at all. The development of technology is actually the development of film technology.

It can be said that this is not only the filming process of "Jurassic Park", but also a learning process for Wu Jianye.

Originally thought that the filming of "Jurassic Park" could be completed without incident, but when Wu Jianye was filming at the [-]th Century Fox studio, Linda brought a bad news!

The relationship between Oceanwide Cinemas and Phantom Entertainment has been officially exposed!
The most successful merger and acquisition case in history - Phantom Entertainment and Oceanwide Cinemas have fooled everyone!

Wu Jianye looked at the newspaper brought by Linda, which clearly stated the entire process of Phantom Entertainment's acquisition of Oceanwide Cinemas, the stock exchange between the two parties, and Phantom Entertainment's investment in Oceanwide Cinemas, so that Fan Overseas Theaters has become one of the top three theater companies in the United States through mergers and acquisitions in just over a year!

"This is the news leaked by insiders!" Wu Jianye immediately made a judgment after reading the entire report!
Linda also said with a sad face: "Johnson and I think so too!"

"Where's Johnson?" Wu Jianye asked without seeing Johnson coming with her.

Johnson should be there at this time!

"Johnson is home!" Linda replied.

Wu Jianye looked at Linda and asked, "So, Penny leaked the news?"

There were only a few people who knew the details of this incident, and according to Johnson's behavior, Wu Jianye remembered that arrogant Penny!

At the beginning, I had an unpleasant encounter with her in New York, but was taken back to Los Angeles by the old Johnson, and was grounded for a while.

Linda nodded and said, "Johnson thought so too, that's why he went home, but the specific situation, we still have to wait until Johnson comes back to confirm!"

Wu Jianye said: "Now chasing is about who leaked the news, not the most important thing, how did the major production companies and the North American government respond!"

Linda's face became even more bitter, and she said: "Several major production companies responded very strongly. After this report came out, the company's phone calls were almost exploded, and they all asked about the authenticity of this matter. As for On the side of the North American Congress, let us explain it!"

Wu Jianye fell into deep thought. To be honest, with Phantom's strength now, he is no longer afraid of being targeted by several major production companies. According to later generations, Phantom Entertainment has basically completed its own ecology except for the TV network sector. With the combination of closed-loop chains, even if there are several major production companies targeting them, they can completely digest all their film productions internally.

However, Wu Jianye also knew that speaking out about the act of being an enemy of the whole world may be very passionate, but only the person involved can understand the hardships involved. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Wu Jianye does not want such a situation to happen.

The old ancestor had already told Wu Jianye how to deal with such a situation in his own way.

Combining vertical and horizontal is the best way to deal with it!

Seeing that Wu Jianye did not speak, Linda continued: "Now several major production companies have released news that they will fully support Spielberg's "Captain Hook" when "Jurassic Park" is fully released. "

Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "Even if there is no such thing, don't they already have such a plan?"

The rapid rise of Phantom has completely exceeded the imagination of several major production companies. It can be said that Phantom is developing at an extremely fast speed every year. At this time, Phantom has acquired Oceanwide Cinemas, completing the closed-loop ecological chain of the film market. , This blow to several other production companies is absolutely huge.

"Yeah, thinking about it now, fortunately, the relationship between Phantom Entertainment and Oceanwide Theaters was not announced when "The Love of Ghosts" was released. Otherwise, the development of Oceanwide Theaters at that time would definitely receive more attention Resistance!" Linda said with some fear.

When "Ghost Love" was released, Phantom Entertainment had already dealt with several major production companies, but at that time Wu Jianye chose to sell the follow-up copyright of "Home Alone", which made him Phantom and Oceanwide got a chance to breathe, and now it can be said that yesterday has reappeared.

As the head of Phantom, Linda knows that this crisis is even more serious for Phantom than the last one.

When Phantom owns Oceanwide Cinemas, it is really on the opposite side of several major production companies.

Although several major production companies have been doing the acquisition of theaters, they are not as bold as Phantom. After the news broke, everyone began to check the development trajectory of Oceanwide Cinemas over the past year.

Only then did they discover that Oceanwide Cinemas had invested more than 3 million US dollars in the past year to acquire theater companies in North America, and had already grown into a gigantic existence.
"What's the reaction from Time Warner?"

At the beginning, the copyright of "Home Alone" was sold to Time Warner, so that Phantom got the support of Time Warner's theaters and the film's support for Oceanwide Cinemas. What do partners think!
"Time Warner's reaction was a bit ambiguous, but according to the news we got from Time Warner, although the other party will not really cut off the cooperation with Oceanwide Cinemas due to the contract between us, they want to ask them to come up with It will probably be very difficult to produce a real A-level!" Linda said worriedly.

Wu Jianye shook his head, he was really speechless about these companies playing with contract words!

"It seems that we need a new partner now!" Wu Jianye said!

"A new partner?" Linda looked at Wu Jianye and said, "We don't have enough bargaining chips now!"

Wu Jianye chuckled, and said, "Why are there not enough chips? The "Die Hard" series and "Speed" series are the favorites in the eyes of many people. As long as we take out their follow-up copyrights, we are afraid to find them. Can't find a suitable partner?"

Linda immediately objected: "No, we can no longer sell the copyright of the film. In fact, their targeting does not have a great impact on us. There is no need for us to sell the copyright of our own company's film!"

Last year, Phantom Entertainment sold the copyright of "Home Alone" to Time Warner, and Time Warner has also announced that it will restart the "Home Alone" series this Christmas, which immediately caused quite a stir and was even commented by the media. One of the most anticipated productions for this Christmas!

Such comments from the media made Linda very regretful. Now that Wu Jianye proposed to sell the company's film copyright again, how could she, a miser, accept it!
In particular, "Speed", which was just launched this summer, has become a benchmark movie with a small reputation. When this movie was released in North America, the box office was fixed at 1.56 million US dollars, and the overseas box office has also reached 2.23 million dollars. It reached 2.5 million U.S. dollars, and the score of the next painting is estimated to reach about [-] million. For such a big-selling work, any production company will produce a follow-up series. Now Wu Jianye actually wants to sell the sequel copyright of this movie ?
This is even more serious than selling the follow-up copyright of "Home Alone".

As for the "Die Hard" series, Linda's heart is even hotter. Although the income of this movie is not as high as "Speed", the "Die Hard" series is easier to make into a series of movies, especially this movie In the video tape market, it has a strong appeal.

This year, Phantom Entertainment has allocated a production cost of 7000 million US dollars to shoot the second film in this series. This shows that Phantom Entertainment attaches great importance to this series. The second part of "Die Hard" will be Phantom Entertainment in This year's Christmas file is an important weapon against Time Warner's "Home Alone"!

"Wu, I don't object to your idea of ​​finding an ally, but these two series of movies are really important to Phantom. If you sell it like this, I believe you will regret it in the future!" Linda persuaded Wu Jianye said, hoping that he can give up this exaggerated idea.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Well, the "Die Hard" series company will keep it first, and you can negotiate with Disney, saying that we are willing to sell the copyright of the follow-up series of "Speed", and at the same time I will take out An animated script, co-produced by Athena Animation and Disney!"

As for the "Die Hard" series, Wu Jianye doesn't want to sell it, after all, it is a blockbuster series, but the follow-up series of "Speed", for Phantom Entertainment, there is actually no need to create up.

Later generations of [-]th Century Fox have proved with the poor box office that the follow-up series of this movie is a big pit, and whoever jumps will die.

"Speed ​​1.6" with a production cost of 2 million US dollars only has a global box office of 1.645 million US dollars. If the publicity and distribution costs are added, [-]th Century Fox will lose all its pants.

When Linda was about to say something, Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "Let's just settle this matter. "Speed" is a complete story, and there is no need to make a sequel, and I can't think of any other story that can succeed him, and the follow-up production can only be a follow-up!"

Linda: "Are you so sure?"

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Yes, the most important thing is to win the plan to cooperate with Disney in producing cartoons!"

Linda thought for a long time and said, "I hope you are right!"

Wu Jianye said: "When negotiating with Disney this time, we need to negotiate the release of the movie in Oceanwide theaters. Don't let Time Warner's situation happen again!"

Linda was solely responsible for the previous negotiations with Time Warner, but it turned out that Time Warner caught a loophole in the contract, which itself was Linda's responsibility, but Wu Jianye didn't want to be too harsh on Linda for this kind of thing. Da, after all, everyone has the opportunity to make mistakes.

Without today's incident, there is no way to see the true face of Time Warner!
Eat a fall and gain a wisdom!

Linda blushed and said, "I see, don't worry!"

Then Wu Jianye asked about the situation in the North American Congress. Although the case of the villain Ramon has been loosened a lot, other production companies have also invested in theater companies.

But if the North American Congress wants to use this to target Phantom Entertainment, it will still find a lot of ways!
Linda thought for a while and said, "There will definitely be routine inquiries from the Congress, and we have to make some preparations now!"

Wu Jianye understood what Linda meant by preparation, and asked, "How much public relations fee will it cost?"

Linda said: "According to the company's calculations, it will cost almost 3000 million US dollars!"

Wu Jianye asked in surprise, "So many?"

Although 3000 million US dollars is not a big amount for Wu Jianye at this time, but thinking of giving it to those greedy congressmen, he is still very reluctant.

Linda explained: "There is no way to do this. Other production companies have been operating in North America for many years and have their own supporters. Coupled with the Wall Street capital behind them, they will have many people speaking for them in Congress. , but the establishment time of Phantom is too short, and the foundation is still not enough!"

Wu Jianye nodded, and said: "Okay, just give what is due, and treat it as feeding the dog, but this incident also reminded us that we should also have our own voice in Congress. Otherwise, things like this will happen in the future!"

Linda nodded and said: "I see, I will take care of this matter, but if you really want to find a congressional spokesperson for our company, then the company must spend at least 1500 million US dollars every year as a reward for them." support."

Wu Jianye also knew that this money cannot be saved, and said, "All right, you will be solely responsible for this matter!"

Wu Jianye doesn't need those North American members of Congress to provide much political protection for Phantom, as long as they don't get into trouble when Phantom has problems.

In fact, in any place in the world, it is impossible to avoid political interference 100% when doing business, but Wu Jianye has always been indifferent to politics, so he can only look at each other and never get tired of it.

At this time, Johnson also rushed over in a hurry: "Ask clearly, it's not the news that Penny leaked!"

(End of this chapter)