Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 127 Entering Hollywood

"what……"

Sophia was a little surprised.

He thought Gu Ming was here to renew her contract.

I never talked about renewing the contract before, just because I was busy in China and I forgot about it.

She didn't expect that Gu Ming wanted to poach her away.

To be honest, between a film production company founded by a Chinese director and William Morris, which company has the greatest development prospects?

There is no doubt that 99 out of [-] people will think it is the latter.

Sophia thinks so too.

But the future of development is great. How much of the future will be yours in the end is another matter.

At William Morris, she was a pure newcomer with only a few small fish under her belt. She still worked hard to sign Gu Ming, but Gu Ming stopped signing her after a year.

It knocked her back to her original shape.

In the future, it can be said that it will be as difficult as climbing to the top of William Morris Company.

What about following Gu Ming?In that new production company, as someone Gu Ming trusted, she was the one who was under one person and above the whole company.And the annual salary of 30 is not what she can earn at William Morris now.

The key is……

"Gu, I want to know your positioning of this company." Sophia asked sincerely.

"All the films I will shoot in Hollywood in the future will definitely have investment from this company, or simply our new company will invest in the production of the films, and then we will find a distribution company."

"I understand." Sophia nodded.

There are many companies of this type.

For example, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s planB company, Tom Cruise’s Cruise/Wagner Productions, and Spielberg’s original Amblin Entertainment.

Big stars and big directors have a strong voice. They are generally not willing to just earn the salary. If you want to make a movie with them, if it is not an A-level production from the six majors, they must have a share of investment.

It seems that Gu Ming also wants to take this path.

Then he quickly ran through Gu Ming's results in his mind.

Literary films have won awards one after another, one of which has exceeded [-] million in North American box office, and two commercial films have both exceeded [-] million in North American box office.

Sophia feels that this yet-to-be-established company still has a bright future.

He immediately stretched out his hand, "Gu, can we cooperate again?"

"You won't regret your decision today!"

Gu Ming held hands with this American woman with freckles on her face.

Then Gu Ming stayed in the United States for about a week.

Find a suitable film and television company.

To put it bluntly, in Hollywood, you can film a person from a film and television company with just a brick.

Not only are the big six here, but there are also many small film and television production companies that you have never heard of.

Some companies are so small that they have never even produced theatrical movies. Their goal is to make some extremely low-cost plasma films, erotic films, etc., record them directly on video tapes, enter the video tape market, or show them in some motels, and TV and movie market.

I entrusted a local agency to search for it.

I soon found a small company like this. The boss was a young man. His parents died in a car accident. He just graduated from college and studied finance. He didn’t want to engage in these seemingly low-level businesses anymore. He felt that the current stock market was in the end. Want to sell and buy Internet stocks.

Gu Ming can only say that this guy has good vision!

If you are careful enough, you will indeed have a better future than sticking to this company.

Then he bought this small company with only more than 200 employees near Santa Monica for US$20 million.

By the way, the name was changed to "The Big Dipper entertainment."

Big Dipper Entertainment.

On the first day after changing his surname to Gu, Gu Ming went to the company to make a fortune.

The company is located on the third floor of an office building, with an area of ​​180 square meters. When Gu Ming walked in, more than 20 people looked at Gu Ming.

They all know that the company has changed hands, and the new boss is called "Gu Ming." A very special name.

This reminded many of them of the director of the recently watched movie "The Bourne Supremacy" and the big Gu Ming work in the opening credits of "Taken 1.2".

They really hoped it would be acquired by such a well-known action film director.

That at least means that their company will not be short of money in the future.

Maybe they will also enter theater movies, which will bring the company to a higher level. They will also be able to improve, and at least they will get more bonuses, right?

When they saw Gu Ming walking in, some employees who knew Gu Ming shouted.

"Gu, will you be our new boss from now on?"

"Boss, I'm your fan."

One by one, the employees started chirping.

"Quiet." Gu Ming smiled and gestured, "Yes, I am indeed the boss of this company."

"From now on, we will all be colleagues working together."

"New boss, new atmosphere. Starting from this month, each employee's salary will increase by 5.00%!" He had to put his mind at ease, so Gu Ming chose the simplest way, giving money.

It's not like some novels I read in my previous life where the protagonist's price rose by 20.00% as soon as he gave it.

This can easily lead to a situation where there is no room for growth.

People are not enough to swallow elephants.

Gu Ming is a qualified entrepreneur at home, and he is naturally an excellent capitalist abroad.

5.00% is very interesting.

If anyone thinks this means little, then it means nothing.Then Gu Ming was embarrassed. Apart from the fact that he couldn't offend anyone, he saw that there was no one here to offend, so he was fired without explanation.

However, it was obvious that Gu Ming was overthinking.

Even if it is only 5.00%, it is still a lot of money for these employees with a monthly salary of about [-].

Watching a movie every two days would not be enough to spend the increased salary in a month.

Every company employee cheered.

After watching them cheer for a while, Gu Ming announced something else, "Sofia will be the general manager of Beidou Star Entertainment from now on, and you will be responsible to her."

After all, it’s just a small company, and the most important thing is the movies we make.

Gu Ming handed over the power to Sophia, an acquaintance.

Although she knew that she would be entrusted with an important task, Sophia was still very excited when she was actually given such a position by Gu Ming.

Follow Gu Ming into the office.

Then he got into the role and couldn't wait to ask, "Gu, no, boss, will your next film be cooperating with other companies, or will it be produced by our company?"

"Actually, no matter what, the company has no funds in its account."

"I'll invest $300 million first."

"As for the project..."

"After this year's Venice Film Festival, I will definitely personally plan and shoot a Hollywood film."

In fact, Gu Ming originally wanted to make a big production that could not only boost domestic box office but also earn foreign box office.

It was almost halfway through 2002, and I remembered that there was one big thing that had yet to happen.

If it happens to happen and the crew is shut down, the losses will be huge.

After thinking about it, there is also "Hero" that drives the domestic box office, and there is no shortage of this one.

The events in his previous life also proved that he was not very lucky.

Then I will just wait until the second half of next year to start filming that film.

After "Secret Sunshine" is over, let's make a Hollywood movie first.

Not only to make money, but also to support the budding Beidou Star Entertainment.

"What kind of movie are you going to make?"

After thinking about this, Gu Ming simply pulled up a chair and sat down, holding his chin and thinking about it.

First, determine your budget.

My own money is not much.

Especially privately owned dollars.

All the previous 450 million yuan was spent on NetEase shares, and they successfully pulled up NetEase shares. However, because they were bought early, NetEase was in crisis of delisting at that time, so most of them were bought at low prices.

According to the broker, he is now considered a shareholder of NetBillion, accounting for [-]% of the shares.

Gu Ming couldn't bear to sell any of these shares.

If you hold it for more than ten years, it will become priceless in the future.

Once you sell it, you won't be able to buy it back at the same price.

Then what he can use is the North American box office share of "The Bourne Supremacy", which is more than 700 million.

After paying taxes and adding the money owned by the company, it's about $800 million.

Definitely a small cost.

Once it’s filmed, you still have to consider its distribution.

As for the films I direct, I can get distributors to give me reasonably good conditions. I think there are two types of films that I think can make a lot of money under these conditions: action films and literary films.

There is no hope in making an action movie for $800 million.

It’s even just enough to cover half of Li Lianlian’s current salary.

Then you can only choose literary and artistic films.

"Oh, there is!"

Gu Ming thought of a film similar to "Green Book".

The first male and the second male are also white men. Like "Green Book", it also has a bit of comedy and equality.

There is "Green Book", a film that won both box office and awards.

If you make a similar low-budget literary film, those distributors should be willing to distribute it.

After all, the risks are small and the benefits are big.

If Sony distributes it, they can also bring along the green book to promote it!
It's it!
Gu Ming picked up the pen and wrote a few words on the paper.

France, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo.

He was the Vice President of Bury Champagne Company under Louis Vuitton Group.

"Go find him. He is a rich man who is currently paralyzed. Get authorization from him and his servants, and let us adapt the story of the two people into a movie." Gu Ming handed the paper to Sophia.

"Oh, Gu, how do you know him?" Sophia was a little curious about how Gu Ming remembered such a long name.

"I have many friends, especially friends in France. Don't forget that I just served as a judge in Cannes."

"As for this person, I have occasionally heard someone talk about it, but those friends are all in the film industry. I can't believe it. You go to France in person to find this person and get authorization. If necessary, you can tell him that I want to transfer them The story was made into a movie.”

"The other party is not short of money and is not very interested in money. I hope you can win it with the least amount of money."

"This is the first thing I give you. I hope you won't disappoint me."

(End of this chapter)