Chapter 143

Universal Pictures Group.

"What?"

"Our new film failed to win the box office title at the weekend?"

"Psychic Sixth Sense" grossed more than $93 million in the first three days of the weekend? "

Eric Langella, the chairman of the board of directors, the skinny little old man, frowned at the report in his hand.

"Raymond, what's the origin of this Wald film industry? It can beat the Jackal doomsday produced by universal pictures to win the weekend box office champion?"

Eric Langella, chairman of the board, asked, "is it a Columbia subsidiary or a Disney subsidiary?"

Hearing this, Raymond chevaline, President of Universal Pictures, immediately shook his head.

"None of them!"

"Oh?" The little old man Eric suddenly became interested, "it's not a subsidiary of the big six. Please tell me more about it."

At the moment, Eric is really interested.

How can Eric, a senior capitalist, not be curious that a film company, independent of the big six, can even win the weekend box office title and still step on his own global top position?

His interest comes from profit.

His idea now is to ask if he can buy it!

Raymond chevaline, President of Universal Pictures, understands.

"Boss," he said solemnly, "the producer of sixth sense is Wald pictures. It was founded at the end of 1995, and its predecessor is Hughes pictures."

"After the acquisition of Hughes pictures, the boss of the company, well, that's Zucker Wald. He was an extremely young young man. He was only 18 years old at the beginning. Shortly after the acquisition, he personally acted as a screenwriter and director, and completed the first cinema film of Wald pictures - "Lola Run."

"After its release in North America, the film has grossed nearly $14 million."

"And its production cost is said to be less than $1 million, which is a typical case of Xiaobo da."

"Of course, the most important thing is that paramount only spent millions of dollars to buy the overseas release rights and copyrights of the film. In just a few months, the European market alone made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office."

The voice falls, Rao is the little old man Eric, also reveals a trace of shock.

To be small and broad?

The overseas achievements of hundreds of millions of dollars are typical cases of small, broad and big companies!

It's not, so what is it?

For a moment, Eric, who is a member of UPF, could hardly help asking Raymond, "why didn't you buy it at the beginning?"

Of course, Eric didn't say that.

Because the past is naturally the past. It is meaningless to ask these questions now. Well, it just makes you look stupid.

"Then what happened?"

The talents of big companies are not omnipotent. It is normal to miss some profitable films every year. However, Eric is still a little distressed for missing hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.

Later?

At this moment, Raymond, the president of Universal Pictures, was shocked and said in a deep voice: "later, Wald pictures has launched three films, namely" fruit candy "," fatal curve "and" Juno "

"The box office of fruit hard candy is not high, but it has a good reputation, and the offline market has gained a lot."

"The box office of fatal bend is more than 32 million US dollars in North America, and the overseas box office is close to 40 million US dollars, and the initial production cost is only 1 million US dollars, which is another case of small and broad scale."

"The most powerful is the Juno movie. Three days after its opening, the film made more than $63 million at the box office, with more than $200 million at the global box office. "

what the fuck!

Eric, the little old man, bounced out of his seat in shock.

It is reasonable to say that if these box office figures are doubled, Eric, who has seen many big scenes, will not be so shocked.

However

The speed of the rise of Wald film industry is really appalling!

Only a year after its establishment, Wald pictures has launched two films with global box office exceeding US $100 million in a row. It's hard for others not to be shocked?

Throughout the major Hollywood film companies, no one can rise so fast!

.......

In the following time, Raymond, President of Universal Pictures, introduced in detail the actions of Wald pictures.

Acquisition of UPN television network, the launch of "American talent show" this popular variety show;

Set up a water world animation studio to produce SpongeBob, an animation series sweeping the United States;

It has the largest chain store in downtown Los Angeles, SpongeBob house;

Merged several subsidiaries and established a small media group - Golden Dawn entertainment group;

In the near future, Jin Shuguang music has released a new album of its contracted artist Eminem, with sales exceeding 30 million copies;

Moreover, Wald pictures has a sound distribution network that can cover all over the United States;

.......

All kinds of deeds, again and again the earthquake shook the little old man Eric!

"Buy him!"

"We have to buy him!"

Eric, a little old man with red eyes, almost roared: "such an excellent film company must have a great parent company. We universal pictures can't miss it."

"Boss, we tried, but we were rejected by Zucker Wald." Raymond shook his head and grinned bitterly.

Refuse?

"Hum!"

Eric, the little old man, snorted coldly: "dare you refuse? Does it not know the greatness and strength of universal pictures? "

The implication is obvious!

How dare you refuse?

Well, don't blame me for suppressing you!

In the media's public opinion, the cinema's film layout, the film review and rating committee's film rating... And so on, we will strike you in an all-round way!

Do you think it's cheap?

No! It's just a normal way of doing business, well, at least for big companies.

"Boss, Wald and paramount have a number of collaborations." Raymond, President of Universal Pictures, warned.

"Eh?"

Little old Eric was dumb for a moment.

In other words, paramount is supporting Wald pictures. As a result, the film review and rating committee, which is under the control of Hollywood's six major actors, is not so easy to get stuck in the film rating of Wald pictures.

Especially in the film review and rating committee!

As the name suggests, the film review and rating committee is an organization that gives corresponding ratings to films produced by major film companies in North America, that is, G (popular), PG (ordinary), PG-13, R, NC-17

The film review and rating committee, affiliated to the American Film Association, is a non-governmental organization. However, because of its long history and the influence of Hollywood's six major factors, it almost determines the rating of a film.

Mandatory provisions to watch the film audience groups, mainly in terms of age.

At the same time, it is also a symbol of Hollywood's six powers and incomparable status!

You're against the big six?

Well, as long as the rating, a little card you, you can make a huge loss!

Now, however, because Wald pictures has paramount's support, it is not so easy for universal pictures to take advantage of Wald pictures in terms of the film review and rating committee.

"Well, then we will use the price of real gold and silver to formally acquire it!"

Eric, a little old man, is not a master who can't afford to let go. He immediately said, "Raymond, go and talk to them about how much money you can buy. Ha ha, a young man less than 20 years old, after hearing that we are going to buy it, he certainly agreed

How much to buy?

Suddenly, Raymond shook his head and grinned bitterly.

"Boss, you don't see that Zucker Wald is very young, but he really doesn't lack money."

Raymond said with a bitter smile: "in addition to being the boss of Golden Dawn entertainment group, he owns 2% of Yahoo shares, 12% of ICQ shares and 8% of Amazon shares. The shares of these three companies alone are worth more than 600 million dollars!"

"In addition, zuckerwald also has Standard Bank of California, LinkedIn and a series of investments in hand, so..."

So what?

Of course, it's zhukovald. There's no shortage of money!

Eric, the little old man, lost his soul for a long time, sighed: "are young people so great now?"

Zucker will not know that it is his excellence that makes Eric feel old, and there will be the future of Vivendi group's acquisition of Universal Pictures.