Chapter 179

Time is fleeting.

In a flash, it was May 3, 1998.

Golden Dawn entertainment group.

As the chief assistant of Zhuke, the chairman of the group, Alexander is now performing his duties, and wants Zhuke to report the situation of each subsidiary in every detail in the last quarter.

"Boss, first of all, Wald pictures."

"From January to the end of April, Wald films has released three films."

"One of them, fatal bend 2, which was released on April 10, has made $61 million at the box office in North America and $49 million at the box office in a week overseas."

"The other two films, purchased by the company's copyright department from the Berlin Film Festival, cost US $3.5 million in copyright fee, publicity fee, copy fee, etc. since their release, they have achieved box office results of US $2 million and US $4.1 million respectively, with a total loss of US $970000."

Alexander reported the revenue situation in a straight line.

A loss of $970000?

Zhuke frowned and said, "I remember that last year, there were as many as nine films we bought from overseas and released by small Hollywood film companies. The first half of this year is almost over. Except for the films we made at home, how can we release two films?"

Alexander wants to talk but he doesn't.

"Hum!"

Zhuke snorted coldly: "I know, they are afraid of serious performance losses, so as to reduce the assessment score and affect the option award next year, right?"

Alexander nodded helplessly.

In the field of Hollywood, those who are purely engaged in film making can never be compared with those who are engaged in distribution!

Because the film production company, after investing money to complete the film production, is not sure that it will win the recognition of the market. In Hollywood, many companies go bankrupt because of the failure of movies every year. Even if you succeed in one film, you can't guarantee that every film will succeed in the future;

However, the companies that make film distribution are different.

Basically, it can be described as "ensuring income through drought and flood". It's just a matter of earning more and earning less.

But

The distribution industry of ensuring revenue from drought and flood refers to the existence of the six major Hollywood companies!

Small and medium-sized Hollywood film distribution companies still need to walk on thin ice, for fear that the cost of publicity and distribution will not be recovered due to the failure of the box office.

Well done, like craftsman entertainment!

At a price of only a few hundred thousand dollars, it won a movie like "the witch Blair" with a production cost of only 60000 dollars. However, it is full of courage and boldness. It has invested tens of millions or tens of millions of dollars to carry out "deceptive" and "viral" marketing.

It's very profitable!

It has created an impressive box office of US $140 million in North America and US $248 million in the world.

I have to say, craftsman entertainment company is making a lot of money!

However

In fact, the vast majority of small and medium-sized film companies dare not play so big!

Because they invested tens of millions of funds, basically no suspense caused... Huge losses!

The distribution network of Wald pictures has completed the layout of North America and expanded overseas. This is true, but it does not mean that in the North American distribution market, Wald pictures can be compared with the six major Hollywood and DreamWorks.

The reality is that the gap is still not small.

Therefore, the vast majority of small and medium-sized film production companies, as well as independent film producers, when considering choosing film distribution companies, still tend to choose the top six Hollywood companies. Even if they ask for a higher proportion of share, the publicity effect is really strong.

Since the establishment of Wald film distribution network, only less than three films produced by other Hollywood have been released.

Very few!

Moreover, the distribution of these films often fails to generate profits or even losses.

"Alexander, in my name, you call Kevin Fitch, vice president of Wald pictures, and the copyright Purchasing Department of Wald pictures, telling them that if you still act in such a forward-looking and backward manner, let alone the option bonus, you'll get rid of me as soon as possible!" Zhu Ke said angrily.

"Yes, boss!" Alexander answered quickly.

"I hate those cowardly mediocre people more than the arrogant ones!"

Zucker began to criticize.

In the following time, Alexander made a report on the problem of UPN television network.

"You mean Ms. Donna proposed to buy Warner's WB network?" Zhuke was surprised.

"That's right."

Alexander responded: "in the work report submitted by Ms. Donna, it is clearly proposed to further expand the scale of UPN TV network."

Zhuke nodded: "specific documents, you'll find them for me later."

"Yes, boss."

.......

That night.

At the end of the meal, Zhuk picked up Donna's work report and watched it.

In this work report, Donna Langley made an astonishing judgment on the future of limited television and public television in the United States.

"With the further improvement of Internet, satellite and electronic communication technology, the limited TV field is bound to achieve more amazing development in the future," she said in the copy

"Like HBO!"

"HBO, with a large number of talents and abundant funds, is bound to become a leader in the field of cable TV, and even compete with such TV giants as ABC, NBC and CBS in TV dramas and movies."

"However!"

"In the field of variety show and news program, public TV station has the advantage that cable TV can't match. It will still occupy the leading position in the whole TV field, and its profit will definitely increase gradually."

long time.

"I have to say that Donna Langley's vision is really strong enough. No wonder she was able to become the president of Universal Pictures, one of the six largest Hollywood companies, as a woman in the original time and space," juck sighed

HBO TV station, a limited TV station under Time Warner Group, is also known as "pornographic" TV station because of the scale of producing and broadcasting films and TV plays.

After entering the 21st century, he has successively participated in the production and broadcasting of such high-quality TV series as brothers company, gangster family, sex and the city, under six feet, western world and game of power. He has numerous audience groups in the United States and all over the world.

Its annual profit is extremely amazing!

Well, even the six major Hollywood film companies can't make as much money as it does in producing and distributing films.

Let's look at public television.

By 2020, there are only five major public television networks left in the United States.

They are ABC (Disney), NBC (Universal), CBS (Columbia), fox (Fox) and CW (Warner and Columbia).

These five major public TV networks occupy an absolute dominant position in the production and broadcasting fields of variety show, news, finance and other programs, and HBO can not match them. After all, the main business directions are different.

Of course, its profits are much higher than HBO.

"Donna's proposal to acquire WB public TV network is to make UPN TV station more powerful and make up for the deficiencies in the field of public TV in addition to cable TV."

"In fact," talent show "and" WWE wrestling "and other variety shows, once landing on the public television network, will generate much more profits than the current revenue of UPN television network in the limited television field."

It is worth mentioning that WB TV network, the acquisition object proposed by Donna, will be merged with UPN TV network in the future, forming CW, one of the five major public TV networks.

Do you support acquisitions?

"If I can make more money and further expand the territory of the group, what's my reason against it?" Zhuke couldn't help smiling.

A few days later.

That is, on May 11, two days before the official opening of the 51st Cannes Film Festival, Zucker and Nolan left for Cannes.

"Get out of the way, I'm going to bang the deer!" Juke's eyes narrowed.