Chapter 1778

"We need more money."

Andre's eyes fall on lanli, and Andy and Matthew also cast their eyes at lanli. In an instant, lanli becomes the focus of attention.

Lanli is holding up his wine glass and enjoying his leisure in a leisurely way. Just after leaving the explanation task to Matthew, he began to empty his eyes again. Now he is aware of the attention. Lanli still slowly holds up his wine glass and raises his eyes. "I'm not the person in charge of the checkbook. Why are you all looking at me? Isn't Arthur supposed to be on the stage at this time? "

Andy doesn't understand.

Andre has white eyes.

Matthew is silent.

Lenley raised his glass and motioned, "well, this is not the time to joke. Of course, I know that the capital chain is a crucial issue, but I think what is more important now is how big is the blueprint we are planning? How much is the first batch of start-up funds needed? If you tell me that you need 10 billion yuan, I'm afraid you can only call Sir Alexander Hamilton on the stage. Please make a special visit to Wall Street. In my personal name, this is impossible. "

"Wall Street, Langley, are you sure?" Matthew said.

Lan Li looked at the tears in the wine glass before him and slowly slid down, "no, I'm not sure. Therefore, we need to determine the blueprint of the whole development. If Wall Street can be avoided, I still hope Sisyphus pictures will not be involved in such a huge interest dispute. "

"Do you know what you're talking about, Langley?" Andre make complaints about it directly. "You are planning a streaming media platform, remember? You have raised Sisyphus film's status to a new level. Otherwise, with our current financial situation, we can run very well. "

In the face of the accusation, Langley chuckled. "I didn't expect that Lord Andre was afraid. I thought, that's what you want. "

Timid? fear?

Andre glared at Langley speechlessly. "Now you transfer five billion pounds to me, and I'll show you my magnificent, bold and adventurous side."

"Andre, my advice is just a suggestion. It's up to you, not me, to what extent Sisyphus can develop." The appearance of lanli as a shopkeeper makes Andre itch with anger - but he has known lanli's temper and character for so many years, hasn't he?

Andre said angrily, "everyone says I'm a young master. In my opinion, you're the real young master, OK?" Andre threw a look at Matthew. "You're the only one who can stand him." Then, he picked up the wine glass and poured all the wine into his throat.

Matthew was silent for a moment. He said quietly, "you know, this way of drinking is very vulgar."

Andre almost choked on the red wine.

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Wall Street? Capital control? 10 billion?

In fact, this is the most worrying part of lanli.

As we all know, after Wall Street capital controls large enterprises, they must give priority to their interests, not only in shopping malls, but also in the field of artistic creation. From Disney to Warner Brothers to Universal Pictures, all their decisions are inevitably constrained by the capital from Wall Street - even chess players have their own rules, and the so-called freedom is relative.

Take DreamWorks for example.

When Steven Spielberg joined hands with Jeffrey carsenberg and David Geffen to create DreamWorks, they wanted to get rid of the capital control of Wall Street and really create films according to their own ideas. Therefore, they built the company entirely by using their own ability, and their creative works are really free.

But in 2004, ten years later, DreamWorks Animation split up and became independent; In 2005, DreamWorks was acquired by paramount. The original "dream factory" failed to resist the crush of Wall Street capital in the end, which ended with regret. This is not a failure of DreamWorks, but a great challenge.

Now Sisyphus film has encountered such a problem in its infancy.

If they want to keep their independence, especially cooperate with the Sundance Film Festival to produce a large number of independent art films, then they need to get rid of the control of Wall Street capital; But if they want to build a streaming media platform, and establish their own original film library, they need a lot of capital support, and the consumption of the original accumulation stage will be very serious.

Is there a third option?

yes. This is the model of legend pictures.

Wall Street capital chose to trust Thomas Toure, and gave the funds to Toure for operation and management, just like the foundation. Then Toure cooperated with film companies, invested in shooting works, and the film companies were responsible for distribution and release. Warner Brothers and universal pictures were such partners.

Sisyphus pictures can refer to this model and cooperate with Sony classic and Sony Columbia.

However, the problems are objective. First, Toure can win the complete trust of Wall Street capital and work without Wall Street's interference. This is a trust bond established for a long time; Second, the bond of trust has not been broken. The fundamental reason is that tour can make money. Most of the projects invested by legendary pictures are commercial films, which is contrary to the original intention of Sisyphus pictures.

In other words, Wall Street capital is like a sword hanging around its neck. They may attack at any time, even legendary film is no exception. This is also the fundamental reason why DreamWorks rejected Wall Street's capital injection at the beginning - the balance between art and business has never been a simple "one plus one equals two".

This is the status quo of entrepreneurship. They need to face numerous difficulties and challenges. Even if they have overcome all of them, they may not be able to succeed.

In fact, the best choice for Sisyphus film is to maintain the status quo: invest in shooting independent works such as "pop drummer" and "Night Walker", but without too much ambition, cooperation with Sundance and the establishment of streaming media platform, launch three to five films a year, and stick to the road of artistic creation.

But is it really the best choice to be conservatively and safely content with this?

For Langley, he sincerely hopes that don Quixotes in the field of artistic creation can realize their dreams, and Sisyphus in the field of independent production can persist in the end. Although this is an unrealistic luxury, Robert Redford can build the Sundance Film Festival on his own. Why can't they gather their own strength to make a breakthrough?

For Andre, the original intention of creating Sisyphus film and entering Hollywood was not to make money, but to exercise himself, broaden his horizons and enjoy life. If he chose the security field because he was afraid of challenges, from the beginning, he would not enter the film industry.

Do you remember the reunion of Andre and Langley after many years? It's on the cliffs of unarmed climbing. Langley is an adventurer, and so is Andre.

Recently, reading the script project, lanli's blood began to boil again. If we say that when we put forward those grand blueprints in park city before, lanli just went by analogy and naturally divergent thinking in the brainstorming; So now he's coming to his mind.

He didn't want to be a hero or a great man, but deep in his soul, he was always a Don Quixote - an unrealistic idealist. The dream has given him a second life of infinite brilliance, so he is willing to burn his life for the dream.

At the end of the little joke, Langley's eyes fell on Andre, "I'm serious. How about the cooperation negotiation of streaming media platform? What is Sony's attitude towards Colombia? I need to know, how big is our final blueprint? And what is the height we want to reach in the first stage? "

"Andre, although the idea comes from me, I don't have many concepts about business management and corporate structure, which is not my strong point. I need to know what you think. " Langley's words are still relaxed, at least compared with Andre's.

At ordinary times, it should be Andre who is rambling and cynical, while Lan Li is dedicated and serious; But now the positions of the two seem to have changed. In other words, they are all the same when they focus on their work.

Andre opened his hands, "no matter what the idea is, if we need to build a streaming media platform, we need a lot of financial support, and Wall Street capital is the most convenient and direct way." This is a big truth, "however, for the moment, our first stage plan can not be too large, or within the control."

"That's the main reason why I came here today, but I didn't expect to see a surprise." Andre pointed to the list of items in his hand - because the number of items that lanli needs to read is so huge, he thought he would have to wait for a while, at least after the Oscar, but he didn't expect lanli to be so efficient.

Without a pause, Andre continued to get to the point, "I got on line with Sony's parent company, had several conference calls, and then had a face-to-face formal meeting. They really don't have much interest in streaming media platforms. I doubt that they even don't remember that they have a streaming media platform; But surprisingly, the loyalty of their subscribers to the streaming media platform is very high, and the number of subscribers is not high. If I remember correctly, the data should be 430000; However, these users are not easy to unsubscribe

It's no surprise that lanli's jaw is soft: "Sony Dafa" is famous. Among the true loyal fans, the user stickiness is comparable to that of apple.

It's just... "Four hundred and thirty thousand?" Andy couldn't help but ask a question in surprise, "is that too low? Are you sure it's a streaming media platform? Isn't that a loss every year? "