Chapter 107： best news

On June 5th, Andrew O'Hair of Dunn Pictures attended the signing ceremony of the copyright transfer of the four novels after "Harry Potter" in the UK, and officially received the "Harry Potter" with a 3% future profit dividend of 5 million US dollars. Copyright for the entire Harry Potter series.

Dunn and Andrew had a brief exchange on the phone. Andrew said that JK Rowling's attitude was very good, probably because he was ashamed and took the initiative to show his affection.

And under the mediation of David Heyman, some of her harsh conditions have been cancelled, allowing the film director and some supporting actors to use American actors, which undoubtedly shows great sincerity.

On the weekend of June 6, the box office of "Star Wars: Episode 1: The Menace of the Phantom Man" was officially released in the third week, with 98.8 million US dollars, a drop of only 12%.

Three weeks after its release, the total North American box office has reached 340 million US dollars!

Exceeding the North American box office record of "Titanic" of 600 million US dollars seems to be just around the corner!

Especially when Dunn appeared on the cover of Time Magazine again and was named after the title of "King of the World", he seemed to have become synonymous with the box office.

On June 7, an announcement that shocked Silicon Valley and Wall Street was officially released: Google received a total of $25 million in financing from Dunn Films, KPCB Foundation, and Sequoia Capital.

The combination of Wall Street and Silicon Valley is very common in the crazy recent years of the Internet bubble.

What shocked his family was that Dunn Pictures was involved!

Dunn Pictures...Isn't that a Hollywood studio?

"Titanic" and "Star Wars Prequels" are both very wonderful movies. Dunn is indeed a very talented director, but do you understand venture capital?

This is so crazy!

The money of KPCB Foundation and Sequoia Capital comes from investors. Managers dare to fight because even if the investment fails, they still get paid.

But Tang En Pictures is completely different. This is Tang En's private company. Once the investment fails, it means that Tang En lost his money in vain.

With the current boom in Internet companies, hundreds of new companies are established every year, and hundreds of old companies are closed. Who can guarantee that Google will not be the next company to fail?

This boy Tang En has swelled up!

However, what shocked Wall Street and Hollywood even more was that Google's financing, a total of 20% of the equity was sold. Among them, Dunn Films contributed US$12.5 million, occupying 10% of the equity; KPCB Foundation and Sequoia Capital each contributed US$6.25 million, occupying 5% of the equity.

This is too exaggerated!

When Brian Lord heard the news, he called Dunn angrily, "Don, aren't you short of funds? What are you doing? Is the venture capital market something you can play?"

Dunn quickly apologized, "The two founders of Google are students from Stanford, you know, my secretary Reese... Oh, by the way, her brokerage contract is still at CAA. She has persuaded me many times, hoping that I can Give some help to her two seniors."

"But it's not a small matter, it's more than ten million dollars!" Brian Lord hated that iron was not steel.

Tang En was embarrassed, "This... Brian, you should know me, beauty's request is always difficult for people to refuse, right?"

Brian Lord gritted his teeth angrily, "Dawn, you will definitely suffer a lot from women!"

Later, Bill McNick and Tom Rothman also called to ask questions, and they worked hard to help Dunn run a relationship loan. The result is good, this kid Tang En is not doing his job, and he is playing venture capital!

Tang En apologized again and again and promised that he would not be an example, so he barely quelled the anger of the two.

……

Tomorrow is Natalie Portman's 18th birthday.

On this day, Dunn received two distinguished guests from New York - little loli Taylor Swift and her mother Andrea Swift.

I haven't seen each other for more than half a year. Little Taylor has grown taller and has raised eyebrows, which is more and more similar to the memory in Dunn's mind.

When little Taylor saw Dunn, he didn't feel nervous about seeing a big man at all, so he waved his little hand at him, "Hey, Dunn, you won't welcome me, right?"

"How could that be?" Tang En laughed dumbly and squatted in front of her, "Grand welcome, warm welcome!"

Little Taylor pouted, "It's not sincere at all, it's a lie!"

"Taylor, this is not the country, pay attention to your etiquette!" Andrea Swift gave a lesson, and then said to Dunn apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mr. Walker, Taylor is used to being wild, don't mind. ."

Dunn smiled and waved his hand, "I think it's pretty good, real and cute, right, Miss Swift?"

"Humph!"

Little Taylor was still angry because he was disciplined by his mother, and turned his head all of a sudden.

As a child, Dunn doesn't care, "Mrs. Swift, are you here to celebrate Nat's birthday?"

Andrea said: "Yes, in the past, Mrs. Hirschler and Miss Portman have helped us a lot, contacted us with the house, and introduced the best music teacher in New York. Taylor's progress has been very good. big."

Dunn thought for a while, then said tentatively, "New York's music... is still a little worse than California's. Warner Records, Universal Music, Sony Records are all in Hollywood."

"But... the road to music is expensive. My husband and I need..."

Tang En waved his hand and interrupted: "It's actually very simple, my company needs employees. By the way, you may not know that Shirley Hirschler has left the brokerage industry and came to Tang En Pictures. You know, the entertainment industry It's dirty and messy, but Mrs. Hushler taught Natalie very well. In this regard, you can communicate with her and ask for more advice. I don't want little Taylor to grow up and be criticized in her private life."

Andrea was silent, obviously thinking about Dunn's statement.

"My husband is a stockbroker, and Taylor has a younger brother who is only five years old this year."

"Stock broker?" Tang En raised his eyebrows and smiled, "That's good, if you read the news, you should know that I just invested in a technology company, and I still hold a large amount of shares in the stock market. Next year... There will be big moves. It would be great to have Mr. Scott Swift to help."

Andrea was still thinking, when Tyler shouted, "Dawn, what does this AB mean?"

Little Taylor rudely opened Dunn's bookcase. In the grid on the left, there were three stacks of printed manuscripts.

A stack of covers is marked with a capital "A", a stack of covers is marked with a capital "B", and a stack is marked with a capital "AB".

"Hey, little guy, you can't understand this at your age." Tang En hurried over and sorted out her messed up documents.

Little Taylor pouted and said in dissatisfaction, "Who said I don't understand? Hmph, look down on people!"

"You understand?" Maybe it was an impression from a previous life, Tang En liked to communicate with her very much, "Then tell me, what is this?"

"A script, a movie script!"

Little Taylor shook his head smugly.

Tang En's eyes lit up, "Little girl, she's quite smart."

"Of course, hum!"

Little Taylor stretched out her white and tender little hand, pointed, and said plausibly: "'B' stands for B-movie, which is a B-movie script, and 'A' stands for Adult, which is the abbreviation of adult film, right? I said it, I know it."

Tang En opened his mouth wide and was stunned.

Andrea Swift was also taken aback. She never expected that a dignified Hollywood director would keep the A-movie script privately...

She couldn't delay any longer. She rushed up and hugged Taylor in her arms. She said in a serious tone, "How many times have I told you, don't mess with other people's things!"

Little Taylor had no sense of making mistakes at all, pouted his mouth unhappily, and looked at Dunn pitifully, "Then what does 'AB' mean? Very low-cost adult films?"

Andrea was embarrassed and wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl in. Tong Yan had no qualms.

This must be Dunn's personal hobby, a very private thing, if Tyler takes it out for publicity, it will definitely not hang on his face.

In fact, it was the same. Dunn's face was colorful and wonderful.

After a while, Dunn noticed that Andrea's face was weird, and he coughed heavily, "Taylor, you're wrong, it's not like that."

However, she found that Swift's mother and daughter did not believe it at all.

After all, little Taylor's interpretation of the letters A/B is too reasonable.

"'A' is the abbreviation of 'Art', which is the script of a literary film." Dunn took a deep breath and explained slowly, "'B' is the abbreviation of Business, which is the script of a commercial film. 'AB' means both, both commercial Sexual and artistic script."

Tang En raised a screenwriting department, so naturally they could not be paid for in vain. These scripts are their work performance.

"what?"

This time, it was Andrea Swift's turn to make a big red face.

It's obviously a very professional thing, but it's misunderstood as...

"Mr. WalkerI..."

Andrea was embarrassed to death.

Little Taylor's eyes flashed, and he suddenly realized, "So that's how it is, I understand."

Dunn sighed, "Mrs. Swift, Taylor is only ten years old, so I can think of it... I don't think it's good. You need to communicate more with Mrs. Shirley Hirschler about how to educate your daughter. Although she Conservative, but girls are more conservative, I think it is necessary, especially Taylor will definitely be in the entertainment industry in the future, are you right?"

After what happened just now, Andrea also discovered that she had some problems with her daughter's discipline.

Tyler is only ten years old. He mentions the topic of adult films, and he does it with great fanfare and no concealment. How can he look like a child?

……

Dunn's investment in technology companies has set off a wave in Hollywood, some are mocking, some are ironic, and some are not too big to watch the fun.

In short, Dunn, who filmed "Star Wars Episode 1: The Menace of the Ghost Man", continued to maintain his popularity in Hollywood.

Until another blockbuster news was born, the best news shocked the whole Hollywood!

Paramount's parent company, Viacom Media Group, finally reached an agreement with CBS after half a year of negotiations to complete the merger with cash and stock at a total value of $33 billion!

In recent years, Paramount's life has not been very good.

However, when Viacom acquired CBS, one of the three major wireless TV networks in the United States, it had a strong publicity channel, and the trend of Hollywood changed, and they were optimistic about the future of Paramount.

Relying on large media groups has become the development trend of Hollywood film companies.

even……

Probably the only way out.