Chapter 501： Dumbo

Since last year, entertainment reality shows have suddenly emerged as a new trend.

Following "American Idol" and "Wise and Brave", Dick Clark Television Productions has started a new project - "The Bachelor".

American reality shows usually have a major feature - tearing.

Not only do the guests tear each other, but the host and guests also tear apart. Anyway, the supervision is very loose. In order to create conflicts, there are various tearing in the reality show.

Improve the so-called "realism".

Is America's Next Top Model just taking pictures and walking on the stage? No, there's still ripping!

"The Sky Bridge" is obviously a fashion design program, and it has to be ripped off!

Even cooking reality shows like "Hell's Kitchen" have to be torn apart in the process of cooking.

Since a major theme of the reality show is tearing, then well, Tang En directly took out the reality show "The Bachelor", tearing for the sake of tearing, and making the tearing to its peak!

"Bachelor", in fact, is to choose a super handsome guy, and then choose a dozen beauties. With one season of the show, let these girls and handsome guys go to the scenic spots to play and increase their feelings for each other.

If during the program, the girl fails to get the roses presented by the handsome guy, it means that she has been eliminated.

The girl who stays at the end is the winner. Not only can she hold hands with the handsome guy to succeed, but also achieve a lot of benefits.

In order not to be eliminated, girls must use all kinds of tricks and tricks to attract the attention of handsome guys, and even take the initiative to seek love. During this process, the torment between the girls will definitely be very hot!

What's more important is that if you are torn and forced, you can't make the handsome guy disgusted, otherwise you will be eliminated, and you can only tear at the back of the scheming.

In this fierce competition, "good girls" are often eliminated, and "scheming bitches" are often able to stay, which is too interesting.

It would be even more interesting if the handsome guy wisely discovered the girl's "scheming" method and left the kind girl behind!

Of course, the most interesting thing is sex.

If the handsome guy slept the female guest in the process, but in the next step of giving roses, he didn't give it to the female guest, he was ruthless, and he was eliminated after sleeping, then it would be a complete explosion.

In addition, it can also be reversed, and a big beauty is selected from more than a dozen men, showing the "means" of men in competing for women, that is, the female version of "The Bachelor" - "The Bachelorette".

"American Idol" is becoming more and more popular. At present, more than 30 countries have purchased copyrights from Dunn Pictures.

The royalty fee alone can generate $100 million in revenue every year!

And as long as the show continues to be popular, the copyright will increase year by year.

In Hollywood, the core of making money was movies. With the promotion of Tang En, high-quality TV dramas have also been taken seriously. I heard that hbo will also vigorously carry out the shooting of self-made dramas with large investment.

With the success of "American Idol", Dunn has realized the ability of popular reality shows to make money, which is no worse than popular movies and TV dramas.

In this case, it is better to completely control the reality TV show!

Dunn's foresight only has more than ten years left, and he must make full use of this natural advantage.

Of those reality shows with explosive ratings, he will occupy a lot of them!

After Michael Eisner heard the news, he called Dunn immediately, "The Bachelor must be signed to abc!"

Dunn smiled and said, "Michael, I'm under a lot of pressure!"

"Um?"

"American Idol is given to cbs, and "Wise and Brave" is given to ABC. Both NBC and Fox have contacted me for cooperation. There are even many cable networks that want to work with me. Woolen cloth."

"Don't forget, Disney and Dunn Films are now strategic partners! ABC has priority to sign for Dick Clark's reality show."

Tang En smiled, "Of course there is priority, as long as abc's bid cannot be lower than theirs."

Michael Eisner could not wait to scold twice.

This kid, when he is young, accepts money!

Since it is a partner, can't you give Disney a little discount?

However, he didn't say these words naively. He sighed and changed the subject, "How about the co-production of the movie? You said... how about a direct remake of "Snow White" for the first movie?"

Michael Eisner is very anxious now, the shareholders are under great pressure on Disney's management, and he needs to use Dunn's golden sign to win the trust of investors.

"Snow White...it's too classic, and it's famous too. It's very difficult to remake it. Let's talk about it in a few years." Tang En shook his head and said slowly, "For the specific project, I have already contacted the production department. After communicating, I think ... the first film can be a remake of "Dumbo"."

"Dumbo?" Michael Eisner was slightly startled.

Tang En said: "The biggest problem in remaking a movie is not the plot, but the values. The values ​​of a few decades ago are very different from what has happened now. If a cartoon like "Snow White" is remade, it must have a large scale. However, "Dumbo" doesn't have to. The values ​​of the original cartoon are very good. We only need to show the wonderful pictures in the cartoon with the current lens language and special effects technology, and restore them to a high degree. This is a generation Memories of people can attract old, middle-aged, young, children, fans of almost all ages."

Michael Eisner was silent, still thinking.

Dunn continued: "When the "Dumbo" cartoon was released, it was just two months before the outbreak of the 'Pearl Harbor Incident'. At that time, there was a movie-watching storm in North America. Many media thought that "Dumbo" In an era of war, he became the master of the children's kingdom. "Time Magazine" even awarded the man of the year to 'Dumbo' Danbo."

Michael Eisner immediately understood what Dunn meant.

Now is war time!

The cartoon "Dumbo" is a good memory of the war years, and the live-action movie... can also use this idea to launch marketing.

"The original cartoon was affected by the economic crisis and the strike wave, the plot was not coherent, and the structure of the film was very simple. It has to be said that it is a big pity. Therefore, in the process of remake, we must carry all the advantages of the cartoon. Come here, enrich the plot and make up for your regrets." Dunn added another sentence.

Michael Eisner asked suddenly, "What about the budget?"

The corner of Tang En's mouth was quite sarcastic, and he said lightly: "'Dumbo' must be a three-dimensional animation of the computer, and it is a high-precision production, and the cost must not be less. Moreover, this is our first cooperation film after all, only if it succeeds, Don't fail! Therefore, we must invite big-name directors to take the shots, and big-name stars to lead the charge."

Michael Eisner has black lines on his forehead. He has always been very repulsive of big-budget movies, "Is it necessary?"

"It's very necessary! This film must be a high-quality production!"

Dunn's tone is beyond doubt.

...

In May, "Spider-Man 2" was only released in a few countries in Latin America and Asia, and the overseas market only received 50 million US dollars at the box office.

But in June, the overseas market began to exert force!

By June 15, the North American box office of "Spider-Man 2" has exceeded the $500 million mark, and overseas markets have also received $200 million.

In contrast, "Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones", which was very high-profile during the publicity period, began to show its decline, with only $100 million in overseas markets and just $250 million at the North American box office.

Basically, the box office revenue of "Star Wars Episode 2" is only half that of "Spider-Man 2".

Dunn made a special call to George Lucas for this, and said insincerely that he liked "Star Wars Episode 2" very much. The reason why the box office was not as good as expected was because of 20th Century Fox's marketing strategy mistakes.

If you let him run the "Star Wars" series of projects, he will definitely make more money.

George Lucas gave a wry smile.

But it sounds... I always feel that Dunn's words are suspected of sowing discord.

"Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox signed a three-film distribution contract." George Lucas broke Dunn's thoughts.

Tang En smiled and said meaningfully: "The contract can be bought out."

George Lucas has a black line Do you think Star Wars and Pixar cartoons are the same? Pixar's cartoons are good-looking, but also risk losing money. But no matter how bad the box office of Star Wars is, it can make a lot of money! That liquidated damages is an exorbitant price! "

Dunn laughed twice.

Next, he will fly to Seattle to meet with Bill Gates to talk about the crisis of Penguin, and by the way, he will also start the project cooperation between Microsoft and Dunn Pictures.

msn is currently the world's second largest portal, second only to Yahoo.

And msn chat software, as well as news feed.

Dunn and Bill Gates talked about a business, and the entertainment inside information of Dunn Pictures in the future will be exclusively provided to Microsoft; and Microsoft will also make more changes to Dunn Pictures' films, TV series, reality shows and other programs through online media. Lots of news reports.

Microsoft and nbc have already cooperated, and even launched wnbc TV station. It is no stranger to cooperation with the entertainment industry.

Then, Dunn will fly directly to the UK to inspect the shooting of "Harry Potter 2", meet the young actors, and encourage them to act well.

This group of young actors is very hard. Since "Harry Potter 1", there has been basically no winter and summer vacations, and all long vacations have to be used to make movies.

If "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" came out, it would be good to say that the children must have been very motivated to see their performances in the cinema.

But now that "Harry Potter 1" has not been released, "Harry Potter 2" has just started filming, which will definitely make children feel confused and not motivated enough.

Dunn wants to encourage them.

After condolences to the "Harry Potter" crew, Dunn is going to fly to Paris.

This is the highlight of his trip - he has to meet with the top executives of Vivendi!

For Dunn, this summer has just begun!

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(Sanqi Chinese)