Chapter 503： epoch-making historic moment

With the resignation of Vivendi's vice-chairman and director Arnault, Messier lost his biggest backer on the board.

But Messier is clearly unwilling to admit defeat.

He is also a business wizard. At the age of 28, he was an official of the French Ministry of Finance. At the age of 30, he became a personal adviser to the Minister of Finance. At the age of 33, he founded his own bank. At the age of 38, he took charge of Vivant. Dee.

Over the years, under the management of Messier, Vivendi has enjoyed great success, not only maintaining the company's advantages in water supply and environmental protection, but also entering into the sunrise industries of telecommunications, networking, entertainment and media.

In the past two years, Jean Messier's name has often appeared in the headlines of French business newspapers, and his fame and popularity are comparable to that of Dunn in the entertainment page.

In various economic awards in France, Messier has also won many awards.

It can be said that Vivendi's today's fame, strength and international status are all thanks to Messier.

Now, just a little more debt, Vivendi encountered a little trouble, let him resign?

Of course he wasn't happy!

It is conceivable that even without Arnault's support, Messier will definitely launch a final counterattack in Vivendi.

Too bad...he's just a manager.

To put it bluntly, he is a working man!

The bosses disagree, no matter how big his ambitions are.

These days, Dunn has received a lot of calls from friends, either Vivendi's shareholders or related figures related to Vivendi's directors, all of whom have revealed a message to him-within half a month, Messier Must be dismissed!

This time, Tang En's hanging heart also let go.

He had canceled the premiere of "Pirates League: The Curse of the Black Pearl," but now he's in a good mood and wants to do it again.

League of Pirates: The Curse of the Black Pearl will be released on July 5th.

But because this is an imax blockbuster and the first imax movie in Hollywood, not to mention fans, even filmmakers and media people have never seen it.

It is necessary to hold a premiere in advance and invite some important filmmakers, critics and media people to participate in this grand occasion.

Then set aside a few days for film critics and media people to write and promote, and the media to ferment, and a wave of free publicity for imax films.

The premiere will be held on July 1.

The location is an imax theater in Los Angeles. Because this theater usually only shows some documentaries, experimental films and astronomical video films, there are very few audiences.

But this time, the 200 seats were full.

It's not even far enough.

This is, after all, the first imax movie ever made, and Universal's pre-publicity, which is very provocative, claims that this is the future of Hollywood movies, a new technology that draws audiences to movie theaters.

The emergence of dmr conversion technology must be a new trend in Hollywood!

Under this powerful influence, the imax theater, which is more than twice the size of an ordinary theater, does not even have extra seats for fans.

Hollywood filmmakers, media critics, have already smashed their heads to witness this moment.

In the past, the guests who attended the premiere were invited by the organizers, and sometimes they even had to pay a certain fee.

But League of Pirates: The Curse of the Black Pearl is completely different.

It was someone else who begged the organizer to ask to participate!

Such a special premiere, Centennial Universal, is also the first time.

So much so that this premiere was like an internal screening, because the scene... were all guests, and fans had no chance to enter.

Of course, the executives of Universal Pictures have also recognized the reality. The guests are scrambling for one another, not because of Universal's face, but because of Dunn!

The ceremony of the premiere is more traditional, including Dunn Walker, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and many other creative personnel, all came to the stage and bowed, expressing their gratitude to the full Thank you to the guests for coming.

This part is weird.

grateful?

To thank, it should also be the guests on the spot who thank Tang Encai, otherwise they would not have the opportunity to enter the venue to witness this historical moment.

Afterwards, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp spoke briefly, and the supporting actor Tom Hardy and the heroine Anne Hathaway were not enough, and they had no more than three opportunities to speak.

They want to make time for the important person in the premiere ceremony - Dunn.

He is going to make an important speech.

Down looks at the first row of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Roland Emmerich, Ann Lee, Robert Jimezes, John Wu, Sam Mendes , Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage and other Hollywood heavyweight directors and actors, smiled.

"It's an honor to meet so many familiar faces. There are producers, directors, actors, critics and media reporters here, thank you very much for coming to the premiere of "Pirates League: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Li. I believe many people have seen it. We have a lot of big-name directors and big-name stars here, star-studded, and there are hundreds of media outside. "

"However, the particularity of this premiere is not about the stars and the media, our focus is on movies! All the people here are workers in the film industry, and they must be full of love for movies. From the initial silent film to the later Films with sound; from the original black and white films to the later color films, the film has gone through more than a hundred years."

"In the 1930s, there were 120 million people in North America, but the weekly movie ticket sales exceeded 40 million. But now, North America has a population of 350 million, and only 1.48 billion movie tickets were sold in 2001. The population has increased. 3 times, the sales of movie tickets have dropped by nearly 50%. Of course, there are many reasons. In the past, there were no TVs, no game consoles, and movies were almost the only entertainment.”

"However, this does not obliterate the fact that audiences are staying away from cinemas! Why? Are our films getting worse and worse? As a filmmaker, I don't think so! The 21st century is here, and we are in the middle of the cinema. A most beautiful era! We have high-end computer technology, we have more shooting budget, we can attract the best film talents in the world, we can shoot in any corner of the world, this is the Hollywood of the year, Something you can't even think about."

Having said that, Tang En paused for a while, and looked around for a week, and found that everyone was listening carefully, especially the guests in the first row, who looked especially serious.

"The development of movies is inseparable from fans. Those of us who love movies must not only make good-looking movies, but also find a way to bring fans back to the cinema! Piracy can't beat movies, TV can't beat movies, and electronics can't beat movies. Games can't beat movies! Movies must keep pace with the times, and there must be a movie revolution from black and white to color!"

"You must already know the answer I'm about to say, yes, it's imax movies! imax company has launched dmr conversion technology, which is the main direction of the future of commercial movies. The super-large screen and shocking sound will bring out the crowd. A different viewing experience. Old-fashioned cinemas have to go into history, and imax theaters and imax movies are the future direction.”

"Pirates: The Curse of the Black Pearl" is the first imax blockbuster, and it is an honor to witness such an epoch-making historic moment for Hollywood with you. Of course, I would also like to thank director Tim Burton and The hard work of the actors in the past two years, it is your hard work, that is why today's crowd is full of friends."

"Now, I declare, the movie...begins!"

...

Dunn sits between Steve Spielberg and George Lucas, who have been working on the promotion of new technology in Hollywood movies for so many years.

Although this process was criticized by a group of old directors including Francis Coppola and Milos Forman, it still persisted.

In this respect, they have made a great contribution to Hollywood.

"What about the cost of that dmr technology?" George Lucas didn't seem to be affected by the poor box office of "Star Wars Episode 2" and was full of interest in imax.

Dunn looked at the title of Universal Pictures playing on the big screen and smiled: "It's not too much, maybe two or three million dollars."

George Lucas frowned, "Where's the copy?"

"About... $50,000 per serving." Dunn responded.

After hearing this, George Lucas shook his head again and again, "It's not easy to promote this imax movie!"

For a normal copy, about $3,000 will suffice.

But a copy of imax, the price is as high as $50,000 This is a lot of money.

The 75 imax theaters in the United States cost 6 million US dollars for the conversion and copying costs alone!

With such a large expenditure, relying on these 75 imax theaters, can selling movie tickets recover the cost?

Tang En looked calm and said lightly: "To be honest, I really don't care if I can make money or not. What I value is the potential and the promotion of the movie. Furthermore, even if the expense is high, it may not be impossible. make money."

"Oh?" George Lucas was very interested.

Tang Endao: "The current copies are all film copies, mainly because the imax digital projector has not been produced yet. When the imax digital projector is put on the market next year, digital copies can be made. At that time, the cost of copying will drop sharply, maybe... ...not more than $200 per serving."

George Lucas nodded, "Digital technology is the way of the future. "Star Wars Episode II" was shot with digital cameras, but... hey."

Dunn was a little funny, so he quickly held back and said: "And the ticket price of the imax theater is definitely higher, which will help the movie box office increase."

George Lucas gave him a deep look, with a strange tone, "Is the score high?"

Dunn smiled slightly, "The movie has started, let's watch the movie!"

He didn't want to answer this question.

Simply crap.

Without interest, there is no progress.

At the North American box office, producers and distributors get about 53% of the box office. If it is an imax theater without a one-time equipment buyout, imax can also get 7%-10% of the box office share.

That is to say, the box office share obtained by Dunn Pictures will exceed 60%!

It's no wonder that George Lucas can be smug.

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(Sanqi Chinese)