Chapter 710： golden sign

Before Dunn could speak, Penelope Cruz jokingly hooked the corners of his mouth, and said in a tender tone, "Man, it's just greed!"

Thinking of when the two met for the first time three years ago, Penelope Cruz was nervous in front of Dunn even when he spoke, and accompanied him carefully.

Today, three years later, she has already been reborn, her temperament and demeanor are somewhat detached, and she is just like Nicole Kidman. She has the demeanor of a big star and is full of self-confidence.

Dunn took her hand and walked to the back office area.

"what?"

"Go to the bedroom."

"Why are you going to the bedroom?"

Tang En was funny and angry, "Why did you go to the bedroom? We haven't seen each other for more than three months."

Penelope Cruz pursed his lips and smirked, rolling his hair around his ears, "Can you call my sister too?"

"Ah?" Dunn was a little surprised, "Isn't it necessary? Just the two of us, I will hurt you alone."

"No need, how long have we known each other? Besides, if you really want to be nice to me, be nice to my sister, too." Penelope Cruz's eyes wandered, and his soft voice sounded like a warbler.

Dunn took her to the bedroom, with some emotion: "You are so kind to Monica."

"Is she my sister? Isn't that normal?"

"It's not normal, even if they are sisters, they can't share men, right?"

"puff!"

Penelope Cruz smiled, and the flowers trembled.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Are you still a man?"

Tang En had a black line on his forehead and said angrily, "I'm not a man? If I'm not a man at all, who is a man?"

Penelope Cruz knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly explained, and said sweetly: "I mean...you are not an ordinary man. Of course, ordinary men can't share, nor can sisters."

Tang En shook his head and said, "The reason is not enough!"

Penelope Cruz pursed his lips and said: "Women can't share men because of jealousy, because of the uniqueness of love. You are my good friend, but not a boyfriend, there is no love entanglement. Besides, who dares to be jealous of a man like you? Why don't you make yourself sour?"

Seeing that Tang En was silent, she added: "You have so many women, instead of giving the opportunity to those messy women, it is better to create opportunities for my sister, this is called competition for favor, do you understand? Forget it, you I don't understand women's minds at all."

Tang En almost understood it, no longer tangled too much, in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Then call Monica over?"

"OK!"

"Will it be too late?"

"How could it be?" Penelope Cruz's eyes widened, and he immediately shook his head, "We can take it slow and wait for her. Besides, didn't you say you hurt that Australian model? I'll go. Wash, let's try?"

Tang En laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid of getting hurt?"

Penelope Cruz gave him a charming look, "Okay, hurry up, call my sister, don't waste your time!"

...

2003 is definitely the year of the rise of New Universal Group!

As of December 25th, on the North American box office list of Hollywood movies, the movies of the New Universal Group can be said to dominate the list!

Pixar's Finding Nemo, $340 million;

Warner Bros.' The Matrix 2, $280 million;

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Dunn Pictures, $260 million;

Universal's "Fake Tenjin," $240 million;

"Gone Girl," Rose Pictures, $230 million;

20th Century Fox's "X-Men 2," $210 million;

Daredevil, Marvel Studios, $210 million;

Marvel Studios' Ant-Man, $200 million;

...

In addition, the North American box office of "The Adventures of the Castle", "National Treasure", "Pentium Age", "Speed ​​and Jiqing", and "American Pie 3: American Wedding" also exceeded 100 million US dollars.

So far, New Universal Group has released 38 films this year, and the total North American box office has reached 3.14 billion US dollars!

What is this concept?

At this time, the total box office in North America in 2003 was 9.23 billion US dollars.

New Universal Group has more than one third of the North American box office market share!

As for the total global box office... This year, the New Universal Group took a total of 8.75 billion US dollars.

Without a doubt, this is the highest annual box office record in Hollywood history.

As for the second place... it was New Universal Group last year, which reached $7.63 billion.

At the beginning of the year, the film and television entertainment division had a revenue target of $9.5 billion.

At that time, when Tang En proposed it, it also caused a lot of controversy, thinking that this amount was too large and difficult to achieve.

However, now it seems that this goal is set...too low!

This year, the film and television entertainment department has a revenue of 4.2 billion US dollars in the box office of the film market alone!

In addition, the home entertainment business had revenue of 3.93 billion US dollars, the music business revenue was 1.95 billion US dollars, and the TV business revenue was 2.27 billion US dollars...

The year-end summary has been completed, and the total revenue of the film and television entertainment department this year has reached 12.35 billion US dollars!

More than the expected $9.5 billion, a full 30%!

The pre-tax profit reached a terrifying $3.06 billion!

Among them, the business with the highest profit margin is Universal Television, "American Idol", "Truth or Dare", "Wise and Brave", "The Bachelor", "Runover", "Global Supermodel", "The Walking Dead" These TV shows are really money-sucking tools.

Universal Television has only more than 600 employees, but it has created a value of 2.27 billion US dollars and a pre-tax profit of 1.42 billion US dollars!

Universal Music Group employs 7,000 people worldwide, generates a value of $1.95 billion, and has a pre-tax profit of $450 million, which is not bad.

Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, has said that this year's music business is still in a turbulent period of consolidation and spending too much. After the integration of some of the businesses of EMI acquired this year, the output value and profit of next year will be significantly improved.

In contrast, the film and television entertainment department's blockbuster industry, film, has a far lower profit margin than TV and music.

The film's box office and home entertainment revenue reached 8.13 billion US dollars, but this part of the section has a total of more than 38,000 employees, all over the world.

The output value of 8.13 billion US dollars, the pre-tax profit is only 1.19 billion US dollars.

Of course, this is also related to the common practice of film companies.

When making a movie, if a profit is generated, a large part of the dividend is often given to the labor union, the creative team, and the relevant foundation. This is a Hollywood rule.

There are some big-name directors, stars, and even listed separately in the contract, asking for dividends.

In order to reduce this part of the dividend expenditure, film companies usually have such a system, that is, the salary of the company's management is paid out of the film income.

That is to say, the base salaries of a series of executives such as Dunn Walker, Barry Diller, Robert Iger, Bill McNick, Shirley Lansing, etc. of the New Universal Group are all deducted from the film revenue, while Not deducted from the Group's total revenue.

This naturally reduces the profit of the film business, which also reduces a lot of proportional dividends.

For another example, Netflix wants to fight a subsidy war, and it also obtains subsidies from the film business. Movies need publicity, and advertising on Netflix, this publicity fee, will naturally be the responsibility of the movie.

For another example, donations to the Women's Rights Protection Foundation, political donations to Schwarzenegger, expenses for various official activities, and expenses for the company's special planes and cars must also be endorsed by the film business.

For various reasons, it is normal that the profit margin of the film business is low.

In fact, everyone knows that the earning power of movies is much stronger than that of music and TV!

Otherwise, Legendary Pictures would not have been so prosperous.

However, squeezing film profits is the practice of film companies!

Pulling down the profit margin of the film business is beneficial to the company's overall revenue.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

At the year-end summary meeting of the New Universal Group, Bill McNick, head of the film and television entertainment department, laughed the happiest and most unscrupulous.

Raise your eyebrows!

He knew that Dunn had great ambitions, and had high expectations for the Interactive Entertainment Department, TV Media Department, Tourism and Consumer Products Department, and spared no effort to squeeze the resources of the Film and Television Entertainment Department to promote the growth of other departments.

But so what?

The film and television entertainment department is the golden sign of New Universal!

Annual revenue of 12.35 billion US dollars, profit of 3.06 billion US dollars!

The new world!

As soon as such data came out, the momentum of the heads of other departments dropped a lot.

happy!

"Bill, you don't have to be so excited. Everyone knows what's going on with the Film and Television Entertainment Department. It's directly under the jurisdiction of Dunn!" Barry Diller wants to maintain the order of the company and balance the power of various departments. It is impossible to let it go. Bill McNick's family dominates.

"Yeah, so what?" Bill McNick shook his head complacently, "Even if Dunn is the biggest hero of the Film and Television Entertainment Department, I can be the second hero, right? Enough, haha, enough!"

Listening to his tone, it seems that as the second hero of the film and television entertainment department, he is much more glorious than the first hero of the other major departments.

Data is evidence!

Barry Diller said displeased: "The foundation of the New Universal Group is the film and television entertainment business. It is completely reasonable for the film and television entertainment department to have such performance. Bill, calm down!"

He wasn't mad at Bill McNick.

Mainly to balance the mentality of the heads of several other departments.

After all, compared with the film and television entertainment department, the performance of other departments is too different!

The TV media department headed by Jeff Zucker is not bad. With the hot development of the sta TV network this year and the steady success of the usa TV network, the performance of the TV media department is also justified.

The sta TV network had revenue of $2.25 billion and a profit of $970 million; the usa TV network had revenue of $3.28 billion and a profit of $460 million.

The total revenue was US$5.63 billion, slightly higher than the target of US$5 billion at the beginning of the year, but it was still incomparable to the data of the film and television entertainment department exceeding 30%.

As for the Interactive Entertainment Division...

Well, in the conference room, Kevin Turner couldn't hold his head up in shame. (https:)

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(Sanqi Chinese)