Chapter 1203： "King Kong" lost?

The Hulu thing has basically come to an end.

Within 1 month, the funds will be in place.

Within 2 months, complete the signing of streaming media copyright authorization with major content providers.

Within 3 months, the staff formation of Hulu was completed.

In April next year, the Internet will speed up! In May, launch the Hulu website!

In June next year, the beta version of Hulu will be officially launched.

After six months of testing, in January 2007, the official version of Hulu was launched!

Although Dunn is not optimistic about Hulu's future competitiveness in the streaming media field, it is the first streaming media platform for professional film and television content that embodies the essence of Hollywood.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly!

No matter how many drawbacks Hulu has, this startup cannot fail.

Even if Hulu is squeezed badly by emerging streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook in the future, standing in the air is enough to ensure safety.

In another ten years, the valuation of 10 billion US dollars will be very easy!

The investment that Tang En participated in is impossible to lose money.

In a few years, streaming media has become the general trend, and Hollywood will inevitably follow the news, and it will be impossible to share benefits.

Regardless of whether Comcast or Disney, they will definitely find ways to snap up Hulu's equity everywhere, make Hulu its own brand, kick out its partners, and start eating alone.

Just like Disney in the previous life, after several turns and layers of search, they squeezed out Comcast and finally won Hulu.

This is normal business thinking.

At that time, Dunn can call out a high price, sell the 20% of the shares in his hand, and develop Netflix with peace of mind.

Controlling Netflix and investing in Hulu is not in line with business logic.

Dunn's future layout is clear and accurate.

Every step is to make money!

No one should try to take advantage of him!

Of course, these are just Dunn's personal calculations.

A large number of people, not only Hollywood, but also many Wall Street and IT elites, are not optimistic about the future of streaming media, thinking that the traditional DVD industry is more common in the market!

The United States is able to increase the speed of the Internet because of its superior conditions.

In order to lay optical fibers on a large scale, develop new network protocols, and promote network reforms, the seven major telecom operators in the United States have invested a total of more than 50 billion US dollars!

With such a large-scale investment, apart from the telecommunications giants in the United States, who in the world has such strength?

Therefore, high internet speeds can only exist in the United States.

Those overseas countries are still "narrowband" networks, which cannot adapt to high-definition streaming media at all.

Or DVD and high-definition video discs have more potential!

Tech giants, including Microsoft, hold this view and are busy promoting the HD-DVDs he collaborated with Toshiba.

This is typical American arrogance and arrogance.

They greatly underestimated the strength of those telecom giants overseas.

The Internet is a product of the Reagan administration's "Star Wars".

If the Internet is compared to a house, the United States is the owner of the house, renting the house to the tenants, and launching a series of network protocols to establish the rules of use. For example, narrowband protocols, broadband protocols, and mobile 2G, 3G and 4G networks. Even allied countries such as Britain and France dare not develop an agreement of their own without authorization, and can only follow the rules of the old and the United States.

Now that the broadband agreement is born, overseas telecommunications giants can implement them to the fullest under the new rules.

Although it will lag behind the United States, it will never be too far behind!

In other words, within a few years, broadband will be popularized all over the world, pushing the Internet wave to the top!

Of course, some countries do not have a good relationship with the "landlord" of the United States, and they will be offered the highest rent and the smallest space by the landlord. Citizens also suffer, and can only spend the highest Internet charges and use the slowest Internet.

The future benefits will be discussed later.

Dunn will not miss the current interests.

Isn't the overall environment a bad streaming media and a high-definition video disc's traditional media?

That's fine!

Sony has held a press conference. In January next year, it will officially show its Blu-ray technology and Blu-ray products to the whole society!

The Blu-ray HD, which has been secretly developed for many years, will be officially unveiled!

At the same time, Blu-ray Disc Organization members Dell, Hitachi, HP, Philips, Samsung, Sharp and other electronics companies have also announced that they will launch Blu-ray Disc-based HD players next year!

The battle of high-definition formats between Blu-ray and DV-DVD is about to start!

This news is undoubtedly a big positive for the entire video disc industry.

In the past year or so, HD-DVD has swept the high-definition market, and more than 4 million HD-DVD players have been sold, with an average price of $1,000 per unit!

This industry alone has an output value of 4 billion US dollars!

Now, a new high-definition format Blu-ray is coming.

Blu-ray HD DVD players can harvest another wave of the market!

Almost all electronics manufacturing companies are eyeing, working overtime, trying to take the lead in seizing this market.

Under the big tide, there are still undercurrents surging.

Dolby Laboratories has thoroughly understood the Blu-ray technology, and integrated the HD-DVD playback mechanism, and developed a "Dolby" video disc that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, and is also compatible with ordinary DVDs. machine!

Although it is not as compact and thin as the Samsung DVD player in terms of shape and design, it is superior in function.

This is definitely an epoch-making product.

Even the production agreement has been signed. Just waiting for an order, the Foxconn factory in China will start full production!

This market must be seized as soon as possible.

In 2001, the global sales of DVD players was 30 million units, of which Sony's DVD players, which win with quality, were priced between $500-600, with annual sales of 5 million units.

In the past year, the global DVD player sold 35 million units, and the Sony DVD player sales dropped to 4 million, but the price was as low as $350-450.

Why?

Because after the WTO, Chinese merchants joined the market!

In Walmart supermarkets, DVD players for only $50 can be seen everywhere, occupying the market like dumping.

This is really cheap.

It is 70% to 80% cheaper than the DVD players of Sony, Philip, and Samsung, and the competitiveness is too strong.

The same is true for the HD DVD player market.

Quick entry!

Grab quick money!

……

Wednesday, December 14th.

The much-anticipated blockbuster "King Kong" is released!

The so-called attention is from the film's great director Peter Jackson!

The New Zealand director is really hot right now!

It has been more than two years since the "Lord of the Rings" series ended, but in the video rental industry rankings in the past year, the film with the highest rental volume was not a Marvel superhero blockbuster, nor the "Pirates League" series starring Johnny Depp. , not the "Star Wars" series, but the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy!

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy has even become the best-selling DVD franchise of all time!

Peter Jackson's current reputation can be as famous as Dunn and Spielberg!

Half a head taller than Cameron.

Now, "King Kong" is out.

On December 13, it grossed $1.2 million in advance at the box office.

On December 14, it grossed $9.75 million at the box office.

On December 15, it grossed $6.3 million at the box office.

Friday, December 16, grossed $14.5 million at the box office.

Saturday, December 17, $20.1 million at the box office.

Sunday, December 18, grossed $15.5 million at the box office.

This ferocious commercial blockbuster frightened all the filmmakers of the same period. The box office in the first week... was only 67 million US dollars!

This is really eye-popping!

The production cost of "King Kong" is 210 million US dollars, and the publicity cost is 150 million US dollars. It can be called the largest investment film of the year!

Coupled with Peter Jackson's 10% box office bonus clause... In order for this film to make a comeback at the box office, the North American box office must reach 300 million US dollars, and the global box office must exceed 750 million US dollars!

It turned out that the North American box office was only $67 million in its first week?

It's over!

Failed!

You know, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" released a month ago, the North American box office reached 110 million US dollars in the first weekend, and now the accumulated global box office has exceeded 700 million US dollars! With this posture, the global box office has steadily reached the $900 million mark, hitting the $1 billion mark.

But what about "King Kong"?

Can the global box office reach $500 million?

Suddenly, public opinion arose.

Especially the film and television entertainment department, the atmosphere is very depressing.

The newly appointed chairman and CEO of the film and television entertainment department, Fernando Bardem, was even more distressed and felt that he was born at the wrong time.

He was originally the vice president of the finance department and the second-in-command of New Global Finance.

After being temporarily cast lots by Tang En to manage the Film and Television Entertainment Department, he also achieved certain success, allowing the Film and Television Entertainment Department to withstand the pressure of the Hollywood industry, leaving enough time for Tang En to fight back against the Big Five.

This is great work.

I didn't expect to encounter "King Kong", and this kind of thing happened.

This Peter Jackson, who left the "Lord of the Rings" series, is a bit unreliable!

"King Kong" is New Universal's biggest project this year and its last blockbuster.

It turned out to be screwed up...

Sure enough, on this day, he was called to the office by Dunn.

Dejectedly came to Dunn's office, Fernando Baden was the first to admit his mistake, and then said: "I have communicated with Peter, he is very depressed now, and apologizes to us. He even said that if "King Kong" In the end, it really caused a loss to Dunn Pictures, and he is willing to cut 5% of the dividend as compensation."

"Reducing dividends?" Dunn was a little surprised, his impression of Peter Jackson was much better, "This is not necessary. Don't forget, he is Peter Jackson! In his movies, it is much harder to lose money than to make money, at most Just make less money.”

"You mean the box office of "King Kong" will rise against the trend? Yes, the media's reputation is very good."

Dunn shook his head and said: "No, the film is 3 hours long... It is impossible for "King Kong" to recover its investment through the box office. But don't forget, Peter Jackson's best field has never been the box office market, but the video disc market!"

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy has earned Warner nearly $3 billion at the global box office However, it is the DVD sales and rental market that makes Warner a big hit.

Peter Jackson is best at playing private goods.

A lot of content is not suitable for playing in the cinema, he will put it all into the DVD version and print the director's extended version.

The total length of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was 10 hours, but the DVD version was abruptly extended to 12 hours.

Can movie fans not buy it?

This is something you can't see in a movie theater at all.

The same is true for "King Kong".

187 minutes for the cinema version, 220 minutes for the DVD version!

Want to see more of the heroine Naomi Watts?

Want to see more interactions between her and gorillas?

Please watch the DVD version!

In the previous life, after the DVD version of "King Kong" was launched, sales exceeded 100 million US dollars in just one week, setting a historical record. The sales within one year is 470 million US dollars, after removing about 30% of the cost, channel fee, labor fee, dividend, transportation fee...

DVD sales alone are enough to make up for it!

Fernando Baden breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Dunn said solemnly: "However, you can't relax on your side, you must continue to put pressure on Peter Jackson!"

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