Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Chapter 221

With the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", the Galaxy Film Group's summer strategy has come to an end. At the same time, the Galaxy Film Group has also announced its Q2 financial quarterly report.Hollywood analysts have seen from this financial quarterly report that Galaxy Film Group has crazily swept away US$28 billion in box office from the North American market and overseas markets this summer.

Although there is still a gap between this result and the US$40 billion achievement of the leader Sony Pictures Entertainment Group, no one will underestimate this small Hollywood giant, and even the "Hollywood Report" called out to re-evaluate the Hollywood giant. According to some film and television media, MGM may have lost its status as a giant, and the status of Fox and Universal has become somewhat precarious.The spokesman of the Galaxy Film Group did not comment on these advocacy by the media.

As one of the three major groups under the Galaxy Entertainment Group, the success of the Galaxy Film Group has not overshadowed the demeanor of the other two younger sisters.Galaxy TV Group has become the winner of the summer ratings war with the new reality show "American Idol", and with "CSI" and "The West Wing" gradually becoming the national TV series in the United States, major TV networks, TV Channels are increasingly buying TV dramas and reality shows from Galaxy TV Group.

Galaxy Music Group has become the world's third largest music group after acquiring Japan's Polly Canon and Abex, and its subsidiaries Britney and Christina have already become queens, and gradually become the top players in the American record industry. favorite.At the same time, Rolling Stone Records, which is controlled by Galaxy Music Group, has also become the largest Chinese music company in the world. With the continuous blood transfusion of Jade and Galaxy Music Group, Rolling Stone Records not only kept its major brands, but also merged many overseas companies. Hua's branch to expand its own copyright library.

What excited Jed the most was that Rolling Stone Records formally acquired the defunct Haishan Music and Kolin Records in 2002.These two companies are the most senior and most influential Chinese music brands in Taiwan. If they did not purchase the copyright library of these two companies, then Rolling Stone Records will inevitably have a fault in organizing the history of Chinese music in the future.

Galaxy Entertainment Group is the pillar company of Sherman Media Business Group, in addition to Asia Broadcasting Group in Hong Kong and Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group in New York. Today, these two broadcasting groups have become the two major broadcasting companies in the East and the West.According to the evaluation of the "International Broadcasting and Cable TV Federation Yearbook", the influence of Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group ranks 23rd in the world and 5th in the United States; while the Asian Broadcasting Group ranks 26th in the world, becoming the first Asian The media ranks second (after NHK Japan Broadcasting Association) and the Chinese media ranks first.

At the same time, according to the "Global News Influence Survey Report", the Asia Satellite TV News Channel under the Asia Broadcasting Group has become No. 7 in the global credibility media ranking, which is the highest ranking among Asian media and Chinese-language media.At the same time, ABC has won more than 2002 Peabody Awards (known as the Pulitzer Prize in the radio and television industry) from its inception to the end of [-]. Already the best.

In addition to his great success in the media industry, Jade has also gained a lot in the technology industry this summer.First of all, the social networking site Facebook has become the most mentioned website among American students this summer, while Google Player has become the most fashionable music player in the eyes of the younger generation in the United States.Although Apple was also forced to launch the iPod to attack GooglePlayer, the full platform compatibility of GoogleShop made the iPod have to become a niche choice again.

Although Apple relied on the iPod to get rid of the embarrassing situation of bankruptcy, it was far less successful than later generations.What was most depressing to Jobs was that Google announced at a press conference that it would not only be committed to the thinning of GooglePlayer, but also to the multimediaization of GooglePlayer.According to the product plan announced by Google, the next generation of Google Player will be divided into four major products. The high-end multimedia player is named Google Player Touch, the mid-range multimedia player is named Google Player Nano; is named GooglePlayerShuffle.The concept map of these four players has been released by Google, and announced that these products will be listed one after another from the end of this year.

After the four major players such as Google were thrown out, not only Apple felt uncomfortable, but even Microsoft, which had just planned to set foot in the player market, felt that it seemed to have entered a market that it should not enter.But what Jobs and Bill Gates didn't know was that apart from the four major players of Google, the real big killer was the Google Phone jointly built by Google and Samsung. GooglePhone will also walk on two legs. One model will be designed by Google, with the theme of simplicity and technology, and the name will be GooglePhone; Fashion and convenience will be the appeal.

Meanwhile, Jed & John v. City of Los Angeles is entering final arguments in both state and federal district courts after months of trial.Judging from the feedback from the legal team, the case has a high chance of winning in the two courts.Moreover, the opinion of the legal team is that the two cases should be merged into the federal court for trial.Because if this case is positioned as "unconstitutional review", then the "Jed and John v. Los Angeles City Government" has a high chance of winning in the federal court.Once the case is won, the relevant provisions of California's "Civil Law" and "Family Law" will be canceled as "unconstitutional".

Jed followed the advice of the lawyers, so the lawyers in the state court have begun to apply for the merger of the two cases.In addition to Jed and John worrying about this case, the California Gay and Gay Association and the National Gay League are also paying attention to this case, especially the American Association against the Defense of Marriage Act stated that "Jed and John v. Los Angeles City Council" if A victory would be a very favorable judgment that would strongly support gay marriage suits everywhere.At the same time, they also said they were trying to formally sue the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.

There are supporters and opponents. Every time Jed's legal team goes to court, there are always many supporters of traditional marriage cursing them around them.Even Jed's Beverly Hills mansion and Marbury Beach vacation home have been attacked by extremists.Fortunately, Jed is basically either working in the Sherman Media Plaza in Burbank or taking a vacation at Rose Castle Villa in Palm Beach at this time, but it has not been affected.However, this matter still attracted the attention of Shannette and John. Not only did the number of bodyguards around Jed double, but they also put pressure on the Los Angeles police through the media to arrest and control extremists.Because of Jed's assassination that year, the Los Angeles police were much more efficient.

"By the way, President Bush Jr. said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that even if the Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, he would sign another similar plan." Claudia took out the "Washington Post" " said.

"It's just a call to the extreme conservatives." Jed sneered, "If the great President Bush dares to continue to violate the Constitution after the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional, then I believe that the Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate and House of Representatives will unite. Impeachment of the President of the United States for such non-compliance with the Constitution of the United States. Remember, the President of the United States takes the oath of office as 'I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and to do my best to abide by, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States.'”

"Is that why you defend 'separation of powers' so much when you wrote The West Wing?" Claudia asked.

"You are actually interested in my TV series?" Jed laughed, "I always thought you were not interested in gossip in the film and television industry. In fact, when I was discussing the script of "The West Wing" with Alan Sol, I just wanted Create an ideal American political environment, and you can see that the Democrats and Republicans we write are models of hard work. When the president is emotionally carried away, his chief of staff will threaten him, 'If you If you want to riot in the United States, I will be the first to betray you! I will take your staff, your cabinet, and the United Nations will overthrow you! And you know, I will win!'”

"Do you think this is the ideal America?" Claudia asked, "Sure enough, you shouldn't expect too much from American politics."

Jed smiled and didn't say much. At this time, American politics has no lower limit because of the "Patriot Act", but Jed knows that American politics really loses its integrity when the so-called "Tea Party" appears.Politics is actually an art of compromise, but Tea Party members oppose for the sake of opposing.They will not consider the benefits of this bill to the country, as long as the bill is proposed by hostile Democrats or moderate Republicans, they will desperately oppose it.And they are good at personal attacks, making politics dirtier than showbiz.Therefore, when the Tea Party was at its peak, the United States not only failed to climb out of the subprime mortgage crisis, but was lowered by rating agencies because of this.Fortunately, after being tossed by the Tea Party once, the American people also used votes to drive the diehard and extremist Tea Party members out of Congress, and the remaining Tea Party members also became moderate.

"By the way, Mr. Sherman, we have already found out the identity of the spokesperson you wanted to recruit last time. His name is John Oliver. He was born in Birmingham, England. He is currently the spokesperson for Disneyland, and he is also a stand-up in the speakeasy. Comedian.” A staff member handed Jed a document, “His dream is to be a comedian, but Disney didn’t give him such a chance, and Disney ABC TV Group didn’t give him an interview, so if we If you dig him, you should be very sure. But Mr. Sherman, you plan to arrange him on the above program."

Jed laughed and said, "Put him on The Daily Show with Mr. John Stuart, and he'll make it."

After chatting with this employee, John Oliver did not expect that his fate would turn a corner quietly.But this matter is not the most important thing for Jed. The most important thing is that Quentin Tarantino, who has been silent all the time, is back with his new film "Kill Bill"...

"Kill Bill" can be regarded as Quentin Tarantino's most well-known works in Asia, and it is also one of Quentin's favorite works.Quentin was a clerk in a video rental shop before he became a director. The video rental shops of that era would more or less buy some Hong Kong movies (especially Shaw Brothers movies) videotape library.

In Quentin's era, Hong Kong movies were in the golden age, and the Hong Kong movies in the glorious period were not far behind even Hollywood movies.Quentin, who was close to the water, watched a lot of Hong Kong movies at that time, so he had the idea of ​​entering the film industry.After picking up the director's tube, Quentin has always wanted to pay tribute to Asian films, especially Hong Kong films.So the idea for the movie "Kill Bill" came up, and Jed saw the script outline, which was basically a gangster movie.But Quentin, a genius, actually mixed the styles of American western movies, Japanese ukiyo-e movies and Hong Kong kung fu movies in a gangster movie. Although various tones were mixed together, there was no sense of chaos.This also made Jade amazed at Quentin's directing and editing skills, but unfortunately this guy only likes to make movies that he is interested in, which suppressed Jed's idea of ​​being important to Quentin.

Jed knew that the box office of "Kill Bill" would not be too big, so he only negotiated sharing agreements with companies with close ties such as AMC Entertainment Group and National Entertainment Corporation, and other theaters, art theaters or independent theaters simply Let's talk about the share.Fortunately, the budget of this movie is only 350 million U.S. dollars, which is considered a small and medium-budget movie.The most wonderful thing is that Quentin also knows that his box office is not high, and the material shot with 350 million US dollars was abruptly edited by him into the first and second parts, and even some shots of the third part are available.

But Jed understands the response of Quentin's movie in Asia, so Jed put all the promotional momentum in Asia.I plan to wait for the movie to become a big hit in Hong Kong and Japan, and then sell it back to the United States. Maybe it can also drive the box office in the United States.Now that such an arrangement was in place, Quentin was immediately taken away by Media Asia Films, the distribution company of Galaxy Film Group in Asia.Quentin will not only appear in the major programs of the Asian Broadcasting Group, but also edit some clips for broadcast by Asian TV stations. I believe that such a movie with both exotic and local characteristics will be very popular in Asia.

After slightly arranging the release of "Kill Bill", all members of the Galaxy Film Group have entered the working state of preparing for the release of "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King"...