MTL - Hollywood Lover-Chapter 533 Idol
"Okay, let's put the second part of Underworld on the agenda right away, strike while the iron is hot, the heroine is still Belkinsey, no matter how many, let's make this girl popular first!" Zhang Dongcheng recalled the lingering past with Belkinsey, and made a decision , although it was just a light sentence, a girl's future is already doomed.
Fortunately, the smart Kate Belkinsey has chosen the most correct path, which is to hold on to Zhang Dongcheng's thigh.
"OK!" Adaman wrote down the matter of filming the second part of Underworld, and then said: "We still have three movies to be released during the summer vacation of 2000. The second part of the Potter series, as well as the Marvel hero movie Spider-Man. The global box office is 320 million US dollars, 900 million US dollars, and 940 million US dollars respectively." Adaman introduced, the number in his mouth is like that amazing.
"Huh? Spider-Man defeated Harry Potter?" Zhang Dongcheng was slightly surprised. Although he knew that the box office of Harry Potter's second movie was relatively small in the whole series, the sudden rise of Spider-Man made him A little surprised.
But after searching in his mind for a while, Zhang Dongcheng was relieved. In the original time and space, Spider-Man was the North American box office champion in 2002, breaking through 100 million in three days. It is also the best in the world, winning a total of 821.7 million US dollars.
And in this time and space, with the golden brand name of Dongcheng Films, it is not impossible for Spider-Man to win 120 million US dollars more than the original time and space.
This superhero, who shoots spider silk from his hands and walks around the city, has become a huge and glittering cash cow of Dongcheng Pictures.
"You only saw 920 million US dollars, but you don't know how difficult Sam Remy is!" Adaman wiped the sweat from his head pretendingly.
Sam Raimi was Zhang Dongcheng's appointed director of Spider-Man, and before that, not many people knew about this Yankee.
Born in Michigan in 1959, Sam Raimi is one of the most dynamic and creative directors of contemporary America, distinguished by his fast and exaggerated camera movements. The work has the witty and comic rhythm of early comedies, full of black humor.
He was already a cinephile at the age of ten, making his own films with an 8cm camera. In 1981, he filmed the low-cost thriller horror film "Ghost Playing Man", which was widely welcomed by teenagers and regarded as a classic horror film in the 1980s. Then he filmed two sequels in 1987 and 1993 respectively, making The film became a series. Sam Raimi imitated Scorsese's camera movement, and created a video language full of personal style, with a comic-like fantasy, but also a profound analysis of human nature.
But such a director who didn't have any outstanding achievements at all was appointed by Zhang Dongcheng as the director of the super commercial blockbuster Spider-Man. Twenty million dollars was spent by this unknown director, which made countless directors go crazy with jealousy!
Sam Raimi will fail! Jang Dong Sung will fail! Especially Smith Zhang, who seems to have never been defeated, he will pay the price for his daring and reckless investment!
Some people who are jealous and envious to hate are clamoring like this, clamoring crazily.
However, the facts once again proved Zhang Dongcheng's superhuman vision. The global box office performance of the first Spider-Man film of 920 million US dollars made all those who were eager to see Zhang Dongcheng's jokes shut their mouths. The red and swollen face retreated into the background, licking the wound sadly and helplessly.
Since it has been successful and Sam Remy has proved himself, Zhang Dongcheng can naturally listen to Adaman venting his complaints at leisure, anyway, complaints don’t cost money!
Adaman said angrily: "Sam Remy is the most ridiculous director I have ever seen. You must know that the extras used by that guy are enough to break the Guinness Book of Records! In order to shoot the Times Square market scene that appeared in the film, The crew recruited as many as 12,000 extras!"
"12,000 people? My God...Is he going to fight..." Zhang Dongcheng couldn't help but sit up straight when he heard this number.
"Yeah! 12,000 people is actually nothing. Dongcheng Films has nothing but money! As long as it can make money, it doesn't matter how much money it spends! But Sam Remy made a special request, in order to reflect Market shots, stall owners with exotic flavors are given priority! Smith, you are also the director, tell me why he recruited more than 10,000 people and asked others to have exotic flavors?" Adaman stood up, waving his arms, extremely upset Said: "In order to satisfy his wish, my sister and a few assistants have lost their legs!"
"Oh...haha!" Zhang Dongcheng finally couldn't help laughing. Of course, he couldn't understand why Sam Remy wanted the market to be full of exotic stall owners. Could it be that he was going to Huaxia to invite some kebab buddies? Can it be called exotic?
Imagine countless kebab vendors in Times Square, shouting in Chen Peisi's unique voice: "Mutton skewers, delicious lamb skewers!"
When Zhang Dongcheng thought of this, his stomach hurt from laughing.
"Are you laughing? Are you laughing? I almost cried to Sam Raimi! He also recruited about 1,000 children between the ages of 9 and 11 to participate in the filming of the film. The task of these children is "to be frightened And screaming and crying "! I FUCK! God knows what Sam Raimi, the director of ghost movies, is going to do!"
This is terrible, when Zhang Dongcheng heard it, he almost rolled over with laughter, and Adaman, who was rubbing his head angrily, looked at Zhang Dongcheng rolling around on the sofa holding his stomach, and grinned wide-eyed. .
"But it's okay, this guy made money for us, otherwise I would never let him go in my life!" Adaman lit a cigar and said in a cloud of smoke.
In addition to the box office, Spider-Man's coveted movie peripheral products are also selling softly. The profit of this piece is beyond the calculation of everyone, and it is not worse than the way to get money from the movie box office itself.
How wide is this road, even with heavy tanks driving unimpeded!
"Okay, okay, Sam Raimi will be a good director. I'm sure of this, and the facts have proved that Spider-Man will continue. The sequel will be filmed this year and will be released next year!" Zhang Dongcheng laughed for a while before he could hold back. , he is 120% satisfied with Spider-Man's income of 920 million US dollars.
"When will your perfume be released?" Adaman asked seriously as he lit his cigarette ash.
Different from other people's movies, this is the boss's movie. This is a movie that must not fail.
"At the end of the year, during Halloween, there is no need to rush or wait too much." After counting the days, there are still about two months, which is enough for early publicity and filming.
"OK." Adaman didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately wrote it down. The following is when he appears on the stage. Of course, he must perform well, arrange as many perfume sessions as possible, and make the promotion as good as possible.
Zhang Dongcheng smiled slightly, and patted Adaman on the shoulder: "I will leave the matter to you, I am at ease."
The two chatted for a while, and Blaise, the general manager of ZDC TV, hurried over.
Speaking of which, the current Dongcheng Group has three legs, and the incomparably thick film main business is naturally the one thigh, which is in charge of Adaman, and the current development is extremely rapid.
And the other leg, from malnutrition and malaise that almost died, now holds "A Thousand Ways to Die", "The Ellen Show", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", "American Idol", "Major League Monday" " and other super TV programs have become one of the biggest miracles in the new century. In just two or three years, they have grown from a rating of less than a few million households to a super TV station covering the entire United States, Canada, and even most of Europe. This thick thigh that directly made Zhang Dongcheng a media tycoon was handed over to Blaise, who is an expert in the industry.
Like Adaman, Blaze only needs to follow Zhang Dongcheng's ideas and help everything to be perfect. Things will go in the right direction like a roaring chariot, and then just sit and wait for the ratings to explode. Fee received a soft hand...
Compared with the previous prodigal Blaize who was about to pass over, the current Blaze is an extremely successful businessman. Although he sold his father's property, because of this clever and lucky idea He transformed into a millionaire with tens of millions or even billions of dollars, lived a luxurious life again, and was also the CEO of ZDC TV, which had the number one ratings in the United States and gradually occupied the number one throne.
With the money and the status, Blaise couldn't be more grateful to Zhang Dongcheng, the shining golden angel, even if he knelt down and kissed his feet!
"Hey, my BOSS, I finally see you! You know it's been half a year since I saw you? You don't know how much I miss you!" Blaise walked in quickly, and when he saw Zhang Dongcheng His eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hands to embrace Zhang Dongcheng with a smile on his face.
Although he is one of his subordinates, Zhang Dongcheng has always been approachable. He immediately stood up, hugged Blaise warmly and friendlyly, and patted him on the back vigorously: "Haha, didn't you see me?"
Holding Zhang Dongcheng's hand, Blaise was even more excited than seeing his own mother: "Boss, you haven't bothered me for half a year, how about listening to my report first?"
Zhang Dongcheng called him here because he was naturally concerned about the development of ZDC TV Station. Blaise had already prepared for this, and if such a good performance was not shown off, how could he be worthy of his position as CEO?
"Oh, Blaize, don't pretend, the TV station has developed very well recently, almost better than the movies!" Adaman threw a cigar to Blaize, and said funny.
Indeed, although the performance of Dongcheng Films in one year is high, it is less than 5 billion US dollars. Although the sales of ZDC TV station are not comparable to movies in numbers, the growth rate is terrifying!
"Tell me, I don't care too much about the TV station, which makes you tired." Zhang Dongcheng smiled slightly, listening to Blaise's speech.
Cleared his throat, Blaise first modestly expressed that it was all thanks to Zhang Dongcheng: "Haha, I am the same as Adaman, I will do whatever you say!"
Then, he also took out a large stack of materials and read it: "In the past six months, our cumulative revenue has been 2.4 billion US dollars. In order to fulfill Mr. Smith's request, we have spent a lot of money on equipment upgrades and new expansion. Market. At present, North America is fully covered, with a household registration rate of over 98%, and most of Europe is covered, with a household registration rate of 54%. Next year, the focus of work is to break through the Asian market, and strive to achieve a household registration rate of 30% in Asian countries. Due to the above reasons , Our expenditure is also very large, with a total expenditure of more than 2 billion US dollars. But there is still the fourth quarter, I believe we will still make a lot of money this year!"
"Very good, keep it up, how are the ratings of the top programs?" Zhang Dongcheng nodded, expressing his satisfaction with the figures.
Compared with other TV stations, because Zhang Dongcheng's several ace programs are real magic weapons, these programs that are not too expensive to produce are golden chickens that lay golden eggs, and a small effort is a big sum income.
"Currently, American Idol has the highest ratings. Fifty million Americans watched the finals, breaking the national record. We sold 100 million US dollars for the sponsorship fee the year before last..." Blaize said with a smile, as if billions of dollars easily.
"Oh SHIT, you sold 100 million dollars for just one title? Oh my God! You're really capable!" Adaman said with a smile, and punched Blaize casually.
If Adaman’s shares are counted, he also holds 5% of the shares in ZDC TV station. Just for the US Idol’s naming fee of 100 million US dollars, this guy can get 5 million US dollars. Naturally Laughing from ear to ear.
"Haha, but compared to movies, our TV station is still a child's department, and a whole year's hard work can't compare to it." Blaize was also very concerned, but he still took care not to steal Adaman's limelight. The guy grew up wearing a pair of pants with the boss.
"OK, you can go ahead and do it. If you have any questions, you can come to me." Zhang Dongcheng finally felt relieved. These two subordinates have done a good job in his absence, and he has not let him down.
"I have a question, BOSS..." Blaise still asked for Zhang Dongcheng's help.
Zhang Dongcheng lit a cigar and made a gesture of please.
Blaze settled down and threw out his own problem: "Boss, our reality show American Idol has become popular all over the world, and the ratings are ridiculously high! Our ZDC TV station can conquer the city so quickly and this The show has a lot to do with it, but last week we just decided the championship of this season, so the show was suspended..."
"Who won the championship?" Zhang Dongcheng suddenly interrupted Blaise, exhaled a puff of smoke, and asked curiously.
"Uh... it was Kelly Clarkson who almost stole her spotlight in Scarlett's special. She was asked by countless fans to join the first season, and then, as everyone expected, she swept the championship." Lez scratched his head, looking like he'd been scratching his head trying to fill the show with uncertainty and keep the mystery of who the champion was going to be.
After all, there are advantages and disadvantages for a popular candidate to win the championship. In order to increase the ratings, one cannot simply let nature take its course.
Zhang Dongcheng smiled, and knew Blaize's embarrassment well. Although he was completely against Scarlett in that special program, Kate was indeed strong and caused a lot of trouble.
"She won the championship... not bad." Nodding, Zhang Dongcheng signaled Blaise to continue.
"The first season of American Idol is over, but how can we tap the potential of American Idol in the future and earn more money? Also, there is still half a year before the second season of American Idol next year. What kind of program should we launch to fill this gap?" Blaize was struggling, and it turned out that this was his most troublesome question.
Zhang Dongcheng was thinking, slowly smoking the huge cigar in his hand, looking out of the window, and his two subordinates, Blaise and Adaman, were very familiar with this appearance, whenever Zhang Dongcheng put on this appearance, soon They will come up with a solution, and there is no need to worry about it.
Sure enough, Zhang Dongcheng's eyes lit up quickly, and he said to Blaise, "I think so in two ways. First of all, dig deep into the potential of beauty idols."
Looking at Blaise who opened his notebook and wanted to write down every word, Zhang Dongcheng paused and said, "I know you guys are already planning to start the idol tour. The top ten American Idol groups will perform across the United States, not to mention the advertising revenue. , Tickets can make us rich, but I also think of one thing, as a family-friendly show, American Idol has always shouldered the responsibility of conveying positive spirit to the younger generation of Americans who watch the show. In the show audition In China, we often face acute social problems such as racial discrimination, poor families, and poverty due to disasters and disabilities. Then, when these famous young people realize their ideals, they should also give back to the society. I call it idol feedback Well, for example, special programs to raise funds for African refugees and families of extreme poverty in China. You can even invite many performing stars in the United States to perform joint charity performances to raise funds, and get the support of high-level people in the business and political circles.”
"Idol feedback? OK, I understand." Blaise memorized everything Zhang Dongcheng said.
"In addition to giving back to idols, we can also organize the winners to shoot inspirational music movies and music TV dramas. As long as the screenwriter writes this piece around the theme of inspiration, there will be no problem with a small fire, let alone a big fire!" Zhang Dongcheng continued, Instead, Adaman's eyes lit up.
"HOHO! This idea is good, great! You must know that Dongcheng Films is now one of the film companies with the best talent reserve. No matter what kind of movie script, we have a large number of professional talents who can handle it!" Adaman He hurriedly ran out to offer treasures, but what he said was also true. The strongest thing in Dongcheng Pictures is not the money and power, but the talents!
Countless well-known screenwriters, screen managers, actors, and crew members of later generations were searched and recruited to form the most terrifying talent reserve and foundation of Dongcheng Films. This is what Adaman really has confidence in.
