American Fortune Life

Robert Fredman, as the former executive chairman of the Paramount Film Industry, to be honest, was tired of Paramount's factional struggle and the excessive interference of his parent company, Viacom, as well as the Leishdong family, in the film company.

Since Shelley Lansing left Paramount in '04, Paramount has lost its way, acquiring the Dream Factory in' 05, and the entire Paramount seems to have entered the Dream Factory era, relying too heavily on Spielberg, the great director.

When Robert Fredman left Paramount, Spielberg officially launched his Transformers project. Robert was persuaded by Pierce, the founder of the summit, that the main reason was that he also had a film company that, through his own efforts, had grown to sit flat in six major film companies.

Ambition is great, but the fluctuation in the way forward, especially in the last few months, has made him think of himself and Pierce's ambition more like a joke.

Who knows the wind and cloud mutation, but things have reached a point that nobody thought possible. He was really entrusted with the task by the young boss, who was only 22 years old, and everything came to be so exciting.

“Boss, my thinking is segmented market positioning, low-cost portfolio investment, deep mining of derivative income, stable cash flow from copyright banks, resource leveraging for collaborative filming, and diversified financing channels and financial platforms are also important tools to increase yields and reduce risks. ”

Andy listened carefully to Robert Fremann's development plans and knew he was planning a successful path for a successful GU Film Corporation without the need for strong corporate support.

“After all, the peak used to be a distributor, and although there are many movie copyrights, the copyright bank may not be able to form a stable cash flow.” Carl bluntly said that he was very keen on copyright matters, after all, and now he's eating this in Hollywood.

“Of course I know that, but we have three killers in our hands, and even six of them won't get away with it. The three series Dancing Out of My Life, Twilight City, Hunger Games, do you think the investment banks, the private equity funds, will stink at the beautiful knife in their hands? Do you believe that if I go out today and raise money to shoot any series, there will be a lot of people waving their checks and investing on the door?

But everyone knows that no movie company will ever invest in a series that sells these seats, so the best way to do this is to continue to invest in movies at a small cost, get a good script, get big companies to work together, save money for our own series of movies, and use these three series to establish our leadership position in Hollywood youth movies.

As for the library, it is perfectly possible to find a number of film companies facing bankruptcy to acquire, or even a bank to acquire loans, to introduce people to Wall Street, and to raise money privately. ”

Andy touched his chin, thinking carefully, he and Carl had a problem, had a special preference for copyright IP, seemed to think of something, his eyes slightly squeezed up, his hands on his chin stopped, and he looked up at Rob.

“Rob, do you know the legendary movie industry? ”

“Well, you know, it's a group of film investment companies that don't know movie investors, like the relativistic media, which is bankruptcy. After all, the recycling cycle and accounting calculation of the movie business have a long cycle, which creates a lot of capital needs, and these cash flow needs are covered by rounds of borrowing, and the breakdown of the capital chain is just a matter of time. ”

Andy was impressed with Robert Fredman's profession, and that's the real talent. Everything here in Hollywood is door-to-door, and where is a half-hanging level like Carl comparable?

“I mean, they signed a cooperation agreement with Warner, and even part of Batman's IP intellectual property was taken away from them, and my Dream Theft Space was introduced into the legendary cinema, and you said," What do you think if I bought that gorilla, and some of those IP's like Wonder Woman, Lightning Man, if I followed up with Superman that they've already screwed up? "”

Robert Fredman looked at the young boss with a bit of a gaze, his mouth twitched a few times, a black thread in his head, a glance rolling over his white eyes, but there was no accidental fat Carl, a raving gut in his heart, what's this with? How dare you think that, unless Warner's people are crazy, even if Warner agrees, DC's people won't give their heroes to anyone.

“Cough, boss, this is a little impractical, whether it's Warner or DC, preferring to rot the copyright in their hands and not sell it to anyone else. It's possible to shoot together, maybe get some copyright on IP derivatives, but buy it, boss, don't even think about it. ”

“No, no, Rob, how do you know you can't if you haven't tried, Carl? Didn't you just buy the Mad Max collection a while ago, so it's all possible... ”

“What, you bought" Mad Max "?” Robert Fredman was very surprised to hear what the boss had said, looking at the fat guy around him, for the first time feeling that this fat guy was still a bit capable.

Karl's proud mouth was curly, his mouth picked out the eyebrow stall, nothing, soeasy to beat.

Robert Fredman frowned for a moment and said to his patient boss, “Boss, Superman, don't even think about it, they won't even let us participate in the investment, DC is not surprised, they need to profit from selling the copyrights of superheroes under the flag, they built their own team of superheroes a long time ago, their superheroes' copyrights are hard to get, whether it's Wonder Woman, Lightning Man, Green Arrow Man, are all the protagonists of their comics, it's hard, it's really hard.

That Vajra is possible. After all, it has been filmed many times, and it is not very valuable. At some cost, there is hope to sign it. ”

Andy was slightly disappointed, and he also knew he was a little strange. After all, DC comics had been integrated by the Warner brothers a long time ago, and he didn't know how many superhero films he had made. It wasn't a dead surprise comic book at all. Comparable.

Rob saw the disappointed boss, bit his teeth and said: “Otherwise, I went to check it out. I heard Warner had started the Wonder Woman project, but for the reasons of the script, it was once again shattered. Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope, even if it wasn't possible to take part of the copyright, after all, DC's comic poker was very powerful in the past few years. If it hadn't been for a Nolan, Batman would have died just like Superman. ”

“Oh, well, I'll leave it to you. I hope you bring me the good news. I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the new office... ”

Andy laughed with satisfaction, he was still a little immortal, and if he didn't try again, how would he know it was impossible? After clapping his ass, he went to see his new office at the peak of entertainment.

Fat Carl got up and tried to follow him, but Robert Fredman behind him grabbed him.

“Carl, we need to talk... ”

Carl looked back and smiled kindly at Robert Fredman, uncomfortably beating a cold cicada, even an idiot knew what the old man was up to.

“Don't look at me like that, we've been working together for so long, so I'll treat you to dinner and we'll have a drink together... ”

“What do you want to say, you're smiling a little... ”

“Oh, don't say that, tell me how you got the Crazy Max copyright... ”

Carl had a funny look on his fat face and shook his head and said: "I was going to have this idea, we could talk about it, but, hey, you can't pay less for my copyright company's interests. The box office is divided, and the derivatives are around. ”

Robert Fredman smoked a few times in the corner of his mouth, his eyes flashing, reaching out and holding Fatty's arm and laughing: “Well, let's just say it, it's all a family, whatever... ”

Carl turned a white eye and the old boy just scolded him. This will beg for himself and be a family again.

Andy naturally didn't know Rob and Carl were counting each other, and watching as Pierce's old office had been cleaned up again, had nothing special, not a point and a half worse than his own office in the Newsweek building.

But it's pretty good, very modern decor, whether it's a desk or a sofa, framed movie posters on the walls, movie posters from companies like Two Big Smoke Guns, Vanilla Sky, and the Smiths.

Andy sits on a comfortable boss chair with a relaxed smile on his face and gets another puzzle on his career map.