Hollywood starts with animation

Time is fleeting.

In an instant, it was already May 3, 1998.

Golden Shuguang Entertainment Group.

As the chief assistant to Zhu Ke, the chairman of the group, Alexander at this moment is fulfilling his duties and wants Zhu Ke to report the situation of each subsidiary in the last quarter in detail.

"Boss, first of all, Wald Pictures."

"From January to the end of April, Wald Pictures released a total of 3 films."

"One of them, "Fatal Turn 2", released on April 10th, has already won the North American box office of 61 million U.S. dollars, and it was released for a week overseas and earned 49 million U.S. dollars in box office."

"The other two films are the company's copyright department. The films purchased from the Berlin Film Festival cost a total of 3.5 million US dollars in copyright, publicity, and copying. Since the cumulative release, they have earned 2 million US dollars. , A box office of 4.1 million U.S. dollars, and an overall loss of 970,000 U.S. dollars."

Alexander reported the revenue situation at a glance.

Loss of 970,000 US dollars?

Zhu Ke frowned and said, "I remember last year, we purchased from overseas and released the works of small Hollywood studios. There seem to be as many as 9 works. The first half of this year is almost over. Except for the movies we made ourselves, How did you release 2 movies?"

Alexander hesitated and stopped.

"Humph!"

Zhu Ke snorted coldly: "I see, they are afraid of serious performance losses, which will lower their assessment points and affect their option awards in the coming year?"

Alexander nodded helplessly.

In the field of Hollywood, the purely film production will never compare with the dry distribution!

Because the film production company, after investing funds to complete the film production, is not sure that it will be able to win market recognition.In Hollywood, there are not a few companies that go bankrupt due to film failures every year.Even if your film is successful, you cannot guarantee that every future film will be successful;

However, the company that distributes the movie is different.

Basically, it can be described as "guaranteed income during droughts and floods". It is just a matter of earning more and less.

but.......

The distribution industry that guarantees income during droughts and floods refers to the existence of the Big Six in Hollywood!

Hollywood small and medium-sized film distribution companies still need to walk on thin ice, for fear of the investment in publicity costs, because the film box office fails and will not recover the cost.

Well done, like Artisan Entertainment Company!

At a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it won a movie like "Blair the Witch" with a production cost of only 60,000 U.S. dollars. However, it is bold and boldly invested tens of millions of dollars. To carry out "deceptive" and "viral" marketing announcements.

Profitable in one fell swoop!

Created an impressive box office record of US$140 million in North America and US$248 million in the world.

I have to say that Artisan Entertainment is making a lot of money!

however......

In fact, most of the small and medium-sized film companies dare not play such a big one!

Because they invested tens of millions of dollars, they basically caused... huge losses without any suspense!

The distribution network of Wald Pictures has completed the layout in North America and expanded overseas. This is true. However, this does not mean that Wald Pictures can compete with Hollywood in the North American distribution market. Big and DreamWorks are on par.

The reality is that the gap is still not small.

Therefore, the vast majority of small and medium-sized film production companies, as well as independent filmmakers, still tend to choose Hollywood’s Big Six when they consider choosing a film distribution company. It's really awesome.

Since the establishment of the Wald Pictures distribution network, it has only released less than three films produced by other local Hollywood films.

Very few!

Moreover, the distribution of these films often fails to generate profits, or even losses.

"Alexander, in my name, you call Kevin Fitch, the vice president of Wald Pictures, and the copyright purchase department of Wald Pictures, telling them that if they still act like this, let alone an option. The reward is dividends, so I'll get fucked out of Lao Tzu as early as possible!" Zhu Ke scolded.

"Yes, boss!" Alexander hurriedly responded.

"I hate those mediocre people who are as timid as a mouse more than arrogant people!"

Zhuke criticized unceremoniously.

In the following time, Alexander launched a report on the issue of the UPN television network.

"You mean, Ms. Donna proposed to buy Warner's WB TV network?" Zhu Ke was surprised.

"Yes."

Alexander responded: "In the work report submitted by Ms. Donna, it was clearly stated that the scale of UPN TV network should be further expanded."

Zhuke nodded: "You will find the specific documents for me later."

"Yes, boss."

.......

That night.

After the meal, Zhu Ke picked up the work report submitted by Donna and watched it.

In this work report, Donna Langley made an extremely astonishing judgment about the future of American limited television and public television.

She said in the copy: "The field of limited TV, with the further improvement of the Internet, satellite, and electronic communication technology, is bound to achieve more amazing development in the future."

"Just like HBO!"

"HBO, which has many talents and abundant funds, will inevitably become a leader in the field of cable TV, and even in terms of TV series and movies, it can compete with giants such as ABC, NBC, and CBS."

"however!"

"In the field of variety shows and news programs, public television stations have advantages that cable television can't match. They will still occupy a dominant position in the entire television field, and their profits will definitely increase gradually."

a long time.

Zhu Ke sighed: "I have to say that Donna Langley's vision is indeed strong enough. It is no wonder that in the original time and space, as a woman, he can become the president of Universal Pictures, one of the six major Hollywood industries."

HBO TV station, a limited TV under the Time Warner Group, is also known as the "yellow dirty" TV station because of the scale of the production and broadcasting of film and television dramas.

After entering the 21st century, he has participated in the production and broadcast of "Brothers", "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City", "Under Six Feet", "Western World", "Game of Thrones" and other boutique TV series, in the United States, There are countless movie-watching groups all over the world.

Its annual profit is extremely amazing!

Well, even the six major Hollywood studios are not as profitable as the production and distribution of movies.

Look at the public television station.

As of 2020, there are only five public television networks left in the United States.

They are ABC (Disney), NBC (Universal), CBS (Colombia), FOX (Fox), and CW (shared by Warner and Columbia).

These five public television networks occupy an absolute strong position in the production and broadcasting of variety shows, news, finance and other programs, and HBO can't compare them. After all, the main business directions are different.

Of course, the profit it generates is much higher than that of HBO.

"Donna's proposal to acquire the WB Public Television Network is to make UPN TV station stronger and make up for the shortcomings in the public television field outside of the cable TV field."

"In fact, once the "God Talent Show" and "WWE Wrestling" and other variety shows, once landed on the public television network, the profit generated will be much higher than the current income of the UPN television network in the limited television field."

It is worth mentioning that Donna’s proposed acquisition of WB Television Network, in the original time and space, will merge with UPN Television Network in the future to form CW, one of the five major public televisions.

Do you support acquisitions?

"Being able to make more money and further expand the group's territory, why do I object to it?" Zhu Ke couldn't help but smile.

A few days later.

That is, on May 11, two days before the official opening of the 51st Cannes Film Festival, Zhuke and Nolan and his party set off for Cannes.

"Get out of the way, I'm coming!" Zhu Ke narrowed his eyes.