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Chapter 943 The World Is Killed

Wu Jianye didn't have time to care about how Zhao Lei handled Zhao Miao's affairs, because of Zhao Lei's relationship, Wu Jianye didn't touch Zhao Miao, it was enough to save face, now there are only two things left in front of Wu Jianye up.

The first thing, since Universal Pictures wants to deal with you, then they have to prepare for their own fight back.

The second thing is to deal with the hearings of the North American federal government.

Wu Jianye stepped into the headquarters of Phantom Media again.

"Send me the news, just say that I am very optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", and Phantom Pictures hopes to release this movie together with Universal Pictures!"

Wu Jianye said to Matthew Murphy.

Linda on the side looked at Wu Jianye in surprise, and asked, "Future Water World? Is that the big production that Universal is currently filming?"

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Yes, this is the movie."

The movie "Future Water World" is Universal's most important movie next year, with an investment of more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars. According to Hollywood's calculation of publicity costs, the entire investment of this movie will exceed 2 million U.S. dollars, and it will be the flagship of this era. The top-level production, the investment of the movie "Jurassic World" is only 6500 million US dollars.

"I think Universal will not agree. They are very optimistic about this movie internally, and they will not allow us to release it with them!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye smiled: "Of course I know this!"

Linda looked at Wu Jianye suspiciously, and then asked, "Are you so unfavorable about this movie that Universal Pictures will make additional investment in this way?"

"Not bad!"

After knowing that it was Universal who wanted to deal with him, Wu Jianye asked Linda to collect all the information from Universal, including Universal Pictures' film plan for next year, and the movie "Future Water World" It is Universal Pictures' desperate self-help work!

Years of losses have made Universal Pictures overwhelmed. For a listed company, their annual financial report is very important. For a film and television company like Universal Pictures, the box office of their films is a barometer of their stock price.

Especially for such a blockbuster with an investment of over [-] million US dollars, if the film's box office fails, it will be a fatal mistake for Universal.

I believe that no one is more aware of the future box office of the movie "Future Water World" than Wu Jianye.

In fact, in another time and space, the movie "Future Water World" has a total investment of 2.3 million U.S. dollars including publicity expenses, but its North American box office is only 8800 million U.S. dollars, overseas box office is 1.76 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is only 2.64 million U.S. dollars. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

It was just enough to recover the cost, but in fact, it did not include the money allocated to the theaters, taxes and other expenses. According to the profit rule of three times the return of the film market, the film lost more than 1.4 million yuan.

Such a loss is tantamount to making matters worse for the already difficult Universal Pictures.

In fact, it was for this reason that Panasonic had to sell Universal to the Vivendi Group.

Although Wu Jianye is currently in the whirlpool of public opinion, no one can underestimate Wu Jianye's achievements in movies. Now that Wu Jianye has publicly stated that he is optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", it will naturally make Universal The film industry is paying more attention to this movie.

This is also the reason why Wu Jianye did not directly attack Universal Pictures. If he directly attacked Universal Pictures, it would show that he knew that Universal was going to deal with him. The film industry is on the alert.

Sure enough, as Wu Jianye expected, when Matthew Murphy officially proposed to Universal Pictures that because director Wu Jianye was optimistic about the movie "Future Water World", they hoped to co-release this movie with Universal Pictures , Cameron Black directly expressed his refusal.

Afterwards, this news was also published in major media newspapers in Hollywood, and the headlines were one after another: Wu Jianye is optimistic about "Future Water World"!
As soon as such news was published, it immediately attracted the attention of many movie fans, and Universal Pictures immediately issued a statement, saying that they were very optimistic about the movie and would agree with directors Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner to add more. investment request.

And after this additional investment in this film, the production cost has reached 2 million US dollars!

Cameron Black stood in front of the reporter in high spirits, and said: "Of course we didn't increase our investment in this movie because Director Wu was optimistic about it. In fact, our company was already very optimistic about this movie, and the additional investment has already been made in our company's It's included in the discussion at the meeting, and now it's just announcing the news at this time!"

"Of course, we can understand that Director Wu is optimistic about this movie. After all, Director Wu is a very discerning director. He can naturally tell which movie is not good!"

But actually?
According to later media reports, Universal Pictures did receive requests for additional investment from directors Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner during this time period, but Universal Pictures had run out of money. The investment in the film has been increased several times, so it was decided not to invest more in this film, but after receiving the request from Phantom Pictures for distribution, Universal Pictures immediately changed its previous decision.

I only borrowed 5000 million after re-mortgaging from a Wall Street investment institution, and I will continue to invest more!
And this additional investment was later reported by the Wall Street media as: the most stupid investment!
Cameron Blake is known as the stupidest general manager in the history of Hollywood movies!
And Wu Jianye was also judged by the most cunning fox. In a word, the most successful company in the history of Hollywood movies has been brought into a slump, and it has not recovered for more than ten years.

"No matter how much the movie "Future Water World" loses next year, we must buy the rights to renovate the movie studio!" Wu Jianye was about to vomit blood out of Universal.

Although the box office of the movie "Water World in the Future" went to grandma's house, the theme playground of the movie "Water World in the Future" is the most profitable item in Universal Studios Park.

It is developed based on the movie setting and world view, and highly faithfully restores the movie scenes and props. It is the most exciting live water stunt show and blasting show in Universal Studios Park. Combined with the real scene of the floating island in the movie, it produces a powerful audience attraction.

Among the Universal Studios parks in Los Angeles, Osaka and Singapore, "Waterworld of the Future" has always been the most popular project.

In the Universal Studios parks in the three places, a total of more than 1 million people experienced this project. Since the opening of the first "Future Water World" park project after its construction, it has been enduring for a long time, and the grandstand can accommodate thousands of people. It was full of seats, and the derivative plot of "Future Water World" was performed day after day.

The box office of the movie hit the street, but the theme park sold well, which finally made up for the loss of Universal Pictures!

"It may not be so easy to buy this copyright!" Linda said: "I heard that Universal Studios Park is already planning to develop this theme park!"

This is why Universal Studios is optimistic about this movie. Otherwise, it would be impossible to start planning to build a theme park before the movie was released.

But in fact, after the box office of the movie "Future Water World", Universal Studios once wanted to stop the development of the "Future Water World" theme park, but at that time, they had already invested so much Yes, it was with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor that he finally decided to open the theme park of "Future Water World".

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "It's difficult to test your ability. I don't care what you do with this matter, I only care about the final result!"

Linda nodded helplessly. If the movie really hit the box office as Wu Jianye said, then it would not be too difficult to buy the studio copyright of the movie.

"When will the movie "Future Water World" be released?" Wu Jianye didn't intend to let Universal Pictures go so easily.

"According to the news announced by Universal Pictures, it will be July 7 next year!" Matthew Murphy replied.

"Put the movie "Mission: Impossible" on this schedule." After Wu Jianye recalled the movie released by Phantom Pictures next year, he decided to put this masterpiece of Cruise on this schedule to pack "Future Water" World" movie!
The "Mission: Impossible" series, as Hollywood's enduring series of movies, has always been a guarantee of the box office. When it was released in another time and space, it won a super high box office of 1.81 million US dollars in North America in one fell swoop.

Because Wu Jianye had come up with the script of the movie in advance, it was more than enough to clean up Universal now!

Matthew Murphy nodded and said, "No problem."

Wu Jianye nodded in satisfaction.

Then Johnson on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "The federal government deliberately set the time to ask you at the premiere time of "Eternal Night" in North America. Is this simply making trouble!"

Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "I believe that after they know the truth of the matter, the expressions on their faces will definitely be even more exciting!"

Prior to this, Johnson had already found out that Wu Jianye told Wu Jianye that Cameron Black went to their family to purchase shares in Oceanwide Cinemas, otherwise Johnson would not be the general manager of Oceanwide Cinemas today. sitting here.

And the federal government's inquiry time has also been set, which is the day "Eternal Night" is released!

October 1995, 1!
The movie "Eternal Night" did not have a simultaneous global premiere in the end, but this is no longer important to Wu Jianye.

"Okay, now that things are settled, let's go our separate ways, and this matter should be settled!" Wu Jianye stretched himself.

The question about the phantom has lasted for nearly a month, and now there is only one last move left, and Wu Jianye's depressed mood before finally healed.

Linda was still a little worried and said, "I'm still a little worried. Even if you have planned ahead, how to judge this matter depends on the federal government's will!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Then prepare the second plan. If the federal government still insists on the Phantom, then we will fight to the death. At worst, the Paramount case will be dealt with again!"

Linda said helplessly: "If you do this, you will really offend the whole Hollywood!"

"So what, my purpose is, whoever wants to make me feel better, I will make no one feel better." At the end of the speech, Wu Jianye had already begun to speak fragrantly: "Grandma, I'm so worried about this matter." I spent tens of millions of dollars to hire lawyers, and another [-] million to those congressmen, if they still look for trouble, I will be in a hurry, as long as I am still here, Hollywood movies will not be able to enter the Chinese market!"

Linda froze for a moment, and said, "Is this your plan C?"

Wu Jianye smiled: "It's always necessary to make more preparations!"

In order to deal with the sanctions imposed by the federal government, Wu Jianye prepared a total of three sets of plans. He naturally hoped that with his own concessions, this matter would pass, but if the federal government still refused to let the phantom go, then He's going to have a good chat with them.

Although Wu Jianye's snobbery is strong enough now, compared with the United States, it is naturally insufficient, but there is still no problem in making trouble for them in certain areas and industries!

Wu Jianye didn't care about these losses, but those politicians in North America couldn't care less.

Wu Jianye is only responsible for himself, while those politicians are responsible for their own achievements, and they have more fetters.

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes!

Of course, if he really did this, Wu Jianye would not even think about coming to North America again, and all his business in North America would definitely be affected!

But does Wu Jianye care about these things?

Nobody knows the answer.

"Okay, everyone, let's get ready, I'm going home!" Wu Jianye stood up and walked out of the meeting room.

Linda and the others didn't say anything, but they all went about their own business.

Wu Jianye did not go back to Beverly Hills Manor directly, but went to pick up Wu Luoxin first, and then the two father and daughter returned to Beverly Hills together.

A few days passed quickly, and Wu Jianye was leaving for Washington today.

When she got up in the morning, she first sent Wu Luoxin to school, then went to the airport, and flew to Washington to attend her own hearing.

When Wu Jianye got off the plane, he saw countless reporters waiting at the airport to interview Wu Jianye. As the protagonist of the hottest news in North America during this period, Wu Jianye has not been interviewed by reporters. The big media knew that Wu Jianye was going to attend the hearing in Washington, so naturally they would not give up this opportunity.

"Director Wu, what do you think of this hearing?"

"I don't have any opinion, I just feel that they have found the wrong person!"

"At this moment, Director Wu, do you still not admit that you are the boss of Phantom Media?"

"I'm not!" Wu Jianye smiled, put on his sunglasses and drove directly to the hearing site!

(End of this chapter)