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Chapter 987 The phantom's plight ([-] daily updates, please subscribe~)

Phantom Building!

Wu Jianye came to Los Angeles this time mainly to deal with the matter of Phantom Media.

After the phantom incident at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, although the news of phantom media is no longer as high as before, it is still one of the most hot news in North America.

During this period of time, Wu Jianye had the most contact with Phantom Media since the establishment of Phantom Media. Even when Wu Jianye was filming "Inception", he would often talk with Linda on the phone.

After about half a year, the impact of the last incident has finally been dealt with. To put it simply, it is the fluctuation of internal hearts, the pressure brought by external competing companies, and the suppression of the US federal government!

That's right, even though Wu Jianye had given Phantom Media to Wu Luoxin, he was still suppressed by the federal government to varying degrees!
At the time, Barry Winkler, the general manager of ABC Television Network, resigned and took a group of people with him. Although there were talents from the talent reserve room of Yaoguang and Yiwang, they still needed time to adapt to their own needs. New job, and Barry Winkler's departure leaves a lot of work for Linda to deal with!

Several other TV networks took advantage of this time to launch a lot of excellent TV series and various variety shows to seize the market. It seems that the original incident did not have much impact on ABC TV Network, but in fact these impacts are It is slowly accumulated unconsciously.

In the past six months, the affairs of the ABC TV network have almost occupied most of Linda's energy.

Not only the ABC TV network, but other subsidiaries of Phantom Media are actually more or less under different pressures, just like the ABC TV network.

Sitting in his office, Wu Jianye saw that the expression on Linda's face became more solemn!
"It seems that your life has not been very comfortable in the past six months!" Wu Jianye teased!
Linda gave Wu Jianye a blank look, and said, "You're so easy, there are a lot of things here every day, if it weren't for the solid foundation of our Phantom Media, the losses during this period may really be unbearable! "

In half a year, Phantom Media lost at least 10 billion US dollars due to various pressures and targets.

Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "You're exaggerating. The cash reserve of Phantom Media is not comparable to that of ordinary group companies. A loss of 10 billion US dollars is not a problem for Phantom at all, but if you really I feel that if the loss of Phantom is severe, I can continue to invest in Phantom!"

Linda quickly refused: "Forget it, Phantom can still afford to lose this little money!"

Wu Jianye's capital injection means that he has to share his equity in Phantom, which is not acceptable to Linda, and as Wu Jianye said, 10 billion US dollars is just a loss for Phantom Media. What Linda said was just to make Wu Jianye pay more attention to Phantom Media!

At the same time, there is some imbalance in my heart. After all, since the establishment of Phantom Media, it has been making money. This is the first time that it has lost money this year, which made it difficult for Linda to accept it for a while!

Wu Jianye looked at Linda with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, I'm very satisfied with the current equity allocation of Phantom Media, and I won't invest any more."

Linda secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Although capital injection is not required, you still need your help in other aspects!"

Phantom Media, as a company with TV dramas and movies as its core content, naturally attaches the most importance to the output of content. As long as Phantom Media can continue to output high-quality content, then all problems will no longer be a problem!
Wu Jianye didn't tease Linda again this time, and took out a few stacks of A4 papers in his bag, and said, "There are scripts for two TV dramas on the ABC TV network, planning for two variety shows, and gifts for the ABC TV network." Two HBO drama scripts!"

Linda's eyes immediately burst into light. For Linda, Wu Jianye's ability to write stories is unquestionable. Whether it is a movie, a TV series, or an Eastern or Western story, as long as it passes through Wu Jianye's hands, Then whether it is a movie or a TV series, it can create miracles!

"Jurassic Park", "Ghost Story", "Speed", "Friends", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" are all shining evidence.

So when Wu Jianye came up with so many drama scripts and variety show plans at once this time, Linda suddenly had great confidence in her heart that she could help Phantom Media survive this difficult period.

In fact, this is another reason why Linda has never thought of setting up her own family!
When there is a problem with Phantom Media, Wu Jianye is always the one who solves the fundamental problem
"Will and Grace" and "Desperate Housewives" are two TV series written by Wu Jianye for the ABC TV network. Among them, "Will and Grace" came from the NBC TV network in 1998 in another time and space, in North America A total of eight seasons have been aired, and it has always been the ace TV series of NBC TV network. The most important thing is the theme of this TV series. It is about an American drama with GAY as the main character.

The most important thing is that after the broadcast of this TV series, the audience ratings of the 18-49 age group have been ranked second among sitcoms, second only to "Friends".

The TV series "Desperate Housewives" was actually launched by the ABC TV network in another time and space. The cultural phenomenon sweeping the United States has driven the trend of desperate and crazy housewives in magazines, newspapers and talk shows, and it has been broadcast in more than 2004 countries and regions around the world, including China.

The most important thing is that this TV series was once the highest-rated TV series in the world. It has won the North American single-week ratings list many times, and swept many awards at major award ceremonies in North America.

With these two TV series, plus ABC's ace TV series "Friends" at this time, the ratings of ABC TV station in the three time periods will be among the top!
"Hanging Huan's Wife" and "American Idol" are two variety shows presented by Wu Jianye to the ABC TV network. variety show of the same name.

The show will be staged by two families from different backgrounds and cultures. The wives of the two families will exchange their homes. They will go to each other's home to live with each other's husband and children for 10 days.

After the show was broadcast, the number of viewers rose from 390 million to 570 million in just two weeks.

In another time and space, ABC showed a strong interest in this program, bought the copyright of the program as quickly as possible, and began to broadcast it in the United States.

In the first weekend of the program broadcast, ABC won the ratings champion of the program at the same time.

Not to mention the variety show "American Idol", it can be said to be the longest-running talent show in the history of North American variety shows, and it also created a precedent for talent show variety shows.

This program was broadcast by FOX TV network in another time and space in 2002. Since its inception, it has been the ratings weapon of FOX’s spring program. It has been broadcast in different evening prime time due to broadcast adjustments, and it can be ranked in the ratings of the day. top of the list.

It has been at the top of the quarterly ratings list for 11 consecutive years, and is known as the "King of American Reality Shows".

It even set a peak rating of 3730 million for a single episode.

With these programs, ABC Television Network will no longer have to worry about its own drama series and variety shows for at least the next ten years!
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The Wind and Cloud in Bai Palace" are gifts from Wu Jianye to HBO!
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was first broadcast on The WB TV station in 1997. Although it is not as famous as "The Wind and Cloud of Bai Palace", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was successful in addition to soap operas and comedies at the time. Another drama that taps young audiences.

It also stimulates the academic community to explore the social and cultural issues presented in the drama and the creation of the drama. According to a report by Slate in 2012, more than 200 related papers or books have been published so far, and these achievements have been kindly It has become a "Buffy study". In addition to following the drama, people also try to understand it as a cultural product.

This is the unique charm of this TV series.

As for the other "Bai Gong Fengyun", because of its theme, it also caused a huge sensation in North America when it was broadcast in another time and space.

The four TV series presented by Wu Jianye are actually produced ahead of time, so some details have been dealt with, but these problems are not difficult for Wu Jianye at this time!

Linda took over the four scripts from Wu Jianye. After planning the two variety shows, she couldn't wait to watch them.

Wu Jianye didn't bother her either, even though Linda took a cursory look, by the time she finished reading it, it was already two hours later, when Linda looked up, she saw that Wu Jianye was already sitting in front of the computer playing Playing the game!
"Although I've said it countless times before, I still want to say now, how does your head grow and why do you have so many wonderful ideas?" Linda sighed.

Wu Jianye is manipulating the mouse in his hand, playing "Duke Nukem" seriously on the computer. As one of the earliest computer shooting games, in Wu Jianye's memory, the picture of this game is very good, but I don't know why, when he played this game again, he was taken aback by the game's screen, but after playing a few times, he felt very good again.

At this time, Wu Jianye said without raising his head: "I can't answer this question for you, but you can attribute it all to genius!"

Linda was speechless: "."

Linda waited until the character manipulated by Wu Jianye died before continuing, "You gave both to ABC TV Network and HBO, and Phantom Pictures can't favor one over the other!"

Wu Jianye said: "I knew you wouldn't let me go easily!"

After speaking, she took out two scripts from her bag again, and Linda looked at Wu Jianye's bag with a light.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Don't look at it, there's nothing in it now!"

After speaking, he handed the scripts of these two movies to Linda, and said, "Now, I have read the scripts of the two major dramas "Independence Day" and "Tornado" that will be filmed by Phantom Pictures next year, and they are very good. The movie script should do well at the box office next year. In addition, my "Inception" is enough for the movie released by Phantom Pictures next year. You can ask Murphy to put these two scripts in It will be released next year!"

The box office of "Independence Day" and "Tornado" next year is not only good, it is simply a hit. In another time and space, "Independence Day" won No.1 on the North American box office list next year, with a box office of 3.06 million US dollars. "Tornado" No.2, $2.41 million!
"And James is already making his own new movie "Titanic". I guess according to his filming speed, it will not be released until the next year. With these two movies, Phantom Pictures will still be able to become a Hollywood movie. Overlord of the production company!"

As soon as "Titanic" comes out, who will compete with it!

But at this time, Linda was full of resentment towards the movie: "I really don't know why you are so optimistic about James. His movie has exceeded the budget several times. According to the current progress, it is estimated that the production of this movie The cost will be as high as $2 million!"

Wu Jianye laughed and said, "Don't worry about this, when did James ever lose money!"

In another time and space, when James Cameron filmed "Titanic", the practice of increasing the budget many times almost drove the [-]th Century Fox Films crazy. Later, there was no way to find Paramount Pictures to co-invest. That's how the movie went smoothly!
But when this movie was released, all the investment was worthwhile. The North American box office was 6 million US dollars, the overseas box office was 15.28 billion US dollars, and the global box office was more than 21 billion US dollars. It ranked No.1 in the global box office list all the year round. The release of another huge production "Avatar" by the filmmaker broke his own record!

Seeing what Wu Jianye said, Linda didn't say anything more. Now she is most concerned about the two scripts that Wu Jianye presented!
"Saving Private Ryan" and "Peerless Heist"!
The movie "Peerless Catastrophe" is starring Bruce Willis. It was released in another time and space in 1998. The box office also won No.2 in the North American box office list that year, and the North American box office score was as high as 2.01. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

And the No.1 movie is "Saving Private Ryan". This movie is full of North American themes, and it has won a super high box office of 2.16 million US dollars in North America!

Linda continued to read the movie script, and Wu Jianye continued to play games.

But this time Linda watched it faster. After watching it, Linda looked at Wu Jianye with a strange expression, and said, "Are you going to let Spielberg direct the movie "Saving Private Ryan"?" ?”

When Wu Jianye came to Hollywood, his first opponent was Hollywood Jews headed by Spielberg!

Now Wu Jianye actually wants Spielberg to direct the screenplay he wrote?
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "The previous things have passed. Spielberg is still the top director in the United States. Working with him is a normal business cooperation. There is no fuss!"

Linda didn't expect Wu Jianye to be so open-minded all of a sudden, but since Wu Jianye didn't have any opinions, she naturally wouldn't say anything more. As for whether Spielberg will take over the filming, Linda has no doubts, after all, the influence of Phantom Media is no longer something Spielberg can ignore!

(End of this chapter)