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Chapter 988 Someone Spits Blood

Although a director at the level of Spielberg can already have a direct dialogue with the boss of the extremely large studio, this does not mean that Spielberg is at this level. After all, he is only the top director and producer. piece!

Whether it is the domestic entertainment circle or the foreign entertainment circle, in the final analysis, it is all about capital.

When Wu Jianye and Phantom were not up, Spielberg could choose to suppress Wu Jianye with power, but when Phantom Media got up, Spielberg was no longer important to Phantom Media It is no longer an opponent, even with several other Hollywood studios, it is no longer the opponent of Phantom Media.

Phantom Media's opponents are now only a few other major media groups. Of course, there are also media groups belonging to Hollywood Plus Studios. In the end, everyone is fighting in two directions, movies and TV!

Perhaps for other studios, if they can get Spielberg's alliance, it belongs to adding a nuclear weapon to their arsenal.

But for Phantom Media, they already have their own nuclear weapon Wu Jianye, whether it is in terms of personnel, control of the movie, and contribution to the movie box office, Wu Jianye is stronger than Spielberg!
Everyone in Hollywood knows one truth, that is, if Wu Jianye had stayed in Hollywood at this time, then he would break even more box office records!
At this time, Phantom Pictures invited Spielberg to put it bluntly as a strong alliance. As for everyone's previous grievances, under such cooperation, it has become insignificant!
Wu Jianye understands this truth, and Spielberg naturally understands this truth too!
So after receiving the invitation from Phantom Pictures, after reading the script of the film, Spielberg readily agreed to the invitation from Phantom Pictures, and Phantom Pictures will also pay Spielberg according to the market price!
Later, Spielberg personally called Wu Jianye, and discussed with Wu Jianye the story in the script and Wu Jianye's original intention of creation. Later, the two met in an unknown coffee shop. They talked for a long time over a cup of coffee.

It was as if all the previous grievances had never happened before.

At the very beginning, the chat between the two was actually limited to the movie "Saving Private Ryan", but then the two talked about more and more topics, but they still did not leave the scope of the movie. The special effects, the story of the movie, the shots of the movie.

A meeting that was supposed to be an appointment for half an hour allowed the two of them to chat for a whole afternoon.

Then the North American media, through the ABC TV network under Phantom Media, and the paper media, suddenly saw a lot of news about Phantom Media!

First up is the news about the ABC television network.

When several other TV networks saw that ABC TV Network had obtained the screenwriters of Wu Jianye's two TV series and the planning of variety shows at one time, they couldn't be calm for a long time!
The situation when "Friends" was broadcast instantly flooded the minds of the heads of major TV networks. Let alone that time, "Friends" is still the top ratings of North American TV dramas. Whenever a new season of "Friends" When it is broadcast, they will let other TV networks strategically release their own TV network's cannon fodder TV series. It's not that they don't compete with each other, but after several failures, they really can't compete!
It's all over now, Wu Jianye made another move, and even brought out two TV dramas at once!

This motherfucker can't let people live.
What is even more infuriating is that Wu Jianye, you can just take the script of the TV series, why do you want to take the planning of the variety show? This is driving people to death!

"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" has long been a phenomenon-level variety show in North America, and now it's good, and two more fucking variety shows, and the ABC TV network even announced that the regularity of these two variety shows Definitely not worse than Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

For the entertainment industry in North America, it is the most appropriate to use such a sentence to describe Wu Jianye!

Although my brother is no longer in the arena, there are still legends about my brother in the arena!
In the past few years, Wu Jianye has stopped making movies in Hollywood, but whenever Phantom Pictures releases a blockbuster movie, Wu Jianye's name is always written in the screenwriter column.

Just as Linda would not doubt Wu Jianye's ability to tell stories, no one in the entertainment industry in North America would doubt Wu Jianye's ability to tell stories.

So when the ABC TV network announced that it would produce "Will and Grace" and "Desperate Housewives", actors in the North American TV drama circle were dispatched one after another, hoping to get roles in them, especially after the confirmation of this TV series. After the production team of the TV series, the producers and directors received calls from countless actors and agents almost every day!

The collateral reaction is that Hera Economics has signed a lot of potential actors with this wave of ABC TV network promotion!

However, it is clear that Phantom Media has not given up on this wave of enthusiasm. It has successively announced that it will start filming two films written by Wu Jianye next year, especially the film "Saving Private Ryan", which is in collaboration with Spielberg. This Wu Jianye's former rival is also a collaboration with Hollywood's top director!
The deterrent force of the strong alliance made several other production companies tremble at this time!
They don't know how serious the consequences of such a combination will be, but one thing they can be sure of is that their life will not be too easy in the past two years!

For a while, the entire entertainment circle in North America was almost shrouded in the shadow of Wu Jianye.

And those enemies who once wanted to deal with Phantom Media suddenly found that they seemed to have done some useless efforts before. When Wu Jianye really made a move, even just doing a starting move was enough to make it difficult for them to parry up!

Wu Jianye seldom accepts interviews from reporters in North America, so many reporters approached Spielberg to ask Spielberg his views on the cooperation between the two!

Spielberg's answer was that there was no conflict between Director Wu and me. What happened before was just what the media said. They were actually exchanging the script of the movie "Saving Private Ryan". In the end, I found that director Wu and I had many ideas that coincided with each other. I believe that in the future, we will become good friends!

Looking at Spielberg who was blowing rainbows at Wu Jianye at this time, everyone did not agree with Spielberg's thoughts, but thought that Spielberg was beginning to be afraid of Wu Jianye's influence!

At this moment they suddenly realized that Wu Jianye's influence in Hollywood was already terrifying!

Some people marvel at Wu Jianye's influence in the North American entertainment circle at this time, but some people hate Wu Jianye so much!

This person is the current president of Universal Pictures, it should be said that it is Cameron Black, the former president!

At the beginning, Cameron Black participated in the design of Phantom Media, thinking that he could use this to win Oceanwide Cinemas, but in the end, Wu Jianye resolved the crisis.

At that time, Cameron Black just felt very sorry, but he didn't take it too seriously. After all, Universal Pictures had nothing to lose at that time.

But this year, when Universal Pictures released their masterpiece "Water World", Phantom Pictures also released the movie "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, the number one handsome man in Hollywood today.

To be honest, Cameron Blake didn't take it seriously when the two movies were fighting. Although "Mission: Impossible" has Tom Cruise, "Water World" also has a box office guarantee Kevin Costner!

Moreover, in terms of production costs, the two films are not at the same level. "Mission: Impossible" only invested 8000 million US dollars, while "Future Water World" invested more than 2.5 million US dollars!
It is more than three times that of "Mission Impossible".

In addition, in order to shoot this movie, Universal Pictures even built a one-to-one restoration scene, which can be said to be a big production scene!

At that time, Cameron Black could be said to be full of confidence in this movie. Although the script of "Mission: Impossible" was written by Wu Jianye, Wu Jianye was also very optimistic about "Future Water World"!

So when the two movies were released at the same time, Cameron Black can be said to be full of confidence.

but the result
Now it has been more than three weeks since the last of the two films, and the box office of the two films is quite different. At this time, the cumulative box office of "Mission: Impossible" has exceeded 1.4 million U.S. dollars in three weeks, and the North American box office is expected to reach 2 million. more than a dollar!
What about "Future Water World"?

The box office has not even reached 5000 million. It can be said that it rushed to the grandma's house. The most important thing is that this movie has aroused criticism from both critics and audiences. It is already hopeless. Regarding the latest box office of this movie It is estimated that it can only reach about 6000 million US dollars in the end!
The box office of "Future Water World" with an investment of 2.5 million US dollars is only 6000 million US dollars!
Obviously Cameron Black is responsible for this one thing!
So last week, Cameron Black took the blame and resigned.
At that time, a reporter approached Linda to interview her, asking why Wu Jianye liked this movie in the first place.

And Linda's answer was: Director Wu was really optimistic about this movie at the time, but it is not unreasonable that the box office of this movie will become like this now!
The reporter asked Linda why?
Linda replied: Director Wu himself once told me that his ability to write stories is first-rate, but his ability to read stories is too average, so maybe he was mistaken!
When Cameron Black saw this answer in a magazine, he vomited blood directly. It was because of your praise that I f***ingly invested another 5000 million in this movie.
Of course, everyone can't believe such an answer, and they don't know who disclosed the news. Among the forces targeting Phantom, Universal Pictures existed.

When this news appeared, everyone suddenly realized that it was not enough ability to read the story, it was because Wu Jianye was deliberately playing tricks, but Cameron Black jumped down happily!

Then Linda followed Wu Jianye's suggestion and proposed to Universal Pictures to acquire the copyright of the theme park of "Future Water World".

In fact, in another time and space, at this time, the theme park of Universal Studios' "Future Water World" has been completed, but because Cameron Blake invested in the movie "Future Water World", it directly led to the "Future Water World" "Funds for the theme park were broken.

Therefore, the construction of the theme park of "Future Water World" has not been completed, and the box office of the movie has hit the street. Universal Studios has completely lost confidence in this theme park!

In fact, when Phantom Studios proposed to Universal Pictures to acquire the theme park copyright of "Future Water World", Universal Pictures was still a little skeptical. After all, judging from the current box office, this movie must have hit the street. The theme park will not improve, but why did Phantom Studios propose to acquire it?

They are puzzled!
If it was acquired by other film studios, Universal would definitely sell it immediately, but they were really pitted by the Phantom, and they subconsciously thought that they hadn't discovered the hidden money-making methods of the "Future Water World" theme park?

However, Cameron Blake, who was still the president of Universal Pictures at this time, put forward his own opinion. Now that Phantom Studios has not been established for too long, they urgently need various theme parks to expand their Phantom Shadow. City, to put it bluntly, in Cameron Black's view, Phantom Studios is just filling its own theme park with garbage!
At the same time, I think this is the last remaining value of "Water World in the Future", so I advocate the board of directors of Universal Pictures to sell the copyright of "Water World in the Future"!

In the end, Universal Pictures listened to Cameron Black's suggestion and sold the copyright of "Future Water World" to Phantom Studios!
As a result, at the end of this year, the theme park of "Future Water World" in Phantom Studios officially opened. What everyone didn't expect was that the movie "Future Water World" perfectly restored the movie because of the theme park. The water castle in the middle of the river has attracted countless tourists
Become one of the theme parks with the strongest ability to absorb money in Phantom Studios.

At that time, the board of directors of Universal Pictures had the heart to kill Cameron Black!

In fact, there is no need for the board of directors of Universal Pictures to kill Cameron Blake. Cameron Blake was seen in a hospital in Los Angeles that day because he vomited blood for no reason!
That was the last time Cameron Black appeared in the media newspaper after leaving Universal Pictures!
But that's all for the aftermath. For Wu Jianye, Cameron Black at that time has long been unable to attract any of his attention!

Now there is one person's matter, which makes Wu Jianye a little headache.

Yang Zhun, who came to North America nearly a month earlier than Wu Jianye, suddenly found Wu Jianye the day before Wu Jianye was going to return to China, and without saying a word, he dragged Wu Jianye to drink with him. After drinking all night, Wu Jianye found out that Yang Zhun had finally fulfilled his wish!
"That person is bankrupt, not only bankrupt, but also in debt of tens of millions."

Wu Jianye asked, "Are you happy?"

Yang Zhun: "I don't know!"

ps: Let me tell you one thing, the book "China Entertainment" should be finished this month. In order to ensure that the book does not end unfinished, Huangshan can only maintain two updates this month, but The number of words in each chapter will definitely be guaranteed to be above 4000+. There are a lot of things to say, but let's have a good chat with everyone when this testimonial is finished!

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