Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 176 The small moves of the Seven Giants

Although Wayne himself does not star in these four movies, since Wayne wrote the scripts and Hemera Pictures is responsible for the production, the probability of success is still quite high.

After all, Hemera Pictures has not lost money on any of its movies so far.

Everyone had confidence in Wayne and Hemera Pictures before their undefeated streak was broken.

So in addition to DreamWorks, which is relatively ethical, the Big Seven, Lionsgate Pictures, and Miramax are all focusing on the production of "Dog Hotel", "Taken" and "Resident Evil 1 and 2" Progress, while intensively collecting beauties.

This sounds incredible.

But it's not surprising when you think about how much money Harvey and Howard Stringer made from "Mean Girls" and "The Bourne Supremacy" respectively.

The Big Seven seem to be very large, but in fact their market value at this time is only a few billion dollars, and a profit of hundreds of millions is really not a small amount.

The most important thing is that these CEOs are not the bosses or shareholders behind the company, they are just high-level workers. If their performance is not good, they will be fired at any time.

Giving away a few women can bring hundreds of millions of profits to the company. Not only can it bring you nearly ten million in bonuses, but it can also make your position more stable.

Such a fool would not do it, okay!
In this regard, Sony and Universal are undoubtedly the ones with the most abundant resources.

After all, although these two companies cannot sign actors in Hollywood, they have many actors and singers in other countries and regions.

Although Harvey's side is the smallest, he has not given up. After all, he has been deeply involved in small-budget independent films in the past and has many connections in Europe. In addition, his connections at the Oscars can also be used.

It's a pity that under Wayne's influence, not only he himself has no interest in Oscar, but also his woman has no interest in Oscar.

Of course, Wayne still doesn't know what these guys are doing behind the scenes.

In the next five days, Wayne was busy filming during the day, and after finishing work, he came back to have in-depth discussions with the eight people. It can be said that he was extremely busy.

Such a busy day finally ended five days later, on May 5, when all the scenes between him and Charlize Theron in "Ocean's Eleven" were completed.

Ozawa Makoto, Amuro Namie, Hamasaki Ayumi, Nakamori Akina and Aoi Yuu had to leave because they still had work and flew back to Neon.

The remaining three, Masami Nagasawa, followed Wayne back to Los Angeles.

According to their agent, as long as Wayne is willing, they will be Wayne's playthings from now on.

Because they all signed long-term contracts that were comparable to selling their bodies, and the liquidated damages were so high that they couldn't even afford to pay for the sale, so they didn't have the ability to say no.

However, none of the three felt repulsed by this.

Erika Sawajiri’s original intention of becoming an actress and graphic model was not to become a big star, but just to make money and live a wealthy life. Wayne is handsome, has a good figure, has money, and treats her very well. Very generous, she wished she could stay by Wayne's side forever.

In order to stay, Ayase Haruka even took the initiative to reject the upcoming filming of "Kindaichi Boy: The Incident Book III".

Among the three, only Nagasawa Masami prefers acting and being a star. However, although she won the best award in the "Toho Cinderella" audition and has also appeared in a movie, the box office was not satisfactory. , for the next whole year, she had no job.

Because the three of them were still relatively young, Wayne thought for a moment and took them back to Wayne Manor.

Since their agent said that, Wayne was naturally not polite. He directly hired a teacher from Neon who specialized in training artists through their agent to teach them etiquette, body shape and talent.

In addition, in terms of performance, he also hired special teachers for the three of them.

As for the performance methods in Hollywood, he doesn't care if they might be a little acclimatized after returning to China.

It is worth mentioning that perhaps because she is worried that Wayne has more and more women and has less and less time allotted to her, Charlize Theron also decided to move into Wayne Manor after returning this time. In this way, At least she got to see Wayne a lot more than before.

"Meida, please help them choose a room."

"Okay, sir. Please follow me."

After handing several people over to Maida, Wayne walked into the master bedroom with Hannah, who had been resentful for five days, and Jessica, whom he hadn't seen for more than ten days, in his arms.

Two hours later, a refreshed Wayne had just finished taking a shower and was sitting on a lounge chair by the pool in his bathrobe, ready to bask in the sun. Maida came over with a thick stack of invitations.

Behind her are Charlize Theron and Masami Nagasawa who have changed into swimsuits.

I have to say that compared with Charlize Theron’s sexiness, the three of Masami Nagasawa can only be described as cute.

"Sir, these are the invitations I've received in the past two days, and I've placed the invitations from Weinstein and Stringer at the top."

“There are so many again”

Wayne withdrew his critical gaze, complained, and reached out to take the invitations.

"It's okay if Howard Stringer wants to celebrate "The Bourne Supremacy". How can Harvey join in the fun? "Mean Girls" has only been released for 1 days, right?"

Although the North American box office of "Mean Girls" has reached 1.147 million at this time, and the overseas box office also has 8141 million, the total box office has exceeded expectations, reaching 1.96 million.

But it’s still a little early to celebrate.

Of course, Harvey did make a fortune on this movie.

Even if according to the contract, Hemera Pictures needs to pay more than 5000 million US dollars, he has already earned almost 1000 million US dollars through box office at this time.

Coupled with the income from disc sales, this "Mean Girls" is estimated to bring him at least 5000 million US dollars.

It made sense that he couldn't wait to celebrate.

Of course, this profit belongs to Miramax, and the majority will be taken away by Disney.

And the reason why he was so eager to hold a party was actually because "Taken" had already finished filming.That's right, "Taken" officially started filming on March 3th. It lasted two months and was completed last night. Due to the time difference, even Wayne's side hasn't received the news, and Harvey's side hasn't received it yet. Already received the message.

In addition, the preparation time has exceeded expectations. The filming of "Dog Hotel", which only officially started at the end of March, is now coming to an end. According to the information Harvey heard, it will be completed in about three days.

Hemera Pictures' post-production speed has always been very fast, and after the news spreads, more people will invite Wayne, so Harvey naturally wants to strike first.

Wayne looked at the invitation in his hand, and after thinking for a moment, he probably guessed what Harvey was thinking, and couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

After briefly looking at the invitations sent by Howard Stringer, and confirming that the date was May 5, Wayne put the two invitations aside and continued to look at other invitations.

Fortunately, among these invitations, in addition to the charity auction party jointly organized by the Beverly Hills Police Department and Fire Department, others include Madonna's daughter winning No. 1 in the elementary school violin competition, and the Olsen sisters' new photo album selling well. , as well as the celebration party held by Paramount Pictures CEO Shirley Lansing to celebrate the completion of the new film "At the Gate", etc., are all refundable.

Yes, the party thrown by the CEO of Paramount Pictures also falls into the push-off category.

It’s not that Wayne is in trouble, it’s mainly because after he poached the “Iron Man” series and “Transformers” series from Paramount Pictures, the only thing Paramount Pictures can offer is Tom Cruise’s “Disc” Impossible" series.

Next, with the exception of MGM, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, Paramount Pictures will become the one with the worst performance and lowest influence among the Big Seven.

Even if it is backed by a media giant like Viacom, it still cannot reverse the decline.

Of course, if it was an invitation from Viacom owner Summer Redstone, he would definitely not refuse it.

Although his current wealth is almost half that of Summer Redstone, in terms of influence, he is obviously not as good as Summer Redstone, who controls Viacom, the third largest media group in the United States. Very far away.

"If you don't want to go, you can ask Ms. Mia and Ms. Serra to go on your behalf." Meda couldn't help but remind him when she saw him throwing the invitation into the excluded pile.

As a qualified housekeeper, she obviously didn't want Wayne to offend someone of this level.

"Okay, then let Mia and Sierra go instead of me." Wayne did not stubbornly agree and happily agreed to Meda's proposal.

But Meda's suggestion gave him an idea.

"How about letting Mia go to the charity auction dinner instead of me?"

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Meda didn't say anything, just looked at him speechlessly.

In the end, it was Wayne who was defeated first and raised his hands: "Okay, okay, I was just joking, Meda, don't be so serious~"

Before he finished speaking, Wayne had already pulled Masami Nagasawa and Erika into his arms.

"But the police department and the fire department are really shady. We only donated 200 million yuan each to them in January, and now they are holding a charity auction." Wayne couldn't help complaining.

Do as the Romans do, and when you come to America and become a wealthy person, you must donate some money to the local police and fire stations.

After all, police and firefighters in America are paid services.

In this era, although 200 million is not the most, it is still a lot.

It has only been a few months now, and there is another charity auction going on. I can only say that there is a reason why the public security environment in Beverly Hills is so good.

Of course, he also knows that the cost of this kind of charity auction is actually not very high, and those who can be invited to participate are the real top people in Beverly Hills, which is very suitable for transcending classes and expanding connections.

However, he is not interested in these things. After all, what he needs most now is to avoid being noticed by the real big guys and continue to develop in a low profile.

It's a pity that he really can't shirk this invitation unless he can reach the level of Tony Stark in the movie.

But in that case, there is no need for him to be afraid of the Seven Giants and the power behind them.

After checking the time, Wayne dialed Li Ying's number and asked her to report on the recent work at Wayne Group.

"Okay boss, first of all, the acquisition of Google. At present, our shareholding ratio in Google has reached 25.4% in accordance with your requirements. A total of 6137 million US dollars has been spent, but the current stock price has not changed."

"In Pixar Animation, we have invested US$1.82 million, and our shareholding ratio has reached 14.46%. Even if we do not count the other two shares in your hands, we are already the second largest shareholder of Pixar Animation. And because we Due to a series of operations, as well as the good performance of Pixar Animation itself, Pixar Animation’s stock price has now increased by 11.2 percentage points compared with when we bought it.”

"In terms of real estate, we have purchased all 22 detached villas in the Loxbury neighborhood because house prices have been rising recently, with a total cost of US$8074 million."

"At the same time, the construction of the filming base you invested in Orange County and the luxury estate you are planning to build on the five acres of land you bought in Newport Beach started on the 23rd and 27th of last month respectively."

"The construction of Wayne Tower cannot start until the 17th of this month due to the approval procedures."

"In terms of copyright acquisition, the eleven copyrights you listed, including Transformers and A Song of Ice and Fire, have all been acquired, with a total cost of 7550 million US dollars."

"Among them, the remake rights of "The Ring" were purchased for US$500 million when we purchased them, and have been resold to Hemera Pictures for US$1800 million."

"In addition, Marisa has already gone to Neon. With the help of Sony, she met with the presidents and all shareholders of Kyoto Animation, Production IG, and Sunshine Corporation. I will tell you if there is any new progress next. I’ll report to you as soon as possible.”

It has to be said that Li Ying and Marissa Mayer are indeed the elites he carefully selected, and they have lived up to his expectations.

It has only been less than two months since he arranged these tasks, and there has already been such progress.

Even the more troublesome Pixar animation stocks and the acquisition of eleven high-quality copyrights have achieved the goals he originally set. I have to say that the efficiency is really amazing.

"Well done!" Wayne praised sincerely.

Then Wayne showed her fine tradition as a capitalist and assigned her a new task: "Next, I plan to acquire three companies, ASML, NVIDIA and Netflix. Among them, ASML and NVIDIA are For both companies, I only need a 30% to 35% shareholding ratio. As for Netflix, I plan to acquire 20% of the equity first, and then gradually complete the entire acquisition of it over the next two years. "

(End of this chapter)