Hong Kong: Starting with 10 billion

Chapter 263 Mutual Use
Being in the middle of it, Harvey Weinstein increasingly realized that Hollywood would be a situation where the strong would become stronger in the future.

If small and medium-sized production companies do not have the opportunity to rise, their only fate is to be acquired and swallowed up by the Big Seven in the future.

Especially this summer, "ET the Extra-Terrestrial", which will be released next month, has fully demonstrated the horror promotion and eye-catching ability of a blockbuster.

In Harvey's opinion, this movie produced by Universal Pictures is probably another super money-printing machine comparable to "Star Wars".

Seeing that the big production companies can reap the audience's wallets continuously, Harvey is anxious!

People are motivated only when they have pressure. Harvey, who is still relatively young, naturally does not want to see the gap between himself and the Big Seven widen, so he thinks of introducing external funds.

The so-called external funds refer to non-Hollywood investments, such as those from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, which Harvey also welcomes.

But as an American, he naturally understands the greed of Americans.

The people on Wall Street are just as good at playing tricks as those in Hollywood.

If this group of people who are good at numbers and calculations were allowed to control Miramax, Harvey estimated that it would be difficult for him to defeat them.

After much thought, he still felt that seeking help from outside the United States might be the best option at the moment.

Now, he finally got the big fish, Fang Hexuan.

Fang Hexuan knew very well that the person who leaked his whereabouts could not be the FBI, and the possibility of it being from Silicon Valley or Seattle was not high either.

I think there is an 80% to 90% chance that he was betrayed by the hotel staff.

Fang Hexuan had seen many such situations in his previous life.

Don't really believe that the hotel promises to keep customer information absolutely confidential.

Even if they really want to, once the management cannot keep up, the people below may pretend to obey but actually disobey.

Just like telecom operators, those who sell mobile phone users’ numbers to criminal gangs are often grassroots corrupt officials.

However, even though he knew Harvey was lying, Fang Hexuan had no intention of exposing it.

Although he had guessed several possibilities of the other party's coming, he still pretended to be confused and said:
"Haha, it's okay. I love making friends. Even if you don't come to see me today, I believe we will become friends one day."

After hearing this, Harvey could finally put his heart at ease. Covering up a lie with another lie was a common practice for him, but he had to know who he was lying to.

He didn't believe that a top tycoon like Fang Hexuan could be easily deceived.

Now that the other party has made his attitude clear, Harvey naturally understood the meaning of the gesture.

"Yes, yes, it would be a great honor for me, Weinstein, to become Mr. Fang's friend."

"Haha, then let's use coffee instead of wine to celebrate the first day we became friends."

Ding.
The sound of coffee cups clinking attracted the attention of the guests around them, but the two of them didn't care.

"Mr. Fang, if you have time today, may I invite you to visit my company?"

The sex scene was about to begin. Fang Hexuan looked at Harvey in confusion, then smiled and nodded.

He had originally planned to walk from West Hollywood to North Hollywood today to familiarize himself with the local situation first, and then visit Universal or 20th Century Fox, companies with which he had cooperated, in the next few days.

But since Harvey invited him so kindly, Fang Hexuan had no choice but to change his plans.

Harvey's Ford sedan led the way in front, and the three Cadillacs rented by Fang Hexuan followed slowly behind.

The convoy drove north along North Highland Avenue, and after entering North Hollywood, Fang Hexuan first saw Universal Studios, the theme park of Universal Pictures. In fact, several major studios are adjacent to each other, and Universal, Warner and Disney are neighbors.

Miramax does not have its own studio, so it usually rents one from Big Seven for production.

Therefore, companies like them do not have much operating pressure, but their development prospects are not broad either.

Harvey's company is located in a five-story brick-concrete building, not far from Universal Studios, about one or two kilometers away.

From the outside, the building is decorated with a very industrial and artistic aesthetic, which should be the characteristic of Hollywood.

In fact, compared with DreamWorks, the scale of this company is really a smaller one. All together, the number of employees does not exceed 50.

Harvey took Fang Hexuan to visit all the departments, and then showed him all the works shot and produced by Miramax since its establishment.

Speaking of these movies, although Fang Hexuan had never heard of many of them, Harvey explained them very hard and proudly.

Finally, he took Fang Hexuan into a data room where thousands of scripts were stored.

"Mr. Fang, please don't underestimate these scripts. They are all the ones I have kept after going through so many trials and tribulations. Once I have more funds in the future, I might choose a few of them and make them into movies."

Fang Hexuan just smiled cooperatively and didn't take it seriously at all.

He knew without thinking that Harvey was just bragging out of habit again.

Take his own DreamWorks for example, the script committee received more scripts than Miramax.

In the words of Liu Tianci, among so many scripts, there must be some hidden gems, but 90% of them may not meet the requirements to be made into movies.

If that's the case, then why do movie companies take the time to collect them?
The answer is simple: to create a creative barrier.

There are also rules for script writing, and many routines or creative ideas are often the same.

In the film industry, when it comes to scripts, you copy mine, I copy yours, and everyone copies from each other.

But you can't copy too blatantly.

In order to maintain their competitiveness or suppress their competitors, film companies often need to focus on creativity.

The script is obviously the easiest way to create a competitive advantage.

Harvey's company is still relatively small. Companies with a long history like Universal, Warner and other major companies may have hundreds of thousands of scripts in their script libraries.

These scripts are often already registered and are generally useless, but if someone comes up with an idea that conflicts with our script, then we can talk about it.

"Mr. Weinstein, we've seen everything we need to see. Why don't you just tell me what I can do for you?"

Harvey was stunned, a little confused by Fang Hexuan's move. He wanted to lay more groundwork and then find an opportunity to ask for cooperation.

"Well, actually, you don't need to tell me that I'm quite interested in your company."

Harvey was stunned. He didn't know what this meant.

"I'm looking for you to invest in a movie. Don't tell me you want to swallow up Miramax?"

I felt this in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask directly.

(End of this chapter)