Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 317: The Hibiscus Tent is Warm, I Don’t Want to Go to Court Early (4K, Please Subscribe)

In the Beverly Hills villa, Link was lying on the sofa reading a newspaper when Liu Xiaoli came in with a fruit plate.

"When you get home, take a good rest and watch less news to avoid getting upset."

Liu Xiaoli said.

"There's only good news in the newspapers lately, why are you upset?"

Link kissed her smooth cheek and was fed a piece of pineapple into his mouth.

"If you read too much good news, you'll get bored."

"All right!"

With a beauty by his side, Link put down the newspaper for the time being and enjoyed her service.

"This movie has been finished. When will the next movie be shot?"

"I just finished filming and you're asking about the next scene. Do you want to tire your man to death?"

"What nonsense!"

Liu Xiaoli rolled her eyes at him and said, "On behalf of everyone, I'm asking you about your next plans. If the next film is shot later, we can make work arrangements in advance and go on vacation to Hawaii together."

"Going on vacation?"

Link looked at Liu Xiaoli and said with a smile, "When I mentioned vacation before, you always made excuses and advised me not to play around and spend more time on work while I'm still young. Why are you taking the initiative to ask for a vacation now? Liu Xiaoli, you're not normal."

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Liu Xiaoli patted his messy hand and said with a red face, "I see that you have been too tired in the past few months. I want to advise you to take some time to rest. It's not for anything else."

"Really?"

Link smiled lightly and suddenly noticed her attire. She was wearing a serious and formal women's suit before, but after a while, she changed into a silk suspender skirt, revealing her sexy and plump figure.

She was originally a dancer, tall, with a slim waist, long legs and good flexibility.

The disadvantage is that it is not full enough.

After living with him for a few years, she didn't know what she ate, but she started her second development, and her figure gradually became similar to that of Monica and the others.

Wearing this kind of skirt, your figure will be round and well-proportioned, and you will look very attractive.

When Link saw her dress and expression, he instantly understood what the beauty was thinking.

After Monica's appearance changed slightly, everyone looked at him like monsters looking at Tang Monk, and their attitude became a hundred times more positive.

Even Liu Xiaoli, who was originally very cold, was not immune.

Link smiled softly, not minding that she had ulterior motives.

"Lina, is Link back?"

"Link, we're back."

Before he could start doing anything bad.

Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Coppola, Milla Jovovich, Brooke Shields, Julianne Moore, Renée Zellweger, Jennifer Lopez and many more appeared in the living room one after another.

Link sighed inwardly and thought his life was miserable.

Just got off the plane.

It's time to start busying around again.

The weather was good the next day, with blue sky and white clouds. Link still got up early to exercise before going to work.

After filming "Batman Forever", in addition to being busy with his company's work, he also had to monitor the post-production special effects of the film produced by Industrial Light and Magic, and do his best to make the special effects part of the film.

While he was busy, the four films released by Guess Pictures in the first quarter continued to achieve good results in the film market.

In its third week of release, "Ace Ventura 2" earned $2705 million in 2371 theaters in North America, with a cumulative box office of $9258 million.

In its fourth week, the box office revenue has steadily exceeded 100 million yuan.

In its ninth week of release, "Rumble in the Bronx" earned $9 at the box office. The cumulative box office in North America is $67 million, and the overseas box office is about $3752 million.

The global box office reached 6055 million US dollars, with a revenue ratio of more than 8 times.

In addition, this week "The Man from Earth" continued to sell well in the video tape market, ranking first in the science fiction film category.

Sales in North America exceeded 200 million copies, and overseas sales reached 150 million copies.

Total sales reached $1 million.

Because the producer of this movie is Guess Pictures, and the video distribution company is Artisan Entertainment.

Artisan Entertainment is the third largest video distribution company in North America, after Columbia-TriStar and MCA Universal Home Entertainment.

After the company was acquired by Guess the Movie Pictures at the end of 93, it became a subsidiary of Guess the Movie.

In other words, Guess What Pictures is both the producer and distributor of the videotape and can get more than 65% of the videotape profits.

The editor of "Complete Cinema" magazine wrote that after "This Man" and "Rumble in the Bronx" were released at the beginning of the year, many media saw that the two films did not perform well at the box office and took the opportunity to criticize Guess Pictures, saying that it was on the decline, mocking Link for forgetting the "box office code" and making fun of director Sofia Coppola's unfavorable debut.

Now many people are slapped in the face by the data.

"The Man from Earth" was a big hit in the video market, "Rumble in the Bronx" grossed more than 8 times its cost worldwide, and "Hillbilly: Reborn" became the first movie in North America this year to gross over 2 million yuan.

These data all indicate that Guess What Pictures is still on the rise and remains the most profitable film company in Hollywood.

If the Big Seven studios want to defeat Guess What and become the rulers of Hollywood again, they will need more box office-competitive films.

Influenced by these three films, the second round of financing for Guess Pictures became very popular.

Wall Street entertainment capital waved checks and rushed to find Guess the Movies to apply for financing.

As the competition was too fierce, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank took the lead and acquired 1.35% and 1.1% of Guess the Movie shares for US$6 million and US$5 million respectively, directly pushing the company's market value to US$22 billion.

It is 18 million more than the 20 billion to billion proposed by Link.

The participation of the two major investment companies also ignited the enthusiasm of the capital community. Many investment companies that were on the sidelines put aside their reserve and quickly joined the competition for bidding for shares. In order to grab shares, many companies continued to raise the market value of Guess the Movies.

In the pursuit of capital, Guess What Pictures is becoming more and more valuable.

“These damn capitalists.”

Michael Ovitz finished reading the Wall Street Journal and slammed his head on his desk in anger.

Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank rank among the top ten investment companies on Wall Street, and are as strong as Vanguard Capital and Morgan Stanley. They are also shareholders of the parent companies behind the seven major film studios.

As a shareholder of the Big Seven, it is now investing in a rival company in a high-profile manner. This undoubtedly shows an attitude - Guess What Pictures has a bright future and seems to be more promising than the Big Seven Pictures. If you have money, come and invest quickly.

Other investment institutions saw that the shareholders behind the seven major film companies also had such confidence in Guess Pictures, and their desire to invest became even stronger.

This is also the reason why Michael Ovitz cursed capital.

Currently, he and the top executives of the seven major film companies are conspiring to snipe Guess Pictures during the summer vacation and take back the market share that originally belonged to the seven major film companies. At this time, the shareholders behind them went to cheer for Link.

This approach is not only brainless, short-sighted, and weak, but also fails to distinguish between friends and foes. When the seven major film studios join forces to suppress Guess What Pictures in the future, they probably won't use their full strength.

Michael Ovitz gritted his teeth and called the executives of the seven major film studios.

Ask them whether they want to suppress Guess What Films?
If they are willing to give up their position as the ruler of the film industry, he would not mind putting aside his conflicts with Link and working together to make Guess Pictures the true overlord of Hollywood.

The presidents and chairmen of the seven major film studios have successively stated that suppressing Guess What Pictures is the company's long-term policy and will not change in the next five years.

In the past two years, Guess What Pictures has performed too prominently. The total box office revenue of one company has exceeded that of three other companies, snatching away too much box office revenue from the market, causing a sharp decline in annual profits for several major film companies, a reduction in funds invested in film production, and a decrease in the number of film productions.

If Guess What Pictures is allowed to gobble up the North American box office, the seven major film studios will face the threat of bankruptcy in another decade.

This is a battle of life and death, and we cannot be careless at all.

When Michael Ovitz heard them say this, he was dissatisfied and said that since they knew that Guess What Movie would threaten the survival of the Big Seven, why did Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank also invest in Guess What Movie? This was aiding the enemy.

Universal president Ron Mayer told him that was inaccurate.

Whether it is Goldman Sachs or Vanguard Capital, the reason why they invested in Guess the Movies is the same as theirs, which is to control Guess the Movies through this means.

When the management of the company was transferred to Wall Street, Guess What and the Big Seven Studios became tools for capital to make money, and there was no essential difference between them. At that time, they no longer had to deliberately try to bring down the company.

Michael Ovitz's mood gradually improved after hearing this explanation.

They used marketing and publicity means to deal with Guess What Pictures, while Wall Street used capital means, but they achieved the same goal through different means.

If the two parties cooperate well, it may be able to play a miraculous role in seizing control of Guess Pictures in the future.

"Well, Guess What Pictures has four movies coming out this summer. We must unite this time and severely suppress their box office. If Guess What Pictures' movies continue to sell well this summer, Guess What's in Hollywood will be firmly established, and it will be extremely difficult to suppress them in the future."

"I understand that this year we have Tom Hanks' Apollo 13, Bruce Willis' Die Hard 3, Kevin Costner's Waterworld, Disney's animated blockbuster Pocahontas, Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County and other high-quality commercial productions.

With these blockbusters joining forces to attack, guess what, the studio’s movies won’t do well in the summer.”

“I hope it can achieve the desired effect.”

Michael Ovitz knew about the arrangements of the Big Seven Studios and had confidence in these films.

However, in the past few competitions with Guess What Pictures, Link often won by surprise and used various methods to make the movies sell well.

In order to prevent such incidents from happening again, he called his insiders and asked them to keep an eye on Link and Guess Pictures, and to call them as soon as possible if an incident similar to last year's "Simpson Murder Case" occurred again. Link must not be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble again.

"Okay, see you in the afternoon!"

In the office, Link also put down the phone.

Chen Long called just now and said that the movie celebration party will start at 2 pm. He also smiled and said that more than a dozen Hong Kong actresses wanted to meet his idol and hoped that he would give them a chance.

Link said he would come.

"Link, you guessed it right. Our movie really did do well in the video market. You're amazing."

Sophia said happily.

"It's not a guess. It's the result of a survey conducted by the marketing department based on a lot of information and data. However, the sales of this movie are much higher than the marketing department predicted. The original prediction was that there would only be over one million copies. Now, two million copies have been sold in North America alone, which is far beyond expectations."

Link said as he flipped through the magazine.

In fact, the current sales of "This Man From Earth" have exceeded his expectations.

It took more than ten years for the video of this movie to be released, and its global sales reached 3.5 million.

Now, sales of this movie's video tape have reached 1 million in three months after it was released, and there is a chance that it will exceed 2 million within the year, and a minimum of 4 million US dollars in ten years.

The sales volume is higher than the original version, mainly because the novel "Interstellar" is quite famous and has many fans all over the world, the film's creative team is more luxurious, the film production is more refined, the artistic level is higher, and Guess Pictures is more willing to invest in the promotion and distribution of videotapes.

Several factors combined to make the film's video a best-seller.

"Sophia, how do you feel about the movie being a big hit?"

Liu Xiaoli handed her a glass of juice.

"Of course it's great. When the movie failed at the box office at the beginning of the year, many media outlets ridiculed me, saying that I had ruined a classic science fiction novel. Now that the movie is a big hit, those who laughed at me are slapping themselves in the face."

Sophia leaned back on the couch, swinging her feet excitedly.

“You’re right. Next, the company will arrange for the media to find the articles that originally criticized you and Link, and let everyone see how they originally laughed at you. Now that the movie is a big hit, let’s see what they have to say.

If you have time, you can accept more interviews from the media, talk about your feelings about the film's box office failure, and also talk about your feelings about the film's unexpected success in the video market, so that all your critics will start to envy you. "

Liu Xiaoli smiled mischievously.

"This is a good idea, I agree."

Sophia shouted, waving her white arms.

Link shook his head. "Sophia, now that The Man From Earth is out, you should also consider your next movie. Only by continuously making movies can you become a skilled director."

"Got it. I've been reading novels and scripts recently. Please help me find a suitable script."

Sophia said, leaning against his shoulder.

"it is good."

Link was about to continue with the work in his hands, but Sophia was harassing him from the side, as if she didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Liu Xiaoli turned a blind eye to this.

However, before the two started to fool around, Joe Felmer, the vice president in charge of the company's development planning, came to the office to report on his work.

In order to cope with the suppression from the seven major film studios at the beginning of the year, Link assigned several acquisition tasks to Joe, asking him to acquire several film companies that were poorly managed but had strong production and distribution capabilities, as well as two animation studios, Blue Sky Animation and Pixar Animation.

After receiving the task, Joe Fillemey and others immediately took action and looked for suitable targets, including the nearly bankrupt Castle Rock Pictures, the poorly managed Touchstone Pictures, and United Artists Pictures, which MGM intended to sell again.

It’s just that the Big Seven studios are worried that Guess Pictures will become more powerful in production and distribution after acquiring other companies.

When Guess the Movies took action, it first targeted several companies.

Eventually, Warner Bros. acquired Castle Rock, Disney acquired Touchstone, and MGM was persuaded by the Big Seven to temporarily give up selling United Artists.

When acquiring animation studios, 21st Century Fox acquired Blue Sky Animation Studios several years earlier than originally planned, and Jobs refused to sell Pixar.

These actions by the seven major film studios have caused Guess Pictures' current round of acquisition plans to encounter obstacles.

However, Link was unwilling to give up. He asked Joe Fillemy to continue to do public relations with Jobs and continuously increase the offer for Pixar Animation from the initial $3 million to the current $5 million and a 5% stake in Guess What? Pictures.

As the offer continued to increase, Jobs softened his tone. After hearing that Link had returned to Los Angeles, he sent a message through Joe Feller, saying that he wanted to talk to Link in person.

Link accepted the invitation and set the date for Saturday.

(End of this chapter)