Time is fleeting.

In an instant, it was already May 3, 1998.

Golden Shuguang Entertainment Group.

As the chief assistant to Zhu Ke, the chairman of the group, Alexander at this moment is fulfilling his duties and wants Zhu Ke to report the situation of each subsidiary in the last quarter in detail.

"Boss, first of all, Wald Pictures."

"From January to the end of April, Wald Pictures released a total of 3 movies."

"One of them is "Fatal Turn 2", which was released on April 10th. It has already won the North American box office of 61 million U.S. dollars, and it has been released for one week overseas, and it has earned 49 million U.S. dollars in box office.

"The other two films are the company's copyright department. The films purchased from the Berlin Film Festival cost a total of 3.5 million US dollars in copyright fees, publicity fees, and copying. Since the cumulative release, they have earned 2 million US dollars. , The box office of 4.1 million US dollars, the overall loss of 970 thousand US dollars."

Alexander reported on the revenue situation at a glance.

Loss of 970,000 US dollars?

Zhuke frowned and said: "I remember last year, we bought movies from overseas and released the works of small Hollywood film companies. There seem to be as many as nine. The first half of this year is almost over. Except for the movies we made ourselves, How did you release 2 movies?"

Alexander hesitated and stopped.

"Humph!"

Zhu Ke snorted coldly: "I see, they are afraid of serious performance losses, which will lower their assessment points and affect their option awards in the coming year?"

Alexander nodded helplessly.

In the field of Hollywood, the purely film production will never compare with the dry distribution!

Because film production companies, after investing funds to complete film production, are not sure that they will be able to win market recognition. In Hollywood, there are not a few companies that go bankrupt due to film failures every year. Even if one of your films is successful, you cannot guarantee that every film in the future will be successful;

However, the company that distributes the movie is different.

Basically, it can be described as "guaranteed income during droughts and floods", but it is just a matter of earning more and less.

but.......

The distribution industry that guarantees income during droughts and floods refers to the existence of the Big Six in Hollywood!

Hollywood small and medium-sized film distribution companies still need to walk on thin ice, for fear of the investment in publicity costs, because the film box office fails, and the cost cannot be recovered.

Well done, like Artisan Entertainment Company!

At a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it won a three-no movie like "Blair the Witch" with a production cost of only 60,000 U.S. dollars, but it is bold and boldly invested in tens of millions of dollars. To carry out "deceptive" and "viral" marketing announcements.

Profitable in one fell swoop!

Created an impressive box office record of 140 million U.S. dollars in North America and 248 million U.S. dollars globally.

I have to say that Artisan Entertainment is making a lot of money!

however......

In fact, the vast majority of small and medium-sized film companies dare not play so big!

Because they invested tens of millions of dollars, they basically caused... huge losses without any suspense!

The distribution network of Wald Pictures has completed the layout in North America and expanded overseas. This is true. However, this does not mean that Wald Pictures will be able to compete with Hollywood in the North American distribution market. Big and DreamWorks are on par.

The reality is that the gap is still not small.

Therefore, the vast majority of small and medium-sized film production companies, as well as independent filmmakers, will still tend to choose Hollywood’s Big Six when considering choosing a film distribution company. Even if they ask for a higher share, the effect of publicity It's really awesome.

Since the establishment of the Wald Films Distribution Network, it has only released less than three films produced by other local Hollywood films.

Very few!

Moreover, the distribution of these films often fails to generate profits, or even losses.

"Alexander, in my name, you call Kevin Fitch, the vice president of Wald Pictures, and the copyright purchase department of Wald Pictures, telling them that if they still act like this, don’t call them options. The reward is dividends, so I'll get **** out of Lao Tzu as early as possible!" Zhu Ke yelled angrily.

"Yes, boss!" Alexander hurriedly responded.

"I hate those mediocre people who are as timid as a mouse more than arrogant people!"

Zhuke criticized unceremoniously.

In the following time, Alexander started a report on the issue of the UPN television network.

"You mean, Ms. Donna proposed to buy Warner's WB TV network?" Zhu Ke was surprised.

"Yes."

Alexander responded: "In the work report submitted by Ms. Donna, it was clearly stated that the scale of the UPN TV network should be further expanded."

Zhuke nodded: "You will find the specific documents for me later."

"Yes, boss."

.......

That night.

After the meal, Zhu Ke picked up the work report submitted by Donna and watched it.

In this work report, Donna Langley made an extremely astonishing judgment on the future of American limited television and public television.

She said in the copy: "The field of limited TV, with the further improvement of the Internet, satellite, and electronic communication technology, is bound to achieve more amazing development in the future."

"Just like HBO!"

"HBO, which has many talents and abundant funds, will inevitably become a leader in the field of cable TV, and even in terms of TV series and movies, it can compete with TV giants such as ABC, NBC, and CBS."

"however!"

"In the field of variety shows and news programs, public television stations have advantages that cable TV can't match. They will still occupy a dominant position in the entire television field, and their profits will definitely increase gradually."

a long time.

Zhu Ke sighed: "I have to say that Donna Langley's vision is indeed powerful enough. It is no wonder that in the original time and space, as a woman, he can become the president of Universal Pictures, one of the six major Hollywood industries."

HBO TV station is a limited TV station under the Time Warner Group. Because of the large scale of production and broadcasting of film and television dramas, it is also called the "yellow dirty" TV station.

After entering the 21st century, he has participated in the production and broadcast of "Brothers", "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City", "Under Six Feet", "Western World", "Game of Thrones" and other boutique TV series. There are countless movie-watching groups all over the world~lightnovelpub.net~ Its annual profit is extremely amazing!

Well, even the six major Hollywood studios are not as profitable as the production and distribution of movies.

Look at the public television station.

As of 2020, there are only five public television networks left in the United States.

They are ABC (Disney), NBC (Universal), CBS (Colombia), FOX (Fox), CW (shared by Warner and Columbia).

These five public television networks occupy an absolute strong position in the production and broadcasting of variety shows, news, finance and other programs, and HBO can't compare them. After all, their main business directions are different.

Of course, the profit it generates is much higher than that of HBO.

"Donna's proposal to acquire the WB Public Television Network is to make UPN TV station more powerful and make up for the shortcomings in the public television field outside of the cable TV field."

"In fact, once the "God Talent Show" and "WWE Wrestling" and other variety shows, once landed on the public television network, the profit generated will be much higher than the current income of the UPN television network in the limited television field."

It is worth mentioning that Donna’s proposed acquisition of WB Television Network, in the original time and space, will merge with UPN Television Network in the future to form CW, one of the five major public televisions.

Do you support acquisitions?

"Being able to make more money and further expand the group's territory, what reason do I have to oppose?" Zhu Ke couldn't help but smile.

A few days later.

That is, on May 11, two days before the official opening of the 51st Cannes Film Festival, Zhuke and Nolan set off for Cannes.

"Get out of the way, I'm coming!" Zhu Ke narrowed his eyes.