Chapter 263 Don't Let Me Down

"The same thing happened decades ago, when televisions were replacing newspapers as the new media. TVs were undoubtedly more convenient than paper media that needed to buy on the street, or newsboys took the time to send home, Just open it and you can see what you can or can't see in the various newspapers. "Adrian said to Claude in the large office.

"And before the advent of the television, the spread of the radio had allowed newspapers to gradually adapt and adjust themselves, and the development of the Internet was much faster than the television, so the impact on traditional media would be very large, right?" Crow De smiled and said, "You've said it many times, Ed."

Adrian shrugged his shoulders and did not care to continue: "You and I know that the advantage of the Internet is that the speed of transmission and the amount of information are much larger than traditional media, and the participants have gradually become ordinary people, causing reactions. It will also be bigger than traditional media. Think about it, what will happen if you use your mobile phone to access the Internet after ten years? What if your mobile phone can take pictures, take high-resolution photos or even videos, and then upload to a dedicated website the first time? "

"Are you starting to predict again?" Crowder raised an eyebrow. "So you let me acquire a and control A?"

"Well ... this ..." Adrien suddenly smiled, "In fact, it only needs a, I think their Flash software is very promising, and I originally thought it was developed by A."

"What?" Crowd raised his eyebrows in disbelief in surprise.

"Don't worry, A will also have what we need, in the future." Adrian quickly added.

"Oh, hell, I knew that it was a mistake to believe you." Crowder sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Hey, how can you say that, Crow, I can often tell you that my opinions are not necessarily completely correct, and you must have your own judgment," Adrian immediately retorted, "you just believe too blindly Yes, I admit that I was wrong, but don't you need to take part responsibility? "

"Are you showing off, Ed? Is that so?" Crowder narrowed his eyes and asked with his hands folded in front of him.

"Show off? Me?" Adrian "Ha" laughed out loud. "I'll use this if I want to show off. It's not a company matter."

He said he took out his wallet and threw a credit card in front of Crowder.

"This is it?" Crowder picked it up and looked at it. The whole was dark and unremarkable, but the workmanship was still very delicate and sophisticated.

"Express Express learns from Citibank the latest top-of-the-line credit card just launched, Centurion Card, which is more noble than Platinum Card. It does not accept applications, and only the bank actively invites to join." Adrian explained briefly.

"Oh? Is there any better service?" Crowder asked.

"Unlimited credit line, or the all-around assistant service," Adrian thought about it, "I just bought a Gulfstream with it, which is really good. Maybe one day I accidentally forgot something on the train, such as delivery A car or something, you can call them to inform the train station and drop things at the next stop. "

The credit card he took out is naturally the legendary black card. Although I have heard all kinds of rumors about the world's top credit cards in the past, I only know it when I get it. The so-called unlimited credit limit is only based on If the holder's assets are excessively overdrawn, the credit card will be recovered. As for the full range of services, this is a means by which banks can attract customers, and how much can they be worthy of invitation? Most have their own assistant team.

"Don't be kidding, when have you been on the train?" Claude said dismissively.

This is why Adrian is either driving or taking an airplane when he goes out. The American train is also considered to be a bad type of transportation. After all, freight is far more profitable than passenger transportation, and most people like to travel by car.

"I just give you an example. If you don't feel enough, I still have it here." Adrian said and took out a black card and handed it to Crowder. "This is from Citibank. After the invitation, they also invited me, and the competition was really fierce. "

"If I also bought a Boeing 747 as my own car, they would invite me." Claude shrugged and returned the two black cards to Adrian. "Well, let's continue as we just did. Let's talk about it, frankly, if it is not for the liquidity reduction caused by the holding of A, we will not compete with Bertelsmann so much on the ownership of Langdon Book House. "

"Again, A may not be of much use to us now, but it will not be so in the future." Adrian repeated the words before.

Well, he has such a strong argument, holding A is mainly for Flash software, but he doesn't know much about it, so he didn't find out that the development of Flash software a has not been acquired by A until after the acquisition of A, so Only then turned to a full acquisition as a holding and turned a into the group. However, A is not completely useless. Their image processing software has always been the best in the industry. In Adrian's plan, there are still many things about this part of the website.

This is a digression. Claude's question about Langdon Bookstore is the focus. As one of the nine major publishing brands in the United States, Langdon Bookstore is quite famous. Although the focus of the media is on movies, TV and the Internet, However, it cannot be completely abandoned in the traditional paper media, especially its publishing company has become famous because it has represented the Harry Potter series. It is impossible to expand without taking this opportunity.

But just last year, when the media looked at Langdon Bookstore, Bertelsmann Group also saw them. The two sides fought several times around Langdon Bookstore. After all, Bertelsmann has a history of more than 100 years, which is not as easy to deal with as Disney. . In addition, the media just bought a and then controlled A. Claude suffered a lot in their hands. If they don't want to make a comeback, they can only let Langdon Bookstore out.

"Hold on, you know our plans, for a year at most," Adrian said. "I've got Uncle Regget ready."

"I don't know where you have such great confidence. Even my father can't be 100% sure." Claude sighed. "It's not easy to delay a year, and Bertelsmann is not Disney."

Immediately after that, Adrian gave an unexpected answer: "It really is n’t working, so give it up. We are not without the Random House. Our future is on the Internet, and the success of Witch Blair has been full. It illustrates this point. It may appear after seven or eight years. After a topic is reported by CNN, there is not much repercussion. It can be spread on the Internet, but it can cause a lot of people to talk about it. "

"Oh?" Crowd raised his eyebrows, knowing that Adrian had more to say.

Sure enough, Adrian turned around with a smile: "What do you think of Holden? Mifflin Publishing?"

"... I knew that you guys would have a big appetite." Claude laughed after he froze for a while.

Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company is one of the four largest publishers in the United States. It has a history of more than 100 years comparable to Bertelsmann's. Although Langdon Bookstore is good, it is still not enough to compare with them. If you want to acquire such an established publishing company, you will need huge funds or you will carry out mergers and acquisitions. The latter will obviously not be Adrian's choice. Then the former ... if the plan goes well, maybe it is really possible.

"You do look a long way, Ed. Although you are always unclear on the details, you really have a set of vision plans," Claude said with emotion.

"Don't worry, Crow, everything is still unknown, let's get things done first." Adrian Haha laughed.

"Witch Blair" continues to heat up, with the evidence of those who watched the movie the earliest, the discussion on this matter on the Internet is even more heated, so the number of theaters screened rose, and the box office naturally followed rise. Of course, the accusations against Maryland's government are also increasing day by day. Fortunately, at this time, Bosworth stood up to break the rumor.

The timing is good, the state government hasn't completely lost patience, and with a lot of sponsorship-compared with the box office, it's nothing like that-they are not attentive. After the whole thing was announced, although some people felt fooled, but more people were surprised. Just just so much hype can make people believe that the whole thing is true, so more start Entered the cinema.

Although this has nothing to do with the media's secretly helping the media, but also the Americans themselves, like a joke said, want to make American money? Just try to underestimate their IQ.

In the end, Witch Blair gained 270 million box office worldwide. Bosworth ’s hype was therefore included in the film history book and became a content to be researched by various film companies. However, this is no better than no matter what. The film companies that belong to Shanghai Media have been repeatedly stressed by Adrian from the beginning.

Well, that's all for now. This small-cost movie has only begun to work, and Adrian greeted a certain crew in the conference room.

"Everyone may be wondering why such a medium-investment movie would let me personally call you to talk. The reason is very simple. The original novel of this game was written by me and others." At the top of the table, Adrian said with a smile while watching the screenwriters, actors and directors in front of him.

Acting as the fourth survivor "Death" Hank's actor Dennis Knight, as Lyon S. Kennedy's Raven Phoenix, as Clara Redfield's Sarah, as Jill Valentine's Love and Lin Zhiling, who played Ada Wang, is right. The movie version of Resident Evil, which has been in preparation for a long time, is finally about to start.

Of course, in addition to Dennis being the heroine, the only other actors who played the game characters were Lin Zhiling's Ada Wang who had a lot of plays. After all, from the beginning, the movie version has been established as a supplement and development of the game version. It can be a stand-alone position. Although each game corner has appearances, there are not many plays. What will happen in the future? Wait for the fans and game fans to feel about the movie.

This is exactly the same. Adrian only said that Rui Fan was playing the role of Lyon. He wanted to make Aniston play Gil in the first place. The couple's gimmick was quite interesting. But after Sarah promised to play Claire, she also recommended her "puppy" by the way, and Adrian naturally would not refuse, so this plan can only be temporarily put on hold, but it doesn't matter, there are opportunities in the future.

"I suddenly thought of a good idea. Your husband and wife will act together. It will be very interesting at that time. But we have to wait a few more years for Jenny to fix her image of an action star in the movie." Adrian said to her husband when Dennis and Aniston from Yaner rushed back to Los Angeles from their honeymoon and were preparing to attend the "Resident Evil" meeting.

Aniston has caused quite a good response among the fans because of the policewoman in "Broken Arrow" and the female hacker image in "The Matrix", whether it is the handsome image in "Broken Arrow" or the "Matrix" The plot sacrificed to cover Trinity and Neo has won the affirmation of the majority of fans after those quarrels, and many filmmakers have begun to consider her action image.

However, the influence of "Friends" is huge, and the innocent and foolish Rachel Green is always easier to accept, so Aniston's action image is not stable. Although Adrian could get the script out, it's not the best time right now, so it's better to postpone it for a while.

The atmosphere in the conference room was very harmonious. Most people still heard that the director of Miracle had co-written novels with others for the first time, so they had to ask a few words about it, and then motivated others.

"Fictions were written about seven or eight years ago. At that time, I always inadvertently came up with many interesting ideas from my head, so I often use pens to record those flashes of light. Some ideas are very suitable for writing novels," Resident Evil "That's it, inspired by" The Dawn of the Living Dead "to build a completely different framework. But there was always a lot of work at that time, only outlines and some fragments were written, so people simply co-authored ..." Adrienne While explaining her motive, Ann watched the crowd silently.

Director Brook? Hamel is very young, about ten years old, and has directed a few good medium-to-medium investment commercial films. Among several directors, Adrian thinks his style is closer to the game and his own ideas, so He was selected. At the moment, he is talking to two screenwriters, one of whom is the company's contracted screenwriter and one from the game department. They are very good at talking to each other, and with Adrian's intermediate mediation from time to time, the script is still well written.

Dennis and Rui Fan said from time to time that they had cooperated in Finch's Fight Club last year, and they had a close relationship with Adrian and they talked to each other. But Adrian's attention is not on it. "Brawler Club" will be released about next month. He would like to know what Aniston would think of Winona's supporting role.

On the other side, Sarah and Rove talked intimately. It seemed similar to what the media said. They were good sisters, but Adrian could see Rove's smile barely. Sarah probably vented all the dark side of her heart to Love, and convinced this woman to be convincing. Even if she was resentful, she would not dare to resist, otherwise Adrian would not secretly call Love to "Sarah's Little dog. "

Of course, this has nothing to do with Adrien's red face next to him. Love, starring in Love, will soon be released, and Adrian also said that if she wants, the record company can give her an album test. water.

As for Lin Zhiling, she was still attending such a meeting for the first time. Basically, no one knew her, but her agent came along today, so she could say a few words instead of staying there and doing nothing. Her agent is also named Lin, and she is also from Taiwan. She came to Los Angeles with her family at the age of ten, majoring in economics and comparative literature at the University of California, looking for work after graduation, and finally entered a brokerage company for two months. After receiving and sending the job, he was watched by Adrian and acted as Lin Zhiling's agent.

Her English name is Kelly and she has the same name as Hu Kelly, and her Chinese name is Lin Xilei.

"Well, that's it for today. You have already seen the script. I hope that I can see a wonderful movie." Seeing that the time is almost up, I have finished all that I have to say, and everyone ’s status is also Yes, Adrian immediately got up and declared the end, of course, must whisper to everyone familiar.

"Will you take Jane to watch Fighting Club, Dan?" This was to Dennis, and the other side rolled his eyes helplessly, and Rui Fan walking in front chuckled.

"Don't think it's a guest appearance, you don't have to work hard." This was to Sarah, in exchange for her grimace, and then took Rove away tightly, not giving her a chance to please Adrian.

"Don't let me down, Ling." This was to Lin Zhiling, and in Chinese, she nodded immediately, even though she was smiling in the conference room.

But to many surprises, Adrian left Lin Xilei: "Wait a minute, Kelly."

This attracted a lot of attention. As Lin Zhiling's agent ~ lightnovelpub.net ~, Lin Xilei has nothing to do with the producer. What is left to do? However, these eyes are basically clear, so they are not at heart, but Lin Zhiling, there is a little jealousy in God sè.

"I heard that you and Ling were a little unhappy before?" After admiring Lin Xilei for a moment, Adrian said so.

Although she did n’t understand why the other party asked this question, Lin Xilei nodded honestly in the face of such a tycoon, and then wanted to justify, but Adrian grabbed her in front and continued, "I know it ’s Ling's problem, But you are not qualified as a broker. "

"I let you act as Ling's agent."

"If you have any contradictions, you can tell your boss directly, even Michael Ovits-I have ordered him-instead of arguing with the client."

"What I need is an agent who can take good care of Asian actors for the company."

"I have more important people who are going to hold you accountable if you meet my requirements."

"Don't let me down."