King of Hollywood Chapter 263: Don’t let me down

Chapter 263 Don’t let me down

"The same thing happened a few decades ago, when televisions were replacing newspapers as the new media. Compared to paper media that needed to be bought on the street or sent to the home by newspaperboys, televisions were undoubtedly more convenient. It’s much more, as long as you open it, you can know the news that can be seen or not seen in various newspapers.” In the large office, Adrian said so to Claude.

"And before the advent of televisions, the spread of radio stations has gradually made newspapers adapt and self-adjust, and the development of the Internet is much faster than televisions, so the impact on traditional media will be very great, right? "Claude said with a smile, "You have said it many times, Ed."

Adrian shrugged its shoulders and continued unconsciously: "You and I all know that the advantage of the Internet is that the speed of transmission and the amount of information is much greater than that of traditional media, and the participants have gradually become ordinary people. The response will also be greater than traditional media, think about it, what if you can use a mobile phone to surf the Internet ten years later? If the mobile phone can take pictures, take high-definition photos or even videos, and then upload it to a dedicated website as soon as possible ?"

"Are you starting to prophesy again?" Crowder raised an eyebrow. "So you let me buy a and hold A?"

"Hmm...this..." Adrian suddenly showed a smirk, "Actually, a is needed. I think their Flash software is very promising, and I initially thought it was developed by A." "

"What?" Claude raised his eyebrows in surprise.

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

"Oh shit, I knew that I completely believed you were a mistake." Claude sighed with his eyes rolled.

"Hey, how can you talk like this, Crow, I can often tell you, my opinion is not necessarily completely correct, you have to have your own judgment," Adrian immediately rebutted, "You are just too blind Believe, yes, I admit I am wrong, but don’t you need to take some responsibility?"

"Are you showing off, Ed? Is that true?" Claude asked, narrowing his eyes and placing his hands across his face to watch him.

"Show off? Me?" Adrian "ha" laughed out loud, "If I want to show off, I will use this, not the company's business."

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

"This is?" Claude picked it up and looked at it. The overall blackness was mediocre, but the workmanship was still very delicate and elegant.

"Express Company learns from Citibank that the latest top-level credit card just launched, the Centurion Card, is more distinguished than the platinum card, and does not accept applications. Only banks actively invite to join." Adrian explained briefly.

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

"Unlimited credit line, or all-round assistant service," Adrian thought about it, "I just bought a Gulfstream with it, it's really good, maybe one day I accidentally forgot something on the train, such as For a car or something, you can also call them to inform the train station and put the things down at the next stop."

The credit card he brought out is naturally the legendary black card. Although he heard all kinds of rumors about the world’s top credit cards in his previous life, he only knew it when he got it. The so-called unlimited credit limit is nothing more It is based on the holder’s assets. If the overdraft is exceeded, the credit card will be recovered. As for a full range of services, this was originally a way for banks to attract customers. Besides, how many can be worth their invitation? Most have their own assistant team.

"Don't joke, when have you been on the train?" Claude said disdainfully.

This is because Adrian is either a car or a plane when you go out. American trains are considered to be the worst kind of transportation. After all, freight is far more profitable than passenger transportation, and most people prefer to travel by car.

"I’m just giving an example. If you think it’s not enough, I still have it here." Adrian said and took out a black card and handed it to Claude. "This is from Citibank. After the invitation, they immediately invited me, and the competition was really fierce."

"If I also buy a Boeing 747 as my car, they will also invite me." Claude shrugged and returned the two black cards to Adrian. "Okay, let's just continue with us. Let’s be frank, if it weren’t for the reduction of liquidity due to holding A, we would not compete with Bertelsmann in the ownership of Random House now.”

"Again, A may not be of much use to us now, but it will not be like this in the future." Adrian repeated the previous words again.

Okay, he has such a strong word that his shareholding of A is mainly for Flash software, but he doesn’t know much about this, so he didn’t realize that after the acquisition of A, the development of Flash software a has not been A. Acquisition, so it was transferred to a complete acquisition to control and to pull a into the group. However, A is not completely useless, their image processing software has always been the best in the industry, and in the Adrian plan, there are still many things about this part of the website.

This is an off-topic. Claude’s question about Langdon’s bookstore is the key. As one of the nine major publishing brands in the United States, Langdon’s bookhead is quite loud. Although the focus of the media is on film and television and On the Internet, but can not completely give up on the traditional paper media, especially its publishing company became famous because of the agent of the "Harry Potter" series, it is really unreasonable not to take this opportunity to expand.

But just last year, while the media took a look at Langdon Book House, the Bertelsmann Group also took a look at them. The two sides have fought several times around Langdon House. Berthasman has a history of more than 100 years, unlike Disney. So easy to deal with. In addition, Media just bought a and then controlled A. Crowder suffered a lot of losses in their hands. If they don't want to make a comeback, they can only sell Langdon.

"Procrastination, you know our plan, at most one year." Adrian said, "I have made Uncle Regget ready."

"I really don’t know where you came from with such confidence. Even my father can’t be 100% sure." Claude sighed. "It's not easy to delay a year. Bertelsmann is not. Disney."

Immediately, Adrian gave an unexpected answer: "It is not good, then give up, we are not without Langdon Bookstore, our future is on the Internet, and the success of "The Witch Blair" has been It fully illustrates this point. It may appear after seven or eight years. After a topic was reported by CNN, there has not been much response. It can be spread on the Internet but it can attract countless people to discuss."

"Oh?" Crowder raised his eyebrows, knowing that Adrian must have the following.

Sure enough, Adrian smiled and turned around: "What do you think of Houghton? How about Mifflin Publishing?"

"...I knew that you guy would have a big appetite." Claude smiled after a long while.

Horton Mifflin Publishing Company is one of the four major publishers in the United States. Its history of more than 100 years is comparable to that of Bertelsmann. Although the Langdon House is good, it is still not enough to compare with them. If you want to acquire such an old publishing company, you will either need huge capital or merge and reorganize. The latter is obviously not the choice of Adrian, then the former... if the plan goes well, maybe it is really possible.

"You do see very far, Ed, although you are always unclear in the details, but to say the vision plan, you are really a set." Claude said with emotion.

"Don't worry, Crow, everything is still unknown, let's do the things first." Adrian laughed.

"Witch Blair" continues to heat up, with the earliest evidence of those who watched the movie, the discussion on this matter on the Internet has become more heated, so the number of theaters showing has risen again and again, and the box office It also naturally rose. Of course, there are more and more accusations against Maryland state politics. Fortunately, at this time Bosworth has come out to refute the rumors.

The timing is very good. The state government has not completely lost patience, plus a lot of sponsorship-compared with the box office, it is just a ridiculous one-they did not care about it. And after the whole thing was announced, although some people felt fooled, more people were surprised. Just hype like this can make people believe that the whole thing is true, so more started Entered the cinema.

Although this has nothing to do with the secret promotion of the media under the media, there are also factors of the Americans themselves. As a joke says, want to make American money? Just underestimate their IQ as much as possible.

Finally, "The Witch Blair" has gained 270 million box office worldwide, and Bosworth’s hype has been included in the history of the film, becoming a content that every film company must study, but this is anyway. They are not comparable to those of the media companies that have been repeatedly emphasized by Adrian from the beginning.

Okay, it’s all afterwords, and now this small-cost movie is only starting to work hard, and Adrian is in the conference room to greet a crew who is going to start shooting.

"Everyone may be wondering why such a medium-investment movie would let me personally call you to talk. The reason is very simple. This game is an adaptation of the movie. The original novel was written by me and others." Sitting at the top of the long table, Adrian smiled while looking at the screenwriters, actors and directors in front of him.

Dennis Knight, the actor of the fourth survivor "Death" Hank, Leonard S. Kennedy's Ruifan Phoenix, Sarah Claire Redfield, Gilles Valentin Love and Lin Zhiling, who plays Ada Wang, are right. The movie version of "Resident Evil", which has been preparing for a long time, is finally going to be turned on.

Of course, apart from Dennis being the heroine, there are several other actors who play the characters of the game. Only Lin Zhiling’s Ada Wang has more parts. After all, from the beginning, the movie version has been established as a supplement to the game version. Development, and the position of being able to become an independent article. Although each game corner has played, there are not many plays. What will happen in the future will be waiting for the fans and game fans to feel the movie.

The same is true. Adrian only said to move Rui Fan to play the role of Lyon. He initially wanted Aniston to play Gil. The gimmick of the husband and wife was still very interesting. However, after agreeing to star in Claire, Sarah recommended her "Puppy" to appear in Jill. Adrian will naturally not refuse, so this plan can only be put on hold for a while, but it does not matter. There are opportunities in the future.

"I suddenly thought of a very good idea. You and the two of you would star in together. It must be interesting by then. But I have to wait a few more years for Jane to fix her image as an action star in the movie. "When the newly married Dennis and Aniston rushed back to Los Angeles from their honeymoon to prepare for the "Resident Evil" meeting, Adrian said to the husband and wife.

Aniston has caused quite a good response among the fans because of the policewoman in "Broken Arrow" and the female hacker in "The Matrix", whether it is the heroic image in "Broken Arrow" ​​or "The Matrix" The plot sacrificed by Tsinti and Neo in China was affirmed by the vast majority of fans after the quarrel, and many filmmakers began to consider her action image.

But the influence of "Friends" is huge. Rachel, who is naively cute and a little silly? Green is always easier to accept, so Aniston's action image is not stable. Although Adrian can take out the script, it is not the best time, so it is better to postpone it for a while.

The atmosphere in the conference room is very harmonious. Most people have heard for the first time that Director Miracle has co-authored novels with others. They have to ask a few words about this, and then the others are greeted.

"The novel was written about seven or eight years ago. At that time, many interesting ideas came out of my head inadvertently, so I often used pens to record those flashing things. Some ideas are very suitable for writing novels. "Resident Evil" is like this, inspired by "The Dawn of the Living Dead" to construct a completely different framework. But at that time there was always a lot of busy, only wrote the outline and some fragments, so simply let people co-write..." Adrian explained his motives while observing everyone silently.

Director Brook Hamel is very young about ten years old, and has directed several fairly medium-sized commercial films with medium investment. Among the several directors, Adrian feels that his style is closer to the game and his own ideas, so he chose he. At the moment, he is talking to two screenwriters, one of them is the company's contracted screenwriter and the other comes from the game department. They are very good at talking to each other, plus there is Adrian from time to time to mediate, and the script is still well written.

Dennis said a few words with Rui Fan from time to time. They had a collaboration in Finch's "Fight Club" last year, and they both have a close relationship with Adrian, and they can talk to each other. However, Adrian's attention is not on it. "Fight Club" will be released next month. He would like to know what Aniston thinks about Winona acting as a supporting actress.

On the other side, Sarah and Love have an intimate conversation, which seems to be similar to what the media said. The two are very good sisters, but Adrian can see the reluctance in Love’s smile. Sarah probably vented the dark side of her heart to Love, and made this woman obedient, even if she felt resentful, she would not dare to resist, otherwise Adrian would not secretly call Love "Sara's puppy" child".

Of course, this has nothing to do with Adrian’s red face next to it. The starring Love is coming soon, and Adrian also said that if she wants, the record company can release an album for her to test .

As for Lin Zhiling, she is still the first time to participate in such a meeting, basically no one knows, but her agent came along with her today, so she can say a few words instead of staying there and doing everything there. Nope. Her agent is also surnamed Lin, also from Taiwan. She came to Los Angeles with her family at the age of ten. She majored in economics and comparative literature at the University of California. After graduating, she looked for work and eventually entered the brokerage company for two months. After receiving and sending work, he was chosen by Adrian and served as Lin Zhiling's agent.

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

"Okay, let’s stop here today. You have already seen the script. I hope I can see a wonderful movie." It’s almost time to see it, and I’ve finished talking about it, everyone’s The state is also good, Adrian immediately got up and announced the end, of course, must whisper goodbye to the familiar people.

"Will you take Jane to watch "Fight Club", Dan?" This is to say to Dennis, the other side rolled his eyes helplessly, Rui Fan walking in front was smirking.

"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 pulled Lough away, not giving her the opportunity to please Adrian.

"Don't let me down, Ling." This is to Lin Zhiling, and in Chinese, she nodded immediately, even though it was in the conference room, the smile still seemed very charming.

However, to the surprise of many people, Adrian left Lin Xilei behind: "Wait a minute, Kelly."

This attracted a lot of attention. Lin Xilei as Lin Zhiling's agent~IndoMTL.com~ seems to have nothing to do with the producer. What do you want to stay? But these eyes are basically clear, so I did not mind, but Lin Zhiling, there is a little jealousy among the gods.

"I heard that you were a little unhappy with Ling before?" After seeing Lin Xilei a little upset, Adrian said so.

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

"I let you be Ling's agent."

"If there is any contradiction, you can tell your boss directly, even Michael Ovitz-I told him-instead of arguing with customers."

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

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

"Don’t let me down."