Heads Up Hollywood

September 24th, a new week.

Two weeks have passed since the "911 Incident". As expected, the federal government has introduced various policies to deal with the crisis.

The stock market also experienced an abnormal rebound as Dun En predicted.

Even Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway's stock price has skyrocketed.

You know, this is a company that focuses on insurance business!

It can be seen that the wolves of Wall Street are manipulating the stock market, trying to take advantage of this wave of terrorist attacks, play tricks on retail investors in the stock market, and cut off the wave of leeks.

After a busy weekend in New York, Dunn finally returned to Los Angeles.

The second episode of "Band of Brothers" finally finished playing last night. The ratings... It's not as sensational as the first episode, but overall, it's satisfactory.

The average viewership of 10.79 million is definitely a satisfactory figure when the cloud of "911" has not yet been resolved.

It's just that the growth of subscribers has slowed down. So far, the total number of subscribers is less than 11 million, which is far behind the peak of HBO's subscription of more than 15 million in the previous life.

"Twain, Director Cameron is here."

"welcome!"

When he was in New York, Twain had already made an appointment. When he returned to Los Angeles, there would be two or three people behind him first: James Cameron and George Paxton.

Cameron is proactive.

In the past week, "Unsinkable" once again won the North American weekly box office champion after three months!

North American box office, as high as 32.16 million US dollars!

The fundamental reason, of course, is that Tang En Pictures donated 50 million US dollars of box office for free.

So far, the North American box office of "Unsinkable" is about to break through the $500 million mark, and the global box office has reached $970 million.

It can be said that James Cameron will become the second director with a box office of 1 billion dollars after Tang En, without a doubt!

"Twain!"

As soon as they met, Cameron was a little moved, and came up to give Tang En a big hug.

Tang En pushed him and said with a smile: "I heard you bought a submarine? Are you really going to explore the sea?"

Cameron waved his hand, did not answer the topic, and said with emotion, "Tang En, thank you."

"It's not necessary. This will help enhance the brand image of Tang En Pictures." Tang En responded casually, with a nonchalant expression.

Cameron said: "Anyway, you helped me this time."

Tang En quickly wrote a note, and then called the secretary, "Give it to the Finance Department, and handle it immediately."

Then he turned around and said to Cameron: "Compared to the profits that "Unsinkable" brought to Tang En Pictures, the money I spent is just a drop in the bucket."

According to preliminary estimates, the total box office share of "Unsinkable" will be 450 million US dollars. After deducting 10% of Universal Pictures' promotional share of 100 million US dollars, and deducting 10% of Cameron's box office share of 100 million US dollars, Tang En Pictures will also $250 million was recorded.

After deducting the cost of "Unsinkable" of 200 million U.S. dollars, the surplus of 50 million U.S. dollars just happened to be donated to buy the box office.

The movie failed to make a profit at the box office, which was unprecedented for Tang En Pictures.

But look around Hollywood, it's so normal!

There are more than 300 movies released in the United States every year, and no more than 10 movies can make a profit through the box office market!

Peripherals are the key to making a movie profitable!

Especially the sales of TV copyrights, videotapes, and DVD discs such as "Spider-Man". Through these two markets, Tang En Pictures got back 420 million US dollars in revenue!

Among them, video tapes and CDs earned US$250 million; North American TV earned US$68 million; overseas TV earned US$82.6 million.

Even if the influence of "Unsinkable" is not as good as "Spider-Man", but the $300 million merchandise can always be found, right?

The peripheral income in the next two years will be the real profit margin of "Unsinkable".

For example, last year's action blockbuster "Mission: Impossible 2", the box office market was not enough for Paramount to pay back, and Tom Cruise's remuneration was too high!

However, the film's return on profit still surpassed the comedy "100% Man", which has already made a profit through the box office, and was Paramount's most profitable film last year.

The main reason is that the surrounding market of action blockbusters is better than comedy films.

In this golden age of DVD discs, it should not be too simple for a hot Hollywood blockbuster to earn 100 to 200 million US dollars worldwide.

Soon, Isla Fisher was back at the office with a check, her hands shaking because of the huge amount on it.

Tang En smiled and glared at her, then took the check and handed it over to Cameron, "James, this is your second dividend, $50 million."

"this……"

Cameron stretched out his hand, then took it back.

Of course he wants to pick it up, who doesn't like money? This is the remuneration stipulated in the contract.

But he hesitated again. He knew that Tang En's box office donation of 50 million US dollars was not just to comfort the victims of terrorist attacks.

Tang En smiled and said: "Take it, you should know, I am not short of this money. In the summer, I will short the stock market, have you forgotten?"

"Oh well."

Cameron bit the bullet and took the check with an embarrassing and unnatural expression.

Tang En couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

The whole world knows that it is easy to get money from Hollywood, and movies are a high-return industry.

However, compared to Wall Street, making money in Hollywood... is really hard work!

Cameron felt guilty for taking the $50 million.

But what about Wall Street?

The current New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have completely become the masters of Wall Street wolves. The flow of funds there is more than hundreds of billions?

They are grandiosely making a fortune for the country!

...

"How's the investigation going?"

In the afternoon, Tang En's office welcomed a new guest, George Paxton.

George Paxton was instructed by Tang En to lead a team to secretly investigate the sexual assault scandal in American sports.

"very bad!"

Hearing Tang En's inquiry, George Paxton's face was gloomy.

"Is it blocked?" Tang En frowned, "If the opponent is too powerful, then stop it, safety is important."

George Paxton shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "I mean the content of the investigation... is not optimistic. As for the other party's threat... Heh, even if I lose my life, I will definitely carry out the investigation Go down, those beasts, if they are not brought to justice, I will have trouble sleeping and eating!"

Hearing these words, Tang En knew it in his heart.

It seems that the investigation has already made progress, and... shocking!

I heard George Paxton say in a deep voice: "There is a girl named Alice who is learning gymnastics. Her parents are farmers in Pennsylvania. When she was training, she was abused by the team doctor. She went home and told her parents As a result, after communicating with the team doctor, her parents believed the team doctor's words, thinking that the girl was lying..."

Tang En waved his hand, not wanting to hear any more.

People's hearts are fleshy, and he worried that if he heard too many stories like this, he would not be able to bear it, he would become furious, and he would roll up his sleeves and do it.

A huge scandal in the sports world has too much influence, so it should be treated with caution.

And Tang En still plays a key role in this, which is related to his layout in Hollywood.

Never expose in advance.

"It's not about me calling you back. I'm planning to build a house. Didn't you find a good location?"

Tang En's current funds are too abundant.

Tang En Capital has available funds of 9 billion US dollars, and will allocate 500 million US dollars to the "Swift Venture Capital Fund", and 7.5 billion US dollars will be reserved for Tang En Pictures for future large-scale mergers and acquisitions.

There is still 1 billion US dollars to meet Tang En's personal life and daily expenses.

He has already placed an order with Boeing, and will spend 250 million US dollars to order and refit a Boeing 747 luxury private jet.

His current Gulfstream V is too small to have a bedroom. Domestic short-distance flights are okay, convenient and fast, but international flights take too long, so a large plane is more suitable.

Bill Gates owns two private jets, the Bombardier Global Express and the Boeing 757.

Now that there are big yachts and big planes, it's time to spend huge sums of money to build a truly top-notch luxury manor!

Looking across the United States, the top private manors built by individuals are Bill Gates' futuristic technology-based manor, and Larry Ellison's Japanese-style palace manor is under construction.

The former cost $120 million in the early 1990s. The latter cost $210 million.

Tang En is also welcome, he plans to spend 250 million US dollars to build the most luxurious top-level manor in the United States!

The location, of course, can't be Beverly Hills, the area here is too small.

Fortunately, the top rich area in Los Angeles is far more than Beverly Hills.

From north to south, they are basically built along the coastline, with a super invincible view of the sea, similar to Long Island, New York, namely: Malibu, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Palosford , The Rolling Hills, Santa Monica, Newport and Laguna Beach.

George Paxton said: "It was decided last year. The land price is 12 million US dollars, covering an area of ​​more than 500 acres, which is 20 times the area of ​​Larison Manor. This is California. Even if you have money, it is difficult to buy a cover." Mr. Ci so much land."

Tang En pouted.

The land alone costs 12 million US dollars, and the land in California's rich area is on the same level as New York.

"Place?"

"Paloxford." George Paxton paused and added, "Paloxford has three areas, the peninsula area, the manor area and the ranch area. This piece of land is located in the manor area, with west and south It is close to the sea in two directions, with a wide enough view, and there is a port large enough to park oil tankers."

Tang En nodded, "Okay, let's go and have a look in a while. Has the designer been in touch?"

George Paxton said: "Yes, it is the team of the famous designer Mr. Richard Meyer. Many Hollywood bigwigs have cooperated with him, such as the Smith mansion, the Hoffman mansion, and the Douglas mansion. Last year, The U.S. Federal Courthouse he designed was officially completed."

"The name is not small, and he even designed a mansion for Kirk Douglas, which is interesting." The corner of Tang En's mouth curled up, "Okay, I will meet him when I have time."

One designer may not be enough.

This time, he will spend a lot of money to turn his mansion into a landmark building in Palosford, and even the entire Los Angeles!