One Hundred and Sixty-Five-Do You Want to Become a Shareholder of Warner?

After two days of endless activities, the beautiful reporter finally managed to sunbathe by the swimming pool.

This woman was different from those Wayne had met before. She loved movies and her job, and she did not refuse to come to the manor to spend the night after get off work.

When Nina drove to the manor by herself again, at the boss's suggestion, Nina proposed to go shopping together to buy swimsuits. However, the results reported by her assistant after she came back made Wayne more interested in her.

It turned out that when faced with the black card from Wells Fargo Bank that Nina took out, Bella Grant did not give in. Instead, she checked out and bought a bikini. She didn’t even look at other bags and other luxury goods that were new in the season. .

It can be seen that this girl usually has no shortage of money to spend, but all she spends is what she earns from her work.

"Although "Joker" fell to second place at the box office this week, it has already won the first place at the North American box office for Wayne Greenberg. The film is still making difficult progress, and now the total box office has exceeded 3.1 100 million……"

"In Hollywood, which is heavily streamlined, Wayne Greenberg is like a dark hurricane, easily shattering all the rules of the summer market!"

Under the bright afternoon sun, Wayne was lying by the pool wearing beach shorts and a magazine covering his head. Two golden retrievers stuck out their tongues and put their heads on his lounge chair.

Covered in sunscreen, Bella Grant was wearing a black bikini, holding a copy of their own newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, and reading the entertainment section in a low voice.

"Would you like to see for yourself?" She suddenly turned her head and looked at Wayne, who was motionless. "It's full of compliments on your different ways! The Los Angeles Times is your friend."

"Bella!" The man's lazy voice sounded as he took off the magazine covering his face. "You didn't write these things, did you? There are many compliments. Are there any other voices?"

Wayne basically doesn't read media news these days, and he hasn't even opened Time Magazine, which has him on the cover. However, some controversies have always existed. Although there are not many, there have always been criticisms such as "madman playing with human nature" and "pervert among directors".

"Of course!" After changing a newspaper, Bella Grant burst into laughter. "There is gossip about me and you. The title is "Hollywood Film Reporter, Stripped Off in Front of Money", oh my god! They even wrote about the process of our sexual intercourse!"

"Hey, hey! You can tell the paparazzi at the gate of the manor that you didn't take a dollar from me!"

Covering his face with the magazine again, Wayne's voice continued through the magazine with a steady voice: "Want to go to a party? Warner Bros. has reserved the banquet hall of the Four Seasons Hotel."

"Joker's celebration party?" Bella Grant twitched the corners of her mouth, threw aside the gossip tabloid in her hand, and lay down. "I heard Warner Bros. made you a big cake! But are you sure you want to bring a reporter to the internal party?"

"As long as you don't report what's going on inside!" Wayne said.

"Forget it, I'm afraid I can't help but go back and write it out. It's better not to know!"

This woman thought she was a date, Wayne was sure of it. She never asked anything that she shouldn't ask these days, and she almost never took advantage of herself. There is only one possibility, she regards herself as a pure friend!

However, this relationship is very comfortable, and it feels like a love affair. Both parties are communicating on an equal footing, which Wayne has not experienced for a long time.

"Joker" has been in theaters for four weeks, and finally, after four working days, the box office exceeded US$310 million. The scale of overseas screenings is still expanding, and more remote areas have begun screenings.

As of today, the film has grossed over $450 million.

However, Wayne understands very well that this is the last single week for the film to have a high box office in North America, and the rest can only be worn out by the screen time.

"Sleepless in Seattle", which has been in theaters for more than a week, has also taken in about US$70 million at the box office. But like "Joker," this film's journey ends here.

This week Steven Spielberg is about to bring "Jurassic Park". This terrifying family-friendly masterpiece will once again break everyone's eyes and once again muddy the waters of the theater market in North America and even the world. Normally The same rules do not apply to this big dinosaur!

Almost all big investment and big productions have avoided the three-week schedule of this film, and no one is willing to try to beat Spielberg.

Yes, Hollywood movies have never been afraid of competition, but that doesn’t mean that production companies are willing to take money and throw it into the sea.

One day later, Wayne joined the crew members who had returned from overseas promotions and walked into the Four Seasons Hotel to attend a celebration party hosted by Warner Bros. If not for this party and what he wanted to talk about, he might have gone on vacation.

When everyone toasted for the first time, Jeff and Kevin pushed up a big cake together, with the number 314,000,000 written on it. This is the North American box office number of "Joker" so far.

"Jeff, Kevin." After cutting the cake, Wayne rejected Nicolas Cage's invitation and found two Warner executives. "Let's find a place to chat and tell you some plans in advance. I hope Warner can be prepared!"

CEO Kevin Tesuhara is full of joy. "Of course, I also have good news to tell you when I come here today."

Under the leadership of John, several people walked into a lounge of the hotel. After everyone sat down, Kevin Tetsuhara glanced at Nina behind Wayne and said:

"Wayne, what do you think of working with Warner Bros.?"

"Kevin, we are one!" Wayne shrugged his shoulders and opened his hands to show his sincerity. "I have been very happy working with Warner Bros. since the beginning, and I have never thought about changing producers."

Hearing this, the smile on Kevin Tetsuhara's face became even stronger, and he tapped the table lightly. "Remember what I told you a year ago? Warner Bros. will expand its stock financing in the near future. Wayne, I hope you can seriously consider it so that we can become truly our own people."

Suddenly Wayne remembered that the other party seemed to have mentioned it to him once when the "Joker" project had just been approved, but he didn't take it seriously at the time.

This is indeed an opportunity. Since the golden age of Hollywood18, there have been five major companies plus three small ones, a total of eight film companies. The difference between the five major companies and the three small ones is that the five major companies have their own cinema lines.

1 Later, due to market monopoly and other factors, the five major film companies were forced to separate their theater chains and sell them to third parties for operation.

Coupled with the rapid popularity of televisions, MGM and United Artists merged, and R&D withdrew from the market. Hollywood has since ushered in an era of six major divisions and competition.

The shares of the Big Six in Hollywood have always been priceless, and each company has a different relationship with its parent company. To this day, the only one that has never been acquired and has no parent company is Walt Disney.

But Disney's situation is quite special. It was forced to become an entertainment media group by the legendary manager Michael Eisner. When Robert Iger's smiling Mickey Mouse takes over, he will gradually evolve into the world's number one media group.

From an investment perspective, Warner Brothers undoubtedly ranks first among the remaining five. Unlike the other companies, Warner Bros. is the most important asset that makes up Time Warner Media Group.

If you control enough Warner Bros. shares, you can completely influence Time Warner's various policies. In addition to Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox was acquired by Murdoch's News Corporation.

Columbia Pictures was acquired by the original Sony, but it has been in a state of analgesia, and it is still in pain after more than ten years.

Paramount was just beaten over the head by Viacom this year with a money offensive. Barry Diller was succeeded by the legendary woman Shirley Lansing, who is slowly recovering.

Universal Pictures returned to the ranks of Hollywood's top companies in the 1970s, but it was also acquired by Cathcart and became part of a media group.

From this point of view, apart from Walt Disney, which is in the early stages of chaos, Warner Bros. is the most worthy film company to invest in, both in terms of its prospects in more than 20 years and its current development momentum.

After thinking about it, Wayne looked serious, looked at the head of Warner Brothers and said: "Of course I hope to invest in Warner Brothers, which will make our relationship more unbreakable. But I don't have much cash on hand. It takes time to raise funds! Also, regarding the box office split of "Joker"..."

This is the purpose of Kevin Tetsuhara and Jeff Robinov. As long as the other party is willing to invest in Warner Bros., it will completely tie themselves to Warner.

And Kevin Tetsuhara has his own purpose. In at most one year, he will step down as CEO of Warner Bros. and move to the parent company Time Warner to assume the position of president.

By then, if there is a natural person major shareholder who has a good relationship with himself as the new president, his work will be much easier to carry out.

"No problem!" Kevin Tesuhara and Jeff looked at each other, and then said: "This is not a trivial matter. You can let the lawyer and the board of directors talk first, and then determine the specific shares after the funds are almost raised. Share, this is also what the board of directors means!”

Speaking of this, he thought about it and said: "As for the box office share of "Joker", the theater company has just paid Warner Bros. the first share. You can ask your accountant to come to the company's financial department to do preliminary accounting at any time. "

Wayne understands, and that’s good enough! Normally. It would be very good if the film company can pay the director and actors a share of the box office in the second half of the film.