America’s Big Hero

The gutter oil extraction technology that Xiao En knows is all small workshops, which must be upgraded, but the technical content is not high. Xiao En plans to find a university to cooperate with the technical research commission.

He pays, the other party pays people, and of course the technology belongs to Sean.

The partner Sean has been found, New Jersey Institute of Technology!

Being in Newark, which was his old home, it was easy to find connections.

"Refining cooking oil from food waste?" Hearing Sean's request, the vice president of the Polytechnic University, Maltz Wiek, almost popped his eyes, his face was full of horror.

Just thinking about that image made him want to throw up, "No no no, this is disgusting, I can't do it!"

"How can this be called disgusting?" Sean said with a holy light on his face, "This is a great undertaking. We need a lot of land to cultivate to produce more edible oil. For this reason, we cut down Destroyed forests, destroyed grasslands, destroyed the living homes of countless animals, and left the earth devastated."

"And among them, a large amount of edible oil was wasted!"

"If we could recycle them, how much less food would be consumed each year?"

"How can this be disgusting, this is for the people, for the whole world, for the earth!"

"Isn't this noble enough!" In the setting sun, behind Xiao En standing by the window was a holy light, like an angel coming to the world!

These words left Maltz Wik dumbfounded, damn, words...

Can you still say that?

Just when Maltz Vik was hesitating, Sean continued: "I've already thought of the name of this oil, it's called 'blended oil'!"

"The advertisement is, blended oil: the raw materials include vegetable oil, animal oil, vitamins, rich in minerals and essential amino acids for the human body, with extremely rich nutritional value. After more than ten years of research and careful matching, the pursuit of precise nutrient combination and precise ratio is specially designed for XX European institutional design."

"It is healthier to eat oils, select eight kinds of vegetable oils, advocate a balanced intake of dietary fatty acids in a ratio of 1:1:1, and blend oils with a golden ratio, which is a good oil for balanced nutrition and science."

"Father loves sunflower oil, mother likes corn oil, son likes peanut oil, grandpa likes it, grandma likes it...how can I do this, blend oil, rich in 8 kinds of vegetable oil nutrition, advocate 1:1:1..."

"More blended oil, more nutrition, Sanlu blended oil."

"Where there is health, there is Shengyuan Blending Oil."

"Good nutrition, good quality, cradle blended oil."

"Mengniu blended oil is naturally nutritious."

"Okay, stop!" Maltz Vik held Sean's shoulder to stop him from continuing, "Okay, that's okay, we've accepted this cooperation project, it's really great."

"I knew it, you have contributed to the progress of human society." Sean said emotionally as he grabbed Maltz Vik's hand.

"Hehe, you don't have so many advertisements, I just believe it!" Maltz Vik rolled his eyes, "Damn it, I suddenly feel very worried about going out to eat!"

"No, how come, this thing must be exported to those underdeveloped countries." Sean laughed, he didn't dare to sell this thing in the United States.

He is also afraid of going out to eat this stuff...

Xiao En swears, whoever dares to use 'blended oil' to cook for himself, he will peel off the skin and throw it to press the oil!

After solving the problem of the production and development of the gutter... the blending oil, Sean proposed a cooperation intention for the metal recycling project.

"Extracting precious metals from waste circuit boards..." Maltz Vik said in a deep voice, "If the technology is not advanced enough, it will cause heavy metal pollution, which is very troublesome."

"You only need to consider the purification efficiency and cost, and you don't need to worry about pollution." Sean replied directly.

"No way." Maltz Vik looked at Sean in shock, "Environmental issues..."

"I will go to an underdeveloped country for refining together with the blended oil." Sean blinked his eyes, "Besides, recycling metals and reducing excavation is not environmentally friendly."

Heh, heh, Maltz Weik laughed dryly, the mouth of a capitalist, damn it, a liar.

"Technology, it all starts from scratch, and develops slowly from existence to refinement. There is an objective law of development." Maltz Wicker coughed lightly and gave a more grandiose explanation.

The two looked at each other, smiled and nodded.

The technology of waste disposal is extremely huge and cannot be accomplished overnight. Sean will establish a research institute to conduct research in this area in the future.

The road is coming out little by little. Currently, Sean is focusing on the two technologies of 'blend oil' and 'precious metal extraction'.

Others can only come slowly.

While Sean was busy building an industrial zone in Colombia and opening a metal refinery in India, John ran over and asked Sean to watch a movie.

Well, it's a film grown-ups watch.

The filming of "The Great Bank Robbery" has also ended.

However, the editing rights of those big companies belong to the company, and the director cannot participate. Sean's editing rights here also belong to John.

At present, the rough cut is completed, and the whole film is as long as 3 hours!

It will be trimmed to less than 2 hours later.

Not only Sean, but also the starring team watched the film. After watching it for three hours, Sean thought for a while and said: "The planning part can be edited a little faster to highlight the technical content of this robbery, especially the details." One or two things are enough, but the framework of the overall robbery plan must be there."

"After watching this movie, people have the ability to design a perfect robbery according to the framework."

After saying this, the viewing room suddenly fell into dead silence, and everyone stared blankly at Xiao En, always feeling that something was wrong.

"Ahem, don't get me wrong, I'm not teaching everyone how to rob, I'm just trying to highlight an authenticity." Sean explained dryly.

Oh, got it, you're teaching people to rob!

"Hahaha, Ba Ye's action design is very sharp, this movie must be popular all over the United States!" Xiao En coughed lightly to change the subject.

John followed this topic and praised Yuan Heping for a while.

"Okay, that's it, the issue of editing is still up to you. You shoot, and you want to know what you want to express most." Sean finally made a final decision: "Of course, there can be artistry, but commercial..."

"I understand. I used to be a director of commercials, but now I'm a director of commercial films." John said wittily.

"That's good!" Sean was very satisfied with John's answer.

"By the way, Norris, how are you doing with the release issue?" Sean looked at Norris and asked.

It is important to make a movie well, but a good distribution channel is even more important.

It's like no matter how good a product is, without a good sales channel, it won't sell much.

The distribution ability is the sales channel of the film.

At present, Sean Pictures does not have the ability to distribute and can only rely on external forces.

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Chapter 143:

Distribution ability: To put it bluntly, it is the sales ability of "products".

Not only does the film industry need distributors, but others such as 'TV dramas', 'games', 'stock listing underwriting', etc. all need good distribution capabilities.

Here is an example of a movie.

Every year, thousands of movies are shot in Hollywood, but there are a fixed number of theaters in the United States, and there are also a fixed number of screens.

In terms of time, there are morning shows, midnight shows, and prime time shows.

There are also holiday files, Christmas files... and other good times.

So how do you get more cinemas willing to show your movie?

After all, the profit of a movie theater lies in the number of people watching the movie.

This depends on the ability of the distributor. A good distributor can get better screening time and schedule, and allow more cinemas to show your movie.

Of course, if the quality of the film is not good after it is released, it is not the issue of the distributor to reduce the number of screenings in cinemas.

The opportunity is given to you, you are useless, no one else is to blame.

Therefore, the publisher needs to collect money, and it is divided according to the box office ratio.

The distributor needs to look at the subject matter and quality of the producer's film, the popularity of the producer, the director's popularity, the leading actor's popularity, the degree of market fit, and many other considerations to give a share ratio.

The more powerful the producer, the lower the share they want, and vice versa.

The so-called 55% account is a concept, and only the producer can get 50%, which is actually wrong.

The theater may only charge 50%, but the distributor will still charge 10-30%...

In many cases, the photographer can only get 20% or less.

Of course, the operability is very strong here.

Cough cough, for example, after the filming is completed, the theaters will be divided, the distribution will be divided, and the last remaining will be paid to the actors and other salaries. In the end, the investors will not get a penny.

The theater chain will return all the money, and the investors will get a 37% share...

Similarly, it can also be used to launder money.

"Of course the Bada has the best distribution ability, but their asking price is too high." Norris shrugged his shoulders, "Including advertisements, it will cost 30%, and besides, it will be a bit troublesome to pay from them, um , at least a year."

Sean frowned. He hated dealing with these dominant companies. He was too weak. After thinking about it, Sean signaled Norris to continue.

"Except for the Big Eight, the independent film distribution companies will belong to Miramax and New Line Films. We can find one of these two."

"New Line Film Company was established in 1967. It is an independent distribution company that distributes small-budget independent films, mainly horror films. Its distribution capacity is the best outside the Big Eight."

"Miramax was established in 1979, but the owners, the Weinstein brothers, have been in Hollywood for many years. They have participated in the distribution of many low-budget films, and their distribution capabilities are not bad."

"Large companies charge high fees, and checkout is slow. For Miramax and New Line, the fees are low, but sometimes they hide the box office." After Norris finished speaking, he looked at Sean, and it was up to the boss to decide how to choose.

"Weinstein, is there someone named Harvey Weinstein?" Sean asked suddenly.

"Yes, there is one, a short and fat man." Norris added after thinking for a while, "Jewish old pervert, he doesn't like to shave, he likes to use his beard to stab the women who are pressed on the bed by him...cough cough .”

Um?

Sean had a chilly look on his face, what the hell is wrong with this! ?

Played a lot so come up with new tricks?

"Forget it, I don't care if he's a pervert or a pervert, I'll just choose Miramax." Sean pointed to Norris and said, "We'll never get ahead with those big companies. Learn from Harvey, we can't find someone else to distribute forever, and my fucking money is not blown by the wind."

"Release!?" The corner of Norris's mouth twitched, which was a bit overwhelming.

"Use all your dirty tricks, Weinstein can't do all the work by himself, bribe, buy, shoot videos, eavesdrop, there are many ways you can think of." Sean pointed at Norris Cursed: "Be bolder."

"Boss, it's not that I'm timid. It's that Bada has been implementing a monopoly strategy on distribution. These two companies only survive by picking up some things that Bada despises." Norris said with a wry smile: "They won't allow someone Those who have mastered the distribution ability, once someone wants to take the lead, they will unite to put pressure on the theaters."

"Press, how to put pressure, in New Jersey, which theater dares not give me face?" Sean snorted, "Bada, shit, others are afraid of them, but I am not afraid of them!"

"Okay." Norris said that Alexander had nothing to do. He would listen to the boss's words, and he would listen to them if he didn't.

However, Norris is not confident at all. The boss is not afraid that Bada is true. Except for movies, other industries have nothing to do with Hollywood.

In this way, your own life safety is still guaranteed.

The matter was settled and Norris went to do it, but Sean considered a new problem.

The right to speak of public opinion!

Hollywood can influence the whole world. They can distort history and distort public opinion through movies, map some industries or companies through movies, and even discredit a country or a race!

Having mastered one of the fastest dissemination channels of movies, these guys really have a great say.

He who comes from the future knows the importance of the high ground of public opinion too well, and it is time for him to take some action in this regard.

Television, radio, newspapers...

A few days later, Norris reached an agreement with Miramax, and Sean Pictures retained distribution rights in the video market for itself.

Norris had his own distribution channel for videotapes when he laundered money for drug dealers.

After the distribution agreement is finalized, the issue of advertising promotion will be involved. The amount invested in advertising will directly affect the attendance rate in the first week.

The box office share of North American movies is complicated, and for production companies, the first week's box office is very important.

To this end, after several negotiations, Sean agreed to spend another $1.2 million on advertising.

However, Sean was not very satisfied when the money came out.

Miramax promised to get the summer file, but the summer file has "Back to the Future", "First Blood 2", "The Goonies", "Witness", "007 Deadly Thunder", "The Breakfast Club", "Mad Max" '...

Looking at the names of these movies, Sean felt that his "Bank Robbery" was going to be cool.

No matter whether it is the director, actor, producer, distributor, including advertising costs, they have completely crushed their own "The Bank Heist". How the hell can it get a good box office! ?

There is no miracle, Sean himself does not believe that he can break through the encirclement.

Moreover, even if word-of-mouth is really popular, I will not get any money when it is screened in the next few weeks.

The box office split is 1:9 in the first week, 5:5 in the fourth week, and lower thereafter.

Therefore, it is necessary to come up with some extraordinary means.

For example... to reflect reality before the movie is released?

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Chapter 144:

After thinking about it, Sean felt that his plan was quite creative.

Of course, Sean would not do this unless it was absolutely necessary, so he was prepared.

After all, he's not a bad guy either.

He won't do anything unless he is forced to.

At noon, Lamb rushed over from New York, and Sean was going to take stock of the funds on hand.

"What?" Sean looked at Lamb incredulously, "Just over 20 million in cash? How could it be so little?"

Lamb took a sip of coffee and almost spit it out, but he swallowed it down and coughed.

What is more than 20 million cash so little?

"No, I cut more than 60 million before and after the stock market, why is it gone?" Sean's face was ugly, he also wanted to buy a TV station, so there is no money left.

"Boss, you bought the shares of Greg Chemical Factory, and you spent more than 40 million." Lamb rubbed his brows and said.

Sean blinked like...yeah.

"Damn it, the investment is too big, and I don't know when it will take effect!" Sean said cursingly: "Why don't you give me dozens of times the money, I will definitely skin Greg!"

"I want to set up a media company and acquire a TV station." Sean explained his plan to call Lamb over.

Lamb frowned tightly, looking at Sean helplessly.

"Say what you think." Sean gestured.

"Boss, according to my experience, you are now involved in too many industries, and they are very messy." Lamb organized his language and said: "Fitness, transportation, building materials, security, daily chemicals, environmental protection, movies, seven There are too many categories, and the industry span is too large. When resources cannot be integrated, the potential of various industries has not been developed.”

"Now you are going to get involved in the media industry, this..." Lamb spread his hands, "You must have a specific plan. In this, the subsequent development of any industry requires a lot of investment in capital, personnel, and technology."

"Although diversification is a better way to resist risks, it is not a good choice to expand indefinitely. Sir, you should think carefully."

When Lamb said this, Sean also frowned a little. He was a counterfeit wine maker in his previous life, and his business experience was not as much as in this life. It is not an exaggeration to say that he crossed the river by feeling the stones.

combine?

It's hard!

"Choose, sir, you always have to make a choice, which industry should you focus on developing?"

"I want them all!" Sean thought for a long time, then raised his head and said.

"It will take some time for the fitness club to settle down after this expansion, and it will definitely continue to expand in the future. The next strategy targets are New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington." Sean said, pointing his fingers.

"Transportation and building materials are closely related to the same category. It will not continue to expand after taking root in New Jersey. At most, it will extend a few tentacles to open up large transportation routes around it."

"Security companies will definitely expand. The next step is New York and abroad. This is the foundation, although it only loses money and does not make money."

Lamb nodded, and he could see this too. If Sean hadn't held such a violent organization in his hands, he would have been overturned long ago.

"Daily chemicals and environmental protection, these two are considered heavy asset investments, and the development is step by step, and it will not be fast if you think about it." Xiao En shook his head after thinking about it, whether it was the idea of ​​an industrial base in Columbia or the "precious metal refining" by the third brother. ', don't even think about it for more than half a year.

"In terms of movies, they can actually be classified into the media industry, and they don't conflict with TV channels, right?"

In this way, the health club is already a mature new system, and there is no need to intervene too much. As long as you break the local protection, you can let it go.

Transportation and building materials are New Jersey veins that will not continue to grow.

Chemical environmental protection, long-term planning, not in a hurry.

The media industry is what I need to worry about most at present.

Moreover, the media is the key to controlling the right to speak in the future.

The core of the future will be the media industry and security companies.

"I have decided that the focus of the future will be shifted to the media industry, which is imperative." Xiao En said.

"Okay then." Lamb sighed secretly, and after sorting out his mood, he said: "According to the laws of the United States, any media company cannot own TV and radio, TV and newspapers at the same time in a local market. A media company You can't have two top-rated TV stations in one city at the same time."

"This is to limit the complete occupation of the public opinion channel by a certain company. So, boss, which industry do you choose to start from?"

"Radio station, small investment, quick results."

"Newspapers, medium-sized investments, acquisitions and integrations will soon pay off in terms of coverage. However, newspapers such as the New York Daily and Washington Weekly are in a leading position and it is difficult to break through."

"The TV station has a large investment, but the effect is unknown. Things like ratings are completely unpredictable, and it all depends on the team."

"Bullshit legal regulations, let the legal regulations go to hell!" Sean pouted, "I choose to have them all, just set up a few vest companies."

Sean called Jonas over, and said as soon as they met: "Go back and set up a company and start a radio station."

"Ah!?" Jonas was taken aback for a moment, what is this all about?

I'm a mafia family, running a radio station?

"Ah what, you are black, I said brother, look at the current radio stations, nine out of ten are run by black people, don't you listen to the radio stations?"

"Listen, listen!" Jonas found a place to sit down, shaking his fingers and said with some satisfaction: "Engage in the radio station, hey, you white people can't do it, that's the world of our black people."

This can also be regarded as a racial skill, the black mouth can really speak.

He is nagging, he speaks very fast, but he can still hear you clearly, and rap comes as soon as he opens his mouth.

In terms of musical talent, dancing talent, and athletic talent, black people are indeed unique, and black music has always guided popular culture.

This, whether you think highly of black people or not, is something you have to admit.

"There are radio stations in every city in New Jersey, big and small, and there are several in Newark. They all have some status in the rap industry and have some influence in the entire black community." Speaking of this, Jonah Si suddenly got excited, "Let me tell you, Sean..."

"Okay, okay, you don't need to say so much, set up one or two radio stations, and then buy all the black radio stations in cities including Newark and Jersey City."

"If it is formed into a large-scale radio station, there may be a large-scale radio station covering the entire New Jersey. I want to monopolize it."

"No, no, no." Jonas waved his hand, "Boss, I think you really don't understand radio stations. Let me tell you, it's impossible to buy them all."

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Chapter 145:

Jonas gave Sean a good talk about black radio stations.

Most of the hosts of the black radio stations were singers, but they didn't enter any labels, and they were only famous in the circle.

They will also release records, but they are all underground records.

Because black music contains a lot of diss elements, this has caused many singers to have enmity, and most of the radio stations in various places are stationed on local singers, and they will attack each other.

Of course, it is precisely because of these grievances and legends that another color has been cast on many underground singers, and their fame has also been enhanced.

In addition, most black radio stations are strongly regional, and people from other places will not listen to them at all.

After listening to Jonas, Sean pondered for a while and said: "Then set up a few more stations, three, four, divide them into different camps, and merge these small stations separately, so as to open up different channels for those guys. Let them use the radio to argue and diss in the upper and lower time slots, it will be no problem."

"Uh... isn't this too wasteful?" Jonas asked hesitantly.

"No." Sean shook his head and said, "You bring the company to Newark, three or four, all in the same building, upstairs and downstairs, most of the equipment is shared."

"Then, maybe there will be a fight." Jonas twitched the corner of his mouth, and he could imagine a group of people with a grudge taking the elevator together.

"Wouldn't that be better!" Sean spread his hands, "There are more legends and stories to tell. The three companies are fighting head-on, fighting each other endlessly."

"You are the boss, you can control this speed and it's OK. As long as you don't use guns or knives, you can fight with them as you like, and you can open a ring for them."

Jonas stared at the boss, and wanted to say that this idea was too hellish, but why did he find it interesting?

The two rappers dissed each other for a long time, and finally decided to go to the ring to have a showdown. I'm afraid not many people want to see it...

"Okay, I'll do it." Jonas left excitedly.

"Okay, I got it." Lamb knew what to do without Sean's instructions, "The target is the information of the public TV station or the cable TV station."

"What's the difference?" admits Sean, who rarely watches TV.

"Public TV stations are satellite signal TV stations. They are all free of charge. The coverage area depends on the number of signal base stations you have. However, because they are aimed at the general public, they have strict requirements on the content, pornography and the like. The main source of income is advertising fees." Lamb began to explain the difference.

"Cable TVs are pay TV stations, and the main source of income is user subscriptions, and advertising costs only account for a small part. After all, users don't spend money to watch advertisements."

"How to solve the wiring? Let's install it ourselves?" Sean didn't understand.

"How is it possible, which TV station can afford this kind of cost." Lamb shook his head and said: "There are special cable TV service providers, and they have cables directly connected to users. The TV station only needs to reach an agreement with the service provider and rent their lines. Can."

"The Dolan family is the New York Knicks you asked about last time. Their family is a cable TV service provider, and there are many TV stations that lease their lines."

"Oh oh oh." Sean nodded to indicate the famous watch. The service providers are China Telecom and China Unicom that provide broadband Internet access. It is up to the user to choose which TV programs to buy.

"Cable TV, of course it's cable TV." All kinds of variety shows, talent shows, and TV dramas, it's not a loss if you don't set up pay TV stations.

"Well, I'll keep an eye on that," said Lamb, closing his notebook.

"Well, that's it." Sean nodded, these things don't happen overnight, they have to be done slowly.

Just a few days after it was quiet here, Sean received bad news from Norris. Harvey Weinstein privately hinted to him that he might not get a good film schedule in the summer schedule.

Unless you continue to increase advertising costs.

"Mommy Falk, let him eat my 1.2 million?" Sean's face suddenly became extremely ugly, 1.2 million, he doesn't care too much, the problem is, he feels that this fat pig is killing him!

"Advertising fees are very empty. Just put billboards in major theaters, and there is a lot of room for manipulation, so there is no way to calculate it clearly, and the Eighth University can't do it." Norris explained.

Closed industries are like this, very black.

"Damn it." Sean scolded, he couldn't think of a good solution for this matter for a while, the channel was in the hands of the other party, so he couldn't call the door and put a gun to his head.

Besides, how do you know if the other party really puts their best efforts after agreeing?

The theater chain is not controlled by the other party, and there are still eight major pressures on it. There are too many reasons.

Gritting his teeth, Sean thought for a while and said, "You try to inquire about their contact channels, and then go for a run yourself."

"It's useless, and the problem of film scheduling rate is not something that theaters can control by themselves."

"Then go too!" Sean cursed and hung up the phone.

He didn't feel relieved after hanging up the phone. After thinking about it, he called Armstrong over and told him to collect some information about the banks in New York recently.

In the future, X security will definitely enter New York.

After explaining these things, Sean took a plane and headed straight to Los Angeles.

It's been a long time since I saw Diane Lane. After spending time with this level of beauties, Sean no longer looks down on ordinary women.

"Sean." As soon as they met, Diane Lane threw herself into Sean's arms.

After a deep kiss at the airport, Xiao En and his group got in the car and left.

"Why do you suddenly want to come to Los Angeles?" Diane Lane asked while leaning against Sean's arms in the car.

"I look like you, I haven't seen you for a long time." Sean stretched out his hand and scratched Diane's nose.

Diane giggled, and she believed Sean when he told him.

She doesn't care about anything else.

When they arrived at Sean's villa in Hollywood, Sean dragged Diane directly into it.

haven't seen you for a long time.

Bill charged people to do other things.

...

"Found someone, head."

"Okay, where is it?"

"In West Hollywood, Santa Monica Street, Macy's."

"Keep an eye on him, we're coming over."

Bill hung up the phone, and the three of them got in the car and drove straight to West Hollywood.

Twenty minutes later...

"Look, it's that fat man." The subordinates pointed towards the third floor not far away.

Looking along his fingers, a woman in a red skirt appeared in front of Bill's eyes, with mixed race and fat buttocks.

Especially the waist is very thin, which makes the butt look bigger.

"Head, although I know that woman is very good-looking, but I'm talking about the fat man next to her." The subordinate had to remind Bill.

"Oh, oh, I see." Bill coughed lightly.

"When will you do it?"

"Get out of the mall and do it."

"People... a bit too much!"

"It doesn't matter." Bill shrugged.