Mission Flow

Mission Flow Shenhao Chapter 155: Three Scripts

In 1984, Murdoch, a media giant and newspaper tycoon in Turkey and Australia, bought 20th Century Fox from Marvin Davis, turning 20th Century Fox, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, into a subsidiary of his own News Corporation.

Journalism made Merck more famous. Entering the entertainment industry will make Murkdo truly rich.

According to our Chinese understanding, this is a typical name-real conversion.

In the Western world, before the rise of social networking on the Internet, newspapers and television had great discourse power in the field of public opinion.

Note, this old man is Jewish. And Tuao has always been the younger brother of the United States, and is considered to belong to the Angsa branch by default. Otherwise, this person would not be able to build a so-called media empire in the Western world.

Hypothetically, if Cao Su wants to break into Onsa's public opinion system and try to control slightly larger TV stations, newspapers, and major Hollywood production companies, he will not be able to pass the test simply because of his identity. Will definitely be checked! This is known with the toes.

But mastering public opinion does not mean rich. It also requires transformation and the accumulation of wealth.

On June 28, 2013, under the pressure of investors, Murdoch split News Corporation, and the part that mainly develops the film and television business was established as 21st Century Fox, and the rest of the business was the new News Corporation.

At this time, 21st Century Fox's business included 20th Century Fox Films, Fox Television, regional sports stations, cable channels, and international properties.

After the split, the Murdoch family holds about 17% of the Hollywood giant 21st Century Fox.

For A shares, this shareholding ratio is too low. But for a listed company with a market value of tens of billions of dollars in the United States, this shareholding ratio is not too low. Some families hold 5% of the shares, but control the board of directors and management rights.

The Murkdo family firmly controls the giant ship Fox.

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The producer of 20th Century Fox who came to the door was called Jeremy Keppel. Its status in Fox's production department does not seem to be too high. Otherwise, he wouldn't come to "fool" Cao Su in person.

The meeting place was at the Cactus leased office in downtown Hollywood. This is an old building with 5 floors.

Cactus Company is located on the third floor. The office area is about 100 square meters. According to the original layout, there are office area, boss office, meeting room, and pantry.

The secretary at the front desk brings coffee in and then leaves.

Cao Su looked at the caucasian man in his fifties in front of him. He looked energetic and in good shape. He was about 1.75 meters tall. He had a conspicuous hooked nose and gray hair at the temples.

He brought three selected screenplays.

Two science fiction themes, one espionage theme. This spy theme obviously wants to rely on 007. But the protagonist is set as a woman, and it follows the way of Long Ge's comedy action movie.

Cao Su spent US$12 million working in the US stock market for a week. The market was closed for one day on Thanksgiving and two days on weekends. In four days of operation, he made a total of 85% of the profits in the US stock market.

Under the circuit breaker mechanism of the US stock market, the highest increase of the day was 30%, and the highest decrease was 20%. The level of expert-level stock trading is still very impressive, with a profit of 10.2 million US dollars. Moreover, US stocks are the operating mechanism of T+0.

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Buy anytime, sell anytime. Unless the stock is blown.

Of course, this stock trading skill is also limited. First, he cannot increase leverage. The explanation provided by the Xiaopo system is: increasing the leverage will amplify the greed and fear of human nature and reduce the success rate of skills.

Second, making money by speculating in stocks or not making money by speculating in futures!

Today is Wednesday, Cao Su withdrew 4.5 million US dollars from the stock market, and directly used [Project Detector] to scan the three scripts. One scan requires 10 million funds.

Seeing the Chinese man in front of him put down the script in his hand and waited for about half an hour, Jeremy Keppel explained aloud: "Mr. Cao,

Sci-fi films and comedies are favorites of North American fans, and they tend to hit the box office. So I picked out three plays like this..."

Cao Su put the script on the desk, picked up the coffee cup, and asked puzzledly: "Mr. Keppel, logically speaking, 20th Century Fox is one of the six major film companies in Hollywood. Since you are optimistic about these projects, Why do you still want to invest in me?"

A profitable business, why let others take a bite?

He always thought it was the Big Five. Currently, the six major movie giants dominate Hollywood: Fox, Disney, Universal, Warner, Sony-Columbia, and Paramount.

Jeremy Keppel said with a bitter smile: "Mr. Cao, there are two reasons. First, internal competition incentives. As one of the six giants in Hollywood, we have thousands of internal scripts every year. Competing for project funding. And Fox produces fewer than 20 movies a year at best.

Second, it involves a well-known secret in Hollywood.

In Hollywood's current industrial chain of production, distribution, and screening, Hollywood film giants are often only investors behind the actual production company, or only as film distributors.

The secret of Hollywood's six major monopolies is not to monopolize content production, but to monopolize distribution! This is the core of the whole game!

At that time, Spielberg's DreamWorks failed to become the eighth largest company in Hollywood because it did not master the distribution channels.

Therefore, the current Hollywood giants do not spend their energy on film production, but focus on the development of film themes, financing of film budgets, film distribution and marketing, and procurement of film works. "

Cao Su understood what Jeremy Keppel meant. Giants like Fox actually don't pay much attention to the production process. They are doing the financing for the film themselves. So it's normal to go outside to attract investment.

This was an eye-opener for Cao Su, the film giants didn't value film production. Can you imagine? No one had ever talked to him about these things before.

Cao Su took a sip of his coffee and pondered for a while, then asked: "Mr. Keppel, how can distribution be monopolized? Only cinema screens can monopolize?"

What is a monopoly? Master limited necessary resources.

Then there is the monopoly generating excess profits!

Therefore, the monopoly of the distribution link sounds incredible! From the perspective of the entire industrial chain of the film, it is the "screening" link that is really suitable for monopoly!

The movie theater is mine, and I can show whoever's movie I want. When there are sufficient film sources in the market, I only release my own films and those of my allies. This is a monopoly!

He read entertainment articles on the Internet, and the hegemony foundation of the entertainment empire of all the protagonists must be to control the theaters. From then on, it is no longer subject to people.

So, what's going on here?

Jeremy Keppel sat outside Cao Su's desk and explained: "Mr. Cao, this involves the history of Hollywood. If you don't mind, I will take some of your time to tell you about it."

Cao Su gestured for him to please speak.

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