Shenhao who plays around the world

Chapter 222 Who doesn’t love Hollywood?

Netflix executives were relieved to see Lionsgate resist the temptation.

Lionsgate has always been regarded as a taboo by them, so how could they be willing to let others focus on this piece of fat?

After such an incident, Netflix CEO Hastings did not dare to sit still and wait for death. He quickly signed an exclusive licensing contract with Lions Gate Pictures and had the first right to acquire Lions Gate Pictures' production business.

This decision made by Hastings was later regarded as the key reason why Netflix fell from the altar.

But at the moment, Netflix still receives praise from the market, and its stock price has risen slightly, which shows that the outside world praises Netflix's action.

Previously, due to the ceding of film scheduling ratios, Disney and other five major companies were inevitably a little unhappy.

At this time, the big five all watched the show.

Netflix is ​​an established streaming media company with a peak market capitalization of over US$300 billion.

Now it has a market value of about 150 billion U.S. dollars and a global paying user base of 200 million+, making it the well-deserved leader in the streaming media field.

Disney+, launched by Disney, is just trying to catch up.

Giving up on acquiring Lionsgate Pictures does not mean that Lin Shen will give up on entering the global streaming media market.

It is undeniable that Yingjiang's talents in this area have always been among the top in the world.

Companies like Lionsgate, backed by Netflix, are indeed not easy to acquire.

However, it is impossible for small and medium-sized independent production companies to resist the acquisition price offered by Guanhai Group.

Under Lin Shen's instruction, Guanhai Group's acquisition team quickly secured the board of directors of Lantern Entertainment and completed the wholly-owned acquisition.

Compared with Lionsgate Pictures, Lantern Entertainment’s price is too cheap, only US$500 million.

Lantern Entertainment may be unfamiliar to many people.

But when it comes to its predecessor, Weinstein Pictures, many people will suddenly realize it.

The Weinstein Films was founded by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein.

The former is the founder of the Hollywood Red Sofa Rule, and is touted as the ‘Hollywood PR God’ by many Hollywood movie queens, including his eldest cousin and Aunt May.

Although this man gained notoriety in his later years and even ended up in jail.

It is undeniable that this man who has dominated Hollywood for 30 years is indeed extremely powerful in Hollywood.

After the Weinstein Films went bankrupt, it was bought by a private equity company and renamed Lantern Entertainment.

Without Harvey Weinstein as its soul, the company has been half-dead, barely surviving on some of the copyrights it accumulated earlier.

Upon learning that a Chinese consortium was interested, this equity company did not hesitate at all and directly cashed out US$500 million and left the market.

The transaction was carried out in a low-key manner, and it was not until the two parties officially announced the acquisition that it caused an uproar.

After the senior management team dispatched by Lin Shen took over Lantern Entertainment, they quickly changed its name to Dimension Pictures, a subsidiary of the previous Weinstein Films.

Just the name alone is more impressive than the likes of Weinstein and Lantern.

The core executives of the brand new Dimension Pictures are all domestic elites.

Disney and other giants were also a little helpless. Unexpectedly, they still took advantage of the loopholes of the Chinese consortium.

Dimension Pictures has as much as US$5 billion in funds in its account.

This is in addition to the capital injection from the acquisition.

Generally, the production budget of a medium-cost film is around US$80 million.

The liquidity that Lin Shen injected into Dimension Pictures is enough to shoot 60 movies!

With a small budget, hundreds of films can be shot.

What Disney can do is restrict the flow of industry elite talents to Dimension Pictures.

Similarly, when they retain talents, labor costs also increase a lot.

The so-called talents refer to producers, starring actors, and directors.

Especially the director is the most important.

Of course, Disney and others don’t dare to be too obvious.

After all, AMC Group, which controls the largest theater chain in the United States, is not just a freeloader.

If they really play like this, they won't get any advantage.

As for talent?

As early as the cumulative consumption amount exceeded 200 billion, Lin Shen received the second phase of rewards issued by the system.

[Hollywood Gift Pack]: Includes two of the world's top special effects production companies and animation production companies, any 5 director template cards, and any 5 actor template cards.

As we all know, what is worse in China than in Hollywood is the special effects.

The special effects in many domestic blockbusters are simply unwatchable.

On the one hand, Hollywood has always been at the forefront of the industry.

Many special effects techniques in China are learned from Hollywood.

One can imagine how far behind the technology will be.

Many key core technologies have to be entrusted to Hollywood for production, and domestic special effects production companies can only do it.

Now that we have our own special effects production company, the super blockbusters we produce will naturally not make people frown when they see them.

The animation production company’s ability to make money is not weak at all.

Disney owns Pixar Animation, which contributes staggering profits to Disney.

According to the system description, the production level and number of talents of these two companies are among the top in the world.

In other words, the animation department will be stronger than Pixar.

The level of special effects will also be far behind Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital.

As for the template cards for selecting any 5 directors, it is also very interesting.

Select 5 people at random, and the system will automatically implant directing abilities at the level of Kagome, Spielberg, and Nolan into them.

Any director of this level is considered a strategic talent for the Big Five.

Lin Shen, on the other hand, can create 5 of them casually.

The same principle applies to selecting any 5 actor template cards.

This wave of rewards was also a surprise to Lin Shen.

If Dimensions Pictures had big names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson, and Will Smith, as well as Cards, Spielberg, and Nolan sitting in

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If this doesn't make Wu Da kneel down and call him daddy, then he loses!

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Lin Shen arrived in Los Angeles in a very low-key manner, without his beloved wife and beautiful family members.

Culver City is a small city located under Los Angeles. It is the size of a small town in China and is home to famous Hollywood film companies.

MGM, Sony's Columbia Pictures, Apple, Amazon Studios, and Tik Tok.

With so many companies in the film and television industry here, it has naturally become one of the holy places for many boys and girls with dreams of becoming stars.

Dimension Pictures rented a building here as a temporary headquarters.

With a boss like Lin Shen who is not short of money, the land for the new headquarters has been purchased, and construction can begin quickly as soon as the designer provides specific design drawings.

It is not a secret in Hollywood that Dimension Pictures recruits actors, actresses and directors.

With 5 billion US dollars in hand, countless film and television practitioners are salivating.

There is no real money or money in any dream.

They become celebrities just to make money.

In the early days, Netflix relied on spending a lot of money to make a lot of directors and actors defect to Netflix with smiles.

It's true that Lin Shen is rich, but he won't throw away money so mindlessly.

The CEO of Dimensions Pictures is Song Kun, the former CEO of Lemon Video.

Song Kun has been working for Lin Shen for almost ten years, and he is the only one who has made the breakthrough from an outstanding employee to a perfect employee.

Lin Shen was also quite generous to Song Kun.

Annual salary of 20 million US dollars!

Among professional managers, it is considered a ceiling-level income.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Song Kun didn't dare to be careless in a fight with a powerful giant like the Five.

This interview was even more hands-on.

As for male actors, Lin Shen had no other requirements, at least three of them should be handsome.

There are 2 left, look for Dwayne Johnson and Will Smith.

As for actresses, Lin Shen is not considering it for the time being.

Actresses in Hollywood are worthless. Compared with the salaries of male actors, the status of actresses has always been embarrassing and they cannot afford the box office.

Many times, it can only serve as a vase.

But there are a lot of gorgeous actresses in Hollywood.

The precious template cards must be used wisely.

The early auditions have already ended.

After Lin Shen came over, he only conducted a second round of interviews for the selected actors.

The signing fee alone is US$1 million.

This was no less than a huge temptation for young actors and directors who were still cash-strapped at this time.

At this moment, nothing about Disney is in their consideration.

"This is so-so."

"This is okay, let's have another look."

"This is good, you can consider it."

We interviewed hundreds of actors and actresses one after another. Except for a few muscular men who wore Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson style, the others were all handsome men and beauties.

I have to say that there are really many handsome guys and beauties in Hollywood.

Moreover, unlike in China, where plastic surgery is popular.

Many girls, around 20 years old, have very sweet smiles and even sexy figures.

Lin Shen received no less than 50 small notes alone.

Some actors even left their phone numbers.

Lin Shen couldn't help but laugh and cry.

He also understands the principle of doing as the Romans do when you are in the country.

With his status, no one would be stupid enough to try to mess with him.

The security guards under him are not vegetarians either.

For the director's interview, Lin Shen handed it over directly to an accompanying director who was brought over.

Leave professional matters to professionals.

Considering the longevity of the director's career, Lin Shen did not have as many restrictions as he did in selecting actors.

Anyone under the age of 40 can participate in the interview.

Many unsatisfactory directors know that Dimension Pictures is very rich, so it can naturally support their dream of directing.

DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Dwayne Johnson.

Actors who embody the templates of the first three are just handsome, but their acting skills are still online.

An actor who has been implanted into the template of Dwayne Johnson, who specializes in making movies about muscular men.

Finally, actors implanted in the Will Smith template will star in some special-themed movies. After all, there are many black Americans.

All movies and TV shows are made by white people, and if they don’t work well, they will label you as racist.

The five young directors who stood out were generally around 35 years old.

Although I haven't proven myself much, it doesn't matter.

With Cards, Nolan, Spielberg, David Fincher and Quentin all arranged, he will be a world-famous director in the future!

Of these ten people, Lin Shen naturally used up his die-hard quota without hesitation.

Naturally, such a talent cannot take advantage of outsiders, otherwise he will be depressed to death.

Those who were able to come for interviews were basically unsatisfied.

Some of them have overdue credit cards.

Lin Shen happily signed 10 checks, which was an increase of US$1 million compared to the US$1 million originally promised.

In such a short period of time, 20 million US dollars were spread out.

The ten people who were almost at the end of their rope could not wait to start work immediately to express their gratitude.

Even though they don't give any money, they will still work hard for themselves.

But there is nothing we can do, our boss Lin is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see them being so shabby.

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"Brother-in-law, you are too generous. I think all of them are just average."

After the gang left, Yang Youla couldn't help complaining. She always felt that Lin Shen's behavior of signing checks casually was too much like being taken advantage of.

"What do you know? In the future, any salary for these people will not be less than 20 million US dollars."

Lin Shen suddenly smiled when he thought about Disney being beaten down by the movies they released at the same time.

"Do you have any plans recently?"

Lin Shen turned on the TV, watched the baseball game, and asked casually.

"A few Hollywood stars wanted to invite you to their cocktail parties, but I refused them outright."

Yang Youla smiled slyly and said, "I followed my sister's instructions, you can't blame me."

"Don't make your own decisions next time, or I'll ask Old Chen to send you back home."

Lin Shen's face turned dark and he didn't say anything else.

"Know it."

Yang Youla whispered: "What's so good about Yangma?"

"I'll give you a few days off recently. Come to Los Angeles and have some fun. I'll let the Huts protect you."

Lin Shen thought for a while and decided to get rid of this little burden.

"I'm not interested in shopping, and my job is as a secretary, so I can't leave you for too long."

Yang Youla didn't believe that Lin Shen was so kind. He must have wanted to do something to distract him.

At home, perhaps Lin Shen still needs to be secretive.

But where is this place?

Hollywood!

The city of dreams!

As the boss of AMC Theater Group, he controls the largest theater chain in the world, and even giants like Disney are in awe of him.

One can imagine how many girls would want to hook up with a big shot like him.

"This is an order."

After Lin Shen finished speaking, he gave Chen Ji a wink.

"Miss Yang."

Chen Ji made a gesture of invitation.

"I will tell my cousin!"

Yang Youla waved his fist and left angrily.

For a moment, the villa was quiet.

Lin Shen randomly jumped around the pay TV channels, found a movie and started watching it.

The woman on the screen has blue eyes and dark brown hair.

The three-dimensional soft facial features and agile temperament make it feel like there are stars and sea in the eyes, exuding a fresh beauty.

Out of curiosity, Lin Shen searched for the movie and found the name of the heroine.

"Talia Ryder?"

"And a biological sister?"

The more Lin Shen looked at her, the more he felt that this girl looked a bit like a softer version of Reba.

It has appeared at film festivals several times before and has attracted the attention of many domestic LSPs.

Hats of various looks were all placed on Thalia Ryder's head.

Don't get me wrong, Lin Shen simply wanted to see this girl's acting skills.

After all, Dimensions Pictures will invest in and produce a lot of movies and TV dramas next.

If it is really a good prospect, there is no reason not to sign it.

Thinking of this, Lin Shen called Song Kun and mentioned Talia Ryder and her sister Mimi Ryder.

If their acting skills are not bad, they can be invited to audition for the upcoming dramas.

As an old employee who has been with Lin Shen for many years, if you still can't understand what your boss means, you might as well find a piece of tofu and hit the wall.

As the CEO of Dimension Pictures, Song Kun naturally has a very close relationship with Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Cinemas.

When Song Kun made a vague suggestion, Adam Aron's eyes suddenly lit up.

The two hurriedly studied it, and Song Kun was responsible for setting up the scene and ensuring security.

For actress auditions, Alon came forward.

Song Kun went directly to Hollywood's top party planner Colin Cowie, who planned the birthday parties of many big-name Hollywood stars and was highly sought after by celebrities.

Colin Cowie's fees are extremely high, with an average appearance fee of around $500,000.

Even Hollywood stars or rich people are only willing to ask him to plan their birthdays.

Song Kun was very generous and directly spent 1 million US dollars. In addition to the 500,000 US dollars appearance fee, the rest was used as venue decoration expenses.

Aaron's side also went very smoothly. The first person contacted was Tony Wikla, CEO of Sony Pictures.

Sony, as the film company closest to them among the top five, also has a good reputation.

It would be perfect for them to invite the guests.

When Vikra heard that Dimension Films was organizing auditions, she couldn't help but get interested.

Compared to their weak parent company, Dimension Pictures' backers are extremely wealthy.

5 billion US dollars is just lying in the account of Dimension Pictures.

If Sony Pictures had so much money, the Spider-Man universe would have taken off long ago.

Even if you don’t have the chance to eat meat, it’s not a bad idea to follow along and share some soup.

Vicara took the initiative and invited all the big names in Hollywood, instantly raising the party's style to several levels.

Many big names are usually very low-key.

But few people are willing to miss the opportunity to get to know the Eastern boss behind AMC Cinemas and Dimensions Pictures.

Female celebrities dressed up one after another in an effort to appear in front of the most powerful new man in Hollywood, preferably on a date alone.

Many paparazzi took action upon hearing the news.

With so many big names gathered together, just taking some photos can arouse the interest of countless people who pay attention to gossip.

In addition to the Ryder sisters, there are also many other female celebrities that Lin Shen is very interested in.

For example, Isabella Adéli started learning to dance at the age of 3. She is also very popular on Instagram. She has a plump figure and is relatively oily.

Marquese Lane, the sweetheart of American tennis, has become famous on the Internet with her pair of incredible long legs and delicate and sweet first love face.

Alina Sanko, the Russian beauty pageant champion, is not a flat supermodel, but is really bulging forward and backward.

Mahraha Jaberi, the most beautiful supermodel in Iran, looks like Kendou, but has a better figure than Kendall.

By The Walking Dead sisters Brayden and Saxon Sharbino…

There were many beauties, and all of them were dressed up to attend, in accordance with the standards of an award ceremony.

All kinds of deep V dresses are not a problem in Europe and the United States.

Some actresses even wear see-through outfits in order to gain attention.

As the host of this party, Lin Shen wore a dress handmade by Guo Bei. The moment she walked down the stairs, it was as if the mute button had been pressed on the scene.

Controlling the world's largest theater chain, it is a mountain that dominates the entire Hollywood.

And this is just one of the insignificant properties under Lin Shen's name.

Lin Shen's name was not on any previous rich lists, and was scorned by countless people.

This kind of super rich man is only ranked 53rd on the list of the world's richest people. It is simply ridiculous.

But the companies ranking in these lists are also very big.

Who can remain calm when a notice with bullets is found next to the bed?

Even if they are laughed at by the crowd, they would rather save their lives.

In this world, the rules are made only by a few people.

Lin Shen is the one who has the ability to formulate rules.

When money starts making noise, the world will be silent!

The guests present came to their senses and scrambled to show their faces in front of Lin Shen.

As the CEO of Sony Pictures, Vikra looks as humble as a dogleg at the moment.

After all, he is just a professional manager under the island nation's consortium.

Compared to Lin Shen, a super rich man with a terrifying net worth, he cannot be too humble.

The space in the film and television industry is limited, so it’s just a matter of jumping from one company to another.

If you please this Eastern tycoon now, you won't have the chance to switch to Dimensions Pictures in the future.

Chapek, the head of Disney, Hastings, the head of Netflix, and the heads of several other major film companies were all present to give Lin Shen face.

The film and television industry does not make money, so it will have little impact on Guanhai Group, let alone strain its muscles and bones.

But for film and television giants such as Disney, it would be life-threatening.

The revenue from box office still accounts for a high proportion of their revenue.

Many stars would rather lower their pay than insist on showing their films in theaters.

This pattern that has lasted for nearly a hundred years cannot be killed easily.

Chapek and others are also very concerned about Dimension Pictures' big move.

It's a pity that the core management of Dimension Pictures are all from China.

Those who can be assigned to Hollywood by this super rich man must be his confidants.

Even if you want to buy it, it's not that easy.

After dealing with these old foxes for a while, Lin Shen left decisively.

Compared with those well-groomed hot girls, what is sociable about a group of old men.

Both of them wish to kill each other, but they want to talk and laugh when they meet.

Every businessman must be a qualified actor.

This sentence is really not false at all.

Seeing that Lin Shen had finally left Chapek's small circle, many senior movie kings, movie stars, or A-list stars came over to say hello.

Lin Shen smiled and nodded, showing a very friendly manner, which made all the big names who talked to him feel like they were having a blast.

Several aging actresses couldn't help but have their hearts beat faster.

But when I saw a group of young and beautiful actresses and supermodels, the sadness of passing years suddenly came to my heart.

In Hollywood, no one is 18 forever.

But there are always 18-year-old girls who will step into Hollywood.

Fortunately, one movie became a big hit.

But the odds are so low that you might as well buy a lottery ticket.

The vast majority of girls just attend various parties and become the girlfriend of a certain celebrity.

It seems to increase your knowledge, but in fact it has no effect.

Finally, as he grew old and lost his luster, he had to leave Hollywood sadly and marry as a woman.

Among them, there are many smart girls, just like hunters, constantly looking for the best prey.

A woman's beauty and figure are certainly bargaining chips to attract men.

As time goes by and the number of boyfriends increases, the value of the chips will continue to decrease.

Seeing this super rich man approaching, some girls who wanted to be reserved at first started to curse in their hearts when they saw some proactive Bitchi.

Lin Shen seemed to be saying hello normally, but in fact he was letting the system detect him secretly.

The system can be tricky sometimes, but in this case it's absolutely reliable.

If someone has a physical problem or has too much private life, the system will detect it and help him avoid lightning.

Although his physical fitness has long been improved by the system to the human limit, reaching the point where he is immune to all diseases.

But given the choice, who wants to drive a bus?

Brothers, that Iranian supermodel Mahlaha has a really amazing figure and is more beautiful than Kendou. Go ahead.

(End of chapter)