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   Chapter 259 Dog bites dog

   Elias must be an Italian actor who wants to let Xiao Lizi or Nicholas play the protagonist of "The Matrix".

   These two people, although they have not yet become superstars, have already become famous in Hollywood, and they are short of a blockbuster movie that can have a representative seat!

Brad Pitt is a new generation of walking hormones in Hollywood. He has already become famous. Last year, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his "Twelve Monkeys", and he was harvested all over the world with "Interview with the Vampire". He has won a large number of fans, and he is a leading presence among the new generation of Hollywood actors.

To have acting skills, to have box office appeal, Brad Pitt seems to be the most suitable compared to Xiao Lizi, Nicolas Cage and Will Smith. The only thing is not good, then Just too expensive.

Let Brad Pitt be the actor, I'm afraid I don't have tens of millions of dollars, plus a large movie share, I can't get it. As for asking Xiaoli or Nicolas Cage, it's cheap, but Xiaoli is working. The crew of "Titanic" was ravaged by truck drivers and asked Xiao Lizi to play it. I don't know when it will be delayed.

As for the female protagonist of the movie, let an actress play the role, this kind of brain-opening idea is just to think about it, it is not that there are no big heroine movies, and literary films are even more uncommon, but commercial films play this Set, and a little too adventurous!

For the Matrix to win the hero and heroine candidates, there is almost a quarrel. The Wachowski brothers are inclined to Brad Pitt and have a guaranteed box office, while Elias wants to have Italian actors as the actors. The protagonist, plus Harvey, David Geffen, Sofia Coppola, and others, all have their own favorite candidates, which makes the quarrel almost become a pot of porridge for these candidates.

Song Yang sat on the side, watching this quarrel with a cold eye. After a while, Song Yang finally spoke, and the conference room fell silent, "The crew will start preparations first, I hope the crew can be established as soon as possible, and the Matrix will get the role and carry out the sea Choose, including the hero and heroine!"

Song Yang is going to make Jenny the second female lead of "The Matrix", starting with a vase. Although the Hollywood media tabloids are all propagating that it will be a beauty if you rush to the top, the Matrix is ​​just to make Jenny popular. built.

   But that's just talking about it, it's just a matter of talking. For Jenny, who has just entered Hollywood, it's really hard to say what kind of performance!

Hearing that Song Yang was going to audition for roles, and even released the male and female protagonists, the eyes of everyone in the conference room collided. Elias's expression was the most unsightly. , it is full of uncertainty, obviously Song Yang is not prepared to let Italian actors fill the entire Matrix crew.

"I hope the crew can start work as soon as possible. After the trip to Asia, I hope that the casting committee can decide on the male and female protagonists. Before the middle of next year, I hope to see the first film of The Matrix released!" Song Yang finished speaking and got up directly left the conference room.

Once the audition starts, there will be a lot of rules. During the casting interview, there must be people from the Hollywood Actors Guild to supervise and so on. However, the final decision on the selection must be the crew, or it can be said that Song Yang is a big player. The owner's consent is required.

  After leaving the conference room, when Song Yang entered the office, a man who was in the dark was already waiting there.

   When seeing Song Yang, Comey Needham stood up somewhat cautiously and stretched out his hand towards Song Yang, "Mr. Bruno!"

"sit!"

Song Yang reached out to Comey Needham, the founder of IMDd, and said that compared to dealing with people such as Harvey and David Geffen, Song Yang still prefers to deal with engineers such as Comey Needham, at least not everywhere. Worrying about being dug up, behind the glamorous Hollywood, those people eat people more than one without spitting bones.

  Song Yang poured Comey Needham a glass of champagne, "Komi, I'm sorry to let you fly here from England, but this matter is really important!"

"Mr. Bruno, I understand!" Although he is several years older than Song Yang, their status in the industry is very different. Now that Song Yang is the same as Bill Gates, Case, and Yang Zhiyuan , Jim Clark exist on a par, but Comey Needham is still the founder of a small website that is facing bankruptcy all the time.

  Song Yang and Comey Needham exchanged a few words before entering the topic, "Comy, I hope Western Pictures can acquire IMDb, so that IMDb can truly become a database to witness the history of Hollywood and even the global film industry!"

  Acquisition, you have to find a reason. You can’t say it directly. If you like it, you will buy it and take it home. Isn’t that robbing people, although the difference is not big…

   Western Pictures' acquisition of IMDb got its name, and it is tall enough to make IMDb a global movie database!

  Komi Needham listened to Song Yang's words. He had no objection to the acquisition of IMDb, but wanted to know what IMDb would look like after the acquisition.

"Song, I mean if IMDb is acquired, how will Western Pictures manage IMDb in the future, I'm sorry, I know this is not in line with the rules, but IMDb has gathered too many people's hard work, it can survive until Today, it is also the hard work of countless movie lovers, and I can't ruin it all!"

Comey Needham, who is also a bit idealistic, although he is also jealous of the huge profits of the Internet industry, he still follows the principle of an Internet veteran, and is unwilling to destroy his hard work, even if it can be done for the sake of it. He brought tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue!

Song Yang did not laugh at Comey Needham's pedantic behavior. No matter what industry or industry, the first generation of people must be people who really like this industry. Regardless of this set, they want to make money, and they are indifferent to destroying the entire industry.

"I can assure you, Comey Needham, and those who have paid for IMDb, that after the acquisition, the Americas Investment Foundation and Western Pictures will provide IMDb with the funds it needs to develop, but... not too much. Interfere with IMDb, Comey, you're still in charge of managing IMDb, you know, I can't promise you that IMDb will never change or anything like that, I can only promise that as long as it's in my hands, I'll make it a fan of the world , my favorite Internet film and television mecca!"

  Song Yang looked directly at Comey Needham and said that if you don't rely on IMDb to make money now, it doesn't mean that you won't rely on it to make money in the future. It will affect the reputation of the movie, Hollywood public opinion, etc. Otherwise, why would Song Yang buy this thing?

   Comey Needham knew that Song Yang was confiding with him. If Song Yang told him that he bought IMDb for offering, Comey Needham would not believe a word.

Song Yang has given IMDb the most authority, and Comey Needham will continue to manage the IMDb website. They will inject funds into it and will not interfere too much with it. Such conditions are already quite good, at least Comey · Needham knew that in the Internet industry, it would be rare to be willing to offer better conditions than Song Yang.

   "16 million dollars, American Global Investment Fund and Western Pictures, wholly-owned acquisition of IMDb website!"

After the conditions were negotiated, Song Yang started to make an offer to Comey Needham. Is IMDb worth it now? It seems that the traffic is not small, and there are many users visiting the world. If there is no opportunity to make money, even the introduction of Internet advertising has barely reduced losses.

The emergence of Double-click Company may not be defined until more than ten years in the future, but in the past two years, many websites, including IMDb, have started to place Internet advertisements because of their cooperation with Double-click Company, at least barely survived.

"Thirty million dollars!" Of course Comey Needham wanted to sell at a high price. The Internet is hot right now, and any website can be sold for tens of millions of dollars, regardless of whether IMDb makes any money or not. , it still sounds intimidating.

   "Twenty million dollars!"

After Song Yang and Comey Needham counter-offered in succession, the price of $24 million met the expectations of both parties. IMDb is a classified website, unlike Yahoo, which is aimed at global Internet users. IMDb is essentially a website. Still a niche website, the valuation is certainly not too outrageous.

   After signing the acquisition intent agreement with US$24 million, Song Yang and Comey Needham talked about the changes to IMDb after the acquisition.

   "I hope that IMDb will not only become a movie database for the Internet, but also a gathering place for movie fans all over the world!"

  Song Yang said to Comey Needham, "Comy, I ask that IMDb, in addition to the movie data, there can be some other things..."

"Song, what do you mean?" Comey Needham looked at Song Yang with some puzzlement. Of course he knew that Song Yang was a genius in the Internet industry. Internet advertising, new e-mail, instant messaging, etc. Song Yang played it out. Comey Needham didn't know what Song Yang was going to do in the film industry and what he was going to do.

Song Yang knocked on the table, looked at Comey Needham and said, "Now IMDb has just collected the movie information, made a content introduction, and the IMDb staff's evaluation of the movie, I think it's far away. Not enough!"

   "I hope IMDb can cooperate with other Hollywood companies and media to upload some exclusive movie news, filming highlights, actor interviews, etc. on the IMDb website to attract more users."

  These things seem inconspicuous, but for the majority of audiences, they are a channel to understand the behind-the-scenes of stars and movies.

   "In addition, IMDb should add influence search function, video classification, professional film critic comments, and celebrity artist information. Each celebrity artist should have an exclusive IMDb profile page, and introduce a movie rating system!"

The most direct way to increase the popularity of a website is to provoke two waves of people into a fight, such as "The Godfather" and "Batman Dark Knight" because of the movie ratings, fans on both sides are choking you to the death, directly making IMDb break the circle success.

   (end of this chapter)