Hollywood New Century

Miami, West Palm Beach, Simon's luxury estate, Simon just put down the phone, because just on the phone, Simon invested in South Korea's GBZ Entertainment to acquire South Korea's new film production and distribution company NEW Movies Entertainment.

"NEW seems to be a new company that was established in 2008. It only produced and released its first movie last year. Is it necessary to acquire it?" Son Ye-jin, who was on the side, wondered.

"GBZ's main business now is music and artist management. There are many film talents in NEW, which can make up for the company's shortcomings in this area as soon as possible," Simon said casually leaning on the sofa,

"You know, how strong Galaxy Entertainment was in the Chinese market last year, and ten GBZ combined can't equal the income of one movie!"

Sun Yezhen nodded, thought of something again, and continued to ask: "Last year's "Lone Man" was the box office champion in South Korea, with 6.22 million viewers, and many people were not very optimistic about it before it was released! This is an investment from a Hollywood company The most watched Korean movie.”

"This is a test of the water, and I should continue to invest in Korean films in the future." Simon didn't pay much attention. After all, the size of the Korean market is there, and it is mainly the distribution of Hollywood films in Korea.

"Now, are there any Korean actors who can enter Hollywood?" Son Yezhen asked a little nervously. After all, Hollywood is the world's film center, and Koreans yearn for it.

"Oh, you want to get into Hollywood?" Simon said, reaching out to caress the girl's cheek.

Sun Yezhen shook her head and responded quickly: "I can't, I'm not qualified now, I just saw that many actors from China and RB have entered Hollywood, although Korean actors also participated, but basically Not much known."

South Korean singer Jung Ji-hoon starred in a Hollywood action movie "Ninja Assassin" last year but failed to provoke a splash, both word of mouth and box office failure.

"Hehe, cultural differences, unless you have action stars like Stephen Chow, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li in China!" Simon also guessed that last year's "Tai Chi" had too much influence in Asia.

After all Chinese actors left Hollywood, Stephen Chow took Chinese kung fu movies to a new level.

It's a pity that Summit originally planned to develop the DC comic film "Red Flame Battlefield", and planned to invite South Korea's Lee Byung-hun to play an important movie role.

However, Simon can only deny that a group of elderly agents is meaningless. The copyright was directly transferred to Lionsgate. Lionsgate did develop Battlefield of Red Flames, but it was only a low-cost R-rated action movie, and there were no Asian actors among the actors.

"Well, my main business is still in the local Korean film market, and not many foreigners know me." Son Yezhen has been deeply involved in the Korean film and television market, and her acting skills are indeed good, but the box office is a bit unsatisfactory.

"Would you like to go to Los Angeles or New York?" Simon asked again. Miami is suitable for winter, and New York and Los Angeles are the largest cities in the United States after all.

Sun Yizhen shook her head and said with a smile, "It's time to go back to China. It's been more than half a month since I came out this time, and there are still movies to be filmed."

When Son Ye Jin left the United States, the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony also ended successfully.

Compared with Xinghai Films' popularity at the Oscars in previous years, this year's awards ceremony seemed to be doing nothing.

Still, Natalie Portman's best actress win for "Black Swan" was a bit of a surprise.

The newly appointed chairman of Universal Pictures, Alan Horn, does value the Marvel series, and the number of movies released has been reduced to no more than 15 per year. This year, the number of movies to be released by the first series of Universal Pictures is only about 12!

Compared with the previous number of 25-30 films released by Universal Pictures each year, it is nearly two-thirds less; at the same time, last year's large layoffs are also an important reason.

Los Angeles, Burbank, Xinghai Entertainment Universal Pictures headquarters.

Huge personnel changes have made it impossible for filmmakers and directors to get funding from Universal Pictures so easily in previous years.

Simon leaned back in his chair, and on the computer in front of him were the various promotional plans for "Fast and Furious 5".

This is also the movie that Universal Pictures developed itself last year and was concerned by Simon, as for those small movies such as funny movies, soap movies, horror thrillers and so on. Either it is a non-theatrical release or the like, or it will be taken over by Aurora Pictures and Venus Pictures. Of course, most of them have been directly stopped by Simon or resold the distribution rights.

"Laura, tell Alan and Nina to come to my office!" Simon ordered.

Soon, Alan Horn and Nina Jacobson came together.

"Sit down." Then Laura Collins brought up several times the coffee, and Simon had something to ask.

"What's the matter, Simon?" Nina Jacobson asked. Simon returned to Xinghai Entertainment two days ago to finish last year's summary meeting.

"I want to ask you, what do you think of Universal's previous plans for the dark monster universe?" Universal Pictures had this dark monster universe plan before Simon's acquisition, and prepared vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, etc. A linked series.

It is a pity that the release of "Wolfman" did not have the slightest splash in word of mouth and box office.

"It's very difficult. Judging from the early "Van Helsing" and last year's "Wolfman", both failed in terms of revenue. The earlier "400 Years" about Dracula won the word of mouth and also lost the box office. " Alan Horn thought for a while, and then explained,

"At present, we can only restart the monster series in Universal's library to a limited extent, and the focus should still be on the current series of movies, and the Marvel series is our focus."

"What do you think, Nina?" Simon heard what Alan Horn meant and looked at Nina Jacobson again.

"The investment can't be big. Now this kind of horror and thriller movies should not pursue big scenes. It's hard to get big returns from big investment!"

"I think so too. Universal's plan should be put on hold, but I have an idea about the restart of "Jurassic Park", Alan, you can find time to talk with Amblin Pictures, "Universal Pictures can't just stop now." Rely on a "Fast and Furious" series, "Bourne Bourne" series is over.

Universal Pictures didn't have the "Jurassic Park" series and "Back to the Future" series earlier. It's normal for the old IP to restart.

"Has the copyright of Deadpool been handed over to Marvel?" Simon asked again.

"Yes, Daredevil and Deadpool have now returned to Marvel, but what is Marvel Studios planning to do yet?" Nina explained.

"I'll have a chat with Kevin Feige about how it was developed!" Simon said, sending Alan Horn and Nina Jacobson out of the office.

Deadpool is definitely going to be developed. After all, Universal Pictures is not the kind of Disney that only engages in PG13 level, and R level is also possible.