Hollywood New Century

At the Marriott International Hotel in New York, Simon had just spoken for two hours with Lionsgate president Michael Burns and production and acquisitions manager Peter Bullock.

After sending the two away, Simon returned to the living room of the suite, and assistant Laura Collins said, "Boss, Lionsgate actually wants to acquire our company!"

"Don't worry about them, Lionsgate is just thinking about it, not to mention that we have Marvel now, just rely on Lionsgate to focus on making B-level market movies of horror, thriller, family ethics, and political topics, just follow me. It’s not a way,” Simon always felt that it was difficult to make money from the movie itself without developing derivatives.

Lionsgate Entertainment is now a model of this kind of performance. Starting from the earliest acquisition of a Canadian distribution company, Lionsgate has used the financing raised from the capital market since 2002 to buy distribution companies to enrich its film library. , After successive acquisitions of Artisan Entertainment Company, Modern Entertainment Company and Red Bus Film Distribution Company, which have a large number of film rights, Lionsgate has more than 8,000 films, becoming the film company with the largest film library.

Of course, the vast majority of Lionsgate is a library of non-mainstream movies, and with a huge library of non-mainstream TV titles, Lionsgate is indeed unusual.

"The home entertainment market provides the most funds, and Lionsgate is also very concerned about film production." Simon actually has a good impression of Lionsgate's CEO Jon, and strictly controls costs. , which is very suitable for managing a sub-label of Xinghai Pictures that specializes in genre films in the future.

"But their movie audience is so small, so many movies are released every year, and many are only released in a few theaters, and then directly released on DVD," Laura Collins believes that the movies produced by Xinghai Pictures, then more influence.

"Hey, these types of movies played by Lionsgate's owners are all types that are easy to break out at the box office at low cost, not to mention the "Chainsaw" series. Isn't that the case with "Fahrenheit 911" before? "Although Simon is not very professional in this kind of horror and **** movies, but this type of movie has a low cost and is most likely to be small and big.

"Boss, are we going to build such a label in the future? Just like Weinstein's Dimen Pictures," Laura Collins stared.

Simon nodded, this is definitely indispensable, Fox Atomic Films managed by Fox Searchlight; Screen Treasure Pictures under Sony Columbia; Roger Pictures managed by Universal Focus Pictures are all brands for genre films!

"By the way, the reality show that we support the Kardashian family should start preparations now?" Simon was still a little concerned about this.

"Sonia has already negotiated with Chris Kinner, and the preparations are now starting, and Chris Kinner has experience in TV show production, so it should be smooth. Sonia is now helping the company negotiate "The Walking Dead" and "Absolutely" "Deadman" project," Laura Collins is still very competent at her job, and of course in other ways as well!

In the evening, Simon came to Manhattan's Peninsula Hotel in New York for a large party, initiated by Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Ms. Wendi Deng.

Celebrities, fashion and business are numerous, and Rupert Murdoch's reputation is indeed big enough.

"Simon Pike, good evening, I'm so young, I heard Tom mention you, Xinghai Pictures is very good," Rupert Murdoch deliberately chatted with Simon, Tom is the president of 20th Century Fox Pictures. ·Rothman.

"Mr. Murdoch, it's also because Twentieth Century Fox has a lot of publicity and has an advantage in distribution," Simon Pike said and shook his hand.

"There is another big production released by Xinghai Pictures in the summer, I'm looking forward to it!" Murdoch said of "300 Spartans".

"I'm looking forward to it too!" Simon murmured inwardly, and "26 Dresses" is also released this year, and next year there will be "Mamma Mia!" are your films released by Twentieth Century Fox.

"You have a good investment in YouTube, you have a good eye," Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. paid $550 million for the social media network MySpaec in 2005. book!

"Well, that's how the technology industry is. There are many startups every day, and successful companies are of course sought after," Simon knew that News Corp. now spends a lot of money to make a difference on social media.

On the other side, Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, is chatting with Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and his boyfriend, Ivy Newo.

"I'll go over there," Ivy Niwo seemed to have seen an acquaintance, greeted the two and left.

"Wendi, that young man chatting with Mr. Murdoch is Mr. Simon Parker, the boss of Xinghai Pictures?" Zhang Ziyi looked over there and asked.

Wendi Deng nodded and looked at Ivy Niwo. At the end of last year, Zhang Ziyi and Ivy Niwo were introduced to each other. They got together in January this year.

"Simon Pike, an independent producer who has risen rapidly in the past two years, is not only young, but also talented. He is also a rich boss in Hollywood. Last year, he made $500 million in one investment!" Wendi Deng explained, ignoring Zhang Ziyi's surprise. expression, continued to speak:

"The films produced by Xinghai Pictures have a good reputation and box office. "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine" have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and "The Devil Wears Prada" also has a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars!"

"Simon Parker is very good at making big heroine movies, and he is currently the filmmaker I most want to work with," Wendi Deng is now a sensible member of Juyou.com China, but has always been interested in movies.

"It doesn't look like it, but it looks like there are more Hollywood stars," Zhang Ziyi stunned.

"Twentieth Century Fox has a distribution contract with Xinghai Pictures, and he will release three of his films this year and next year." Wendi Deng wants to expand his contacts, but actually wants to win over Xinghai Pictures.

Zhang Ziyi nodded. If there are people like this in Hollywood to help, it will be much easier to break into the international film and television circle.

Ivy Nevo, one of the investors of Goldman Sachs, owns shares of Time Warner and a part of Weinstein Pictures, but compared to Simon Pike's $500 million in assets, it's not enough to look at.

Both ambitious women seemed to think that Simon Pike was a very worthwhile person to befriend.