In the summer, I held a Spring Festival party at my own mansion. In addition to inviting my own employees, there are also Hollywood directors and movie stars.

All the employees he hired were senior executives of the company, such as Columbia Pictures general manager Long Mayer, Tianxia Production general manager Jerry Brookheimer, Columbia Records general manager Volta Deman, Blockbuster Audio and Video chain general manager Lawrence Mark, etc.

The front-line directors include Stephen Spielberg, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, etc.

The first-line stars include Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Sophie Marceau, Julia Roberts, Brooke Slim, etc.

They are all those who have cooperated with Tianxia Production, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Records, etc., or those who are intended to win over in the summer.

In short, it was a gathering of stars and was particularly lively. Even the gate was filled with reporters coming to interview and people who wanted to get involved.

"Everyone has worked hard last year. I hope everyone can have fun tonight." Xia Tian raised his glass and said blessed.

Hearing that he said, everyone present laughed, "Thank you, Mr. Xia."

"Okay, please do whatever you want." Xia Tian said with a smile, then he left everyone and started chatting with Lang Meyer and others.

"You all know about Sony and Toshiba's dispute over the second-generation optical storage standards, right?" he asked everyone present.

Everyone here includes Long Mayer, Brookheimer, Volta Deman, Lawrence Mark, etc., who are all small giants in the Hollywood entertainment industry and dominate.

Everyone nodded.

"Mr. Xia, which of these two standards do you think is better?" Long Mayer asked curiously.

"The more beneficial it is to us, the better it is." Xia Tian said concisely.

"You mean..." Brookheimer's eyes lit up and he asked with a smile, "Do you want to take advantage of the format dispute between the two companies to win our own interests?"

"That's natural." Xia Tian nodded, "so we should not make a statement easily, see which side is selling at a higher price."

Toshiba and Sony are basically evenly matched, and the battle between the two companies will not end in a short period of time, so there is no need to rush to take sides.

Furthermore, Xia Tian wants to take this opportunity to do something he has long wanted to do.

Everyone here nodded when he heard what he said.

Although they are small giants that dominate one side, they are actually doing things for summer. It may not matter if they are willful once, but being willful in such matters that involve huge interests means that they will definitely feel uncomfortable for themselves.

...

After Xia Tian talked with the company's senior executives, she talked with several major Hollywood directors.

Spielberg founded DreamWorks Studio with his friends David Geffen and Jeffrey Carsonberg in October last year.

This film company is one of Hollywood's famous independent production companies. It has produced and produced works such as "Monster Shrek", "Transformers", "Ai", "Minority Report", "Gladiator", "Attack on Punishment", "Madagascar", "Kung Fu Panda" and other works that have sold well-known box office and have excellent reputations.

But even so, DreamWorks still cannot escape the fate of being sold.

This is because as the film industry becomes more and more mature, independent production companies are less and less able to survive, either being merged or they can only survive.

DreamWorks Studios, for a long time, was just a content manufacturer and needed to use other channels to complete the release of the movie.

For example, with DreamWorks, it has cooperated with companies such as Universal, Paramount, Columbia, and Twentieth Century Fox to release movies through their channels.

In this way, it has to share a large part of the box office to these giants, but it has to take most of the production risks themselves.

For example, the animated feature "Girl Glasses Dog" costs $1.40 million, and the production cycle is as long as three years, but the global box office is only $2.50 billion. The production cost of "Guardians League" costs $1.500 million, and the global box office is only $300 million.

The investment in movies is large, the cycle is long, but the returns are not guaranteed, which makes independent production companies often walk on thin ice. The success or failure of a movie may determine the survival of the entire company.

In comparison, giants like Columbia Pictures have very rich assets, and even if one or two movies lose money, it will not affect the overall situation. Moreover, they have many channels to make money, and it is easier to make money.

For example, Xiatian has Blockbuster Audio and Video chain. If a movie has a bad box office, it can also be promoted in the audio and video chain store. By renting a DVD, it can also recover part of the cost.

Furthermore, in the summer, there is also a wireless TV network and a cable TV network. The movies will be sent to two TV networks for broadcast, and you can also charge another copyright fee.

In addition, in summer, there are electronic game companies that can adapt them into games; book publishing companies that can adapt them into; toy companies that can produce peripheral products for them, etc.

In short, there are many channels in summer that can recover costs and tap the value of a movie to the extreme. And companies like DreamWorks are difficult to do this.

Because they are not as rich as Xiatian and can build so many channels.

...

"Mr. Spielberg, congratulations, you are now the big boss." Xia Tian smiled at Spielberg.

"Mr. Xia is so polite. How can I be the boss?" Spielberg waved his hand, "You are the big boss of Hollywood."

His DreamWorks is not even comparable to Tianxia Production, which was just founded two years ago in the summer, let alone compared with Columbia Pictures. In short, at present, it is just a small company.

Xia Tian smiled, "Mr. Spielberg, don't be polite. Although DreamWorks is just a small company now, I believe that with you, one day, it will become a Hollywood giant."

"Thank you, Mr. Xia." Spielberg said happily when he heard him say this.

The reason why he set up his own company is that he hopes to use his talents to make more money for himself and realize his film ambitions.

To be honest, although he has made many excellent works over the years, such as "The Great White Jaws", "et", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Purple", "Captain Hook", "Jurassic Park", etc., it is well received and popular.
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