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Chapter 259 Dog bites dog

Elias must be an actor of Italian descent, and wants to let Xiao Li or Nicholas play the leading role in "The Matrix".

Although these two people have not yet become superstars, they have already gained fame in Hollywood, and they are only short of a blockbuster movie that can have a representative seat!
And Brad Pitt is the new generation of walking hormones in Hollywood. He has already gained fame. Last year, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Twelve Monkeys". With a large number of fans, he is the leader among the new generation of Hollywood actors.

If you need acting skills and acting skills, you need box office appeal and box office appeal. Brad Pitt seems to be the most suitable compared to Xiao Li, Nicolas Cage, and Will Smith. The only downside is that It's just too expensive.

Let Brad Pitt play the leading role, I am afraid that there is no tens of millions of dollars, plus a large movie share, it is impossible to get it. As for Xiao Li or Nicolas Cage, it is cheap, but Xiao Li is The crew of "Titanic", being ravaged by truck drivers, let Xiao Li play the role. I don't know when it will be delayed.

As for casting a female protagonist in a movie, this kind of mind-blowing idea is just a matter of thinking about it. It’s not that there are no movies with a leading heroine, and literary films are even more rare, but commercial films play this role. Set, and a little too adventurous!

For the male and female protagonists of The Matrix, there is almost a quarrel. The Wachowski brothers prefer Brad Pitt, who has a guarantee for the box office, while Elias wants to let an Italian actor take the role. The protagonist, plus Harvey, David Geffen, Sofia Coppola, etc., all have candidates they like, which makes it almost a pot of porridge for these candidates.

Song Yang sat on the sidelines, watching this quarrel with cold eyes. After a while, Song Yang finally spoke, and the meeting room fell silent for a while, "The production team will start preparations first, and I hope the production team can be established as soon as possible. Choose, including hero and heroine!"

Song Yang is going to let Jenny become the second female number of "The Matrix", starting with a vase, although the Hollywood media tabloids all advertise that they will become a beauty when they become angry, the Matrix is ​​just to make Jenny popular. Established.

But it's just a bit of talking, just more talk, for Jenny who has just entered Hollywood, it's really hard to say what she will do!
Hearing that Song Yang was going to conduct an audition for roles, and even released the places for male and female protagonists, everyone in the meeting room collided with each other's eyes, and Elias's expression was the worst. , it was full of uncertainty, obviously Song Yang was not prepared to fill the entire Matrix crew with Italian actors.

"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 The Matrix released!" Song Yang got up immediately after finishing speaking. left the meeting room.

Once the audition starts, there will be a lot of rules. During the casting interview, people from the Hollywood Actors Guild must supervise, etc., but the final decision on the candidate must be the crew, or in other words, Song Yang, a big Only with the consent of the patron.

After leaving the meeting room, when Song Yang entered the office, a dusty man was already waiting there.

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

"sit!"

Song Yang stretched out his hand to the founder of IMDd, Comey Needham, and said, compared with dealing with people like Harvey and David Geffen, Song Yang still prefers to deal with engineers like Comey Needham, at least he doesn’t have to go around Worried about being poached, behind the glamorous Hollywood, the group of people cannibalize people without spit out their bones.

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

"Mr. Bruno, I understand!" Although they are several years older than Song Yang, their positions in the industry are very different. , Jim Clark and those who are comparable exist, but Comey Needham is still a founder of a small website facing bankruptcy all the time.

Song Yang exchanged a few words with Comey Needham before getting to the point, "Comey, I hope that Western Films can acquire IMDb, so that IMDb can truly become a database that witnesses the development history of Hollywood and even the global film industry!"

As for the acquisition, you have to find a reason, you can’t just say it, if you like it, you have to buy it home, isn’t that the same as robbing women, although the difference is not big...

Western Films acquired the name of IMDb, and it is tall enough to make IMDb a global movie database!

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

"Song, I mean if IMDb is acquired, how will Western Films manage IMDb in the future? I'm sorry, I know this is not in compliance with the rules, but IMDb has gathered the efforts of too many people, and it can survive until Today, it is completely the painstaking effort of countless movie lovers, and I cannot ruin it all!"

Komi Needham, who is still a bit of an idealist, although he is also envious 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 him. He brought tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in profits!
Song Yang didn't laugh at Comey Needham's pedantry. No matter what kind of profession or profession, the first generation of people must be people who really like this profession. Regardless of this set, what they want is to make money, and they are indifferent to ruining the entire industry for this.

"I can assure you, Comey Needham, and those who have paid for IMDb. After the acquisition, the American Investment Foundation and Western Films will provide IMDb with the funds needed for development, but... it will not be too late. More meddling with IMDb, Comey you are still in charge of IMDb, you know, I can't promise you, IMDb will never change or something, I can only promise, as long as it's in my hands, I'll make it the world Movie fans, the favorite Internet movie and TV holy place!"

Song Yang looked directly at Comey Needham and said, 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, affecting movie reputation, Hollywood public opinion, etc. Otherwise, why would Song Yang buy this thing?

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

Song Yang has given IMDb the greatest authority. Comey Needham and the others will continue to manage the IMDb website, will inject funds into it, and will not interfere with it too much. Such conditions are already quite good, at least Comey Needham Needham knew that in the Internet industry, there were probably not many people who were willing to offer better conditions than Song Yang.

"For 600 million US dollars, the American Global Investment Foundation and Western Films will fully acquire the IMDb website!"

After the conditions were negotiated, Song Yang started to quote to Comey Needham. Is IMDb worth much now? It seems that the traffic is not small, and there are many global visiting users, but it is helpless not to make money, and for a long time in the future, there will be There is no opportunity to make money, and even the introduction of Internet advertising can barely reduce losses.

The emergence of Double-click Company may not be truly defined by someone in the next decade or so, 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 It was barely able to survive.

"3000 million dollars!" Of course, Komi Needham wanted to sell it at a high price. The Internet is so hot now that any website can sell for tens of millions of dollars, regardless of whether IMDb makes money or not. It still sounds bluffing.

"2000 million dollars!"

After Song Yang and Comey Needham made consecutive bargains, the price was 400 million US dollars, which met the expectations of both parties. IMDb is a classified website, unlike Yahoo, which is aimed at global Internet users. IMDb is essentially a For a niche website, the valuation cannot be too outrageous.

After signing the acquisition agreement with 400 million US dollars, 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 of the Internet, but also a gathering place for movie fans all over the world!"

Song Yang said to Comey Needham, "Comey, I want IMDb to have some other things besides movies..."

"Song, what do you mean?" Comey Needham looked at Song Yang in confusion. Of course he knew that Song Yang was a genius in the Internet industry. Internet advertisements, new e-mails, instant messaging, etc. Song Yang played it out, and Komi Needham didn't know Song Yang was going to be in the film industry, and what kind of tricks Song Yang was going to play.

Song Yang knocked on the table, looked at Komi Needham and said, "Now IMDb only collects the movie data, introduces the content, and IMDb staff's evaluation of this movie. Not enough!"

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

These things may seem inconspicuous, but for the general audience, they are a channel to understand the stars and behind the scenes of the movie.

"In addition, IMDb should add impact search function, movie classification, professional film critic reviews, and celebrity artist profiles. Every 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 instigate two waves of people to fight. For example, "The Godfather" and "Batman The Dark Knight" because of the high or low rating of the movie, the fans on both sides are choking each other to the death, which directly makes IMDb break the circle success.

(End of this chapter)