Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

John Colombo looked at the part of the contract and found that there was nothing harsh, so he happily signed the contract.Although John Colombo's office is in the Dongfeng Building, his office rent and salary are paid by Jed from his private account, because legally, John cannot have an interest relationship with anyone other than Jed, even including A company invested by Jade.

After the contract was signed, John slightly mentioned the decoration requirements of his office and said that he could come to work at any time.Jed nodded and said that he would arrange the decoration of his office as soon as possible.After speaking, John shook hands with Jed and left.And Jed ordered his secretary to invite a decoration company to come in for decoration.Speaking of which, John’s request is not much. First, he indicated that his office needs to have a window that can be opened and closed. He doesn’t like the smell of the central air conditioner; secondly, his office needs to be integrated with his assistant’s office, without his assistant’s office. Agreed, ordinary people can't enter his office; finally there is the door to be able to enter Jed's office at any time.As for the decoration style, John only wrote "Italian".

The infrastructure in the office building itself is complete, and the decoration company comes in to do nothing more than make partition walls and move some furniture, and then it is the simplest painting work.Because John's office is in the way of Jed's office, the light in the office is very sufficient, and the windows are required to be opened and closed, so the ventilation conditions are also very good.It’s just that John’s office itself is not very big, and it would be a bit cramped to have an assistant’s office separated. Fortunately, the decoration company has many years of experience, and it is very sufficient to use some hidden designs to make full use of the space.The only thing that was a bit of a headache was the design of the door, because the two of them needed to be able to contact each other at any time, but also for the safety of their respective office materials, so they had to make a small hallway, and then opened a door for their respective offices.In this way, both parties can lock the door or not lock it on their own side. At the same time, the design of the small foyer also forms a relatively buffer zone for two people to meet.

For the decoration given by the company, John was very satisfied when he came to work on the fifth day, and he also brought his assistant, Ms. Nancy.Jed originally thought that John would bring a blonde beauty, but instead he brought a silver-haired Old Lady.John simply said, "Ms. Nancy and I have worked together for a long time, and I love her style."

Jed wasn't the kind of gossip either, so he shrugged and said he didn't care.Next, Jed asked John and the legal departments of Yinhe Movies and Dongfeng TV to start discussing cooperation plans with Disney Movies and ABC.Since Jed's shares in Yinhe and Dongfeng are very high, this cooperation will damage his controlling stake from a certain point of view, so his personal lawyer must be involved.Although John can't go to work until today, he took over all of Jed's private legal affairs from Jed's secretary's office as early as five days ago, and announced that the two offices must implement the "Chinese Wall" policy to keep each other's information secret.Because strictly speaking, Jed's legal assistant in the secretary's office serves the chairman and president of the company, not Jed himself.Therefore, there will still be conflicts of interest in the future, so the first thing John does when he becomes a private lawyer is to cut off such conflicts of interest.After getting Jed's private legal affairs information, John actually quickly calculated Jed's personal assets.John couldn't help admiring this man from the bottom of his heart. To be able to accumulate so much wealth in just five years is definitely not something ordinary people can do.However, from the perspective of John, who used to be in the company's business, Jed's wealth has many problems, because he has used the cash flow to the extreme. If the cash chain breaks, his wealth empire may collapse overnight.At the same time, John was also very dissatisfied with some of Jed's previous contracts, because those contracts were too hasty and left too many loopholes. If it involves legal proceedings in the future, it is very likely to lose the lawsuit.And most importantly, these contracts are related contracts between Jed and the leather bag investment companies under his name. Once these contracts go wrong, the foundation of Jed's wealth empire will be completely over.Fortunately, Nancy hired by John is not only an excellent paralegal, but also a Hollywood investment consultant. It's just that Nancy became a paralegal because she was tired of that kind of life. She is also a wonderful person.With Nancy's help, John quickly clarified the issue of this part of the contract. As for the structure of Jade's company in the future, John felt that it was necessary for Jed to hire a dedicated team.

"This is part of your earliest contract. I have re-enacted it and need you to sign it." On the first day of work, John found Jed with a lot of contracts. "These contracts are between you and those investment companies. There are too many loopholes, and they may be caught by the federal government at any time. At the same time, I suggest that you slightly reorganize your leather bag companies. One big and one small is enough. Small I suggest putting the investment company in the British Virgin Islands. Anyway, in the future, you will still have to ask the IRS to inspect it, so you don’t need to put it in a place like the Cayman Islands that makes the federal government very dissatisfied. And that lurking In the end, the big companies are placed in the Cayman Islands, where you can control everything. In the end, you have too many companies. I suggest you find a law firm specializing in corporate business and an investment consulting firm dedicated to corporate restructuring. Integrate your current companies. List those that can be listed, and find ways to provide anti-risk capabilities for those that cannot be listed.”

While listening to John's suggestion, Jed looked at the report brief that John put at the top of the file.John very directly pointed out two major problems in Jade's industry, one is the confusion of equity, and the other is the weak ability to resist risks.In fact, Jed also felt more and more that he was a bit powerless with his company. The reason why he set up eight offshore investment companies at one time was to avoid risks, but the original trick has now become a bad one.The same problem exists in my investment in the United States, Europe, and Asia. On the surface, I do not have direct control over these companies, which has led to an increase in the company's operating costs and communication costs.Of course, since its own business strategy is a "lone wolf" strategy, there are indeed some problems with the company's ability to resist risks.Jed thought for a while and ordered: "Mr. Kolobo, if you have a suitable company, you are welcome to recommend one or two to me. I also hope that we can solve these problems within this year. The sooner we solve them, the sooner we can feel at ease. "

"I agree with your opinion very much." John nodded, "I will help you choose one or two companies. In addition, we are also negotiating cooperation plans with Disney and ABC. Make an agreement."

With John's help, Jed didn't have to worry about cooperating with detailed cases, so all his energy was transferred to the production plan of "Twelve Monkeys".In order to better understand the script, Jade specially entrusted a friend to borrow the film "Ekeh" from France.This is a 1962-minute sci-fi short film released in 28. Because of the limited space, the story of this film is not actually told completely.This is a movie about time travel. The protagonist witnessed a death when he was young. He always felt that there was some kind of mysterious connection between this death and himself, but he couldn't find out this connection.It wasn't until the hero grew up that he was dispatched to participate in a space-time travel project, and he suddenly discovered that the death he witnessed in his childhood was his own death... 28 minutes is not enough to interpret this story perfectly, but the plot It ran beautifully, and even Jed broke out in a cold sweat after watching it.In addition to the attractive plot, the movie "Ekeh" also created a brand-new shooting method, that is, using fixed-frame still pictures in the movie to express a person's thinking casually.This kind of shooting technique will be used by almost all directors in later generations, but it is undoubtedly the innovation brought by this movie in this era.

After watching "Dike", Jed began to study the script of "Twelve Monkeys".One of the famous paradoxes in time travel is the "grandfather paradox", that is, whether space travelers can go back in time and kill their grandfather.If the time traveler kills his grandfather, he will not be born in the later life, and he will not be able to go back to kill his grandfather in the later life.If this paradox cannot be explained, then so-called time travel cannot exist.In order to explain this paradox, scientists have proposed many theories to correct it, but the most convincing one at present is the "parallel universe theory".That is, if the time traveler kills his grandfather, then there will be a deviation in this universe, and it will not be the historical time and space that the time traveler experienced, which means that everything will change in the future.Although this explanation is very reasonable, it also disappointed many people.Because many people’s motivation for time travel is to go back to the past and correct a certain historical event, which is very similar to the so-called time travel novels of later generations.But the grandfather paradox and the theory of parallel universes have brutally shown that such a thing cannot happen.In fact, in addition to the theory of parallel universes, there is also a relatively unpopular explanation called "Novikov's self-consistency principle". They believe that if time travelers go back to the past and try to change history, it will inevitably lead to two results. One is that this event cannot happen anyway, that is, when the time traveler wants to change the historical event, there must be many other events to stop him; the second is that after he changes this event, history will deduce more Things to correct this matter, leading to the inevitable development of history.Simply put, history is a matter of destiny, and time travelers cannot change the final outcome.The principle cited in "Twelve Monkeys" is the "Novikov Principle of Self-Consistency", and "fatalism" is vaguely promoted in the movie.

On the earth in 2035, after human beings encountered a terrible plague, only 1% of human beings lingered underground.In order to prevent the plague from happening that year, the prisoner James was forced to be sent to the original time and space to save mankind involuntarily.But the first time travel was not smooth, James did not come to 1996 when the plague broke out, but was sent to 1990.Since James came to this world reluctantly, he hyped up some things in the future world. Not surprisingly, he was sent to a madhouse.In the madhouse, James met Jeffrey, the son of a virologist.Jeffrey was not actually a lunatic, but was sent to a lunatic asylum because his thoughts were too radical.Unexpectedly, Jeffrey and James became good friends. Jeffrey not only believed everything James said, but also tried to help James escape from the madhouse.James was then picked up by future scientists.The second time travel is much more reliable than the first time, and James finally came to Philadelphia before the virus outbreak.According to James' investigation, he found a very important problem. His friend Jeffrey seemed to be the culprit of the virus incident.Because Jeffrey is an extreme animal protectionist, he hated his father who used animals for experiments, so he planned to kidnap his father and release all the animals, and James suspected that these animals were the culprits that caused the outbreak of the plague. .However, as the investigation deepened, James had to admit the fact that if he hadn't come to this time and space by himself, the outbreak of the plague might not have happened.It is precisely because of my own obstruction that the entire history has been messed up, and history has led to the emergence of plagues in order to correct development.

Jed closed the script. At present, it seems that there is not a big problem with the script, but there may be some problems in the details. Here, Jed needs to contact some futurists, physicists and sociologists who believe in time travel to correct the script. flaw.In addition, the description of the future world will be the highlight of the whole movie.Generally speaking, in science fiction movies, the future world is already highly developed, but in "Twelve Monkeys", human civilization actually collapsed in 1996 due to the invasion of viruses.Jed suddenly remembered a documentary he had watched called "The World After Human Disappearance".In this documentary, human beings just disappeared suddenly, and how the earth will develop after the disappearance of human beings is presented in this documentary.The setting of this documentary is somewhat similar to "[-] Monkeys".The outbreak of the plague was very fast, and human beings were conquered by the virus almost without any resistance.There is no comet hitting the earth, no super volcanic eruption, and no major earthquake or tsunami. Human beings are just like that.Therefore, the future world retains almost all the products of human civilization, but no one takes care of them anymore.Jed told Lucas about this idea, hoping that Industrial Light and Magic can build a set of templates for future cities.

After listening to Jed's description, Lucas also took a breath of air. It's not that he hasn't imagined the future world, but as Jed described, he has never imagined it.A picture of New York City turning into a big forest has already appeared in Lucas' mind, which is beautiful but more visually impactful.In a world without human beings, no matter how beautiful the world is, human beings will not feel comfortable. "No problem, I will send out a batch of samples for you to choose as soon as possible. If you confirm it, we can start modeling."

Now Lucas is more and more satisfied with his status as a special effects director, but he no longer cares about the director's title.Now Industrial Light & Magic has become the best special effects company in the industry. Of course, this also has an important relationship with the "particle effects" contributed by Jade.Now the special effects produced by Industrial Light and Magic can almost be faked, and according to Jed’s suggestion, they are still developing better green screen technology. In Jed’s words, it is good to strive for future TV dramas to be completed in the studio.Although Lucas scoffed at this, he also had to admit that it is precisely because of the development of green screen technology that current directors can shoot some shots that could not be shot before, and now it can be easily achieved, and at the same time, the danger to actors is also reduced a lot.This time, the description of the future world proposed by Jed, Lucas is sure that once it is released, it will definitely conquer the whole world.At the same time, Lucas also had to lament that as a director, he seemed to be being left behind.

Robert Cosberg also came to Jed with the role he had chosen. Of course, he also heard that Jed planned to find some experts to polish the script.However, Cosberg didn't care about Jed's finding an expert. The director has the right to control the details of the script. After all, Cosberg didn't want to make a movie full of loopholes, but he really didn't have confidence De accepted the actor of his choice.The actor chosen by Cosberg is Bruce Willis. It is quite suitable for the tough guy on the screen to play the actor who was born as a prisoner. He has a simple and rough personality but is somewhat smart; De Pitt.Although Pete's temperament is the most suitable actor for Jeffrey, but whether he can perform that slightly neurotic temperament depends on the director's directing skills.The only shortcoming is the actress Catherine, who is played by Hollywood second-tier actor Madeleine Stowe.Although Madeleine has filmed some movies and played the leading role, her works did not leave a particularly obvious memory for people.Although Kosberg was a little apprehensive, he still handed over the list of characters to Jed.

To Cosberg's surprise, Jed quickly passed the role list, so the official shooting will start after the actors' schedules are finalized.Although there are many cities designed in this movie, most of the scenes are indoors, so Jed decided to use green screens to solve the exterior problems.Because the shooting schedule was a bit rushed this time, Jed couldn't arrange to go to the real location to shoot.Of course, the more important thing is that the budget arranged by Cosberg is very limited, so Jed had to choose to shoot in the studio.

"Action! Act [-], Scene [-], Twelve Monkeys."