The Best Entertainment Era

San Francisco, Bay Area.

20th Century Fox's Brown Wilson is here to meet with Photobucket CEO Davis.

How do you think about it? Brown-Wilson asked: Joining Fox, your company will not only get sufficient funds, but also get the support of the entire Fox platform.

Davis didn't want to offend people from the entertainment giant, so he kept his attitude low: Mr. Wilson, thank you for your attention from 20th Century Fox, but I'm very sorry...

Brown-Wilson frowned: Not satisfied with the price? Photobucket is a new company, and the investment of 30 million US dollars is already a premium.

Davis was smart and answered immediately: Netflix offered $35 million to Photobucket.

Brown-Wilson asked, Netflix? The Netflix from Relativity Entertainment?

Yes, Netflix. Davis said bluntly: Netflix is ​​very sincere. In the past two days, Netflix CEO Mark Randolph personally came forward and conducted detailed negotiations with Photobucket. With an agreement, we will have a better development in Netflix.

Brown-Wilson thought it was a question of quotation, and said: Twentieth Century Fox's bid will not be lower than that of Netflix.

It's not a matter of money. Davis judged from these words that Fox could not pay too high a price, and also dispelled some thoughts: Netflix's platform is more suitable for Photobucket.

Seeing that Brown-Wilson wanted to refute, not wanting to get into a stalemate with 20th Century Fox, Davis first explained: As far as I know, 20th Century Fox's Internet business is not even a small marginal business, and now it is entering the Internet industry. , I’m just a novice in this industry. Your traditional media platform is not suitable for the Internet, but Netflix is ​​different. This is an extremely mature Internet company, and it is even a leader in a certain Internet industry. Twentieth Century Fox There’s simply no comparison to Netflix in terms of the internet.”

Hearing this, Brown Wilson's face was a little ugly, but he couldn't refute it, because it was a well-known fact.

Davis added: I'm very sorry, Mr. Wilson, but Photobucket has decided to accept Netflix's offer. But in the end he still had a tinge of fantasy: Unless 20th Century Fox makes it impossible to refuse.

Brown-Wilson nodded: I see. He took the initiative to end the meeting: Let's stop here.

It is impossible for Twentieth Century Fox to pay far more than the actual value for such a small Internet company.

The previous offer of 30 million US dollars is itself a premium, and 35 million US dollars can be said to be the limit of 20th Century Fox, and it cannot be higher.

Davis didn't bother, saying: I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation.

After a few polite words, he took his leave and left.

The situation is clear. Twentieth Century Fox does not have Internet thinking at all. It does not understand the importance of Photobucket's technology for Internet image sharing and processing, or whether Netflix can see the actual value of Photobucket.

This is not only a matter of money, but also not a matter of money. When the acquisition amount is not much different, a suitable platform is undoubtedly more important.

Brown Wilson had just returned to the hotel and received several calls. Several companies that had already talked about the same before postponed the subsequent negotiations.

It's not hard to figure out why, and it's almost all the same: Netflix made offers to those companies, too!

In the afternoon, Brown Wilson returned to Los Angeles to report the latest situation to Jim Prose.

Obviously. Jim Prowse said calmly, Ronan Anderson's hand came over.

Brown-Wilson said: The acquisition may greatly exceed the budget. Our original plan was to acquire an Internet company for US$1 billion and then integrate and develop, but we have increased investment in acquisitions, and subsequent integration and development funds...

Jim Prose shook his head: Don't worry, I'll think of a way. Lehman Brothers has cooperated with us for a long time, and we can apply for another loan from them.

Brown-Wilson added: I asked someone to make an estimate. Netflix suddenly appeared to participate in the competition. The extra funds we paid may be more than 70 million US dollars.

Says Jim Prowse: Go for it, 20th Century Fox needs an Internet business.

Compared with Relativity Entertainment, all Hollywood companies started late on the Internet, one step behind, step by step behind.

Hughes Aircraft Works, Burbank, Los Angeles.

After Howard Hughes's aircraft company was split up and sold, several huge repair sheds and hangars that Hughes himself bought from Lockheed in Burbank were converted into film studios by Hollywood.

Due to the huge hangar space, it is especially suitable for large-scale interior layouts.

Part of the interior scenes of the Iron Man crew, especially the scene where Tony Stark is imprisoned in the cave to make Mark's generation escape, will also be filmed here.

Today, the hangar that was once used to maintain and repair aircraft has been transformed into a huge cave.

Accompanied by Kevin Fitch and Jon Favreau, Ronan saw the interior layout of the studio, and then came to a nearby office building.

By the way, the young actress you recommended last time is called Cody Horne.

The three walked and chatted, and Kevin Fitch said to Ronan: After the audition, we have signed a contract with her.

Ronan asked curiously, Which character? You wouldn't give her the heroine, would you?

Of course not. The person who answered was Jon Favreau: Kotie Horne is not yet twenty years old, too young, she got the role of a female reporter.

Ronan nodded and said, She herself has no special requirements in this regard.

Kevin Fitch said: Yeah, I can see that Kotie Horn is more out of interest.

Jon Favreau joked: If my dad was the co-chairman of Disney Pictures, I would only do things that interest me.

Ronan and Kevin Feige both laughed, Hollywood has always been so unequal.

Cody Horn's father, Alan Horn, took the blame for the failure of Catwoman, retired from the Warner Bros. Horn's situation is basically clear in the industry, and everyone knows that he is not directly responsible for the failure of Catwoman.

So, as Cody Horn told Ronan, Alan Horn, an unemployed man with a mid-life crisis, soon succeeded in finding a job again and was hired by Walt Disney as the director of Disney Pictures. co-chair.

But outsiders are not quite sure which side Alan Horn is leaning on in the Disney infighting.

It's a pity, Jon, you don't have a billionaire father. Ronan also joked: Otherwise, if you screw up this movie, I can drive you home to inherit billions of dollars, let You are sad all your life.

Jon Favreau, the fat man, is quite humorous: How could it be sad? I would laugh out loud in my dreams.

Kevin Feiqi pulled back to the topic and said: The audition for the leading actress is over, and Jon and I have two candidates, namely Gisele Bundchen and Carolina Kurkova, their appearance is enough to support Playing the role of a vase, the acting skills are not outstanding, but they are above the minimum baseline.

Ronan nodded and said, The two Victoria's Secret angels are not bad. He also had doubts: Giselle Bundchen is Brazilian, and the setting with Pepper...

Speaking of this, he shook his head first, because he had seen Gisele Bundchen beside Leonardo.

Jon Favreau said: Comparatively speaking, Gisele Bundchen's Latin features are not obvious. She looks more like a traditional white person in appearance. As for Carolina Kurkova, there is no such aspect. The problem.

Kevin Fitch said: Giselle Bundchen has made a name for herself in the fashion industry, but she is not at the top. She is also working on a second career. She once cooperated with Relativity Entertainment and starred in Wearing Prada. demon.

When he came to the door of the meeting room in the office building, he lowered his voice a little: Today, Leonardo came with Gisele Bundchen.

Leo. Ronan couldn't help laughing: I haven't seen him for a long time.

Entering the meeting room, the two people inside immediately caught Ronan's attention, they were Leonardo DiCaprio and Gisele Bundchen.

Leonardo took the initiative to shake hands with Ronan: Long time no see, Ronan.

Yeah. Ronan and Leonardo had already talked about their unhappiness. They were neither friends nor enemies: You gained a lot of weight.

He looked at Gisele Bundchen: Leo, from you, I can smell something called happiness.

This sentence made Gisele Bundchen smile happily, and she had a good impression of Ronan, so she shook hands with him quickly: Hi, Ronan, this is probably not the first time we have met.

Ronan said, I greeted you and Leo at the party before.

Gisele Bundchen remembers that Ronan had a close relationship with the modeling industry in the past, and there seemed to be two ex-girlfriends of supermodels.

After the three greeted each other, Gisele Bundchen introduced Jon Favreau and Kevin Fitch to Leonardo.

With the maturity brought by age and experience, Leonardo is no longer a bastard after a big ship, and his whole person seems to have changed into a different look, with a very peaceful attitude towards people and things.

Seems to have found true love too.

Let Leonardo accompany the crew, or Ronan's crew who had conflicts, is enough to show that Leonardo attaches great importance to Gisele Bundchen.

Leonardo's true love has always been the same, and it has not changed for decades.

If you have to find a further true love in true love, it must be Gisele Bundchen.

The Brazilian supermodel has been dating Leonardo for more than four years, which is unique in the history of Leonardo's past love.

But Leonardo seems to distinguish between love and one-night stand very clearly. The two people have been on and off because of Leonardo's lace.

They are also favorites of the Los Angeles gossip media, making too much news.