~： Four hundred and ninety-nine - We are forever 18 months away from bankruptcy!

"Good morning, Harvey."

"Hi Wayne."

After a simple greeting, silence returned to Miramax's office. Harvey Weinstein's breathing was clearly audible. He held the hand of the mobile phone. The strength on the palm of the hand has been tense to the point of turning white.

"Harvey, you've overplayed."

After more than ten seconds of silence, Wayne's voice came again on the phone. If you didn't care what he said, just listened to the tone of the voice, it was like a friendly reminiscence to an old friend, and his voice was full of laughter. meaning.

Harvey Weinstein was silent. He still hadn't figured out why the other party would call him directly, and the man on the opposite side obviously didn't expect to get a reply from him, and he was full of relaxed and happy voices. Hastily, it came through the mobile phone.

"A little story, Harvey." In the eerily quiet environment of the office, Wayne's voice was very clear at the moment. "The reason why Hussein of Jordan is able to enjoy his life is because he is cautious enough. In fact, no one can tell how many people in this world want to kill him, and you, Harvey, are only concerned with your immediate interests. , being too careless."

"I don't understand what you mean, Wayne."

It's rare, Harvey Weinstein's hoarse voice rang out. Although he was indeed played by a Pulitzer Prize winner in Chicago because of his immediate interests, some things can be done, but they must not be Put it on the surface and say it, it will never be admitted.

"No, no, no! Harvey." At this time, Wayne's tone became more relaxed and pleasant, and it fell into Harvey Weinstein's ears, but it seemed like a cat's paw. "It took almost a hundred years for movies to go from being invented to becoming an art form and then to an industry with a related output value of hundreds of billions of dollars.

And George Lucas' "Star Wars" is like a blockbuster, which completely broke the new world in the field of commercial films. Since then, Hollywood's commercial film revenue has become more diversified, and the revenue channels of film companies have become more refined. Since then, sci-fi special effects blockbusters with large investment and production have become the mainstream of making big money in the market, and low-cost independent literary and artistic films have become more and more uninteresting..."

"Wayne, what are you trying to say?" Harvey Weinstein is now sure that the other party should have also seen the newspaper that reported on the steel frame, otherwise the current call would not have appeared, but the other party was not in a hurry The slow preaching tone really made him feel harsh. "I'm still very busy with work, and I don't have time to listen to your development history in the popular circle. I'll invite you to play again when I have time."

After speaking, he held up his mobile phone and was about to put it down. He wanted to hang up this inexplicable phone call. He knew the situation better than anyone else. After the season is over, Warner Bros.' inexplicable revenge will definitely come. If "The English Patient" ends up with nothing, he is the most unfortunate unfortunate.

With the current delicate relationship between Miramax and Walt Disney, Harvey Weinstein didn't expect Michael Eisner at all to help resist the pressure from Warner Bros. Now that all means have been laid out, Earning the **** dollars first is the most important thing.

"Hey Harvey, if I were you, I wouldn't be in a rush to do that **** job, could you be busier than me?"

The mobile phone was full of teasing voices, which made his hand stop, while the other party's voice kept coming. "Continuing the topic just now, Harvey, that is not the history of the development of the circle. The reason why I say this is that I want to tell you one of my discoveries. The most profitable commercial film in the 20th century, after "Star Wars", was a big investment and big production The big special effects sci-fi action movie of the big cast.

Did you discover it? Since the appearance of the first film "Factory Gate" in 1895, film has officially become the seventh indispensable art for human beings. Therefore, artistic films have occupied the market for almost a hundred years, while commercial films with special effects are only popular until now. A decade or two. The 21st century is coming, Harvey, I think the 21st century must be the century of superheroes, what do you think? "

No one knew what Wayne meant when he said this, whether it was on the other end of the phone or a few people around him, but Harvey Weinstein subconsciously believed the other party's prediction.

Aside from his bad behavior and domineering personality, he can definitely be regarded as a producer with a business vision in Hollywood circles. A commercial film profit model has been developed, so that live-action films can be compared with successful animated films with a long production cycle and huge investment in the fields of peripherals, authorization, and channel derivatives.

Miramax's parent company is Walt Disney, and before the 1990s, this huge profit model was only enjoyed by Disney. When the time entered the 1990s, Disney Animation's last crazy "The Lion King" "After the curtain, hand-drawn animation was directly abandoned by the times.

In the past two years, the most recognized high-profit film type in the circle, and the most promising stable-profit film type, is the DC superhero produced by Warner Brothers and initiated by Wayne, although Tim Burton also Two Batman films were produced, but the profits were completely incomparable to those of the latecomers. In fact, they were still in the category of ordinary sci-fi movies.

There is also a new profit point that Disney has found, which is the Pixar studio led by the Joe Gang who left the fruit company. But as we all know, with the great success of "Toy Story", irreconcilable cracks have gradually appeared in the relationship between the two sides. Just when Harvey Weinstein was about to say something, to throw away this morning's broken thing about the steel bone, and let the other party's eyes look in the direction of Chicago, the other party's voice came again after a pause.

"Harvey, the times are developing. With the advent of computers, special effects have gradually transformed from modeling to computer special effects. The film industry is also developing rapidly with the times, from the most popular literary films on the market to slow Slowly it has become a commercial film that various fans like, which means that if it does not follow the pace of the times, it is destined to be eliminated.

Do you know Microsoft Corporation? I especially like a sentence said by their Mr. Li, and suddenly I think he said it very well, and now I send this sentence to you. "We are only 18 months away from bankruptcy!" Although the product cycle of the film industry is much longer than that of computers, film companies must keep up with the development of the times and keep releasing new types of films. "

We are always eighteen months away from bankruptcy! ! !

Harvey Weinstein can ignore everything else, but he immediately understood the meaning of this sentence. Miramax is not a small Hollywood production company. After so many years of development of the two brothers, they have been relying on With a small-budget film strategy, it has grown into a medium-sized film company.

But it depends on who you compare it to. If you put Miramax in front of Warner Bros., everything will turn into a joke. But anyone in the circle with normal judgment can understand the gap between the two.

"Wayne, can I take this as a threat to me?"

The tone of Harvey Weinstein's speech is also changing. The reason why he has been smooth over the years is that he is bolder than ordinary people.

"No, Harvey, it depends on how you understand it." A burst of cheerful laughter came from the microphone, and it was obvious that Wayne was smiling quite happily. "On the surface, Edward VIII lost the throne because of Mrs. Simpson, but in reality? He influenced English politics because of his close relationship with Telexi.

Harvey, this history tells us that if you want to be an eternal winner in the circle, you can't just focus on your immediate interests because of your shortsightedness, or you will eventually lose everything that you are based on! "

"what!"

In just a few minutes of talking time, Harvey Weinstein calmed down, turned to lean on the large solid wood desk, looked at the sky outside the window, and responded with the same sarcastic tone: "Wayne, I'm here. Decades of struggle experience in the circle tell me that business is usually a win-win or a lose-lose, do you believe it? When I can't make money, you can't make money too!"

"Well, Harvey, I hope God is on your side."

With a "click", the phone was directly hung up. In Harvey Weinstein's heart, everyone is a decent person Even if they temporarily appear on the opposite side because of their interests, they will one day because of When the interests stand together, the circle is so big, isn't it?

But obviously, there was a deviation in his thinking this time, and the fuse that caused this deviation was the report about the steel frame that flashed away this morning.

"M**herf**ker, Roger, you old ****, you deserve cancer, f**k! f**k!  …"

Cursing continued to pour out of his mouth. The secretary standing outside the office door and British director Anthony Minghella looked at each other and turned around silently, preparing to cancel the plan to see each other at this time.

"Crack, click."

A few sounds of items shattering sounded, and through the unfastened shutters, two people outside the door saw that the big fat man directly smashed the mobile phone against the wall. Maybe it wasn't enough after that, so he picked up the phone from the desk. The machine also fell to the wall, and the corners of the office were already in a mess, full of fragments of objects.

"Shit! Famous and noble in North America?! f**k, filming a movie showing dark humanity to warn the world, but he has a warm heart?! Like shit*****!  … ."

A series of hoarse and angry curses sounded again, obviously, Harvey Weinstein was disgusted by the water segment that spit directly into his face like a child of Wayne.

What made him even more disgusting was that everything the other party said, including those threats, could not be refuted, because he knew that those threats would eventually come true. The contract is also guaranteed.

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