Back To 1995

   Chapter 599 Premiere

  Lincoln Arts Center in New York, at this time, a huge "Matrix" movie poster has been hung up, and the world premiere of "The Matrix" will be held here.

   As one of Hollywood's biggest productions this year, The Matrix has been long-awaited in the film industry.

Paramount, the publisher of "The Matrix", although the fees are a bit expensive, and it cost Western Pictures a lot of money, but it finally did not collect the money and did not do personnel. In the hands of the big cinema chain company, 3,700 screens were released for The Matrix.

This number of screens cannot be said to be a top-level giant treatment system, but it can be considered in the past. Of course, if the box office is good in the first week, the number of theaters showing The Matrix will also increase. On the contrary, major theaters will be cut off by then. The number of "The Matrix" is over, and it is really overthinking to expect the cinema to lose money to promote "The Matrix".

  The media and the audience are also eagerly looking forward to "The Matrix". This film has been full of controversy from the moment it started shooting. The investor of The Matrix is ​​a newcomer to Hollywood, "Western Pictures".

   And the biggest sponsor of Western Pictures is Song Yang, a person who plays the Internet and crosses into Hollywood. Many people are waiting to watch the show. The one who was beaten in Hollywood before is not only one person.

   Oracle's Larry Ellison didn't have a bad time in Hollywood. Many people in Hollywood are gloating and waiting to see Song Yang and Western Pictures' jokes.

   If "The Matrix" fails miserably at the box office, it's the people who watch the fun and don't take it too seriously. I hope to see it.

Only Song Yang made a big mistake in Hollywood. Those big Hollywood companies, producers, stars, etc. can jump out and accuse Song Yang. "Laymen guide experts" will make the box office a fiasco, and Song Yang needs to invest money. Give it to them, let them "help" Song Yang to shoot the movie, Song Yang will hand over the beautiful knife to them, professional people do professional things, not laymen guiding experts!

   Countless American movie fans are also waiting. Before the "Matrix" was promoted at the Super Bowl, it attracted a wave of eyeballs, and the publicity has been overwhelming these days.

  The IMDB website, which has become the world's largest film and television website, also began to advertise for "The Matrix".

   IMDB, which was acquired by Song Yang, has quietly become the world's largest film and television website, attracting tens of millions of fans to the website.

   "This year's most anticipated sci-fi action blockbuster may also be a sci-fi fan who misses the movie that will regret his life!"

  When IMDB promoted its own film for the sponsor, it also unabashedly touted it, directly touting the "Matrix" that has not yet been released as a "classic" in science fiction movies.

Websites and forums such as IMDB, as well as TV stations, cinema posters, etc., all have the propaganda of "The Matrix". The released video clips are also accompanied by propaganda words such as epic masterpieces, which frequently appear in the eyes of movie fans. Many fans are looking forward to this movie.

   Of course, it is not without cold water, "The Matrix may be the second future water world!"

A New York media ran a sensational headline, "The production cost of The Matrix, plus the cost of publicity, has exceeded 400 million US dollars, far exceeding the original cost of 200 million US dollars in Future Water World, and the box office of Future Water World, only Less than eighty million dollars...

According to people familiar with the matter, the plot of The Matrix is ​​very obscure and difficult to understand. At the beginning of filming, Will Smith and other Hollywood superstars refused to participate in The Matrix because of the plot. Many actors who participated in the filming also claimed that they did not know that they were in what to do...

The hero and heroine of The Matrix are not Hollywood superstars. Whether Keanu Reeves can carry the $400 million giant is a question worth thinking about. As for other casting issues, it has always been shrouded in The Matrix movies. body! "

   Anyway, this New York media criticized "The Matrix" as useless, and the layman guided the layman, thinking that Song Yang invested in this film on a whim.

The plot of the movie is too bad, the actors themselves don't know what they are playing, can the audience understand it, and the box office appeal of Keanu Reeves, the leading actor of the movie, no one knows how much, and in the end, he secretly pokes Poke, disgusted Song Yang, alluding to Song Yang stuffing people into the crew.

  Touted and belittled, various topics shrouded "The Matrix", making The Matrix much more popular than movies of the same period.

   Not only Hollywood is looking forward to it, but the institutions of Wall Street in New York are also gearing up, waiting for Song Yang's arrival.

  America's Internet is not peaceful. During this period, it is not without major events. The electronic payment war caused by PayPal is still going on. Major banks in America, both secretly and explicitly, have begun to enter this business.

Especially on the PayPal platform, the scale of funds sold around the world has become larger and larger. After PayPal sold $5.4 billion in funds in a single month, it has attracted major Wall Street institutions and other electronic payment platforms. stand up.

It sells 5.4 billion dollars a month, which is almost insignificant compared to the size of America's huge fund. For example, America has a 401 account, that is, the retired group of people, with nearly 30 million accounts. , The institution that manages the accounts for these people invested more than $1 trillion in funds and bonds!

Compared with the institutions that manage 401 accounts, PayPal is nothing at all, but PayPal has only been established for a long time, and there are not so many large customers and institutions. Those small users on the PayPal platform alone, and even many accounts, have less than one savings. Thousands of dollars, just like this, PayPal can sell a fund of five or six billion dollars a month, and it is no wonder that it can not stimulate Wall Street.

  America’s Wall Street institutions sell fund users mainly by America’s own people, while PayPal cuts global leeks, which allows PayPal to avoid involution, and the monthly fund sales scale is constantly sprinting toward tens of billions of dollars.

PayPal now has launched funds, bonds, insurance and other wealth management products on the platform. It is also establishing a risk control system and is preparing to launch lending and mortgage businesses. There are more and more companies and industries with PayPal. Banks, e-commerce, natural gas , water and electricity, communication operators, etc., so that the scale of PayPal's users continues to grow explosively, and the attracted users continue to make contributions to PayPal's revenue!

PayPal, a model that attracts leeks to the world and can make a fortune just by charging fees, makes payment platforms such as X.com even more envious. They want to replace PayPal and become the leader of the electronic payment industry. son.

The e-payment industry’s brains are about to come out. The browser war that has lasted for nearly two years seems to be coming to an end. Nielsen announced the latest issue of the browser industry report. The market share of Microsoft’s IE browser has exceeded 70%!

This is not only in America, but also in the global browser market. IE browsers have already won a big victory. Before this survey data was released, the news that Netscape's new quarterly performance continued to suffer huge losses had long been reported. of uproar.

Netscape is about to run out of steam. This is something that everyone on the Internet knows. It’s just a matter of time. Unless it can be reversed, Netscape suddenly wins the anti-monopoly company with Microsoft and forces Microsoft to sell the browser. Unbind Microsoft system from IE browser!

   But it's a little too difficult, and now Microsoft is dragging its feet on the lawsuit, obviously preparing to drag Netscape to death.

Compared with Netscape, other Internet companies have had a pretty good life. Amazon, invested by Song Yang and known as America's first e-commerce concept stock, has also begun to replace the entire e-commerce industry. The successful listing, representing the frenzy of the e-commerce industry, is coming.

   Of course, Amazon, compared with ICQ, has a far lower valuation. Now in the Internet industry, ICQ, Yahoo, AOL and others are the real leading big brothers, and the rest are younger brothers...

   Yahoo's stock price has doubled since last year. By buying and buying all the way, the market value has also soared. It is believed by Wall Street institutions that Yahoo's market value this year can break through the $40 billion, or even $50 billion mark!

After Netscape fell, Wall Street's movement to confer gods has not stopped. Wall Street needs to create a flag. Netscape is about to fall. Wall Street is ready to support Yahoo to become that flag, telling the leeks all over the world that the Internet is still in frenzy.

ICQ, AOL, etc., also have the opportunity to become the leading big brothers of the Internet, but compared to Yahoo, which has been occupied by Wall Street's board of directors and management, Song Yang and AOL President Case are somewhat at a distance from Wall Street, especially Song Yang , so that Wall Street has no chance to start, which makes Wall Street can only bet on Yahoo.

Although ICQ will not be promoted to the altar, the institutions on Wall Street will not refuse to cooperate with ICQ. There are many institutions that want to make a lot of money through the listing of ICQ. For the arrival of Song Yang, Wall Street naturally also Looking forward to it.

After the plane landed at the New York airport, Song Yang and his party went to stay at the North Shore Manor on Long Island. Song Yang had to wait for many people to arrive here. Song Yang promised Immelt to let ICQ go public as soon as possible, but he also I won't rush to Wall Street to give people away, and be bitten off by those hungry Wall Street wolves.

   "What's going on with this New York Daily News?!"

   After Song Yang arrived at the North Shore Manor, he threw a copy of "New York Daily News" towards Ted Sarando, the president of Western Pictures, who was waiting here.

   It is mainly this tabloid that has slandered the news of "The Matrix". The "New York Post" and other tabloids also broke the news, but they did not reveal as much insider information. The "New York Daily News" is like someone providing ammunition.

   (end of this chapter)