Heads Up Hollywood

Tang En has watched many movies.

However, it is impossible for him to think of every movie, and then come up with the script in advance, or make it into a movie.

Inspired by the Woody Allen incident, Tang En really had a flash of inspiration and thought of a very classic movie "The Hunt" that he had seen in his previous life.

It's a Danish movie.

Story summary: Lucas, who just divorced his wife, works in a nursery school. He is kind-hearted and gentle. After working, he is quickly loved by colleagues and children.

Among them, a precocious girl named Carla is particularly close to Lucas. Faced with the girl's childish and simple overtures, Lucas could only politely refuse, but what he didn't expect was that this move pushed his life to the cusp of the storm.

Carla's retaliatory lies made Lucas bear the crime of sexually assaulting girls.

For a time, this good man became the object of exclusion and oppression by the whole town. The friend's anger, ex-wife's distrust, pet dog's death and stranger's viciousness made Lucas almost collapsed.

When the little Kara told the truth, the evil did not end with Lucas's innocence...

As Plato said: Man is the measure of all things, the measure of the existence of the existent and the non-existence of the non-existent.

People's thinking influences the development and changes of things, saying good or bad is sometimes enough to murder a person's goodness just by one-sided words. Although rumors stop at wise men, when wise men fail to fulfill their obligations, all judgments become extremely elusive.

This phenomenon is vividly shown in the movie "Hunting".

There is no doubt that "The Hunt" tells a great story.

However, a good story does not mean a good movie.

The story is just the most basic level of the movie.

In other words, the stories in the movies are only the superficial world presented to ordinary movie fans and laymen, and they are the pursuit of commercial profits.

Movies still have many pursuit angles that can flourish, such as shooting meaning, artistic thinking, film exploration, educational enlightenment, warning and touching, audiovisual shock, philosophical feedback, historical records...

The original version of "Hunting" just tried to tell the story as exciting as possible. Many of the director's techniques were rough, the use of the lens lacked characteristics, and the warm or cold image style was not unified.

It can only be said that director Thomas Vinterberg has completed a well-behaved movie with a great story.

There are many similar examples, especially Korean films, such as "Su-Am", "The Defender", "Don't Cry Mom", "Princess Han", "The Melting Pot", etc., have great stories but poor directors.

Truthfully opening up the same standard to the mainland, there would have been more than one old Mouzi and Brother Kai Ge, and the sixth generation of directors would have taken off long ago.

Since Tang En wrote the "Hunting" project himself, and blatantly released his bold words in front of the media, he must make this movie a classic!

Just when Tang En was writing the script outline of "The Hunt", Jeff Zucker from the TV Media Department was going to mess with it again.

Last year, he pushed for the acquisition of Discovery Communications Channel. The deal, struck earlier this year, cost $3.5 billion.

However, when Tang En gave up bidding for NBC, Jeff Zucker was quite disappointed.

This made his "television kingdom dream" a little bit broken.

Although Tang En said later that when New Universal grows stronger, it will directly swallow 20th Century Fox. With the Fox TV network, its strength is still not bad.

But this is too far away after all!

After three months of investigation, Jeff Zucker finally saw another piece of fat in the TV industry!

"Sports channel?"

Tang En put down the carbon pen in his hand and pushed the unfinished script outline aside with a look of surprise.

Jeff Zucker was very excited and said: "In the huge TV industry, sports content consumption, the core business of BC Group is not ABC TV, but ESPN! In the United States, ESPN has 83 million household users. In the past few years Annual revenue growth of more than 9%!"

"9%... so low?"

Tang En certainly knew the importance of the sports sector, but he still shook his head and laughed when he heard the 9% growth rate.

In the past year, the sta TV network's performance growth... reached 90%!

Jeff Zucker said sternly: "It's not fair to compare STA and ESPN. After all... STARZ is supported by our popular TV programs, but live sports broadcasts talk about steady growth. Furthermore, In the past two years, the number of STA users has grown rapidly, but the family range of STA, which focuses on boutique elite routes, is about 35 million to 40 million. It is less than half of ESPN!"

Now, the number of users of the sta TV network has stabilized at around 23 million.

With the broadcast of American dramas such as "Vice President", "Blade Warrior", "The Punisher 2", "Six Feet Under 4", "Warcraft" and other American dramas this year, the number of users... is likely to reach 30 million!

As Jeff Zucker said, the U.S. market is only so big. By 2005 and 2006, the number of users will almost reach saturation.

The starz station is equivalent to a high-end product in the TV industry, and it is not suitable for every home user.

The growth rate in the future will definitely slow down.

If you want to continue the grand plan of the TV empire, you must start planning in advance and seek new growth points for performance.

Jeff Zucker's choice, is the sports channel!

He said: "Live sports events are an indispensable entertainment content for every household. In contrast, STA is much less important. Taking the current US cable television as an example, for every $4 earned, there are $1 goes to ESPN. Last year ESPN made $2 billion in advertising revenue alone."

Tang En shook his head and said: "After so many years of development, both fame and user habits have accumulated. Including the American Football League (nfl), the National Major League Baseball (mlb), the American Professional Basketball League (nba), the National The exclusive rights to broadcast college football, the four Grand Slam tennis matches, the American Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Federation of Automobile Racing (NASCAR), the US Golf Open, and the British Golf Open are all under the control of ESPN hands."

"Actually, there are not many sports channels in the United States. NBC Sports, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, TNT, NFL... These competitors cannot pose a threat to ESPN at all. In addition to the accumulation of background, the broadcasting rights are also a big reason. The live sports industry is so booming, ESPN's performance in the past two years has made many people envious, it is conceivable that in the next one or two years, the price of sports event copyrights will increase crazily."

Since 2005, the price of broadcasting rights of sports events has begun to increase crazily, and more and more TV giants have participated in the competition for broadcasting of sports events.

However, neither cbs, nbc, fox, nor warner's tnt can pose a threat to espn.

ESPN's performance continued to grow, and its assets continued to expand. By the time of the peak in 2010, the number of users in the United States had exceeded 100 million! At that time, the total number of household users in the United States was only 130 million, and the coverage rate of ESPN exceeded 90%!

Based on a monthly subscription fee of $8...espn's annual subscription revenue alone can reach $10 billion!

However, after 2010, ESPN began to decline, losing millions of subscribers every year.

Why?

Because of streaming!

Streaming media video has challenged traditional TV, and live streaming media... Naturally, it is also encroaching on ESPN's market!

Cbs, NBC, Fox, and TNT joined hands to encircle and suppress ESPN, which was helpless, and could not resist the wave of the Internet after all.

Therefore, for Tang En, there was no rush, no rush.

"Actually, I paid attention to the sports sector two years ago. After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that this business cannot be done." Twain turned the pen in his hand, facing Jeff Zucker, and said calmly.

Jeff Zucker was slightly disappointed, and said eagerly: "Sports broadcasting is really the next big thing! This is the big hit in the TV industry!"

Tang En waved his hand and comforted him: "I understand what you mean, but think about it, what do we rely on to develop the sports channel? The operation mode of broadcasting sports events is different from that of movies and TV dramas."

"You can buy exclusive rights!"

"No need!"

Tang En waved his hand, "Don't forget, Disney is our ally now! Fox and NBC can bid high prices with Disney, but we can't. This year, we will vigorously promote tourism, vacation and chain store business, which has already attracted Disney's attention. fear. At this time, we should not stir up disputes."

Jeff Zucker murmured: "Then... then shall we give up the business of live sports broadcasting?"

"Of course not!" Tang En smiled, "Not now, let's wait a few years. The current ESPN is in the stage of invincibility. God blocks and kills gods. We don't need to be a mantis arm. When they are no longer able, we will It's not too late."

"No more?"

Jeff Zucker was taken aback for a moment, blinked his eyes, and was very puzzled.

Tang En laughed and said: "Okay, let's put this matter on hold, don't think about it for now. The focus of this year is to complete the strategic reorganization of the Discovery Communication Channel and create a new operating model. Don't worry if you can't eat too much. "

Jeff Zucker nodded.

However, he was still a little reconciled.

The TV Media Department... is about to become the worst-performing department among the four major departments of New Universal.

In such a situation, how could he have room for promotion?

In particular, the film and television entertainment department is booming, the interactive entertainment department has a bright future, and the tourism, vacation and consumer goods department is also eyeing for development...

Jeff Zucker felt that he didn't have much time, so he had to get busy and put in more work. He opened his mouth and said, "In this case, boss, let's open up the overseas market of STA TV Network as soon as possible. Seeing The North American market is about to be saturated, and we need to find new users in Europe, Asia, and Latin America."

Tang En didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved his hand, "Okay! If you have enough energy, go for it!"

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