Heads Up Hollywood

Time Magazine, a publication of Time Warner, is the most influential magazine in the United States and the world.

Tang En, following the big hits of "Titanic" and "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", this is the third time that he appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine".

This time the subject of the report is not a movie, and there is only one word "tax" on the cover.

Open the magazine, the first article, "Time" from another side, reported the most controversial figure in the United States today - Dunn Walker.

The title of the article is very interesting - "What is the truth?" "

"Dawn Williams Walker, a young director who is not yet 22 years old, in the past three years, he has created one miracle after another in Hollywood, whether it is "Titanic" or "Star Wars Episode 1" , this talented director has brought unimaginable visual shock to movie fans all over the world. There is no doubt that he is the king of movies in the new era!"

"But... the director is unwilling to be lonely. After filming "Titanic", he received a large box office dividend, nearly 100 million U.S. dollars after tax. He took out 80 million U.S. dollars to buy Yahoo! Stocks. But this year, he made a decision that stunned everyone. When high-tech stocks were in full swing, he sold all Yahoo stocks, and at the same time, shorted several Internet companies in succession.

"As a result, everyone already knows that Dunn Walker has made a lot of money, a sum of money that he can't spend in a few lifetimes! For this reason, he was investigated by the FBI and criticized by many media, as if he was a A thief, a liar, a criminal, he robbed Nasdaq! However, is this the truth of the matter?"

"In this article, we don't talk about movies, stocks, Hollywood, or Wall Street. We only talk about one topic—taxation! As we all know, Clinton is a Democratic president who advocates high taxes. Now the personal income tax in the United States is also history. The pinnacle of sex. But do the rich really pay their taxes?"

"According to the data released by the authoritative economic magazine "Forbes", in the past tax year, the average personal tax rate of the top 400 richest people in North America was only 27%! This is a surprising data. Such a tax rate, even Less than a lot of 'mid-range' income jobs like stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, professors, celebrities, etc. This has to worry about our tax laws!"

"However, there is one exception. That's right, he is the protagonist of today's report—Twain Walker! With the authorization of Twain himself, all transactions between Twain and Twain Pictures in the past three years will be attached at the end of this article." Tax records. And this tax list is enough to defeat all the unbearable remarks in the current media!"

"In 1998, Tang En paid taxes of US$94.668 million; in 1999, Tang En paid taxes of US$7.5348 million, and Dunn Pictures paid taxes of US$35.873 million; in 2000, Tang En paid taxes of US$42.067 million, and Tang En's personal taxes... reached a terrifying 13.27 Billion dollars! Yes, believe your eyes, you are not mistaken, he paid more than 1.3 billion dollars in taxes in the last tax season!"

"Perhaps $1.3 billion is just an unimaginable number for many readers, so the following set of data is enough to illustrate the problem. The richest man in the world, Bill Gay, who reached $90 billion in the Forbes wealth list in 1999 Larry Ellison pays $198 million, Warren Buffett pays $1.8 million, Paul Allen pays $219 million, Robertson Walton pays $32 million, Michael Dell pays taxes $5.46 million..."

"In the last tax season, that is, half a month ago, Dawn Walker's total personal tax payment exceeded the total tax payment of the top 20 people on the Forbes North American Rich List in 1999! 1.327 billion US dollars will improve the lives of millions of families across the United States , Maybe your medical expenses and education expenses include part of Tang En's help!"

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This article in "Time" magazine immediately set off a vortex of frenzy in the wave of "anti-Tang".

Many people with a sensitive sense of smell smell a strange smell.

Tang En, who has been silent for a while, is finally going to fight back?

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In the afternoon of that day, Warner Bros. held a grand press conference for the whole society. No heavyweights attended, but they announced a shocking news.

Warner Pictures and Tang En Pictures reached a cooperation!

The two parties will jointly invest in creating a new large-scale fantasy film project - "The Chronicles of Narnia" within this year.

And announced the main producer candidates, David Heyman and Lionel Wigram, the director candidate is the Chinese director Ann Lee personally designated by Don Walker.

Warner Bros. announced such a high-profile cooperation with Tang En Pictures, even under the premise that Tang En Pictures' funds have not been unfrozen, the meaning is self-evident.

After DreamWorks and Universal, Twain finally found a real thigh that could compete with Disney and Fox - Time Warner!

Hollywood has been hyping up the "The Chronicles of Narnia" project for several months. Tang En Pictures' promotional caliber has always been high-profile and unified, that is, to bring this classic fantasy masterpiece to the big screen at all costs.

Unexpectedly, Tang En Pictures made a wedding dress for Warner after a lot of hard work.

Of course, Tang En Pictures will gain more benefits, because they have the real capital to compete against Disney and Fox.

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Tang En has never been a character to swallow his anger.

He didn't expect that because of the initial small quarrel with Disney, it would develop to the point where he almost tore his face.

Now that his face has been torn apart, there is no need for Tang En to dodge and dodge, and simply make a frontal attack!

Twain has already found the target, which is Disney's traditional field and core asset - Disney Kids Channel!

The current Disney Kids Channel has only 27 million household subscribers, and it has only been a few years since it was reorganized into a basic cable TV station. It is far from being invincible in later generations.

Start early at the embryonic stage, and break Disney's arm first!

In Tang En's office, Bill McNick, Nina Jacobson, George Paxton, Andrew O'Hare, Isla Fisher, Reese Witherspoon and other confidantes were sitting, discussing The most popular topic is counterattack to Disney.

"Now there are three main channels in the children's TV market in the United States, Cartoon Channel, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel. Cartoon Channel and Disney Channel are mainly broadcasting classic cartoons, and Nickelodeon is good at sitcoms and live-action show."

Reese Witherspoon held a folder and gave some basic introductions to the three children's channels.

Cartoon Channel is owned by Warner, and its core assets are a batch of cartoons from the golden age of MGM such as "Tom and Jerry", and Disney Channel mainly broadcasts Disney animations such as "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck".

Nickelodeon belongs to CBS Group, and after being acquired by Viacom, it formed its children's channel TV network. Because Paramount, a film company owned by Viacom, is not good at animation production, Nickelodeon lacks enough animation copyrights, so he started from another direction and chose a sitcom reality show.

After listening to Reese's description, Tang En expressed his opinion: "I think everyone understands what I mean. Disney Channel is still in the stage of transformation and development. They have already seen the disadvantages of classic animation and turned to the comedy reality show market. Nick Rodion's sitcoms are still aimed at younger kids, and Disney is trying to reach the teenage market, which is not what I want to see."

Everyone here is Tang En's confidantes, and they all know his character, and they will definitely take revenge!

Right now, Tang En Pictures is still worrying about the acquisition of Starz TV station. It has to focus all of its energy on Starz TV station's operation, adjustment, and user acquisition. It is impossible to buy another children's TV station and compete with Disney.

There is only one feasible result now, and that is to help Cartoon Network, or Nickelodeon, compete against Disney!

What behavior is this called?

Typical detrimental to others!

However, Tang En was happy, and most of the people present were also happy to see the result.

During this period of time, Disney's suppression of Tang En Pictures was too much. Many employees of Tang En Pictures even made a high-profile statement that they would never watch Disney movies in their lives!

Bill McNick pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Actually, whether it's Nickelodeon, Cartoon Channel, or Disney Channel, their object-oriented is now monotonous, so there are not many subscribers. The largest channel in the United States is now The Children’s Channel, which also belongs to Fox’s Family Entertainment Channel, has been in operation for 20 years and has more than 80 million North American users, 10 million Latin American users, and 24 million European users. Because it is aimed at young people, it is not included in the Children’s Channel.”

He was the CEO of 20th Century Fox in the past, so he knows the Fox situation very well.

Tang En's eyebrows flickered, "Bill, you mean... Disney will gradually adjust the audience market?"

"They're already doing that. The TV movie "The Adventures of the Mummy" is not a children's film in the traditional sense." Bill McNick agrees.

Andrew O'Hare said meaningfully: "It should be, Disney's current development is becoming more and more diverse. Teenagers are the largest consumer market, and they will definitely not miss it."

Tang En said displeased: "No, no matter what, we must disrupt Disney's deployment!"

"But... what do we rely on?"

Before Reese finished speaking, Dunn, Bill McNick, and Nina Jacobson said in unison: "Marvel!"

"Marvel?"

"That's right!" Tang En smiled slightly. "Marvel has more than 5,000 ultimate heroes. It is impossible for us to put them all on the big screen. The future TV industry will definitely have the shadow of Marvel."

Nina Jacobson smiled, "It's too reluctant and inappropriate for seven or eight-year-old children to go to the cinema to watch movies like "Spider-Man". We can cultivate children's understanding of Marvel through cartoons." After ten years, when these children grow up, they will become the biggest pillar of Marvel movies!"

Bill McNick said slowly: "The reason why Fox bought the copyright of "X-Men" was because Fox produced a version of "X-Men" animation, which had a high ratings and was very popular in the market. "

Reese Witherspoon murmured, "It turns out...Marvel is a treasure!"