Heads Up Hollywood

Before Tang En could speak, Penelope Cruz hooked the corners of her lips jokingly, and said softly, "Man, it's just greed!"

Thinking back to when the two first met three years ago, Penelope Cruz was so stiff that he was even nervous to speak in front of Tang En, and he was careful to accompany him.

Today, three years later, she has been completely reborn, her temperament and demeanor are somewhat detached, and her gestures are just like Nicole Kidman. She has the demeanor of a big star and is full of confidence.

Tang En took her hand and walked towards the back office area.

"what?"

"Go to the bedroom."

"What are you doing in the bedroom?"

Tang En was funny and annoyed, "What are you doing in the bedroom? We haven't seen each other for more than three months."

Penelope Cruz pursed her lips and smiled, pulling her hair around her ear, "Call my sister to come too?"

"Ah?" Tang En was a little surprised, "It's unnecessary, right? It's just the two of us, I love you alone."

"No need, how long have we known each other? Besides, if you really want to be nice to me, it's the same to be nice to my sister." Penelope Cruz's eyes were moving, and her soft voice was like a warbler.

Tang En dragged her to the bedroom, feeling a little emotional: "You are so kind to Monica."

"Is she my sister? Isn't that normal?"

"It's not normal, even if you are a sister, you can't share a man, right?"

"puff!"

Penelope Cruz smiled coquettishly, trembling wildly.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Are you a man?"

With a black line on Tang En's forehead, he said angrily, "I'm not a man? If I'm not a man, who is a man?"

Penelope Cruz knew she had made a slip of the tongue, so she quickly explained, and said sweetly: "I mean...you are not an ordinary man. Ordinary men, of course, cannot share, not even sisters."

Tang En shook his head and said, "The reason is not enough!"

Penelope Cruz pursed her lips and said: "Women can't share men because they are jealous and because of the uniqueness of love. You are my good friend, but you are not a boyfriend. There is no love entanglement. Besides, who dares to be jealous of a man like you? Why don't you kill yourself with sour? "

Seeing that Tang En was silent, she added: "You have so many women, instead of giving the opportunity to those messy women, you might as well create opportunities for my sister. This is called fighting for favor, do you understand? Forget it, you They don’t understand women’s minds at all.”

Tang En almost understood it, and no longer struggled too much. He was in a good mood and said with a smile, "Then call Monica over?"

"OK!"

"Will it be too late?"

"How come?" Penelope Cruz opened her eyes and shook her head immediately, "We can flirt slowly and wait for her. Besides, didn't you say you hurt that Australian model? I'll go wash it Wash, shall we try?"

Tang En laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid of getting hurt?"

Penelope Cruz gave him a charming white look, "Okay, hurry up and call my sister, don't waste time!"

...

The year 2003 is definitely a year for the rise of New Global Group!

As of December 25th, on the North American box office list of Hollywood movies, the movies of New Universal Group dominate the list!

Pixar's "Finding Nemo," $340 million;

Warner Bros.' "The Matrix 2," $280 million;

Down Pictures' "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," $260 million;

Universal Pictures' "The Almighty," $240 million;

Rose Pictures' "Gone Girl," $230 million;

20th Century Fox's "X-Men 2," $210 million;

Marvel Studios' Daredevil, $210 million;

Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man," $200 million;

...

In addition, the North American box office of "The Adventures of the Castle", "National Treasure", "The Age of Pentium", "The Fast and the Furious", and "American Pie 3: American Wedding" also exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars.

So far, among the 38 films released by New Universal Group this year, the total box office in North America has reached 3.14 billion US dollars!

What is this concept?

At this time, the total box office in North America in 2003 was 9.23 billion US dollars.

New Universal Group's North American box office market share exceeds one-third!

As for the total global box office... This year, the New Universal Group received a total of 8.75 billion US dollars.

There is no doubt that this is the highest annual box office record in Hollywood history.

As for the second place... last year's New Universal Group, which reached 7.63 billion US dollars.

At the beginning of the year, the revenue target of the film and television entertainment department was 9.5 billion US dollars.

When Tang En proposed it, it caused quite a bit of controversy, thinking that this amount was too large and difficult to achieve.

However, now it seems that this goal is...too low!

This year, the Ministry of Film and Television Entertainment has a revenue of 4.2 billion US dollars in the box office of the film market alone!

In addition, the home entertainment business revenue was 3.93 billion US dollars, the music business revenue was 1.95 billion US dollars, and the TV business revenue was 2.27 billion US dollars...

The year-end summary has been completed, and the total revenue of the Film and Television Entertainment Department this year has reached 12.35 billion US dollars!

A full 30% more than the expected US$9.5 billion!

The pre-tax profit reached a terrifying $3.06 billion!

Among them, the business with the highest profit margin is the Universal TV business, "American Idol", "Truth or Dare", "Smart and Brave", "The Bachelor", "Runway", "Universal Next Top Model", "The Walking Dead" These TV shows are really money-making weapons.

Universal TV has only more than 600 employees, but it has created a value of 2.27 billion US dollars, and its pre-tax profit is as high as 1.42 billion US dollars!

Universal Music Group has 7,000 employees worldwide, created a value of 1.95 billion US dollars, and a pre-tax profit of 450 million US dollars, which is not bad.

Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, has already said that this year's music business is still in a turbulent period of integration and spending too much. After the integration of part of the business of EMI Records acquired this year is completed, the output value and profit of next year will be significantly improved.

In comparison, the heavyweight industry of the film and television entertainment department - movies, the profit margin is far lower than that of TV and music.

Movie box office and home entertainment revenue reached 8.13 billion US dollars, but this part of the sector has a total of more than 38,000 employees spread all over the world.

The output value of 8.13 billion US dollars, the profit before tax is only 1.19 billion US dollars.

Of course, this is also related to the common practice of film companies.

When making a movie, if profits are generated, a large part of the dividends is often given to the labor union, the creative team, and related foundations. This is a Hollywood rule.

Some big-name directors and stars even list them separately in the contract, asking for dividends.

In order to reduce this part of the dividend payment, film companies usually have such a system, that is, the salary of the company's management is paid out of the film income.

In other words, the basic salaries of a series of executives such as Dunn Walker, Barry Diller, Robert Iger, Bill McNick, Shirley Lansing, etc. of the New Universal Group were deducted from the film revenue, while It is not deducted from the Group's total revenue.

This naturally reduces the profits of the film business, which also reduces a lot of proportional dividend payments.

For another example, if Netflix wants to fight a subsidy war, it also obtains subsidies from the film business. Movies need publicity, so if they advertise on Netflix, the promotion fee will naturally be borne by the movie.

For another example, donations to the Women’s Rights Protection Foundation, political donations to Schwarzenegger, expenses for various official activities, and expenses for the company’s special planes and cars must also be endorsed by the film business.

All kinds of reasons add up, and it is normal for the film business to have a low profit margin.

In fact, everyone knows that the earning power of movies is much stronger than that of music and TV!

Otherwise, Legendary Pictures wouldn't be doing so well.

However, it is the practice of film companies to squeeze the profits of movies!

Lowering the profit margin of the film business is beneficial to the company's overall revenue.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

At the New Universal Group's year-end summary conference, Bill McNick, the person in charge of the film and television entertainment department, laughed the happiest and most unscrupulously.

Feel elated!

He knew that Tang En had great ambitions, and he had high expectations for the Interactive Entertainment Department, TV Media Department, Tourism and Consumer Products Department, and he was sparing no effort to squeeze the resources of the Film and Television Entertainment Department to promote the growth of other departments.

But so what?

The film and television entertainment department is the golden signboard of New Universal!

The annual revenue is 12.35 billion US dollars, and the profit is 3.06 billion US dollars!

The crown of the new world!

As soon as such data came out, the heads of other departments immediately lost their momentum.

happy!

"Bill, you don't have to be so excited. Everyone knows what's going on with the film and television entertainment department. It's the territory directly under Dunn's jurisdiction!" Barry Diller wanted to maintain the company's order and balance the power of each department, so he couldn't let it go. Bill McNick's family dominates.

"Yeah, so what?" Bill McNick shook his head triumphantly, "Even if Twain is the biggest contributor to the Film and Television Entertainment Department, I can be considered the second contributor, right? Enough, haha, enough!"

Judging from his tone, it seems that as the second hero of the Film and Television Entertainment Department, he is much more glorious than the first hero of the other major departments.

Data is evidence!

Barry Diller said displeased: "The foundation of the New Universal Group is the film and television entertainment business. It is completely reasonable that the film and television entertainment department has such a performance. Bill, calm down!"

He wasn't mad at Bill McNick.

It is mainly to balance the mentality of the heads of several other departments.

After all, compared with the film and television entertainment department, the performance of the other departments is much different!

The TV Media Department under Jeff Zucker's charge is okay. With the hot development of the Sta TV Network this year and the steady success of the USA TV Network, the performance of the TV Media Department is also reasonable.

The revenue of the sta TV network was 2.25 billion US dollars and the profit was 970 million US dollars; the revenue of the USA TV network was 3.28 billion US dollars and the profit was 460 million US dollars.

The total revenue is 5.63 billion US dollars, which is slightly higher than the target of 5 billion US dollars at the beginning of the year, but it is still incomparable with the data of the Film and Television Entertainment Department, which exceeds 30%.

As for the interactive entertainment department...

Well, in the meeting room, Kevin Turner was too ashamed to lift his head. (https:)

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