In March, Fox Pictures released a movie called "Arthur", which tells the story of a spoiled rich man named Arthur who fell in love with a restaurant waitress and was forced to choose between billions of property and true love.

To be honest, this is a pretty vulgar love story, similar to the movie version of "Meteor Garden", which was the [dominant president falls in love with me] in the 1980s.

However, to Ye Jin's surprise, the box office of this movie was quite good. Its 45 days after its release, the cumulative box office reached 95.45 million US dollars, second only to "Superman 2" released in the same year.

Such achievements made Ye Jin a little stunned. He really couldn't understand the tastes of the audience of America. Such a clichéd love story could even be so obsessed with it.

"No wonder, there are so many domineering president TV series in the previous life. It turns out that people really like this tone." Ye Jin couldn't help but sigh.

...

By April, Sylvester Stallone officially started filming the movie "Rocky 3", and the director of this movie was Sergei Leone recommended by Ye Jin.

Stallone originally lacked confidence in him. However, after the two of them had in-depth exchanges, Stallone regained his confidence in him.

It turned out that Celjo Leone knew that the opportunity was rare, so after receiving Stallone's invitation, he immediately seized the time to study the script and formulate a detailed plan for the filming of the film.

Because he did a lot of homework in advance, when communicating with Stallone, he was able to speak in a practical way and targeted manner. Finally, he successfully impressed Stallone and won the opportunity to direct this time.

Having said that, Celjo Leone is really capable, so he can sharpen his guns in the face of battle. If it were other directors, if they were not prepared in a hurry, they would be very likely to show their timidity.

After officially signing the contract, Seerjo Leone expressed his gratitude to Ye Jin.

His filming of the trilogy of "The Past of the United States" caused Ye Jin to lose 30 million US dollars. He originally thought he would never have the chance to film in his life, but he didn't expect Ye Jin to recommend him to direct "Rocky 3".

The "Rocky" series is one of the most well-known IPs in Hollywood today. The first two films have achieved extremely high box office and reputation, and have conquered a large number of fans. Therefore, "Rocky 3" is also very likely to be successful.

In this way, he naturally turned around and got the opportunity to continue directing the movie. So Ye Jin recommended him to film "Rocky 3", which seemed just a film appointment, but in fact, for Seerjo Leone, it was no less than a recreation.

Seerjo Leone was naturally grateful to Ye Jin.

"Mr. Ye, thank you so much." He said excitedly. He made Ye Jin pay so much money, but he still recommends him. This trust and friendship are really rare.

"You don't have to be polite." Ye Jin waved his hand and smiled, "There is fragrance on your hand when giving a rose. It's also helping me."

"Your level is too high." Seerjo Leone said admiringly. How many people in the world can be as generous as Ye Jin, losing 30 million US dollars without complaints, but are willing to help themselves. They are really a good person.

...

In addition, Fox Pictures produced and released a batch of new video tapes and invested in the market.

In 1975, Sony developed a betamax format video recorder to be launched on the market, providing a new market for the Hollywood film industry.

But in fact, Hollywood film companies did not welcome this invention at the beginning.

Because with a video recorder, the public can record the movies broadcast on the TV station through the video recorder for dissemination. You lend me, I lend you, illegally copying them all over the sky, which is not conducive to the income of the film company.

So in 1976, Columbia, Universal Pictures, Disney and other Hollywood companies sued Sony and asked it to stop selling video recorders immediately.

The lawsuit continues until now. However, the final verdict was not announced in one day, and the high-tech product of the video recorder can still be sold with confidence.

And it is also very popular. In the 1980s, a total of 1.9 million video recorders were sold across the United States. According to a family of three, two of every 100 households own video recorders on average.

Due to the popularity of video recorders, the demand for video tapes has increased greatly and the market is gradually expanding. By the 1980s, nearly 65% ​​of the total revenue of a movie came from theater screenings, nearly 20% came from video tape distribution, and nearly 15% came from TV broadcasting copyrights.

The distribution revenue from videotapes has accounted for about one-third of the theater screening revenue, and has formed a huge market that cannot be ignored.

It is precisely because of this that although Hollywood film companies are still suing Sony now, they are also constantly releasing videos to make money, and they have not escaped the law of [True Flavor]!

Fox Pictures has developed quite well in recent years, and has produced many movies with first-class box office reputation, such as "Alien", "Grease", "The First Drop of Blood", "The Seven Treasures", "The Spirit of Spirit", "The Girl in Red", etc.

In addition, its film library also includes classic works such as "General Patton", "Demon", "Shulan Dunkol" series, "Seven Years Itch", "Tiger and Leopard Little Overlord", "Planet of the Apes" series and other classic works.

Therefore, there is still a lot of potential to tap in the video tape market.

...

In addition to Fox Pictures, Ye Jin's Myth Pictures has also successively sold its own film production videos.

Although Myth Film has only been in its establishment for five years, it is far less than that of the six major films, its cumulative box office and its status in Hollywood are not weaker than these six giants.

It has mouth-watering hot IPs, such as Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rocky, Dragon Hard, Cannonball Speed, Halloween, Ghost Street, Robot Men, and more.

Every movie is well received and popular, so it also occupies a place in the video tape market. This also contributes a lot of benefits to Mythical Pictures.

...

And in May, Ye Jin received a message.

Pan American Insurance Company was preparing to sell Lianmei Pictures, and the news quickly attracted his attention.

United Pictures was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Van Punk, Pickford and Griffith, and by the 1930s, it had developed into one of the eight major Hollywood giants.

In the 1950s, as the film industry entered a period of depression, shareholders such as Chaplin and Bickford successively sold their shares. Lianmei Film also changed hands many times and acquired it for the Asia American insurance giant Pan American in 1967.

However, afterwards, senior executives of United States Company had a dispute with their parent company Pan American, and several major management talents still left and founded Orion Pictures (also known as Orion Pictures).

Pan American originally thought that if Zhang Butcher left, he would not eat pigs with hair, but he did not expect that the newly replaced senior executives of Lianmei could not manage Lianmei well, causing huge losses in the past three years, totaling nearly US$200 million.

Especially the total cost of "Gate of Heaven", which was invested in and filmed last year, was as high as 30 million US dollars, but the final box office was only 4.5 million US dollars.
Chapter completed!