In September, Xiang Nan went back to Xiangjiang, visited his old friends, and refurbished his mansion by the way.
This mansion was built in the 1980s, and it has been more than 30 years now. Xiang Nan plans to move back to Xiangjiang in a few years.
As for Universal Pictures, he is going to hand over his son Tranquility to be responsible.
Tranquility is currently studying for a Juris Doctor at UCLA, and her grades are very good. However, he is not very interested in the film industry. He wanted to join a law firm after graduation, or go into politics to serve the public.
Xiang Nan respects his son's opinion, if he really doesn't want to take over, he can only sell Universal Pictures. At that time, the money will be donated to charity or set up a trust fund, in short, you don't have to worry about it yourself.
Moreover, he managed trust funds for Tranquility and Ningjian early on, each with a size of 5 billion US dollars. It can be said that even if they do nothing, the next few generations will not be able to understand.
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"Mr. Ning, the film and television industry in the mainland is getting more and more outrageous. Small stars in the third and fourth tiers dare to ask for a salary of 100,000 yuan. I don't know, but I thought it was a big brand." Wang Jing complained to Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan nodded with a smile.
Remuneration in the mainland has really risen in recent years, and it has skyrocketed.
It is trivial for a top star to pay tens of millions of RMB for a movie, while a movie that is slightly worse can also earn tens of millions to several million yuan. Even small third- and fourth-tier artists can't afford to hire one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand.
This is why so many big bosses and big stars want to send their children into the entertainment industry. After all, it is really too easy to make money from internal entertainment.
Graduates of Eryaoyao, 985, Tsinghua University and Peking University have worked hard for more than ten years to pass the exam, and their annual salary is not as good as other people's daily salary.
"Don't invite if you can't afford it, don't shoot if you can't." Xiang Nan then said, "This is the way of the world, so don't force it."
Wang Jing smiled wryly.
It's fine if Xiang Nan doesn't make movies. With so much money, he might already be the richest man in the world. But other people can't do it, especially artists like Xiangjiang, who really have nothing to eat if they don't film.
Now whether it is ATV or Real Kung Fu Films, half of the shows opened every year are to support these people. If there is no play, this group of people may have problems eating.
"Mr. Ning, you can't turn the tide?" Wang Jing asked.
Xiang Nan waved his hand, "This is a necessary stage in the development of things. The development of every thing will go through a stage of disorder, and then it will slowly go on the right track. The same is true for internal entertainment. Don't worry, according to my estimation, In five years at the most, internal entertainment should be completely reshuffled."
There was also a period of chaos in Xiangjiang movies back then. At that time, Taiwan's capital and gang capital poured into the film industry, making the film industry unprecedentedly prosperous, but also extremely chaotic.
For example, Li Lianjie’s agent was shot dead; Huang Baiming had just finished filming "A Happy Event", and the copy was snatched away; Andy Lau didn't want to film, so he directly used guns; even Liu Jialing was **** on the road...
Everything goes up and down. With the decline of Hong Kong-produced films, the capital was unprofitable, so they withdrew one after another. Not to mention celebrities being held to their heads with guns and forced to take on the show, even if they want to take on the show, they don't have the capital to invite them.
Regardless of the fact that video sites are booming now, they are actually strong outsiders but capable in the middle, losing billions to billions of RMB every year.
In comparison, Xiang Nan’s investment in YouTube and Netflix in the United States has achieved profitability early on. Last year, YouTube's revenue reached 15 billion US dollars, and its profit was 1 billion US dollars. It is the video website with the highest number of daily views in the world.
The reason why there is such a big gap is because YouTube is cheap to buy dramas and the copyright payment fee is low. On the other hand, mainland video sites cost hundreds of millions of dollars to buy dramas, and all the money is squandered like this.
But the business of losing money and making money is destined not to last. Especially when the economy is down and the landlords have no food left. In another four or five years, there will be a global economic recession, and the film and television industry will also encounter a severe winter.
At that time, half of the existing film and television companies will be eliminated. And nearly one million employees, at least half will be unemployed. By then, the industry will gradually return to rationality and get on the right track.
"Five years?! Okay." Wang Jing nodded.
Xiang Nan smiled and said, "Don't worry, we're all so old, we haven't experienced anything. Five years sounds like a long time, but it's actually just the blink of an eye."
He has lived for hundreds of years and knows that time is the most important thing. Looking at the situation of decades, it seems that it will never end. But in fact, this life of a person will pass quickly.
Wang Jing smiled.
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In September, "Black Widow" starring Gal Gadot and Jeremy Renner will be released, telling the growth experience of the black widow Natasha Romanoff.
The original "Black Widow" did not describe Natasha Romanov's growth enough, and focused on discrediting the Soviet Union and Black Widow's successor, Yelena.
This is also easy to understand. At that time, Black Widow had died in "Avengers 4". No matter how well Marvel portrayed her, she would not appear in subsequent Marvel movies.
And Yelena is the second-generation Black Widow, and she will take over from now on, so she will naturally become the key target of Marvel. This is the so-called cold tea.
However, when this version of "Black Widow" was filmed, Natasha Romanoff was not dead, and she will appear in "Avengers 2, 3, 4", "Captain America 3" and other films in the future. There are still many roles .
So the focus of this version of "Black Widow" is naturally her.
In this version of the film, it tells how Natasha Romanov was abducted from her parents by the Hydra-controlled intelligence agency, trained as an agent, passed the assessment, obtained the code name of the Black Widow, and carried out the mission. And when the Soviet Union disintegrated, how to be influenced by S.H.I.E.L.D. and finally joined the story.
This version of the movie is 140 minutes long, and it took more than two hours to portray the Black Widow. Let this character become more three-dimensional, more vivid, and more pitiful.
Actually, before this, the image of Black Widow was a little bit bad.
She flirted with Iron Man in "Iron Man 2", flirted with Hulk in "Avengers", flirted with Captain America in "Captain America 2", and had a certain affair with Hawkeye...
Even Chris Evans, the actor of Captain America, and Jeremy Renner, the actor of Hawkeye, said in interviews that Black Widow is a widow in Marvel.
The movie "Black Widow" just washed her white and saved her a lot of image.
In the end, "Black Widow" had a North American box office of 250 million US dollars and a global box office of 850 million US dollars, which was quite successful.