Hollywood New Century

In Tokyo, a grand entertainment party is being held in the ballroom of the Park Hyatt high-rise hotel in the Shinjuku Garden Center Building.

During the Tokyo Film Festival, such banquets are of course indispensable, but this time the scale is larger.

Not only did the top five films in RB have high-level attendance, but also the high-level executives of Sony Entertainment were also present this time.

On the balcony of the Park Hyatt Hotel, Simon looked at Mount Fuji in the distance at dusk, and said to Nosun Shimaya, the representative and president of Toho Co., Ltd. beside him: "The Mount Fuji under the sunset seems to be even more beautiful."

"Indeed, compared to the daytime, Mount Fuji at this time is indeed a different scenery. I agree with Mr. Parker's view very much," Shimaya Noh responded, although as the president of Toho Co., Ltd., the first of RB's five major film companies, But in front of Simon Parker, it's not enough. Not to mention the chairman of the board of directors of Toho Co., Ltd., even compared to Sony Entertainment, Toho Co., Ltd. is still a lot worse.

The RB partner of "Hachiko Faithful Dog" is Dongbao Films. Speaking of which, Dongbao Co., Ltd. is indeed strong in RB. In terms of RB movies, TV and theaters, Sony Entertainment is definitely not comparable to Dongbao.

Movies, TV, theater theaters, plus those familiar anime series such as Lupin III series, Doraemon series, Crayon Shin-chan series, Detective Conan series, Pokémon series, Jin Tianyi Juvenile event book series, Grim Reaper series, etc. Etc., are all popular animations produced by Dongbao series.

"By the way, the Chinese historical drama "On the Red Cliff" directed by John Woo will be fully released on RB on November 11. Do you have confidence in Dongbao Donghe as the RB publisher?" Simon asked suddenly.

Shimaya Noh nodded with a smile: "Mr. Pike, RB people are very interested in this part of China's history of the Three Kingdoms. Judging from the attention and applause the "Chibi" crew has received every time they appear in the past few days, we are very interested in it. The box office prospects of "Chibi" in RB are very promising!"

Shimaya Nengzheng knew of course that Summit Entertainment, the international distributor of "Chibi", was acquired by Xinghai Pictures and renamed Aurora Pictures not long ago.

"That's good, I also heard from the creators of the film that "Chibi" attaches great importance to the RB market," Simon nodded, thinking of something again, and asked,

"Is Godzilla under Toho ready to adapt a movie again?"

Godzilla is a monster ace IP owned by Toho Co., Ltd. By 2004, the movie "Godzilla: The Last Battle" was the 28th film about Godzilla produced by Toho.

"Godzilla?" Shimaya Nengzheng shook his head and said: "Not yet, but director Sakano Yoshimitsu hopes to make a new version of the movie, we Toho have decided not to make Godzilla movies for ten years after 2004. ;"

"Yoshimitsu Sakano seems to have met an American producer, Brian Rogers, and is seeking investor support."

Shimaya Neng looked at Simon Pike and continued: "Xinghai Pictures is interested in Godzilla?"

After all, Hollywood produced a "Godzilla" in 1998. The producer was Sony Columbia Pictures. It invested 130 million US dollars in exchange for a global box office of 370 million US dollars. It was not a success and the score was not too high!

"Godzilla is a well-known monster symbol in the world, similar to King Kong. Of course, Xinghai Pictures has a certain interest in this kind of IP that is well-known all over the world. However, there are too many projects currently underway in Xinghai Pictures, and there are indeed no resources. Let’s develop this project.” Simon is indeed interested, but he doesn’t want to develop it himself. It is estimated that Legendary Pictures will contact Brian Rogers soon. In addition to investment, Legendary Pictures is just a novice in film production, and must be close Thighs, at that time, if Xinghai Films had extra resources, they could get in touch with them.

"That's it," Shimaya Nodding nodded and said sincerely: "Mr. Parker, we at Toho Films very much hope to develop films for RB, Asia or the world together with Xinghai Films in the future!"

Simon looked at Shimagu Nengzheng, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he nodded: "Xinghai Pictures attaches great importance to the Asian market, especially the current RB market, of course, it will also show the RB culture in the Western world, what else is there to do? What better way to show this culture in movies?”

Simon has no interest in RB culture at all, but is interested in RB's capital and market.

However, RB's capital is indeed very strong, not to mention the Japanese-owned Sony Columbia Pictures, or the Universal Pictures that has been sold by Panasonic, that is, Toshiba still owns a 20% stake in Warner Bros.

Japanese capital has a certain right to speak in Hollywood, not just at the stage of capital export.

Shimaya can just smile, it is certainly good to promote RB culture to the world. But for RB's local market, Dongbao Pictures is a giant. Even the new RB group, Sony, cannot be shaken, let alone the younger foreign company Xinghai Entertainment?

Simon can see from Shimaya Noh Masa's smile that this guy seems very confident, and now the movie share of the RB market is indeed dominated by RB's local film and television.

"Simon, what's wrong with you?" Sonia Roman came to Simon and asked Simon who was drinking alone.

"Hey, it's okay, I just had a chat with the people from Dongbao Films. I found that it is a little difficult to enter the RB market. Hollywood movies seem to be getting weaker and weaker in RB," Simon frowned.

"This, there is no way, and the record market here seems to be very competitive, not to mention Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, and even some local firms such as Avex are not bad," Sonia Roman is also With a face of helplessness, fortunately, Star Records is currently mainly in the European and American markets.

"It seems that countries like RB and South Korea place great importance on artist management, and many agencies are comprehensive," Simon said, tapping his fingers on the wine glass. The RB record industry is enduring, and this cake is absolutely not to be missed.

"We Xingchen Records have the capital, so we will find a local RB record company to cooperate and set up Xingchen RB Music Company, which is responsible for the records of local RB singers and the release of overseas singers' records in RB," Simon also needs RB's local managers anyway. to be in charge of this business.

"Well, I think so too, and in China and South Korea, I think we should do the same, looking for local record companies to form companies and divide up the market!" Sonia Roman is also more and more about the cake in the current music market. Interested.

Simon pondered, if RB and South Korea, these two East Asian countries like to produce assembly line idols, then the ticket-playing Galaxy Culture and Entertainment seems to be able to intervene, and RB and Han seem to be very obedient!