Chapter 492: Double-Edged Knife

August in Los Angeles has passed the hottest season of the year, but the afternoon sun is still a bit poisonous. Under the bright sun, the whistling wind suddenly sounds over the lawn on the side of the future world manor, and the rotation of the propeller brings The strong wind pressed the green grass tightly to the ground.

The housekeeper, Nikia, and a robust maid stood on the lawn, covering their eyes with their hands to prevent flying grass and dust from falling into their eyes.

A white-painted commercial helicopter descended from the sky and landed steadily on the apron marked with the "H" symbol.

The helicopter hatch opened, and a middle-aged man with a suitcase came down and ran to Nikia almost at a sprint speed.

"Hello." The middle-aged man greeted hurriedly.

Despite the strong wind brought by the propeller, Nikia still maintained the calmness of a British butler and said, "Leave it to me."

This is not the first time the middle-aged man came here, he immediately handed over the suitcase, and the strong maid took the suitcase.

"Send it right away." Nikia ordered: "Mr. Anderson and his two guests are in the second hall."

The sturdy maid walked quickly towards the side door of the future world with her footsteps like the wind.

The middle-aged man handed over the bill at this time, and Nikia looked at the figures. A single bottle of $1,850 beer would be very scary in other places, but in this manor, she has long been used to it.

Nikia confirmed that the amount was correct and immediately signed the bill.

The middle-aged man took back the bill and hurried back to the helicopter. The white-painted plane quickly took off and left Beverly Hills.

The strong maid carried the suitcase into the side hall No. 2. Ronan saw the special leather suitcase in her hand and said to Tom Cruise and Will Smith, "Here comes the wine."

"What wine?" Tom Cruise was a little curious: "It's going to be transported by helicopter."

Will Smith was also very curious: "Ronan, it's so mysterious, I won't show you mercy if the wine isn't good."

Ronan opened the suitcase. Inside the suitcase was a thermostatic device, which contained two ordinary-looking...beer bottles.

"If this wine wants to keep its original taste, it has very high requirements on the storage environment." Luo Nan took out a bottle,

Bian said: "Not only must it be refrigerated, but it must also be preserved in icy seawater from Antarctica."

Seeing that Ronan was about to drink, Will Smith brought three glasses and placed them on the bar in front of Ronan.

Ronan fetched the corkscrew and said, "This wine will lose its original flavor after leaving the storage place for half an hour, so it must be airlifted as quickly as possible."

Tom Cruise was a little anxious waiting, and urged: "Hurry up and open the bar."

Bang——

The bottle cap was opened, and cold air came out faintly. Ronan poured a part of wine into each of the three glasses. The beer was not very foamy, and it looked pale golden and cold.

Will Smith took a sip first, and a particularly icy taste spread from his mouth to his whole body in an instant.

Ronan clinked glasses with Tom Cruise and took a sip each. The beer tasted relatively light, not too strong, and the biggest feature was that it was particularly frosty.

After drinking a glass of wine, when Ronan continued to pour the wine, Will Smith said, "It's cooler than other beers I've had before."

Tom Cruise nodded in agreement and said, "It's like walking around a glacier in unlined clothes."

After pouring the wine, Ronan raised his glass to the two of them and said, "Continue." After another glass of cold beer fell down, he asked, "Did this wine disappoint you?"

Will-Smith said with a smile: "1850 dollars a bottle of beer, this price will not disappoint."

Tom Cruise opened the second bottle of beer and filled three glasses again. Ronan said again: "There are only two bottles of this wine in Los Angeles. I asked Nikia to buy it for me from an auction at Christie's." , I don’t know if it’s the best beer, but it’s definitely the most expensive beer at the moment.”

The three of them drank and chatted, and the second bottle of beer soon bottomed out.

Tom Cruise looked at the pale golden wine in the glass and said, "The brewing materials should be very rare, right?"

"The water used for brewing comes from a thousand-year-old ice in the glacier of Antarctica." Ronan simply explained: "This ice comes from a giant iceberg, which was first collected by the Ocean Conservation Organization and brought back to Australia for scientific research, and later used for brewing. The factory bought and brewed this batch of beer, only dozens of bottles have been handed down."

Tom Cruise, who has participated in several environmental protection activities, nodded and said: "Now the protection of Antarctic glaciers is much stricter than before. It is not easy to bring huge ice back from Antarctica again."

Will Smith clinks glasses with Ronan and Tom Cruise, saying: "Good wine must be drunk."

But within ten minutes, the three of them drank more than 2,000 dollars worth of beer. After the wine was gone, the topic among the three of them also shifted from the wine to other places.

"I haven't said thank you to you two yet." Ronan said with a smile: "You have helped me a lot by registering users on Netflix and posting and sharing information."

Tom Cruise smiled: "You're being polite to me? It's just a little thing."

Will Smith said casually: "Aren't you buying us a drink?"

Ronan said: "Many of the registered users of Netflix recently are your fans."

In fact, several celebrities posted articles on Netflix one after another, which played a big role in stimulating. No one can ignore the influence of Johnny Depp, Will Smith and Tom Cruise.

"Actually, this is also good for us." Tom Cruise said: "I have received a lot of feedback from fans here, and they feel very good about this daily direct communication."

Stars who have been in Hollywood for many years, except for a few people with weird personalities, most of them have their own perspective on things. Will Smith said: "Your Netflix has millions of users. I heard from the agent that registered users It will be tens of millions soon, which is equivalent to establishing a platform for us to directly speak out."

Tom Cruise agrees with this very much: "In the past, if we wanted to speak out publicly, we needed to open up media relations and go through media channels. Not to mention the huge public relations expenses spent, sometimes the media didn't sell us face. Deliberately misinterpreting our meaning."

He thought of what happened some time ago, and he was still a little sad: "What happened to me after the Oscars is the best example. But the platform you provided, Ronan, gave us a chance to speak out directly, as long as there are enough users who can Seeing the voices we make directly is worth more than anything."

Ronan said seriously: "That's true. With such a platform, at critical moments, you can express your voice publicly as quickly as possible."

Will Smith laughed and said deliberately: "So, Ronan, you have to attract as many users as possible. When your Netflix has tens of millions of users, we can bypass those hard-to-talk traditional media , some things can be announced directly through Netflix’s platform.”

"I also want Netflix to have tens of millions of users." Ronan sighed: "At the end of this year, it would be nice to have 10 million registered users."

Tom Cruise thought he owed Ronan a huge favor, and he was always very concerned about Ronan's affairs. He asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Will Smith also joked: "And me."

Ronan thought for a while and said, "I'm asking someone to plan Netflix's new promotion and marketing plan. The plan is still in the planning stage. After the plan comes out, if there is anything that needs your help, I won't be polite to you." .”

He thought about several plans, but quickly rejected them all. In the end, he decided to leave the professional work to professionals.

Speaking of how to promote social media, Ronan really has no experience, and his memory is more about the use of social media.

In fact, the prosperity of social media is a good thing for Hollywood stars. They have a platform where they can directly face fans and promote themselves.

The prosperity of social media once created countless traffic stars. Even though many of them are celebrities, it cannot be denied that they are so popular in a certain group.

However, the widespread use of social media is a double-edged sword that can both benefit and harm oneself. A certain star will be wiped out by all-pervasive Internet experts if there is any trouble, which will cause the person to collapse and fall off the cliff. Examples are not uncommon.

For Hollywood, the double-edged sword has much less effect on its own side. As long as most of the stars here do not make major principled mistakes such as discrimination, no matter how much black material comes out, the actual impact will not be considered. too big.

At least there will be no disappearance.

People like my cousin, if they were placed in the east, they would have been finished long ago.

Even if Mel Gibson made a mistake, he returned to Hollywood a few years later and returned to the mainstream sight again.

Others, such as the more black material explodes, the more popular the stars become, which is not uncommon in Hollywood.

For this gathering at the Future World Manor, Ronan not only invited Will Smith and Tom Cruise, but also originally invited Jeff Katzenberg.

"It's a pity." Will Smith sighed: "Jerry Fu can't enjoy such limited wine."

Tom Cruise asked curiously: "Jeff has been absent from our party several times."

"He's too busy." Ronan knew better because of the cooperation between Embassy Pictures and DreamWorks Animation Studio: "Now DreamWorks Animation Studio is producing three animated features with a production budget of up to 75 million US dollars at the same time. In the film, Jeff is under a lot of pressure, and he lives directly in the company five days a week."

The investment of a single film of DreamWorks Animation Studio is low, and the production investment of each animated feature film is 30 to 40 million US dollars less than that of Pixar.

Of course, the visual effect difference between the animated feature films produced by the two is very obvious.

Since Jeff Katzenberg was about to board and live in the company, Ronan decided to visit in person and talk to Jeff Katzenberg about the distribution cooperation of animated feature films.