Chapter 765: To Recruit People? To Recruit a Father? The Ambition of Alibaba Pictures! This Operation Requires the Skill of 1 Billion Yuan!

Chapter 765 Shake people? Shake daddy? Alibaba Pictures’ ambition! This wave of operations... has a power of one billion!

"You have to be a Wall Street person, efficient at work and generous with money..."

In the president's office of Walton Pictures, Chen Fei was joking happily while watching the news.

Annapurna Pictures acted quickly. The day after announcing that it had purchased the script, it held a relevant press conference.

Megan Ellison personally announced to the media that the crew of "King Arthur: Battle of the Beasts" has invited "Batman" Christian Bale to star as the male protagonist for a salary of US$30 million.

Although "Ben-Hur" on the other side has not yet been prepared, the budget has been calculated overnight.

The announced production budgets of these two projects have reached an astonishing US$150 million, and they are only preliminary investment budgets, and investment may be increased in the future.

As soon as the news came out, the whole of Hollywood was in an uproar, and there were endless exclamations.

On the sofa on one side of the office, Leonardo sighed with emotion: "She is indeed the princess of Oracle. The beautiful sword is like the wind blowing, and it doesn't hurt at all to spend it."

Chen Fei rolled his eyes and started digging holes for him again.

"It is easy to see from her series of high-profile behaviors that this woman is learning from her crazy father, so her character is both arrogant and tough, as if she can do whatever she wants."

Leonardo nodded, approving this analysis.

Chen Fei continued to add: "But this kind of person has a shortcoming, that is, once you break her arrogance and toughness and completely conquer her, you can do whatever you want!"

Leonardo thought for a moment and nodded again: "Yes, that's it!"

A bit of a bad smile appeared on Chen Fei's face: "So, Leon, I suggest you take the initiative, show your manly charm, conquer this woman, and make her completely surrender at your feet..."

Leonardo's expression froze and he immediately became angry: "No! I won't do it! She doesn't have long golden brown hair, her facial lines and facial features are seriously masculine, her body proportions are not good enough, and she doesn't have long legs. And I’m still very old, how can I go there?”

"Hey, how can you judge a book by its appearance?" Chen Fei said slowly and seductively: "Think about it, Megan Ellison is the princess of Oracle, and her father has tens of billions of assets. Are you not tempted at all?"

"No!" Leonardo said in a very firm tone: "I can't speak to people I don't like."

"What if it's for Oscar?"

As soon as these words came out, Leonardo's expression was slightly startled, and his eyes were full of struggle.

If you could sleep with Megan Ellison and use her to your advantage, then the threat of "The Theory of Everything" would naturally be "cured".

But for the sake of the Little Golden Man, is it worth it to wrong his "brother"?

He has been in Hollywood for so long, but he has never wronged his brother.

Just when he was struggling in his heart, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Natasha walked in quickly holding a newspaper.

"Fei, Leon, the Oscar nominations have been announced."

Hearing the sound, the two people who were still bickering were immediately attracted to her attention, and they quickly rushed towards Natasha.

At this time, the outside world and major media had already reported the relevant news as soon as possible.

"Good news: The 87th Academy Awards officially announced the nominations for each award today."

"Produced by Waltons Pictures, written and directed by Chen Fei, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Andy Serkis, Tom... The movie "The Revenant" starring Hardy and others was successfully nominated for this year's Academy Award."

"According to the announcement, "The Revenant" won the Oscars for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects, Best There are 12 nominations in total for Sound Effects Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, the most this year!”

In the office, Leonardo has already started howling!

"Oh! My God! With 12 nominations, 7 more than the Golden Globe Awards, "The Revenant" is going to be the biggest winner at this year's Oscars!"

On the side, Chen Fei and Natasha looked at each other and smiled, already understanding.

Since this year's Oscar organizing committee is so right, they can't do anything about it, and their public relations efforts will definitely need to be strengthened in the final voting session.

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At this time, Annapurna Pictures was in the president's office.

Megan Ellison, the female boss, was on the phone with the real boss while looking at the nomination list announced on the official Oscar website.

During the phone call, Larry Ellison asked in surprise: "I just read the investment report you sent over. Why do you suddenly need to mobilize more than 200 million US dollars?"

Megan Ellison replied solemnly: "I bought the rights to two movie scripts from Warner, which requires a large amount of investment. However, Annapurna Pictures was established not long ago and the market lacks confidence in us. I can't buy it from elsewhere." to invest.”

Larry Ellison was confused: "More than $200 million will be invested in just two projects?"

"No! According to the budget we made, the investment in the two movies is actually as high as 300 million US dollars, but I still have more than 100 million US dollars in funds, so I can only use it from Oracle."

Larry Ellison frowned slightly, and he remembered his daughter's goal when she first started her business: "I remember you told me that you wanted to go the route of small and medium-sized investment art films to win awards? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"Because these two projects are too good, the opportunity cannot be missed!"

Megan Ellison excitedly told her father how she "grabbed" the two excellent projects "Ben Hur" and "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" from Chen Fei.

On the other end of the phone, Larry Ellison was silent for a long time, and finally asked carefully: "Such a huge investment is not a small amount. Tell me the truth, how sure are you?"

He didn't know Hollywood, so he could only let his daughter judge for herself.

Megan Ellison was full of confidence: "At least 80%!"

After the auction ended that day, she saw Chen Fei's face showing an expression of annoyance and regret, obviously because he didn't get these two projects, so it was like this.

It is precisely because of this that she is very confident in these two projects.

On the other end of the phone, Larry Ellison did not hesitate: "80% is not far from success, just go for it."

Megan Ellison was overjoyed: "Don't worry, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer!"

After hanging up the phone, she already had a more detailed plan in her mind.

She wanted to let these two projects run together, develop together, and steadily advance, strive to release them as soon as possible, and recover the costs as soon as possible.

"Where can my father get 200 million? I still have 200 million in my hand. I will borrow another 100 million from the bank. With a total of 500 million US dollars, I will definitely win a great victory..."

At this moment, Megan Ellison's heart is full of beautiful expectations for the future!

Of course, she will not give up the Oscar campaign for "The Theory of Everything".

I don't know what those old men in the academy think. This is a biopic about Hawking's youth, but it has only been nominated for 5 awards, which is far behind "The Revenant".

To be honest, she has no confidence at this time.

The main reason is that the latter's voice of winning the award is too strong, and it is unknown whether her money offensive can bribe those people in Hollywood.

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The nomination announcement time is January 15, and the official award ceremony is on February 22, which is more than a month away.

Chen Fei naturally cannot stay in Hollywood for a month. The Chinese New Year file is about to start, and he has to go back to take charge of the overall situation.

So, after handing over the two revised scripts of "Captain America 3: Civil War" and "Doctor Strange" to Kevin Fei, he officially set off to return to China.

At the same time, not long after he got on the plane, the National Institute of Space Science and Technology suddenly issued a notice to the public, saying that it had achieved great success in rocket recovery technology!

As soon as the news came out, countries around the world were shocked!

However, adhering to the principle of being low-key and high-profile, after issuing the notice, the Institute of Space Science and Technology suddenly fell silent.

No video has been released online, and no other notice has appeared except this notice posted on the official website.

For a time, countries were eager to try, but they had no idea where to start.

Rocket recovery technology refers to the technology of successfully recovering and reusing rockets after launch.

This technology was proposed by the Americans in the late 1960s, one of the purposes of which was to reduce the cost of space activities.

However, the maintenance of the American space shuttle after returning was too much, which greatly increased the cost. The original estimate of the cost of each flight was about 30 million US dollars, but it actually reached 400 to 500 million US dollars.

Therefore, rocket recovery has become the focus of research in various countries.

Until now, SpaceX, founded by Musk, is recognized as the aerospace technology company most likely to be the first to achieve rocket recovery.

But no one expected that the China Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute would take the lead in announcing that it had made a breakthrough in rocket recovery technology!

But no one knew what kind of breakthrough it was.

For a time, a lot of doubts emerged on the Internet, and even some foreign media said that this was just a false smoke bomb and was not worth paying too much attention to.

On the plane, Chen Fei was talking on the phone with Bu Qingxiang, the head of Longxiang Aerospace Technology Company.

The latter is currently on Kerguelen Island, and even the entire Longxiang Aerospace Technology Research Institute has been moved to the island to facilitate rocket recovery research and testing.

"Mr. Chen, I have sent the video of the rocket launch and successful recovery to your email." Bu Qingxiang was extremely excited: "We never expected that the research work would go so smoothly."

Hearing this, Chen Fei smiled knowingly: "I will send you more information later, and continue to go deeper.

After the second phase of research is successfully promoted, the results of the first phase can be officially announced to the public.

It just so happens that I am preparing to launch a science fiction project here, and your research results may be used at that time."

Bu Qingxiang quickly responded: "If you need cooperation, please notify us at any time."

"Okay, I will."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei turned his attention away from the chaotic news on the Internet and turned to film and television entertainment news.

At this stage, "500,000" is too much, so you still have to hide it.

However, with this good opportunity, Guoan may gain a lot.

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Due to the fact that the characters were cut into big-headed dolls, "The Empress of China" unexpectedly suffered a "ratings crash", and the discussion and popularity plummeted.

The latest "Nirvana in Fire" successfully took over the popularity of the former, and the ratings soared, leading other TV series by a large margin.

Looking around, the popularity of "Mei Changsu" played by Hu Ge, "Prince Jing" played by Wang Kai, "Fei Liu" played by Wu Lei, and "Princess Nihuang" played by Liu Shishi has soared sharply, and the popularity on Weibo has continued to rise, which has made many stars and actors in the industry extremely envious.

In addition, the TV series "The Silent Woman" starring Zhong Hanliang and Tang Yan has also received a lot of praise.

In the past few days since the broadcast, the ratings have directly ranked second, second only to "Nirvana in Fire".

The TV circle is very lively, and the film circle is not to be outdone.

"Ghost Blows Out the Light: Yunnan Worm Valley" has become an unattainable goal for all movies, let alone catching up, and even the taillights are not visible.

As for the movies in the January schedule, "Back to 20" is still stronger at present.

After one week of release, the total box office has reached 124 million, leading other domestic movies, and even those imported movies are not its opponents.

Among the returning ones, Lu Han has shown his "money-making ability" and his popularity has skyrocketed!

In addition to the several popular movies, there are many movie projects that are about to be prepared and established on Weibo.

Looking around, the most high-profile one is undoubtedly Alibaba Pictures!

In order to build momentum for the first movie produced by its own company, Alibaba Pictures decided to hold a large-scale project establishment conference, and the relevant notices and invitations have been sent all over the Internet.

Even Chen Fei, who was in Hollywood a few days ago, received a call from the vice president of Alibaba Pictures, warmly inviting him to observe this unprecedented conference.

It was the name of the movie and the specific theme that really made him feel strange.

"The Ferryman" (comedy, romance, drama category).

As soon as he heard the name of the movie, he inexplicably felt that it was a "cheesy youth love comedy" movie.

Chen Fei was not going to attend the film project launch conference in person, so he found an excuse to turn it down and let Su Guohai go on his behalf.

...

It was evening again when he landed in the capital.

Chen Fei came to the underground parking lot from the VIP channel in a low-key manner, and then sat in the back seat of the business car that came to pick him up.

As soon as he sat in, a fragrant figure had already thrown himself into his arms, accompanied by a deep and passionate kiss.

There was a partition between the back and front rows, so the two did not worry about being seen, and they stopped kissing until their bodies were hot.

At the moment when their lips parted, there was even a crystal clear silk thread connecting the two sides.

Liu Yifei wiped her mouth quickly, but did not get off Chen Fei. Instead, she stared at him with her watery eyes.

"Congratulations, you won the prize."

Chen Fei held her hips with both hands and said with a sly smile, "Is there any reward?"

"Yes." Liu Yifei's pretty face bloomed with a brilliant smile, like the warm sun in early summer, warm and dazzling: "Hehe, everything is up to you tonight, this should be okay, right?"

"Hmm?"

Chen Fei's eyes lit up, and 18 martial arts suddenly emerged in his mind.

Fortunately, he had already supplemented a lot of sleep on the plane, otherwise, he would not have the opportunity to "do whatever he wants" tonight.

...

The next morning, just as Chen Fei was sleeping late with the fragrant Miss Liu, the film industry was already in a sensation.

In the bustling center of the capital, a grand media project launch conference was being held.

The protagonist of this press conference is the upcoming film "The Ferryman".

The film is produced by Alibaba Pictures and co-produced by Zedong Pictures founded by Wang Jiawei.

At the press conference, the film's supervisor and producer Wang Jiawei stood on the stage, passionately introducing the film's production background and plan to the media and guests:

"The film "The Ferryman" is adapted from one of the 33 stories in the best-selling novel "Passing by Your World". I personally selected the topic and decided to support the original author Zhang Jiajia to direct.

After the film starts, I will stay in the crew throughout the whole process, personally guide and supervise the filming to ensure the quality of the film..."

As the press conference progressed, Alibaba Pictures also announced a blockbuster news in conjunction with Zedong Pictures: "The film "The Ferryman" will be officially open to the entire film and television industry after today.

We hope to select the most suitable actors for the roles in this way, strive to form the top starring lineup, and bring an audio-visual feast to the audience."

As soon as the news came out, the atmosphere at the press conference reached a climax smoothly. All the brokerage companies, actors, stars, and artists present were all staring and began to make plans.

At the end of the press conference, Wang Jiawei expressed his determination and confidence to the audience: "We will do our best to make "The Ferryman" a touching movie..."

As the press conference ended, people left one after another, but the discussion about "The Ferryman" has just begun.

This movie has attracted widespread attention and expectations. Netizens and fans are speculating about what kind of work this movie will be? And which actors will interpret this affectionate story?

After sleeping until 12:30 noon, Chen Fei got up refreshed.

After covering Liu Yifei, who was still sleeping soundly, with a quilt, he quietly walked out of the bedroom.

As soon as he turned on his phone, he saw a series of news reports and press releases about "The Ferryman" appearing overwhelmingly on Weibo and entertainment news websites.

"Alibaba Pictures announced that the production budget of "The Ferryman" is uncapped and the future box office target is 1 billion!"

"Popular IP + fan film + top director, Alibaba's declaration has begun to be gradually implemented. Can "The Ferryman" achieve a double harvest of box office and word-of-mouth? Let's wait and see."

"Ma Yun appeared at the press conference of the movie "The Ferryman" and said that if there is a suitable opportunity in the future, he would also like to make a kung fu-themed movie starring himself."

Looking at the overwhelming hot searches and press releases on the Internet, Chen Fei couldn't help but sigh: "Tsk tsk, he deserves to be the richest man. This wave of operations contains the power of one billion!"

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