In September, Xiang Nan returned to Xiangjiang to see old friends and renovate his mansion.
?This mansion was built in the 1980s, so it is now more than 30 years old. Xiang Nan plans to move back to Xiangjiang in a few years.
As for Universal Pictures, he is ready to hand over the responsibility to his son Ning Jing.
???Ning Jing is currently studying for a J.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, 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 will have no choice but to sell Universal Pictures. At that time, the money may be donated to charity or set up a trust fund, and you don''t have to worry about it.
?Moreover, he had already established trust funds for Jingping and Ningjian, with a scale of US$5 billion each. It can be said that even if they do nothing, the next few generations will not be able to afford it.
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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, I thought they were big names." Wang Jing complained to Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan smiled and nodded.
??Mainland film remuneration has really risen in recent years, and it has skyrocketed very much.
The top star is trivial to pay tens of millions of RMB, and a slightly worse drama also has tens of millions to millions of payments. Even a small third- or fourth-tier artist cannot be hired without 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 easy to make money from domestic entertainment.
Graduates from the 2010s, 1985, and Tsinghua and Peking University, who worked hard for more than ten years to pass the exams, still earn less than a day’s salary for one year.
“If you can’t afford it, don’t invite it; if you can’t take it, don’t take it.” Xiang Nan then said, “The way the world is, there’s no need to force it.”
?Wang Jing smiled bitterly.
It’s okay if Xiang Nan doesn’t film. With so much money, he might already be the richest man in the world. But others can''t, especially artists like Xiangjiang. If they don''t film, they really have nothing to eat.
??Be it ATV or Zhen Kung Fu Pictures, half of the dramas they open every year are to feed these people. If the show doesn''t start, this group of people might have trouble eating.
“Mr. Ning, there’s nothing you can do to 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 disorderly stage before slowly getting on the right track. The same is true for domestic entertainment. Don''t worry, according to my estimation, In five years at most, domestic entertainment will be completely reshuffled.”
?Hong Kong movies also went through a period of chaos back then. At that time, Taiwanese capital and gang capital poured into the film industry, making the film industry unprecedentedly prosperous, but also extremely chaotic.
??For example, Jet Li''s agent was shot dead; Huang Baiming had just finished filming "Happy Events in the Family", but the copy was snatched away; Andy Lau didn''t want to film, so people just used guns; even Carina Lau was kidnapped on the road...
Everything has its prosperity and its decline. With the decline of Hong Kong films, capital was no longer profitable, so they withdrew one after another. Not to mention celebrities being forced to take roles with a gun to their head, even if they want to take the role, they don''t have the capital to do so.
The same is true for domestic entertainment. Money has been coming fast in recent years, so a lot of capital has poured in. Especially those video websites that spend money to buy dramas without blinking an eye.
Despite the fact that video websites are very popular nowadays, in fact they are all powerful but medium-sized. They lose billions to billions of yuan every year, and they are completely losing money and making money. In comparison, YouTube and Netflix, which Xiang Nan invested in the United States, have achieved profitability early. Last year, YouTube’s revenue reached US$15 billion, and its profit was US$1 billion. It is the video website with the highest 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 is low. On the other hand, mainland video websites can easily spend hundreds of millions on TV dramas, squandering all the money.
But the business of losing money and making a profit is destined to be unsustainable. Especially when the economy goes down and landlords have no food left. In four or five years, there will be a global economic recession, and the film and television industry will also encounter a cold winter.
By then, half of the existing film and television companies will be eliminated. Of the nearly one million employed people, 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 are all so old and have never experienced anything. Five years sounds like a long time, but it is actually just the blink of an eye."
? He ??has lived for hundreds of years and knows that time is the last thing to be used. Looking at the situation of several decades, it seems that it will never end. But in fact, this life passes quickly.
?Wang Jing smiled.
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In September, "Black Widow" starring Gal Gadot and Jeremy Renner was released, telling the story of the growth experience of the black widow Natasha Romanoff.
??The original "Black Widow" did not adequately describe Natasha Romanoff''s growth, and focused on smearing the Soviet Union and Black Widow''s successor Yelena.
This is also easy to understand. At that time, Black Widow had already died in "Avengers 4". No matter how well Marvel portrayed her, she would not appear in subsequent Marvel movies again. In this case, naturally they would not focus on portraying her anymore.
?Yelena is the second-generation Black Widow. She will take over from now on, and she will naturally become a key target of Marvel. This is what is called when people leave and the tea becomes cold.
However, when this version of "Black Widow" was filmed, Natasha Romanoff was not dead. She will also appear in "Avengers 2, 3, 4", "Captain America 3" and other films in the future, and there are still many scenes. .
So the focus of this version of "Black Widow" is naturally her.
In this version of the film, it tells the story of how Natasha Romanoff was abducted from her parents by the intelligence agency controlled by Hydra, received agent training, passed the assessment, obtained the codename Black Widow, and carried out missions. And the story of how he was influenced by SHIELD and finally joined after the Soviet Union collapsed.
?This version of the movie is one hundred and forty minutes long, and it took more than two hours to portray Black Widow. Make this character more three-dimensional, more vivid, and more pitiful.
In fact, before this, the image of Black Widow was a bit bad.
? She flirted with Iron Man in "Iron Man 2", flirted with the Hulk in "Avengers", flirted with Captain America in "Captain America 2", and had a certain affair with Hawkeye...
?Even Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, and Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye, said in interviews that Black Widow is a spoiled woman in Marvel.
The movie "Black Widow" just cleansed her up and restored a lot of her image.
??In the end, "Black Widow" grossed US$250 million at the North American box office and US$850 million at the global box office, which was quite successful.