The warm sunlight shone through the window, Zhang Ran was drinking coffee comfortably and chatting slowly with Gusta.

This year, Lions Gate released two movies "Time Warrior" and "Fathun 911" in Zhang Ran, both successfully exceeded 100 million yuan, bringing more than 20 million yuan to Lions Gate. By the end of the year, the DVD release of the Two Points movie will bring a large amount of income to Lions Gate. In Gusta's eyes, Zhang Ran is a living money tree.

Gusta has been dealing with Zhang Ran for more than a year, and he knows that in Zhang Ran's eyes, "The Aviator" is a thousand times more important than "Time Warrior". Just like in Lucas's eyes, his favorite is the unpopular "Five Hundred Years Later", and "Star Wars" is just a tool for making money. In order to continue working with Zhang Ran, Gusta not only plans to release "The Aviator", but also plans to hit various awards including the Oscars. Even if he doesn't win the award, he will still strive to get some nominations.

Oscars have no restrictions on foreign language films. As long as movies released in North America before the end of December, they can participate in the competition for various awards. However, Oscars are a public relations game and require money to spend on public relations and promotion. The box office of foreign language films in North America has always been bleak, and not many film companies will use foreign language films to attack awards outside the Austrian and foreign countries.

"The Aviator" is of high quality, and as long as the public relations are properly, it is possible to get a nomination. However, due to the problem of "Fatus 911", Zhang Ran offended Harvey to death. With Harvey's personality, he would definitely make small moves behind his back, which is very difficult. But now Harvey and Miramax are separated, and the films belong to Disney. Harvey does not have a movie in his hands, so it is impossible to make trouble. Then it will be much easier to public relations for "The Aviator".

However, it was not because of this that Zhang Ran talked to Gusta about the movie. After talking to Gusta for a while, he expressed his own purpose, hoping to obtain Gusta’s authorization.

The tube website has started to be built, and after the website is built, the content needs to be uploaded, otherwise there will be no content to watch if others have arrived at the tube. Zhang Ran has persuaded UCL Film Academy to upload the short films he took to the website for sharing after the website is opened. However, the students' homework alone is far from enough, so Zhang Ran intends to persuade Gusta to agree to put some TV shows of Lions Gate and the movies on the Internet.

Zhang Ran was talking to Gusta about the benefits of putting these on the website, and the phone suddenly rang, it was Li Junwei's phone call.

As soon as I answered the phone, Li Junwei's heartfelt laughter came to my ears: "Zhang Ran, you can do it, your assets are over 100 million yuan. Many people think you are the boss behind the creative advertising. Please ask me about your news!"

Zhang Ran didn't understand: "How come I became the boss behind the creative advertising? Why do I sound so confused?"

Li Junwei smiled and said, "This year's China Forbes Rich List has come out. This year's Rich List has changed from 100 people to 200 people. You are on the list this year! I'll read it for you. 162nd place in the Rich List, Zhang Ran, male, 27 years old, assets of 100 million yuan, creative advertising, and engaged in industry media. As soon as this list comes out, many people ask me about your situation, and there are many women!"

Zhang Ran couldn't help but curse, "Forbes is sick, I can send a top 50 people. What can I do if I send so much, I can't keep a low profile."

Li Junwei said speechlessly: "You, a person in the entertainment industry, want to be low-key!"

Zhang Ran corrected: "To borrow a sentence from Teacher Chen Daoming, I am from the literary and artistic circle, not the entertainment circle. And it's not okay to be low-key. The kidnapping case of Wu Ruofu in the first half of this year is so scary. What if someone is targeted?"

Li Junwei smiled and said, "You are not exposed for the time being. Who would pay attention to more than 100 ordinary people? Those who inquired about you have contacts with us, but I didn't tell them. By the way, the creative advertisement will be launched on December 3rd, and you must be present at that time. If you don't have the bell ringing ceremony, it will be incomplete!"

Zhang Ran pondered: "No. 3, there is no way. I will get the Golden Horse Award for No. 3."

Li Junwei said, "You even won the Golden Lion Award, but you still care about the Golden Horse Award? What's the point of participating in that kind of small award? Just let others go. Come and participate in the bell ringing ceremony!"

Zhang Ran said: "I promised Hou Hsiao-hsien to attend, and I can't speak without trust!"

After hanging up Li Junwei's phone call, Zhang Ran continued to talk to Gusta about the authorization issue and explained in detail the benefits of uploading the program and movie highlights to the Internet.

After learning about the induce tube and the related benefits in detail, Gusta was impressed by what Zhang Ran did: "The Internet can change the world, and it is probably awesome to do this website. I always thought you were going to be Spielberg, but I didn't expect that what you were going to do was George Lucas!"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "Why do you think so? I don't want to be Lucas. Although he is a legend and has made great contributions to the film industry, he is not a great director. He doesn't love movies anymore. How many movies have you seen he made now?"

Gusta smiled and said, "A person is too rich and life is too comfortable, and he will lack the motivation to create. When you are as rich as him, you may not want to make movies!"

Zhang Ran sat upright and said firmly: "Absolutely not. I made money to make the movies I wanted to make. Spielberg also had billions of wealth, and creation was still his main goal!"

Gusta asked curiously: "I don't know what movie you really want to make? Do you have a movie like "The Aviator"? I see that you have a casual attitude towards "The Time Warrior" and attach great importance to "The Aviator"!"

Zhang Ran was suddenly stunned. The next "Three Fools" was filmed for students in the class, and then he planned to film a drama with the heroine for Zhang Jingchu. He liked these two dramas, but it cannot be said that he really wanted to film them. At least it was not like "The Aviator", which made him devote himself to it and had a strong desire to create. He was willing to spend ten years of time. In addition, the few novels he bought did not make him feel that he had to film like "The Aviator".

Is it really like Gusta said? Lack of creative motivation?

No! Absolutely not!

I just haven't encountered a story that touched me like "The Aviator"!

Zhang Ran said firmly: "Yes, it's a movie like "The Aviator", which can really touch me and make me empathize!"

After the matter was settled, Zhang Ran returned to the hotel, called Zhang Jingchu, then turned on the computer, and checked this year's Forbes China Rich List online. In the top three rankings, the Rong Zhijian family topped the list with a holding of CITIC Pacific with a US$1.49 billion, Huang Guangyu and Chen Tianqiao ranked second and third on the Rich List with a net worth of 1.3 billion and 1.27 billion.

Zhang Ran remembers that Li Junwei said that he was in the top 160. Following the rankings, Zhang Ran quickly saw his ranking, No. 162. Behind him was Li Yanhong from Baidu, and behind him were Yang Lan and Wu Zheng and his wife.

Zhang Ran didn't think it was anything in front of Yang Lan and Wu Zheng. He didn't think the couple was so great, but being able to rank behind Li Yanhong made him a little proud. You should know that Li Yanhong is one of the three Internet giants in the future. Being able to rank with Li Yanhong made him feel accomplished.

I actually stand on par with Li Yanhong!

Although he was only catching up with them for the time being, Zhang Ran was really proud and satisfied.

The three Internet giants in the future are BTA, Li Yanhong ranked 162, so what about Ma Huateng and Jack Ma?

Zhang Ran quickly checked on the list. Ma Huateng ranked 99, with assets of 140 million US dollars, and he didn't have Jack Ma's name? Zhang Ran finished reading the entire list and checked it again. There was indeed no Jack Ma's name.

Now Zhang Ran suddenly calmed down. What is the point of success? How many people on the list can be on the list in 10 years? Whether it is Jack Ma, Li Yanhong, or Ma Huateng, their rankings are not very high now and their assets are not amazing, but how many people can compete with them in the next ten years?

Now they have their own core products and have hundreds of millions of users in their hands; what about themselves? Century Peak has just been established and the website is still under test, which is too far behind.

There is nothing to be happy about!

Zhang Ran slid the mouse and flipped to the front of the rich list. When he saw Chen Tianqiao's name, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In the first half of this year, Shanda was listed on Nasdaq. Chen Tianqiao had one billion dollars in his hands and started a nearly crazy strategy, preparing to build "Internet Disney", with Shanda Box as the core, integrating nine major businesses including pc, TV, mobile phones, movies, music, games, advertising, prepaid and e-commerce.

Shanda Box is the core of Disney's Internet. Through the box, users can play games, watch news, stocks, movies, and listen to music on TV. According to Chen Tianqiao's idea, the box is essentially a product that integrates telecommunications networks, TV networks, and the Internet. Its functions are even more powerful than the various boxes that were popular ten years later.

Chen Tianqiao spent billions on the capital market to acquire Qidian, acquire Atoz Company, acquire Haofang, etc., but in fact, he was buying content for Shanda Box.

However, Chen Tianqiao ran too fast, and the current Internet conditions cannot bear his ambitions. In 2004, the total number of broadband users nationwide was 28.33 million, and among these users, 80% of the users downloaded speeds below 100kb/s. Chen Tianqiao's idea was simply impossible to realize under such network conditions.

A genius is a step ahead, and a madman is a step ahead. Even Jobs had to restrain his desires. Jobs foresaw the prospects of iPads and smartphones very early, but it was not implemented until touch screen and wireless network technologies matured and put into large-scale commercial use.

Chen Tianqiao stepped too fast, so he eventually failed and one billion dollars was wasted.

All kinds of boxes began to rise before Zhang Ran's rebirth, and these were Chen Tianqiao's original ideas. Even what Zhang Ran wanted to do was actually a copy of Chen Tianqiao's online Disney. The boxes that Lei Jun and Ma Huateng later made were also Chen Tianqiao's strategy.

If you think about the development of the Internet in the next ten years, Shanda actually got involved in many things, but Shanda took too early, so he opened up the market but played himself out. When this market matured and could harvest fruits, Shanda could only watch others pick the fruits.

The reason why Zhang Ran waited for three years to do a tube was to learn from Chen Tianqiao's lessons and waited until the three conditions for starting a video website were ripe before he could make a move.

Zhang Ran thought for a while, wondered if he had been too aggressive recently, and then clicked on the news page. Suddenly, a news story caught his attention, "Zhang Chunru, the author of "Nanjing Massacre", committed suicide."

His heart sank, what, how could it be?

"This newspaper, Nanjing, November 10. Zhang Chunru, a Chinese-American writer who used a pen in her hand to expose the atrocities of the Japanese invaders in China, killed himself in his car on the morning of November 9 because of depression. At the age of 36.

In 1997, Zhang Chunru's best-selling book "Nanjing Massacre - Nanjing Catastrophe in 1937" published in English, truly revealing the massacres committed by the Japanese invaders in Nanjing, making the whole world, especially the American people, understand the atrocities of the Japanese army that had been forgotten for most of the century..." (~^~)
Chapter completed!