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Text Chapter 349 "Gladiator"

In a single-family apartment in North Hollywood, Helen and Natalie-Portman quietly flipped through the script, with extremely serious expressions.

This is the script for Spider-Man.

On the side, Ryan was holding a cup of coffee, reading newspaper reports on Nasdaq and technology stocks.

Recently, Ryan has been flipping through the newspapers every day to speculate about the time of the Nasdaq crash.

In fact, speculation about the Internet bubble has never stopped. Every day, the media and evaluation agencies worry that the Internet industry's figures are too high and falsely high, which will cause a series of problems.

The simplest example is Yahoo, a website that has never been profitable. Only relying on continuous mergers and acquisitions and other means, the price per share is as high as 350 US dollars. The company's market value exceeds 120 billion US dollars, which is higher than Disney's market value.

However, such a giant company has never made a profit, and even the company's shareholders and managers don't know how to achieve profitability.

Simply the biggest joke.

But such jokes abound in Nasdaq right now.

In the end, there can only be a violent storm, and the vast majority of Internet companies go bankrupt, leaving only a few to become real giants.

To put it bluntly, it is a money-burning game.

Ryan had to sigh with emotion, no matter when, the money-burning scale of the Internet industry far exceeds that of Hollywood.

Even though the current Internet industry is not comparable to the previous life in terms of the scale of burning money, it is far more crazy than the previous life.

Especially in the past two years, many founders of Internet companies and venture capital companies have never thought about the future development direction at all.

For them, the most important thing is to draw a blueprint that looks good, list on Nasdaq, and then sell a large number of shares to leave the market.

Therefore, nowadays Internet companies generally go public blindly and cash out, which eventually leads to market chaos. However, as long as someone casually proposes a new concept, venture capital companies that have made a lot of money may get huge investment, resulting in today's deformed prosperity.

"Helen, I have a suggestion for you."

Ryan put down the newspaper in his hand, took a sip of coffee, and said, "Ask your stock manager to sell the technology stocks in your hand as soon as possible."

"There is an option to switch to gold."

In the next decade or so, the price of gold has been rising all the way, which is very suitable for long-term holding.

"Are you not optimistic about the development of high-tech stocks?"

Helen put down the script, pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and looked at Ryan very seriously, "It seems that you have sold a lot of technology stocks."

As we all know, Ryan has been collecting funds in the Nasdaq stock market, which has reached a very large amount.

"A false boom unsupported by earnings is like a balloon full of air."

Ryan stretched out his hand and gestured, "Just poke it lightly, and it will explode with a bang."

"Of course, not all high-tech stocks have no investment value. For example, Apple and Amazon are very good choices."

Apple Needless to say, with the return of Steve Jobs, Apple is about to usher in a sea change.

Amazon is an alternative in Nasdaq. Not only did it determine a conservative business strategy and specific profit plan early on, it even made a small amount of profit last quarter.

"I will tell the stock manager to increase his holdings of gold instead." Helen nodded, and she decided to choose to increase her holdings of gold.

At least it will not encounter too much volatility, which is very suitable for long-term investment.

Ryan looked at the time on his watch, and said to Natalie Portman, "Remember to read the script a few more times, it's best to find someone to rehearse first."

After speaking, Ryan got up and said goodbye, "I still have an appointment."

This is an apartment rented by Natalie Portman.

Leaving the apartment, Ryan asked Daniel Green to drive to a gun club in Beverly Hills.

"A Chinese movie!"

Tom Cruise put down a semi-automatic rifle in his hand and said in admiration: "Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director."

"I can't believe it."

Nicolas Cage also came over and said, "I heard that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is planning to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!"

Ryan looked at the row of firearms on the table and said, "There is such a plan."

Oscar!

Tom Cruise couldn't help sighing, "Unfortunately, I'm not a member of the academy, otherwise I would definitely vote for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

Not only is he not a member of the academic school, but he does not seem to be popular with the old men of the academic school.

However, he lowered his salary for a long time to star in some low-cost art films, and planned to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

It can be said that Tom Cruise's dedication to the Oscar winner has made him one of the favorite actors of many art directors.

"The investment of more than 10 million US dollars, with the current box office trend of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the investment cost has already been recovered." Tom Cruise's tone showed a hint of envy.

The few films he invested in were not so lucky.

Ryan smiled and shook his head, "It's not calculated like that."

"Although the investment cost of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not very high, the film's publicity budget and public relations expenses are frighteningly high."

The publicity budget of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is much higher than some commercial films, plus a large amount of public relations funds, it is not a small amount, and it even far exceeds the cost of filming.

Of course, with the box office trend of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", as long as it continues to be shown for a long time, Orion Pictures can easily recover all its investment.

It is almost impossible for a foreign language film like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to hit the box office, but to take a long-term screening route.

The most important point is that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has an excellent reputation, with a comprehensive score of 85 from the media, 96% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, and an average score of 8.8 from imdb fans.

Once the film has made some gains in the Oscars, it is only a matter of time before the North American box office breaks through 100 million US dollars.

In fact, even if it can't win an Oscar, the current box office trend of the film is enough to make people envious.

In four days of large-scale release, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won a box office of 4.05 million US dollars in 2,000 theaters in North America, and the box office of the film's first weekend was very gratifying.

In the three days of the first weekend, it earned a box office of 13.2 million US dollars, won the first North American weekly box office championship, and created the first weekend box office record for a Chinese-language film released in North America in January.

So far, the North American box office of the film has reached 26.86 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is close to the 100 million U.S. dollar mark.

For a Chinese film, it is definitely a big success.

Tom Cruise sat down, took a towel from the waiter, wiped his sweat, and asked hesitantly, "Ryan, I heard that Orion Films plans to release an epic movie in May!"

The shooting plan of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is an amazing project even if you look at Hollywood.

No one dares to underestimate the beginning film of such a plan.

Including Tom Cruise himself.

"It's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."

"Orion Films intends to release it on the first weekend of May." Ryan said truthfully, without deliberately hiding anything.

But speaking of this, he took a weird look at Tom Cruise. It seemed that the commercial blockbuster "Mission: Impossible 2" starring Tom Cruise was also scheduled to be released in May.

The investment of this film is as high as 125 million US dollars, and it is also the sequel film of the famous "Mission: Impossible". It must not be underestimated.

Moreover, the most interesting point is that the production company of this film is Paramount.

"It's May 5th!" Tom Cruise continued.

"It seems to be." Ryan didn't know the exact date of the first weekend in May.

Nicholas Cage looked at Tom Cruise and asked curiously, "Tom, could it be that the film you star in~www.wuxiahere.com~ is also going to be released in early May?"

Generally speaking, the films released in early May are either because the distribution companies lack confidence and want to avoid fierce competition, or they are full of confidence and are optimistic about the long-term box office trend of the film.

Hearing this, Tom Cruise smiled wryly and said, "Cage, you really hit the spot."

"The release time of "Mission: Impossible 2" is also scheduled for May."

Fortunately, the scheduled release time of this film is not the beginning of May, but the end of May. There are about 20 days between the release of the two films.

"If you can."

Tom Cruise made a very presumptuous request, "Ryan, can I come to a test screening of this movie!"

"Of course." Ryan agreed and said, "You and Cage can come together then."

Anyway, some media, theater companies, film critics, "Lord of the Rings" readers, audience, etc. will be invited to the film preview site, and there is no confidentiality.

"It seems that you need to ask Sophia to prepare more popcorn, otherwise I will definitely give a bad review." Nicholas Cage made a small joke.

Tom Cruise breathed a sigh of relief, then his expression changed slightly, and he deliberately lowered his voice and said: "Dreamworks and Universal Pictures jointly produced "Gladiator", and it seems that it is also planned to be released in early May."

"Gladiator"!

Ryan's expression didn't change at all, he had known the news for a long time.

Next, the few played for a while, and agreed to attend the Oscar nomination banquet the day after tomorrow.

However, Nicholas Cage may not be able to go, he needs to accompany his son to Hawaii for vacation

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