Two days later,

Jiang Hao received a call from Robert and had already negotiated with the publishing house to sign the contract.

In the office of Times Books, Jiang Hao met Howard, the owner of the publishing house, and the two sides shook hands and greeted each other, "Mr. Hall, I have read both of your books, and I have to say that the story is very exciting, very attractive, and the writing is also very connotative, which makes people feel emotional, and it is the best I have read in the past two years." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Howard, I would like to ask how long it will take to publish the book after signing." Jiang Hao said.

"It takes about 2 months to sort out the manuscript, typesetting design, three reviews and three proofreadings, apply for the book number, and finalize the printing, all of which cannot be sloppy." Howard said.

It seems that it will take 2 months to wait for the work to be released.

After the two sides signed the contract, several people poured a glass of wine in Howard's office, celebrated briefly, Jiang Hao said goodbye and left, and on the car back, Jiang Hao said to Robert, "Robert, I am going to set up my own film company and shoot my own movie." ”

Robert looked at Jiang Hao in surprise, "Don't you write anymore, Jon, you have a talent in this area, and you should give full play to your strengths." Now that the film industry is shrinking in a big way, and even the big studios are losing money, I don't think that's a good idea. ”

Robert was right, from the 50s onwards, television was all the rage, and it had a great impact on the film industry, and from 1946 to 1953, in just a few years, the number of people who went to the cinema every year shrank by half.

Before World War II, New York and Hollywood were the two major bases of the American film industry, but after World War II, they quickly shifted to Hollywood, and the film industry in New York shrank greatly, and Hollywood became the dominant film industry base.

At that time, in Hollywood, film companies were like mushrooms after a rain, with new companies being established every day, and now, they are like leaves in autumn, swept by the cold wind of the film crisis, brushing and falling, and blockbuster companies going bankrupt.

Coupled with the Paramount Act, the profits of film companies have been greatly reduced, and now, the Hollywood film industry has entered a cold winter.

Jiang Hao naturally knows, and he also knows that this film crisis is just the beginning, and it will last for a long time, from now until the end of the 70s, many of those big film companies are moving forward with heavy loads, not to mention small film companies.

Small film companies themselves have no ability to resist the wind and waves, no one can guarantee that every film will make money, as long as one investment fails, there is basically no chance to turn over, and under the theory of the film industry, a large number of small film companies have fallen, and in the past twenty or thirty years, there have been thousands of film companies that have collapsed.

The reason why the Eight are the Eight is not only their channels and capabilities, film resources and connections, but also because of the capital support behind them, even so, these film companies have changed hands several times, and they can only continue to stick to it by finding new investors.

How about 20th Century Fox, a super big film company, a few years later a "Cleopatra", invested four or five hundred thousand dollars, completely failed, and almost forced Fox to go out of business.

How about Columbia Pictures, as soon as it saw that the movie was not good, it immediately switched to the TV industry, but it was still not good, and was finally acquired by Coca-Cola.

Warner is amazing, and later generations are familiar with classic movies, such as "Batman", "Inception", "The Matrix", "Harry Potter", "Superman Returns" and so on.

After entering the film crisis in the fifties and sixties, the film suffered serious losses and the business shrank, Warner turned its main business to the TV industry, and then, Jiang Hao knew that Warner would change hands in a few years, sold to Seven Arts, changed its name to Warner Seven Arts, and was bought by Steve Ross 2 years later and renamed Warner Bros., which is what we see now.

In fact, the Eight Majors, oh, there are only six left in the future, and there doesn't seem to be one that has not changed hands, and it is thrown around as a commodity in the hands of those big capitals, so the film industry is definitely a high-risk industry.

Maybe now is indeed not the best time to enter the film industry, but who is Jiang Hao, he is a man with a golden finger.

"Robert, I found 3 million funds to set up a company to shoot my first film, and I wrote the script." Jiang Hao said.

Robert didn't care too much about the latter words, he was already stunned by the 3 million funds that Jiang Hao said, in this era of $300 a month, being a millionaire is definitely the dream of countless people, but Jon said that he brought $3 million in cash.

Damn the rich second generation!

Damn dude!

I'm really envious, why not me, if I have this money, no, even if it's only $300,000, I can open a law firm and don't have to work for others.

Robert smiled, "Jon, do you want me to help you with what to prepare the materials for setting up the company?" ”

The persuasion just now is from the perspective of a friend, and now it is business, and Robert adheres to the most professional attitude towards business, and the customer who gives money is God.

Jiang Hao smiled, "Robert, are you interested in investing in my film company and becoming my partner?" ”

Robert's body shook, looked around, and stopped the car silently on the side of the road, before turning his head to look at Jiang Hao, "Jon, are you serious?" ”

"Seriously, of course." Jiang Hao put on the most sincere face.

Robert is a lawyer, and a lawyer is a senior talent at all times, Jiang Hao and Robert have been in contact with him several times and found that he has a strong ability to work.

Jiang Hao will have a lot of things to do in the future, he has wandered in so many worlds, and he knows a truth, it is impossible for one person to conquer the world, as a successful superior, he needs to recruit countless talents to do things for himself, so as to make his career bigger.

For Jiang Hao's invitation, Robert was tempted, very tempted, who doesn't want to develop his career, he also wants to be a boss, opening a law firm is one of his ideals.

Now, an opportunity to become a shareholder of a film company is in front of him, and it is fake to say that he is not tempted.

"Jon, tell me what you think."

Since the other party invited him, he must have already had a full idea, and Robert wanted to hear what Jiang Hao had to say first.

"You invest a sum of money, become a shareholder of the company, and be responsible for the company's legal affairs, we need to hire a professional manager who is responsible for the company's daily management and film business, of course, it can also be absorbed, it depends on the situation, my main business will be on filming movies in the future." Jiang Hao said.

didn't let himself be a manager, and Robert raised Jiang Hao's plan to another level in his heart.

"How much do I need to invest?"

"It's up to you to have yourself, I'm ready to invest 3 million in the early stage." Jiang Hao said.

Robert thought for a moment, "Jon, I need to think about it, it's not a trivial matter, and to be honest, I don't have much money, $100,000 is my limit, but this amount of money is too small." ”

"You think about it first, and we can discuss the details later." Jiang Hao smiled and said in his heart, as long as his heart is moved, there will be a chance.

Sending Jiang Hao back to the apartment, Robert did not go home, but came to a bar, asked for a bottle of wine, and drank it silently and thought, he knew that this decision was likely to determine his future.

He is thirty-four years old this year, and he wants to have more development, but he is afraid of failure, and he calculates the gains and losses in his mind.

It wasn't until about ten o'clock in the evening that Robert returned to his house, his wife Linda had not yet slept, and was leaning on the bedside reading a book, Robert climbed into bed and asked softly, "Is little Frant asleep?" ”

"I'm already asleep, what's wrong Robert, you look a little tired, is the business not very good?" Linda asked.

"No, business has been good lately, and I'm thinking about one thing, one thing that may be related to the future." Robert said.

"Can you talk to me?" Linda said.

Robert told all the things from knowing Jiang Hao, publishing the book, and Jiang Hao's invitation to join the film company, and finally Robert said: "I am afraid of failure, if failure will have a big impact on our family's financial situation, I will be responsible for you and Furant." ”

Linda thought for a while and said, "Robert, I don't know what the odds of success are, but I know that if you don't try, you will never have the possibility of success, as for whether to invest or not, this needs to be judged by yourself, and I support any decision you make." ”

Robert kissed Linda on the forehead, hugged his wife and closed his eyes, smelled the familiar smell, and slowly fell asleep.

Following

Robert found Jiang Hao, and the first thing he said was, "Jon, I'm ready to join the gang." ”

Jiang Hao smiled and stretched out his palm, "Welcome to Robert." ”

Robert also stretched out his hand, the hands of the two people shook together, and after letting go, Robert immediately changed his face, took out his professional skills as a lawyer, and said to Jiang Hao: "Then next, we have to talk about the details, I am ready to invest $100,000, but I feel that I should get more shares"

Jiang Hao is the least afraid of negotiations, and some negotiations are fine.

"Let's sit down and talk, I'll pour you a glass of wine, how about whiskey on the rocks?" Jiang Hao didn't pick up the stubble for the first time, but got up to pour the wine, which broke most of Robert's sharpness in one fell swoop.

Halfway through Robert's words, he could only swallow it back, and he suddenly realized that the Jon Hall in front of him was probably more shrewd and sophisticated than he imagined.

"Whiskey, yes."

Jiang Hao brought two glasses of wine, the two sat down to chat, and Robert continued: "I gave up my position as a lawyer to provide more professional and careful business for the company, and this aspect also needs to be counted as an investment, which is why you invited me, right, Jon." ”

"That's right." Jiang Hao nodded in acknowledgement.

"So professional investment should also be counted as shares."

"Then as a director, do I also have to count shares?"

"Oh, my practice as a lawyer is recognized by the industry."

“”

The two sides exchanged words, and finally finalized that Robert invested $100,000, got 7 shares, and a monthly salary of no less than $1,000.

Robert was very satisfied, Jiang Hao didn't care even more, the two sides reached an agreement on this, and the establishment of the company was naturally handed over to Robert, after all, he was a professional personnel, and Jiang Hao's purpose in asking him was to do these chores.

Of course, Jiang Hao also gave Robert an order to find a suitable executive manager of the film company.

Robert's actions were very fast, and the company's legal documents were completed in a few days, the company was successfully registered, and Hall Film Company was established, Jiang Hao was the largest shareholder and chairman, and Robert was the minority shareholder and the company's legal director.