Chapter 298 Breaking the Record! The Second Dog Cult Leader is mighty!

It has to be said that Lin Xiao’s kindness to his own people is even a bit unrefined.

For a movie like "2012", it could have been handed over to other people to direct, because the project had already started last year.

If the normal progress is followed, the film will be completed in 14 months at most, and will even be able to catch up with this year's Christmas and New Year schedules.

But Lin Xiao decided to give it to Master Zhang, so it really had to wait for him. Because he was busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympics for the entire first half of the year and was completely unable to spare any time.

And the entire project really took him eight months.

Even Master Zhang felt very embarrassed and repeatedly said that it would be better to hand it over to other directors and just give me the next project.

Others might think that this is an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of Zhang Guoshi's Olympic opening ceremony, but the "2012" project is definitely not that, because it is aimed at the global market, and Zhang Guoshi's commercial influence in this regard can be almost ignored.

As soon as the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games ended, Master Zhang flew to the United States and directly started filming "2012".

This is also the first time he has directed a truly global project, a mega project worth over $150 million.

"This movie is not difficult, and I'm quite good at it." After finishing a day's filming, Master Zhang, Lin Xiao, Amy, Susan and others drank together.

Lin Xiao raised his glass towards Amy Pascal: "I'm very sorry, we don't have any big movie projects this year at Dream Vision."

The whole year of 2008 was a slow year for movies, and the top ten in the global box office rankings were much lower than last year. Sony Columbia performed extremely well last year, dominating the first, second, and fourth places.

This year, only one film, "Hancock," made it into the top ten worldwide.

Amy shrugged, "I'm used to it, but next year will be ours."

Not only will "2012" be released next year, but the first animation of "Graveyard Book" will also be released.

Therefore, the time to test Oriental Fantasy is coming again, and the time to test Sony's animated film market is coming again.

Amy had three very complete scripts in her hands.

Not only the text script, but also the related concept drawings and a large number of storyboards have been completed.

They are "The Martian", "Interstellar" and "The Wandering Earth".

"They are all science fiction." Amy Pascal said, "Lin, your real goal is the last one, The Wandering Earth, which is a real Chinese IP."

Amy saw through Lin Xiao's thoughts.

"2012" is definitely a disaster film, but it also has a bit of science fiction flavor.

Lin Xiao tried to use three super science fiction blockbusters as a prelude to form a habit of watching movies among global audiences, and then launched "The Wandering Earth".

Trying to promote Chinese science fiction IP to the world.

In the previous life, "The Wandering Earth" was not considered a global success, whether it was No. 1 or No. 2.

The second part has stronger nationalist sentiments, but Lin Xiao feels that the narrative structure of the first part is still very suitable for global promotion.

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This year, Fantasy Vision has no major film projects worldwide, but Lightning Entertainment has been going crazy this year.

In May, Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was officially released.

He was holding back his anger for this movie, especially his previous film "Let the Bullets Fly". Although he was the director, the whole movie was marked with Jiang Wen's imprint.

Not only did people in the Beijing circle say that this movie had little to do with Ning Hao, and also little to do with Lightning Entertainment, even Ning Hao himself rarely mentioned this movie.

Then, he devoted himself to the production of "No Man's Land" just to prove himself.

This was his first farewell to comedy.

Historically, this movie was delayed for several years before being released.

But in this world, it is the leader Ergou who first grasps the scale. Of course the most important reason is that both Ergou and Lightning Entertainment have too much say.

Although it was originally difficult to pass the review, it was passed directly.

And what's very coincidental is that the release date of this movie is almost the same as the Lightning Technology press conference, the so-called return of the Ergou leader.

The box office in the first week was 160 million, and the final box office was 510 million! Compared with historical results, it is much better. It directly doubled the box office and has a super good reputation.

As the saying goes, the first effort is strong, the second will weaken, and the third will be exhausted.

Historically, after this movie was completed, it was revised three times and took four years to be released. Even the company did not dare to put much effort into promoting it.

But it’s different in this world. Only a few months have passed since "Kung Fu Panda" set a new box office record, and Lightning Entertainment is in high spirits.

With a box office of 510 million, it directly surpassed "The Last Days" and became the second in Chinese film history.

Another super-production, even international film, "The Forbidden Kingdom", only earned 200 million yuan in box office in China, which is already slightly higher than in history.

And this year's summer vacation.

Lightning Entertainment has two movies released, one is "Ip Man" and the other is "Charlotte's Troubles".

The movie "Ip Man" was finally released. It was Zhen Zhidan's own choice, and the project was finally approved by Li Shuang and Gao Changhe.

This type of project basically never comes to Lin Xiao's attention.

"Charlotte's Troubles" was what Lin Xiao had been thinking about for a long time. After hesitating for a long time, he decided to take it out in advance.

Because, under his and Lightning Entertainment's leadership, the Chinese film market has already expanded ahead of schedule.

If things continue like this, history is likely to repeat itself, and Lost in Thailand, a not-so-great film, may be the first to break the 1 billion RMB box office mark.

This is really embarrassing. Kung Fu Panda cost hundreds of millions of dollars but failed to break 1 billion in the domestic market, but was eventually broken by Lost in Thailand.

In that case, the golden signboard of Lightning Entertainment and even the golden signboard of Leader Ergou will fade.

"Ip Man" was released in July and its final box office revenue was 290 million, far exceeding historical records.

Although this is not an outstanding result for Lightning Entertainment, it is really enviable in the entire film industry.

"Charlotte's Troubles" is scheduled to be released on August 15.

And then out of nowhere, this movie exploded.

The historical version of "Red Cliff" was released in July, and in this world it was released in August.

This can be considered a major collaboration between Hong Kong and Taiwan capital.

This is also a typical movie in which mainland actors play supporting roles for Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

This is the biggest attempt by Hong Kong and Taiwan capital in the mainland market, and it can also be considered an international production, at least Japanese actors and capital also account for a part of it.

The film cost $80 million to make, but was cut into two parts.

The investment made by Lightning Entertainment for "Charlotte's Troubles" was disclosed to be less than 30 million RMB.

"Red Cliff" was released earlier, and in the first four days, the box office exceeded 135 million yuan.

This is nearly 30% higher than in history. It can be said that this is basically due to Lin Xiao. Several consecutive years of big productions have allowed the Chinese film market to expand ahead of schedule and raised the ceiling. Almost all movies are benefiting from this.

The next week, after "Charlotte's Troubles" was released, when the first week's box office figures came out, the entire film market was once again in an uproar.

250 million! Crazy, completely crazy! The key is that it received rave reviews, which once again sparked heated discussions.

In the end, "Red Cliff" earned 360 million yuan at the box office, about 20% higher than the historical record.

The final box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" was 895 million yuan.

The entire film industry is completely stunned!

Damn it!

A new record has been created?

"Kung Fu Panda" created a box office record of 890 million RMB, and that was only over half a year ago.

Many people have thought that it is very likely that a super production of the level of "2012", and a movie under the name of Ergou, will be able to break this record, but it will take at least until the end of next year.

As a result, "Charlotte's Troubles", a movie with a mere investment of 30 million yuan, broke the record unexpectedly without any preparation.

Although the screenwriter of this movie is clearly written as Ergou Jiaozhu.

But... this is too outrageous.

This... is this a kind of compensation to Leader Ergou?

We did not help you achieve your goal in this masterpiece "Kung Fu Panda", which you worked so hard on.

I thought you would be able to return on May 31st, but you didn't.

So, everyone is doing a revenge movie watching on "Charlotte's Troubles"? A compensatory movie-watching for Master Ergou? Not really. The discussion about this movie about Master Ergou wasn't that high. They just flooded into the cinemas inexplicably.

Lightning Entertainment, you are just crazy about making money.

Because of this movie, Lightning Entertainment is not only the producer but also the distributor. Not long ago, Lightning Entertainment completed the acquisition of a considerable part of Bona Film Group.

So according to conservative estimates, Lightning Entertainment can make a net profit of around 400 million yuan from this movie.

Moreover, Lightning Entertainment will have another big production coming out at the end of the year.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

This is the first work of Zhou Xingchi's comprehensive cooperation with Lightning Entertainment.

Throughout 2008, Lightning Entertainment released four movies, which are likely to take the first, second, third and fifth spots on the charts! It showed amazing dominance, and the entire domestic film industry was trembling under the shadow of Lightning Entertainment.

The strategy proposed by Lin Xiao before was to attract a large number of celebrities, social organizations, and official organizations to Facebook.

Especially stars and celebrities should regard Facebook as the most important platform and channel, operate it with all their heart, and even spend money to get on the trending searches.

As a result, this goal was not achieved until Lin Xiao completely left the Lightning Group.

And now, it has been completely achieved! These domestic stars are more positive than each other.

Not only Facebook in China, but also Facebook overseas, have professional teams managing Facebook accounts.

Try every possible way to interact with fans and post various photos and updates of yourself.

With the launch of quantum mobile phones, Facebook has also directly entered the mobile Internet platform.

First, Hollywood stars used quantum phones to take photos and then posted them on Facebook, with the model of the phone used displayed in the suffix.

Then, domestic celebrities also started to use it.

Therefore, now in China, whenever a celebrity posts an update on Facebook, the suffix is ​​almost always “quantum phone”.

Not just stars, but also a large number of celebrities.

After "Charlotte's Troubles" broke the box office record, an event immediately appeared on Facebook.

A large number of celebrities posted their movie ticket stubs for "Charlotte's Troubles" and attached the caption: Leader Ergou is mighty! In the beginning, there were only stars from the Lightning Department, followed by stars from the entire Shanghai Gang.

Then it spread wider and wider, and more and more celebrities joined the event.

In the end, some people even started to count which celebrities did not join this event.

This is fatal.

If you don't participate in this event, do you have any problem with Master Ergou? Do you have any opinion about Lightning Entertainment? So when you are banned in the future, don’t cry out for injustice!

As a result, even celebrities from the Beijing and Hong Kong circles also joined in.

Even the stars from the Huayi Department posted their movie ticket stubs for "Charlotte's Troubles", with a mighty caption from Master Ergou.

Seeing this scene, Mr. Wang from Huayi couldn't help but sigh.

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The dominance demonstrated by Lightning Entertainment has become increasingly terrifying.

Most celebrities have to rely on him and dare not offend him.

This is not just a dominance in the TV drama market, but also in the film market. Facebook also has an almost monopoly on Internet promotion channels.

Previously, Renren was still able to compete with others in the high-end social networking field, but now Renren has surrendered and has directly switched to the Quantum mobile phone platform.

There is also a Lightning Video, which has also demonstrated strong dominance in film and television.

So far, it is the only one that continues to purchase various film and TV series copyrights, and its copyright library is more than one level ahead of other competitors.

Especially in the introduction of American TV series, Lightning Video has unparalleled advantages.

Of the top 20 American TV series, Lightning Video has imported almost all of them in authentic versions. Even American TV series like "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" can be produced almost without any cuts.

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Google has a very powerful consulting team that is responsible for only one thing: the brand power of quantum phones.

With the extensive use of American stars and celebrities, and posting updates on Facebook, the suffix clearly shows the phone model.

The brand value of quantum mobile phones is rising almost every day.

In fact, it is irreplaceable.

Although Facebook is now on the IOS platform, the quantum phone is far ahead of the earliest IPHONE in terms of camera performance.

Even if we put aside the screen and the appearance of the phone, and just focus on its camera performance, a large number of stars and celebrities have no choice.

Because the iPhone 4, which will truly make Apple a legend, will not be released for a long time.

These celebrities and stars have too much influence on ordinary people and have a strong influence on shaping brand value.

This makes it increasingly necessary for Google to legally kill the X operating system.

Otherwise, if the market continues to develop in this way, global sales of quantum phones will soon exceed 10 million units.

Every additional mobile phone sold is equivalent to an additional moat for the system.

At this time, there are still five days until the third court session.

Lin Xiao is in a meeting with Texas Instruments.

To be precise, the meeting was at X Semiconductor.

Lin Xiao also gave the various goals for the next generation X2 chip.

Once again, it makes everyone's teeth ache.

Because this time Lin Xiao’s target was more specific and even crazier.

First of all, the design must be based on the 32nm process. It should be noted that 45nm is just barely mature this year. Whether it is Qualcomm or Apple, even next year or the year after, the flagship chip design plans are all based on 45nm.

As a result, you are once again asking for 32 nanometers.

Yes, Intel has made a breakthrough in this process, but... that's Intel, its entire architecture is completely different from our ARM.

Moreover, Lin Xiao also required that the baseband and GPU be integrated into the SOC.

To sum up Lin Xiao’s goal, it is to make the performance of this chip reach the level of ARM Cortex-A15.

But...even though ARM only launched this chip design the year after last, it is quite coincidental that the first company in history to be authorized to produce this chip was Texas Instruments.

Although X Semiconductor also has shares in ARM, and even many backbones in this company were poached from ARM with high salaries.

But... this goal still seems amazing.

Richard Templeton, chairman of Texas Instruments, said, "Lin, according to your goal, the chip may not be available until two years later. At the earliest, you will have to wait until the end of next year to release the Quantum 2 mobile phone, and it will take until 2011 for it to be actually put on the market."

Lin Xiao: “I know!”

Depend on! This means that there will be a gap in quantum mobile phones for more than two and a half years.

Lin Xiao: "Because it is the starting price range now, everyone is not very stable. But I promise you, after the second generation of Quantum mobile phones, we will steadily update and replace them every year."

"But this time, let me be more willful, even if there is a gap of two and a half years, it doesn't matter."

"Because quantum phones need to give the world the impression that we are the most advanced and the coolest."

“So I can even contribute $1 billion to the design and development of the X2 chip.”

It's not just Texas Instruments that will be driven crazy, but also Sharp and Sony.

Sharp's most excellent screen has not been out for long, but Lin Xiao has already pre-ordered the next generation screen with a resolution of 1280*720.

Directly skipped 640P and upgraded to 720P.

Sony's most advanced CMOS module has not even been released yet, but Lin Xiao is already preparing to customize a batch of modules from them that are much more advanced than the current CMOS.

Masayoshi Son: "Lin, I understand your aggressiveness very well. You have to maintain a leading mentality."

"But now is a critical moment for the X operating system to expand its market share. Next year, giants such as Motorola, LG, and Lenovo will start producing Android phones. However, there is a gap of two and a half years for quantum phones. Isn't this handing over the market to others?"

Lin Xiao has thought of a solution to this problem.

For example, next year we will still use this SOC and this COMS module, but we will launch a completely new system of products, the NOTE product line.

The 4-inch screen is directly increased to about 4.8 inches, and it is also equipped with a stylus.

Yes, it is following the path that Samsung once took, and it has proven to be very successful.

But whether to do so has not been decided yet, and quantum technology needs to be decided in a meeting next.

Lin Xiao: "We can bring this advanced SOC to the low-end market, allowing other manufacturers to use our SOC and baseband chips, or even the entire solution, to produce a large number of mid-range phones priced around 1999, equipped with our X operating system to stake out territory and seize the market."

"We have left two and a half years of time, which is just the right time for these mobile phone manufacturers to make use of their talents."

"In this way, our SOC can be shipped on a large scale, even reaching tens of millions of copies."

With mass production, the cost of this SOC will drop significantly. Now the cost of purchasing this SOC for a quantum mobile phone is more than one hundred dollars. In the future, when Chinese mobile phone manufacturers purchase this SOC, it may only cost thirty or fifty US dollars.

After the last meeting among domestic senior executives, companies such as Zhonghua, Kuaishou, Meizu, BBK, and Opel have all been sharpening their knives.

These manufacturers have already contacted Quantum Technology and each has taken the open source version of the X operating system.

If you are more particular, you can organize your own team to make certain updates and designs to the system. Don’t be picky, just use it.

Although these companies are not well-known in mobile phone manufacturing worldwide, they are far from Motorola and LG.

But when they start a price war, everyone will know their power.

In the end, Lin Xiao successfully convinced all the major shareholders of Quantum Technology to implement his strategy.

Quantum phones are still exploring the most advanced, coolest and most high-end categories.

Then the technology will be decentralized, allowing a large number of mid- and low-end mobile phones to compete all over the world and start the competition ahead of schedule.

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September 21st is getting closer.

More and more media outlets from around the world are flying to California, preparing to report in real time.

Countless media focused on this trial.

And Google is also constantly releasing its voice.

"We will never seek any settlement, even if the other party's legal team has contacted us through various channels and expressed a possible willingness to settle."

"However, we reject any form of settlement. No matter how much compensation Quantum Technology offers, we will not accept it."

"The only outcome we can accept is a ban on the sale of current quantum phones."

"Until Quantum Technology completely stops copying us and infringing our rights."

"We must tell the world, especially Lin Xiao, a Chinese, that intellectual property rights are sacred and inviolable!"

"In addition, we hope that this time Lin Xiao can stand in court as a defendant, instead of pushing Wu Di to the dock, even though that would arouse the sympathy of the judge and jury, and arouse the sympathy of countless people."

"We know that the Chinese are very good at using tactics. Is this a self-torture tactic?"

"You asked Wu Di to appear in your place at the last press conference, and you received praise and sympathy from the whole world, but this was also a deception to the whole world."

"We are very sorry for Mr. Wu Di's Parkinson's disease and paralysis, but the law should be majestic and fair. Therefore, we sincerely hope that Lin Xiao can take up his responsibilities, appear in the dock openly, accept our questioning, and not evade again."

"We know clearly that Lin Xiao is the instigator of this plagiarism infringement!"

"Lin Xiao, see you in court!"

September 21st! The third trial of the case regarding Quantum Technology’s plagiarism and infringement of the Android system has officially begun! ……………………

Note: It’s so difficult to write, and it’s late today, so I’m too embarrassed to ask for monthly votes! I will update at 9 o'clock tomorrow and ask again...

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