"This is a new civil war between the north and the south. The guys in the north want to swallow us, and they swallowed us with flesh!"

Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman said indignantly. He waved his arms while talking, and his movements were so big that he almost spilled the wine in his glass on Li Rui.

Goodman mentioned the two sides of the Civil War. The north refers to large Silicon Valley companies in northern California, including but not limited to Google, Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Facebook, etc., while the south is Hollywood-centered content producers, including

Major film companies and record companies and other entertainment industries surrounding them.

Kevin Tsuji (shi, Ersheng), the president of Warner Bros., also frowned: "They used to rely on us to provide content to expand their software market share. When they own the market, they turned around and produced content themselves and kept us away.

Let it go. We must never allow such a thing to happen!”

The people around were full of passion and expressed their indignation towards Silicon Valley.

Li Rui, who was caught in it, didn't know much about the purpose of the cocktail party. After listening to the speeches of several Hollywood giants, he realized that it was a condemnation meeting about the chaos and the uneven distribution of spoils.

In the early 2000s, Internet companies in Silicon Valley and content producers led by Hollywood were in partnership. For example, Jobs founded Pixar when he left Apple. Later, after Apple launched itunes, it also maintained close cooperation with music companies such as Time Warner.

It can be said that Hollywood content creators made great contributions to the early conquest of Silicon Valley Internet companies and also received considerable returns.

As Internet companies gradually grow, they are not satisfied with just becoming channel vendors and have begun to extend their hands to the field of content creation. How could Hollywood tolerate their cake being taken away? The conflict between the two sides arises.

For example, the Federal Communications Commission of Magnesium is recently reviewing a very important bill: the ban on online piracy bill (sopa for short). There has been fierce conflicts between Silicon Valley and Hollywood around the passage of this bill.

Supporting the bill is mainly Hollywood and large record companies, while Internet companies such as Microsoft, ebay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo have opposed it.

The former reason is that the bill can better protect intellectual property rights, while the latter believes that this will hinder legitimate online activities and cultural creation.

There is a big deal between the two sides, but at present, Internet companies have the upper hand and the passage of the bill is nowhere to be achieved.

This made Hollywood tycoons furious, which led to the hosting of today's cocktail party. Once rivals joined hands to deal with the worsening situation.

"We have to resist. I suggest taking back all the content and letting them play by themselves!" Jim Jeepna, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox, said angrily. "Without our videos and music, they playlists

It will become empty, and then they will realize how big a mistake they have made!”

Disney's Robert Eiger shook his head and said, "Silicon Valley will not admit its mistakes. They will only solve the problems themselves, just like they have subverted other industries..."

Everyone was silent.

The greatness of Silicon Valley is very familiar with Hollywood, as a neighbor.

Both parties take creation as their career, one creates technology and the other creates content.

Although Hollywood can create a continuous stream of content, Silicon Valley has huge capital that they envy.

For example, the vice presidents of large Silicon Valley companies often have annual salary of one million or even tens of millions. However, people with the same position in Hollywood only have six-figure salaries.

Silicon Valley always solves problems directly, while Hollywood is a society that is maintained by connections. The different styles of both parties lead to completely different response methods.

Just like today's cocktail party, this is something that only Hollywood can do. If it is in Silicon Valley, it will definitely be solved by several major companies CEO's conference call...

Eiger continued: "I'm not optimistic about the outcome of this war, and George (George Lucas, director of "Star Wars") also thinks so, saying that technology will make filmmaking cheaper, and everyone in the future

All can create movies and release content, Hollywood will eventually be eliminated..."

Li Rui nodded slightly.ъìqυgΕtv.℃ǒΜ

It is worthy of being Lucas, and he can see the future development trend of self-media. In the future, everyone can become a creator. Although real big productions rely on professional institutions like Hollywood, their influence is no longer comparable.

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Who would have thought that in the future, a selfie video released by an internet celebrity will receive hundreds of millions of views, while a movie that also spent hundreds of millions of magnesium dollars would not even attract one-tenth of the audience.

Aegel glanced at Li Rui's reaction and asked curiously: "Li, you have just become a shareholder of Lions Gate. What do you think about this war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley?"

Li Rui spread his hands and said, "Only cooperation is the only way to cooperate, because the strength of both parties is not on the same order of magnitude. You should know the financial strength of Silicon Valley. They can often use tens of billions of dollars to acquire them, and one-tenth of the money is

It's enough to buy Lionsgate or Amc, and one-third of it can buy any big company in Hollywood. If Apple wants to buy Disney, it should be no different from buying a box of milk."

There was an uproar around and he showed a very strong reaction to Li Rui's statement.

Although Li Rui said it was unceremonious, they had to admit that it was the fact.

Disney is the most powerful and wealthy company in Hollywood, and its market value has barely exceeded 100 billion yuan, while Apple's market value is about 400 billion yuan, and other Internet companies' market value is far more than Hollywood Pictures. The strength of both parties is indeed not on the same level.

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Li Rui continued: "I don't know if you have discovered that the tastes of young consumers are different. They no longer prefer traditional Hollywood productions, but rather content that we don't know. And the guys in Silicon Valley are very

I know how to impact the traditional industrial chain, I suspect that in the near future, they will be able to create a model that skips TV stations and theaters, and relies entirely on the Internet from production to release. By that time, the basis for us to win this war will be

It's completely gone!"

Eiger blurted out: "Then do you think, how should we deal with this situation?"

His ability to ask such a question means he accepted Li Rui's speculation, and the fact that this is also the crisis facing content manufacturers in Hollywood and even globally in the next few years.

Li Rui said lightly: "They have the Internet channels and want to create content by themselves. We can also take the content into new channels, such as building their own websites and apps of Hollywood."

Everyone looked at each other.
Chapter completed!