In the Washimine Building, Nanaya continued to tell Shion his views.
"Once News Corporation and Warner Group merge," Nanaya said slowly, "it means that a super giant company will emerge, which will have a huge impact on other companies in the industry."
Shion thought for a moment and said, "In other words, in order to protect themselves, all companies will unite to boycott News Corporation, right?"
"Yes."
Nanaya nodded: "And News Corporation's actions will also touch upon the Antitrust Act. The government will not remain indifferent."
In fact, News Corporation was not successful in its previous life.
But those who opposed News Corporation only stopped after blocking the merger and did not go any further.
But simply making News Corporation suffer a setback is clearly not Nanaya' goal.
For a company as large as News Corp., there aren't many opportunities for flaws to show up.
This opportunity is really rare. If we don't defeat News Corporation completely in one go, who knows if we will have another chance next time.
Nanaya has had enough of being stared at by those dogs at News Corporation, and he plans to take this opportunity to put an end to it once and for all.
Even if we fail to kill News Corporation in the end, we should at least beat them to the point where they cannot take care of themselves and prevent them from causing trouble for us again.
"At present, the other party only has an initial plan, and it is still too early to formally take action."
Shion looked at the information collected by his men and said, "Iioka, go contact other Hollywood film companies and various powerful media companies."
"Should we also contact the North American government?" Iioka asked in a low voice.
"Don't bother."
Shion thought about it for a moment and shook her head to reject the suggestion.
Large companies must have their own ways of communicating with higher-level government officials, so Washimine doesn't need to repeat the work.
Besides, as a Japanese company, it is really too sensitive for Washimine to communicate with the government about business digging.
Washimine can act as a connector between enterprises, but he should forget about being the first to communicate with the government.
Afterwards, Shion discussed with Nanaya the possibility of setting a trap for News Corporation.
Both men agreed that the chances of News Corp. taking the bait were high.
So-called media groups, isn't it just about making big news all day long?
After the meeting, Shion was busy integrating and connecting other companies, preparing to dig a big hole for News Corporation.
And Nanaya turned his attention back to the production of "Madoka Magica".
Washimine Entertainment has begun to join the war to change the landscape of Hollywood.
Shion's development plan at the company level is being implemented step by step, and the film and television business that supports the plan is directly related to the success or failure of this plan.
If Washimine Entertainment fails to produce convincing commercial results.
Not to mention connecting with other film companies to become a leader, it's even a question whether they will pay attention to you.
According to the plan, the "Madoka Magica" project will be released during the Halloween season.
Cameron's "Avatar" will be released during the Christmas holiday.
These two movies, which will usher in the 3D era, will soon be officially released to the audience.
The decision to release "Madoka Magica" more than a month earlier than "Avatar" was the result of a discussion between Nanaya and Cameron.
They all know very well that if the films are released in the same period, or even very close to each other, it will be a lose-lose outcome.
Both movies are top Hollywood productions today. If they don't have enough time to absorb box office revenue, they may not even be able to make back their investment.
After the release date was decided, both directors felt that their films had more advantages.
Cameron feels he has a big advantage because more people go to the movies during the Christmas season than during the Halloween season.
As for the first-mover advantage of "Madoka Magica", Cameron doesn't really care about it.
Today's North American film market is no longer what it used to be. It's already a great achievement for a movie's popularity to last for a month.
Cameron thought that he would first let "Puella Magi" trigger a craze for 3D movie-watching and heat up the market.
Then after a month, the popularity of "Madoka Magica" has died down, and their own "Avatar" can enter the mature 3D market.
From a business perspective, we clearly have the advantage.
Nanaya felt a little guilty knowing Cameron's thoughts because he had chosen in front of Cameron on purpose.
Because, if "Madoka Magica" can really trigger a 3D movie-watching craze like "Avatar" did in its previous life.
Then the popularity of the movie will definitely last much longer than a month.
"Avatar" will indeed be very popular when it is released, but the popularity of "Madoka Magica" will not be bad either.
Especially since both parties are original IPs, "Madoka Magica" has accumulated fans for a month in advance.
Of course, all of the above situations are based on the imagination of Nanaya and Cameron.
We will only know how the war between these two masterpieces unfolds after the movie is released.
On the first weekend of September, the crew of "Madoka Magica" officially entered the final countdown for promotions.
Washimine Entertainment has already delivered the completed film of "Madoka Magica" to the review departments of various countries for review.
On the other hand, the five magical girls finally gathered again in North America and began intensive promotions.
The first stop of the promotion is the five-member group's fan meet-and-greet (handshake) events across the United States.
Compared to this time last year, the popularity of the five-member Madoka Magica group has increased a lot.
The impressive lingerie show at the beginning of the year, the CP promotion between Kujo Fuu and Gakki some time ago, and the popularity of Luvia and Rin in Europe and the United States.
Although all these various operations combined cannot make the five-member group become mainstream stars in Europe and the United States.
Even the combined popularity of the five-member group is not as great as Lily alone.
However, through all the hype during this period, at least European and American audiences have remembered these five leading actors.
Therefore, every fan meeting is packed with people and is very popular.
In fact, these fan meetings are similar to Japanese idol handshake meetings in terms of both procedures and core.
It can be said to be a true fan event.
The target audience of the event is very clear, namely fans of Trier and new fans who have been attracted by the recent hype.
However, compared to the handshake meetings that try to squeeze every last yen out of fans' pockets, this one in North America is much more "conscientious" and the entry requirements are much more relaxed.
It's not that Qi Pa Pi has changed his focus to charity work, it's simply because the purpose of these meet-and-greets is for publicity.
Those handshake meetings are essentially for the idol groups to make profits.
But such a purely fan-oriented event left the "Madoka Magica" crew stunned.
In the first three events in the eastern region alone, the number of fans at each promotional event reached tens of thousands.
Although the threshold for participating in the event is low, such a large flow of people is itself a reflection of its popularity.
Especially Yumi Sakutsuki, she actually became the most popular person in the group of five.
In every game, the queue for her was much longer than that for Luvia, who was in second place.
On the one hand, this situation shows the success of the "Madoka Magica" promotional campaign, and on the other hand, it also represents that Yumi has already gained great appeal.
It is no exaggeration to say that after "Madoka Magica" is released.
With the support of her works and relying on Washimine's huge publicity machine, Yumi will surely become the most popular youth idol in North America.
Well, Lily is already over 22 years old and can no longer be considered a teen idol.
Although this girl with blonde hair and a ponytail is still an idol, she is still as energetic as ever.
This is a good thing for Yumi, but it also poses huge hidden dangers.
If it were any other entertainment company, they would definitely add fuel to the fire and overspend on Yumi in order to gain the greatest benefit for the company.
This is the method most entertainment companies would choose.
Even the relatively humane Washimine would consider his own interests first.
The best example is the members of the foot-washing maid idol group.
But Yumi's situation is rather special.
First of all, her father is one of the middle and senior managers of Dentsu Group.
Dentsu is a core member of Washimine's huge interest group and Washimine's largest partner in Japan.
Another reason is Nanaya's pampering towards the girls.
Whether in Japan, North America, or even European countries, the shelf life of youth idols is very short.
Most youth idols will quickly disappear from the mainstream entertainment circle after their heyday ends.
The reason is simple. Entertainment companies will choose to squeeze out the last bit of potential from young idols before they "graduate" and then abandon them.
The most famous one in North America is Disney, which often launches young "princess" idols.
In Japan, Yasushi Akimoto, the operations director of Trier, is an expert at this.
Many of those girls from the 48 series will participate in various activities before graduation, which is a crazy act of overdrawing their potential.
Of course, the girls who can enjoy this treatment are all more famous. As for those foot-washing maids, they just need to issue a graduation announcement and that's it.
This kind of overdraft consumption of fan economy by entertainment companies has undoubtedly made the future path of many young idols extremely difficult.
These youth idols have no foundation. After losing the entertainment companies that served as their pillars, all they can rely on is the popularity they gained when they became idols.
But this popularity was squandered by the company when they were still idols.
To give a simple example, many idols are required by entertainment companies to do all the TV shows and entertainment magazine interviews that are suitable for their status before graduation.
It seems to be helping the idol expand its influence, but after the idol graduates, these programs and newspapers and magazines will not look for her a second time.
No interviews and programs mean a lack of topics, which means a lack of popularity.
Therefore, the popularity of idols will decline rapidly after graduation until it is completely exhausted.
Nanaya naturally didn't want the girls he had raised to encounter such a situation.
Therefore, before the release of "Madoka Magica", Nanaya and Trier management found Yumi to discuss the future transformation.