Zou Wenhuai knew that recently, his old rival Shao Yifu was angry because Star TV's "Millionaire" and "Global Chinese Rookie Singing Contest" repeatedly suppressed the wireless "Happy Tonight", and he had been angry at the staff on the TV station several times.

Regarding the difficult situation of Shao Yifu, an old enemy, Zou Wenhuai has been gloating for a long time. However, he is also afraid that Wu Ming will harm others and himself, and let DreamWorks use money to make achievements like Star TV, then he will be very uncomfortable.

So since he can't suppress DreamWorks, then he can only accept the reality and think about peaceful coexistence with DreamWorks.

Regarding the hint of flattery contained in Zou Wenhuai's words, Wu Ming understood what he was thinking after a little thought. However, it is better to settle the dispute, since Zou Wenhuai wants to live peacefully with him, Wu Ming will not refuse.

Wu Ming held his head high, and then said happily: "Hehe, Zou Sheng is too polite, the film market in Xiangjiang is getting bigger and bigger, we can develop together!"

Hearing what Wu Ming said, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were relieved.

Wu Ming smiled slightly, and said: "And we can also develop overseas markets, there is no need to fight in the Xiangjiang nest, fight to the death." ”

Zou Wenhuai smiled when he heard this, and said, "Wu Sheng can still see it!"

"By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell Zou Sheng. Wu Ming groaned and said with a smile, "Hasn't Zou Sheng always wanted to break into Hollywood, recently my father bought a small theater chain in the United States, which should be able to help a little." ”

Since Zou Wenhuai helped him, Wu Ming naturally wanted to return the favor and return the favor. And Zou Wenhuai's long-cherished wish is to re-enter Hollywood, since he has promised to help, Wu Ming doesn't mind doing more.

After all, he is a Chinese, and he is really conspicuous in a place like Hollywood, which is full of white people, and it would be great to have some younger brothers shouting and cheering behind him. And Golden Harvest, a film company that is also Chinese and committed to breaking into Hollywood, is a very good choice.

Some time ago, in order to strengthen the strength of Luen Mei Pictures, and also to promote Chinese films in the United States, Wu Ming specially asked Wu Bingan to acquire a small theater chain in the United States on his behalf.

The reason why he had to buy a theater chain was because Wu Ming wanted to have the right to speak. You must know that Chinese movies are not very popular in North America. Even if some films can be released there, they have to be exploited and even deceived by distributors.

If Wu Ming wants to smoothly promote Chinese-language films in the United States, he must have a cinema chain that completely obeys his orders and does not care whether the theater shows Chinese-language films or not.

As for why it is under Wu Bing'an's name, it is naturally because there is an anti-monopoly law in the United States. Since Wu Ming owns Lianmei Pictures, one of the eight giants of Hollywood, he can no longer have his own cinema chain.

Things can be flexible, though. There are so many film companies in Hollywood, all of them are taking advantage of the loopholes of the law. Although there is an antitrust law, Wu Ming will not believe that the top film companies such as Columbia and Twentieth Century Fox do not have "their own" theaters.

This small cinema chain was named "Lucky Cinema Line" by Wu Ming, and it cost a total of 45 million US dollars. It contains 26 theaters with a total of more than 13,000 seats. However, the scale of the theater is not large, the largest one has only 1,100 seats, and the smallest has only 600 seats.

I chose to buy this theater chain because most of the theaters in this theater chain are located in California and New York, which are Chinese settlements. In particular, the three cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York account for 19 theaters with 10,000 seats.

After all, the promotion of Chinese-language movies also requires a certain audience base, and if you buy theaters in those areas where there are not many Chinese, when the Chinese-language movies are released, it will be a little ugly if there is no one.

And it is impossible to promote Chinese movies completely by relying on Wu Ming to post money into them, even if Wu Ming doesn't care about losses, if he can't make a profit, Chinese movies will not become popular in the United States.

After all, relying on DreamWorks alone, there are too few Chinese-language films compared to many English-language films in North America. Only when other companies in Hong Kong also bring the film to the United States for screening, can the film supply be sufficient. If other film companies in Hong Kong saw that the film could not be profitable when it was screened in the United States, they would naturally hold on to the original idea and only make small-budget films, rather than try to make big-budget films.

And the acquisition of theaters in these Chinese settlements has a certain audience base, and when Chinese movies are released, they can attract these Chinese to watch in theaters. And then slowly spread to whites and blacks, so that Chinese-language films can make money in the United States.

After making a profit, other film companies in Xiangjiang will not only care about the one-third of an acre of land in the Xiangjiang market. After all, the U.S. market is so big and the consumption level is high, even if the number of moviegoers is relatively small, the profit obtained should be similar to that of Xiangjiang, or even higher. If they want to enter the U.S. market, they will naturally try to make big-budget films.

At that time, Wu Ming will be able to get what he wants, and let DreamWorks become the leading big brother in the Xiangjiang film industry, leading many younger brothers to occupy a certain position in the American film market. And then slowly make Chinese movies become the other pole that can compete with Hollywood movies.

After Wu Ming finished speaking, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were stunned in shock. They understand very well that although Wu Ming said that the cinema line was bought by his father, it is actually not his. After all, what is Wu Bingan doing to buy a movie theater line that sells toys, and it is not for his son's film company.

"Wu Sheng is so arrogant!" Zou Wenhuai still had a trace of shock on his face.

Since Zou Wenhuai wants to break into Hollywood, he naturally will not think about buying a movie theater line. It's just that if you want to buy a theater chain in the United States, it costs a lot of money. Even if it's just small, it can cost tens of millions of dollars.

Of course, Golden Harvest Pictures has dominated Xiangjiang for so many years, and it also has some family backgrounds. Otherwise, in October of the previous year, Zou Wenhuai would not have announced in Hollywood that Golden Harvest would invest $60 million to shoot 6 big-budget films with international superstars!

Although Zou Wenhuai's grand plan has been temporarily halted due to the failure of "Killer Trench" and the unsatisfactory results of "Cannonball Speed". But it also shows that Golden Harvest Pictures has a relatively rich family background.

It's just that the $60 million in that plan is not a one-time takeout, but is going to be taken out in batches. Golden Harvest Pictures' cash is estimated to be about $30 million or 40 million. If a cinema chain is acquired in the United States, Golden Harvest Pictures will have no liquidity.

There are three more updates, which will be released one after another.