After entering the new year, the United States has also started various film and television award months, because of the impact of the financial crisis, the pomp and circumstance of the major awards seem to be a lot shabby, and even the sponsors of the Golden Globe Awards are a full half......

What makes fans even less interested is that in 2008, Li Xiaole was absent from the film industry, and Hollywood seems to have lost its previous prosperity, and there have been no decent films that are both popular and popular throughout the year, and only one animated film "Robot Wall-E" barely got a high score.

On February 22nd, on the Los Angeles Boulevard, the Chinese Theater still holds an annual film event, the 81st Oscars opened here, presided over by Australian movie star Xiu Jackman, this wonderful ceremony ended after a few tense hours, and finally the literary film "Life and Death Reading" won the best picture, best director and other 5 awards, becoming the biggest winner of this Oscar......

But fans don't seem to pay much attention to this Oscar, and their enthusiasm seems to have been drained by last year's film year, which makes the organizers very helpless, this year's Oscars and last year's "Life of Pi", "The Dark Knight", "Rejuvenation", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Blood is Coming" Compared with the best films, the participating films can only be described as shabby.

And because of the economic crisis that swept the United States, the scale of this awards ceremony was much smaller than last year, and the ratings decreased by nearly 23.5%, becoming the worst in recent years......

When will the great director who has just entered the palace of marriage return with his own films? You must know that there are already many global blockbusters that have been confirmed for release in this summer's file, Michael Bay's "Transformers 2", the upper part of the finale of Harry Potter, and the comic adaptation of "Special Forces......

Of course...... Everyone thinks that the king of this year's summer file will be the movie "Avengers" brought by the Black Pearl Company, which is very interesting, if according to Li Xiaole's law of filming a drama series, his new film is likely to join the Hollywood summer file war for the first time, and then he will face opponents in addition to the six majors, as well as his company's top strong films, will this Li Jesus suffer the first defeat in his directorial career? This is the topic that everyone is most interested in.

And just when fans were discussing when Li Xiaole would make a comeback, Li Xiaole, who had been in the honeymoon period since getting married, finally appeared in people's sight after disappearing for a month~

On February 28, 2009, the National People's Political Consultative Conference was about to be held, and as a representative of the new CPPCC Cultural Group, Li Xiaole naturally appeared in the Great Hall of the People, which made the global media moved.

Due to the explosive development of the Chinese film market in recent years, there are also many Chinese filmmakers in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's four major directors, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Li Xiaole and Cheng Long, Zhang Guoli These big names have also triggered the encirclement and interception of reporters.

Then he caught Zhang Yimou in the parking lot and asked: "What proposal did Director Zhang prepare this time?" Zhang Yimou just waved his hand, indicating that he couldn't say it.

Like Zhang Yimou, the vast majority of CPPCC members have remained silent, saying that they are just here to "study", and have not prepared specific proposals, to a greater extent, the CPPCC members of the cultural group have only played a propaganda role, and the proposals are prepared by a functional department, and they put forward them, the stars are just a spokesperson, and they have no ability or way to influence the direction of the cultural industry.

At this time, the disappointed media put their hopes on Li Xiaole, this young director who has always had a high-profile style, it is absolutely impossible for him to be so inactive like others, since he can come to the CPPCC meeting, he will naturally have his purpose.

In the boiling outside world, the discussion before the National Political Consultative Conference is also in full swing, the discussion of the cultural group has officially begun, the leaders of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Ministry of Culture, and the Film Bureau presided over the meeting, and Han Sanpin took Li Xiaole, a member of the CPPCC in the literary and artistic circles, to sit down.

With a simple ceremony, the discussion officially began, after more than an hour of speeches by the leaders, the meeting was considered to be the main topic, this time the integration is mainly to discuss the cultural group to put forward those topics at the CPPCC meeting, each participant present in front of a button, only need to press to speak freely, in support of the meeting Minister of Culture Xu Wenzhao read out a series of rules, everyone began a variety of discussions.

And people in the film and television industry, basically the topics of discussion are old topics, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang spoke separately, they are still what to prevent piracy, the development of film and television industry derivatives and other old tunes, and there are no strategic proposals, and although there are many people who speak, everyone is used to pushing the burden to the government departments, hoping that the government will fund to fight piracy and develop the film and television industry, but they are not willing to do anything, and there are few specific implementation opinions, so they can only talk about it.

This made the leaders of the Ministry of Culture who presided over the discussion show disappointed expressions, these people in the cultural circle are always like this, although they are ambitious, but they have no practical experience, and the proposals put forward are always meaningless, and it seems that the cultural group can't discuss anything this time......

At this time, when the discussion reached an impasse, it was finally Li Xiaole's turn to stand up, and he also put forward a proposal that everyone had expected a long time ago: "3D movies will be the trend of the future, and our domestic theaters should start to make great efforts to build more 3D screens from now on, so as to have an advantage in the future 3D wave......"

This proposal is very reasonable, but in fact it is very risky, and at the meeting, Xu Wenzhao, Minister of Culture of the Ministry of Culture, asked Li Xiaole rhetorically:

"We all know 3D is the future, but this year, or next year, or five years from now? It's impossible to say for sure, before the American theaters have not carried out a large-scale standard upgrading, if our Ministry of Culture issues a mobilization policy to vigorously expand the 3D screen, is there a suspicion of writing some blind movements......? ”

This question is obviously what everyone is more concerned about, Hollywood is the leader of this industry, how can the Chinese film industry move with the industry leader first? If you want to replace the current screen, it's a huge amount of money, if 2D movies can make money, why do you have to replace them with 3D screens? In fact, if Hollywood, the kingdom of cinema, does not produce so many good 3D films and has no plans to reform the cinema chain, then Chinese cinemas do not need to catch up with this trend at all.

Wang Huai'an, deputy director of the Film Bureau, also reminded Li Xiaole: "Director Li, indeed, we all know that your 3D TV series "Shooting the Condor" is very successful and has successfully opened the North American market, which is an industrial contribution, but film is different from TV, this is not one, or several companies, this is the planning of the entire industry, whether 3D movies can really surpass 2D movies really needs the test of time, after all, there are still many defects in new technologies. ”

Everyone knows that Li Xiaole is about to shoot a 3D movie, and the idea of letting the theater pave the way for him is understandable, but is it too close?

"Actually." Li Xiaole interrupted Xu Wenzhao's words and said: "This year will be a year of reform for American theaters. ”

"What do you mean?" Xu Wenzhao frowned unhappily and said: "Director Li, I know that your Black Pearl Cinema Alliance is very influential, but you only have less than 10,000 screens, which only account for one-quarter of the market in North America, and many of them are old cinema companies with rigid funds, I doubt how you can be sure that there will be a big change in American theaters." Li Xiaole said this big, Black Pearl is one of the top three film and television groups in North America, but it is not enough to affect the American theater industry, right?

"It's simple." Li Xiaole replied very simply: "Because of our Black Pearl Group Company, we are about to acquire AMC Cinemas, the second cinema chain in the United States." Saying that, Li Xiaole asked the secretary to take out the materials and handed them to several leaders who presided over the meeting: "Here, I hope that all the leaders can support us to pass the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which is also my proposal at the CPPCC meeting this time." ”

As soon as he said this, everyone present was stunned, and then they all opened their mouths slightly, what do you mean? Black Pearl wants to acquire AMC Cinemas in the United States? Black Pearl is going to build its own cinema chain in the United States!?

In this era, we are still in the era when American companies are buying small and medium-sized enterprises in China on a large scale, and everyone is used to the invasion of China by American business giants, and it has never been imagined that Chinese companies would dare to buy American companies...... What's more, it is the second largest theater chain in the United States, AMC is said to be the second in the United States, but it has nearly 6,000 screens, which is almost the same as the scale of the first Emperor Entertainment Theater Group......

Everyone began to read Li Xiaole's proposal, and the more they looked at it, the more frightened they became...... There was silence at the scene, and everyone sighed in their hearts that Li Xiaole's ambitions were too great...... He actually wanted to take advantage of the fact that the capital on Wall Street was in a financial crisis and had not yet recovered his breath to establish a Black Pearl cinema chain in North America...... Aren't you all willing to take the risk of building a 3Dy screen? Then I'll buy the theater and build it myself!