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"I'm going to think about the vocabulary! What are you urging to urge~" Ha Ji Won glared angrily, sighed and said:

"I don't doubt your ability, but it's too tiring to be an integrated company like this...... Why do you bother to make money so busy, it's better to be a director and producer honestly, and it's easy and stress-free......"

Li Xiaole noticed Ha Ji Won's beautiful eyes, blinking quickly as she spoke, knowing that she wasn't telling the truth, in fact, she must have felt that she couldn't handle it.

If it were before, he would undoubtedly choose the integrated model and invest in the promotion of his own films, but what he is most afraid of as a director is being restricted by other factors.

But after going through the whole process of "Color is Empty", from preliminary preparation, to shooting, distribution, and even publicity, he gradually realized that it is extremely naïve to want Black Pearl to become a giant media group like Time Warner or China Film just by virtue of the advantages of future works.

He has now clearly realized that whether it is film or television, it is essentially a huge industry, and the work itself is only one of the links, and great works do not represent huge benefits.

And a director is a tiny speck of dust in this industry...... In this industry, the small ones say that there are production photography, actors, soundtracks, lighting, and the big ones say that there are government policy support, the social film and television ring (remember the fastest update in one second), the maturity of the cinema chain, the coverage of publicity and distribution, and the participation of countless people from production to profitability of a film.

Even if (daomengren see the fastest update) no matter how awesome he Li Xiaole is, can he be better than Spielberg?

In 1994, Spielberg was in full swing after filming "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List", and Disney's animation king Katzenberg, one of Warner's leaders, David. Together, Geffen founded the great dreamy DreamWorks Film Company.

And these three giants even received financial support from Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft and the seventh billionaire on the world's richest list, with a huge start-up capital of $2.6 billion.

At that time, DreamWorks also dreamed of becoming a media empire in its early days.

But no one expected that in the next few years, a large number of great works such as "Saving Private Ryan", "Gladiator", and "American Beauty" would come out from DreamWorks, but high-quality movies did not bring real benefits to DreamWorks.

Li Xiaole recently thought carefully about the key to this, and found that the most important problem of DreamWorks is that it does not have its own distribution channels. Whether it is film, television, videotapes and DVDs, DreamWorks has to rely on the distribution networks of Hollywood giants such as Universal and Paramount to distribute them together.

For example, "Saving Private Ryan" sold $500 million at the box office worldwide, but DreamWorks only got a share of $30 million.

So even if there were still "Shrek", "Madagascar" and "Band of Brothers", a series of acclaimed and called works, the entire DreamWorks still fell into a situation of loss every year, and was finally acquired by the old company Paramount for a mere $1.6 billion.

When Li Xiaole first heard the news, he was also puzzled, Weishenme Dream Factory, Spielberg is so good or is it broken? But now it seems that I may have read too many time-traveling novels at that time and was brainwashed...... I thought that movies were just watching and shooting, and completely ignored that the key to making a movie is the side facing the audience - the channel!

That is, those that issue companies, and they are usually investors.

There is no haode distributor, no matter how good your movie is, no one will promote it, and the promotional theater chain can not schedule the film for you, even if the film is scheduled, the theater can completely make an account to hack your box office.

The result is likely to be, OK~ You made a good movie, but sorry, the money was earned by the channel, and you lost money, the most typical example is when the domestic director Zhang Yimou filmed "No One is Missing", the fledgling Zhang Weiping invested 26 million yuan because he didn't understand the distribution link, but Zuihou could only buy out to the distributor for more than 8 million, and finally lost his blood.

The reason for this phenomenon is that whether it is a theater chain, or a media, or a government agency that audits, all of them are channels established by people, and these so-called channels are simply connected by a key series - the issuer (issuer)

For example, in the future, China's most powerful channel business, China Film Company, because China Film has the power to introduce American blockbusters, can arrange schedules, and at the same time they have a direct relationship with the cinema chain, and all cinema chains, whether state-owned enterprises or private investment, are approved by the government, and the two sides are almost a community of interests.

Therefore, there has been a phenomenon in China, for a few years, whether it is a mainland or Hong Kong film, when it is released and released, almost all of them are linked to Han Sanping, the boss of China Film, to be the distributor, and at the same time, it is also necessary to pull part of the investment of China Film Group, which is called interest bundling in the industry.

When some of Weishenme's films are attracting investment, they can't wait to pull in China Film, Huaxia, and Poly Bona...... and more than a dozen investors as peers, sometimes it is not because they can't raise enough funds, but everyone understands that if they want their films to make a profit in the Chinese market, they must invest together with these companies with channel resources.

Although the North American market is more standardized, the reason is the same.

The movies produced by DreamWorks are really good, but Quan Shijie can be called excellent movies every year, how to say that there are about twenty of them.

Those big publishers Weishenme want to support DreamWorks as a competitor and smash their own jobs? You say you have money and want to spend money on promotion? Well, you can go and talk to theaters, magazines, and TV stations all over the United States on your own, and if everything goes well and you don't encounter any natural or man-made disasters, maybe in 15 years...... You can also establish a distribution channel in North America on the same scale as the eight major Hollywood companies.

Li Xiaole has often heard it before, isn't there a legend in China that those so-called coal mine owners smash movies with hundreds of millions of cash and want to make a profit, but can this kind of independently invested movies make money?

Usually when they ask someone about it, they tell a story to the coal miners.

"The Godfather's director Francis Ford Coppola was in his prime, and then he began to want to get rid of all the constraints, so he put aside all the Hollywood businessmen who were tired of him, and independently invested in the film "Sweetheart", which immediately went from 180 million to $1 million at the box office of "Apocalypse Now", if you think you have money, you can leave the whole industry and do it yourself, you can also try."

After listening to this story, the coal mine owners fell silent and then ...... And then there is no more......

When he was working in the crew in his previous life, Li Xiaole also saw a lot of young filmmakers, and when he got drunk, he scolded these old shili in the circle for not being a thing, of course Li Xiaole himself scolded, but now his thinking mode has begun to mature slowly after so many years of experience.

Just thinking about it from another angle, I feel that in fact, this kind of distribution channel monopolized by traditional power is completely reasonable!

In North America, Warner Bros., the founder of Warner Company, began to carry a video camera to show movies in the open air in 1918, while in China, the predecessors of China Film have been responsible for building movie theaters in the mainland since the founding of New China, and the entire domestic film foundation has been created by them bit by bit.

Even the founders of Baoli Bona, who have the least qualifications, took copies to all over China's movie theaters in the 90s when Chinese films were at their lowest, and countless people drank until they had stomach bleeding, and it took more than 10 years to establish their own market channels.

It can be said that the entire Shijie film industry has developed to today's hundreds of billions of dollars in profits, all of which are the result of their decades or even hundreds of years of work.

Why do people want to hold your stinky feet as soon as you enter the industry? What about the giants who have worked hard in the film and television industry for decades?

Li Xiaole thought about it for a long time, and finally figured it out, if he wants to achieve his dream of filming "Inception" by himself, he can't fall into the quagmire of creating channels, so concentrating on making films is his best choice......

After all, he is not a businessman, and it is a wise choice in what he does best.

"What do you want?" Ha Zhiyuan saw him in a daze for a long time, and couldn't help but push Li Xiaole's shoulder.

"Oh~" Li Xiaole returned to reality from his contemplation, pinched Ha Ji Won with a smile and said, "I've decided, listen to your President He, let's not that broken heart, just be a good director." ”

"Are you really willing to listen to me?" Ha Ji Won's heart was sweet, and the smile on his face was very good-looking.

"Li Xiaole~ What else are you two talking about! The show is about to start, come here! Zhang Damin waved and shouted impatiently.

"It seems that we still have to listen to Brother Damin's ......," Li Xiaole and Ha Jiwon both laughed.

Half an hour later, backstage at the recording site, Li Xiaole, Ha Ji Won, Zhang Damin, Zhao Xianzai, and Huang Shumin sat in the corner.

Zhao Xianzai took advantage of Li Xiaole's hair being sorted out by the makeup artist, lightly tapped his shoulder, pointed to the group of people in front of the opposite mirror, and whispered, "That woman looks pretty good." ”

Li Xiaole turned his head sideways and saw a girl in a black off-the-shoulder dress, her eyes wide and she was looking here, thinking to herself......

Just thinking about it, the recording site began to call people, Li Xiaole and Ha Jiwon walked into the recording site, three cameras like cannons were facing a huge screen, and the host Jiang Hudong was wearing a monkey pattern T-shirt, holding the manuscript in front of him, and the tall partner next to him, Park Xiuhong, nodded and said hello to this side with a smile.

Behind the guest stage, there were about 60 or 70 people seated. At the signal of the photographer, the red light of the camera turned on, and the program began to be recorded, Jiang Hudong bowed to all the audience, made a "don't speak" gesture, looked at the direction of the camera, and began to introduce sonorously:

"Today's show is so dreamy~I have never had such a dreamy lineup since the start of the broadcast~!"

"Wait, are you saying that the fantasy lineup includes Kim Jidong?" His partner, Park so-hong, interrupted him very seriously, and the camera focused on the glasses-wearing comedian Kim Ji-dong in the host seat.

"Of course...... He's our nightmare! Jiang Hudong puffed out his cheeks and smiled, and after everyone laughed at the scene, Jiang Hudong then took a deep breath: "Let's welcome the Republic of Korea, the freshest and hottest actors and actresses, directors~~"