There is a clear rule in the law of the United States, that is, a film production company cannot own a theater chain, and a theater chain cannot own the production and distribution of a movie. ∏∈ ∏∈ the top ∏∈ ∏∈ said,

At the beginning of its establishment, DreamWorks had no relationship with Wanda Cinemas in terms of property rights, and on the surface, they were two different companies, and there seemed to be no problem at all in terms of law.

Zhao Xiaoyun knew that the ultimate reason for Ling Shizhe's investment in movies was that when he wanted to enter the lucrative film industry, the first thing that came to mind was that DreamWorks must completely dissociate itself from Wanda Cinemas, and Wanda Cinemas must completely dissociate itself from Ambrera, so that one day in the future will not fall into passivity.

Now DreamWorks is just a shell company, investing in Chinese-language films, only showing in the Chinese community in North America, not in mainstream theaters, everyone will not pay attention to such a small company, but once "Jurassic Park" appears? What if this movie can really shock the world as Ling Shizhe said? DreamWorks is bound to attract the attention of the world.

If the media digs deeper, they will find that Ambrera actually owns the three major blocks of theater chain and film production and distribution at the same time in disguise, and at that time it will be terrible.

Not to mention facing heavy fines, Ambrera will also face the danger of being dismembered, and the anti-monopoly laws of Europe and the United States are no joke, and many large European and American companies are planted on them.

If Wanda Cinemas is registered in Hong Kong in Asia, the situation is different, and the American film company has a large overseas theater chain, and the Yankees will only be happy.

Because the United States does not have a law, American film companies cannot have their own theaters in overseas countries, on the contrary, they actively encourage their own film companies to have theaters overseas in order to facilitate the export of American culture overseas, especially in Asia.

It's a pity that Wanda and DreamWorks are both registered in the United States, so the laws of the United States will be like a tight spell, stuck on the heads of DreamWorks and Wanda Cinemas, which will be extremely detrimental to their future development.

Therefore, Zhao Xiaoyun must take advantage of the present to readjust the property rights relationship between them.

The first suggestion she made to Ling Shizhe was to change the Wanda Cinema Line back to the Hong Kong Cinema Line, so that even if people found out about the relationship between DreamWorks and Wanda Cinemas in the future, the US Department of Justice would not say anything, because we were completely legal.

But Ling Shizhe rejected Zhao Xiaoyun's first proposal without thinking about it, on the grounds that Wanda Cinemas mainly has two major plates, North America and Southeast Asia.

The North American plate does not praise it, let's just say that the Southeast Asian board, we are not Western white people but Chinese, Southeast Asian countries have always been exclusive towards the Chinese, the reason why he nominally turned Wanda Cinemas into an American cinema company with overseas cinema chains is to use the tiger skin of the United States to provide a protective umbrella for his cinema chains in Southeast Asia.

With this umbrella, the countries of Southeast Asia will not dare to mess with our theaters in Nanyang, and if he wants to mess around, we can justifiably ask the US embassy in the country to provide protection, otherwise American movies will not want to be screened in Southeast Asia, because the American theaters in Southeast Asia are gone, so American movies cannot be shown.

If such a situation occurs, it is something that the United States absolutely does not want to see. Exporting American values to the world and making people all over the world turn their hearts to the United States is one of the most important diplomatic strategies of the United States, and Wanda Cinemas is willing to stand on the side of the United States, but there is a premise that we must be provided with the necessary political protection.

Therefore, Wanda Cinemas must be an American company, not a Hong Kong company.

Seeing Ling Shizhe's opposition, Zhao Xiaoyun didn't continue to insist, she also recognized what he said very much, the Ling family must take sides, either the Western camp or the red camp, the red camp is impossible, the nature of the Ling family determines that they can't stand on that side, then the only thing left is to stand on the side of Western countries, Ling Shizhe chose the United States.

After discussing and discussing, Ling Shizhe still felt that the second plan was good, so that Wanda Cinema Line would disassociate itself from Ambrera, and all its shares would be placed in several shell companies registered in tax havens.

As for DreamWorks, there is no need to make it so complicated, just let him continue to hang under Ambrera, because the titles of all the comics and cartoons published by Ling Shizhe are marked with the DreamWorks logo, and people have long been clear about the relationship between DreamWorks and Ambrera, rather than hiding it, it is better to tell everyone generously that DreamWorks is Ambrella's subsidiary.

Seeing that this issue was settled, the two then began to discuss the annual screening ratio of Chinese films and Western films.

Ling Shizhe clearly told him that no more than 15 Chinese films should be screened every year, and the rest should be screened all European and American films, mainly Hollywood films.

"There are only a maximum of 15 Chinese films screened a year, which is too few for multiplexes, right?"

The biggest difference between multiplex cinemas and singleplex cinemas is that multiplexes theaters demand several times more films than singleplex cinemas every year, but the competition is also more intense.

If the box office of the new film does not improve within three days, and the screening hall is still in a state of loss, then the theater will not hesitate to forcibly remove the film, without the slightest favor to tell.

This is the ** naked business society, together with money as the center, not fair, but absolutely cold.

Ling Shizhe said with a smile: "15 films a year is already a lot, 15 Chinese films already account for a lot of resources, and the rest of the Hollywood Western films don't have much resources for them." Don't forget, multiplex cinemas are only in places where the business is developed enough, and only single-hall cinemas have a market in underdeveloped places, we have more than 6 percent of the cinemas in Southeast Asia, and they are still in relatively backward poor areas, although these places have huge development potential in the future, but they are also 10 or 20 years later.

You said that there are so many single-hall theaters, I have so many resources to schedule films for them, and 15 films is already the limit I give them, otherwise where would I come up with resources to put Western films? ”

Zhao Xiaoyun bit her lip and said, "Do you really want to put Western films?" ”

"It must be released, since it is an American theater chain, it must show Western films, and the proportion cannot be low, my opinion is 64 open, 6 percent of Chinese films will be screened, 40 percent of Western films will be screened, and then everything will speak at the box office."

"Alright, just do as you say." Seeing that he insisted, Zhao Xiaoyun had no choice but to give in.

Seeing that her mood was a little low, Ling Shizhe comforted her and said, "Okay, don't look depressed, you want all Chinese films to be shown in the theater, don't I want to?" But this can't be done, I've said the truth many times, so I won't say it anymore, even if you want to show Chinese films, we can't get a few at present, although we have signed screening contracts with many small film production companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but almost two years have passed, how many of them have brought us the film? There aren't many films at all, many films haven't been made at all, and they can't be filmed, most of them are cheating money, how can you do it if you don't put some western films now, do you make the theater so empty every day? ”

Speaking of this, Ling Shizhe really couldn't laugh or cry, since the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest failed to acquire the theater in the hands of the second brother, they began to consciously boycott Wanda Cinema, two years have passed, and the total number of Chinese films screened by the entire Wanda Cinema Line is less than 10. As a last resort, Zhao Xiaoyun could only make up for it with Western films.

Run Run Shaw is an extremely stingy person, he refuses to show his films at all with Wanda, only in his own theater, seeing that he is so stingy, Ling Shizhe has no choice but to withdraw commercial product placement advertising from Shaw Brothers films.

And Wrinkle Huai is not a worry-free master, in 71 he was still willing to cooperate with Wanda and bring the film he made to Wanda to be screened.

But since the second half of 72, after Golden Harvest had its own theater, it categorically broke the contract, and not a single film was released by Wanda, which was really amazing.

It was from that time that Ling Shizhe had a plan for a graphics workstation in his heart, using a graphics computer as a breakthrough to enter the field of the film industry, using the profits of the film industry to support his film career, and then using his own movies to feed back the development of the film industry, and finally relying on the strategic commanding heights to squeeze out Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest.

This trick was learned from the Germans, don't watch German movies being beaten to pieces by Hollywood movies, but German films are still a force to be reckoned with in Europe, and his trick is to use the profits of the film industry to nurture the German film industry.

You always have to have equipment to make a movie, right? Germany is the world's leading supplier of film manufacturing equipment, such as cinema cameras and projectors, and the best in the world is German goods, especially German lenses, which are well-known all over the world.

The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries produce their own movie cameras and projectors, and many of the lenses used are made in Germany.

In addition, many of the various lamps and lanterns used in the filming process are made in Germany.

Although the digital non-linear editing system was invented by Cameron in the United States, it was the Germans who played it best, and the sticks of later generations were his loyal users.

In a word, the German film industry is extremely developed, don't look at the German film companies are losing money every year, but the film equipment manufacturers behind it will invest a lot of money every year to support directors and newcomers.

It was thanks to the film industry that Germany fed its own films.

Run Run Shaw and Wrinkles cut off my film source, so I thought that my theater chain would not survive, hum, they thought too simply, Hong Kong is the same as the mainland, there is only a film industry and no film industry, Hong Kong's film industry seems to be prosperous, but in fact it is full of crises, sooner or later he will decline, but the film industry is different, no matter when it will not decline.

The reason is very simple, any country and region, after its economic development, the people will have a higher demand for spiritual civilization, and movies are the best spiritual civilization commodities, but if you want to make movies, you must have film production equipment, as long as he has demand, film equipment manufacturers will have no business to do.

Japanese cinema is sunk and can go to Hong Kong and Taiwan; Hong Kong and Taiwan/Bay movies are dead, you can go to South Korea; Korean movies are dead, and they can go to the mainland again; Film equipment is expensive and technically difficult, not ordinary people can enter, to buy must be customized in advance, its number is very small, it is impossible to spread all over the street like a mass commodity, and then all unsalable, as long as people want to watch movies, even during the war, the film industry will not stagnate.

Ling Shizhe is not like other time-travelers who are experts in the film industry, he doesn't understand movies, but he knows that the development of movies is inseparable from the support of industrial technology, Hong Kong films represented by Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, they do not have their own industrial technology, this is their biggest weakness.

Yes, the current Dream Factory is still very weak, and the industrial technology is still slowly being cultivated, but one day he will grow stronger, and at that time, Ling Shizhe will launch a fatal blow to them and take back everything that belongs to him.

Don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, overcome temporary difficulties, focus on the future, focus on the overall situation, sink down to develop yourself, and lay a solid foundation for future development, which is the royal road.