Chapter Seventy-Six: Habitual Thinking
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In the case that other companies are excluded, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal, two Hollywood giants, are the partners that Li Mingbao needs to consider. And Jiang Zhiqiang also has such thoughts, after all, he has analyzed so much before, and there are only two that are suitable in the end.
Jiang Zhiqiang, who had done enough homework, faced the trusting eyes of Li Mingbao, the boss, and also felt that his previous efforts were not in vain. In fact, for Li Mingbao, Jiang Zhiqiang's efforts are not only not in vain, but also meaningful.
Without Jiang Zhiqiang's in-depth analysis, Li Mingbao would never have such an in-depth understanding of Hollywood film companies. Maybe when the film is made, he will have to try his luck with one film company after another, and if he is lucky, it will be better to meet Twentieth Century Fox or Universal first.
If you're unlucky, you'll be down with MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Warner, and so on. Li Mingbao will definitely go crazy, because these companies in front of him will not be interested in Li Mingbao's movies at all. The artifact in Li Mingbao's mind will certainly make Li Mingbao take a lot of detours, but about these internal things in the company, how can people in thirty years know so much about them as people at this time? There is no other option than to waste your efforts.
If Li Mingbao's heart is not strong enough, then after running into so many big Hollywood companies, he may be skeptical of his actions. At that time, Li Mingbao may have wondered if it was a bit too early to make such a film now, otherwise why wouldn't Hollywood accept his own movie? If you really think like this, Li Mingbao's purpose of wanting to get ahead in Hollywood will basically be abolished.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao was lucky enough before and dug up Jiang Zhiqiang, a strongman, and now not only does Li Mingbao take a lot of detours, but also makes Li Mingbao waste a lot of time on Hollywood's side.
But now that Jiang Zhiqiang has picked out two film companies, Li Mingbao is still troubled.
"Brother Qiang, I admire your work ability now. But it's impossible for our movies to be done at the same time in two companies? In the end, we still have to choose a company to do, in this case, I don't know which company you like more, Brother Qiang? ”
Regarding Li Mingbao's question, Jiang Zhiqiang said with a smile: "Ah Bao, the key now is not which company I like more." In fact, the situation of these two companies is the same as yours, and in terms of industry, they are actually similar.
Whether it's Twentieth Century Fox, or Universal. Their actions will definitely satisfy us, so what do we choose? Directly look at what kind of price these two companies will give at that time, and we will cooperate with whoever gives the highest, so as to maximize our interests.
If we really want to choose such a company now, we will be the only ones who will suffer at that time. This is not Hong Kong, if you choose this, you can't choose that one, otherwise there will be a big problem.
This is Hollywood, and while the competition is fierce, that's down there. When it comes to these Hollywood giants, their competition is relatively peaceful. It's not like Hong Kong, where you choose Shao Tycoon today, and tomorrow you will immediately offend Zou Tycoon, or the newly opened Golden Princess. In the future, if you choose a theater chain, you can only choose Shaw Brothers, and if you choose other companies, you will be blocked.
On the Hollywood side, it is not as strict as the Hong Kong side. Even if you give this movie to Twentieth Century Fox and the next movie to Universal, there is no problem. They're not going to do anything like banning. On the contrary, as long as your movie can really make people make money, everyone will hold you.
In the future, there will be greater opportunities to cooperate with other companies. Because the market here is big enough, there are enough companies, this company has blocked you, you can go to that one, unless you offend all the companies, then you basically have no way to live in Hollywood. But that kind of thing, with Ah Leopard's brain, you must not do such an unthinkable thing, right? ”
Hearing Jiang Zhiqiang's words, Li Mingbao knew that he had made the mistake of empiricism and brought some problems from Hong Kong to Hollywood. It's no wonder that Li Mingbao is not very suitable for the rules of Hollywood now, but when he was in Hong Kong, he was too impressed by it.
When Li Mingbao was filming in Hong Kong, it can be said that the road was very smooth, although this time he came to Hollywood because of some unhappy things. But these are all external things, in the essence of the movie, Li Mingbao went very smoothly.
But the premise of this smooth is that it only appeared after he decided to bind Shao Tycoon, and he has never taken the initiative to touch Shao Tycoon's bottom line, which is the key to his obedience, if he is still eye-to-eyeing with Zou Tycoon when he is cooperating with Shaw Brothers, Shao Tycoon will definitely not mind blocking him. The number of people in Hong Kong who are unlucky because of the feud between the two tycoons is definitely not a small number.
So although Li Mingbao has never encountered such trouble, he has to bring such thinking when thinking about things. The advantage of having this kind of thinking is that in Hong Kong, the filming and release of movies will be very smooth. And the disadvantage is like now, he has gone to Hollywood, and he is still using the old thinking of Hong Kong to solve the problems here, which is obviously a bit outdated.
So after Jiang Zhiqiang's words came out, Li Mingbao said embarrassedly: "Alas, I'm sorry, Brother Qiang." My thinking really hasn't kept up, the situation here in Hollywood is really different from that in Hong Kong, if it weren't for Brother Qiang's reminder, maybe I would have suffered again. ”
"Actually, I don't blame you. If I hadn't spent a lot of time in Hollywood, and I didn't spend much time in Hong Kong, maybe I would have had the same mindset as you. After all, compared to Hollywood, where a hundred flowers are blooming, the water in Hong Kong is too shallow.
If you do this business, you will either meet Shao Tycoon, or Zou Tycoon, and now add a Lei Juekun. Just three people, Hong Kong is so big, as long as you do this business, you can't do without these three people, it's not surprising that you have such an idea. You're okay, your brain is turning fast enough, and you change other people who have been in the Hong Kong film industry for a long time, maybe the situation is even stricter, filming here, as long as it is a film company that Zou Daheng has worked with, don't consider it. There are definitely quite a few such people in Hong Kong. Jiang Zhiqiang said comfortingly at this time.
Regarding this issue, Li Mingbao didn't want to talk about it more, and it was all tears. So Li Mingbao changed the topic and said: "Then we have to deal with Twentieth Century Fox and Universal now, anyway, Brother Qiang, you have some connections in these two companies, let them recommend the film, there should be no problem, I will leave this part to you." ”
"It's okay to recommend, but you have to have a movie in hand. Otherwise, those guys wouldn't be so talkative. Once you've got that movie done, we're ready to work on it. "Jiang Zhiqiang has hit a moldy head before, so he is not as full as before when he speaks, at least he will contact him after the movie is in hand.
"It's the end of July, and the film will be ready to be made before September. And I wanted the film to be shown around Christmas, with more time. With such plenty of time, with Brother Qiang's ability, you will definitely bring back a good result. Like you said, now it's up to these two companies, who offers the higher price, and we will work with whom. Li Mingbao finally decided.
"Not only that, but we can also find more film companies to negotiate, which will not only have more options, but also put pressure on these two big companies, and maybe they will have some concessions, and if so, then we will make money."
"Yes, just do what you want, Brother Qiang. But for other companies, we don't have to expect too much, the most important thing is these two Hollywood giants. Because we have to think not only about the current film, but also for the future of our company's films.
At least until our corporate channels are fully established, our cooperation with these large companies will not stop. If the first film we cooperate with is a Hollywood film giant, there will be better room for expansion for the company's film cooperation in the future. Li Mingbao said implicitly.
What is better to expand the space, this is quite beautiful, but the actual meaning is very vulgar, pull up the tiger skin and pull the banner, can cooperate with large companies, put it elsewhere, with such a resume, it will naturally give outsiders a feeling that Li Mingbao and their company are indeed high-end and high-grade.
As for what Li Mingbao said about establishing channels for his own company, in fact, it was just Li Mingbao's mouth. Because the channels on Hollywood's side are already very perfect, he wants to establish a new channel as an outsider, and the pressure within the industry alone can crush Li Mingbao's company.
Of course, if there is an opportunity, Li Mingbao will never let go of the work of establishing his own company's channels. After all, if you really establish your own unique channel, in the future, when you make movies in Hollywood, Li Mingbao will save a lot of money just for travel expenses, and you don't have to be eaten by Hollywood companies in vain.
And the channels established by Li Mingbao do not need to be like the giants on the Hollywood side, all kinds of channels have been established, such as the record store, the extension of the TV station, the business of the advertising company, this kind of thing, for Li Mingbao, there is no practical significance.
The channel he wants to establish in the United States is actually very simple, as long as there is a stable cinema channel, Li Mingbao's goal can already be achieved. As for other things, Li Mingbao didn't want to mix them at all.
He doesn't really want to become a big man in the American media industry, it is really too difficult to do that, just Li Mingbao's skin color, it is difficult to achieve such a goal. Of course, it's not absolutely unattainable, but the price you need to pay, it's absolutely dizzying, there is no cash flow of tens of billions of dollars, if you want to play this, no one is willing to play with you at all, Sony has a lot of money to play like this, but Li Mingbao's small arms and legs are too difficult to do.