Chapter 656: The Foundation of Eternity
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Don't dare to pit if you want to, this is the truest portrayal of the sixth uncle in their hearts. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf there is a chance to really pull Li Mingbao off the horse, then the sixth uncle and these people will definitely not be soft-hearted.
Of course, there is also a reason why Li Mingbao did not press the sixth uncle too hard. If Li Mingbao has always been so strong in Hong Kong, not only the theater chain should be the best, but also a large share of the movie income, then even if the sixth uncle knows that he will be injured if he pulls Li Mingbao down, they will definitely not be soft-hearted. If you suffer losses or not, you don't care about it first, and it is true that you can get rid of the cancer of Li Mingbao first. Even if you can't keep profits, the long-term pain is definitely not as good as the short-term pain.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao's income in the United States is quite good, and as a result, Li Mingbao does not attach so much importance to Hong Kong and the entire East Asian market. This gave the sixth uncle a real chance to achieve a win-win situation with Li Mingbao. If Li Mingbao does not have much profit on the American side, then even if Li Mingbao understands that the sixth uncle and they hate him, Li Mingbao has no other way to ensure that the interests of both parties are good. Therefore, people who have a variety of channels to make money are more difficult to be defeated, if the channels are not smooth enough, they can only compete with others in one place, and it is the norm to have you and me. This is why many foreign companies, after developing to a certain extent, began to try to diversify, not because they were greedy for perfection, but in this way they could ensure that the company's profits reached the bottom line of operating costs. Although Li Mingbao did not engage in cross-industry diversification, Li Mingbao's diversification in the industry is not comparable to other Hong Kong bosses.
Under a variety of factors, Li Mingbao sorted out the business of the Li Group, which was quite short, and it took two years to really connect the business in his hands, and let the industry in his hands really begin to communicate with each other, not only the previous operating costs have been reduced a lot, but the efficiency of the work has also been substantially improved. Of course, the number of managers within the Li Group has naturally increased a lot, some people with outstanding ability have naturally gone to high positions, and some people who are not capable but loyal, Li Mingbao has also arranged a suitable way out. As for those who are capable but not loyal, they naturally cannot get along within the group. Anyway, all types of people, in two years, have really made the best use of their talents and materials.
While Li Mingbao continues to sort out the company's internal affairs, Li Mingbao is not really uninvolved in some things outside, and the development of the industry has been operating in a conservative state in the past two years. But in terms of finance, Li Mingbao really did not give up the opportunity. Just like last year's '85 Square Agreement, although Li Mingbao did not directly attack things such as stock indexes and futures, he also ate a lot of things in terms of currency. The operation is too complicated, I just put the funds in hand, plus some real estate, to the bank, exchange the dollar for yen, and sit there and wait for the appreciation. With just such a hand, Li Mingbao directly earned more than 600 million US dollars in net profits.
It is equivalent to Li Mingbao has already obtained all the construction funds of the film and television city in advance, and he can still have a lot of cash in hand. In the United States, DreamWorks has become the only company under Li Mingbao to make great strides due to the entry of John and Murdoch. Not only did the millionaire show that came out at the beginning make a lot of money, but even a series of programs such as The Voice, Talent Show, etc., also achieved quite beautiful results.
In this way, with more and more capital in Li Mingbao's hands, the reform of the Li Group has become more and more smooth, and Li Mingbao's industrial foundation has gradually become solid, from the original borrowing chickens to lay eggs, to now unique.
And the talent agency program in cooperation with the mainland is now really on the right track. Although the development of Hollywood is not as prosperous as that of East Asia, at least Hollywood now understands that the strength of the mainland in the film industry is actually quite good, at least the top talents there are not so big differences with Hollywood. Especially in the field of art, the development is even more rapid. On the contrary, in the commercial field, due to the weak foundation of the mainland, Hollywood's rating of mainland films is not too high.
But in general, the original purpose of mainland talents joining Hollywood has been achieved. Although there is a considerable gap between the mainland entertainment industry and Hollywood in general and economically, it is not that Hollywood can conquer the city at any time on the mainland. Even due to the different political philosophies of the two sides, many people on the Hollywood side have come to a conclusion, that is, it is quite difficult for Hollywood to enter the mainland's local film market, which is no less difficult than a war. It is this kind of inference that makes Hollywood ignore the mainland market in the future in terms of film strategy decisions, intentionally or unintentionally.
It's not that they don't value the role of the mainland market, but they think that the mainland's thinking is too stubborn, and Hollywood wants to develop the mainland's market with great effort, the cost is too high, and some of the gains outweigh the losses, and Hollywood also pays attention to interests, and if the benefits are considerable, then even if it is hard, they will overcome difficulties. But if the benefits are not considerable, it is equally difficult to attack, and Hollywood is not a charity, so naturally it will not do thankless things, why do people on Hollywood think that the mainland market is not suitable for Hollywood, this is entirely because Li Mingbao got the group of film talents, although the professional skills are quite ideal, but the political ideas in their minds are also notoriously headaches.
In fact, it's normal to think about it, which concept of film talents can be easily destroyed by the mainland in this year? Even if it is easy to be tempted, it is a minority, plus these people also understand that if they are not ashamed, they will definitely have a better future after going back, if they are embarrassed, not only will they become black, but the people in the family will also not have a good end, in this way, even those who are weak-willed have become quite determined, that is, the kind of people who are super selfish and completely disregard for others, will make a betrayal of things, but such people are always a minority, let alone people who can come out, It's already strictly selected, and it's not easy to come up with one. Not to mention the mainland, even the entire East Asian region, people on the Hollywood side think that it is not easy to conquer.
As for why there is such a conclusion, it is because the current film market in East Asia has a more advanced plan than Hollywood, and the superficial star rating system alone makes the current Hollywood star rating market still very vague, and it feels like there is a generation gap. In addition, the entire East Asian film market has begun to become popular and mutual assistance, forming a fairly large alliance of interests, how to compete internally, it doesn't matter, but if there is an outside market that wants to get involved, then there will definitely be a lot of trouble, plus Hollywood's movies of this year, may have certain advantages in visual effects, but in terms of the ability to make up stories, there is a certain gap with East Asia.
Although Li Mingbao did not emphasize the importance of screenwriting too much in Hong Kong or East Asia, everyone is not stupid, how did Li Mingbao rise, and how could they not understand? From Li Mingbao, everyone can see how important an excellent screenwriter is to a movie. In the case that the gap between everyone's film visual technology is not too large, if you want to have more markets, even people like Uncle Six understand that good screenwriters are needed, let alone other people.
Therefore, in the past two years, the screenwriter is definitely the first in the entire East Asian film industry with the most rapid development and a significant increase in salary. Compared to Hollywood's cookie-cutter heroes and comedy genre movies. The brains of the East Asian people are definitely much more exaggerated than theirs. In particular, the various types of themes left over from ancient times to the present are quite rich, unlike Europe and the United States, except for wars or colonization, or religious themes that are glamorous on the surface. In this comparison, Hollywood's achievements in film content are really not comparable to the development of East Asia.
At present, the film market in East Asia, except for the capital and advanced film technology, there is a certain gap between Hollywood and Hollywood films, as for the rest, Hollywood is really not necessarily much better than the East Asian market. This status quo is not only understood by Hollywood people, but also by the bosses in East Asia, because of this gradually narrowing gap, Hollywood people are also paying more and more attention to the East Asian market.
Especially the film dealers in Japan, I don't know if it's the influence of inertia, when they shoot commercial films, many of them start to take the horror route. And cooperated with Li Mingbao in Hollywood's DreamWorks, not once or twice, because of this reason, Li Mingbao even made a special trip to Japan to shoot a horror movie "Midnight Bell" during the adjustment of the company, which can be regarded as completely activating the Japanese horror film market.
And the film not only achieved a very good box office in Japan, but also became popular in East Asia. And Li Mingbao made an American version of the film and let DreamWorks distribute it in North America, which not only saw a skyrocketing number of videotapes, but even broke the box office record of horror films in North American cinemas, allowing North Americans and Europeans to see the ferocity of horror films.
It is also because Li Mingbao's films shot in East Asia and the United States usually use two versions, so many people in the back also imitate them, and those film production companies usually shoot a European and American version of the same content if only Li Mingbao takes the lead, then this may not form a trend. But the crux of the matter is that the people who usually do this are quite good at the box office, while the companies that don't prepare two versions of the movie are not so good at the box office. Forget one or two, a large number of movies are treated like this, and others naturally know how to make more money.
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