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Now that it has been decided to reverse the development of DreamWorks, Li Mingbao and they are not procrastinators. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 So the next day, Li Mingbao made an appointment with John, and then went to play golf together.

On the American side, especially in Hollywood, there are not one or two good golf courses. Compared with the golf courses in Hong Kong, the golf courses in the United States, even if they are not very famous, are quite large. Nothing else, who called the American landlord sparse?

Except for a limited number of places, it is simply too easy to enclose a golf course elsewhere. And Li Mingbao The golf course they are playing on now is owned by a friend of John, and John plays here if he has nothing to do, so he is quite familiar.

After playing a few strokes, John pulled Li Mingbao under the parasol to the side.

"Mr. Li, your DreamWorks has been developing very rapidly recently. The profits are very high, and even our Twentieth Century Fox Company is a little red-eyed. John drank coffee and said to Li Mingbao.

"Where, it's just a small fight. This little profit of our company can be seen by you Twentieth Century Fox, which is strange. It's just some small-budget movies, where can you make tens of millions of dollars as much as you can make a single shot. Our movies can have a box office of 10 million US dollars, which is very rare, that is, they are filmed a lot, so it seems that there is more profit, and if they are filmed less, the profit will be like that. Li Mingbao said modestly.

He is not afraid that John really has an idea about DreamWorks, at least now John will not have an idea about DreamWorks, because the current capacity of this market can't withstand the toss of a large company like Twentieth Century Fox, if it is really put into their hands, it would be good if they can not lose money. After all, their issuance costs are much higher than those of DreamWorks.

DreamWorks makes movies profitably, and they make movies, so they don't necessarily make profits. Of course, if this type of film can become a big investment in the future, such as a movie like Resident Evil, John may not have the intention of meddling if he says such a thing again. But now, John just casually found a beginning, and he didn't really care about DreamWorks' results.

"I can't say that, when DreamWorks first started, you and I both knew the situation, and it was not easy to make a name for yourself in Hollywood so quickly. This place, countless people come every day, and countless people leave, and there are not too many companies that can really hold on, not to mention small companies, even if they are large film companies, on the Hollywood side, there are several closures a year. So it's not an easy thing for your DreamWorks to grow so quickly.

Besides, the real money of your movies is not on the big screen, but on the videotapes, but I know that your film videotapes are distributed quite well, not only in North America, but even in Europe, there are agents, this money is not a small amount. John said pointedly.

At this time, Li Mingbao didn't know why John had said this question over and over again, if he wanted to talk about a random topic, there was no need to say it the second time, but John said this, obviously the drunkard didn't mean to drink.

While Yankees generally don't like to talk around the bend, that doesn't mean they won't. And John must have had his purpose in saying this. But Li Mingbao really doesn't know much about such things, after all, he has been in Hong Kong for a long time, and most of the things on the Hollywood side are done by Jiang Zhiqiang, and Jiang Zhiqiang has no time to report these details, after all, this is his normal work, Li Mingbao doesn't know much about the distribution, what Jiang Zhiqiang wants to do, as long as it does not damage the interests of the company, Li Mingbao will let it go.

"I really don't know much about the company's business, John, you also know that I am often in Hong Kong, and the affairs of Hollywood are basically arranged by Jiang Zhiqiang. If there's anything wrong with you, John, I'll just call him over. "Li Mingbao obviously has to hand over the things he doesn't understand to professional people to deal with.

So he beckoned Jiang Zhiqiang, who was playing, to come over. Seeing the boss summoning him, Jiang Zhiqiang also put down the golf club in his hand and walked over quickly.

After arriving in front of Li Mingbao, Li Mingbao motioned to Jiang Zhiqiang to do it first, and then said: "Brother Qiang, Mr. John has something to ask you." ”

"Mr. John, don't you know if there's anything that can help you?" Jiang Zhiqiang asked respectfully.

"Actually, it's not a big deal, it's about the distribution of your company's videotapes in Europe. I know your company is doing a good job, and our Twentieth Century Fox company in Europe hasn't had a good time lately. So I would like to ask if there is any possibility of cooperation between the two of us. John said without blushing and without a beating heart.

Hearing John say this, Jiang Zhiqiang was a little surprised: "Isn't it? Could it be that your company is also interested in our small business? I knew that I would have directly handed over this business to you, and I didn't have to go through a lot of companies without me having to go through the trouble before I finally talked about this matter. ”

He really didn't know about the problem of video tape distribution in Europe, and he could let a big guy like John come out and speak. In his opinion, how could a giant like Twentieth Century Fox care about small business? What's more, the subsidiaries in Europe basically have not represented the business of other companies, which can be regarded as the internal industry of Twentieth Century Fox itself.

Therefore, when he first made a European distribution, Jiang Zhiqiang did not consider Twentieth Century Fox at all. After all, every time DreamWorks comes to the door, it's basically asking for help. Jiang Zhiqiang also knows that this kind of help will not last forever, and the help of the Americans has never been unconditional. And DreamWorks would have such a good situation in Hollywood before, but it was because Li Mingbao had a happy cooperation with Twentieth Century Fox before, and then launched some small cooperation, which can be regarded as mutually beneficial.

But if you find them in a little trouble, it won't be long before this favor is useless. Therefore, Jiang Zhiqiang will not ask Twentieth Century Fox to do things like video tape distribution at all, and he also has some connections in Europe and can handle it himself, so he has no idea of bothering Twentieth Century Fox at all.

But I didn't expect that now John, the boss, would take the initiative to raise this issue, which was somewhat unexpected by Jiang Zhiqiang.

John obviously heard Jiang Zhiqiang's surprise, but he didn't have too much entanglement, and said directly: "Twentieth Century Fox is indeed very strong in Hollywood, but its business in Europe is not very good. Because most of our resources are used in North America, companies over there, the situation is not very good.

Because the local companies over there have never been very good looks for our company, because we are very strong in the Americas, so the companies there are afraid that we will have more thoughts, so there are difficulties in business. But we can't really put our energy over there, so that the business there is only to distribute our company's own films, although it also makes money, but because our company does not need to distribute all films in Europe, and low-budget films, it is even less ideal to distribute them there.

And your company's business in Europe can complement our company. Although our company is not in a good situation there, it also has a perfect distribution channel, and it is unified, and it can be regarded as an advantage in the distribution area. Compared with your company's country-by-country negotiations, our company doesn't have to be so troublesome there, and it is directly handed over to our company for issuance, and all problems are solved. It's good for both of us to do that, so I'm bringing it up today and I hope you'll think about it. ”

Large companies have the difficulties of large companies, and small companies have difficulties of small companies. If John hadn't said this today, Jiang Zhiqiang wouldn't have known that Twentieth Century Fox didn't want to release other films in Europe, but because they couldn't release other films because of the boycott of local companies there. I believe that this is not only the difficulty of Twentieth Century Fox, but even other Hollywood giants.

If John hadn't opened his mouth before, Jiang Zhiqiang wouldn't have understood the doorway, after all, although his current career is much better than before, but the dirtiness between large companies like this is not enough to understand. Anyway, he didn't find Twentieth Century Fox to do the distribution before, because he was afraid of owing favors.

It's not that Jiang Zhiqiang doesn't want to establish his own channels in Europe, but the problem is that Hollywood's career has not yet developed rapidly, let alone Europe. So now these films, he has to entrust the local distribution company to do it, anyway, DreamWorks' home is in the Americas, and even if a large part of the profits will be shared in Europe, there will still be money in the end. And the distribution company over there did not give the right to buy out, and in the end, the distribution rights on the European side were still in the hands of the company itself.

As long as the copyright is in your own hands, it will not be difficult to get involved in European business in the future. As long as the company has the ability in the future, then there is nothing wrong with doing so. It's more troublesome to negotiate with the distribution companies of so many countries, and there are not many countries in Europe, but there are many countries. And the consumption level of these countries is quite high, if you give it up, no one can give it up, so although it is difficult, Jiang Zhiqiang still gnawed this bone down.

And now the Twentieth Century Fox Company has thrown out an olive branch, which is also good news for Jiang Zhiqiang.