Chapter 420: The Footsteps Don't Stop

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Although everyone is unified on the issue of buying TV stations, how to buy TV stations and what kind of TV stations to buy is still a troublesome matter. www.biquge.info The United States is not like Hong Kong, and the only TVB TV stations in the United States are TVB and ATV, and the number of TVB TV stations in the United States is quite large. Li Mingbao started with TVB, which place also needs to be discussed.

So even if everyone decides to buy a TV station, this problem can't be solved for a while, not that you can take down the TV station if you have money. On this issue, in fact, Li Mingbao himself is more well-connected than his subordinates, because he has a good relationship with Twentieth Century Fox and is also good friends with John.

And to buy such a thing, it costs at least tens of millions of dollars, and it is very troublesome to procrastinate. So Li Mingbao had to go to the United States again at this time. Of course, when he goes to the United States again, Li Mingbao not only has to solve the problem of the TV station, but also has to watch the movie "Terminator".

Although it is already a habitual problem for Li Mingbao to run around, but this time to go to the United States, Li Mingbao doesn't know how long it will take, if it is usually easy to say, but now is the critical time for the United Cinema Line, if Li Mingbao runs to the United States quietly, the sixth uncle will definitely complain. So when I went to the United States, I had to say hello to a few other people first.

After leveling a group of old foxes, Li Mingbao was able to fly to the United States with his team in a relaxed manner, and this time he went to the United States, without pretending to be forced, so there was no need to charter a plane or anything, just take a civil aviation passenger plane over, and it would be fine.

When he came to Los Angeles again, Li Mingbao suddenly found that he had been away from the United States for more than half a year, and in this half year, although he had some understanding of the development of DreamWorks, he also knew that Mary had done an excellent job recently, not only keeping DreamWorks in order, but also getting a North American distribution channel that belonged entirely to DreamWorks in addition to Twentieth Century Fox.

Although Jiang Zhiqiang has done this before and has achieved good results, it is completely incomparable compared to the current channels of DreamWorks. If Li Mingbao wanted to release blockbusters in the past, he could only rely on the channel of the Twentieth Century Fox Company, then if this channel is suddenly cut off now, Li Mingbao's own films can also be distributed normally, although it does not have as many screens as the Twentieth Century Fox Company, but compared with other Hong Kong film companies, it is not at the same level at all, even compared to those local Hollywood film companies, there are many surpasses.

A really good film, with Mary's ability, can directly pull up to 3,000 screens, even if it is a Hong Kong movie, it can also pull up to 1,000 screens, such an efficiency was completely unattainable by Jiang Zhiqiang before. And not only that, even the distribution channels of video tapes have now expanded to the whole of North America, although the channels are still a little weak, in some less important areas, other distributors are needed to contract, but in the backbone channels, DreamWorks now, and local film companies, there will not be much gap, and the distribution capacity of large film companies really match. Not only that, but Mary is still working, extending the hand of DreamWorks to Europe, and now France has some contacts with the GDR, as well as the Federal Republic of Germany, although it is not possible to distribute films, but the business of video tapes can continue.

After greeting Mary, Li Mingbao began to contact John. As for Cameron, who is still working hard to cut the film, Li Mingbao didn't interfere with him, it's not that Li Mingbao doesn't care about the movie "Terminator", it's really because Cameron has gone completely crazy after he enters the working state, and he, the producer, is better not to appear when he is cutting.

John feels very good about Li Mingbao, who is not in the United States most of the time, although Li Mingbao is very malicious and guesses that John has a good attitude towards himself, mainly because he makes money for him.

But in any case, Li Mingbao called John the first day, and John had time to go to golf with Li Mingbao the next day, which shows that John really did not treat Li Mingbao as an outsider.

When he saw John again, Li Mingbao found that John actually found a rather young female companion, although Westerners are relatively old, but this woman who hooked up with John, Li Mingbao was not more than twenty years old, she was convex and backward at a young age, and her figure was quite good.

"Dear Lee, you've been in Asia lately, but you've made a lot of noise. Even Hollywood thinks that the plan you came up with in Hong Kong is quite terrifying, and if you are not careful, Hollywood may have to be surpassed by you. Seeing Li Mingbao arrive alone, John said with a smile.

"Just tell the joke! No matter how big the plan in Hong Kong is, it is completely impossible to compare with Hollywood, which is completely two grades of things, and it is really a shame that you are so idle when you compare it. Monopolizing the European and American markets, what is Hollywood to fear?

Hong Kong can really be regarded as a big market, but there is only one Japan, but the Japanese market is not comparable with Europe and the United States. No matter how powerful it is, in fact, power is the same thing. I still believe that Hollywood is using this as a gimmick, but as for other things, it's just just funny. It's not like I'm completely ignorant of what's going on in Hollywood, so it's not interesting to say that. Li Mingbao said angrily.

"But the plan you made is really good, at least the film market in East Asia is basically serving you in Hong Kong. Even the East Asian market, which was originally not very conspicuous, is now being watched by many Hollywood people. John said to Li Mingbao.

"It's not bad to have attention, at least in the future, East Asian movies, Hollywood won't even watch them and send them away. Maybe the movies I make in Hong Kong in the future will be able to be released in Hollywood relatively easily. ”

"Actually, I haven't always understood that Mr. Li, your talent is also recognized in Hollywood, but why can't Mr. Li put your main business on Hollywood, but have to work in Hong Kong? Do you think you don't make as much money in Hollywood as you make in East Asia? At this time, John asked Li Mingbao on the side while holding the girl.

John was genuinely curious about this. Li Mingbao is not an ordinary filmmaker in Hong Kong, he can be said to have succeeded in Hollywood. Compared with those who have been unable to find a way out in Hong Kong, Li Mingbao has an obvious innate advantage in Hollywood, as long as he makes a few more movies in Hollywood and cooperates with Twentieth Century Fox, it is not difficult for Li Mingbao to make more money.

But Li Mingbao retreated to Hong Kong after filming a "Home Alone", although Li Mingbao also set up a company in Hollywood, and the movies produced by this company are not bad, but how can those small-budget movies be comparable to those movies with a box office of hundreds of millions? John doesn't believe that Li Mingbao has no other good movies except for "Home Alone", which may be true for others, but for Li Mingbao, it is definitely not the same thing. Otherwise, DreamWorks would not have developed to its current height so quickly, and it would be to say that Li Mingbao didn't make an idea in this.

Although John ate a "Home Alone", John doesn't mind continuing to eat more similar series of movies, with Li Mingbao's talent, if he really focuses on Hollywood, then maybe now Twentieth Century Fox will have more movies in his hands. So John took advantage of this question to test Li Mingbao's attitude, what does he think of Hollywood.

Hearing John's question, Li Mingbao smiled: "How can the East Asian film market be compared with Hollywood?" If I'm going to focus on Hollywood, then I might be able to make billions of dollars in cash flow from movies. But in Hong Kong, even if I do my best to make a movie, it is difficult for me to make a billion Hong Kong dollars in a short period of time, and this is the gap between Hollywood and East Asia.

I put most of my energy into Hong Kong, but because it is easier for me to control in Hong Kong, as long as there are good movies and good ideas, it is easy for me to get ahead, and eventually become a rule-maker, which is not a difficult thing, including this Hong Kong circulation port plan, which is actually an attempt by me.

When money reaches a certain point, it becomes a number, and it doesn't have much practical meaning other than looking good. I'm in Hollywood, and I'll never be the one who makes the rules, and even if I make a lot of money, it's not an achievement, it's a burden. So on the Hollywood side, I didn't plan to go too deep, just make a little money. It's a different story in Hong Kong, where if I do things sincerely, I don't make as much money as Hollywood, but I have a good chance of being one of the people who make the rules.

In such a situation, I will naturally make the most reasonable choice. Hollywood, that's pretty much it, DreamWorks doesn't make a lot of money anyway, I don't want to make too much money, and end up causing a group of people to be red, and the money may not be able to be taken out at that time.