Chapter 268: The Great Earthquake in the Film and Television Industry (4)
On the 11th, the storm caused by Li Lin's album "The Gate of Music" gradually passed, and although the album continued to sell well, the topic shifted from him to the upcoming Golden Melody Awards.
At the same time, Fan Binbin and Huang Xiaoming announced that they would switch jobs and join the gold medal film and television production company together.
Wang Zhonglei, one of the two Wang brothers of Huayi, immediately called Li Lin's phone and asked Li Lin, "What are you doing?" Want to learn from Orange Sky to rob while it's hot? I sue you, don't even think about it. ”
"Huang Xiaoming has a contract with our Huayi, you'd better send him back obediently."
Although Huang Xiaoming is an artist of Huayi, he did not sign a contract with Wang Jinghua, and there is no such clause as 'when Wang Jinghua leaves Huayi, the artist has three months to think about it', it is obvious that it is a breach of contract to jump Huang Xiaoming without the contract expiration.
"Five million."
Wang Zhonglei was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, his face turned red with anger, five million is Huang Xiaoming's liquidated damages, that is to say, this liquidated damages gold medal film and television gave Huang Xiaoming.
Even if they sue Huang Xiaoming in court, it is useless, because where the liquidated damages are, no matter whether you win the lawsuit or not, don't think about a penny more.
And if they lose the lawsuit, or if they encounter other problems, they will even steal chickens and rice.
"Okay, good, good, now any garbage dares to bully us Huayi, you wait for me."
With a snap, Wang Zhonglei hung up the phone, he was not his brother, he had never suffered like this, and now a little hairy boy dared to take advantage of the tiger's critical illness to pull teeth in the tiger's mouth. This made him resolutely unbearable.
"Why bother." Qi Xiangdong was very puzzled by Li Lin's behavior of provoking Wang Zhonglei, "Harmony makes money, we don't need to offend Wang Zhonglei." Even if he can't represent Huayi. ”
"It's fine." Li Lin waved his hand, "If you offend Huayi, you will be offended, anyway, he offended me first, and besides, people like them should fight back hard." ”
Looking at Qi Xiangdong's disapproving look, Li Lin shook his head again. "Okay, don't worry, now Huayi's enemy is Orange Sky Entertainment. They don't have the heart to pay attention to our little characters. ”
"And in a few years, it won't necessarily be that we will look at their faces."
Film and television companies and cinemas have always been in a symbiotic and constrained relationship, cinemas need film sources to make profits, and film and television companies need cinema channels to make profits. The two are symbiotic.
But China is not the United States. American theaters are restricted by the law, and they dare not cross the thunder pool to force film and television companies, and only dare to occasionally play some small tricks to arbitrage profits.
In Huaxia, the cinema chain really dares to force the predators of the film and television production company, which can be seen from the share, they are the blood suckers of the film and television production company, but the film and television production company does not dare to speak out at all. Whether it is Guangguang or Huayi, or the newly established Orange Sky Entertainment. They don't dare to confront the theaters, they just make a little profit when the theaters compete for the source of the film.
The cinema chain is the real giant crocodile lurking under the surface of the film and television industry.
And it won't be long before he enters this territory, and he even has the intention of replacing Wanda.
No one knows better than him about Wanda's destruction of China's film and television industry.
At the beginning of Wanda's establishment, the four major cinema chains joined forces to strangle Wanda, so that Wanda had no films to play, and almost kicked Wanda, a real estate predator, out of the circle of cinemas, but just when everyone thought that Wanda would exit in bleak circumstances and billions of dollars of investment was wasted, Wanda fought hard, colluded with foreign thieves, and reached an alliance with Time Warner, introduced Hollywood films on a large scale, and used Hollywood's film sources to impact the entire Chinese market, defeating domestic films.
Hollywood blockbusters such as Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Superman, The Matrix, etc., have defeated all domestic films almost instantly.
His behavior of luring the wolf into the house revitalized the entire Wanda in an instant, but at the same time, it also collapsed the defense line of the film and television department's painstaking management.
Originally, Hollywood blockbusters came to China because of garbage screening time and garbage schedules, but after Wanda and Warner cooperated, Hollywood blockbusters enjoyed the treatment of high-quality schedules and high-quality theaters, and the box office began to explode rapidly.
From the box office share that originally accounted for less than 30% of the Chinese film market, it has soared to 60% of the market share, and even this market share is still increasing.
If it weren't for the last line of defense of 'restrictions on the introduction of overseas films', I am afraid that Chinese films would have collapsed long ago and become a dumping ground for Hollywood films.
However, under the pressure of foreign countries, the film and television department still has to relax restrictions step by step, and this line of defense will not last long.
It can be said that Wanda is the culprit of this qiē.
Of course, its existence has also stimulated the development of domestic films, and one after another blockbusters with an investment of more than 100 million yuan have been shot in China, and the entire film market seems to be thriving.
No one can tell which is greater or less.
"We're going to make a big push into film production?" Qi Xiangdong asked suspiciously, "But we don't have a director, and we don't have enough connections." ”
Almost all well-known film directors have signed contracts, and independent directors are not absent, but there are very few, and the level of these independent directors is uneven, and it is not ordinarily difficult to pan for gold from them.
"There are no directors to dig and cultivate, and I'm not talking about making movies." Li Lin said affirmatively: "We definitely want to make a movie, but not now, I have to wait for a technology to mature." ”
IMAX-3D is the mainstream of the future, no one knows better than him what Chinese fans expect from IMAX-3D, and no one knows better than him the trend of IMAX-3D around the world.
He wants to be the world's largest IMAX-3D movie provider.
World of Warcraft, Diablo, once successful, will be two series, one a year, no, one every two years.
"What technology?" Qi Xiangdong became curious, and he was still very curious about the thoughts in the heart of this star who became a 'billion loser' in less than two years.
In less than two years, there are two regular albums, two piano music albums, a Korean EP, and a Korean album.
And he also ate his parent company, set up a film and television company, and formed an entertainment paradise, this rocket-like rise made him feel a little unreal.
"Is this really just a star with an ordinary background, not a red second generation?"
"Even if it's the second generation of red, don't think about making money at this speed!"
The loan is 800 million, but no one will doubt that Li Lin has not paid the money, which can be seen from the bank's request for additional loans, the bank treats them as a high-quality loan company, and the China Construction Bank even shouted the slogan of 'another 800 million loan'.
Entertainment paradise is a weapon to attract money.
It has attracted many investors before it is listed, and even Wall Street banks have come to ask if they want to raise funds, and some investment banks believe that Entertainment Paradise will have a market value of at least 4.2 billion once it is listed.
"A very peculiar technique." Li Lin said with a smile: "But this technology is not completely mature, I can wait." ”
IMAX-3D technology is an open technology, and anyone can use IMAX-3D technology as long as they are willing to pay royalties, so he is not worried that he will not be able to obtain a license.
And he also has the idea of IMAX-3D technology in his pocket.
Now he can only wait, waiting for the game he has laid out to close the net, waiting for the new games of "World of Warcraft" and Blizzard to fall into his pocket, waiting for the upcoming theatrical strangulation.
When this is over, he will become a veritable king of the Chinese film and television industry, and he can even build an entertainment empire covering the entire entertainment field from online to offline.
"And apples." Li Lin suddenly thought of Apple, and a smile narrowed in his eyes.
In Li Lin's previous life, in order to prevent the recurrence of the incident of being kicked out of Apple, Jobs took a series of measures to suppress Apple's stock price before the release of the iPhone.
This includes 'obituary' news suggesting that a news website published an 'obituary' that he had 'died of a heart attack'.
As a result, Apple fell more than Jobs expected, quickly falling below $100, and many shareholders and investment institutions withdrew from Apple, causing panic selling in the market.
Jobs himself took the opportunity to buy Apple shares through a third-party organization, and when he thought he had absorbed enough shares, he swaggered out of the real room and announced the birth of the iPhone, so Apple's stock rebounded like a rocket.
Subsequently, Jobs was taken to court and embroiled in an equity scandal.
"If I can take advantage of Jobs' suppression of Apple shares to absorb Apple shares, I can be on Apple's board of directors." Li Lin planned in his heart.
It's definitely doable.
In that stock decline, it was not only small shareholders who sold their shares in Apple, but even major Apple shareholders such as Blackstone, Sequoia, and Fidelity chose to reduce their holdings of Apple shares, and it can be said that they were all deceived by Jobs.
If Li Lin can absorb shares at Apple's low ebb, let alone become Apple's major shareholder, he can at least maintain important influence on Apple.
And the most important thing is that his video website can be carried by Apple, and with the help of Apple's power to enter the field of wireless video.
"Not only iPhones, but also iPads and Apple computers, all of which can be equipped with video websites." Li Lin's eyes narrowed.
"With this, I can get a head start on the biggest piece of fat in wireless video."
Li Lin was so excited that he was about to scream, he couldn't wait to grab Blizzard's people immediately and ask them when World of Warcraft could be developed, he couldn't wait to act as an agent.
"Qi Xiangdong, help me register a gold medal game company, and by the way, help me recruit some game programmers, no, directly acquire a game company."
"I want them to develop mobile games."
"Money? It doesn't matter, just look for a bank loan, don't be afraid that we won't be able to pay it back, or it won't be long before we will go from 'losers' to rich. (To be continued......)