Chapter 284: Sell to Them
Listening to Downing's question, Jerry waved his hand disapprovingly: "The Japanese are just getting into Hollywood movies now, and I think the violence and exposure scenes in it alone are enough to attract the audience, after all, the Japanese have never seen such movies before, and when they slowly get used to this kind of film, they begin to feel that this kind of movie is empty, and they want to seek the connotation and personalization of the movie, and then take out those classic movies." The first step is to feed them first, and the second step is to eat well. And the price of the award-winning films is too expensive, and it's not cost-effective to buy them now, unlike these bad movies, when I hear that all I want is the right to broadcast in Japan, they are basically half sold and half given away, because they don't believe that Japanese people can understand American movies at all. ”
After listening to Jerry's explanation, Tang Ning nodded and agreed: "Well, you're right, you really can't give them too good things at the beginning." But then he couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my God, how did you get this film too?" I remember it wasn't banned? ”
Jerry leaned over and looked at it, and said with a dumb smile: "Ah, you're talking about this "Outlaws", that's right, this film is banned, but it is only banned in the United States, and there is no problem at all with showing it in other countries." ”
"You cunning guy, you've got all this kind of loophole." Downing teased.
As it turned out, Jerry's strategy was correct. The superb shooting quality, bold and diverse choice of subject matter, fresh and shocking pictures and plots of Hollywood movies have deeply attracted the Japanese, and because the United States has defeated Japan, American culture has been fanatically pursued in Japan, and the feelings of admiration and fear of beauty coexist and are very serious. It can be said that in Japan at that time, if you didn't watch Hollywood blockbusters, you were embarrassed to talk about what movies were all about.
But things in the world are like this, some people are happy and some people are unhappy, when Jerry and Downing made a lot of money, Toho Pictures, as one of the six monopoly film and television groups in Japan, had a very bad time, on the one hand, because their production concept still has the remnants of wartime and pre-war thinking patterns, and years of war and political clamping have made the development of Japanese films regress, which will take a while to change.
On the other hand, the overwhelming impact of Hollywood films carried by Downing has caused the box office of Japanese films to plummet and the production company to suffer heavy losses.
In order to change this situation, Toho also plans to join the current hot Hollywood film market and cooperate with Jerry, but Jerry refuses, not to mention that Jerry is not short of money now, and there is no need to introduce investment, even if he is short of money, he will never cooperate with Toho, a competitor in the film market in the future.
So Dongbao planned to set up his own door, thinking to himself, could it be that without Jerry, you Zhang butcher, we would have to eat hairy pigs? After all, this is Japan, and you can get theater cooperation, can't we get it? In addition, we Dongbao itself has a fixed cooperative theater chain, but when Dongbao solved the theater problem, I found that there was another key problem, that is, they did not have a film to screen.
The broadcast rights of the films that are now screened in Japan are all owned by Jerry, and if Toho wants to get the broadcast rights, he must buy them from Jerry, but the price set by Jerry is extremely high, and Toho calculates and finds that he can't make much money after buying. So he set his sights on going to Hollywood to buy the film distribution rights in person.
At this time, Jerry was in a hurry, and hurriedly asked Tang Ning to discuss: "Tony, we have made a lot of money recently, but now there are bastards who are stealing business with us." A few guys from Japan went to Hollywood to buy the Japanese rights of movies at a high price, not only asking for huge quantities of goods, as if there was an endless amount of money in their pockets, but also picking the latest, hottest, and most award-winning film rights. Although I already have a lot of movie rights in my hands, after all, it is impossible to buy all the movies, we simply don't have that much money and there is no need to do that, but what now? Do you want to see these bastards stealing business from us? Another way is to make trouble, coerce and induce those producers not to sell them the copyright, and I'm doing that, but to be honest, this method doesn't work very well, although these guys usually give me face, but I don't let them sell to the Japanese and then I don't buy it myself, so stubbornly blocking them from getting rich, this is really hated, and it's not a long-term solution. ”
Then Jerry changed his tone and said, "Tony, do you see if you can do this, anyway, don't you have the power to approve movies?" simply don't let the films they bought from Toho be released.,Wouldn't this completely solve the problem from the source?? ”
Hearing Jerry even say this kind of thing, Tang Ning knew that he was really in a hurry, but his suggestion Tang Ning would never adopt it, so he shook his head and said: "Jerry, your method is definitely not good, since Toho and Kadokawa are all award-winning films, I have no reason to approve it, after all, they can be released in the United States, why can't they be released in Japan?" As for the trick of making trouble with the filmmakers, it is even more unusable, which will only attract the disgust of these filmmakers and increase the difficulty of cooperation in the future. ”
Although Jerry knew that what Downing said made sense, he still complained angrily: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do you say about this?" ”
Tang Ning carefully inquired about the source of the films purchased by Toho and Kadokawa and other Japanese film companies, and after pondering for a long time, he said decisively: "Jimmy, stop your harassment of the film companies immediately, start to entrap them, and change the strategy, don't those Japanese want to buy movies?" Then let's sell him, and we will sell him as much as he wants! ”
Hearing Tang Ning's words, Jerry couldn't believe his ears a little, and couldn't help but exclaim, "What did you say? Let those Japanese buy the film rights? Sell as much as you want to them? So what do we do in the future? ”
"Listen to me, in fact, Dongbao and they have walked into a misunderstanding this time, so what we have to do now is to push them and let them go deeper and deeper in this misunderstanding, so that not only will we not delay making money, but we may also be able to make a fortune on them!" Then Tang Ning elaborated his thoughts.
Immediately made Jerry give a thumbs up and praised: "It makes sense, it makes sense, then I'll go and help them!" ”