However, just when Roland Allen gladly accepted Paul Allen's clearance and let him sharpen his knives to the pigs and sheep, and gather all the interests that could be embezzled, David Olsen, who passed the matter to him, put forward a very different view.

"Roland, do you really think it's okay to do this?" David, who was fishing with Roland, asked.

At this moment, they are in the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, after Roland split the group into four and pinned the positions of chairman and chief executive officer of all the companies on David's head, they were already brothers.

The annual salary of tens of millions is the hard work of David as a shield and running east and west.

The yacht at your feet is the employee benefits assigned by the company.

Of course, although the assets can be calculated, in terms of the right to use, it will always be cut and sorted out.

No, Roland thought it was too boring to stay at home, so David, who was also fine, dragged him out to the sea to fish.

Blowing the sea breeze and basking in the sun, throwing idle things to subordinates, while enjoying themselves, chatter at will.

"What do you think is wrong?" Roland, who was on the fishing rod, leaned back, not taking the whole thing to heart.

But David was different, with his hands on his stomach and looking at the sea, his mouth was not directly empty like his eyes, but he said his thoughts, "When the development situation of a company is clear, it is a matter of course for a major shareholder to embezzle the shares of a small shareholder and kick it out of the game."

Paul Allen left Microsoft that year, saying that he quit because he was suffering from cancer and couldn't take care of the company, but in fact, the year before he left, he had already fallen out with Bill Gates, and when they reconciled, he became a consultant to Microsoft.

Steve Jobs was the same, when Apple's momentum was extremely clear, those investment companies dared to join forces and cooperate with Sequoia Capital to carry out a decapitation operation and kick him out of the company.

But this kind of clearance will only happen when there is an extraordinary disparity in strength.

Paul Allen can't fight Bill Gates, so he can't keep his position, Steve Jobs can't fight Sequoia Capital, so he can only get out of the game in pain, but Li Meijing...... Not like them. ”

Speaking of which, David turned his head to look at Roland.

And after finding that Roland was listening carefully with his hands folded, he continued: "Although Samsung can't compare with Microsoft, after all, they are backed by the entire Korean market.

Even if there is a channel of Sony, Amperin and Warcraft Film and Television Joint Distribution Company, but the channel is a channel after all, only the qualification to connect with the market, and there is no ability to affect the market, but Samsung, a chaebol, can affect the Korean market.

You see what I mean, right? ”

Roland nodded, of course he could understand what David meant, "Are you worried that if Paul Allen forcibly forces Lee to sell his shares, then Lee may find a way to prevent DreamWorks' work from entering the Korean market?" ”

"yes, that's what it means." David admits frankly, "Although this possibility is very small, it has to be guarded against."

After all, everyone is in business and puts profit first.

Even if we throw 240 million yuan into it, it is to ensure that DreamWorks is not taken away by others, but while in power, we also have to consider our own interests, no loss is the bottom line, profit is the goal, and big profit is success.

From the current point of view, Paul Allen's act of swallowing the shares in Li Meijing's hands is only beneficial to themselves, but the impact will make us suffer, so ...... You're not thinking about it? ”

How else to say that capitalism is weak and compromising!

In order to realize the re-appreciation of the capital in their hands and to obtain more capital, they have a lot of concerns when they develop, and this concern will only arise because of interests, and will end because of interests.

If it is said that Roland wants to swallow Li Meijing's shares, then David will definitely not say, let people do it, because this is something they can really hold, compared with the Korean market, the integrated DreamWorks will definitely be more valuable, but if Paul Allen eats it, then I'm sorry, before getting the membership of the American Film Association, this deal is a loss!

What's more, this deal is different from Yahoo, which can keep bleeding.

Karl Icahn was making real money at the time, but now, the two sides have reached only a verbal agreement.

Too risky!

At first glance, David's idea made sense, but after Roland thought about it for a while, he didn't think it was a big problem.

"David."

"Huh?"

"Li Meijing doesn't have the strength you think, and Samsung is not as strong as you think, even if it is a South Korean chaebol.

First of all, let's make the first point clear, Li Meijing's goal is to break into Hollywood.

So fundamentally, she's the passive side.

When faced with Paul Allen's offer, her first thought was whether selling her DreamWorks stake would have an impact on her goals, and if not, she had a high probability of selling it directly.

Secondly, if DreamWorks really gets the quota of the association, then Li Meijing will not dare to take advantage of Samsung's momentum to secretly retaliate against DreamWorks in South Korea, as long as they dare to be demons, then their movies will be directly banned by the association, because the meaning of the existence of the film association is to first ensure that the interests of the members of the association cannot be violated.

In the end, the Korean film market has always been controlled by themselves, and our films can't sell anything with them, and they can't persuade Paul Allen for that little profit. ”

That's right!

In Roland's opinion, Paul Allen took the shares of DreamWorks in Li Meijing's place!

Because Li Meijing is not as capable as David thought at all! Samsung can't turn over the flowers!

As David thought, after Li Meijing was cleared out, there is a high probability that he will borrow the power of the family Samsung behind him to boycott DreamWorks' works in South Korea, so as to retaliate?

How is this possible?

Because South Korea dares to do the first year of junior high school, then the American Film Association dares to do the fifteenth!

Directly turn their film market into an island!

Don't say it's impossible.

Because in Roland's previous life, this kind of thing was really done by the American Film Association.

If nothing else, it will still happen in this life.

Because "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did not hit the streets, "Hero" is coming.

That's right, the American Film Association in the previous life started with Chinese-language films.

After the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Miramax, who found that kung fu movies were very marketable, made a fortune and selected "Young Wong Fei Hung: Iron Horse" from many movies in Xiangjiang, and put it in North American theaters in 01 year.

After a long period of screening, this 93-year-old movie has reaped 14.69 million at the box office in North America.

Although it is not even a fraction of the 128 million yuan of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", for Miramax, this small business of buying and selling copyrights can leverage more than 20 times the profit.

So, when Jiang Zhiqiang, the boss of Anle Pictures, fooled Lao Mouzi's "Hero" after filming, Miramax took another shot and snatched the North American distribution rights of the entire movie.

After all, capital is profit-seeking.

In a good situation, if you don't earn money, it's not stupid!

And their efforts have been rewarded accordingly.

The box office of $53.71 million made them a lot of money.

Not only that, but the box office number one for two consecutive weeks gave them a glimpse of the market and potential of Chinese films in North America.

However, just when the Weinstein brothers were ready to make persistent efforts to contract more Chinese-language films, the Hollywood giants, who had also witnessed all this, saw a very serious problem.

And that's—

The box office market is limited.

A country's box office volume will not increase because of the increase in films, whenever a work achieves market harvest, then the corresponding is the loss of other works, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" harvested 128 million, "Hero" directly won the two-week weekly championship, "Young Huang Feihong: Iron Horse" and other old films can harvest 15 million, if the mainland continues to produce similar works, the dollar reflected in the box office will not be earned by the mainland as foreign exchange?

How can this situation be accepted by Hollywood?

So, from then on, going out became an empty word.

Because the Sixth National Congress used its membership power in the Film Association to directly obstruct the release of Chinese-language films.

As we all know, if you want to release a movie in North America, you must first accept the review and classification, and then you can carry out large-scale filming.

It is precisely because of this clause that the card person has become extremely relaxed.

The first to suffer from it was "Ambush on All Sides".

$11.05 million, only one-fifth of the results of "Heroes".

If the international chapter does not have the appeal of Li Lianjie, so it leads to the cautious deployment of the theater line, and the North American audience does not buy it, then the subsequent "Kung Fu" has been obstructed on the surface.

In the beginning, "Kung Fu" was defined as PG-13 after being reviewed.

But when Sony laid out the promotional materials and was ready to promote them on schedule, the American Film Association suddenly came with news that it would re-review "Kung Fu" because there were large-scale brawl scenes in it.

This situation was unexpected by Sony.

And when they want to reason with the association, the association insists on retrial and does not accept any appeal.

The arms can't twist the thighs.

In the case of the association surname Mesoni surname Day, they can only compromise.

But when they took the film for review for the second time, the result they got was R.

Because the review team felt that the movie "Kung Fu" promoted violence and did not conform to the growing values of teenagers.

What fuck you say？

If the scale of "Kung Fu" belongs to R, then how did "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" come to be PG-13?

The scale of the latter two movies is much larger than that of "Kung Fu", right?

Especially "Ambush on All Sides"!

The international chapter is also off!

But no matter how Sony defended it, the association had no intention of changing it, and in desperation, they had to release it according to R.

Although the modification is just a matter of lip service, the publicity materials and theater arrangements that were previously invested have all been invalidated, and in the end, there was a situation where "Kung Fu" was only released in six venues in the first two weeks, and in the third week, it was able to be released at the same time in 2,500 venues in North America after completing all the procedures.

At that time, the explanation they gave was that publicity was needed to cultivate word of mouth.

Although the box office of 17.1 million is very good, the loss of two weeks has made this result lose its color.

After that, Sony gave up the competition for "Huo Yuanjia" and let it be bought by Rogue Pictures, a division of the global subsidiary Focus Features, with the intervention of American capital, the review committee magically rated it as PG-13, and the 24.63 million it cut is already the last glory of Chinese films!

At that time, people only thought that Jiang Lang was a director from all walks of life, and the mainland market was accumulated, so they focused on the present.

After the filming of "The Great Wall" started, Lao Mouzi, who had been holding back for fifteen years, said the fundamentals-

"Because of the current screening problem in the United States, the protagonist can only be American."

This is also the reason why the director of "The Wandering Earth" publicly said, 'Serve the ** audience first'!

Is it the Chinese word behind the small wrecking ball that I don't know how to publicize overseas?

Is it a little wrecking ball who is poor and can't even do English dubbing?

Is it the penguins who invested in the small wrecking ball and the forty thieves who don't know where to do the grading?

No!

It's because the United States, with its emphasis on free markets, says NO!

In this case, Lee Mi-kyung dares to be a demon, and the Motion Picture Association of America can beat Korean movies to death!

Grandson wants to argue with grandpa?

Dream on!

Of course, the Motion Picture Association of America has the ability to kill Korean films, but at the same time, they also have the confidence to kill each other.

Because, the Korean film market is about to be controlled by themselves.

Although the No. 1 box office movie in Japanese film history is "Spirited Away", which can never be broken, after that, the second place is "Titanic" with 26.2 billion, followed by "Frozen" with 25.5 billion, followed by "Philosopher's Stone", "Chamber of Secrets" and "Avatar" in fifth, ninth and tenth places.

But Korean movies are amazing, and there is only one Hollywood movie in the top ten, and that is "Avatar".

Of course, this is the result of years of resistance.

For the past two decades, since the emergence of independent films in South Korea in the '80s, they have been battling the system.

In 98, South Korea officially abolished the film cutting system.

For two thousand years, there were no restrictions on filmmaking, only grading.

As a result, film companies serving entertainment have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

In addition to Xijie Entertainment, which is backed by Samsung, Lotte Group, one of the five major groups in South Korea, also made Lotte Entertainment, and the Lotte Group, a friendly friend of Holly, made SHOWBOX, and because of bureaucratic exclusion, the guys who resigned from the above three companies also formed their own. W。

Xijie Entertainment has Bong Joon-ho, and produced "The Battle of Mingliang", which is the No. 1 box office in Korean film history.

Although Rakuten Entertainment can't break the record of Xijie Entertainment, the third "Walking with God: Crime and Punishment" belongs to their family.

SHOWBOX, Bong Joon-ho's Bole, invested in the other party's "Han River Monster", and also created "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

As for. W, "The Gift of Room No. 7", "The Defender", and "Train to Busan" are all made by them.

It has taken them nearly 30 years to go from 15.9 percent of the local film market share to half of the country now, and in the case of the gradual decline in the market share of Hollywood films, if they are demons, then ......

The Motion Picture Association of America would happily grab their pigtails and accuse them of not having the competitive spirit of opening up the market!

Although it is only a dream factory, capital will rush to let these companies spit out the market!

If not, it would be lobbying Congress for sanctions.

And this kind of thing, no one is more familiar with it than them!

Therefore, for Roland, the biggest problem after cleaning up Li Meijing is actually not from the retaliation of the South Korean side.

"Rather, Paul Allen's DreamWorks stake will be close to twenty-four percent.

Although Steven's and I combined shares can exceed 50 percent, it will also prompt the other two to huddle together for more than 49 percent, in which case the situation is very delicate.

Because as soon as any operation arises, the balance is broken. ”

Yes, Li Meijing's departure will only make DreamWorks' shareholding pattern clearer.

From three to two, it has become four heavenly kings.

This very close equilibrium will be broken by any trade, and at that time......

The old man is going to have another headache.

However, Roland felt that it had nothing to do with him.

At the next pace, the old man's stake is destined to be diluted.

Because he-

Poor.