Chapter 028: Di Baobao's money-making plan

Such a response was both tactful and very clear, in short, Ye Hua refused gracefully.

"It is a pity that we have not been able to reach investment cooperation." Zhang Zhizhong replied helplessly, in fact, Ye Hua's refusal was also something he expected, but the head office asked for it or did it.

After Zhang Zhizhong learned the purpose of this trip, he did not work hard, and he came here after doing his homework.

He had already learned about Ye Hua's refusal to invest in all VCs, it was nothing, a startup company still had many ways for him to compromise with capital, and the bullying was that Ye Hua had no money and couldn't afford it.

But with the timely Storm Technology, the two sides reached a strategic cooperation, and after the boss of Storm Technology raised money from the market, he directly took out 150 million yuan for free and smashed it to Coastline Technology, which instantly revitalized all the situations.

Thinking about it, if he were Ye Hua, he would definitely refuse without hesitation, who let Coastline Technology master the core technology, it is really okay if he can't research and develop it by himself, unless he uses improper means such as robbery, theft, or even kidnapping.

So Zhang Zhizhong didn't have any expectations, just to complete the task and go back to have an explanation.

Putting this matter behind him, he immediately said: "Let's talk about this issue later, Mr. Cameron and I are here as uninvited guests today, in fact, to discuss possible cooperation in business, in fact, we are looking forward to it." ”

This is the purpose of Disney's people and Cameron's personal visit, it is an unexpected joy to be able to invest in coastline technology, no and no disappointment, the commercial nature of the two sides is completely not competitive, whether coastline technology can rise "Di Baobao" does not care, anyway, it will not damage its core interests.

Therefore, the real purpose is to nourish the other major IPs of the wave for the cash cow of "Avatar", and the first one to eat the cake will definitely be able to nibble on the biggest piece.

Ye Hua nodded and said, "I want to hear about it!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong said with a smile: "Director Cameron has arrived, Mr. Ye should have guessed our purpose, yes, we are looking forward to this cooperation because this is the result of a multilateral win-win situation, your company, film distributors, directors, films, producers and other multilateral win-win results." ”

After a moment of silence, Zhang Zhizhong reorganized his words and continued: "Disney is willing to use its own resources to open up multiple channels to establish a win-win situation, simply put, this requires multiple parties to reach a consensus, the specific process, that is, the sequel to "Avatar" as the core of the content, your company's holographic projection equipment as the technical core, we will act as an intermediary to contact the global theater chain to improve or build holographic projection halls on a large scale, and your company is responsible for supplying the shipment of holographic projection equipment, and "Avatar" It must be the first film to be shown on a large scale in a holographic screening room......"

When Zhang Zhizhong elaborated, Ye Hua nodded from time to time.

To put it simply, this is a cooperation between each and every need, Disney is so keen to make a profit when the holographic technology is initially fresh, and it is really the top in the industry, and the vision is very vicious.

The sequel to the trilogy behind "Avatar" is being filmed at the same time, taking advantage of this time to create a super phenomenal IP cash cow, maybe this trilogy can win 80+ US dollars at the global box office alone, which is still not a peripheral profit project.

This is definitely not a delusion of "Di Baobao", but there is a history to do sophisticated, and he has done this kind of thing before, and he can be said to be very skilled.

At that time, when 3D movies were popular all over the world in the early days, mediocre movies like Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" could earn more than $10+ billion at the global box office in 2010, which was a bloody profit.

And after the release of the second part in 2016, there was no 3D fever, the cast of the film was strong but it was also a bad movie, Di Baobao was directly bloody, the global box office was only 299 million US dollars, and the big production with an investment scale of 170 million US dollars, in terms of box office results, deducted the cost of the film and lost 72.45 million US dollars.

I didn't get the money, and the open crotch pants were all lost.

At the time when "Avatar" was just released, as long as the film itself was not too bad, as long as the film itself was not too bad, it would generally not lose money, many of them were big profits, and those who originally wanted to lose blood could also rely on 3D to make a profit.

These are the biggest reasons why Disney is so enthusiastic, Di Baobao is careful and shrewd, he wants to sweep the world in the early days of the holographic movie trend in the two or three years, the "Avatar" sequel trilogy series, "Star Wars" series, "Marvel" series, etc. It's really no different from grabbing money.

"No problem at all." Ye Hua responded succinctly, adding: "Mr. Zhang, you are right, this is a multilateral win-win situation, I fully agree with what you said and there is nothing to improve, the only problem is the small problem in the details of cooperation." ”

This kind of cooperation is easy to achieve, because all parties have no direct competition of interests, Coastline Technology sells their holographic projection equipment, and the theater chain and the producer make box office money in the film market, everyone makes their own money, and the more you make me, the more I can get, which is naturally a happy thing.

It's just that there is a loser who is miserable, that is, the original screen provider, this must die, the emergence of holographic movie screening halls, the screen will inevitably no longer become the mainstream in the future, and even if it will still exist, it will definitely be marginalized, and it is a complete frustration.

However, who cares if Walt Disney or those theatrical movies live or die on the silver screen or IMAX companies.

Ye Hua actually attaches great importance to this cooperation, which also has a great impact on the company's future development and business expansion. Domestic cinema companies are all masters with big tempers, and Ye Hua is also very helpless, because domestic cinema companies have too much say in the film industry.

At present, the top ten domestic cinema chains occupy seventy percent of the mainland box office, so to speak, all domestic film producers or producers have to look at the face of the theater chain, because if you master the theater line, you will master the film schedule, and you will have the right to speak.

At present, seventy percent of the domestic box office is divided by the top ten theaters, and the theater chain occupies a key position in the entire film industry chain, because it has the absolute dominance of the right to schedule films, if it annoys the theater company, as long as it doesn't want to make money with your movie, then the film producer will have to lose money.

What's worse is that the theater chain may not lose money, and a lot of movies are waiting for the release of the film, and I wish there were fewer strong competitors and more film scheduling rates, which caused the theater company to develop a situation of uncle's temper, which is a state of the domestic film industry.

This makes Ye Hua very tricky, he is alone and his only partner, Baofeng Technology, can only stir up the storm in private theaters, the real big head is still the theater chain, you must know that the current domestic theaters have exceeded 10,000, and the number of screens has reached an astonishing 60,000, which has long exceeded the total number of screens in North America, and the North American film market has only 47,000 screens, which has been surpassed and thrown off by the mainland.

Ye Hua will definitely not let go of this largest market at his doorstep, but it is difficult to bite, because they have great ambitions to eat coastline technology. Although foreign countries are the same, they also know that such benefits will definitely not be their turn.

Although Baofeng Technology is a solid hardcore ally, it was born as an Internet technology company after all, although it is now All-in in the private theater industry, but that is just to get a strong cash flow profit project and save the current decline, Baofeng's gene is still an Internet technology company, and when it gets out of the predicament, Mr. Feng may go back to tell his Internet story when the time comes, and it will definitely be, unless Baofeng Technology is willing to give his seven inches to the coastline.

After leading the storm out of the predicament, Mr. Feng will definitely seek a new way out of his dependence on coastline technology, Ye Hua is not seeking to get rid of his dependence on storm technology now, everyone is actually the same, they all want to control their own destiny.

Therefore, this cooperation is also very critical, and Ye Hua has high hopes for it.

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