Chapter 647: Relationship Breakdown
Just when Qiao Feng and his entourage were setting off a new wave of turmoil in the UK, Shi Nansheng called from the United States: "Mr. Qiao, there is a problem in the negotiation of the joint issuance of Mulan, the share proposed by Twentieth Century Fox is too high, and they can't negotiate it after talking about 10 percent, as if they have no intention of cooperating with us at all."
"Don't talk about it?" Qiao Feng asked lightly.
"Well, Smith, who was in charge of the negotiations, said that a minimum of ten percent would be paid." Shi Nansheng on the other side of the phone said in a solemn tone.
Although MGM has become the owner, Mulan's distribution is also in charge of MGM, but MGM has been sinking for too long after all, and its distribution ability is not as good as before.
It can be said that in the past few years, the company with the best quality and most profitable movie distribution in the seven major Hollywood companies is Twentieth Century Fox, and its financial situation is also the best.
It is no problem to say that Twentieth Century Fox is currently the No. 1 company in Hollywood's distribution capacity.
Therefore, Twentieth Century Fox has now made it clear that the lion has not yet opened his mouth to talk about, which puts a lot of pressure on Shi Nansheng.
"Have you contacted the top of Twentieth Century Fox?" Hearing Shi Nansheng say this, the corners of Qiao Feng's mouth rose to reveal a sneer, but he still suppressed his anger and asked.
"I got in touch, but I can't get in touch.No one answered the phone, I'm going to go to their company tomorrow." Shi Nansheng over there said helplessly.
"Okay, got it." Qiao Feng here smiled even colder, took a deep breath and spit it out gently, and said lightly: "Nan Sheng, tell Twentieth Century Fox that since you don't have to talk about it, you won't talk about it."
"Boss....." Shi Nansheng over there hurriedly wanted to speak, she was afraid that Qiao Feng would say something angry.
"Couldn't you eat a hairy pig without Butcher Zhang? MGM is just a little weak in its distribution ability, but it's not that it doesn't have the ability to issue, and Twentieth Century Fox wants to use this to jam my neck and show me that they have miscalculated." Qiao Feng sneered coldly.
Normally, the distribution share of Hollywood companies is 5 to 10 percent, which is the total distribution share, and the same is true for one company and 10 syndicates.
Mulan's main distribution company is MGM, and the share should be more, even if it is divided equally with the Twentieth Century Fox Joint Distribution, then the Twentieth Century Fox can share the distribution share is only five percent.
For many films, the ratio of 5% is the total share given to the distribution company, and now the two companies jointly distribute it, and each can also get a 5% share, which can be said to be quite good.
But Twentieth Century Fox is not satisfied, and the lion opens his mouth to ask for ten percent, this is no longer a matter of profit differences, but a matter of sincerity, from this condition Qiao Feng clearly knows that Twentieth Century Fox has no sincerity to negotiate at all, and they don't want to issue Mulan at all.
Qiao Feng also knew why the twentieth century Fox, who had always cooperated best, suddenly did this, but it was because he bombarded the Sun.
Of course, the bombardment of the Sun is only the superficial reason, and the deep reason is that he became the owner of MGM and the relationship with Twentieth Century Fox has become a competitive relationship.
To cooperate, it must be a cooperation between two companies, and the proportion of investment and issuance is relatively more than MGM, so naturally other companies can no longer make more profits as before.
This is definitely unwilling for other companies to accept, of course they have to give Qiao Feng a dismissal.
The reason why Twentieth Century Fox will fire the first shot is nothing more than because Qiao Feng scolded the Sun, and the Sun and Twentieth Century Fox are the same boss, both from Australia's media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and the Sun reported on the Hillsborough tragedy, pointing the finger at Liverpool fans, reversing black and white, in addition to the operation of the Sun's editor-in-chief McKenzie, there is also the strong support of the big boss Murdoch behind it.
As McKenzie's coverage became more and more visible, fear grew in the paper's office, but McKenzie's leadership in the newspaper was unmatched by Murdoch. The update was the fastest, and everyone was scared like a frightened bird. The mistake they saw was too obvious to be a stupid mistake, much less a simple mistake. Not a single person commented on the report: everyone just looked at it and then shook their heads away, worried about the seriousness of the mistake: it was a huge stain. ”
A Sun reporter who was bought by Ming Pao and TVB's reporting team in the UK stated this in an interview.
Ming Pao and TVB acted very quickly, so Qiao Feng knew that the relevant reports of the Sun were not only the masterpieces of its editor-in-chief McKenzie, but also approved by Murdoch, and even the relevant reports were reported as instructed by Murdoch.
In the future, he became famous overnight because of the bugging scandal, so that anyone who watches the news knows Murdoch, and even more so that he knows his scheming wife who slapped the protesters.
Since the report on the Hillsborough tragedy is from Murdoch's approval, then Qiao Feng's scolding will naturally scold Murdoch, for this media giant across Australia, the United Kingdom, and even the United States, it must be not easy to swallow this breath, plus Qiao Feng's acquisition of MGM and Murdoch's Twentieth Century Fox formed a competitive relationship, under these reasons, the good relationship between Qiao Feng and Twentieth Century Fox naturally disappeared.
Twentieth Century Fox or Murdoch, the boss behind the scenes, wants to take control of MGM and give MGM's new boss Qiao Feng a look, and Qiao Feng naturally won't say nothing.
After hanging up Shi Nansheng's phone, Qiao Feng called Li Zhi's phone.
"Contact Mr. Shao and Mr. Cha and tell them they can get started."