China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 288 You are making a Hollywood movie

"How is it? Can you pass the test?"

In the end, the "Hongmen Banquet" ended in a joyous atmosphere for both host and guest, but Chen Jingxing was still unsure of the outcome. Obviously, his opponents were not the kind of people who would write disappointment or anger directly on their faces.

Jeff Miller looked at Chen Jingxing with an expression that said: "What do you think?"

Chen Jingxing recalled the confrontation between the two sides, emm, it was indeed not optimistic.

Chen Jingxing did not directly reject the "equivalent exchange" condition proposed by the major manufacturers, but partially accepted the condition.

Of course, Chen Jingxing is not so arrogant as to think that the influence of DreamWorks can end the so-called "domestic protection month". Obviously, Hollywood does not expect to use DreamWorks to kick down three doors of the Chinese film market. If such a thing really happens

If it happens, I'm afraid their jaws will drop.

There is nothing to do in the short period of time during the Spring Festival and National Day periods.

But the door to the summer season itself is actually ajar.

It’s not like there were no Hollywood movies released in the domestic summer season in the past. Even the 2014 superhero blockbuster “Earth Eater: Nova” also “opened” the summer season in China.

But in general, the National Film Festival rarely arranges blockbusters to enter the summer season. Even if there are imported films, they are approved, and the time is either the end of June or the end of August. "Domestic Protection Month" is not just talk.

I can understand it very well.

And it makes sense to switch from summer gear to summer gear.

But this is not without improvement. In fact, as domestic commercial films become more and more powerful and genre films become more diverse, it is planned to no longer put obstacles in the way of budget-sharing films for the summer season.

"It seems you understand what I mean." Jeff took Chen Jingxing's complicated emotions as a natural reaction after being awakened by him.

So in fact, the liberalization of summer movies will start next year. The national film industry will break the "protection month" of summer movies and will consider placing blockbusters in the summer movies, and there will be at least two. This is also a national

When Qin Zhonghe told Chen Jingxing about the opportunity to make money from movies, his attitude was very optimistic.

After a very magical year for the film industry in 2015, and the two-hero competition for supremacy during the 2016 Spring Festival, the consecutively broken box office records have made even the most pessimistic people have unlimited expectations for the future of domestic films.

At this point, the look he looked at Chen Jingxing became a little strange. Obviously, if Chen Jingxing's promise was credible and not just perfunctory, then the weight of DreamWorks might have to be re-evaluated.

"Of course the 'charity' raised by Miss Tang Xin is useful. There should be no setbacks in the finalization of "Gravity"." Jeff admired Chen Jingxing's slightly embarrassed expression for a while: "What do you think about China?"

The promise of opening up the film market's summer schedule...must be effective, but of course, this will take time to prove."

"I don't understand why there is such a big reaction to "Gravity"?"

Jeff Miller said mildly: "No one wants to take away your DreamWorks, it's just an investment. You know that DreamWorks doesn't have the capital of Hollywood. This is a very big problem."

It's just that Chen Jingxing has been delaying. After all, the country still needs to share the cake. If it is given to Universal, DreamWorks will suffer a big loss.

Although at the same time, the lower limit for domestic films is also ridiculously low.

Chen Jingxing nodded clearly, meaning that his "slow-down strategy" did have the effect of slowing down the war, but it does not mean that DreamWorks has really been accepted by Hollywood. DreamWorks is no longer looked down upon by giants and can only produce small products.

The foreign film companies that cost the money to produce the movie are just trying to eat the soup, but they are the real rivals.

"You're right, in a sense...I do make Hollywood movies."

It will also take time to relax the protection of domestic products. Let’s start with the summer season. Of course, after the blockbusters enter the summer season, Hollywood will definitely start to think about the Spring Festival and National Day films. There is nothing Chen Jingxing can do to help. This is also a delaying strategy.

It won't be exposed for at least two or three years.

However, he has actually been prepared for this. To enter the North American market or even the European market, he really needs the cooperation of a major Hollywood studio.

Now it seems that Universal is waiting for other major manufacturers to respond to DreamWorks' further squeeze on the North American market, and thus uses other major manufacturers to threaten Chen Jingxing into submission.

On this level, thanks to the closer relationship between DreamWorks and Guoying, as well as Qin Zhonghe's own appreciation of Chen Jingxing, the same is true for the news he received from Guoying.

Of course Chen Jingxing does not doubt Universal's ability. After all, it is a major studio second only to the two giants and an established company that has been working in Hollywood for hundreds of years.

"It's just that after "Gravity", DreamWorks' movies will have to be careful when entering the North American market. The company here will not be polite to competitors."

This has been proven in previous lives, provided of course that the relationship between the two countries does not undergo major changes.

"That's not the point, my friend."

"If DreamWorks is willing to become Universal's exclusive partner."

The second condition of the big companies was that DreamWorks should accept their investment, and the equity they wanted was far beyond Chen Jingxing's bottom line, so he naturally refused without hesitation.

"So... there is no other solution?" Chen Jingxing showed no worry at all and looked at the Global executive with determination.

"uh-huh"

"So the negotiation broke down?" Chen Jingxing calmly confirmed to Jeff Miller.

From July to August, you can even get a blockbuster movie every month, and it is a real blockbuster movie.

Jeff looked like he couldn't hide anything from you: "Unless...you can get the full support of Universal. Believe me, Universal has the ability."

Chen Jingxing has almost figured out Universal's intentions. In fact, when Universal cooperated with DreamWorks to distribute "Source Code" in North America, it had repeatedly proposed the idea of ​​co-producing movies in order to benefit from the rise of DreamWorks.

Greater interests, in fact, this is the condition for Universal to help distribute the Firefly movie.

So he was quite confident. Not only did he agree, but he also showed off the close relationship between DreamWorks and China Film, including but not limited to cooperation in more theme movies.

"Then what's the point? Do you want to take away DreamWorks? Then I'm going to talk shit!"

Even because of the appearance of Chen Jingxing himself, domestic films have made greater breakthroughs and progress than in the previous world, or in other words, the original historical development, and the progress of liberalization has been advanced.

In 2013 or even 2014, some people will still be worried about the precarious box office share of domestic movies due to the impact of budget-sharing blockbusters.

"You're talking about the relationship between Legendary and Warner?"

"What will it cost me?"

Jeff smiled knowingly and whispered: "You are not the first person to ask this question. Many... including you filmmakers in East Asia will think that the audience and market here are free and tolerant, but in fact,

Well, have you seen Slumdog Millionaire?”

This is not to say that Chen Jingxing took advantage of the information gap to deceive Hollywood. Although he did not ask for it, the liberalization of the summer film is definitely closely related to the emergence of DreamWorks. If Chen Jingxing had not appeared, I am afraid that the domestic protection of the summer film would not have been revoked so quickly.

But the upper limit is high enough, which is enough to dispel many people's concerns.

If you round it off, it can be considered Chen Jingxing’s contribution.

"At least we can cooperate on some movies, not just on distribution."

"First of all, it's animation, and secondly, it's two-dimensional animation. It's niche and fan-oriented. So far, there is no Japanese animation movie that has a box office of over 100 million in North America, and your "Source Code" has already exceeded 100 million -"

DreamWorks is a film company, not an Internet company. It would be ridiculous to control it through a vie framework agreement. Therefore, Chen Jingxing will not accept his equity being diluted before going public, except for force majeure factors of course.

Not to mention the emergence of DreamWorks, a film company that has repeatedly exported movies and TV series on a large scale overseas, including Europe and the United States.

For example, the distribution of "Source Code" outside of North America is handled by DreamWorks. The Asia-Pacific region surrounding China has been relatively smooth due to various reasons such as culture, skin color, and Hong Kong movies.

Jeff Miller was still a little disappointed with Chen Jingxing's resolute attitude. Although Universal was considered a partner of DreamWorks, of course he wanted DreamWorks' shares.

Jeff's tone was a little deep: "Not only does your movie make many people feel threatened in terms of size, but also... it also makes many people wary in terms of content. What you filmed is... what many people think...

Hollywood movies, can you understand them?"

Chen Jingxing still owns more than 74% of DreamWorks' equity, which is regarded as an absolute controlling stake. However, DreamWorks is going to be listed. Once listed, his equity will inevitably be diluted. He cannot allow his equity to be lower than 50% before the IPO.

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"My promise to gradually open the summer season is true, and I am not just perfunctory!" Chen Jingxing complained to Jeff Miller.

However, Chen Jingxing does not believe that the North American market is a force majeure factor. His foundation will only and always be the Chinese market.

"Who told you not to enter the market earlier?" Chen Jingxing looked at his "allies" with a sneer: "Now that it has closed, DreamWorks will not accept any more financing."

Jeff, who suppressed his disappointment, shook his head: "It can only be said that it was partially broken, or that it was partially successful."

"This is what we like about foreign movies here, especially those from third world countries."

"Ha, what about Japanese animation?"

However, distribution in other regions such as Europe and South America ran into many difficulties. Even though it borrowed the title of over 100 million in the North American market, the final box office in Europe was not satisfactory.

If you need to rely on major Hollywood studios, you will naturally have to give up profits, as long as it is cost-effective in the end.

And this is certainly a good deal. With the release of "Source Code", DreamWorks has become more and more stable in the country. It basically no longer needs to give half of its investment share to other companies, and even distribution has gradually become more stable.

If you come on your own, except for some projects that need to be co-produced with China Film, there is basically no need to share any big pieces of the cake.

Naturally, there is profit margin to win over Global.

"Okay, no problem." Chen Jingxing said cheerfully, which was somewhat beyond Jeff's expectation: "But I'm not Zhang Yimou."

(End of chapter)