Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 582 Prepare for future digging (two chapters in one)

   After Michael Ovitz left, Yang Chen got up and patted his butt, and walked outside.

  I didn't see Lin Qingxia's figure outside, Yang Chen asked Lan Meiren aside, "Where did Qingxia go?"

   Lan Meiren: "Sister Qingxia is bored. Secretary Kelly took her downstairs."

   "Then let's go down too." Yang Chen nodded, and glanced at Lan Meiren for a while, he always felt that the other party seemed to have changed, but he couldn't tell.

   shook his head and didn't think about it any further.

   Walking to the stairs, Lan Meiren, who had been peeking at Yang Chen from time to time, couldn't help but asked in a low voice, "Boss, haven't things been settled yet?"

   "Half-baked" Yang Chen raised his eyelids, the corners of his mouth twitched faintly.

   Honestly, at this time, if he took out 30 million US dollars to invest in CAA, there might be someone who would scold him behind his back.

  Michael Ovitz's lion's mouth is not unrelated to his lack of roots in Hollywood.

   However, it was precisely because he had no foundation in Hollywood that the other party wanted him to take a stake in CAA and gave up his position as a major shareholder.

   You can't have both fish and bear's paw.

   Being able to get 30% of CAA's shares, as well as his status as a major shareholder, Yang Chen has nothing to be dissatisfied with.

  ‘Half-baked? ' Lan Meiren looked confused, what does this mean, does it have anything to do with whether it is born or not?

   Yang Chen didn't explain what she looked like, and let her little head think and guess.

The success of   CAA is that it has successfully captured those rich people who want to enter the film industry but don't know anything about it.

   As long as the rich people who cooperate with CAA, they only need to do two things, one is to set up a film company, and the other is to provide funds for shooting.

  It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand movies, just pick a script that you like, or make up a small story yourself, and then the screenwriters of CAA will write a script that satisfies you.

  As long as there is enough money, CAA will do its best to provide all services to the best of its ability.

   As long as you enter the film industry and cooperate with CAA, then you don’t have to worry about not being able to make movies, let alone hiring the star director you want.

   Losing money is not at a loss. In addition, CAA's move has given laymen a great opportunity to get involved in Hollywood.

   It is precisely because of the emergence of CAA that in the 1980s and 1990s, countless film companies appeared in Hollywood.

The rapid rise of   CAA was achieved in the early 1980s, when he relied on contracted star directors, harvested funds from investors, and gained the support of countless wealthy people.

   After this village, there is no such shop.

Once Yang Chen misses this opportunity to become a shareholder in CAA, it won't take long, at most a year, when CAA catches its breath, don't say 30 million US dollars, even 300 million don't even think about getting 30% of the shares and major shareholders identity.

  Beginning in the 1980s, CAA's integrated packaging service has completely changed the traditional Hollywood shooting mode.

   The more independent productions there are, the more intense the market competition will be.

  I also blame Michael Ovitz for their luck. If the CAA integrated packaging service was placed before the 1950s, it would inevitably be strongly suppressed by major film companies.

   If it is put in ten years, it will also be jointly suppressed by Hollywood giants.

   As President Reagan came to power, the free economy of the United States expanded, and the original antitrust ruling became invalid overnight.

  The most profitable business in the world is the monopoly business, everyone must know this.

   No matter what your monopoly is, as long as it is what people need, it can make a lot of money.

   As long as there is an opportunity to monopolize an industry, the leaders in each industry will do their best to obtain a monopoly position and maximize their benefits.

   However, monopoly will hinder competition. If an industry is monopolized for a long time, it will not only be detrimental to consumers, but also detrimental to the renewal and progress of the industry.

  The antitrust litigation in the United States is world-renowned.

  The early Hollywood movie giants fought for decades with the government's judiciary in pursuit of a monopoly.

   Between the two sides, whoever loses wins in the end.

   This point, needless to say.

   In front of the government, all resistance is superfluous.

   In the 1940s, the most famous "Paramount ruling".

   A ruling that ended the vertical monopoly of the eight major Hollywood filmmakers over the entire film industry.

At that time, the eight major film companies with absolute dominance in Hollywood, Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Arts, controlled the production, distribution, The screening session controls Hollywood movies from top to bottom.

  The eight major film companies have theaters in major cities in the United States, although in terms of number, the theaters controlled by the eight major film companies only occupy a small part of the American film market.

   However, most of the theaters in the hands of the eight major film companies are the first-round theaters of the highest quality, which are the main ticket warehouses. Therefore, in terms of box office share, the eight major film companies have already achieved a monopoly on the American film market at that time.

   This is somewhat similar to the three monopolization of the Hong Kong film market by Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and Princess Jin. To be honest, the three film companies of Shaw Brothers have a more complete monopoly than the eight major Hollywood film companies.

  Hollywood also reserves a sip of soup for independent filmmakers, while the three Shaw Brothers film companies sometimes don’t even give others a sip of soup.

  In Hong Kong, the films made by independent filmmakers are good, and most of the three film companies will buy them out directly, allowing the independent filmmakers to make a little money to spend.

  The screening is divided, that is not even thinking about it.

  Reluctant to sell? things that don't exist.

   If you don’t sell it, you can’t even get the capital back. Do you think you will sell it or not?

   Of course, the Xiangjiang pond is small, and the Governor's Office implements a free economy, so it does not interfere with monopoly.

  Xiangjiang's monopoly companies, once they catch a lot of them, will not mention the daily necessities such as water, electricity and other daily necessities that people use. Even if someone dies, there will be a funeral king who will collect your money.

   In contrast, where there is a monopoly on the US side, at most it is an alliance of multiple companies.

  The US Department of Justice, after the tax department, is the most troublesome existence for the rich businessmen, especially large companies, large consortia, and various anti-monopoly lawsuits.

Before the end of World War II, the eight major Hollywood film companies controlled less than 20% of the total number of movie theaters in the United States, but in the important first-round theaters, they accounted for as high as 90%, and the number of released films accounted for even more. Seventy percent of the country's production.

  The entire Hollywood film market is directly or indirectly monopolized by the eight major film companies.

   It was not until after the end of World War II, after a protracted battle, that the big studios began to strip off the theaters, and the whole process lasted almost the entire 1950s.

   The eight major film companies have lost control of the film distribution channels. Even though they are still indirectly controlled by the eight major film companies in private, on the bright side, the eight major film companies have no way to have a vertical monopoly on the theaters below.

   All films have been given fairly fair competition conditions, and at the same time, films from independent producers have more opportunities to enter theaters, which promotes the development of independent production in Hollywood.

  Hollywood’s internal affairs are resolved. Under normal circumstances, the next step should be a great development.

  Unfortunately, the film industry did not usher in a more prosperous bloom. Under the attack of the emerging TV industry, Hollywood ended its golden age.

  In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, for three decades, in addition to the continuous improvement of technology in Hollywood movies, the market was divided by more than half of the emerging TV industry.

  The old eight major film companies have been in a state of half-dead.

   As President Reagan came to power, the liberal economy opened, and a new round of monopoly mergers made a comeback.

   Some actions that used to be considered monopolies have become legal with the arrival of President Reagan.

   This is not only an opportunity for the big studios, but also a crisis for the big studios.

   Domestic and foreign capitalists and rich people are all staring at the eight major Hollywood film companies. No matter how powerful a tiger is, if he is hungry, he will not be able to withstand the onslaught of wolves.

   Later, the eight major Hollywood film companies became six major film companies. Sony acquired Columbia, and then acquired MGM-Lianmei, which merged with MGM and Lianmei. The Big Eight lost three at a time, and then there was another Disney.

  The competition is very fierce, which is not what most people can imagine.

It’s just that the new round of monopoly mergers is fundamentally different from that before the 1950s. Big film companies have become part of more powerful multinational media giants. The entire Hollywood film company has been annexed by those multinational media giants. Become a department parallel to TV, newspapers, Internet, theme parks, derivative development, etc.

   Greater monopoly and stronger capital further suppress the living space of independent producers.

   Until the 1990s, after the first round of mergers, CAA brought together those independent producers squeezed by the big film companies, and the whole became a behemoth that even the big film companies were unwilling to offend.

  Whether it is film or TV, without actors, directors and screenwriters, it is an empty shell.

   This is like a factory. The multinational media giants control the machinery and equipment in the factory. Without these machinery and equipment, nothing can be produced.

   Although CAA has no machinery and equipment, most of the people in the factory listen to it. Once CAA takes the workers away, the entire factory will shut down.

The rise of   CAA is not necessarily inevitable. Hollywood will not be able to change without a brokerage company.

  Before the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called brokerage companies in Hollywood were also useless, didn’t they?

  Looking at the Hong Kong film market, the whole is occupied by the three major film companies, and it is also not affected at all.

   Michael Ovitz's success, CAA's success, is more or less influenced by the environment.

   They rely on low commissions to attract star artists, and then attract independent filmmakers who have been squeezed out by big film companies, forming a big league that people can't underestimate.

   This is a bit of a guild organization representing workers in the West. It is true that the capitalists are strong, but the strength of the guild is not vegetarian.

  If Yang Chen didn't come from later generations, if he didn't know how awesome CAA's later generations were, just with Michael Ovitz's mouth, he would never accept the opponent's lion's big mouth.

   Later CAA owns nearly half of Hollywood entertainers, nearly two-thirds of top stars, as well as top directors, producers, playwrights, as well as singers, bands…

   Such a giant company with an annual revenue of only a few hundred million US dollars. To be honest, if it was just for making money, he would not invest in a company brokerage company like CAA.

   He has 30 million US dollars, and if he invests in any industry, he can turn his profits dozens of times.

   Yang Chen's investment in CAA is more important for consideration of future Chinese movies.

  Xiangjiang did not have a so-called professional agent in this period, even if he asked Chen Yulian and Shi Nansheng to create the ATV artist department, they were mostly different.

  If you want to read books well, you need a good teacher and professor. Once he becomes a shareholder of CAA, he can use his status as a major shareholder to send people here to study and learn.

   If he can be shameless, he can even poach people directly from CAA, and let these monks help him to truly institutionalize the ATV artist department.

  With the CAA line, if there is something missing from ATV in the future, you can go to Hollywood to dig it. If you don’t understand it, you can’t, and you can easily come and learn.

   As a result, 30 million US dollars is a bit insignificant.

   No matter how many books on Sun Tzu's Art of War and how many Lu Buwei's that fake foreign devil has read, in the end, he has to drink the foot-washing water of someone from his Yang.

   Thinking of one day in the future, when he was secretly digging the wall, Michael Ovitz's constipated expression, Yang Chen couldn't help showing a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth.

   And it just so happened that she prefers not to die, the elevator door opened, and Lan Meiren saw that Yang Chen was motionless, so she couldn't help but turn her head to take a look.

   Seeing Yang Chen's evil smile, Lan Meiren shuddered subconsciously, if the elevator door hadn't been opened, she might have kicked Yang Chen's lower body at this moment, and it would be better to strike first.

   "Old, Boss" Lan Meiren shook her head, and gently poked Yang Chen's arm with her little finger.

   Being stabbed by Lan Meiren, Yang Chen instantly came back to his senses, looking at Lan Meiren's fearful expression, Yang Chen raised his head and looked at the soldier and Tietou in front of him.

   "Which one of you bullied her?" Yang Chen pointed at Lan Meiren with a bad expression on his face.

   Junzi and Tietou were a little puzzled, they looked at each other, Yang Chen looked unkind, so they didn't know what to say.

   They have long noticed that Yang Chen is not as simple as an ordinary secretary to Lan Meiren, and now it seems that it is indeed the case.

   It seems that this little beauty cannot be offended in the future.

  Press, it’s not that you can’t offend, it’s that you can’t afford to offend.

  Look at Yang Chen's current state, how long have the two of them been by your side, and how many days has the other been a secretary?

   Alas, can't compare, really can't compare.

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   (end of this chapter)