Entertainment: The opening and the official announcement of the national goddess

Chapter 628 Apply for a theater line and enter China with force
When Zhang Xiao was filming "[-] Angry Men", two things happened in Hollywood that caused a worldwide sensation.

After more than a month of negotiations, Cable finally acquired Columbia, one of the five Hollywood giants, and officially entered Hollywood.

And two days after they signed the contract, the parent company of Viacom, one of the world's three major media giants, acquired Paramount. The former president and CEO of Paramount, John, only retained [-]% of the shares. The shares in the company were all sold to the parent company of Viacom.

With the backing of Cable and Viacom, the stock prices of Columbia and Paramount have skyrocketed for a week in a row, and their market values ​​have all exceeded 2000 billion US dollars.

Zhang Xiao was not surprised by this. What really surprised him was that the parent company of Suoli and Weiakang jointly held a press conference, claiming that they would jointly invest 200 billion U.S. dollars to build a network covering major countries in Europe, America and Asia. and regional theaters.

This is definitely a big deal for the film industry.

At home, Yang Mi looked at Zhang Xiao and said: "Old European Communist Party, we have already finished the materials for building the theater circuit, you'd better go to the Department of Culture as soon as possible, lest you be caught by Suo Li first."

Zhang Xiao was taken aback, and asked: "Cuo Li came back to Huaguo to open up theaters?"

"Yes!"

"Will the Department of Culture allow foreign capital to move in?"

"It's hard to say, don't forget, behind it is an island country. Disney has sent news that Suo Li has sent people to the capital. It probably only takes two days."

"Damn, this work is fast enough!"

Zhang Xiao frowned, and said, "Alright then, I'll take the materials to the Department of Culture tomorrow."

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The next morning, Zhang Xiao brought a lot of documents, and went to the Culture Department with Yang Mi, and met the deputy director of the Culture Department.

Seeing Zhang Xiao's arrival, the deputy director asked with surprise on his face, "Mr. Zhang, are you here to build a theater?"

Zhang Xiao nodded with a smile and said, "Director Su, don't you think that the number of screens in our country can no longer satisfy the gradually increasing movie market?"

Deputy Director Su nodded, and said, "That's true, Mr. Zhang, Ms. Yang, did you hear something, and that's why you came here in such a hurry?"

"Wind sound?" Zhang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Is it Cable Company?"

Deputy Director Su said with a smile: "It seems that you already know, that's right, Suo Li sent over the materials of the Shenmo Theater last Friday, and we are worrying about this matter!"

Zhang Xiao asked very puzzled: "Director Su, isn't this a good thing, why do you have headaches?"

Deputy Director Su said: "There are more theaters, which can drive the vigorous development of the film industry. It is also a good thing, but the problem is that if there are too many, how should we supervise? Behind this kind of foreign capital are various countries, and it is necessary to manage it. Very troublesome."

"If they wantonly disrupt the market and destroy the overall situation of the film industry, then it will be difficult for us to find a way to restrain them!"

Zhang Xiao suddenly realized when he heard the words, and said: "Their main industry is not in the country, and this is really not easy to manage!"

Yang Mi interjected: "Since it's not easy to manage, then simply don't give them approval."

Deputy Director Su shook his head and explained: "Without a reasonable reason, this kind of commercial procedure has to be approved. This involves our policy of opening up to the outside world. However, you came today and gave us an excuse to reject them." reason."

Zhang Xiao smiled and said, "Is the market saturated?"

"That's right!" Deputy Director Su nodded with a smile, and said, "As long as we approve your expressions, and then inform them that there are too many theaters and we must cut 50.00%, everything will be fine."

Zhang Xiaodao: "If this is the case, that would be great, Director Su, this is our material, you can see if there is anything inappropriate, if there is, we will go back and change it now."

Director Su said: "Special matters, I will process your application today. By the way, how many screens are you going to build in your theater?"

Zhang Xiao said: "Not much, 1 yuan will do."

"Oh~~" Deputy Director Su nodded, suddenly realized something, and exclaimed, "How much?"

Zhang Xiao said: "It's only 1 yuan."

Deputy Director Su was overjoyed and said, "1 yuan? Pay it back? Mr. Zhang, I'm really convinced. This amount is too big. We have to hold a meeting to discuss it."

Originally, Deputy Director Su also hoped that Zhang Xiao could falsely report the number of screens, and use this as an excuse to prevent foreign capital from entering.

A 1 yuan screen is enough to saturate the entire Huaguo film industry.

After leaving the Department of Culture, Yang Mi leaned forward and backward in the car laughing.

Zhang Xiao glanced at her and said, "Honey, is it that funny?"

Yang Mi said: "You didn't see Director Su's shocked expression, it's so interesting."

Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "Well, after you watch a lot in the future, you will get used to it."

Yang Mi asked again: "Husband, do you think the Department of Culture can give us a pass?"

Zhang Xiao thought for a while and said: "If it was before, I'm not sure, I can give us 1 yuan, but now, it should be no problem. After all, our Sunny Entertainment Company is a domestic company, and the other party is an international predator. What do you think? Who will the Department of Culture grant it to? It must be us!"

"International predators are all those who fall into the eyes of you. They are not rule-abiding people. However, it is not easy for the cultural department of our bureau to stop their investment."

"Why?" Yang Mi asked very puzzled.

Zhang Xiao explained: "It's very simple, because they have sufficient funds and all the procedures are legal. It is obviously impossible for the Department of Culture to use the reason of market saturation to make them leave. After all, they have neither violated the law nor Do things that endanger our safety, once it goes to an international court, then we will definitely lose."

Yang Mi nodded after listening, and said: "Also, when you acquired Universal Cinemas and Warner Cinemas, Beacon Country didn't stop you."

"That's right!" Zhang Xiao nodded, and said, "But if Suo Li Company succeeds, I suspect that they may have more screens than us. In this way, the major theaters in Huaguo may be caught in the middle of the film industry. Resource contention."

In the past, when there were fewer theaters and more movies, in order to be able to shoot more movies, the producers would do everything possible to go through the back door and build relationships.

But if there are many theaters but few resources, then the situation will be completely opposite. The theaters are likely to use various profit-making measures to fight for the right to show movies.

By that time, the entire theater market will be in a mess.

However, these did not have much impact on Zhang Xiao, because Sunny Entertainment could be both an investor and a distributor, which was enough to ensure that he would make a steady profit without losing money.

It's just that those theaters that don't participate in film production will be miserable, and their profits will definitely be greatly reduced.

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The Department of Culture's work efficiency is also very high. In less than two days, Sunny Entertainment Company's theater chain application was approved.

Moreover, the number of screens not only did not decrease, but increased to 5000 yuan. Needless to say, the reason why the Department of Culture did this was mainly to let Cable Company back out of difficulties.

However, they obviously underestimated each other's determination. No matter what the Culture Department said, Suo Li always insisted on building the cinema.

(End of this chapter)