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Chapter 490 Investigation, call Venice (please vote)

As soon as the news came out, one stone stirred up a thousand waves. Is Zhang Yang so fierce now?

Directly intervene in the affairs of one of the three largest companies in Europe. If he really makes it, wouldn't it be slim to hope that films from other countries would win awards in Venice?

Chinese film businessmen also went to Venice, which had a great impact on other film festivals.

You need to know the quotation of a movie from a Western country to China in film festivals in the past ten years.

From about 10 US dollars a piece, it has become about 500 million US dollars. They don’t care about US$10, but it’s impossible that they don’t care about US$500 million!

Don't look at those people at this year's Cannes who look arrogant towards Chinese film and television outsiders, but we really can't live without them.

Therefore, in the world, they don’t care about the large-scale entry of Chinese films into Venice. Anyway, literary and artistic films are just high-quality. But the large-scale visit of Chinese businessmen to Venice had a great impact on them.

As for the current difficult situation in Venice, they are not concerned.

And the Venice Film Festival will not take the initiative to say so. Whether it was true or not, they subconsciously thought it was true. No matter what field, conspiracy theories are popular.

USA, Las Vegas

Zhang Yang just got up in the morning. After watching the volcano eruption performance last night, there was a slight sense of warmth between Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei.

We went back to the hotel to chat and then went to sleep.

Zhang Yang looked at the time and saw that it was only around eight o'clock, so he got up early during this period of travel.

After washing up, Zhang Yang went down to have breakfast alone. By the way, let’s take a look at what the lion is like in the morning. The Glass Lion Garden is also one of the most distinctive features of this hotel.

Up to six lions have been on display at the casino every day since 1999, and a glass tunnel runs beneath the display, allowing visitors to see the lions up close. After relaxing, Zhang Yang brought breakfast back to Liu Yifei.

When they arrived at the room, Liu Yifei had already started washing up.

"Your breakfast." Zhang Yang handed the things to Liu Yifei and said with a smile.

But Liu Yifei said to Zhang Yang: "Let's go back to San Francisco quickly, and then go to Hollywood to attend the premiere of LUCY."

Zhang Yang felt funny and said: "What? I'm thinking about it again, and it won't be more than a day or two."

"Your assistant came to see you just now. Something happened." Liu Yifei said and showed Zhang Yang a newspaper.

Zhang Yang took the newspaper and didn't even read the content. He only read the title, the movie The Emperor's Conspiracy.

Movie Emperor, this is a title given to Zhang Yang by the American media after this year's Berlin Film Festival. Because he used his own opinion to force a movie to win the best picture.

Looking at the content again, Zhang Yang's good mood disappeared.

Immediately call the assistant and ask him to contact the bodyguard so that he can return to San Francisco. On the way back, it was rare that the assistant did not drive and sit in the passenger seat, but a bodyguard drove the car.

Liu Yifei's assistant went to one of the remaining two cars.

Zhang Yang was sorting out his thoughts about going to Venice.

From the moment Zhang Yang cooperates with the five major private companies, there will be a day when he will be exposed.

But Zhang Yang thinks it will be after this film festival. I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

It is basically impossible for domestic state-owned enterprises to leak. Firstly, they did not participate. Secondly, except for China Film and Shanghai Film, other state-owned enterprises are in a weak position.

There is also a Chinese film company that was overwhelmed by China Film Group before it was released. After Director Han retires, the situation may be better.

Among private enterprises, Xingmei is nothing if it leaves the mainland. The same goes for fiber optics, just a little bit better.

On the contrary, Bona and Huayi have cooperation in the United States.

As the first company specializing in the overseas distribution of Chinese-language films, Huashi Films was founded in 2010 by Jiang Yanming. Later, Huayi and Bona Pictures also became shareholders of Huashi Film. This was the first time that the two companies joined forces. Each of them had a shareholding ratio of more than 20%, and the total shareholding ratio exceeded 40%.

From this perspective, these two companies still have ideas and ambitions. The first film released by Huashi Pictures was "Earthquake" produced by Huayi. Later, it also simultaneously released many domestic films such as "If You Are the One 2".

This company has a very clear goal, which is to target the overseas Chinese market of 100 million people.

In addition, after Wanda acquired the AMC theater chain, Huashi Films has signed a contract with AMC in North America and will simultaneously release Chinese-language films in North America all year round.

So it seems that these three families are suspected?

Zhang Yang thought about it and immediately said to his assistant:

"When you arrive in San Francisco, contact Secretary Zhou. Let him see what Wanda is doing recently, who Huayi's partners are currently, and Bona to see their stock price."

The assistant nodded immediately, thinking that I can command Secretary Zhou again. It feels really good.

Zhang Yang wanted to see how the Canadian side found out about this incident, whether it was unintentional or if there was something wrong with his partner.

Both Bona and Huayi have a history of being errands.

Liu Yifei was watching from the side. She hadn't seen Zhang Yang so serious for a long time. At the same time, if Hua Yi really wants to be the second and fifth son, how will Zhang Yang deal with them?

Zhang Yang said he was going to San Francisco to contact Secretary Zhou, but his assistant sent him a message in the car. Secretary Zhou in China felt disgusted when he saw the message sent to him by his assistant. He was very knowledgeable in the bib entertainment section, and it was really annoying to be bossed around by an assistant every time.

It's a pity that he can manage the entertainment sector because of the boss, and the damn assistant represents the boss.

Zhang Yang arrived in San Francisco and not long after checking into the hotel, his assistant sorted out the news.

The assistant said to Zhang Yang in his steady voice: "Boss, Wanda is currently thinking about acquiring a theater chain in Europe. Huayi currently has no American partners. Bona's stock has not risen either."

"Who asked you whether the price has gone up? Has there been any change?" Zhang Yang said angrily.

Not only can you make money when the stock market rises, but you can also operate it when it falls.

"Nothing has changed."

Zhang Yang was relieved when he heard this. If there really were two or five boys,

That Zhang Yang's plan in Venice may come to nothing. Now it seems that they may have accidentally leaked it. Some words may reach the ears of interested people in three or two passes. There should not be too many Sino-US co-productions now. Zhang Yang thought to himself that this news must be from Toronto.

The United States has its own Cannes in Europe, and now Cannes is known as the top three. In the final analysis, the Toronto Film Festival is Canadian, not American.

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes. Thinking about Harvey's crazy appearance in the United States, he didn't believe that this group of people in Toronto would be clean.

"Go and have someone investigate the details of the people on the Toronto Film Festival Executive Committee. The more detailed the information, the better." Zhang Yang explained to his assistant.

The assistant said a little uncertainly: "What's the budget?"

"If it's no more than 1000 million US dollars, don't tell me." Zhang Yang said casually.

The assistant nodded. This time the matter is not easy to handle. You should be careful when doing things abroad.

After he walked out of the room, Zhang Yang went to the sofa and said helplessly: "There is really not enough money. I don't even have 2 million US dollars left."

Before Zhang Yang bought the scarf, he had saved more than 4 million U.S. dollars, and spent a total of more than 2 million U.S. dollars on the scarf. It cost US$ million to invest in Bytedance.

It’s not like he doesn’t even have 2 million US dollars left.

After listening to Zhang Yang's words, Liu Yifei felt that he was in Versailles and said: "You forgot, LUCY's box office share has not been taken."

Zhang Yang thought the same thing: "Yes, my LUCY's box office share and the box office share of Extreme Career are added together. How can it exceed 100 million US dollars. There are also two TV series, and Charlotte's troubles."

Seeing what Zhang Yang said, Liu Yifei couldn't help but remind her: "This is all invested by my studio, you forgot."

Zhang Yang said "Oh" and said, "It's all the same."

In the afternoon of this day, after Zhang Yang's assistants took care of the rented RV and other matters,

I have to fly to Los Angeles to prepare for the movie premiere on the 25th.

This premiere is sure to be exciting!

As a result, Alberto Barbara called.

This afternoon in America is night in Europe. It seems that he is also anxious. After all, there are some things that can be done but not said.

Alberto Barbara was indeed anxious;

Their Venice Film Festival, the first film festival in the world. Now it is reported by the media that they want to embrace Chinese films on a large scale.

He is exactly the opposite of businessmen. They attach great importance to honor. Of course, movie deals are also very important.

If Zhang Yang were here, he would say something like being both a cousin and an archway.

Alberto was thinking about what others would say about them if they really gave awards to China in the future.

"Mr. Chairman, what's the matter with calling so late?" Zhang Yang asked with a smile.

"Maybe it disturbed your rest in the middle of the night, but do you know what's happening now?" Alberto Barbara said pretending to be profound.

"I think you may not know that I am traveling in the United States, so I know it earlier than you." Zhang Yang said in a joking tone.

Alberto said "Uh" and said, "Okay, now that you know, what do you think we should do?"

He kicked the ball decisively, which was the only way he could do this to Zhang Yang. Because Zhang Yang is the most famous director in the world, his honor is also very important.

"We will do whatever we have to do." Zhang Yang said calmly.

"Have you not seen the reports around the world? Should we change our strategy?" Alberto said.

Zhang Yang wanted to see what he had in mind, so he said, "What about?"

"For example, just let businessmen come over and let movies come over for exhibitions." Alberto suggested.

Zhang Yang secretly cursed, "Fuck you, you actually want to do it in vain." In order to let them pass this year, I gave away 50% of a movie.

"It's better not to let anyone in our country go." Zhang Yang said angrily.

"Hey, this is just a suggestion, we can discuss it again." Alberto said quickly.

It's really not worthwhile to offend Zhang Yang at this time. And it fulfilled the wish of the Toronto Film Festival.

"Then let me make a suggestion! Our previous arrangements are going on as normal. This time Venice will hold a Chinese Film Week for our country, and there will be a Zhang Yang Film Festival in the middle, and we will show the literary films I have made over the years. You how do you feel?"

Alberto shouted: "What, isn't this true?"

Zhang Yang said nonchalantly: "It's so easy to find a way to shirk the blame. Just say, you invited me before, but I didn't agree, but after the reports in the United States came out, I agreed instead. Isn't that okay? ”

On the other end of the phone, Alberto just felt that Zhang Yang was murdering people and killing people! After knocking down the people in Toronto, I want to step on them again!

Zhang Yang continued without giving him a chance to think: "Mr. Chairman, I plan to bring a literary film to Venice next year and the year after that, and after going to Venice, I will go to the Oscars. What do you think? Sample?"

Alberto felt like he was going crazy with joy. How could the film festival expand its influence?

When it comes to the three major film festivals, it depends on what kind of Oscar wins the films participating in their film festivals have.

Zhang Yang was at the Oscars and went there twice, and both times he gained a lot. It can be said to be a 100% winning rate.

Alberto was happy for a while, but soon realized something was wrong. This is not to give all the awards to Chinese films for two consecutive years.

Isn’t this a bad influence?

(End of this chapter)