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Chapter 799 Hollywood Investment Plan

"New Detective" is scheduled to be released on Friday, June 6th in North America.

After receiving the big cousin and her party on June 6, Zhou Xia left the film crew on June 2 and flew to Hollywood to promote the film with the two leading actors, Si Si and Yu Fei, and related entourage.

Another leading actor, Li Lianjie, arrived in Hollywood one step earlier to promote the film for a day.

Everyone knows that this trip to North America is of great significance to Zhou Xia, to Xiahua Film and Television, and even to Chinese-language movies.

This is the first time that a Chinese-language film with purely domestic investment has been screened in North America on a scale of more than 3600 theaters.

Unlike the schedule when "Hero" was released in North America back then, it has now entered the summer schedule in North America.

There is a blockbuster movie released every week. It is not a movie that can really hold the box office, and it can't occupy the lineup at all.

Originally seeing the poor performance of Julie's new film "Maleficent", Fox wanted to gamble on luck, and also released the love movie "The Fault in Our Stars" on June 6. Because of the strong participation of "Rookie Detective", it will eventually be released. The schedule is delayed by a week.

But this is not to say that "New Detective" can replace it, create the myth of the dark horse of others, and successfully block "Maleficent".

Also released on the same day was Tom Cruise's "Edge of Tomorrow".

Since participating in the Oscars in early March, Zhou Xia, Peter and Zhang Zhao have set a release schedule, and have continued to communicate with each other to determine the promotion strategy and plan before the release.

Now that it has spent a total of 3400 million US dollars in various publicity expenses, "New Detective" has finally reached the stage of large-scale release.

After being successful in other markets around the world, can you take a piece of the world's biggest box office cake in the North American market, which is "New Detective", as well as Zhou Xia, Li Lianjie, Wu Jing, Zhao Wenzhuo, Yuan Hua, etc. The final test for the film's cast of action stars.

Kung Fu movies have always been the most popular genre of Chinese-language movies in the global market. If they can’t succeed in North America, then Chinese-language filmmakers really don’t know how to make money from the US emperor.

Zhou Xia and Xia Hua Film and Television are busy developing the North American market, but in China, because of the great success of "New Detective", as many as a dozen modern and ancient action movies have been launched.

Among them, Huayi, Bernard, and Optical Fiber are the three companies that have a good cooperative relationship with many action directors in Xiangjiang.

Zhou Xia was noncommittal about this follow-up behavior.

Of course, the film and television industry can make money by following suit, but it still depends on the production level of the film.

Li Ang, Lao Mouzi, Chen Kai, and Xiaogangpao also made four blockbuster martial arts action movies, but only the first two made money, and the other two were even more scolded and never dared to try martial arts action movies again. .

Of course, later, Director Kai did not believe in evil, and produced a blockbuster suspenseful ancient costume movie "Legend of the Demon Cat", but it failed again, and Xinli Pictures had to sell a goose factory for compensation.

No gossip.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Zhou Xia and his party arrived at Los Angeles International Airport.

On the way to the Beverly Hills Hotel, Zhou Xia quickly looked at the relevant reports on movies released in North American theaters.

At present, the blockbuster movies that are showing in theaters include "X-Men: Days of Future Past", which was released for more than two weeks and earned a box office of US$1.6 million; "Maleficent", which was released for nearly a week and earned a box office of US$1.1 million.

These two films, along with "Edge of Tomorrow," which opens on the same day, are the biggest threats to "The Rookie Detective."

In addition, there is also "Godzilla" produced by Warner, which was released for more than three weeks and earned US$1.7 million; "The Amazing Spider-Man 1.9" produced by Sony, which was released for more than five weeks and earned US$2 million; and Warner "Neighbor Wars" and single-parent families; Disney's "The Golden Arm"; Sony's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" and other films.

These films are all scheduled for at least 2000 theaters, and they are all top ten North American weekly box office champions.

After Zhou Xia finished reading the report, he passed it on to Sisi and Yu Fei who were sitting in the back of the car, and quickly looked at another document.

After watching it, Zhou Xia couldn't help but asked Zhang Zhao, who came to pick him up from the airport, "Why are there so many people from the six major companies at the premiere in North America tonight?"

"These executives thought that we were just making a fuss, and they didn't think we would be able to gain a long-term foothold in North America, so they came to join us. They wanted to establish friendship with you, the boss, and talk about cooperation in our country."

Zhang Zhao said with a slight smile.

"That's right, if we want to gain a foothold in Hollywood, we can do it this way once, but we have to change the method next time. By the way, since the investment agreement for Studio 8 has been negotiated, why does Jeff Robinov wait for me this time?" Come to Hollywood to meet and then sign the contract?"

Thinking of this important investment plan, Zhou Xia hurriedly asked.

"He should still want to discuss with you face-to-face the voting weight and the conditions for triggering the VAM agreement. If there is no agreement, he may turn to several other buyers and choose the most suitable one." Said too optimistically.

"Really, what else does he want to talk about? We pay for it, let him start a company, we share the money if we make money, and pay for it if we lose, and nothing else matters to us? Then we might as well invest in Rasdaq, The film and television industry is more risky than many stocks."

Zhou Xia couldn't help but sneered.

These Hollywood bigwigs, DreamWorks Animation's Katzenberg, Studio 8's Robin Love.

They all think that Chinese businessmen are as stupid and rich as Arab oil tycoons.

I want to use other people's capital in vain to develop my own business.

As everyone knows, almost all of these Chinese businessmen making global investments are self-made entrepreneurs, and the accumulated capital is not sold by selling resources. How can they be fooled?

The acquisition and holding agreement negotiated between Xiahua Film and Television and Studio 8 is actually a kind of gambling agreement.

It's just that the conditions for triggering the VAM agreement are relatively loose.

No way.

Nowadays, Sdudio 8 is very popular, and many companies want to invest and acquire it, especially several companies in the mainland are the most active.

In addition to Xiahua Film and Television, including Huayi Brothers, Ali Baba, DMG Media Group, and Bernard Films, everyone wants to invest in Sdidio8.

Among them, Huayi has the priority to negotiate because of the earliest contact.

Moreover, Huayi is very thieves. As early as other domestic companies have not noticed Sdudio 8, the two parties signed an exclusivity agreement for cooperation negotiations at the end of last year.

The term of the agreement is half a year, and the deadline is May 5.

That is, before May 5 this year, studio 10 can only talk with flower art.

And the flower art is still making waves, they invested 1.5 million US dollars in Sdudio 8.

But in fact, after May 5, the two parties failed to negotiate. After Robinov informed Huayi through a lawyer, he began to contact and negotiate with Xia Hua and other domestic investors. Only a few domestic companies knew the truth.

This time, taking advantage of Zhou Xia's coming to Hollywood to promote the film, Robinov wanted to meet and discuss with him in detail, obviously not satisfied with the agreement.

(End of this chapter)