The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 287
Different from the typical Hollywood-style scene outside where guests are full of wine and wine, this cabin should be converted from a smoking room, and there are only six people in Chen Jingxing.

And this room can basically determine the future development prospects of DreamWorks in North America.

In addition to Chen Jingxing and Jeff Miller, the vice president of Universal Pictures, Christopher Dodd, the vice president of the Film Association, and executives from Warner, Disney, and Sony.

The topic did not directly talk about "Gravity" or the position of DreamWorks in Hollywood after that, although this is what Chen Jingxing most urgently wants to get.

"Gravity" is going to be in the summer file, and it is almost the beginning of the summer file. With the volume of "Gravity", there must be at least a week to a week and a half of space before and after.

It’s not that there can’t be other movies released this week. Of course, it’s impossible. There are new movies released every day in the North American market, but it’s best not to have blockbuster movies of the same heavyweight collide with them. The result will definitely hurt both sides. The market for the No. [-] box office is also limited. Any movie that has ambitions to top the annual box office rankings needs to be "dominant" within at least one to two weeks.

If it is normal, the difficulty is not too high. When his last movie "Source Code" was released in North America, there was a ten-day "gap period"-meaning that there were no other major A-level productions released during this period. , but that's not summer.

Every year, the summer holidays are a battleground for several major studios. The best time to release a blockbuster movie is less than two months away. My own movies are too crowded, especially if I have mastered the resources of manga. The two giants, their superhero universe plans have already been laid out step by step, maybe two or three years ago, they have already planned which movies to be released this summer.

A sci-fi blockbuster in Huaguo wants to go to the summer festival to eat meat, which will obviously disrupt their plans. If they don't want to lose both sides, then at least give "Gravity" a week or more, which is equivalent to one less time. An A-level blockbuster.

Of course, if it is a movie of the size of "Fatal Identity" or "Signal", these major manufacturers should not care about it, but the production level of "Gravity" and DreamWorks' operation posture of simultaneous global release, especially the trailer The film did trigger a good response in North America, which is almost equivalent to eating it directly from their mouths.

If it was just one or two foreign blockbusters stirring up waves in North America, several major manufacturers would not be so shallow. In addition to the vast overseas market, they also have a complete IP development system. The proportion of profit is decreasing year by year.

But what they saw in Gravity were red flags.

Chen Jingxing and his DreamWorks have gradually gained a foothold through a series of films that have achieved box office success in North America, especially through the acquisition of tickets through Universal that can directly participate in the distribution.

And the scale of his film production is getting bigger and bigger, and this "Gravity" has directly reached the level of heavy industry movies.

Not to mention that DreamWorks is also gradually making efforts to develop overseas markets. For example, the distribution of the film "Source Code" in the Asia-Pacific region is almost independently operated by DreamWorks.

The distribution of "Operation Mekong" in the neighboring countries of China was also led by DreamWorks. Although the box office results were far inferior to Chen Jingxing's several sci-fi masterpieces due to the strong theme style and the fact that there were already many movies of the same theme in Hollywood, it was still Achieved more than 3000 million US dollars.

Chen Jingxing's personal brand established through several sci-fi classics has made DreamWorks a rare film company outside of Hollywood that can open up distribution channels across countries and regions.

In layman's terms, DreamWorks has potential, or is already on the way to become a competitor of Hollywood.

If this trend continues, it will be equivalent to the addition of a mid-level film company in the North American market, second only to the first-tier major studios. If DreamWorks can achieve an average of two blockbuster films a year in North America, the market share it can carve up will even exceed Most mid-range film companies.

Most mid-sized studios can do just fine with one major blockbuster a year.

It's not even a picture of the future, it's reality.

Chen Jingxing's arrangement for "Matrix" is also to be released within this year. Although the production cost of this film is far lower than that of "Gravity", the box office potential is only higher than "Gravity" in his opinion.

It is equivalent to Hollywood adding a strong second-tier film company out of thin air. This is a major event that can change the competitive landscape, and this company also has some global distribution capabilities. At least its distribution capabilities and brand power in the Asia-Pacific region are not weaker than those of major Hollywood companies. of.

Christopher Dodd, the vice president of the Film Association, looked at this familiar young man who was still calm under the gaze of many big shots, and his heart was complicated.

He was not only the president of Disney, but also the honorary chairman of the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival for many times. This non-art film festival, which has become the world's largest film trading market in just a dozen years, has completed its transformation under his hands.

He naturally knew Chen Jingxing, and even had contact with him. At the dinner after the awards at the Orlando Film Festival that year, he even talked with Chen Jingxing, who was the biggest winner at that time.

It's just that Chen Jingxing was just a potential new star in the film industry in his eyes at that time, and there was no essential difference from other budding young Japanese and Korean directors he supported in those years under his leadership and deliberately leaned towards filmmakers from East Asian countries.

Unexpectedly, in just a few years, this young Huaguo filmmaker could already be on an equal footing with him, of course not just as a director, but as a rising boss of a film company with global influence.

But lamenting about the impermanence of the world is not the main content of today.

"...This is the price of opening up new markets, but this price seems a bit too high."

"Come on, Robert, you've complained too many times about the split ratio..."

"This is the truth. Is there any other country in the world that treats us like this? A quarter of the bill-sharing ratio cuts Huaguo's movie box office value by half."

Christopher said helplessly: "But Huaguo's huge market makes it impossible to give up easily, isn't it? In fact, in the trade negotiations with them, the opening of quotas for the introduction of foreign films has always been a topic of great concern to Washington. It's not urgent..."

As the conversation progressed, Chen Jingxing kept rolling his eyes in his heart.

Guys, what is this for?Do you think so highly of me, Mr. Chen?

It's the account sharing ratio, and it's opening up more quotas for introductions. What the hell is this telling me?
That's right, DreamWorks is indeed officially defined as a "representative enterprise in the cultural field" and a "benchmarking enterprise", but it has no role in these two issues?
You should work hard with Washington.

If this was the quid pro quo they offered, then the "charity fundraising" he took out today would be in vain.

But it shouldn't be. The executives of these big Hollywood factories are all graduated from prestigious schools, and they don't look like idiots.

It seems that the ally Jeff Miller saw Chen Jingxing's impatience and doubts, and interjected with a smile: "Speaking of which, everyone has dealt with Guoying, after all, our movies have to be distributed by this official company. Maybe you don't know that DreamWorks has a very close relationship with Nation Films. The movie "Operation Mekong" that just broke the box office record in Hua Guoying's history was jointly produced by DreamWorks and Nation Films. This is an official... gift film , Chen, am I right?"

"I've seen this movie." The white-haired Warner Vice President Kevin Kroll interrupted Chen Jingxing's words to correct him: "This movie has earned 3000 million at the box office in the Asia-Pacific region outside of China. Although there are some explicit...youknow..." He then gave Chen Jingxing a kind smile: "But in terms of production level, I think it is a war action movie above the standard."

Although Chen Jingxing hadn't had the experience of playing charades with people on such occasions for a long time because of his rapid rise, he still understood the meaning.

Hollywood is very concerned about the fast-growing Huaguo market, especially last year "Young Avengers" broke Huaguo's film history record for many years with a box office of more than 3 million US dollars.

The box office of 3 million US dollars is the seed player who can compete for the annual box office champion in North America. In fact, the box office of "Young Avengers" in China is only 2000 million less than the domestic box office.

The Hollywood media paid a lot of attention at that time, including the subsequent "Source Code" and the Summer Wars. Several films with a value of 3 million US dollars successively set new records in Huaguo's film history.

At the beginning of this year, Huaguo even set a new record of 4 million US dollars.

Although some media reports have a sour taste, and there are even many ordinary people who think it is fake data, the media here are very keen to report the negative news on the other side of the ocean, including the negative news in the film industry. Naturally, all movie box offices are suspected of fraud. Many people are unwilling to admit that the Huaguo will become the world's largest box office in a few years. In fact, they are unwilling to admit any progress in Huaguo.

But leaving aside the emotional and ignorant voices, Hollywood filmmakers, including the top executives of major factories, are all salivating.

The ratio of account sharing and the quota of introductions cannot be solved overnight, and the issues involved are relatively grand and complicated, but in their eyes, there is still room for manipulation in the matter of schedule.

Huaguo's current top three film history box office charts, the champion "Mekong River" and the runner-up "Mermaid" are both produced during the Spring Festival, and it is also a Spring Festival period, and the third place "Monster Hunt" is produced during the summer vacation.

Huaguo's film market is a market with a strong schedule, and the concentrated viewing brought by a good schedule is more crazy than other markets.

However, the three best schedules in Huaguo are basically closed to blockbuster movies, and the summer schedule can only be regarded as half-opened.

And the company that implements the distribution and distribution of the account-sharing blockbuster is the company Guoying.

From the perspective of those in the room, this was an "equal exchange."

If Chen Jingxing is willing to use the influence of DreamWorks, including the influence of Guoying, let their movies, especially the blockbusters of several major manufacturers, open the door to the popular schedule of Huaguo. Some will do.

Then they don't mind Chen Jingxing's ambitions for the North American summer film, and even his attempt to continue to make money in the North American market. After all, DreamWorks only has one or two heavyweight films that are released on a large scale in North America every year. They are not easy No more.

A company that has repeatedly set records in film history and has a close relationship with a monopoly state-owned enterprise-not to mention "Operation Mekong", "Gravity" has State Film among the investors, even though DreamWorks is indeed a private enterprise, but In some people's eyes, Chen Jingxing also has an invisible red hat on his head. This is their habitual cognition formed from dealing with many companies in Huaguo.

There must be a special reason for a private film company to be able to rise like a rocket in a country with such a system without any restrictions. They are willing to believe that Chen Jingxing must have energy, although they have not found out about Chen Jingxing's relatives or his wife's identity. There was solid evidence in the kinship that met their expectations.

Chen Jingxing sighed in his heart.

Obviously, these foreigners still don't understand Huaguo.

But people can't fall down, regardless of whether Chen Jingxing has the ability to meet their conditions, but there is room for manipulation of this condition.

In other words, Chen Jingxing had room to implement the strategy of delaying the attack.

(End of this chapter)