The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 288 You Filmed a Hollywood Movie
"How is it? Can you pass the test?"

In the end, the "Hongmen Banquet" ended in an atmosphere of joy between the guests and the host, but Chen Jingxing was still not sure what the outcome would be. Obviously, none of his opponents were the kind of people who would write disappointment or anger directly on their faces.

Jeff Miller looked at Chen Jingxing with an expression like "Don't you have an X number?" "What do you think?"

Chen Jingxing recalled the confrontation between the two sides, emm, it is indeed not optimistic.

Chen Jingxing did not directly reject the "equivalent exchange" condition proposed by the big factories, but partially accepted the condition.

Of course, it’s not that Chen Jingxing personally swelled up to think that DreamWorks’ influence can end the so-called “domestic protection month”. Obviously, Hollywood doesn’t expect to be able to open the three doors of the Chinese film market through DreamWorks. If this kind of thing is true It happened, I'm afraid they will be shocked to drop their jaws.

There is nothing to do in the Spring Festival and National Day files in a short period of time.

But the door to the summer holidays is actually ajar.

In the past, it was not that there were no Hollywood movies released in the domestic summer season, and even the 14-year super-British blockbuster "Star Swallowing Messenger: Rising Star" also "opened" the summer season in China.

But in general, China National Film Group rarely arranges large-scale blockbuster films to enter the summer file. Even if there are imported films, they are approved, and the time is either at the end of June or at the end of August. The "domestic protection month" is not just talk.

But this is not without a turning point. In fact, as domestic commercial films become more competitive and genre films become more and more diverse, it is planned to no longer set up barriers to account-sharing films for the summer film.

In the two months from July to August, even some blockbuster movies can be released every month, and it is a real split movie that can be called a blockbuster.

This has been proven in the previous life plane, of course, the premise is that there will be no major changes in the relationship between the two countries.

In this plane, thanks to the closer relationship between Dreamworks and Guoying, as well as Qin Zhonghe's appreciation of Chen Jingxing, the news he got from Guoying was also the same.

Even because of the appearance of Chen Jingxing himself, domestic films have made greater breakthroughs and progress than the previous plane, or the original historical development, and the progress of the release has been advanced.

In 13, or even in 14, some people will worry about the precarious box office ratio of domestic movies under the impact of blockbuster movies.

After a very magical year for the film industry in 2015, and the 16 Spring Festival period of two heroes competing for hegemony, the box office records that have been broken in succession have made even the most pessimistic people have unlimited expectations for the future of domestic films.

Not to mention the emergence of DreamWorks, a film company that has repeatedly exported film and television dramas overseas on a large scale, including in Europe and the United States.

Although at the same time, the lower limit of domestic films is also appallingly low.

But the upper limit is high enough, which is enough to dispel the concerns of many people.

So in fact, the release of the summer file will start next year. National Film will break the "protection month" of the summer file, and will consider putting the blockbuster movies in the summer file, and there will be at least two. When Qin Zhonghe told Chen Jingxing about the opportunity to make money from filming, his attitude was very optimistic.

It's not that Chen Jingxing used the information gap to deceive Hollywood. Although he didn't ask for it, the release of the summer file is definitely closely related to the appearance of DreamWorks. If there is no Chen Jingxing, I am afraid that the domestic protection of the summer file will not be revoked so quickly.

Rounding it up is also Chen Jingxing's credit.

So he was quite confident, not only agreed, but also showed off the close relationship between DreamWorks and China Film, including but not limited to the cooperation of more theme films.

It will take time to let go of domestic protection. Let’s start with the summer file. Of course, after the blockbuster movie enters the summer file, Hollywood will definitely start thinking about the Spring Festival and National Day files. There is nothing Chen Jingxing can do to help. It will not be punctured for at least two or three years.

And it's reasonable to change the summer file to the summer file.

"My promise to gradually open up the summer file is the truth, not my perfunctory!" Chen Jingxing cried out to Jeff Miller.

"That's not the point, my friend."

"What's the point? Want to take DreamWorks away? Then I'll talk shit!"

Jeff Miller said mildly: "No one wants to take your DreamWorks away, it's just an investment. You know that DreamWorks doesn't have the capital of Hollywood. This is a very big problem."

"Who told you not to enter the venue earlier?" Chen Jingxing looked at his "ally" with a sneer: "It is closed now, and DreamWorks will not accept any more financing."

Chen Jingxing still owns more than 74% of the shares of DreamWorks, which can be regarded as an absolute controlling right. However, DreamWorks is going to be listed. Once listed, his shareholding will inevitably be diluted. He cannot allow his shareholding to be lower than 50% before the IPO. .

DreamWorks is a film company, not an Internet company, so it would be ridiculous to engage in vie framework agreement control, so Chen Jingxing would not accept that his equity be diluted before going public, except of course due to force majeure.

However, Chen Jingxing does not think that the North American market is a force majeure factor, his foundation will only and will always be the Huaguo market.

The second condition of the big factories was that DreamWorks would accept their investment, and the equity they wanted was far beyond Chen Jingxing's bottom line, so he naturally refused without hesitation.

Regarding Chen Jingxing's resolute attitude again, Jeff Miller was still a little disappointed. Although Universal was considered a partner of DreamWorks, he certainly wanted the shares of DreamWorks.

"So the negotiation broke down?" Chen Jingxing calmly confirmed to Jeff Miller.

Jeff, suppressing his disappointment, shook his head: "It can only be said that it was partially broken, or it was partially successful."

"The 'charity funds' raised by Ms. Tang Xin are of course useful, and there shouldn't be any twists and turns in the finalization of "Gravity." Jeff admired Chen Jingxing's slightly embarrassing expression for a while: "You don't like Hua Guo. The promise of opening up the film market for the summer holidays...is sure to have an effect, of course, it will take time to prove it."

Speaking of which, his gaze towards Chen Jingxing also became a little strange. Obviously, if Chen Jingxing's promise was credible and not perfunctory, then the weight of DreamWorks might have to be re-evaluated.

"It's just that, after "Gravity", DreamWorks' films entering the North American market may have to be careful about open and hidden arrows. The companies here are not polite to competitors."

Chen Jingxing nodded clearly, which means that his "delay strategy" did have the effect of slowing down the troops. It does not mean that DreamWorks is really accepted by Hollywood. It is not the foreign film company that made the soup at the cost, but the real opponent.

"I don't understand, why is there such a big reaction to "Gravity"?"

Jeff smiled knowingly, and said in a low voice: "You are not the first to ask this question, many... including you East Asian filmmakers would think that the audience and the market here are free and tolerant, but in fact, Um, have you seen Slumdog Millionaire?"

"uh-huh"

"This is the kind of foreign movies that are liked here, especially from third world countries."

"Ha, what about Japanese anime?"

"First of all, it's animation, and secondly, it's [-]D animation. It's aimed at fans. So far, there hasn't been a Dongying animation film with a North American box office of more than [-] million, and your "Source Code" has already exceeded [-] million—"

Jeff's tone was a bit deep: "Your film not only made many people feel threatened in terms of size, but also...in terms of content, it also made many people wary. What you filmed... What many people perceive... Hollywood movies, can you understand?"

I can understand so well.

"You're right, in a sense . . . I do make Hollywood movies."

"It seems that you understand what I mean." Jeff took Chen Jingxing's complex emotions as a natural reaction after being awakened by himself.

"So... there is no other solution?" Chen Jingxing looked at the Universal executive firmly without any worry.

Jeff has an expression that he can't hide from you: "Unless...you can get the full support of Universal, believe me, Universal has this ability."

Of course, Chen Jingxing did not doubt Universal's ability, after all, it is a big factory second only to the two giants, and a veteran company that has worked in Hollywood for hundreds of years.

"What price do I need to pay?"

"If DreamWorks is willing to become Universal's exclusive partner."

"You're talking about the relationship between Legendary Films and Warner Bros."

"At least we can work together on some movies, not just distribution."

Chen Jingxing has almost figured out Universal's intentions. In fact, when Universal cooperated with DreamWorks to release "Source Code" in North America, it had repeatedly proposed the idea of ​​co-produced movies in order to gain a share from the rise of DreamWorks. The greater good, in fact, is the condition that Universal is willing to help Firefly distribute the film.

It's just that Chen Jingxing has been procrastinating. After all, there is still a need to share the cake in the country. If it is given to Universal, DreamWorks will suffer a lot.

Now it seems that Universal is waiting for other big companies to respond to Dreamworks' further squeeze on the North American market, and then use other big companies to threaten Chen Jingxing into submission.

However, he was already prepared for this. To enter the North American market, or even the European market, he really needed the cooperation of a major Hollywood company.

For example, the distribution of "Source Code" outside of North America is handled by DreamWorks. The Asia-Pacific region around Huaguo is relatively smooth due to various reasons such as culture, skin color, and Hong Kong Island movies.

However, the distribution in other regions such as Europe and South America has encountered many difficulties. Even if it borrowed the title of over [-] million in the North American market, the final box office in Europe was not satisfactory.

Needing to rely heavily on Hollywood majors naturally has to give up profits, as long as it is cost-effective in the end.

And this is of course cost-effective. After the release of "Source Code", DreamWorks has become more and more stable in China. Come by yourself, except for some projects that need to be co-produced with China Film, basically there is no need to share any big cakes.

Naturally, there is room for profit to win over Universal.

"Okay, there's no problem." Chen Jingxing's straightforwardness somewhat surprised Jeff, "But I'm not Zhang Yimou."

(End of this chapter)