Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 242 Reorganization.acquisition.Martial Law.

On the earth and star plane, there has always been a tacit agreement between the eastern entertainment world and the western entertainment world, that is, mutual non-aggression.If there are excellent works, they will be distributed through the other party's distribution company.This tacit understanding has been maintained until five years ago. With the rapid improvement of the Eastern economy, Western entertainment companies have also begun to covet this market.The population here accounts for 60% of the global population, and the total economic output accounts for 50%. At the same time, the urbanization here is proceeding rapidly. A large number of theaters have sprung up in the original second- and third-tier cities; even in some towns in developed areas, there are Two or three movie theaters are not particularly uncommon.Almost all economic magazines are shouting, here is the world's largest box office!The world's largest music market!And the most potential copyright consumer market in the world!

Faced with such a huge diamond mine, Western entertainment companies have long entered the Eastern entertainment world with many faces.It's just that due to the laws of Eastern countries, these measures are all private, at least they cannot be said publicly.However, the recent news of several acquisitions still put pressure on the bosses of Oriental Entertainment like Li Wei.

A company named Western Business Group has risen suddenly in the past five years. After completing the acquisition of Atlantis Broadcasting Corporation (ABS), the largest commercial TV network in the English-speaking world this year, it has successively acquired The world's largest film company - Lion King Pictures (LKP), the world's most experienced music publishing company - Poly Grand, and reorganized into the world's largest entertainment group - Westin Entertainment Group (WEG ).

In fact, if this kind of news ends here, the entertainment tycoons in Asia will just look at it, but WEG has set its sights on the Asian market after completing the internal reorganization.In less than a month, Fuji TV Network, the largest commercial TV network in Japan, and Cultural Broadcasting Company, the second largest commercial TV network in Korea, were acquired and reorganized into WEG Westin Broadcasting Company; at the same time, Westin Music Company and Westin Ting Film Company has also been established and has become a part of WEG Asia business group.

"According to domestic laws, they have no way to buy terrestrial TV, but not necessarily cable channels." Su Li said at the high-level meeting of Kirin Group, "Originally under our joint vertical and horizontal alliance, it was originally affiliated to Citigroup. A part of the Global Television Network, the industry of the Global Asia Channel Division is almost bankrupt. However, according to reliable sources, WEG is approaching GBN (Global Television Network), hoping to buy their Asian property, which means that GBN Asia Channel will Someone took over.

GBN currently has three entertainment channels, one movie channel and two sports channels in Asia, as well as a satellite TV network.If WEG takes over these industries, plus the two major TV networks they acquired in Korea and Japan, basically the future Westin Asia Broadcasting Company will be the second largest commercial broadcasting company in Asia, second only to our country’s United Vision .With such a huge media resource, it should be no problem to find a cooperative company.I just don't know who will fall to them first.And more importantly, it's unknown who's going to fuck the Westin Asia division. "

In fact, there is no need for Li Wei and others to worry for too long. When GBN announced that it had sold its Asian business to WEG, WEG headquarters announced the official establishment of WEG Oriental Entertainment Group, and the person who became the president and CEO of WEG Eastern Entertainment Group was Kanno. Tomomi.The well-known media devil in Asia, who used to be the president of GBN Asia, was actually spotted by WEG and entrusted with a heavy responsibility this time.

Tomomi Kanno said at the press conference: "Global economic integration is an irreversible trend, and it is a pity that the entertainment industry still has differences between the East and the West. The reason why Westin Entertainment Group Integrating superior resources in Asia and establishing Oriental Entertainment Group is to better understand the needs of the Asian market and provide better services to Asian consumers. We hope to cooperate with the best companies in Asia to create a better future. "

"Are new capital predators going to enter the entertainment market?" Seeing that Li Wei was studying financial news there, Zhou Xiao suddenly came over and asked. "It's actually this lady? When the idol group of our Smart Agency goes to Dongying Country to develop, they will visit her entertainment company. She is a role in the Dongying entertainment circle. I didn't expect her to be here now." To be the president of the Oriental Entertainment Group! Her temperament is similar to that of old lady Chen Wenxin, so ruthless!"

"There's no need to worry about her for the time being. After all, the sky is falling, and there's a tall man to support it." Li Wei smiled.

Compared to the panic of other entertainment bosses, Li Wei was the one who could really calm down a little.After all, Kirin Entertainment is not considered a first-tier big company in China, and if it dies, it will look like the tail of a first-tier crane.But having said that, Li Wei also knows that since Westin has tossed out an Oriental Entertainment, it is definitely not as simple as grabbing the surrounding markets in Asia. Their goal must be the most elite and most lucrative market in Asia-the Huaxia market.Why did people buy six cable channels so much?Isn't it just declaring its existence to everyone?In Li Wei's opinion, Qilin will meet Dongfang sooner or later.

Currently, Li Wei and Zhou Xiao are not working at full capacity, so Li Wei's management team is in charge of their managers. Anyway, Li Wei has two managers.So after the division of labor, Peng Duoli was mainly in charge of Li Wei, and Li Ke was mainly in charge of Zhou Xiao.And when Li Wei was still wondering when the Oriental Entertainment Group would land in China, Peng Duoli approached Li Wei with a project project from MTV Classic.

The ratings of MTV Classic Station in the entire MTV series are considered low-to-medium, but it has two very popular special planning programs.It's just that MTV Classic's character is that if there is no good opportunity, these two special projects would rather not be done, so MTV Classic's ratings are a little bit underwhelming.When Li Wei saw the program proposal, he was shocked, it was "A Thousand Calls"! One of the two special projects of MTV Classic Station.If "Unplugged Live" tests the singer's real singing skills, then this "A Thousand Calls" is the biggest test of the singer's popularity.

The gameplay of "A Thousand Calls" is actually very simple. MTV Classics will build a concert stage in a certain city in China that can accommodate 1000 to 5000 people.The singer must sell the concert tickets to a certain amount within the stipulated eight hours.If the passing line is not reached, then the project fails; if it reaches the passing line, then the project is successful, and the singer will get a live stage and a live broadcast opportunity.Since "Thousands of Calls" is not held in first-tier cities, and secondly, it is not held in coastal provincial capitals or sub-provincial cities, so "Thousands of Calls" has a success rate of less than [-]% since it was proposed.Many seemingly popular singers failed one after another, which made many agencies dare not let their artists come to this show to test their popularity.

So when Peng Duoli received this project, her first reaction was to reject it.But after she finished watching it, she had to admire the production team of MTV Classics for making this project into Li Wei's heart.That being the case, Li Ke didn't rush to refuse, but handed over the case to Li Wei to decide.So this planning case appeared on Li Wei's desk, and after Li Wei opened it, he also began to hesitate.In fact, based on the current situation, Li Wei really does not seem like participating in such a laborious and possibly unflattering project, but the reward offered by MTV Classic is really too hard to refuse.

First of all, this project is done in the name of the "Smile" group, that is, Li Wei and Zhou Xiao are invited to participate as a duet group.Secondly, MTV guarantees that all ticket sales will be donated to Huaxia Heart Disease Research Center, and all future DVD proceeds will be donated to Donghai City Cifang Children's Hospital.In fact, Li Wei is also thinking about how to help Cifang Children's Home, relying on his own blood transfusion is not a long-term solution.It is indeed a good choice to make a charity album and donate all the future copyright proceeds of the album to this charity.Since MTV had this in mind, Li Wei asked for one more condition, and MTV would have to pay for the recording cost of the album of the same name for this concert in the future.Then the beneficiaries of the copyright of the album and DVD will be replaced by this children's home, which can be regarded as a guarantee for the children's home.The condition proposed by Li Wei was accepted by MTV, so the two sides began to work together on this special project.

Just when the special project of "A Thousand Calls" was being prepared, Li Wei suddenly received a very special invitation letter.The signature on the invitation letter was "well-known and unknown", and the occasion of the meeting was a high-end private club in Donghai City.Although Li Wei is not a VIP of this club, he has socialized with people here before, and the price of a private room is quite high.The most important thing is that the other party will let you in not only for money, but also for your identity.Although the so-called high society is somewhat false, it is very real here.

Since it was such a special occasion, Li Wei was naturally embarrassed to decline it completely, so he agreed.According to the requirements of the invitation letter, Li Wei naturally drove to this private club named "Qingjingju" alone.Li Wei was still very impressed with this Qingjingju. After all, it is very special to have such a quiet clubhouse in such a place like Donghai City.This club does not plant any precious flowers, mostly evergreen trees such as pines, bamboos and cypresses.The owner of the clubhouse is very fond of orchids, so most of the orchids displayed in the clubhouse are collected by the clubhouse owner, and the value is said to be very expensive.

After Li Wei arrived at the clubhouse, he reported his name.The girl in charge of the reception said with a smile: "The room you booked is in Songtao Pavilion, and we will arrange someone to take you there. Do you have any favorite drinks? We can arrange it here."

"Oolong is fine." Li Wei smiled and nodded.Then a little boy appeared beside Li Wei, and another girl led the way with a lantern.

Li Wei didn't go to such an internal place as Songtao Pavilion last time, so he didn't know that there was such a treatment.Li Wei was slightly taken aback, then followed the girl with the lamp and walked forward, while handing over her bag to the little boy.Songtao Pavilion, Zhuhaiyuan, and Baicui Pavilion are separated from Qingjingju's usual place to entertain guests.

Songtao Pavilion is on the hillside, while Zhuhaiyuan is deep in the bamboo sea, and Baicui Pavilion is beside the small pond.Surrounded by the two of them, Li Wei walked up the gravel path silently.Although the lights of Donghai City can still be seen in the distance, there is an inexplicable silence here, and even a few insects can be heard.

To be continued...