Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 295 Needle Point.edge.Its helpless.

As the Kylin Comic Club and the Kylin Literature Club started to get on the right track, the most critical Kylin News Agency of the entire Hong Kong Group was finally established.Li Wei was too lazy to cultivate himself this time, and after directly purchasing several magazines for integration, he began to distribute them externally.Kylin News Agency currently has a news newspaper and a weekly news magazine, namely "Oriental Times" and "Oriental Weekly"; a political weekly magazine called "□□"; a political and economic monthly magazine called Far Eastern Economic Review; and a general monthly copy of Pacific Monthly.

Although Li Wei has remained silent in the "Kirin theater chain monopoly case", the news newspapers and magazines under his banner still strongly sided with his brother. The Far Eastern Economic Review's special report titled "Large Theater Circuit System or Divided Line System, Discussion on the Difficulty of Film Distribution Today" still made many readers understand that the so-called "Kirin Cinema Chain Monopoly Case" is nothing but a major It's just a conflict of interests between theaters.

The reason why Li Wei started from within the industry was to prevent industry organizations like the film union from jumping out and talking nonsense.Although the film union is only a symbolic organization, the three major unions, the directors union, actors union and screenwriters union, are not vegetarians. If you offend one of them, you will be pushed out of bankruptcy. Even a giant in the industry like Qilin Entertainment would not dare to be an enemy.

Although the ArtHouse theater chain under Kirin Cinemas is considered the most low-key one, but it is not bad to meet Li Wei, so ArtHouse has become the main sponsor and co-organizer of the "Asia-Pacific International Independent Film Festival" since its establishment.The Asia-Pacific Independent Film Festival has also become one of the two largest independent film festivals in the world because of a big sponsor like Li Wei.Moreover, compared with the overly commercial atmosphere of the Sundance Film Festival, the artistic atmosphere of the Asia-Pacific Independent Film Festival is stronger.

At the same time, due to the participation of professionals, the Asia-Pacific Independent Film Festival is divided into three main sections: "Asia-Pacific Art Feature Films Session", "Muse Short Films Session" and "Rising Directors Week", respectively taking care of feature films, short films and new directors, so It quickly became the top film festival in the international art film circle.And when Li Wei was being criticized, Kylin Cinemas deliberately made this Asia-Pacific International Independent Film Festival more powerful, and almost half of the world's famous directors came.

Faced with such strong support, some film critics are embarrassed to continue to advocate that "Kirin theaters suppress art films".On the other hand, Li Wei's Kylin-based media is fully engaged, rectifying the name of Li Wei and Kylin Cinemas.

A few days later, a consultation meeting between the China National Federation of Film Producers and Distributors and the National Cinema Managers Alliance was quietly held in a resort on the outskirts of Yanjing. Except for a few professional media that were invited to interview, the rest of the media hardly reported on it. This conference.In fact, this consultation meeting is mainly aimed at a plan for the future branch system and to solve the problem of Kirin Cinemas.

Li Wei was taken aback when he signed in and received the meeting arrangement from the meeting organizer. A group of inexplicable people were actually planning to hold a meeting to decide the future of the private company.Li Wei couldn't help but sneered, and then went to his room.However, Li Wei's actions at the sign-in area quickly spread throughout the conference, and the faces of several big bosses were a little ugly.

However, compared to the fact that the theaters are not friendly to Li Wei, the producers and distributors are more friendly to Li Wei.After all, there is Li Wei, the catfish, and now excellent movies can get a higher and higher share of the bill; and movies with mediocre performances also think that everyone wants to get exclusive screening rights and get higher profits than before.The extra money naturally comes from the losses of the theaters, so it's no wonder that Li Wei doesn't like the theaters here.However, Li Wei was too lazy to deal with the pressure from these theaters. He was able to participate in this conference just to show his attitude. As for whether this conference could reach an agreement, Li Wei had no expectations.

"Although we have promised them to negotiate at present, we should not delay what we should do." Li Wei said to his assistant and the staff of Kylin Cinemas, "The news of the acquisition of mainstream theaters in Europe and North America can be announced in the near future. It will be released one after another in a few days, we have to put some pressure on Korea and Dongying! As for the theaters in Nanyang, if there are good ones, they will be bought in and put in your theaters. In addition, we will notify the legal department to do the best. Bad plan, if they sue us for monopoly, how should we respond to the lawsuit. In addition, we also contacted several public relations companies to maintain the current image of Kylin Cinemas.”

After Li Wei ordered these people to leave, he made a few phone calls to go out.After a while, the producers and the presidents of the other six member companies of the Federation of Distributors all came together.

Li Wei stood up and said: "If the younger generation is not getting too much attention now, I will definitely visit the room where the seniors are staying. It's just that there are too many people paying attention to the younger generation, so I have to invite you to come to my place as guests."

Li Wei has already sent a lot of snacks, fruits and red wine from the hotel.Li Wei handed everyone a report made by Kylin Cinemas, and watched everyone read it silently.

Seeing that everyone put down the documents, Li Wei said, "I think you have already understood the future development plan of Kylin Cinemas? In fact, we are still willing to follow the current distribution system for large productions such as A-level and S-level. What's more, big productions should be released on a large scale in order to get more box office. Similarly, we are not very interested in small production films with C-level and below. Such films must either go to art theaters to test the water, or Just enter the video market, TV network or on-demand system. Of course, we also have reservations about most B-level movies. At least, we will not move at the moment. Kylin Cinemas is now mainly targeting B+ We are willing to obtain exclusive screening rights for A-level and A-level movies in the form of a package buyout. Everyone should be aware that Kylin Cinemas has two grades of theaters and one art theater. In addition, we also have paid movie cable channels, video websites and videotape release and rental chain stores, which can guarantee the follow-up income of the movie. Most importantly, we also have European and North American theaters. It will also purchase theaters in South America, the Far East and Nanyang, which can help these films gain valuable overseas release opportunities."

Li Wei kept releasing tempting news during the conversation.For distributors, it is their goal to obtain more distribution channels and distribution income; for producers, it may be their attempt to have more exposure opportunities and win awards for their films.Li Wei's Kylin Cinemas has distribution channels at home and abroad, and its affiliated companies can also involve multimedia channels such as video tapes, TV, and the Internet. Wei's proposal analyzes the capabilities of Kylin Cinemas.

Although there is no meeting record of this secret meeting, according to the service staff, these big shots left Li Wei's room with satisfied smiles, and even Mr. Sun, the president of Brother Pictures, who is known as the "Godfather of the Film Industry", was very affectionate. Hugged Li Wei passionately.Faced with the betrayal of the Producers and Distributors Association, the Theater Managers Union felt helpless.Fundamentally speaking, the two interest groups are actually in conflict, and although the theater side has a certain advantage, if there are "traitors" on its side and the other side is united, then this advantage will immediately become disadvantage.

What frustrates the Alliance of Theater Managers the most is that within half an hour of leaving Li Wei's room on the side of the Federation, managers of some small theaters or local theaters have visited Li Wei one after another, either to talk about alliances or acquisitions.According to the prediction of the alliance, if the meeting is held in a few days, not only will it not destroy the Kylin Cinemas, but it will send the Kylin Cinemas to the throne of the number one cinema in China.In the end, for this meeting, the leading brothers of the alliance, Asia Entertainment and United Cinemas had no choice but to put down their stances and proposed to hold a tripartite meeting to discuss.

According to the final version of the conference, the theater chains allow film distributors to freely choose between full-line screenings or split-line screenings, and at the same time allow each theater chain to compete freely for exclusive screening rights.This battle seemed to be a big victory for the publisher and Kylin Cinemas, but the private supplementary agreement made Li Wei feel as sick as if he had eaten a fly.After the National Federation of Producers and Distributors and the National Federation of Cinema Managers reached a cooperation agreement, they immediately coerced Li Wei into signing a compromise agreement. In the agreement, Li Wei guaranteed that Kylin Cinemas would not build or acquire new cinemas in China within three years. .

Due to the situation, Li Wei was forced to sign this cooperation agreement that humiliated the country.Just when the other two parties were celebrating, the Kylin Cinemas controlled by Li Wei suddenly issued a reorganization report.Kylin Cinemas merged with Royal Cinema United, the second largest theater chain in North America, and Movie Code Entertainment, the largest theater chain company in Europe, to form Caesars International Entertainment Inc.Kylin Golden Palace, Kylin Masters and Kylin ArtHouse will all become the brands of Caesars International and will be renamed Diamond Cinema, People’s Cinema and Pioneer Cinema.At the same time, in addition to integrating the current theater chains into these three major brands, Caesars International will also continue to acquire South American, Far East and Nanyang theaters to join the theater chain.What puts the most pressure on the domestic theater companies is that Caesars International directly announced that it will build or acquire 1000 theaters in China in the next three years, and will expand the number of screens in China to 3500, becoming the largest theater chain in China.

Although the theater alliance was very angry about Li Wei's sudden stabbing, Li Wei said that the Kylin Cinemas brand had been sold, and the original Kylin Cinemas had only 13% of the voting rights in Caesars International, so they could not stop this plan at all.Although the publisher intends to boycott Li Wei, Li Wei said that, first, Kirin Films’ film sources are sufficient to support the screening scale of Caesars International; second, Caesars International will appropriately expand the screening scale of films imported overseas. To fill the vacancy of insufficient domestic film releases.Li Wei's threat is very simple, if you don't give me the film, at worst I will make it myself.

Although Kylin Films is the youngest among the Big Six, it accounted for 35% of the box office last year alone, ranking first.And apart from domestic films, imported films from overseas are eyeing up.Due to the joint boycott of distributors and theaters, the number of overseas films introduced in China is very limited, and the scale of screenings is generally small.That's why Li Wei dared to threaten the distributor so openly, if you don't give me domestic films, then I will release overseas films.north

The quality of American movies and European movies is not inferior to that of domestic movies. With these movies filling the schedule, Caesars International may not be unable to make money.The important thing is that Li Wei's professional film channel CINEMAX and professional film and television channel HBO have begun to reduce their dependence on domestic films, while their ratings and subscription rates have increased significantly.Wolves are really attracted!

The author has something to say: A few days ago, an old man in my hometown passed away.

Because my father and this family have exchanged a "father-son" relationship with the deed on the post, so my father and I have to be filial sons and grandsons in the past.

Now the weather is so hot that the countryside is unbearable. In summer, kneeling in the coffin shed for a few minutes can feel like heatstroke.

Even if the old man is placed in an ice coffin, the smell will be...

Fortunately, everyone didn't toss for a few days, and yesterday was finally the funeral.