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    Now that they have decided to reverse the development of DreamWorks, Li Mingbao and the others are not the ones to delay.  So Li Mingbao made an appointment with John the next day and went to play golf together.  ??Here in the United States, especially in Hollywood, there are not just one or two good golf courses.  Compared with those golf courses in Hong Kong, which are scratchy and rough, the golf courses here in the United States, even if they are not well-known, are quite large.  Nothing else, who calls the United States sparse?  Except for a limited number of places, it is simply too easy to build a golf course in other places.  As for the golf course where Li Mingbao and the others are playing now, the owner is a friend of John. John plays here whenever he has something to do, so he is quite familiar with it.  After playing a few shots, John pulled Li Mingbao to the side of the parasol.  "Mr. Li, your DreamWorks has been developing very rapidly recently. The profits are very high. Even we at 20th Century Fox are a little jealous." John drank coffee and said to Li Mingbao.  "It's just a small fuss. It's weird that even 20th Century Fox can see the profits of our company. They're just some low-budget movies. How can you make so much money right away?  Ten million dollars is so refreshing. Only very few of our movies can make ten million dollars at the box office. That means if we shoot more, the profit will seem to be greater. If we shoot less, the profit will be the same.¡±  Li Mingbao said modestly.  He is not afraid that John really has thoughts about DreamWorks. At least now, John will not have thoughts about DreamWorks, because the current capacity of this market cannot withstand the tossing of a big company like 20th Century Fox. If it is really left to them  In their hands, it would be good if they could not lose money.  After all, their distribution costs are much higher than those of DreamWorks.  DreamWorks makes profits by making movies, but they may not make profits by making movies.  Of course, if this type of film can become a big investment in the future, such as a film like Resident Evil, John may not have any intention to intervene if he says this again.  But now, John just picked up a random starting point and didn't really have much enthusiasm for DreamWorks' achievements.  "You can't say that. When DreamWorks first started, you and I both knew the situation. It was not easy to make a name for ourselves in Hollywood so quickly. Countless people come and leave this place every day.  There are not many companies that can really persist. Not to mention small companies, even large film companies, there are several bankruptcies in Hollywood every year. So it is not that DreamWorks can develop so fast.  An easy thing. Besides, where your movies really make money is not on the big screen, but on video tapes. I know that your movie video tapes are distributed quite well, not only in North America, but also in Europe.  , there are also agents, the amount of money is not a small amount," John said pointedly.  At this time, Li Mingbao didn¡¯t know why John kept asking this question over and over again. If he wanted to talk about a random topic, there was no need to talk about it the second time. But when John said this, it was obvious that he was not interested in drinking.  Although Americans generally don¡¯t like to talk in roundabout ways, it doesn¡¯t mean they don¡¯t.  And John must have his purpose in saying this.  But Li Mingbao really doesn¡¯t know much about such things. After all, he has been in Hong Kong for a long time. Most of the things in Hollywood are done by Jiang Zhiqiang, and Jiang Zhiqiang does not have time for these detailed matters.  Reporting, after all, this is his normal job. Li Mingbao doesn't know much about distribution. Whatever Jiang Zhiqiang wants to do, as long as it doesn't harm the company's interests, Li Mingbao will let it go.  "I really don't know much about the company's business. John, you also know that I am often in Hong Kong. Everything in Hollywood is basically arranged by Jiang Zhiqiang. If anything happens to you, John,  , I'll just call him over." Li Mingbao obviously wants to leave things he doesn't understand to professionals.  So he called Jiang Zhiqiang, who was playing ball, to come over.  Seeing the boss summoning him, Jiang Zhiqiang also put down the golf club in his hand and walked over quickly.  After arriving in front of Li Mingbao, Li Mingbao motioned to Jiang Zhiqiang to do it first, and then said: "Brother Qiang, Mr. John has something to ask you." "Mr. John, is there anything I can help you with?"  Jiang Zhiqiang asked respectfully.  "Actually, it's not a big deal. It's just about the distribution of your company's video tapes in Europe. I know that your company is doing very well in this business, but our company in Europe, Twentieth Century Fox, has not been having a very good time recently.  . So I wanted to ask if there is any possibility of cooperation between the two of us." John said without blushing.Hearing John say this, Jiang Zhiqiang was a little surprised: "Isn't it? Is your company also interested in our small business? If I had known, I would have handed over this business to you directly, and I wouldn't have bothered to run away.  Many companies finally negotiated this matter. "He really didn't know that the issue of video tape distribution in Europe could actually get a big boss like John to speak out.  In his opinion, how could a giant like Twentieth Century Fox care about small businesses?  What's more, the subsidiaries in Europe basically do not represent other companies' business, and are considered 20th Century Fox's own internal industry.  So when he was doing the European distribution, Jiang Zhiqiang didn¡¯t even consider Twentieth Century Fox.  After all, every time DreamWorks comes to visit, they are basically asking for help.  Jiang Zhiqiang also knows that this kind of help will not last forever. The help from Americans is never unconditional.  In the past, DreamWorks had such a good situation in Hollywood, but it was because Li Mingbao had a happy cooperation with 20th Century Fox before, and then launched some small cooperation, which can be regarded as mutually beneficial.  But if you go to them if you have any trouble, the favor will be useless soon.  Therefore, Jiang Zhiqiang would not ask Twentieth Century Fox for business that he could handle. For example, for matters such as video tape distribution, he also had some connections in Europe and could handle it himself, so he never thought of it.  Overworked 20th Century Fox.  But he didn¡¯t expect that John, the boss, would actually take the initiative to raise this issue. This was somewhat beyond Jiang Zhiqiang¡¯s expectations.  John clearly heard Jiang Zhiqiang's surprise, but he didn't have too many entanglements and said directly: "Twentieth Century Fox is indeed very powerful in Hollywood, but its business in Europe is not that good.  . Because most of our resources are used in North America, the situation of the companies there is not very good. Because the local companies there have never given our company a good look, because we are very good in America.  We are strong, so the company there is afraid that we will have more thoughts, so we will have difficulties in business, but we can't really put our energy there. In this way, the only business there is our company.  Although our films are profitable, not all of our films need to be distributed in Europe, and the distribution of low-cost films there is even less ideal. And your company¡¯s business is not as good as ours in Europe.  The companies can complement each other. Although our company is not in a good situation there, it has perfect distribution channels and they are unified. Compared with your company's negotiation in one country, our company has an advantage.  You don¡¯t have to go through so much trouble over there, just hand it over to our company for distribution, and all the problems will be solved. This will be beneficial to both of us, so I¡¯m raising it today and hope you can consider it.¡±  Difficulties of companies, small companies have difficulties of small companies.  If John hadn't said this today, Jiang Zhiqiang wouldn't have known that Twentieth Century Fox in Europe didn't want to release other movies, but because they couldn't release other movies because of the boycott of local companies there.  .  I believe this is not just a problem for 20th Century Fox, but other Hollywood giants also have such troubles.  ¡° If John hadn¡¯t spoken before, Jiang Zhiqiang would not have understood the secret behind this. After all, although his career is much better than before, he is not qualified to understand the filth between such large companies.  Anyway, he didn¡¯t approach 20th Century Fox for distribution before because he was afraid of owing a favor.  It¡¯s not that Jiang Zhiqiang doesn¡¯t want to establish his own channels in Europe, but the problem is that Hollywood¡¯s career has not yet developed rapidly, let alone things in Europe.  Therefore, for these movies that are now being produced, he has no choice but to entrust local distribution companies to make them. Anyway, DreamWorks' home base is in the Americas. Even if a large part of the profits will be divided in Europe, he will still make some money in the end.  Moreover, the distribution company there does not have the power to buy out. In the end, the distribution copyright in Europe is still in the hands of the company itself.  As long as the copyright is in your own hands, it will not be difficult to get involved in European business in the future.  As long as the company has the ability in the future, there is nothing wrong with doing so.  It's just troublesome to negotiate with distribution companies from so many countries. There aren't many in Europe, but there are many countries.  Moreover, the consumption level of these countries is quite high, and no one would be willing to give it up, so although it was difficult, Jiang Zhiqiang still chewed this bone.  And now Twentieth Century Fox has extended an olive branch, which is also good news for Jiang Zhiqiang.
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