Chapter 1661

In Kevin Fuyuan's eyes, Li Xianzhe's small company is not worth seeing at all.

Especially recently, his company has not concealed its ambition for the film and television industry. If you want to completely eat this cake, you must win two channels, one is the we media platform, and the other is the cinema.

South Korean cinemas are controlled by large family companies. It is difficult to swallow them unless they are acquired a little.

"So if I were you, I would choose to cooperate with companies in Hollywood, extend my hand to the local film market in South Korea, and force South Korean cinemas to choose to cooperate with us under the pressure of the United States."

Kevin Fuyuan's remark undoubtedly points out a bright way for Li Xianzhe. He knows that the current Korean film circle is far from as harmonious as what you hear and see.

There is a scuffle between filmmakers, officials and cinemas, which will be staged more or less every day.

Especially when the government began to modify the film quota system in order to make more Hollywood blockbusters introduced into the Korean local market, it often made many filmmakers resist.

It also shows that these people do not work together for the so-called development of Korean films.

Instead, he shouted, but he was thinking about how to strive for more interests for himself.

"I thought about this kind of thing a long time ago, but I didn't do it because of the right partner."

Reaching out to the cinema line in South Korea, this ambition is very big.

But only for Li Xianzhe, the giants in Hollywood don't see the cinema of a small Asian country at all.

All cinemas in Seoul add up to only hundreds, and there are very few local cinemas.

It is nothing more than the fulfillment of the sentence ridiculed by many people that "outside Seoul, it is all down".

When most of the mainstream groups of young people who watch movies gather in Seoul, the three main cinemas in South Korea naturally choose to open all their cinemas in the city of Seoul.

In addition, he had no conditions for cooperation with others before, so even if he cooperated, he could only eat a small piece. It's better not to do it.

But now Kevin Fuyuan offered it, and Li Xianzhe took over.

"However, if Warner is willing to cooperate, I have some good acquisition proposals."

Kevin Fuyuan sipped the wine with great interest and "tell me more..."

In the pool full of steam, Li Xianzhe and Kevin Fuyuan discussed the plan to stretch out their claws for the three major cinemas in South Korea.

As we all know, there are three major cinemas in South Korea, CGv, Lotte and megabox.

CGv is subordinate to CJEM, behind which is the Samsung Li family, while Lotte cinema is directly subordinate to Lotte Xin family.

The three companies occupy 97% of the cinema resources in South Korea, of which 48 of CGv is the most.

The influence of the masters behind the first two in South Korea has gone deep into the economy, so they are not considered for the time being.

So only megabox is left.

Interestingly speaking, it is a well-known comprehensive multi hall cinema in Korea and even the world.

Megabox was sold to Macquarie Group, the capital of Australian bank, at a price of 145.5 billion won in 2007.

And specially set up a "Korea comprehensive investment company" to manage "KMIC".

On the surface, megabox is the weakest of the three major cinemas in South Korea, with the lowest proportion of cinemas held.

But it is worth mentioning that the original owner of megabox cinema is Orion, South Korea's largest food production company.

It has a better known name - haoliyou.

"The reason why Orion gave up megabox's film business and sold it to an investment management group in Australia at a low price was that they saw the difficulties faced by the Korean film industry earlier than many people. The financial crisis is only one of them."

For the development history of Korean film industry, Li Xianzhe once studied it specially during his stay in the United States, so he has mastered a lot of first-hand information.

"On the other hand, it is the quality of Korean films. So far, Hollywood films will catch other films by surprise as long as they are released in Korea, because there are too many good and bad local films, and most of the quality really dare not compliment."

It seems that those Korean filmmakers, while applying the slogans of "nationalism" and "patriotism" to shout "Korean films want to revive", never think that the fundamental reason why Korean films can't beat Hollywood films is because of subject matter restrictions.

Obviously, it has a more open film censorship system than China, but it can't make several works with large scenes and large investment.

Li Xianzhe could not help but show a trace of irony on his face. Many respected actors and filmmakers are just out of class in his eyes.

"The year before megabox was sold, there were 108 Korean films released that year. Two films are shown in the cinema every week.

Among them, there are only 6 "fortune" films with a yield of more than 50%, namely "Wang's man" (released on December 29, 2005), "master in love", "one head and master", "sweet horror lover", "cheat", "monster", etc.

"Family glory 3: family resurrection" and "our happy time" have a yield of only 30%.

"Radio star", "obscene scholar", "decision of life and death", "youth cartoon", "barefoot Mr. Jifeng", "blood sucking criminal policeman Luo daolie" and "savior" barely recovered the cost. In the whole production of films, 88 (81.5%) films failed to make ends meet. "

This figure moved Kevin Fuyuan. More than 80% of the films released a year did not recover the cost. What are the filmmakers and companies doing in this country.

Enclosure can sprout, shoot your own, and never think about the reason?

In fact, this is also directly related to the development atmosphere of the local film industry in South Korea. For example, Li Xianzhe cited the next example.

"By virtue of several Hawking films and Miyang, which won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, Quan Duyan's award was passed back to South Korea and even shocked the supreme leader at that time.

The people's congresses at all levels sing praises and boast like being beaten with chicken blood. The development of Korean films seems to be at the peak of the sun, but in terms of industry, it is in a difficult situation of "poverty in China and abroad."

At that time, Li Xianzhe read a report reprinted to the United States.

At that time, it was pointed out that the primary reason for the decline of South Korea's film industry was the intense competition.

In other words, with the popularity of the Korean film industry, capitalists who do not have a deep understanding of the field dream of making money and blindly invest, hitchhiking film companies produce a lot of inferior works, leading the audience to deviate from Korean films.

The failure of the box office has a bad impact on attracting investment. If the investment is not ideal and the production cost is reduced, the quality of the works will decline, leading to the further deterioration of the box office, thus forming a vicious circle.