Chapter 384： Questionnaire

Hollywood is not just the Hollywood of the entertainment industry. Even the vast majority of Hollywood celebrities don't like the federal government very much, and even some liberal voices often appear, but it cannot change its important role in the US globalization strategy.

The big productions from Hollywood not only create huge economic benefits, but also spread American mainstream values ​​to the world, which is almost clear to the whole world.

In the Sino-US bilateral negotiations on the WTO, the film and television products from Hollywood are also a part that cannot be ignored. In particular, the number and schedule of imported films has become one of the most prominent points of disagreement between the two sides.

Behind this, you can see the shadow of the Hollywood conglomerate. No one is a fool. "Titanic" has achieved great success here and even caused a sensation. Although the profits are limited, since the day of the rise of Hollywood, these Large groups have cultivated one after another overseas markets and captured one country after another with large productions.

How can a market with a population exceeding one billion, rapid economic development, and an extremely backward film industry being ignored by them?

Of all Hollywood’s larger film companies, Paramount Pictures and Jenkins Pictures are undoubtedly the forefront, and the first to set up a Chinese branch. Although the current Sino-US relationship is close to the freezing point, normal business between the two parties The exchanges were not interrupted.

Although there is competition with each other, the major film companies and media groups have common interests in developing new markets. Ryan, including Ryan, secretly funded and pressured no less than any other capital group. They thought It is very simple, the federal government can be in bilateral negotiations. Fight for more benefits for Hollywood.

"True Lies", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "Saving Private Ryan", and even Ryan's "Leaves of a Deserted Island", which Ryan thinks are on the street, are all swept away in the movie market More than ten million dollars at the box office, and this is just the beginning. After all, there are too few screens here.

All this shows the huge potential of this market.

The federal government and the United States need Hollywood to spread their mainstream values ​​to the world, and Hollywood also needs to use national and economic strength to develop and cultivate its own market, which is no different from other industries.

Of course, Ryan does not care about the needs of the federal government and the United States. What he wants is simple, that is, interests.

No one knows better than him. How big is the potential of this film market, in ten years, it will even be comparable to the North American film market!

After several years of hard work and continuous bombardment of excellent productions, this market is developing in the direction that Ryan envisioned at a faster rate than in the past.

As for whether it will destroy the film industry here. He is not worried at all, that closure will never bring development. Besides, although a certain big scissors often does some inexplicable things, it also protects the film industry here to a large extent.

In addition, Ryan also made people actively contact Sanlian Publishing House. He wants the Harry Potter series to be published here as soon as possible, even if there are pirated copies at that time, he doesn't care. As long as the entire series has influence, making money is not a problem at all.

By the way, there is also an Asian character in the Harry Potter series. For the market of this series, should I find a girl star from here?

However, copyright protection here is indeed a big problem. Derivatives that can account for the bulk of the film industry's revenue in North America, here...

"Ryan. Why not complain to them?" Tyler's little head was full of doubts.

This is the West Lake. When they were playing, they passed a video store, Taylor ran in curiously, and then saw a large number of "Titanic" and "Jurassic Park" discs. With the experience of the little guy staying in the film company all year round, he can easily tell that it is unauthorized piracy.

Originally, she wanted to question the boss who was selling upright, but Ryan asked George to carry it out.

"This loss is all our money!" The little guy was obviously poisoned by Ryan's thoughts.

"Okay, my dear, this is not North America." Ryan can only helplessly rub her head. There is no way to explain this kind of thing. There is a long distance between the understanding of the copyright of cultural products on both sides. , Didn’t you grow up looking at piracy?

"You should mail them a lawyer's letter!" Taylor received an elite education and had vague concepts about many basic common sense.

"What then?" Ryan shook her head and led her to Su Di, "fighting a time-consuming and labor-intensive transnational lawsuit?"

"Is there no one here?" Even if she was being pulled by Ryan, she still looked back at the video store from time to time.

"Yes." There is a special day every year.

Pulling Taylor's head back, Ryan asked, "Want to row a boat?"

"You?" Tyler was obviously cowering, "I don't want to sink to the bottom of the lake to feed fish."

After turning around Sudi, the sun gradually rose to the head position. Taylor had already drunk the second cold drink, and said with his tongue out, "Let’s go back, I'm hungry, Ryan!"

"Well, what do you want to eat? Authentic Chinese food?"

"By the way, Ryan, I asked Chen yesterday and said that there is a name here..."

After getting in the car, Taylor couldn’t help scratching his head, took out the sticky note in his bag, and after looking at it, he said again, “It should be called the building outside the building. Chen said it’s a store that has been in business for more than a hundred years , The dishes are delicious."

The building outside? Ryan froze for a moment, and then understood that it must be the building outside the building.

Louwailou is located at the foot of the Lonely Mountain by the West Lake. It probably came earlier, and there are not many guests here.

Asking for a two-table private room near the lake, Ryan ordered signature dishes such as Xihucuyu, Jiahuatong Chicken, and Dongpo Braised Pork, fearing that Taylor and others might not be used to it, and ordered a few more Western-style meals.

Just after ordering the food, George's phone rang, and he handed it to Ryan, but it was Chen Jiazheng who called.

"Ryan, where are you? The results of the questionnaire are out!"

"Outer building, come over for lunch together."

About half an hour later, Chen Jiazheng hurried over, still holding a file bag in his hand.

"Sit, Chen!" Ryan pointed to the opposite chair.

"Hot, Chen?" Taylor poured him a glass of cold juice with a grin.

"Thank you!" After he drank most of it in one sip, he handed the document bag to Ryan. "The questionnaire sent out last month has already been counted."

"You eat first, don't worry about me." Ryan opened the file bag on his own.

The potential of the Chinese film market is not that simple. In order to grasp the first-line data as a reference, he united Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Time Warner. At the beginning of this summer, he jointly invested to open up the joints. Relevant research companies were hired, and more than 200,000 questionnaires about movies were distributed to colleges and universities here.

No matter which country and region they are in, young people are the main consumers of the film market, especially pure commercial productions.

This survey is mainly aimed at first-tier cities. The number of theaters and screens in these cities far exceeds the average level. It is also the film introduced by Jenkins Pictures here, contributing the most box office and the fastest growth. city.

Among the nearly 200,000 questionnaires received, nearly 70% of college students said that as long as there are movies of interest, they would choose to enter the theater to watch. The ticket price and the excitement of the movie are the primary factors they consider .

And more than two-thirds of them will give priority to movies from Hong Kong and Hollywood, believing that there is a clear gap between domestically produced movies and the former two.

Because of Ryan's involvement, many big productions that were not introduced here in the previous life, since he wrote it out, a lot of sensitive content has been removed, coupled with some targeted work, and finally appeared in This land.

For example, the "Jurassic Park" series.

A large-scale production with the most advanced film technology and precision processing can hardly find an opponent here, and the only opponent, Hong Kong film, is only one step away from death.

The market is about to open its doors.

"George, after you go back, send a copy to all partners." Ryan handed the document bag to George.

If you want to really get familiar with the market, Jenkins Pictures can't do it even if its scale is tenfold. This is the benefit of Hollywood.

Of course, it is one of the main markets for his future profit.

"How does it taste." Ryan's attention returned to the dinner table.

"Weird," Taylor muttered.

Obviously, she just tasted most of the dishes, she shouldn't be accustomed to the taste, so she never touched it again.

"My dear, didn't you say that you want to taste food from all over the world? That's not good." Ryan tasted the long-lost pure Chinese food.

"But you also said that every country and nation has its own eating habits and characteristics." The little guy plausibly said, "For example, Chen, when you first ate butter bread, did you think it was a rare delicacy in the world? ?"

"Of course not!" Chen Jiazheng smiled and shook his head.

"For example, this dishTaylor refers to the custard fish in West Lake," George hasn't moved either. "

George shrugged and was silent, obviously not wanting to get involved.

"Well, we have butterbread for dinner." Ryan helped the little girl wipe the food residue from her cheeks. "That's all right?"

After seeing Ang Lee's shooting progress, and getting the results of the questionnaire, Ryan's work on this trip is considered complete. After two days of playing with Taylor, he is ready to return to Los Angeles.

Because the Matrix is ​​about to premiere.

In the past six months or so, Harvey Weinstein has almost disappeared from Hollywood's sight. He and the Wachowski brothers entered the editing room together, using the lure of high remuneration to squeeze all the post-production staff.

Although it was co-produced with Jenkins Pictures, strictly speaking, this was also the first film since the establishment of Weinstein Pictures, which played an extremely important role in the future development of the entire company. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote recommended votes, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please go to read.)