Chapter 1038 Meeting

While Xiao Yunhai and Kerry were on the phone, in a conference room of a five-star hotel, the heads of major European and American theater chains gathered together and sat there for a meeting.

There are still several screens hanging on the wall, on which are several bosses who could not come to the scene, and they all participated through online video.

As the initiator of the meeting, Hanks said first: "Thank you to all the bosses for taking time out of their busy schedules to come to the meeting. The reason why I invited you to come is mainly to discuss the issue of 3D screens together."

Warner's Michael Eisner took a sip of coffee, moistened his throat, and said, "Xiao's fantasy special effects company has already set the price, $350,000 for a screen, $300 for a pair of 3D glasses, and the camera is even more expensive. It's outrageous, ranging from millions to tens of millions. Hehe, after reading his quotation, I just want to say that we Warners really can't afford it."

Disney's Kestel nodded and said, "The future of 3D movies is still uncertain. Xiao's offer is really unacceptable. However, I know what he is like, and I have no absolute certainty. Wouldn't do that."

Maxine Peake, president of Europe's largest cinema chain, said: "If you want to show 3D movies, you must have a 3D screen. As long as everyone doesn't buy his account, I believe the price will definitely drop. Only Huaxia's Yanhuang The theaters are a big problem, and once they agree to 3-D screens, it's like pulling money from the bottom of the pot, and we're going to have to compromise in the end."

Hanks didn't expect that he didn't say anything, everyone, you and me, gave the matter, and it was exactly what he wanted, and he couldn't help but be ecstatic, and said: "We can send representatives to convince the shareholders of Yanhuang Cinema, I believe they should agree too. After all, Xiao's asking price is too harsh. Once 3D movies really become popular, our theater chain will have to take his breath away."

Everyone here is the best of the best, and they still know that Hanks' purpose in organizing this meeting is just for the world-shattering gamble with Xiao Yunhai.

It's just that this matter is also very beneficial to them, so they all participated in this meeting, hoping to discuss a countermeasure to deal with the menacing 3D movies.

Kestel smoked a cigar,

Said: "3D movies are the development trend of the entertainment industry in the future. Blindly blocking it is unstoppable. Our goal should be to force Xiao to lower prices, not to give up 3D movies completely."

Maxine Peake nodded and said, "Mr. Kestel is right. I think if Xiao can reduce the cost of the renovation to less than $100,000, and the glasses and cameras will be reduced by 70%, then we will Instead, consider helping to promote 3D movies."

"I agree with Mr Peake."

"Yes, Xiao must be forced to lower the price, otherwise we would rather not show 3D movies in the future."

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Hearing everyone's words, Hanks laughed secretly in his heart. These stingy guys actually wanted Xiao to lower the price to such a level. It was just a joke. It is estimated that even killing Xiao would not agree.

Once the talks between the two sides collapsed, "2012" would face the embarrassing situation of no theater screening, and his pressure would be reduced a lot.

These capitalists discussed for an hour and formulated a series of plans with only one goal, which was to reduce Xiao Yunhai's price by at least 70% or more.

After the meeting, Hanks walked out of the conference room refreshed.

"Mr. Hanks, can I talk to you for a while?"

Kestel's voice came from behind Hanks.

Although he didn't like this old Hollywood fox very much in his heart, Hanks didn't show it at all, turned around and said, "Of course."

The two found a coffee shop and sat down.

Kestel smiled and said: "Mr. Hanks, in order to reduce his own risk, it is a good idea to unite all the theater owners in Europe and the United States to deal with Xiao."

Paramount has now entered the animation industry in an all-round way. It has just launched three major animation movies, and the Stell amusement park has opened six successively. Competition with Disney is inevitable.

At the meeting just now, Hanks meant that 3D movies should not be made popular, while Kestel changed the direction to forcing Xiao Yunhai to lower the price, and did not completely reject 3D movies. That is to say, as long as the price is right, the cinema can ask the fantasy special effects company to transform the screen.

It can be seen from this that the goals of the two people are obviously not the same at all.

Kestel didn't have any good intentions when he said that, but hoped that Xiao Yunhai could not bear the pressure and could lower the price so that he could benefit from the 3D movie "2012" as usual and win the two hundred Bet 100 million to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone.

Because for Disney, although Marvel Comics is incredibly powerful after having Xiao Yunhai, their foundation is still too weak, and it is difficult to truly compete with Disney without more than five years.

But Paramount is different. With their crazy expansion rate, Disney is not its opponent at all. Therefore, in Kestel's heart, Paramount is his worst enemy.

Hanks took a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "Mr. Kestri has won the prize, not only for the $20 billion bet, but more importantly for the interests of our theater chain. The box office with the producer. Profit sharing has cost us a lot, and I don’t want this to happen again.”

Kestel said: "Xiao is now the general trend. Although Paramount is backed by Stel, it is basically impossible to defeat the powerful Xiao."

Hanks narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Since we're sitting together, Mr. Kestel shouldn't give a shit. What are you trying to say?"

Kestel said: "Marvel Comics is producing an animated film written by Xiao, called "Kung Fu Panda", which is a test of the water. If he succeeds, Xiao will definitely increase production efforts in this regard. , which is very bad for us. So I hope we can join forces and snipe him in terms of animated films."

When Hanks heard the word sniping, it reminded him of the two movies "Assassin" and "Operation Hurricane", and his hatred for Xiao Yunhai instantly hit his heart.

However, he was still very able to restrain his emotions, at least on the surface he didn't see any turbulence, and said calmly: "If you want to cooperate, you can, but you Disney must first show your sincerity. After all, we Paramount have resisted him twice. . Stell headquarters is very dissatisfied with my actions. Unless I see the dawn of victory, I will not do this stupid thing again."

Kestel laughed: "How do you see this? Our Disney animated film will be released the day before "Kung Fu Panda", I hope you can snipe it on the third day after "Kung Fu Panda" is released. After our two rounds I don’t believe that it can still get a high box office. The animation film market is so big, it is enough for us to divide it equally, and if there is one more company, it will be billions or even tens of billions of dollars for us. Loss."

Hanks thought for a while and said, "Actually, we can not only cooperate in animation, but also form strategic alliances in other areas, just like Marvel and MGM."

Kestel smiled and said: "Of course I am happy to be able to form an alliance with Paramount. After your Stell Cinemas are completed, our Disneyland movies will no longer need to be screened in theaters one by one."

Hanks said: "I also hope that Disney, the kingdom of the animation industry, can help us Paramount more in animation movies. At that time, we can sit together and discuss the schedule, so as not to kill each other and let Xiao take advantage of it. ."

The two looked at each other, laughed at the same time, picked up the coffee, touched it, the alliance against Xiao Yunhai was officially established.

The next day, Hollywood was still enthusiastically commenting on Xiao Yunhai's 3D movie, but it didn't take long for a more exciting news to spread in Hollywood.

Xiao Yunhai filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures on the grounds that the soundtrack of "Assassin" infringed the copyright of his song "billiejean".

Everyone's first reaction is that this is impossible, Paramount is not stupid, how could it do such a stupid thing.

Even Hanks couldn't believe it when he heard the news.

He called and asked the film review department to check, and the result immediately made his angry Qi Kong smoke, and Lei Ting was furious.

"Are you guys eating shit? It took twenty-five seconds of other people's music, but it didn't find out."

"You're a bunch of bastards, idiots."

In the office, Hanks scolded for ten minutes before letting go of Fern, the head of the audit department in front of him.

"Say, what should I do about this?"

Fern raised his head and said, "Mr. Hanks, we must ask Mr. Xiao to intercede and keep this matter private."

Hanks was directly enraged and said, "If you were Xiao, would you let us go to Paramount? Stop joking. By the way, I heard that his songs are very popular. If we lose the case, we need to pay compensation. How much?"

When Fern heard Hanks' question, his face changed slightly, and the answer seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.

Seeing his expression, Hanks froze in his heart, feeling very bad, and asked, "How much do we need to pay? What the hell are you talking about?"

Fern was trembling all over and said: "According to the copyright protection law announced by the United States last year, we need to compensate him up to twenty times the value of his songs. That is to say, we need to pay him... pay him... .."

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