When Zhang Xiao was filming "12 Angry Men", two things happened in Hollywood that shocked the world.

After more than a month of negotiations, Soli Company finally acquired Columbia, one of the five giants in Hollywood, and officially entered Hollywood.

Not two days after they signed the contract, the parent company of Viacom, one of the world's three largest media giants, acquired Paramount. John, the original president and CEO of Paramount, only retained 7% of the shares. Others

All shares were sold to Viacom’s parent company.

With the support of Soli and Viacom, the stock prices of Columbia and Paramount have skyrocketed for a week, and their market values ​​have exceeded 200 billion US dollars.

Zhang Xiao was not surprised by this. What really surprised him was that the parent companies of Soli and Viacom actually jointly held a press conference, claiming to jointly invest 20 billion US dollars to build a major network covering three continents in Europe, America and Asia.

National and regional theater chains.

This is definitely a huge event for the film industry.

At home, Yang Mi looked at Zhang Xiao and said: "Old European Communist Party, we have completed the materials for building a theater chain. You'd better go to the Department of Culture quickly to avoid being beaten by Suo Li."

Zhang Xiao was stunned and asked: "Suoli is coming back to China to open a theater?"

"Yes!"

“Will the Secretary of Culture allow foreign investment to move in?”

"It's hard to say. Don't forget, there is an island country behind it. News came from Disney that Suoli has sent people to the capital. It will probably only happen in the next two days."

"Damn, this work is very efficient!"

Zhang Xiao frowned and said, "Okay, I'll take the materials to the Department of Culture tomorrow."

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The next morning, Zhang Xiao and Yang Mi came to the Department of Culture with a lot of documents and met the deputy director of the Department of Culture.

When the deputy director saw Zhang Xiao's arrival, he looked surprised and asked, "Mr. Zhang, are you here to build a theater chain?"

Zhang Xiao smiled and nodded: "Director Su, don't you think the number of screens in our country can no longer satisfy the growing film market?"

Deputy Director Su nodded and said: "That's true, Mr. Zhang, Miss Yang, did you hear something, so you came here in such a hurry?"

"The rumor?" Zhang Xiao was stunned and asked, "Is it Suoli Company?"

Deputy Director Su smiled and said: "It seems that you already know. Yes, Suoli sent the materials for Shenqing Cinema last Friday. We are worrying about this matter!"

Zhang Xiao asked very puzzledly: "Director Su, isn't this a good thing? Why do you have a headache?"

Deputy Director Su said: "It is true that more theaters can drive the vigorous development of the film industry, which is also a good thing. But the problem is that if there are too many, how should we supervise it? Behind this kind of foreign capital are various countries, and it is difficult to manage it

It’s very troublesome.”

"If they wantonly disrupt the market and undermine the overall situation of the film industry, it will be difficult for us to find a way to restrict them!"

Zhang Xiao suddenly realized after hearing this, and said: "Their main industry is not in the country, and this is really not easy to manage!"

Yang Mi interjected: "Since it's difficult to manage, then just don't approve them."

Deputy Director Su shook his head and explained: "Without reasonable reasons, this kind of commercial procedure cannot be denied. This involves our policy of opening up to the outside world. However, today you are here and you have given us a way to refuse them."

reason."

Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "Is the market saturated?"

"That's right!" Deputy Director Su smiled and nodded, and said, "As long as we approve your expressions and inform them that there are too many theaters and they must cut off 50%, then everything will be fine.

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Zhang Xiao said: "If that's the case, that would be great. Director Su, this is our material. Please see if there is anything inappropriate. If so, we will go back and change it now."

Director Su said: "This is a special matter. I will process your application today. By the way, how many screens are your theaters planning to build?"

Zhang Xiao said: "Not much, just ten thousand yuan."

"Oh~~" Deputy Director Su nodded, suddenly realized something, and exclaimed: "How much?"

Zhang Xiao said: "It's only ten thousand yuan."

Deputy Director Su was immediately amused and said: "Ten thousand yuan? Just pay it back? Mr. Zhang, I really admire you. This amount is too big. We must have a meeting to discuss it."

Originally, Deputy Director Su hoped that Zhang Xiao could falsely report the number of screens as a reason to prevent foreign capital from entering. Now, it is no longer necessary.

Ten thousand screens are enough to saturate the entire Chinese film industry.

After leaving the Culture Department, Yang Mi was laughing so hard in the car.

Zhang Xiao glanced at her and said, "Honey, is it that funny?"

Yang Mi said: "You haven't seen Director Su's shocked expression. It's so interesting."

Zhang Xiao smiled and said, "This, once you see it more often, you won't be surprised at all."

Yang Mi asked again: "Husband, do you think the Culture Department can give us a pass?"

Zhang Xiao thought for a while and said: "If it had been before, I wouldn't have guaranteed that I would be able to give us 10,000 yuan, but now, it should be no problem. After all, our Qingtian Entertainment Company is a domestic company, but the other party is an international giant. What do you think?

Who will the Department of Culture grant the award to? It must be us!"

"The international giants are all those who have fallen in love with you. They are not rule-abiding people. However, it is not easy for the Culture Department of our bureau to stop their investment."

"Why?" Yang Mi asked very puzzled.

Zhang Xiao explained: "It's very simple, because they have sufficient funds and all the procedures are legal. It is obviously impossible for the Culture Department to let them leave on the grounds of market saturation. After all, they have neither broken the law nor done anything."

If you do things that endanger our security and go to the international court, we will definitely lose."

After hearing this, Yang Mi nodded and said, "Also, when you acquired Universal Cinema and Warner Cinema, the Lighthouse Country did not stop you."

"That's right!" Zhang Xiao nodded and said, "But if Suoli Company succeeds, I suspect that they may have more screens than us. As a result, the major theater chains in China may be trapped in the movie theater chain.

Competition for resources.”

In the past, when there were fewer theaters and more movies, in order to produce more films, producers would do everything possible to use backdoors to build relationships.

However, if there are many theater chains and few resources, the situation will be completely opposite. The theater chains are likely to use various profit-sharing measures to fight for the right to screen movies.

By that time, the entire theater market will be in chaos.

However, these do not have much impact on Zhang Xiao, because Qingtian Entertainment can be both an investor and a publisher, which is enough to ensure that he will make a steady profit without losing money.

It's just that those theaters that are not involved in film production will be in misery, and their profits will definitely be significantly reduced.

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The Culture Department is also very efficient. In less than two days, Qingtian Entertainment's theater application was approved.

Moreover, instead of reducing the number of screens, the number of screens increased to 15,000 yuan. Needless to say, the reason why the Department of Culture did this was mainly to make Soli Company quit in the face of difficulties.
Chapter completed!