Hearing Xiao Lishan's words, Su Changde said in a deep voice: "Have I ever said that I want to control the film schedule of major theaters?"

Obviously, he called the people in charge of these theater chains to come over this time to negotiate. Of course, the Culture Secretary had already made preparations before.

But Xiao Lishan was so disrespectful, which made Su Changde feel a little uncomfortable.

After hearing what he said, Xiao Lishan said: "Okay, then I would like to ask Director Su, what are the standards for film arrangement that you have set?"

"This requires everyone to sit down and negotiate together, otherwise how can it be called a negotiation?" Su Changde replied dully.

"Then we will not participate." Xiao Lishan said directly after hearing this: "The so-called bustling world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit. After the standards for film arrangement are announced, as long as it can make our theater chain earn

If we can get more benefits, we promise to implement it."

After saying that, Xiao Lishan smiled slightly, turned around and left the conference room.

In fact, there was another sentence behind him. Although he did not say it out loud, everyone knew that if the film arrangement standards negotiated by the Ministry of Culture and other theaters could not agree with their interests, or even fail to meet their expectations, then they must be

Wouldn't agree.

Not only Xiao Lishan, but also representatives from other martial arts theaters obviously meant this, so when Xiao Lishan left, they also left.

"Bang!"

"What a bastard!"

Su Changde's face was so gloomy that he was about to drip with tears at this moment, and he slapped the table hard.

As the newly appointed Director of the Department of Culture, what Xiao Lishan and the other five cinemas did just now was undoubtedly a slap in the face to Su Changde.

At this time, Zhang Yimou said: "Director Su, you don't have to be angry. They are a group of profit-seeking people who have no regard for the life and death of our Chinese films. Maybe the worse the domestic films are, the happier they will be."

Su Changde said coldly: "Actually, I'm not surprised that Suoli dared to do this. What really annoyed me was that the other five theater chains, having made enough money in China, followed Suoli. It was simply

This is unreasonable."

Zhou Jun, CEO of Rising Sun Film Company, said: "Director Su, what should we do now?"

Su Changde said solemnly: "Starting from June next year, domestic films will be invaded by Hollywood and other countries' films. Regarding the issue of film scheduling, we must formulate a charter. Otherwise, the entire film distribution will be affected."

It’s going to be chaos.”

At this time, Mr. Zhuo of Longda said: "The problem is that their six cinema lines have already occupied one-third of our domestic market. If they put shackles on us again, I'm afraid we won't be able to fly until June next year.

He was already disabled by them."

In fact, his concern is very reasonable. Relatively speaking, Suoli and other six theater chains are not subject to the control of the Department of Culture, so they have a lot of freedom, but other theater chains in the country are not so limited.

At that time, all you will have is being beaten.

However, Zhuofu also felt that what he just said was a little timid, and he quickly changed his words and said with a bitter smile: "Director Su, what I mean is that when formulating the rules, can you give more consideration to our theater chain?"

"The cost of running a theater chain is already scary. Mr. Zhang, don't you think so?"

In fact, this Zhuofu is also a very smart person. Among the people present at the moment, only Zhang Xiao has the largest market share of Qingtian Cinemas. As for other small cinemas, he does not have much say at all.

Therefore, he knew that if he wanted the Department of Culture to give in, he had to bring Zhang Xiao, a billionaire, on board. Otherwise, the power of the Longda family would not be able to compete with the Department of Culture.

Zhang Xiao heard that the topic suddenly shifted to himself, touched his nose, and said: "Mr. Zhuo, to be honest, I am really just a layman when it comes to the internal operation and management of theater chains. If you ask me, it's quite...

So I didn’t ask.”

Another boss on the side said: "Mr. Zhang, you control the complete Qingtian Cinemas, and you are also a shareholder of Disney Cinemas, Warner Cinemas and Sphere Cinemas. Can you not understand the difficulties involved?"

Zhang Xiao shrugged and said: "To be honest, I haven't even read the financial statements. These matters are left to the people of Qingtian Company to handle. What do you think I can know?"

Zhuofu said: "Mr. Zhang, you are really considerate. Maybe for you, the profits of theater chains are simply not worth it, but our theater chains are really not good at it."

Zhang Xiao said: "Mr. Zhuo, although I don't know much about the management here, I still understand one thing, that is, the survival of the fittest must be achieved."

"If you arrange a large number of films for your own investment, in normal times, the profits you get will definitely be larger. There is no doubt about this, but if you look at it from a long-term perspective, it is not the case at all.

It’s happened.”

"As long as there is a movie outside that is a hit at the box office, you will suffer huge losses, and you may not be able to make it back in two months."

"The route our Qingtian Company is taking now is all determined by me. The film schedule is completely based on the pre-sale box office. Our own films will be given an extra five to ten percent, which is already the limit of preferential treatment.

Already."

"After the movie is released, we will look at its box office, word-of-mouth, and attendance. Whoever performs well will be added to the schedule, even if it is Qingtian's own movie."

"Under such rules, our Qingtian movie theater seems to have made about three billion more than I heard from Yang Mi. You know, Qingtian Cinema Line has only been online for only half a year."

Hearing Zhang Xiao's words, the theater managers and directors at the scene all exclaimed.

Earning 3 billion in half a year, such profitability is simply awesome.

Upon hearing this, Zhuofu immediately asked: "Mr. Zhang, the three billion you mentioned is the profit of the theater chain, or does it include the profit of movie production? You know, only your movie "Zhu Xian" and "Twelve Angry Men"

"It made billions of dollars."

Zhang Xiao explained: "Of course it is the profit of the theater chain alone. As for "Zhu Xian" and "Twelve Angry Men", they are both movies that I personally invested in. The box office has nothing to do with Sunny Day, and they were all kept by my wife.

Already."

"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed loudly when they heard this.

At this time, Su Changde said: "Mr. Zhuo, Mr. Zhou, it is almost impossible for your business model to win when foreign films are aggressively attacking."

"I hope you can recruit some of the backbones of the film company to work with the film production company to discuss a film arrangement standard that everyone can agree on, so as to maximize the profits of the theater chain and the production company."

After hearing Su Changde's words, Zhuofu and representatives from major theaters all nodded.

Upon seeing this, Su Changde said: "Well, since everyone agrees, let's start discussions at the Department of Culture from tomorrow and try to come up with a standard in the shortest possible time."

"Dear colleagues in the film industry, the integration of Chinese films with world films will indeed put a lot of pressure on us, but it is also the best time for domestic films to break out."

"I can give you the bottom line. There are already many large companies in our country that are very optimistic about the film industry and are planning to build theater chains around the world. Together with Mr. Zhang's three major theater chains, it can be said that we already have

There are sufficient distribution channels.”

"The key still depends on whether your production company and filmmakers can make excellent and viable movies."

"In this regard, I personally think that everyone can learn more from Mr. Zhang. His success in this field is obvious to all. Many people overseas call Mr. Zhang the number one person in the world's film industry."
Chapter completed!