Why do most theater chains in the United States have very low profits, and even barely maintain a break-even, while theater managers are an enviable profession?

This starts with the American theater system. In the early days of Hollywood, all theater chains were built by large studios themselves, and theaters served the studios and belonged to the same boss. Since the promulgation of the Anti-monopoly Law of the Film Industry, all production companies have been banned from owning the operating rights of theater chains, and theater chains have been independent.

But even so, theaters still rely entirely on the studio's movies to survive. Although they have income from popcorn and other income, they still need the studio to continue to make good movies, so they don't have much say in the box office share of the film.

But on the contrary, they have another key power, that is, the right to schedule films. This power is not eye-catching during the off-season, but once the summer season is in the season, such as the summer season, it is very critical. For example, if the attendance rate is also full, whether to arrange "Transformers 2" or "Avengers" is completely up to the theaters.

Among them, theater managers with film scheduling rights have become the key to the box office battle. The six major companies will also give some "public relations fees" to allow them to get more film scheduling for their own films. Of course, in order not to do too much, theater managers have their own scheduling. This proportion will not be too much. They cannot make bad movies sell well, nor will the box office of good movies sharply decrease, but it can also affect the box office difference of a film of 20%.

So although dozens of theater managers in the United States are investigated and resigned every year, this has formed a tacit understanding between theaters and production companies. The two can be said to be interdependent, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find evidence to prove anything...

And more importantly, the screening of theater managers is a high-tech job, just like an actuary who bets on football. Non-professionals cannot see the logic, let alone investigate...

Therefore, the following theater managers have always been in such a group of people during several equity turmoils in AMC, because good theater managers are very valuable human resources, which is also the reason why Gary Payton dares to challenge Li Xiaole.

But now... this boss's girl actually touched all the red envelopes they received in the past clearly, which caught everyone off guard.

The AMC theater managers were so scared that they dared not speak. What's going on? How did they investigate so clearly? Are there people from the Black Pearl Company in the six major areas? This Chinese company is simply a spy department... All kinds of speculations appeared in everyone's mind.

Li Xiaole looked at these people and found it funny. When he first saw Lei Ting's ability, he had this expression. In this era, it was really cool to have the best hacking technology team in the world. Only Lei Ting can deal with the perverts in the Hacker Republic.

"If you go out, then I advise you to go directly to your lawyer." Lei Ting looked at them coldly and said, "The five theater managers looked at each other one by one, with panic and embarrassing expressions. After hesitation, he slowly sat back on his chair.

At this moment, Gary Payton, who was leading the trouble, could only cough and hide his embarrassment. Of course, he understood that since Lei Ting could find out about these small characters, his handle was naturally impossible to escape. He closed his mouth very smartly and thought that nothing had happened...

"Okay, since you are still sitting here, I will think that you accept my administrative policy, then you are our own people in our company." Lei Ting looked around and shocked the audience, and her voice still couldn't hear any expression: "For my own people, I will not pursue anything you have done before. Now I announce the first order for AMC theater reform, all 4,789 non-3D screens have been upgraded to digital 3D..."

The people present were confused again. What's the situation? Not only did they not report it, but they also had to upgrade the screen, which was to increase the box office by at least one-third, and their performance dividends... Looking at the people who opened their mouths in surprise, Lei Ting's voice became colder:

"I will distribute the funds for upgrading the screen here. You must remember that every cent I give you is the funds of the China Corporation. I don't want you to have any personal pockets. I will stare at you and have a break."

First, it was threatened, then it was large-scale investment reform, and the temptation to double dividends at the end of the year... Everyone was stunned by the three things that the tough female CEO took office. After a fight, AMC, which was originally difficult to control, was completely controlled by Lei Ting.

Looking at the old men like Gary Payton, all of whom were whispering to each other and with complex expressions going out, Li Xiaole couldn't help but look back at Lei Ting, and gave a thumbs up in conscience: "Sister Tingting~ Awesome~! So majestic~! I really didn't expect that~ You just put these old foxes into obedience in this meeting~" With this cool girl, he really doesn't have to worry about anything.

"What's so rare? I'm the same when I deal with those street gangsters in Seoul, but the threats are different." Lei Ting snorted disapprovingly, looked at Li Xiaole and sighed:

"I can only help you here, and the rest is up to you. This time, I invested in the upgrade of the screen to be around 500 million US dollars, and the film and television base has invested. If your "The Legend of the Great Sage" does not get a global box office of more than one billion US dollars, our company's two movies this year will be in vain."

Looking at Lei Ting's rare and somewhat sad look, Li Xiaole felt a little pity in her heart for some reason. She couldn't help but step forward and kiss her on the cheek, and said softly: "Sister Lei, thank you so much for your hard work. You have just finished the base work and asked you to come to the United States to do these chores. It has caused you to worry so much for so long~"

Lei Ting was stunned by his sudden tenderness, bit her lower lip, and seemed to struggle in her evil eyes, then she got up and turned around and closed the door and locked it, then pulled up the curtains...

"What are you going to do this time..." Li Xiaole was stunned and instinctively took two steps back.

"What else can I do? Aren't you seducing me just now?" Lei Ting said, then walked over and pulled Li Xiaole's belt gently with her hands, lifted him up, and whispered gently in his ear: "Yes, you succeeded, I'm taking the bait."

"Now...?Here~?" Li Xiaole stuttered: "Sister Tingting, I'm... married...you misunderstood~ I didn't mean that just now..." Isn't this erotic plot only performed in erotic movies? He suddenly felt that all this was not true...

"You lit my fire, and then you are not responsible? You also said that I have worked hard recently~ I need to relax~" Lei Ting pulled off Li Xiaole's trousers neatly, reached into his key part, and gently kissed him on the mouth.

"But here~...what should someone come in~?" Li Xiaole felt it was exciting and enjoyable, and he felt that doing this was against moral conscience. He tried to make the final "verbal resistance", but his hand unconsciously hugged Lei Ting's slender waist and felt the smoothness of her skin through her clothes.

"You forgot that I am the CEO here. You can shout with confidence. Even if you scream loudly, I promise no one dares to come in." Lei Ting said this gently and pushed Li Xiaole to the conference table. At the same time, she gently pressed the remote control of the light on the table with her hand and turned off the light in the room...

The next morning, the whole Hollywood was like in the AMC conference room. Li Xiaole and Lei Ting were upside down. The news that Chinese movie star American officially acquired AMC theaters with full capital shocked the entire Hollywood League. Last time, China Holding Black Pearl Company joined the Hollywood League. This time, a private Chinese company acquired AMC theaters, one of the two major theaters in the United States!? This is really incredible... Is China going to fully invade Hollywood?

What surprised everyone was that the representative of Chinese movie star beauty this time was Li Xiaole... In other words, the acquisition is likely to be the leader behind the Black Pearl Company...

This has attracted the attention of major media, especially after AMC's new beauty CEO Lei Ting announced that she would invest nearly $500 million to upgrade all AMC screens to become 3D screens, the industry was also shocked. Anyone with some thinking ability understood that this was obviously Li Xiaole paving the way for his 3D blockbuster "The Legend of the Great Sage" at the end of the year.

You know, in order to make "Avatar" have enough 3D screens released, Cameron once talked to the theater owners in person. In March 2005, at the film exhibition held at the hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Paris, he went all out to promote his new screening system. His words were very inflammatory. "The world has entered a new era of film." The great director kept exclaiming and warning theater businessmen: "If they don't adjust the equipment in time now, they will definitely regret it in the future."

At the end of that year, only 79 theaters were able to play three-dimensional movies, and from 2005 to now, there were only 3,000 3D screens in the United States. Good guy, as soon as Li Xiaole got control of the theaters, he turned this number into 8,000... Compared to the efficiency of promoting 3D, Jesus Li is much better than James Cameron.
Chapter completed!