Chapter 906 Dealing with Anger
The opposite Leander heard Xiao Yunhai's words, his face suddenly became serious, and he said solemnly: "Mr. Xiao, is there anything you can do?"
Paramount is now the most urgent problem for Thunder Pictures, and Leander is very interested in anything that is bad for Paramount.
Xiao Yunhai said: "I want you to help contact the other seven major film companies to jointly reduce the profit share of Paramount's films. For MGM, let me say, I think there should be no problem. Mr. Michael, Kay Since Mr. Stell and Mr. Stephen are with you now, you just tell them what I mean and listen to their opinions."
Liandel obviously welcomed Xiao Yunhai's proposal, and even his breathing became a lot rougher, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll ask them."
Xiao Yunhai hung up the phone, looked at the stunned three people in front of him, and said with a smile: "Anger troubles me, of course I can't make him feel better, it's normal, don't be surprised."
Bi Kewen shook his head and said, "But you are killing Ange. Mr. Xiao, you are simply drawing wages from the bottom of the pot."
Paramount releases hundreds of movies every year, and although more than half of them lose money, the profits are still terrifyingly high. If the North American theaters work together to reduce their profit share, it will not be a matter of 1 billion 800 million, but billions and tens of billions, which is enough to kill Paramount.
Xiao Yunhai said playfully, "Then do you think I can succeed?"
Bikoven thought for a while, and smiled bitterly: "I don't know. I'm just a director who makes movies, and I really don't understand things about you big men."
Xiao Yunhai said: "The person sitting with Leander now is the controller of the three theaters. I'm sure that Leander will call me back in less than two minutes.
Sure enough, within two minutes, Xiao Yunhai's cell phone rang.
"Mr. Xiao,
Everyone also thinks that Paramount's position as a giant is a bit unworthy of its name, and an entertainment company that does not control the theater chain is not qualified to be side by side with us. Warner, Disney, and United Artists have all agreed, and MGM will leave it to you. As for the other three companies, we will go back to lobby and believe that no one will object. However, there is an important problem is the Yanhuang Cinema in Huaxia. It's going to open in a short while, with thousands of screens, and if they don't let go, our plans are useless. "
Xiao Yunhai said with a smile, "I caused the incident at Yanhuang Cinema. There are several shareholders in it who are my very good friends. I believe there is no problem."
Leander said in surprise: "Mr. Xiao is really amazing. Well, let's split things up."
After talking with Leander, Xiao Yunhai called Kerry from MGM directly.
"Hi, Xiao, I have good news for you. In half a month, the post-production of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" will be completed."
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was filmed for four months and ended in August. Kerry once invited him to participate in the killing banquet, but Xiao Yunhai refused.
During this time, the book sold very well. After the four major publishing houses were taught a lesson by Xiao Yunhai, they never dared to play any tricks.
So far, the sales of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" have reached more than 80 million copies, and it is believed that the sales will continue to rise after the movie is released.
Xiao Yunhai said: "That's great. Kerry, I'm calling you this time to tell you something very important to Hollywood. I hope you can discuss it with your father."
After Xiao Yunhai recounted the story of the eight major theater chains working together to kill Paramount, he said, "Now that Warner, Disney, and United Artists have agreed, if you agree, the other three will not miss such a good opportunity. Hehe, the movie market is so big, how can a company that has no control over the theater chain allow it to appear in the ranks of the movie industry giants.”
The opposite Kerry took a deep breath, as if digesting the news brought by Xiao Yunhai, and after a while, he said, "Xiao, you are really terrible. Paramount's provoking you is their greatest misfortune. ."
Xiao Yunhai smiled and said, "I'm just a liaison officer. If you agree, you can notify Leander directly. Okay, don't bother, goodbye."
Xiao Yunhai put the mobile phone in his pocket, shrugged at the three people who had been shocked beyond measure, and said with a smile, "Some things seem difficult, but they are quite easy to do."
Dominia smiled bitterly: "As a Paramount actor, seeing a person face his own company in front of his own face. To be honest, this feels very uncomfortable. However, I still admire you very much in my heart."
Beekwen said: "Paramount is a giant in our eyes, but when it comes to you, it's just a matter of a few phone calls. Mr. Xiao, you make me feel terrible."
Xiao Yunhai said: "I'm not someone looking for trouble. The only one to blame is Ang, he shouldn't mess with me."
Xiao Yunhai and the others got on the plane to New Zealand that afternoon and flew for 20 hours before arriving at the crew.
Everyone was very happy to see investors, directors and actors all coming.
With a big wave of his hand, Xiao Yunhai spent huge sums of money to hold a big party and invite everyone to have a good night.
What they didn't know in the carnival was that a 12-magnitude earthquake had already occurred in Hollywood at this time.
Paramount Headquarters
All employees are honestly working in their positions, no one is as lazy as usual, and no one dares to smile.
Because everyone knows that the boss's temper has been very bad these days, and he has fired three unlucky employees.
In the spacious and bright conference room, Ange sat on the boss chair with a gloomy face, glanced around at the group of responsible persons below, and said, "Speak, what should we do now?"
More than a dozen poor department heads didn't even dare to breathe, they lowered their heads and couldn't say a word.
Yesterday, two Paramount films were hit by a joint statement from United Artists and Disney, demanding that their profit ratio drop to 30 percent. That is to say, the box office sells a billion, and they can only get 300 million. If you take out all those nasty taxes, their profits will not reach 200 million US dollars.
Anger was very angry and called the other party in person, hoping that they could take back this extremely unreasonable decision. However, although his two former good friends said it very politely, they just refused to agree, and Ang was furious and had a big fight with the other party.
I had no choice but to go to other theaters. The result I never expected was the same as Lianmei and Disney, all of which were 30%.
Anger suddenly understood that they were strangling himself and Paramount jointly.
For the first time, Anger had a strong remorse in his heart, and he should not have given up the Paramount Cinema to Leander because of the 5% profit. At the same time, he also understood that without the control of the theater chain, the company also lost the bargaining chip with other entertainment companies.
After three consecutive days of public relations, I saw all the people I should meet, and I thought about all the ways I should think about, but the result was a big disappointment.
Affected by this, the market value of Paramount Pictures plummeted by 20%, and more than 10 billion US dollars were completely evaporated in the capital market. If it continues like this, Paramount will really come down from the position of the film giant.
Therefore, Ange is as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but there is no way to do it.
Ange pointed at everyone's nose and cursed: "They're all a bunch of rice buckets. When there's nothing wrong, they're all very powerful. If something happens, they'll all become dumb. Get out, get out of here for me."
Everyone felt as if they were being forgiven, and quickly left in despair.
"Thomas, you bastard." Thinking of the initiator, Angel even had the heart to kill him.
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