Chapter 460 Hollywood’s mutual trap
Beautiful country.
Hollywood, Los Angeles, a meeting is going on.
The people who attended the meeting were all well-known in the entertainment industry of the United States, and the leaders of the six giants.
Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Columbia.
Together, these six giants account for more than 85% of the country's movie box office market share. They are the representatives of Hollywood. Because of the country's strong national power, the movies produced by Hollywood have also become popular movies in the world and are popular all over the world.
It has not happened for many years that the six giants have gathered together. They are all competitors and hate each other. They will not come to the party if they have nothing to do.
The atmosphere at the meeting was somewhat silent, but Michael, the chairman and CEO of Warner Bros., coughed and spoke to break the deadlock.
"I think everyone has received the cooperation fax from Jieke Group. This "Wedding Dress" movie requires us to give preferential treatment for classification, promotion and release."
As soon as Michael said this, other giants at the scene no longer remained reserved.
"I've received it too. What does Jieco Group mean? How come they are interested in such a small thing in the film industry?"
"We have two movies to be released this summer. We can't even make enough movies for ourselves and the theaters. We have extra theater shares to give to them!"
"I've seen the copy of "The Wedding Dress" and they want us to give it a PG rating. This movie is so scary. Isn't this an imposition?"
"We in Hollywood don't even have enough to share the food with ourselves. It's simply unreasonable that this dragon crossing the river, Jieko Group, comes to grab food."
"Let's think of a way, Hollywood is the territory of our Big Six!"
The major giants spoke one after another, but although these giants were complaining, no one dared to refuse directly.
Because Jieke Group is not an ordinary company. This company likes to engage in real business wars whenever they disagree.
"In my opinion, if we simply reject the release of "The Wedding Dress", the Jieko Group wants to come in and get involved just after saying hello. It would be too disrespectful of us. Let's teach him a lesson."
With such a sudden sentence, all the giants present were shocked. Who could be so brave?
And then I looked, oh, it turned out to be Jason Garner, the chairman of Disney, so that made sense.
In the current Hollywood market, Disney is the most powerful among the six giants. They occupy nearly 30% of the country’s movie box office share. The famous Marvel Universe movie series is produced by Disney, which has made a lot of money through superhero movies. The bowl is full.
Disney's business scope is very wide. In addition to movies, Disney's main business also includes entertainment program production, theme parks, toys, books, electronic games, media networks, etc. It is a well-deserved entertainment giant in the United States and even the world, with a market value of 200 billion US dollars. , with a net profit of several billion dollars a year.
Of course, this cannot be compared with Jieco Group, but it is indeed the largest giant in the film industry today, the giant among giants.
As we all know, Disney has three magic weapons, Marvel, animation and Disneyland.
Among them, Disneyland can generate a large amount of cash flow for Disney every year. While making movies and licensing the image to the park, it also makes a lot of money from the park.
It just so happens that Jieco Group's Nightmare Paradise is known as the world's largest haunted house. Now it is making movies in the same way. It is not difficult for the giants here to see this. The competition model between the two is similar.
It's just that Disneyland focuses on parent-child and family, while Nightmare Park focuses on excitement and horror. There doesn't seem to be much overlap, but who knows if Jacko Group will make other entertainment and children-oriented movies in the future, and then open Nightmare Park and Park around the world. Disneyland is stealing business.
The giants here think this way. If they were Disney, they wouldn't want a terrible opponent like the Jacko Group to appear, so it's best to nip it in its infancy.
"I suggest that we join forces to prevent Jieco Group from getting involved in the film industry. We can block the movie "The Wedding Dress" through the classification committee and prevent it from being released."
Yasen slapped the table and said righteously.
The giants all looked at each other strangely. Is this guy really not afraid of death?
As everyone gets to know Jieke Group, everyone has gradually understood.
Normal business competition with the Jieco Group is fine, and the Jieco Group will not react in a stressful manner, but if it involves outside tactics, the Jieco Group will not respect its martial ethics. The dump truck business war is enough to make people shudder. .
And taking advantage of its market dominance and monopoly position to block the release of the movie "The Wedding Dress" is undoubtedly an unforeseen move.
The last time someone dared to engage in such a small trick with the Jieko Group was the Avilson family, and their fate was the death of the entire family.
"I will contact the personnel of the classification committee, and everyone will also contact their own personnel. We must not let the Jieko Group enter our film field. I will take the lead in this matter."
Yasen shouted loudly, and other giants on the scene were moved. Everyone looked at each other, and then nodded. With Yassen as the front-runner, everyone will feel more confident.
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After the meeting, the next day, Yassen came here at the Beautiful Country Film Classification Committee.
The so-called Film Classification Board is an organization that assigns viewing restrictions to movies based on the age of the audience.
If a movie is too violent, minors will be restricted from watching it, such as R-17. Minors aged 17 and under need to be accompanied by their parents or guardians to watch. This will greatly reduce the expected box office of the movie, and may even be prohibited. Movies released in major theaters, such as the USA, can only be rated on video tapes.
The reason why the Big Six of Hollywood are the Big Six, apart from their ability to make money, is that there is another important reason, that is, the classification committee itself is controlled by the Big Six.
In addition to the Big Six themselves, other film companies have to look at the Big Six's faces when releasing movies, praying for a better audience rating.
Yassen walked into the Film Classification Board with a secretary.
"Boss, you're in the wrong room. That's the room where PG-rated movies are reviewed."
The secretary reminded Yassen that the secretary was also present at yesterday's meeting, so the secretary said this.
A PG-rated movie means that minors are advised to watch it with their parents. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you really want to watch it. This is just a suggestion. Most beautiful Chinese movies are at this level. If you give "The Wedding Dress" this rating, then there is no such thing. No restrictions anymore.
"Heh."
Yasen curled his lips and said: "This is where I went. You think I really want to go against the Jieke Group, but I'm out of my mind."
"Ah! Boss, didn't you say you want to restrict Jieco Group from entering the film field?"
The secretary's eyes widened, with a look of astonishment on his face.
"Just saying, I don't want to be found by the Steel Battalion. I still want to live for a few more years. What I said at the meeting is just to trick other giants into following up. Then they will offend the Jieke Group and let these competitors be beaten by Jieke. The Science Group is targeting them. It would be best if they were killed. Wouldn’t it be better for us to dominate Hollywood?
And by showing goodwill to Jieko Group, we might be able to reach a cooperation with Jieko Group. If the AI glasses technology of Jieko Group’s Nightmare Park can be used in our Disneyland, it will be a great promotion. You have to use your brain in everything. Think about it. ”
Yasen showed a sinister smile, and the secretary suddenly realized, is this how business wars are played?
Fortunately, she thought her boss was a bit reckless at first, and it was not a good thing to offend Jieke Group. She didn't expect that the boss was on the fifth floor.
With a calm smile on his face, Yassen arrived at the PG-rated office and was about to knock on the door when someone pushed the door open from inside.
Then the smile on Yasen's face froze, because a group of people were coming out talking and laughing.
These people are none other than the heads of the five giants: Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Sony Columbia.
When the other party saw Yasen who suddenly appeared here, they were stunned for a few seconds, and both sides stared at each other.
"Fake Squid, you bunch of shit, the five of you colluded to lick the Jacko Group, right, and came to give him a PG rating? Do you still have the face of a Hollywood giant?"
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Yassen gritted his teeth. He had already seen the approval documents in the hands of these giants, which were about the PG rating of "The Wedding Dress".
As everyone knows, several giants on the opposite side also rolled their eyes. Warner Bros. Chairman Michael sneered: "You have the nerve to accuse us, what are you doing here? You shouted so loudly in the meeting yesterday, why aren't you worried about Nightmare Park stealing your Disney?" The park's business? Fortunately, we didn't fall for it. You bastard just wanted to trick us and let us provoke the Jieke Group. You can just sit back and watch the show, right?"
"You are not the same. I am jealous when we see Disney making money and want to use Jieke Group to deal with us. I am not that stupid."
Both sides are very depressed about each other. Yassen wants to cheat the five giants. The five giants are also dissatisfied that Disney has squeezed their own market share for a long time, so they also want to cheat each other. There are hundreds of people on both sides plotting against each other, but in the end no one is able to plot against the other.
This meeting was destined to end on bad terms. Yassen gave "The Wedding Dress" a PG rating with a look of unwillingness on his face, regretting that he had not tricked his opponent.
In the end, without any surprises, "The Wedding Dress" was unanimously approved for PG release without any hindrance.
The six giants who are known as the overlords of Hollywood really did not have the courage to try the knife in the hands of the genetic warriors in front of the dragon in the river Jieco Group, so they gave the Jieco Group a pass very conscientiously.
Unknowingly, the name of Jieke Group has forced many large companies to lose face.
With the approval of the classification in Beautiful Country, there are no longer restrictions on the release of "Wedding Dress".
On July 3, during the summer season, Hyakki Film Company's first film "Wedding Dress" was officially released simultaneously around the world. The film landed in many countries including Beautiful Country, China, Southeast Asia, Sakura Country, and South Korea. , bringing an absolutely real baptism of terror to the world.
(End of chapter)