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Chapter 990

Legendary has unwittingly become a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.

Well, this is still a bit exaggerated, but under Lin Xiao's hands, Legendary Pictures directly produced three series, and they were all very successful.

In terms of TV dramas, on Legendary Pictures' side, Lin Xiao also directly incorporated "Friends" into Legendary Pictures. Although "Friends" also relied on Legendary Pictures before, at most it was just one hand.

After all, Lin Xiao didn't intend to create obstacles for himself, so although the Dick Group was very jealous before, there was nothing they could do.

The branch of Minghu Films in North America is called Tomorrow Films. Of course, it cannot be compared with Legendary Films at present. Tomorrow Films is an independent film company that Gu Xi bought and is on the verge of bankruptcy. In North America, there are companies like this with thousands if not ten thousand.

Many of them are shell companies without the ability to produce films. In fact, many Hollywood stars have a lot of shell companies that are used to participate in investment and share. Of course, they are mainly used to avoid taxes.

Similarly, Tomorrow Films has no distribution channels. If we say that in the early years, Hollywood’s distribution channels could be obtained by companies other than the giants, then in the past few years, as the giants have been merged into media groups, the distribution channels The control has also become more and more powerful.

Of course, it's not that you can't develop your own distribution channels, but that it's really difficult to start from scratch.

Moreover, this distribution channel does not only refer to theatrical distribution of films, but also refers to various aspects, such as publicity platform resources and so on.

Of course, because of the Internet era and the mobile Internet era, it is impossible for media giants to control all channels, but for ordinary small companies, it is still difficult to move their monopoly channels.

Therefore, Lin Xiao thought about letting Legendary Pictures set up its own distribution channel, but it was limited to theatrical release of the film, but the effect was not very good. On the one hand, building from scratch required too much energy and material resources , and, it takes a long time.

Although Legendary Pictures has also recruited distribution talents to slowly expand its distribution channels, the effect is not obvious. So far, Legendary Pictures still does not have the ability to independently release a movie.

On the other hand, the Hollywood tycoons are the best, and the biggest background is not only the monopoly of distribution channels, but the film library!

Like Universal, although it seems that Universal has not had any amazing performances in the past few years, it relies on those film libraries every year to obtain hundreds of millions of profits from various aspects.

And this is hard for many other companies to imagine.

The biggest problem with independent film companies is that they are too poorly tolerant of risks. Film and television giants like Universal Dick, etc., they messed up one or two big productions, and lost tens of millions or hundreds of millions, so they will not hurt their muscles at all. It's bone-chilling, but independent film companies, as long as they lose one movie, they will be doomed.

In an increasingly mature market, many things have been fixed, and it is too difficult for you to break.

From the initial electric power era to the Internet era, in the initial stage, countless Internet companies with unlimited potential were born, but following the trend to today, as the major Internet giants began to rush to the beach, gradually those companies at the beginning have long since closed down. Bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions.

Although there are occasionally one or two potential companies, it is difficult to avoid being suppressed, annexed, etc. by giants.

In terms of the film and television industry, it is actually the same. North America has not seen a significant increase in movie box office for several years, and there are even times of decline.

This also means that the market has stabilized and matured, and it is becoming more and more difficult to break the inherent situation of this market. Unless there is another new era similar to the Internet revolution, in the short term, it is basically a foregone conclusion .

This is also why the film giants in North America have turned their attention to overseas and started to vigorously expand overseas business, because although the North American market has matured, the overseas market still has a lot of potential to be tapped.

For example, in Huaguo, a country with a large population, the scale of the film industry has gradually begun to rise, and even began to appear. Huaguo's movie box office sales began to gradually catch up with Hollywood.

For example, a Huaguo film in the domestic market can even get the highest box office of nearly [-] million or [-] million US dollars, but in the North American market, it is almost difficult.

But Huaguo's market is not the kind of market that is completely open. Just like the North American Hollywood film giants, they don't want others to touch their cakes. Foreign film companies move their cake.

Of course, this is a general aspect. In fact, local cooperation is still the general trend.

For example, Tianmeng will invest in Hollywood movies, and will directly invite Hollywood directors to make movies, and it will be a big production.

For example, Minghu Films also officially followed Lin Xiao's footsteps and began to try in Hollywood.

"Sleepless in Seattle" is an experimental work.

Sometimes, however, a lot of things really happen.

The "Three Kingdoms Series", a Longteng series jointly produced by Ling Xiaoge and several film giants, can be said to be very successful. Of course, the success here refers to the scope of Asia, and it is not enough to watch in North America.

Subsequently, Tianmeng launched three major project plans worth 20 billion US dollars.

After a lapse of one year, the three major projects of Tianmeng, among which "Knights and Magic", which was adapted from the world's number one stand-alone game, officially announced the completion of the film!
Yes, it is the completion of the film, not the finalization, that is to say, "Knight and Magic" has been completely produced and can be released at any time.

Normally, a super-big production like "Knight and Magic" is adapted from a popular IP. "Knight and Magic", which claims to have hundreds of millions of players all over the world, should choose a popular schedule for release , but in the end, Tianmeng did the opposite.

The promotion of "Knights and Magic" is in full swing, and the time of setting the file unexpectedly coincides with "Sleepless in Seattle".

Tianmeng even shouted slogans, to use "Knights and Magic" to create a new popular schedule!
I didn't choose the summer file, nor did I choose the Lunar New Year file, but I chose the schedule in May.

In May, although this schedule cannot be said to be an unpopular schedule, it is definitely not a popular schedule.

And "Knights and Magic" is released simultaneously worldwide.

In contrast, "Sleepless in Seattle" also chose this schedule, but the starting point of the two is completely different.

(End of this chapter)