Chapter 1256: James' Recommendation (Part 1)

Wang Lingxuan didn't even ask about the size of the production company, but she knew very well that this production company must directly launch James' racing blockbuster, with a large investment of 300 million US dollars in production costs, Wang Lingxuan did not have the confidence.

Guo Tailai just asked Wang Lingxuan if he could manage the company. Since she didn't have the confidence, then forget it. After hanging up the phone and thinking about it, Guo Tailai called again, but this time, he called Chuxiong.

It can be said that Chu Xiong spared no effort for his daughter. She wanted to become a star, so he immediately recruited a gold agent in China. Maybe he also had a recommendation from the management staff of the production company.

"Hollywood production company?" Chu Xiong and Wang Lingxuan were different, so he held his breath and asked one more question: "How big is it?"

"A valuation of more than 200 million U.S. dollars." Guo Tailai replied honestly.

Hearing about the scale, Chu Xiong didn't even ask which company it was. This kind of commercial acquisition must be a commercial secret, which cannot be easily disclosed. As a veteran of Jianghu, Chu Xiong certainly understands this truth. Although he knew that as long as he opened his mouth, Guo Tailai would definitely tell him, but as an old and successful businessman, he couldn't open his mouth.

"I want to find a suitable manager in China." Chu Xiong said after a few moments of deliberation: "I'm afraid it will be very difficult. With such a big plate, especially in an industry where the opponent is always strong and our country is relatively weak, we need to send No matter how powerful the people are, they can't control the scene. What about the original management? Why don't you plan to continue to use it?"

"They may not be happy." Guo Tailai replied honestly: "In addition, if they can really do well, they will not be reduced to the point of being acquired. If I acquire and inject capital like this, don't become theirs at that time." ATM. I’m sure I don’t do things most of the time, at most I have financial supervision. I’m afraid it’s a bit difficult to expect those professional managers from abroad to really have professional ethics and be loyal to me, a foreign boss.”

Chu Xiong completely agrees with this. He manages such a large company, so touching. In the final analysis, management is a problem of people. Dealing with people's problems well can solve at least half of the problems.

"I don't have any good managers to recommend." Chu Xiong also replied in the same way: "Even if we start to find and train now, I'm afraid it will take at least a few years before we can use it. It is unrealistic to expect to be able to top it now."

Guo Tailai was a little disappointed by Chuxiong's answer, but it was normal. Chuxiong is in the real estate industry, not in the entertainment industry, so it's normal to not understand. Cross-industry is also a big taboo, easy cross-industry management is not a good thing, no, a thought popped into Guo Tailai's mind, who is not the real estate across the theater chain and production company, complementing each other, and for a while he became the richest man in the country of it? Chuxiong's conditions are suitable!

"Fatty, have you paid attention to the domestic box office of Feifei's film?" Guo Tailai had just thought about it, but Chu Xiong seemed to have a tacit understanding and mentioned related things: "It doesn't seem to be particularly high!"

Since "Resident Evil" was released in China, within three weeks, the box office has exceeded 15 million. Among the movies released at the same time, they performed very well, but in Chu Xiong's opinion, they were far from the best.

So many people are watching, how can there be only such a small box office? Chu Xiong was very puzzled, so he sent someone to investigate for a while, and the result made people feel a little angry, but there was nothing he could do.

At this time, the management of theater chains is not so strict, and the phenomenon of box office stealing has been repeatedly banned. This is an important reason why the statistics are only so small. According to Chu Xiong's estimate, if the real box office is calculated, it may be four to five times that number. What's even more damning is that if these stolen figures are given to other films, at least it can increase the total box office for the whole year. But a lot of the box office was directly disposed of by the theater, and it was lost, and it became the small coffers of the theater leaders or the welfare of the theater employees.

Although adding this part of the box office would not increase Chu Fei's salary much, but as Chu Fei's father, he felt very angry.

This kind of situation is not something that one or two theaters are doing. Almost more than half of the theaters are doing this. The overall phenomenon of the industry, the more remote the third- and fourth-tier cities are, the worse it is. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so there is no scruple in doing it.

Another point that is very angry is that the theater doesn't care about some things at all. Before it was released, high-definition discs were already flying all over the sky, which also greatly affected the overall box office figures. Chu Xiong saw it in his eyes and was angry in his heart!

"The current situation in the country is like this." After hearing Chuxiong's complaints, Guo Tailai was also at a loss: "The management of theater chains is not strict, and the higher-ups can't do anything about it. We can only wait for the higher-ups to pay more and more attention to and standardize management, so that this situation can be curbed. , but it is impossible to ban it. There will be such things in Hollywood. Piracy is the same, and a comprehensive and strict management is needed to reduce the occurrence of such things. In fact, there is another way to solve it.”

"What method?" Chu Xiong asked curiously.

"Build theaters by yourself." Guo Tailai quickly replied: "Manage them yourself, and these embarrassing things will not happen."

"It makes sense!" Chu Xiong began to seriously consider Guo Tailai's words, should he take advantage of the trend to create a theater chain in order to help his daughter's development?

"Uncle Chu, I have some ideas about the combination of theater chains and real estate. When you are free, let's sit down and talk together?" Guo Tailai thought for a while, and felt that he should talk about what he thought of with Chu Xiong. Now Start the layout, just in time. If it is done, it will be very beneficial to Chu Fei's development in the future, won't it?

"I'll be in the capital the day after tomorrow, just to see how the Zong Dynasty is doing." Chu Xiong immediately agreed without saying a word, checked the schedule, and quickly set a time: "We will have dinner together then."

After hanging up the phone, Guo Tailai thought, if even Chuxiong has no one to recommend, then there is probably no one in China who can manage a Hollywood production company for him. Forget it, since it was recommended by James, then ask him what he means, maybe he can recommend a suitable candidate?

"Because Artisan Entertainment is suitable!" Asked the reason for recommending Artisan Entertainment, James said with a relaxed smile on the phone: "They have enough skilled workers to support our film, and they have to recruit a new one. Many people don’t know the level, and there are a lot of troubles.”

"But I don't have any suitable manpower management!" Guo Tailai complained to James: "Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?"

"Of course." James replied without thinking, "Annie, one of my ex-wives..."