Chapter 938 (1/2)
When the video call screen was connected, Amy Pascal, who was far away in Los Angeles, was slightly stunned, because the first thing she saw was a delicate little girl like a doll, blinking her light eyes and looking at her curiously.
The picture is shaking.
Simon showed up, put the little guy in his arms, and motioned, ”Nina, what's your manners?”
The little girl just responded and said to the camera, ”good afternoon, madam. My name is Nina. How about you?”
Amy can be sure that this is not a guy's illegitimate daughter, because if there is, his boss will not cover up this kind of thing at all. I think it's another lover's daughter. Seeing that the little guy is so beautiful, his mother is certainly not bad. Moreover, it's obviously very popular to sit in Simon's arms at this time, so he patiently said, ”Hello, you can call me Amy 。”
”Amy, nice to meet you. Are you far away from us?”
”Of course, this is Los Angeles. Nina, where are you? ”
”Mom says it's St. Petersburg.”
”Oh, I know. It's a beautiful city.”
”Yes, and a lot of people here speak Russian, my mother said, because this is my hometown and Russian is my mother tongue. Amy, what's your mother tongue?”
Amy soon found that the little girl on the screen was a little nagging. She was still patient and said with a smile, ”English is the language we are speaking now.”
”Well, Amy, do you know Russian?”
”No
”Why? Nina can speak Russian, so can her father and mother, as well as Ivana, Yulia and Vera, but Vera is only two years old and has just learned to speak. ”
The little girl is constantly Balabala, next to a pair of thin white arms which are obviously women's, reach out and pick up the little guy. Amy is just surprised by the little shaking, and recognizes the identity of the woman who took the baby away, Yulia schulshigina.
During the live broadcast of London girls two years ago, this fairy like woman with delicate face and perfect figure was once noticed by many people. And last year's amazing ”Bach's last day” Ballet Solo MV, once again let Yulia shuershiggina a a surprise.
And then silence again.
We all know that this woman is loved by Simon westero. No matter how many fans of Bach's last day are aggrieved, they never show up again.
It is only known that she lives in London.
At first, it was followed by the media for a while, then the tabloids in London were warned, and things cooled down again.
I didn't expect to see it in the video today.
And the other side also has such a lovely daughter, although it's a little nagging.
However, when the little guy was carried away by shuerxijinna, Amy didn't say much about her boss's private life. She directly talked to Simon about the business: ”boss, did you see the news about the film industry in China yesterday?”
Simon nodded.
Today is May 31. It's 9 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles. I just went to work. Here in St. Petersburg, the local time is 7 p.m. and in the evening, the time difference between the two places is exactly 10 hours.
And just yesterday.
On May 30 local time, the Chinese government officially issued two documents on the film industry.
The first is the long-standing ”Regulations on the administration of films”.
The document issued by the Ministry of radio and television mainly stipulates the production, examination and distribution of Chinese films.
Simon had looked at the general content before the document was released.
In his opinion, what has a slight impact on Hollywood is to make it clear that the duration of domestic films in Chinese cinemas should not be less than two-thirds of the total time. This is a kind of clear domestic protection after the Chinese film market was dominated by imported films in the past two years. As for the rest, there is basically no difference from the past.
At most, it just makes some of the hidden rules clear on paper.
In addition, Simon's favorite is the Provisional Regulations on foreign invested cinemas.
This is a result of Simon's last trip to China.
Detailed terms need not be said, the core is China's opening up foreign investment into the mainland to invest in cinemas.
Of course, the main constraints are also in Simon's expectation.
For the time being, the mainland does not accept sole foreign investment and can only cooperate. Moreover, the shareholding ratio of joint venture cinemas should not exceed 49% and the controlling shares must be controlled by the Chinese side.
In front of the call screen.
Seeing his boss nodding, Amy said, ”boss, in this case, do we still stick to the established plan? Recently, I have a deeper understanding of the film industry in the mainland of China. Under the impact of television and piracy, most of the cinemas in the mainland of China are at a loss. What's more, we don't even have control. ”
Simon leaned relaxed on the leather chair, put his hands in front of him, shook his head and said, ”Amy, the impact of TV and piracy is the same in the United States and even all over the world. When TV and video appeared at first, Hollywood was also facing a big enemy. As a result, these channels only increased our income.””China is not the same.”
”Yes, but only for the time being. Moreover, as long as there are enough interests in it, the Chinese government will certainly take measures to promote the progress of the industry. Now basically determined three, cinema line reform, cinema networking and the opening up of cinema investment, is a kind of progress. Amy, don't forget, China has a population of 1.2 billion. ”
”In that case, what about control? Boss, if we invest but don't have a voice, the result may be very bad. ”
”You made a mistake, Amy. The absolute majority does not mean that our partners in China will insist on controlling the cinema. Moreover, as you know, I have a lot of investments in China, so many affiliated companies, as long as you can pull in some of them to participate in the investment, 49% can become 51%. Therefore, you can organize the team of Oden cinema to visit China, and it happens that you can go there with the team of China's Ministry of radio, film and television. It's our return visit. Don't worry. I have other plans over there
Now that Simon had thought it over, Amy stopped talking and nodded, ”I'll do it as soon as possible.”
After they finished talking about it, they discussed some other work, and then they ended the conversation.
Los Angeles.
In the office of maribudanilis studios.
Amy first informs her assistant to arrange an evening dinner with Blake McKiernan, the president of daenerys Entertainment's Oden cinema, to discuss the layout of China in detail, and then picks up a box office report.
In addition to just the past week, this report also covers the box office situation of Denise Entertainment's films released in the first half of the year.
As of May 30 yesterday, the first half of 1996 was basically completed.
First, rush hour, which was released in February.
Because of its early release, the global distribution of the action film starring Jack Cheng with a production cost of 30 million US dollars basically ended. The box office of the film in North America was 141 million US dollars, and the overseas performance was weak, but it also reached 126 million US dollars.
The global total is 267 million US dollars.
Absolutely big money.