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Currently, the ranking of the world film market is as follows:

First, the United States. fastest update

Second, Japan.

Third, the United Kingdom.

Fourth, France.

Fifth, India.

Sixth, Germany.

As far as the film market is concerned, the United States is far ahead of other countries, about four to five times that of Japan, which ranks second. As early as the end of the stock market crash in 1987, Xu Cun established the Imperial Cinema in the United States. With the support of Xu Cun's abundant funds, He Chaoqiong, Jiang Zhiqiang and others have acquired or established more than 400 theaters and more than 5,000 theaters in California, Tennessee, San Francisco and other 39 states and the District of Columbia. Zhang Yinhua has become one of the top three theater chains in the United States. Currently, Emperor Cinemas is still expanding in the United States.

Although the Japanese economy has begun to weaken, the Japanese film market is still strong and will continue to be strong. Last year, Xu Cun acquired the Nikkei Cinema Line and converted all its theaters into the world's most advanced 3D cinemas, and renamed it Emperor Cinema (Japanese branch), making it one of the top three cinema chains in Japan. Currently, the Japanese branch is waiting for the opportunity to expand.

In the UK, the negotiation between Xu Cun's acquisition team and odeon is still in a stalemate. As expected by Xu Cun in advance, odeon offered Xu Cun a sky-high price of 1.2 billion pounds. After several rounds of negotiations, it was only reduced to 170 million. Sterling, black as hell!

Indian side.

How should I put it, the Indian film market is huge and has great potential, but it is really difficult to break into the last world. Except for a few phenomenal films such as "Avatar" and "Titanic", other films are difficult to make in India. Shaking the status of Indian Bollywood films, most of the time the top ten films in the Indian film market are all Indian Bollywood films.

Some people in the last life summed up the reasons for this, which boiled down to the following:

One is that most audiences who speak Indian language do not like to watch subtitles, and even a large part of Indian audiences are not literate at all;

The second is because there will be some scenes that expose the body in foreign movies, while Indian audiences are more conservative, and their fragile little hearts cannot accept this;

The third is because of cultural differences, "Vietnamese movies cannons, Indian movies sing and dance." Many Indian audiences watch movies just to watch the singing and dancing in the movies, and most foreign movies do not have this content.

Therefore, although he was a little reluctant, Xu Cun still had to abandon the film market in India. At most, Xu Cun cooperated with some local forces in India. Anyway, he would never establish a cinema chain in India.

Needless to say in Germany, the Hanseatic Cinema has already arrived in Xu Cun's hands.

Back to France.

France is known as a "European ticket warehouse". Of course, this is a bit exaggerated. In fact, the French film market is on a par with the British film market. Considering the unique tastes of French audiences, the French film market is actually not as good as the British film market.

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In any case, the French film market can also be firmly ranked in the top five in the world. Even in the last world, China became the second largest film market in the world, the Indian film market continued to explode, and the two film markets of East Germany and West Germany merged. It didn't even make it out of the top five.

Therefore, in the French film market, Xu Cun naturally cannot let it go!

After picking and choosing among a number of House of Representatives merchants in France, Xu Cun chose a company, EMI.

This EMI is not the "Electronics and Music Industry Company" (emi, commonly known as EMI), one of the five international record giants, but a French film company.

EMI, a French film company, may not be well-known in China, but a little inquiries in North Africa or Europe will reveal that this old-fashioned film company founded a century ago is worthy of its slogan of 'making first-class movies'. The production style and concept were once the global mainstream, and even influenced the Japanese and Indian film industries.

In the heyday of the EMI Film Company, its branches spread all over various countries, overwhelming the film companies competing with it in these countries, and it ruled a film territory larger than that of Hollywood in the previous generation. The film industry today is much smaller.

Xu Cun chose EMI not because of its glorious history, but because of its "EMI Associates", which is still one of the most important academies in France. One-third of the location is also the best in all of France.

However

Since the end of World War I, EMI has been in a low ebb. Although EMI has film production every year, and is constantly trying to integrate the artistic and commercial aspects of film, but looking back on its development in the half century after World War II, there is no doubt about it. Its path has not been successful.

If not, the sideline business of EMI Film Company is more brilliant, providing it with a lot of surviving funds to help it survive crisis after crisis, and it would have been submerged in the long river of history.

Therefore, it is not difficult to convince its owner to sell such a company.

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How did things go so well?

Originally, Xu Cun only wanted to acquire the EMI affiliate company of EMI Films, that is, only the theater chain of EMI. However, the board of directors of EMI refused to do it and insisted that even EMI should be sold to Xu Cun, and the price was not high enough. Low, regards Xu Cun as a complete take advantage of.

The practice of EMI's strong buying and selling made Xu Cun very upset, so much that Xu Cun wanted to buy Gao Meng Film Company instead.

Later, Xu Cun learned from the acquisition team that EMI Films actually had 1.6% of the shares of British Sky Broadcasting Company, which was formed by the merger of Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting Company, and 7.7% of the French live satellite TV station alsat. San's stake is one of the shareholders of the two TV companies ~lightnovelpub.net~ changed his mind immediately although BSkyB is only now ready to set sail with News Corp's capital injection, although now alsat is in France The country is still losing money and shouting that there is no domineering of the world's most slang TV station in the future. Although the shares of the two TV companies held by EMI Film Company are not large, this is undoubtedly a very good ticket. Let Xu Cun get involved in the tickets of the European pay TV market!

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At the beginning of May, it took nearly two months, Xu Cun's acquisition team finally successfully acquired odeon and EMI, together with the previously acquired Hansa and some scattered theaters and cinemas that Emperor Cinemas established and acquired in various European countries. Cun finally owns the largest cinema chain in Europe, the Emperor Cinema (European branch).

The European branch is good in terms of location and scale.

In addition, Xu Cun ordered to upgrade all of them into 3D theaters that can play 3D movies.

It is no exaggeration to say that it will not be long before the European branch is not only the best cinema in Europe but also the best in the world.

Of course, correspondingly, the money for the European branch, or the European branch, was entirely made by Xu Cun, not to mention odeon and EMI, and even Hansa cost Xu Cun a lot of money. Money is good money!

To spend such a large sum of money to build a theater chain, even if you have money like Xu Cun, it will be painful! So much so that when he left Europe, Xu Cun said angrily: "It won't be long before I will ask you Europeans to spit out all this money to me!"

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(To be continued..) rw