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As a result, MKpictures, which was founded by the director Kang Di-kyu of "The Spy" and the representative of MyungFilm's production company MyungFilm of "Joint Security Area JSA", was acquired by the Gangwon Broadcasting Station. Orion, one of the companies, was affected.

When mentioning this secret story, Kevin Tsujiwara did not appear to be a layman, because he was not familiar with the Korean film circle, so he would behave like he doesn't understand.

On the contrary, it seemed that I had read a lot of information in advance, and naturally continued Li Xianzhe's words.

"When I analyzed the feasibility of acquiring Megabox a long time ago, someone inside Warner analyzed the acquisition that year. They said that Orion's sale of Megabox cinema was expected.

As the profitability of the Korean film industry declined at the time, Orion, whose financial ability was relatively weaker than CJ or Rakuten, determined to give up its business.

I have to quote some data here.

Megabox's performance in 206 has deteriorated compared with 2005.

Although sales increased from 99.9 billion won to 109.1 billion won during that period, operating profit and net profit decreased from 14.1 billion won and 10.3 billion won to 14 billion won and 8.7 billion won, respectively.

At that time, a research committee member of Mirae-asset Securities analyzed: "Because of being squeezed out by CJ and Rakuten, I could not make aggressive investments, so I decided to sell it.

Orion will use the funds obtained from the sale to invest in China or American movies to find growth drivers."

Li Xianzhe nodded. This is also the cause and effect of Megabox, a large theater chain, which was eventually acquired by an Australian investment group. However, when Megabox was acquired at the time, some filmmakers who held pessimism and idealism uttered bad news about it. song.

They believe that local theaters are acquired by foreign companies, and this will directly guarantee the increase in the number of Hollywood films introduced before the local landing conference in South Korea, which is bound to cause unimaginable blows to Korean films.

In this regard, Li Xianzhe just chuckled, saying that this group of civil defense against Hollywood is like anti-thief.

Vigilance and unity are really top-notch, but he feels that if these senior filmmakers can't make good works.

First of all, local audiences have lost confidence in Korean movies, and it would be futile to completely eliminate Hollywood movies from entering Korea.

In recent years, the development of Korean movies is still being released every year, and many movies are frequently shot, but most of them are still trading at a loss.

Whenever he thinks of this, Li Xianzhe will think that after the establishment of the film department of Empire Entertainment, all people in the field are turning around the script they took out.

He is not sure how far the company's film department will go in the future, but at least it will make the films produced by Empire Entertainment "unique" in the eyes of Koreans.

So that as long as he sees the words "produced by Empire Entertainment", he will definitely pay to watch it in the cinema. This is his ultimate goal.

And now, Kevin Tsujihara has proposed to let him buy the theater, which undoubtedly indicates that his film career will develop in a good direction.

In the end, the two finalized a detailed plan, with Warner Bros. sniping the South Korean integrated investment company behind Megabox, assisted by Empire Entertainment.

But in fact, in this acquisition plan, Warner used only the personal contacts of Kevin Tsujihara.

And Li Xianzhe is responsible for the takeover of all affairs and part of the capital investment after the acquisition.

It is better to say that it is two big companies, it is just a game played by Kevin Tsujihara and Li Xianzhe.

Li Xianzhe himself will own one-third of Megabox's theaters in South Korea and the global market through his investment, and the remaining two-thirds will be owned by Kevin Tsujihara and Warner behind it.

Even so, there are already more than 30 movie theaters in South Korea that will fall under Li Xianzhe and Imperial Entertainment.

And because of this cooperation, Kevin Tsujihara proposed to add one more.

Afterwards, Empire Entertainment will become the spokesperson of Warner Bros. in Korea and guarantee the release quota of Warner Bros. and Hollywood movies in Korea.

Similarly, Empire Entertainment has a high degree of "autonomy" as a spokesperson.

You can give priority to putting your own movies on the Megabox theaters.

At the same time, the movie can also be shown in Hollywood, theaters controlled by Warner.

"I wish us victory and happy cooperation."

As promised to board, Kevin Tsujihara raised his glass and smiled at Li Xianzhe.

"Happy cooperation!"

Ding~~ Two glasses filled with beer were lightly mingled together. This conversation also became a watershed in Li Xianzhe's personal career.

"The DC Cinema Universe thing, I ask you to do it. Don't worry, Warner has made up his mind to fully support it and promise to give the greatest concessions."

After a cooperation talk, Kevin Tsujihara casually mentioned the scripts of Li Xianzhe.

"Even the guy Jeff Jones praised your screenplay level and planning, and the high-levels inside Warner have finally seen it."

"It's not easy to see you work together to decide on one thing.

If it's at one point, DC might have risen before Marvel."

Kevin Tsujihara blinked. Whether Li Xianzhe said this was mocking them for delaying a lot of good opportunities in internal fighting, or suddenly sighed, in short, this is an established fact that cannot be refuted.

But now, the opportunity is finally in the hands of Warner.

And with the appearance of people who can truly trust, and they make overall plans, and besides delegating power and funding, they can sit still and concentrate on other things.

It is impossible to put all the belongings on Li Xianzhe and DC, just like Disney.

Although they acquired Marvel, they still make cartoons and Disney live-action movies.

But in the final analysis, Kevin Tsujiwara thought that he and Lee Xianzhe were already in a complete alliance, and the community of interests would be both prosperous and damaged year after year.

They don't even bother to sort out the connections and entanglements, so how can they tell outsiders?

In fact, the acquisition of Megabox from the Australian Macquarie Group seems to be against the sky.

But in fact, the theater chains owned by Megabox are really so few that many giants can't even look at them.

Its only significance is that once the future of Megabox changes, it will directly affect the local film industry and structure in South Korea.

Regardless of whether Megabox is currently in Seoul, there is only one movie theater in South Korea, or ten, as long as it is not acquired by a local company, the impact on Korean movies is unpredictable.

At this moment, Li Xianzhe's mobile phone placed under the towel at the edge of the pool rang, and it turned out that it was Kevin Fitch.

"Kevin, are you back from the headquarters again?"