"That's good. Actually, I've been thinking about whether I can control a North American theater chain in some way?" Yang Cheng asked thoughtfully.

Donna Round pushed the gold-rimmed glasses, showing calmness about Yang Cheng's ambitions. This is not the first time she has heard similar remarks from Yang Cheng. At least from her perspective, this is a good thing. Although the six Hollywood majors did not control theaters from the surface, they were more or less indirectly held through overseas companies. Even if they did not reach the level of controlling, they were all influential theater decisions. Otherwise, why would the six Hollywood majors be powerful for many years and remain undefeated?

This decision can only be made by Yang Cheng, but it does not prevent Donna Langd from giving an idea. "At present, the entire North American market can help us from the perspective of market share, namely Imperial Entertainment, AMC, cinemark, and cineple. Among them, AMC theaters were acquired by a Z-National Consortium in the past few years, and there is no intention to change hands. Although the operation status of Imperial Entertainment itself is not very good, its size is too large. Our family can easily die of food. The remaining cinemark and cineple can be paid attention to."

The cinemark theater chain mentioned by Donna Langd is the third largest theater chain in the United States. As of a few days ago, Cinemark has 7 theaters in North America, 4,544 screens, and 11 theaters in Latin America, making it the most widely distributed theater chain in Latin America, and is distributed in one country in Latin America. Compared with Emperor Entertainment and AMC, Cinemark undoubtedly has a broader infrastructure in the Latin American market.

Another Toronto-based Cineple is Canada's largest theater chain, dominating all important markets from British Columbia to Quebec.

Currently, Cineple y Fund owns about 76% of the theaters, and One Company owns about 4% of the shares. Cineple Cineple Cinemas is distributed under six brands including Famous Players, Cineple Odeon, y Cinemas, Scotiabank Theatres, SilverCity and Cinema City.

However, whether it is Emperor Entertainment, AMC, cinemark and cineple, the situation has not been very good in recent years.

As the number of cinemas and silver screens in North America tends to be saturated, the rise of film viewing methods such as Netfli, Hulu and VoD (video on demand technology) and the compression of the theater window period has led to a slowdown in box office revenue growth and even a downward trend, and the box office share is also impacted.

Cinema revenue mainly comes from three parts: box office share, franchise revenue and theater advertising. These three parts basically account for about 95% of a theater operator's revenue. Among them, box office revenue is the largest source of revenue, but the gross profit of this part is the lowest.

For those large theater chains, the gross profit of the franchise business is around 80-85%, while the gross profit of the screening business is only around 45%-50%. Other sources of revenue, such as the gross profit margin of theater advertising, is very high, but accounts for a low proportion of revenue.

In recent years, with the slowdown in box office growth in North America and the reduction in box office share revenue, American theaters have to increase the proportion of other businesses. In this regard, only AMC theaters, which have just been acquired by Z Guo Wanda Group, can reach this point, and the rest are all surviving.

Yang Cheng thought for a while and ordered, "This is how you are responsible for making a feasibility report on the acquisition of these two theaters. Whether to acquire it in the end has to be discussed separately. Whether to establish a separate subsidiary or use my subsidiary in Asia to acquire it, it also needs to be discussed before making a conclusion."

"I know the boss, there is another thing. Didn't we discuss CW TV in New York before? Later, regarding the schedule of "Vampire Diary", Mark Pedwiz met Nina Dubov specifically, but the conversation was not good. Nina Dubov seemed to be determined to refuse to continue to star in "Vampire Diary"."

Yang Cheng was a little unhappy at first, but this little thing was not worth discussing when he was brought to the big boss.

But after all, it was something that Yang Cheng personally asked about at that time, and Donna Langd felt it was necessary to mention it.

"Then ban her. A second-tier female star now has the power to say no?" Yang Cheng snorted coldly. To be honest, sometimes Hollywood really needs shameless tyrants like Harvey Weinstein, otherwise the big stars who are attracted by money will have to jump on your head and talk to you.

"The ban? Will it be too serious? We chose this extreme method just because the other party refused to play. Will it make the industry dissatisfied?" In fact, according to Donna Longde's own original wish, she definitely agreed to the ban. She is the president of New Era Film and Television. She has been asking about the matters below the subsidiary several times, but it has not been resolved yet, and she is always a little unhappy.

However, she is Yang Cheng's right-hand assistant. When the boss is angry, she cannot be angry. She must be rationally comforted and consider more from the perspective of the company.

Yang Cheng was dissatisfied with this and was dissatisfied with it. He had the ability to kill me. Anyway, he didn't believe that the parent company behind his opponent would start a public opinion war with him for such a trivial matter. Capitalists would not do anything without any profit.

"Stop persuading me. As I said, the rise of CW TV is the top priority of the entire media group in the future. I don't allow anyone to cause trouble. Anyone who wants to become a stumbling block in the rise of the TV station must be prepared to be crushed into scum." Yang Cheng said murderously.

In this way, Donna Round will never talk much, "I will arrange it and make noises to the outside world. That Nina Dubov has no representative work except the vampire diary. He is currently just spending his money and spending his popularity. I don't know what the team behind her thinks, a group of waste."

Speaking of the team behind it, Yang Cheng suddenly remembered that Xu Lingyue had not been arranged yet, and he happened to inform Donna Langd, "By the way, I recently had a girlfriend and the relationship is pretty good. I plan to help her and sign her into the company. In addition, I set up a studio in China to serve her specifically. The agent should be familiar with the entertainment circles of China and the United States, and it is best to be proficient in Chinese and English."

Donna Lund is not a scheming CEO, so of course he won’t make things awkward for the big boss’s personal affairs. Besides, signing an actor will not affect the interests of the company.

"Okay, I'll arrange this matter. It's not easy to find an agent, but it's definitely not impossible to find one. What Hollywood lacks the most is the screenwriter and agent." Donna Round half-jokingly said that this matter would be resolved perfectly, reassuring Yang Cheng.
Chapter completed!