Chapter 3136: Tools to Dismantle Power

Zhang Chaoyang said: "As soon as your theory comes out, it will take the global film and television industry by storm within a few years."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said jokingly: "That's for sure. People in the world have been suffering from Hollywood for a long time. It is inherently unfair to let Hollywood control the most distribution resources and let people in Hollywood decide the distribution of distribution resources. "

Zhang Chaoyang nodded, "After hearing what you said, I realized that the core competitiveness of Hollywood giants is the right to allocate industry resources."

"Yes, the monopoly right to distribute distribution resources."

"But this is not good for you either. Ziweixing Global is also a Hollywood giant and also has this monopoly distribution right."

"That's different!" Zhou Buqi was very conceited about this. "Market-based competition can make capable people stand out. The more capable they are, the more successful they will be. If some non-market power intervention is added, , there will definitely be power rent-seeking. As long as there is power rent-seeking, it will make it difficult for outstanding people to get ahead, and it will allow incompetent people to obtain mismatched resources, which will cause a waste of resources and unfairness in the industry. "

Zhang Chaoyang laughed and said, "Have you studied political economics?"

"What? I've seen a lot and experienced a lot, so I summed it up." Zhou Buqi really has never studied economic theories in different fields. "Maintaining the current institutional framework of Hollywood, Ziweixing Global is of course an industry giant, and its status is Very stable. But if we rely on the Internet to break the existing power structure and reduce the importance of distribution rights, it will only allow Ziweixing Global’s strength to be fully exerted and further widen the gap.”

"So confident?"

Zhang Chaoyang actually has a lot of confidence in him. He can take the initiative to give up his own power and embrace the market. This courage is far beyond what ordinary people can have.

The biggest criticism of many large zombified companies is the lack of entrepreneurs with the spirit of self-revolution. In the long run, they will have a very negative impact on society both internally and externally. They occupy huge social resources but can only create a small amount of products. social benefits.

If we really care about society, the public, and the development of the world, we must actively give up our own power, return social resources to society, and let capable people create greater value and create more social wealth.

Almost all century-old companies and very large companies at home and abroad have this problem.

The power it controls simply does not match the social wealth it creates.

Hollywood has been developing for a hundred years and has become increasingly zombie-like.

Except for Disney, which still has some vitality, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Sony Entertainment are basically hanging on, and Warner is also dying and preparing to sell itself. They all rely on the resource allocation rights they control to allocate more resources to themselves. Relying on unfair resource distribution to plunder social resources belonging to others to extend one's own life.

The Internet is an effective tool that can effectively break up the power monopoly in many traditional industries.

This is also the tool Zhou Buqi is best at.

Which one is better, a movie produced by Paramount with a $200 million investment or a movie shot by a college student on his mobile phone? It shouldn't be left up to those in Hollywood who control the allocation of resources, and it shouldn't be the case that only Paramount films are released and the work of college students is thrown into the trash.

It should be left up to fans around the world to decide.

Put both movies on a streaming platform, and fans can watch whichever one they want. The Internet can provide a platform for a fair showdown between the two movies, instead of making subjective judgments.

Only in this way can there be many excellent foreign film and television works that can become as popular around the world as Hollywood movies and American TV series.

Zhou Buqi said: "I have worked hard for five or six years to be a streaming media company. I have a lead, shouldn't I? The fairer the competition, the greater my advantage."

Zhang Chaoyang pondered and said: "In this way, the film and television industries around the world will be very welcoming to you. You will bring fair opportunities to every film and television practitioner in the world, instead of just treating you like Hollywood in the past. Hollywood gives special treatment. The film and television industry is a cultural export. If you accomplish this, it will be equivalent to allowing every country in the world to have the same power to export the value of the film and television industry as the United States. The impact is not small! "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "That's for sure!"

Zhang Chaoyang nodded, "This can make your business around the world smoother, and you, as a guest, can be more popular in various countries. This can also be regarded as a dismantling of American hegemony in this field. If you go here You have to be careful every step you take.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It's not me who is at the forefront, it's Silicon Valley. Netflix and Amazon have been doing streaming media for so many years, and Apple, Microsoft and others are expected to enter the market soon."

Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile: "If you accomplish this, the country will also be happy. At least domestic film and television works will have more opportunities to develop overseas, so that the whole world can see the real current situation in the country through film and television works. It’s not because of some unscrupulous Western media. I have traveled to so many countries in the past few years, and I have never seen any country develop as fast as China.”

Zhou Buqi stretched his waist and said, "The opportunity has been provided. Whether you can do it or not depends entirely on your ability. For example, "The Three-Body Problem" is confirmed to be produced next."

"The Three-Body Problem?" Zhang Chaoyang raised his eyebrows, "Didn't this win the Science Fiction Award two months ago?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, it's that science fiction novel. I own the copyright. I also found someone to translate it into English and recommend it."

"Then you have made a great contribution."

"I want to make this novel into a TV series. If Americans make it, they will definitely choose Americans as the protagonists to promote American values; if a domestic team makes it, they will definitely choose domestic actors as the protagonists, and the content of the filming must be in line with the main theme and legal and compliant. Anyone can make it, Koreans, Indians, British, Germans, who want to make it can buy the copyright. After filming, it will be posted on the streaming platform, and audiences all over the world can watch it. As for which version the global audience likes to watch and which copyright is more influential worldwide, it depends on who shoots better and more universally."

"Hey... Disney is here!"

Zhang Chaoyang looked out the window and saw Disney's castle-like headquarters building.

...

Disney is going to transform into a streaming media.

It is imminent.

The most urgent area is not the field of film and television streaming, but the field of sports live streaming on the Internet.

If it weren't for this, Robert Iger would not have surrendered to Zhou Buqi.

ESPN is the core asset of Disney's television business, even more important than ABC TV Network, and is Disney's most stable source of cash flow. ESPN is the world's largest TV station, but since this year, the number of users has been declining.

Even many young people have called on the Internet to launch a "cord-cutting" movement against ESPN. That is, cut off the cable of ESPN TV station, give up ESPN and turn to the Internet!

Now, more and more sports events are broadcast live on the Internet, and can be watched on computers, tablets and mobile phones, which is much more convenient than watching TV.

So ESPN must transform immediately and launch a streaming version immediately.