LANDMARK ENTERTAINMENT ASIALandmark Entertainment Asia is Korea’s leading global entertainment network company which established on 2001 and has been working mainly on live action and animation movie, project development, investment and production with the initial name “PMG – People Management Group” . After 17 years of development, Landmark has been having many direct investments in global movies and animation, a great number of global IPs and also the owner of Landmark USA’s license. Landmark Entertainment’s CEO is Sam Chi, former member of many companies and corporations: Global Technical Finance,JP Morgan and Price Waterhouse.
Landmark is owning many global IP and assets through direct equity investments in Michael Bay’s 451 Media Group, GLOBAL TOP HOLLYWOOD TRANSMEDIA PRODUCTION COMPANY and his Hollywood’s animation company, Storyoscopic; Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment’s “Now United” global pop-band ; and JD Han of Sanai Pictures. Besides, the company also has some essential partners and strategies alliances. Some of them are top domestic movie production companies such as HNC and Sanai Pictures with the amount of profits, the ownership of each movie’s IP and global copyrights. There is also Reload Studio – An independent game development studio formed by the talented developers that led the creation and production of some of the best-selling video games in the world. Reload is developing content to entertain an ever expanding audience for emerging Virtual Reality and existing game platforms. |
LANDMARK CEO SAM CHI: BLOCKCHAIN WILL CHALLENGE THE HOLLYWOOD
HEGEMONYForkLog: Hi Sam (President Landmark Asia)! You started your career in the financial sector and served as the Vice President at JPMorgan&Chase. Do you consider blockchain as a financial technology at first place?
Sam: I believe that blockchain forms the next generation IT-industry. The financial sector has to work with blockchain and implement DLT-tech. In the past we could have separated those things – I mean information tech and finances developed seperately, but now it’s no longer true. It’s one thing now, the traditional paradigm of finance is no longer there.
ForkLog: What’s the future for the movie-making industry? What trends do you see now?
Sam: I think that most people are tired of the same movies all the time. We see different actors and directors, but each time, it is the same story, sam script. Yes, the actions could be more advanced, better CG, better picture quality. but the storyline is same all the time, and movie lovers are simply just tired of that. That is why many people prefer documentaries and based on true story movies.
We, the movie makers, really need to improve our story telling and breathe a new life back into our movies.
In terms of trends, I personally see a need to decentralize the industry. By saying this, I mean that it’s not always effective to have few sources of movie-making financing, invested by the major studios in the world. Maybe this is the main cause for the same storyline. We could have equal conditions for movie-makers from countries like Russia, China, and Korea, Nigeria, or any other nations. We can see new heroes coming from these countries, and it will be good thing for us. We love Tom Cruise, but he does NOT have to be the Hero everytime and all the time.
ForkLog: But Hollywood is still an uncontested leader in this sphere, isn’t it? There is an obvious monopoly. We can’t say that industry is decentralized.
Sam: Sure. We can’t change things overnight as with anything else. The key problem in terms of this monopoly is investment flow. So, for many years, as staed, the only big studios could invest in the global full-scale film-projects. But, now, I see this reality starting to change because of blockchain tech. The main blockchain usecase in the movie-making industry is to tokenize and decentralize investments to make it possible for people all over the world to take part. I think we will see very different movie-making environment in the next five years or so.
ForkLog: Some producers believe that tokensales is a great way to fund movies. Do you think it’s effective to have separate token for each particular film?
Sam: I believe that tokenization is the next development phase in the investment sector, and movies’ funding in particular. Now you don’t need to be a part of a big studio to take part. If you want to invest $10, you can and that will be great.
You can generate separate tokens for each new movie as well as have a kind of an universal token to fund the whole entertainment media sphere. I think it works both ways.
ForkLog: What do you and your company do to promote these new decentralized trends?
Sam: Of course, for now, we will continue to make movies in old-fashioned way and attract funds from big investors as well as use our own resources. But slowly, we will also implement tokenized solutions. We already have Landmark Coin (LAC, landmarkasia.io), which is created to make a new fashion mainstream.
ForkLog: Do you have any experience in making tokensales?
Sam: Yes. We have already created a wonderful coin outside of entertainment industry. Because blockchain tech abilities are much more than just fun. It’s called DEO coin (destoio), which is aimed to provide tens of millions of unbanked people in not advanced countries with high-quality financial services. Now, we know the enormous power of tokenization and we are going to bring it to entertainment.
ForkLog: What platform is the best one to tokenize the film industry?
Sam: For now I believe it’s Ethereum. It’s the best option of tokenization for movie makers and any other entertainment providers. It’s like kind of a car. You know there will be better models in the future, but if you have to drive now – you choose Ethereum. Most of the tokens are now ERC-20 compliant of course.
ForkLog: Do you see any usecases in the movie-making industry for existing cryptocurrencies like bitcoin?
Sam: You know Bitcoin is a father of all cryptocurrencies. I think that sooner or later everyone will be able to pay in bitcoins not only for movie tickets, but also for popcorn and all that stuff. That will be as usual as movies with VR integration.
The future of decentralized solutions is huge!
Sam Chi was interviewed by Nick Schteringard.
https://forklog.com/glava-kompanii-landmark-sem-chi-blokchejn-poshatnet-gegemoniyu-gollivuda-v-kinoindustrii/
HEGEMONYForkLog: Hi Sam (President Landmark Asia)! You started your career in the financial sector and served as the Vice President at JPMorgan&Chase. Do you consider blockchain as a financial technology at first place?
Sam: I believe that blockchain forms the next generation IT-industry. The financial sector has to work with blockchain and implement DLT-tech. In the past we could have separated those things – I mean information tech and finances developed seperately, but now it’s no longer true. It’s one thing now, the traditional paradigm of finance is no longer there.
ForkLog: What’s the future for the movie-making industry? What trends do you see now?
Sam: I think that most people are tired of the same movies all the time. We see different actors and directors, but each time, it is the same story, sam script. Yes, the actions could be more advanced, better CG, better picture quality. but the storyline is same all the time, and movie lovers are simply just tired of that. That is why many people prefer documentaries and based on true story movies.
We, the movie makers, really need to improve our story telling and breathe a new life back into our movies.
In terms of trends, I personally see a need to decentralize the industry. By saying this, I mean that it’s not always effective to have few sources of movie-making financing, invested by the major studios in the world. Maybe this is the main cause for the same storyline. We could have equal conditions for movie-makers from countries like Russia, China, and Korea, Nigeria, or any other nations. We can see new heroes coming from these countries, and it will be good thing for us. We love Tom Cruise, but he does NOT have to be the Hero everytime and all the time.
ForkLog: But Hollywood is still an uncontested leader in this sphere, isn’t it? There is an obvious monopoly. We can’t say that industry is decentralized.
Sam: Sure. We can’t change things overnight as with anything else. The key problem in terms of this monopoly is investment flow. So, for many years, as staed, the only big studios could invest in the global full-scale film-projects. But, now, I see this reality starting to change because of blockchain tech. The main blockchain usecase in the movie-making industry is to tokenize and decentralize investments to make it possible for people all over the world to take part. I think we will see very different movie-making environment in the next five years or so.
ForkLog: Some producers believe that tokensales is a great way to fund movies. Do you think it’s effective to have separate token for each particular film?
Sam: I believe that tokenization is the next development phase in the investment sector, and movies’ funding in particular. Now you don’t need to be a part of a big studio to take part. If you want to invest $10, you can and that will be great.
You can generate separate tokens for each new movie as well as have a kind of an universal token to fund the whole entertainment media sphere. I think it works both ways.
ForkLog: What do you and your company do to promote these new decentralized trends?
Sam: Of course, for now, we will continue to make movies in old-fashioned way and attract funds from big investors as well as use our own resources. But slowly, we will also implement tokenized solutions. We already have Landmark Coin (LAC, landmarkasia.io), which is created to make a new fashion mainstream.
ForkLog: Do you have any experience in making tokensales?
Sam: Yes. We have already created a wonderful coin outside of entertainment industry. Because blockchain tech abilities are much more than just fun. It’s called DEO coin (destoio), which is aimed to provide tens of millions of unbanked people in not advanced countries with high-quality financial services. Now, we know the enormous power of tokenization and we are going to bring it to entertainment.
ForkLog: What platform is the best one to tokenize the film industry?
Sam: For now I believe it’s Ethereum. It’s the best option of tokenization for movie makers and any other entertainment providers. It’s like kind of a car. You know there will be better models in the future, but if you have to drive now – you choose Ethereum. Most of the tokens are now ERC-20 compliant of course.
ForkLog: Do you see any usecases in the movie-making industry for existing cryptocurrencies like bitcoin?
Sam: You know Bitcoin is a father of all cryptocurrencies. I think that sooner or later everyone will be able to pay in bitcoins not only for movie tickets, but also for popcorn and all that stuff. That will be as usual as movies with VR integration.
The future of decentralized solutions is huge!
Sam Chi was interviewed by Nick Schteringard.
https://forklog.com/glava-kompanii-landmark-sem-chi-blokchejn-poshatnet-gegemoniyu-gollivuda-v-kinoindustrii/