"What, I can't get a visa to enter Taiwan?" Kang Jianfei looked at Zeng Bolin in surprise, and suddenly felt that this time there was some trouble. It seemed that the Taiwan authorities were serious.
Zeng Bolin nodded and said: "The visa was refused due to political reasons."
"Jingle Bell……"
Just as Kang Jianfei was about to speak, the phone suddenly rang.
The call came from Yu Kanping from Taipei. He said anxiously: "Boss, my friends from China Film Group informed me that there is nothing they can do this time. The Information Bureau has received instructions from the top and is determined to knock Shan Zheng.
Tiger, the decree on the complete ban on DreamWorks films should be released in two or three days."
Kang Jianfei was puzzled when he heard this, and asked: "The Yindu Organization is a left-wing film organization with a well-established foundation. The films of several satellite companies they support can be released in Taiwan. How come the Information Bureau blocks Dreams?"
factory?"
Yu Kanping smiled bitterly and said: "DreamWorks is too popular. If it weren't for the face of Mr. Jiang, just the fact that the TV series produced by DreamWorks are sold to the mainland would be enough for the Information Bureau to ban it ten times."
"Is there any room for recovery?" Kang Jianfei asked.
"Yes." Yu Kanping said firmly.
Kang Jianfei continued to ask: "How to save it?"
Yu Kanping said: "First get in touch with the Hong Kong branch of the Central News Agency, contact the Information Bureau with the help of the Central News Agency, and then come to Taipei in person to the Information Bureau to write a letter of repentance and promise to draw a clear line with the other side in the future."
Alas, walking the tightrope between two parties is really not something ordinary people can do. Kang Jianfei hung up the phone quite speechlessly.
Even Shao Yifu had completely turned to the mainland. How could Kang Jianfei be so stupid as to draw a clear line with China?
As for the Taiwan film market, just throw it away. It will be able to come back after the martial law is lifted in a few years.
"Contact Xu Jiasheng for me and ask him to go out for dinner tomorrow!" Kang Jianfei ordered and continued filming the movie.
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The Information Bureau made a big move, which was beyond Kang Jianfei's expectation.
Just like Ye Zhiming's film company was blocked, and his Binbin Jeans were also blocked, none of Kang Jianfei's companies were spared. They were all blacklisted by the Information Bureau, including Oriental Cinemas, which was established at the beginning of the year.
, was actually labeled as a leftist theater, which really made Kang Jianfei laugh and cry.
Fulinmen Restaurant.
Xu Jiasheng arrived early with his female secretary. There was no bureaucratic air at all, and he actually put on a look of sadness and said: "Mr. Kang, I heard that your company's film has been blocked by the Taiwan authorities. What a pity."
Kang Jianfei didn't look sad at all. He said with a smile: "It's quite a pity. Whoever makes the money doesn't want it. I'm going to go to Taipei in two days to write a letter of apology, admit my mistake, and draw a clear line with you in the future.
, if you join the Free Association again, you still have a chance to lift the ban."
Xu Jiasheng heard what Kang Jianfei said. Although he knew that Kang Jianfei was deliberately scaring him, he still said quickly: "The return of 1997 is the general trend. Mr. Kang should not go against the trend of history. I think it is not a big deal if DreamWorks is blocked over there. DreamWorks will
Movies can be sold into the mainland market. The exchange rate of RMB against Hong Kong dollars is now 1:4. Even if a movie only sells for 5 million RMB in the mainland, it is equivalent to NT$100 million in Taiwan. Mr. Kang, your profits will definitely be
Bigger.”
Kang Jianfei chuckled and said: "President Xu, the RMB exchange rate is very weak, and the black market price is at least half lower."
Hui Ka-shing immediately said: "But the mainland film market is much bigger than Taiwan."
After talking for a long time and finally getting to the key point, Kang Jianfei said in embarrassment: "But now I sell at least 6 movies to Taiwan every year. Not to mention the censorship on the mainland, many movies will definitely not be sold, such as "Gamble"
"God" is a movie that promotes gambling. Moreover, mainland China still has film quotas, so DreamWorks will definitely not be able to win over the Silver Capital Agency. This is the most difficult thing to do!"
Hui Jiasheng patted his chest and said: "Don't worry about this, Mr. Kang. As long as your movies meet the censorship standards, I guarantee that you can sell at least 5 movies a year to the mainland. And the mainland has been a lot more relaxed in terms of censorship, like "
Ghost films with positive content such as "Happy Ghost" are still allowed to be released in the mainland, and they will not be regarded as feudal superstition."
Kang Jianfei asked Xu Jiasheng with a playful smile: "Can President Xu make the decision? It seems that the Film Bureau under the Ministry of Culture has the final say now."
Xu Jiasheng said: "If Mr. Kang doesn't believe it, you can go to the Beijing Film Bureau in person."
"Then please contact Mr. Xu for help," Kang Jianfei said. Since the Taiwan authorities would not let him play both sides, he might as well be a "red capitalist" openly.
Red capitalists have many benefits. For example, Huo Yingdong, a Hong Kong rich man, gained political capital by smuggling supplies to the mainland during the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. In fact, Huo Yingdong did not make a fortune through smuggling. It took him several years to earn tens of thousands of yuan. Only
It can be said that we have found the first pot of gold.
What really made Fok Ying-tung prosperous was his red political capital. At that time, Hong Kong was undergoing development and construction everywhere, but Hong Kong did not produce river sand for construction. However, Fok Ying-tung obtained the exclusive sales rights of river sand in the mainland, and it instantly became
The "Czar" that all real estate developers in Hong Kong want to please.
As for the film and television industry, Anle Pictures of the Jiang family is an obvious example. In a parallel space, Jiang Zhiwen will move closer to China and invest in the construction of the first joint venture cinema in the mainland.
The advantage gained by the Jiang family is that when Hong Kong films were in decline and major film companies were closing down, Anle Pictures, a small theater chain, actually bucked the trend and became the largest theater company in Hong Kong in the future, and almost monopolized mainland films.
external issuance business.
Kang Jianfei is a very eccentric person. When encountering difficulties, he does not feel that the sky is falling. Instead, he will consider how to turn difficulties into opportunities and bad things into good things.
Ancient Chinese people are very particular about coining words. The so-called "crisis" means that "danger" hides "opportunity". It depends on whether you can grasp it.
Being blocked by the Taiwan authorities is now an opportunity to move closer to the mainland. Kang Jianfei not only wants to sell songs, movies and TV series to the mainland, but also plans to spend money to build movie theaters in cooperation with the mainland.
Nowadays, mainland movie theaters are all state-owned, and the projection equipment and infrastructure are still relatively backward. Kang Jianfei wants to invest in building an iconic movie theater in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities.
Of course, these cinemas are joint ventures, with Kang Jianfei providing the money and the mainland government providing the land, and Kang Jianfei's shareholding cannot exceed 50%.
It may seem like a loss now, but ten or twenty years from now, it will mean a lot of money. Because in the process of private ownership reform in mainland China, Kang Jianfei can easily get back the shares of these theaters, and
By planning ahead and gaining political capital, Kang Jianfei will become the largest theater chain operator in the mainland when the theater system is reformed.
It may not be profitable to make movies in the mainland, but the mainland's cinema chain companies are all very fat. Didn't you see that Wanda Cinema directly acquired the world's second largest cinema chain company AMC?
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"International director Kang Jianfei was banned by Taiwan and all his companies were blacklisted"
"Oriental DreamWorks loses the Taiwan market, Hong Kong's largest film giant may prosper and decline"
"Oriental Entertainment Company is currently in a wave of contract terminations, with more than ten stars leaving within half a day"
"Franchise theater operators collectively protest, Oriental Cinemas may face collapse"
"..."
Before Kang Jianfei's trip to the capital was completed, the news that Kang Jianfei was completely banned spread in Hong Kong, causing a chain reaction like an avalanche.
First of all, the actors of Oriental Entertainment Company are panicking, because after the Taiwan News Bureau’s banning order, all films in which actors of Oriental Entertainment Company participate will be regarded as left-wing films and banned from being released in Taiwan. In this way, the more famous the
The more tragic the star becomes, the more likely no one in Hong Kong will dare to film with them except for DreamWorks and left-wing film companies.
Oriental Cinemas Co., Ltd. is also in a lot of trouble. Because it was labeled as a left-wing cinema chain, no film company dared to show films in Oriental Cinemas Co., Ltd., and even Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Pictures terminated its relationship with Oriental Cinemas Co., Ltd.
Cooperation.
Not only that, the theater franchisees of Oriental Cinemas, fearing that their theaters would become left-wing theaters, also asked Kang Jianfei to go to Taiwan to become soft.
Fengxing Records suffered the biggest and most direct losses, because the Hong Kong record market is very small, and it is generally very rare to sell more than 100,000 copies. In Taiwan, it is trivial for first-line singers to sell 200,000 or 300,000 records. The albums of Su Rui and Luo Dayou have already broken through the charts.
A million.
For Hong Kong record companies, the Taiwan record market is extremely important. It is okay for small and medium-sized record companies, but once large companies lose the Taiwan market, their profits will lose a lot.
After Fengxing Records was banned, the first singer to leave was Su Rui. The singing queen who was single-handedly supported by Kang Jianfei still had four years to go before the contract expired, but a Taiwanese record company was actually willing to release her.
She was signed away with a sky-high liquidated damages of HK$4.5 million.
What makes Kang Jianfei happy is that Ye Qianwen, who has gradually become a first-line singer, actually stays very loyally. Although he doesn't know what Ye Qianwen thinks, Kang Jianfei still decides to write a few songs to praise this woman - Kang Jianfei's idea is very simple
, since I can make Su Rui the queen, I can also make the second queen Ye Qianwen.
On the other hand, at Oriental DreamWorks and Phoenix TV, although there were a lot of discussions among employees, almost no one resigned because of it. These employees and administrative staff behind the scenes of film and television, they don’t need to show their faces. As long as they make money, they don’t care whether they are left or right.
Faced with the wave of contract terminations from major companies under his control, Kang Jianfei did not stop him. Anyway, those who want to leave can just pay the liquidated damages. With DreamWorks and Phoenix TV, these two star-making machines, Oriental Entertainment will still be short of stars.
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Kang Jianfei wants to see who will choose to leave at this time. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.