The current three powers in the Hong Kong film industry are competing for hegemony. With the decline of Shaw Brothers, the Hong Kong film industry has now become the world of Jiayi, Jiahe and New Art City. Every box office war will always happen between them, and most of the time
Jiahe faced the joint suppression by Jiayi and Xinyi City alone.
However, this has also created Jiahe's reputation. Even if Jiayi Film Company ranked first in profit last year, Jiahe's reputation is still higher than Jiayi. Last year, Wrinkle Huai was ambitious to open the US market.
I specially made a joint venture with a Hollywood company to film a movie called The Killer, and asked Chen Long to star in the movie, hoping to create Bruce Lee's second comeback.
It's just that the box office results of Last Year's Killer were not satisfactory to Wrinkle Huai, but he did not lose confidence. Just after the Spring Festival, Golden Harvest announced that Golden Harvest had invested heavily in cooperating with an American film company to co-produce the movie "Cannonball Run".
Chen Long plays the lead role in the movie.
The Hong Kong press highly praised Jiahe's proactive pioneering spirit, but this time Jiayi Film Company, owned by the Li family, became the target of criticism.
Oriental Daily wrote: "When we mention Li Group, we always think of many of their products sold in various regions. I have always felt that Li Group is a proactive group. Look at their distribution in major regions.
The company knows.”
"But today, I discovered that there are some companies under the Li Group that just rely on the Li Group to get by without the slightest intention to make a career. Compared with Jiahe, the performance of the top management of Jiayi Film Company is amazing.
Very disappointed. They have better resources than Jiahe, but they are only willing to stick to the Asian market and stand still, with no plans to expand in the United States."
This time, not only Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily and Min Pao, but also Xiangjiang New News pointed the finger at the top management of Jiayi Film Company, criticizing their incompetence and lack of courage to challenge.
Faced with overwhelming criticism and accusations from Hong Kong's major media, Jiayi Film Company's top management immediately held a meeting.
Wu Xianglin, general manager of the film company, said at the meeting: "I believe everyone has read today's news. We have now become a representative of Hong Kong's incompetence. How do you feel about this?"
Line manager Chen Jianming said: "Wu Sheng, we didn't make any mistakes ourselves. We also followed Li Sheng's instructions and worked hard to stabilize the Asian market. Moreover, our two movies, God of Gamblers and A Better Tomorrow, were released in Europe and the United States last year.
It achieved a very good box office, which is much higher than last year’s Jiahe’s The Killer.”
The executives of the film company really feel that they have been wronged today. How come they and others have become representatives of incompetence and lack of ambition? Last year, the film company’s profits ranked first in Hong Kong. Aren’t these achievements of themselves and others? Moreover, Jiahe
So what if I enter the United States? It’s not a huge disappointment.
Editorial manager Wei Zhiming said: "Wu Sheng, even if we want to enter the U.S. market, we need the approval of the senior management. The senior management of the group will obviously follow Li Sheng's suggestions. How can we be blamed for our incompetence?"
These senior executives were very angry after reading the newspaper today. They and others have worked very hard to run the film company, enabling the film company to achieve the highest profit among all film companies in Hong Kong. This was originally something worthy of praise, but now it has failed.
It became like this.
Wu Xianglin said: "Don't pay too much attention to the reports of the outside media. The top management of the group is very clear about the results we have achieved and they also praise our achievements. Whether we have the ability is not for these newspapers to see, but for the top management of the group and Li
What we need to care about is students’ evaluation of our abilities.”
After hearing what Wu Xianglin said, everyone put down their anger. As long as the senior management of the group continued to trust themselves and others, they didn't care what happened outside, and their jobs were not given by them.
Yang Hui, manager of the administrative department, said: "Wu Sheng, how should our film company respond to this incident?"
Wu Xianglin said: "You also know that it is very difficult for our Asian film companies to develop well in Hollywood, which is why Li Sheng wants us to stabilize the Asian market. The major film companies over there are not very good.
We are welcome to come over to grab food, take a look at Jiahe, and invest in it ourselves, but they themselves do not make much profit."
The U.S. side is essentially the same as Hong Kong. Without the support of theater chains, no matter how much money companies like you invest, it will be in vain. Behind the major film companies in the United States, none of them have the support of theater chains.
In the past, Jiayi did not cooperate with these companies, and it was difficult to release the film. But if it cooperates with them, how much will it get? I am afraid that when the time comes, others will eat meat in front of them, and I will only be able to drink soup.
Yang Hui said: "Wu Sheng, the current public opinion in Xiangjiang is very unfavorable to our Jiayi Film Company. If we don't respond, I'm afraid it will affect the box office of our movie."
Wu Xianglin also knew about this problem, and thinking about the senior management, he said: "I will go to the Li's Building later and report to the group Liu Sheng and Ms. Shi on this issue to see what their plans are."
While the senior management of Jiayi Film Company was meeting, Liu Tianci and Shi Nansheng had already arrived at Li Guangyu's office and reported the situation to him.
Li Guangyu didn't expect that Jiahe's investment in filming in the United States would cause such a disturbance. This time, the senior management of Jiayi Film Company was really unjust. They were all following their own orders.
Li Guangyu asked: "Godsend, Ms. Shi, do you have any opinions on this?"
Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, we also know that it is very difficult to develop in the United States without controlling theaters, but if we are indifferent now, public opinion will be quite unfavorable to us. Look at us
Should we also follow the example of Golden Harvest and cooperate with American companies? We will invest in their filming and then add one or two of our actors. Besides, we have many film and television actors in American economic companies."
Since he traveled through Hong Kong and watched a lot in his previous life, Li Guangyu really knows a few box office hits. Some books say that directors lack capital investment. Li Guangyu doesn't know if it's true. Anyway, he can let them try it.
try.
Li Guangyu said: "You ask the company in the United States to contact the director of Jaws to see if he has a new script that needs investment, and we will cooperate with him."
As the vice president who is mainly responsible for movies, Shi Nansheng naturally knows a lot about popular movies. The movie Jaws has received a very generous box office. Li Guangyu asked himself and others to discuss cooperation with the director of this movie. If successful, they
You will definitely reap huge rewards.
Shi Nansheng said: "Li Sheng, I will arrange for our employees in the United States to contact Mr. Steven Spielberg in the next two days to try to reach some cooperation with him."
Li Guangyu said to them: "After you go down, you must appease the emotions of the film company's senior executives, so that they will not be affected by the outside world, continue to lead the film company's development, and stabilize our film market in Asia."
Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, I will go to the film company in person and do a good job of comforting them."