Not long after Li Guangyu returned to the building office in the afternoon, Yao Jingwei came in with a document and handed it to him.
A movie released by Jiayi Group last month with an investment of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars was very miserable at the box office. It is regarded by Jiayi Group as the worst production since the group was founded. Its box office performance is nothing compared to the investment.
In direct proportion, it is not as good as the box office of some small productions with an investment of one or two million Hong Kong dollars. This movie is the New Shushan Swordsman.
When the movie was released, Li Guangyu and Le Yiling were visiting Southeast Asia, so Li Guangyu did not ask too much about this matter. He believed that the senior management of the group could handle this matter.
Unfortunately, things were a bit beyond his expectation. Even though the movie had already been sold out, Jiayi Theater Company's theaters across Asia were still reluctant to take the movie off the shelves. This made Li Guangyu quite angry.
Li Guangyu also said hello to the Jiayi Group led by Liu Tianci. He didn't care how much profit the Jiayi Group could make, but he didn't let them lose money like this.
Li Guangyu looked at the report above and said to Yao Jingwei: "Go and notify Tang Yan, general manager of the administrative department of Jiayi Group, and ask them to notify the middle and senior management of the group to have a meeting in the fifth conference room on the second floor of the building at five o'clock in the afternoon."
Yao Jingwei knew that the senior management of Jiayi Group was expected to change this time. Li Guangyu was quite dissatisfied with the actions of the senior management of Jiayi Group this time. They really thought that Li Guangyu didn't care whether the group was profitable or not.
Especially this time, some senior executives of the group actually regarded the interests of the group as favors. This touched Li Guangyu's bottom line. It would be okay if the quality of this movie was indeed outstanding. There would be no problem if it was released simultaneously in Asia.
But this movie was so popular, how did the theater company review it? Why didn't they take it off the shelves decisively when the box office was not good? This was a serious waste of the group's resources.
Yao Jingwei still knows part of the reason. The main problem is that the wife of the director of the movie "New Shushan Swordsman" is the vice president of Jiayi Group, so this situation occurs. Without this reason, Yao Jingwei would not believe that it would be released in theaters
The top management of Jiayi Group would be so slow to make a decision.
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Guangyu and Yao Jingwei came to the fifth conference room on the second floor. Except for special reasons, all the middle and senior management of Jiayi Group had already arrived here.
The top management of Jiayi Group had very serious expressions. They knew very well that this matter was a big deal. This movie really failed to live up to expectations. Even though so many resources were given to it, the box office ended dismally.
The actors in this movie have had very gorgeous plastic surgery, with Cheng Shaoqiu, Brigitte Lin, Li Saifeng and others as the leading actors. I don't have to say how good the quality of the movie is. As long as it is average, the popularity of these actors will be able to attract people.
Unfortunately, the movie came to an end, and the box office results disappointed them. The worst thing was the evaluation of the movie by media from all walks of life in Hong Kong. None of the evaluations were good. Affected by this, Jiayi Group's stock market value also declined.
magnitude of decline.
After sitting down, Li Guangyu said: "How did this film get approved for investment? When signing the investment, did the review team raise any objections, and did the senior management of the group put pressure on it?"
Wu Xianglin, chairman of the film company, said: "Li Sheng, the new Shushan Swordsman project was approved in April last year. At that time, our company's script review team believed that this film was the pioneer of oriental fantasy and one of the innovations of our Jiayi Film Company.
Investment in this film will bring very good social benefits to Jiayi Film Company and even Jiayi Group, and it has passed the investment review of this film."
Wu Xianglin felt very guilty. He knew that the investment in this movie had suffered huge losses, and their film company had a lot of responsibility. It was probably going to be a big trouble this time.
He was also very angry thinking about this movie. How could the epic Eastern fantasy that had been promised become like this now? An investment of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars only resulted in this result. What was even worse was that this time Li
Sheng personally asked about the matter.
You must know that Li Guangyu has not come to the group to inquire about the group's affairs for a long time. In the past few years, the group has been led by senior leaders to develop freely, and Li Guangyu generally will not interfere.
Li Guangyu said: "Chairman Jia Yunhua, can you tell me how your theater company reviewed this film and how it obtained the qualification for joint screening in Asia?"
"Li Sheng, it was our theater company's lack of supervision in this area that led to this situation. I bear the unshirkable responsibility for this matter."
Jia Yunhua knew that he would not be able to hide this time. He probably had no hope of staying in the Li Group this time. He was helpless about this. He did not expect that the box office would be so bad.
If the box office could be slightly better, they would not be so passive. If there is a small loss, it will not be a problem for Jiayi Group. It is a pity that this movie was over-promoted in the early stage and the box office was so dismal later.
Their responsibilities are indispensable.
Li Guangyu got angry when he heard that, and now he can just say that if supervision is not in place, the problem will be solved. It seems that he has relaxed the supervision of Jiayi Group and given them too much freedom, so that some senior executives now feel that this company
The group can do whatever they want.
Jiayi Group is very special. This group is different from other groups. Their top management can basically be promoted by the group, so the top management has a great influence inside. This also leads to people talking about favors in some matters, knowing that they are not in line with the group and the company.
It's company regulations, but considering the favor, they will still do it.
Jia Yunhua is a typical example, and the film company can't escape. If it weren't for the influence of the vice chairman and vice president of the group, would these people below have arranged like this?
Li Guangyu asked Liu Tianci: "Tianci, as the chairman and CEO of the group's board of directors, you don't understand this matter, right? Why didn't you handle it in time?"
Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, I have betrayed your trust and I am willing to take responsibility for this matter."
He knew very well that no matter how many excuses he gave now, it would be of no use. There was such a big problem in the group this time. As the leader of the group, he had an unshirkable responsibility. No matter what his reasons were, this time he did not
If you stop it in time, you must be responsible for it.
This movie brought a total loss of nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars to Jiayi Group. This amount of money is relatively large for ordinary companies, but it is just a drop in the bucket for the Li Group. Moreover, it has the reputation of pioneering Eastern fantasy movies.
, and because Li Guangyu was not involved in any Jiayi Group affairs, they thought that Li Guangyu might not care too much about this matter.
It's a pity that the Xiangjiang media pushed this incident too far this time, and many details were reported by the media one by one, putting Jiayi Group at the forefront of the storm. Even if they wanted to, there was nothing they could do to stop it.
What surprised them most was that these related reports were not widespread coverage when the movie was first released, but when their movie was about to be released, all kinds of negative reports came one after another, making them overwhelmed.
At this time, the senior management of Jiayi Group no longer had the energy to investigate who was deliberately targeting them. What they now need to think about is how to give Li Guangyu an explanation. This time they are in considerable trouble.