Wu Jianye's words surprised Jiang Zhiqiang. He knew that Wu Jianye had always attached great importance to the domestic film market, so in the past two years, he had stopped the expansion of Fengge Cinemas in Hong Kong and focused more on running his own business.
There are cinemas in Hong Kong.
However, Xiangjiang Film could be said to be at its peak at this time. He didn't understand why Wu Jianye suddenly thought of shifting the business focus of Fengge Pictures.
"Director Wu, I admit that the domestic film market is on the rise, but Hong Kong's films have not declined. Isn't it too early for us to start changing our positions now?"
It is not unreasonable for Jiang Zhiqiang to say this. Last year, the box office champion of Hong Kong movies was Cheng Long's "Drunken Master 2", with a box office of 51.32 million!
In fact, this box office is already nearly 10 million higher than that of another time and space. This is because of the emergence of Fengge Cinemas, and also because Zhou Runfa's "God of Gamblers 2" has been released in advance, so "Drunken Master 2" will become
Last year's box office winner.
Wu Jianye smiled and shook his head, saying: "By the time Xiangjiang's movies really start to decline, it will be too late to start planning again!"
“It’s never wrong to plan ahead!”
As the domestic film market develops at a speed that exceeds that of another time and space, the film market in Xiangjiang no longer seems so important. But again, Wu Jianye has no intention of giving up on the Xiangjiang market. After all, in the next few years,
Xiangjiang’s film market is still the bridgehead for domestic films in Southeast Asia!
Although the domestic film market has developed at this time, the popularity of domestic films in Southeast Asia is still very low. In other words, domestic films are still limited to domestic films, and they are basically useless abroad.
Box office appeal!
The film market in Xiangjiang is different. Although the film market in Xiangjiang itself cannot contribute much box office to the movie itself, the audience in Southeast Asia actually uses the box office of Xiangjiang movies in this city as a reference to decide whether to watch this movie.
Movie!
To put it simply, except for those actors with ticket sales appeal in Hong Kong, such as superstars such as Zhou Runfa, Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, and Andy Lau, their movies, even if they are smashed at the box office in Xiangjiang, the box office in Southeast Asia will not be the same.
Not too bad either.
For other actors and movies starring in, you need to watch the local movie box office in Xiangjiang.
If the box office of a movie not starring the actors mentioned above is not high in Hong Kong, it will not be very high in Southeast Asia either!
As for domestic movies, if they want to go abroad and enter the Southeast Asian film market, they must first be released in Hong Kong. If the movie can achieve high box office in Hong Kong, then the box office in Southeast Asia will not be too bad.
If the box office of movies in Hong Kong is not high, the box office in Southeast Asia will not be very good either.
It is precisely because of this conclusion that when Fengge Media negotiated distribution with domestic film companies, it was first released in Xiangjiang to test the quality of the film in the hearts of Hong Kong audiences, and then decided whether to go to theaters.
Route is shown in Southeast Asia.
If the box office of movies in Hong Kong is not satisfactory, the only option is to adopt the video tape policy!
Of course, this policy is not valid for Wu Jianye!
Now Wu Jianye's movies are a golden brand in the global film market, and there is no need to worry about box office.
In fact, at this time, even if Wu Jianye is no longer a director, even if the Tangting culture is over, Wu Jianye still plays a decisive role in the domestic film circle.
Because as long as domestic movies want to go abroad and get better schedule and box office, they have to cooperate with Wu Jianye.
If you want to release it in Asia and Europe, you need Fengge Pictures to distribute it, and Fengge Cinemas will release it. If you want to release it in North America, you have to negotiate with Phantom Pictures for distribution and release it in Oceanwide Cinemas!
From his rebirth to now, Wu Jianye has built his own global film empire!
Tangting Culture, Fengge Media, Phantom Media!
At this time, they have controlled the global film distribution and exhibition business, and they are also the most powerful local film production company!
When the Phantom incident occurred at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, some independent production companies in Hollywood clamored for the monopoly of Phantom Media. As a result, they were severely punished by Wu Jianye. Not even a month has passed yet?
, they have discovered that after losing the support of Phantom, they have been unable to move forward!
In North America, they lost the support of the largest theater companies in North America and Canada, and also lost the channel to show the film in Europe. This was a disaster for them.
During this period, Matthew Murphy was constantly rejecting invitations from these people. They knew they were wrong and wanted to ask for forgiveness from Phantom Pictures, but mistakes are not easily overcome!
Wu Jianye continued: "I know what you are worried about. What I said about changing the development focus of Fengge Pictures is not to just give up on the Hong Kong market, but to make Fengge Pictures pay more attention to co-productions starting this year!
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Co-production!
This is the most important reason why Wu Jianye approached Jiang to control him this time.
Although Fengge Pictures has started shooting co-productions in the past few years, for example, in the past two years, Chen Hong has become the heroine of Hong Kong and domestic co-productions!
But having only one Chen Hong is obviously not enough.
Take Fengge Pictures for example. Last year Fengge Pictures produced 28 films, which is already a very scary number. In the whole of Hong Kong, no film company except Fengge Pictures dared to do this.
But even so, how many co-productions did Fengge Pictures produce last year?
Only three of them!
This is not enough!
What Wu Jianye has to do is to increase the number of co-productions and use Hong Kong's stars to raise the popularity of domestic filmmakers in Southeast Asia. Only in this way can domestic movie stars quickly go abroad and become Asian stars!
At the same time, as Wu Jianye said, it is impossible for him to give up movies in Hong Kong, because domestic film policies will only become more and more stringent in the future, and some movie themes are definitely not allowed!
The mere fact that one cannot become a spirit after the founding of the People's Republic of China is enough to block a large number of movies, as well as detective dramas. Although some detective dramas have been launched in China in later generations, there are still too many restrictions, which are not enough to make movies with this theme truly popular.
Shine brightly.
There are also Hong Kong's specialty movies and gangster movies. It is even more impossible for such movies to be released in China. The only way to recover costs and benefits is to rely on the box office in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia!
With the development of movies, shitty movies represented by Wang Jing will slowly lose local audiences in Xiangjiang, and will be replaced by gangster movies headed by Du Dapao!
In the future, Xiangjiang Film will be like an extremely important branch of Wu Jianye's film empire, presenting films with more themes.
After hearing Wu Jianye's narration, Jiang Zhiqiang also had a clearer understanding of Wu Jianye's plan.
So he asked: "Then what proportion of our co-productions should account for the company's production share!"
Wu Jianye said: "Ten. Starting from this year, Fengge Pictures will produce ten co-productions every year. The model used is the model of Xiangjiang actors and domestic actors partnering, such as the cooperation between Zhou Xingchi and Chen Hong, or a domestic
An actor from Hong Kong and an actress from Hong Kong are like this!”
Generally speaking, compared to Hong Kong movie stars, domestic movie stars still lack visibility abroad, except for some movie stars who participated in Wu Jianye's movies!
Especially in terms of male actors, because Wu Jianye has used actors from Xiangjiang in recent movies, such as Liang Jiahui in "New Dragon Gate Inn", Zhou Xingchi in "The World of Chu Xing", Gu Xingchi in "Eternal Night"
headmaster.
Anyone in the industry knows that male actors have more box office appeal than female actors, and Wu Jianye chose Chen Daoxuan as the starring role in his new film "Inception" to actually increase his popularity abroad.
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Let some people become famous first, and then bring the rest of them to fame. This is Wu Jianye's strategy.
Although some people may become famous, some may be in a state of confusion, and there may even be existences like white-eyed wolves, but Wu Jianye is confident that as long as he is still there, no one can make any trouble.
Even if he is a white-eyed wolf, he still has to pretend to be Erha in front of me...
What's more, the first person to be famous is Chen Daoxuan. If it were someone else, Wu Jianye might be a little worried that the first person would become a white-eyed wolf, but Chen Daoxuan has spent more than twenty years proving to Wu Jianye, what?
Being an actor, what is a star!
Then use actors from Xiangjiang to drive domestic actors. If this good cycle continues, domestic filmmakers will soon rise!
At that time, it will be an era for the entire Chinese-language film industry to flourish!
Later, Wu Jianye and Jiang Zhiqiang finalized the first batch of actors for co-production.
The first thing to confirm is the three male actors. Jet Li, Stephen Chow, and Andy Lau!
Of course Jet Li doesn’t need to say more. In fact, he has been focusing on co-productions in the past two years. For example, "A Letter to Dad" will be released in March this year. In a strict sense, this is a co-production.
Although Li Lianjie has been filming in Hong Kong, Wu Jianye actually held a domestic passport at this time and did not become a Singaporean nationality.
There are also many domestic actors in the starring roles, including Yu Yiguang, who plays the big bad guy, and Xie Miao, who plays his son. There is also a Xiangjiang actor, the female lead, Mei Yanzi, and Mei Yanzi's admirer Liu Songren.
When Wu Jianye asked Zhou Runfa and others to go to Hollywood to develop, he deliberately kept Jet Li behind for the current plan.
There is no need to go into too much detail about Zhou Xingchi. In another time and space, Zhou Xingchi was the first Xiangjiang actor to enter domestic filming. In another time and space, there were many star girls.
For example, Zhang Min, Qiu Doudou, Zhu Yan, etc., but in this time and space, one must be added, and that is Chen Hong.
In the past two years, Chen Hong has participated in many of Stephen Chow's movies and has leveraged on Chow Sing-chi's fame to become one of the most popular actresses in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia!
This year Zhou Xingchi will also cooperate with Tangting Culture to shoot the classic "Westward Journey" series in China.
In order to prevent this movie from being like another time and space, with both word-of-mouth and box office failure, Wu Jianye has decided that after the movie is finished, he will first take it to the Film Academy for everyone to watch.
After the release of "Westward Journey" in another time and space, word-of-mouth and box office were both huge hits. It wasn't until teachers from the film school saw the film and interpreted a different concept that the film gained a second life.
But for the film company, such a second spring actually brings no profit.
What's more, it improved Zhou Xingchi's reputation.
It was precisely because of the success of this movie that Zhou Xingchi, in order to prove his popularity, and Wang Jing filmed the shitty movie "Various Stars", which turned out to be a box office hit.
It proves that Zhou Xingchi is still Zhou Xingchi!
As for Liu Dehua, it was actually because of Liu Dehua's reputation.
Although Andy Lau has always been far behind Zhou Xingchi, Cheng Long, Zhou Yunfa and others in the Hong Kong film market, Andy Lau himself is extremely popular in Southeast Asia because he is a versatile star.
In another time and space, why was Andy Lau able to make so many movies? One reason was that he had to pay off debts, and the other reason was that those organizations and other people knew about Andy Lau's influence in other places. With his name, movies could be sold for money!
At the same time, Andy Lau is also very popular in China. Because of the Spring Festival Gala, Andy Lau's popularity in China has always been the highest among Hong Kong artists.
This year Liu Dehua will also participate in the Spring Festival Gala, singing his own classic song "Forgetting Love Water".
Basically, these three have extremely high box office appeal in Hong Kong, China, and other places.
With them, the box office is basically guaranteed.
As for actresses, they also selected some people, among whom representatives include Anita Mui, Guan Yaojing, Qiu Doudou and others!
As the highest-paid female star in Hong Kong today, Anita Mui is naturally very popular. As for Guan Yaojing and Qiu Doudou, they are also favorites of Xiangjiang movie lovers. Among them, Guan Yaojing has participated in many co-productions.
Movie!
Wu Jianye thought for a moment and said, "Add Lan Jieying too!"
Lan Jieying's experience in another time and space has made many people sigh. To be honest, her character is not suitable for the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang. In fact, it is not suitable for the domestic entertainment industry in later generations. However, the domestic entertainment industry is not as good as that in later generations.
It's so dirty, but it allows her to have some use.
As for whether he can come out in a different way from another time and space, Wu Jianye has no way to guarantee it!
Just let everything happen!
Jiang Zhiqiang had no objection to Wu Jianye's instructions and said, "I'll let the company's writing team, director team, and the actors you mentioned prepare now!"
Except for Lan Jieying, the ones Wu Jianye mentioned are not actors from Fengge Pictures, but the others are, and they are easier to arrange!