0376 【I! The great liberator of Hong Kong movies!】
Lei Juekun's move shocked Cao Dahua and Chen Baozhu.
"What happened?"
They looked at Shi Zhijian together again, with doubts on their faces: "What on earth did he show Mr. Lei?"
Snap!
Lei Juekun closed the document in his hand and then looked up at Shi Zhijian.
Shi Zhijian's back was straight and his eyes were alert. He looked straight at him with a calm expression on his face.
Lei Juekun nodded, neither humble nor arrogant. This attitude seemed more confident, as if everything was planned by him.
Cao Dahua had a different view. In his opinion, Shi Zhijian's posture was a bit too arrogant. Young people should behave like young people, being respectful and humble.
Chen Baozhu had a different view. In her eyes, Shi Zhijian was more like an outstanding swordsman. He was not as timid as the young people nowadays, but was invincible.
After all, Lei Juekun is a businessman who has experienced great storms. When he saw Shi Zhijian's attitude, he understood that it would be impossible for him to use his momentum to crush the other party. For now, he could only put down his high profile and use his equal status.
Negotiate with it.
Lei Juekun has encountered this kind of situation in the past, but he laughed it off. With no money, no confidence, and no qualifications, what qualifications do you have to negotiate with me as an equal? But now he must treat it seriously, because Shi Zhijian's qualifications are
The plan he just read.
The content in the plan was simply shocking, and Lei Juekun was immediately shocked.
In addition, Lei Juekun found that many contents in this plan were reserved, and some key points were also vague. It was obvious that this was Shi Zhijian's deliberate move as a backup plan.
It can be said that the plan submitted by Shi Zhijian is like the "Nine Yin Manual" in martial arts novels. Not only is it difficult to understand, it is also worth tens of thousands of dollars, which makes Lei Juekun feel as uncomfortable as a cat scratching his heart.
Lei Juekun collected his emotions, then reached out and pressed the intercom phone on his desk, calling the secretary at the front desk: "Ms. Feng, come in with a cup of coffee!"
For a moment, crunch.
The office door opens.
Miss Feng didn't come in, but Chen Huimin, a tough guy, came in with a cup of milk tea in his hand and said in a firm tone: "I don't have any coffee, do you want milk tea?"
"Uh, who are you?" Lei Juekun was shocked.
"I'm sorry, Boss Lei, he is my bodyguard, a rough guy doesn't understand etiquette!" Shi Zhijian smiled and pointed to the coffee table in front of him, "Put the milk tea here!"
Chen Huimin nodded, put down the milk tea, and bowed out.
Lei Juekun was still pointing at Chen Huimin, with his mouth wide open: "This... what is this?"
Shi Zhijian said: "Miss Feng is tired, let him take over temporarily."
No matter how stupid Lei Juekun was, he could tell that something was going on outside, but when he thought about Shi Zhijian's identity, he knew that there shouldn't be much of a problem, so he exhaled and said, "Mr. Shi, if you do this..." he shook his head, "It's too childish!
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Cao Dahua and Chen Baozhu were confused after hearing this. They looked at Shi Zhijian and wondered what he had done to Miss Feng.
Shi Zhijian was unwilling to waste time, "Boss Lei, you have read my proposal, what do you think?"
For the first time, Lei Juekun felt the slightest bit of relief. As expected, the young man still couldn't hold his breath, but he had forgotten how uncomfortable he felt just now.
"Ahem, I read your plan, and my first thought is - your handwriting is terrible."
"Pfft", Chen Baozhu couldn't help laughing this time, and glanced at Shi Zhijian with her beautiful eyes, wondering how bad Shi Zhijian's pen calligraphy could be.
Shi Zhijian was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect Mr. Lei to be so dishonest, but it was clear that Lei Juekun did it deliberately and wanted to take a wrong approach to hurt his morale.
"Your handwriting is so bad that I had to work hard to read it again and again. Finally, I finally found some clues. What do you mean by breaking the guarantee system?"
When Lei Juekun asked this question, not only Cao Dahua became curious, but also the beauty Chen Baozhu became curious and looked at Shi Zhijian together.
You know, the "guaranteed system" has been implemented in the Hong Kong film industry for a long time. In order to make money, many cinemas have devised this trick to make money.
To put it bluntly, as a producer, if you shoot a movie and want it to be released in a theater, you must follow the theater's rules and pay for the monthly subscription. No matter what the attendance rate of your movie is this month, whether you make money or not, or even lose your pants.
, all must pay a certain minimum fee to the theater chain on time.
As a result, no matter whether the movie is good or bad, those who operate movie theaters cannot lose money, but on the contrary, those producers who make movies are likely to lose money and jump off the building.
Especially after Shaw Brothers dominated Hong Kong, in order to protect Shaw Brothers' dominance in the film industry, the "bottom guarantee system" became even more popular.
Because the "guarantee system" is like a chain around the necks of small and medium-sized film companies.
For a giant company like Shaw Brothers, the guarantee system is nothing. Besides, Shaw Brothers also has its own theater chain, so no matter how bad the movie is, it won't lose much money.
But those small and medium-sized film companies are in dire straits. They spend a lot of money to make a movie and pay a certain base fee after it is released. If the movie does not sell well, their only way out is to jump into the sea.
In the previous life, this tormenting guarantee system severely restricted the development of Hong Kong films. Many films produced by independent filmmakers could not be released, and many small and medium-sized film companies closed down without development prospects. It was not until 1980 that Lei Juekun established the Hong Kong Film Corporation
After the princess, she took the lead in breaking this old system, which opened the shackles and saved Hong Kong filmmakers.
In a sense, Lei Juekun is the great liberator of Hong Kong movies.
But now Shi Zhijian has shamelessly copied Boss Lei’s great career, and shamelessly sold it in front of him!
Lei Juekun narrowed his eyes and once again pondered the pros and cons of Shi Zhijian's decision to break the guarantee system.
For some reason, he had an inexplicable impulse deep in his heart, as if he should be the one smashing the door with a sledgehammer!
"Ahem, I'm sorry, Mr. Shi, let me, an outsider, say this. I have also worked in theaters. If you break the bottom line like this, how will you do the theater business in the future? What if the quality of the movie released is too poor?
You see, wouldn't the theater chain be willing to die?" Cao Dahua couldn't hold it in any longer. He had never heard of such a ground-breaking plan to "break the guarantee system".
Lei Juekun felt that Cao Dahua asked this question very well, so he didn't have to ask himself. He looked at Shi Zhijian to see what he would say.
"It's easy," Shi Zhijian said with a smile. "If the movie is not good, then just cancel it, or simply schedule it according to attendance!"
"Uh, arrange movies based on attendance?" It was the first time for Lei Juekun and others to hear such a new term.
Next, Shi Zhijian told them how to break the guarantee system and how to use attendance to schedule films. Those with high attendance would be given more spots, and those with poor attendance would be screened for a few days and then removed.
In order to maintain theater chain operating costs, how to negotiate with those producers to increase the share ratio.
Increase the share ratio instead of the guaranteed fee, so that both parties can interact more actively and effectively.
In addition, when selling movie tickets, they sell soda, instant noodles, popcorn, and divide large cinemas into small units so that they can show multiple movies and classify the movies into comedy movies, action movies, and
You can use a separate room for dirty movies, etc.
Shi Zhijian talked eloquently. These were common tricks in the cinema in the previous life, but to the ears of Lei Juekun and others, they were deafening and extremely fresh.
I just felt that every word that came out of Shi Zhijian's mouth was so incredible and thought-provoking.
Chen Baozhu is a film maker and has never done theater business. Even so, she can tell that if all of what Shi Zhijian mentioned is realized, then the entire Hong Kong movie will undergo earth-shaking changes!
