At the meeting, Li Jianhui also asked about the film and television company's preparations for releasing movies in August.
If June is a fight between several parties, then August will be a showdown between Jiayi and Jiahe.
Zou Wenhuai was ambitious last year and prepared 60 million US dollars to cooperate with well-known Hollywood directors and companies to shoot six movies to help Golden Harvest enter the European and American markets.
The first film they collaborated on has been completed and is currently being prepared for release. It will be released simultaneously in many places in North America and Asia on August 2nd, Hong Kong time.
Coincidentally, Jiayi Company's second movie this summer will be released on August 2. By then, the two parties are bound to compete in markets across Hong Kong and even Asia.
Eric Tsang said: "Li Sheng, the filming of A Better Tomorrow directed by John Woo has been completed and is now undergoing post-production work. I believe this film will definitely not lose to The Killer."
In order to attract John Woo to Jiayi Film Company, Eric Tsang put in a lot of effort. Fortunately, Jiayi Film Company was strong and allowed and supported him to shoot a shootout movie, so he was allowed to join Jiayi Film Company.
This Hero is also the first film that John Woo joined Jiayi to shoot, and the main plot is still provided by Li Jianhui.
In this regard, Eric Tsang, as the general manager of the film company, felt very ashamed and blushed for the company's screenwriters. Li Jianhui was in charge of the entire Xinjian department and was very busy every day, and did not have much time to interfere with the affairs of Jiayi Group.
However, every time they encounter this kind of summer or Spring Festival release, Li Jianhui needs to come up with the main line for them, so that they can be sure to suppress the movies released by other film companies at the box office.
Naturally, this movie does not have Ti Lung, Chow Run-fa and Zhang Guorong as the protagonists. The first two are TVB artists, and the latter one is an ATV artist. None of them will take on roles from Jiayi, and Li Jianhui has no intention of training artists for his rivals.
Song Zihao, Xiao Ma Ge and Song Zijie are played by Liu Songren, Wang Jie and Hua Tsai respectively, Tan Cheng is played by Tang Zhenye, and Jackie is played by Konno Misako.
Although the actors have been changed and there may be some gaps in the acting, Li Jianhui believes that this will still be a successful movie.
Moreover, there is a Japanese actor in this movie, which is very beneficial to opening up the Japanese market.
Now, in order for Jiayi to go out of Hong Kong for movies, it will arrange some actors from other regions to join in each movie, especially actors from Japan and the United States.
Jiayi Film Company will make arrangements based on the main markets that the film is suitable for and the situation of the main characters. Under the condition that the first protagonist is Chinese, American or Japanese actors will be arranged as the second protagonist or important supporting roles as much as possible.
Tan Cheng Company originally planned to let Yasuaki Kurata play the role this time, but considering entering the Japanese market, the Japanese audience may not be willing to accept this role as the villain, so they asked Tang Zhenye to play this role.
Although Yasuaki Aota often plays villain roles in Japan, it is different in Hong Kong, especially since this film has to enter the Japanese market.
Originally, there were only a few Japanese actors in the movie, and they were cast as the main villain. Although this is just a movie, the audience may not be able to accept it from the perspective of their country and nation.
Jiayi Film and Television Company also goes through a lot of considerations when selecting roles. The purpose of adding Japanese or American actors is to allow Jiayi Films to better enter these markets, rather than adding any trouble to itself.
In terms of role arrangement, these actors will be placed as the first protagonist as much as possible instead of making them the villains.
Even if it is really arranged as a villain, the villain should be such that the audience cannot hate it after watching it. This will help Jiayi Film Company enter these markets.
"I hope you will try your best to negotiate with theaters in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan during this period. Although we cannot release it simultaneously around the world, we must at least make it available in the five Southeast Asian countries, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan at the same time as ours.
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He is not sure what kind of achievements Killer Hao achieved in his previous life. He will probably be stronger in this life than in his previous life. After all, there is a powerful consortium behind Jiahe, and the Asian theater chain is even stronger than in his previous life.
Ignoring the global box office for the moment, Li Jianhui hopes that the hero's true nature can overpower the killer in the Asian box office.
Although the Golden Princess Cinema Line has accelerated its expansion due to its listing and financing in the past month or so, at present, the Golden Princess Cinema Line is mainly in Xiangjiang, Baodao and the Malay market, and there is no large-scale layout in other regions yet.
If A Better Tomorrow wants to be released in these areas at the same time, it needs to negotiate with the local theater companies in advance.
Fortunately, the Golden Princess Cinema Chain is pretty strong in Asia now, and has long-term cooperation with many theater chains, so generally there won't be any major problems.
Eric Tsang was also very confident about this. As soon as Li Jianhui finished speaking, he promised that A Better Tomorrow would be released simultaneously in the five Southeast Asian countries, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea on August 2.
In terms of publicity, Li Jianhui does not need to give special instructions. Ye Jiexin is personally responsible for this aspect. Not only will Jiayi Group increase its publicity efforts, but it will also cooperate with local media in various places. It can be said that Jiayi Group is very familiar with this aspect.
The only problem that is currently troubling Jiayi and even the entire Donghua Consortium is the European and American channels. Currently, they do not have a long-term partner, and it is still difficult to get the movie released in these regions.
Although Li Jianhui has also arranged for investment companies such as Meiya, Lipu, Lanxi, and Huaying to lay out this aspect, this will take some time. At present, if the films of these film companies of the Donghua Group want to be listed in Europe and the United States, they can only find distributors or theaters.
Cooperate with online merchants.
Li Jianhui did not make any strict requirements in this regard, he just asked Jiayi to reach cooperation with some European and American theater operators as much as possible in the past two months without losing its own interests.
At present, Jiayi's focus is to seize the Asian market and ensure that Jiayi Film and Television Company can become the leader in the Asian film industry.
After the meeting, artist manager Le Yiling specifically asked Li Jianhui about the Miss Asia contract.
Since Xinyi City, Yongsheng, Xinhui, and Sanhe, which have a good relationship with Jiayi, also have their own artist departments, they also need to recruit new people.
The annual resources of Miss Asia are also valued by these companies. Considering the relationships between these parties, with Li Jianhui's consent, these parties can also sign Miss Asia contestants.
Especially among the top ten, Jiayi will only sign three people, and the remaining seven companies will each sign based on their own abilities.
Tomorrow night is the finals, and Le Yiling wants to ask Li Jianhui if he has appointed anyone to recruit. If not, she will not take any further action.
If Li Jianhui has an appointed person in mind, then she will make some arrangements to ensure that this person can enter the top three.
As for saying this would be unfair, it is a pity that Li Jianhui alone has the final say on this excellence. If he wants to focus on cultivating a person, then that person may start at the end point that countless people will never reach in their lifetime.