Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

v1 Chapter 139: Internal and external troubles

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Xu Cun's brilliant achievements in two years made many people jealous. More and more film companies are opening, and there are even people who don't know much about movies, but are willing to invest all their wealth in making movies. It seems that as long as you enter the film industry, everyone can become Xu Cun, and everyone can soar to the sky and be worth billions.

Most of these small film companies are shoddy, and the quality of their films is extremely low. Nine out of ten films cannot be released in several major theaters.

Can't show what they filmed for?

Don't forget, in addition to a few major theater chains, there are also many neighborhood theaters and rural theaters.

Those low-quality films produced by small film companies are shown in numerous scattered small theaters. Although they can only sell a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars at the box office at most, it is enough for them to recover the cost and make a small profit.

Especially for those illegal H-movies, one man and one woman can make a film with one bed, one camera, one man and one woman, and they don't even take them to the Censorship Office for review.

At the same time that the Hong Kong film industry was booming, Shaw Brothers began to decline.

The sign of Shaw's decline is not the decrease in the number of films produced each year. On the contrary, its production this year has increased from last year, producing fifteen films in the first half of the year alone.

Why does this happen?

It's because the attendance rate of Shaw Brothers' films is too low, and each film has to be released in advance within a few days of its release. And there is a big booth in the Shaw Brothers cinema chain, and if they don't release the film, they lose money every day, so Shaw Brothers has to increase the production of films to meet the needs of its own cinema chain.

As a result, a vicious circle has been created - poor film quality leads to low attendance, which reduces the number of days a single film is released, and when the number of days is reduced, more movies must be made to make up for the scarcity of film sources, and in order to make more Multiple movies will inevitably reduce the production cost of a single movie, and the reduction of the production cost will lead to a decrease in the quality of the movie.

If left unchecked, this creates a dead knot—a dead knot that will never be untied.

Shao Yifu naturally won't wait to die, and he also wants to kill Jiahe and DreamWorks to dominate the Hong Kong film industry, so he plans to make a few blockbuster movies to save the current crisis and overcome the current predicament.

Therefore, Shao Yifu sent someone to find the hero Zhang Guoming who made nearly ten million Hong Kong dollars for Xu Cun last year.

No one knows what Shao Yifu talked about with Zhang Guoming and what conditions he promised to Zhang Guoming. The people of Xiangjiang only know that Zhang Guoming left DreamWorks and started filming the film "The Marginal Man" for Shaw Brothers.

If Shao Yifu dug Xu Cun's corner for the purpose of self-help, then Xu Cun's partner Lei Juekun dug Xu Cun's corner entirely because he was jealous of Xu Cun and made a lot of money——Seeing Xu Cunkai The film company Rijin Doujin can only follow the soup, and Lei Juekun decides to open up a production business and provide funds to the film company for filming. After the film receives the box office, the cost is deducted and the accounts are divided between the two parties as a cooperation method to attract potential filmmakers to join.

In fact, the golden princess strategy is undoubtedly good news for independent companies: it not only has stable behind-the-scenes financial backers, but also gains greater choice in theatrical scheduling, while also helping to increase the company's production. and competitiveness.

Therefore, Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming negotiated cooperation with Lei Juekun. However, in the face of Lei Juekun's offer to own 51% of the company's equity as a condition for capital injection and reorganization of the struggle film company, Shi Tian once said, "Why do we have to share half of our movies to make money?" Oppose, but Mecca and Huang Baiming believe that this method can give the new company the opportunity to start shooting more themes, instead of staying in the deadlock of waiting for money to start the film every year and only enough to make one or two films in the long run. See, this is essentially a win-win situation, and Shi Tian then agreed to accept the conditions offered by Lei Juekun.

In August of this year, Xinyicheng Film Co., Ltd. was finally announced with the support of Princess Jin, and began to film the entrepreneurial work "Funny Times", directed by "Wu Shangfei", the pseudonym of Wu Yusen, the director of Golden Harvest.

On the occasion of Zhang Luo Xin Art City, Lei Jue Kun also threw olive branches to Xu Cun's two important officials.

One of these two important officials is Zeng Zhiwei.

After the release of "Dirty Thieves", it also achieved fairly good results - Hong Kong and overseas, "Dirty Thieves" made a total of more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars for DreamWorks.

Continuously filming the two best-selling kung fu comedies "Kick the Pavilion" and "The Thief", Zeng Zhiwei has become a "living treasure" that Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao and Luo Wei are vying to win over. Lei Juekun is also very optimistic about Zeng Zhiwei's directing ability, but he does not intend to support the lonely Zeng Zhiwei to open a film company, but wants Zeng Zhiwei to join Xinyi City to work for him, for this he even gave Zeng Zhiwei a Zeng Zhiwei. Triple pay while at DreamWorks.

Another important official is Chen Xunqi.

For Chen Xunqi, who was very impressed by Xu Cun and made a blockbuster movie such as "Beautiful Girl" for Xu Cun~lightnovelpub.net~ Lei Juekun gave the same conditions as Xinyicheng - a partnership to open a film company. Moreover, Lei Juekun also hinted that Chen Xunqi could poach people from DreamWorks to enrich the film company they opened.

In the face of the conditions given by Lei Juekun, it is false to say that Chen Xunqi and Zeng Zhiwei are not interested.

but--

Neither Chen Xunqi nor Zeng Zhiwei immediately agreed to Lei Juekun.

Zeng Zhiwei didn't agree not because he was loyal to Xu Cun, but because he was not satisfied with the conditions proposed by Lei Juekun - if Lei Juekun could give him Chen Xunqi's conditions, he would agree without hesitation. But Lei Juekun only doubled his salary, which made it a little difficult for him to choose. You must know that working in DreamWorks gives you the opportunity to develop in Hollywood. This is a resource that Shaw Brothers and even Golden Harvest do not have, let alone the new film company Xinyicheng. Besides, Zeng Zhiwei didn't want to betray or even offend Xu Cun, the prosperous movie tycoon, because of this benefit.

Chen Xunqi didn't agree because he really respected Xu Cun and didn't want to betray Xu Cun. However, Chen Xunqi has a curious element in his bones that he wants to try something new. Therefore, having the opportunity to be the boss of a film company made Chen Xunqi very entangled.

In addition, in the first half of this year, DreamWorks only had one "Dirty Thief" released by Zeng Zhiwei, which will inevitably give some people a false impression that DreamWorks is just outsiders and insiders.

Therefore, in the face of all kinds of temptations infiltrating from the outside world, some employees of DreamWorks even have grown grass in their hearts.

That is to say, while Xu Cun gained glory and money from Hollywood, he also had to face the internal and external troubles caused by his departure from Hong Kong~lightnovelpub.net~ Welcome to reading, the latest, fastest and most popular All serialized works are available at ~lightnovelpub.net~ for mobile phone users, please read.