My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 221 Video Tape Market

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Sha Tin.

Wu Xiaozu stood in front of the building of Ai Mei Gao Fan Factory, his eyes flickering.The factory building in front of me already belongs to 1024 Locomotive Studio.

The area is not worth mentioning compared with the main factory area of ​​Aimegao not far away. A super large football field is about 10800 square meters. Sq.ft.

If it can be demolished, Director Wu estimates that he can divide it into a community.That's right, it's not a unit, a building, but a community.
The biggest dream of Hong Kong people is a thousand-foot mansion.Wu Xiaozu belongs to a big dog family of [-] square feet.

The only pity is that the land in front of me can only be used as industrial land, and cannot be used for residential or commercial development, which directly limits its value.

In later generations, Shao Liushu won the more remote Tseung Kwan O with a large amount of money, and won 7800 square feet of land for 52 million Hong Kong dollars.In other words, Shao Liushu's land price in 98 was lower than Wu Xiaozu's current land acquisition.

However, Tseung Kwan O was a barren land at that time, and even the land needed to be refilled.In front of Wu Xiaozu, there is a well-organized factory building and surrounding complete public transportation facilities.

Tseung Kwan O built a cinema at that time, and the Hong Kong government originally hoped that the cinema would drive the surrounding economy and then carry out commercial development in the surrounding area.To put it bluntly, what Shao Liushu did was to open up wasteland as an old scalper. Not to mention pulling soil to fill the pits, he needed to build every brick and tile by himself.

In fact, Sixth Uncle Shao was full of resentment at the time, and the piece of land he was looking forward to was forcibly taken away.The land in Tseung Kwan O was weighed by many parties, so it was half-sold and bought to Shao Laoliu.

In later generations, Shaw Cinemas in Tseung Kwan O has also become the most important asset of Shaw Brothers, worth billions.The reason why Shao Laoliu has been able to control TVB for so many years has a lot to do with the control and balance of the studio's resources.

In comparison, Sha Tin at this moment is much more prosperous than Tseung Kwan O.

There are also rural areas on Hong Kong Island!

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"Azu, how is it? Looking at your own factory building, how do you feel?"

Jiang Ershao looked at the big factory building in front of him with a look of jealousy behind him, and said, "I don't know how lucky you are, you got a factory building and land for 500 million yuan. If this lot is sold, at least you can change hands." Triple it.

Liu Luanxiong is really generous..."

Staring at the crew members who were going in and out, Jiang Zhiqiang wished to replace them.Such factories with convenient transportation and appropriate space are hard to find in Hong Kong.

"It's already caught up with Golden Harvest's Cathay Pacific studio... The Golden Princess studio, production studio, recording studio, and editing studio can't all be put together. This is really enviable."

Wu Xiaozu smiled and said nothing.

At the beginning, Liu Luanxiong cut his flesh with pain, and Wu Xiaozu himself hadn't figured out the reason behind it.He only knows that what he gains must be far greater than what he pays.

"The inside of this factory building is not as glamorous as it looks on the outside, after all, it is just the old abandoned factory building of Amergo.

Otherwise, it would not have been so smooth when "Double Heroes" transformed the venue here.It's very messy inside, and that's why I chose to transform a public toilet here into the filming location of "Cell of Fear". "

Wu Xiaozu smiled and said, "This is what it looks like right now. It can't be compared with the main factory building of Amergo on the opposite side."

"You don't really plan to settle down here in the future, do you? Factory owner?" Jiang Zhiqiang jokingly gave Wu Xiaozu a nickname.

"It's fine to do business, but you can do some industries that have nothing to do with industry."

Wu Xiaozu looked directly at the factory building, and said to Jiang Zhiqiang beside him, "Do you think it would be worth it if you bought a second-hand equipment production line for copying and dubbing video tapes?"

"Video..."

Jiang Zhiqiang frowned, "VCRs and video tapes are very expensive now, it's far more cost-effective than going to the theater to watch movies.

Only the films of some small film companies that are not in the mainstream will focus on the video tape market. After all, compared with video tapes, the profits of the foreign market are much higher! "

"If we use our humanitarian spirit to help these film companies copy the film, and then borrow it to rip and promote it, will it not only promote them, but also reduce our cost?" Wu Xiaozu chuckled.

"Hollywood movie video market has become more and more prosperous in the past two years. I think Hong Kong Island also has such prerequisites. We are even more convenient than them, without more intellectual property constraints. The cost is undoubtedly reduced a lot.

As for what you said about the expensive video recorder, it is better to watch movies than cost-effective, in fact, there is no need to worry about this.The video tape market and the cinema market are actually complementary to each other.

We can definitely open several underground video studios in places like Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan, and Tuen Mun.Play some of their favorite movies just for them.Even, if we make it to a large scale, we can lose money to assemble video recorders and sell them, and the money can be fully made up in the subsequent video tape market.

None of this is a problem as long as we build a strong resource pipeline.At that time, I think the interests of the video tape market will not lose to the income of theaters. "

Wu Xiaozu had his hands behind his back, his face full of righteousness.

"We have not only enriched the people's spare time life, met their spiritual needs for the world of light and shadow, but also developed a new profit channel for movies. Why not do it?"

Listening to Wu Xiaozu's eloquent drawing of the perfect blueprint, Second Young Master Jiang couldn't help touching his nose.

"Azu, you just said that you copied movies from other film companies out of humanitarian spirit... If I understand correctly..." Jiang Zhiqiang looked at Wu Xiaozu hesitantly, and looked at each other again to confirm the answer in his heart.

"Primitive accumulation must pay a price. I think every company can understand." Wu Xiaozu shamelessly answered for every film company.

"We have developed a new interest market for Hong Kong films, and we can pay them some copyright fees in the later stage. This is not non-negotiable."

"Ah...Brother Zu? I am the heir of Antai Film Company, and you can be regarded as a famous and fortunate film director on Hong Kong Island. What do you think..."

Second Young Master Jiang expressed embarrassment in a low-key and tactful way.

"So you can't think like this. If you think about it, you are promoting and cultivating the Hong Kong film market." Wu Xiaozu interrupted the other party forcefully, "If we can, of course we are the defenders.

If it becomes bigger, we can even negotiate terms with the three major film companies, which is unknown.But the premise of all this is to grow bigger.

Until then, I'm not going to have trouble with money. "

Jiang Ershao, who has never felt guilty about checking the box office in later generations, heard Wu Xiaozu's words, and was naturally moved by what he said.

The video tape market in Hong Kong Island had just started at this time, and the concept of movie derivatives was even less popular.

Although Wu Xiaozu is out of profit considerations, if the market for video tapes and movie derivatives is really promoted, it will indeed be of great benefit to Hong Kong films.

Movie derivatives can make the influence of movies last and establish a brand effect.There are countless examples in Hollywood, and the most successful masterpiece is the "Star Wars" series.

The most classic case is "The Lion King", which swept the box office around the world that year, but the most profitable is the follow-up video tape and derivative products, and its revenue even exceeded 20 billion US dollars.

At the same time, it can also stimulate consumption and promote the development of the film industry chain.

In fact, even in Hollywood, video tapes have only really begun to become a real profit growth point.

In 1977, "Star Wars" was a big hit, but Paramount was in financial crisis. At this time, the famous magnetic video of later generations came in and obtained the videotape copyrights of many films under Paramount.
It was not until 1983 that Hollywood really entered the period of rapid development of video tapes.Prior to this, mainstream Hollywood film companies, that is, several giants, did not really regard videotapes as a life-saving straw in the true sense.

In 1965, North American audiences spent more than 44 billion dollars on videotapes, while theaters spent 38 billion dollars. So far, Hollywood has entered the era of videotapes.In the late 80s, independent film companies began to emerge in the 90s.

It can be said that the video has brought nourishment to the survival of independent production companies and independent films!
Primitive accumulation is full of bloody smell.The same goes for the pre-development of videotape.

If Wu Xiaozu controls the source and distribution of the video tape market, then it is no less than controlling a huge movie theater chain.

(End of this chapter)