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"Mr. He, we checked and found that Golden Harvest is indeed promoting this news behind the scenes."

In the afternoon, according to He Jin's instructions, Xiaoping asked someone to check.

As expected, Golden Harvest immediately sent people to promote the news after learning about He Jin and Jacky Cheung this morning.

Knowing that the media continued to blow up the news last night after Huaxing and Polygram's public relations, He Jin immediately took measures.

He first notified Polygram and asked them to deal with it.

Later, Huaxing spent a large amount of public relations fees to publicize this incident.

If he said he didn't know that Jiahe was playing tricks behind him, or he found out too late and allowed the news to simmer for several days, then no matter what He Jin did, it would be useless.

But fortunately, He Jin discovered it early, so even if the news has been brewing for a while, as long as Huaxing and Polygram countermeasures are correct, no matter how Golden Harvest pushes, He Jin can't do anything.

After all, everything has a source, as long as the source is pinched, all the rumors will naturally be self-defeating.

And the source of this incident is undoubtedly the police report on fan involvement.

As long as the police can come forward, they will naturally be able to pinch the source.

At present, Polygram is already in dialogue with the police, and things are progressing well. I believe that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the police will be persuaded by Polygram, and the source of this incident will be cut off by then, and the rest of the matter It can be solved slowly.

In the next few days, the news about He Jin and Jacky Cheung's fans being involved in gangsters and involving He Jin and Jacky Cheung has been hanging on the headlines of Xiangjiang.

Not only Xiangjiang, this news once spread to Taiwan, Japan and other places (impossible in China, where the control of news is very strict).

Of course, compared to the anger of the citizens in Xiangjiang who felt cheated, the fans in Japan didn't feel much about the news.

For the fans there, they don't know much about He Jin's background, they only know that he is Chinese.

Since he didn't understand it, he naturally wouldn't be resistant to this kind of news about the background.

Therefore, in general, because of the underworld news that He Jin has been deceived, most of the people who resist He Jin's psychology are from Xiangjiang.

Affected by this kind of psychology, in the past few days, nothing has been more affected than He Jin's "Fast and Furious 3".

The sudden outbreak of this incident, although He Jin and the others responded, but affected by the news, some people inevitably resisted He Jin.

So during this period of time, the box office of Speed ​​3 in Xiangjiang has dropped more and more day by day.

Until the 3th, after a week, Super [-] only earned [-] million box office.

The first five million three hundred thousand, this box office must be considered for other ordinary stars.

But for the speed series, this first week's box office became the lowest box office in the first week of the entire series.

On the side of the police station, under the agreement of PolyGram's senior management, after He Jin and Jacky Cheung paid a certain amount of money, the police station has let go of those fans, and issued a statement to prove that there were mistakes in the original announcement of the case. place.

It can be said that the matter at the source has been resolved.

But after all, the word "involving gangsters" has spread, and Suo San was affected by this and became the one who took the blame.

"Xiang Zong, you should have seen the news, this is an emergency, and the impact on the box office is inevitable.

Our top priority now is to find a way to get fans back to the film, rather than internal disputes.

If you want a box office flop, just pretend I didn't. "

After the box office of Super [-]'s first week came out, Xiang Huaqiang immediately called He Jin and asked about He Jin's box office.

The Xiang family brothers invested [-] million in this film, accounting for [-]% of the investment.

Originally, they planned to sit and wait for the money, but judging from the current situation, the box office of Super Three is obviously fluctuating, so the Xiang family is very dissatisfied.

"I got the news that Golden Harvest's theater chain is going to slow down the third film schedule."

After questioning He Jin, and being resented by He Jin's somewhat dissatisfied words, Xiang Huaqiang's tone on the phone was a little lower, and he said in a low voice.

"Before the film was released, I said that I would not cooperate with Golden Harvest's theater chain, but chose Jinsheng Cinema to cooperate. Now it's okay, Golden Harvest obviously wants to suppress our film. "

He Jin took Xiang Huaqiang's words seriously, but he still retorted:

"The theater release contract for Speed ​​​​[-] was signed when the first film was released. At that time, Fast and Furious searched for several theaters one after another, but they failed to negotiate. Only Jiale (Golden Harvest's theater) was willing to accept it. our terms.

At that time, their condition was that the next three series had to go to their theaters. "

Xiangjiang’s theater chains were in constant flux throughout the 90s and [-]s.

In the 80s, the entire Xiangjiang cinema chain was established by Jiale (Golden Harvest Cinema Line), Golden Princess (the gold owner of New Art City), Debao (Sammo Hung and Dickson Poon took over Shaw Cinemas), Shuangnan (domestic film companies in Xiangjiang The theater chains of Yindu institutions, which mainly show mainland movies) and other four theater chains dominate.

In the late 80s, under the influence of foreign funds such as Taiwan, the founders of Golden Princess Chen Meirong and Feng Bingcheng split Golden Princess and founded Xinbao Cinemas.

Since then, Xiangjiang Cinemas has transitioned from the era of the four overlords to the era of dancing demons.

Since the decline in film economic indicators in 1989, there has been a substantial increase.

For example, in 1992, the number of Hong Kong-produced films reached 215. By 1993, the annual production of films had increased to 242. Although the total box office fell, it also reached 11.4 billion Hong Kong dollars.

The increase in the number of films, in turn, has increased the number of theaters, and powerful theaters such as "Debao" and "Golden Princess" have had successors.

In 1991, Huang Baiming, one of the original "New Art City" three giants, and Macau businessman Luo Jie took over Debao Cinemas and reorganized them into Yonggao Cinemas for production and distribution. Have a Happy Event" won a box office of more than 4800 million Hong Kong dollars.

Later, due to differences of opinion between Huang and Luo, Huang Pak-ming formed his own Oriental Cinemas in 1992, which opened the scene with the release of the co-production film "Farewell My Concubine" and the Chinese New Year film "Happy Events in the Flower Field".

In 1993, Chen Rongmei, one of the directors of "Xinbao", took over the remaining theaters of the Golden Princess and reorganized them into the Golden Sound Cinemas to support independent film production companies in the form of loans.

"Golden Sound" also formed a sister line with "Xinbao", which was screened in a double-line manner.

And many small theater chains have emerged one after another. In 1992, there were as many as 23 groups of large and small theater chains emerging in Hong Kong.

However, although there are as many as [-] groups of theaters, most of them are theaters with only a few theaters.

Only Golden Harvest's Jiale, Chen Rongmei's Jinsheng and Xinbao, which took over the legacy of Princess Jin, and Huang Baiming's Oriental Cinemas are large-scale cinemas.

At that time, after the filming of Fast and Furious, these theaters were considered.

"It's useless for us to say more now, Golden Harvest has made it clear that they want to suppress me.

However, we are not helpless.

I plan to release Super Three in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and other places in advance.

At that time, even if Xiangjiang's box office is not good, this movie will definitely not lose money. "

He Jin said to Xiang Huaqiang on the phone.

"What are you going to do with Jiahe?"

Xiang Huaqiang was silent for a while, thinking that He Jin's idea was indeed the most correct idea at present.

He has already received the internal news from Golden Harvest, and they have already started to cut down the production of Fast and Furious.

To be honest, in the current era, the box office of a movie is largely linked to the size of the theater.

The power of theater chains is also very large.

In the 80s, Xiangjiang Films had an unprecedented prosperity, but foreign funds were still unable to enter the market. The reason was that the theater chain was firmly controlled by the Big Four, and others could not get in at all.

At that time, a lot of foreign funds founded their own film and television companies, but due to the control of the theaters, they had to hang the company under the banner of one of the four major companies, so that the company's films could be shown in theaters.

Moreover, even if it is attached to the theater company, if it is not the cronies of the theater company, it will not be able to compare with the theater company's cronies in arranging films.

Even, if the movie collides with the movie of the company directly under the theater, the theater will even directly cut your movie in half in order to earn more.

This situation was not improved until the number of theaters increased in the 90s and the competition among theaters was fierce.

But even now, theaters will still reduce the films invested by other companies.

Jiahe is planning to do this now.

"Since Jiahe wants to play, then I will play with them.

I plan to spend [-] million to acquire some independent theaters to form a new theater chain. Are you interested? "

He Jin has long had the idea of ​​setting up his own theater chain, but he has not made up his mind.

What Jiahe did now just made him make up his mind.

"Are you crazy?"

On the phone, Xiang Huaqiang was startled by He Jin's thoughts.

Invest in theaters.

This move would have definitely been an excellent investment idea in the 80s and a few years ago.

But now, this idea is recognized as a bad idea.

Since Taiwanese film companies gradually withdrew from Xiangjiang in 93, the entire Hong Kong film market has experienced a large-scale reduction.

If you just look at the rankings on the box office list, this reduction is not so obvious.

But if you carefully investigate the number of movies released each year, as well as the total income of Xiangjiang movies in the past two years.

Then you will find that Xiangjiang movies have dropped from more than 1993 a year in 94 to more than [-] in [-].

As of this year, so far, the number of movies released has dropped to [-].

Even if this year is not over, but only two or three months will pass, and there will never be more than twenty movies released in the next time.

The decline in the number of movies, coupled with the steady decline in the total annual movie box office, let all Xiangjiang practitioners know that Xiangjiang movies have begun to decline.

Under such circumstances, the income of major movie theaters in Hong Kong has also begun to drop sharply. Since the beginning of this year, many theaters have begun to go bankrupt.

It can be said that since Taiwan shifted its choice of film sources to North America, the number of people investing in films at Hongkong has decreased by more than half.

Without investors, the crew cannot start work, and if the crew cannot start work, there will be no high-quality movies, and without movies, the theater will naturally not be able to continue.

No one else opened it and planned to withdraw, but you actually want to get started.

In Xiang Huaqiang's view, He Jin had too much money and had no place to put it.

"If you can't find an investment direction, come with me. The gaming industry in Macau is very prosperous now. The two of us will cooperate and we will be able to gain a firm foothold in Macau quickly."

Xiang Huaqiang said.

"Forget it, I don't know how to gamble, I'm only interested in the cultural industry.

Do you want to invest some money? Although the market is currently in a downturn, I believe that the cooperation between our two companies will definitely not lose money. "

Of course He Jin knew that Xiangjiang films were gradually declining, and he also knew that Xiangjiang theaters were facing a situation where there were no films to show.

However, He Jin does not believe that this business will not make money.

Moreover, He Jin is not only planning to build theaters in Xiangjiang, but his goal is the mainland.

He knows the potential of the mainland better than anyone.

The establishment of theaters in Xiangjiang is just his preparation for entering the country.

"Sorry, I'm not very interested in this."

Xiang Huaqiang was not interested in He Jin's idea of ​​establishing a theater in Xiangjiang, so he rejected He Jin.

He Jin was not surprised by this.

The Xiang family brothers are now focusing on the lottery and the gambling industry. In their view, that industry is the direction that can make a lot of money. In addition, they have begun to reduce their investment in film and television, so it is normal for them not to be interested in their own ideas.

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As Xiang Huaqiang said, sure enough, Golden Harvest notified Huaren that afternoon, saying that Speed ​​3 had no box office potential and they wanted to reduce the number of films.

In this regard, although He Jin asked Fang Cheng to continue talking with Jiahe.

But secretly, he started to contact film studios in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Taiwan, planning to release Super [-] in these regions ahead of schedule.

Not only in these places, but also in the domestic side, He Jin also began to urge Han Sanping to help make Super Three released in China as soon as possible.

"Mr. Katian, I really can't accept your offer, although the box office of Super Three in Hong Kong's first week is not as good as the first two.

But you who have seen the movie should know that there is nothing wrong with the quality of this movie.

The reason why the box office in Xiangjiang was affected was mainly due to my news two days ago.

Now that the news has explained clearly, we believe that the film's box office will definitely increase in the next few weeks. "

In the office of Huaren Film and Television, He Jin is receiving Katian, an introducer of foreign films from Japan's Dongbao Zhushi Company.

Japan Toho Pearl Club is one of the largest cinema chains in Japan.

This company has become the largest importer of foreign films in Japan in addition to its own films.

They will be responsible for importing films from Hong Kong, the United States and other places and releasing them in Japan.

The Speed ​​series can already be regarded as a well-made blockbuster in Asia.

The reputation of the whole series is not low in Japan.

Therefore, when Hua Ren called them, they immediately sent someone over.

"He Sang, you know, we dare not gamble."

Kata's offer for Speed ​​Three is [-] million Hong Kong dollars to win the Japanese release rights and video distribution rights.

He Jin is not satisfied with this price, so the two parties are now at a stalemate.