Through the wealth life

Chapter 326 The Trouble of Jiayi Film Executives

The Xiangjiang film industry is currently contending for hegemony among the top three. With the decline of the Shaw Brothers, the Xiangjiang film industry has now become dominated by Jiayi, Jiahe and Xinyicheng. Every box office war will always happen between them, and most of the time It was Jiahe who faced the joint suppression of Jiayi and New Art City alone.

However, this has also created Golden Harvest's reputation. Even if Jiayi Film Company ranked first in terms of profit last year, Golden Harvest's momentum will be higher than Jiayi. Last year, Wrinkle Huai was ambitious to develop the American market. I specially made a joint venture with a Hollywood company to shoot a movie called Killer, and let Chen Long act as the leading actor in this movie, hoping to make Bruce Lee the second.

It's just that last year's box office performance of Killer Hole did not satisfy Wrinkle, but he did not lose confidence. Just after the Spring Festival, Golden Harvest announced that Golden Harvest invested heavily in cooperation with an American film company to co-produce the movie "Cannonball Run", Chen Long acts as the protagonist of the film.

The Xiangjiang press highly praised Golden Harvest for its pioneering efforts, but this time, Jiayi Film Company under Li's company became the target of their criticism.

Oriental Daily wrote: "When we mention Li's Group, we always think that many of their products are sold in various regions. I have always thought that Li's Group is an aggressive group. Look at their distribution in various regions. The company knows."

"But today, I discovered that there are also some companies under the Li Group who just rely on the Li Group to get by and have no intention of making a fortune. Compared with Jiahe, the performance of Jiayi Film Company's executives is impressive. Very disappointed. They have better resources than Golden Harvest, but they are only willing to stick to the Asian market and hold back, and have no intention of going to the United States to develop."

This time, not only Oriental Daily, but also Sing Tao Daily, Min Pao, and Hong Kong New Daily pointed the finger at Jiayi Film Company executives, criticizing them for their incompetence and lack of courage to challenge.

Facing the overwhelming criticism and accusations from the major media in Hong Kong, the top management of Jiayi Film Company immediately held a meeting.

Wu Xianglin, general manager of the film company, said at the meeting: "I think everyone has read today's news. We have become the representative of Xiangjiang's incompetence. How do you feel about this?"

Distribution Manager Chen Jianming said: "Wu Sheng, we didn't make any mistakes. We followed Li Sheng's instructions and tried our best to stabilize the Asian market. Besides, our two films, God of Gamblers and The True Colors of Heroes, were released in Europe and America last year. It achieved a very good box office, which is much higher than Golden Harvest's box office last year."

The executives of the film company really feel wronged today. How come they and others have become representatives of incompetence and lack of progress. Last year, the film company’s profit ranked first in Xiangjiang. Isn’t this the result of themselves and others? So what about entering the United States, it is not a big disappointment.

Wei Zhiming, manager of the editorial department, said: "Wu Sheng, even if we want to enter the US market, we need the approval of the top management, and the group top management will obviously follow Li Sheng's suggestion. How can we blame us for being incompetent?"

These high-level executives were very angry when they read the newspaper today. I and others are running the film company so well that the film company can obtain the highest profit of all the film companies in Xiangjiang. It became like this.

Wu Xianglin said: "Everyone, don't pay too much attention to the reports of the media in the outside world. The senior management of the group is very clear about the achievements we have made, and they also highly appreciate our achievements. Whether we are capable or not is not for these newspapers, but for the senior management of the group and Li. The evaluation of our abilities by students is what we need to care about.”

After hearing what Wu Xianglin said, everyone let go of the anger in their hearts. As long as the senior management of the group continues to trust themselves and others, they don't care what happens outside, and they didn't give them their jobs.

Yang Hui, manager of the administrative department, said, "Wu Sheng, what should our film company do in response to this incident?"

Wu Xianglin said: "You also know that it is very difficult for our film companies in Asia to develop well in Hollywood in the United States. This is why Li Sheng asked us to stabilize the Asian market. The big film companies over there are not very good. We are welcome to go grab food, take a look at Golden Harvest, post and invest by ourselves, but they don’t get much profit themselves.”

The essence of the United States is the same as Xiangjiang. Without the support of theaters, no matter how much money you invest in companies like you, it will be in vain.Behind the major film companies in the United States, which one does not have the support of theaters?

If Jiayi didn't cooperate with these companies in the past, it would be difficult for them to screen, but if they cooperate, how much can they get? I'm afraid that when they eat meat in front of them, I can only drink soup.

Yang Hui said: "Wu Sheng, the current public opinion in Hong Kong is quite unfavorable to our Jiayi Film Company. If we don't respond, I'm afraid it will affect the box office of our movies."

Wu Xianglin also knew about this problem, thinking about the senior management, he said, "I'll go to Li's Building later, and report this issue to the group's Liu Sheng and Ms. Shi to see what their plans are."

During the high-level meeting of Jiayi Film Company, Liu Tianci and Shi Nansheng had already arrived at Li Guangyu's office and reported the situation to him.

Li Guangyu didn't expect that Golden Harvest's investment in the United States would cause such a disturbance. This time, Jiayi Film Company's executives were really wronged, and they all followed their orders.

Li Guangyu asked: "Tianci, Ms. Shi, do you have any opinions on this?"

Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, we also know that it is quite difficult to develop in the United States if we do not have a theater chain, but if we ignore it now, the public opinion is quite unfavorable to us. Look at our Should we also learn from Golden Harvest and cooperate with American companies, we invest in them to shoot, and then add one or two of our actors, besides, we have many film and television actors in the American economic company."

Since he read a lot of novels about crossing the Xiangjiang River in his previous life, Li Guangyu really knew a few movies that sold well at the box office. Some books said that the director lacked capital investment. give it a try.

Li Guangyu said: "You ask the company in the United States to contact the director of Jaws to see if he has a new script that needs investment. We will cooperate with him."

As the vice president in charge of movies, Shi Nansheng naturally knows very well about popular movies, and this Jaws has won a very rich box office.Li Guangyu ordered himself to wait for others to discuss cooperation with the director of this movie. If they succeed, they will definitely reap rich rewards.

Shi Nansheng said: "Li Sheng, I will arrange for our employees in the United States to contact Mr. Steven Spielberg in the next two days, and try to reach some cooperation with him."

Li Guangyu said to them: "After you go down, you must appease the emotions of the film company's top management, so that they will not be influenced by the outside world, continue to lead the development of the film company, and stabilize our film market in Asia."

Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, I will go to the film company in person and do a good job of appeasing them."

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(End of this chapter)