Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

After hearing Uncle Lin's reply, a big stone suddenly fell in Cao Zhiqiang's heart.

At least, it's off to a good start.

And that's the thing about concessions. As long as you give in once, you can keep giving in later.

The premise is that you want the other party to feel your sincerity and think it can bring benefits to both parties.

There is no doubt that Cao Zhiqiang started in the film industry, which is the best insertion point.

The reason is very simple, that is, the domestic film industry has been experiencing problems for a long time. There have been calls for film reform for a long time, but due to various reasons, they have never been successful.

As Cao Zhiqiang said, there is no shortage of film talents in the country, especially reserve talents, which is not comparable to that of a small Hong Kong.

But why are there so many good movies in Hong Kong that have reached their peak development, while mainland movies are still stagnant and cannot compete with foreign movies?

In addition to technical, financial and censorship reasons, the biggest reason is actually the issuance mechanism.

To put it bluntly, the current domestic movies are too severely monopolized by China Film Company.

As mentioned before, the current domestic film distribution mechanism is dominated by China Film Company, which has a monopoly on the distribution rights of all domestic films.

Once a film company in China has produced a movie, it doesn’t matter how much it cost to make. If China Film Company accepts your movie, it will follow China Film’s rules. China Film says how much your movie will cost, that’s how much it will cost. One-time buyout fee.

After China Film Company buys out the movie you make, it will be screened in movie theaters around the world, and then the accounts will be divided between the movie theater and the movie theater. China Film Company will get six, and the local movie theater will get four.

In other words, in terms of pure box office distribution, China Film Company took the biggest share.

The question is, as a state-owned enterprise, after collecting the money, will China Film Company pay the bulk of it to the national treasury?

The answer is no.

This does not mean that China Film Company will not pay the money to the national treasury after receiving it, but it will only pay a small part.

This is again an issue left over from history.

To put it simply, it is a question of the payment ratio of state-owned enterprises.

In this era before the tax reform has begun, taxes are basically collected by the tax bureau under the Ministry of Finance. However, due to lack of manpower and other reasons, state-owned enterprises in various places basically pay the taxes voluntarily, and there are few people from above to supervise your tax payment. of.

Except for some key industries, most state-owned enterprises are trying every means to avoid taxes.

For example, the most popular method is to increase expenditures and benefits.

Why do most state-owned enterprises in this period build their own hospitals, schools, libraries, cinemas and other facilities?

Are you really dedicated to serving the people?

The fundamental reason is not to increase expenditures.

Anyway, increasing expenditures and adding more departments will not only increase jobs and solve more employment problems, but also crucially increase many leadership positions during this period, which will naturally lead to more tricks.

In this way, on the surface, it seems that this company has a lot of expenditures and not much net profit. Many of them are not only flat, but even require financial subsidies.

The current situation is this. The so-called state-owned enterprises handing over money to the state treasury refers to turning over pure profits.

If there is no net profit, no matter how large your liquidity is, you don’t have to pay taxes.

In this way, a situation will gradually be created, that is, enterprises are more powerful than the government and still have money.

It is precisely because of this that government cadres during this period were not as popular as good state-owned enterprise employees.

The reason is that the income of government cadres is low and not as high as that of state-owned enterprise employees.

Moreover, employees of state-owned enterprises still have promotion channels at this time. They can still rely on the state-owned enterprise system to be promoted, and in turn be promoted to a very high position. Under certain circumstances, the promotion speed is only faster than that of ordinary government cadres.

Because the cadre system also exists in state-owned enterprises.

Many state-owned enterprise employees can be directly transferred to administrative positions after they have worked to a certain level.

For example, someone who worked as a workshop director in a certain workshop may one day be directly assigned to be a secretary in a local county. There are many cases of this.

The money is not as good as direct supply from the factory, and the speed of promotion is not as fast, so of course it is best to work in a factory.

But this will definitely not be a good thing for local governments and the central government.

Of course, this kind of state-owned enterprise is similar to a state within a state. It is large and comprehensive and has everything. It is a legacy of history. It also made huge contributions back then and avoided huge losses in a certain period.

But times have changed, and today's era is no longer what it used to be.

Now that everything in the country is centered on economic construction and led by the government, some things, such as large and comprehensive state-owned enterprises, need to change.

Fortunately, due to various reasons, many state-owned enterprises today are also facing various problems, which gives various agencies an opportunity to take advantage of them.

For example, the rectification or abolition of Hongguang Machinery Factory is actually a victim of the general environment.

Well, in the grand scheme of things, this isn't a bad thing.

After all, eliminating isolated state-owned enterprises and unifying them under the leadership of government agencies is tantamount to breaking regional monopolies and rebuilding a unified domestic market.

Because in the past, each state-owned enterprise was like a state within a state, and other units could not get in. In addition, state-owned enterprises colluded with local governments and were not closely connected. As a result, there was actually strong local protection between various places. ism.

If local protectionism is severe, it will slow down economic operations and increase various costs, which is not conducive to the development of the country's overall economy.

Therefore, one of the steps in the reform of state-owned enterprises during this period was to break regional monopolies and reestablish central authority.

As for the subsequent reform of the tax-sharing system, that will have to take a back seat.

Having said that, although a company like China Film Company is not a company of a certain local government, it is the sphere of influence of a certain department, and it still means that it is too big to lose.

The China Film Group reaped the national film distribution dividends, which only enriched itself and caused damage to all related industries. This is actually tantamount to causing public outrage.

It's just that China Film Group is too strong. Unless some upper-level officials take action, it will be really difficult to change this status quo.

In the past, there were many domestic problems. Generally speaking, we would not engage in high-level negotiations over such trivial matters.

But if it involves a mysterious and friendly organization that can bring the country such as White Swan bombers, high-performance missiles, and even F14 fighter jets, then it is worth a gamble.

Anyway, we are just looking for a film studio to serve as a pilot. Not all film studios are qualified to separate separate accounts. It seems that China Film Company should be able to accept it.

that's the truth.

Hongguang Film Factory is just a small studio that has just been established. If only movies produced by Hongguang Film Factory can enjoy the separate accounting model, then it will really have little impact on the entire domestic film market.

After all, according to normal logic, in a small film studio, if you shoot every day, how many movies can you make?

But what they didn't know was that Cao Zhiqiang was cheating.

And once this opening is opened, Cao Zhiqiang can cooperate with overseas film companies.

If overseas films are introduced in the name of Hongguang Film Factory, or simply made in the form of co-production or joint investment, then overseas films can be distributed domestically directly through Hongguang Film Factory.

In other words, once this opening is opened, it is equivalent to giving the film studio, which is only responsible for film production, the right to independent distribution. Even if the distribution rights are not completely independent, it is still cost-effective to share the accounts with other units, including China Film Company.

As long as others do the math, they will definitely be happy to cooperate with Hongguang Film Studio.

You know, the domestic film market is actually very huge.

Even though the price of movie tickets is very low, there are too many of them.

In a market with hundreds of millions of people, who can live without something?

Even if a movie ticket costs 10 cents, and 100 million people visit, that’s a box office of 100 million RMB.

Converted into Hong Kong dollars, 1.25 million RMB. Judging from the current exchange rate, that is million Hong Kong dollars!

Compared with the box office level of Hong Kong movies, which only have a maximum box office of 40 million Hong Kong dollars, the inland market is the real treasure.

Is it difficult to get a box office of 100 million? At present, it is a bit difficult in China, but if the quality of the movie is better, it will definitely be easy to earn 50 million RMB at the box office.

Let's put it this way, if Xiangjiang's current excellent movies can be introduced to the country for normal broadcast without restrictions, it will not be difficult to achieve a box office of 50 million RMB.

Take Cheng Long's movie "Plan A" for example. The box office revenue in Hong Kong is only 20 million Hong Kong dollars. If it is introduced to the inland market, it should not be able to reach the box office of 100 million RMB.

There is no other way. If someone makes a movie of really good quality and broadcasts it inland, it will be a dimensionality reduction blow.

To put it bluntly, some of Xiangjiang's movies, such as "Plan A", are actually much better than Japanese movies.

If you look at Ken Takakura's "Manhunt", it's far behind movies like "Plan A".

The reason why "Pursuit" was so popular back then was ultimately because the domestic aesthetic level was too low and the experience was too little. So when I saw the modern scenes abroad for the first time, I was naturally shocked.

The level of modernization in Xiangjiang is no worse than that of most cities in Japan, so if Xiangjiang movies can be broadcast normally in China at this time, the effect will be absolutely great.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a large number of video parlors in the future.

Isn’t it because China has not allowed the normal broadcast of Xiangjiang movies, so they can only secretly play the video tapes of Xiangjiang movies through video halls?

If nothing unexpected happens, the country really starts to give up its monopoly, and its first attempt at movie splitting is really related to a Hong Kong movie, which is the later Hong Kong movie "Once Upon a Time in China: The Lion King"!

Anyway, in Cao Zhiqiang's previous life, this movie was the first mainland movie to be settled by box office division, instead of the past, where China Film Company still had monopoly on purchasing and marketing, and bought out the distribution rights.

But that time was already 1993.

Before this, the distribution of domestic films had always been dominated by China Film Company. Any film that wanted to be distributed domestically had to be sold to China Film Company, otherwise it would not work.

But now, Cao Zhiqiang feels that if we take the opportunity of scarce materials such as F14 fighter jets and technical data, and on the condition of RMB settlement, it is still possible for the country to let go of the film-accounting model in advance.

At least, the Hongguang Film Studio under his control should be allowed to carry out the first account sharing model.

It can be said that if this proposal succeeds, Hongguang Film Studio will be the biggest winner.

After all, other film studios have to follow the old rules and have to be bought out by China Film Company. Hongguang Film Studio can split the accounts by itself, which is equivalent to another level of monopoly.

Yes, this means that the Hongguang Film Studio under his control has a monopoly on the split distribution channels of domestic films. Not to mention the attraction to domestic films, but the attraction to overseas films is absolutely super high.

In the future, whenever overseas films want to be distributed domestically, they will probably turn to Hongguang Film Studio. After all, it can provide more benefits.

Similarly, with this opening, Cao Zhiqiang can also smoothly bring overseas funds into the mainland by investing in movies. With a little manipulation, it can be turned into resources such as real estate. Don't be too easy.

Even if Cao Zhiqiang seriously spends a lot of money to make movies in the future, with his knowledge and talent, he will definitely make a lot of money.

Especially some large-scale productions can be launched during this period.

After all, labor in China at this time should not be too cheap. Even if you hire 10,000 people as extras, it won't actually cost you much.

But if you can make a big war scene out of it, you can still make a lot of money even if you don't distribute it domestically and just distribute it abroad.

And in this way, we can also produce some classic works that can be passed down to future generations.

For example, he has always wanted to film Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, including his successful counterattack to become emperor and the grand scenes of leading his army in the Northern Expedition. He has long been interested in it and has long wanted to see it.

In his previous life, he had never been satisfied with related movies, but here, he could try to make them himself.

At least, he can make more movies about the Ming Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty and take the opportunity to promote Han culture.

Unlike today's trend, there are Qing Dynasty pigtail dramas everywhere, which is annoying.

Even if he wants to shoot braids, Cao Zhiqiang would rather shoot subjects like the Revolution of 1911.

In addition, he wants to get involved in famous big IPs, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and even the ongoing filming of Journey to the West.

All in all, if you want to shoot domestic historical dramas, this period is the best.

Because once this time is missed, after domestic labor prices skyrocket, it will no longer be possible to create large-scale war scenes.

Also, when making movies at this time, you can openly engage in real estate in the name of building a movie city.

At a time when land is so cheap, if we can build a batch of future prime locations in certain key locations in advance using the model of a movie city, then the future income will be, hahaha, it will be that simple to make money while lying down.

Compared with these benefits, those who sleep with female celebrities are just on the sidelines and have no place at all.

Besides, Cao Zhiqiang really doesn't have that idea now.

He has enough women now, and he really doesn't want to mess around with women anymore.

When there are more people, not to mention whether he has enough energy and time, even his kidneys can't bear it.

However, the film industry is good and profitable, but compared with the subsequent automobile industry and large aircraft industry, it pales into insignificance.

In fact, simply talking about making money, from a personal point of view, the automobile industry and the large aircraft industry may not necessarily make money as much as the film and television industry, and the risks are very high.

However, these two industrial projects, automobiles and large aircraft, are the real weapons of the country, and they are also good projects that can truly benefit the country and the nation.

In other words, for Cao Zhiqiang now, making money is just a small way, and he has too many ways to make money.

Therefore, he has already broken away from the low-level interest of making money, and has risen to a higher level.

Laying out high-end industries such as automobiles and large aircraft in advance, so that the country and the nation can take off, belongs to this high-end level.

In the past, he just didn't have a chance.

Now that he has the opportunity, Cao Zhiqiang certainly wants to give it a try.

He wanted to see if he could hold up the sky with one hand with his cheating power!