Reborn Hong Kong's Hidden Behind the Scenes

Chapter 148 Universal Cooperation

A few days after Wang Jing returned to Hong Kong, only Jiang Zhiqiang, who came back from the Chinese New Year, came to the door in a hurry.

"Boss, Universal wants to deepen cooperation with us."

"Aren't we a cooperative relationship?" Su Cheng asked doubtfully.After all, before, their two theaters jointly screened the movie "Golden Pond" produced by Universal.

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled wryly and said, "Boss, what Universal means is that it's the same as our Tengyue and Golden Harvest in Xiangjiang. In addition to the joint theater chain, film projects can also be co-produced."

This was something Su Cheng didn't expect.Ordinary Hollywood film companies will choose to jointly invest and produce with other companies in order to share the cost.But there is no need for the eight major Hollywood film companies like Universal! (Eight Big: Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Universal, United Artists (only empty shells, not yet acquired by other film companies). 20th Century Fox, Disney.)
Seeing the doubts on his boss's face, Jiang Zhiqiang explained: "In March, United Artists was acquired by MGM, and now there are only seven major Hollywood film companies left. 3th Century Fox is selling their entertainment industry aggressively recently. , I am afraid that in a year or two, there will be only six major film companies left."

After a pause, Jiang Zhiqiang continued: "Besides, the reason I came back in such a hurry is because the senior executives at Universal revealed to me that Sony in the island country is acquiring Columbia through Coca-Cola."

Hearing this, Su Cheng was shocked.Is Sony reaching out to the big Hollywood studios so early?In his memory, I'm afraid it will be a few years later!Perhaps, it was because they sensed the threat from their Tengyue Entertainment Company that they planned ahead of time!
Once Columbia is acquired, the future structure will become an era of hegemony among the seven major film companies, Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount, Universal, Ascend, Sony, and Disney.

In later generations, Su Cheng knew that MGM was eventually acquired by Sony.

In this case, the future will be the six major film companies.

No longer thinking about things so far away, Su Cheng asked: "Then what does Universal mean?"

"With the help of the movie "ET Aliens" released in June, our two companies held a press conference. We solemnly declare that it is a matter of joint cooperation. The specifics will be discussed later. However, I want to participate in another company's production Among the films, the investment share cannot exceed 3%." Jiang Zhiqiang said.

It seems that Universal is also guarding against them from Teng Yue Entertainment!With less investment, there is only a share of accounts.It is absolutely impossible to participate in the right to speak.Unless a film is being produced, there is no certainty, maybe it is possible!It is too difficult to find leaks in Universal.

However, the box office of the upcoming "ET Alien" is not low!In North America alone, there are more than 3 million U.S. dollars. I am afraid that the total box office will be 7 million U.S. dollars. Whether it can break the record of "Star Wars" as the world's No. [-] box office is not easy to say for the time being.

However, with the participation of Tengyue Cinemas, this opportunity will become bigger.

Thinking of this, a few gleams of light flashed in Su Cheng's eyes.

In addition, there are many good movies produced after Universal.Such as "Scent of a Woman", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Les Miserables" and so on.I don't know, they can take part in that movie.Even during this period, some films were distributed through system rewards.

After thinking about the pros and cons, Su Cheng said: "This matter can be agreed to. If you come forward, it doesn't matter whether it's you or Shi Nansheng. However, when talking and negotiating, it's best not to be caught by others. Movie The company and the theater chain are two companies. The boss is not alone. It can be said to be friends, even family members."

"I will pay attention to this point." Jiang Zhiqiang promised.

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The final box office of "The Great Reunion" produced by New Arts City reached 2186 million Hong Kong dollars.It can be regarded as the best box office drama in almost 2 years since its establishment.

And Dingsheng Films' "Young and Dangerous" was released a few days late, and the box office soared to 2512 million Hong Kong dollars.

Immediately, Xiang Huaqiang was overjoyed.

After all, this box office can earn him at least 3500 million Hong Kong dollars.

This is only the first one.

According to the previously discussed series of films, this one alone would earn hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, at least.Thinking of this, he called Su Cheng and invited him to have a big meal.Talk about expressing your feelings.

At the same time, "The Story of Hachiko", which was funded by their peak, was officially launched in North America, and the final box office stayed at 1.1 million US dollars.Calculated in this way, they can at least share more than 8000 million Hong Kong dollars.When investing, it was only 1000 million Hong Kong dollars (plus promotional expenses).

What a money grab!

For the first time, he was interested in movies from Hollywood.

It's just that he has just been treated favorably by Su Cheng, making him a lot of money.At this time, if you want to invest in other Hollywood's new films, you are not so thick-skinned!

Who let this short period of time, at least, let him get hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in cash flow!

Furthermore, the "The Story of Hachiko" has just been released in North America, and it has not yet been released in other regions.Even if the box office is small, tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars can be distributed, right?
For a moment, there was a smile on the boss's face.

At the same time, Zou Wenhuai from Golden Harvest was sighing: Boss Su is a godsend!All the scripts he personally wrote were made into movies.So far, it seems that there is no one with a low box office!At least, each one has benefits.

It's just a matter of more or less!
Thinking of this, he hurried to He Guanchang and asked, "How is the filming at Aaron's side?"

"It's more than half of it. If you think about it, it will be finished by the end of May."

Nodding his head, Zou Wenhuai said with a smile: "Then do you think, this time, can Aaron break the previous record?"

"Ah!" He Guanchang was taken aback for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "Maybe. Although I haven't read the script, I can see some of the plots from what Aaron said. This movie is based on the popular action movies in Hollywood. Tailor-made. Not to mention comparing it with "True Lies"! At least it is much better than Aaron's previous films such as "The Killer" and "Cannonball Run". Furthermore, Boss Su can use Leslie Cheung He and Chow Yun-fat are popular. There is no reason for Aaron, who is more aggressive, to fail!"

After all, this time is a real Hollywood blockbuster starring Aaron!He Guanchang thought secretly.

Hearing this analysis, Zou Wenhuai breathed a sigh of relief.After all, although the cooperation with Tengyue Entertainment was very pleasant, Golden Harvest has made a lot of money in the past two years.However, few of the films they produced themselves had a box office of over [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

He also had a headache about this.

Not to mention the more and more mature New Art City, even the gradually rising Dingsheng Films has begun to leave their Golden Harvest behind, which has to make them feel aggrieved.

Even the three Xu brothers, who were previously known as the gods of comedy, are gradually disappearing now.In the past two years, among the three or four films produced, none of them exceeded the box office of 500 million Hong Kong dollars.

It can be seen that Xu's comedy is not so popular!
(End of this chapter)