Reborn Hong Kong Wild Age

Chapter 29
"It's still difficult to make an independent film. If you don't have theaters, you will never be able to make a big movie."

Since the 60s, Hong Kong's film industry has been developing rapidly, but the real golden decade has not yet arrived, but it also writes a history of monopoly struggles among film giants.

If you don't have theaters, you will always be just a straggler, how can you compete with giant companies?Just the schedule of theaters and the amount of films scheduled can kill you.

The real giants in the film industry all have one-stop production and sales. The Shaw Brothers, Cathay Pacific, and Golden Harvest who are qualified to compete for hegemony are all self-sufficient in production, distribution, theaters, and stars.

The most important thing in this industrial chain is the theater chain, which can capture the audience.Today's Hong Kong audience must remember the theaters. If you want to see Bruce Lee, you will definitely not be able to see it in Shaw's theaters.On the contrary, if you want to watch Fu Sheng, don't go to Golden Harvest's theaters.This monopoly of theater chains is also the key point for the long-term prosperity of the theater chain bosses.

On the other hand, if you look at the Hong Kong film industry in this period, if you apply it to "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is really a scene of heroes fighting for hegemony: Shaw Brothers has a long history and is a family business. An important minister who later established himself, Jiahe is comparable to Cao Wei; the three brothers Mecca, Shi Guan, and Huang Baiming "struggle" to conquer the world, and Xinyi City is like Shu Han; Soochow means...

If you are a famous general and want to choose a master, Gu Xiayang will choose to join Debao Film Company.

You can see that New Art City is full of talents, even if they are fighting alone, they are all top-notch.Jiahe even sits on Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao and other famous brands, standing still.Only Debao seems to have no real general under his command.

Today's Shaw Brothers has ceased production, and the emerging Debao Company originally leased the Shaw Brothers theater chain, and is now still talking about expanding theater business, continuing the monopoly pattern of large companies standing on top of each other.

Moreover, Debao’s management model is different from that of Shaw, Golden Harvest, and New Art City. Shaw is a family business, and the brothers Shao Renmei and Shao Yifu have the final say; Creation is collective wisdom. Mecca, Shi An, and Huang Baiming are the speakers, but they are employed by Lei Juekun's Golden Princess Cinemas; Debao is invested by Pan Disheng, and the professional manager system is used. Xian Qiran took over.

However, Hong Jinbao, Cen Jianxun and Pan Disheng jointly set up Debao Film Company. Hong Jinbao himself is just a name, and he takes up some shares to help make something. The real filmmaker is Cen Jianxun.

However, if we all share the same interests and start a business together, what is the most afraid of? What is most afraid of is laymen giving advice to insiders.From the very beginning, Cen Jianxun told Pan Disheng: You are a watch maker, I will not teach you how to make watches, and you can't touch my movies, you have to let go.

Later, the reason why it was kicked out, or in other words, it was filmed twice, was because Pan Disheng intervened in the affairs of the film company.

But Gu Xiayang knew that the timing of Pan Disheng's subsequent intervention was also very precise, and it could be said to be helpless from the outside.After all, he is the big boss behind the scenes of a company, and he always loses money or doesn't make any money, which is unreasonable!

Obviously the film industry is getting better and better, and he is the leader of the theater chain, how can he not be able to do what New Art City and Golden Harvest did?
If Cen Jianxun was as smart as Wang Jing, he might really be able to make Debao flourish by doing the film business on the spot.

But as a manager, if you don't think about how to help the boss and help the company make money, but want to play your favorite movies, isn't that an act of courting death?

In the original "Five Lucky Stars" series, Cen Jianxun's role in "Curly Hair" made him famous.

It just so happens that such a comedian likes to engage in literary films.For example, "Waiting for Dawn", "Favourite" and so on, but the ones who really want to make money must be those crazy comedies he plays.

According to Cen Jianxun himself, the movie has not been made yet, but he said it might open, wow, Taiwan will bring the money, I may need 1000 million, and I may have already got 3000 to [-] million. It was like this in those days, Golden Ten year.

I don't want to, I won't shoot these, I want to shoot some things I like, what can you do with me?At that time, whether it was the distributor or the boss in the film industry, everyone said, oh, it’s okay if Curly can help me make money anyway, he is crazy, you just make him happy.

You can support such a person to make films, but if you come to manage a film company or a theater chain, how can you make money?Pan Disheng obviously saw this clearly, so he intervened without hesitation.

In the end, because of Pan Disheng's intervention, Cen Jianxun fought with him, but no matter how hard he fought, he was the big boss behind the scenes after all, and the final result was that Xian Qiran took his place.

However, whether it is Cen Jianxun or later Xian Qiran, the ability to be in charge of film companies in theaters is very average.

Even if it is purely from the perspective of a filmmaker, "The Bandit" directed by Xian Qiran can be said to be nothing, and it was defeated by New Art City and Golden Harvest.

"If I'm just an ordinary filmmaker, it's not impossible to go to Debao and become a professional manager for Pan Disheng. Hehe, but I also want to have my own theater chain!"

Gu Xiayang played with the pen in his hand. He had his own plans for his Tianxiayi Film Company.

In this general environment, if you want to continue playing movies, there are only a few ways.The theater predators are ahead, and the current independent film production companies cannot handle it.

When a watch owner like Pan Disheng finds that his theater chain and film company are unprofitable, is it necessary to continue such a business?

The answer is no, but now that Debao has just raised its head, Gu Xiayang doesn't have the funds to buy a theater chain, so he wants to learn from Debao and spend tens of millions to rent theaters every year, and he can't afford it.

But a theater chain giant like Debao at least includes the distribution department, production department, script department, publicity department, and the head of the movie theater.

This kind of film company is the real film company, Tianxiayi can only be regarded as a small workshop, and Gu Xiayang has his own ambitions.

"Come on step by step, making money is important."

Gu Xiayang thought for a while, and said to Ju Jueliang: "You should go and talk about the three major theaters. The main thing is that the schedule and the number of shows must be guaranteed, and we can give up part of the profit. After all, the first movie is going to be popular. Fame goes."

In addition to the three major theater chains in Hong Kong, there is also a leftist theater chain, but in the current form, this theater chain must not be admitted.

As for playing the contract system, it is not reliable for independent theaters to discuss cooperation. These theaters are not big enough and the locations are bad, so they can only show old movies.

After much deliberation, I still can only follow the normal path and find cooperation with the three major theaters.

Ju Jueliang nodded and said, "Don't worry, boss, I will try my best to get the best conditions."

……

"Eighty thousand."

"Hahahaha, nonsense. There are no characters, all the same color, and Dudu..."

At Zhang Guorong's house in Taikoo City, he was sitting at the mahjong table with a red face at this time, counting his numbers: "Ah Yang, if I knew you were a master of shooting cannons, I would have asked you to play mahjong."

Gu Xiayang rolled his eyes and said, "It should be you who have so many poker friends, but I'm the only one with the worst poker skills!"

Zhang Guorong originally invited Gu Xiayang to dinner tonight, but he was too busy a while ago, "cool! "Magazine has gained him a lot of student fans, and he acts as a host to show his gratitude.

Who would have thought that Gu Xiayang would also move to Taikoo City, so he would invite him to have dinner at home, and play mahjong after dinner.

Gu Xiayang has never played Hong Kong-style Taiwanese mahjong, so he was beaten by Zhang Guorong and his poker friends.

Now Zhang Guorong's poker friends are not Lin Qingxia, Zhang Xueyou, and Liu Jialing, except for one circle, Li Xiaotian is also drawn by him to make up the number.

In fact, Zhang Guorong's card skills are average, and his hands will tremble nervously when he catches a big card, but today he is very happy, because he met someone with worse card skills than him.

Looking at Gu Xiayang's expression, Zhang Guorong joked: "Hahahaha, I am looking forward to what song you will write me."

"I always feel that you are setting me up on purpose."

"Why is it a trick? You are a big talent, a big boss, and you are very busy. Amei also wants to ask you to ask for a song. I just got there first. It's just a lottery. You can give it to me anytime, haha, mahjong Just be happy."

Gu Xiayang was about to leave after dinner, but Zhang Guorong became addicted to playing cards, so he pulled him to stay and play mahjong, and called Li Xiaotian and others.

In the end, in addition to playing for a little money, Zhang Guorong and Gu Xiayang also added a little bit of fun, that is, if Gu Xiayang loses, write a song for Zhang Guorong, and if Zhang Guorong loses, sing a song for Gu Xiayang's movie in the future.

"A few days ago, I heard that Vivian was tricked into filming by you. She was scolded by the director every day, and her eyes were swollen from crying... Ah Yang, you don't feel pity at all!"

Li Xiaotian on the side looked at Gu Xiayang and said, "I heard that there will be a night scene tonight. Is it drag racing? There is also an explosion. She works so hard, you have to take care of her."

"My childhood sweetheart, don't worry." Zhang Guorong joked on the side.

For Gu Xiayang and Zhou Huimin, Li Xiaotian and Zhang Guorong felt that their relationship must be more than just good friends.

The handsome men and beautiful women are of the same age, and they were childhood sweethearts. Gu Xiayang wrote songs and was praised by weekly magazines. He even ran a film company. Zhou Huimin was the heroine in the first play. It must be a lie to say that he has no idea.

Facing their teasing, Gu Xiayang smiled and said: "If you are free to gossip about others, let's play mahjong first!"

"Drip-drip-"

At this moment, Gu Xiayang's phone rang quickly.

He glanced at it, got up and borrowed Zhang Guorong's phone and called.

"Young Master Gu, something happened."

On the other end of the phone, a hurried voice said: "There are young and Dangerous boys making trouble, and our crew has clashed with them."

(End of this chapter)