Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

If the Hong Kong film industry were to be divided into camps, there would be three camps.

The first camp is undoubtedly headed by Chen Qiming’s Pacific Cinemas, which includes Wong Jing, Stephen Chow, Tsui Hark and Galaxy Pictures.

This camp has been the main force in the Hong Kong film industry since 1995. Most of the top ten films in the Hong Kong box office list every year come from this camp.

Following closely behind is Jiahe.

Golden Harvest, which has the golden name of Jackie Chan, has greatly reduced its film production in recent years, but what is the structure of Golden Harvest? Even if the film production volume is reduced, there are still many films released every year.

In addition, Golden Harvest itself is a veteran of Hong Kong film companies, so the power of this camp cannot be underestimated.

Then there is the Oriental Cinema Line formed by Huang Baiming.

As one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City, Huang Baiming's camp may not be as good as Pacific and Golden Harvest, but it is also a major force in Hong Kong.

This camp can be regarded as the successor company of New Art City, and it mainly focuses on shooting comedies.

In Hong Kong, except for Stephen Chow, the number one comedian, most comedians are basically from Oriental Pictures.

Moreover, Oriental Pictures also has Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong's top superstar, who can handle the box office.

The three camps include almost all film production and distribution currently on the Hong Kong market.

It is no exaggeration to say that the three parties here represent the world of Hong Kong movies.

At this time, all three parties were sitting attentively in Xinghui's small screening room, watching the movie "The King of Comedy" produced by Xinghui.

As always, Stephen Chow's production must be a high-quality one.

The movie had only been shown for twenty minutes, and the three big guys present had already made their own comments about the movie.

Jiahe's He Guanchang first signaled his people to go out and talk to Xinghui's people about the distribution of the film.

Clearly, he saw the film's potential.

What He Guanchang told his subordinates was as follows:

"I don't care what method you use or what kind of treatment Xinghui wants. I just want the result. I just want this film to appear in Jiahe's theaters during the Lunar New Year."

As he said this, he glanced at Chen Qiming cautiously.

Although three big names in the industry are gathered together, the most important thing for Ho Guan Chang is Chen Qiming and his Pacific Cinemas.

First of all, Xinghui and Pacific Ocean have a cooperative relationship, but currently Xinghui hopes to improve their treatment.

If Pacific is willing to pay the price, they still have the upper hand.

Secondly, and most importantly, Pacific is currently the strongest, with a wide range of theaters and the largest number of theaters.

In Asia, in addition to large-scale theaters in Hong Kong and Macao, Pacific Cinemas currently has large-scale theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and even Thailand.

As we all know, the number of screens a movie is released on will seriously affect the box office.

The strength of Pacific Cinemas has made it the first choice of most film production companies.

No one wants to see their film released on a wide scale, especially in multiple regions.

In the past, after Hong Kong film companies produced movies, they basically sold the copyrights to film producers in Taiwan, Singapore and other places, earning a buyout fee and no other income at all.

Now, the emergence of Pacific Cinemas has broken this rule.

Chen Qiming has a very large network of contacts. He has obtained the screening rights in Singapore and Malaysia, and even the treasure island has been secured by him.

He even got the rights to screen it in Thailand.

The emergence of the Pacific Ocean directly allows Hong Kong movies to directly choose to be released in these places without having to find studios, and directly earn box office.

In addition, He Guanchang also heard that Pacific has reached a cooperation with Mainland Wanyan, and the two parties have reached a series of cooperation on disc distribution and production.

Who is Wan Yan?

Anyone who knows it knows that this company is the company that invented the first VCD.

The current prevalence of piracy is inseparable from it.

At the same time, the current surge in movie disc income is also due to it. Although Wan Yan did not register a patent immediately after producing VCD, which resulted in the proliferation of VCDs and was studied by numerous companies and established their own VCD brands.

But even so, Wan Yan's strength is very impressive.

Relying on the advantage of being the first to eat crabs, this company currently has a market value of more than one billion yuan and is a well-known brand company in the mainland.

If Pacific cooperates with it, it will definitely be a strong alliance.

As for why Pacific has joined forces with them, smart people all know that this is because Pacific is no longer satisfied with just eating the theater chain cake, but wants to enter the disc market.

As we all know, movie income only comes from box office and discs.

Among them, disc revenue has even surpassed box office revenue with the emergence of VCD.

This is true whether in Europe, America or Hong Kong.

A movie with a box office of HK$30 million can even earn HK$50 million in the disc market.

It can be said that this is definitely a big cake that countless people are coveted.

However, competition in this market is more intense, and there are giants that have already dominated this market.

Such as Media Asia.

This company was founded in 1994 by a number of disc manufacturers, including Lin Jianyue, the son of the former ATV boss.

After Media Asia joined the film industry, it mainly focused on producing low-cost films.

But even so, the company's market value has continued to increase, and its current power has risen again and again, and it has a strength comparable to the three giants.

And what it relies on is the disc.

It's true that low-budget movies don't make much money at the box office, but they are very popular in the disc market.

Media Asia has successfully established itself in the film industry by relying on disc income from low-cost movies, and its strength continues to grow.

Now, Pacific Cinemas has also begun to intervene in this industry. He Guanchang can already imagine that after Pacific Cinemas has a certain position in this market, his status as a giant will become more solid. At the same time, it will also attract production companies to hand over movies to them. issued.

Therefore, compared to the Eastern theater chain, which has been declining repeatedly, Ho Guanchang pays more attention to the Pacific theater chain, believing that they are his biggest rivals in the competition for "The King of Comedy".

As if he felt He Guanchang looking at him, Chen Qiming, who was looking at the screen, turned back and smiled at him.

The two of them looked at each other in the air, and there was no sparkling scene happening. It was a fantasy scene.

Looking back, Chen Qiming said to Wu Zhuo: "This heroine is not bad."

"It's really good, very beautiful."

Wu Zhuo raised his glasses, "Would you like me to say hello and get her to the Pacific Company?"

Hearing this, Chen Qiming couldn't help but be speechless.

He understood that Wu Zhuo had misunderstood.

He simply praised Cecilia Cheung's performance in this drama.

As a result, Wu Zhuo mistakenly thought that he was attracted to Cecilia Cheung.

"I just think she did a good job." Chen Qiming explained.

"Yes, she performed very well. I think she is very suitable for our company."

Wu Zhuo responded seriously.

Chen Qiming opened his mouth but did not continue speaking.

He knew that no matter what he said, Wu Zhuo would think that he was attracted to Cecilia Cheung.

Therefore, instead of talking nonsense, it is better not to say anything and let him do whatever he wants.

(End of this chapter)