Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Produced by Pacific, "The Fast and the Furious" brings together China's two biggest superstars, Chen Qiming and Jackie Chan, as well as Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt and many other well-known domestic and foreign actors.

This film has been attracting attention ever since the project was announced.

Domestic movie fans are looking forward to the collaboration between China's two world-class superstars.

Foreign movie fans are looking forward to the two most charming men in the world, Chen Qiming and Brad Pitt, appearing in the same film, and Jackie Chan's kung fu, which directly raises the expectations.

However, no matter how much fans look forward to it, the release of the movie cannot be accelerated.

The filming of the film was completed in March 2001, and post-production required a lot of time. Coupled with scheduling issues, the film's release date was directly postponed to August, which is the summer vacation.

During this time, Chen Qiming was not idle either.

He embarked on his biggest tour of the new millennium.

This round of tour concerts totaled more than 130 concerts, setting a record for Chen Qiming's own concerts.

At the same time, while the concert was being held, Chen Qiming hired a network team to build a video website.

At this time in 2001, the Internet had developed to a certain extent.

Video websites have begun to appear.

This year, not only Chen Qiming invested in professionals to build a video website.

Even Jiahe is like this.

Jiahe has also put a lot of effort into this website.

At that time, "The Secret Agent", invested by Golden Harvest and starring Jackie Chan, attracted much attention.

In order to attract traffic to the website, Jiahe specially produced an online version when filming "The Secret Agent".

It can also be said to be a ten-minute prequel to "The Secret Agent".

If you want to understand Spy's Lost City, you need to watch this prequel-like part on the website first.

Unfortunately, Jiahe overestimated the popularity of the Internet in this era.

Many movie fans don't even know that there is an online version. Even if they know, computers in this era are not that widespread.

This resulted in the fact that after the release of "Puzzle: City of Spy", many viewers could not understand the movie, making the film's reputation the worst among Jackie Chan's films in recent years.

However, Jiahe did not have a large amount of funds to support the continued operation of this website. After running it for a period of time and spending a lot of money without any results, this video website could only be closed down.

This closure resulted in the loss of the prequel to "The Secret Agent".

Therefore, in the future, many people in the movie "The Secret Agent" will not understand the plot, making its rating on major websites the lowest among Jackie Chan movies.

Compared with Jiahe, Chen Qiming did not promote the website by using prequels to attract registrations.

He chose other methods.

No, he happened to be holding a concert recently!

He directly did not sell the TV broadcast rights in various regions of the country.

Not only did it not sell, he also paid to promote the Pacific Video he founded on major TV stations.

It is important to mention that if you want to watch his concert, you can watch it for free on this video website.

Not just concerts.

All movies and TV series owned by Pacific Entertainment and ATV can be watched for free on Pacific Video.

Of course, these movies and TV series must be released in theaters and TV stations for three months.

It is impossible for Chen Qiming to directly put movies that are still in theaters on the website just because Pacific, a video website that cannot yet make money for himself.

In addition to Pacific-owned movies and ATV TV series. Chen Qiming also took advantage of the fact that video websites had not yet emerged on a large scale and the copyrights of movies and TV series were not so expensive, so he began to acquire the copyrights of movies and TV series on a large scale.

Especially old Shaw Brothers movies and TVB TV series.

As the company with the richest film copyright library in China, Shaw Brothers holds a large number of film and TV series copyrights.

And at this time, these copyrights were not as expensive as they would be in later generations.

After Chen Qiming negotiated with Shaw Brothers, he directly won those less famous movies for HK$50,000 to 60,000 each.

Even if some of them have big stars starring in them, because they are older movies, the copyright fees are not too high, only between 100,000 and 500,000.

In the end, Shaw Brothers had more than a thousand movies and a large number of TV series, no matter the quality or the size of the cast, they were all captured by Chen Qiming.

And he paid 3.6 million Hong Kong dollars for it.

Except for Shaw Brothers films.

Chen Qiming also successively negotiated with several old eccentrics from the former New Art City, and won the rights to the movies that New Art City had shot in Hong Kong for ten years for a price of 50 million.

In fact, the number of movies in New Art City is really not that many, just over a hundred.

But there is no way. Although the number of movies in New Art City is small, the movies of this company are very popular!
In the 1980s, almost all of New Art City's movies were box-office blockbusters.

If you want to get the copyright of a movie that has achieved good box office, the price will definitely be indispensable.

After acquiring the film rights from New Art City, Chen Qiming contacted Debao again.

Although the Debao movie has a beautiful time period.

But it still owns many film copyrights.

Movies such as the "Rich and Rich" series and the "Royal Senior Sister" series have achieved good box office and have achieved good results in the VCD market.

Of course, there are restrictions on the copyrights that Chen Qiming takes. One of them is that within five years, he cannot release the discs of these movies. Moreover, the original company still owns the copyrights of these works. Although they can no longer be sold, they can be used.

Chen Qiming didn't pay much attention to this. Anyway, he didn't buy these copyrights to sell discs. He bought them for future Internet copyrights.

Of course, Chen Qiming's achievements in the film and television copyright markets cannot be hidden from the reporters.

After Pacific Video website has acquired more than 3,000 movies and TV series, it was revealed that he had purchased a large number of movie and TV network copyrights.

Fortunately, it didn't explode. With this explosion, those who originally owned film and television copyrights suddenly realized that the copyrights in their hands might be very important.

Then, when Chen Qiming made another purchase, these guys started to open their mouths one by one, and each one asked for a higher price than the last one.

Especially Yongsheng.

The Xiang brothers were originally unhappy with Chen Qiming because he accepted Stephen Chow and supported Stephen Chow in making movies.

Now that they knew the copyright in their hands might be valuable, they regretted it before signing the contract.

Although the Xiang brothers' remorse made Chen Qiming quite unhappy, they had no choice but to temporarily give up their copyright.

However, Chen Qiming was not unable to fight back.

Without authorization, he directly launched movies and TV series on Pacific Video from Yongsheng and other companies that wanted to increase prices and would not sell his copyrights.

This directly strangled the necks of the Xiang brothers and others.

Because there is no such thing as online copyright. Even if Pacific Video puts their videos online, they know it is unreasonable, but there is nothing they can do about it.

In the end, I could only watch as Pacific Video launched their movies and TV series.

(End of this chapter)