The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 302 Loopholes in the Innovation Model

"Maybe this is an isolated phenomenon. How can we think it's because there are too many kung fu movies? Besides, our kung fu movies have always been good at the box office." Hong Jingbao retorted unwillingly after hearing Liang Shuyi's introduction.

"Here I have all kinds of films released this year, the curves of box office rise and fall." Liang Shuyi said, unfolding a piece of paper, and saw a pair of curves with different colors drawn on it.

"From the perspective of the curve, the box office of kung fu movies is decreasing month by month. Although your movie Sanmao is still popular, the box office of other kung fu movies is showing a downward trend." Liang Shuyi said, "and at present, the kung fu movies that our company cooperates with outsiders There are more than [-] films, and if the filming is completed, it will occupy the schedule for the next six months. If Sanmao is shooting a kung fu film now, then I will have to temporarily store your film and wait for half a year before we can schedule it for release.”

When Hong Jingbao heard Liang Shuyi's words, his face immediately turned dark. If the film was scheduled to be released in half a year, then he would not be able to get his dividends until half a year later, and in the next half a year, he would only be able to live on the remuneration and salary , In this way, we can no longer support so many brothers.After all, opening up the flow and reducing the source will only lead to nothing.

"Mr. Xu, it doesn't matter whether I start working or not. Anyway, I have made a lot of money this year. But my brothers have to eat, and I can't eat hot and spicy food alone. Let them suffer for nothing." Hong Jingbao endured Can't stop talking to Xu Guanwu.

"Selena, can you adjust the schedule? We need to give priority to ensuring the release of our own films, and other cooperative films can be postponed for a while, and if necessary, reducing the number of Kung Fu films that we cooperate with outsiders is also a solution to the problem. Way." Xu Guanwu thought for a while and said.

"This method is slow. We cooperate with external companies to produce more than 80 films every year, most of which are shoddy kung fu films. They don't pay attention to the tempering of the script or other investment in the film. They only look for our company to show their faces. Actors, filming scenes together for a few days, and then showing them in our theaters. Because our company publicized that all co-produced films can be shown in our theaters, so many bad movies were shot. " Liang Shuyi spread her hands and said.

"Now the release of these bad films has begun to affect the reputation of our theaters, causing some movie fans to go to Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers theaters." Liang Shuyi added, "And we have to arrange the schedule for these more than 20 films in the future. If our Kung Fu movie is released at the same time as them, I am afraid we will be implicated by bad movies."

"How long has this phenomenon been around?" After hearing this, Xu Guanwen couldn't help frowning and asked.

"Half a year ago, some fans complained, but they didn't pay enough attention at that time. Until the last two months, the trial screenings at midnight were more noisy. Some fans were dissatisfied with the quality of the movie and scratched the theater seats. Later I I sent people to investigate carefully, and finally came to this conclusion." Liang Shuyi nodded and said.

"That means that even if we restrict cooperation with outside companies to make kung fu movies, there will still be more than 20 kung fu movies released in the future, and most of them will be the bad movies you said?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help frowning and asked.

Liang Shuyi nodded, "They just hired our actors to shoot, and most of the investment is on the actors, while the rest are grass-roots teams. Such films are usually completed within a week or two of filming. Then a film will be shown in our theaters A week later, the rights were sold directly to Nanyang filmmakers. Because they were under the banner of cooperating with us to make films, Nanyang filmmakers believed in the quality of the film, so they were often able to sell it at a better price. The actors’ remuneration was excluded. With the salary of the grass-roots team, they can still make a fortune."

The faces of all the people present became darker and darker. Xu Guanwu never imagined that the cooperation model he had created would be used by Xiao Xiaozhi in this way.Originally, he wanted to use this to attract Hong Kong's hot money to invest in the film and television industry, so that everyone can contribute more firewood to the film and television industry, so that more people can participate in the Hong Kong film and television industry, and promote the rapid development of Hong Kong films.But I didn't expect that there would be such a big loophole in the actual implementation.Although the business of the superstar manager company has surged, it has sacrificed the reputation of the brilliant theater chain and the future of Hong Kong movies in exchange for it.

In this way, didn't I do bad things with good intentions and become a sinner in Hong Kong movies?Xu Guanwu was dripping with cold sweat for a while, and stood there speechless.There is only annoyance and remorse in my heart. How can I not think of the saying "the nature of capital is greed". Who would work hard to earn hard-earned money if you can make quick money and big money to fight big with small things?

"After the filming of the more than 20 films, all of them have to be reviewed. If the quality is not up to standard, we will not release them. We would rather buy those bad films at our own expense and seal them up, and never let them have the chance to be released again." Xu Guanwu After losing my temper in my heart, I thought for a while and said, "In addition, in the future, we will cooperate with external companies. After the filming is completed, we must first pass our review before it is released. If the quality of the film is too bad, we will not release it. .”

"Does anyone have any objections to this decision?" Xu Guanwu glanced at everyone.

"Mr. Xu, your proposal is very good, let's do it." Zeng Zhiwei said with a smile.

"Yes, it should have been done a long time ago. We all support Mr. Xu." Hong Jingbao also said with a smile.In this way, his new film can continue to be filmed, but the brothers in the class may have a lot less work in the future, but there is no way around this.

Liang Shuyi, Xu Guanwen, and Xu Guanjie also had no other opinions, so they unanimously approved the proposal, and companies that want to play tricks in the future will be out of luck.

In this way, although the business of the superstar manager company will be affected to a certain extent, it also guarantees the signboard of Brilliant Cinemas. Generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Sanmao's "Desperate Single Sword and Killing Gun" also passed the review unanimously, allowing him to continue to shoot new films.

Hong Jingbao, whose new film has passed the review, is very happy, which indicates that he will get another hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.So after the group of seven was over, he immediately called Zeng Zhiwei, Mai Jia and others to drink.But it was too late for Zeng Zhiwei and Mai Jia to be jealous, how willing they were to drink with him and listen to him bragging all night, so they thought they were still busy and ran away.

Xu Guanwu left Liang Shuyi behind, "Selina, if similar things happen in the future, I hope you can report to me in time, and don't wait until it becomes so bad."

"This is indeed my negligence. At the beginning, I thought it was just a rare phenomenon, but the situation has become more and more serious in the past two months, so it aroused my vigilance. But before it is confirmed, I don't want to rashly After all, this cooperative innovation model was proposed by you back then. And it has indeed achieved great results, and I don't think it will cause accidents." Liang Shuyi explained.

"Well, I'm not a saint. Of course, I will do wrong things. You don't have to feel jealous in the future, just give your opinions when you should. I'm not a self-important person." Xu Guanwu waved his hand and smiled.

"Okay, then I will change my approach in the future, but then don't call yourself unbearable." Liang Shuyi also said with a smile.

"Don't worry, no, I promise to accept the suggestion with an open mind." Xu Guanwu nodded and said.

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After the new regulations were notified to many film companies that are currently cooperating with superstars, as expected, they immediately attracted a strong backlash.

These people invest in filming to make quick money. Who ever wanted to really put their heart into it?According to Xu Guanwu, if it cannot be released, not only will it not be able to get the local box office in Hong Kong, but even the overseas copyright will not be able to sell at a high price, then this film will really suffer a big loss.

Even if it takes a step back, the price of Xu's acquisition of these films will definitely not be very high, and overseas copyrights are also useless, at most they will end up with no profit or loss.But it is definitely impossible to make a lot of money, which can't help but make the investors who were originally pointing to make a lot of money very dissatisfied.

Among them is the Golden Dragon Film Company, which once cooperated with superstar managers. This company was also the first to enjoy the benefits, but after making money, it did not spend its thoughts on how to better improve the quality of the film. I found a loophole that could be exploited in the cooperation, so I tried my best to make more quick money.

Anyway, it only needs to hire a group of people to shoot the film for a few days, and it can be released after a little post-processing. It doesn't care about the storyline or the acting skills of the actors. Anyway, the starring actors with familiar faces can also bluff the filmmakers in Nanyang.Pre-sale of film flowers can earn start-up capital, and then earn a box office fee after the release, and after necessary expenses, there are still hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars in profit.

In the 70s, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars was already a very large sum of money, and this was only the income of a film, and it was earned for nothing.So after the Golden Dragon Film Company tasted the sweetness, it intensified its efforts. Now, among Xu's external cooperation projects, five are in cooperation with the Golden Dragon Film Company.

If these five films are stuck there and cannot be released, then Nanyang will definitely pursue compensation, and the local box office in Hong Kong will be gone, and all previous investments will be wasted.This will naturally make Golden Dragon Film Company lose everything, and they are naturally not reconciled.

So I scolded Xu for being ungrateful. They weren't doing publicity for Xu at the beginning, so how could there be so many film companies to cooperate with them? Now that the company has grown, they look down on old friends. Just hit the monk.

Moreover, the Golden Dragon Film Company also united a large number of film companies to sue the superstar management company and demand sky-high compensation, which shocked the Hong Kong film industry for a while.

At the beginning, the superstar manager company launched an innovative cooperation model, but it frightened Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers enough. They worried that all their employees would run away because of this, and the Xu Corporation would gather more and more film companies as allies because of this, and their strength would also increase. become stronger and stronger.

Sure enough, their worries did come true, as before, the group of Dragon and Tiger warriors quitting is one example.If it wasn't for Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest's close attention to all the artists under their banners, even the housekeeping stars would have gone to Xu Brothers, which made Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers sweat coldly.

But I didn't expect that there is a major loophole in this innovative model now. Many film companies have taken advantage of this loophole to produce bad movies to make quick money. Deeply disappointed.

Such a magical turning point can't help but make Jiahe and Shaw Brothers celebrate each other, and they just sang "Seeing him build a tall building, seeing him entertain guests, seeing his building collapse!"

Shaw Brothers and Jiahe both had the mentality of passing by to make soy sauce, gloating on the sidelines, but Xu Guanwu didn't let them underestimate them. Aren't you planning to sue, so come here, the company has dozens of lawyers to eat For cooking?

"If you file a lawsuit, you will file a lawsuit. If you fight for ten or eight years, we will see whether you can stand it or I can stand it!" Xu Guanwu said disdainfully.

Litigation in Hong Kong is quite costly. Back then, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest spent millions of Hong Kong dollars in a lawsuit to compete for the copyright of "The One-Armed Swordsman vs. the Blind Man".

(End of this chapter)