Video Game Empire

(ps: The first draft, I haven't had time to correct the typos, I will re-upload it later, you can wait for half an hour to read it!)

Once piracy spreads, it will have a big impact on the Hong Kong film industry, and Ke Lilun is actually clear about it. Naturally, it is impossible for him to decide such a big plan by himself. In fact, when Ke Lilun had this idea, he made a report like Li Xuan.

Taiwan-Taiwan is the ultimate foreign market for Hong Kong movies. Another important reason for the death of Hong Kong movies in another time and space is the loss of control over the Taiwan-Taiwan movie market. This is partly due to the fact that Hollywood blockbusters represented by "Dinosaurs" and "Big Ship" have completely defeated low-cost Hong Kong movies in terms of quality with world-leading technology, and the other is political reasons.

When China and Britain signed the handover agreement in 1984, the Taiwan-Taiwan side expressed strong opposition. They even took out the original of the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty that ceded Hong Kong Island back then, and did not recognize the legitimacy of the mainland-China regime.

But Taipei's jumping up and down did not make much waves, and Hong Kong was still handed over to the mainland by the British government. But since 1984, not only the British forces are withdrawing from Hong Kong, but also the Taiwan forces are also withdrawing. For example, the Industrial and Commercial Daily, known as the mouthpiece of the Kuomintang, announced its suspension of publication less than three months after the Sino-British agreement was signed.

Although because of Li Xuan's intervention, Taiwan-Strait relations began to break the ice earlier than in another time and space, but there is still a long way to go before the complete normalization of cross-strait relations. The prosperity of Hong Kong after its return will only strengthen the legitimacy of the mainland, which is absolutely not what the Taiwan-Taiwan authorities want to see.

So in another time and space, when the local film industry in Taiwan was dead and Hong Kong films were popular, the authorities simply lifted the import restrictions on American films. Use Hollywood movies to compete with Hong Kong movies.

Against this background, it is only a matter of time before Hong Kong films lose the Taiwan market, and piracy only makes this situation happen a few years earlier. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, especially for Asia Entertainment, which is controlled by Li Xuan.

The market capacity of Hong Kong's local port is limited, so Asia Entertainment began to actively expand its overseas layout a few years ago. In order to cope with the impact of future Hollywood blockbusters, Asia Entertainment has strengthened its own film production level on the one hand.

＄√dǐng＄√ǎn＄√ small ＄√ said, .▽.≠os_(); For example, Asian Films was established as early as the beginning. He has been actively studying the well-regulated and well-established institutional insights of the Hollywood film industry. As for the previously approved "Jurassic Park", although Li Xuan's main purpose was to promote the application of computer technology in the film industry, Spielberg was invited to be in charge of guidance. However, Asian Films also missed this opportunity to learn from the most cutting-edge teams in Hollywood, and dispatched a large number of personnel to the project team.

On the other hand, Asian Entertainment is also working hard to establish its own distribution channels. In recent years, the governments of various countries in Southeast Asia have launched various protective policies to support their own film industries. Faced with this situation, Asia Entertainment has established its own fundamentals. The best way is to control the cinema resources.

Unlike Golden Harvest and New Art City, Asia Films has the support of the two largest cinema chains in Hong Kong, respectively, but Asia Films has not suffered much in terms of film distribution in the local market.

In the early years, Asian Films exchanged interests with Golden Harvest and Xinyicheng by using various resources of Asian Satellite TV. In recent years, Asian Pictures has used Asian Entertainment's distribution resources in overseas markets to achieve compromise with Golden Harvest and Xinyicheng.

After Asia Entertainment's listing, Golden Harvest and Xinyicheng also embraced the capital market successively. Listed in Hong Kong stock market. But their pace of development is getting bigger and bigger with Asia Entertainment.

After several years of development, the film production standards of the Asian film industry have moved closer to Hollywood in an all-round way. Take Asian Pictures, for example, which was released last year. Take the movie "Prison", which ranked second in Hong Kong's annual box office, as an example.

The total budget of this project is 15 million Hong Kong dollars. Before the project was approved, 10 million Hong Kong dollars was obtained from overseas markets through the sale of film flowers, and 2 million income was obtained through advertisement placement. In addition, 500 million million venture capital funds.

That is to say, the Asian film industry itself did not invest a penny in this project. Even if the movie loses in the end, there is no risk. But Asian Films can do this because it has a strong system behind it.

In recent years, Asia Entertainment has been able to achieve the unified distribution of new movies in Asia through the continuous acquisition or shareholding of the theater resources in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other markets. This actually greatly ensures the film's overseas box office.

Because the later the overseas release time is pushed, the greater the impact of pirated videotapes. In fact, when the theater chain can foresee sufficient benefits, it does not resist paying part of the film in advance.

In addition to overseas prepaid movies, because of the boom in Hong Kong movies, a large number of profit-seeking capital have joined the industry to seek gold. But making a movie is a very technical job. It does not mean that if you invest money, you can make a good movie, and if you make a good movie, you can get a good box office.

It is not so easy for a layman to make money. There are countless pitfalls in the entire industry chain from production to distribution. Therefore, Asian Films is very considerate to provide these capitals without industry experience with the opportunity to participate in the game and make a fortune together.

Although accepting external investment will provide some benefits, the film industry is actually a very risky industry. Especially for high-investment blockbusters, the introduction of external funds by Asian Films can effectively reduce risks.

And as long as the filming starts, other subsidiaries of Asia Entertainment Group can continuously reap profits from production to distribution.

Since last year, Asian Films has even begun to provide one-stop packaging services for external capital. That is to say, in the entire film production process, he did not invest a penny, but the benefits he received were no less than that from his own production.

Of course, gameplay like "Prison" is also difficult for ordinary film companies to imitate. First of all, most film companies in Hong Kong do not have the distribution strength and reputation of production like Asian Films, so it is difficult to sell films at high prices in advance.

Even Asian Pictures chose Zhou Runfa and Zhang Guorong to play the leading roles in order to make the "Prison" project attractive enough.

You must know that Brother Fa has become so popular in recent years since he starred in "The True Color of Heroes". He receives dozens of film contract invitations every year, and it is difficult for ordinary film companies to get his schedule. However, Zhou Runfa is a signed artist of Asia Entertainment's brokerage company, and his own company's projects will naturally be given priority.

except. In order to ensure the safety of investment by all parties, Asian Films also learns from Hollywood and insures film projects to ensure that the film will not be stopped midway due to accidents.

This also involves the strong influence of the Oriental Group in Hong Kong's financial industry, whether it is the establishment of a special insurance company, or the aggressive expansion of the Asian entertainment company overseas. All leave the support of a strong capital chain. As for other film companies, it is naturally impossible to obtain the strong support of Jiahua Bank and Standard Chartered Bank like Asia Entertainment.

It can be said that Asia Entertainment relies on its strong capital advantages and has completely opened the gap with other film companies in Hong Kong through the systematic development of the whole industry chain. In short, the proliferation of piracy is even more beneficial than detrimental to Asian Entertainment.

Because the Hong Kong film industry is very popular, a lot of hot money comes in to make money, blowing a lot of bubbles into the Hong Kong film industry. Asian Pictures just made a blockbuster movie. Immediately, other film companies started plagiarizing and filming, until they knew that the subject matter would be smashed all at once.

And as more and more funds are used for the film industry, more and more new films are launched. In order to compete for the timetable of popular actors, people continue to increase their remuneration, which directly pushes up the production cost of the entire Hong Kong film industry.

If a piracy crisis breaks out at this time and temporarily cut off the profits of videotape copyrights, it will definitely make many film companies that are not strong enough to die. For industry giants like Asia Entertainment, this reshuffle is an opportunity for self-expansion.

And as long as you deal with it properly, the losses caused by piracy can actually be controlled. For example, increasing the level of secrecy in production and distribution. By preventing the early release of copies, the release of pirated discs can be pushed back.

And as long as the price of genuine discs is set at a reasonable level. And by distributing a large number of goods in the first time, you can squeeze the market space of pirated video discs. Moreover, making piracy is an illegal act after all. As long as the industry strengthens unity and carries out a unified crackdown, it can also greatly curb the living space of the pirated production system.

"Aaron, instead of working with Taiwanese-wankers, you might as well work with He Andang, at least the people I'm looking for will be much more reliable than the Four Seas Gang! You hand over the production of Asian Films to them, and then the time comes. What should they do if they go back on their word?" Li Ke said with a frown.

He has no connection with Heletang in the past few years, but he still has a lot of prestige in the whole Hong Kong arena. The two horses who used to mix with him are now the red sticks of Heletang. Became a big brother with his own place. In recent years, He Le Tang has also become the No. 1 club in Hong Kong.

"Brother Ke, what we need is not reliability, but the ability to leave the relationship at a critical time! Even if they don't go back on their word in the future, we will make a batch of pirated products ourselves! Because everyone is harmed, only our own company is not affected. Didn't he hit his own mouth!" Ke Lilun said with a smile.

"That's true, it's just that it's cheaper for the Taiwanese and Taiwanese to make a big one!" Li Ke said reluctantly.

"I heard that Brother Qiang has also started to retreat behind the scenes these years. If he is interested, I have a chance here!" Ke Lilun said with a smile.

"What chance?" Li Ke couldn't help but ask a little curiously.

"Although the technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute is licensed to ra company, it is not an exclusive license! In addition to ra company, we will choose about five other partners to jointly open up the market of video disc players!" said with a smile.

"The technical threshold for production is not low, I guess you must have dug a hole for others to jump in!" Li Ke shook his head and said.

Li Ke was taken aback when Li Xuan deliberately called his eldest brother and asked him to help contact Cai Guanrun from Taiwan's Four Seas Gang. So he deliberately asked his younger brother about the situation, and also knew that the project would be one of the key projects of the Dongfang Group in the next 88 years.

"Brother Ke, our Oriental Group has always sought a win-win situation. When have we ever pitted our partners! For external cooperation, the Oriental Research Institute will provide systematic technical support. And ra company will also be responsible for supplying the movement and decoder. For the two most critical components, suitable suppliers can also be found for the remaining components, so the production threshold is not high!" Ke Lilun explained.

"It sounds like it's giving money to others, is it really so kind?" Li Ke asked in disbelief.

"If only ra company produced video disc players, then after pirated video disc players appeared on the market, the copyright owner would put most of the pressure on ra company to make it improve the level of anti-piracy video discs on video disc players!

So we need some other manufacturers to share this pressure! What's more, it's not that you don't know that Li Sheng's thinking has always been different from others. He pursues the control of the upstream technical standards of the industrial chain, rather than the market share of the downstream terminal consumer goods!

If it wasn't for better secrecy~www.readwn.com~ we don't have to make the DVD player by ra company itself! Therefore, the selection of cooperative manufacturers by the Oriental Research Institute will not be carried out with great fanfare!

Although there will be five additional manufacturers authorized by the Oriental Research Institute, these five are not authorized in the same batch. Among the first batch of authorizations, there are only two, and one of them has been identified as Lu's Electronics Company, so in fact, there is only one quota left!

And the remaining three places will wait until next year for authorization at the earliest! Otherwise, there will be too many brands influx in the early stage, which will easily cause internal friction! "Colilan explained the plan of the Eastern Group.

"You have mastered the entire technical system and controlled key components. In fact, it doesn't matter whether you produce it yourself! You don't need to take risks if you let others produce it. My brother has always been cunning!" Li Ke said with a smile.

After all, he has been doing flyers in the commercial sea for so many years, and he naturally knows very well how Dongfang Group's so-called "first-class enterprise sells standards". It's just that he didn't know that Ko Lilun's invitation to Scar Qiang to enter the industry was not an accidental idea, but a close part of the whole plan.

The other two partners that the Oriental Research Institute authorized the production of DVD players in the early stage were all choices made after careful consideration! (To be continued.)