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The emergence of the Hong Kong film industry has ushered in a round of huge changes in the fire cooking oil and flowers. The production cost of optical discs is much lower than that of videotapes, which makes piracy more profitable. The impact of piracy on the box office of foreign countries is extremely fatal to small film companies in Hong Kong.

Li Ke brought together a large circle of film company bosses, and naturally he had his own purpose. On the one hand, he came forward to do some comforting work on behalf of the Asian film industry, but on the other hand, he actually had his own plans.

The impact of piracy on Cinema City, Golden Harvest and Asian Films, the three Hong Kong film industries, is far less severe than it is on other small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong. The main reason for this is the strong distribution capabilities of the three major film companies.

On the one hand, these three companies can try their best to achieve simultaneous release in East Asia and Southeast Asia, the main ticket warehouses of Hong Kong films. Therefore, before the piracy reacts, the box office of the new film will be squeezed as much as possible. On the other hand, the distribution channels of these three companies are far from comparable to other Hong Kong film companies.

For example, Golden Harvest has successfully knocked on the door of the Japanese market by relying on Jackie Chan's golden sign. And Asian Films, relying on the good cooperation with Universal Pictures and B Broadcasting Company, started to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood. However, most small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong hardly have any overseas distribution channels and can only wait for filmmakers to come to them.

However, the establishment of an independent distribution channel needs to be backed by the strength of the company. For example, as early as the 1970s, Golden Harvest Co., Ltd. hoped to open up the US market. But since Bruce Lee's death, Golden Harvest's efforts have had little effect. In another time and space, Golden Harvest will not be considered in the minds of American publishers until "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is a big hit at the US box office. Have a bit of status.

Of course, if the strength is tyrannical to the point of Li Xuan, all the unspoken rules of the industry will be meaningless. In order to enter Hollywood, Jiahe has paid a lot of fees over the years. As soon as the Asian film industry comes up, it will be able to start a good cooperation with Universal Pictures, one of the eight major Hollywood companies. The difference is entirely due to the fact that the Oriental Group allocates a large amount of funds every year. Various placements in Hollywood blockbusters. Therefore, Hollywood film companies naturally have to try their best to please Li Xuan, the big moneymaker.

What's more, in order to win an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Li Xuan can throw out millions of dollars to tackle key problems without blinking. If necessary, it is not impossible for him to directly acquire a Hollywood movie giant.

It's just that Li Xuan's focus has never been on the film and entertainment industry, and many investments are just incidental or fun. In contrast, Li Ke paid much more attention to the Family Fun Film Company in his hands than his younger brother.

Among the assets under Li Ke's name, the largest piece is the real estate company Kunpeng Real Estate. As early as when the Hong Kong real estate industry collapsed due to Sino-British negotiations, Kunpeng Real Estate used the massive funds provided by Li Xuan. A large number of villas and commercial housing have been hoarded at low prices. As Hong Kong's property market has warmed up in recent years, Kunpeng's investments have doubled.

At the beginning, Li Xuan took the food from the Yihe Group and dug up the fat of Landmark, and then deliberately included the many buildings of Landmark in Central under the name of Kunpeng Properties. It's just that Kunpeng, which mainly focuses on rent collection, does not need Li Ke to spend much effort.

In addition, the second part of the assets under Li Ke's name comes from the listed company Xingguang Electronics. The total annual R&D investment of the Oriental Research Institute has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, and so much real money has been poured into it. Naturally, there are many results. But Li Xuan's vision is still very critical, and the Dongfang Group has not drawn the front line very much. Instead, focus on doing some quality projects. Such as liquid crystal, such as and subsequent, such as digital mobile phones.

As for many other projects that the Oriental Group can't see but have realizable value, they will naturally seek external cooperation. Li Ke, as Li Xuan's elder brother, must be the first to get the moon. For example, Xingguang Electronics started with the pager project, and now Xingguang's pager has a share in the Asian market. Already in second place after Motorola

In addition, the substrates required for the video discs issued by Dongfang Shoji Co., Ltd. are also all purchased from Xingguang Electronics. The optical disc technology of Xingguang Electronics is naturally inseparable from the support of the Oriental Research Institute. You must know that the use of CDs is not limited to recording video discs, but also music, computer storage CDs, etc.

After Xingguang Electronics was listed earlier. The stock price has risen all the way, and the total market value has now exceeded 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. The shares held by Li Ke are worth more than 800 million Hong Kong dollars. But Xingguang Electronics also does not require much effort from Li Ke, and the specific business is fully responsible for the recommendation of his younger brother Li Xuan. His most important job is to sign the word "Agree" on the document that should be signed by the director.

The two companies, Kunpeng Real Estate and Xingguang Electronics, made Li Ke's net worth more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. With the continuous rise of property prices in Hong Kong, his worth is still soaring, and he is already at the forefront of the Hong Kong rich list. In contrast, the assets of Family Huan Pictures are far inferior, but this is the company that Li Ke spends the most time on.

Compared with Kunpeng Real Estate, which has no need to intervene, and Xingguang Electronics, which can't get involved, Family Huan Pictures can be regarded as a company that Li Ke really manages. Before he took over the company, Family Huan Pictures was just a leather bag company that He Le Tang used to launder money. And after he took over the company, the company really became formalized, and now Family Fun Pictures has new projects launched almost every month. Although not every film is profitable, at least it is more profitable to lose less, and the annual profit increase is very gratifying.

The scale of Family Fun Pictures is already at the forefront of the second-rate in the entire Hong Kong film industry. But after thinking about participating in the competition in overseas markets, its strength is still not enough. Therefore, taking advantage of the industrial crisis caused by this piracy, Li Ke has the intention to annex some small fish to strengthen his own strength.

Compared with the younger brother who has not been exposed in advance in recent years, Li Ke is more and more fond of being chased by the spotlight. From time to time in gossip magazines, there are tidbits of him flirting with a model or female star.

Li Xuan naturally doesn't know what his elder brother is thinking. In fact, he is not very clear about the recent turmoil in the Hong Kong film industry. For example, the use of computerized ticket sales in cinemas. His eldest brother, Li Ke, considered it from the standpoint of the movie owner, focusing on the impact on the movie box office.

And for Li Xuan. He prefers to consider issues from the standpoint of a company boss. This is not just a matter of selling a few more computers, it reflects the arrival of the computer age in a deeper level.

In recent years, Uncle Shao gradually began to shift the focus of business to B TV station. Especially under the blow that Shaw Brothers did not make much progress even though the Hong Kong film market was booming year by year, Uncle Shao intends to close Shaw Brothers and sell Shaw Cinemas.

And Asia Films replaced Shaw Brothers, and now, together with Golden Harvest and New Art City, are called the three major film companies in Hong Kong. But on a production level. The performance of Asian Pictures in the past few years has completely surpassed Golden Harvest and Xinyicheng, but because it has no theater chain under its own. Although the two major theater chains, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess, have agreed to provide a large number of ideal film placement locations for Asian Films' films, many times it is inevitable to suffer secret losses.

Therefore, after learning that Shao Liushu intends to quit the film industry, Asian Pictures is determined to win the Shaw Brothers Cinema. Of course, the Asian film industry was not without other competitors at the time. For example, the famous brand Pan was also interested in acquiring Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and then entered the film industry. However, the price that Asian Films offered to Shao Liushu was very high, and ATV Group agreed that Asia Satellite TV would maintain a tacit understanding in the competition with b in the future. No longer so aggressive, and finally succeeded in letting Shao Liushu let go.

After purchasing the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, Asian Films immediately carried out a large-scale upgrade and transformation of the cinemas. Among them, computerized ticket sales was one of the most important reforms of the renamed Asian Cinemas. Compared with traditional manual ticket filling, computerized ticketing is not only more convenient, but most importantly, it is more transparent.

In addition to computer ticketing, Asian cinemas are also realized through the Internet, real-time box office statistics. Make movie box office more transparent. You must know that the cinema chain in Hong Kong is monopolized by Golden Harvest, Princess Jin and Shaw Brothers. In addition to the small and medium-sized film companies having little say in the film arrangement, they are even more aware of the tricks at the box office.

For example, the most common practice is to steal the box office. The audience obviously bought the movie tickets, but the box office was counted on the head of the B movie in the actual statistics. The main motivation for domestic cinemas in later generations is that the share ratio and rebates are different when negotiating with cinemas.

Cinemas naturally hope that those movies with high revenue share and generous rebates can sell more at the box office, so that their own income can also follow more, so they have the motivation to cheat. The cinema chain and production company in Hong Kong are together. For example, the Golden Princess Cinema is actually the major shareholder of Xinyicheng. And Jiahe Cinemas is a subsidiary of Jiahe Pictures.

If the box office of other film companies can be replaced by the box office of their own company's films, then for the entire group, the increase in revenue is not one and a half stars. Therefore, the driving force behind the box office stealing of Hong Kong cinemas in this era is much higher than that of later mainland film companies.

The newly established Asian cinema chain uses automated computer ticketing, and publishes the box office online in real time through a unified network. Almost minimizes the possibility of cheating. So much so that other film companies in Hong Kong would rather have a lower box office tiering ratio and release in Asian theaters.

It can be said that the Asian theater chain is a new voice that grabs people from the beginning. It does not play tricks, nor does it use vicious competition. Instead, it uses dignified methods to put Princess Jin and Jiahe under huge pressure. Don't look at the small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong. A single strength may not be able to compete with the theater chain, but no one can ignore the energy that erupts once they are united. If there is a conflict of interest between everyone in normal times, the theater chain only needs to pull a group and fight one, and Hang Lung can resolve the alliance between them.

But this time is different. These companies are crying and shouting to let their new films go to Asian theaters. Although Jiahe has its own film company and Princess Jin has supported Xinyicheng, it is impossible to fill the two theaters with films from these two companies. Therefore, in the end, the Golden Harvest and Golden Princess Cinemas were also forced to upgrade the computer ticketing system.

The market in Hong Kong is too small for the Oriental Group. For example, in order to develop a computer ticketing system, many subsidiaries, including Aikang Corporation and Oriental System Software Corporation, are required to cooperate and coordinate. If it is only for the market of Hong Kong, it is naturally very uneconomical.

But what Hong Kong means to Orient is that it is an excellent testing ground. Hong Kong is such a small place, with a population of five or six million. Although there is still some gap between the economic level and developed countries in Europe and the United States, this distance is constantly narrowing. Therefore, Hong Kong can become a sample of the European and American markets.

In fact, the Oriental Group is doing just that. For example, Hong Kong is now the fastest-growing area of ​​the Internet in the world. The reason why the Asian cinema chain can be counted like the online box office in 1988 depends on Hong Kong's perfect network infrastructure.

The sample from Hong Kong provides the best example for the Oriental Group to promote in other regions. For example, Oriental Group has actively promoted its own computer ticketing system in the United States. In fact, many movie theaters in the United States are already using computers to issue tickets, but their systems are not as complete as the latest system developed by the Oriental Group, especially the development of the Oriental Group focuses on the future Internet era.

The high-level executives of the theater company can check the ticket sales of all their theaters in a timely manner through the networked computer by sitting in their office ~www.readwn.com~, so as to adjust the film arrangement at any time according to the attendance rate. Said it was very meaningful.

The American cinema chain, which was previously owned by the Oriental Group, has taken the lead in adopting the online computer ticketing system of the Oriental Group. With the rapid development of the Internet in the United States, it is believed that more and more cinema companies will realize the advantages of the computer ticketing system of the Oriental Group!

In fact, it is not only the computer ticketing system, but also the digital mobile phone that Li Xuan is very concerned about. The Oriental Group also chose Hong Kong as the first promotion test base. After nearly five years of continuous development, the digital mobile phone project department of the Oriental Research Institute has finally succeeded in producing satisfactory results.

Different from the standard digital mobile phone being developed in Europe, Li Xuan chose a more promising standard in the next 3 eras from the beginning. The laboratory samples have already been developed before, and after continuous improvement, the first digital mobile phone that can be produced on a commercial scale is finally technically mature!

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