Chapter 224: The Battle for the Cinema Line

Qiao Feng was going to find Du Qifeng as a director to shoot lethal weapons, but before he could find him, Wang Jing acted as a lobbyist for Du Qifeng and asked Qiao Feng if he could take Du Qifeng in.

Qiao Feng wondered, could this be the legendary one who sent pillows when he was sleepy?

After Wang Jingyi's explanation, Qiao Feng realized that on the morning of Wang Jing's arrival, Shao Yifu officially made a decision to cut the scale of Shaw Brothers' film production by half this year from last year's basis.

Since last year, Shaw Brothers has successively reduced its investment in filmmaking, and the film has also been reduced by one-third, and this year's cut by half is almost equivalent to less than one-third of the output of the year before last.

For Hong Kong film giant Shaw Brothers, this is no different from the company to close.

And it is indeed about to close, because of the drastic reduction in the investment in the film, many Shaw Brothers employees will have no jobs to do.

Therefore, Shaw Yifu gave a solution, and most of the employees of Shaw Brothers were either merged into Wireless or terminated from the contract and dismissed.

The reason why Qiao Feng didn't receive the news was because Shao Yifu's decision had not been officially issued, but how could Du Qifeng's level at TVB be a producer, there were still channels that knew such news first.

Then, Du Qifeng wanted to go to the big screen in 80 years, but it was only because the box office of the blue water and cold mountain was too poor and the strength was too bad, and he felt that his strength was insufficient, so he returned to wireless to hone his directing ability in the TV series, in order to one day return to the big screen in the film industry.

However, Shaw Yifu announced that he would drastically cut film production, although Shaw Yifu said that he would not completely stop production, and the Shaw Brothers brand is still erected in the Hong Kong film circle, but the Shaw Brothers, who are already in decline, are no longer the original Shaw Brothers after drastically reducing film production, nor can they become the place of sustenance for Du Qifeng's dream.

Then Du Qifeng felt that there was no need to stay in wireless, and it was impossible to cross from wireless to Shaw anyway.

So, he asked Wang Jing to follow Wang Jing and accumulate it for Wang Jing to be an assistant director for two years.

Du Qifeng is Wang Jing's proud disciple of Wang Tianlin, Wang Jing's senior brother, he begged to come to the door, Wang Jing naturally couldn't refuse.

There was no way, Wang Jing had to ask Qiao Feng to come here, wanting to see if Qiao Feng could give him a chance to give him a hand.

Well, someone brought a pillow when I was really sleepy.

Qiao Feng looked like a brother who gave you face and promised to help Wang Jing, and Wang Jing, who was moved, didn't want it, but in fact, Qiao Feng's heart was happy.

However, Du Qifeng was no longer the focus of Qiao Feng's attention at this time, and the director who sent it to the door casually handed it over to Zhong Chuyu to negotiate the contract, and then the script of the movie, the selection of actors, etc., were all handed over to Zhong Chuyu to talk about and manage.

Qiao Feng himself focused on the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.

Because just after Shaw Brothers broke the news that it was going to cut half of the input and film output, another more exciting news also spread.In the case of Shaw Brothers' large-scale production cuts, Shaw Brothers Cinemas suffered serious losses and could not be sustained, and Shaw Yifu was about to sell Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

The source is said to have come from the top of the Shaw Brothers, but in fact this news is not accurate, because Shaw Yifu actually does not want to sell the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, the ideal way in his mind is to lease out, Shaw Yifu's movie dream has not been extinguished, and he still wants to return to the film industry one day.

But it doesn't matter if the news is accurate or not, the important thing is that the original three-legged situation of the three mainstream cinema chains of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess will be broken, and a large cinema chain involving more than 20 cinemas may change hands.

Why is it really Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and Golden Princess Plus New Art City that are really three-legged in the film industry, rather than any other film company, it is because Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers, and Golden Princess are channel providers, and film companies are content providers.

The three of them grasp the terminal of the movie, if there is no approval of these three theaters, even if the movie is filmed, it can only be put in the warehouse to eat ashes.

No matter when or where it is placed, the channel provider is always the best, only the content provider seeks the channel provider, and no channel provider seeks the content provider.

No matter how good a content provider is, it's just an equal dialogue with channel providers, just like Qiao Feng.

Just like the Golden Princess was established at the beginning of the year, there was no film source, but people just canceled the package system to attract a large number of independent production companies to rush to bring the film to the Golden Princess for screening, and the Golden Princess has no film source and is still qualified to pick and choose.

Now, there is a large cinema chain, and the old cinema chain may be about to change hands, this news shocked the film industry, and also made people who can afford to eat the theater chain pounce on Shaw Brothers like a fish that smells fishy.

The most capable of eating Shaw Brothers Cinemas are undoubtedly the most powerful companies in the film industry, such as Golden Harvest, such as Golden Princess, and Debao Company.

Golden Harvest, Princess Jin is the sworn enemy of the Shaw Brothers, and has been fighting with the Shaw Brothers for many years, and it is impossible for Shaw Yifu to transfer the cinema chain to these two families.

The rest is Debao, and there are also the Jiang brothers who hold the Anle Cinema Line.

But Anle Cinema Line is mainly engaged in Western films, that is, it bought the copyright of Western films and took them back to Hong Kong for screening, because Western films were not too strong in Hong Kong at this time, so the Anle Cinema Line with several theaters in the hands of the Jiang family was almost enough, and no matter how many of the 20 or so theaters of Shaw Brothers were, the money that could be earned in the end with Western films would not be too much, so the Jiang brothers were not too willing to win the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.

It basically belongs to the attitude that you can win the best, and it doesn't matter if you can't take it, so the Jiang brothers can also ignore it.

The only thing left is Pan Disheng, who is at the helm of Debao Company.

Not long ago, there was a movie produced by Debao that was drawn under the Golden Princess Theater.

The movie is called Zhiyong Sanbao, directed by Wu Ma, starring Wu Yaohan, Ye Dexian and others, this film is a series of films of Shenyong Double Cannon, because of the good reputation of the first two Shenyong Double Cannons and Shuanglong going to sea, this film has been Debao since it was released and was quite optimistic about Pan Disheng.

Then, after the movie was released, it did not disappoint the audience, but disappointed Debao Company, which was released on March 9 and painted on March 27, and got a box office of 17 million in a total of 18 days, which is quite good.

But Pan Disheng was not satisfied and even angry.

Because in his opinion, this Three Treasures of Wisdom and Courage should be able to get higher, such as more than 20 million box office.

However, Xinyi City is a subsidiary of Princess Jin, her own son, but Debao Cinema Line is a partner, not even a godson, so Princess Jin left the best Spring Festival stalls to Wishing you prosperity in New Art City, and left the March after the bad Spring Festival stalls to Debao and Zhiyong Sanbao.

This led to the fact that the Zhiyong Three Treasures produced by Debao only won more than 17 million box office, instead of the higher box office of more than 20 million.

Through this incident, Pan Disheng deeply realized how important it is to master the channel, so when Shaw Brothers broke the news that the theater was going to be sold, Pan Disheng immediately found Shao Yifu.