After three rounds of wine and five flavors of tea, seeing that Fang Chen had been talking about him all the time, not to get to the point, even if Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin, Xiang brothers and others, who thought they were old and spicy, suddenly couldn't sit still.

In the current situation, what they know is that they know that Fang Chen invited them over, if they don't know, they still think that it is Fang Chen who they have invited to the banquet.

Zou Wenhuai coughed, looked at Fang Chen and asked bluntly: "I don't know, what is the important matter for Fang Dong to invite a few of us to the banquet, and how to take away our film copyright? ”

Seriously, he has long been tired of being here with Fang Chen, I am a young talent, a leader in the business world, you are radiant and majestic, and you are touting each other back then, and what you say is some nonsense that has no real reality.

If it was a weekday, facing Fang Chen's status, he might still be able to hold back, sitting here and blowing water with Fang Chen, anyway, he didn't need to spend a penny, the little time wasted was nothing compared to the importance of getting to know Fang Chen.

But now, with Shao Yifu sitting here, facing the former boss, today's sworn enemy, the enemy of life and death, he is really like sitting on pins and needles, and he has long wanted to pull out his legs and leave.

Since he left the position of CEO of Shaw Brothers Film Company in 1970 because of the stingy salary system of Shaw Brothers Film Company and the delay in obtaining share rations, he and Shaw Yifu have been fighting so much that their heads are bleeding, and they are eager to put each other to death, and they have not done anything less to ask God to worship Buddha and curse each other to die violently.

In his memory, he attended some dinners with Shao Yifu and had awards parties, but he had never sat at the same table and sat so close to each other in 23 years.

Seriously, if he hadn't offended Fang Chen's status and status, he would have left a long time ago.

In addition, the reason why he can still sit here until now is naturally because it is profitable.

Before, Guo Henian helped Fang Chen bring him a message, saying that Fang Chen could help Golden Harvest Company open the mainland market and make money from the mainland market, but the premise was that he would exclusively license all the films of Golden Harvest Company to Fang Chen, at least the copyright Fang Chen on the mainland side would take all of them.

Otherwise, Fang Chen, a celebrity in China, Russia and the United States, he really can't afford to offend, but if he can't afford to provoke him, he can afford to hide, it's a big deal that he can't get rid of it, and Fang Chen can't eat him.

Looking at today's posture, Fang Chen wants to monopolize the mainland distribution rights of all Xiangjiang films.

Seeing Zou Wenhuai's impatient appearance, Fang Chen and Guo Henian looked at each other and smiled, and then smiled at Zou Wenhuai and said, "It seems that it was my fault, I originally wanted to wait a little longer, and I was discussing with you, but who would have ...... it?"

After saying this, Fang Chen glanced at Zou Wenhuai apologetically, but a hint of a sadistic smile flashed in his eyes.

However, in this way, it also proves that the chairman of Jiahe Company, as rumored, is indeed talented and straightforward, otherwise he would not have done it, and he resolutely resigned and started his own business after Shaw Brothers was already above 10,000 people under one person.

However, I have to say that Zou Wenhuai is the right step, unlike most entrepreneurs who resign and die before their ambitions are rewarded, and they have fallen into the sand.

Not long after the establishment of the company, Zou Wenhuai hired the newly emerging Bruce Lee with a lot of money and invited him to join.

Several movies starring Bruce Lee, such as "Big Brother Tangshan", "Raptors Crossing the River", and "Enter the Dragon", were all produced by him himself.

Famous filmmakers such as Jackie Chan, Xu Guanwen, Sammo Hung, Maggie Cheung, Deng Guangrong, Anita Mui, Jet Li, Wu Siyuan, Tsui Hark, and Zhao Wenzhuo were discovered and cultivated by him.

Golden Harvest also became the world's largest Chinese-language film production company for a time.

However, Zou Wenhuai didn't know that in fact, at this time, his real enemy was not Shao Yifu, but the chairman of Lai Sun Group on the side, ATV owner Xi Lin Baixin.

In the millennium, Lin Baixin's second son, Lin Jianyue, was hostile to the acquisition of Golden Harvest, and Zou Wenhuai used his connections to introduce Wanwan Hongji to repel Lin Jianyue, and then Hongji transferred the shares of Golden Harvest Company to Li Jiacheng.

In the late 90s, the Xiangjiang film market was gradually declining, coupled with the fact that Lin Jianyue was involved so suddenly, and he was old and in his seventies, Zou Wenhuai completely withdrew from Jiahe Company, regardless of the facts of the rivers and lakes, which is really regrettable.

After all, Shao Yifu was still active until 2010, and he stepped down as the executive director of TVB at the age of one hundred and four, which makes no sense, Zou Wenhuai, who is twenty years younger than Shao Yifu, cannot.

Shao Yifu, Lin Baixin, a sneering smile flashed at the corner of their unceremonious mouths, no matter how Zou Wenhuai is, he can't be more composed than Fang Chen, a hairy boy.

After pondering for a while, Fang Chen then spoke: "Zou Dong, I believe you also know that although Xiangjiang movies have a lot of influence in the whole of Asia, most of them are limited to Xiangjiang and Wanwan, which is a pity, but this is also a matter of no choice, Dongwei, Southern Goguryeo, Southeast Asia After all, the language barrier, basically except for some popular films that can pass, other ordinary films basically do not have much value in translation and dubbing, not to mention the audience, and they have to face fierce competition from local films." ”

After Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin, and the Xiang brothers nodded in unison, they were silent, leaving only their eyes to look at Fang Chen motionlessly.

What Fang Chen said is naturally the truth, but it is also a nonsense, how can they, the bigwigs in the industry, not know the dilemma faced by Xiangjiang Films.

Seeing that Zou Wenhuai and the others looked cold, Fang Chen chuckled disapprovingly, and then continued: "Therefore, the only way out for Xiangjiang Films is to go to the mainland to develop. The mainland and Xiangjiang belong to the same country, the same language and the same species, there is no language barrier, or even if there is, but there are countless people who are proficient in Cantonese and Mandarin, such as the carp crossing the river, you can easily find the corresponding translation and dubbing talents. ”

Speaking of this, Fang Chen's voice suddenly became much higher-pitched, and he said excitedly: "However, the most important thing is that the mainland has a huge population that is incomparable to all countries, and the 1.1 billion population accounts for nearly 20% of the world's population. ”

As soon as Fang Chen's words fell, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but speak: "Fang Dong, I admit that what you said has a certain truth, the mainland does have advantages that other countries in the region cannot match, the population is large, and it is of the same species, but if you have a large population, you will have the money to watch movies?"

"Movies are still a luxury, even in a developed area like Xiangjiang, there are one-third of the people who have never entered a regular cinema in their lives, as for the mainland, according to the per capita income of the mainland, this proportion may be three times, or even more, that is to say, one billion of the 1.1 billion people have never been to the cinema, and even if they go to the cinema, they can't afford the price of commercial cinemas......

Speaking of this, Zou Wenhuai shook his head with embarrassment, he naturally thought about developing inland, but it was too difficult, and basically there was no possibility of work.

The average income in mainland China is too low, only one-seventieth or eighty-tenth of the average income of Xiangjiang, and even if movies are not said to be luxuries, but the per capita income will only increase the number of moviegoers on a large scale when they reach a certain level, otherwise even if they have movie ticket money, people are more inclined to buy catties of meat, or buy a piece of clothing or something, rather than spending on movie tickets, which are not necessities of life.

Therefore, the vast majority of mainland Chinese people will not be willing to spend money on movie tickets.

Besides, there is no such condition in the mainland, and there is basically no so-called distribution of movies broadcast in the mainland, and the copyright awareness is close to zero.

Most of them are filmed by film factories and provided free of charge to rural projection teams, as well as to staff theaters in urban factories and mines, and their main responsibility is to enrich the cultural life of the people and improve the cultural literacy of the people, and it has nothing to do with whether they make money or not.

After all, the money for making a film has already been allocated to the film studio, and the film studio has no profit task, so these things will be considered.

And as I said just now, there is actually no soil for commercial films in the mainland now.

The reason has just been said, first of all, there are no cinemas, some are just free rural screening teams, and staff theaters of urban factories and mining enterprises, the former does not charge money at all, and the latter only charges a dime or two, which means that they never want to make too much money, and then give the money to the film studio, so that the film studio can shoot better films.

This makes them very helpless, and it can even be said that it is a bolt from the blue, no matter what they do, but the ticket price of these two cents is a dead knot, and it is impossible for them to earn money from these two cents, and this money will pay the salary of the projection team.

However, the most important thing is that Huaxia people really have no money, and they can afford to pay for a movie ticket for a dime or two, and they really can't afford to pay more.

If you want a theater or not, you don't have money, how can they go to the mainland to develop, not to mention that 20 years ago, the mainland was still hiding in a small building and becoming a unity, so ghosts can go to the mainland to develop, and it's good not to be arrested.

Fang Chen chuckled, "What Zou Dong said is naturally reasonable, for this ticket price of thirty or fifty yuan, most mainland mainlanders really can't afford it, after all, a month's salary is only about 200 yuan, this is an absolutely impossible thing for a family of four to go out to watch a movie and spend a month's salary, so I don't plan to let Xiangjiang Movies implement the same model as Xiangjiang and even other countries and regions in the mainland." ”

Fang Chen never expected to be able to bring those movies to the mainland at this moment and broadcast them normally.

To put it mildly, in the previous life of 2018, the annual attendance of the theater was only about 1.6 billion.

And keep in mind that this is just a person-time, in fact, people who have the habit of watching movies will watch several movies a year, so that in fact, less than 300 million people watch movies every year, only a little more than one-fifth.

At this time, I am afraid that only a very small number of people can enter the commercial theater of the serious Bajing, and at most 20% of the population can watch the movie in the urban staff cinema.

After all, at this time, non-agricultural hukou accounted for only 18% of the total number of people in the country, and the vast majority of agricultural hukou could not enter the cinema of urban workers.

"What are you going to do about Fang Dong?" asked Zou Wenhuai aggressively, and there was even a trace of disappointment in his eyes.

He originally thought that Fang Chen could have any good ideas, but it turned out that if the film market in the mainland was really so easy to enter, then they wouldn't have gone in earlier, and they were still lingering at the door.

In the face of Zou Wenhuai's relentless pursuit and domineering, Fang Chen smiled indifferently, "Zou Dong, don't worry, I'm just saying that the mainland cannot implement the same film screening system as Xiangjiang and other countries, but it doesn't mean that Xiangjiang movies really can't enter the mainland." The way to buy movie tickets in theaters doesn't work, then we can take other roads, and what I want is not your latest and most popular film this year, you can now hand over the distribution rights and use rights of the films you have filmed in the mainland to me. ”

Zou Wenhuai paused for a moment, and then blurted out: "Dong Fang, you want to release a videotape, this is not good, it really can't work." ”

And not only Zou Wenhuai, but even Lin Baixin, the Xiang brothers and others also looked at Fang Chen with a look of wishful thinking.

The distribution of videotapes is no stranger to them, and even when most of the movies are shown in the cinema, let alone making money, they can't even recover their costs.

Then why do they still have to go forward and make these movies that don't make money, it's because there are videotapes.

After the movie was released for a while, they engraved the movie on videotape and sold it to regular users, as well as to the owners of the video parlors.

Although the videotape is not inconspicuous, the income of the videotape is not a lot, basically it can account for 20% of the revenue of a film, and this 20% does not have to be handed over to the theater chain and distributors, it all falls into their own pockets.

There are many movies that have lost money at the time of release, and they have turned a profit through the release of videotapes.

It is said that Fang Chen's move to distribute video tapes should be feasible, Huaxia is so big, there are so many people who want to watch movies, one person can't afford to buy video recorders and video tapes, it should not be difficult for several companies to buy one together, and the cost of video tapes will also be greatly shared.

And as far as they know, in recent years, all kinds of video halls have sprung up in China, and there is no doubt that these video halls need a large number of video tapes.

But why, even so, they still think that Fang Chen's idea of releasing the videotape to Huaxia is unrealistic?

This is because more than 90 percent of the videotapes circulating in China are pirated videotapes burned by local pirates on the mainland.