Chapter 1093 Mainland Market
Siyuan Pictures Company is also at the forefront in Xiangjiang, second only to Jiayi, Golden Harvest, New Art City, and Dickson, Yongsheng, and Asia Pictures at the same level, but it is lower than these in terms of capital.
As for Li Guangyu's statement that he wants to invest in blockbusters, hoping to keep Xiangjiang's position in the film market, he knows that this is feasible, but only a few rich companies can play this, and their dozens of film companies can't play this, and a loss can make them bankrupt.
He said loudly: "The biggest difficulty of our Hong Kong film industry is the lack of its own market, if we want to feed so many film companies, it is impossible to have a huge market, what we need now is to find a market that can provide us with stable support, so that we can talk about future development." ”
After hearing this, the bosses of the small and medium-sized film companies present were silent, Jiayi, Jiahe, these are strong, and the Xiangjiang films released in Japan every year are basically produced among several top film companies, they have no hope at all, if there is no stable external market, just the small pond of Xiangjiang, their countless companies will wait for bankruptcy.
Looking at the silent crowd at the venue, Run Run Shaw said loudly: "Everyone, big, the biggest loss in the Japanese market is still a few large film and television companies, and few of your small and medium-sized film companies can be released in Japan every year, and you are just worried that this policy will be introduced in various places one after another, such as South Korea, Treasure Island, Singapore and other places."
Now public opinion in these places is quite high, and many local film companies have suggested learning from the Japanese government and restricting our Xiangjiang films. ”
What Run Run Shaw said is what they are worried about, if there are quantitative restrictions in various places, these small and medium-sized film companies will have no overseas markets at all.
Cheng Long, general manager of Weilong Film Company, said: "Sixth Uncle, Uncle Huai, Li Sheng, Lei Sheng, Lin Sheng, now our Xiangjiang film industry is at a critical juncture of life and death, I don't know what you think?"
Over the years, Cheng Long has become more and more famous, and last year, he opened a film company by himself, of which Golden Harvest occupies 60% of the shares, and he personally occupies 40% of the shares.
As one of Asia's top action stars, he obviously doesn't want Heung Kong to lose the overseas market, which will hit him personally and the company very hard.
He also knows that if there are still people among them who can help the Hong Kong film industry tide over the difficulties, then only Lee Guangyu, and only the Lee consortium have so much influence in the treasure island and Southeast Asia, so as to avoid their films being restricted in these regions.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him again, Li Guangyu thought for a while and said: "Regarding our other Asian markets, we have to keep them as much as possible, and in this regard, I hope that when various film and television companies use actors, they will also use some actors from other regions in their films, which will also help our films enter these regions."
In addition, I hope that our film industry association can set up a delegation to visit the capital, so that our films can go directly to the mainland as much as possible, and we can invest in cinemas, so that in the future it can become our pillar, which is a market of more than one billion people.
Although their current economy is not too rich, the mainland's economy is developing very rapidly, and as long as we have the huge market of the mainland, we will be able to be invincible in the film and television industry in Hong Kong. ”
At present, Xiangjiang films can only enter the mainland through the silver capital, which is not what Li Guangyu wants, he hopes that the films of these companies can enter by themselves, and the other is to establish a cinema chain, only if they own the cinema chain, can they have a good box office in the mainland.
Now even if they sell the film to Yindu, they won't sell much money, and Jiayi Group has not sold any of them to Yindu so far, and Li Guangyu has always hoped that his side can avoid Yindu and directly enter the mainland market.
Some small companies listened to Li Guangyu's suggestion but were surprisingly silent, they had a fear in their hearts that now that Japan had restricted them, if they did, they were afraid that Takushima would immediately respond and restrict their release.
The Li consortium has a big business, and the Li consortium has a great influence on the treasure island, even if Jiayi does this, the treasure island government will treat it as invisible, just like the Li consortium's continuous investment in the mainland, the treasure island has never turned a blind eye, and the development of the Jiayi Group there has not been affected in any way.
They are different, if they dare to jump like this, the Baodao government doesn't mind giving them an example, now there is no Japanese market, Baodao is the largest overseas box office in the Xiangjiang film industry, if they lose it here, their development will be even more difficult.
Wu Siyuan quite agrees with Li Guangyu's words, he was born in Shanghai, came to Xiangjiang at the age of 13, in his heart, the two sides of the strait and the three places are one, and he has always hoped that filmmakers from the three places can form an association to promote the vigorous development of Chinese films.
Soon after Li Guangyu's voice fell, he said loudly: "I personally agree with Li Sheng's opinion, the mainland is a very broad market, and everyone should be aware of the amazing box office achieved by the Shaolin Temple movie in the mainland a few years ago.
As long as we can enter the mainland market, as long as we negotiate with the mainland about the distribution of benefits, I believe that with the support of the mainland market, we will definitely be able to compete with Hollywood. ”
Some of the bosses present also raised their own concerns, such worries are universal, even Lei Juekun and Zou Wenhuai have this concern in their hearts.
First, the uncertainty of the mainland market, they don't know whether the other party will agree to Li Guangyu's proposal, if it doesn't work, they will lose a lot, and the treasure island will definitely not be indifferent to this.
And the mainland agrees with them that the chances really make them bottomless, first of all, they have moved the interests of the silver capital, which was originally monopolized by the silver capital, and they want to bypass the silver capital, but they are afraid that they will face a lot of obstacles in this regard.
They don't know what the attitude of the silver capital is, but if there is a group that wants to grab their own interests, they will definitely try to stop it.
The second is the issue of film censorship, due to the differences in regional values and culture, they estimate that many of their films that can be released in Hong Kong will not pass the review in the mainland at all, and the films suitable for the mainland will hit the streets in Hong Kong and overseas.
There are too many problems involved, and at the same time, the risks are too great, and it is likely that the slightest carelessness will lead to bankruptcy, which is why most members of the association choose to remain silent.
Li Guangyu said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I know everyone's concerns, but now the time has come when we have to make a choice, now we still have a chance to enter the mainland, and when even the door of the mainland is closed in the future, we will really lose everything, and a Xiangjiang market can't feed us."
And do you think that Baodao will not introduce policies to protect their own enterprises? Not only Baodao will be, but also Southeast Asian countries, and we will return to the mainland in 1997, and we will all belong to the same country, as long as we enter now, we will get the first opportunity in the future. ”
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