Chapter 392: The Xiangjiang Film Industry Has Changed
The news that Golden Harvest cannonball flying car made 100 million Hong Kong dollars has just fermented, and a bigger news instantly overshadowed this hot topic of Golden Harvest and became the new focus of Xiangjiang.
On the morning of August 8th, New Arts City and Shaw Brothers held a joint press conference, and New Arts City officially reached an agreement with Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and all the films of New Arts City will be screened in Shaw Brothers Cinemas in the future.
There have been many discussions about this from all walks of life in Xiangjiang, and Lei Juekun has been cooperating with Jiayi Cinema since the establishment of the new art city. Lei Juekun himself also maintains a relatively friendly relationship with Li Guangyu, and Jiayi Cinema has never suppressed Xinyicheng, but he didn't expect that the two families who are very friendly in such cooperation will suddenly part ways, which is unexpected by many people.
In the past, the Shaw Brothers declined, Golden Harvest often faced the joint suppression of Jiayi and Xinyicheng, and now Xinyicheng has invested in Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and Xiangjiang has reappeared in a three-legged state, and the competition will be more fierce in the future.
Reporters from Xiangjiang also went out one after another and began to find relevant people for interviews, in order to learn more about the inside story to report to the public, and also wanted to explore the truth about the departure of Jiayi and Xinyicheng.
Jia Yunhua, general manager of Jiayi Cinema Company, became the first interview object of many reporters, and they all wanted to understand from him why Xinyicheng would leave Jiayi Cinema and cooperate with Shaw Brothers Cinema.
A reporter from Sing Tao Daily asked Jia Yunhua: "Jia Sheng, we all know that the relationship between Li Sheng and Lei Sheng is very good, and Xinyi City has always cooperated with your Jiayi Cinema Line, why is this happening now?"
Jia Yunhua said: "Lei Sheng has personally communicated with Li Sheng about this matter, and we express our blessings for the choice of Xinyicheng, and we also hope that Xinyicheng can develop better and better." ”
A reporter from Oriental Daily asked: "Jia Sheng, is there any inside story about the departure of Xinyicheng this time?"
These reporters hope that the bigger the problem, the better, preferably if the new art city is not satisfied, so that they can capitalize and close-up. As long as it is not a malicious attack on Li Sheng, Li Sheng will not care about reporting some things about his company. This time there happened to be such hot news, and it was related to Li Sheng's company, and they didn't want to let this matter pass easily.
Jia Yunhua said: "Due to the continuous development of our Jiayi Film Company and Xinyicheng, there is still some overlap in some schedules, and our cinema company has always been in a neutral state, not biased to either side, Lei Sheng feels a little sorry for this, thinking that Li Sheng wronged Jiayi Film Company in order to give him face, and Lei Sheng himself is also optimistic about the development of the film industry, this time Lei Sheng has negotiated with Shaw Brothers on the acquisition of cinemas, so Xinyi City will be released in Shaw Brothers Cinemas." ”
Jia Yunhua's revelations made them even more excited, but they didn't expect that this was not a matter of cooperation, but Lei Juekun directly ate the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and in the future, Xinyi City will completely become the third largest film company in Xiangjiang, and they also have the strength to compete with Jiayi and Jiahe for the top spot in Xiangjiang Film Company.
A reporter from Xiangjiang Evening News asked: "Jia Sheng, does the departure of Xinyicheng have a great impact on the filming of your cinemas?"
Jia Yunhua replied: "You can rest assured, we already have a plan for the departure of Xinyicheng, our Jiayi Film Company will increase production, and at the same time, the vacated share of Xinyicheng will also be filled by other film companies in Xiangjiang." In the past, due to our two Jiayi Film Company and Xinyi City, they basically accounted for 80% of our film schedule, and rarely received films from other film companies in Xiangjiang, but now we can serve medium-sized film companies in Xiangjiang. ”
Mai Jia, the person in charge of the new art city, is also facing questions from many reporters, and everyone also wants to know the attitude of the new art city.
A reporter asked: "Mai Sheng, we all know that many of the actors in your new art city are owned by Jiayi Group, and you have chosen to cooperate with Shaw Brothers Cinemas this time, will this be unfavorable to your future film shooting?"
Mai Jia replied: "This has no impact, the relationship between our Lei Sheng and Li Sheng has not been affected by this, and the actors who shoot the films in our new art city will still cooperate with Jiayi artists, and there will be no problems." ”
The reporters were still disappointed when they heard such an answer, it was good to be so good, but there was no hot spot, everyone didn't want to see this, hello, hello everyone, what else are the citizens of Xiangjiang talking about.
A reporter from Ming Bao asked: "Mai Sheng, now that you have left Jiayi, it can be said that you officially have the capital to compete with Jiayi and Jiahe, what are your plans for Xinyicheng in the future?"
Mai Jia naturally hopes that one day Xinyicheng will also be able to sit in the position of the boss of Xiangjiang Film Company, but there is still a big gap between the strength of Xinyicheng and Jiayi and Jiahe, and it is better to keep a low profile, so as not to attract the joint suppression of Jiahe and Jiayi Film Company.
Mai Jia said: "Our new art city is currently consolidating our current position, and at the same time, we are also reserving more film talents, and I believe that our new art city will always have a place in the Hong Kong film industry." ”
Just when these reporters were busy interviewing these relevant people, the news came out and shook the Hong Kong film industry again.
The glorious Shaw Brothers Film Company officially announced its closure, and all its personnel were merged into TVB, which competed with Electric in the 60s and competed with Golden Harvest in the 70s, after all, did not survive the 80s.
With the rise of Jiayi Film Company and Xinyicheng, some systems of Shaw Brothers Film Company are increasingly unable to keep up with the development of the times, and Run Run Shaw has gone all out to enter TVB, and he has not had much experience in dealing with the business of Shaw Brothers Film Company, so at this time, the film company that has been established for more than 20 years has ended.
Even Run Run Shaw even sold his cinema chain in Xiangjiang to Lei Juekun, and the proceeds of Run Run Shaw will be all invested in wireless, and the wireless stock market has also plummeted.
Because of the excellent results achieved by Jiayi TV on the stars, especially the high advertising costs, Run Run Shaw is also red-eyed, and he also plans to make wireless into a satellite TV station, and the money from the sale of the theater is prepared for this.
In Shaw's office, Fang Yihua knew that Shaw was not in a good mood, and the company he had built up for decades was finally reluctantly closed. She knew that Run Run Shaw also loved the film industry very much, but the development of Shaw Brothers films really disappointed him, and he had to fill the hole for the theater in the past two years, which was also the reason why Run Run Shaw made up his mind to close Shaw Brothers Film Company.
Run Run Shaw said: "Tswah, how did we entrust the Asian Commercial Bank to buy our shares?"
Fang Yihua said happily: "Mr. Chen Youqing said that the acquisition has been almost collected, and the acquisition can be completed tomorrow, and then we will control 51% of the shares, and we will be able to completely control TVB." ”
This time dragged the blessing of the stock market crash, otherwise they would not have been able to buy so many shares so easily. The Ritchie family, which owns 35% of the shares, can now only become the second largest shareholder.
Fang Yihua has long thought about being able to control wireless, although wireless was managed by Run Shaw and himself in the past, but after all, the largest shareholder is the Li family, and some of their decisions are still relatively restrictive, and now he finally has the final say.