Chapter 334: Trouble at the top of Jiayi Films

With the decline of the Shaw Brothers, the Heung Kong film industry has become the world of Jiayi, Golden Harvest and New Art City, and every box office war will always happen between them, and most of the time Golden Harvest is alone in the face of the joint suppression of Jiayi and New Art City.

However, this has also created the fame of Golden Harvest, even if Jiayi Film Company ranked first in profit last year, Golden Harvest's momentum is also higher than Jiayi, in last year, Wrinkle Huai was ambitious to develop the American market, and deliberately made a joint venture with Hollywood companies to shoot a killer trench, so that Chen Long starred in this movie, hoping to create Bruce Lee's second out.

It's just that last year's box office results of the killer trench did not satisfy Wrinkles, but he did not lose confidence, just after the Spring Festival, Golden Harvest announced that Golden Harvest had invested heavily in cooperation with American film companies to jointly shoot the movie "Cannonball Speed", with Chen Long as the protagonist of the movie.

The Hong Kong press highly praised Golden Harvest's active pioneering spirit, and this time, Lee's Jiayi Film Company became the target of their criticism.

The Oriental Daily wrote: "When we mention the Lee's Group, we always think of many of their products sold in various regions, and I have always felt that the Lee's Group is a proactive group, just look at their branches in various regions." ”

"But today, I found out that there are also some companies under the Li Group that just rely on the Li Group to get by, without the slightest intention to break through, compared with Golden Harvest, the performance of the top management of Jiayi Film Company is very disappointing. They have better resources than Golden Harvest, but they are only willing to stick to the Asian market and hold back, without the slightest intention of going to the United States to open up. ”

This time, not only Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily and Minbao, but also Xiangjiang Xinbao pointed the finger at the top management of Jiayi Film Company, criticizing them for their incompetence and lack of courage to challenge.

In the face of the overwhelming criticism and accusations of the major media in Xiangjiang, the senior management of Jiayi Film Company immediately held a meeting.

Wu Xianglin, general manager of the film company, said at the meeting: "I think everyone has read today's news, we have now become a representative of Xiangjiang's incompetence, what do you think about this?"

Chen Jianming, the manager of the distribution department, said: "Wu Sheng, we didn't make a mistake ourselves, we also followed Li Sheng's instructions and made every effort to stabilize the Asian market, and we also achieved a very good box office last year when the two movies of God of Gamblers and Heroes were released in Europe and the United States, and they also achieved a very good box office, which is much higher than last year's Golden Harvest Killer Trench box office." ”

The top management of the film company really feels wronged today, how can they and others become representatives of incompetence and unenterprising, last year, the profit of the film company ranked first in Xiangjiang, these are not the achievements of themselves and others, and what about Golden Harvest's entry into the United States, it is not a big disappointment.

Wei Zhiming, the editorial manager, said: "Wu Sheng, even if we want to enter the US market, we have to agree with the high-level management, and the senior management of the group will obviously follow Li Sheng's advice, how can we be blamed for our incompetence?"

These high-level executives were very angry when they read the newspaper today, and they and others ran the film company with great success, so that the film company could obtain the first profit of all the film companies in Xiangjiang, which was originally a commendable thing, but I did not expect it to be like this now.

Wu Xianglin said: "Don't be too involved in the media reports in the unexpected world, the senior management of the group is very clear about the achievements we have made, and we also praise our achievements. ”

After listening to Wu Xianglin's words, everyone also let go of the anger in their hearts, as long as the senior management of the group continues to trust themselves and others, they don't care about what happens outside, and their work is not given by them.

Yang Hui, manager of the administration department, said: "Wu Sheng, what should our film company do to deal with this incident?"

Wu Xianglin said: "As you know, it is quite difficult for our Asian film companies to develop well in Hollywood, which is why Li Sheng wants us to stabilize the Asian market. The major film companies over there don't welcome us to go over to grab food, look at Golden Harvest, and invest in the past, but they don't have much profit themselves. ”

The United States is essentially the same as Xiangjiang, without the support of the cinema chain, no matter how much money you invest in these companies, it will be in vain. Behind the major film companies in the United States, which one does not have the support of the theater chain.

They Jiayi didn't cooperate with these companies in the past, and it was a little difficult to release it, and if they cooperated, how much could they get, but I was afraid that when the time came, people would eat meat in front, and they could only drink soup.

Yang Hui said: "Wu Sheng, the current public opinion in Xiangjiang is quite unfavorable to our Jiayi Film Company, if we don't respond, I am afraid that it will affect the box office of our movie." ”

Wu Xianglin also knew about this problem, and thought about the senior management and said: "I will go to the Li Building later, report to Liu Sheng and Ms. Shi of the group on this issue, and see what they plan." ”

At the time of the meeting of the senior management of Jiayi Film Company, Liu Tianci and Shi Nansheng had already come to Li Guangyu's office and reported the situation to him.

Li Guangyu didn't expect that Golden Harvest going to the United States to invest in filming would be able to cause such a turmoil, this time the senior management of Jiayi Film Company was really wronged, they were all carrying out their own orders.

Li Guangyu asked, "God, Ms. Shi, do you have any opinions on this?"

Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, we also know that if the United States does not have a cinema chain, it will be quite difficult to develop, but if we ignore it like this now, public opinion is quite unfavorable to us." You see if we also learn from Golden Harvest and cooperate with companies in the United States, we invest in them to shoot, and then add one or two of our actors, and we have a lot of film and television actors in American economic companies. ”

Because he has watched a lot of movies through the Xiangjiang River in his previous life, Li Guangyu really knows several movies that have been box office hits, and some books say that the director lacks capital investment, and Li Guangyu doesn't know if it's true, anyway, he can let them give it a try.

"You ask the American company to contact the director of Jaws to see if he has a new script that needs to be invested, and we will work with him," Lee said. ”

As the vice president in charge of films, Shi Nansheng naturally knows a lot about popular movies, and this Jaws has won a very rich box office. Li Guangyu instructed himself and others to negotiate cooperation with the director of the film, and if it succeeded, they would definitely reap rich rewards.

Shi Nansheng said: "Li Sheng, I will arrange for our employees in the United States to contact Mr. Steven Spielberg in the next two days to try to reach some cooperation with him. ”

Li Guangyu said to them: "After you go down, you must calm the emotions of the top management of the film company, so that they will not be influenced by the outside world, continue to lead the development of the film company, and stabilize our film market in Asia." ”

Liu Tianci replied: "Li Sheng, I will personally go to the film company and do a good job of appeasing them." ”

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