Tang An stayed in the magic capital for a day, in addition to Han and Tang literature, it happened that Li Rui had just returned to the magic capital, and Tang An also stopped by to meet him.

Although Li Ruigang cannot be said to have controlled Shaw Brothers and TVB, his voice and influence are gradually strengthening.

As the chairman of the board of directors of Shaw Brothers Films and the vice chairman of the board of directors of TVB, coupled with his previous status as the chairman of Wenguang, it is only a matter of time before he controls TVB and Shaw Brothers.

Xiangjiang Film originally started on the basis of the magic capital movie, because of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of magic film people went south, and the Shaw brothers all went from the magic capital.

More than half of the directors, screenwriters, and actors of the magic capital have gone to Hong Kong, so that Hong Kong has gradually become a center for overseas Chinese to invest in films from a region specializing in the production of Cantonese films in eastern Guangdong, Singapore, Malaysia and other places.

At the end of the 40s, although the Anti-Japanese War was over, the war was still going on, the situation was turbulent, and another group of filmmakers and capitalists went south, and in 1948, Xiangjiang produced a record 157 films in a year.

At that time, the domestic film and music center was the magic capital, and with the southward movement of the magic city movies and musicians, Xiangjiang carried the status of the entertainment center of the magic capital.

Although many years have passed, and there are few people of the older generation still alive, there is such a relationship, coupled with the decline of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, it is relatively easy for Li Rui to take over Shaw Brothers and TVB.

Otherwise, as soon as he went, the chairman of the board of directors of Shaw Brothers suddenly fell ill.

Although Shaw Brothers has declined, after all, it once had a complete distribution network in Southeast Asia.

Since the 80s, Shaw Brothers has been discontinued, but it is still distributing Xiangjiang films to the southeast.

The foundation is there, and it is better than nothing to rebuild the distribution network in Southeast Asia.

However, the current Shaw Brothers alone is not of much use, and Tang An plans to pull Southeast Asian countries such as Zhuguo, Singapore, and Yue Nan into the bureau to jointly form a new distribution company.

Even if part of the benefits are ceded, as long as a complete distribution network can be built, so that most Chinese films have the opportunity to be released in Southeast Asia, it is enough.

Even if Southeast Asian audiences are not accustomed to mainland films, at least some big-budget blockbusters are more receptive.

It can also be used through time to make Southeast Asian audiences imperceptibly accept Chinese films.

It's like watching Japanese dramas and Thai dramas, you will always be unaccustomed to it at first, but you will get used to it after watching too much.

This matter can be carried out at the same time as the establishment of the Xiangjiang Cinema Line, and the matter of re-dividing the cinema into cultural and entertainment facilities in Xiangjiang is already being discussed by the Xiangjiang government under the promotion of the Ministry of Xuanxuan.

Tang An also doesn't want to be like in the 70s, he can get a store at a very low price, which is unrealistic.

As long as it's cheaper than it is now, it doesn't matter if you lose a little.

The monthly rent of a movie theater in Times Square, Hong Kong, has now reached 25 million Hong Kong dollars, which is just the rent, and whoever can afford it will be throwing money out of the theater to open a movie theater.

As long as the cost is slightly reduced, Tang An will be sure to control most of the Xiangjiang cinema market.

Other theaters are in business, and they want to make money.

Tang An can accept a loss and influence Xiangjiang culturally, compared to what is a loss of money.

If it doesn't work for two or three years, it will take five or eight years, or even ten years, and a large number of mainland movies will be released in Xiangjiang, so that the audience in Xiangjiang will naturally accept the mainland culture after watching it for more than ten years.

Nothing can not be changed by time, the popular songs of Xiangjiang were still mainly Chinese, Cantonese songs were only a small niche, not slowly popularized, Chinese songs are no longer popular.

The same is true of early Xiangjiang films, in the fifties and sixties, Cantonese films were of the worst quality and lowest grade, and only small companies made them, and large companies disdained them.

And at that time, the Xiangjiang Film Market probably had such a chain of contempt: rich and literate people watched English films, rich and uneducated watched Chinese films, and unrich and uneducated watched Cantonese films.

In 1972, Quan Xiangjiang produced 82 films, but none of them were Cantonese films, which shows how bleak Cantonese films were at that time.

The Xiangjiang market is too small to support the Xiangjiang film industry, and must rely on the Southeast Asian Chinese community and the treasure island market, and Chinese is the language that can communicate with Chinese people around the world.

Even in the early days of Xiangjiang, there were a large number of Chinese-speaking immigrants, and the senior Shaw leaders were all from the mainland and spoke Mandarin.

The older generation of Xiangjiang filmmakers and actors can speak fluent Mandarin.

Li Xiaolong's movies also had to be dubbed in Chinese before being released in the early days.

It was not until 1973 that Shaw made the first Cantonese film "Seventy-Two Tenants" for the first time, and beat Li Xiaolong to win the annual box office championship, after which Cantonese films slowly revived, and by 1977, the number of Cantonese films exceeded Chinese films for the first time.

From Chinese to Cantonese, it only took four years.

For Hong Kong audiences to accept mainland films, double the time should always be enough.

As a filmmaker, he has to do something for this industry, and promoting Chinese films to Southeast Asia and becoming one of the mainstream films in Southeast Asia is Tang An's goal at this stage.

......

After staying in the magic capital for a day, Tang An flew back to the capital.

I commute to and from work on time in the company every day, and my days are finally a little normal.

As for "Fantasy Forest", Tiangong Brilliant is still continuing the preparation of special effects in the early stage.

This movie is not sloppy, the focus is all on CG, and Tang An is not blindly directing, but will only check their results regularly.

Tiangong Brilliant and the technology in the digital field are still inferior to Weta Digital, but fortunately, we have begun to use Kingsoft Cloud's cloud rendering farm, which can go through more calculations and strive to do the best.

It's easy to shoot, this is not in a hurry, children's scenes are actually the best to film.

Adults have a variety of looks, heights, personalities, and temperaments, and it is not easy to match the actor and the role.

But little ones?

A child plays a child, there are no other career and personality restrictions, and it is completely his true colors.

In many film and television dramas, child stars and children who have never been exposed to acting at all often perform very well.

Especially for five or six-year-old children, they don't have such complicated personalities and tempers.

As far as Tang An watched the "Actor" before, he found a few children to cooperate in a few episodes, which was more natural than a real actor.

Zhang Yimou likes to use newcomers, because newcomers are like a blank piece of paper, and the content on it depends on the director's training, which is easier to shape.

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August has passed, the beginning of the school season has arrived, and the domestic film market has begun to enter a flat period of nearly a month.

However, Wanda Film's market value exceeded the 80 billion mark on the third day of listing, and surpassed Huayi to become the film and television company with the highest market value.

Then four days later, the market value exceeded 90 billion.

However, it still failed to break through the 100 billion mark, and the market value once reached 96 billion at the peak, but it couldn't go up.

It is much worse than the original Wanda Cinema Line being listed separately and 11 consecutive daily limits.

After the rise, it began to fall back, and it is estimated that it will be good to stabilize at 90 billion in the end.

Wanda's IPO was an absolute success, and it was out of the limelight in the back-to-school season.

It didn't take long for the cooperation of several major companies to be hidden.

Originally, so many high-level executives knew that it was very well concealed, but as soon as the contract was signed, so many projects had their own share, and more and more people needed to participate in the follow-up, which was naturally exposed.

At the beginning, it was just rumored that there were several companies involved in "Legend of the Gods", and a certain company bought a share of "Ip Man 3", but these things came together and straightened out the movies they collaborated on, and naturally found something different.

......

Hantang Media, Tang An convened a meeting of the company's management above the director level.

"Tell me what's going on now. ”

In the off-season in September, several other companies began to make big moves.

Wang Zhongjun's abnormal attitude before, and Tang An felt that something was wrong when he got together in the magic capital, and it turned out that he had started to connect in series.

"Chairman, it has been determined that several major companies will have at least more than ten blockbusters in the next two years, as well as film projects with good box office potential, and other investors have increased ......"

The director of publicity and marketing of the film division explained what had happened in the past two days in front of the curtain.

Tang An also looked at some data synchronized with the small screen on the table in front of him.

"The Great Wall", a major production with a production cost of more than 100 million US dollars, was originally invested and distributed by Vanda's Legendary Pictures, Lay's, and Universal.

Legendary Pictures got the largest share of investment, and Lay's finally got a Zhang Yimou and got the main control and distribution rights in the mainland.

However, in the entertainment treasure of Zhifubao, there is an appointment investment in the "Great Wall" project.

It's been a while since Entertainment Treasure was launched, but the most heavyweight movie before was just "Small Times 4".

Because the third part failed to meet expectations, Lay's engaged in a movie financial management with Ah Li, a gimmick of making money for the whole people.

Ahri Pictures also issued an announcement, announcing the acquisition of a part of the box office revenue of "The Great Wall" at a high price.

China Film Co., Ltd. and Maoyan Film have also become one of the co-distributors of "The Great Wall".

In other words, this blockbuster has more participation from China Film, Ah Li, and Guangxian.

Ahri's "Incredible", "Havoc in Tianzhu", and "The Ferryman" also have more participation from other companies.

The same is true of Bernard's "Operation Mekong" and "Omen Fengyun 2".

More than ten high-quality projects, and suddenly more other big companies are involved.

After the report, Tang An looked at everyone's expressions, all of them were a little dignified, obviously knowing what it meant.

Tang An smiled, attracted their attention, and then said, "Obviously, the cross-investment of these major companies must have reached some cooperation, and we, who were excluded, should be the reason for their cooperation." ”

Zhang Wall nodded and echoed, "Dong Tang, the seven major companies plus a happy thing, we are also in the dark, and it is clear that they are targeting us, we must be prepared, it is not easy to deal with." ”

Everyone can see that this is not a cooperation between two or three companies.

Several major companies have grievances with each other, Wang Changtian and Zhang Zhao can be said to be mortal enemies, and they want each other to die all the time.

Lay's and China Film had a grudge over "The Expendables 3", Lay's, as an investor, a mainland copyright owner, and a buyout party for the batch of films, turned out to be unable to reach his thighs, but he still had to distribute it to China Film, giving up 20% of the profits.

Guang envy the whole network crazy black "White Legend" back then, which caused the publisher Wanda to lose a large amount of distribution income.

It is not so simple to let them let go of the grievances between each other, if it is said that they will carve up the market of the Han and Tang Dynasties together, it is reasonable.

"Tang Dong, with the combined energy of the eight major companies, it is difficult for us to fight, and when the time comes, we may face an all-round backwardness in film scheduling, publicity and marketing, in my opinion, we should immediately contact Berner and Guangxian to persuade them to quit!"

"It's not just in terms of publicity, but now that they have enough high-quality projects, if they really have to deal with us with iron heart, two or three movies will hit one, and it will be really difficult. ”

"Their alliance must be dismantled, and as long as enough benefits are paid, they will naturally break themselves. ”

...

Each director and vice president expressed their opinions one by one, without exception, and they did not think that Hantang could resist the cooperation of the eight major companies.

In the past two years, Hantang has been able to sweep the domestic film market, but it does not mean that it is really stronger than other companies combined, after all, other companies are also competitors to each other.

However, the most important thing is that Tang An has not released a movie for a year or two, otherwise Tang An still maintains the speed of one movie a year, even if the eight major companies join forces, they are confident.

Tang An's movie is only 4 billion, which is enough to sweep the hot schedules such as the summer and Spring Festival.

Li Nan, deputy general manager of the film division, suggested that Tang An could make a simple movie and deal with the siege of major companies next year.

Although this is a bit bad, just like the national pig loses every day, you can't let the leaders of the pig association win.

Everyone still agrees with this plan in their hearts, Tang An makes a simple and easy movie to deal with next year's problems.

But no one spoke, let the boss do the work, who is embarrassed to speak.

Tang An shook his head secretly, making a movie by himself is indeed the simplest and most effective way.

Tang An has this self-confidence, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a new film released in a year or two, others would never dare to do it.

The alliance of these eight companies should be at least three less!

"Okay, it's not a big deal, we don't have to be nervous, what to do, and prepare for the release of every movie. ”

"I'm going to the National Day file soon, we have two films, "Charlotte's Troubles" and "Rescue Mr. Wu" invested by Song Ge and Du Yang, don't care about the others, take the National Day file and show them. It's not that easy to deal with Han Tang!"

Tang An is not afraid of their team-up, with the current resources of Han and Tang, it can independently support a movie with a box office of four billion, and there is no need for other resources to assist.

And they can't do anything to deal with themselves, and at the same time besiege themselves with four or five blockbusters.

Even if he does this, it is just a lose-lose situation, Tang An can bear it completely, and it is a big deal to make a little less.

Hantang is now much more profitable than any other company, and if they suffer significant losses, they will not be far from the collapse of the alliance.

It is the interests that facilitate their cooperation, even if it is not for the sake of themselves, cross-cooperation and sharing resources are also greatly advantageous.

But once there is a loss, there will definitely be people who will withdraw first, or even turn against each other.

Besides, Tang An has several trump cards in his hands, and it is impossible to lose both.

What Tang An has decided, everyone can only come down at the moment and fight the battle of the National Day file.

These things were handed over to them, Tang An was also relieved, in just two or three days, not only did he collect enough information, but also re-evaluated the other party's projects, as well as the possible schedule of each movie, which movies were the opponents when, and the advantages of both sides were analyzed very clearly.

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After the meeting, Tang An asked people to make an appointment with Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Wu Ershan, and Wu Jing.

The next day, I met the four of them in the office, one of the most important assets of Han and Tang, and Tang An's trump card.

The older generation of directors have hit the streets, and almost all of the directors of the new generation are under their command, which is also where Tang An's confidence lies.

The "Fengshen" series, "Wolf Warrior 2", and "The Wandering Earth" in preparation, which are being filmed, can beat the eight major companies to the north!

However, only Tang An knows this, and now that Hantang is facing the siege of the eight major companies, what they think in their hearts, whether they are a little pessimistic, and even want to get off the ship, no one knows.

It is necessary for Tang An to meet with them, chat, and pour some chicken soup by the way.