"Lin Qi is too crazy!" Golden Harvest Film Company, Zou Wenhuai read the newspaper, and saw that Shaw Brothers Cinemas compressed the distribution of traditional film films, forcing film manufacturers and film investors to use digital high-definition cameras to produce digital film sources, and couldn't help but gloat, "The Hong Kong film industry, after all, is dominated by small-budget films, and there are no more than 20 films with an annual budget of more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars." The level of most film directors and crews can only be qualified for movies under a budget of 1 million. Lin Qi is so perverse, I'm afraid the Shaw Brothers cinema line will be over!"

Boss Lei of Golden Princess Entertainment Company also saw the news, but he showed deep thought: "Isn't Lin Qi afraid of losing the support of Hong Kong's film source?"

Hong Kong produces 500 to 600 films a year, ranking third in the world. The first in terms of output, well, it's not Hollywood, it's Indian Bollywood, purely in terms of the number of movies, India's self-entertaining film output has long been ranked first in the world, but only Indians themselves can accept it, most of the movies sing and dance, and the aesthetic gap with the world's audiences is too big, so even when the song and dance drama is popular, those movies in India are not popular.

Secondly, it is Hollywood movies, Hollywood movies are not only a matter of large production, but also blockbusters with an annual budget of more than 10 million US dollars, and Hollywood movies in the United States account for more than 90%. This is precisely the production capacity of blockbusters, so that the average quality of Hollywood movies far exceeds that of most countries in the world, and in most markets in the world, Hollywood movies are out of the scene of beating local films.

To put it simply, Hong Kong movies in this era are the same as Hollywood commercial films. However, Hollywood is mainly a blockbuster market, with a budget of tens of millions of dollars to supply at least dozens of blockbusters a year, and the average attendance of these films is guaranteed, making mainstream cinema distributors around the world more willing to consider giving more resources to Hollywood films.

Hong Kong films are more low-cost commercial films, and they see that a theme and story are hot, and they quickly start to follow suit. It's completely to the audience's liking, the theme and story and even the actors that the audience likes can be provided, the audience loves to watch and preempt, Hong Kong films provide preemption, and if you love to watch zombies, you can provide a bunch of zombies. But these films are purely speculative. Most of the productions are not well-made, but after one became popular, more themes followed the trend, took the opportunity to drink soup behind, and soon died one theme after another.

To put it simply, Hong Kong movies seem to produce a lot every year, but most of the five or six hundred movies are vulgar followers, not only imitating the subject matter, but also not making too much care. There are only 50 works that can really stand up to scrutiny and above the standard every year.

Lin Qi knew that he couldn't simply play this kind of short-term speculation. After all, film is an industry, and the development of the industry must be guaranteed through technological innovation and quality.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Qicai would rather sacrifice the short-term interests of Shaw Brothers Cinemas, but also use this as a bargaining chip to bankrupt some film creators and develop with the layout of entrepreneurial film and television entertainment companies.

Hollywood's film industry, which can be called the world's giant, started very early, and was the first to use technology in it, and they are all series of movies.

"The new entrepreneurship department is really painful, for the sake of film and television distribution, the acquisition of Shaw Brothers Cinemas is old. We have to reorganize the Shaw Brothers cinema chain into some digital cinema chain, and we have to force people to use expensive digital camera technology!"

"This Boss Lin is too much, the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line will close sooner or later. ”

"Uncle Shao Liu, I'm afraid he will regret selling Shaw Brothers Film Company to Lin Qi, he tossed so much, it is estimated that in a few years, Shaw Brothers Films will completely disappear from the market. ”

Lin Qi was almost tired of hearing such words, and Xiao Xiao also gave Lin Qi a look at it a few days ago, and then he was not surprised, anyway, Lin Qi was indifferent.

Wave after wave of boycotts, protests, and incomprehension, Lin Qi also took it as a deaf ear.

He knows that most practitioners in the industry are inert, they can live their lives, they can get by, and they have to force them to make more efforts, take greater risks, embrace new technologies, learn new things, and many people's first reaction is not to cooperate and resist!

However, the Shaw Brothers Cinema chain has 27 cinemas in Hong Kong and 24 in Southeast Asia. After the implementation of the multiplex strategy, there will be 1,000 movie screens. This scale of operation, even in the 21st century, when the Chinese film market is on par with the North American film market, can still rank in the top ten.

There were too many cinemas in later generations, so, in a sense, cinemas could not be monopolized.

But now, the Chinese film industry and the distribution channel of Shaw Brothers Cinemas have a pivotal position.

Tens of millions of box office per month?

You guys, really......

Aren't all of them interested?

Indeed, some people will say that even if they starve to death, they will not accept digital camera technology, and would rather starve to death than make movies with film.

However, there will always be some film investors who will regard the Shaw Brothers cinema line as having more schedule resources, so they will take the opportunity to cooperate with Shaw Brothers to get more box office revenue.

Of course, the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, which is now dominated by the new entrepreneurship department, is not released as a film, but needs to go through strict review. If the quality of the reviewed movies is too poor, I'd rather play classic old movies than those bad movies!

The concept of comprehensively upgrading the cinema chain and pursuing high-quality movies.

Only one new film with a box office of 20 million is screened a month, which is much better than showing 20 garbage films with a box office of 1 million!

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"Is there any mistake, I'm shooting anti-Japanese, grandma's little Japan, naturally how cool it is, if it's really filmed according to history, then it's not messy. Huang Feng, the director of "The Great Cause of Anti-Japanese Resistance", was so angry that he almost smashed the camera.

"No way, this is given by Mr. Lin, if you really can't shoot something decent, then we have to terminate the contract. The cinema manager who docked with it was also helpless.

Since ancient times, businessmen have valued profit over affection, and in his opinion, he can't understand what the boss is thinking, what butterfly effect, it is estimated that it will not bring any good effect, and a careless will stir up the market that has been established with great difficulty.

"Then you will compensate for the liquidated damages!" Huang Feng was very angry, but he knew that it was useless to be angry.

"Give you a cancellation fee of 200,000 yuan, which is written in black and white in the contract. The cinema manager handed over the check that had been prepared long ago.

"Don't bring this, this is too bullying, can't our movies be released, and there are only theaters in Hong Kong because of new businesses?" The screenwriter was angry, the actors were angry, and even the master who distributed the lunch box was angry.

Even though it's a piece of garbage, 1 million is invested. After terminating the contract, only 200,000 yuan will be given, how can I get it back?

This is just the beginning, just half a month.

The Shaw Brothers Cinema Line terminated the contract for the release of 5 films that were about to be completed, and compensated HK$1 million in liquidated damages.

After that, these film investors, with bad movies, found other channels to distribute them, and sprayed the new entrepreneurship department with blood. Of course, many investors blamed the fact that the movie still hit the streets after its release, due to the suppression of the new entrepreneurship department.

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"Mr. Lin, it's not good, something happened. As soon as it was dawn the next day, Xiao Shi rushed into the office with a handful of buns in his mouth.

Lin Qi glanced at Xiao Xiao, the latter realized that he was a little out of shape, swallowed the bun in one bite, and reached out to hand over a piece of material, obviously he was in a hurry, and he rolled his eyes in a mouthful of buns.

"It's expected, it's all under control. After reading the information in his hand, Lin Qi did not react in the slightest. More than 500 people gathered in the Hong Kong film industry to demonstrate against the overbearing termination of the contract by the new entrepreneurship department.

Although, the directors who terminated the contract were all bad films, and the quality of the movie did not pass, and the contract would be terminated.

The contract termination system is also a new cooperation mechanism proposed by the latest Shaw Brothers films.

That is to say, for the films that are to be exclusively distributed in the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, you can sign a contract in advance, and after that, the distribution department of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line will watch the film and terminate the contract for the film that does not pass the quality.

This is compensation that was given after the film was made.

If you want to cheat 200,000 yuan in termination fees, you must also have the results of past releases. And, if it's too pit, Shaw Brothers not only saves, but also informs the whole industry that the film made by this director and crew is too bad, everyone should be careful.

A group of people who made bad movies, after stealing chickens, didn't bite back, but it was a strange thing.

"Mr. Lin, the people outside speak very badly, and even the garbage collectors are laughing at us, saying that a person who doesn't understand movies will guide the filming of the movie. Xiao hesitated for a moment, but still said what was in his heart.

"Let them go and say it. Knowing that I sin me, it is only spring and autumn!" Lin Qi smiled slightly, not angry, with the huge financial support behind the new venture, he was naturally not afraid.

Moreover, those who are really making trouble basically can't see the famous directors and actors, because these people cherish their feathers and know that the new entrepreneurship department is the biggest financier in the film and television industry, and they can't afford to offend. At the same time, many high-level filmmakers are already beginning to study new technologies such as digital photography technology and special effects technology, so how can they have time to participate in the boring actions of demonstrating with the financial owners.