Chapter 153: "Happy Ghost" is finished
On July 19, 1982, the movie "Happy Ghost" was completed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Lin Qi watched the first cut version after the finale, and felt that it was roughly similar to the style of "Happy Ghost" in his memory, and the quality was far better than the first "Happy Ghost" in history. Originally, the budget of the original "Happy Ghost" was relatively small, and it was not the movie that the Golden Princess Theater focused on when it was released. In fact, when "Happy Ghost" was released in 84 years in history, the media in Hong Kong were discussing the big production "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" in the same period. As a result, "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", which had been widely anticipated in the city before its release, was not at all comparable to "Happy Ghost", which was released silently, and won a local box office of more than 17 million Hong Kong dollars with an investment of only 2 million yuan, which can be called a masterpiece with a small and broad scale.
As for the original version of Lin Qingqing's actor after being replaced by Weng Meiling, his performance was not inferior to the original version. After all, Weng Meiling originally had acting talent, and in her original history, she was regarded as a star destined to become popular soon after entering the showbiz. It's a pity that many people can't imagine that she is so famous. Now, a change of circumstances may change the tragedy of her history.
"Boss Lin, according to the order of the Golden Princess Cinema schedule, it should be released in August. Huang Baiming said, "It should be after the painting of "Difficult Brothers", it will be the turn of "Happy Ghost". ”
"Difficult Brothers" is another high-grossing film in 82 New Arts City, with a box office of 16.7 million Hong Kong dollars, although there is a big gap from the 26 million yuan of "Best Partner" at the beginning of the year. However, on the entire movie list, there are all productions from Xinyicheng, and there are some blockbuster movies, although they are not Xinyicheng's works, but they are other production companies invested by Golden Princess.
It can be said that the 82-year-old Golden Princess Cinema Line and Xinyicheng Film Company dominated the Hong Kong film industry. In the years that followed, until the dissolution of the New Arts City, the competitors were unable to break the myth of the New Arts City.
"You can arrange it!" Lin Qi said, "Before the release, the quality of the movie will be polished more!"
"Don't worry, Boss Lin, we won't let you down!" Gao Zhisen seized the opportunity to express his attitude to Lin Qi. After all, this time he was able to successfully serve as the director of "Happy Ghost", or Lin Qi named him. If it weren't for this, there are so many well-known directors in the Hong Kong industry, how could he Gao Zhisen make a movie with a budget of tens of millions.
Lin Qi smiled, and did not win over on the spot, if he indicated that he wanted to poach people, compared to Gao Zhisen, he would immediately resign from Xinyicheng and join a new start-up film and television entertainment company, but Lin Qi would not do that.
After all, now Lin Qi has not decided to compete with Princess Jin, this is not to be afraid of Xinyicheng and Princess Jin, but to give people a foot of respect, I respect people.
Lin Qi came to the door to borrow someone, and Boss Lei borrowed it without hesitation.
Then, if he abducted people away, although he could get some talents, he lost Lin Qi's reputation in business. If you do this, who can trust Boss Lin's moral level in the future?
The current Lin Qi, although he can't say that he is benevolent, is basically a talk. Basically, the company's employees and business partners all know that Lin Qi will basically have an explanation for what he promised.
For a businessman like Lin Qi, the importance of fame has even exceeded profits and market share in some markets. As a city, Hong Kong's box office market has the potential to exceed HK$1 billion in the future, so what?
For a market of HK$1 billion, the net profit may be less than 200 million. If you lose your reputation, the potential loss can be ten times more than the benefit gained.
Of course, Lin Qi will not tie his film and television industry business to the Golden Princess Cinema Line. This time it was to borrow people, so I cooperated with the Golden Princess Company and handed over the distribution rights in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to the Golden Princess Company.
But Lin Qi will not do this in the future, and for a long time in the future, Lin Qi is not ready to do the cinema business. After all, Hong Kong's existing cinema market is already too saturated and crowded, and the number of cinemas under the three major cinema chains has exceeded 60. In addition, there are more than 100 cinemas in the entire city that are not under the umbrella of the three major cinema chains.
The Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess cinemas are distinct, and generally a certain movie is handed over to one of the three major theaters for distribution, so the movie will not be released in the other two. The two major rivals, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, were also once under the pressure of Xinyicheng to cooperate in the distribution of film sources. However, because Golden Harvest is stronger, yes, Golden Harvest's movies can get high box office and high attendance in Shaw Brothers Cinemas. However, the works of Shaw Brothers Film Company were distributed by Golden Harvest Cinemas, but the market was deserted, and not many audiences watched them at all. Moreover, after the non-exclusive release of the movie, the audience is more willing to go to Golden Harvest's cinema to watch it, and even fewer go to the Shaw Brothers cinema to watch the movie. This is mainly due to the fact that the Shaw Brothers cinema equipment is older, and the tattered seats and projection equipment can be saved, and they are not willing to replace them in time. However, Golden Harvest's cinema is better than Shaw Brothers' cinema because it pays more attention to maintenance......
Of course, the Golden Princess Cinema Line is more powerful than the two, if it is said that Shaw Brothers and Jiahe are equivalent to Sun Wu and Shu Han. Then, the current Golden Princess Cinema is because of the factors of New Art City, and its fierce generals are like clouds, which is equivalent to Cao Wei!
What defeated the Golden Princess Company and Xinyicheng Films was not business competition, Xinyicheng was at its peak from its inception until its disintegration in 91, and its strength was still at its peak. It's just that because Lei Juekun's body is not as tough as Run Run Shaw and Zou Wenhuai, he died of illness in his sixties. Without Lei Juekun to balance the discord of those fierce generals under him, the huge New Art City collapsed. Later, in the mid-90s, the Hong Kong film market was depressed, and the descendants of the Lei family were not as interested in movies as Lei Juekun, so they successively sold the property assets of the Golden Princess Cinema Line and divided these inheritances.
This situation is very common in Hong Kong!
After all, many family businesses in Hong Kong have not evolved into modern businesses. Rise because of people, people die and rest. Like in the world, most of the centuries-old stores have completed modernization, even if the founder family no longer holds the equity of the company, but the century-old store is still alive.
There is a lack of century-old shops, mainly because of the calamities and difficulties of the Chinese nation in modern history, and many people have a huge sense of insecurity about the future. Therefore, I am not interested in running the company into a century-old store. Many wealthy people are only interested in assets that they own and can cash out at any time.
For example, how to speculate on the high value of luxury goods such as antique jewelry is mainly because some wealthy aristocrats lack a sense of security about the future.
If you need to flee and a large amount of wealth cannot be taken away, then it is natural to give priority to taking away the lightest and most valuable items. Boasting about all kinds of cultural values is fake, and in essence, this high-value collection is equivalent to buying a kind of insurance for the future. Perhaps, after spending 100 million to buy, it can only be worth 10 million in the future. However, this cannot be measured by the amount of investment, it can only be said that in extreme cases, it is also a good situation to keep only 10 million assets.
Since ancient times, this high-value and light-weight asset has been a kind of insurance. In Eastern and Western societies, the whole world is universal.