Lin Qi's products have been banned in Taiwan, in fact, it is not that Taiwan hates Lin Qi, but that it is just the inertia of cross-strait confrontation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Taiwan's bureaucrats do not seek meritorious service, but seek no fault, and they do not know what they think in their hearts, but when they see the products of enterprises that are obviously pro-mainland, they will certainly make an impassioned and incompromising attitude.

In the future, this attitude will gradually become more and more ridiculous along with the balance of power between the two sides of the strait.

In another twenty or thirty years, Taiwan will be a dispensable market in the world, and even if it is not blocked, how many people will attach importance to the Taiwan market?

The loss of a Taiwan market is about a loss of a market equivalent to about half the size of the Hong Kong film market. But from the perspective of pure profits, the profits contributed by the Taiwan market to Hong Kong films only account for about 10%, after all, when the film is released to the Taiwan market, there are more channels that need to be opened, and the more channels and people to share profits, the less income will naturally become. For some Hong Kong films, it is true that the profits of the Taiwan market account for 10%, but the difference between having this 10% and not having this 10% is too big. For example, a Hong Kong film with an investment of 5 million has achieved a box office of 9 million in Hong Kong, in fact, the cost has not been recovered after the box office is shared, assuming that Taiwan can share 2 million Hong Kong dollars, then, there is an additional market distribution profit, which is not only free from the embarrassment of not recovering the cost.

As for the movie "Happy Ghost", even if it does not land in the Taiwan market, it will also recover its costs, and the box office in Southeast Asia has a slight surplus. In addition, "Happy Ghost" is ready to sell videotapes and DVDs, and it can make a profit after being drawn in theaters.

What's more, "Happy Ghost" is a very long-lived series of movies, and in history, all five happy ghosts are blockbuster movies. If, if it weren't for the fact that after the dissolution of Xinyicheng, the copyright of "Happy Ghost" did not have a clear ownership, otherwise, this series could still live as long as 007.

Now Lei Juekun and Lin Qi are discussing the follow-up development of "Happy Ghost".

"Boss Lin, to be honest, there shouldn't be only one movie "Happy Ghost", right?" Lei Juekun asked with a smile, "At the end of the movie, the suspense left behind can be filmed for the next episode." ”

"That's right!" Lin Qi said, "This is a film that can be made into a series." ”

"Will the sequel use the original cast?" asked Lei Juekun.

"I don't know, there is no script for a sequel yet. However, it is possible to shoot with the original crew and adjust it at will. Lin Qi said with a smile.

Lei Juekun was not only a little deflated, originally he boasted that Xinyicheng had an important role in the crew of "Happy Ghost", and felt that he could use this as a bargaining chip to force Lin Qi to give in and let him gain a greater say in the sequel copyright.

However, Lin Qi's attitude made Lei Juekun feel that he couldn't bear him. After all, Lin Qi had any shining ideas in his mind, and he couldn't guess at all.

If "Happy Ghost" is filmed according to the original cast, it can definitely use a similar plot to the original to continue to make a lot of money.

But this is a conservative approach, in fact, at the end of "Happy Ghost", yes, there can be countless possibilities for the sequel, and it is not necessarily necessary to use the same lineup as the first one.

Lei Juekun's face was a little unbearable, and he was ready to leave with his sleeves up.

Lin Qi said with a smile: "However, it is also possible to consider using some of the characters and plots of the first part and cooperating in a sequel." ”

"Really?" Lei Juekun's mood changed from sad to happy. originally thought that the sequel to "Happy Ghost" had nothing to do with Xinyicheng, but who expected it to be a turn of peaks.

"However, for the sequel to the movie, we have conditions. Lin Qi said, "The investment amount has risen to 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and our new venture has invested 10 million, of which the copyright value is authorized, which is 2 million and the actual investment is 8 million." The remaining 10 million can be financed by partners, and each sequel is negotiated separately, without considering a package agreement. ”

After hearing this, Lei Juekun was silent for a long time, then gritted his teeth and agreed: "The cooperation method will remain the same as this time, and the distribution rights in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia will be handed over to us." ”

"Okay!" Lin Qi nodded.

The distribution of Hong Kong films in Southeast Asia already has mature partners and traditional distribution channels. Even if you go to Southeast Asia to find publishers in person, it is still the traditional publishers that are relatively reliable.

Outsourcing the distribution rights in Southeast Asia will cost you a lot of money, but you can also hire fewer people.

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When Shaw Brothers Films broke 17 million at the box office of "Happy Ghost" two weeks after its release, it concluded that the box office follow-up of "Happy Ghost" was weak.

So, together with Golden Harvest Cinemas, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest Cinemas simultaneously launched "The Palm of the Gods", originally, they wanted to take advantage of the weak box office of "Happy Ghost" to take over the weekly box office champion. However, to the embarrassment of Shaw Brothers Films, even in the third week, the box office growth of "Happy Ghost" has been declining, but it is still not something that "The Palm of the Gods" can match.

Originally, the theme and plot of the movie "The Palm of the Gods" were good, but the shoddy degree of Shaw Brothers really made Lin Qizhu dumbfounded. Not to mention that compared with the later Tsui Hark's version of "Huang Feihong", "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and other New Wave martial arts masterpieces, even if you compare it with "Shaolin Temple" of the same period, you will also be beaten by "Shaolin Temple" for eighteen streets.

After watching the Shaw Brothers 82 version of "The Palm of God", even a good-tempered audience like Lin Qi will imagine the director to be stupid. Can the special effects be a little more centless? The props can be a little more rudimentary? When a comic book is adapted from a movie, you can't stop posting pictures of comics?!

You can't play special effects, you don't have to. You can't play props, and you can not play at all. But if you can't play, but you insist on playing, it will stimulate the audience's IQ too much.

The whole movie, not to mention compared with the movie, is not even as sincere as TVB's TV series. And the cost of "The Palm of the Gods" is not low, at least 3 million.

There is no doubt that the box office of "The Palm of the Gods" did not achieve the expected effect at all, although the box office on the first day once reached 900,000 Hong Kong dollars, but after watching it, the audience felt unappetizing. In addition, "Happy Ghost" stole the audience's attention during the same period.

As a result, although the box office of "The Palm of the Gods" achieved 3 million in the first week of release, by the second week, the daily new box office fell to less than 200,000, so that the Golden Harvest Cinema Line hurriedly adjusted the number of screenings of "The Palm of the Gods", reducing the number of screenings from 60% to 20%.

After Uncle Shao Liushu knew the box office data of "The Palm of God", his face was very ugly, and at the same time, he became more and more suspicious of Zou Wenhuai's sincerity in cooperation.

You must know that at the beginning, Zou Wenhuai proposed cooperation to promote movies such as "Young Master Dragon", and Shaw Brothers Cinemas gave great help, and the box office of "Young Master Dragon" was 17 million Hong Kong dollars, of which 7 million box office was obtained by Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

However, the box office of Shaw Brothers' "The Palm of the Gods" in Golden Harvest Cinemas combined is less than 1.5 million yuan.

Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest teamed up, and the final result was Golden Harvest Deli, and the box office of its films increased comprehensively in the past few years, although it was not as good as New Art City, but the gap was not too big. However, Shaw Brothers did not benefit from the cooperation, but accelerated to become the foil of Golden Harvest.

Forget about losing money, the key is face. Uncle Shao Liu is not afraid of losing money, he loses money, but this kind of investment in movies is considered stupid, which still makes Uncle Shao Liu gradually start to be disheartened, gradually stop investing in films, and transfer his old subordinates to TVB TV to shoot TV series.

The same team went to TVB to shoot TV series, but they are all qualified talents, and the TV drama industry can completely use the outdated routines of the film industry.

For example, the style of Wuhan University movies in the sixties and seventies cannot have an audience in the film market. However, in the TV drama industry, works such as "Huo Yuanjia" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" are still regarded as excellent productions.

It can be said that this year's "The Palm of God", a movie that was both scolded and hit the streets, was one of the fuses for Shaw Brothers Film Company to gradually reduce or even stop production, and to consider renting out Shaw Brothers Cinemas.