Chapter 262: A good start
"Happy Ghost" finally failed to schedule the screening schedule in July, because of Liu Liwei and others' own problems, so Jiang Wei has already arranged the movie in late July.
Mai Dangxiong, who has been cooperating with Ranfeng Group for more than a year, finally occupied a good schedule in Ranfeng Group this time, and for more than a year, their company's movies have been arranged by Ranfeng Group to be released in the off-season, which once made Mai Dangxiong very suspicious of his original choice.
Although he knows very well that in other cinema companies, the situation will not be much better.
This time, because there was only one movie released in the summer file, Mai Dangxiong had already communicated with the distribution department of Ran Feng Group, so that his movie grabbed the summer hot file.
But he obviously didn't expect that this time it would be scheduled for the good time of late July. Relatively speaking, in early July, the film market has not yet reached its hottest time.
And August this year is not a good choice, because this time period is the time when the movies of major theater companies are released, and the competition is very fierce.
However, during the period from late July to early August, even if there is a market, the competition will not be too big, anyway, in Mai Dangxiong's opinion, this time his competitor is only the third part of Jackie Chan's "Police Story".
Mai Dangxiong is happy about this year's schedule, but Liu Liwei of Ranfeng Film and Television Company and Lin Jiawen, the director of "Happy Ghost", are extremely depressed.
Although it really wants to talk about it, in fact, the gap between the two time slots in late July and August is not very obvious, but Jiang Ran's attitude made Liu Liwei a little frightened, although Jiang Ran did not directly accuse him at that time.
But the anger and dissatisfaction have already been revealed. Finally, Jiang Wei's words were even more warning.
Whether Mai Dangxiong is happy, or Liu Liwei, Lin Jiawen and others are frustrated, the matter has been confirmed by Jiang Ran's nod, and there is no possibility of change.
At the same time, the Hong Kong film market has not changed because of the contradictions within the Ranfeng Group.
Debao Film Company's "Double Dragon Goes to Sea" has continued to maintain a strong posture after its release on July 5 with the support of Ranfeng Cinemas.
In the Hong Kong film market in early July, only Princess Jin released "Gentleman", which was produced by Yongjia Film Company and released at the end of June.
The film was released a week earlier than "Double Dragons Go to Sea", and by the time it was released on July 13, after half a month of screening, it had achieved a good box office result of more than 11 million Hong Kong dollars.
At the same time, Golden Harvest Company also officially began to compete in the summer file in the middle of this month, and the third part of the "Police Story" series starring Jackie Chan will be officially released on July 13.
And the Golden Princess Cinema Line is not empty, after the film "Gentleman is Good", they released another movie again on July 14, but the production company of this movie is Yongsheng Film Company.
When Jiang Ran saw Yongsheng Film Company, he knew the background of this film company. The film company controlled by the Xiang brothers became famous in later generations, producing many excellent films in the 90s.
The film produced by Yongsheng Film Company is called "Bad Size", the film is directed by Zeng Zhiwei, and the starring roles are Zhang Aijia, who is highly praised by Xinyicheng, and Shum Jianxun, the founder of Debao Film Company.
From these main creators, it can be seen that the movie "Bad Size" can be said to be completely produced by using the human resources of Xinyicheng and Debao Company, and the people of Pingjing have neither such background nor such courage.
After entering mid-July, the Hong Kong cinema market has shown a three-legged trend, and the competition pattern of the three major Hong Kong cinema companies during the Spring Festival, Ranfeng Group, Golden Harvest Company, and Golden Princess Cinema is still missing.
From this, it can also be understood why Run Run Shaw wants to sell Shaw Brothers Film Company, the interests are on the one hand, I am afraid that there are many of them who have dominated the Hong Kong film and television industry for decades, and they also feel that the current half-dead state of Shaw Brothers Film Company has lost his old man's face.
In the top three competition in the Hong Kong film market, "Double Dragon Goes to Sea" released by Ranfeng Group at the beginning of the month was inevitably difficult in the later stage because it was released nearly ten days early, and finally it was painted offline on July 25, and it was released for 20 days, achieving a box office result of more than 18 million.
Such box office results, even in the current hot market situation in Hong Kong, it is not easy, in previous years, it can enter the top ten of the year, but unfortunately so far this year, there have been a few films with a box office of 20 million.
With such good results in entrepreneurial works, Pan Disheng, an upstart in the film and television industry, will naturally celebrate his achievements, and Ranfeng Group, as the distributor of the film, will naturally be invited to attend.
"Mr. Pan, congratulations!" Jiang Ran appeared in the hotel arranged by Addison with Zhong Chuhong, and said to the radiant Pan Disheng.
"Haha! Mr. Jiang, you're polite. You and I are happy! Haha!" Pan Disheng is really in a very, very good mood now, he really didn't expect that his first investment in the film and television industry could achieve such results.
Sometimes when I think about it, even he himself is proud of starting to invest in Debao Film Company, and he feels that his original vision was too good, so he chose Sammo Hung and Shum Jianxun.
Although this movie does not seem to have Sammo Hung directly involved, if there is no connection behind Sammo Hung , the production may not be as smooth as it is now.
"Mr. Pan, you have made such a good start this time, and Debao Company has a lot to do. Zhong Chuhong also said with a smile, "In the future, I will ask Mr. Pan to take more care of the artists of our Ranfeng Group." ”
Pan Disheng listened to Zhong Chuhong's compliment, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhong, you are too polite. We don't have our own actors in Debao now, so we should ask Miss Zhong to take care of us in the future. ”
Although Pan Disheng was proud, he said it very politely, as for his heart, he was already secretly thinking about signing his own actor for Debao Company. Business elites like him are not accustomed to relying on others for everything.
After a few polite words, Pan Disheng introduced a tall woman beside him to Jiang Ran and the two, "Mr. Jiang, Miss Zhong, this is my girlfriend - Michelle Yeoh, she may develop in the film and television industry in the future, please take care of the two of you." ”
Jiang Ran has long recognized Michelle Yeoh, a famous female star in later generations, and even he knows that the reason why Addison entered the film and television industry is because of Michelle Yeoh's factors.
"Miss Yang, hello!" Jiang Ran greeted with a smile.
Zhong Chuhong also greeted with a smile, and then said to Pan Disheng with a smile: "Miss Yang wants to enter the film and television industry, with the support of Mr. Pan and Debao Company, even if we want to take care of it, I'm afraid we won't be able to do anything." ”
"Miss Zhong, I am a newcomer in the film and television industry, and I don't know anything about things in the circle, so I will inevitably need your guidance and care when the time comes. ”
Michelle Yeoh seems to really want to make a career in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, so in front of Jiang Ran's Zhong Chuhong, her posture is very low.
Several people were greeting, and Cen Jianxun and Sammo Hung also walked over together.
"Mr. Jiang and Miss Zhong, welcome to our celebration banquet. After the success of this movie, Cen Jianxun's right to speak in Debao Company seems to have been greatly enhanced, and he said as a master as soon as he came up.
"Mr. Cen, this month, you have scared us, two movies have been released one after another. Jiang Ran said with a smile, but secretly observed the reactions of the three founders of Debao Film Company.
However, to Jiang Ran's disappointment, both Sammo Hung and Pan Disheng have always maintained a natural smile on their faces, and their expressions have not changed.