Chapter 261: Inertia

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After the opening of the newly opened cinema of Ranfeng Group, the response was very good, and the cinema has maintained a fairly good flow of people every day from the beginning of the morning until the closing of the night.

After entering July, the Hong Kong film market slowly began to become active, and since Run Run Shaw told Jiang Ran last time that he would close Shaw Brothers Film Company, rumors of acquisitions by wealthy businessmen and film tycoons have been circulating in the film industry, but they have only heard thunder and no rain.

Among these rumors, Pan Disheng, who was at the scene at the time and had been paying attention to Jiang Ran, was unexpected, and he didn't make any moves, as if he was not very interested in Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

But then Jiang Ran thought about it and felt that this was a normal phenomenon.

Now that Pan Disheng has just acquired Debao Film Company, and no movie has been produced, Pan Dickson is an authentic businessman after all, and he has not seen profits, where can he invest heavily in theaters?

In the first half of this year, after Debao was invested by Pan Disheng, he only produced one film - "Double Dragon Goes to Sea", because Jiang Ran gave them the promise of scheduling at the beginning of Debao's opening, so this film will be released in Ranfeng Cinema.

On July 5, 1984, Ranfeng Group organized more than 20 screens in Ranfeng Cinema in accordance with Jiang Ran's promise, and together with this entrepreneurial work of Debao Company - "Double Dragon Goes to Sea".

I have to admire Cen Jianxun's ability, this movie, which is basically planned and led by him, showed an unusually strong momentum as soon as it was released, and won more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars in just four days in the first week, making a good start for the summer file of Ranfeng Cinemas.

"Mr. Pan, congratulations!" Jiang Ran said with a smile into the phone, "I heard that your "Double Dragon Goes to Sea" last week was very outstanding. ”

"Haha! Tongxi! Tongxi!" "Addison's mood is very good, it was just a tentative investment, but he didn't expect to make a good start for himself.

"I would also like to thank Mr. Jiang and your Ranfeng Group for their great support, otherwise we would not have achieved such results. ”

The success of "Ssangyong Goes to Sea" encouraged Debao and Ranfeng Group, and also made Sammo Hung, another shareholder of Debao, smile.

However, Sammo Hung's happiness does not mean that Golden Harvest Company is also happy.

Now He Guanchang and Cai Yongchang are in Zou Wenhuai's office, complaining angrily: "What's the matter with Sanmao? Debao Company is his business, right? Why are their films distributed and screened under the Ranfeng Group?"

Zou Wenhuai faced Cai Yongchang's complaints, sat there quietly, and did not speak.

He Guanchang frowned and looked at Zou Wenhuai, and said, "Wenhuai, do you think you want to talk to Sanmao about this matter?"

He Guanchang has always been Jackie Chan's most powerful supporter in Golden Harvest Company, and Jackie Chan was able to overpower Sammo Hung in Golden Harvest Company a few years ago, which is inseparable from his secret support.

However, in the past two years, with Sammo Hung directing and acting, excellent works have continued, and even Jackie Chan, who has the series of movies "Police Story", has been slightly suppressed.

With the original ace Xu Guanwen gradually falling silent in recent years, Sammo Hung has become the biggest pillar of Golden Harvest Company's box office performance.

However, Sammo Hung is not a peaceful person, he has a very broad network and a very wild path in the Hong Kong film industry, from martial arts to martial arts, from group actors to stars, whether it is a director or a production investor.

In the current situation of the four-legged dominance of the Hong Kong film market, Sammo Hung and the opponents of Golden Harvest Company often collude and cooperate continuously, which makes some people within Golden Harvest Company very angry.

And this time, Sammo Hung blatantly invested in a new company privately, and handed over the film to a rival company for distribution, which naturally made Cai Yongchang, who was in charge of Golden Harvest Cinemas, extremely dissatisfied.

Faced with He Guanchang's question, Zou Wenhuai sighed slightly in his heart, but asked calmly: "How do you talk about it? Now the person in charge of Debao Company is Pan Disheng, and Sanmao did not participate in the production of this movie, so what reason is it to ask him? This is at most an amateur investment for him." ”

Zou Wenhuai didn't want to question Sammo Hung , but now Hong Kong has four major cinema chains, and the competition is fierce. With Sammo Hung and the current situation of Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest will definitely not be able to tear his face with the other party, and Sammo Hung is not afraid of breaking with Golden Harvest.

Therefore, now Golden Harvest Company actually does not have much control over artists like Sammo Hung. Otherwise, if it was changed to the seventies, it would be directly blocked.

Zou Wenhuai's words made He Guanchang and the others not know how to answer, and after half a ring, Cai Yongchang asked quite unwillingly: "Then is it just that? If you continue to indulge, will he Sanmao still care about our Jiahe Company?"

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said: "Now the times are different, and Sanmao's wings are also full now, as long as his interests are still in Jiahe Company, as long as he hasn't done things on the bright side." I think the rest is a small section, so let's not worry about it. ”

When several bosses of Golden Harvest Company were discussing Sammo Hung 's actions, Ranfeng Group was already laying out for the next schedule.

Jiang Ran and several other executives of the distribution company and the production company came out of the screening hall and came to a conference room together, Jiang Ran spoke first: "Director Lin, you have made an excellent movie for us this time. ”

Just now, everyone watched "Happy Ghost" directed by Lin Jiawen, and after Jiang Ran compared the original version of the movie made by Huang Baiming, he felt that this version produced by Lin Jiawen was more exciting and better-made.

After all, the production costs of the two versions of the film are not at the same level at all.

Now Ranfeng Group, with the more and more mature production and publicity mode of films, there are more and more profit means, so in terms of investment budget, in order to make the production of films more sophisticated, Ranfeng Group is also more and more daring to invest in investment.

For example, a well-known director like Lin Jiawen, for every film he directs, the group will select suitable advertisers for him in the film preparation stage, and this income alone can recover millions of Hong Kong dollars of investment for the group.

Lin Jiawen smiled calmly in the face of Jiang Ran's compliment, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Jiang, for the compliment!"

Jiang Ran smiled, looked at Jiang Wei, and asked, "When do you plan to release "Happy Ghost"?"

Before, because Lin Jiawen had not finished the movie, the specific schedule of this movie had not been decided, so Jiang Ran asked like this.

Jiang Wei looked at Liu Liwei and Lin Jiawen and said, "Because Director Lin didn't have an accurate timeline for the completion of the film at the beginning, we plan to schedule the film to be released next month." ”

As soon as Jiang Wei's words fell, Liu Liwei frowned and asked: "The schedule in August is very crowded, right? Golden Harvest Company's "Fast Food Truck" and Xinyicheng's "Family Portrait" were all released this month. Why not schedule it in late July?"

After listening to Jiang Wei's words, Jiang Ran frowned slightly, but he didn't say anything for the time being, and after listening to Liu Liwei's words, he also looked at Jiang Wei and waited for his explanation.

When Jiang Wei heard this, he said with a wry smile: "Mr. Liu, our movie schedules are all scheduled in advance, and you have not given an accurate schedule before, how do you let me schedule them? I can only be conservative and schedule this movie until next month." ”

Jiang Wei was also a little annoyed when he talked about this matter, for this matter, he urged the film and television company several times, but now he blamed him.

When Liu Liwei heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper, "We are not the only film in the group this year, of course we have to keep improving." ”

Jiang Ran frowned deeply when he heard this, and asked Liu Liwei: "Doesn't your film and television company have a production plan? Why don't you follow the plan? Just because the group only has one film for you this summer, you can do whatever you want?"

Liu Liwei was stunned by Jiang Ran's questioning, because there is only this movie this year, they take it for granted that they should be given priority when the movie is scheduled, so although Jiang Wei has urged them several times, Liu Liwei has not paid attention to it.

"Mr. Jiang, I ......" Liu Liwei was about to explain, but was interrupted by Jiang Ran's impatient wave of his hand: "I don't care what your reason is, the future film production must be according to the plan." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Ran ignored Liu Liwei, but said to Jiang Wei: "In addition, in the future, you must also strictly control the movies produced by film and television companies." In addition to literary films, the distribution of other films should strictly control the distribution and theater operating costs, and the screening time should not be increased at will because it is a film of its own company. ”

Jiang Ran separated the group's distribution department from the film and television company at the beginning, in order to avoid the dependence and inertia of the film and television company in film production because it can decide its own distribution affairs.

Unexpectedly, the management of Liu Liwei and other film and television companies still have such ideas.