"Ah Ran, the performance of our movie is so good, do you think you have the time to organize a celebration banquet?" Zou Wenhuai turned his head to look at Jiang Ran as he walked.

After listening to Zou Wenhuai's words, Jiang Ran thought about it slightly and said, "Well, a celebration banquet should be organized. However, my opinion is to wait until the results of North America and other markets come out next year. ”

"After all, with such a good box office result, if you organize a celebration banquet, you can't fail to express a little to the crew members, right? But we haven't recovered the cost yet. ”

Zou Wenhuai listened to Jiang Ran's words, glanced at him with a smile, and then shook his head and said, "No wonder everyone is saying that you Ah Ran is the most generous boss in Hong Kong now." Don't forget to give bonuses to employees all the time. ”

Obviously, Zou Wenhuai did not agree with Jiang Ran's approach.

Jiang Ran could not change Zou Wenhuai's view, after all, the overall environment in Hong Kong is like this, and many wealthy people in Hong Kong are known for their frugality and harsh employees.

For example, Run Run Shaw, and Qiu Degen, etc., these older generation of rich people may be very generous in some other aspects, but they have always been stingy when it comes to treating their employees.

"Ah Ran, now that the success of our "Zombie Out of the Cage" is already predictable, have you ever thought about preparing for the filming of the sequel?" After walking for a while, Zou Wenhuai asked seemingly casually.

Jiang Ran knew that this was probably the ultimate purpose of Zou Wenhuai's appointment to come out today.

Frowning, Jiang Ran opened his mouth and said: "The sequel is definitely going to be made, as for the time, let's wait until our movie is released!"

Jiang Ran said Seeing Zou Wenhuai's slightly disappointed look, he said again: "But we can prepare the movie script in advance now." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Ran paused slightly, and then said: "If possible, I shouldn't continue to direct the next sequel movie." ”

Jiang Ran's words surprised Zou Wenhuai, and then he reached out and grabbed Jiang Ran, and said a little anxiously: "Ah Ran, you can't let go of the director's affairs." With an investment of tens of millions of dollars, I can't believe anyone else in Hong Kong except you. ”

Jiang Ran really didn't want to continue directing sequel movies in his heart, after all, there were countless classic blockbusters stored in his mind, waiting for him to move them to the screen.

Therefore, for Jiang Ran, directing a sequel movie is completely a waste of time and resources.

Although he thought so in his heart, seeing Zou Wenhuai's fierce reaction, Jiang Ran no longer insisted, anyway, it was not yet time to make a sequel.

"Let's take a look first!" Jiang Ran smiled at Zou Wenhuai, "It's not too late for us to discuss the specifics at that time." ”

In 1984, it came to an end in the frenzy of "Zombie Out of the Cage", and after entering January 1985, "Zombie Out of the Cage" was released in Hong Kong for another ten days, and finally it was fully painted on January 10.

Since its release on December 12, the film has gone through a total of 30 days of screening time in Hong Kong, and by the time of the next painting, it has grossed a total of 32 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong.

Elsewhere in Asia, the film was finally released in late January, grossing 3.5 billion yen in Japan and more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars in other regions over the course of nearly a month's runtime.

By the time the film was drawn across Asia, the total box office of the film had reached more than 230 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them, about 170 million Hong Kong dollars were distributed to the producers such as Ranfeng Group.

At a time when Jiang Ran's "Zombie Out" was buying up box office in Hong Kong and Asia, "Merry Christmas", which was initially a competitor, was released on January 8 after nearly a month of release, and in the end, this film that earned more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars in history only handed over more than 14 million Hong Kong dollars.

The reputation of the movie "Merry Christmas" has always been good, but in the eighties, the dissemination of information was not as good as that of later generations, and it mainly needed to be disseminated through the media.

However, it is obvious that in the past month or so, the only news that the media is interested in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is "Zombie Out", and the communication channel of "Merry Christmas" has been completely occupied by the news of "Zombie Out".

Jiang Ran became a hot director in Asia because of the popularity of "Zombie Out of the Cage", and was sought after by the media and filmmakers around the world, but after entering 1985, he temporarily focused on other things.

At the end of the year, at the beginning of the new year, there are always a lot of things going on in Ranfeng Group.

At this time of year, the heads of various departments of Ranfeng Group and the heads of various companies under it have to go to the headquarters of Ranfeng to report to Jiang Ran, which makes Jiang Ran have to spare a lot of energy to focus on the affairs of these group companies.

On the ninth floor of Ranfeng Building, in Jiang Ran's office, Jiang Jianguo was reporting to Jiang Ran.

"Mr. Kong, in 1984, our company focused on consolidating our business in Hong Kong and developing overseas markets. So far, we have established six large-scale audio book sales and rental stores in Hong Kong. ”

"In addition, our original 15 small chain stores throughout Hong Kong, relying on the integration advantages of Ranfeng Group, still maintain considerable market vitality. ”

When Jiang Jianguo said this, he looked at Jiang Ran with admiration, it was the chain store membership card model that the other party laid down when he first ran the video store, so that even if Hong Kong video stores are everywhere now, these small stores in Ran Feng can still rely on the entire group to maintain a good profit situation.

"How is your expansion in Southeast Asia going this year, and what are your plans for the next step?" Jiang Ran looked at Jiang Jianguo and asked.

"Southeast Asia and other regions are the main targets of our company's expansion this year, and we have now established seven large stores in major cities in Southeast Asia, working with distribution companies, and basically maintaining the rate of opening one new store per month. ”

"In the next year or two, we will continue to work with the distribution company to achieve our goal of establishing 20 large stores throughout Southeast Asia. ”

"On the basis of achieving this goal, in order to seize the market and build our reputation, we intend to follow the successful model of Hong Kong and build small chains around these large stores in various cities to achieve the coverage of the entire market. ”

Jiang Jianguo's words made Jiang Ran's eyes shine, especially the idea of relying on large stores and using small chain stores to comprehensively cover the market, which is very interesting.

Although Jiang Ran's current value is concerned, the profits of those small audio-visual chain stores are not too optimistic, after all, it is no longer as popular as in previous years, audio-visual rental sales stores are already very popular.

Such a small store is now less and less profitable, and there is no shortage of losses and closures. Like the small shops of Ranfeng Group in Hong Kong, they are fine.

On the one hand, it has been in business for a long time and already has a large customer base in the local area. On the other hand, they have the advantage of chain scale, and with the support of Ranfeng Group, they can borrow abundant resources. So business has been very good.

However, Jiang Jianguo now wants to build such stores in Southeast Asia and other places, and obviously does not have these advantages. Jiang Ran could even predict that Jiang Jianguo's plan was more likely to lose money at the beginning stage.

However, for the current Jiang Ran, he is not short of funds. As long as it is beneficial to the company's overall development strategy, he can accept losses in a short period of time.

Obviously, Jiang Jianguo's plan is completely in line with the overall interests of the company and the group.

On the one hand, there may be losses in the early stage of this plan, but this plan can occupy the market as quickly as possible and start the reputation of Ranfeng Company.

Jiang Ran believes that as long as it has enough market share, any industry will make money, even those so-called sunset industries, as long as the sun has not completely set. What's more, audio-visual rental has not yet reached the point of sunset.

On the other hand, Jiang Ran saw some other possibilities from Jiang Jianguo's plan, Jiang Ran didn't know if it would succeed in the end, but he wanted to give it a try.

When many people in later generations discussed the reasons for the decline of Hong Kong films, no matter from that point of view, there is one point that has been repeatedly mentioned, that is, piracy.

And Jiang Ran just caught a trace of inspiration from Jiang Jianguo's words, if Ran Feng can spread his video tape sales and rental business throughout Southeast Asia and occupy more share.

Then, Jiang Ran can completely seize more market share for genuine videotapes through Ranfeng Group's own sales channels and platforms, so that Hong Kong film companies can earn more than part of the revenue in videotapes.

Jiang Ran even hopes that if conditions permit, he will take this opportunity to unite more filmmakers to promote the copyright process of films and videotapes in Hong Kong.

"This plan of yours is very thoughtful, and I support you. Thinking of this, Jiang Ran did not hesitate and directly spoke in support.