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The lights in the theater are on.

"I Want You", composed by Li Qing and sung by Zhou Xun, sounded.

Gao Xingping, the distribution manager of Yindu Institution, looked at Luo Jiecheng, "How about it, Mr. Luo, can "Donkey Get Water" still get into your eyes?"

Luo Jiecheng withdrew his gaze from the big screen, then tasted the product, and said: "It's not bad, if this movie is released in our Yonggao Cinema, I can arrange six theaters for you." ”

Happy smiled lightly, "Mr. Luo, although our Shuangnan Cinema Line is not as good as your Yonggao Cinema Line now, we still have six cinemas, if it is only for six cinemas, why does Ah Qing need to cooperate with you, Mr. Luo?"

Luo Jiecheng looked at Li Qing, "Mr. Li, if you have any ideas, you might as well say it directly." ”

Li Qing smiled and said: "I hope that "Donkey Gets Water" can be screened in your Yonggao Cinema Line." ”

Luo Jiecheng smiled and said: "We Yonggao have more than 20 movies to be released in the second half of the year, and four of them are our own Yonggao films, I really can't figure it out, why don't I release those movies and co-screen your movies...... I'm not the distributor of your movie. ”

When he said the last sentence, Luo Jiecheng glanced at Xingping without a trace - Luo Jiecheng's meaning was obvious, "The distributor of your movie is Yindu Organization, not me Luo Jiecheng, why should I help you?"

Li Qing put away his smile, and then said lightly: "Mr. Luo, I think you may have made a mistake, I came to you to cooperate, not because I want you to help me, on the contrary, it should be me to help you." ”

Luo Jiejie's eyes flashed angrily, and then he said quietly: "Oh, you help me, this is strange, is it that the cinema chain is worthless to this extent?"

Li Qing said leisurely: "Since Mr. Luo, your old friend Mr. Huang Baiming founded the Oriental Cinema Line, there have been five large cinema lines in Xiangjiang in parallel, and there are Shuangnan Cinema Line and Broadway Cinema Line and dozens of scattered cinema cinemas are grabbing the business of cinema lines, the Xiangjiang film market is extremely prosperous and declining, and the phenomenon of film shortage is becoming more and more serious, although I am not from Xiangjiang, I have heard many people predict that the non-strong Yonggao Cinema Line will be difficult to continue for a long time......

Li Qing's words are not untargeted.

Yonggao Cinemas can be traced back to Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

Back then, Shao Yifu was more optimistic about the TV industry and leased Shaw Brothers Cinemas to Pan Disheng.

Dickson Pan reorganized the Shaw Brothers Cinemas into the Debao Cinemas.

Three years ago, that is, before and after the closure of "New Art City", due to the decline in the output of films, the big boss "Golden Princess" had no choice but to adopt "expensive and not expensive" In contrast, Huang Baiming, who is inferior in terms of production scale and cast, is naturally affected in box office revenue, in order to get rid of the constraints, Huang Baiming is determined to set up his own cinema line, Huang Baiming and Luo Jiecheng hit it off, and decided to take advantage of the end of the business of Debao Cinema Line, take the lead in forming a new cinema line with the Shaw Brothers' leading cinema sign-in, and finally in the year before last, that is, on December 1, 1991, a piece called "Yonggao" officially announced the opening of the cinema chain, which was also the fourth cinema chain in Hong Kong after "Golden Harvest", "Golden Princess" and "Xinbao".

Although the location of the theaters under Yonggao Cinema Line is the best, the number is not as good as that of several other cinema lines, and the projection equipment and decoration are mostly old, and the comprehensive strength is not as good as that of other large cinema lines, and even the newly established Oriental Cinema Line is somewhat incomparable.

And these are not the deadliest places of Yonggao, the most lethal thing about Yonggao is that Luo Jiecheng, the boss of Yonggao, does not understand movies.

At the beginning, the reason why Yonggao was able to gain a foothold in the Xiangjiang film industry was because of Huang Baiming and Huang Baiming's team in - in 89 years, Huang Baiming established Baiming Film Co., Ltd. as a sole proprietorship, during which he cooperated with Gao Zhisen Production Co., Ltd. in the form of investment, and co-founded Baijiafeng Film Production Company with Johnny To and Fu Jiazhen, and has a group of stable cooperation teams.

After the establishment of Yonggao, the Chinese New Year entrepreneurial work "Happy Family" was launched, due to its own strong lineup, and before the release, there were shocking "negative robbery cases" and the outbreak of the showbiz "Anti-Black Parade" and other incidents, so the box office of "Happy Family" was a big success, and the statistical income exceeded 48 million Hong Kong dollars after the downgrade, successfully refreshing the box office record in the history of Chinese and Western films at that time (it was surpassed by "The Judge of the Dead" with 49 million Hong Kong dollars in the same year)!

But Luo Jiecheng didn't have a force in his heart, and thought that Yonggao could achieve this result all because of him, and then squeezed out Huang Baiming everywhere, Huang Baiming's participation in the investment of "The Four Detectives", "Kick to the Treasure", "Call Girl 1992" and other films were forced to be removed by Luo Jiecheng when the screening period was not enough, and Huang Baiming's decision-making power in the company was constantly weakened by Luo Jiecheng, not only was he accused of "not representing Yonggao Cinemas", but even promised Zhang Guorong to postpone the signing with "Yonggao" as the boss (Zhang wanted to participate in "Farewell My Concubine" at that time) ) is also disrupted.

In the end, Huang Baiming announced his resignation under physical and mental exhaustion, and withdrew from the shares in August last year.

However, Luo Jiecheng is an outsider after all, and Huang Baiming's "Yonggao" after the breakup of the "Yonggao" is not good, in the first half of this year, "Yonggao" income fell to 96.2 million Hong Kong dollars, more than 30% lower than the same period last year, in order to stabilize the source of films, "Yonggao" actually screened a large number of shoddy films in a short period of time "rescue", because the screening period is too short, the average box office of these films is only hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, which does not help to save the overall income, "Yonggao" has only seven films produced by itself this year, the best box office " Although "Rose Rose I Love You" has a box office of HK$22 million, it is far inferior to the entrepreneurial work "Happy Affair in the Flower Field" of "Oriental Cinema".

Yonggao's income is at the bottom of the five major cinema chains, which is in response to the prediction of industry insiders, and Yonggao cinemas are running out of time to close down.

In this case, Li Qing cooperated with Yonggao with "Donkey Gets Water", which had just won the Silver Bear Award, saying that he was helping Luo Jiecheng, which is not an exaggeration.

Of course, Luo Jiecheng doesn't think so.

He believes that Li Qing, a mainland boy, brought a literary film (although Luo Jiecheng thinks that the movie "Donkey Gets Water" is good, and the movies that may win international awards are not all literary films) to break into Xiangjiang, and his boss Luo is willing to take out six theaters to screen "Donkey Gets Water", which is completely promoting Li Qing.

Therefore, there is a big difference in cognition between Li Qing and Luo Jiecheng.

In this way, if the two still want to cooperate, then one party must change the perception of the other party, and to put it in layman's terms, one party has to pull the other party over!

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