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This person's name is Jiang Zhiqiang, the president of Xiangjiang Eucalyptus Film Company, who has his own cinema chain in Xiangjiang and is a veteran filmmaker.

He was entrusted by Xu Ligong, a filmmaker from Baodao, to come to Beijing to negotiate with Lin Zixuan about the filming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Although Xu Ligong was hospitalized after a stroke, he has been paying attention to this matter, knowing that Lin Zixuan and Li Yu have reached a consensus, but this matter is a little difficult to operate.

The impact of the Asian financial crisis continues, and the financial sector is sluggish.

If you want to successfully raise the funds needed to make a film, you need to find a strong guarantor in Hong Kong, preferably someone who is in the film industry and familiar with the operation of Hollywood films.

Jiang Zhiqiang is an out-and-out rich second generation, and his father is a film producer who founded Eucalyptus Films.

The cinema chain under the company mainly shows Western films, and acts as an agent for the distribution of films by Hollywood studios.

Jiang Zhiqiang is familiar with the operation mode of Hollywood, and has a certain reputation in the film circle of Xiangjiang, so he is a suitable candidate.

Xu Ligong couldn't produce "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" himself, so he asked Jiang Zhiqiang, one was to raise funds, and to help Li Yu take care of affairs other than filming.

He has little confidence in the mainland film industry, or he doesn't think mainland film companies are capable of making such blockbusters.

The film industry is a broad concept that includes the entire process of a film from preparation to production and distribution.

Mainland film companies do not have this kind of experience, and the film is not just filmed, it has to be sold all over the world, how to sell it, and to whom it is sold requires an experienced veteran to operate.

Jiang Zhiqiang is very interested in Li Yu.

Heungjiang filmmakers have always wanted to open up the situation in Hollywood, and many big directors and big stars often turn to Hollywood after their success in Heungjiang.

There are many reasons for this, on the one hand, Hollywood is a world dominated by white people, and Asians are not valued and have no good opportunities.

may be a big star in Xiangjiang, but he still has to play a supporting role in Hollywood.

On the other hand, because they are not familiar with American culture, when making films in the United States, the audience is American, and their viewing habits are different from those of Chinese.

If you still stick to the set in Xiangjiang, American audiences may feel fresh at first, and they will get tired of watching too much.

This is a lack of adaptation to the soil and water, and it is not clear what the American audience wants to see.

From the current point of view, Li Yu has done quite well in this regard, and the Western films he made cater to the tastes of Western audiences have successfully entered the circle of mainstream Hollywood films.

Jiang Zhiqiang wants to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Li Yu, which is the main reason why he is willing to take over "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

This time he came to the capital, not only to talk about movies, but also to see the foundation of the company.

Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers don't know much about the mainland's film and television industry, and they come to the mainland to film in cooperation with state-owned film studios, and the mainland's private film and television companies don't sound so reliable.

Negotiations are based on equality, and if the company is just an empty shell and has no strength, he will not come to this troubled water.

Lin Zixuan asked people to pick up the airport and arrange the hotel.

Jiang Zhiqiang is the representative of Xu Ligong and Li Yu, which indicates that the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has entered a substantive stage.

Before the negotiation, Lin Zixuan took Jiang Zhiqiang to visit Haomeng Company and introduced the general situation of the company to him.

This is to prove that Good Dream is capable of playing a leading role in the production of the film.

"Spring in a Small Town, the film that won the Venice Golden Lion?" Jiang Zhiqiang said in surprise.

In the promotional brochure of the Good Dream Company, a poster of "Spring in a Small Town" is printed.

An excellent movie is like a beautiful business card, you may not know the company of good dreams, but you know the film that won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Jiang Zhiqiang's Broadway Cinematheque is a well-known art theater in Hong Kong, famous for its screening of literary films.

Different from the local commercial film culture in Hong Kong, Jiang Zhiqiang has a soft spot for investing in the production of literary films.

When making films in the mainland, the production unit must be a state-owned film studio, and a private film and television company is only a co-production unit.

For example, in the film "Spring in a Small Town", when the audience watches the opening credits, the first thing that appears is the logo of the Beijing Film Studio, followed by the logo of the Beijing Television Art Center, and the third is the Good Dream Company.

Everyone will think that this is a film made by the Beijing Film Studio, and no one in the company behind it will pay attention.

In fact, this is the factory logo that Haomeng Company spent money to buy from the Beijing Film Studio, and it has little to do with the Beijing Film Studio.

Therefore, filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan know very little about private film and television companies in the mainland.

Yu Dong introduced the development process of Good Dream Company, which has produced a number of box office blockbuster movies and invested in a number of hit TV series since 93.

The total box office of the three Chinese New Year films is close to 70 million, and the total box office of the upcoming "A Sigh" exceeds 90 million.

The company made a profit of 20 million yuan, which is not comparable with the commercial blockbusters of Xiangjiang, but it is a low investment and high return, with a small and broad scale, and the risk is very small.

In terms of literary films, it includes the completed production of "Spring in a Small Town", as well as the filming of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and "Going Home".

In terms of TV series, the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" trilogy has an income of 8 million, and the popular "Latent" has an income of tens of millions.

Now is the moment of the harvest of the company, the data is true and reliable, and there is no fraud.

Jiang Zhiqiang estimated that the film and television company, which was established less than five years ago, made a profit of more than 40 million, not only did the film sell well at the box office, but also won the grand prize of the European Film Festival.

The bottom line is that no investment loses money, which is incredible.

If you are in Xiangjiang, Good Dream is definitely the favorite of those venture capitalists, and it is even possible to go public.

At this time, due to the impact of the Asian financial crisis, the film industry in Hong Kong fell into a state of stagnation, investors were reluctant to invest, directors had no money to make films, and actors had no films.

In addition to those big stars who are still beautiful, middle- and lower-class filmmakers are miserable, and the former Oriental Hollywood is gradually declining.

Jiang Zhiqiang saw the operation of Haomeng Company and felt that deepening cooperation with the mainland might be a way out for Heung Kong Films, but how to cooperate is the first thing to consider.

It is difficult for the subject matter of Hong Kong films to pass the censorship of mainland films, such as gambling films, gang films, violent films, and so on.

It can be said that more than 80% of Hong Kong movies cannot be released in the mainland.

Filmmakers in Hong Kong had to make a change and co-produce films with the mainland, facing a problem of not adapting to the local context. (To be continued.) )