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In early April, the Taiwan film industry held a meeting to discuss the issue of lowering the price of Hong Kong films, and the eight major film companies joined forces to form the so-called "Taipei Film Merchants Association Overseas Friendship Group for Chinese Films" to propose to suppress production costs and boycott rising actors' salaries.

Subsequently, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles began negotiations with the Hong Kong Film Association.

At the meeting, the film producers of Taiwan Bend put forward three demands: "As of 24 April 1993, there are more than 250 Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films in Hong Kong that have not been delivered on time, and they should be completed as soon as possible," "the film practitioners association should list the situation of first-line actors in Hong Kong for Taiwan businessmen's investment reference, and form a monitoring group to agree on the remuneration of Hong Kong stars," and "propose to distribute Hong Kong films by way of commission, such as a commission of 20 percent for a box office of 10 million, and a commission of 15 percent for those with a box office of more than 10 million."

Actually,

said that the salaries of Xiangjiang stars are ridiculously high, mainly referring to those blockbuster directors and popular movie stars.

For example, the films directed by Wang Jing are often hot, and the director's salary he gets is not only high, but also often has a box office share; Another example is Andy Lau, although his fame in Xiangjiang is not as good as that of Double Monday, but he is very marketable in Taiwan, so his current salary is also 8 million, directly catching up with Zhou Yanfa, Zhou Xingchi, Cheng Long and others, and even surpassing Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie and Zhang Guorong, as for those second- and third-rate directors and actors, although their income has increased significantly compared with before, but that is because of the prosperity of Hong Kong films, so the salary of these people is actually more reasonable.

Yang Dengkui (then chairman of the Taiwan Producers Association) said: "Now invest in making a 20 million Hong Kong dollar movie, the salary of the leading actor and director alone will be more than 10 million, if there are two or three more popular supporting roles, the salary alone will already exceed 15 million, and the remaining 5 million is enough to do, the director can only make shoddy and bad movies to fool the audience, so the salary of stars, especially first-line stars, must be suppressed." ”

Xu Guanwen, president of the newly established Heung Kong Performing Artists Association this year, said: "How much money can you make by managing the heavens and the earth? Besides, this is Zhou Yu's willingness to beat Huang Gai and his willingness to suffer. ”

Xu Anjin said: "Now we don't want to suffer, we don't make money, we lose money, whoever wants to play will play, we will not play!" ”

Cai Songlin followed up and said: "There are still films that have not been delivered on time, when will they be delivered?" When she said this, Cai Songlin did not shy away from looking at Wang Jiawei, the pit king sitting in the corner.

Xiang Huasheng said lightly: "The salary of the star is high, the film cannot be delivered on time, everyone is responsible, and the responsibility of your investors is greater, you want a big star, a big cast, a big director, you don't read the script and only recognize your face, whoever is popular will be invited, for the sake of the box office, it is understandable for you to do this, but this essentially raises the salary of the star." ”

Xiang Huaqiang said: "Let's talk about Mr. Cai's investment in "East Evil and West Poison", Wang Jiawei can get an investment of 20 million Hong Kong dollars from you with the film contracts of several stars and a plan to adapt Jin Yong's novel. Have you really considered it carefully before investing? I'm afraid you don't even know what kind of film he wants to make, right? The result? As a result, Wang Jiawei didn't make a movie for more than half a year, but used up the budget of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars. Can you blame movie stars for being too paid? ”

As soon as Xiang Huaqiang's words came out, Cai Songlin's old face immediately turned red - now, his investment in Wang Jiawei's "The Legend of Xie Diao Heroes: East Evil and West Poison" has become a joke in the film industry!

And Wang Jiawei, who was sitting in the corner, was even more embarrassed - he only filmed one title in most of the year, which is indeed rare in Hong Kong films, especially when the production cost of more than 20 million yuan was spent!

But-

Wang Jiawei has his own insistence, he doesn't want to make those cookie-cutter follow-up films, he wants to make those movies with depth!

Moreover, now Wang Jiawei is holding back his strength, ready to make a movie that will make everyone shut up!

Therefore, despite the embarrassment, Wang Jiawei still sat in the corner without saying a word like an old monk.

Seeing that Wang Jiawei didn't stand up and explain at all, the Taiwan side, especially Cai Songlin, was even more angry!

Cai Songlin stood up and said angrily: "Hong Kong films were able to sweep away billions in Taiwan last year, and that was because we lobbied the government to issue a new local film protection law, restricting Hollywood and other regional films, if you can't give us a satisfactory answer, we will lobby the government to change the local film protection law, in a word, if we can't make money, everyone will break up!" ”

Cai Songlin's words are not untargeted.

It is precisely because of the lobbying of these Taiwanese film companies involved in the investment and production of Hong Kong films that the Taiwanese authorities promulgated that "an American film can only be imported in Taiwanese with a maximum of eight copies." In other words, each Hollywood movie can only be shown in a maximum of eight theaters in Taiwan. The new Native Film Protection Act.

As soon as this new local film protection law was issued, it greatly limited the competitiveness of Hollywood films in Taiwan Bend, which is also a very important reason why non-DreamWorks Hong Kong films were not driven out of the Taiwan Film Market by Hollywood films.

If this new local film protection law is changed, it may be a catastrophe for Hong Kong films that are not DreamWorks!

Hearing Cai Songlin's words, Xiang Huasheng slowly stood up, and then said gloomily: "Are you threatening us?" ”

Seeing Xiang Huasheng's expression, Xiang Huaqiang also stood up, and then glanced at the filmmakers in Taiwan!

Although the two brothers Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng are powerful, the filmmakers in Taiwan, who also have a black background, are not afraid of them at all.

Yang Dengkui slowly stood up and said in an ultimatum: "If you can't give us a satisfactory answer today, we will suspend the purchase of Hong Kong films until you can give us a satisfactory answer, if we can't get a satisfactory answer after three months, then we will lobby the government to relax the restrictions on the number of copies of Western films and Japanese films to be released in Taiwan!" ”

As Yang Dengkui's words fell, Cai Songlin and the others also stood up one after another, showing their determination to advance and retreat together!

Cai Songlin and Wang Yingxiang are one of the shareholders of the new era, and the entanglement with Xiangjiang is deeper, so the two glanced at each other, and then Wang Yingdao: "You won't do it if it's not a profitable deal, and we won't do it, so if this matter can't be resolved, it must be a one-shot ending...... In my opinion, we might as well ask Mr. Xu to come out and administer justice. ”

As soon as Wang Yingxiang's words came out, the atmosphere of confrontation between the two sides immediately eased, and then both sides said:

"Yes, please Mr. Xu to administer justice!"

"Mr. Wang's proposal is good, and I am afraid that this matter can only be completely resolved if Mr. Xu comes out."

"Then what are you waiting for, send someone to invite Mr. Xu now!"

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