Analogue Films. This is a film company established in 1950, and the scale has been small, but it has a long history of Hong Kong's Lao Pak Hui Cinema, and five or six other movie theaters, forming a small cinema chain.

Coupled with Anle Film Company, there are only a few movies produced every year, which does not arouse the hostility of giants such as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers.

The films produced by Anle Film Company can sometimes even take advantage of the fisherman's profits and be released at the same time in the theaters of the two rivals of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers.

This year's "Tragic War" filmed by An Le was benefited by the fact that it was released in the theaters of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers at the same time, and the box office sprung up, even surpassing "Killer Trench" co-produced by Golden Harvest Company and Hollywood, temporarily ranking as the box office champion.

"The Bitter War" is a war documentary, through the chronicle-like method, through the description of the cruelty of the war, by the curiosity of the audience, widely into the cinema to watch.

"The Bitter War", which has been in theaters for more than a month, has achieved a box office of more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars, although the box office is already weak at this time, but if it lasts for another half a month, it should be possible to pull the box office performance to more than 8 million.

However, as soon as "Modern Bodyguard" came out, not only did Golden Harvest Cinema Line remove Anle's "Painful War" from theaters, but Shaw Brothers also gradually reduced the number of screenings because the attendance rate of "Painful War" was less than 30%.

Director Jiang Zhiwen said depressedly: "It's really evil! was originally expected to hold on to this year's box office champion, but now that "Modern Bodyguard" has not yet been released, Golden Harvest Cinemas will not talk about "The Bitter War"! What's even more strange is that the box office of "The Bitter War" in all theaters has plummeted, from the previous 9 percent full to the current attendance rate of less than 20 percent, and all major theaters are reducing the number of screenings! ”

Jiang Zhiqiang, the general manager of Anle, comforted: "We are not the worst! Struggle Film Company is miserable, originally a small-budget production of "Crazy Boss" with a box office of more than 3 million, making a lot of millions of Hong Kong dollars. After that, Mai Jia and Shi Tian used the money they earned before to invite Sammo Hung to join and shoot "Salted Fish Turnover" at a cost of more than 1.2 million. Now, just a few days after its release, the box office is only in the early 1 million. The struggle company relied on ghost horse comedy to start a business, but it encountered "Modern Bodyguard", the originator of the funny ghost horse, and the class got an axe, which was really miserable! ”

When Jiang Zhiwen heard this, he reluctantly became happy and said: "Hehe, Mai Jia, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming are even worse than us."

The two Jiang brothers, imagining the loss-making bear of the Struggle Film Company, couldn't help but gloat.

Of course, the Jiang brothers didn't know that at this time, the Struggle Film Company had quietly changed to a wealthy Lei Juekun as the backstage boss.

Even if he loses a million, in the eyes of a billionaire like Lei Juekun, it is just a drizzle. The important thing is that Struggle Film Company has a large number of senior film talents!

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Struggle Pictures, general manager Mai Jia is in a bad mood.

has just been an entrepreneurial work, "Crazy Boss" won 3.1 million Hong Kong dollars at the local box office, and the scenery was unlimited for a while. If you add the follow-up share of the overseas box office in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other places, you can even make a profit of 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

An entrepreneurial work like "Crazy Boss" is unexpectedly popular! However, "Salted Fish Turned Over", which the company had great hopes for, hit the street!

Regardless of investment capital, cast, script bridge, etc., watching "Salted Fish Turning Over" from major angles is much better than "Crazy Boss"!

In fact, from the perspective of commercial films, the attraction of "Salted Fish Turnover" itself is stronger than that of "Crazy Boss"!

However, "Salted Fish Turned Over" was born at the wrong time, and when the box office just broke 1 million, it encountered "Modern Bodyguard"!

Major theaters, after the news of "Modern Bodyguard" came out, contacted Golden Harvest Company one after another, hoping to introduce "Modern Bodyguard".

Works like "Salted Fish Turns Over" have undoubtedly begun to be treated coldly by major theaters.

And the audience's enthusiasm for "Salted Fish Turnover" has also begun to decrease, and now most of the theaters that screen "Salted Fish Turnover" have an attendance rate of less than 20%, and some cinemas even have less than 100 audiences, which seems deserted.

Now, the only thing that continues to screen "Salted Fish Turns Over" is Boss Lei's Golden Princess Cinema.

"Okay, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, the three of you cheer up a little! No one wants to encounter a strong enemy like "Modern Bodyguard". A box office hit is what every film investor wants. But sometimes, when you encounter an unexpected situation and hit the street, you have to be strong to bear it! The most important thing for filmmakers is to have a strong heart, and if a movie loses money, it does not mean that the future film road is over. Instead, we should let go of the psychological burden, make better films, and use improved quality to attract audiences! The movie lost money, but Lei Juekun did not blame everyone, but gently appeased.

"Boss Lei! Rest assured, after we adjust our mood, we will definitely come up with a new movie that will satisfy you! Mai Jia gritted her teeth and swore an oath.

Lei Juekun nodded and said, "I believe in you!" ”

Mai Jia quietly looked at Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, originally these two people's qualifications, prestige and contributions to the company were not inferior to Mai Jia.

But because of the previous struggle film company, Mai Jia paid the most money, so he took the majority of the company's shares. However, after Boss Lei's investment, the investment of Mai Jia and others is negligible.

In the current share distribution of Struggle Film Company, Boss Lei occupies 36.5%, Mai Jia occupies 35.5% of the shares, and the rest of the partners Shi Tian owns 19% of the shares, while Huang Baiming only has 9% of the shares.

In fact, Boss Lei is now focusing his career on the operation of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and Mai Jia is the actual person in charge of the company.

In addition to worrying that his prestige is not enough to convince the public, Mai Jia is even more worried that Boss Lei will lose trust in Mai Jia and change someone else to take charge of the company.

Mai Jia is also worried that Boss Lei will withdraw his investment, if Boss Lei really withdraws his investment, Struggle Film Company will also return to its original shape overnight, and even be forced to dissolve because of the failure of the previous film investment.

Lei Juekun will not withdraw his investment!

Because, Lei Juekun's vision is different from Mai Jia, he is standing at the theater level to watch the Hong Kong film market!

In the Hong Kong film industry in 1980, the core competition was not the competition between production companies. It's a competition between theaters.

In the 60s, there were more than 50 cinemas in Hong Kong, and at that time, Shaw Brothers was the dominant company, beating out its competitors and dominating more than 40 cinemas, dominating the Hong Kong film industry.

In the years since, the Hong Kong film industry has been in turmoil. At this time, Golden Harvest had more than 50 cinema chains in Hong Kong, and a large number of satellite production companies provided high-quality films, dominating the list.

If you add Golden Harvest's overseas cinema line, Golden Harvest has at least 120 movie theaters at this time, and its own cinema line alone is enough to make Golden Harvest's films not worry about no distribution channels.

In the early 80s, Golden Harvest's competitor Shaw Brothers, due to its dismal operation, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong shrank to more than 30, far inferior to the scale of Golden Harvest's cinema chain.

The Golden Princess Cinema Line invested by Lei Juekun is a cutting-edge cinema chain that has only emerged in recent years, and there are more than 20 cinemas.

However, because the Golden Princess Cinema Line has more than 20 movie theaters, it has no support from the production company, so it can only import a large number of Western films for screening.

Lei Juekun is not satisfied with the situation of relying entirely on the introduction of foreign film screenings, so it is undoubtedly a top priority to choose some small film companies in Hong Kong for investment!

Therefore, Struggle Pictures, a small film production company with potential, fell into Lei Juekun's eyes

Lei Juekun, a wealthy businessman outside the film circle, has entered the film industry with huge assets, which has made Hong Kong's film industry suddenly change!

Historically, not long after Lei Juekun supported Struggle Film Company, the company was reorganized into Xinyicheng Film Company. Since then, the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry has changed from the confrontation between Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers to the triumph of New Arts City, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers.

The glorious period of the new art city is even stronger than the strength of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers combined, and the word of mouth of "produced by Golden Harvest must be a high-quality product" has also been changed to "produced by New Art City, it must be a high-quality product"