With the announcement of the suspension of production of Shaw Brothers Film Company, the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line also changed hands, and the Hong Kong film industry has also undergone a lot of changes. Debao Company, which has a cinema chain in hand, has also announced a shooting plan to invest in no less than ten films in the next two years, and there is a faint momentum of being among the three major film companies in Hong Kong.

In 1985, Phoenix Culture firmly occupied the first position among all film companies in Hong Kong, both in terms of output and quality. The box office of the film is beyond the reach of other companies, not only in the Chinese-speaking region and Asia, but also in the European and American film markets.

In terms of strength, Phoenix Film is definitely the No. 1 film company in Hong Kong, and no company can match it. But when it comes to the three major Hong Kong film companies, no one will include Phoenix Culture in it, and there is only one reason, that is, Phoenix Culture does not have its own theater chain.

Cinemas are very important to Hong Kong films, which film company has a cinema chain, the overall competitiveness will be greatly increased, and even Phoenix Culture, a box office gold absorber, will not be called a "large film company" when there is no cinema chain, just because its films have no guarantee of sales, at least in Hong Kong.

In the general manager's office of Debao Company, Pan Disheng played with the pen in his hand and asked Hong Jinbao on the other side, and said: "Mr. Hong, what does this want to do, making movies makes so much money, and Phoenix Culture's own movies are enough to support a cinema chain, but he doesn't seem to have any intention of engaging in a cinema chain at all, he doesn't know the benefits of the cinema chain in hand, or is he really so righteous about Princess Jin and Golden Harvest?" ”

It's not just Pan Disheng who can't figure it out, almost all the filmmakers in Hong Kong can't figure it out, with the box office of Phoenix Culture Films, it's normal to build a theater by himself, and his own output can fully supply the needs of the theater, but he doesn't have this meaning at all, or put all the films in the cooperative theater to be released, isn't this equivalent to giving money to others, and the box office for a year is enough for him to build a theater.

Hong Jinbao, like most people except for Wu Yusen, Wang Jing and a few others, thought that Mo Fei's doing this was simply ridiculous to the point of absurdity, and even felt that Mo Fei was just a fool who threw money out for nothing.

Originally, Hong Jinbao was not going to comment on Mo Fei, but Pan Disheng was his big financier, even if he didn't want to, he had to echo two sentences, and said: "Mr. Pan, you don't understand, I don't understand either, it stands to reason that Mo Fei's current strength is completely capable of running his own theaters, but not only did he not do it, but instead signed all the film plans until June next year to Princess Jin and Golden Harvest, it shouldn't be that he really doesn't like this part of the Hong Kong box office, but judging from the box office of Phoenix Culture Films, That's a lot of money. ”

"He's also a businessman, how can he think like that, unless he doesn't want to continue to be big, but his current actions obviously mean to do something big." Pan Disheng turned the Montblanc pen a few times, a little reluctant to accept this limited edition, replaced it with a cigar and turned it around, and said: "I think he must have some plans that have not surfaced, he can think of going to a clothing company, how can he not think of going to a theater, there must be a problem here." ”

After speaking, he suddenly remembered something, and said: "By the way, you just said that he signed the contract with Princess Jin and Golden Harvest until June next year, which is a key, should he be secretly preparing for the theater, and then catch everyone off guard." Could it be that this person's mind is very powerful, and he has been able to seize other people's loopholes to create opportunities for himself several times, the earlier boycott movement is, and this time Fang Yihua asked a reporter to smear him, there must be a problem this June.

Mr. Hong, you are familiar with the people in the circle, find more people to inquire about this matter, and I will also ask more people to ask about the actions of some shopping malls and land in the Hong Kong market recently. If he really wants to quietly engage in theaters, then we must unite the other two, otherwise we will not be able to move an inch by then. This damn Fang Yihua is really a thief among thieves, not only pushed so many small filmmakers to me, but also forced me not to cooperate with Mo Fei, Debao is far from being as beautiful as it looks outside. ”

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No matter how much Pan Disheng and Hong Jinbao discussed and investigated, it was impossible to have any results. It is impossible to build a cinema in the short term, and when the cinema is really built, it is impossible for Pan Disheng to find out, otherwise it will be a fart.

Phoenix Culture's cinema plan will have to wait another year for Dolby's latest cinema system to be launched, and Phoenix Culture will also win Dolby's Asian agency, at least in Asia Pacific and Greater China, directly choking the throat of other cinema chains in the theater facilities.

and Golden Princess, Golden Harvest signed the contract until June next year, just to cooperate with the theater plan, and the real opening time of the theater line is around July 87, and it will continue for another year in May 86, the reason is also very simple, in order to cooperate with the distribution plan in Europe and the United States, no one can find fault with this.

In fact, this is not just to do it secretly, but when it comes to the critical time, he will still inform Princess Jin and Jiahe, after all, he still has to unite the two families to do something, and it is impossible to have a face-to-face with these two theaters, which is not good for anyone.

There are two main purposes, and these two points are also linked. The first is to suppress Debao, who took over the Shaw Brothers cinema line, and the company pushed so many small film companies to Debao, and the profitability of that theater line can be imagined, and Debao will be able to maintain it for two years if it dies, and when the time comes, it will definitely have a showdown with the Shaw Brothers to re-sign the ownership agreement and push the small film companies away.

But in the past two years, Debao will still be dragged by these small filmmakers until he vomits blood, at least at the box office, there will be no gains. If they really make ten movies, it will be even more hemorrhage, movies are cost, a movie is screened ten times, and the income of each of the ten movies is completely incomparable, when the theater resources are limited, that is, the more you shoot, the greater the loss.

In Mo Fei's opinion, at least seven of Debao's so-called ten movies will be shoddy and bad films, which are completely used to fill the number, and the only role is to prove with good reasons when the showdown with the Dian family two years later that Debao needs more theater resources, but the small filmmakers are blocking Debao's way.

Just when Debao and Shaw had a showdown, the cinema chain of Phoenix Culture was born and formed a cinema alliance with Princess Jin and Golden Harvest, which would make Shaw's and Debao, who had been out of production for two years, fall into an infinitely tangled situation, and the Shaw Brothers cinema line will become a hot potato for both families. If there is no film source, it must not be able to support the theater line, and relying on small film merchants is a drop in the bucket; Debao got the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, but he couldn't fight against the alliance of the three theater chains, and in the end he could only weaken day by day in the battle. At this time, the alliance of the three cinema chains has firmly established itself, and the only way out for Debao Cinema is to be won by the cinema alliance.

In addition to suppressing Debao, Mo Fei's second intention is relatively simple. Because of the emergence of Phoenix Cinemas, the extreme prosperity period of Hong Kong films appeared a few years earlier than the original history, and the corresponding decline period is likely to be a few years earlier, which is not what Mo Fei wants to see, and he will never allow such a situation to appear in his layout.

Therefore, he wants to occupy the cinema chain of Princess Jin and Golden Harvest to the death, and never give those speculative small film companies a little chance, and squeeze them all to Debao's cinema to make canned sardines, and in the end only the companies that can survive are really making movies. When the whole Hong Kong cinema chain is unified, there will be a new set of distribution system, which will have special provisions to restrict those small film companies with bad intentions, so that they will not get the slightest nourishment, only in this way will Hong Kong films not be ruined by those crooked film companies who are obsessed with profits.

When the concept of famous brands in Hong Kong had not yet risen and taken shape, he was able to grasp this road and go on, and finally achieved his famous brand kingdom.

But in terms of movies, he really didn't have enough to watch, and he became a monk halfway through to set up a film company in order to support the star, although he was escorted by a big brother in the film industry like Hong Jinbao, but when he met Mo Fei, who could barely be regarded as a senior industry insider in the 21st century, the famous brand Pan could only go back and continue to be that famous brand Pan.

Besides, Mo Fei is not a person who is completely impersonal, there is a saying that "I would rather demolish ten temples than get married", in the previous life, Pan Disheng and Yang Ziqiong got married in eight or eight years, Mo Fei is also very willing to fulfill Pan Disheng's beautiful thing.

The official opening of the cinema of Phoenix Culture is scheduled for the summer of 87, and it will take another year to push the Debao cinema off the cliff, that is, the summer of 88, when Pan Disheng has already won the beauty as he wishes, and the cinema is not so important to him, and it is not more enjoyable to go back and play famous brands with Yang Beauty.

And fundamentally speaking, Pan Disheng and Mo Fei do not have any grievances, to put it bluntly, their respective businesses are carefully handled, and the entanglements of interests are only focused on the point of the Wei family. Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company will withdraw from the film market sooner or later, and it is also a good thing for everyone to transfer the theater chain as soon as possible.

Of course, this is all a plan for Mo Fei, and now Mo Fei has not had time to think about these things in detail, just make a general plan.

When Pan Disheng and Hong Jinbao were studying Mo Fei's behavior, Mo Fei sneezed a few times with red ears, slandered a few words in his heart about what lacked virtue and smoked behind his back, and then began to think about the matter at the moment.

Xu Qing's mother had already called a week ago, and the future Queen of Pear Vortex would soon be on summer vacation, and she would come to Hong Kong after the holiday to shoot a movie and a TV series that had been scheduled.

The TV series is okay, it's all about middle school students on campus, but the movie is more troublesome, there are a lot of passionate scenes in "Samantha", Xu Qing is still a teenage girl, she definitely can't play that kind of shot, you have to find a suitable stand-in. (To be continued.) )