Chapter 252, Shao Daheng's position
(The internet was disconnected in the morning, just in the morning.) )
The box office of "Die Hard" has almost come out, this kind of overseas show of talents, showing the strength of the American people, the film, and the protagonist is still the most common image in daily life, it is quite popular in the United States, and it actually bought 140 million US dollars in more than a month, temporarily ranking third in the North American box office rankings.
Although the screening is not over yet, it is impossible to have much stamina if it is put down, and there is no hope of "First Blood 2" that wants to surpass the second place, and the first place "Back to the Future" is even more far away.
Mo Fei also knows that 140 million is enough to keep the third place in the annual box office, from fifth last year to third this year, although it is because the overall film market has fallen and the box office of other companies' films has declined, but "Die Hard" has exceeded the box office revenue of 10 million more than last year's "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which is already very good.
And Phoenix Culture has just entered the United States, and it has not yet fully gained a foothold, and it is not a good thing to push other companies too hard, the United States is the home of the eight major companies, and Phoenix Culture does not have the qualifications to call the wind and rain.
There has also been news from Colombia that three of the eight major companies, including Warner, Paramount, and Disney, are in a hurry and are trying to find a way to do something for Phoenix Culture.
Universal, which relied on "Back to the Future" to win the first box office, MGM with "Rocky 4" in its hand, and Fox, which is vigorously developing the TV network, did not make a statement, but it is difficult to say what will happen in the future.
If it was just "Die Hard" bought 140 million at the box office. Won the third place, and several companies are not like this. However, Phoenix Culture also has four films such as "Taiping Mountain", "Samantha", and "Pretty Woman", which have also entered the current top ten. Five of the top 10 films at the box office were produced by a company, and two others were also ranked in the top 20, which made many people unacceptable.
But it is impossible to target Phoenix Culture through legitimate channels, people use companies registered in the United States to co-produce, and the taxes on box office proceeds are also paid in the United States, so no one has any reason to do anything to Phoenix Culture.
This is a common principle all over the world, as long as a company pays enough tax. Even if other companies pay more taxes, it doesn't convince the government to take action against other companies. And Phoenix Culture happens to be the one who has paid enough taxes.
Since they can't do anything in an official way, several companies have found the theater chain after discussion, hoping to put pressure on the theater chain to get the theater chain to reduce the screening of Phoenix Culture Films. In order to suppress the development of phoenix culture.
But the theater side is not a fool. Whose films can make money, they will naturally put their films, you can't bring bad movies, but I want to draw other people's good films, it doesn't make sense at all. Although the eight major companies still control some movie theaters, almost 40 years have passed since the ban on film producers controlling the theater chain in 48 years, and the speed of the theater chain is too fast for them to account for a sufficient proportion of the theater chain in their hands. It was impossible to get the right to speak, and this trick didn't work in the end.
Of course, it's not that there are no people who speak for Phoenix culture. Colombia is a staunch champion of phoenix culture. In the past year or so, I have cooperated with Phoenix Culture quite happily, and I have made a lot of money by distributing Phoenix Culture's films, but Columbia Pictures' income in recent years has not been so good.
The changes in the North American film market secretly do not involve Hong Kong, but the good news can come back, "Die Hard" broke the North American box office record of Hong Kong films again, ranking third with a score of 140 million, if you look at the situation last year, it should not fall out of the top five.
The Hong Kong film industry was greatly encouraged by this, and Ho Hongluan also specially convened the Film Industry Association to commend Phoenix Culture and Mo Fei. Even Debao, who has to oppose Phoenix Culture, feels that strong confidence is coming, and the era of Hong Kong films is getting closer and closer.
It's the same in Hong Kong, if someone says something good, someone will say something bad, and some people will let out a poisonous tongue. "Sing Tao Daily" soon issued its own voice for "Die Hard" to set another box office record, why did the director of this box office record-setting film not appear in the director lineup of the new winter film, could it be understood that there is a great contradiction within Phoenix Culture.
"Sing Tao Daily" grasped this point, and did its best to provoke Wu Yusen, saying that Wu Yusen has such great power, why should he be subordinate to others for a long time, willing to live by other people's faces, and fight the country himself......
After reading the current issue of "Sing Tao Daily", he raised his head and asked Fang Yihua, who was sitting opposite, and said, "You asked people to do this thing, I don't pay attention to the overall situation." ”
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Fang Yihua raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm just talking about things, and what I say is the truth, what can be bad, does this have anything to do with the overall situation?" ”
"Alas......", Yifu has always been very helpless about this concubine, but this time I really want to talk about her, I can't just let her continue like this, sighed and said: "You always think that you know everything and can control everything, but in fact, can you really control it?" ”
The first time she was reprimanded by Yi Yifu in this tone, Fang Yihua's face was very ugly, but Wei Yifu was not ready to save face for her, and continued: "Menghua, I haven't said anything about what you have done, but that doesn't mean I have no opinion, I won't talk about other things, I will only talk about this thing today." I know you have factors to consider for the Twin and the wireless, but the way you do things is fundamentally wrong, even if we don't cooperate with him, there is no need to offend him, do you think the money earned from a "Sky Trap" can have much effect on the Twin or the wireless, the gains outweigh the losses.
All along, you have been targeting that Mo Fei and his Phoenix culture through Sing Tao Daily. I didn't say anything about you, because it's all our own internal struggle in Hong Kong, and it doesn't matter who wins or loses. But this time was different. You provoke Mo Fei and Wu Yusen like this, you can't even disgust him, Wu Yusen was reused by Mo Fei in the most difficult time, do you think he will have two hearts for Mo Fei, this will not be in a few years, and as long as Phoenix Culture can get better and better, Wu Yusen's loyalty will only become more and more loyal. And what about it. He can hand over a film with an investment of 10 million yuan to Wu Yusen to shoot, and he has achieved such good results in North America, do you think he will put Wu Yusen aside without it. That's why you're too reckless this time. ”
"But that's the case, Phoenix Culture started filming seven new films in the winter, and even Mo Fei himself became a director, which shows that there are not enough directors within Phoenix Culture. At times like these. He doesn't even need Wu Yusen. Wu Yusen also rarely appears in Phoenix Culture, doesn't this explain the problem, sometimes the relationship between people is also very fragile, maybe a small dispute will lead to a split relationship, which is also very possible. Fang Yihua didn't feel that she was wrong, and she had thought about it before doing things.
The tycoon shook his head, his eyes behind the lenses blinked a few times irregularly, and said, "That's what I said about your problem." Do you really think that Wu Yusen didn't do anything, it's just that you didn't see it. You think arranging two people to stare at Phoenix Culture. Observing the movements of Mo Fei and his important people, can you understand all the problems, the people you arranged are just ordinary reporters, not professional agents, they can only squat outside, they don't even know what Mo Fei said, how can you have so much confidence?
Originally, the battle between wireless and ATV was already very fierce, ATV had Mo Fei's help and won consecutive battles, what we need most now is to seek development steadily, but your approach this time is likely to make Mo Fei more targeted at us. Because what is involved this time is likely to be a big problem, maybe it is a big plan and layout in the film industry, Wu Yusen is not doing nothing, he is leading a group of people to surround the sea in Saigon, it is said that he wants to surround a ten-mile-long trough along the coastline, do you think this is a manifestation of being rejected by Mo Fei, obviously he handed over the big plan to do. And this plan, I think it's a big move for the international market, just the cost of that sink, I'm afraid it's nearly 10 million, not to mention the grievances between us, this offspring is really amazing. ”
When Fang Yihua heard these words, he became even happier, and said: "Isn't that better, he sent Wu Yusen to make a big move quietly, but now he is disturbed by me, that decrepit boy will definitely be angry to death, isn't it just right." How else can he target us, can't he rush into my office and beat me, it's a great thing to help ATV make a few more good films, I don't believe that he can always be so beautiful, and one day he will be in trouble, and see how I deal with him when the time comes. ”
Saying this, the shock in her heart was not small at all, not because of Mo Fei's generosity, but because of the means of Yi Yifu. For so many years, she thought that she already knew Yifu very well, but this incident made her understand that there are still many things that Yifu doesn't know, and it seems that he is not completely defenseless against himself, wouldn't he be afraid to do things in the future.
"You still don't understand, do you think you can be happy if you are angry with him, your actions may expose his plan in advance and destroy his overall layout, if it were you, would you retaliate? And your mentality is not right, to build the opportunity on the basis of the opponent's failure, it is already to admit that you are inferior to others, even if he fails, how can you treat him? ”
Wei Yifu was already shaking his head, obviously dissatisfied with his performance as a concubine, and said, "And there is one more point, which is also the most important. We are all Hong Kong people, and it doesn't matter what we do behind closed doors, but we can't let outsiders participate, and we have to fight against external enemies together, which is called 'brothers fighting outside the wall and resisting humiliation'. He did this in such a secret way, he just didn't want the outside world to know, but if you did this, it was tantamount to forcing him to expose the plan in advance, which was likely to have a great impact on him, and he was helping outsiders deal with him invisibly, shouldn't you. That's why I haven't said anything about it, but I didn't expect to end up holding it back. ”
Although he felt that it was normal to help outsiders deal with Mo Fei, but when he learned that Wei Yifu still had means that he didn't know, Fang Yihua was also a little honest, and followed Wei Yifu's words, and said with a little regret: "But now that everything has been done, what can I do." ”
People are old and refined, how can Yifu not know what Fang Yihua has moved, and he doesn't know what it feels like in his heart, he sighed again and said: "Could it be that this offspring is not so easy to deal with, maybe he can easily deal with this matter, and he just doesn't want to cause too much trouble when he acts secretly." But whatever his reason, you've ruined his plan, and it's time for him to do it. And no one can be sure that he did it just to wait for someone to bump into him. (To be continued......)