Chapter 275: Battle of the Continent

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Putting down the work at hand and pondering for a moment, Xiao Ran quickly judged that this strategy was by no means a short-term goal, but was to gradually erode the foundation of the Phantom's future by encroachment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's really poisonous, it's long-term enough, it's amazing!" Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile and praise, of course he didn't know that this weakness was proposed by Tielong, and the conspiracy built on the weakness was Turner's work.

He tapped his fingers as if he were thinking, making a soft and rhythmic sound. What made Xiao Ran feel the most funny was that once when he went to Tian Lai to inspect, he was also knocking on the rhythm when thinking about things, which was a rhythm in an unconscious state.

Unexpectedly, it was looked down upon because of this, and it was changed to a tune, and it became quite popular for a while. Uncle Zhan was very satisfied with this outcome, at least it proved that Xiao Ran had not wasted what he had learned from him.

Xiao Ran didn't think that Turner's methods would work, at least he bet that Turner and the others must not know that the Ministry of Culture was preparing to introduce a national film protection policy, which could also be said to be a protection policy for Hong Kong films. If Turner had known this, he wouldn't have made this stupid move.

Because after the introduction of this policy, the number of foreign-language films released in China must be restricted, and the number of domestic films released must not be less than a certain number, which is quite similar to the policy in South Korea. As long as this policy exists, even if the four major companies collapse, Xiao Ran's perfect business system that he has worked hard to build over the years can continue to operate to ensure that Hong Kong films continue to produce high-quality films.

The most important point is that if Hong Kong-made films can't compete with Hollywood at home, then Xiao Ran can completely give up and give up all his career to go back to the countryside to sell sweet potatoes. Originally, if even the mainland market could not compete, then the Asian market and the European market would definitely not be able to keep it. Therefore, this is completely ineffective, and can only be said to be a foreshadowing that may work.

Turner must not have investigated that Xiao Ran had smuggled a large number of videos to the mainland at any cost in order to cultivate today's market. Because of these video tapes, thousands of trees and pear blossoms have blossomed in the video halls on the mainland.

It is unreservedly said that this entire generation has grown up in the baptism of Hong Kong films, as long as this replacement of Hong Kong films takes root in the mainland market. Then, Hong Kong films can enter the cycle of good surnames and continue to operate, continuing to influence generation after generation.

There is no investigation, there is no right to speak, Xiao Ran agrees with this sentence, and he has changed a little, becoming that there is no strategy without investigation, so the phantom's various detailed investigations are one of the guides of the phantom's success. In such a situation, Hollywood has already lost before it starts.

But Xiao Ran still didn't take it lightly, if the battle with "The Outlaw" is defeated, then the mainland market in the future will definitely have a considerable market for Hollywood films. He has absolute confidence that he can win, because this is on his doorstep, and no one knows better than him how to please the Oriental audience. This seemingly ordinary summer vacation war will determine the market share of the mainland market in the future, and Xiao Ran will definitely not allow Hollywood to get involved in it on a large scale.

And not long after July arrived, China Film's film was released. Xiao Ran, who was far away in Hong Kong, received the news and smiled disappreciatively. What can those theaters controlled by China Film do? Don't forget that the four major companies have acquired more than 2,200 cinemas in the mainland through acquisitions and construction. Half of them were the kind of theaters that you and I went to when we were kids, because the Big Four companies hadn't had time to completely reinvent them.

Because the cinema locations are not as dense as in Hong Kong, everyone adopts a collaborative approach to staggered screenings. The theater you control is also on my play, and the theater I control is also on yours, so you can achieve the maximum box office effect.

Hong Kong first launched "The Legend of the Car God 2", "Spy 3" and "Super Police" are all films that are to be used against "The Outlaw". Although the ticket price of the theater is very low, on the day of the premiere of "The Legend of the Car God 2", according to the incomplete box office statistics, it also reached 12 million.

This is definitely a hard-won figure, and a significant portion of the 1,100 cinemas that the big four companies initially announced for investment are still unfinished. And these theaters that were acquired later are all old theaters of more than 600 or even 1,000 theaters, and according to the current more than 2,000 theaters, if all of them are successfully renovated, then there will be 6 million seats.

But now there are only 2 million seats, which is a number that can only be obtained by the four major companies together, and it is a number that can only be obtained when the venue is full. In contrast, the distribution arranged by China Film has about 800 theaters, but they are all old-fashioned theaters, and the quality of the film is not enough, so the box office is naturally dismal.

According to the research and calculation of the film company, the mainland market needs at least 30,000 screens in three years (calculated according to 300 viewers per screen, that is, each screen is a screening hall) to barely meet the market. The population of the United States is less than a quarter of the Chinese population, but it has more than 10 million seats, and at this time, the enthusiasm of the mainland to watch movies is definitely at the level of American enthusiasm.

This means that if you throw away the 800 million people in the countryside, there is still a base in the cities that is comparable to that of the United States. With the right practices, you can gain access to a market similar to that of the United States. So, 10 million seats is a pretty modest number, which will largely satisfy the current audience market and will not be lost in the future when this relatively unusual enthusiasm wanes.

And this is calculated based on the average of six screening halls per theater, which requires 5,000 theaters spread across the country. This obviously proves a lot, at least it proves that "The Legend of the Car God 2" is not not good enough at the box office, but not enough theaters, if there are enough, it can definitely create a larger number of moviegoers. If calculated according to the ticket price in Hong Kong, the box office on the day of the premiere is already equivalent to the total box office of a blockbuster film in Hong Kong.

In ten days, the box office of "Legend of the Car God 2" exceeded 100 million in mainland China and 20 million in Hong Kong. By the fifteenth day, the film was reduced to theaters, and at the same time, Debao's romantic comedy was released. Just when "The Legend of the Car God 2" still had a box office income of five million per day, it had to be overshadowed, because "The End of the World" was released, and "Spy 3" had to fight against it to the end.

"The End of the World" was released in more than 800 theaters, with a premiere box office of 4 million, and "Spy 3" did a very good job in marketing, but because the number of theaters was not as good as "The Legend of the Car God 2", the box office was only 9 million. The next day, the box office of "Outlaw" plummeted to more than 2 million, while "Spy 3" still maintained the same number for ten days, which shows the huge market demand.

I have to mention that when "The Outlaw" was released, Hollywood paid far more attention than Xiao Ran imagined, and reporters from many famous TV networks came to interview him. The funniest thing is the reporter sent by the media under Time Warner at that time, who was full of confidence and thought that "The Outlaw" would definitely be a big hit in China.

As a result, this guy grabbed a pedestrian during a roadside interview and asked if he would see it if he knew it, but what he got was that he knew it, but he wouldn't look at it. When interviewing the person in charge of China Film, who counted the box office figures, when he heard the figure of 4 million at the box office of the premiere, he thought he had heard it wrong: "Do you mean 40 million?" ”

This guy immediately became the object of ridicule by his peers, but Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling can see from Hollywood's fanfare this time that they attach unprecedented importance to Hong Kong films. Xiao Ran even instructed Ping Yueli to keep at least two A-level productions in hand, so as to ensure that he can compete with Hollywood all over the world at any time, and vow to disgrace Hollywood.

In the end, "The End of the World" ended gloomily with a box office of less than 20 million, and the frontal sniping "Spy 3" was released for 40 days before it could not be painted with a box office of 230 million under the interference of the release of "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The Undefeated East".

And the task of sniping another film in Zhongying was handed over to Tianluo and Taixing, both of which are action movies. China Film's film was okay, but in the end, it ended up with a box office of 30 million under the attack of the top two. In the end, a total of nearly 700 million box office results were generated in the summer vacation, of which the phantom accounted for as much as 30%, and I have to admire the large market capacity of the mainland.

What is ridiculous is that since the gradual opening up of the mainland market, at least 2 billion of the nearly 4 billion total box office in 1993 were made by Hong Kong films. The others basically relied on the number war to accumulate such numbers, which can be seen by just looking at the top ten box office lists in the mainland market every year are all Hong Kong films.

What makes Xiao Ran feel even more terrifying is that according to the respective survey results of the planning department and the marketing department, it shows that because of the theater, ninety percent of the audience only watched it once. When asked if they wanted to re-watch the film in the theater, more than half of the audience replied yes, especially "Spy 3" and "Legend of the Car God 2", both of which reached 60%, and the former reached 80%.

The director of "Spy Change 3" is not a newcomer, but he is not the kind of young director who has debuted for a long time, but has great potential. In order to ensure that the film is filmed well, the film is co-produced by Chen Musheng and Wu Yusen, and as a result, the potential director Wu Anran actually shot the action scenes in the film very well under the joint guidance of the two directors, and the emotions of the family and country are even more excellent.

It can be said that the balance of civil and military forces is the best in the "Spy Change" series, but it is still inferior to the first part in terms of action. However, the whole Hong Kong and even the world have regarded the first part of "Spy" as a textbook of new action movies, just as it is not logical to regard "The Legend of the Car God" as a classic of racing movies.

"The Legend of the Car God 2" is personally supervised by Xiao Ran, but it is not a big problem. However, it is still a little weaker in terms of literary drama. It is precisely because Phantom believes in the supremacy of quality that these two films can have such a terrible "return rate".

The global box office of "Spy 3" is only more than 2 billion, but "Legend of the Car God 2" is as high as nearly 5 billion. Although the box office in North America is far inferior to "The Outlaw", outside of North America, both films crushed that film to the death, almost making it nothing.

Four Phantom films made it to the top 10 grossing films around the world throughout the year, and Tai Hong's "Super Police" was lucky enough to make the list. Seeing that Hong Kong films occupy no seats in the global box office list from the original, to occasional appearances later, and then to gradually increasing.

The only thing I don't know is whether Xiao Ran can continue to lead Hong Kong films to defeat Hollywood, just like defeating the three major companies!

Xiao Ran was in no mood to verify these things, and he had been busy with two other things these days, which were also his ultimate goals. He just felt that his brain was about to break down, and to exaggerate, he felt that he was going to blow up because he used his brain too much.

Maybe this is the price that must be paid if you are good at strategy, Xiao Ran only feels that if she continues to use her brain, she will definitely have to live a few years less. It's just that if you want to rest and retreat, you have to solve these two things.

Just when Xiao Ran and the others were busy, 1995 came, Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling invited the whole company to have a meal together, and everyone sealed a big red envelope. The next day, I received news from Huang Qun that the grading system was ready to be launched and implemented in May 1995.

This has been Xiao Ran's worries for a long time, but this is the result of his own efforts and the pressure on China's political axe, and the richest man in China is not jealous after all. Moreover, the most important thing is that the Ministry of Culture found that the lack of a classification system not only restricts Hong Kong films, but also restricts its own films, and China Film is deeply aware of it.

On this day, Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling gave themselves a holiday, and the two of them went to sea on a yacht alone, nominally to go to sea, but they were to discuss a matter of great importance. After arriving at sea, the two of them were relieved to check whether there were any bugs according to the method of Guan Protestantism.

Wei Dongling and Xiao Ran each went to the top of the boat with wine, water and food, quietly half lying on the chair enjoying the sun and sea breeze, Wei Dongling couldn't help but praise: "All this is really more comfortable than I imagined, I really want to retire and be able to drive the boat around the sea like today!" ”

Xiao Ran even had a feeling of reluctance to get up when he lay down, how comfortable it would be to lie down like this: "You kid, if you want to go to sea, you can buy the world's largest cruise ship to go to sea at any time, and you can play as much as you want." ”

(To be continued)