Lisheng changed her name to Golden Princess, and the Hong Kong film industry changed color. -- Ming Pao Morning Post"

"In the spring of Reading Power Productions, the Golden Princess Cinema Line abolished the theater package system. -- Oriental Newspaper"

"Hong Kong has set off another theater war, and Princess Jin is coming strongly. -- Sing Tao Morning Post"

"Learning from Europe and the United States? On the consequences of the cancellation of the cinema package system. -- Hong Kong Economic Journal"

"With the abolition of the cinema package system, where will Hong Kong films go? -- Cheng Pao"

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Li Xuan obviously didn't expect that the consequences of the establishment of the Golden Princess Cinema would be such a sensation. The day after Lei Juekun held a press conference, the headlines in the entertainment pages of all Hong Kong newspapers were all news of the reorganization of Lisheng Cinemas into Golden Princess Cinemas.

Because this news is so shocking, the Golden Princess Cinema Line took the lead in canceling the theater package system in Hong Kong!

The consequence of Lei Juekun's actions is to directly change the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry. The abolition of the theatrical package system must be very exciting for those particularly sensitive film practitioners, the owners, directors and screenwriters of those wholly-owned production companies, and it is estimated that many people are eager to make a few movies right away, so that they can be released in Golden Princess Theaters to make a lot of money.

Moreover, Lei Juekun's means of throwing out is not only one move, but the three-plate axe in the middle!

The second axe is that as long as the film of the wholly-owned production company can be watched by the Golden Princess Cinema Line, then the production company can directly get it to the theater for release and distribution, and the Golden Princess Distribution Company is not involved.

This is yet another pie that makes the sole proprietorship production company drool!

In Hong Kong today, the films produced by the producers must be released in theaters through the distribution company. And the box office revenue is basically divided into three parts: theaters, distribution companies and producers. Among them, the theater chain accounts for about half, and the distribution company accounts for the box office share is basically between 10% and 20%, and the last rest is the producer's money.

Now that Princess Jin has directly omitted the distribution link, doesn't that mean that the film company can even get a five-to-five share in Hong Kong?

Of course, the premise is that the producer's movie is of good quality, and the Golden Princess Cinema can watch it. However, what director doesn't think his film is good?

The third axe is to follow Golden Harvest, in addition to establishing its own film company, it also invests in building its own satellite film company, and can even cooperate with some wholly-owned production companies to make films like Golden Harvest.

As soon as these three axes are shot, it is estimated that there are very few Hong Kong filmmakers who can withstand the temptation. Even when Li Xuan saw the newspaper the next morning, he was almost moved.

But after thinking about it deeply, Li Xuan's restless heart calmed down again, and he planned to stand aside and watch the show.

Li Xuan had never heard of the theater package system in later generations, and he was surprised for a while after crossing over, which shows that this system was finally canceled, but Li Xuan didn't expect that the Golden Princess Cinema Line was the first to cancel it. Since it is the general trend to cancel the theater package system, it is presumably that Golden Harvest will not delay for a long time, and when the time comes, it is estimated that this system will also be canceled if it is hurt by the new art city a few times.

The abolition of the central role of distribution companies is only implemented in Hong Kong, which may be very attractive to small wholly-owned production companies, but for those film companies that want to sell films abroad, who is willing to offend the distribution companies for such a small amount of money?

As for supporting his own satellite company, Li Xuan smiled even more disdainfully. In the future, Xinyicheng and Xu Ke Studio are just working for others, and Lei Juekun earns the most by himself. Unlike those satellite companies in Golden Harvest, at least the bosses of those companies can get the most shares.

Most of the inside stories are only clear to Li Xuan from later generations. Li Xuan kept maliciously guessing when he was holding the newspaper at the time, and the current Hong Kong film industry is estimated to have turned the world upside down.

It's a pity that the development of reality has exceeded Li Xuan's expectations, except for a few more films that went to the Golden Princess Theater for release, the entire Hong Kong film industry has not changed at all. Shaw Brothers is still working hard for the tragic results of "Modern Dirtyman", and Golden Harvest is also working hard to promote the box office of "Senior Brother Out" to exceed 10 million.

In addition to the ban order secretly issued by the two theater bigwigs a long time ago, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest turned a blind eye to Princess Jin. It seems that the last time Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai teamed up to beat Lei Juekun with a stick, they thought that this time was just Lei Juekun's struggle before he died.

The Hong Kong film industry is calm on the surface, and Li Xuan no longer bothered about these things and began to concentrate on preparing his own films. But an incident happened in late February, which made Li Xuan laugh and cry and get on the plane to Taiwan.

Thinking of the news he had just received, Li Xuan, who was sitting on the plane, smiled bitterly. Fortunately, when I heard that "Mr. Zombie" would be released in Taiwan first, I went to Taiwan on a whim to get a visa to enter Taiwan, otherwise I would have to stay in Hong Kong now and be in a hurry.

The reason is that Liu Yiwei, who has been staring at movies in Taiwan, actually had someone stab him with a knife, and is now lying in Taiwan's Peace Hospital to recuperate. As the boss of this movie, it is impossible for Li Xuan not to care about it.

This unlucky child, when he saw someone buying tickets and queuing, he quarreled, and ran over to fight, but the two people didn't have anything to do, but Liu Xiwei was stabbed by one of them with a knife. Now he himself is lying in the hospital, but the two murderers have run away without a trace.

A few days ago, when Liu Xiwei invited Li Xuan to Taiwan on the phone, Li Xuan was too lazy to go over, and a small part of the reason was that the power of Taiwanese associations at this time was worse than that in Hong Kong, which made Li Xuan very dislike Taiwan.

Since the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong in 1975, it has severely cracked down on community organizations, so that many associations have now turned from open to dark, and their behavior has been much more low-key, at most, they pick up machetes and slash each other a few times at night when the police are away.

But Taiwan's associations are much more rampant, they don't like to use knives, they prefer to use guns.

In September 1978, not long after Li Xuan crossed over, a series of strange shootings occurred in Taiwan.

At that time, there was friction between the Sihuan Gang and the Shanlian Gang in Taipei, and the two sides saw that the other was not pleasing to the eye, so they fought each other with guns. As a result, many people died on both sides after the fight, and even caused trouble to the point that someone went to the Filipino army to ask a foreign mercenary group to come over to help in the war. In the end, it was a mess, and when the police wanted to intervene, the boss of one of the parties called the police station directly and warned the police that this was their business, and you should not interfere.

The police really didn't intervene, and as a result, the matter became more and more violent, and even burned down a building. At this time, the people above couldn't stand it anymore, so they directly ordered the police to take action to suppress the matter.

It can be seen from this that Taiwan's associations are rampant!

Fortunately, the murderer Liu Xiwei met only brought a knife, if he was carrying a gun, it is estimated that Li Xuan would not be on the plane now, but in the mourning hall in Hong Kong to attend Liu Xiwei's funeral.

got off the plane alone, Li Xuan didn't have time to find a hotel, so he went directly to the Peace Hospital. After buying some fruits at the entrance of the hospital and asking for the ward number at the front desk of the hospital, Li Xuan went straight to the ward.

This is an ordinary ward for a six-person room, Liu Xiwei's bed is very good, he is leaning against the window, he can lie quietly on the bed and look at the branches flying outside the window, and Liu Xiwei, whose face is pale, is like this now.

"Habitual Wei!" Li Xuan whispered, there were many other patients in the ward who were resting, and it was not appropriate to make noise.

Hearing this voice, Liu Yiwei turned his head sharply and said in surprise: "Ah Xuan, why are you here?" ”

"Hey......" Li Xuan sighed deliberately, put the fruit on the bedside table, and laughed softly: "You have an accident, can't I, the boss, come over to condole." By the way, how's the wound? ”

"Hehe, I've had more than ten stitches, and I'm fine now, but I can't go to the ground yet." Liu Yiwei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that guy's knife also gave me an appendix surgery for free." ”

"Oh, that's not bad, at least it wasn't in vain." Li Xuan smiled and continued to ask, "What did the police say?" ”

Liu Xiwei made a half-shrug movement, probably pulling the wound, and only replied after baring his teeth for a while: "What else can I say, isn't it just waiting for the investigation, you know ......?"

Liu Xiwei didn't say anything, and Li Xuan already understood. Today's Taiwan is just like Hong Kong before 1975, without the involvement of the police, the community would not be so rampant. Moreover, many associations in Taiwan still have the military behind them, which is even more difficult to deal with.

"Okay, then you can recuperate with peace of mind, it's okay if people are fine. It is estimated that when your injury is completely healed, the movie will be drawn in Hong Kong, and the time will give you good news. Li Xuan immediately said with relief.

Hearing this, Liu Yiwei hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "I don't want you to report the good news, I will swim back to Hong Kong even if I swim at that time." ”

"Okay, I'll go to catch you then."

"Ha-, a-!" Liu Xiwei just laughed, pulled the wound again, and quickly gently rubbed the wound and said with a bitter smile: "It's really troublesome." By the way, Ah Xuan, since you are here, do you want to go to Ximending to have a look? If you go there at night, you can see people queuing. ”

"Okay, I'll check it out in the evening." Li Xuan nodded and responded, "Now, you can lie down and recuperate." (To be continued.) )