ps: Look at the exclusive story behind "Smiling Proud Xiangjiang", listen to your more opinions about the novel, pay attention to the official account of Biquge www.biquge.info (add friends on WeChat - add the official account - enter qdread), and quietly tell me! After finalizing the filming details of the movie at the dinner table, Hong Jinbao suddenly patted his head and remembered something.

"Mr. Lin, after these three movies are filmed, which mountain should we go to worship?"

"Worship the mountain?" Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, obviously not quite understanding the meaning of Hong Jinbao's words.

"What he means is, which theater should I go to to cooperate with after the movie is made?"

Lin Zhengying helped explain a sentence on the side, and only then did Lin Xi suddenly realize.

The cinema system is the economic pillar of Hong Kong's film industry, and before the establishment of New Arts City, except for Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest in Hong Kong, other independent production companies could only be "recruited" by cinemas.

You must know that if there is no theater support, the best release schedule is scheduled, and it will be difficult for the best films to sell well.

Lin Xi was about to speak, but suddenly remembered that Hong Jinbao would not ask about this matter for no reason, especially the one in front of him, who in later generations had almost single-handedly created a three-legged pattern in the Hong Kong film industry for a long time, including Golden Harvest, New Arts City, and Debao.

The magnitude of his achievements and profound influence are enough to influence the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry, and even Lin Xi can only admire it.

Although Hong Jinbao is still dormant now, he must have his own views on this issue, and Lin Xi certainly wants to hear what the big brother in the film industry who later succeeded in rebelling against the coach of Xinyi City and created Debao as a key minister of Jiahe has on this matter.

"Mr. Lin didn't know. In fact, more than 2 years ago, I co-founded a film company, but that company didn't do much, and then we broke up. Hong Jinbao took a sip of wine, put down the wine glass and sighed: "The name of this company is Garbo." ”

"The Ka of Mecca. Hong Jinbao's treasure? Lin Xi couldn't help but ask.

Hong Jinbao was stunned, but he didn't expect Lin Xi to guess all the details of this film company just from the name.

When Garbo left, it was naturally impossible to do it, so Mecca renamed the company "Struggle", and this company was the predecessor of the new art city.

"So, Brother Hong and Mai Jia are still in contact now?"

"Mr. Lin may have misunderstood. Mecca and I didn't break up because of a falling out, I went over to help with several movies he shot after his establishment and struggle, and the relationship between the two of us has always been good. ”

"I see!" Lin Xi nodded, "Brother Hong and Mecca are good friends, and now Mecca has defected to Princess Jin again." So he also wants to pull Brother Hong over? ”

"I heard Mecca say that Princess Jin's Boss Lei invested generously in the movie, and he respected the filmmakers very much, and basically didn't ask about the specific shooting of the movie...... If you have to choose a theater to take refuge in, I personally prefer the Golden Princess. After all, this cinema chain has just been established, and it is when there are people, so we will naturally be more valued in the past. ”

Hong Jinbao said his thoughts, and everyone present except Lin Xi was. They all nodded.

"Brother Hong, I understand what you mean, in fact, you also missed one thing just now, that is, Princess Jin's Boss Lei is not an insider. Generally, everyone likes such investors when making movies, because people are stupid and have a lot of money! ”

Lin Xi's summary made Hong Jinbao a little embarrassed.

But in fact, Hong Jinbao really wants to join the Golden Princess because of this, because if the investor is a professional filmmaker, it is inevitable that he will criticize the filming, and some off-the-beaten-path themes may not be easy to be understood. In short, there are a lot of restrictions, and there is not as much freedom as a non-professional producer. Don't ask anything, just throw in the money and you're done.

"But Brother Hong, have you ever thought about it. There are also great disadvantages of non-professionals being investors, first of all, he just treats movies as a business, and business is naturally to make money, and when you want to make some movies that are not very profitable or are not sure whether they can make money, he will definitely not support them anymore. Boss Lei is rich, but his main career is not in the theater line, unlike Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, who regard TV and movies as their lifelong careers, without this focus, they naturally lack vision and pattern, and they can be a temporary partner, but they can't rely on it for a long time. ”

Lin Xi said his thoughts, and Hong Jinbao couldn't help but hesitate.

"What does Mr. Lin mean is to go to Golden Harvest or Shaw Brothers to cooperate?"

Lin Xi is now cooperating with Xu Guanwen, and Xu Guanwen is from Jiahe, so Hong Jinbao feels that Lin Xiti and Jiahe are most likely to cooperate, and Lin Xi's next words seem to prove his guess.

"If it is a long-term cooperation, Golden Harvest is indeed a good object, but Brother Hong wants to take refuge in the past, and now is not the best time."

This made Hong Jinbao confused, how could he say that Jiahe was good, and that now was not the time?

"There is Bruce Lee in front of Golden Harvest, and there is Xu Guanwen in the back, it can be said that there are many talents in his hands, Brother Hong, you take refuge in the past at this time, you may not be able to get the attention of that side, and again, the best schedule of Golden Harvest Cinemas is naturally to be reserved for the movies made by yourself, followed by the following subsidiaries, and now you can't arrange a good schedule for Golden Harvest. In the same way, the same is true for Princess Jin, Xinyicheng is now recruiting troops everywhere to strengthen its strength, unless Brother Hong is willing to join Xinyicheng directly, otherwise it will pass, in the eyes of Boss Lei, you can only rank behind Xinyicheng, and a good schedule must give priority to meeting Xinyicheng's side, which is also not the best place. ”

"Mr. Lin means to let me go to the Shaw Brothers? But Shaw is now ......"

"It's almost dead now, isn't it?" Lin Xi said the latter words for Hong Jinbao, and then explained: "Brother Hong is right, Shaw Brothers is really not good now, but there is a saying that a hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen, after all, it was once the leading boss of the Hong Kong film industry, and the Shaw Brothers still has some foundation, of course, this has nothing to do with us, because we just want to borrow the Shaw Brothers theater to release it." ”

Hong Jinbao has not yet spoken. Yuan Kui couldn't help it.

"But will Shaw agree?"

The Shaw Brothers have always pursued a large-scale studio production system, and they have always only shown their own films, which is very clear to everyone here, so when Yuan Kui asked, everyone's eyes were focused on Lin Xi.

"Before, it definitely didn't. But now it is not necessarily, the reason lies in the two-line joint screening strategy of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, which was originally the two companies working together to suppress the Golden Princess, but the current situation is indeed a big success for Golden Harvest's films, while Shaw Brothers' movies are general, and this will go on for a long time. Even Uncle Shao Liu's face is also gloomy, in this case, either give up the movie completely, or have to think of other ways. ”

Lin Xi felt a little thirsty when he said this, and picked up the teacup to find that there was no water. Cheng Long reacted quickly, quickly got up and took the teapot from the side, and personally poured water into Lin Xi's cup.

Everyone was waiting to listen to Lin Xi's analysis below, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with Cheng Long's practice of pouring tea himself.

Lin Xi took a sip of water, moistened his throat and said: "After all, the Shaw Brothers are the hard work of Uncle Shao Liu for so many years, and he will definitely not give up at will, I guess his idea may be to prepare to separate the theater chain and operate it." Whether it is rented to others or continued to operate on their own, they will not refuse other people's films to be released, or they really hope that other film companies can come to cooperate with them now. If it can be a box office hit, it is also good to save some face. ”

Lin Xi's idea, to put it bluntly, is to use the subtle relationship between the three theaters of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Golden Princess to obtain the greatest benefits for himself, Hong Jinbao is a smart person, and he quickly figured out this relationship. I couldn't help but admire Lin Xi even more in my heart.

Yuan Kui suddenly wiped his mouth at this time and said, "Mr. Lin, your analysis is very reasonable. But you seem to have overlooked a very important question, and that is you! ”

"Me?" Lin Xi was stunned. Some didn't quite understand what Yuan Kui meant.

"According to what you just said, we must be extremely happy to go to Shaw Brothers Cinemas to cooperate at this time, but if they know that these three movies are planned by you, the situation may be different." Yuan Kui said this, and the others present already understood what he meant.

Lin Xi helped ATV during this time, making wireless disgraced, and Shao Yifu lost face in TV, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not get it back in the movie, so that there are many more variables in the matter of cooperating with Shaw Brothers.

"This is what I just said, the biggest difference between cooperation with professionals and non-professionals, non-professionals because of the problem of the pattern, see only the immediate interests, while professionals pay more attention to long-term development, Shao Liushu has been able to dominate the Hong Kong film industry for so many years, if he can't even distinguish the problem of returning to the bridge and returning to the road, how can he make Shaw Brothers bigger than now? In terms of television, it is true that my storage zài has caused a lot of trouble for wireless, but in terms of movies, Shaw Brothers chose to cooperate with us is something that is beneficial to everyone, and smart people will only do what is best for themselves. ”

As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, Hong Jinbao also said: "I agree with Mr. Lin on this point, if Uncle Shao didn't even have this bit of energy, Shaw Brothers would not have shown the grandeur of dominating the film industry back then!" ”

Hong Jinbao spoke up, and others would not raise their opinions in person even if they had them, but Lin Xi didn't want to leave any mustard in everyone's hearts because of this little thing, so he proposed another way.

"If everyone is really worried about that kind of situation, it's actually simple, although the scripts of these three dramas are provided by me, they can be pseudonyms when they are placed in the movie, and then I invested in these three movies, as long as everyone here doesn't say it, the Shaw Brothers side will not deliberately check it, and after the movie is released, they just know some inside information, and it is estimated that they will only pretend to be confused, so it should be no problem."

As soon as Lin Xi's words fell, Hong Jinbao took the lead in expressing his opposition, and then Lin Zhengying and Yuan Biao also said that Lin Xi's sacrifice was too great.

"As I said before, these three movies should be a welcome gift for everyone to know, and even if I become a hidden investor, how should the final income be divided or how to be divided, even if I don't sign a contract, I can trust you as a person!"

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