In terms of time zone, Hong Kong is 16 hours earlier than Los Angeles, so Shen Chong set off early in the morning of May and arrived in Hong Kong, it was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the airport, as soon as he saw Gu Liwei, Shen Chong asked, "Have you contacted Rover?" ”

"I got in touch, Xiaoyu deliberately went to Shenzhen丨 and called Beijing with the special line of Mr. Li's office." Gu Liwei handed him a file bag and said, "I have put the content of the phone call and the preliminary background analysis here." ”

Shen Chong handed the suitcase to the driver Dai Aijun, took the document bag, motioned for her to follow, and said, "You talk about it briefly first." ”

"Editor-in-chief Luo got the news from Section Chief Wei, saying that after the Academy Awards ceremony, the Film Research Institute submitted an inspection report on the Hong Kong film industry model to the Ministry of Culture, and in early May, the authorities gave instructions to let them take Hong Kong as a reference and Shenzhen as a test site to study and explore the relevant policies of film market-oriented reform."

It turned out that he got the news from Wei Baoguo, the Film Research Institute is one of the think tanks of the Ministry of Culture, Wei Baoguo's position is not high, but his work is very important, so Shen Chong attaches great importance to him, and repeatedly woos him to "corrupt" him into the eyes and ears of Beijing.

Although Shenzhen丨 is developing rapidly, its foundation is too thin, with a population of only more than 300,000 yuan, a per capita GDP of six or seven hundred yuan, and no decent movie theater.

It would be nice if Guangzhou could be added, Shen Chong frowned slightly, and asked again: "What about the policy details?" ”

"The specific details are still being worked out, and the general framework is to establish a local film distribution and projection company in Shenzhen." Shen Chong walked quickly, Gu Liwei almost trotted after him, and said: "This company has a high degree of freedom, it can set its own movie prices, it can cooperate with foreign capital to build movie theaters, and it has the right to import movies from Hong Kong." ”

"How are the benefits distributed between the projection company and the studio?"

"According to Editor-in-Chief Luo, this issue will be determined in the coming days." Gu Liwei explained: "The May issue, that is, today, is the day of the Hundred Flowers Awards, and the directors of all film studios in the country are in Beijing, and after the Hundred Flowers Awards, the Ministry of Culture and the Film Bureau will hold a symposium to study this issue. ”

"Today is the day of the Hundred Flowers Award?" Shen Chong slowed down and said with annoyance: "I actually forgot."

Although the Hundred Flowers Award is luxurious, it is a semi-official award, and it is still very important in the mainland.

However, after weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Shen Chong gave up the idea of rushing to Beijing immediately.

On the one hand, it is not in his position to seek political affairs, and the bureaucracy especially does not like outsiders to point fingers; On the other hand, after the Academy Awards, he has justifiably become one of the leaders of the Hong Kong film industry, with a potential conflict of interest, and he has just helped the mainland get three planes.

Sitting in the car, Shen Chong opened the file bag and looked at it.

Rover had apparently read the draft from Wei Baoguo, and said in detail on the phone that the Film Research Institute had learned from the reform measures taken by various provinces to separate from China Resources and operate foreign trade on their own, and planned to split up some of the assets and employees of the Guangdong branch of the China Film Distribution and Projection Company, and jointly establish a local company with the China Film Import and Export Company.

Self-set ticket price, joint venture cinema, Hong Kong film import rights...... Some of the contents are more radical than the reform of the mainland film system in 1993, but whether the policy is good or not depends on whether the distribution of interests in all aspects is reasonable or not.

Putting down the phone content record, Shen Chong looked at the background analysis prepared by Gu Liwei again.

In addition to the information mentioned on the phone yesterday, Shen Chong quickly noticed a key information - "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" was first released in Beijing on April 10, and began to be screened nationwide five days later.

Seeing this data, Shen Chong is not surprised why the new company in the draft will have a joint venture with the China Import and Export Company and have the right to import films from Hong Kong.

In Chen Bo's office that day, although Shen Chong vomited bitterness and didn't want to let go, in fact, he was just posturing, how could he really care about spending a mere 1 million yuan, so the next day, at the price of one dollar, he sold the mainland screening rights of "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" to the China Film Import and Export Company, and afterwards he heard that the Film Import and Export Company transferred the screening rights to China Film Company at a price of 10,000 yuan.

L yuan was bought, 10,000 yuan was sold, it seems to be a big profit, but behind this l yuan, there is a favor of 1 million, and China Film Company only used 10,000 yuan, just sat back to collect fishing profits, and enjoyed the sky-high box office, how could the input and output company not be blushing......

Although in essence, the China Film Import and Export Company is a government monopoly agency, but it hangs the "company" brand, and like the major film studios, it is a profit-making institution, and it is also the object of exploitation by the China Film Company

You must know that in the RU era, the salary system in the mainland is very rigid, whether the employees' lives are good or not, mainly depends on the welfare of the unit, more profits, higher benefits, less profits, less benefits, everyone belongs to the film system, China Film Company pays benefits at both ends in three days, and the object is robbed, and the budget of the input and output company is very small, it belongs to the Qingshui Yamen in the Qingshui Yamen, if the imported film is not popular, it will be fine, but "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" is so popular, of course the employees are not, who wants to hold the golden rice bowl and eat coarse tea and light rice......

"Presumably, Manager Zhang of the input and output company cried a lot of tears in the Ministry of Culture."

Shen Chong smiled to himself, and continued to look through the clues of Hong Kong.

Among several Chinese-funded film companies in Hong Kong, the Great Wall Film Company and Phoenix Film Company are undergoing asset restructuring before the merger, Fu Qi and Chen Jingbo are very busy, they don't know anything about Beijing's actions, Xia Meng is very low-key, rarely mixed with politics, the only one who has action is Liao Yiyuan, the manager of Xinlian Film Company, he went to Beijing a week ago, this old fox was able to talk to Premier Zhou in the 50s, his hands and eyes are all over the sky, and he must have heard the wind in advance.

Bigwigs like Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung have no interest in the film industry, so naturally they can't be expected to provide information, and the only valuable information comes from Jiang Zhiqiang.

The Jiang family and Liao Chengzhi have a deep relationship, after Liao Chengzhi came back from the United States, Jiang Zhiqiang's father went to Guangzhou to visit, according to him, during the visit, Liao Chengzhi suggested several times that he go to Shenzhen丨 to invest in the construction of a movie theater, but Shenzhen's! Although the film market is hot, the ticket price is limited to death, and it doesn't make much money, and the Jiang family is not thick, in case the mainland policy changes, the investment is wasted, and the family will be broken, so after Jiang Zhiqiang's father came back, he has been undecided and can't make up his mind.

"Is Jiang Zhiqiang in the company?"

Gu Liwei glanced at him in surprise and reminded: "Manager Jiang went to France to participate in the Cannes Film Festival." ”

"Oh" Shen Chong patted his head and said: "I stayed in the United States for two months, I was out of the film industry for too long, and I forgot everything about everything, and I made a plan last year to go to the Cannes Film Festival." ”

He thought for a while and said, "You help me ask Old Man Jiang to have a meal together, Jiang Zhiwen can also choose a quiet place." ”

"Okay."

The news from Rover was too abrupt and too short, Gu Liwei didn't have time to sort out and analyze it in detail, so she could only put all kinds of information together, and it was difficult to judge the meaning behind it for a while.

Luo Weiming went to Guangzhou on a business trip last week, and a deputy director of the Pearl River Film Studio had a drink and chat, he once mentioned that after the Academy Awards ceremony, the main leaders of several major film studios headed by Wang Yang visited the new modern printing workshop donated by Shen Chong and the Pearl Film Factory during a break in Guangzhou.

"Old man Wang is very ambitious, and he actually wants to completely abandon Shan Yu of China Film Company." Shen Chong flicked the document in his hand and asked, "Is this news true?" ”

Gu Liwei glanced at it and said; The deputy director said this as a joke, and Editor-in-Chief Luo also thought that this matter was a fantasy, and the mainland would never agree to the film studios going their own way, so he didn't take it seriously

"I don't think it's necessarily a fantasy."

Although the vertical business model has been eliminated in Hollywood for decades, and Shaw Brothers is like a candle in the wind in Hong Kong, no matter how outdated, it is much better than the unified purchase and sales of China Film, and Chinese have the idea of "bigger and more complete" in their bones, so this model has an unparalleled attraction to mainland studios.

At this time, China was in the stage of transition from an "agrarian society" to an "industrial society", just as Toffler said in "The Third Wave", in an industrial society, people pursued perfect order, whether it was the previous buzz or the current monopoly policies, no matter what the purpose, they all subconsciously had the intention of purging the branches and pursuing neatness.

China Film Company's exclusive monopoly on the distribution and screening of films across the country is based on this consciousness, "a game of chess in the whole country", how beautiful and beautiful......

But if this draft is implemented, Shenzhen HL丨 is an exception, China's film import and export companies have eaten crabs, will those film studios also come out with a crab?