Chapter 620: The Gap Between the Three Major Film Companies
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There may be only two East Asian star-level movie actors on the Shaw Brothers' side, but there are too many first-line star-level actors below, just take out one, the level is quite high, if you look back at those veteran artists in the 70s, it will definitely blow up all other film companies in Hong Kong. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info so the background of the Shaw Brothers is really very powerful, so strong that at the beginning, Li Mingbao was really drooling. Of course, in fact, among the top actors of the Shaw Brothers, there is another actress who can also be placed in it, and that is Zhao Yazi. Her popularity and fame are actually a little more exaggerated than Zhong Chuhong in Hong Kong now.
But it's a pity that Zhao Yazi's main business now is basically in TV series, there are not a few movies, and there are no results, and she has basically rarely appeared in the past two years, staying quietly at home, which will affect her rating very much, Li Mingbao has the strength to let her squeeze into that threshold, but Zhao Yazi herself is not so willing, she is actually very satisfied with her current life, and she doesn't want to be in the limelight at all.
What's more, those top bosses, who don't know that she Zhao Yazi is Li Mingbao, can't enter this star system, for her, it's not so important, someone really wants to ask her to make a movie, does that person dare to take advantage of her? In this way, the Shaw Brothers can really be regarded as top actors, that is, Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong, as for the others, they are still a little worse, like the four heavenly kings of later generations, as well as Liang Chaowei, these top actors, although their lives are much better than in history, they are at most next to the side of second-rate stars, and they have not yet stood very firmly in this position, let alone people at the level of East Asian stars, and it will take a long time to work hard.
Because of Li Mingbao, both the top strength and the overall strength of the Shaw Brothers are a big cut above other Hong Kong companies, which is a good thing for Uncle Six, but also a bad thing, the bad thing is that there are so many famous stars to be evaluated, and it is not a small amount for Uncle Six's expenses. Although the sixth uncle also understands that after the level is really assessed, it will not take long for the money invested in it to be earned, and after that, it will be pure profit, but what kind of person is the sixth uncle, everyone understands that his favorite thing is to spend a small amount of money to do big things, rather than an equivalent exchange like now, which is not quite in line with his code of conduct.
But on this issue, the sixth uncle really has no room for maneuver, either he will pay a large sum of money now, and then let all the people who should go up. Either he won't join in the fun this time, and then wait for a bigger price to get these people up in the future, how cost-effective, the sixth uncle still understands very well, so in the end, he still endured his distress, and got all the people who should be involved, and participated in the assessment, except for the old famous stars who really can't squeeze oil, although they are famous, but the fame is difficult to turn into the kind of famous stars with strength, ordinary famous stars, the sixth uncle still paid the cost of rating.
Regarding the payment of the fee for the assessment and rating, in fact, when we discussed it before, there was a result, in line with the principle that whoever is the company will let the company pay, in essence, the star does not have to worry about the cost of the rating. It seems that this practice is for the good of famous stars, after all, the cost of such a thing as rating is not a big amount for the boss, as long as it is not a one-time rating, then the boss can withstand it. But for a famous star, the cost of this rating is not too high, and it is not too low to say low, anyway, I have to pay for it myself, which is somewhat distressing.
Therefore, if the company bears the cost of this rating, then the star does not have to pay for it himself, which is a good thing for the star. But in fact, what is really beneficial to this matter is more beneficial to the company. Don't look at the company is to help the star pay the cost of the rating, but the company can't pay in vain, the cost of the rating is an important voucher between the company and the star, I will help you get your level, the money you get, can you swallow it alone, this is not a normal thing. So as long as the company grasps the rating fee and squeezes the income of the famous star, it will become bright and bright, which is like the company is investing in the famous star, and I invested, you have to give a return, right?
With this investment, these film companies will naturally be able to obtain the excess return of the star's income, and the interest rate of this return depends on the discipline of their respective companies. If the festival is a little better, the income of the star will increase a lot, but if the company is not good, then the income of the star is at most a little more than when there was no rating before, which does not play a big role.
In terms of ratings, Shaw Brothers can basically be said to be sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, no matter what the situation, the background of Shaw Brothers can resist any risks and will not have too much impact on Shaw Brothers, at most, let the money in Uncle Six's hand digest a little, and there will be nothing else.
And for Jiahe's side, the situation is also not bad. After all, Golden Harvest has been able to survive in front of the Shaw Brothers for so many years, and perhaps the background of the famous star is not comparable with the Shaw Brothers at all, but the top stars on the Golden Harvest side will not be inferior to the Shaw Brothers. There are also two stars on Golden Harvest's side that can be rated as East Asian stars, one is Chen Long, and the other is Yuan Biao.
Don't look at the name of Yuan Biao in later generations, it is far less famous than Chen Long, it seems that Yuan Biao only has some old qualifications, and the rest, not to mention compared to Chen Long, compared to the eldest brother Hong Jinbao, are far behind.
But in fact, Yuan Biao in this year, his influence, in fact, wants to be not bad, among the people of the Seven Little Blessings, the person who really has the ability to sell internationally is not Chen Long, but Yuan Biao. At some point, Yuan Biao's ability to sell in the Japanese market was much higher than that of Chen Longlai. This is something that Hong Jinbao can't match.
Although Hong Jinbao is the boss of Seven Little Fortunes, and is called Big Brother in the Hong Kong film industry, Hong Jinbao's strength in Hong Kong cannot be turned into strength in East Asia, and his influence in East Asia is far worse than his two junior brothers. Unless he can make one or two movies that are outstanding in East Asia, otherwise, he will have a great disadvantage in terms of star rating compared to his two junior brothers. Chen Long and Yuan Biao are people who can directly impact the threshold of East Asian stars, while Hong Jinbao is a top film star in the Hong Kong industry, but he is not qualified to impact East Asian stars, because he is overseas and does not have much influence, and if he wants to be rated as an East Asian star, he still lacks a little background. Even if he is barely rated, the position is not so easy to do, and maybe in the next rating, he will be brushed off.
And Hong Kong's last large-scale film company, Xinyicheng, is a large-scale film company to put it mildly, but it is actually a small-scale film company, and most of the people in charge of it are in a group, and except for the characters in this group, other people in this company are completely speechless, the reason why they can become a large-scale film company is actually stained with the blessing of Lei Juekun, if it weren't for Lei Juekun who owned the Golden Princess at the beginning, and then owned the shares of United Cinemas, the strength of their new art city, to put it bluntly, is just like that, maybe there are a lot of top personnel, but the background of the middle and lower levels can almost be regarded as none. In the new art city, there is only one Mecca who can be selected as a famous star in East Asia, and even if it is Mecca, his strength is slightly better than Hong Jinbao, but it is much worse than the hard power of others.
On the Hong Kong side, in addition to these three major film companies, other companies, let alone the selection of East Asian stars, even the selection of Hong Kong's local first-line stars, are somewhat lacking. Therefore, other companies, in this selection, do not really have the right to speak, basically focus on participation.
Since Li Mingbao has been in Hong Kong recently, and has not gone to other places, many companies have now sent elite soldiers to Hong Kong, and if they can have a relationship with Li Mingbao, they will directly have a relationship with Li Mingbao, and those who can't have a relationship with Li Mingbao will have a relationship with other people in the management committee, so that the celebrities of their own companies can have a good harvest on the issue of rating.
Among the local film companies in Hong Kong, those who can get involved with Li Mingbao are the three major film companies, of course, other companies are not without people who can get involved, but their company has a big lack of ties because of this famous star, even if it is related, it has no practical effect, so they don't get involved in such things. The leftist film circles have also turned a blind eye to the management committee that has recently been created in Hong Kong.
If you want to say that the celebrities they can contact, there are actually top ones, as long as the mainland is willing to send people over, then there will be absolutely no problem in selecting a bunch of first-line celebrities. But because at this time, the mainland didn't care so much about the star rating system that Li Mingbao came up with, and the management committee, so the mainland didn't send anyone to rate it at all, and the local leftist film industry can't come up with a few people this year, and the most important thing is that the rating costs money.
And after the people on the mainland are rated, it is impossible to take out the famous stars for other purposes like other places, so they can't find a suitable way to make money after spending money, which makes the mainland side lack interest in this matter, and the local film industry on the mainland side really doesn't care too much about Li Mingbao's rating, with their thinking mode, the rating made by the mainland itself can represent the strength, why do you have to go to Li Mingbao to rate? Isn't this discrediting the mainland film industry? Is political correctness still necessary? When encountering such a thing, it would be whimsical for them to be able to participate in activities like Li Mingbao.
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