Chapter 348: In the era when there was no piracy, even the air was fresh

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It can be said that in the next 20 or 30 years, the biggest cancer in the mainland film industry is actually those pirates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info At that time, the pirates had formed a perfect network of relationships, and various forces were intertwined, not to mention that the film companies couldn't control it, even the major studios, there was nothing they could do.

But now, not to mention the network of pirates, even pirates can't survive in this year. Such an assertion is not Li Mingbao's nonsense, because this is the reality of things. There are many theories about how the pirate dealers in the film industry became the climate, but in Li Mingbao's view, how the pirates of film and television programs appeared, it is nothing more than the emergence of VCD, which really made this industry the climate.

Before the advent of VCD, although there were pirated copies, it was definitely not in the film and television industry, game software and other things, there may have been an industrial chain, but in the film sector, absolutely no one has entered the industry, because the simplest truth is that there is no VCD, even if you have pirated discs, no one has the equipment to show them.

You must know that before the advent of VCD, the world used video recorders. This thing is indeed very common in the European and American markets, and Li Mingbao's income from making movies now is not a small amount. But the problem lies in the fact that video recorders, which are popular electronic devices in Europe and the United States, are absolutely rare in the current country, even if they have video recorders at home, it is impossible for them to pirate discs with their status, and they basically buy genuine copies, and the piracy of video tapes does not have any market in China, because few people can afford video recorders in China, and there is no market for piracy when they cannot afford to buy them.

It was only after the advent of VCD that everyone suddenly found that pirated discs on the market had sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, whether it was domestic or foreign movies, they could be found in the pirated market. Before the advent of VCD, there were quite few people in China who owned projection equipment, so the average person wanted to watch movies, in addition to watching them on TV, only in places like movie theaters, there were only two roads, and there was no more, unless you were so tyrannical that you had a video recorder, and even if you had a video recorder, you still had to buy genuine video tapes, because there was no piracy at all.

The emergence of VCD directly made piracy popular in the film market, and in the later Internet era, there is no way to crack down on piracy, because the industrial chain is too large and there are enough people in it, and it is not at all that one or two separate enterprises or individuals can solve all these problems.

And now in the eighty-three years, Li Mingbao feels very beautiful as long as he thinks about this era. The domestic market is certainly underdeveloped, but in the same market, the original interest network will not be too large, since Li Mingbao is not ready to be a pioneer of reform, then only when the side of the pusher, as long as both sides have money to make, in this year of crossing the river by feeling the stones, there really will not be too much of a problem, who is called Li Mingbao now has the old chief's chicken feather arrows in his hands?

Some of Li Mingbao's inferences about the future cannot be explained now, so if you really use the current basis to lay out the mainland's film market, in the eyes of outsiders, it is obviously not a good choice to start at this time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a desert.

Especially for Hong Kong people, the ticket price of a dime a movie really makes them unable to arouse any interest. Although under such a ticket price, some movies with a box office of more than 100 million will be born, such as "Shaolin Temple", but the problem is that such movies are not always made for them.

If a movie is made well, it is possible to make a lot of money, but if it is not made well, with the ticket price of the mainland, it will really be a loss. The ticket price in Hong Kong has now reached the point of more than ten yuan a piece, even if it is a loss, it can always earn back a little capital.

But if you put the movie on the mainland, not to mention the box office income of the mainland, just the ticket price of this dime, if it hits the street, it will be really inhumane, and the more movies you invest in, the more likely it is to have such a problem.

And if it's a petty movie, everyone can hold it, but the problem is that even if my petty movie is in Hong Kong, there is a market, why bother going to the mainland to make money, and it's still RMB, compared to the global advantage of the Hong Kong dollar, the RMB is not pleasing at all now, right? Even if you make money, it is not easy to turn it into actual benefits.

Therefore, except for Li Mingbao, who is interested in the mainland's film market, other people in Hong Kong are not interested in the mainland's market, and it is not entirely a short-sighted problem. There is also the cost to consider. You can exchange Hong Kong dollars for RMB, but you can't exchange them for Hong Kong dollars.

Li Mingyao, who was taken aback by the data Li Mingbao said before, also came back to his senses at this time, so he said again: "Like you say, the market on the mainland is really not useless. If you start the layout now, it's a good choice. But if you do this, I'm afraid you will have to negotiate with the mainland officials about the issue of box office sharing, right?

Although I don't know much about the film industry, I also probably know something, although the mainland has introduced foreign films so far, but the methods they introduce are all buyouts, and the money for this buyout is not very high. If you are filming here, if you want to make real money, you have to solve this problem, and no matter how bad it is, you have to come up with a plan to share it. In that way, you can really make money, and even if you make money in the mainland, it is also RMB, which cannot be used elsewhere, but can only be used in the mainland.

There is no problem when the industrial capital is low, in case your industry becomes bigger, then how to convert this money is a big problem. You can't exchange your money for RMB indefinitely, right? So how do you spend your money outside? ā€

"It is very easy for us to exchange the renminbi for a common currency, as long as we open a factory in the mainland, we can exchange the money. On the Hollywood side, the value of a movie is not only reflected in the box office, but also in the surrounding industries.

And now I also want to build my own film peripheral industry. If you want to build such a factory in Hong Kong, the cost is definitely not a small amount, but if I build such a factory on the mainland side and then do export business, do you think this kind of cost will be very large? And in this way, I can also consume the RMB in my hand, which is a multi-cost deal. So these problems are not a problem at all.

As long as it's money, something that can be defined as legal tender in a region, and you want to transfer it to other funds, it's not completely impossible. Especially in places like the mainland, other places do not recognize the renminbi now, but that does not mean that the renminbi has no value at all, and if that were the case, the mainland would not have so many people involved in reform and opening up.

What I need to think about now is how to actually open up the project. Although we have an access permit, we need to carefully study which aspect to start with. Compared with Hong Kong, it is not easy to grasp business opportunities, although the mainland is a desert now, but there are business opportunities everywhere, no matter which aspect we start, it is easy for us to make money.

Based on this situation, we must find a leading project to come out, and then dig the first pot of gold on this project, and then rely on the mainland's original funds to drive our industrial development. In the future, it will not be possible for us to invest our funds in the development of the mainland without restrictions. It is necessary to let the industry on the mainland side have its own hematopoietic ability. Li Mingbao said.

"Making movies, you started out of this, and you started making movies in the mainland. What's the best choice for this? Li Mingyao said.

"Big brother, you don't understand. In the entertainment industry, the most stable thing will never be movies, otherwise Uncle Six would not have been a TV station back then, and would have given up Shaw Brothers. Although you see that Uncle Sixth doesn't seem to make as much money as I do now, the problem is that he is quite stable and will not have big ups and downs.

The main reason why I am so smooth now is that none of the movies in my hands have been smashed, which means that every one of my movies is profitable, which is the main factor that has allowed me to rise rapidly in Hong Kong and Hollywood.

But the problem is that the film market is not so easy to talk about, maybe I can succeed every time, but as long as there is a problem with a movie, there will be a chain reaction, and it is not impossible to become a big trouble in the end. Especially in the future film market, more and more attention is paid to capital as king, and the funds invested in a film will only get bigger and bigger. If there is a blockbuster in the future where the investment of basically every film reaches 100 million US dollars, as long as one film loses money, even a giant company will not be able to account for it, let alone a small film company like us.

On the contrary, the TV industry is a fairly stable industry, and he will not have too many ups and downs, just like Uncle Sixth is engaged in wireless, this TV is not good-looking, and it will not be cut down and filmed immediately, and it will not cause too much loss to the TV station, this is their stability.

Although what I hope most is to immediately carry out a certain transformation of the mainland film market and achieve good results, the problem is that I don't know much about the mainland film market, and movies that can be popular in Hong Kong and the United States may not be as popular as in the mainland. After all, the system is different, and there are more or less differences. What's more, film control on the mainland is quite strict, and many films that can be screened normally in Hong Kong and the United States may not be able to be screened in the mainland.

This is the real big problem, if I make such a film from the beginning, the impact on the mainland side will be too great, whether it can be screened or not, it is not a good thing for us ourselves. If it can be screened, it is for the sake of our face, but this will offend a lot of people, and if it can't be screened, then the film will be wasted, and there will be a beginning of failure.

So, making movies in the mainland is not as easy as imagined. If you really want to do things in the mainland, I don't think movies will be a good breakthrough, this thing is too mysterious, if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and the choice is too small. ā€ć€‚.怂