Chapter 576: How to Control the Stars
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Lei Juekun's words were quite naked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć If you can bring us benefits, then we can also bring you great benefits, mutual benefits.
But Li Mingbao didn't care too much about Lei Juekun's words, after all, Lei Juekun's promise was not of much value to him. He didn't think about how much benefit he would get from Lei Juekun and Zou Wenhuai, or the sixth uncle.
Because their benefits are easy to take, but if they want to continue to take them, it is not so easy, these old guys have always been interest animals, give you the benefit of one dollar, he can ask for the benefit of ten yuan back. Although Li Mingbao is not afraid of them doing this, it is more or less a trouble, he doesn't like to talk to these guys, so he won't want benefits or anything at all. It's just going to say what needs to be said.
This is not that Li Mingbao learns from Lei Feng, but that doing so will also have great benefits for him. And you don't have to push it yourself, contribute, just say an idea, and then the sixth uncle will realize it, such a good thing, Li Mingbao naturally doesn't mind confiding it.
"Boss Lei, your benefits, it's better to keep it for yourself. I don't need any of these benefits at all. As long as you follow my plan, then it doesn't matter to you these ideas, after all, everyone is from Hong Kong.
is also a person in Hong Kong's local film industry, and now that the barrier has been broken, there will be regional concepts as well. If Hong Kong's film industry is wiped out by then, it will not be a good thing for me, although it will not have much impact, but after all, it will be a little worse than the good cooperation now. Li Mingbao said calmly.
"Li Sheng, you are really a high wind and bright festival. It is an honor for Hong Kong to have a figure like Li Sheng. Lei Juekun heard that Li Mingbao didn't want to be paid, but directly said the plan, and immediately said it in a sycophant.
"Okay, Boss Lei, let's get down to business. Regarding the plan for talents in the film industry, in fact, I started it a long time ago, but I have been in a state of small fights before, and I was going to slowly put this thing into operation, but I didn't expect that the film industry in Hong Kong is so pessimistic about the future of Hong Kong. As for what stage can be reached in the end, it depends on the efforts of the industry people in Hong Kong, and I just put forward a plan, and the specific implementation depends on everyone.
If everyone doesn't work hard, then the plan I have come up with may not be beneficial to Hong Kong, but will allow others to take advantage of it. If that time comes, don't blame me for the poor idea. "For Lei Juekun's sycophancy, Li Mingbao doesn't have much cold, these guys really don't have much foresight, if he didn't have to rely on Hong Kong in the future, Li Mingbao really didn't want to deal with these people at all.
"Hong Kong people lack money and faith, but there is absolutely no shortage of one thing. If everyone does not work hard, then the current situation in Hong Kong may not be much better, and it is the same as in other parts of Africa. However, Hong Kong's ability to develop into such a market situation can already show that the efforts of Hong Kong people are really abandoned because of hard work, then we will not lose unjustly. Zou Wenhuai said coldly at this time.
He is more qualified to say such things than Lei Juekun, especially for the film industry, Lei Juekun is a halfway monk, and he may not understand how difficult it is for the Hong Kong film industry to get to the present, but he Zou Wenhuai is a person who came over in that era, and no one in the Hong Kong film industry who really went to the top said that he did not work hard.
Even a person like Uncle Six, when he first made a movie, he also reviewed the film himself. You must know that Uncle Sixth was already the boss of the film company at that time, and in Shaw Brothers, he said that even if he was a character, he was such a character, and he did not give up his roots, and he needed to spend a lot of time every day to review his company's films, just to prevent any problems with his company's films.
That's why Zou Wenhuai became the right-hand man of Uncle Six, to put it simply, they are actually the same kind of people, in modern terms, they are all workaholics. Of course, Uncle Sixth can be regarded as a workaholic, a workaholic who is rarely found in the world, and people who are more than 100 years old still have to work a lot of work, which is simply a model of living to work until old age. This has little to do with Uncle Six's character of slamming the door. This is another advantage of the sixth uncle.
How desperate Hong Kong filmmakers are, Zou Wenhuai knows very well, even people like Uncle Sixth often forget to eat because of reviewing movies, let alone those below. I can't say enough about the legendary events in the Hong Kong film industry, just the speed of filming, even Hollywood can't compare. Although this speed has produced a lot of cripples, it has to be said that even Americans can't do this kind of work attitude.
"With Boss Zou's words, I feel at ease. My idea, in fact, is very simple, is to make stars. This kind of practice is very common in Hong Kong now, including Boss Zou, you are very familiar with this industry, but in fact, your approach is too small, and you have not brought out the true value of a star at all.
We have talked about this topic before, and only then did we set up a brokerage company. But the brokerage company I set up in Hong Kong before can only be regarded as a prototype. The vast majority of business is reactive, rather than our initiative. Of course, this situation also stems from the unstable positioning of those stars at the beginning, so we chose a safe plan.
But now, what we need to do is actually play big. These stars before can be said to be Hong Kong superstars at most. But my new idea is to build these stars into superstars in the whole of East Asia.
What is a superstar in East Asia? What does such a concept represent? Let me give you an example, Boss Zou, you may understand. For example, let's take Chen Long as an example, Chen Long's current influence is in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South China. Toward... Xian, they are all very influential, and his movies sell quite well in those places, but Chen Long is not a superstar in the entire East Asia region so far.
Why do I say that? It's very simple, that is, Chen Long's influence, in some parts of East Asia, is not very high, although there are high places, but there are also his blind spots, in Japan may be able to sell well, but in Malaysia? What about in Vietnam? What about in Thailand? In these areas, how much influence can Chen Long have?
If he can reach the height of Japan in the same areas as these regions, then Chen Long can really be regarded as a superstar in the entire East Asian region at that time. And such a superstar is what I call an East Asian superstar. That's what I'm talking about. Li Mingbao briefly introduced.
"Li Sheng, your statement is not very novel, in fact, we at Jiahe are also planning to make Chen Long such a superstar now, but it is too difficult, and it is not so easy to achieve it quickly.
And Li Sheng, how many benefits can this idea have for us? Listening to your explanation, the benefits are all in Chen Long, although we can make a lot of money from his income, but the lion's head is still in his own hands. If an actor like Chen Long earns too much, it will not be so easy for us to control him.
You also know that Long Chen was born as a martial artist, and his temper is relatively irritable. We can use our salary to trap him now, but if his capital is high to a certain extent, maybe he will jump out of our circle, in that case, won't we lose our wife and soldiers? Zou Wenhuai said calmly at this time.
"Regarding what Boss Zou said, I actually don't agree very much. In my opinion, Boss Zou's worries are indeed a problem, if Chen Long's income is too high, it is easy to disobey the command. That's why Boss Zou made that choice. But such a choice may not be really that good.
In Hollywood, there are also so many stars, their income, not to mention compared to Chen Long, even if it is higher than Boss Zou's net worth, it is not nothing, and it can even be said that it is still easy to find such a star. Among the top stars in Hollywood, there are a considerable number of people whose net worth is higher than that of Boss Zou.
But such a star, in Hollywood, is no one to give face? Not necessarily, right? There are really good movies, and they will still shoot them. Even hanging under the banner of a certain film company is not a very troublesome thing. Of course, there are indeed very independent actors in Hollywood, they will only express their opinions on the movies they like, and the movies they don't like will not be filmed no matter how much money they give.
But so what? Could it be that Hollywood is crumbling because of these stars? Didn't you? Up to now, the movie world in Hollywood is very prosperous. didn't say that anyone had a high income, so he just didn't mix in this circle. Unless he's tired of this kind of life, he will still follow the rules of the film industry.
Hollywood's stars are still like this, Boss Zou, do you think people in Hong Kong will be more exaggerated than Hollywood? Does Boss Zou think that those very independent stars over there are not controlled by the companies over there? This is, do you think the bosses over there in Hollywood are all vegetarians? If you really want to play tricks, they can make any top star fall off the altar.
Therefore, I think that using capital to control celebrities is actually a rather low-level means, and for those celebrities, there will be many stars with rebellious psychology, but it is not so easy to control. If our Hong Kong film industry also learns from Hollywood's approach, I'm afraid it would be better than now, right? Li Mingbao said lightly.
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