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August 8, 1983 was a memorable moment for the Hong Kong film industry. www.biquge.info On this day, United Cinema announced a cross-era plan, that is, a circulation port. A super-large pan-alliance group with Hong Kong films as the brand, the East Asian market as the foundation, and the film company as the cornerstone, was established in Hong Kong United Cinemas.

The alliance group, which takes the creation of the most wonderful films in East Asia as its own responsibility, develops the film industry as its goal, and realizes the desire of the film industry to take off, was announced at the press conference of United Cinema Line. The establishment of this pan-alliance not only caused a shock in the whole of East Asia, but also had a considerable impact even on the Hollywood side.

Of course, although there is some influence on the Hollywood side, it is not too mainstream, after all, Hollywood in these days, even the Japanese market has not been opened, and they don't care much about the film industry in East Asia. The reason why the impact is not small is not because of the plan of the distribution port, but because there is now a new film alliance in the world in addition to Hollywood. And the newspapers that like to be alarmist like to talk about things like this, saying that this alliance will conquer Hollywood in the future.

But in fact, such a thing is just to earn everyone's attention, and the real insiders don't take this so-called alliance in their eyes at all. It's not that they're arrogant. But in the box office market, the current North America and Europe are the mainstream, and other places are not on the same level as Hollywood at all. Who would really be worried that these movies would take Hollywood? That's just a joke.

It is impossible for East Asian films to enter Hollywood on a large scale due to simple racial issues, so although there are influences, most of them are to earn eyeballs. There are even newspapers with a joke-reading mentality. Even Li Mingbao's friend John in Hollywood called to congratulate Li Mingbao, as for other things, he didn't mention it at all, obviously, John didn't take the plan of this circulation port in his eyes, even if he was only one of the giant Hollywood companies. Even the boss of a giant company can't look down on this thing, let alone the whole of Hollywood.

But Hollywood doesn't like it, it doesn't mean that this project really doesn't have much impact, at least in East Asia, the influence of United Cinemas is soaring, and the United Cinema Line, which was originally estimated at only two or three billion Hong Kong dollars, was immediately valued at one-half, that is, about five billion Hong Kong dollars.

After the lively and lively release of this matter thoroughly, Li Mingbao and their shareholders of the United Cinema Line immediately began to get busy, although various plans have been formulated before, but the question is whether these plans can stand the test of time, and if there is anything unreasonable, it needs to be changed immediately, which is in the interests of the public.

This part of the matter, one is handled by Li Mingbao, so the more people come to negotiate, the more busy Li Mingbao becomes, Sixth Uncle and Lei Juekun, at this time, also began to use their prestige in Hong Kong to dredge up the external problems of the United Cinema Line, Li Mingbao and Zou Wenhuai began to share more about the formulation of the rules of the United Cinema Line, plus the conditions that have been negotiated with some large foreign film companies before, they need to be supplemented, basically except for sleeping, there is no time to rest at all. Among them, Li Mingbao also pulled Cui Xiaoming out.

As a professional manager, Cui Xiaoming obviously has a better way to deal with those foreign bosses, although limited to his position, Li Mingbao and they cannot hand over more important business to Cui Xiaoming's hands, but the business of communicating with foreign businessmen is no problem at all to hand over to him, originally he did what he did, that's all, after all, he is not only the director of United Cinemas, but also the deputy general manager of United Cinemas. It can be regarded as working for both parties, and as a link to deal with the relationship between foreign businessmen, it is just the right time to make the best use of people's talents.

And the remaining shareholder, the Xiang brothers, was not idle at this time. The rules on films issued by the Hong Kong government in the past have now been more widely publicized with the establishment of the Circulation Port Plan. Coupled with the Xiang brothers' current position in the United Cinema Line, how those funds with a black and gold background can join this carnival needs to be coordinated by the Xiang brothers.

It's rare for the British government in Hong Kong to relax some restrictions, and those bigwigs on the road naturally know that there will be many opportunities in the movie, they used to only watch it with greed, but now they have the opportunity to get a vote in this industry, how can they miss this opportunity? Even if the film can't make money, or even lose money, they don't care, since the Hong Kong film industry has relaxed the restrictions on black gold, they can't do without this new project just for money laundering, so even if they are not as sensitive as people in the industry, their ability to act cannot be underestimated.

This force, Li Mingbao and they can't stop it at all, and it is easy to cause more contradictions, so you need to set a rule for these people first, otherwise they will all come in like sheep, and the Hong Kong film industry may end up like in the previous life.

It is precisely because they know the benefits and disadvantages of these capitals, so Li Mingbao is more cautious when they treat these funds than they are to those foreign capitals, and now the world of Hong Kong films looks quite promising, no one likes to make a mess of such an industry, and sending the Xiang brothers to deal with this aspect of the matter is to give those guys a warning, you can do things in this circle, we don't object, but there are some places that can't be touched, you must not touch them, otherwise, There is no place for you in this industry.

Although relying on the influence of the Xiang brothers alone, it is impossible to completely settle these big guys, after all, they are not without opponents, and if the opponent does not abide by the rules, it will be a big trouble, but fortunately, the Xiang brothers are not fighting alone, and there is a more powerful joint cinema line standing behind them, so this rule is actually quite weighty, as long as the rules are given at the beginning, no one dares to destroy it at will, then this matter is equivalent to being done.

Those people can not sell the face of the Xiang brothers, but they can't not sell the face of an old man like Uncle Six, right? With a two-pronged approach, I don't believe that there is really such a big thorn, and even if there is such a thorn, Li Mingbao and they can immediately set an example of chickens and monkeys and teach others how to understand the rules.

Fortunately, Li Mingbao and their joint cinema chain have a lot of precautionary measures, if these foreign and black capital are allowed to enter indiscriminately, the world of the Hong Kong film industry may immediately change, and those famous actors may be reduced to the way they did in the early years of Taiwan.

At least now, under Li Mingbao's careful arrangement, the people in Hong Kong's local film industry have not changed much, that is, suddenly there are many powerful leather bag companies in the industry, and the film libraries of those small companies in Hong Kong have also been repeatedly watched by people with brains to see if there is more use value, which is also a good thing. It's just that there are too many immortals, which makes some people in the industry tremble and don't know what to do.

But it's not a big problem, wait for a while, really straighten things out, is the beginning of the dragon fight, maybe some small companies that are not very famous before, riding this storm, will have other large companies to acquire, for their insignificant connections, there is a foundation, better than completely empty-handed construction, right?

This is more than half a month, and the plan to unite the original circulation port has also begun to be officially implemented, with the first foreign film released in Hong Kong, it proves that the circulation port plan is officially on the right track. In fact, those foreign film companies were originally preparing to start showing their own films as soon as the news of the circulation port was released.

But the plan can't catch up with the changes, there is still some bargaining and ripping in the middle, plus foreign films are screened in Hong Kong, and they also need to be re-dubbed and subtitled, and multiple problems have come down, which has caused the United Cinema Line to really start the release of the first foreign film after it was announced for more than half a month.

And the release of the first movie, you must also get a good fortune, if the quality of the movie is not good at all, and a movie only has a box office of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars in the end, how to give confidence to the latecomers? Therefore, the choice of this first movie must meet the appetite of Hong Kong audiences and ensure that the box office will be a long-term hit.

Coupled with the behind-the-scenes, there is also the work of copying the film, and the most important point is that so many companies are needed to compete, compromise a series of problems, and be able to put the first film into production in half a month, it is already Li Mingbao's work in place, otherwise, Li Mingbao and they are just shouting slogans, and there is no actual thing to come out, maybe it will be a few months.

After overcoming many difficulties, the first shot was finally completely fired, because the first movie was the kind of foreign film that had not yet been released, and it was selected from the new films of many large film companies, in terms of quality and details, it was done very well, even if it was not a local film in Hong Kong, there was no full line of joint screenings, and the box office revenue on the first day also broke one million Hong Kong dollars.

This kind of achievement is to have a colorful head, to have a result, to hope that there is hope, and even the box office to break 10 million is not a problem, the biggest problem may be to stop at tens of millions of seats, after all, such a blockbuster is also the first time to do an experiment, and the screening time is only the first seven days is the premiere, although it will still be screened for a month, but the local market of this movie will also be screened on a large scale after seven days.

So in this movie, the really most important time is the first seven days, if the seven days can exceed 10 million local box office, then United Cinemas will immediately create a new myth, that is, a new box office record for foreign films screened in Hong Kong.