Volume 1 Chapter 156 A Trip to Taiwan

Taiwan's developed economy also enables 20 million people to have good purchasing power, as one of the few box office markets in Asia, because of the lack of local films and historical problems, in order to meet the needs of 20 million people, Taiwan has to purchase a large number of films from outside every year to be released on the island, and it has also created a number of strong distributors.

According to the information collected by Zhu Zhishan, Taiwanese publishers are divided into three strong and two weak five factions.

The strongest is the 'country' with the background of the Taiwan provincial government, the name of the distributor, represented by Nuctech, Kang Xinhua, 'Bowei,' Central, the four major distributors, each of which controls a certain number of theaters and theaters; The second is the private distributors in Taiwan Province led by Taiwan's local film giant 'Scholar's Company, including 'Scholar,' 'Miramar,' Keelung Show', 'Weixiu, etc.), which have theater systems throughout Taiwan, but most of them are independent and scattered.

It is followed by four foreign distributors with Hong Kong backgrounds, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Meiya and Golden Princess, and Shaw Brothers has four wholly-owned cinemas and seven joint venture cinemas in Taiwan. Golden Harvest has five wholly-owned cinemas and eleven joint ventures and franchised cinemas. Meiya has only invested in two theaters, but it has signed five-year cooperation agreements with more than a dozen theaters in Taiwan. Among the four major Hong Kong distributors, Golden Princess is undoubtedly the weakest one, and Golden Princess, who only entered Taiwan in 84, has only five joint venture theaters in Taiwan so far, which leads to the fact that the films of its film company Xinyicheng can only be guaranteed through cooperation with local theater companies in Taiwan. The shortcomings of the four major distributors with Hong Kong backgrounds are also obvious, basically concentrated in Taipei, and few have their own theaters in Tainan and Taizhong.

Among the five major distributors in Taiwan, Lin Xiaozhi is two weak and no longer considers it after a few glances, and these two weak are Taiwan Black. There are dozens of theaters scattered throughout Taiwan under the control of various powers, as well as theater companies under the name of Warner, the Hollywood giant that has only entered Taiwan's theater industry in recent years. Taiwan's reputation for blacks and Taoism has never been good, but Lin Xiaozhi does not have the background of Wan'an boss Xiang brothers, and he is not afraid of Taiwan's peers and eats a big head. It's okay for him to pull ATV's tiger skin in Hong Kong, but when it comes to Taiwan, people don't buy it at all. Hollywood giant Warner Lin Hsiao-chi doesn't even consider that Hong Kong films in Taiwan are competitors to American blockbusters, not to mention that Warner itself does not have many theaters in Taiwan, and the films released still rely on the distribution of the four major state-owned distributors such as Nuctech.

The four major Hong Kong-funded issuers were also immediately excluded by Lin Xiaozhi, and Princess Jin has little strength in Taiwan. Meiya was rejected by him once, and now he comes to the door again, and he is invisibly shorter in front of Li Guoxing, and it is not good to talk about cooperation with Meiya in the future. Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers don't have to think about it, it is not a day or two for the two major academies to tacitly block other Hong Kong films from entering Taiwan, and occasionally a few film companies will be taken away from the box office after Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers landed in Taiwan, and the gains from cooperating with them outweigh the losses, and it still failed to solve the problem of Taiwanese screening channels that New Asia now wants to get the most.

"In that case, we don't have many options left."

Lin Xiaozhi frowned: "Xiao Zhu, can you tell me about the situation of these state-owned distributors in Taiwan?" ”

"It's good, Mr. Lin"

Zhu Zhishan: "Like the mainland, Taiwan also has many 'countries and enterprises', but they are all owned by the Kuomintang. I haven't heard the news about this Central for a while, but I have inquired about the three state-owned distributors of Nuctech, Xinhua, and Bowei, all of which were built by the former Japanese colonial film factory and traitor industry after the Chiang father and son fled to Taiwan. In recent years, state-owned distributors and private distributors in Taiwan Province have been competing against each other for the market, and the four major distributors have reached a consensus in RU that every blockbuster movie can be released on other distributors......"

The last sentence made Lin Xiaozhi's eyes light up, this decision is somewhat similar to the two-line joint screening strategy that Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers made in order to block the rise of New Art City. However, Taiwan's side is a four-line joint screening, and for a good movie that can sell well, the effect is self-evident. Lin Hsiao-chi was almost immediately attracted by the strategy of the four major state-owned publishers in Taiwan Province, and decided to start his upcoming trip to Taiwan, with the main target of the four major state-owned distributors.

unexpectedly received a birthday gift from Zhou Huimin, and Lin Xiaozhi remembered that today was his birthday. Then the rest can be explained, no wonder before going to work this morning, Fu Bo kept telling Lin Xiaozhi to come back at noon, even he forgot that this day was his birthday, I didn't expect so many people to remember, but it made Lin Xiaozhi feel good.

Hurriedly returned home at noon, and sure enough, after some careful arrangement in the Lin Mansion, in addition to the previous conflict with Lin Xiaozhi, the stepmother and the third child had something to do, in addition to the eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi and sister-in-law, as well as his father Lin Jiannian, Fu Bo, they had already gone home early and waited for him to come back.

The old man is still in the detention center, and in the recent third round of trials, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has exposed some unfavorable things against the Kowloon Bank, and now it is no longer a trial of whether he is guilty or not, and the focus has become how long the old man should be sentenced, and whether he can be released on medical parole after sentencing or amnesty. Perhaps because of his absence, the atmosphere at home was a little silent. They are all adults, and there are not so many constraints at the birthday party, everyone sings a birthday song together, Lin Xiaozhi blows out the candles, and the Filipino maid stepped forward and quickly brought the cake to the individual.

Lin Xiaozhi rarely eats cream products, just casually eats a few bites and puts them aside.

Of course, birthday parties inevitably include gifts. Fauber gave him a pair of glasses, during this time Lin Xiaozhi often sat in front of the computer and typed, 89 years of computer radiation can be much stronger than the later generations have improved, now he has felt that after using the computer for more than an hour or two, the glasses began to fluff. Some time ago, Lin Xiaozhi entrusted Fu Bo to help him buy a few bottles of eye drops, but he didn't expect this old man to be so careful, in order to buy a pair of anti-fatigue flat mirrors.

The sister-in-law with a good family background gave him a set of private family screening combinations, which made Lin Xiaozhi a little puzzled, where is this pile of things worth nearly 100,000 yuan, and can it still be installed in his room? However, the sister-in-law sent him, and Lin Xiaozhi naturally wanted to express his gratitude.

The eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi knew that in addition to a sports car, he used the family car to commute in the past year, and this time on his birthday, he directly paid for a high-end Mercedes-Benz business car for him, which cost at least seven or eight hundred thousand, which made Lin Xiaozhi very surprised. However, this surprise only lasted for more than ten seconds, and he accepted it calmly. He understands what Lin Xiaoyi means, probably because a month ago, when he had a conflict with his stepmother Chen Shaohua, he had already announced that he would not compete with Lin Xiaoyi for the Lin family's property, and even urged Lin Jiannian to ensure his status as Lin Xiaoyi's heir as soon as possible. This move obviously touched the eldest brother very much, they are also brothers, although the wealthy family is the most ruthless, but there is no conflict of interest, a younger brother who has recently begun to learn well and is getting stronger and stronger, unless he is stupid, otherwise he still has to take the initiative to build a good relationship.

The finale was naturally a gift from his father, but to Lin Xiaozhi's surprise, his cheap father directly threw a document bag containing the real estate certificate and the transfer agreement to him, and Lin Xiaozhi immediately understood why her sister-in-law would give her a new set of private family screening combinations, it seems that she had already known in advance that Lin Jiannian would give him the Lin family's villa in East Lake.

The Lin family has a high-end villa in the East Lake Community of Longxiang Road, which Lin Xiaozhi has known for a long time. The East Lake community was one of the most upscale villa areas in Hong Kong in the 80s, and the Lin family's villa was 35 square feet (about 393 square meters), which was bought in 198l, when it cost more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, plus the decoration almost used about RU 00,000. You must know that the price was enough to shoot a 70Uj cost movie back then. In recent years, it has almost doubled in value, worth more than 14UU of Hong Kong dollars, and has always been one of the core assets of the Lin family.

Of course, the reason why Lin Xiaozhi took a fancy to it was not because he wanted to sell it for money. It's because it only takes four or five minutes to walk from Longxiang Road to the radio road where he goes to work. Lin Jiannian gave him this villa, and he will go to work in Xinya in the future, and he doesn't even need a car.

Everyone's gift is a heart, and Lin Xiaozhi happily accepted all the gifts. Although, this means that after this day, he Lin Xiaozhi will be P years old, and there are only two years left before he is thirty years old.

The birthday celebration will make him feel the warmth of home a little, of course, if his father does not hint at the dinner table, I hope he learns from his eldest brother to get married early, and let him hold his grandson as soon as possible, it is estimated that it will be more happy.

Entering the P year, Lin Xiaozhi's first year after waking up is over.

The difficulty of casting "Killer Leon" has become his biggest headache after waking up. Even after the conditions were relaxed to 1970, among the dozens of materials transferred by ATV's archives department, none of the girl stars matched the classic little Lori image in Lin Xiaozhi's mind, which had to make him start to reflect on whether he should consider lowering the standard.

There was no time for him to think about that, though.

It has been a month since the end of the release, and Meiya has begun to arrange the release of the videotape of "Color is Empty" in Hong Kong, and it is not surprising that the videotape of "Color is Empty" will land in Hong Kong in the first half of the month. In order to prevent piracy from flowing into Taiwan and affecting the distribution of "Color is Empty" in Taiwan, on May 4, Lin Xiaozhi boarded the plane to Taiwan with only three people.