"What, Meiya Entertainment!"

Lin Xiaozhi's eyes widened, and the words 'Meiya Entertainment' and 'Li Guoxing' kept echoing in his head for a moment.

As one of the four major distribution companies in Hong Kong, unlike the other three distribution giants of Golden Princess, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Meiya Entertainment Group is the only distribution company that focuses on operating Hong Kong films for overseas release and distribution of videotapes without its own film company. However, the strength of this publishing company still ranks first among the four major distributors, and Lin Xiaozhi wonders if it is difficult for Lu Daomeiya and Li Guoxing.

This Li Guoxing is also the number one leader in the Chinese film industry, and Meiya is until he is reborn, even in the face of the competition between the big enemy Media Asia and the three major state-owned distributors in the mainland, he still firmly stands in the first camp of Chinese distributors, which shows his channel distribution capabilities, especially in Southeast Asia. Lin Xiaozhi is in charge of the distribution of New Asia films, after the filming of the film was completed, he considered the issue of the distribution of the film in other ports, in addition to the neighboring Macau and Taiwan, New Asia does not have its own distribution channels in other cities, and even in Taiwan, New Asia's channels are not very strong, in this channel is king, the profits contributed by the foreign market far exceed the local era, without its own distribution channels, New Asia's profitability is undoubtedly impossible to go up.

Lin Xiaozhi knew this very well, so as soon as Li Guoxing spoke, although his brain was shocked by seeing a giant in the film industry for a short time, he was still able to keep running, and under the rapid rotation of his head, he quickly replied: "It turned out to be Li Dong of Meiya Entertainment, you are a senior in the circle, Meiya can beat Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and Princess Jin, and has been firmly on the throne of Hong Kong's No. 1 distributor in the past few years, which makes people have to admire!" ”

Li Guoxing only raised his eyebrows slightly, he followed his uncle to run a living at the age of twelve, and at the age of thirty he had already earned a net worth of one million, and now he has his own career at just forty, and he has seen too much hypocrisy and flattery, Lin Xiaozhi's few words of compliment will naturally not affect his mood. He didn't receive an invitation from Zheng Zeshi today, and he still asked for movie tickets for the preview screening through some connections, so of course he didn't come here to listen to compliments.

"Director Lin is polite, but let's get back to business. The strength of our Meiya, presumably Director Lin should have heard of it, the predecessor of New Asia, Qiu's films, has not had a strong ability to distribute overseas, and it is difficult for the companies involved to expand their influence overseas. Now the new New Asia Film, if your company is interested, we might as well sit down and have a good talk, New Asia's foreign distribution will be handed over to us Meiya to do, we want the film source, and your company can also get a lot of foreign income, which is a win-win choice! ”

is a good Li Guoxing, and he went straight to the point without flattering words. Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but think highly of him a little more, when he inquired about Meiya's strength before, he was still curious about how Meiya, who did not have his own film company, beat the three giants of Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers, and Golden Princess, and sat firmly in the position of the head of the four major distributors. Now it seems that it also has a lot to do with this hands-on chairman. Yes, Meiya focuses on cooperating with other film companies outside the Big Three. Golden Harvest, New Arts City, and Shaw Brothers have joined forces, and although there are dozens of films shot in a year, they only account for a fraction of the annual output of three or four hundred films in Hong Kong. Among them, there are some blockbuster movies, and one of them has been successfully sold in other cities, and Meiya has made a lot of profits.

Pure film producers are actually the biggest suffering, without their own distribution channels and theaters, the theaters will take nearly half of the profits that a film can create, and the remaining half, the distribution will eat at least one-third or even one-half.

After a moment of silence, Lin Xiaozhi replied: "I am also a new appointee, the movie "I'm Crazy for Qing" can be discussed if it is handed over to Meiya for distribution, but "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" may not work, this movie Director Zheng seems to have handed it over to Princess Jin for distribution, and I have to ask Director Zheng about the details!" ”

Li Guoxing didn't know much about Xinya's situation, and frowned when he heard this: "Director Lin can't do anything about this?" He squinted at Lin Xiaozhi, a little unhappy in his heart. As a film company under ATV, Li Guoxing, who has been committed to cooperating with other film companies other than the top three in the film industry, naturally sent someone to inquire about the news of New Asia. According to the news he inquired, the young man in front of him is not only from a wealthy family, but also the nephew of Lin Baixin, the major shareholder of ATV.

Lin Xiaozhi smiled, "Although I am the executive director of the company, I still have to discuss this matter with Mr. Wang, Chairman Qiu and Director Zheng." For example, the movie "Maoshan", from the script to the actors to the investment, Director Zheng is in Zhang Luo, and I can only help ask. And "I'm Crazy for Qing" is my responsibility, so as long as the conditions given by Li Dong are not too bad for this movie, I can still say a few words! ”

The implication is already very clear, open the conditions, and don't talk about the poor conditions!

Touching his chin, Li Guoxing's eyes suddenly sharpened, "Your new "I'm Crazy for Qing" was quite popular some time ago, I personally went to the theater to watch it, although the box office in this port is not hot, but there is no problem with the plot. However, erotic films are not mainstream after all, and they are also restricted in some countries in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, so let's do it, 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, we Xinya buys out all the distribution rights in Southeast Asia. Because your movie is not popular at the box office, we have to take a certain risk to buy out the film, so as compensation, I hope that New Asia can also hand over the distribution rights of the videotape of "I'm Crazy for You" to us, not only in Southeast Asia, but also in Taiwan and Hong Kong......"

"Li Dong, are you kidding?" Lin Xiaozhi smiled, but he didn't smile. 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars wants to buy out the film and videotape release of "I'm Crazy for Qing", if he really agrees, he will be kicked in the head by a donkey.

Not to mention that Lin Xiaozhi's psychological reserve price for selling film flowers is 3 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is impossible for him to give away a single videotape for nothing, because 88 years is the golden three years after the release of film and videotapes.

In l975, Sony Corporation launched the world's first home camera Betamax, Chinese translated as Bet Marcos, referred to as Beta video recorder, commonly known as the small 1/2 video recorder in Hong Kong. Because of its appearance, the original expensive video hall was quickly replaced by home video recorders and cheap video halls all over the streets, only a cost of more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, a space of five or six square meters, can build a video hall with two video recorders.

At this time, video recorders, especially in Hong Kong and East Asia, generally use Sony's Betamax format or Philips's Video2000 format recorders, rather than the VHS system released by Japan's JVC company, this difference leads to the production cost of video tapes in East Asia is much higher than the application of VHS system, a blank tape costs more than 60 Hong Kong dollars, and the cost of film and video tape production is as high as 70 or 80 Hong Kong dollars, such a high cost, the cost of piracy is too high.

It is precisely because VHS-based video recorders have not yet become widespread in East Asia that the golden age of film and video tapes will continue for a few more years. Although a videotape costs 70 or 80 Hong Kong dollars, the price is more than 150 Hong Kong dollars, and some even sell for more than 200 Hong Kong dollars. Take "Overlord Flower" invested by Cheng Long at the beginning of the year as an example, it has a box office of more than 16 million in Hong Kong, which can only be regarded as a small profit, but the videotapes in Hong Kong and Taiwan have made a fortune of nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars. Erotic films with niche themes may hit the streets in movie theaters, but Lin Xiaozhi is confident that as long as they Xinya releases a rumor to the outside world and starts accepting video tape reservations, he is confident that he will sell more than 20,000 copies in Hong Kong alone, and there are still a lot of salty wet guys!

"Director Lin, this price is a lot!"

"No, it's too little. If this is the highest price that Meiya can offer, I don't think there is any need for us to talk. Li Dong may not know the box office of our movie two days before its release, our box office on Thursday was more than 400,000 Hong Kong dollars, yesterday's box office rose sharply, according to statistics, there are as many as 570,000, and now it is ushered in the Saturday weekend, I am afraid that the box office will rise again after tomorrow, and I have no doubt. As a film with an investment cost of only more than two million, it is not difficult for "I'm Crazy for Qing" to recover its cost, not to mention that there is a video publishing market, and ATV also has its own filling factory......"

Without speculating for more than half a sentence, Li Guoxing pressed the price too hard, so that Lin Xiaozhi couldn't accept it at all. And he obviously didn't care too much about New Asia's films, so he had to shrug his shoulders and say, "It seems that we have a big difference!" ”

Then the two tacitly agreed not to talk about this topic anymore, and waited for the broadcast of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies".

I have to admit that Zheng Zeshi made another good movie. Despite having seen Mao. film, but when the movie that was completely handled was released, Lin Xiaozhi also watched it with relish in his own seat. The applause and laughter have not stopped from beginning to end, although "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" is just a zombie film shot with the trend, but from the script to the crew to the actors, they are very attentive, and Qiu Tycoon is also willing to pay money, so they made a classic zombie film. Lin Xiaozhi conservatively estimated that the box office of this movie is likely to exceed 10 million, or even go further.

There is also Li Guoxing who has the same thing with him, unlike the low price of "I'm Crazy for Qing", Li Guoxing asked him to convey his offer to Zheng Zeshi on his behalf, five million Hong Kong dollars to buy out the film, plus four million to buy out the videotape of "Maoshan" for publication, as long as Zheng Zeshi nodded, "Maoshan" can bring another nine million net profits to investors, this movie is obviously not only about making money, but also making a lot of money, listening to Lin Xiaozhi's heart is not a taste. 1.5 million vs. 9 million, even if you can only count the numbers, you know which is bigger and which is smaller.

When I returned home from the midnight preview screening, it was already past two o'clock in the morning. After taking a cold shower, Lin Xiaozhi, who was a little tired, went to bed and soon fell asleep.