Text Chapter 182, Theater Online
"It's really not easy to promote TV series, it's even more difficult than movies!" For Liang Shuyi's analysis, Lei Weidong recognized it very much.
Another time and space is like this, why TVB can become the NO1 of Hong Kong TV station, there is no place for ATV to turn over, and it is impossible to change several bosses in a row, because after Shao Daheng became the owner of TVB, TVB's TV series sold booming in Southeast Asia, making a lot of money.
It is said that the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" alone is said to have earned hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which is more than ten times its Hong Kong income.
And ATV can only fight to the death for that ratings and TVB in Hong Kong, and it can't go out of Hong Kong to make money overseas.
Is it that the ATV boss doesn't see the profits in Southeast Asia?
Apparently not, it's just that I can't eat it when I see it.
Shao Daheng's Shaw family has been rooted in Southeast Asia for hundreds of years and has a huge influence, which can be seen from the fact that the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line can build theaters in various countries in Southeast Asia.
And the owners of Asia TV are famous tycoons even in Hong Kong, but in Southeast Asia!
Hehe! Don't take it out and be embarrassed, it's not a little worse than the opponent Shao Tycoon's family.
"But even if it's difficult, you have to do it! This is the first step for Jiayi TV to get out of the predicament! Lei Weidong said.
"Miss Liang, it's man-made, as long as you are willing to work hard, it's not impossible to take the time to open up the market for Wanwan and Southeast Asian TV dramas, why don't you want to give it a try!"
"It's easy! I can wait, but Jiayi can't wait, Boss He said when he was in contact with me, Jiayi will support more than a year at most, and if there is no improvement in two years, shareholders will have to withdraw their capital! Liang Shuyi sighed.
"And opening up the TV drama market in Wanwan and Southeast Asia is not something that can be done in just over a year!"
"Sister Liang, since you are so depressed! It's better not to go to Jiayi, let's work together! Seeing Liang Shuyi's appearance, Zhang Aijia comforted:
"What do you do together?" Liang Shuyi, who was already desperate for Jiayi's prospects, also wanted to do something else.
"Lei Shao and I are going to set up a film company, is Sister Liang interested in coming over to help!"
"Sister Zhang, when did I agree to set up a film company with you!" Zhang Aijia's words made Lei Weidong obviously stunned, and he didn't seem to have promised this matter yet. After carefully recalling the content of today's conversation, I really did not agree.
"Lei Shao, I obviously said that I would be invited to join your film company, why didn't I admit it after a while!" Zhang Aijia's tone was obviously resentful, as if he had been abandoned by Lei Weidong.
"Sister Zhang, I'm talking about three years later, and now I haven't established a film company yet, how can I invite you to join!" Lei Weidong understands what Zhang Aijia said! It's really unreasonable to be with a woman.
"You can start a film company now! Wouldn't it be great to have me and Sister Liang and Lei Shao to set up a film company with the three of you? And I have the name of the film company, which is called Bigao Film Company.
Bigao Film Company, hearing this name, Lei Weidong seems to remember something?
By the way, this is the case in history, in 1979, Zhang Aijia married the head of the Hong Kong bureau of the Associated Press, and she also moved to Hong Kong to settle down.
After Jiayi went bankrupt, Jiayi's general manager Liang Shuyi lost his job, so he and his best friend, Zhang Aijia, co-founded a Bigao Film Company, but Bigao Company made a few films, and the box office was not very ideal.
Later, Zhang Aijia fell out with her husband and returned to Taiwan in anger.
Liang Shuyi also did not have any hope for Gao Company, so he opened another rich film company with her husband.
And now it's only the beginning of 1978, because of his own relationship, Liang Shuyi has gone to Jiayi and lost hope, and it is likely that he will not go to Jiayi TV Station as the general manager, is it a year earlier than Gao Company?
"How! Lei Shao! There is no interest in joining the company! To be honest, Lei Shao, it's just three years in advance, what's the difference! Even if you don't have free time now, and now that the company is watched by me and Sister Liang, what else are you worried about, are you lying to me in the morning? ”
Zhang Aijia strongly invited Lei Weidong to join the company.
Zhang Aijia is a famous talented woman, and she has long wanted to open her own film company, but she has not implemented it because she has no way, and now that she meets Lei Weidong, the two families still have a little relationship, of course, they will not let go of this big financier.
After Zhang Aijia left this afternoon, he asked someone to inquire about Lei Weidong's specific situation, and found that although Lei Weidong was young, he had already made a big career.
After contacting his grandfather, Zhang Aijia found that the two families still had some origins.
You must know that Lei Weidong's grandfather and Zhang Aijia's grandfather have both confessed under Jiang Guang's head and are good friends.
For the publication of the king of painting in Taiwan, Zhang Aijia's grandfather also made a lot of efforts.
Therefore, Zhang Aijia didn't want to let go of Lei Weidong and wanted to pull him into his own film company, so Zhang Aijia directly found Uncle Wu.
Seeing that Zhang Aijia looked like he would not give up, and then thinking that his grandfather had also helped him, Lei Weidong decided to tell the truth.
"Sister Zhang, the main reason why I entered the film and television industry after a few years is because of the problem of the theater chain!"
When it comes to Hong Kong movies, in addition to the large and small film companies, Hong Kong cinemas are the most famous.
If you want to understand why Hong Kong is a cinema system, you must start with the birth of Hong Kong films.
Because Hong Kong has the birth of the first film, there will be the birth of theaters, and there will be the emergence of producers and distributors.
With the increase in the number of films, the increase in the types of film styles, the increase in distributors and producers, and the increasing competition in the film market, the cinema chain in the sense of distribution has come into being.
Since the birth of the Hong Kong cinema chain, it has provided a broad distribution space for various types of local and imported films in Hong Kong, forming a virtuous circle of production, distribution and screening in the Hong Kong film industry.
All aspects of the film industry and surrounding industries such as printing, equipment, advertising and other post-films can share their due benefits through the prosperity of the film, so the economic interests drive investors to invest in the film industry continues to grow, so that the Hong Kong film industry is flourishing day by day in such a positive, relaxed and orderly economic environment, and has become the Hollywood of the East today.
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain from the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. Until 1978, the British ruled Hong Kong for 116 years, and during this time, the British government in Hong Kong implemented an economic policy of 'active non-intervention', in order to protect British interests culturally, prevent the invasion of American films, and prevent the spread of communist ideas in the mainland.
There have been regulations that must show British films in theaters 10% of the time, and restrictions on anti-British films, the most representative of which is "Lin Zexu", which was banned.
However, these restrictions have not stopped the development of Hong Kong films.
The Hong Kong cinema chain also reached its peak in the 60s, when the film industry was the world of Shaw Brothers, followed by the Great Wall Cinema Line, Phoenix Cinema Line, Xinlian Cinema Line, and Lisheng Cinema Line.
In addition to Lisheng Cinemas, Shaw Brothers and other theater companies have their own studios and cinemas, and the film business mode is one-stop production, distribution, and release, which is called the big factory system in Hong Kong.
Lisheng Cinemas has gone the opposite way, specializing in the distribution of films from small and medium-sized companies.
In the 70s, Zou Daheng, He Guanchang and others established Jiahe Company, and in order to solve the restrictions of the cinema line, they leased several theaters to become backbone theaters (including the theater in Lei Weidong's house), and then signed contracts with several theaters, including Lei Juekun's Lisheng Cinema Line, and established Jiahe Cinema Line in one fell swoop.
In this way, Hong Kong has gradually formed two Hong Kong-made film theater lines, Shaw Brothers Cinemas and Golden Harvest Cinemas, and the two cinema chains of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest both release their own films.
However, a few years later, that is, in 1980, in parallel time and space, Lei Daheng turned his energy to the film industry, withdrew the Lisheng Cinema Line from Jiahe Cinema Line, and united some independent movie theaters to establish the Golden Princess Cinema Company, which mainly distributes films and operates cinemas, and invests a small amount in the production of films.
The biggest achievement of the Golden Princess Cinema Line is the abolition of the theater package system, which reduces the pressure on film producers and improves the enthusiasm of independent production companies to schedule films and the vitality of their operations.
This measure laid the foundation for the prosperity of Hong Kong films.
Normally, films released in Hong Kong theaters are distributed by the theaters themselves, but in order to help independent companies.
Golden Princess Cinemas proposed that independent companies' films could be distributed by themselves, on the one hand, to mobilize the enthusiasm of independent companies, and on the other hand, to waive distribution fees.
This allows Binbin Company, Struggle Company, Siyuan, Xieli, Brothers, Liren and other companies to release their own films in the Golden Princess, which reflects the good development of independent production provided by the Golden Princess after its establishment.
The film is very popular in the Golden Princess Cinema New Art City, which has always been scheduled in the Golden Princess Cinema Line, making the box office revenue of the Golden Princess Cinema Line the second largest cinema chain in Hong Kong after Golden Harvest, it can be said that the rise of the New Art City is inseparable from the establishment of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and there would be no rise of the New Art City without the Golden Princess.