Lei Weidong's "Happy Ghost" was the focus of Hong Kong media attention at the beginning of filming, and what kind of film was made of this new richest man in Hong Kong, and when it was released, not only reporters, but also ordinary citizens were very concerned about it.

On this day, Bigao Company suddenly held a press conference and announced only one news: it shook the Hong Kong film industry!

Oriental DreamWorks Film Company announced its establishment, announcing the termination of its cooperation with Jiahe Cinema Line, focusing on the newly built theaters in the hands of Lisheng Cinemas and Lei Weidong, supplemented by some small theaters, and the news of the official establishment of Oriental Cinemas detonated public opinion as soon as it came out.

Since opening the scene with "Serpentine", the predecessor of Oriental DreamWorks, Bigao Company, can be said to be one of the most profitable film production companies in Hong Kong in the past two years.

Coupled with Lei Weidong's identity as the richest man in Hong Kong, the influence of Bigao Company in the Hong Kong film industry was second only to Jiahe and Shaw Brothers as soon as it was established, and now Oriental DreamWorks suddenly announced its establishment, and stopped cooperating with Jiahe Cinema Line, and established a separate cinema line by itself, what does it mean?

It means that in Hong Kong, in addition to the three major cinema chains of Shaw Brothers, Jiahe and Yindu, a new cinema line has appeared.

Why are Shaw Brothers and Jiahe so awesome, isn't it because they control the theater chain in their hands!

In Hong Kong, because of the fact that Yindu is outside the leftist cinema chain, considering the interests of Dao Wanwan, most movies can only be released in Jiahe and Shaw Brothers!

This leads to a serious monopoly, which makes the theater side particularly strong, and no matter how good your film company's movies are, it will be useless where they are not released.

If you want to think of a theatrical release, you have to be slaughtered by the theater, if you don't be slaughtered, you don't even have a place to be released.

Why can Jiahe control so many satellite companies, isn't it because of Jiahe Cinema Line? Once you are disobedient, you will be directly stuck in theaters, shorten the release cycle of your movie by more than a low attendance, or release it in the off-season, or arrange for other strong films to be released at the same time.

It can be said that as long as Jiahe is willing to divide all kinds of things, you will be stuck.

Under the umbrella of Oriental Cinemas, there are a total of 43 cinemas, including 33 multiplex theaters, plus 10 small and medium-sized theaters, with a total of 258 canvases and more than 51,700 seats.

Although the location of those small and medium-sized theaters is a bit remote, we have to admit that the Oriental Cinema Line only relies on those 33 multiplex theaters.

There are more canvases and seats than Jiahe and Shaw Brothers combined.

It can be said that the Oriental Cinema Line is the largest cinema chain in Hong Kong since its establishment, accounting for more than half of the Hong Kong theaters.

The vast majority of people in the media and film circles, when they got the news of the establishment of Oriental Cinemas, knew that another film giant in Hong Kong had risen.

Although some people say that the film and television industry is not Lei Shao's main business, it is very likely that it is just for fun, and he will quit after a few years of getting tired of playing, but everyone has to admit that as long as Lei Weidong is in the entertainment industry for a day, everyone cannot ignore the influence of this new entertainment tycoon.

Jiahe Film Headquarters.

He Guanchang hurriedly walked into Zou Daheng's office and said, "Ah Huai, I heard that Lei Weidong sent someone to send an invitation to invite us to participate in the opening ceremony of the Oriental Cinema Line at that time!" ”

"Said that the theater was officially established on December 21! It's just that the invitation is here now! Zou Daheng took the invitation in his hand and raised it and said:

"I also sent several, yours, mine, and Ah Hua."

"This little one! If I had known that he would one day enter the cinema industry to grab business! I'm going to strangle him at the beginning! He Guanchang looked at the invitation and shrugged.

"Don't talk about that nonsense, Guanchang, what we're thinking about now is how to deal with the challenge of the Oriental Cinema Line!" Liu Lianghua, who came in behind, said.

"What challenges should I deal with, if I want to say that I will cooperate directly with Shaw Brothers, and our actors are not allowed to film for the cooperative film company of Oriental Cinema." He Guanchang waved his hand and said:

"Directly forced him to death from the root, and another Jiahe appeared in the province."

He Guanchang's proposal is the parallel time and space Jiahe and Shaw Brothers' approach to the new art city, when Shaw Brothers and Jiahe banned the Golden Princess Cinema, which scared those film companies and directors did not dare to take the film to Lisheng Cinema to be released.

You must know that the Golden Princess Cinema at that time was a pure cinema and did not have its own film company.

Since those film companies and directors are afraid to come, there is no high-quality film source, and the Golden Princess Cinemas can only release some small independent film company films.

The movies of those small companies are all small-budget and small-scale productions, without the participation of stars, and they can be said to be some bad movies.

The Golden Princess Cinema Line played a few bad movies of small companies back and forth, and the audience refused to come, so in the end, Lei Tycoon was forced to suspend business for rectification.

Lei Daheng renovated all the theaters in a unified manner, and at the same time used the time of renovation to rectify the interior.

Then Lei Juekun took the initiative to attack and ordered the cancellation of the cinema package system to attract those film companies to cooperate, and at the same time used the resources in his hand to find capable film companies, and picked up one or several film companies, using the Golden Princess Cinema as the base, and Shaw Brothers and Jiahe in the box office battlefield.

Later, he found Mecca, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian's Struggle Film Company.

At the very beginning, Struggle Film Company only screened the film in Lei Juekun's Golden Princess Cinema.

Later, because of the good box office of several movies they made, Lei Juekun decided to join the shares because he felt that there was potential for three people, and the two sides hit it off, and reorganized the struggle film company into New Art City.

It set off the glory of the new art city in the 80s in the Hong Kong film industry, and also made the Golden Princess Cinema Line, which was established by Lisheng Cinema Line as the core, surpass Shaw Brothers to become a large cinema chain alongside Jiahe.

"We don't need to come forward at all, Shao Tycoon's temper will definitely not let a junior like Lei Weidong climb to the top!" Liu Lianghua said with a smile.

"Did you hear anything?" Zou Daheng looked at Liu Lianghua's smiling face and asked: Zou Daheng attaches great importance to Liu Lianghua, a confidant, after all, he has been with him for more than ten years.

It is said that in the sixties, Liu Lianghua had a good relationship with Zou Daheng when she was still an actress of Shaw Brothers.

At that time, Liu Lianghua was a big star who had starred in nearly 30 films, and Zou Daheng was just a hairy young man at that time, and he must be very happy to be favored by Liu Lianghua.

Later, although Liu Lianghua married Shaw Brothers director Luo Wei, the relationship between the two has not been broken, and after joining Jiahe with her husband, Liu Lianghua soon had a hot fight with Zou Daheng, and then divorced her husband Luo Wei and became Zou Daheng's lover.

Liu Lianghua is not one of those vases, she is responsible for managing artists and part of the administrative work in Jiahe, and she is also one of the shareholders of Jiahe Pictures.

Some time ago, Jiahe snatched Cheng Long from her ex-husband Luo Wei, Liu Lianghua made a lot of efforts in the middle, without Liu Lianghua's coordination in the play, Luo Wei would not give up so easily.

Therefore, for Liu Lianghua and a beautiful and capable confidant, Zou Wenhuai attaches great importance to it.

"No news! It's Oriental DreamWorks that poached people from Shaw Brothers. ”

Liu Lianghua walked behind Zou Wenhuai and gently helped him pinch his shoulders, such a scene has long been accustomed to Zou Wenhuai's company, He Guanchang and others did not care, but were interested in Liu Lianghua's topic.

"My friends at Shaw Brothers told me that the recruiters at Oriental DreamWorks are frantically poaching people at Shaw Brothers, from senior managers to temporary tricks, from stars in front of the stage to behind-the-scenes staff, it can be said that as long as they are Shaw Brothers employees.

The wages are high!

The past two days have made Miss Fang worried, and it is said that she will soon be ordered to close the country. Liu Lianghua's words were full of schadenfreude.

"Hmph, just Shao Tycoon's stingy appearance, if it weren't for the fact that there was really nowhere to go, who would be able to stay at Shaw's, if it weren't for the fact that Jiahe is overcrowded now, I still want to dig up a few people!

That is, the current market of Hong Kong movies is not very good, and if it is good, the employees of Shaw Brothers will not all run out. He Guanchang shook his head and said.

Because Jiahe took a different route from the Shaw Brothers blockbuster factory system, it didn't need too many staff, and if it was too much, it couldn't afford to raise it, so it didn't go to Shaw Brothers to poach people.

Only then did Shaw Brothers get by!

In the mid-80s, the reason why Shaw Brothers closed down was not because the market of Hong Kong films was so good at that time, it was a company that made money for every movie, and it needed too many people in front of and behind the scenes.

That is, because of the continuous loss of talents, Shao Tycoon paid attention to TVB, which made Shaw Brothers go out of business, but it made those old employees who were loyal to Shao Tycoon all their lives miserable.

Some even committed suicide for this!

Zou Daheng moved his body comfortably and said:

"We can't just look at Shaw's jokes, we must know that now Shaw is an old toothless tiger with nothing to fear, and DreamWorks is a newborn lion.

Although the lion is weak now, it will make us uncomfortable for him to absorb too much nutrients from the Shaw Brothers and grow stronger.

What we have to do now is to eliminate him before he grows, and let Lei Weidong, the little guy, know that the film industry is not so easy to do nonsense. ”

"Ah Huai, what do you mean!" Liu Lianghua looked at Zou Daheng and said with a smile:

"Are we also sniping Lei Weidong in this matter!"

"It's useless!" Zou Daheng shook his head and said: "Lei Weidong is different from Wu Siyuan, the Xu family brothers and others, he has one of the biggest advantages is that he is not bad for money. ”

"Not bad money?" He Guanchang laughed and said, "As the new richest man in Hong Kong, Lei Weidong is indeed not bad for money, but what kind of advantage is this?" ”

"But that's the biggest advantage!" Zou Daheng sighed:

"Money is not everything! But you can't afford it! ”

"To put it bluntly, making movies is to throw money, and if you have money, you are not afraid of anything, and the bottleneck of the development of many film companies is that there is no money.

For example, if we didn't have a shortage of money back then, would we have let Jiahe be controlled by others like today?

As for letting the Xu brothers and others make trouble with us every day, isn't it because they have no money? ”

"It's true!" He Guanchang, Liu Lianghua and others nodded in agreement.

The reason why Jiahe likes to owe box office dividends to satellite companies is not because of the blood-sucking shareholders on the board of directors.

These shareholders usually don't dare to do anything, they stare at that profit all day long, and at that time, because of lack of money, these people were allowed to invest in Jiahe, and now it seems that it has become Jiahe's biggest burden, but these people don't talk about themselves, even Zou Tycoon can't afford to provoke them, so they can only drink good.

And Lei Weidong is different, why did he dare to dig the corner of the Shaw Brothers directly, and he was not afraid of Shao Tycoon's revenge, it was not because he was not short of money.

Because of his money, Lei Weidong can establish his own theater as soon as he enters the film and television industry without uniting with others, and all of them are his own theaters, without looking at other people's faces.

Because of the money, Lei Weidong can directly launch a silver bullet offensive, waving checks to dig people everywhere, and he doesn't care about the pain of lack of people at all.

And just like Zou Daheng said, Jiahe just wants to make a little stumbling, at most let Lei Weidong spend more money, which has no impact on the overall situation at all.

Because that amount of money is not as expensive for Lei Weidong as it is for him to engage in charity and lawsuits with people.

Some time ago, Lei Weidong took out 100 million yuan to fight a lawsuit with those construction companies because of a trivial matter, which has spread all over Hong Kong!

Let many people sigh, don't mess with Lei Weidong, provoke him, don't beat you, don't scold you, just use the money to smash you, and smash you until you go bankrupt!

took out a lawsuit of 100 million yuan, and his eyes didn't blink, which shows that Lei Weidong is indeed not bad for money.

If you don't have any money, the difficulties that Jiahe faced back then are not worth mentioning in front of Lei Weidong.

Lack of people, spend money to dig, if you have money, you can recruit good directors and good actors, after all, everyone is mixed to eat, who doesn't want to hug Jin Thigh!

If you lack equipment, you can spend money to buy it, and you can't buy any equipment if you have money.

If there is a lack of market, just spend money to smash it, and I believe that filmmakers everywhere will not fight against money.

"Ah Huai! What do you say we should do! Thinking of this, everyone's eyes were on Zou Daheng, the pillar of Jiahe.

I hope Zou Daheng can give a good countermeasure.

Zou Daheng did not disappoint them, and directly came up with countermeasures.

"Because Lei Weidong is rich, the difficulties he sees have little impact on Lei Weidong.

However, Lei Weidong also has weaknesses, that is, he is too conceited! He, the richest man, not only invests in movies, but also shoots movies himself, which shows that he attaches great importance to those films.

This gives us a chance, as long as we can beat the movies he made at the box office, we can seriously dampen his enthusiasm, as long as Lei Weidong loses his confidence in making movies and quits the film and television industry, Oriental Cinema will be easy to deal with! ”

"Then we will directly defeat his arrogance for the movies he shot!" He Guanchang said confidently.

"The opening time of the Oriental Cinema Line is on December 21, and it is said that that day is also the day when "Happy Ghost" will be released." Zou Tycoon suddenly laughed.

"I heard that this movie doesn't have a well-known star from beginning to end, and it relies on a few newcomers to win the world, what will happen to the box office at that time, needless to say, you all understand."

"What do you mean......" He Guanchang immediately understood, turned around and asked, "Yongchang, what kind of movie did we release in those days?" ”

"The one that will be released in those days should be Liu Guanwei's "No Tricks to Win"!" Cai Yongchang looked at the film schedule and said: "The Shaw Brothers should be directed by Li Da's Fengyue film "Ecstasy Jade".

Because of Lei Weidong's butterfly effect, Hong's "Lin Shirong", which was originally released in December, came out a few months ahead of schedule, so in December, Jiahe's movies were replaced by films such as "No Tricks to Win".

""No trick wins, there is a move." Hearing this name, Zou Daheng shook his head and said:

"No, although I am not optimistic about the box office of "Happy Ghost", I can't take it lightly, after all, Lei Weidong's talent is still undoubted, we must come up with the strongest lineup! Yongchang, when will Ah Long's "Young Master Dragon" be scheduled to be released! ”

"Master Dragon! It's still being filmed! There may be some people who are in a hurry to release it in December,"

Cai Yongchang carefully calculated the time and said:

"Although "Young Master Dragon" was filmed relatively early, some time ago, there were too many things, which delayed the progress of the film, and Ah Long is now going to film Luo Wei first! It will take a lot of time.

In addition, Aaron's appeal is very high, so I tentatively set the release date of "Young Master Dragon" as early February next year, which happened to be the Spring Festival holiday at that time, and everyone was on holiday, which was the best schedule!

Ah Huai's "Young Master Dragon" is our Jiahe's trump card, do you need to release it in advance, although there is still time, but even if you step up filming now, the time for the release in December is a little tight!

"The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, we can't take it lightly, we must beat the other party at once!" Zou Daheng thought about it for a while and said:

"Guan Chang, you talk to Ah Long and ask him to speed up the filming schedule, there are still a few months left before December 20th, so "Young Master Long" must be released on December 20th anyway.

He can mention anything he needs to the company, ask for money to give money, ask people to give people, I only have one request, that is, it can't be late! ”

Zou Tycoon's final word!

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When Zou Tycoon and others were discussing preparations to snipe at the box office of "Happy Ghost" at the end of the year, Shao Tycoon was so angry that he wanted to smash things.

Shao Tycoon has dominated the Hong Kong entertainment industry for more than ten years, and no one has ever dared to dig into his corner, even the rebel Zou Tycoon of the year, when he left Shaw Brothers, he only took away a group of backbones at the beginning.

After that, although Shaw Brothers and Jiahe did not die, Zou Daheng did not take the initiative to dig the corner of Shaw Brothers again, like the Xu brothers and others left automatically, and now it is okay, the newly established Oriental DreamWorks Film Company went directly to Shaw Brothers to poach people, and also drove the job fair directly to the door of Shaw Brothers!

This made Shao Daheng very embarrassed.

To a tycoon of Shao's age, they have experienced too much because of delicious food and fun! There is no shortage of money!

For them, face is often more important than money!