Chapter 159: The Battle of the Theater
Soon, Peng Jiayuan, the investor of the movie "Naughty Ghost", was looking for Yuanfang, and his father Peng Tian has always been Qin's right-hand man.
It's not that Peng Jiayuan is a backbone-fighting boy who wants to get along with his father, but since last year, there has been a strange scene in the Shuigang film industry: Qin and Yuanfang, who have been fighting for more than ten years, suddenly joined forces, and the two major companies took turns to supply films and screen them in their cinemas.
Since the past few years, the cinema system has become the economic pillar of Hong Kong's film industry, except for Qin's and Yuanfang, which can produce and sell their own films, other independent production companies can only be "recruited" by Qin's and Yuanfang's two cinema chains, relying on the funds provided by them to shoot films.
You must know that if there is no theater support and the best release schedule is scheduled, it will be difficult for the best films to sell well.
Originally, the Shuigang film market has maintained the situation of Qin's and Yuanfang's hegemony, who would have wanted to kill a star home halfway, and sold 26 million Hong Kong dollars with a "Funny Expert" during the Spring Festival, breaking the highest box office record in Hong Kong, and then launched a number of movies that also sold well at the box office, and its momentum seems to have been three-legged with Qin's and Yuanfang.
Whether it is Qin Yu, the head of the Qin family, or Cen Lin of the Star Homeland, they all know very well in their hearts that their real opponent is not the Star Homeland, but the Golden World Cinema that supports the Star Homeland behind the scenes, the so-called Qin's, Yuanfang and Xingjiayuan three-legged stand is only the surface, but in fact, the three major cinemas of the Golden World, Yuanfang, and the Qin Family are wrestling in secret.
"Double-line screening" is the specific measure of the Qin family and Yuanfang to suppress the golden princess, and the former "enemy" has temporarily become a "friend", so Peng Jiayuan is filming for Yuanfang at this time, and no one will say that he is not.
Putting aside the relationship between his father and the Qin family, in fact, Peng Jiayuan is more willing to cooperate with Yuanfang, which is related to the large-scale studio system that the Qin family has always pursued.
Qin not only requires actors and directors to sign a "body contract" with the company for one to several years, during which they cannot go outside to take on the scene, but also has restrictions on the salary level of directors, and the creative and filming rights are mainly concentrated in the hands of a few high-level executives.
Elements, on the other hand, implements an independent production system, changing the employment relationship with directors and actors to a cooperative relationship, and the film profits are also shared.
What's more, Elements has also set up an outsourcing system for satellite companies to subsidize filmmakers with guaranteed box office companies, and these companies have become subsidiaries of Round Square, enjoying a great deal of creative freedom while having decision-making power.
Several famous actors have set up film companies under Elements.
Peng Jiayuan also wanted to set up a film company by himself, and Yuanfang was naturally the best choice.
The edited sample was quickly sent to Yuanfang, but what Peng Jiayuan didn't expect was that this film was recommended layer by layer, and finally appeared on the desk of the big boss Cen Lone.
"This film is very good, but the style is very different from Peng Jiayuan's previous works." He Xiongyan is the old man who followed Cen Lin to "betray" the Shaw Brothers, and has always been leaned on by Cen Lin as an arm, and he has a great voice within Golden Harvest, he said this, no one else in the office raised objections, even Zou Wenhuai nodded.
"Peng Tian's son is very capable of tossing, but this movie really doesn't seem to be his handiwork. I heard that Peng Tian also has an apprentice named Du Dang, could he shoot for Peng Jiayuan? ”