"By the way, there is one more thing, does wireless often cooperate with domestic crews?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"Yes, after the reopening of China, the literary and art department also began to plan and shoot various programs by itself, but because of various conditions, I came to Hong Kong to study, not only our TVB, Li's and Jiayi have also been contacted, but at present, Hong Kong is the largest TVB, and the shooting resources and equipment are also the most, and many domestic crews still cooperate with us a lot, but because they have no funds, they basically only learn at our shooting site." Liang Shuyi said.

"Which crews in China are filming TV series?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, it's mainly ancient costumes or mythological dramas, they come to learn how to hang Weiya, costume shooting, background layout, if it's a modern plot background, they can actually shoot it themselves in China." Liang Shuyi replied: "The most recent cooperation is a crew that wants to shoot [Journey to the West], they sent a lot of people to follow us to learn from Weiya, and they also wanted to borrow our Weiya to go to China, but they couldn't come up with any money. ”

"[Journey to the West]?" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Just borrow it, it's okay to be free, and even we will send someone to help them, or invest some money, but we want the distribution rights of this TV series overseas." ”

"This TV series? Is it worth the investment? Liang Shuyi asked curiously. It is relatively rare to be able to let the boss personally intervene, and at present, within the group, only some large-scale investments with a scale of hundreds of millions of dollars can make the boss ask.

"Although the technology in China is a little worse, Journey to the West is one of the four famous novels, the filming of this kind of TV series will definitely focus on investment in China, and the quality will not be bad, it must be much stronger than the Japanese one, and the background and immortals in Journey to the West are all from ancient myths, as long as they are Chinese, they all know some more or less." Chen Zhiwen paused and said: "That is to say, if the quality of this drama is good, then there is a high probability that it will become popular all over the world, and it will be broadcast exclusively on our satellite channel in the future, which will be of great help to us to develop new users!" ”

Chen Zhiwen naturally knows that the 86 version of Journey to the West is not only popular in the mainland, but also in overseas Chinese areas, and even many non-Chinese people have fallen in love with this TV series.

In terms of interests, the global broadcast of the entire "Journey to the West" may not be as profitable as a building in Central, but its popularity can be used to drive its own satellite TV station, and if TVB can gain tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of new users, it is much more meaningful than a Central building.

Of course, the users brought by a TV series, no matter how popular they are, they can't last long, and if you want to stabilize these people for a long time, you still have to look at the long-term operation ability and the quality of various programs, but in any case, there is a popular TV series or program that attracts people first, which is the most important thing. And in recent years, because of its long-term capital investment, TVB may have the ratings boom in its original history a few years in advance.

"Okay, then I'll arrange someone to investigate, the price shouldn't be very high, I know that this TV series has a budget of only 3 million yuan in the mainland." Zhou Shuyi said that although TVB is nothing in the entire group, it is also a company with assets close to one billion Hong Kong dollars, and millions are nothing.

"Well, but we invest money in resources to make it convenient for them, but we must also pay close attention to the quality, don't have money but only pursue fast shooting." Chen Zhiwen said again, this possibility is not high, but it is still necessary to pay attention to it, Journey to the West was originally filmed well, which may also be the result of a long-term lack of funds, and then slowly filmed.

"That's no problem, we're definitely going to send financial and film professionals to be involved in the day-to-day shooting." Liang Shuyi replied.

"Okay, let's pay attention to this matter, if there are any large-scale TV series filming in China, you can participate in it, and the cooperation model is similar, we mainly want overseas distribution rights. In addition, here in Hong Kong, although there are many celebrities, it is only a city anyway, and the population base is too small, so you can consider looking for high-quality talents in China, and then bring them to Hong Kong to cultivate. Chen Zhiwen said.

Hong Kong's TV dramas or movies do have a strong influence in the Asian market for a period of time, but in fact, it is also an opportunity, since the mid-80s, Hong Kong is the first to eat the dividends of the mainland's reopening, housing prices, stock prices, export volumes, trade volumes are soaring, and even the indirect cultural aspect has also gained rich growth, in the whole of Asia, only Japan can contend with it, but Japan's culture is very conservative, it is difficult to go out, Hong Kong seized this opportunity.

But if you want to sustain it, the most basic thing is to need a large number of talents and markets, in the 90s, the economy of Southeast Asian countries began to improve, and the cultural aspect naturally needs to be grasped by itself, and Hong Kong has also missed the mainland market for various reasons, therefore, TV and movies have both gone downhill, but since the 90s, after the South Korean economy took off, its cultural industry began to export the "Korean Wave" to Asia and even the world.

Although it is a bit difficult to maintain the position of cultural export with Hong Kong as a small place, if it can be integrated with the mainland in the future and make use of domestic talents and markets, it will at least have a chance to continue to survive.

From 2000 to 2010, Hong Kong TVB's costume dramas were still very good, and they were known as the three major costume film and television companies together with Tang Film and Television and Zhou Yi Film and Television in the mainland.

With its own resource investment,It may be difficult to say what the future of satellite TV will be,After all, this thing is related to different national policies,It may be said that it is banned,But all kinds of high-quality content creation capabilities,It needs to be maintained for a long time,This requires a large number of high-quality talents and a huge market。

However, the current mainland is too small to attract TVB, but long-term planning still needs to be prepared in advance, anyway, multiple markets will not lose themselves, cultivate more people, and make a famous one, and you can also make money.

"Okay, but for the sake of language issues, let's choose from Guangdong Province first." Liang Shuyi said.

"That's no problem, there are a lot of people in eastern Guangdong." Chen Zhiwen said.

"There's just a problem, if we do that, there might be a problem at the Wanwan Market!" Leung Shuyi said: "The current Wanwan market is also a big foreign market for Hong Kong movies or TV dramas. ”

"This doesn't need to be considered for the time being, we invest in domestic TV series, such as this Journey to the West, whether Wanwan should introduce it or not, as for us to find some people in China to come and train, it is estimated that it will take two years to be able to appear in the TV series, besides, if you don't become a superstar, no one will care about a supporting role." Chen Zhiwen said.

Wanwan's film and television department, in fact, will bully and bully stars, some Hong Kong singers and movie stars who have been to the mainland Spring Festival Gala will generally be banned, the effect is actually there, Wanwan is an important foreign market for Hong Kong films, without this, many movies will lose money, so there are rumors that the actor is forced to set up a stall.

However, it doesn't matter at all about big capital, Hong Kong has not invested too many factories in the mainland in recent years, and Wanwan will not expand things, small stars and big capitalists are completely different things.

"That's good, in this case, I'll do it according to Chen Sheng's arrangement." Liang Shuyi nodded and said.

Although she likes to manage the company according to her own ideas, but after all, she is not the real boss, and the boss still has to be responsible for the direction of the company's operation.

Today's meeting is not long, but two important decisions have been made for TVB, one is to develop overseas and obtain the huge market in Southeast Asia through satellite signals, and the second is to cooperate with the mainland to increase its own talent pool, and make appropriate use of capital to invest in domestic film crews, etc., so that high-quality programs in the mainland can also provide certain help for TVB's overseas expansion.

It's just that there is one thing that makes her a little skeptical, that is, whether the mainland can shoot classic programs, TV series, etc., after all, they don't even have WIA's equipment, and many of them still rely on manual operations. But this matter also needs to be verified, since the boss has spoken, he must also need to provide some technical help. If you really can't get results, then you can discuss with the boss again.

"TVB's goal is definitely not to dominate a city in Hong Kong, but TV stations are indeed more sensitive, and it is difficult for us to get licenses from other countries and regions, even satellite TV stations, and it is difficult to ensure that everything goes smoothly, so the quality of content is our most stable hope, and we will develop in this direction in the future. It can be biased towards ancient costumes, palace fights and the like. Chen Zhiwen continued.

"Costume shooting is not a problem, and the funds are acceptable, but there are too many restrictions on the shooting scenes, and our film and television city is too small, which restricts our shooting, but the Hong Kong government does not agree with our expansion." Liang Shuyi said.

"Then go to the mainland to build, the area is large, you can build it however you want." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

He forgot that he can invest in large-scale film and television cities in China, so that not only TVB has enough hardware resources to shoot, but also can be leased to various mainland film and television companies in the future, and even after the mainland economy improves, tourism is also a big income!

(End of chapter)