Chapter 970: Plan Ahead

PS: On September 18, 1931, the "918" incident broke out. Since then, the Chinese nation has embarked on a 14-year bloody struggle. Most of China was trampled on, and more than 35 million compatriots were killed or wounded. Every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood, we will not forget the smoke that once rose, and the alarm bell will ring in our hearts.

Money.

Everybody wants to earn.

No one is too much.

It is understandable that Taiwanese filmmakers want to set a ceiling and reduce the risk of blood compensation when they buy films as much as possible.

Man will not be destroyed for his own sake.

But Hong Kong's film companies don't think so.

They feel that Taiwanese filmmakers are Tai Sui's head breaking ground.

Dare to touch their cake and dare to negotiate terms with them.

You rely on me to eat, I haven't increased the weight, but you guys talk about the conditions first, and move Lao Tzu's interests, the guts are too fat.

No way.

Definitely not get used to it.

Hong Kong film companies are very tough.

The main thing is that they feel that they have confidence, who made them the film, the supplier of the film.

They feel that they are in the upper reaches of the food chain, and sooner or later Taiwanese filmmakers will come back to beg them and negotiate peace.

Because they have calculated and estimated, they feel that Taiwanese film companies can't do without Hong Kong films.

They think that Taiwanese filmmakers are paper tigers, and the films in their hands can only last for three months.

That is, after three months, there will be no new films to be released in the theaters of Taiwanese studios.

So Hong Kong film companies have nothing to fear.

Well, sometimes it's just so self-confidence.

These studios have completely forgotten their position in the Hong Kong film market.

I forgot how groveling they were in the face of cinema giants such as Golden Harvest and Princess Jin, begging others to arrange a good schedule.

Of course, it's no wonder that these people don't realize it, who let when facing Taiwanese film companies, Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, and other cinema studios' own film companies are also on the same line with them.

Whether it's film or TV or whatever, any industry is a channel is king.

Especially when there is no shortage of things and content, even if your content is good, you will not have enough confidence to resist the channel.

Hong Kong filmmakers forgot about that.

Taiwanese filmmakers don't.

It is said that dogs are in a hurry to jump over the wall, not to mention people are in a hurry.

The living can be suffocated by urine.

Wang Yingxiang's painful lesson of buying Jigong for 30 million and then losing money really scared Taiwanese film companies.

Thirty million, how many big-selling movies can I buy to earn back.

It's too risky to buy a film like this.

All the filmmakers in Taiwan feel that they can no longer gamble like this without rules and bottom line.

However, their negotiation request was not agreed to by the Hong Kong film company.

The upper limit of their hearts is seventeen and a half million.

Such a price is not low at all.

It can be said that such a ceiling price, even for the films starring Zhou Xingchi, Zhou Runfa, Cheng Long and others, can basically recover most of the investment.

However, such a sincere bid was denied.

And the Hong Kong side is completely undiscussed.

It was actually cold-treated.

Hung up.

No man is content.

Nima, since you don't want to talk about it, don't talk about it.

Without Zhang Butcher, Lao Tzu can still eat hairy pigs.

Lao Tzu is a cinema chain, Lao Tzu is a channel, without you Hong Kong movies, Lao Tzu buys movies from other places.

Lao Tzu buys Hollywood movies.

Of course, buying a Hollywood movie isn't a matter of a single word.

Hollywood movies and Hong Kong movies are not the same thing.

Speaking of which, I have to thank the Jiang family and his son.

They are very clear about themselves and outsiders.

For Hong Kong films, that is their own people, so there are no restrictions on the introduction of Hong Kong films at all.

The filmmaker buys as much as he wants, as long as you have the money to buy it.

But buying Hollywood movies doesn't.

Just like the mainland, Taiwan also has restrictions on the number of imported foreign films.

It also requires approval.

For a long time, the number of American films allowed to enter Taiwan is only a few dozen every year.

These dozens of films don't look old or young, and they're not much worse than Hong Kong movies.

However, although there are a lot of copies, there is a limit to the number of copies of each film.

You can only have a maximum of eight copies of an American movie.

What does that mean?

That is to say, no matter how much money you spend on American films, you can end up with a maximum of eight copies in the cinema, and a maximum of eight cinemas.

The scale of the cinema chain in Taiwan is larger than that of the cinema chain in Hong Kong.

After all, Taiwan's territory and population are much larger than Hong Kong's.

So a theater chain in Taiwan doesn't say dozens of movie theaters.

There are only eight movie theaters with so many movie theaters, so even if it is popular, the audience can be limited, and how much money can be made.

This is similar to the current Chinese movie, Wolf Warrior 2, The Wandering Earth, Nezha, no matter how popular it is in China, it will not work at the North American box office.

There is no film schedule, there are not many theaters to show, everything is in vain.

Having said that, because of such restrictions, Taiwanese studios have always focused on Hong Kong films, not American films that are rampant in the world.

But that's no longer the case.

The Hong Kong film company of the dog day has too a black heart and a big mouth, and it doesn't give it a way to live.

Taiwanese filmmakers can only find another way.

Then they thought of American films.

The fearless Hong Kong film company miscalculated, and it was outrageously wrong.

Taiwanese studios don't plan to play with Hong Kong studios at all.

They banded together and went straight to the Information Bureau.

For Taiwanese politics, especially after Xiao Chiang's absence, both the power of gangs and the power of capital have penetrated deeply into the government.

And these filmmakers are even more powerful in black and white, and after they join forces, the so-called regulations are not a matter at all.

With little discussion, the bureau agreed to lift the restrictions.

Not limited to eight, not eighteen, but not at all.

A copy of a movie can be made as much as you want.

And a treat for Hong Kong films.

Then Hong Kong movies were suddenly collapsed by such a huge impact.

The Taiwan market's abandonment of Hong Kong films and their switch to Hollywood movies is the biggest impact on Hong Kong films.

The reason for this collapse is that the Hong Kong film company died on its own, and there is nothing to say.

But on the other hand, Taiwanese film companies are too nonsense, and they put the movie on their own movie channel, without a plan, without convergence, and the movie was just released and released on the movie channel, thinking about making quick money and making money twice.

As a result, the fish was exhausted.

As a result, slowly no one went to the cinema to watch the movie, they all watched it at home, and then the Taiwanese film distributors and their cinemas also collapsed.

As a result, the Taiwan market also collapsed.

And after losing the two largest film markets, the piracy of Hong Kong movies is also adding fuel to the fire.

Pirates not only frantically pirate the movies of major companies and sell them cheaply, but also make some low-cost movies and engage in their own piracy, and then make the movies as low as possible.

Leads to bad money chasing good money.

Three main reasons have led to the decline of Hong Kong films.

Oriental Hollywood went straight to the slump.

Therefore, Qiao Feng is very cautious about the release of films on movie channels that are one of the main reasons for the decline of Hong Kong films.

He knew that if he didn't get it right, he would hurt himself.

But it's a pity to give up.

What to do?

Qiao Feng felt that the only way was to discuss with several major film companies in Hong Kong and come up with a charter.

It is necessary to limit the indiscriminate screening of Taiwanese film companies.

The theatrical right of the film is the theatrical projection right, and the TV broadcast right is just the TV broadcast right.

You can't buy the right to show it in theaters and still show it on TV.

Moreover, the copyright bought is screened for several rounds, that is, several rounds, and more than one round cannot be screened.

And how long after the movie must be released in theaters before it can be shown on TV must also be stipulated, written in the contract.

In addition, Qiao Feng felt that since he wanted to do it, even the price ceiling of the film was set.

For a rainy day.

It is impossible to block the entry of Hollywood movies into Taiwan on a large scale.

Because there will be more and more lifting of the ban in Taiwan in the future, this kind of thing is just a matter of time.

Then they must give profits to Taiwanese film companies, as long as they feel that there is still money to be made in Hong Kong films, and they still make a lot of money, they will not take the initiative to promote the lifting of the ban on American films.

Then Hong Kong films will be able to enjoy the dividends of the Taiwan film market for a longer time.

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