Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Xu Cun's brilliant achievements in two years made many people jealous. More and more film companies are opening, and there are even some people who don't know much about movies but are willing to invest all their money in making movies. It seems that as long as they enter the film industry, everyone can become Xu Cun, and everyone can soar into the sky and become worth billions.

Most of these small film companies are shoddy, and the quality of the films is extremely low. Nine out of ten films cannot be shown in several major theaters.

What are they filming for if they can't be screened?

Don't forget, apart from several major theater chains, there are also many neighborhood theaters and rural theaters.

The low-quality films produced by those small film companies are shown in a large number of scattered small theaters. Although they can only sell hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars at the box office at most, it is enough for them to recover their costs and make a small profit.

Especially for those illegal H movies, one bed, one camera, one man and one woman can be made into a film, and they are not sent to the prosecutor's office for trial at all, and are directly screened in underground theaters after filming.

While Xiangjiang Films was booming, Shaw Brothers Films began to decline.

The sign of Shaw Brothers' decline is not the decrease in the number of films it produces each year. On the contrary, it produced more films this year than last year, and produced 15 films in the first half of the year alone.

Why does this happen?

It was because the attendance rate of Shaw Brothers' films was too low, and each film had to be released in advance within a few days of its release. And Shaw Brothers had a big booth there, and they would lose money every day if they didn’t show movies, so Shaw Brothers had to increase the production of films to meet the needs of its own theaters.

As a result, a vicious circle has been created—poor movie quality leads to low attendance, and lower attendance leads to fewer release days for a single film. With fewer release days, more movies must be made to make up for the scarcity of film sources. Multiple movies will inevitably reduce the production cost of a single movie, and the reduction in production costs will lead to a decline in the quality of the movie.

If left unchecked, this will create a deadlock—one that will never be untied.

Naturally, Shao Yifu will not wait to die, and he also wants to kill Golden Harvest and DreamWorks to dominate the Xiangjiang film industry, so he plans to produce a few blockbuster movies first to save the current crisis from the current predicament.

Therefore, Shao Yifu sent people to find Zhang Guoming, the hero who made nearly ten million Hong Kong dollars for Xu Cun last year.

No one knows what Shao Yifu talked about with Zhang Guoming, and what conditions he promised Zhang Guoming. People in Xiangjiang only know that Zhang Guoming left DreamWorks and started to shoot the movie "Marginal People" for Shaw Brothers.

If Shao Yifu poached Xu Cun's corner only for the purpose of self-help, then Xu Cun's partner Lei Juekun poached Xu Cun's corner entirely because he was jealous of Xu Cun making a lot of money. The film company is making money every day, and he can only follow the soup. Lei Juekun decided to open up a production business, and provided funds to the film company for filming and production. After the completion, the Golden Princess Cinemas will be responsible for scheduling the release and promoting the release. After the film receives the box office, the cost is deducted and the accounts are shared between the two parties as a cooperation method to attract potential filmmakers to join.

In fact, the Golden Princess strategy is undoubtedly good news for independent companies: it not only has the support of stable behind-the-scenes financial backers, but also can gain greater choice in theater scheduling, and it will also help increase the company's production. and competitiveness.

Therefore, Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming discussed cooperation with Lei Juekun. However, when faced with Lei Juekun's offer to own 51% of the company's shares as a condition for capital injection and reorganization of the Struggle Film Company, Shi Tian once said, "Why do we divide half of our films if they make money?" Opposed, but Mai Jia and Huang Baiming believed that this method would give the new company the opportunity to start filming more themes, instead of staying in the stalemate of waiting for money to start films every year and only enough to make one or two films. In the long run See, this is essentially a win-win situation, and Shi Tian then agreed to accept Lei Juekun's conditions.

In August of this year, Xinyicheng Films Co., Ltd. finally announced its birth with the support of Princess Jin, and started filming the entrepreneurial work "Funny Times", directed by Golden Harvest director Wu Yusen's pseudonym "Wu Shangfei".

On the occasion of Zhang Luo Xinyi City, Lei Juekun also threw out olive branches to Xu Cun's two important ministers.

One of these important ministers is Zeng Zhiwei.

After "Dirty" was released, it also achieved pretty good results - in Hong Kong and overseas, "Dirty" earned more than five million Hong Kong dollars for DreamWorks.

Continuous filming of two popular kung fu comedies, "Kicking the Hall" and "Stolen Thieves", Zeng Zhiwei became the "living treasure" that Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao, and Luo Wei were vying to win over. Lei Juekun is also very optimistic about Zeng Zhiwei's director ability, but he does not intend to support Zeng Zhiwei, who is alone, to open a film company, but wants Zeng Zhiwei to join New Art City to work for him. For this reason, he even offered Zeng Zhiwei Triple pay while at DreamWorks.

Another important minister is Chen Xunqi.

For Chen Xunqi, who was highly valued by Xu Cun and who made blockbuster films like "Pretty Girl" for Xu Cun, Lei Juekun offered the same conditions as New Art City—a partnership to open a film company. Moreover, Lei Juekun also hinted that Chen Xunqi could recruit people from DreamWorks to enrich the film company they jointly opened.

Faced with the conditions given by Lei Juekun, it would be a lie to say that Chen Xunqi and Zeng Zhiwei are not interested.

but--

Neither Chen Xunqi nor Zeng Zhiwei immediately agreed to Lei Juekun.

Zeng Zhiwei's refusal was not because he was loyal to Xu Cun, but because he was dissatisfied with Lei Juekun's conditions - if Lei Juekun could give him Chen Xunqi's conditions, he would definitely agree without hesitation. But Lei Juekun only doubled his salary, which made it difficult for him to choose. You must know that working in DreamWorks has the opportunity to develop in Hollywood, which is a resource that Shaw Brothers and even Golden Harvest do not have, let alone New Arts City, a new film company. Besides, Zeng Zhiwei didn't want to betray or even offend Xu Cun, a thriving movie tycoon, just because of this advantage.

Chen Xunqi didn't agree because he really admired Xu Cun and didn't want to betray Xu Cun. However, in Chen Xunqi's bones, there is an element of curiosity that is extremely eager to try new things. Therefore, having the opportunity to be the boss of a film company made Chen Xunqi very conflicted.

In addition, in the first half of this year, DreamWorks only released one film, "Dirty" by Zeng Zhiwei. This will inevitably give some people the false impression that DreamWorks is just a strong outsider.

Therefore, in the face of all kinds of temptations infiltrated by the outside world, some employees of DreamWorks and even the generals who are in charge of it have grown grass in their hearts.

In other words, while Xu Cun reaped glory and money from Hollywood, he also had to face internal and external troubles caused by his departure from Xiangjiang.

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