Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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This year Xu Cun is really too busy, it can be said that he was busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, so busy that he didn't have time to pay attention to the changes in the Xiangjiang film circle.

Therefore, when Xu Cun was free for a while, he realized that the Xiangjiang film circle had undergone great changes.

The first change, New Art City went from bad to worse.

There are many reasons why New Art City is going from bad to worse. Among them, the Kowloon Lei family owns two listed companies, 'Kowloon Bus' and 'Kowloon City Construction', and is also one of the shareholders of 'Kowloon Metro', with assets worth billions of Hong Kong dollars. The reason why Lei Qizheng doesn't care about the new art city is because he doesn't like Princess Jin's family business.

But Lei Qizheng's attitude is actually not the most important reason for New Art City's deteriorating situation - after all, it may not be a good thing for New Art City if Lei Qizheng, a layman, does not participate in the specific operation of New Art City.

The main reason for the deteriorating situation of New Art City is still that Mecca and Shi Tian are no longer as enthusiastic about movies as they used to be. It is better to study the daily stock market quotations; the latter also has a bunch of books on real estate around him. The two even "persuaded" Huang Baiming, who was still vigorously developing movies, saying that the golden age of Xiangjiang movies was coming to an end, and it would be better to stop now than it is now. It can be seen that what Xinyi City has lost is not creativity and talents, but the morale of the army.

All in all, the current New Art City has almost become a situation where Huang Baiming is the only one - except that at the beginning of this year, relying on the distribution network of DreamWorks, he used special effects technology to shoot "Best Partner 5" and released it to Europe and the United States and earned two dollars. In addition to tens of millions of dollars, the entire New Art City in 1987 was almost entirely supported by the family comedy "Eight Stars Annunciation" directed by Huang Baiming. "Love", "Red Lips", "The Eight Treasures" and other films are all average.

Equity distribution in New Art City: Huang Baiming holds 9%, Shi Tian holds 19%, and Princess Jin and Mecca take 72%. Among the 72% of the shares, Jin The Princess is fifty-one percent, and Mecca is forty-nine percent.

That is to say, the Golden Princess represented by Lei Qizheng, who doesn't care, holds 36.72% of the equity in New Art City, and Mecca, who only knows to study the daily stock market every day, accounts for 3% of New Art City 15.28 shares, Shi Tian, ​​who studies real estate speculation every day, holds 19% of the shares in New Art City, while Huang Baiming, the only self-motivated person who can help New Art City make money, only owns New Art City Nine percent stake.

Let me ask, how could New Art City not go from bad to worse under such circumstances?

Now, Huang Baiming already has the intention of leaving to work alone, and is just waiting for a suitable opportunity.

In addition, the Hong Kong film market is booming. Nanyang, Taiwan, South Korea and other places are willing to invest in Hong Kong films to make profits. Line) dominates the film industry in Hong Kong, and foreign capital can occasionally cast Hong Kong films, but they cannot get prime time slots and popular movie stars starring, and New Arts City exists in name only. Therefore, Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, the other two major shareholders of Golden Princess Cinemas, decided to form another Xinbao Cinemas independent of the four major cinemas, acting as intermediaries for foreign capital and Hong Kong independent production companies. The films that come out can not only be screened in Xinbao theaters, but foreign investment can also be brought back to the local market to continue to make profits.

The second change, Jiahe changed the situation.

The shareholders of Golden Harvest still couldn't resist the temptation of rising stock and property prices before the stock market crash, and rushed into the stock market and property market without hesitation to die on the eve of the stock market crash.

Fortunately——

Relying on the good relationship established with Xu Cun, DreamWorks helped Golden Harvest release a "Police Story" and a "Best Lucky Star", making Golden Harvest a stronger foundation than in the previous life.

In addition, Xu Cun's reminder to Zou Wenhuai last year played a role - Zou Wenhuai hesitated again and again, and finally reduced his investment in the stock market and property market by half.

The combination of these two things prevents Jiahe from being the same as in the previous life. Since then, his vitality has been seriously injured, and then he has gradually declined.

After the stock market crash.

Surprised and heartbroken, Zou Wenhuai ignored his wife Yuan Xihua's troubles, and immediately adopted Xu Cun's suggestion, and personally called Zou Zhongjin, who was about to enter the medical industry, back to Golden Harvest as the successor of the Golden Harvest Dynasty to accompany him.

Of course, Zou Wenhuai can't even give up the most basic family affection just because of Xu Cun's "magic stick"—Zou Wenhuai is also cultivating Zou Chongyan, but unlike the previous life, Zou Chongyan is not He is no longer the only heir cultivated by the Golden Harvest Dynasty.

The third change is the decline of Debao.

In this stock market crash, the most injured person was not Golden Harvest's Zou Wenhuai, but Debao's Pan Disheng who lost 460 million Hong Kong dollars without even entering the game.

Even though Disheng Pan has a little wealth, even if Disheng Pan's father is also a rich man, losing the 460 million Hong Kong dollars all at once still hurt Pan Disheng to the bone. sell.

at present.

Under Xu Cun's instructions, DreamWorks Films has bought the film library of Debao Films.

The staff of Debao Films scattered in all directions—in the current period of high prosperity of Xiangjiang Films, they would not worry about finding a new home.

The equipment and equipment of Debao Film Company were divided up by the newly emerging small and medium-sized film companies.

Debao Cinemas, the most valuable of Debao Films, is currently reduced to a scattered theater like Liberty Cinemas, undertaking low-cost or even tri-polar films produced by independent production companies-this is why Debao Cinemas failed to enter The reason for the four theaters.

All in all, Hong Kong films have almost reached their heyday, but the old big-name film companies except Dreamworks Films are currently in decline.

Xu Cun, who has been a man for two lives and has such a wealth of experience in this life, knows too well that these small and medium-sized film companies that are dancing happily now are actually a bunch of rabble, and they can make a little money by taking advantage of the general trend. They have no courage or strength to play big. make.

Therefore, if Xu Cun does not want Hong Kong films to decline, he cannot let the big film companies that have the courage and strength to play big productions decline. After all, no matter how powerful Xu Cun is, it is impossible for him to fight against an industry alone.

Therefore, after understanding the current situation of major film companies, Xu Cun personally instructed DreamWorks Films to open "Captain America" ​​(production cost 82 million U.S. dollars), "Spiderman" (production cost 8,700 U.S. dollars) million), "Zhu Xian 3" (production cost 210 million Hong Kong dollars), "Three Kings Fighting Shuanggu" (production cost 120 million Hong Kong dollars), "Rain Man" (production cost 25 million Hong Kong dollars)5 This is a big production to tell Xiangjiang filmmakers: The era of big productions has opened in Xiangjiang!

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