After three rounds of wine and five flavors of tea, Fang Chen was still looking around and talking about him without talking about the topic. Even Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin, the Xiang brothers and others who thought they were sophisticated people suddenly couldn't sit still.

Regarding the situation in front of them, those who knew it were aware that Fang Chen invited them here. If they didn't know this, they would have thought it was Fang Chen who was inviting them to the banquet.

Zou Wenhuai coughed, looked at Fang Chen and asked directly: "I don't know, Director Fang invited us to a banquet, what are the important things to discuss, and how are we going to take away our film copyright? What if Director Fang invites us to a banquet?

If you suddenly change your mind and change your mind, just give us a few clear explanations."

To be honest, he has long been tired of being here with Fang Chen. I am a young talent and a leader in the business world, and you are as radiant and majestic as ever. We compliment each other and talk nonsense that has no reality.

If it were a weekday, because of Fang Chen's status, he might be able to hold back and sit here and chat with Fang Chen. Anyway, he doesn't have to spend a penny. The time wasted has nothing to do with the importance of getting to know Fang Chen.

In comparison, it's nothing.

But now, with Shao Yifu sitting here, facing this former boss, today's sworn enemy, and life and death enemy, he was really on pins and needles, and he had long wanted to leave.

Ever since he left his position as CEO of Shaw Film Company and founded Golden Harvest Film Company in 1970 due to the company's stingy salary system and the delay in obtaining stock allotment, he and Yifu Shao had been fighting to the death.

When bleeding breaks out, one wishes to put the opponent to death, praying to gods and praying to Buddha to curse the opponent to death, and often does so.

In his memory, he and Yifu Shao had attended some banquets and award shows, but they had never sat at the same table so close to each other in the past twenty-three years.

To be honest, if he wasn't offended by Fang Chen's poor status, he would have left long ago.

In addition, the reason why he is still sitting here is naturally because it is profitable.

Previously, Robert Kuok helped Fang Chen bring him a message, saying that Fang Chen could help Golden Harvest Company open the mainland market and make money from the mainland market, but the premise was that he would exclusively license all Golden Harvest Company's movies to Fang Chen. At the very least,

Fang Chen wants to take away all the copyrights on the mainland.

Otherwise, Fang Chen, a popular figure in China, Russia and the United States, really cannot afford to offend him, but if he can't afford to offend him, he can hide. At worst, if he can't shirk, Fang Chen can still eat him.

Looking at today's situation, Fang Chen wants to monopolize the mainland distribution rights of all Hong Kong films.

Seeing Zou Wenhuai's impatient look, Fang Chen and Guo Henian looked at each other and smiled, then smiled at Zou Wenhuai and said: "It seems to be my fault. I originally wanted to wait a little longer and was discussing with you, but

Who would have expected..."

After saying this, Fang Chen looked at Zou Wenhuai apologetically, but there was a hint of a playful smile in his eyes.

However, this also proves that the chairman of Jiahe Company is indeed as talented and straightforward as the rumors say. Otherwise, he would not have done what he did. He is already one person below ten thousand people in Shaw Brothers.

He also decided to resign and start his own business.

However, I have to say that Zou Wenhuai took the right step, unlike most entrepreneurs who quit their jobs and died before their ambitions were fulfilled, and fell into disgrace.

Not long after the company was established, Zou Wenhuai hired Bruce Lee, who had just emerged, with a large sum of money and invited him to join.

Several films starring Bruce Lee, such as "Brother Tangshan", "Across the River" and "Enter the Dragon" were all personally produced by him.

Jackie Chan, Xu Guanwen, Sammo Hung, Maggie Cheung, Tang Guangrong, Anita Mui, Jet Li, Wu Siyuan, Tsui Hark, Zhao Wenzhuo and other famous filmmakers were discovered and cultivated by him.

Jiahe Company also once became the world's largest Chinese film production company.

However, Zou Wenhuai did not know that at this time, his real enemy was not Shao Yifu, but Xi Lin Baixin, chairman of Lixin Group and chairman of ATV.

At the turn of the millennium, Lin Baixin's second son, Lin Jianyue, was hostile to the acquisition of Jiahe. Zou Wenhuai used his connections to introduce Acer to repel Lin Jianyue. Later, Acer transferred the shares of Jiahe Company to Li Jiacheng.

In the late 1990s, the Xiangjiang film market was declining day by day. Coupled with the fact that he had been screwed by Lin Jianyue for so long, and that he was already in his seventies, Zou Wenhuai completely withdrew from Jiahe Company, regardless of the facts. It is really regrettable.

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After all, Yifu Shao was active until 2010 and only stepped down as executive chairman of TVB at the age of 104. It makes no sense, and the same cannot be said for Chow Wenhuai, who is twenty years younger than Yifu Shao.

Shao Yifu and Lin Baixin had a sarcastic smile flashing across their unceremonious mouths. No matter what, Zou Wenhuai could not be more out of control than Fang Chen, a young boy.

After pondering for a moment, Fang Chen then said: "Dr. Zou, I believe you also know that although Xiangjiang movies have great influence throughout Asia, most of them are limited to Xiangjiang and Wanwan. It is a pity, but there is nothing we can do about it.

After all, there are language barriers in East Japan, South Goguryeo, and Southeast Asia. Basically, except for some popular movies, other ordinary movies basically don’t have much value in translation and dubbing. Not only do they not have a large audience, but they also have to face local movies.

fierce competition.”

Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin, and the Xiang brothers nodded in unison and fell silent, leaving only their eyes motionless to look at Fang Chen.

What Fang Chen said was of course the truth, but it was also nonsense. How could they, the big guys in the industry, not know the dilemma Xiangjiang Film was facing.

Seeing the cold expressions of Zou Wenhuai and others, Fang Chen chuckled indifferently, and then continued: "So, the only way out for Xiangjiang movies is to develop in the mainland. Mainland China and Xiangjiang belong to the same country, have the same culture and species, and there is no

There is no language barrier, or even if there is one, there are countless people who are proficient in Cantonese and Mandarin, so you can easily find the corresponding translation and dubbing talents."

At this point, Fang Chen's voice suddenly became much louder, and he said excitedly: "But the most important thing is that the mainland has a huge population unmatched by any country. The population of 1.1 billion accounts for nearly 20% of the world's population.

This is such a huge market with a huge population. Once Xiangjiang film and television songs enter the mainland market, they will immediately leap over the dragon gate and turn into a dragon. From then on, the sky is high and birds can fly, and the sea is wide and fish can leap. It will be completely different."

As soon as Fang Chen finished speaking, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but said: "Director Fang, I admit that what you said makes sense to a certain extent. The mainland does have advantages that other countries in the region cannot match. It has a large population and has the same culture and race. But the population

Do you have enough money to go to the movies?"

"Movies have always been a luxury product. Even in developed areas like Xiangjiang, one-third of the people have never been to a regular theater in their lives. As for the mainland, based on the per capita income of the mainland, this proportion may be in the third

Times, or even more, that is to say, one billion of the 1.1 billion people have never been to a movie theater, and even if they go to a movie theater, they cannot afford the price of a commercial movie theater..."

Speaking of this, Zou Wenhuai shook his head sadly. He had naturally thought about developing inland, but it was too difficult and there was basically no possibility of it being feasible.

The average income in mainland China is really too low, only one-seventy or eighty-eighths of the average income in Hong Kong. Even if movies are not considered luxuries, only when the per capita income reaches a certain level can the number of viewers increase on a large scale.

Otherwise, even if they have spare money in their pockets, people would be more inclined to buy a pound of meat, or a piece of clothing, instead of spending it on movie tickets that are not necessities of life.

Therefore, the vast majority of mainland Chinese people are not willing to spend money on movie tickets.

Furthermore, the mainland does not have this condition. Basically, the movies played in the mainland have no so-called distribution, and the awareness of copyright is close to zero.

Most of them are produced by film studios and provided free of charge to rural projection teams and employee theaters in urban factories and mines. Their main responsibility is to enrich the cultural life of the people and improve their cultural literacy. It has nothing to do with whether they make money or not.

After all, the money for making the film has already been allocated to the film studio, and the film studio has no profit mission, so how can it consider these things.

And as I said just now, there is actually no soil for commercial films in mainland China.

First of all, there are no cinemas. There are only free rural screening teams and employee cinemas in urban factories and mines. The former does not charge any money at all, while the latter only charges one or two cents. It’s funny. I never thought about it.

Make more money, and then give the money to the movie studios to make better movies.

This makes them very helpless. It can even be said to be a bolt from the blue. No matter what they can do, the fare of one or two cents is a deadlock. If they are beaten to death, they will not be able to earn from the one or two cents.

After receiving the money, this amount of money is not even enough to pay wages to the projection team.

However, the most important thing is that mainlanders are really poor and can only afford a movie ticket of one or two cents, but they really cannot afford any more.

How can they go to the mainland to develop if they don’t have a theater chain and no money? Not to mention that twenty years ago, the mainland still looked like they were hiding in small buildings and becoming unified. Only ghosts can go to the mainland to develop.

, it would be nice not to be arrested.

Fang Chen chuckled lightly, "What Zou said makes sense. Most mainlanders can't afford the ticket price, which easily costs thirty or fifty yuan. After all, the monthly salary is only about two hundred yuan.

It is absolutely impossible for a family of four to spend a month's salary just by going out to watch a movie, so I have no intention of letting Xiangjiang Films perform in mainland China the same way as Xiangjiang or even other countries.

The same pattern across regions.”

Fang Chen never expected to be able to bring those movies to the mainland for normal screening at this moment.

To put it bluntly, in the previous life of 2018, the annual attendance of theaters was only about 1.6 billion.

And remember, this is only the number of people. In fact, people who have the habit of watching movies will watch several movies every year. As a result, the number of people who actually watch movies every year is less than 300 million, only a little more than one-fifth.

At this time, I am afraid that only a very small number of people can enter serious commercial cinemas, and at most 20% of the population has watched movies in urban employee cinemas.

After all, at this time, non-agricultural household registrations accounted for only 18% of the total population in the country, and the vast majority of agricultural household registrations were unable to enter urban employee cinemas.

"What are you going to do, Director Fang?" Zou Wenhuai asked aggressively, with even a trace of unconcealable disappointment in his eyes.

He originally thought that Fang Chen would have some good ideas, but he ended up here. If it were really so easy to get into the mainland's movie market, then wouldn't they have gone in long ago and still lingering at the door?

Facing Zou Wenhuai's relentless pursuit and arrogance, Fang Chen smiled nonchalantly, "Dr. Zou, don't worry, I just said that the mainland cannot implement the same film screening system as Hong Kong and other countries, and

It’s not that Xiangjiang Movies is really inaccessible.

On the mainland, buying movie tickets in theaters is not feasible, so we can still take another way. Moreover, what I want is not the latest and most popular film this year. You can now use the film you have shot in the past.

Just leave the distribution rights and usage rights in mainland China to me."

Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Director Fang, you want to release the video tape, this won't work, it really won't work."

Not only Zou Wenhuai, but even Lin Baixin, the Xiang brothers and others looked at Fang Chen as if Fang Chen was delusional.

Distributing video cassettes is not unfamiliar to them. Even when most of the movies are played in cinemas, let alone making money, they cannot even recover their costs.

Then why do they continue to make these unprofitable movies? It's because of the video tapes.

After the movie is released for a period of time, they will record the movie on video tape and then sell it to normal users and video hall owners.

Although video tapes are not eye-catching, the income from video tapes is not large. They can basically account for 20% of a film's revenue, and this 20% does not need to be handed over to theaters and distributors, but falls into their own pockets.

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There are many movies that were already losing money when they were released, but they turned around through the release of video tapes.

Ordinarily, Fang Chen's plan to release video tapes should be feasible. China is so big and there are so many people who want to watch movies. One person can't afford a video recorder and video tapes. It shouldn't be difficult for several companies to buy one together, and the cost of the video tapes is also

It will be greatly shared.

And as far as they know, various video halls have sprung up in China in recent years, and there is no doubt that these video halls require a large number of video tapes.

But why, even so, do they still think Fang Chen’s idea of ​​releasing the video tape to China is unrealistic?
Chapter completed!