Chapter 103 Establishment of Princess Jin
"Lisheng changed his name to Princess Jin, and the Hong Kong film industry changed color. - Ming Pao Morning Post"
"In the spring of independent production companies, the Golden Princess Theater Abolishes the theater bottom-up system. - Oriental Daily"
"Hong Kong has launched another theater war, and Princess Jin is coming strongly. - Sing Tao Morning News"
"Learn from Europe and the United States? On the consequences of the cancellation of the theater's base system. - Xinbao"
"Where will Hong Kong movies take to cancel the theater guarantee system? - "
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Li Xuan obviously did not expect that the consequences of the establishment of Princess Jin Cinema would be so sensational. Just the day after Lei Juekun held a press conference, the headlines of the entertainment pages of all Hong Kong newspapers were all news that Lisheng Cinema was reorganized into Princess Jin Cinema.
Because this news was so shocking, Princess Jin Cinema actually took the lead in abolishing the theater guarantee system in Hong Kong!
The consequence of Lei Juekun's doing this is that it directly changes the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry. The abolition of the theater guarantee system must be very active for those particularly sensitive film practitioners, the bosses, directors and screenwriters of sole proprietorship production companies. Now, it is estimated that many people are eager to make a few movies immediately, and then go to Princess Golden Theater to release them online to make a fortune.
Moreover, Lei Juekun's method of throwing it out was more than one move, but the three axes in the right direction!
The second axe is that as long as the movies of a sole proprietorship production company can be watched by Princess Jin's theaters, the production company can directly get the movies and release them, while Princess Jin's distribution company does not participate in it.
This is another pie that makes a wholly proprietorship studio drool!
In Hong Kong, movies produced by producers must be released through distribution companies to be released in theaters. The box office revenue is basically divided into three parts: theaters, distribution companies and producers. Among them, theaters account for about half, and the box office share of distribution companies is basically between 10% and 20%, and the remaining one is the producer's money.
Now Princess Jin has actually saved the distribution process directly. Wouldn't that mean that the film company can even get a 55-5 share in Hong Kong?
Of course, the premise is that the producer's film quality is good, and Princess Golden Cinemas can be watched. However, which director doesn't think his movie is good?
The third axe is to follow Jiahe. In addition to establishing its own film company, it also invests in building its own satellite film company, and can even cooperate with some sole proprietorship production companies like Jiahe.
There are probably very few Hong Kong filmmakers who can withstand the temptation with these three tricks. Even Li Xuan was almost moved when he saw the newspaper the next morning.
But after thinking deeper, Li Xuan's restless heart calmed down again, and he planned to stand aside and watch the show.
Li Xuan had never heard of any theater bottom-up system in later generations. After traveling through time, he was surprised. It can be seen that this system was finally cancelled. However, Li Xuan did not expect that it was the first to cancel the theater bottom-up system. Since it is the general trend to cancel the theater bottom-up system, Jiahe will probably not delay it for a long time. If you are beaten by Xinyi City a few times, this system will probably be abolished.
The cancellation of the distribution company's role is only implemented in Hong Kong, which may be very attractive to small sole proprietorship production companies, but for those film companies that want to sell films in other places, who is willing to offend the distribution company for this little money?
As for the satellite companies that support themselves, Li Xuan smiled disdainfully. The future Xinyi City and Xu Ke Studio are just working for others, and Lei Juekun earns a lot of money. Unlike the satellite companies in Jiahe, at least the bosses of those companies can get the most.
Most of the inside stories of this were only known to Li Xuan, who came from later generations. Li Xuan kept maliciously guessing when he was holding the newspaper. The current Hong Kong film industry is probably already in trouble.
Unfortunately, the development of reality was beyond Li Xuan's expectations. Apart from a few more films, it was still unchanged in the entire Hong Kong film industry. Shaw is still working hard for the tragic results of "Modern Grove", and Jiahe is also promoting the box office of "The Junior Brother" that can exceed 10 million.
In addition to the ban orders issued by the two theater giants secretly a long time ago, Shaw Brothers and Jiahe actually ignored Princess Jin. It seems that the last time that Shaw Yifu and Zou Wenhuai joined forces to beat Lei Juekunyi made them think that this time was just a struggle before their death.
The Hong Kong film industry was calm on the surface, and Li Xuan no longer struggled with these things and began to concentrate on preparing his own movies. However, something happened in late February, which made Li Xuan board the plane to Taiwan with laughter and cry.
Thinking of the news I just received, Li Xuan, who was sitting on the plane, smiled bitterly. Fortunately, when he heard that "Mr. Zombie" would be released in Taiwan first, he went to apply for a visa to enter Taiwan on a whim, otherwise he would have to stay in Hong Kong and be anxious now.
The reason is that Liu Chuwei, who has been staring at the movie in Taiwan, was stabbed by someone with a knife and is now lying in the Peace Hospital in Taiwan to recuperate. As the boss of this movie, Li Xuan cannot not care about it.
This unlucky child saw someone quarrel while buying tickets, and ran over to fight again. As a result, the two people had nothing to do with each other. Liu Chuwei was stabbed by one of them with a knife. Now he was lying in the hospital with a sickness, but the two murderers ran away without a trace.
A few days ago, when Liu Tuwei invited Li Xuan and his team on the phone, Li Xuan was too lazy to go there. There was a small part of the reason that the power of Taiwan’s community at this time was worse than that of Hong Kong, which made Li Xuan very dislike Taiwan.
Since the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1975, Hong Kong has cracked down on community organizations, which has caused many communities to go from open to secret, and have become much more low-key. At most, they can pick up machetes and cut them against each other when the police are not around at night.
But Taiwan’s communities are much more rampant. They don’t like to use knives, but prefer guns.
Just in September 1978, not long after Li Xuan traveled over, a series of strange shootings occurred in Taiwan.
At that time, there was a friction between the Fourth Ring Gang and the Shanlian Gang in Taipei. Both sides disliked each other, so they fought with guns. As a result, many people died on both sides, and even caused trouble to go to the Philippines to invite overseas mercenaries to help the war. In the end, the trouble was so disastrous. When the police wanted to intervene, one of the bosses called the police station directly and warned the police that this was their affairs, so you don't interfere.
The police really didn't interfere, and the matter became more and more serious, and even burned a building. Now the people above couldn't stand it anymore, so they directly ordered the police to take action to suppress the matter.
This shows how rampant the communities in Taiwan are!
Fortunately, the murderer Liu Chuwei met only brought a knife. If he had a gun, it would probably be that Li Xuan would not be on the plane, but in the Hong Kong mourning hall.
After getting off the plane alone, Li Xuan had no time to go to the hotel and called him directly to the Heping Hospital. He bought some fruit at the entrance of the hospital, and then asked about the ward number at the front desk of the hospital, and Li Xuan went straight to the ward.
This is a six-person room. Liu Chuwei's bed is very good. He is leaning against the window and can lie quietly on the bed and watch the branches flying outside the window. Liu Chuwei, who is pale-faced, is like this now.
"Shi Wei!" Li Xuan shouted in a low voice. There were many other patients in the ward resting, so it was not appropriate to be noisy.
Hearing this voice, Liu Chuwei turned his head suddenly and said in surprise: "Axuan, why are you here?"
"Hey..." Li Xuan sighed intentionally, put the fruit on the bedside table, and chuckled softly: "What happened to you? I, the boss, cannot come to express my condolences? By the way, how about the wound?"
"Hehe, I've been sewn for more than ten stitches. It's okay now, but I can't get out of the ground." Liu Chuwei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that that guy had a free appendix surgery for me."
"Oh, that's not bad, at least I didn't get a knife in vain." Li Xuan smiled and continued to ask, "What do the police say?"
Liu Chuwei made a half-shuffle move, probably pulling the wound, baring his teeth before replying: "What else can I say? Isn't it just waiting for investigation? You know..."
Liu Tuwei didn't say that, and Li Xuan understood it. Taiwan is like Hong Kong before 1975. Without the involvement of the police, the clubs would not be so rampant. Moreover, there are military figures behind many Taiwanese clubs, which is even more difficult to deal with.
"Okay, then you can rest assured to recover from the injury. As long as you have nothing to do, I guess when your injury is completely healed, the movie will be painted in Hong Kong and I will report you good news at that time." Li Xuan immediately comforted.
Liu Tuwei waved his hand and smiled when he heard this, "I don't want you to report good news. Even if I go there, I will go back to Hong Kong."
"Okay, I'll drive the boat to catch you."
"Ha——, shy——!" Liu Chuwei just smiled, pulled the wound again, and quickly rubbed the wound gently and smiled bitterly: "It's really troublesome. By the way, Axuan, since you are here, are you going to Ximending to take a look? If you go tonight, you can still see someone queuing up."
Chapter completed!