Because his films "Butterfly Change" and "No Gate to Hell" collapsed.

"Danger of the First Type" was even listed as a banned film and is now being reshot and revised.

Although his friend John Woo recommended him to many people in Jiahe, no one believed him.

After Xu Luo asked Zhou Jiahui to help make an appointment with Xu Ke, he checked the current situation of Hong Kong theaters.

At this time, the largest film companies on the market were Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest.

Therefore, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers can rank first, followed by Golden Princess and Shuangnan, which are the largest. They can be called the "four major theater chains", but Shuangnan is not included because of its special nature.

The remaining three theater lines are combined with their corresponding production companies or satellite companies to form a unique theater chain marketing model.

It can be said that the theater chain system is the economic backbone of the Hong Kong film industry.

Except for Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest can produce and sell its own films, while other independent production companies can only be "recruited" by theaters and rely on them to provide funds to shoot movies.

For example, Princess Jin can only be qualified to challenge the two major theater chains, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, by funding New Art City, Yongjia, and even later Tsui Hark Film Studio and Lee Soo-hyun's Universal Pictures.

If a new theater chain appears, these three major theater chains will immediately collapse.

Because Jiahe Cinema Line can only screen the productions of Jiahe and its satellite companies, this is precisely the most fatal thing about Jiahe.

The satellite system model has a flexible system, so there will be no problem during the rising period. Everyone can make money, so hello, me, and everyone.

If you encounter market fluctuations and business decreases, the shortcomings will be exposed immediately, because there is no stable cooperation system between each other, and there is no sense of responsibility between companies to support each other. When encountering problems, everyone will just brush it off.

In addition to the above-mentioned theaters, there is also an Anle Cinemas, that is, Broadway Cinemas, which produces European and American films, which can be ignored.

If you simply want to break the game, you have to start with the new theater chain.

Xu Luo has never said that he will not do theater business. He has never simply and crudely copied CAA's model.

Once you enter the film industry, the world is as deep as the sea. If you want to make it big, you have to become a theater chain.

This move may force Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest to ban their own artists from starring in non-own companies' films, which will leave other companies' films without big-name actors and make their films less interesting.

Without big-name artists, we can only shoot low-cost and low-quality works.

By then the new cinema lines will be cannibalized.

Therefore, Xu Luo still admires New Art City for allowing Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest to join forces to fight against each other.

The two major companies took turns supplying films, and successively screened Golden Harvest's "Qi Men Dun Jia", "Eight Colorful Lin Yazhen" and Shaw Brothers' "Tathagata Palm" in their cinemas, and later even jointly produced the movie "Seven Little Fortunes".
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As a result, both major companies could not suppress it and forced Boss Shao to turn to TV dramas.

It's easy to break the tactics of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest that ban their own artists. Just follow Lishi's example of poaching people because Golden Harvest is loosely organized.

The so-called loyalty means that the stakes for betrayal are not high enough.

After all, not just anyone can earn millions in Golden Harvest like Jack.

But Xu Luo doesn't plan to set up a new theater chain now. That would be time-consuming, laborious and expensive, and it's not something that can be done in the short term.

It's better to recruit a group of people to work on a movie project first, and then package the project to Princess Jin.

Let Lei Juekun fight Shaw Brothers Jiahe.

It also speeds up Boss Shao’s dream of making a TV show.

Lei Juekun is a businessman who accepts everyone who comes. If not, he would not support so many film companies.

If there is no soil, cultivate the soil and let Hong Kong filmmakers slowly adapt.

Zhou Jiahui soon made an appointment with Xu Ke, and also Shi Nansheng, a very powerful woman who was nicknamed "The Female Zhuge in the Film Industry".

In the company's reception room, after a few people exchanged greetings, they took their seats one after another.

Xu Ke got straight to the point and asked: "I wonder if Xu Sheng has something to do with me this time?"

"Are you interested in joining our company?" Xu Luo offered an olive branch again, "I heard that your old friend John Woo recommended you in Jiahe, but Jiahe didn't believe it, but I believe you are a talented person."

Xu Kete hesitated because he only focused on a few points when making a movie.

Sufficient funds, stable theater chains, and space for free creation.

It was Shi Nansheng who spoke first: "Xu Sheng, although I am not engaged in movies, can I ask a question?"

"Please say."

"As far as I know, your company doesn't seem to have theaters, right? If you make a movie, do you plan to release it in Golden Harvest or Shaw Brothers?" Shi Nansheng asked this key question.

Xu Luodao: "Let's work with Princess Jin first. I don't think Lei Sheng will refuse the film source."

At this time, Princess Jin and Mai Jia of Endeavor Company had just allocated the equity. Just last month, Princess Jin and Mai Jia formed a joint venture, Cinema Film (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

The registered capital is HK$1 million, and after the actual payment of HK$600,000, it is divided into 60,000 shares. Princess Jin holds 51%, holding 30,800 shares; Maijia holds 49%, holding 29,400 shares.
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The disadvantage of cooperating with theater chains is that it is especially good when the relationship is good. It may allow the movie to be released in the best theaters and filmed in the best schedule.

When the relationship is not good, they may give you the worst theater, the worst schedule, or even refuse to let you show it.

But what matters in doing business is profit.

"Listen to Xu Sheng, do you want to set up your own theater chain in the future?" Shi Nansheng asked again.

Xu Luo nodded, "It's not okay to always put your lifeline in the hands of others. And although we are a film company, we will not interfere with the director's creation and sign long-term contracts like Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers."

"What we want to do is a team with the ability to incubate and operate projects. To put it simply, when you see a project, the whole company will work hard to do it."

"Of course, this is something that many companies can do, but what we do is a 'three-year contract' cooperation. The company invests first, provides the outline and script, and you do the filming."

"And for each movie, we will add one more point on top of Golden Harvest and Shaw Bros. There will also be no liquidated damages. If one day you suddenly say you don't want to work with me anymore, it will be easy for everyone to break up.

Just finish shooting the works in the contract."

In life, you can’t just talk about ideals, you also have to talk about money.

Xu Ke thought carefully and found it very attractive because he had nowhere to go yet.

People in the film industry saw him as if they were seeing poison and avoided him.

Moreover, the signing time is also loose. In three years, you can make a few movies at will. Even if you make them quickly, you will only be able to make four or five movies at most.

So he asked: "Where are the funds?"

"It depends on the project. I can't give you 500,000 yuan to make the effect of 1 million yuan, right?" Xu Luo said with a smile, "And I am now preparing to make several big-cast movies, with a total investment of nearly 20 million.

Hong Kong dollars, the cost of a single unit is as high as 6 million Hong Kong dollars."

"Twenty million Hong Kong dollars?" Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng looked incredulous for a moment.

Because the cost of making movies is not so high nowadays.

Shi Nansheng was not knocked unconscious and asked: "What kind of film does Xu Sheng plan to take?"

"Of course it is a commercial film." Xu Luo said, "It is impossible to make a small-cost film with a big investment, and I plan to hire professionals from Hollywood to help."

Xu Ke thought for a while and said, "Can I see the contract?"

"Of course." Xu Luo asked someone to get the contract, "You can discuss it first. It's okay if you don't agree in a hurry. I'll go to the bathroom. If you want to go back and discuss it, you can reply."

After that, leave them in the reception room.

As soon as he came outside, Zhou Jiahui followed him.

Xu Luo glanced at him and said: "I'll give you a task. After Xu Ke and the others have negotiated, they will gather together all the screenwriters in the company. We will make the scripts for the next few works."

Use original tricks.

Follow other people's paths and leave others with nowhere to go.

Although he won't draw the script to look like a comic like Xu Ke did, he can hand over the rough script and his screenwriters can complete it. When Xu Ke gets it, he will also modify the inappropriate ones.

Leave professional matters to professionals.

"Best Partner" and "Ghostbusters" will also be filmed with the original cast.

Especially for "The Best Partner", Xu Guanjie had to be hired from Golden Harvest.

Xu Luo's goal is not to make a lot of money, but to join forces with Mai Jia and others to use numbers to dismantle the two major theater chains, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, and to dismantle New Art City from within.

Because the distribution of benefits is uneven, people will become distracted over time.

In the situation of "more monks and less flesh", if it cannot satisfy everyone's requirements, it will inevitably collapse from within.

And he has Xu Ke in his hands. Even though he only has a three-year contract, even if he only makes three films, he can still dig out a few more directors to make a few more films.

As long as the Shaw Brothers boss is allowed to make televisions in advance, and when the Shaw Brothers theater chain ends, he can half rent and half buy it to build his own theater chain, and even the Shaw Brothers studios can be included under the umbrella of Unicorn Pictures.

Moreover, Princess Golden’s theater chain is an alliance, which has a big loophole.

Although he doesn't want to focus on this aspect, he must do what he said, lest anyone laugh out loud.

It just takes time to complete.

The biggest deal at this stage is to give up part of the profits.

Cut the meat first and take it back later.

When the movie situation opens up, he can prepare funds and prepare to buy Lishi.

Because Lishi's voice company failed to invest in a laundry factory, it has decided to shrink its business in East Asia and plans to sell 61.2% of Lishi's shares to the highest bidder.

Once successful, the artists in the agency will be able to face more opportunities.

If you can't make a TV series anymore, you can make a movie, and you can make a TV series if you're a movie person. If it's not popular, you can put it in two magazines to make it popular, and then endorse it in advertisements.

Maybe some people in the film industry really talk about dreams, but most people still focus on profits.

The meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.

There are no theater chains now, which does not mean there will be no theater chains in the future.

In other words, doing business is not about making money immediately.

After producing several best-selling works, if Lei Juekun still doesn't play with him, then there is something wrong with his head.
Chapter completed!