MTL - Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire-v2 Chapter 846 The Savior of Hong Kong Films (middle)

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The "boycott of Hong Kong films", which has been brewing for a long time, finally appeared in early April. The film industry in Taiwan held a meeting to discuss the issue of lowering the price of Hong Kong films. Eight major filmmakers joined forces to form the so-called "Taipei Film Business Association National Film Overseas Fellowship". group", proposed to suppress production costs and resist rising actor salaries.

Immediately afterwards, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry negotiated with the Hong Kong Film Association.

At the meeting, Taiwan film benders proposed that "as of April 24, 1993, there were more than 250 Taiwan-funded and Hong Kong films in Hong Kong that were not delivered on time, and they should be completed as soon as possible", "Film practitioners The association should list the status of first-line actors in Hong Kong for their investment reference, and form a monitoring team to negotiate the remuneration of Hong Kong stars” and “propose to distribute Hong Kong films by rake, such as 2% of the box office within 10 million. 10. Those with a box office of over 10 million will take a 15% commission.” Three requirements.

actually

Heung Kong stars are paid ridiculously high, mainly referring to blockbuster directors and popular movie stars.

For example, the films directed by Wang Jing often sell well. The director’s remuneration he gets is not only high, but also often gets a share of the box office; another example is Liu Dehua, although his fame in Hong Kong is not as good as that of Double Weekly, but he is very popular in Taiwan. The market, so his current salary has also received 8 million, which is close to Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi, Cheng Long and others, and even surpasses Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie and Zhang Guorong. As for those second- and third-rate directors and actors, although the income is also higher There has been a significant increase in the past, but that is because of the prosperity of Hong Kong films, so the remuneration these people receive is actually quite reasonable.

Yang Dengkui (then chairman of the Taiwan Producers Association): "Now, if you invest in a film of HK$20 million, the salary of the leading actor and director alone will be more than 10 million. If there are two or three popular supporting roles, then the salary is only the salary. It has already exceeded 15 million, and the remaining 5 million is enough for what, the director can only make shoddy films to fool the audience, so the remuneration of stars, especially first-line stars, must be suppressed.”

Xu Guanwen, the president of the newly established Xiangjiang Performing Artists Association, said: "You control the sky and the earth and how much money other people make? Besides, this is a matter of Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai if he wants to be punished."

Xu Anjin said: "Now we don't want to suffer, we don't make money, and we still lose money. Whoever wants to play and whoever wants to play, we specify not to play!"

Cai Songlin followed closely and said, "There are still films that have not been delivered as scheduled. When will they be delivered?" When she said this, Cai Songlin looked at the pit king Wang Jiawei who was sitting in the corner without any hesitation.

Xiang Huasheng said indifferently: "Celebrities are paid high wages, and the film cannot be delivered on time. Everyone is responsible, and your investors are more responsible. You want big stars, big casts, big directors, don't read the script, just recognize your face. , whoever is popular will invite whoever is popular, for the sake of box office, it is understandable for you to do this, but this essentially increases the star's salary."

Xiang Huaqiang said: "Mr. Cai, you invested in "Evil in the East and West Poison", Wang Jiawei can get 20 million Hong Kong dollars of investment from you with several star film contracts and a plan to adapt Jin Yong. Have you really considered carefully before investing? I'm afraid you don't even know what kind of film he wants to make, right? The result? The result is that Wang Jiawei didn't make a film for more than half a year, instead he put the two The budget of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars has been used up. Can you blame movie stars for too high pay?"

As soon as Xiang Huaqiang's words came out, Cai Songlin's old face immediately became red. Now, his investment in Wang Jiawei's "The Legend of the Heroes of Xie Diao: The Evil in the East and the West in the West" has become a joke in the film circle!

And Wang Jiawei, who was sitting in the corner, was even more embarrassed to only shoot one title for half a year, which is indeed rare in Hong Kong films, especially when the production cost of more than 20 million was spent!

but

Wang Jiawei has his own perseverance. He doesn't want to make those cookie-cutter follow-up films. He wants to make those films with depth!

Moreover, the current Wang Jiawei is holding back his strength, preparing to make a movie that will make everyone shut up!

Therefore, despite the embarrassment, Wang Jiawei still sat in the corner silently like an old monk in meditation.

Seeing that Wang Jiawei didn't stand up to explain at all, the Taiwan side, especially Cai Songlin, were even more angry!

Cai Songlin stood up and said angrily: "Hong Kong films were able to swept away billions of dollars in Taiwan last year, that's because our government promulgated a new local film protection decree, restricting films in Hollywood and other regions, if you can't give us A satisfactory answer, we will go to the government to change the local film protection law, in a word, if we can't make money, everyone will break up!"

Cai Songlin's words are not without a purpose.

It is precisely because of these Taiwanese film dealers who participated in the investment and production of Hong Kong films that the Taiwanese authorities promulgated that "an American film can only be imported into Taiwan at a maximum of eight copies. That is, every Hollywood film in Taiwan Bend can only be released in a maximum of eight cinemas." of the new native film protection decree.

This new local film protection law has greatly restricted the competitiveness of Hollywood films in Taiwan, which is also a very important reason why non-DreamWorks Hong Kong films have not been driven out of the Taiwan film market by Hollywood films.

If this new local film protection law is changed, it may be a disaster for non-DreamWorks Hong Kong films!

Hearing Cai Songlin's words, Xiang Huasheng stood up slowly, and then said gloomily, "Are you threatening us?"

Seeing Xiang Huasheng showing this expression, Xiang Huaqiang also stood up, and then glanced at the film dealers in the corner!

Although the two brothers Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng are powerful, none of the film dealers who also have a black background are afraid of them.

Yang Dengkui stood up slowly and said in an ultimatum tone: "If you can't give us a satisfactory answer today, we will suspend the purchase of Hong Kong films until you can give us a satisfactory answer. If we get a satisfactory answer, then we will definitely go to the government to relax the limit on the number of copies of Western and Japanese films released in Taiwan!"

As soon as Yang Dengkui's voice fell~www.novelbuddy.com~Cai Songlin and others also stood up one after another, showing their determination to advance and retreat together!

Cai Songlin and Wang Yingxiang are one of the shareholders of the new era, and their entanglement with Xiangjiang is deeper. Therefore, the two looked at each other, and then Wang Ying said: "You won't do business that doesn't make money, and we won't do it either. Therefore, if this matter cannot be resolved, it must be a one-shot and two-split ending... I think, let's ask Mr. Xu to come out and preside over justice."

As soon as Wang Yingxiang's words came out, the confrontation between the two sides immediately eased, and then the two sides said:

"Yes, please Mr. Xu to preside over justice!"

"Mr. Wang's proposal is good. I'm afraid this matter can only be completely resolved if Mr. Xu comes out."

"Then what are you waiting for, send someone to invite Mr. Xu now!"

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