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Chapter 1115 I'm Very Interested

Mr. He's document only mentions two things.

One thing calls for lower cast pay.

Another thing is to find ways to reduce the number of theaters in Hong Kong.

Anything that offends people.

Moreover, Mr. He also wants Su Chen to be the leader, calling on everyone to reduce the salary and reduce the number of theaters.

If they really do this, then the Hong Kong film industry will definitely be turbulent.

"Mr. He, you really love me, and I also agree to reduce the salary of the actors and reduce the number of theaters." Su Chen smiled, "However, Shengshi has never accepted external investment, and we have the ability to pay our actors' salaries .”

Mr. He also smiled, "So this is why we envy your company, you can create wonderful movies by yourself without relying on external resources at all.

It's just that if Shengshi makes a bad start, maybe other people will follow suit. After all, most actors are unwilling to lower their salaries. "

"If Mr. He thinks that we have made a bad start, I don't agree with this statement." Su Chen said, "After all, the person with the highest salary in Hong Kong is now in your company.

If you came to me today because of this matter, I think it would be better for you Jiahe to reduce your salary. "

Because now the highest paid person in Hong Kong is Cheng Long.

As for Chow Yun Fat and Kung Fu Boy, they are still behind him.

Mr. He said: "It's not impossible to lower the film salary, but if we lower it and other companies don't, then we will offend our own actors, so it's better for everyone to keep pace."

Everyone's calculations are very shrewd, and they don't want to be the first person to eat crabs.

Because now the first person to eat crabs may be strangled to death.

"Mr. He, it's better to meet you by chance. I'm very interested in Golden Harvest Film Company, but I don't have a chance to visit." Su Chen changed the topic, "Why don't I invite you to visit our company first, and then I will visit your company .”

"Okay, in fact, I have never visited Shengshi." Mr. He did not refuse.

He put away the file, and no one talked about it anymore.

Visit Shengshi first, and then go to Jiahe.

The downturn in the film market and the pressure from competitors have also hit Golden Harvest Films hard, but Boss Zou is even more worried that the company used to be full of great talents, but now it has withered talents.

It made Mr. He still come out to activities at such an old age.

As soon as Su Chen arrived, Boss Zou came out to greet him in person.

"Chairman Su, welcome. Your presence really makes our Golden Harvest flourish." Boss Zou said with a smile on his face, "Although you did not develop in the film industry, the film industry still has your legend.

Especially those associations that you appeared in those years, many people now say that you are one of the founders of the associations, and you can be said to be famous. "

"Boss Zou is polite. Those associations were able to be formed thanks to the help of seniors. I am just the nominee. Without the help of so many seniors from you, those associations would not even have a shadow."

Su Chen warmly greeted him, "I came here rashly today, and I am bothering you so much, I hope Boss Zou will forgive me."

"You are too polite, Chairman Su, please come inside."

Boss Zou said with a smile.

When the time came to the 90s, the banner of the king at the head of the city changed, New Art City disintegrated, Debao ceased production, and only Golden Harvest and Shengshi remained among the four giants.

In fact, Boss Zou thought this was a great opportunity for him to dominate Hong Kong. Unfortunately, a number of independent production companies led by Yongsheng emerged at the right time, and they all came up with different schemes to seize the Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian film markets.

Facing the competitive film industry structure, Golden Harvest's competitive pressure is no less than the pressure in the 80s, and among the many rival companies, Prosperity is the most feared by Zou Wenhuai.

Even Metropolis, the new company established by Shaw Brothers to fight in the film industry again, is not in his fear.

Because Metropolis did not get the support of Ms. Shao Fang, Boss Shao was just doing things quietly, so Boss Zou thinks Metropolis is at best a flash in the pan.

But Shengshi gave him a headache.

Even though Hong Kong movies are already in decline, the prosperous film industry run by this young man in front of him is flourishing, firmly seated at the leading position in the Hong Kong film industry, and attracting much attention.

Its subsidiary, Phoenix TV, had originally shared the world with TVB, but when Phoenix TV acquired Hutchison Whampoa's satellite TV, it seemed to be invisibly overpowering TVB.

Entering the office, Boss Zou poured a few cups of tea.

"Chairman Su, I heard that there is a personnel transfer in your company. I wonder which high-level executive in your company will be in charge of the film industry in the future?"

"There is indeed a personnel transfer, because we just acquired a film company some time ago, so we can only arrange for Ms. Shirley to go to the United States." Su Chen said, "In the future, our president Zhou Jianren will be in charge of Shengshi Films. "

"Another film company in the United States has been acquired?" Mr. He and Boss Zou were very surprised.

After all, he just acquired a Columbia a few years ago, and now he actually acquired another film company?
Good guy, where did Shengshi play?
"Yes, we just acquired Paramount Films." Su Chen explained, "So we need someone who is proficient in the film industry to lead, and Ms. Shirley has worked in our company for so many years, and her ability is obvious to all. She's going to run Paramount."

"hiss!"

Boss Zou and Mr. He looked at each other.

This game is getting more and more high-end, and they want to buy a movie company. What are they doing?
Su Chen continued: "At the same time, we are now formulating a new industry standard, and we are going to convert all the movies we made before, and then burn them into CDs for sale."

After all, there are too few films in the Shengshi family. If you want to set the industry standard for DVD, you need to bring in film companies such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest Yongsheng.

Only in this way can he play DVD.

Otherwise, the audience will get tired of watching those few movies they come and go.

"Format conversion?"

"Industry Standard?"

Mr. He and Boss Zou felt that they could not keep up with this train of thought.

"Yes, because we are preparing to develop a new machine that can record dozens of movies on a disc." Su Chen said with a smile, "In this way, even if Taiwanese producers boycott our movies, We won't be affected much either.

After all, there are only so many people in Taiwan. If our movies are sold to the mainland, just one province is enough to compare with the entire Taiwan Province. "

Boss Zou called him a good guy in his heart, but at the same time he smelled something different.

Because the mainland only imports about ten Hong Kong movies every year, and there are various cuts and cuts, and there must be no scenes such as bloody dew points.

But Hong Kong doesn't know how many movies it will produce every year, so just ten movies is not a big deal at all.

But if there is such a machine as Su Chen said, convert the format, burn the disc, and then smuggle it out through some unknown channels, not only can it go to the mainland, but it can also be smuggled to places such as Taiwan or Malaysia.

Moreover, all previous movies can be dug up and sold again.

"Then does this transformation take a long time?" Boss Zou asked.

"It doesn't take long, it can be done soon." Su Chen said with a smile, "I wonder if Boss Zou is interested in participating in this game?"

If DVDs are to sell well, resources must be available, otherwise it would be impossible for consumers to buy a machine and use it as an ancestor supply.

Only a large number of DVD discs can make DVDs sell well.

"I'm very interested." Boss Zou asked, "However, I don't know the cost..."

(End of this chapter)