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Chapter 958 Movie Empire

Jiang Zhiqiang was a little surprised by Wu Jianye's words. He knew that Wu Jianye had always attached great importance to the domestic film market, so in the past two years, he had stopped the expansion of Fengge Theater Line in Xiangjiang, and he was more concerned with operating his own current film market. There are theaters in Hong Kong.

But Xiangjiang Films can be said to be at its peak at this time. He didn't understand why Wu Jianye suddenly thought of shifting the commercial focus of Fengge Films.

"Director Wu, I admit that the domestic film market is on the rise, but Xiangjiang's films have not declined. Isn't it too early for us to start shifting positions?"

It is not unreasonable for Jiang Zhiqiang to say this. Last year, Xiangjiang's movie box office champion was Cheng Long's "Drunken Master 2", with a box office of 5132 million!
In fact, this box office is nearly 1000 million higher than that of another time and space. This is because of the appearance of Fengge theaters, and Zhou Runfa's "God of Gamblers 2" has been released in advance, so "Drunken Master 2" will become Last year's box office champion.

Wu Jianye shook his head with a smile, and said: "When Xiangjiang's movies really start to decline, it will be too late to start planning!"

“There is always nothing wrong with planning for a rainy day!”

With the development of the domestic film market at a speed beyond another time and space, Xiangjiang's film market has become less important, but still the same sentence, Wu Jianye has no intention of giving up the Xiangjiang market. After all, in the next few years, Xiangjiang's film market is still the bridgehead for domestic films in Southeast Asia!

Although the domestic film market has developed at this time, the popularity of domestic films in Southeast Asia is still very low. That is to say, domestic films are still only belonging to Wo Li Heng. Box office appeal!
The film market in Hong Kong is different. Although the film market in Hong Kong does not contribute much to the box office of the film itself, the audience in Southeast Asia actually uses the box office of Hong Kong films in this port as a reference to decide whether to watch this movie. movie!
To put it simply, except for those actors in Xiangjiang who have the appeal of ticket sellers, such as Zhou Runfa, Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehua and other superstars, their movies, even if they are in Xiangjiang's box office, they hit the box office in Southeast Asia. Not too bad either.

Other actors and starring movies all need to watch the box office of Hong Kong's local movies.

If the box office of a movie that is not the leading actors above is not high in Xiangjiang, the box office in Southeast Asia will not be too high either!
As for domestic films, if they want to go abroad and enter the Southeast Asian film market, they must first be shown in Xiangjiang. If this movie can get a high box office in Xiangjiang, then the box office in Southeast Asia will not be too bad.

If Xiangjiang's movie box office is not high, the box office in Southeast Asia will not be very good either.

It is precisely because of this reasoning that when Fengge Media was negotiating distribution with domestic film companies, it was released in Xiangjiang first, to test the quality of the film in the hearts of Xiangjiang audiences, and then decide whether to go to theaters The route was released in Southeast Asia.

If Xiangjiang's movie box office is not satisfactory, we can only follow the videotape policy!
Of course, this policy is not valid for Wu Jianye!
Now Wu Jianye's movie is a golden signboard in the global movie market, so there is no need to worry about the box office.

In fact, at this time, even if Wu Jianye is no longer a director, even if the court culture is over, Wu Jianye still has a pivotal position in the domestic film circle.

Because as long as domestic films want to go abroad, and want to get a better schedule and box office, they have to cooperate with Wu Jianye.

If it wants to be released in Asia and Europe, it needs to be released by Fengge Films, and it will be shown in Fengge theaters. If it wants to be released in North America, then you have to discuss distribution with Phantom Films and release it in Fanhai theaters!

From rebirth to now, Wu Jianye has built up his own global movie empire!
Tangting Culture, Fengge Media, Phantom Media!

At this time, they have already controlled the global film distribution and exhibition business, and they are the most powerful local film production companies!
When the Phantom incident happened at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, some independent production companies in Hollywood clamored for the monopoly of Phantom Media, but they were severely taught by Wu Jianye. Hasn’t even a month passed? , They have already discovered that after losing the support of the phantom, they have been unable to move an inch!
In North America, they lost the support of the largest theater companies in North America and Canada, and at the same time lost the channel to show in Europe, which is already a disaster for them.

During this period of time, Matthew Murphy was constantly rejecting the invitations of these people. They knew they were wrong and wanted to ask Phantom Films for forgiveness, but mistakes are not so easy to be taken over!

Wu Jianye continued: "I know what you are worried about. What I said about changing the focus of Fengge Films' development is not to just abandon the Xiangjiang market, but to make Fengge Films pay more attention to co-productions from this year! "

Co-production!
This was the most important reason why Wu Jianye approached Jiang Zhiqiang this time.

Although Fengge Films has started shooting co-productions a few years ago, for example, in the last two years, Chen Hong has become the heroine of Xiangjiang and domestic co-productions!
However, there is only one Chen Hong, which is obviously not enough.

Take Fengge Films as an example. Last year, Fengge Films made 28 films. This is already a very scary number. In the entire Xiangjiang, except for Fengge Films, no film company dared to do this.

But even so, how many co-productions did Fengge Films produce last year?

There are only three parts!
It is not enough!
And what Wu Jianye has to do is to increase the number of co-productions, and use Xiangjiang's stars to increase the popularity of domestic filmmakers in Southeast Asia. Only in this way can domestic movie stars go abroad quickly and become Asian stars!
At the same time, just like Wu Jianye said, it is impossible for him to give up Xiangjiang's films, because the domestic film policy will only become more and more stringent in the future, and some film themes must not be touched!

It is enough to block a large part of the movies after the founding of the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are also detective dramas. Although some detective dramas have been launched in China in later generations, there are still too many restrictions, which are not enough to make movies of this theme truly Shine bright.

There are also Xiangjiang's special movies, gangster movies, and it is even more impossible for such movies to be released in China. They can only use the box office of Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia to recover costs and benefits!

With the development of the film, the feces and fart movies represented by Wang Jing will slowly lose the local audience in Xiangjiang, and will be replaced by gangster movies headed by Du Dapao!

In the future, Xiangjiang Films will be like an extremely important branch of Wu Jianye's film empire, presenting films with more themes.

After hearing Wu Jianye's narration, Jiang Zhiqiang also had a clearer understanding of Wu Jianye's plan.

So he asked: "Then how much of the company's film production should our co-production ratio be?"

Wu Jianye said: "Ten films. Starting from this year, Fengge Films will produce ten co-production films every year. The model adopted is that of Hong Kong actors and domestic actors, such as the cooperation between Zhou Xingchi and Chen Hong, or a domestic film. Such a model between an actor of Hong Kong and an actress of Xiangjiang!"

On the whole, compared with Xiangjiang movie stars, domestic movie stars still lack popularity abroad, except for some movie stars who participated in Wu Jianye movies!

Especially in terms of actors, because Wu Jianye has used actors from Xiangjiang in these recent films, Liang Jiahui in "New Dragon Inn", Zhou Xingchi in "The World of Chu Xing", and Gu Xingchi in "Eternal Night". headmaster.

Anyone in the industry knows that male actors have more box office appeal than female actors, and Wu Jianye chose Chen Daoxuan as the leading role in his new film "Inception" in fact to increase his popularity abroad .

Let some people become famous first, and then lead the rest to become famous. This is Wu Jianye's strategy.

Although some people may become famous, they are a little bit ignorant, and there may even be white-eyed wolves, but Wu Jianye is confident that as long as he is still around, no one will be able to make waves.

Even if he is a white-eyed wolf, he has to pretend to be Erha honestly in front of me
What's more, the first person to become famous is Chen Daoxuan. If it was someone else, Wu Jianye might be a little worried that the first person would become a white-eyed wolf, but Chen Daoxuan has already proved it to Wu Jianye for more than [-] years, what What an actor, what a star!

Then use Xiangjiang's actors to drive domestic actors. If this good cycle continues, domestic filmmakers will soon rise up!

At that time, it will be the era of a hundred flowers blooming for the entire Chinese film!
Then Wu Jianye and Jiang Zhiqiang finalized the first batch of actors for the co-production.

The first thing to determine is the three male actors.Li Lianjie, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehua!

Naturally, Li Lianjie doesn't need to say more. In fact, he has been focusing on co-productions for the past two years. For example, "A Letter to Dad", which will be released in March this year, is strictly a co-production. , although Li Lianjie has been filming in Xiangjiang, Wu Jianye is actually holding a domestic passport at this time, and has not become a Singaporean citizen.

At the same time, there are many domestic actors in the starring role, Yu Yuguang who plays the big villain, Xie Miao who plays his son, and there are also Xiangjiang actors, the number one female Anita Mui, and Anita Mui's admirer Liu Songren.

When Wu Jianye asked Zhou Runfa and others to go to Hollywood to develop, he purposely kept Li Lianjie behind for the current plan.

Zhou Xingchi also does not need to go into too much detail. In another time and space, Zhou Xingchi was the first actor from Hong Kong to film in China. In another time and space, there were many star girls.

For example, Zhang Min, Qiu Doudou, Zhu Yun, etc., but in this time and space, one must be added, and that is Chen Hong.

In the past two years, Chen Hong has participated in many Zhou Xingchi's movies, and has borrowed Zhou Xingchi's fame to become one of the most popular actresses in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia!
This year, Zhou Xingchi will also cooperate with Tangting Culture to shoot the classic "Journey to the West" series in China.

In order to prevent this movie from being the same as another time and space, where word-of-mouth and box office hit the market, Wu Jianye has decided that after the filming of this movie is finished, it will be taken to the Film Academy for everyone to watch.

After the release of "A Chinese Journey to the West" in another time and space, the word-of-mouth and the box office hit the street. It was not until the teacher of the film school saw the film and interpreted a different concept that it gave the film a second spring. It's just that for the film company, such a second spring doesn't actually bring any benefits.

What's more, it increased Zhou Xingchi's reputation.

It is precisely because of the double hit of this movie that in order to prove his popularity, Zhou Xingchi and Wang Jing filmed the shit movie "The Variety Star", which turned out to be a big hit at the box office.

It proved that Zhou Xingchi is still Zhou Xingchi!
As for Liu Dehua, it was actually because of Liu Dehua's fame.

Although Liu Dehua has always been a little behind Zhou Xingchi, Cheng Long, Zhou Runfa and others in Xiangjiang's movie market, Liu Dehua is very popular in Southeast Asia because he is a multi-dwelling star.

In another time and space, why Liu Dehua can make so many movies, one is that he has to pay off his debts, and the other is that those associations and others know Liu Dehua's influence in other places. With his name, the movies can sell for money!

At the same time, Liu Dehua is also very popular in China. Because of the Spring Festival Gala, Liu Dehua's popularity in China has always been the highest among Xiangjiang artists.

This year Liu Dehua will also participate in the Spring Festival Gala, singing his own classic song "Water of Forgetfulness".

Basically, these three all have extremely high box office appeal no matter in Hong Kong, China, or other cities.

With them, the box office is basically guaranteed.

As for the actresses, the two also selected some people, including Mei Yanhao, Guan Yaojing, Qiu Doudou and others!
As the female star with the highest salary in Xiangjiang, it goes without saying that Anita Mui is popular. As for Guan Yaojing and Qiu Doudou, they are also favorites of Xiangjiang movie lovers. Guan Yaojing has participated in many co-productions Movie!

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "Add Lan Jieying too!"

What happened to Lan Jieying in another time and space made many people feel sorry for her. To be honest, her personality is not suitable for Xiangjiang's entertainment circle, and in fact it is not suitable for the domestic entertainment circle of later generations. However, the current domestic entertainment circle is not like the later generations. It's so dirty, but it can let her play a little bit.

As for whether he can walk out of a different time and space, Wu Jianye has no way to guarantee it!
Let it all happen!

Regarding Wu Jianye's order, Jiang Zhiqiang didn't have any objections, and said, "I'll let the company's screenwriter team, director team, and the actors you mentioned prepare for it now!"

Except for Lan Jieying, the few Wu Jianye mentioned are not actors of Fengge Films, but the rest are all, and it is easier to arrange!
(End of this chapter)