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    For a big boss who wants to save money on lunch boxes, asking him to raise the cost of high prices and doing this for many years is no less than continuous bloodletting for Uncle Liu.  It was hard for Li Mingbao to believe that Uncle Six would make such a choice. Even if Uncle Six did this to make friends with him, such a reason was impossible.  After all, Uncle Liu is none other than Uncle Liu. One of the two famous gangsters in Hong Kong is Uncle Liu and the other is Da Xia Jin.  The significance of doing this is not about the cost, but it will become something like faith. The faith that has been persisted for decades will be changed immediately. Who can listen to such a thing and not believe it?  The main point of Li Mingbao's question is whether Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun can't understand the truth.  I think when they heard Uncle Liu say such words, they were no better than Li Mingbao. Especially Zou Wenhuai, who had been dealing with Uncle Liu for the longest time, even thought that Uncle Liu couldn't think of it.  But this matter is really a fact. Uncle Liu really has such an idea. In this case, what can Zou Wenhuai say? Now that Li Mingbao has raised all the questions, Zou Wenhuai naturally follows Uncle Liu's rhetoric.  If you tell me, no matter whether Li Mingbao believes it or not, Sixth Uncle believes it anyway. What can you do?  Zou Wenhuai¡¯s explanation left Li Mingbao with nothing to say for the time being.  Since Uncle Six had given such a reason, he had no reason to refuse.  If you are not willing to give yourself money, then what a fool Li Mingbao is.  In fact, on this issue, Li Mingbao shouldn't ask at all. Uncle Liu rushed over to give the money, and Li Mingbao just went on. Why worry about it so much?  If it weren't for Uncle Six's decision being too subversive, Li Mingbao wouldn't have asked such a thing.  Now that there is a reason, Li Mingbao just believes it.  As long as Uncle Six sends money, there's no reason why he shouldn't agree, right?  "Since you have said so, then I have no reason not to agree. It's just that it will take a long time to fully operate the film and television city. I'm not afraid of starting construction. Although the amount of the project is not small,  But there is nothing else on the mainland. There are just a lot of people, and there are some construction machinery. If you really want to do it, it will be very fast. It is not easy to study the information about those buildings. The time will not be too short.  , so when this film and television city can really come in handy, it will take at least two or three years. This is not a big problem for me. I have plenty of time to wait, but for you, Boss Zou, this is not the case.  The news is not good news at all. The so-called distant water cannot quench the near thirst. I am talking about the film and television city. If you think about improving the quality of movies in the 1960s and 1970s, I agree.  You can also rely on creativity to win. So after the 1980s, the real success of movies is not only about creativity. Another important criterion is quality. This is not what we filmmakers like.  The scene I saw, to be honest, for movie bosses, increasing the quality of movies may not be good news. This means that the cost of shooting movies will also increase invisibly, and the budget of each movie or TV series will be increased.  , will be more than before. Although the cost of the movie has increased, there is an advantage. The movie produced in this way will be more popular with the audience and can also drive the box office. But at the same time, if the same amount of money is invested, the box office of the movie will be higher.  If it is not satisfactory, then the film company's losses will be greater than before. In the past, the cost of a movie was hundreds of thousands or millions at most. Even if it was a loss of one or two movies, for bosses like Zou and Lei.  For the bosses of major film companies, this is not a big worry, but now a truly good film requires at least three million Hong Kong dollars to invest. This is just the beginning. Under such circumstances, for funds  The pressure will be greater than before. If you are unlucky enough to make several movies that lose money in a row, it will even affect the company's operations and lead to a financial breakdown. To put it simply, such movies will put the film company at risk.  , becomes bigger. The increase in cost has both good and bad sides. Under the new rules, this degree is more difficult to grasp than before," Li Mingbao said with a sigh.  Hearing Li Mingbao's words, Zou Wenhuai also sighed and said: "Who says it's not the case? Making a movie now is completely different from before. In the 1970s, the total box office of a movie was only millions  It seems that Hong Kong's box office record of one million dollars was only set in the 1970s. It has only been ten years, and the current box office in Hong Kong alone has exceeded 40 million Hong Kong dollars.  A total box office of one million is still not enough to make a good movie, so this industry is becoming increasingly difficult for people like us to invest too much in a movie.  NoYou are so relaxed. If you invest too much, you are afraid of losing money. If you invest too little, you are afraid of not making money. How can you be like you, Li Sheng, who can make a profit just by making a movie?  If we had the ability like you, Li Sheng, the money we could make in this industry would be too much. Unfortunately, we really don¡¯t have the ability.  "At the end of the sentence, Zou Wenhuai's tone was somewhat resentful. "As for the problem of increasing costs in the film industry in Hong Kong, it was Li Mingbao who brought it about. At the beginning, even if they wanted to make a good movie, they would have to spend too much money.  It¡¯s not too much. A million dollar production is already considered a top-notch production. There is no need to spend so much money. But after Li Mingbao was born, the cost of filming movies in Hong Kong began to increase, not only the labor cost.  Even the costs of actors and directors are also increasing, especially after Li Mingbao opened a brokerage company. They, the bosses who have people in the brokerage company, can still afford it, and they can get more from the stars.  Although the expenditure in this area has increased a bit compared to before, it is not too outrageous. In addition, the star directors have some extra income, which can be regarded as an extra source of wealth for them.  But for other film companies, the situation is not the same. In the early years, even the first-line movie stars could only cost one or two hundred thousand to make a movie.  It must be a top-notch treatment, but now, the price of a truly top-level actor, like an actor like Zhou Runfa, has quickly risen to millions of Hong Kong dollars. This is not the final price, as long as  A discerning person will understand that in less than two years, the prices of these people will still rise. Like ordinary small companies, they simply cannot afford to hire these stars. In the past, they might have been able to get these stars to reduce their prices or perform for free through their connections.  But now as long as there are famous stars in Hong Kong, they can¡¯t make the decision themselves when making movies or anything else. They don¡¯t need money or anything like that. They¡¯re just joking. Since they are under the umbrella of an agency, they have to go through the company when making movies or anything else.  With their consent, helping friends make movies for free has become a luxury. Unless there are special reasons, it is impossible to do so. In fact, this is also one of the reasons why local small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong have closed down.  External forces are acquiring them. Even in the local film industry, it is difficult for them to get involved. It is possible to make movies, but it is difficult to let stars make their own movies. Such a situation is quite difficult.  This raises the entry threshold for the entire industry, and this threshold is not an explicit regulation created by anyone, but an unspoken rule. If you want to really do well in this industry, you first need to have enough knowledge.  Funds. In the past, there were many film companies in Hong Kong that went bankrupt before even finishing a movie. But now, there will never be such a company in Hong Kong, because the cost of making a movie is not that high.  It's so simple. If you don't have money, to put it mildly, you can't even turn on your phone, let alone the company going bankrupt in the middle of filming, it's just throwing money into the water, and it's a fluke thing, which is already the case in Hong Kong.  It is no longer popular. Although Zou Wenhuai and others seem to have a positive effect on such a market in a short period of time, they can quickly clear out those who have no real strength and put the order of the industry in order.  But the future situation makes Zou Wenhuai and other big bosses feel uncomfortable.  You must know that the local market in Hong Kong is really not that good. The higher the cost of a movie, the bigger it will be through sales.  If there are any problems in foreign markets, it will directly affect the life or death of the entire Hong Kong film industry.  So of course Zou Wenhuai had resentment towards Li Mingbao, who single-handedly increased the cost of filming the film.  But Zou Wenhuai also knew that he was not qualified to complain about what Li Mingbao had done.  Therefore, although he spoke with resentment, he did not dare to accuse Li Mingbao directly. Not only would that not bring any benefit, but it would make Li Mingbao unhappy.  Of course Li Mingbao could hear Boss Zou's resentment, so he said: "Boss Zou, actually, I can't be blamed for this matter. You know, in Hollywood, the market is even more outrageous, although there are also reasons for this.  There are currency issues, but even without currency issues, the market conditions of the film industry there are much higher than those in Hong Kong. Of course, I also know that Hong Kong and Hollywood are completely incomparable.  The movie market is not just a Hong Kong market, but represents the movie market in East Asia. For now, this market situation has little to do with us, and we can keep it like this.  How long can the market situation last? You know, Hong Kong now has film resources in circulation. No matter what kind of resources they are, no one else in Hong Kong can sell them at all.??, but what about other places?  We can guarantee control for a while, but can we guarantee control for a lifetime?  When those in the industry understand their true value, will they accept their current net worth with peace of mind?  Absolutely not, and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to control these people forever. If they all jump away by then, won't these talents be cultivated for other countries?  "
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