Chapter 415 Asian Superstar Training Plan
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Sanders looked at the newspaper in his hand, frowned, and after a while he said: "Yang Wendong this time, It seems that he is preparing to invest heavily in Singapore."
"It is very likely that his real estate company is cashing out real estate in Hong Kong on a large scale." A red-haired ghost guy next to him also agreed: "It seems that he is. He chose Singapore as the place to go for his funds after cashing out.”
Sanders said with a smile: “He is indeed a smart man. There are also Chinese gathering places in Singapore. According to our news, the future will be inevitable. There will be a lot of Chinese capital invested, and there will probably be a second Hong Kong.”
"Well, the British Empire has had to give up so many high-quality places over the years." The red-haired ghost sighed, then looked at Sanders and asked: "What's the matter? I see you are a little worried. Now Hong Kong's housing prices are so high." Gao, don’t you think so too?”
“That’s not what I’m thinking about,” Sanders said, “It’s that Yang Wendong didn’t go through our HSBC to invest in Southeast Asia this time.” br>
The red-haired ghost guy said: "This is normal. Yang Wendong has been focusing on overseas markets in recent years. His company's products are all over Europe and the United States, and sales are very stable. Overseas banks are also very willing to cooperate with him, so It’s probably impossible for you to obtain Changxing Group’s exclusive financial rights for foreign investment.”
“Yes, it’s a pity,” Sanders said, nodding.
If it is a normal local Hong Kong company that has been operating in Hong Kong for a long time, if this kind of operating data is given to other overseas banks, they will basically not dare to recognize it because the cost of verification is too high. The same goes for HSBC. Similarly, if a local Southeast Asian company approached HSBC for a loan with its own business records, Sanders would not dare to agree casually. This is also common sense among people who are risk-averse.
Therefore, in recent years, Hong Kong companies that want to invest overseas have mostly relied on HSBC. Even Jardine Matheson and Swire will sometimes give priority to HSBC because they know the basics and the guarantee is guaranteed;
But Yang Wendong is It’s different. In Hong Kong, other people In fact, there are not many fixed assets. What is more valuable is a large number of product patents, overseas channel relationships, etc. Hong Kong is just where the production line is. Really, even if Hong Kong can no longer produce, they can still produce in Hong Kong. Others will take a year or two to recover.
Therefore, in the eyes of international banks, the risk of lending to Changxing Group is very low. In this way, even though HSBC can become one of the cooperation partners, it is only one.
The red-haired ghost man added: "Compared with this, I am more worried about the Chinese banks in Hong Kong, such as Hang Seng Bank. They have developed too fast in recent years, and Hang Seng has recently issued additional shares, attracting Many Chinese people have invested in it, including Yang Wendong.”
After listening, Sanders nodded and said: "Yes, Hang Seng Bank is developing too fast. I heard that he is also planning to build branches overseas. Once they succeed, Hang Seng will have it. In foreign exchange, HSBC’s advantage will be gone by then.”
The biggest advantage of HSBC is that as a "quasi central bank", it controls a large amount of foreign exchange. If many companies want to conveniently trade with overseas companies, they can only turn to HSBC.
Ship owners in Hong Kong basically buy ships. I can only go to HSBC, and the other foreign bank, Standard Chartered, is just a little bit of soup.
Although Chinese-funded banks can also do exchange business, they are just subordinates of HSBC. Chinese-funded banks have collected enough data and then asked HSBC to exchange foreign exchange uniformly. It can also be said that in In terms of foreign exchange, HSBC only outsources some businesses to some Chinese banks, but it is only a small business. The larger ones are done by HSBC itself. Those big companies are not stupid and will not let Chinese banks take advantage of it. Charge an extra handling fee.
The red-haired ghost man asked: "What should we do?"
"Don't worry, the banking market in Hong Kong is owned by our British capital." Sanders said softly: " As long as the British Hong Kong government is still there, it is impossible to give such important financial control to the Chinese. Even in Singapore, which is already an autonomous state, finance is still in the hands of British capital;
At most, the US-funded Citibank has come to grab a bit of the market, and the local Chinese banks are far behind. ”
“Yes. "The red-haired ghost nodded and said: "It's just that after that incident, the mainland's foreign negotiations have become a lot tougher. I'm worried that the British government won't dare either."
Sanders paused. After a moment of silence, he said: "If this is the case, then we really have nothing to do. ”
Small business relies on strength, but large business, in addition to strength, also depends on the background behind it. If the background is not as good as others, then you can only accept your fate
Ehangxing Group spent 60 million Hong Kong dollars in investment In the Southeast Asian theater chain, this matter also began to spread in the folk alleys of Hong Kong. However, after all, it has no direct relationship with the lives of ordinary citizens, so the impact is not very great. Most people just talked about it. After two times, forget about it.
Some of the original small film companies immediately gathered their energy and started making movies, because among them, they sent representatives to ask people from Changxing Cinemas, and the answer they received was that in the future, all movies will be comparable. There used to be a lot of opportunities for it to be screened in Nanyang.
However, the prerequisite is to achieve good results in Hong Kong first, but the probability of opportunities will be much higher than before.
Inside Changxing Building, Zou Wenhuai will tell the recent events. All were reported to Yang Wendong.
After listening, Yang Wendong said: "So what you mean is that instead of buying out, you will send some high-quality movies overseas, and then give a share of the profits there and return them to Hong Kong. Other film companies here? "
"Yes, the buyout model has advantages and disadvantages," Zou Wenhuai explained: "Many movies in the past were bought out by Southeast Asian theaters, and the results were average. There are so many that the other side doesn't dare to buy more, which will cut off the opportunity for cooperation between the two parties
And even if a certain movie achieves results, the film company here in Hong Kong doesn’t know what its results are. Anyway, the money they can get is the same, or it may not achieve results but Hong Kong gets the buyout money. This will last for a long time. If this continues, Hong Kong film companies will lose their ability to judge the market.
By cooperating first and then sharing, we avoid too much early investment and there is no risk of loss. Other Hong Kong film companies can also continue to explore new areas based on their results, killing two birds with one stone. "
"Yes, yes. "Yang Wendong nodded and said: "In the long run, if there are enough and good-looking movies in Hong Kong, our theaters can make more money, and it can also give us more motivation to expand the theaters. ”
Actually, theaters are just like hotels. Most of the time, they are not fully occupied. Many times, they may even be half empty. This means that when a few blockbuster movies are released, there will be more people.
The investment in property, movie playback equipment, and labor is fixed. Therefore, while maintaining costs, one more customer can basically be said to be the profit of one more person. The higher the proportion of viewers, the greater the profit. It will grow exponentially
If you want to have customers with high occupancy rates for a long time, you must have enough high-quality movies. This is not something that a Changxing film company can achieve, especially when it has more theaters in the future. Only Hong Kong film companies are blooming. , is possible.
"Yes, I think so too." Zou Wenhuai also said: "In addition, our cinema has also been built. It will not only be convenient for me to use, but it can also be rented to other people. Film company, this way the cost of filming will be reduced even more."
"Well, okay, I will go to the studio when I have time," Yang Wendong said with a smile. With the scale of Changxing Industrial today, plus a small market like Hong Kong, ordinary small industries will either not do it, or they will develop a whole industry chain like their own manufacturing industries.
The film industry is like this. From the front-end film and television city to the back-end theater chain, everything is in your own hands. This not only facilitates your own film company, but also drives the development of the entire industry. Just like the plastic industry, you can control it yourself. Eat the front and rear ends, and eat part of the middle part yourself, but you can't eat all of it. You should also leave some soup for others, so that the cake will be bigger together.
Zou Wenhuai said with a smile: "No problem, you can come over at any time."
"I'm pretty much done in the film industry. If I have the opportunity, I'll just continue to buy more theaters or land in Southeast Asia to build theaters." Yang Wendong added: "My goal is to let Hong Kong films go out of Hong Kong and enter Asia. But whether it can finally be realized depends on the quality of the movie
Encouraging others to make good movies is only a matter of time, but we ourselves have to do better, so the next thing is the most important thing, to make more exciting movies.”
The cultural industry is. You can rely on capital to pave the way, but success depends on quality. Both are indispensable.
Zou Wenhuai nodded and said: "Understand, no matter it is Hong Kong, Bayan or Nanyang, the most popular ones are various martial arts movies. Now that there are film and television cities, it is much more convenient to shoot such movies. ;
Next, I am also preparing to shoot a large number of martial arts movies, so that we can cultivate famous stars according to our plan. ”
"Wang Yu has a good reputation. Is he also somewhat famous in Southeast Asia now?" Yang Wendong asked again.
Wang Yu is a martial arts actor recently promoted by Changxing Film Company. He has very strong fighting skills. Several movies have box office between RMB 300,000 and RMB 600,000. Although he is not as good as the blockbusters, he can produce stable sales. The results are pretty good.
"Yes, his reputation is indeed good now. There are companies in Hong Kong looking for him to endorse." Zou Wenhuai paused and said: "There is just a problem now. Wang Yu also has a fixed Although the salary is more than a thousand a month, compared with his movie income, it is too low.
Recently, many other film companies have come to poach him at high prices, as long as he makes a movie. Movies usually cost thousands in a week or two, which made him very excited. "Then he didn't go?" Yang Wendong asked.
"No." Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said, "He told me this in a very vague way. In fact, he should have just reminded me."
"That's not bad, even if it's just a reminder, There are principles." Yang Wendong smiled and said: "Actually, this is expected. If you look at Hollywood, actors there decades ago also used it. It’s a fixed salary, but it later evolved into today’s high-income model.
Other countries are similar, but the market in Europe is not as big as the United States, so the income is not as good as Hollywood.”
< br>"What Yang Sheng means is that he agrees to give them a salary increase?" After hearing this, Zou Wenhuai's eyes were a little incredulous.
If this happened in Shaw Brothers, the person who asked for a salary increase would definitely be scolded or even driven away; and although he knew that Yang Wendong would be generous in return, he did not expect it to go so smoothly.
"It's useless not to agree. If someone wants to leave, can't you force them with a knife?" Yang Wendong said: "Although our Changxing Group already controls half of the film industry, we can indeed ban an actor, but in this way It doesn’t mean much. When a group can create When you create something of great value, you should get the remuneration you deserve.”
Although many people think it is unfair for celebrities to be paid too much, in fact Yang Wendong thinks it is very fair, because the actor’s salary is too high. Success also comes from countless people living alone Muqiao, the few people who succeeded in the end.
And the ability of actors is also related to artistic talent. This thing cannot be cultivated. It can only be rare and valuable. This is how the mainland developed in previous lives. Later, Internet capital Forced control, they want to mass-produce traffic stars, but what they produce is nothing
Today's Changxing Group can naturally ban Wang Yu, but the result of this is that not many people will come to participate in the performance. That is not a good thing for the development of the film industry.
Historically, the top stars in Hong Kong in the 1980s earned tens of millions per movie and tens of millions a year. They also became an important driving force in attracting countless young people to enter the film and television industry.
For Changxing Group's cultural industry goal, this little money is nothing. On the contrary, if the money is spent to cultivate celebrities, movies, music, TV sets, etc. that are sensational in Asia, then they can also gain ten times or even more. A hundredfold return.
Zou Wenhuai said: 'Okay, then I will re-formulate an income plan for actors, directors and screenwriters to ensure that they have higher income and stronger motivation to shoot more movie. '
"Okay, this is the best way to achieve mutual benefit." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Apart from Wang Yu, is there anyone else who is somewhat famous?"
Zou Wenhuai said back: "There are none now."
"That's not possible, actors also need to let a hundred flowers bloom." Yang Wendong thought for a while and said: "There is a maritime academy over there in Kwai Chung, do you know? Specially cultivate talents for Changxing Shipping? ”
"I've heard of it." Zou Wenhuai immediately understood: "Yang Sheng means that we also cultivate our own talents?"
"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Rely on the market. It’s too slow to attract people, we have to have our own plan;
In this way, you can choose a place in Tseung Kwan O and build a similar school to train actors, screenwriters, and directors. Among them, actors are also It needs to be divided into many categories. According to the requirements, it is best to choose those with academic qualifications.
It just helps to promote Wang Yu's high-income image and let many people know that making movies can make a lot of money. I will do it in the shortest time. Cultivate a group of talents.
It’s not just you. TVB is also preparing to produce large-scale costume dramas and is also short of talents. It would be good to cultivate them together.”
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