Chapter 165: Jiahe Reorganization and Big Move
On March 8, nearly four months after being acquired by Liu Zhou, Golden Harvest finally ushered in major changes.

First of all, Liu Zhou changed the name of Golden Harvest Entertainment to Golden Harvest Media Holdings Group.

At the same time, all the departments previously under Golden Harvest Entertainment were corporatized and operated independently.

This time, Liu Zhou chose to keep the Golden Harvest label instead of his previous Zhoushan as the company name.

In addition to the Golden Harvest brand being more deeply rooted in people's hearts, the four tones of its opening animation "Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang" are also very recognizable.

Just like the seven Hollywood movies, when you see the snow-capped mountains, you think of Paramount, when you see those searchlights, you think of 20th Century Fox, when you see the Statue of Liberty, you think of Columbia, and when you see that roaring lion, you think of MGM.

After more than 30 years of development, now when people hear the four "dang" sounds, they will think of Jiahe.

So Liu Zhou decided to abandon Zhou Shan and use the Golden Harvest label.

After four months of cooperation between Zhong Lifang and Zou Chongyan, Golden Harvest's business was clarified and reorganized.

The first is the cinema chain department, which established Golden Harvest Cinemas to manage all its cinemas.

At the same time, Zhong Lifang also spun off Golden Harvest's distribution department and established Golden Harvest International, which specializes in overseas distribution.

As for domestic distribution, it was entrusted to Golden Harvest Films.

In addition to its headquarters in Hong Kong, Golden Harvest Films also established Golden Harvest Films (Beijing) Company based on Zhou Shan Cultural Studio, which specializes in film investment and distribution in mainland China.

In addition, Liu Zhou also established a new company, Golden Harvest Films, which is a company specializing in the investment and production of TV dramas.

Therefore, the reorganized Golden Harvest Media Holdings Group includes Golden Harvest Cinema Line, Golden Harvest International, Golden Harvest Films (Hong Kong) Company, Golden Harvest Films (Beijing) Company and Golden Harvest Films Company.

In addition to these five companies, Liu Zhou also set up a special effects studio under the special effects department of the former Golden Harvest.

This studio is still relatively weak now, but in the future it will be the focus of Liu Zhou's investment.

As for Golden Harvest's original post-production department and Zhou Shan Studio's economic team, they were also incorporated into these two subsidiaries of Golden Harvest Films.

So now Liu Zhou’s layout in the film and television industry is these five companies and one studio under Golden Harvest Holdings.

The outside world was not too surprised by Liu Zhou's adjustment, which did make things much clearer.

And everyone also saw Liu Zhou's determination to make a big move.

If the adjustment of Golden Harvest's corporate structure was not too surprising, then the subsequent announcement of the leaders of the various companies caused heated discussions and even shock in the outside world.

Liu Zhou himself serves as the president of Golden Harvest Media Holding Group, and his confidant Zhong Lifang serves as the group's vice president and general manager of Golden Harvest Films.

This appointment did not come as a surprise. Zhong Lifang was the person who had followed Liu Zhou the longest, and her role as the second-in-command of the group was within everyone's expectations.

It is also not surprising that Zou Chongyan remains in his position as general manager of Golden Harvest Films (Hong Kong).

Liu Zhou then appointed Zhang Zhao, the former art director of Enlight Media, as general manager of Golden Harvest Films (Beijing);
Chen Guofu, former production director of Sony Columbia China, serves as production director of Golden Harvest Films (Beijing);

Gao Jun, former vice president of Beijing New Film Association, serves as general manager of Golden Harvest Cinemas and Golden Harvest International.

Each of these three appointments is more surprising than the last!
Chen Guofu may be more familiar to people in the industry. He has appeared in many mainland movies before. He is also the object of flattery by many production companies, actors and directors in the industry.

After all, the mainland film market was not good in the past few years, and the rich are the boss!
But he didn't expect that he would be poached by Liu Zhou.

For this reason, Jiang Zhiqiang even called personally and scolded Chen Guofu for supporting him in the "Red Cliff" project before, asking if he had already reached an agreement with Chen Guofu and was just playing a double game.

Although this was the fact, Liu Zhou certainly would not admit it, and he took some time to deal with Jiang Zhiqiang.

In fact, it didn't take Liu Zhou much effort to invite Chen Guofu, and both sides could be said to be working together.

Chen Guofu has a very keen sense of smell and has already noticed the rise of mainland capital.

In the future, mainland film and television investment will be dominated by mainland capital, and the role of foreign capital will become smaller and smaller.

So in order to avoid being marginalized, Chen Guofu had to find a way out for himself.

In their previous life, they were looking for Huayi, and in 2006 they left Columbia and joined Huayi.

Chen Guofu is still very capable. After joining Huayi, he led Huayi's production department to attack from all sides, greatly expanding Huayi's influence and making great contributions to its listing.

Liu Zhou, who knew Chen Guofu's abilities well, acquired Golden Harvest and returned to Beijing. The first person he looked for was Chen Guofu, hoping to poach him.

Unexpectedly, the two sides hit it off immediately. After receiving satisfactory treatment and authority, Chen Guofu immediately agreed to join Jiahe and became the first general under Liu Zhou.

As for Zhang Zhao, you may not be familiar with him, but his resume is very impressive.

Zhang Zhao graduated from Aurora University with a bachelor's degree in information science and a master's degree in philosophy. In the early 1990s, he went to the United States to study and received a master's degree in film production from New York University.

He returned to China in 1996 and joined Shanghai Film Group, and in 2003 he joined Light Media as artistic director.

His current qualifications may not be as good as Chen Guofu's for the time being, but Liu Zhou is well aware of Zhang Zhao's capabilities.

Next year, Enlight Media will officially enter the film industry, and Zhang Zhao will be the helmsman of Enlight Pictures.

He led Enlight Pictures from scratch and eventually made it one of the giants in the industry.

However, due to the disagreement with Wang Changtian, the president of Light Media, he was poached by Jia Yueting and brought to LeTV Pictures, which had just been established.

Zhang Zhao also did a great job at LeTV Pictures, turning it from a new company into an emerging force in the industry.

If Jia Yueting had not gone to the United States to suffocate for his dream, LeTV Pictures' performance would have been even better.

It’s just a pity that Zhang Zhao died of illness in the 21st year.

There is no doubt that his abilities are outstanding, so Liu Zhou personally stepped in to poach him from Guangguang Media and gave him the position of general manager of the company.

This was also the most important reason why he was willing to accept Liu Zhou's invitation.

The last one, Gao Jun, may be unknown to the outside world, but he is a well-known figure in the film industry.

In a few years, he will even become the object of flattery by most people in the industry.

In later generations, there was a saying in the film industry: Gao Jun in the North, Zhao Jun in the South, and Wu Hehu in the Magic City.

Gao Jun is the vice president of the New Film Association Film Distribution Company, which is the largest film distribution company in Peking, occupying 8% of Peking’s cinemas and market share.

Wu Hehu is the deputy general manager of Shanghai Lianhe Cinema Chain. Lianhe is the largest film distribution company in Shanghai and even in the entire East China, accounting for 8% of the cinemas and market share in Shanghai.

Zhao Jun is the top leader of Yuedong Film Company, in charge of two cinema chains, which account for more than 5% of the cinema and market share in GD Province.

If these three roar, the entire film industry will tremble.

Although the three of them have not grown to this level yet, their status in the circle is equally high.

Gao Junhui later left New Film Association and joined Wanda, and relying on Wanda, he made Wanda Cinema Line the number one in the industry.

Feng Kuzi publicly criticized Wanda because of the film scheduling issue, but Gao Jun ignored him, which shows how powerful he was at the time.

Liu Zhou had some ambitions for the cinema chain, so he hired Gao Jun from New Film Association with a high salary. In fact, Liu Zhou hired Gao Jun not only for his connections, but also for his market planning and marketing capabilities.

Gao Jun has participated in the planning of hundreds of films, and his most proud achievement was helping Jiang Wen make the popular film "Sunny Days";
Invented the auction of movie premiere rights, making Ye Daying's "Red Cherry" popular in China;
Assisted Zhang Heping and Feng Kuzi in planning and launching "Party A and Party B", which was marketed as a domestic New Year film.

Therefore, Liu Zhou handed over both Golden Harvest Cinemas and Golden Harvest International to him. If his work was recognized by Liu Zhou in the future, Liu Zhou was also prepared to promote him to vice president of the group.

With the joining of these three people to Golden Harvest, everyone in the industry could see Liu Zhou's huge ambition for the film and television industry.

Everyone also understands that starting from this year, Liu Zhou will not just focus on that small studio as before, but will start an all-out attack.

As everyone expected, after Golden Harvest's structural adjustment was completed, Golden Harvest Holdings Group subsequently announced several major moves.

First of all, Golden Harvest Cinemas will invest 30 million yuan to build a modern luxury cinema in Shenzhen, officially entering the mainland cinema market.

Not only that, some industry insiders have learned that Golden Harvest Cinemas is planning to acquire a cinema chain company, hoping to obtain a cinema chain license and become the first private cinema chain company in the mainland.

At the same time, Golden Harvest Films (Beijing) Company announced that "The Swordsman 2" has officially been approved for preparation.

Although Liu Zhou will no longer be the director of "The Blade of the Dragon King 2", he will invite a big director in the industry to take over the sequel to this hit movie.

Golden Harvest Films (Hong Kong) also announced that the new film "New World" directed by Liu Zhou has been officially approved and is already in the preparation stage.

It can be said that both of these films have attracted much attention from the outside world.

There is no need to talk about "The Blade of the Immortal 2". Although we don't know what type of movie "New World" is yet, it is directed by Liu Zhou himself, and this alone makes it very worth looking forward to.

In fact, Golden Harvest Films has also launched a new film, "Crazy Stone", to be directed by its director Ning Hao.

However, since neither the director nor the actors of this film are famous, it has not attracted much attention.

But Liu Zhou attached great importance to this film, and he knew that the entire crew was holding a grudge.

In addition to film projects, Golden Harvest Group also publicly announced that Huang Xiaoming, a popular actor in mainland China, and Fan Binbin, a popular actress who is as famous as the four major actresses in mainland China, have joined Golden Harvest.

The fact that these two people joined Golden Harvest at the same time sparked even greater discussion than the launch of new film projects.

Because one of these two people is an artist under Huayi, and the other is an artist that Huayi is trying its best to recruit.

Now both of them have left Huayi and joined Liu Zhou.

At this time, Wang Jinghua had just left Huayi with a large number of artists, causing great damage to Huayi. Now these two people have fled Huayi again, which undoubtedly makes the situation even worse for Huayi.

To be honest, the two people's joining was agreed upon as early as last year.

At that time, they didn't know that Liu Zhou was acquiring Jiahe, and the two of them really came for Liu Zhou.

Huang Xiaoming is his friend, and Fan Xiaopang is also close to him, so no matter what the reason, Liu Zhou cannot refuse their joining.

What's more, even if it was purely out of considerations of interest, Liu Zhou would accept them.

Both of them are people who work very hard, unlike Qin Hao, Zeng Li, Zhang Tong and others who are more relaxed.

In addition, after the acquisition of Golden Harvest, the company's scale has expanded and there will be more resources, which will require more people to handle.

If Qin Hao and others are not so active, Huang Xiaoming and Fan Xiaopang will undoubtedly be very good choices, and more resources will be allocated to them in the future.

They all signed a five-year contract with Golden Harvest, with the profit split 20:80, with the company taking 20% ​​and them taking 80%.

So whether for emotional or beneficial reasons, Liu Zhou will try his best to support them.

Liu Zhou's announcement of their joining at this time was actually something he had planned long ago.

But Liu Zhou did not expect that it was such a coincidence that Wang Jinghua left Huayi at this time.

This seemed like Liu Zhou was adding insult to injury.

However, Liu Zhou didn't care even if the Wang brothers would hate him because of this.

The two sides were not on good terms with each other in the first place. Liu Zhou was not afraid of the two brothers before, and he will not be afraid of them now.

On the contrary, what the Wang brothers should worry about now is whether Liu Zhou will take advantage of Huayi’s low point to continue suppressing it.

At this time, the Wang brothers indeed thought so.

When they heard that Huang Xiaoming and Fan Xiaopang joined Golden Harvest, their first reaction was anger, but then they suddenly became very worried.

Both of them knew that the grudge between them and Liu Zhou had never been resolved, it had just been temporarily suppressed.

Huayi is now seriously injured, while Liu Zhou's popularity is rising.

There was no reason for Liu Zhou to miss such a good opportunity to suppress Huayi.

Because if they were in Liu Zhou's position, they would definitely not let it go, and would even use various means to see if they could completely destroy the other party.

They are now worried whether poaching Huang Xiaoming and Fan Xiaopang is Liu Zhou's first step, and whether there will be more blows in the future.

They even began to doubt whether Liu Zhou was involved in Wang Jinghua's departure.

In order to prevent Huayi from collapsing, the Wang brothers immediately took action.

First, Wang Zhongjun contacted Han Shanping and tactfully expressed his hope that his mainland counterparts could get along with each other in a friendly manner. In fact, he hoped that the higher-ups would make the decision and asked Han Shanping to persuade Liu Zhou not to continue to add insult to injury.

Afterwards, Wang Zhongjun made a number of phone calls to people in the Beijing circle to consolidate his base.

Wang Zhonglei went to calm the restless employees of the company.

As for all the company’s previous plans, they have been temporarily put on hold.

Even the costume martial arts blockbuster "Night Banquet", which the two of them had high hopes for and which Feng Kuzi had carefully prepared, had stopped its preparations.

If Liu Zhou knew that the Wang brothers were making such a fuss as if they were facing a powerful enemy, he would definitely laugh out loud.

This is a typical case of them judging others by their own mean standards!

They themselves are villains and they also think of Liu Zhou as a villain.

Not to mention that Wang Jinghua's departure did not actually have much impact on Huayi, it is impossible to bring down Huayi with this.

After a while they will realize that they were just scaring themselves before. With Huayi's strength and by recruiting some famous actors, the impact can be eliminated immediately.

Even if he could bring down Huayi this time, Liu Zhou would not do it.

After all, doing so would bring bad reputation. Now that the basic base of the Beijing circle is still there and its strength is still strong, it will be impossible to completely and thoroughly overthrow the Wang brothers. Instead, it will create mortal enemies with them.

So instead of doing such thankless tasks, it is better to spend time and energy doing your own things.

Liu Zhou is extremely busy now.

(End of this chapter)