“Hong Kong puts out about a hundred theatrical films a year. We don’t need to take all a hundred — around twenty films will do. Hold on to their top-tier and backbone players and that’s enough.
“For those twenty films, the buyout fee in Taiwan is roughly a little over HK$20 million each.
Now what we need to discuss is how to carve out that share here on the mainland.
As long as it can be done, they’ll show full loyalty.” Suddenly it all sounded simple. Chen Qi’s proposal was bold; the leaders were momentarily taken aback.
He wasn’t in a hurry. He went to see the delegation. He didn’t haggle over details with them; he only talked about positions.
“First, two points must be accepted: one, unconditionally cooperate with the mainland’s film system; two, from now on films must not contain scenes that smear or promote reactionary ideas.”