"Insane, completely insane, Golden Harvest Company has lost its mind."
"Too arrogant. Zhang Tiancheng really thinks he is the helmsman of the Chinese film and television industry, daring to threaten every single film studio."
"Brilliant. In the past, we only focused on producing films and never realized we could use cinema chains to coerce those studios."
"This move is too ruthless. Zhang Kailin could never come up with something this vicious; it has to be Zhang Tiancheng."
"What the hell, I'll just make sure my next film doesn't screen at Golden Harvest."
"We're in trouble. From now on, we're going to be at the mercy of the cinema chains."
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By the time Zhang Tiancheng arrived at the nursing home, word had already spread throughout the industry that films partnering with Golden Harvest would receive preferential treatment across Golden Harvest Cinemas.
On the surface, this sounded entirely normal. Of course Golden Harvest Cinemas would give preferential treatment to films involving Golden Harvest—did people expect them to favor films Golden Harvest had nothing to do with?
Normal or not, nobody in the industry was a fool. Everyone understood the unspoken second half of that sentence: "Any film that does not partner with Golden Harvest will be squeezed out by Golden Harvest Cinemas."
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