Chapter 305: A New Era in the Shadow Circle
Zombie Supreme box office exceeded 20 million, wanting to set a box office record for fantasy films》
"Xu Ke started filming a new drama and chose a role in the public newspaper"
"The Miss Hong Kong contest is now open for registration, and the pre-final time has not yet been announced"
"New Art City Giant Meets Xu Ziming, It is suspected that there will be big changes in the film industry"
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Zou Wenhuai was sitting at home resting, and he had nothing to do to flip through the newspaper he had subscribed to this morning.
There are a lot of entertainment topics today, Zou Wenhuai looks at the box office of "Zombie Supreme" lightly, as for the Miss Hong Kong competition, he rarely pays attention to it, but it is the meeting of Huang Baiming with Xu Ziming in the new art city, which makes him feel very bad.
The report on Huang Baiming and Xu Ziming's affairs was specially ordered by Xu Ziming to be written and specially published in the newspaper. In order to let Hong Kong filmmakers know that Huang Baiming is about to leave the New Arts City completely, and as soon as the New Arts City collapses, the Oriental Film Company is the real so-called monopoly.
Of course, Zou Wenhuai didn't know that Xu Ziming did this deliberately, but he just lamented that the new art city could not even survive in April this year, and it might be disbanded.
Zou Wenhuai came to his study and was about to call Liang Feng to ask about poaching, but He Guanchang made a call first.
He Guanchang said a little hurriedly on the phone: "Ah Huai, recently, the people from Oriental Film Company have been asking Xia Wenxi, Hu Huizhong and other female artists under our Golden Harvest to talk about job hopping, and it seems that they are going to poach them." ”
Zou Wenhuai was taken aback, and asked with a blue face: "How did the Oriental Film Company know that we were going to dig up their people, Xia Wenxi and Hu Huizhong didn't agree, right?"
He Guanchang said: "I don't know if I agree or not, the preferential conditions given by the key other party are higher than our Golden Harvest, and the liquidated damages are not a problem for Oriental Film Company." ”
Zou Wenhuai was silent for a moment, holding the chair in the study with one hand, and then spoke after a long time: "Okay, okay, I know, you quickly send someone to stabilize them now, don't let them change jobs." ”
Hanging up the phone, Zou Wenhuai suddenly panicked, if Xu Ziming despicably digs up Jiahe's famous artists, this will be a big blow to Jiahe.
What shocked Zou Wenhuai was that he had already gone to dig people in private, but he didn't expect to be discovered by the other party and put himself together in time.
Zou Wenhuai knew that Xu Ziming did this, more because Jiahe was preparing to dig up Wan Ziliang.
He breathed a sigh of relief, lit a cigar and sat on the edge of his chair, and it wasn't long before he called Liang Feng again.
Zou Wenhuai said directly: "Ah Feng, don't dig Wan Ziliang." ”
Liang Feng was stunned and asked, "Why didn't you dig it?"
Liang Feng thinks that Wan Ziliang's check for one thousand is definitely exciting, but it is almost hot, and after waiting for a while, he can dig the other party over.
Zou Wenhuai didn't want to explain, but said: "Don't ask what the reason is, anyway, don't dig up the first-line artists of Oriental Film Company in the future, unless the other party takes the initiative to come over." ”
"I see. Liang Feng vaguely guessed what threat Golden Harvest might have.
Zou Wenhuai said again: "Ah Feng, if you have time to take a moment, go to the Oriental Film Company to say hello on my behalf." ”
Greeting is fake, in fact, it is a disguised show of weakness, Golden Harvest is far from catching up with the current Oriental Film Company, after such a poaching turmoil, Golden Harvest must show weakness, and when he has the opportunity to fight back in the future.
Liang Feng was very stunned, but he didn't think much about it, just nodded and responded, "Okay." ”
"Damn!" Zou Wenhuai hung up the phone angrily, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't win Xu Ziming with his financial resources, Jiahe wouldn't be afraid of fighting a fish and breaking the net.
Now that Zou Wenhuai has completely given up the idea of poaching the popular artists of the Oriental Film Company, in his eyes, Xu Ziming has become a somewhat cunning person, and his previous integrity seems to be difficult to describe.
In the absence of other chaebols entering the entertainment industry, for the behemoth of Oriental Film Company, Golden Harvest must be leisurely.
Just when Zou Wenhuai was sulking and eating lunch, Zhou Yanfa had already dialed Wan Ziliang's phone: "Wanzi, Jiahe will not come to you again in the future, you can stay in Oriental Film Company with peace of mind." ”
"Ah Fa, this is really fake. Wan Ziliang listened to the content on the phone, a little mixed.
Zhou Yunfa affirmed: "Wanzi, of course this is true, do you still hope it is fake?"
"No, no, no..."Wan Zi had an inexplicable loss in his conscience, he really hoped to change jobs and go to Jiahe, it was a check of 10 million, and it took a few years to earn it.
But he didn't go, Wan Ziliang was also relieved, after all, the power of the Oriental Film Company was too great, and he was not allowed to go and be banned after he went.
When Wan Ziliang was still suffering from gains and losses, the conference room of the new art city had become a mess.
In the entire office, the atmosphere was surprisingly calm, in addition to the three giants of the new art city, even Lei Juekun, who was the financial master behind the new art city, also appeared in the conference room.
A few days ago, Teddy Luo Bing had left Xinyi City and found another job.
Unexpectedly, early this morning, the newspaper reported that Huang Baiming met with Xu Ziming in private, intending to leave Xinyicheng to join the Oriental Film Company.
Huang Baiming didn't expect the report to be so timely, he originally wanted to delay it for a while, but now he has to make up his mind.
"It's not done, there are already a lot of people left in Xinyicheng, but now it's going to be such a drama again, it seems that it's really gone. "Mecca is drunk on stock trading, and he doesn't have much interest in making movies, so he can talk about it first.
Huang Baiming was surprisingly calm, although he had already made up his mind, he still wanted to analyze, "The most fundamental reason why Xinyicheng has become what it is now is because of uneven equity. ”
Huang Baiming said very directly, at the beginning of the establishment of the new art city, the distribution of equity of several people was uneven, not to mention that after Xu Ziming withdrew from the new art city, Lin Jianming, who took over its shares, transferred the shares to Shi Tian and Mecca, so that Huang Baiming's voice was extremely low.
Lei Juekun looked at Huang Baiming and asked, "Is there room for maneuver?" ”
Princess Jin finally cooperated with Golden Harvest to fight against Oriental Film Company, and now there is a problem in this link of Xinyi City, which makes Princess Jin feel very confused.
Huang Baiming saw that Lei Juekun had declined, he just shook his head silently, if it was like this a few years ago, it would still be effective, but now it is not very effective for Huang Baiming.
However, Huang Baiming still said: "I want to increase my equity in Xinyicheng, and at the same time give me a chance to produce big casts." ”
"No, I can't. Shi Tian was the first to disagree, the new art city is gone, but this equity is here, how can he tolerate others like this, Huang Baiming can have the first time, maybe there will be a second time.
For this reason, Shi Tian had to directly take a strong reply to dispel the other party's idea and make the other party completely dead. The so-called jade is rather broken than broken.
When Lei Juekun was about to interject, Huang Baiming had already rushed to reply: "It's good to get together and disperse." ”
There is no doubt that choosing to leave Xinyicheng is his only destination now, and he still wants to think about it for some time, but there is basically no room now.
The other people present chose to remain silent for a while, Lei Juekun has reached the age of retirement, Princess Jin has no new art city, no cash cow, although Princess Jin has a theater, but there is no excellent film source, what is the use?
Lei Juekun got up slowly, turned his head and said something to his assistant, and then left directly.
In addition to the huge problems between the top management, in the face of the rapidly developing Hong Kong film industry, the new art city has not been able to find a suitable entry point for development, and has not found a breakthrough.
The next day's newspaper, the news of the dissolution of Xinyicheng, unsurprisingly became the headline of the entertainment pages of major newspapers.
Many people say that Hong Kong's 80s and 90s movies were brilliant, but in fact, too many film companies were accused of ending in this era.
Since the establishment of the new art city in the 80s, there has been the addition of Xu Ziming in the middle, and the nine monsters of the new art city have been gathered, and for the first time, it broke the box office record of Hong Kong movies with "Best Partner", and since then, like a bright star, it has shined in the Hong Kong film circle.
When Shaw Brothers announced the official suspension of production a year ago, everyone was emotional, and today's dissolution of Xinyi City is the same.
In today's column, Ming Pao wrote: "New Arts City is a legend of Hong Kong films, from 1980 to the present, it has been thriving, and in its heyday, the old oligarchs Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest joined forces to fight against New Arts City. For example, in 1982, Golden Harvest's "Qimen Dunjia" and "Colorful Lin Yazhen" made an exception and arranged to be released in the two major theaters of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers at the same time, but unfortunately the box office was still not as good as "Best Partner" and "Difficult Brothers" in New Art City......
"South China Morning Post" wrote a relatively old analysis article on the development of the Hong Kong film industry on the second day after the official announcement of the official dissolution of Xinyi City.
Xu Ziming was also quite shocked when he saw this report.
Because the content of the report is too large and complicated, many people who read the newspaper will of course not chew on the words and read them one by one.
But there is one passage in it that has won the hearts of the people.
"Hong Kong's film industry, I want to divide it carefully, can be divided into four eras. ”
"Before the 70s, there was no doubt that the Hong Kong film industry was the world of Shaw Brothers Films and Dianmao Films, and then, in the 70s, Dianmao ceased to exist, and it was Golden Harvest that replaced Dianmao, although there were other small film companies in Hong Kong. However, the film industry is still a world where Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are fighting with each other; after the Shaw Brothers ceased production, it was basically a situation of Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, and Ming Jia (now Oriental Film Company), their scale was average, and they had their own independent cinema chains, and the strength of the financial owners behind them should not be underestimated; Any one plus one is greater than two, for Oriental Film Company, it is not established, and Hong Kong's entertainment industry is already a dominant situation for Oriental Film Company. ”
The South China Morning Post's remarks are, of course, not a one-family theory, but a conclusion drawn by a number of film critics engaged in the Hong Kong film industry based on their decades of experience in the film industry.
Because it is too authoritative, Hong Kong filmmakers have basically agreed.
As a result, the media's previous argument that the rumors that Oriental Film Company wanted to monopolize Hong Kong's entertainment industry seem to have completely become a fact.
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