Chapter 10023 Golden Harvest Cinemas
Chatting with Fan Baobao is always a pleasant thing, speaking of which, this is much more comfortable than negotiating with Zhou Xingxing's guy.
finally comforted Fan Baobao and promised to bring her a gift when she went back, and Zhao Fusheng hung up the phone.
What he said to Fan Baobao was naturally the truth.
Smart people chat, often concise and to the point, which is also the basis for Zhao Fusheng and Zhou Xingxing to negotiate. Everyone opens their hearts, talks about conditions and interests, doesn't say a word about superfluous nonsense, and what kind of affection and the like, in their eyes, are just bargaining chips with zero value.
Zhou Xingxing will not charge him a penny less because of Zhao Fusheng and Zhang Guorong's incense relationship, and Zhao Fusheng will not give him an extra penny because he sympathizes with Zhou Xingxing's previous experience and likes Zhou Xingxing's movies.
Two people only want to talk about interests, and they only talk about interests, this is business.
But the next thing, since it is to talk about business, then there are professional people to do it, Zhao Fusheng, who is the boss, if he still needs to go into battle in person and deal with people, then Bai Jie and her subordinates can all roll up and leave.
The next day, Xinghui Company and Future Film and Television began to negotiate, and Zhao Fusheng suddenly found that he was idle.
The person in charge of negotiation on the Xinghui side is naturally Zhou Xingxing, he has always been unwilling to fake this kind of thing, and in the future film and television, Bai Jie, the general manager, finally has a place to use.
Suppressing his urge to ask for an autograph from the person opposite, Bai Jie led his team and began to negotiate with Xinghui Company on the specific agreement of cooperation.
Zhao Fusheng, well, he thinks he can take a walk around Hong Kong Island.
Anyway, it's March, the days of early spring, and the weather is just right, which is suitable for shopping.
In 2004, Hong Kong Island had come out of the trough of the Asian financial crisis in '97, and many people had lost hope for the future, but as time went on, everything started again, and people naturally began to have ideas about spiritual enjoyment.
"Otherwise, go and visit Liu Tianwang?" Zhao Fusheng walked on the street, without anyone around him, thinking secretly.
Originally, Xinghui planned to arrange a tour guide for him, but Zhao Fusheng refused, he said that he was just walking around casually and didn't need to be accompanied.
The weather is good, the sun is shining but not scorching, the warm wind comes out with a strong fragrance, and the sky not far away is dotted with a few lazy white clouds, moving with the wind.
Zhao Fusheng had never been to Hong Kong Island in his previous life, and he was not a person who liked to travel, and he had never dealt with people in this area when he was doing business, so he was naturally full of curiosity about this place.
Although he is not familiar with the place, fortunately, Zhao Fusheng bought a map very wittily, and with the map, he is not worried that he will get lost.
Located in Central, the company is one of the most prosperous areas on Hong Kong Island, but it is not very attractive to Zhao.
No way, no matter how prosperous it is, there is no way to compare it with the metropolis ten years later, after getting used to seeing such a place, Zhao Fusheng naturally has no feeling about Hong Kong Island in the past four years.
It was once difficult for the sea to be water, which is probably what it meant.
Along the way, the words in his ears were all Hong Kong Island dialect, and if he spoke at a slower speed, Zhao Fusheng could still understand it, and if he spoke faster, it was basically like listening to a book from heaven to him.
"Solution...... Laughing and bursting mouth...... Pretend to be a crab ......" Zhao Fusheng shook his head helplessly while muttering.
I have to say that I have something that I can't do.
A big man shopping is not an interesting thing after all, Zhao Fusheng walked for a while, and he felt bored.
Looking down at the map, Zhao Fusheng decided to go to the set of Golden Harvest.
In 1970, Asian film tycoons Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and Liang Feng co-founded Golden Harvest Company. In '77, Golden Harvest opened its first cinema on Hong Kong Island. In '92, Golden Harvest opened Asia's first 10-screen multiplex cinema in Singapore. In '94, Golden Harvest was listed on the Hong Kong Island Stock Exchange. Li Xiaolong, Fang Shilong, Zhang Manshen and other internationally influential movie stars are all from Golden Harvest. During the heyday of Hong Kong Island films, Golden Harvest was one of the most influential film distribution companies.
However, just as Hong Kong Island films have begun to decline today, Golden Harvest has gradually declined with the departure of the two founders.
Zhao Fusheng vaguely remembers that it seems that in the past few years, Golden Harvest was acquired by an entertainment company in the mainland, and Zhao Fusheng did not know what happened after that, after all, he really didn't have much research on this aspect, and he could remember so much, thanks to the edification of various circles of friends.
In fact, Zhao Fusheng really knows a little about how Hong Kong Island movies are declining.
It's not that he has studied this specifically, but because he has seen a few circles of friends, he probably has an impression.
The Hong Kong Island film industry began to enter a golden age in the sixties and seventies, and since the seventies, the British government of Hong Kong has stipulated that each subdivision in Hong Kong must have a certain number of cinema seats according to the population. If it is rebuilt for use, it will have to pay a staggering land premium, because around the 90s, there were more than 100 cinemas on Hong Kong Island. At some point, the government lifted this rule, and because the price of real estate has doubled, the already staggering land supplement price has become relatively cheap, and real estate developers are willing to pay to convert cinemas into more economical shopping malls.
Coupled with rising rents, many studios can no longer afford the high costs and naturally choose to close their movie theaters.
Therefore, even though he likes Hong Kong Island movies very much in his heart, Zhao Fusheng never considered that he would really invest his funds here.
The reason is very simple, this is a bottomless pit, a big ship destined to sink, unless Zhao Fusheng is crazy, he will throw his hard-earned money here.
Of course, if there is a chance, he will make a fortune and leave, he is still willing.
After all, there's no need to get along with money.
Golden Harvest Cinema is in Kowloon, passing from Hong Kong Island, to take a bus, Zhao Fusheng waited for a while, and got on a minibus bound for Kowloon.
It's also interesting to say that the location of Golden Harvest Cinemas is called Diamond Head.
Of course, there are certainly no diamonds here.
It's just that in the 80s, Shaw Brothers Film Company seemed to have made a movie, in which the hero didn't know which fellow villager was shaken, saying that the Diamond Hill on Hong Kong Island was full of diamonds, and he went through a lot of hard work to find the Diamond Mountain, but he turned around and directly circled, just like entering a small town on the mainland, and couldn't see the slightest hint of economic development, so he collapsed psychologically, knelt on the ground and looked up to the sky and roared: "This is not Diamond Mountain, this is not Diamond Mountain......
Of course, Diamond Head is quite lively right now.
The studio is at the foot of the mountain, and the set is distributed in the slope below the mountain, covering an area of thirty or forty acres. The building is built in the shape of a staircase, and if you enter through the gate, you need to walk all the way uphill.
Standing at the door, Zhao Fusheng just wanted to go in, but was stopped by someone.
"Sir, access is forbidden here. ”
The one who stopped Zhao Fusheng was naturally the security guard here.
Blinking, Zhao Fusheng had a smile on his face, but in his heart he scolded those bastard authors who wrote Hong Kong Island entertainment articles.
Those hellish guys, just walk around, you can enter other people's studios, what Shaw Brothers, what wireless, what Jiahe, all of them are like entering a no-man's land, how to get to themselves, they were stopped.
However, before that, Zhao Fusheng actually thought that the film city could be entered casually.
"Well, I'm from the mainland, and I want to go in and have a look. "People are loyal to their duties, Zhao Fusheng naturally can't make it difficult to be with the other party, honestly explain his identity, and hope that the other party can be accommodating.
"I'm sorry, it's filming inside, and I can't help it. The security guard's attitude was very polite, but he still stopped Zhao Fusheng.
Standing there helplessly, Zhao Fusheng suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.
Although he has money, the problem is, it's not about money.
At this time, a sedan stopped at the door, and a fat man walked out of the car, with a round head and a round brain, and was actually startled the moment he saw Zhao Fusheng.
"Zhao Sheng, why are you here?"
The person who came looked at Zhao Fusheng with a shocked expression, obviously he didn't expect that he would appear here.
Zhao Fusheng raised his head and glanced at the other party, slightly familiar, but it shouldn't be a very famous actor.
"You ......"
After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Fusheng was trying to think about the identity of the other party.
"I'm Lin Zicong, Zhou Xingxing's company, and I saw you yesterday. Ignoring that Zhao Fusheng was younger than himself, Lin Zicong spoke to Zhao Fusheng with a respectful face.
"It's you!"
Zhao Fusheng finally heard who the other party was, but what came to mind was the appearance of this guy endorsing a certain domestic page game.
No way, the other party is really not a famous actor, in Zhao Fusheng's eyes, it is just familiar, and the most impressive thing is the effect brought by the page game advertisement.
"Zhao Sheng remembered, right, we had a glass of wine yesterday. Lin Zicong said to Zhao Fusheng very politely.
His status on Hong Kong Island is not high, at best he is a green leaf actor, and he is following Zhou Xingxing, who is famous for his artists, so many times, Lin Zicong has to film in various crews.
Moreover, speaking of which, he is also a green leaf actor who entered the mainland market early on Hong Kong Island to make money. Although most of the roles are supporting roles, they do earn a lot.
As for the names of future film and television, Lin Zicong had also heard some of them when he was in the mainland, but what made him care more was Zhou Xingxing's attitude towards Zhao Fusheng.
Zhou Xingxing, who is notoriously mean and unkind, Lin Zicong was born as a screenwriter, and has been hoping to direct a movie alone for so many years, but Zhou Xingxing has never given him a chance, which shows Zhou Xingxing's character.
But Lin Zicong noticed that when treating Zhao Fusheng, Zhou Xingxing's performance was quite enthusiastic.