Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, months of time passed quietly, and before I knew it, I came to October.

In Hong Kong in October, the weather is still hot and dry, the aftermath of the autumn tiger is still raging, and the scorching sun hangs like an oven in the blue sky, scorching people and things on land. People took to the streets in short-sleeved shorts, and they didn't go far before they were roasted and sweaty.

Parking lot downstairs of the Uniworld Tower.

Applejack smokes a cigarette as she looks behind her through the rearview mirror.

After a while, when he saw the boss and Brother Qi walking towards him from the door of the building in the rearview mirror, Applejack hurriedly stepped out of the passenger seat, threw the cigarette on his mouth to the ground casually, and opened the rear door to wait for the boss to arrive.

After a moment, Huo Yaowen and the two got closer and closer, and Ajie respectfully shouted, "Boss, Brother Qi." ”

Zheng Qi, who was walking in front, glanced at the cigarette butt under Applejack's feet, the fire from the cigarette butt became weaker and weaker, and the smoke gradually dissipated, showing that the cigarette butt had been discarded not long ago.

Zheng Qi frowned: "Ajie, I've told you many times, don't smoke in the car!"

"I was smoking outside, but it's too hot, so I'm ......" Applejack looks embarrassed, he just thinks it's too hot outside, so he hides in the car to blow the air conditioner.

Zheng Qigang was about to continue to scold a few words, Huo Yaowen waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's get in the car first." ”

"Boss please. ”

Seeing this, Applejack hurriedly stepped forward to beckon the boss to get into the car, and he trotted all the way to the driver's seat, for fear of being caught and scolded by Zheng Qi again.

Zheng Qi saw that the boss had spoken, so he had to glare at Ajie, seeing that he glanced at himself and didn't look good, he also shook his head slightly, turned around and walked towards the co-pilot.

opened the car door, as soon as he got into the car, Zheng Qi sniffed with his nose, the smell of smoke in the car was very light, sandwiched in a faint perfume, if you don't smell carefully, you really can't smell it, it can be seen that Applejack had the problem of thinking about the smell of smoke when he smoked before, so he deliberately opened the window and sprayed it with the fragrance in the car.

"Where's the boss?"

Applejack looked back at Huo Yaowen, who was sitting in the back of the car with his eyes closed.

"Universal Films. Huo Yaowen opened his eyes slightly, glanced at Ajie, and said a location.

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Since the establishment of Huanyu Film Company in 1973, after seven years of development, it has successively established a number of subsidiaries such as Huanyu Cinema Line, Huanyu Records, and Huanyu Distribution.

Up to now, Huanyu Film's distribution business has spread throughout the Southeast Asian market, and it has cooperated with many companies in Japan, the United States and Europe, and has relatively mature distribution channels.

At the same time, the company has also discovered many high-quality talents in terms of actors, artists, and directors, and has cultivated many young actors and singers with the Phoenix TV artist training class. Among them, the most well-known are Qingxia, Hu Yinmeng, Yuan Biao, Lin Zhengying, Liu Songren, Zunlong and others.

These people are not only hot and popular stars in Hong Kong, but also have many fans and fans overseas.

In particular, Zun Long, relying on the wonderful performance of "Antarctic Love" filmed a few years ago, has become the most popular superstar in Asia, and has attracted countless fans and fans with that handsome face full of mixed race.

There are channels, popular actors, and a number of talented directors, and the films and box office shot by Universal Films in Hong Kong every year have officially surpassed Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers this year, with an annual output of more than 80 films, including some bad films shot by new directors, but relying on huge distribution channels, no film has been loss-making so far.

In the office of the chairman of the board of directors of Huanyu Film Company.

The secretary made two cups of coffee and brought them in, and after putting the coffee down, he turned and walked out, closing the door.

Seeing the secretary go out, Wen Yingguang handed the documents he had sorted out to Huo Yaowen: "Chairman, this is the company's financial statements for the latest quarter." ”

"I won't read the report, you can tell me briefly. Huo Yaowen waved his hand and didn't take the financial statements, he had just read a bunch of documents from Huanyu Group, and he was having a headache at this time, so he still had the heart to read these documents.

"Okay chairman. ”

Seeing that the boss didn't want to read it, Wen Yingguang put the report aside and said directly: "In the past quarter, the company has shot and released a total of 17 movies, except for some films shot by rookie directors that are not good at the box office, most of the movies are very good at the box office. Among them, the best selling is "Yimei Daoren" directed by Lin Zhengying, which reached 8 million at the box office, followed by "Funny Times" by Speechless Sen, and "Money is Strange" with Xu Guanwen, both of which broke 5 million at the box office. As for Chu Yuan, there are also "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "Bumping into the Positive" and "Crazy Boss" filmed by Xu Anhua, Shi Tian and others, and the box office is also good. ”

In the latest quarter, most of the more than a dozen films shot by Huanyu Company are still relatively stable at the local box office, and in general, the revenue in this quarter is roughly the same as that of the previous quarter, without much change.

"Well, what about Shaw Brothers and Jiahe?" Huo Yaowen asked again.

"Most of the movies on the Shaw Brothers side did not do well at the box office, and the box office of "Shaolin Shed Master" directed and filmed by Liu Jialiang broke 3 million. ”

Speaking of this, Wen Yingguang couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart, who would have thought that the Shaw Brothers Film Company, which once dominated the Hong Kong film industry, is now declining.

Of the dozen or so movies released in the past three months, only one has broken the box office of more than two million, and the rest are hundreds of thousands, more than one million.

In particular, Shaw Brothers invested heavily in a modern kung fu film "Bad Boy", and the box office after its release was only more than 800,000, you must know that this movie not only has a huge investment, but the director invited is Zhang Che, a well-known director in Hong Kong!

One can imagine how miserable Shaw Brothers is now.

Sigh to sigh, in the final analysis, Shaw Brothers can no longer adapt to this new era, even if they make modern kung fu films, they still can't figure out the market, no matter how big the investment is, the director invited is famous, but it still can't recover the loss at the box office.

After talking about Shaw Brothers, when mentioning Jiahe, Wen Yingguang paused for a few seconds and said with a little surprise: "Jiahe's words over there are a little terrifying. The film "Senior Brother Out of the Horse", which was released in August, got a box office of 10 million in just one and a half months. ”

Junior and younger brothers?

Huo Yaowen smiled slightly, he had seen this movie many times in his previous life, although it was still the hard-bridge and hard-horse style of early martial arts films, but relying on the style of the comedy of the eldest brother Chenggongfu, it was still very brilliant on the whole, and it was no wonder that it could sell tens of millions of box office.

"I've seen this movie, and it's still very good overall, kung fu movies have gradually made the audience have aesthetic fatigue in recent years, and it's not surprising that a new kung fu comedy like Big Brother Cheng has become a box office hit. ”

"I think so too, so I'm ready to let Yuan Biao try to take the route of kung fu comedy like his senior brother Hong Jinbao, Big Brother Cheng and others. ”

"There's no need for that, Yuan Biao's style has been set, and the audience may not be able to accept kung fu comedy, you can find a newcomer to train it. Huo Yaowen shook his head, kung fu comedies are certainly exciting and popular, but Yuan Biao has formed his own tough guy style with several movies "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and there is no need to follow the trend of kung fu comedy.

"Then I'll see if there are any suitable actors in the company to take the route of kung fu comedy. ”

Wen Yingguang thought about it, it seemed to be such a reason, so he nodded and continued: "In addition to Golden Harvest's "Senior Brother Out of the Horse", what makes me feel most incredible is that Jiang Zhiwen of Anle Cinema Line actually sold more than 9 million yuan by editing some foreign war films. ”

"You're talking about 'The Bitter War'?"

"Well, that's it. ”

That shows that the audience is eager to see this kind of blockbuster now, isn't the fourth part of "1999" about to be filmed? ”

Huo Yaowen smiled, he knew this movie, it was made by editing some foreign war documentaries, the explosion scene was indeed very exciting, but there was no storyline at all, it was completely a small video edited by a private person.

Million!

Wen Yingguang smacked his tongue secretly, thinking that the boss really dared to say that the highest-grossing movie in Hong Kong today is still the "Jurassic Park 1" a few years ago, and although the box office of the follow-up "Jurassic Park 2" is also very high, it is far from exceeding the box office of more than 13 million in the first part.

"What, don't believe it?" Huo Yaowen looked at Wen Yingguang with a smile.

"This ......"

Wen Yingguang smiled awkwardly, he couldn't directly say that he didn't believe the boss, but he did have a skeptical attitude in his heart.

"You'll know when it's released. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled slightly.

According to the current Hong Kong movie ticket price, unless it is released for more than a month, or all theaters are screened at the same time, it is possible to reach 20 million.

The condition of a one-month release is very simple, but it is very difficult to screen the whole theater, not to mention Golden Harvest, which has shares, just for Shaw Brothers Cinemas, it is impossible for Uncle Shao to give you a movie to be screened for a month!

Not to mention the films that are still competitors of the company, it would be good if they were not suppressed.

However, Huo Yaowen is very confident that Uncle Shao will agree!

After all, no matter how much the Hong Kong film market develops, it will never be able to reach the ceiling of Japan and the United States, where population and land area limit the local box office.

Thinking about it, if you choose between the local market and the overseas market, Uncle Shao will definitely choose the big cake of the overseas market.

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