Liu Weiqiang spent two days handing over the pattern to Li Yadong.

In the past two days, Li Yadong has not been on the set, but according to the information provided by Liu Weiqiang, he has studied the current cinema information in Hong Kong.

Generally speaking, it is still a three-point pattern.

Golden Harvest will not mention it, the old cinema chain used to share the world equally with the film and television oligarch Shaw Brothers, but now Shaw Brothers' film business has been discontinued, but it is still there, which can explain a lot of problems.

The other is a big dark horse that suddenly emerged in the 80s - New Art City.

It is actually the same as the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and the boss behind it is Lei Juekun of the Kowloon Motor Bus Group.

Since its establishment in 1980, it has produced a large number of excellent film works, such as the "Best Partner" series, the "Happy Ghost" series, and "The True Colors of Heroes".

forced the Shaw Brothers and Jiahe, a pair of old enemies, to join forces to fight the enemy and share resources, but they still couldn't suppress it. In the end, Shao Daheng, such a strong figure, had to give up the film business and shift his focus to television.

There are seven monsters in Xinyi City, and they are not small, namely: Mecca, Huang Baiming, Zeng Zhiwei, Shi Tian, Teddy Luobing, License, and License's wife Shi Lansheng.

Of course, it seems that after the divorce, there are too many charms in the entertainment industry, and it is no longer strange to divide and merge.

It is these originally unknown grassroots who have turned the Hong Kong film and television industry upside down and made the leader change hands.

It's a pity that although the new art city is still in full swing, the seven monsters have parted ways due to the uneven distribution of interests, and now there are only three people who are still in the new art city, namely Mecca, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian.

Because the three of them have a stake, and the others don't.

Now, the boss Lei Juekun has set up a production department, and the three of them are all movie producers, and they have a three-person competition, each fighting for itself. In general, at present, Huang Baiming is still relatively good, people can act and write, and the speed of writing scripts is well-known in the industry, and the quality is very high.

As for the last one, it is the Debao Cinema Line of Hong Kong's famous "famous brand master" Pan Disheng.

Originally created by Hong Jingbao and Cen Jianxun, Master Pan, who later signed more than a dozen first-line brand agents in the world, thought about making movies addictively, so he bought it.

After finishing the incident, he made a few movies, but Master Pan saw that something was wrong, the theater chain always gave priority to his own business, and he didn't schedule a good number of shows for his movies at all.

Can you bear this?

Master Pan's family is superior, not to mention himself, his father was a wealthy watch merchant, exactly eighty-five years, Shao Tycoon intended to stop the film business, he took the opportunity to take over several popular theaters in Shaw Brothers, and then signed lease contracts with some private theaters, forming the current Debao Cinema Line.

In the 80s, Hong Kong people were very crazy about movies, and almost everyone would go to the cinema to watch a movie, and everyone used to call the cinema "cinema".

The reason why Li Yadong is concentrating on the information of the research institute is because he knows that no matter how good a movie is, if there is no theater support, it will be empty after all.

For example, if you create a good song, however, there is no record company willing to include it, no star is willing to sing it, and you have no channel to release the song, just like Jay Chou voted "Double Stick" to Ah Mei back then, and the other party is not a bird.

Isn't it bad, you say?

For example, if you write a book at a certain point, and the editor doesn't recommend it, do you say it's pitiful?

In terms of the scale of the theater chain, these three theaters can be said to be on par, and it is difficult to say which one is stronger or weaker.

But if you talk about strength, at present, it must be the strongest in Xinyicheng.

Li Yadong has a piece of data obtained by Liu Weiqiang in his hand.

It is the details of the top 20 films at the Hong Kong box office in 1986, that is, last year.

The number one is "The True Color of Heroes", with a box office of 34 million, not counting fractions. From New Arts City.

In second place is "Rich Train", with a box office of 28 million, from Golden Harvest.

The third place is "The Best Partner Saves the Poor Woman for a Thousand Miles", with a box office of 2780000 yuan, from Xinyi City.

In fourth place is "Best Lucky Star", with a box office of 23 million, from Golden Harvest.

It is not difficult to see from the data of the top four that the high-grossing films are almost equally divided between New Arts City and Golden Harvest, and New Arts City is even better.

And Debao's strongest "Thunderbolt Trumpet" last year ranked ninth with a box office of 16 million, which can be squeezed into the top ten. There is obviously still a big gap with the other two theaters.

Thinking backwards, the box office also means attendance, and audience popularity, in the future, popularity.

Then there is no doubt that at present, it must be the most popular in the New Art City Cinema, followed by Jiahe, and Debao is the weakest.

Don't underestimate the popularity, such as last year's box office champion "The True Color of Heroes", which can earn 34 million box office in the New Arts City Theater, if it gets the Debao Theater, it may not be able to gain so much.

Therefore, Li Yadong's idea must be a strong alliance, his first target was originally Xinyicheng, but Xinyicheng's eyes were black, and Jiahe's side, Liu Weiqiang introduced him to a person, Wang Jiawei, who was not famous at this time, he met a person in charge of Jiahe's production department and was willing to help pull a line.

Speaking of this Wang Da director, it is also very interesting, he was originally a person from Xinyicheng, he was signed by Huang Baiming to be a screenwriter in Xinyicheng, but he stayed up for two months, but he didn't come up with a script, plus the screenwriter didn't have to work in the company fixedly, when the salary was paid, Shi Lansheng, who was responsible for financial expenditure, found Huang Baiming and asked who this person was, and if he didn't come to work, and then Huang Baiming contacted Wang Jiawei, Wang Jiawei finally handed in a script, but he was devalued by the manuscript staff of Xinyicheng, and finally treated it as waste paper and threw it into the trash。

And this script is "Carmen in Mong Kok" in 1988.

Li Yadong didn't meet Wang Jiawei, but just contacted him by phone, and Wang Jiawei called back in the middle of the night and asked him to rush to Jiahe Company at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

So early the next morning, Li Yadong got a suit and deliberately dressed up, and then took the sample belt and rode a motorcycle to Jiahe.

"Hello, I found Liu Zetao, the director of your production department, and made an appointment with him to meet at nine o'clock. ”

After entering the Golden Harvest Building, after Daoming came to the intention, a staff member took Li Yadong to the production department on the third floor.

After Li Yadong sat alone in a reception room for a while, the door was pushed open, and a man with a middle-combed hair, a slightly puffy face, and a cup of unnamed coffee in his hand walked in.

After glancing at Li Yadong up and down, he asked, "You are the one...... What Sun folks?"

Li Yadong stood up and replied with a light smile, "It's not the sun, it's Dongfanghong Pictures, this should be Director Liu, my name is Li Yadong, hello." ”

Liu Zetao said "oh", and said hello, "Okay, look at your belts." ”

Such a vigorous and resolute act is exactly what Li Yadong wants, this guy just got up after an obvious hangover, and his brain is estimated to be blinded now, and he is really not a good chat partner.

Next door is a small screening room, after Liu Zetao walked in, he sat on the sofa chair, Li Yadong had to do it himself, turned on the video recorder, stuffed the sample tape, and closed the curtains.

The sample film has not yet produced the opening subtitles, so it started directly, seeing the scene of a group of little children playing football, and they were full of swear words, looking like a bad teenager, Liu Zetao couldn't help frowning, thinking what the hell is this shooting?

watched it patiently for a few more minutes, and when Liangkun appeared, Liu Zetao couldn't help it anymore, "What do you want to express in this movie, there are a lot of swear words, children and adults are all like this, the first impression is very bad, too straightforward." ”