Three days later, Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng officially signed a contract, announcing that Tsui Hark Film Studio had received a HK$100 million investment from the newly started film and television group.

Nominally, the controlling stake of Tsui Hark's film studio is still in the hands of Tsui Hark and his wife, but the more critical thing is that Tsui Hark himself signed a VAM agreement with the studio that he will not change jobs for 10 years and will obtain no less than 50 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office every year.

This VAM agreement, with a capital injection of 100 million Hong Kong dollars, makes the new venture film and television group only hold 49% of the shares, but the voice is no less than that of Tsui Hark and his wife. After all, both Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng need to think hard and meditate hard to complete the annual performance appraisal, and in the long run, they naturally have no heart to think about what to say in the studio.

Of course, since Lin Qi is willing to invest heavily in Tsui Hark's film studio, it is not that the studio itself is worth investing in, but only because he likes Tsui Hark's talent, he came up with the idea of investing in Tsui Hark's film studio, and at the same time, he uses the gambling contract to tie Tsui Hark to Tsui Hark Film Studio.

This kind of agreement between the villain and the gentleman is very common in the business world.

And in order to make Tsui Hark more desperately tied to the chariot of the new entrepreneurship department, Lin Qi will naturally reserve more operational autonomy for his studio. Let Tsui Hark not feel restricted by others because of his right to speak in the company.

""A Chinese Ghost Story" is also about to be completed, and after "A Chinese Ghost Story" is finished. started filming "Smiling Proud Jianghu"!" Tsui Hark announced with great pride.

"Look at the progress, it will be completed in March!" Shi Nansheng is the financial housekeeper of Tsui Hark Film Studio, and she is in charge of the production budget of "A Chinese Ghost Story", so she naturally knows the progress of the film.

Historically, the investment of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was only about 5 million yuan, so many visual effects were local methods of this era, and the production team tried to make very magical scenes through some movable models, and then through post-editing and synthesis.

Of course, due to the new entrepreneurship department's large-scale promotion of computer special effects, and the price is relatively close to the people. In addition, computer special effects technology can also be used as a selling point for film promotion, which has led to many film companies entrusting a large number of special effects orders to new entrepreneurial departments. Therefore, the initial budget of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is 5 million yuan, which is the responsibility of Tsui Hark Film Studio. In the later stage, it was entrusted to a new film and television special effects studio, with a price of up to 7 million Hong Kong dollars. Don't look at it more expensive than the labor cost and shooting cost of the movie, but this is already a very low price. In the United States, although this technology is also available, the price may be increased tenfold. After all, not only the labor cost in the United States is more expensive, but even the cost of equipment is more expensive than that of the new entrepreneurship department.

Even if a movie has a post-production special effects budget of 7 million, Xinyicheng doesn't feel expensive. Because, if you are willing to spend this price to polish the quality, your vision has also improved by a few grades. It is preparing to promote the film to the international market.

And it is not easy for Xinyicheng to prepare a budget of 12 million for a movie. You must know that although New Arts City is a high-quality film company in Hong Kong, the annual net profit is actually not very high, and it is only tens of millions of yuan. Investing 10 million-level films, with the financial resources of New Art City, will only invest in a few films every year. The rest of the capital budget is to cast a wide net and invest more in two or three million-level movies. After all, that kind of low-budget movie, in addition to the consideration of risk diversification, also has the role of discovering talent. Many stars, directors, screenwriters and other talents have been emerging from small-budget films, as long as they show their talents, in the current Hong Kong film market, even if several major film companies are illiterate, those gangsters will come to invest in money-laundering capital.

Strangely enough, the world's luxury goods and movies are not seriously invested in at the beginning, but gangsters launder money. In the early years, the Italian mafia, dabbling in luxury goods and movies, set the price of an ordinary commodity sky-high, so that the money could be laundered by hiring a small number of people to buy these worthless luxury goods, and then paying taxes on sales. Originally, these gangsters thought that in addition to the money laundering that they would buy themselves, no one would buy the luxury goods made by increasing the price of ordinary goods dozens of times. As a result, unexpectedly, this kind of luxury business, which was originally made for money laundering, was actually more profitable than the original underground business of the gang, so the mafia who was not really washed his hands and became serious luxury merchants. Italian cinema also began to prosper in the early years because of the need for money laundering.

Before Hong Kong's return to the motherland, there was a deformed prosperity in films. In addition to Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, New Arts City and other serious film capital. There is also a considerable demand for underworld capital laundering, and money laundering naturally does not worry about losing money in movies, so it is more urgent to invest in movies than other businessmen. However, investing in films not only did not lose money, but also made money, so that Hong Kong's film output was once second only to Hollywood in the United States and Bollywood in India.

After the 21st century, the Hong Kong film industry played games to protest against gangster interference in films. It was precisely because of the demonstrations that the government began to interfere. After the gang's funds do not invest in Hong Kong films, there will certainly be no gang members pointing guns at artists and demanding that they agree to make films. However, after more than ten years, Hong Kong films, which had been on a downward spiral, lost these last active investment funds, and they were completely cold!

Although "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also produced by the original team of Tsui Hark Film Studio, it is produced by Xinyicheng Film Company, and the funding is Xinyicheng, and Tsui Hark Film Studio is equivalent to taking money to do things, and the income from the sharing is not much.

And "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is very different, Tsui Hark Film Studio did not take the money in advance, and waited until the film was completed, and then divided it according to the proportion of 15%. After the film studio receives a capital injection of 100 million yuan, it can advance the labor salary of the studio.

has a 15% dividend right in a blockbuster with an investment budget of nearly 200 million yuan, and no matter how it is calculated, the studio used to help others make movies, and could only get a little hard-earned money, but it was not much stronger than the follow-up share.

The Tsui Hark version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which came out in advance in this time and space, because Hu Jinzhuan was not invited at all, and many ideas and brain holes need to be created with the game, so it is also very different from history. But there is only one element that must be the same as in history - the undefeated sister of the East must be a heroic beauty, not a male ladyboy.

The historical Tsui Hark version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", because, in the early works of Hu Jinzhuan, Hu Jinzhuan subconsciously joined the imperial court force of Dongchang according to his inertia. Moreover, the culprit who killed Lin Pingzhi's whole family was changed from Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng faction in the original book to Dongchang Gong. The Dongchang forces wantonly interfered in the original plot, which changed the original taste of the battle for hegemony.

To put it simply, if this movie hadn't been saved by the undefeated sister of the East in the later stage, it might not have become a classic. And the undefeated sister of the East, the reason why she is very popular, in essence, is because she is the original character. Moreover, the magic change from a shemale to a peerless beauty is acceptable to the audience.

To put it simply, you can listen to the original book for anything, but don't dogmatically follow the original for the appearance of the popular characters. The original book writes about a disgusting dead eunuch shemale, and the movie version has really changed it like this, and the audience may not applaud. However, suddenly, a high-profile original character, even if it is the final boss of the villain who has not appeared many times, has changed his appearance, and his fashion value has broken through the sky all of a sudden.