November 1983.

"Good morning, Mr. Huang!"

"Mr. Huang, good morning!"

"Mr. Huang, Mr. Xu has been waiting in the office for a long time......"

Along the way, the employees at the headquarters of Xingchen TV Station greeted Huang Xizhao one after another.

Huang Xizhao kept nodding to other employees, although he is not directly in charge of the TV station, but he is also the general manager of the parent company of the TV station, Xinfeng Film and Television Entertainment Company, and the level is even higher than that of Xingchen TV.

Xingchen TV was wholly acquired by Lin Qi, and it was also a year. In this year's time, the ratings of TV stations have risen steadily, and some of the strong programs have even stabilized the ratings of TVB.

It is already a miracle that it can stabilize from a market with a ratings share of less than 3% and a continuous decline. What's more, gradually narrowing the gap with TVB? It can be seen that the new management team is indeed very attentive!

In terms of operating income, from the annual income of less than 300 million yuan in the era of Li, to the era of Xingchen TV, the income is estimated to exceed 800 million. Among them, advertising revenue accounts for half, and the remaining half is obtained by copyright sales, video discs, records and other peripheral businesses.

Although, the main development direction of Star TV is no longer the local advertising revenue in Hong Kong. However, as the ratings continue to soar and popular programs are frequently released, advertising revenue is also rising.

In addition, before and after the Hong Kong dollar crisis, the financial department of Xingchen TV, due to the order of the parent company, also successfully earned more than 60 million exchange gains in the foreign exchange crisis, which further laid the foundation for this year's profit surge, and is expected to break through the 150 million net profit mark.

Due to the good performance, the income of the employees and artists of Xingchen TV is more than 5% higher than that of TVB.

This has also caused Xu Xiaoming, the current general manager of the TV station, and Huang Xizhao, the general manager of the parent company's new venture film and television entertainment company, to rise in prestige again.

Of course, it seems that it is faster and easier to make money in the Hong Kong film market than in TV now, especially after Mai Dangxiong's team left Lidi, making money to the point of cramping, which is more enjoyable than those who stay.

This inevitably brought some bad effects to some old people in Xingchentai.

It can be said that the biggest enemy of Xingchen TV is not TVB, but the film industry. In the golden age of Hong Kong films, many TV station production staff who left their jobs raised hundreds of thousands of yuan in capital and made a movie popular, which may make millions of dollars, and the annual income is worth ten years.

Just like Mai Dangxiong was already considered a high income in Li at the beginning, he could get an annual salary of more than 200,000 a year, however, now Mai Dangxiong can earn millions a year.

Since Mai Dangxiong can do it, some other excellent TV producers, of course, are constantly considering, should they transform to make movies to make money?

Even, including Xu Xiaoming, the general manager of Xingchen TV, often thinks, why not make a movie?

Even if Xu Xiao's income can reach 500,000 next year, it is still far less than Mai Dangxiong!

A movie by Mai Dangxiong sold tens of millions of box office in Hong Kong, and then sold overseas copyrights, and all he earned was his own.

The top management of the TV station is just a wage earner, and in terms of incentive system, it is better to work alone.

What's more, the threshold of the current Hong Kong film industry is very low, hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan, you can open a film company. This is also the main reason why in the 80s, a large number of TV talents poured into the film industry.

Huang Xizhao took the elevator to arrive at his office, which was now owned by Xu Xiaoming.

"Xiao Xu, the boss plans to let Xingchen TV go public within three years!" Huang Xizhao said with a smile, "The management and backbone of the entire company can take a total of 20% options!"

"Really?" Xu Xiaoming couldn't help but be surprised.

"Of course!" Huang Xizhao said, "We have to go public before TVB in order to sell at a better price!"

TVB was originally listed in 86, and after its listing, its brand value and market recognition have been raised to a higher level. Historically, Asia Television has gradually declined because it missed this opportunity and failed to become a listed company.

Moreover, in addition to giving the company a sum of money, the listing plan will take its strength to a higher level. It can also give more incentives to the company's key employees.

At the very least, it has a goal to get the company to go public and make the options in its hands real money...... This hope alone is enough to distract most of the people who are able to leave the company for the time being, and they are not ready to develop on their own.

Of course, this is also to divest the company's non-core resources with Lin Qi, and gradually securitize all kinds of non-core resources. On the one hand, it can become a financing tool after listing, and on the other hand, after listing, it can gradually separate the management to avoid more and more bloated business, which distracts Lin Qi's attention.

When Lin Qi needs to use the resources of a certain company, he can use it, and he does not necessarily need all the assets to be 100% in his own hands. However, the listed assets are not Lin Qi's core assets, for example, a company like Xinchuang Electronics, Lin Qi is not allowed to go public.

If, after going public, many public shareholders want to investigate the source of his technology like Detective Conan, how to explain it?

It is precisely for this reason that it is better not to ask for trouble, and the most core and valuable assets will never be listed.

……

In the past year, Xingchen TV has not only changed its name, but also changed the fate of many people.

For example, Stephen Chow's fate is much smoother than in the original history.

After joining Star TV for a year, Stephen Chow began to appear on the show "Saturday Millionaire", and then hosted the children's program "Big Windmill", which was broadcast from Monday to Friday, plus a show on Saturday.

"Saturday Millionaire" really has millions of viewers watching who can win the million-dollar jackpot every Saturday, and the frequency of interaction with the audience is quite high, even if no one pays attention to Stephen Chow at first, but after hosting for a year, more and more people know him.

As a newly established children's program, "Big Windmill" is broadcast five days a week, and it is broadcast for half an hour every day. Of course, the more popular in the show is Sister (Weng) Meiling, but as one of the regular partners, Uncle Xingchi, the role is a character who often plays a stupid and ugly role in front of children, and in the process of coaxing children, it also makes him more and more childlike.

For the convenience of going to work and saving money, Stephen Chow moved to a single dormitory prepared for employees at Xingchentai.

Each dormitory is less than 100 feet in size, and with a bed, a desk, a chair, a bookcase, and a hanger, there is not much space to stay.

However, Stephen Chow still has a relatively fulfilling life, although it is hard, he can get an extra monthly salary plus participating in the program, and the monthly salary easily exceeds more than 10,000 yuan, and he can be regarded as an upper-middle income in the TV station.

Compared with the entertainment industry, it is naturally incomparable with those famous big stars, but the second- and third-rate actors in most movies, even if they leave the country more, may not have a high income.

Therefore, gradually Stephen Chow is also a little slack, and he used to hold professional books on acting and directing types of pits, but he has long been on the bookshelf. As for reading newspapers every day to find news in the entertainment industry and opportunities to join the entertainment industry - please! Who has time to watch that kind of thing, with the help of the relationship between working in the TV station, he can meet a group of big stars and directors every day when he commutes to work, and some people even hook up with him, just like brothers.

Due to his busy schedule from Monday to Saturday, Sunday was the only time he had a chance to catch up on sleep. I can't sleep until three o'clock in the morning, and I can't be too lazy to get up, because, as a blind office worker, I work 6 days a week, work more than 10 hours a day, and occasionally work overtime, so the happiest thing is to be able to sleep for a few more hours.

"Stephen Chow, someone is looking for you......" The dormitory administrator shouted outside the door.

"Who, it's Sunday!" Zhou Xingchi reluctantly opened his sleepy eyes.

"It's a good thing," said the dormitory administrator...... "a director has asked you to film." ”

"Playing a corpse?"

"No, it's not as bad as you think, and if you want that, you don't need a director to come and go. ”

"Does the company know?"

"Of course, it would be a provocation to contact artists privately without going through our company. ”

Not long after, Stephen Chow met someone in the reception room of the dormitory building, Wang Jing, who was later known as the king of bad movies.

Wang Jing's father was originally Wang Tianlin, a senior executive of Shaw Brothers Films and TVB, but now Shaw Brothers Films has suffered heavy setbacks and has almost stopped filming. Even though Wang Jing has filmed "A Thousand Kings Fighting a Thousand Tyrants" before, it is still not possible to provide more opportunities for Shaw Brothers due to the current environment of Shaw Brothers. If you follow the relationship between his father Wang Tianlin, he can seek a career in TVB, but Wang Tianlin doesn't want his colleagues to say that he will go through the back door for his son, and he will definitely only arrange for the screenwriter at the bottom to start, and he wants to become a director and producer on his own. What's more, the income of TV stations filming TV series is relatively stable, but where is it so exciting to make movies?

Therefore, Wang Jing also quietly submitted scripts to other film companies, and as a result, the script of his "Frog Prince" was valued by new start-up film and television companies. However, the new start-up film and television company put forward a request to first shoot a script "A Comic Book Goes to the World" in its company's reserve to test Wang Jing's ability.

And the starring role of "A Comic Book Goes to the World" has been circled - Stephen Chow!

After reading the script, Wang Fatzi agreed without hesitation, after all, he could make one more scene.

"As for this script, it is said that the boss of your company drew up an outline and found someone to write it. Wang Jing said enviously, "Your name is written in the script!Are you familiar with your boss Lin Qi?"

"When I had a party in the company, I saw the boss. Stephen Chow also felt a little surprised, the big boss in the company who didn't know how many levels higher than his own level didn't seem to be very familiar with him, how could he deliberately name him and praise him?

However, Stephen Chow, Wang Fatzi and others will not know that this is not Lin Qi's means to circle people and IP.

Later, in many well-known film and television works, Lin Qi wrote the summary and outline of the movie, the starring role, and even some classic lines. Of course, to improve the script, the company hires a special screenwriter to create and polish it little by little.

A bad script won't be filmed!

Every film and television company that pursues high-quality films is at least above the average level of Hong Kong films, and they must be watched decades later to find that they are still enjoyable.

Stephen Chow's films probably have this classic characteristic, and even if they are reviewed decades later, most of them are not outdated. On the contrary, it makes people feel regretful, why are there so few movies of this level, and I haven't watched enough......

Lin Qi has changed the fate of many people, but he often tries to bring many people whose fates have been changed back to their original trajectory!

For example - Stephen Chow!

If it no longer performs a bunch of nonsensical movies like in history, is it still Stephen Chow?

Stephen Chow's later key turning point "A Comic Book Goes to the World", in terms of style, must be a huge difference in his mature nonsensical comedy, and more of some inexplicable gangster movie feelings. Moreover, the gangsters in the movie are also out of touch with reality, and how can there be gangsters in Hong Kong who sweep with machine guns like in the movie? In fact, in Hong Kong's city where gun control is very strict, even if some gangsters use knives to cut people, the matter is not too big. But if guns are used, especially if they are swept with guns unscrupulously in public, then I am afraid that the entire Hong Kong police will be forced to take action to carry out a Hong Kong-wide anti-crime operation.

The people who really use guns are some unscrupulous bandits who have no territory, no power, and are unscrupulous. This kind of person, even the gangster is afraid of him. But there are not many bandits who use guns in this way, and the more famous ones should be Ye Jihuan and Zhang Ziqiang later, of course, neither of them ended well later.

As for the movie "A Comic Book Goes to the World", compared with the later Stephen Chow movies, it is naturally far inferior. However, this movie is also quite important, after all, before "A Comic Book Goes to the World", no one will know who Stephen Chow is. But after the film achieved a box office of 15 million, Stephen Chow soon continued to make appointments.

Historically, Stephen Chow and Wang Jing have also collaborated on many blockbuster movies with a nonsensical style. The cooperation between the two is probably the pinnacle of Wang Jing's director, and Stephen Chow's performance made it a movie that might have become a bad movie, but unexpectedly turned decay into magic, and became a classic of nonsensical movies.

Later, whether Stephen Chow cooperated with other directors or became his own director, most of his works were considered excellent. There are more high-quality movies than bad movies, even if they are bad, they still belong to the category of works that can be watched.

And the upper and lower limits of Wang Jing's works are very high, it is possible that a movie is a classic, but most of it is a bad movie. It's not that he specializes in making bad movies, in fact, Wang Jing can also make good movies, but compared to the number of bad movies he makes, good movies are too few.

As for finding Wang Jing to direct Stephen Chow's first film, this is also because the two are really compatible in style. Wang Jing can dig out Stephen Chow's nonsensical characteristics to the extreme, and the characteristics of Stephen Chow's performance just make up for Wang Jing's informality. Wang Jing's informal, so-so characteristics have made Stephen Chow's play.