Chapter 440: New Ideas

The school has not really opened yet, and the students who were arranged by the teachers to present to the VIPs today are the best who have been carefully selected. Only by showing the best side can the school continue to raise more funds from the East China Sea Foundation, a big donor, in the future.

Among them, Liu Jiayu, a computer prodigy with both legs amputated, is undoubtedly one of the most impressive students. After attending the inauguration ceremony of the new campus, Zhong Chuhong was still talking about the child on the way back.

"That kid named Liu Jiayu is so sensible, did you hear it just now, his biggest wish now is to help his mother find a new father, so that his mother won't have to work so hard to support the family in the future!

"I can't find him a father!" Li Xuan shook his head and said with a smile.

"Do you have any sympathy, you're embarrassed to laugh!" Zhong Chuhong reached out and patted her husband dissatisfiedly.

"I haven't finished talking yet, I can't find a new father for my child, but I can change his mother to a more relaxed job! There are so many people in need of help in this world that we can't take care of them all. But since I met him by fate, I can still do my part!" Li Xuan said with his arms around his wife.

"It's pretty much the same!" Zhong Chuhong smiled sweetly. Now that her husband has spoken, she also believes that her huge Eastern Bloc wants to arrange a person's work, which is just a matter of words.

In fact, what Li Xuan is thinking about now is something else, this Liu Jiayu's desire to help his mother find a father suddenly reminded him of a classic Hollywood romance movie in his previous life. Sleepless Nights in Seattle.

The movie was about an eight-year-old boy who called the radio's emotional hotline. I want to find a wife for my father. In the end, fate finally allowed the new mother to meet their father and son in the Empire State Building.

Asia Entertainment has gone public before the Lunar New Year to the present. The total market value has exceeded 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, becoming a star company in the Oriental sector of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. However, in fact, the entertainment industry of Asia Entertainment Company's main business is very weakly related to the business of other companies in the Oriental Group.

Li Xuan's acquisition of Asia Television was to gain the right to speak in public opinion. Although the profitability of Asia Satellite TV is not ranked, it is a very important bargaining chip for Li Xuan when he is in the game with the official.

For example, Li Xuan's next plan to change the development plan of Tin Shui Wai from the original new town to an industrial park is by no means recent. As early as a few years ago, Asia Satellite TV began to gradually guide Hong Kong's public opinion and pay attention to the upgrading and transformation of local industries.

For the past two or three years. As Hong Kong's light industry continues to move north under cost pressure, there is a growing call for the government to actively support the development of local industries. It is precisely against the backdrop of public opinion formed under this long-term guidance that Li Xuan is confident that the Hong Kong government, which has held up an active policy of non-intervention, will agree to make some changes in the face of surging public opinion.

The core business of the listed company Asia Entertainment Holdings is film, and Asia Pictures, which takes the boutique route, has begun to sweep the golden opportunity of the Asian market in recent years by taking advantage of the Hong Kong film industry, and has grown rapidly and its profitability has soared. In the end, Li Xuan's property was made in one fell swoop through listing. Another billion Hong Kong dollars have been added.

But other than that, Asian Entertainment doesn't really play a very important role for Li Xuan. Among Li Xuan's expanding total assets every year, the weight of Asia Entertainment Holdings only accounts for about 1.5% of Li Xuan's total net worth, which is really not a core asset.

You can't really let such a large company with a market value of more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. So he has been thinking about how to make the Asian entertainment companies that are outside the entire Oriental Bloc system play a better role.

The entertainment industry represented by movies. In fact, it is a bellwether of popular culture. If you put it to good use, it can have a huge impact. For example, a few years ago. Oriental Games sponsored the movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial", which made it appear in the released movie. A footage of the alien ET using an FC console.

As a result, after "ET Alien" became popular all over the world, the sales of FC game consoles also successfully reached a new level. After that, Oriental Game Company made another lot of money by developing games related to "ET Aliens"!

This successful example shows that successful films can actually play a huge role in promoting the main business of the Eastern Bloc. And after Li Xuan was inspired today, he suddenly had a new script idea. Of course, he is not going to copy the original plot of "Sleepless Nights in Seattle" to make a "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong". He was ready to make a new adaptation and create a new film that would maximize the interests of the Eastern Bloc as a whole.

ATV Group's newly put into use film and television base in Tseung Kwan O was also one of the important assets of the listed group when Asia Entertainment Holdings was listed. The 12-hectare plot of land houses a costume street, large indoor studios, and two 15-storey office towers.

Because when ATV Group applied for the land, the agreement reached with the Hong Kong government contained a clause restricting commercial development. Therefore, after the completion and use of these two office buildings, Asia Entertainment Holdings reached a memorandum of understanding with the Hong Kong government. As part of the Hong Kong government's plan to support Hong Kong's entertainment industry, Asian entertainment companies are allowed to lease office space to other film and television companies at prices much lower than the market price.

As a result, Asia Entertainment was unable to make a lot of profits from office rentals, but it managed to make Tseung Kwan O the new center of Hong Kong's entertainment industry. Among the two office buildings, one of which serves as the administrative building of ATV Group and Asia Entertainment Holdings, while the other rented office building has been crowded into more than 50 film companies, large and small, accounting for almost half of all film companies in Hong Kong.

The two office buildings are two twin buildings with two basement floors connected together. The lobby on the lowest floor is very spacious, and in addition to ATV's reception desk, there is a supermarket and a café. The second floor is a large canteen that serves thousands of employees in the two buildings.

"Li Sheng!" As soon as Li Xuan walked into the hall, he heard a crisp voice calling out to him from behind.

He looked back. Seeing a beautiful woman with beautiful eyes, she was a little timid. He looked at himself with a bit of surprise.

"Liu Jialing, I remember you!" Li Xuan smiled at her.

He recognized this roommate at a glance. is also the wife of the future Liang Yingdi. Yesterday, I heard He Qing inadvertently say that she had just met the grandson of the boat king Xu Aizhou. Li Xuanmo thought of his very powerful butterfly, and he couldn't even fan the love trajectory of this Liu beauty. She turned out to be the same as in another time and space, and Xu Jianheng, a young man, came together.

And the reason why the two were fortunate enough to get acquainted was because of the cocktail party held by Li Xuan for "Blood Battle Taierzhuang". He could only sigh, fate is amazing!

"Listen to what you say, you have graduated from the artist training class, have you been filming recently?" Li Xuan did not refuse to be thousands of miles away, and asked angrily.

"Hmm. I just graduated last month! I will start filming a costume drama next week, and today I was called by the director to have an early meeting!"

What's more, her afterglow has been swept to the part-time job of the new crew and the director just walked out of the café on the ground floor, and the two of them who were chatting and laughing all the way saw that Liu Jialing was able to talk to the big boss Li Xuan, and they couldn't help but show a little surprise.

This is exactly the effect that Liu Jialing wants, if she can receive Li Xuan's tiger skin, she will definitely be much more comfortable when she joins the crew in the future. It is not easy for a newcomer like her, who has just debuted, to gain a firm foothold in this deceitful circle!

When the producer and director stepped forward. Liu Jialing immediately introduced the two to Li Xuan very enthusiastically. Li Xuan could also guess the little bit of careful planning of this Liu beauty at this time, but he didn't expose it, and he didn't have much disgust. A smart person will always do everything possible to increase the stakes for his success, and he doesn't mind helping out with others.

The office of Zeng Zhiwei, president of Asian Entertainment, is on the top floor. When Li Xuan stepped out of the elevator, Zeng Zhiwei, who received a notice from the front desk downstairs, was already waiting at the elevator.

"A boy who had his leg amputated because of a car accident since he was a child. A single mother who is raising her children alone because she is ridiculed by her peers at school. I accidentally discovered that my son was very talented in computers, so he spent all his savings to buy a computer for her.

When my mother went out to work to earn money to support the family. The little boy was at home with the computer, and soon became a computer supernatural. He started teaching himself how to code and shared his little games with others in the virtual world online!

At this time, the male protagonist, a game planner of Oriental Game Company, undoubtedly found a little boy's game work shared by netizens in a BBS forum. He thought these games were very good, so he decided to find the author of the game and buy the copyright!

In this way, the actor and the little boy met on the Internet. But because of what happened in his childhood, the little boy has a slight social phobia and resists too close contact with strangers!

So an adult and a child gradually became good friends through email. After more and more exchanges, the little boy realizes that the man on the other end of the computer is actually a good candidate for his father, and he begins to come up with a new idea.

That is to match this man who has never met to become his mother's new husband, so that his mother can have a broad shoulder to rely on, and she no longer has to work several jobs every day!" Li Xuan directly introduced the idea of the new movie to Zeng Zhiwei.

"Li Sheng, is it really possible for a ten-year-old boy to become a computer master?" Zhou Liang Shuyi asked with a frown.

She happened to be discussing the work arrangement with Zeng Zhiwei, and when she heard that Li Xuan had a good movie idea, she immediately listened to Li Xuan's introduction with great interest. After all, several movie ideas of Li Xuan's previous ticket games have achieved good box office.

"Yes, I met such a computer prodigy this morning! He was forced to amputate both of his lower legs when he was four years old because of a car accident! But he is only 11 years old this year, and he has only been exposed to computers for three years, and his current computer programming level is no worse than that of computer science students from HKU and CUHK!" Li Xuan nodded in conviction.

"According to Li Sheng's story outline, this should be a warm and affectionate love film!" Zeng Zhiwei said with a smile.

"Of course, the love story of lovers who eventually become married is always the most acceptable and resonant theme for everyone! And I can guarantee that if the script of this film is good enough, you can definitely persuade companies such as Oriental Game Company, Aikang Computer Company, and Hong Kong Telephone Company to provide large sums of money as sponsorship fees for new films!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Asia Entertainment has a set of standardized and strict review rules within the company, and although Li Xuan is the boss, he rarely does things that laymen interfere with. In addition to Li Xuan's sufficient financial support, the reason why ATV Group has been able to develop into the largest film and television entertainment group in Hong Kong over the years is that it is ahead of other competitors in Hong Kong, and it has achieved industrial formalization and standardization earlier is also a very important reason.

For example, like the previous "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" project, the reason why Asian Entertainment Company is willing to co-produce with domestic studios is because Li Xuan gave a guarantee. If the film can't recover its costs in the end, the loss will be borne by Li Xuan personally.

War films are an unpopular subject in the Hong Kong film industry that few people encounter. Especially for war blockbusters that require huge investment, film companies will not choose this kind of theme under normal circumstances for the sake of risk control. Without Li Xuan's assurance, Zeng Zhiwei would definitely not agree to invest.

"According to the ideas you just introduced, computers, networks, and games are all very important nodes in this movie! After the screenwriting department finishes writing the script, I can indeed go to those rich companies to make a fortune!" Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help but light up, and immediately said happily.

As the president of Asia Entertainment Company, he naturally has to consider the interests of the company first. If companies such as Oriental Games, Aikang Computer, and Hong Kong Telephone can provide large sponsorship fees, they can offset a large part of the film production costs, which naturally greatly reduces the risk of loss.

"In terms of specific plot filling, the writers in the screenwriting department are all better than me. The only thing to note is that in addition to the warmth of traditional romance films, this movie should be made cooler, computers, game programming, and the Internet are all very lofty things for most ordinary people!

We want to let more ordinary people know and like them through movies, and if your script can do this, I believe that several other companies in the group are even willing to bear the entire production cost!" Li Xuan said with a smile. (To be continued......)