Chapter 51: Princess Jin's Ambition

With the projection and editing equipment, the production of "The Tragic War" began to get on track, Mai Dangxiong was responsible for watching the film and taking notes, Xiao Ruoyuan and Chen Baixiang were in charge of taking reference notes, responsible for editing, Wang Zifan was responsible for coordinating the overall situation, and did not forget to prepare for "Modern Bodyguard", as for the new Cheng Xiaodong, Wang Zifan did not restrain him, but just let him have time to go back to the studio to 'turn around', as for how many talents he can 'earn' back, it depends on his ability. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past two days, Mecca of Struggle Company has often come to DreamWorks, in addition to participating in the preparation of "Modern Bodyguard", he also discussed the acquisition with Wang Zifan, the scale of Struggle Film Company is much larger than DreamWorks, and I don't know who annexed whom in a rash merger, Wang Zifan intends to let Struggle Film Company be reorganized into a studio, and he has thought of the name.

It's called New Art City Studio!

Mecca is satisfied with this arrangement, and although it has become a subsidiary of Oriental Film DreamWorks, it is still an independent group relatively speaking, and his position is not threatened.

After negotiating the conditions, the three monsters of the new art city gathered in Wang Zifan's office to officially conclude the contract!

There are not many terms in this contract, and Wang Zifan didn't expect to sign a contract to let Mai, Huang, and Shi die for him, he still has a trick, and at the same time divide the trio, he must also mix sand into it, so as not to let them have a heart, even if the gang is broken up at that time, he can also use the remaining people to reorganize another new art city!

When laughing and laughing, Mai Dangxiong broke in recklessly, his eyes were bloodshot, he spent two days without sleep to finish reading all the films, and by the way, he looked at the sample films edited by Xiao Ruoyuan and Chen Baixiang, and gradually realized in his heart.

"Afan...... Mr. Wang, you have a guest!"

"Ah Xiong, is there something wrong?"

"About the main line of the film, I want to discuss it with you!"

"Don't be in a hurry now, you go back and take care of your body first!" The prince staggered when he saw him standing still, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him sit down, tired a man with iron beating like this, and the prospect of this movie is even better!

Mai Dangxiong waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, Mr. Wang, I already understand what you mean!"

Wang Zifan observed carefully for a while, called him Mr. Wang in front of outsiders, his state was okay, and he smiled with satisfaction: "Then you can do it, Ah Xiong! I believe in you!"

Mai Dangxiong came and went in a hurry, got into the editor to add shots according to his own thoughts, and spent half a day deleting redundant shots, and before he had time to watch the results, he lay on the workbench and fell asleep!

Wang Zifan, Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian signed contracts one after another, and the new art city studio was officially established!

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Here, there is also a person who has taken a fancy to Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian, and wants to invest in their Struggle Film Company, but he is destined to be disappointed!

He is Lei Juekun!

In recent years, the marginal profit of films produced by Hollywood studios has dropped from 50% to 15%, showing the difficulty of film profitability, major film studios have reduced production to cope with the downturn, and even laid off employees on a large scale, the past prosperous Hollywood was once depressed, and the corresponding Western film world began to decline, which inevitably affected Hong Kong, and many theaters showing Western films hoped to switch to Chinese films.

Lei Juekun, who owns many Western film theaters, also hopes that some of his theaters will switch to Chinese films, but unfortunately now the Chinese film market is controlled by Shaw Brothers and Jiahe, and it is not easy to get a piece of the pie.

Although it is a tiger's mouth, at the beginning of the year, Lei Juekun still established a Chinese film theater line, named the Golden Princess Theater Line, specializing in the release of some independently produced films, but at this time, the film cadres have already been incorporated by Jiahe and the Kuo Clan, and the talents are all in the two major companies, plus the Golden Princess Cinema Line is showing some shoddy films, so it is called the glass cinema line, that is, it will be dispersed as soon as it is shaken, and the strength of the golden princess is completely unable to confront the Shaw Brothers and Jiahe!

Hong Kong's three Chinese film theaters, in terms of strength, the golden princess is the strongest, but the box office has always been at the bottom, and the results are far behind!

In the face of the two movie giants of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Princess Jin is just like a little princess in the boudoir!

The scale of his own theater is not bad, the box office is always unsatisfactory, Lei Juekun can't help but start to reflect on what is inferior to others, at this time martial arts sword films are still popular, but the big stars of sword films Jiang David, Dillon, and Fu Sheng are all under the banner of Shaw Brothers, and Golden Harvest lost superstar Li Xiaolong in the seventies, but Cheng Long joined to replace Li Xiaolong's position, in terms of comedy, there are three Xu brothers, "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Half a catty and eight taels" and so on have repeatedly broken box office records, and the momentum is unparalleled for a while.

On the other hand, the Golden Princess Cinema can only screen some movies made by small independent producers, and independent producers have little funds and can only make small-budget films, and the results are difficult to compare with those of the Shan family and Golden Harvest, in the final analysis, there is still no good production company to support, Lei Juekun suddenly woke up and wanted to make his own movies, so that the Golden Princess would have a bright future, so he began to look for potential producers.

In today's Hong Kong film industry, there are many independent production companies, many of them, but there are not many with good results, and most of them are recruited by Golden Harvest, Lei Juekun was dazzled and didn't find a suitable object, just when he was depressed, Li Maowen, the manager of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, recommended Struggle Film Company to him!

"Mr. Lui, now there is only a small company called Struggle Films in Hong Kong, although the company has not set any box office records, and the films it has made are not big hits, but it is better than stability, and it is better than the strange chicken. The movies "Crazy Boss" and "Salted Fish Reborn" have box office of between three and four million yuan, but compared with many small companies, they are already good and can make money. ”

"Struggle Film Company?" Lei Juekun frowned, and finally shook his head: "Compared with Golden Harvest's "Senior Brother Out of the Horse", the box office is still too low!"

"It's really not good, and you can only pull out the general in a short man!" The reason why Li Maowen is looking for Struggle Film Company to join, in addition to appreciating its good production, prefers its new ideas, especially "Salted Fish Reborn", which impressed him very much, and more importantly, he is familiar with Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian.

Lei Juekun groaned: "What is the origin of this struggle film company?"

Li Maowen came to the spirit, and said with a smile: "The struggle company was founded by Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian, these three people are all talents, Mecca has a bald head, a beard on his mouth, and is extremely unkempt, he studied electronic engineering in the United States, and he studied without using it, and went to Chinatown every day to watch Hong Kong films, scolding people every day to shoot 'scum', and finally praised a few thousand dollars, and returned to Hong Kong to enter the film industry to break into the world, to be a big director, the second is called Shi Tian, born in the southern training class under the Shaw Brothers, and has been a big supporting role for a long time, is the best green leaf, but has no chance to be a peony. ”

Thinking of Shi Tian's pleasing image, Lei Juekun couldn't help but laugh and said: "I've seen this actor!"

Shi Tian has a strange appearance, many expressions, and a very funny appearance, at that time, the protagonist had to be handsome and tough, so Shi Tian could only be the second child for a long time, but he always hoped that one day he could be in charge and star in a real big movie.

Li Maowen smiled slightly and continued to introduce: "The third general, Huang Baiming, used to be a manager in a foreign bank, with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, but he didn't do a good job, he didn't work as a manager to make movies, he often couldn't receive funds when he wrote scripts for others, the economy was very unstable, and his family quarreled all day long. ”

"Not bad!"

Lei Juekun heard about the three of them, nodded, a little confident, and ordered: "If you have time, contact them and ask them if they are willing to come to Princess Jin!"

Li Maowen said confidently: "This is absolutely no problem, Struggle Pictures is an independent production company, and the film has to pay insurance money when it is released on Golden Harvest, as long as Mr. Lei supports them, there is no reason not to come!"

Lei Juekun said again: "A family struggle can't change the battle situation!"

Li Maowen suddenly remembered something, and hesitated: "Recently, a film company has appeared in Hong Kong, and the boss is called Wang Zifan......

Lei Juekun said with interest: "Is that Wang Zifan, who was called a Hong Kong hero by "Oriental Daily"?"

Li Maowen nodded and said: "It's him, Wang Zifan also recruited the main creators of "Huo Yuanjia" to set up a film company called Oriental Dream Factory!"

The grand occasion when "Huo Yuanjia" was broadcast, Lei Juekun was deeply touched, at that time, the huge Golden Princess Cinema, every time "Huo Yuanjia" was broadcast, the box office was pitiful, even if it was rebroadcast the next day, the box office was less than half of the original, thinking of these, Lei Juekun immediately put Wang Zifan's attention on Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian.