Since July 1980, Struggle Film Company has become history.

Although the movie "Salted Fish Turns Over" was gloomy because of the hit on the street.

However, the strength of the entire Struggle Film Company was not only damaged, but it became rich and wealthy after Boss Lei's capital of 30 million Hong Kong dollars was injected into the company.

The struggle company is the old office space, known as the "struggle room", and the new name of the company is - New Art City Film Co., Ltd.!

A new company has a new atmosphere!

New Art City, after the name change! began to continue recruiting, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian and others, invited Zeng Zhiwei, Teddy Robin and others, and became the core members of the company. These five people are called the "Struggle Five", and they form the company's highest decision-making unit.

Originally, Tsui Hark, Shi Nansheng and others joined the filmmakers at the beginning of the company, and they would become the "Seven of Struggle" of Xinyicheng Company.

But because, Zhang Shaojie, Gu Long and others invited Tsui Hark to direct "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty: Origin" on behalf of Baolong Film Company. Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng did not join Xinyicheng, but at the invitation of Gu Long, they joined Baolong Film Company.

The style of New Arts City is too far from Tsui Hark.

Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, Zeng Zhiwei, and Teddy Robin are all good at making comedy movies, that is, ghost horse films that follow Xu Guanwen.

However, Tsui Hark prefers martial arts movies and costume movies, and Tsui Hark has too many ideas for new *wave* tide movies, which undoubtedly restricts Tsui Hark's play in the current New Arts City, so before the establishment of the New Arts City, Tsui Hark quietly joined Gulong's Baolong Film Company.

The current Baolong, although there is no big boss support, but there is a small wealth advocate Shaojie's support. Although Zhang Shaojie can't take out tens of millions of dollars to make a big movie for Baolong at once, but first take out a few million Hong Kong dollars, and then increase the capital one after another, for Zhang Shaojie at this time, there is no pressure at all!

"Old Monster Xu is really a weirdo, he didn't leave before, but after Boss Lei injected capital, he left! What a pity! Shi Tian couldn't help but say regretfully.

Mai Jia said indifferently: "It doesn't matter if Tsui Hark is gone, anyway, there is not much more than him, and there is no less than him!" ”

Huang Baiming also smiled: "Old Monster Xu is gone, he will regret it in the future!" However, there is no shortage of directors in the Hong Kong film industry, and he has just been gone for a few hours when John Woo came! ”

"Well, Wu Yusen has talent, but he just lacks popularity!" Shi Tian nodded.

"I should support John Woo's work more later! The first movie, to be filmed well, not only to make money, but also to make Xu Lao Monster regret it! Mai Jia said.

―――――― New Art City Company.

John Woo, who just made the comedy movie "Money is Strange" for Golden Harvest, did not get the attention of Golden Harvest. In fact, the box office of this movie seems to be good, mainly because Golden Harvest has more screenings, and the attendance rate has been between 30% ~ 70% after the release of the new film. Golden Harvest Cinemas has screened more than 1,000 times in total, with a box office of HK$4.1 million, with an average income of only 4,000 yuan per show, while the average income of "Modern Bodyguard" per game is HK$7,000!

It can be said that 1,000 screenings of "Modern Bodyguard" can have a box office of 7 million. arranging 1,000 shows for "Money Makes Trouble" only has a box office of 4 million.

Therefore, Golden Harvest Company does not attach great importance to the new director John Woo. At least, John Woo won't be able to direct any new films at Golden Harvest this year!

Therefore, John Woo will jump to New Arts City.

John Woo fought hard.

Huang Baiming quietly entered his office and said with a smile: "How is the script prepared?" ”

Wu Yusen was taken aback, and after seeing that it was Huang Baiming, he said: "It's almost there, the story is still the comedy movie discussed before." It's a tribute to Chaplin! ”

Huang Baiming nodded and said, "Show me!" ”

John Woo handed the script to Huang Baiming, Huang Baiming is the new art city is the script everyone. Although John Woo is also a choreographer at this time, the level of his script is still not as good as Huang Baiming's.

John Woo's new play is called "Funny Times."

Huang Baiming flipped over the script, and basically did not change the plot, but said: "The noun of this movie needs to be changed?" ”

Wu Yusen was stunned: "Why do you want to change it?" "Funny Times" is very good, it is very vivid, this is a comedy movie! Isn't the most lucrative thing in Hong Kong now being comedies? ”

Huang Baiming said: "This alone is not enough, the elements of comedy are changing every year!" used to be "Ghost Horse Double Star", and now it is "Motorcycle Bodyguard", and the leader is Xu Guanwen! ”

John Woo said: "There are at least dozens of directors who follow Xu Guanwen, and only half of them are popular, right? ”

Huang Baiming said: "If you don't follow Xu Guanwen, the probability of hitting the street is greater!" Therefore, the name of the movie should be changed to "Modern Funny Times", just add the word modern, and follow the trend! ”

John Woo was a little dissatisfied and said: "This is not good, it was originally called "Funny Times", which is a bit of a Chaplin movie." Now, with the addition of the word modern, people either think of "Modern Times" or "Modern Bodyguard". Most of the audience thought that this was a patchwork bad movie! ”

Huang Baiming smiled: "An! It's not a big deal to follow the bandwagon! Now the word 'modern' is popular, and adding this gimmick to the movie will definitely be good for the box office. The cost of a penny does not need to be spent more, and there is no need to modify the script, just changing the name of the movie can achieve a better publicity effect, why not? ”

Wu Yusen could only agree sullenly, after all, Wu Yusen at this time was not a famous director, and now after leaving Golden Harvest, it is Xinyicheng who appreciates him. If you insist on your opinion, you will inevitably offend the new owner again!

Wu Yusen, who was unwilling in Jiahe, was dragged to the new art city by Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and others when he was secretly preparing in the new art city. Huang Baiming and others patted their chests to ensure that after Wu Yusen arrived in Xinyicheng, there would be a movie, and kept explaining to Wu Yusen that the big boss behind Xinyicheng was Mr. Lei Juekun.

Boss Lei not only owns the third largest cinema company in Hong Kong, "Golden Princess Entertainment", but also is one of the important shareholders of large companies such as Kowloon Motor Bus and Kowloon Development.

It is precisely because of the co-optation of these people in the New Art City that Wu Yusen gritted his teeth, thinking that there are so many hot directors and stars in Golden Harvest, he is just a newcomer, and he may not be able to get ahead after ten years, so it is better to try his luck in the New Art City.

After John Woo jumped to New Arts City, the first entrepreneurial movie of New Arts City was handed over to John Woo, and John Woo was even more excited for a few days without sleep, writing a script for "Funny Times". The director of the movie "Funny Times", Xinyicheng also promised to hand it over to John Woo to shoot!

And the actors are also those early backbones of the New Art City - Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, and Wu Ma

Wu Yusen thought for a moment.

The entrepreneurial work of Xinyicheng was actually handed over to his own director, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and others were not aggrieved, just by changing the name of the movie, they felt aggrieved? It really shouldn't be!

Finally, Wu Yusen nodded and said, "Okay!" Let's just "Modern Funny Times"! ”

(To be continued)