With the establishment of Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (hereinafter referred to as Oriental Group), Hong Kong ushered in the fourth Film Awards.

This year's Academy Awards DreamWorks has the most nominations, and "Love in a Fallen City" starring Xu Anhua, Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong won 6 nominations including Best Film and Best Director; "Public Servant" directed by Lee Xiu-hyun won 5 nominations including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor; And "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" directed by McDonald Bear is even more powerful, winning 9 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Newcomer, and Best Screenwriter.

On the contrary, although Kang Jianfei's film sold wildly at the box office, the judges of the Academy Awards didn't give any face, and they didn't even have a nomination. Also, nonsensical grassroots comedies like "The Saint of Gambling" and "The Saint of Love" are enough to make money for fun, and they really don't win awards compared with connotative films such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers".

is Kang Jianfei's investment in "Terminator", although it did not win the Oscars, it swept three trophies at last year's Saturn Awards (science fiction film awards).

The renovation of the third administrative building of Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City was completed, and the video tape company managed by Ye Zhiming officially moved in, merging with the distribution departments of DreamWorks and Fengxing Records to form Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company.

Although Ye Zhiming is still the general manager of this company, he finds it a little boring, he wants to specialize in the video tape business, and monopolize the video tape business in Hong Kong in the future. However, the news that Kang Jianfei is the company's major shareholder has long been known, and coupled with the Taiwan authorities' ban order, the business of the video tape company has plummeted, and the development prospects are extremely blight.

Ye Zhiming is a strange person who does not want to be subservient to others, in another time and space, this person is up and down in the shopping mall, and when he is developed, he has billions of assets. Playing Pai Gow often wins and loses millions, but in the end, he sees through the red dust and becomes a monk.

Now that he has become the general manager of Kang Jianfei's company, Ye Zhiming can only continue to do it in this position, just waiting for one day to see the business opportunity and make a comeback again.

In the first two days of the Academy Awards ceremony, Kang Jianfei found Ye Zhiming, who had just moved into the No. 3 administrative building: "Old Ye. I heard that you have a resort on Sharp Island? ”

"I thought you were looking for me to talk about the company," Ye Zhiming smiled bitterly and shook his head again and again, "Don't mention Qiaozui Island Resort, I have a lot of debts for it." ”

Sharp Island is a small offshore island in the New Territories, and people in the urban area of Hong Kong Island who want to go to Sharp Island can either rent a boat and go directly to the sea. Either cross the sea and go to Kowloon to Sai Kung and then take a fishing boat, which is outrageously remote and troublesome many times more than going to Macau.

Before the property bubble burst, Ye Zhiming, who had collapsed the jeans empire and the film company changed hands, raised tens of millions of dollars and was ready to make a desperate bet to develop the resort on Qiao Tsui Island. As a result, it can be imagined that Ye Zhiming still owes a lot of debts that he has not repaid. As for the resort on Sharp Island that was only halfway built, it was stopped and abandoned.

In the original time and space, Ye Zhiming would sell this resort with an investment of 10 million yuan in two years, and the price was an astonishing 650,000.

Kang Jianfei said: "I know that you are not willing to help others take care of the company, and merging the company into the Oriental Group is not the original intention of you and me. We're the same kind of people, so let's not beat around the bush, or I'll take the resort to help you pay off your debts. And you can help me take care of the issuing company with peace of mind, or I will pay back the shares in your hands, and you will use the money to find another future. ”

Ye Zhiming didn't expect Kang Jianfei to speak so directly, which really made it difficult for him to choose. He didn't expect to make a comeback in the future, and he didn't have the slightest confidence in the future, but he was used to being a boss and was really not used to helping people, although he was paid more than many small bosses.

After thinking about it, Ye Zhiming still succumbed to reality and said: "I choose the first one, how much do you want to buy Qiaozui Island Resort?" ”

"What do you think?" Kang Jianfei asked rhetorically.

Ye Zhiming said: "I have invested more than 12 million yuan in Qiaozui Island Resort. Now that Hong Kong's real estate industry is picking up, how about selling 5 million to you? ”

Kang Jianfei was noncommittal, but asked, "How much do you owe now?" ”

"It's still seven, seven, eight, eight Ye Zhiming said lightly, he didn't take millions seriously at all.

"Yes. Just 5 million. Kang Jianfei agreed.

Ye Zhiming glanced at Kang Jianfei approvingly, his resort was sold for 5 million, but no one was willing to take over even if it was only sold for 500,000. Ye Zhiming has clear grievances and grievances, since Kang Jianfei is so generous, he will naturally go all out to help Kang Jianfei manage the distribution company well.

Kang Jianfei has never made a loss-making business, and although Qiao Tsui Island has little investment value in Wu, it has beautiful scenery and is far away from the city, and it must have made money to build a resort in the 90s.

Kang Jianfei didn't actually think about making much money, he wanted to buy the entire Qiao Tsui Island with some more money, build a few mansions on the basis of the original resort, and buy a yacht to travel between Hong Kong Island and Qiao Tsui Island, and regard Qiao Tsui Island as a comfortable place for him to cultivate and relax.

After Kang Jianfei spent money to build Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, and bought houses and land everywhere, there were still more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars lying in the bank that were useless, and it was really not much money to buy the entire Qiaozui Island.

After settling Ye Zhiming's heart, Kang Jianfei began to think about doing comics again.

Now the Japanese comics have poured into Hong Kong, and the machine qì cat, Dragon Ball or something is very popular in Hong Kong, but it is not yet to the point of occupying the market. In today's Hong Kong, Hong Kong comics are still the mainstream of the market, and "Dragon Tiger Gate", "Bruce Lee" and "Chinese Heroes" are the best-selling comics in Hong Kong.

A few years ago, Huang Yulang was in the spring breeze, and the Yulang International he founded dominated the rivers and lakes, and he also lavishly paid Ni Frame to make his new magazine famous.

Just last year, Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei withdrew from Yulang International, and the latter two set up their own doors, and now they have formed a three-point situation. Of course, Huang Yulang's Yulang International still occupies the vast majority of the market share, and Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei's brothers and Wu Kangcao are very reluctant to hold on.

Yulang International is planning to go public, and Huang Yulang will never sell it. If Kang Jianfei wants to enter the comic industry now, he can only choose to invest in Shangguan Xiaobao's 82 Painting Society, or Shangguan Xiaowei's Xiaowei Publishing House.

It was easy to choose between the two Shangguan brothers, with the 82 Painting Society mainly publishing kung fu comics such as "Bruce Lee" and "Fang Shiyu", while Xiao Wei Publishing House focused on thriller comics such as "Blurred World", the latter of which had a very narrow audience.

But Kang Jianfei's idea was to buy all the 82 Painting Society and Xiaowei Publishing House. Then the cartoonist Shangguan Xiaolong was found, relying on the gimmick of the three Shangguan brothers getting together, and cooperating with the release of the comic version of "Ethereal Journey", which was used to resist Yulang International's "Chinese Heroes" and "Dragon Tiger Gate".

An office building on Ka Yip Street, Hong Kong Island.

Shangguan Xiaobao whistled into his company, and he had enough reason to be happy when he made a comeback. After receiving the support of the publisher Tongde Book and Newspaper and the printer Yousheng Printing Company, Shangguan Xiaobao finally re-established the 82 Painting Society and took back the copyright of "Bruce Lee" from Yulang International.

"Boss, the latest issue of "Bruce Lee" sold less than 20,000 copies." The assistant's words made Shangguan Xiaobao sober up from his pride.

Shangguan Xiaobao asked: "What about "Chinese Heroes" and "Dragon Tiger Gate"? ”

The assistant followed Shangguan Xiaobao from Yulang International to jump ship, and he was well-informed at Yulang International, and reported: "The sales of "Chinese Heroes" are more than 40,000 copies, and the sales of "Dragon Tiger Gate" are close to 40,000. ”

Ten years ago, "Dragon Tiger Gate" sold 100,000 copies, and "Bruce Lee" sold 80,000 copies. It's a pity that after the Hong Kong government investigated and purged the comic industry, Hong Kong comics slumped, and sales were directly reduced by half, plus the daily comics eroded the market little by little, and the sales of Hong Kong comics were even less.

The other comics were published in the pictorial, only the three series of comics "Chinese Hero", "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee" were the most famous, and they were published independently from the doll newspaper and sold in the form of a 34-page full-color weekly magazine each, priced at 8 yuan each (at this time, the uniform price of Hong Kong newspapers was 1 yuan).

"Bruce Lee" is Shangguan Xiaobao's masterpiece, and it is also the signboard of the 82 Painting Society, and the sales are getting lower and lower, which really gives Shangguan Xiaobao a headache.

But no matter how much headache it is, you have to make up the comics, otherwise it will be a problem to eat, Shangguan Xiaobao plunged into the studio.

A few years ago, after Yulang International unified Hong Kong, Huang Yulang carried out an assembly line reform of the creation of comics. He set up printing, color separation, character planting, staple binding and other departments necessary for the publishing industry, and incorporated new printing machines and color separation machines to greatly improve the printing quality of comic books. In order to expand the company's production volume, Huang Yulang divided the manga production into various steps, such as starting the draft (drawing the composition), hooking the head (drawing the head of the character), barge (drawing the body of the character), and filling the head (only responsible for the hair of the character), each step of which was handled by a different artist.

Shangguan Xiaobao stayed in Yulang International for a few years, and learned this kind of assembly line well, although his 82 Painting Club is small, it is relatively formal in comic production.

Including Shangguan Xiaobao, there are a total of six people in the painting club, and they begin to create every day.

"Knock knock!"

"Come in!" Shangguan Xiaobao didn't raise his head, and the paintbrush in his hand never stopped.

The assistant said: "Boss, a Mr. Zeng called you and said that he was asking you to have dinner on behalf of Mr. Kang Jianfei. ”

Shangguan Xiaobao raised his head suddenly, thinking that his ears had heard it wrong, and asked in surprise, "Who did you say asked me to dinner?" ”

The assistant repeated: "Mr. Kang Jianfeikang, I will ask you to have dinner at Fulinmen at seven o'clock tomorrow night." ”

"What is Kang Jianfei looking for me?" Shangguan Xiaobao was confused, he didn't have anything to do with Kang Jianfei, and he really couldn't figure out why the other party was looking for him.

Could it be that DreamWorks wants to make a movie of the comic "Bruce Lee"?

Thinking of this, Shangguan Xiaobao couldn't wait to rush to Fulinmen Restaurant to wait early. (To be continued.)