Chapter 568: Who's Next? [1st Update]
"Deng Guangrong, the owner of Yingzhijie Film Company, was sent to the hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning, and friends in the circle went to visit, Liu Zhenwei and Wang Jiawei appeared in the hospital at noon, suspected of having a verbal dispute with Deng Guangrong's family, and Wang Jiawei left alone afterwards, and Liu Zhenwei was allowed to enter the ward to visit."
The news about Deng Guangrong's hospitalization is being broadcast on TV, the release of "The True Story of A Fei" was hyped by the media as a major event in the film industry, it has only been a week, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, most of the audience entered the theater just for fun, Wang Jia made a police film into a "footless bird" story, the audience naturally did not buy it, and the result of voting with their feet was that the film was released for a week, and the box office on the day had fallen to less than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, if it were not for the fact that the film was released for only a week, Investor Deng Guangrong was hospitalized because of this incident, and according to the regulations, Jiayi Cinema should force the film to be drawn.
Lin Youlun spoke, Jiayi Cinema made an exception to let "The True Story of A Fei" be released for another week, but the scale of the screening has been reduced to one-third of the original, Rao is so, the box office of "The True Story of A Fei" can exceed 10 million, it is already blessed by the gods.
For a star-studded movie with an investment of 40 million, such box office results are completely lost, and the film was released in Hong Kong coldly, and the sales port was also greatly affected.
Overseas filmmakers who originally dared to offer high prices just by looking at the cast became cautious this time, but "The True Story of A Fei" ended up being uncared for.
This news is undoubtedly worse for Deng Guangrong who is lying on the hospital bed, no wonder in the TV news, Deng Guangrong's wife scolded Wang Jiawei for being a liar when interviewed by reporters. and blamed Wang Jiawei for the bankruptcy and bankruptcy of the "Shadow Jie" film company.
"This Wang Jiawei. Now the reputation of the son is completely ruined. β
Lizhi walked into the living room with a favorite fruit on the side. Sitting next to Lin Youlun, his white tender fingers with bright red nail polish picked a grape, peeled it, and handed it to Lin Youlun's mouth.
Wang Jiawei's ability to fool people to invest in him is absolutely first-class in Hong Kong, so Lin Youlun is not worried that this guy can't find a home, although "The True Story of A Fei" is not recognized by the audience, many film critics have given high praise to this film, and wait for next year's Academy Awards. It is estimated that there will be people waving checks to find Wang Jiawei to film.
Lin Youlun ate the grapes and grabbed Lizhi's hand at the same time.
"After going to the mainland for so long, do you miss me?"
Li Zhijiao glared at Lin Youlun with disgust, and she was not in a hurry to withdraw her hand, so she let Lin Youlun hold it.
"Then you think I don't?" Lizhi was furious with her delicate red lips.
"What do you say?" Lin Youlun couldn't wait to reach into Lizhi's neckline with one hand, but was held down by Lizhi.
Lin Youlun reached out and pinched Lizhi's face, "Of course, I miss you to death!" β
"I know that I am not in Hong Kong, and you happen to be happy with other women. Will that remember me? Li Zhi looked at Lin Youlun with a faint gaze, but a coquettish smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. but exposed her true thoughts in her heart.
"Do you want to, you'll know soon!" Lin Youlun smiled mysteriously.
Before Li Zhi could react, he felt his body rise into the air, and then the sky spun around, and he subconsciously exclaimed, "Villain, what do you want to do?" β
"I heard you got a new bed, let's go check it out."
Lin Youlun picked up Lizhi horizontally and strode towards the bedroom.
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The refund turmoil caused by "The True Story of A Fei" finally ended with Deng Guangrong being hospitalized and the bankruptcy of the "Ying Zhijie" film company, and many people in the Hong Kong film industry are paying attention to this matter, and Lin Jianyue is one of them.
At the beginning, there was a refund turmoil, Lin Jianyue thought that this matter could cause some trouble to Lin Youlun, but he didn't expect it to be settled so easily, and Lin Jianyue's plan to make trouble on the board of directors also failed.
The 20% discount coupon is ostensibly a concession to the audience who asks for a refund, but in fact it is an ingenious strategy to turn the crisis into marketing.
Some people may not have any plans to enter the cinema again in the near future, but because of this coupon, there will definitely be another movie consumption, no matter which movie is used for it, as long as it can increase box office revenue, it will only be good for Jiayi Cinema Line.
Although it was a pity that he couldn't use this to attack Lin Youlun, Lin Jianyue was seriously considering another thing at this time.
"You mean, I should go and recruit Wang Jiawei at this time?"
Huang Baiming nodded affirmatively, of course he didn't want Lin Jianyue to be a "big wrongdoer" like Deng Guangrong.
"Wang Jiawei is down at this time, if Lin Shao can reach out and pull him, he will definitely be grateful to you."
Lin Jianyue was noncommittal, and Huang Baiming continued.
"In the eyes of others, Wang Jiawei may be a money-loser, but for Lin Shao, he still has some use, he can't make movies to make money, but he is still very talented in winning awards."
When Huang Baiming said this, Lin Jianyue probably understood what he meant, with a series of movies such as "Family Carnival", "Zhuxian's Qingyun Tribulation", and "Three Heroes of the East", Media Asia Film Company has gained a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film industry.
Although "The True Story of A Fei" failed at the box office, its reputation among professional film critics is very good, Deng Guangrong can't afford this loss because he invested most of his body in this movie, and the honor won by "The True Story of A Fei" is not of much use to Deng Guangrong, who just wants to be a film businessman.
If Lin Jianyue came to invest in this movie, the situation would be different.
Lin Jianyue can even afford the loss of a big-budget movie like "Zhu Xian: Qingyun Tribulation", and spending tens of millions of dollars to make a movie that is only used to win awards is basically no pressure on Lin Jianyue.
Feeling that Lin Jianyue was still a little hesitant, Huang Baiming added another chip to his words.
"Lin Shao, don't forget, Wang Jiawei also has a good friend named Liu Zhenwei...... Winning over Wang Jiawei is equivalent to pulling Liu Zhenwei to our side. β
Lin Jianyue's eyes lit up, although Wang Jiawei could win the award, it was still a dispensable existence for Media Asia, but Liu Zhenwei was different.
Compared with Wang Jiawei, investors prefer to find Liu Zhenwei to film, because this person is very reliable.
Many of the footage films piled up by "The True Story of A Fei" with time, money, and manpower are not presented in the most popular films, not to mention the bridges that only exist in the conception before and after the filming of the film, and many of these unused bridges were all thought up by Liu Zhenwei. Liu Zhenwei, who was born in finance, really couldn't see Wang Jiawei wasting his creativity like this, so he took one of the ideas and asked Liu Dehua to shoot "Forever", which can be regarded as a compensation for Liu Dehua, who was killed by Wang Jiawei.
When there was no shadow of "Forever", Wang Jiawei was filming "The True Story of A Fei", and when "Forever and Forever" was filmed and released, Wang Jiawei was still filming "The True Story of A Fei".
"Forever" collected more than 18 million at the box office, almost twice as much as "The True Story of A Fei".
Strange to say, these two seemingly opposite people are good friends, and they have a very iron relationship.
Wang Jiawei was able to get the opportunity to direct the movie, which was the result of Liu Zhenwei patting his chest and guaranteeing the boss of the film company.
Lin Jianyue and Huang Baiming were originally discussing Wang Jiawei's matter, but the topic somehow shifted to Liu Zhenwei.
There are many directors in Hong Kong who can help film companies make money like Liu Zhenwei, and Lin Jianyue has a high look at Liu Zhenwei, and another important reason is because of "Da Lang Laughing at the Immortals".
Liu Zhenwei filmed "Da Lu Laughing at Zhu Xian", and "Zhu Xian: Qingyun Tribulation" used the same cast, time and money only used N/1 of "Zhu Xian's Qingyun Tribulation", the film collected 40 million box office in Hong Kong, if it is calculated according to the ticket price of the blockbuster, the box office can completely explode "Zhu Xian's Qingyun Tribulation".
After filming this movie, Liu Zhenwei has an extra nickname of "nerve knife" in the Hong Kong film industry, if Liu Zhenwei can be brought over, Lin Jianyue will have an extra miracle soldier in his hands, he can usually make various movies to support the faΓ§ade, and he can also have a surprising performance at critical moments.
Liu Zhenwei and Wang Jiawei are both working in Deng Guangrong's "Shadow Jie" film company, and now that "Shadow Jie" has gone out of business, Liu Zhenwei and Wang Jiawei have nowhere to go for the time being, and it is a good time to win over.
Of course, Lin Jianyue knew very well in his heart that Liu Zhenwei was not so easy to woo.
Liu Zhenwei is no better than Wang Jiawei, and now there are many people who are willing to find him to make movies, and Liu Zhenwei and Lin Youlun are very close, and it does take a lot of effort to win him over.
Huang Baiming's proposal to win over Liu Zhenwei through Wang Jiawei really made Lin Jianyue very excited, but whether this could be successful or not, Lin Jianyue was a little unsure in his heart.
"If Lin Shao is not at ease, he can make it clear to Wang Jiawei that it is okay to support him to make a movie, but the condition is that he wants to find Liu Zhenwei to come over and help Huanya make a movie." Huang Baiming gave Lin Jianyue another idea.
"Isn't that too obvious?" Lin Jianyue was worried that he would push Wang Jiawei too quickly, but it would have a bad effect.
"Now the whole of Hong Kong is willing to invest in Wang Jiawei's films, who else will there be besides Lin Shao?" Huang Baiming was determined that Wang Jiawei could not find investment now, so he dared to put forward such a binding condition, and with the relationship between Liu Zhenwei and Wang Jiawei, Liu Zhenwei would definitely help Wang Jiawei.
As long as there is a beginning of cooperation, it will be much easier to win over Liu Zhenwei later. (To be continued......)