Chapter 117: Blocking Order
The castle garden is five to six meters higher than the beach, the white steps extend upward, the flower beds on both sides are full of various flowers, and in the garden, An Yifei is like a paralyzed patient on the beach chair, talking to Wendy next to him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This year, the northern hemisphere suffered a cold snap, and even the temperature in Hong Kong dropped to about zero degrees, and New York was also very cold.
"Well, we are so short of money today, excluding what we have consumed, there are still just over $2 billion in Swiss banks. In the United States, with the success of several movies and the income from financial investment, it has once again accumulated to more than 300 million US dollars, but it is still far behind."
"Wendy, you can't count it like that, the oil fields in Venezuela have already taken a lot of money from our Swiss bank account for equipment, salaries, and those departments that need to be taken care of, etc., although the future benefits will be multiplied, but you also have to calculate our costs, right? Most of this money is brought by industries such as freshwater factories and films, and they continue to make money, even if we lose the local language, we can afford to lose."
"I know, Ann, but when I look at the iron ore mines in Australia, I think: this is a plate of loose sand, and with enough money in hand, it can be put together effortlessly."
"It's not just about consolidating iron ore, Wendy. We also need to build roads and ports, which will be a huge investment and we can't afford to play for the time being, so we'll have to wait."
By this time, it had already passed New Year's Day in 1983, so he smiled and continued, "In two years' time, there will be a very good opportunity, and then there will be a huge gold mine waiting for us to make money"
Wendy's eyes widened, "Wow, Ann, can you tell me what it is?" I'm really curious."
"Not for the time being, Wendy, well...... Hong Kong stock market will make waves again this year, you can let those who invest in finance intervene, just practice your hands"
"Because of that formal negotiation? Supposedly, there should have been a consensus in the earlier contact, so there would be no surprises, right? ”
"There will definitely be, such an opportunity will attract a lot of speculators, so let the financial investment group use a short and fast way to play, don't be trapped"
Knowing that it would never be possible to ask what that "opportunity" was two years later, Wendy got up and walked down the steps, and then suddenly said, "Ann, it's been a long time since I've drunk the safe potion you gave, I think last night's ...... Madness has impregnated me."
"Teng" sat up straight, An Yifei was indeed pleasantly surprised, these women seemed to have made an appointment to give birth to "little pigs" in the Year of the Pig in the lunar calendar, Zhao Yazhi will give birth in the first half of the year, and Ah Lian and Wendy, who have just been pregnant, will give birth in the second half of the year.
This piece of white sand beach is so comfortable that rolling on it has become popular all over the world, and the health care doctor in the castle strongly recommends doing more such activities, saying that the white sand can activate the blood veins, and the trace elements mixed in the sand can whiten the skin or something, which has intensified the enthusiasm of the women to continue to "roll".
Only An Yifei endured this cute exercise and stayed in the garden, and as the vacation time became longer, the phone calls became more numerous.
When Ah Zhi and Lin Qingxia are not there, Fang Xiaobing, who is becoming more and more capable, will take on the responsibility of managing the film company. The phone rang again from the tall girl.
"Excuse me, sir, to disturb your vacation. I have two things that you need to decide, one is that the mainland side asked for a joint venture to shoot a martial arts film, and sent a letter, how to reply to this? ”
An Yifei knew that due to the flapping of his butterfly wings, the movie "Shaolin Temple" did not appear again, and after a little consideration, he replied: "You told them that unless it is a film that promotes traditional Chinese culture, we will participate." As for those who sing the praises of foreign sects, we will not accompany them."
"Yes, sir, then I'll reply like this. Another thing...... the new director Wang Jiawei asked for 20 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot a film that he thought was perfect, and the company held two meetings to study it but failed to reach an agreement, so please decide"
"Let him die, isn't it just a literary film with some swinging shots and incomprehensible editing? Want to scam me out of my money? You, go to the next notice, dismiss him, and never hire him in the future"
After hanging up the phone, An Yifei was still there scolding, this is the director he hated the most in his previous life, not to mention the longest time and the most expensive movie to make, not to mention the things that are filmed, it is estimated that only people with "Wenqing" disease can understand it.
This phone call doesn't seem to be anything, but it shows that during the month that An Yifei's family has been on Stardust Island, some changes have occurred in Hong Kong film and television companies that he doesn't want to see, and some people have tried to put their hands in.
Therefore, he stood up with a "whew" and yelled: "Let's go back to Hong Kong", and then smiled "haha" and walked into the house with Li Hanfeng, who was sitting in the corner. Leave that white eye on the beach.
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"Ah Fei, I heard that it is so cold over there in Hong Kong, we discussed, don't go back for the time being, if you are worried about the career over there, you can go back first. We stayed until the end of February and went back."
Honggu and the others are now in love with Stardust Island, and they don't have to worry about reporters and fans here, they can do whatever they want, free and comfortable, so they are not very willing to go back, because now they must stay in the house of Tamsui Villa to avoid the cold, and they are not as comfortable as here.
"Okay, pay attention to yourselves, don't eat so much seafood, you didn't find out that you have gained weight, right?"
"Ah......", An Yifei's words are too lethal, which is equivalent to the "bad news" that a room of women is most afraid of, and they began to look in the mirror and find things to weigh. Even Li Hanfeng took out the small mirror in his bag with a nervous look on his face.
"I've really gained weight", it was Ah Zhi who screamed first, but everyone rolled their eyes, and Aunt Hong stepped forward to comfort, "No, Sister Zhi, this is a side effect of pregnancy"
Then, all the women "gritted their teeth" and looked at An Yifei who was secretly snickering, surrounded him, and started a revenge action together.
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When An Yifei returned to Hong Kong with Li Hanfeng, it was the end of January 1983. The cold snap has passed, and the temperature on Hong Kong Island has stabilized at around 10 degrees, which is refreshing and comfortable.
On the third day after returning, on the floor where the Phoenix Building Film Company was located
An Yifei frowned and listened to the returns from all sides, relatively speaking, the TV station is the most stable, Liang Shuyi is very dedicated and diligent, and will take care of the top and bottom in an orderly manner.
The main problem still appeared in the film company, Xu Ke and some of his subordinates switched to the newly established "Garbo" film company, which caused a period of instability within the film company.
Waiting for Fang Xiaobing to finish reporting on the film company, An Yifei calmly ordered a cigar, "Let's go, come and go freely, don't worry about this, I have already written the new script, this movie will be filmed in the United States, let Wu Yusheng come from the director's side."
"Okay, sir, I have notified the theater chain to prohibit the release of Garbo films, do you want to continue in the future?"
"Of course I want to continue, my good vacation plan was disrupted by them, and I can't compensate for it? In the future, their company's films will not appear on the Academy Awards list, and they will be completely banned"
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This is the first time An Yifei has issued a film and television ban order, no one dares to underestimate this verbal instruction, Phoenix Media can now be said to occupy most of Hong Kong's cinema chains, and the suburban cinemas that seemed to be built indiscriminately in the early years are now connected with the development of Hong Kong government's infrastructure.
After counting these new movie theaters, Phoenix Film and Television occupies more than 80% of the theater share on Hong Kong Island. The rest of Golden Harvest is about to collapse because of the blockbuster movies of Phoenix Film and Television that have never been staged on their side, and there are backward seats, services, etc., An Yifei is waiting for this apple to fall in the name of Blackstone Investment in the United States, waiting for the day when Hong Kong cinemas will be unified.
Holding the cinema chain is equivalent to sniping the film company's film release channels, and the Golden Harvest Cinema Line, which only accounts for less than 20% of the market share, cannot be satisfied at the box office, due to the lack of renovation funds, Golden Harvest even those cinemas continue to use old-fashioned projectors and curtains, almost lagging behind the Phoenix Cinema Line for a whole era, and the movies shown are almost unpopular.
At the same time, the possibility of participating in the Academy Awards is also blocked, although in the Academy Awards jury, Hong Gu only hung a private name, but the couple can be said to be the largest funders of this award, and more than half of the funds come from An Yifei's "fundraising", so offending him is equivalent to offending the Academy Awards jury.
Although An Yifei couldn't do it himself, Ah Hu and others could do it, and Hong Kong Blackwater Security assisted the media company to recover the low-rent or zero-rent houses that had been allocated to those people earlier on the grounds of voluntary resignation. This made many people who followed Huck leave regret that their bowels were blue, and some people left to try their luck in the United States, only to find that they were still so unlucky, and they couldn't get out of Hollywood, where DreamWorks was in full swing.
The South Vietnamese immigrants who left the Phoenix Film Company continued to suffer, and some of them went to the South Vietnamese gang who had returned to Hong Kong Island for help, only to be beaten and thrown to a prominent exhibition in the downtown area, as if the gang leader was asking for credit.
An Yifei didn't care about this, as the Spring Festival in 1983 was getting closer and closer, many things needed to be solved by him one by one, and the chaos caused by individual people in the film company was just a small wave for him.