The agreement, known as the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, has been in force for seven years since CEPA, which is a strong complement to Chinese mainland's support for Hong Kong's development and has maintained Hong Kong's prosperity after the handover. @.23wx. Of course, such an agreement is not a one-sided blood transfusion.

With CEPA and the 10-point supplementary agreement, Hong Kong has indeed relied on the mainland's economic delivery to maintain its economy, and the rich continue to be rich, while the poor continue to be poor.

It's just that Hong Kong filmmakers originally thought that Hong Kong films could rise again with the help of CEPA, but this situation did not appear. Both directors and actors have gone north to dig for money, and co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong have replaced the Hong Kong films of the past. This group of talented and experienced Hong Kong filmmakers has led to the development of mainland films, and at the same time accelerated the decline of the Hong Kong film industry.

Hong Kong films are dead, it goes without saying.

On the contrary, more and more mainland domestic films have begun to quietly open the door to the Hong Kong film market. The Hong Kong film market is very small, especially as the domestic box office becomes more and more rebellious, it is even more shabby. Domestic filmmakers are actually not very interested in the Hong Kong market, they are too small, and the ambition of domestic filmmakers is the sea of stars, oh no, that is the ambition of Koreans.

The ambition of domestic filmmakers is to catch up with Hollywood, dominate the world, and realize the comprehensive export of the culture of a great country!

But mosquitoes are also meat on their legs, and it seems that it is very far away to dominate the world, and it is always good to hold the Hong Kong film market and take two bites.

So this time, "Chinese Partner" was released in Hong Kong, and Bai Yuhan came.

This is not his first film to be released in Hong Kong. The previous "33 Days of Broken Love" was also released in Hong Kong, but because of the delay of about three months, Blu-ray discs and pirated discs were flooded. In the end, it was only a two-week period of small-scale release, with 1.16 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week, 790,000 Hong Kong dollars in the second week, and a total box office of 1.94 million Hong Kong dollars, almost close to zero.

In fact, this is also related to the growing political differences between the mainland and Hong Kong in recent years. Mainland films will also be labeled as inferior. It's not uncommon to not get the box office, but you always have to try, and it doesn't cost a lot of money to copy.

Assimilate the market first. This is not only a long-term plan, but also a political imperative.

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has also been promoting some excellent domestic films to be released in Hong Kong. "Chinese Partner" is a movie with a main theme. In the mainland, word of mouth and box office have been bumper. It can be said that it is a rare excellent domestic film in recent years, and it is perfect as a tool for cultural output.

The premiere was full of famous directors from all sides, and it could not be said that it was unsuccessful.

After Bai Yuhan finished the work he had to do, he took Lu Zhengyu to Stephen Chow's house as a guest. Goodbye Stephen Chow, Bai Yuhan felt that Stephen Chow seemed to be aging a little more. Maybe it was last year, in the midst of a public opinion war. It's always uncomfortable to be affected and be called ungrateful.

Perhaps it was the failure of "Yangtze River No. 7" that caused some blows to Stephen Chow.

Or maybe when he first met Stephen Chow, he had the intention of seeing an idol, but this time, he let go of the illusion of an idol and chatted with an equal identity, and even vaguely surpassed Stephen Chow in terms of identity.

Just yesterday, on May 27, Stephen Chow's Ditong International officially changed its name to Bigao Group, and its main business is to produce movies and develop cinema lines in second- and third-tier cities in the mainland.

Although Bigao Group is a listed company, its market value is not high, only more than 700 million Hong Kong dollars. It is much worse than being Wanhe Tianyi, and now Wanhe Tianyi is not ready to go public, and industry insiders have estimated that the market value of Wanhe Tianyi, which builds a pan-entertainment industry chain, will not be less than 5 billion after listing. Not to mention Bai Yuhan's other company, Interactive Star.

With station b, Weibo and micro. Once Interactive Star is listed, I dare not say that compared with the Internet giant with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, it is at least a few billion dollars, and tens of billions of dollars is not impossible.

Than assets, than the high group is completely defeated.

What's more, many of the businesses of Bigao Group are cooperating with Wanhe Tianyi, such as film production, TV series production, and printing business, which is equivalent to the downstream supplier of Wanhe Tianyi. Obviously, the downstream suppliers of Wanhe Tianyi are not only one of the Gao Group, the competition is fierce, and the Bigao Group spends a lot of money every year to public relations Wanhe Tianyi and undertake business.

In this era, a rich man is an uncle.

Bai Yuhan is rich, so it doesn't matter if he has little qualifications, his status is already an uncle.

Even in terms of mentality, Bai Yuhan is very arrogant and positions himself as an uncle. Fortunately, he always remembered that all his achievements were just a coincidence of hanging, not that he really had such a great ability. Therefore, he can still maintain his own heart, be a harmless person to the society, and accumulate some yin virtue.

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"Master Xing, I think Sun Wukong should find a short actor to play, there is no need to imitate Liuxiaolingtong or Supreme Treasure, we should shoot Sun Wukong more unruly, dare to call the Buddha as a leader, even if he is pressed under the Five Finger Mountain, he can't bend his backbone!" Facing the idol, Lu Zhengyu gushed endlessly about how he created the script.

"The Legend of Demon Fighting" is one of the first five film collaborations signed with Huayi Brothers and Wanhe Tianyi after the listing of Bigao Group.

As we all know, Stephen Chow has been far more interested in business than making movies over the years, and I don't know whether to cherish feathers or can't put down the shelf, so he rarely acts anymore, and he doesn't plan to direct anything. Originally, Bigao Group's plan was to invest in other directors to start filming "The King of Comedy 2".

But then it changed again, because Stephen Chow watched "The Legend of Wukong" and was going to make a movie about Journey to the West, so there was a project of "Legend of Demon Extermination". Bai Yuhan is the editor-in-chief of Wanhe Tianyi, so he naturally received the outline of "The Legend of Demon Extermination", there was no script at that time, and Stephen Chow wanted to find a new director to cooperate.

thought that Lu Zhengyu had always been eager to make a movie, so Bai Yuhan recommended Lu Zhengyu to Stephen Chow.

Stephen Chow wants to meet Lu Zhengyu in person.

Bai Yuhan took the opportunity of holding the premiere in Hong Kong to personally bring Lu Zhengyu to Stephen Chow's house as a guest.

After meeting, Stephen Chow and Lu Zhengyu had a good chat, and with Bai Yuhan's threading of the needle, it was finalized in half a day. Lu Zhengyu served as the director of "The Legend of Demon Fighting", but for the sake of publicity, it was originally set, and the film director was hung on Stephen Chow's head.

Bai Yuhan is still the nominal producer.

After it was confirmed, "Legend of Demon Slayer" officially entered the stage of writing the script and began to prepare.

In the evening, Zhou's mother cooked a dinner herself, and after eating, Bai Yuhan and Lu Zhengyu said goodbye and left. Sitting in the car back to the hotel, Bai Yuhan and Lu Zhengyu chatted.

"Zhengyu, first of all, congratulations, you finally worked with idols and became a film director."

With the polishing of the past few years, Lu Zhengyu is no longer the chubby man with a traitor's head, he has lost weight, cut his hair, and raised an artistic atmosphere, but he is also a lot more handsome: "I'm really excited today, I have sent many DVDs before, and I sent my works to Xing Ye to see, but I didn't receive a reply, I didn't expect to meet and talk this time, and I agreed to let me be the director!" ”

"Your creativity and ideas have impressed Master Xing."

"There is also your recommendation as a swordsman, without your recommendation, Master Xing may not be able to take a fancy to me. Thanks, swordsman. Lu Zhengyu solemnly thanked.

Bai Yuhan was speechless: "How do you want me to answer, you're welcome?" When did you kid become so polite. ”

"Isn't it a little exciting to be able to do it yourself."

"Don't be happy too early, I don't know Stephen Chow well, I don't have a personal relationship, it's just some business communication. Didn't the news say that Stephen Chow is a little mean, I don't know if it's true or not, but you have to be mentally prepared. The actors and directors who worked with him had a lot of falling out. ”

"I know that I'm going to put the shelf down and try to make it so hard that no matter what he says, I'm going to focus on making movies."

"There's no need to be so low, you are the director recommended by Wanhe Tianyi, you have the right to speak in "The Legend of Demon Extermination", Wang Zhonglei and I are both named producers, we will definitely support you. Moreover, now it's just a rumor, saying that Stephen Chow is mean, in fact, I personally feel that he is a very simple person, and he may have some disregard for other people's ideas, but his character can't be said to be bad, at least he won't play intrigue with you. ”

"Hmm." Lu Zhengyu nodded.

"Also, if you become a director this time, don't worry about not giving you a signature, if the movie is made, your credit will not be less, there are many film projects in Wanhetianyi, don't be afraid that you won't have the opportunity to pick up the banner alone. You just study with Xing Ye seriously, he is a master of comedy, learn from him, you will definitely learn a lot of useful things. If I didn't have to put it down, I would have liked to learn how to make comedy from Xingye. ”

"Swordsman, with your talent, do you still need to learn?" Lu Zhengyu was a lot more relaxed.

In order to publicize that he couldn't sign his name, he understood that he was not famous enough, so he had to use Stephen Chow's name. But it's really hard to be calm in my heart, after all, the success or failure of this movie seems to have nothing to do with him. With Bai Yuhan's promise of his next movie, Lu Zhengyu felt at ease and took "The Legend of Demon Extermination" as a touchstone to test himself.

If this film is not filmed well, there is no face to pick a big flag.

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After staying in Hong Kong for four days and attending some meetings, Bai Yuhan left Hong Kong.

When I left, I was a little unhappy.

Because, "Chinese Partner" only got 1.55 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong for three days over the weekend, ranking fifth in the weekly box office list. Compared with the mainland's 153 million yuan in the second week, which is still so strong, Hong Kong audiences obviously don't give face. (To be continued......)