Golden Harvest studio, in a large testing room.

Listening to the noisy noise in the test room, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but rub his eyebrows upset. At this time, Jiahe's second-in-command, He Yichang, came over and asked in a low voice, "Wenhuai, can you start?" ”

Zou Wenhuai let go of his fingers and nodded lightly in response: "Let's start." ”

"Hmm!"

He Yichang responded lightly, then stood up straight and clapped his hands and called: "Bosses and producers, everyone is quiet, we are ready to start the trial." ”

When everyone in the test room heard this, they instantly fell silent. He Yichang nodded with satisfaction, then looked at the projection hole behind the test room and waved his hand. In an instant, the test room became dim, and a beam of light hit the big screen in front of him, and He Yichang immediately sat down.

A picture gradually appeared on the big screen, which was an ancient city gate tower with people coming and going, and then the two big characters 'yin' were typed on the screen. Zou Wenhuai frowned slightly when he looked at the picture of the movie, and then opened a stack of information reports in his hand by the bright light of the screen.

""Jealousy", the Shaw Brothers Father and Son Company ......" Zou Wenhuai paused slightly, since it is a movie produced by one of the shareholders of Golden Harvest, let's take a look at it again.

However, in the next ten minutes, Zou Wenhuai became more and more disappointed with this movie. The movie "Jealousy" is a movie that combines kung fu films in the early Republic of China, psychedelic kung fu films and ghost films, not only the fights are not as exciting as Chenglong's kung fu films in the early Republic of China, but the fantasy is not as good as Sammo Hung's zombie series, and even the ghosts in it are extremely rough. For such a film, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to preserve the capital, but if you want to work against the new art city in the Christmas file, it is estimated that you will die a miserable death.

"Stop, stop! Projectionist, ready to put down a movie. ”

Zou Wenhuai unceremoniously interrupted the screening of "Jealousy", without paying any attention to the face of the production manager of the Shaw Brothers father and son in the back row. There are eleven movies to watch at today's Jiahe Concubine Selection Conference, and Zou Wenhuai is not interested in seeing them from beginning to end. And why did Zou Wenhuai take into account the faces of the Shaw brothers and sons, the day before yesterday, his confidante Liu Lianghua wanted to put a movie she supervised on the Christmas file, but Zou Wenhuai didn't agree.

If a person mixes to the level of Zou Wenhuai in the film and television industry, face is the most important thing at that time, and even before profit.

Less than three minutes later, the screen came back on, but it was the next movie that was about to begin. However, the boring subtitles at the beginning of the movie, which were close to two minutes, lowered Zou Wenhuai's expectations for this movie by more than half.

"Cold-Blooded Red Fan", produced by Mingcai Film Company. Hey, it's a new little company! “

Zou Wenhuai looked at the information sheet and sighed slightly, this year, with the popularity of the Hong Kong film market, more and more funds began to pour into this industry, and many small film companies that I don't know about have opened. For example, at today's test film meeting, he had never heard of film companies such as Mingcai, King Kong, and Jianlong. And now that I heard about Jiahe's selection of concubines, these companies are all rushing over.

It's a pity that the quality of these movies they make is not good.

Zou Wenhuai explained loudly and showed the next movie, and then ignored the reactions of others, quietly closed his eyes and leaned back on the back of the chair. It's funny to say, in the Christmas file of 1981, Golden Harvest, as the leader of the Hong Kong film industry, didn't have any heavyweight films that could be handled, and he had to rely on these peripheral companies to help him.

And there are three main reasons for this:

First, Chenglong's injury disrupted all of Golden Harvest's plans, resulting in Golden Harvest making it too late to remake a film for Christmas.

The second is the establishment and rise of Golden Princess, which has robbed a large number of talents under Golden Harvest, and many satellite companies that originally only had a loose contractual relationship with Golden Harvest have switched to Golden Princess's banner, resulting in a reduction of more than half of Golden Harvest's high-quality film sources.

The third is that Golden Harvest's investment in Hollywood this year has taken up most of the company's funds, resulting in the main company of Golden Harvest in Hong Kong not having much money to use.

In the past two years, the Golden Harvest Film Division in the United States has only shot two movies, "Killer Trench" and "Cannonball Speed". But its investment in the American film market adds up to nearly 20 films. Some of these movies make money and some lose money, but on the whole, they still make some.

But making movies is an industry that is super slow to return funds, just shooting and post-production generally takes about three months, and then waiting for the theater schedule for a month, and if the release situation is good, the film will be scheduled for a month, and finally the film is in the outside world, and it will take another month for the conversion and withdrawal of funds. After such a toss, it will take about half a year or so for film companies that invest in foreign films to see the money back.

So although "Cannonball Speed" sold $70 million in North America during the summer vacation, Golden Harvest's share of the box office only arrived three months ago. And because of the great success of "Cannonball Speed" in North America, Zou Wenhuai has invested in several Hollywood movies one after another.

As a result, Zou Wenhuai made it so that Golden Harvest's main company had no money to make big-budget movies in Hong Kong in the second half of the year, and the upfront investment of Chenglong's new film "Weilong Police Detective" was still the spare money that Golden Harvest only had after "Police Story" sold well in Hong Kong.

At this moment, Zou Wenhuai deeply felt that his decision was wrong!

Zou Wenhuai closed his eyes for a moment, and when he heard that there was movement in the test room again, he opened his eyes and looked at the big screen. Then he saw a bus covered in metal wires on the big screen parked alone in an open field, and the periphery of the open space was full of all kinds of police cars. A woman and several children tied to the bus were crying for help, and many police officers were anxiously looking inside the bus next to the police car. As a police car drove into the frame quickly, Ren Dahua walked out of the car.

At the beginning of the movie, it is explained that a group of inexplicable bandits kidnapped a teacher and several students in order to force the black man to appear in Hong Kong, and then installed a high-intensity time bomb on the bus.

The tense and exciting beginning immediately attracted the audience in the whole test room.

"I said, I didn't know where the Black Man was, he had already left Hong Kong. Don't do it to children, tell me if the bomb is a red line or a blue line? Ren Dahua, who was wearing an explosion-proof suit, was just lying under the car with his companions preparing to defuse the bomb when they received a call from the bandits to the public telephone booth next to the open space.

"Hmph, don't do anything to children...... the mysterious voice on the other end of the phone snorted coldly, and said slowly: "Those of you who are in the bright world will not know what we have experienced since childhood. Let me ask again, where the hell is the Black Man? ”

Ren Dahua slammed the public phone booth and replied: "I said that he had already left Hong Kong, and time was running out." Ask for ......, hey? Feed? Feed? ”

Hanging up the phone that had been busy continuously, Ren Dahua kicked the public phone booth hard.

"Captain, there's no time, is it to cut the blue line or the red line?" The blast guards, who were still lying under the bus, shouted.

Ren Dahua looked at his watch sharply and found that there were only eight seconds left before the bomb exploded, and after a trance, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Red line!" ”

The team members under the car heard the captain's voice, and with trembling hands, they stretched the pliers to the red line.

"Click!"

The red line was cut, and the number on the time bomb jumped to '1' and stopped moving. Watching the bomb be disarmed, the audience took a deep breath and finally put down the hanging heart.

It's just that just when the hearts of the people outside the movie or in the movie are relaxed, the '1' on the time bomb suddenly jumps to '0'.

"Bang-"

There was a loud bang, and the entire bus was blown in two by the stunned gazes of the spectators and the police on the screen, and then engulfed in flames.

"Hit the streets!"

"Something."

"Damn, this director is amazing!"

“……”

At this time, the bosses and producers of various film companies, who have always been quiet and self-assured, also scolded like ordinary fans. Even Zou Wenhuai and He Yichang quietly glanced at each other, and their eyes were also full of surprise and surprise.

"This is Ah Xuan's "Black Man 2"?" Zou Wenhuai asked a very stupid question, but he immediately reacted and asked, "By the way, Ah Xuan doesn't seem to have come over today?" ”

"Uh-huh!" He Yichang nodded and continued to answer: "He is still in the later stage of "Lucky Star Gaozhao", but the director of "Black Man 2" Jin Zai is here. ”

"Jin Zai, this guy is really blue and even more blue!" Zou Wenhuai looked at Wang Jin, who was sitting in the back seat with a smug face, and sighed, then pointed to the fire still burning on the screen and the opening credits of the movie and continued: "This kid is playing bigger and bigger, I didn't know he would play with the bomb trick." ”

Of course Zou Wenhuai didn't know that it was not Wang Jin who liked to play with bombs, but Lin Linggu, and this guy played with bombs and asked Li Xuan to spend an extra million to wipe his ass.

At the moment, though, it looks like it's working pretty well!

For the next nearly an hour, the test room was showing this "Black Man 2". The criminal's extreme ferocity in order to force the black man to come out, the funny humor of the black man and the hostess, and Ren Dahua's painful entanglement as a police officer who saw the crime happening but couldn't do anything about it all deeply attracted the audience present and let them follow the plot.

"Stop, turn on the lights!"

Before the movie was over, Zou Wenhuai issued this order under everyone's puzzled eyes. The test room immediately lit up, Zou Wenhuai stood up and turned around to look around at the 'audience' present, and then said loudly: "Who thinks their company's movies are better than this "Black Man 2", please raise your hand!" I'm too lazy to read them one by one. ”

“……”

For half a minute, the entire testing room was silent.

"Not bad!" Zou Wenhuai nodded with satisfaction, looked at everyone and said, "Then the bosses or producers of other film companies, please come back, we will arrange for everyone's movies to be released one after another after the year." But Mr. Wang Jin, please stay, let's discuss the specific matters of the release of this movie at Christmas, and now everyone will adjourn. ”

“……”

However, Zou Wenhuai, who announced the adjournment of the meeting, found that no one left the scene.

Are these people trying to rebel together? Zou Wenhuai frowned slightly, and then asked in a loud voice, "Is there anything else you have to do?" ”

The current audience hesitated, I look at you and you look at him. After half a ring, a film company producer raised his hand and replied, "That, Mr. Zou, can you let us finish watching the movie we just finished before leaving?" ”

"......" (To be continued.) )