"Premiere?"

Zou Wenhuai threw a red invitation card on the desk, and said rather depressedly: "What the hell is this Li Xuan doing?" ”

"Haha, don't be angry." Sitting opposite Zou Wenhuai, He Yichang laughed loudly and said playfully: "This time it's not just us Jiahe, I heard that Lei Juekun of the Golden Princess and Jiang Zhiwen of An Le have received invitations." ”

Although He Yichang is persuading, how can Zou Wenhuai not be angry?

Originally, Li Xuan and Shaw Brothers' cooperation in filming this time gave him a sense of crisis, although Golden Harvest's box office elixir Xu Xiwen came up with a "Modern Bodyguard", but Zou Wenhuai still felt unsafe. Then he suddenly thought of the big hit "Mr. Zombie" in Taiwan during the Spring Festival last year, and under the collision of inspiration, he suddenly came up with a good idea for a Hong Kong and Taiwan co-screening.

But he just announced the Hong Kong and Taiwan co-screening of "Modern Bodyguard" here, and over there, Shaw Brothers announced that Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia will jointly screen "Smiling Proud Jianghu"!

Shameless! Shao Laoliu, that old fox, isn't this **naked plagiarism of his creativity?

As a result, in a moment, the attention of Hong Kong and Taiwan media all shifted to "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and even many Southeast Asian media also came to visit. You must know that the influence of Lin Qingxia, the goddess of literary films, in Southeast Asia is not blown, and this time Lin Qingxia changed to a martial arts film, the media and the audience are very curious about how she will perform.

Now Li Xuan doesn't have to worry about the publicity of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", hundreds of media in half of Asia will automatically promote him, which saves him a lot of money.

Zou Wenhuai rubbed his eyebrows and asked uneasily: "Have you asked Ah Sam, how was the filming of "Smiling Proud Jianghu"?" ”

"Gree......" He Yichang hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly: "Ah Sam can't say more because he signed a confidentiality contract. But he said, he said, ......"

"What did he say?"

He Yichang gritted his teeth and replied casually: "He said that after watching "Smiling Proud Jianghu", he felt tasteless and difficult to swallow when he watched other martial arts films. ”

“……”

There was silence in the office for a while, but the two bigwigs of Golden Harvest fell into deep thought at the same time.

Martial arts has always been a long-standing theme in Hong Kong films, although in recent years, almost all of the top box office in Hong Kong have been comedy and kung fu films. But in terms of the overall box office of the whole year, martial arts movies are even better, so Zhang Ce and Chu Yuan can be so popular in Shaw Brothers. And now the movies made by Li Xuan, Jin Yong, Xu Yijie and Lin Qingxia have made a combination of big names, which casts a thick shadow on Zou Wenhuai's heart.

"The Great Enemy!" After a long time, Zou Wenhuai picked up the invitation again and muttered.

He Xichang also nodded approvingly, looked at the invitation card in Zou Wenhuai's hand and said, "Otherwise, Wenhuai, I will go over to attend their premiere this time, and by the way, explore the truth and reality." ”

"No need." Zou Wenhuai waved his left hand and said slowly: "I'll go in person, I haven't met Uncle Sixth for a long time, I have to go to meet his old man." ”

"Uh......" He Xichang was stunned for a moment, reacted and immediately asked: "If you go, isn't that promoting their movie?" ”

"Hmph, the three places are linked, is there still a lack of me, a person with stinky feet!" Zou Wenhuai replied coldly, then opened the drawer and put the invitation card in, and said casually: "Xichang, it's almost the New Year, call Ah Long back, he is probably not having a good time alone in the United States." ”

"Hmm."

He Yichang nodded and asked, "What about the business in the United States?" ”

Hearing the words of American business, Zou Wenhuai felt a headache again. Last year, Zou Wen entered Hollywood with confidence, and the first step was to spend a huge amount of money to co-produce "Killer Trench" with American film companies, and also sent his strong general Chenglong. But as a result, the film hit the streets not only in Hong Kong, but also in the world.

"Killer Trench" only received $8.5 million at the box office in the United States, $5.42 million in France, and 540 million yuan at the box office, and in West Germany, it only got $170,000 at the box office, and the global box office combined was just over $20 million.

$20 million is a lot, but don't forget, "Killer Trench" is a big movie with an investment of $10 million! It can be said that this time Jiahe bravely entered the international market is a loss to grandma's family......

"Leave America alone now!" Zou Wenhuai waved his hand and said: "If Ah Long doesn't come back, Hong Kong people will forget about him." ”

"Hey!" He Yichang sighed when he heard this, and said slowly: "Then let Ah Long come back, but will he still make comedy kung fu movies when he comes back?" ”

He Xichang's question was another question in Zou Wenhuai's heart.

In the past two years, new Hong Kong films have been released frequently, "Scary" and "Mr. Zombie" have brought fire to the psychedelic kung fu films, while "The King of Killers" and "Black Man" have set off a trend of fashion kung fu films, but the comedy kung fu films that were popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the early Republic of China have gradually become unpleasant. Even Chenglong's brother, Hong Jingbao, who is famous for his comedy kung fu films, also changed careers to study psychedelic kung fu films.

Now Zou Wenhuai is not sure how to arrange Chenglong.

………………

"Premiere?"

Lei Juekun glanced at the invitation card in his hand and threw it into the drawer casually. He's been in a good mood lately, and he must make up for this excitement.

"Ajia, this time your movie in Xinyicheng was very good, and it has greatly increased the face of our golden princess." Lei Juekun said with a smile to Mai Jia, the bald guy sitting opposite him.

This time, the new art city's entrepreneurial work "Funny Times" was a boom at the box office, and it got a box office of 5.18 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a rare good result since the opening of the Golden Princess, and Lei Juekun himself still has shares in the new art city, which is equivalent to him making money at both ends. However, for Lei Juekun, what is more important is that "Funny Times" has two million more box office than Shaw Brothers' "Evil Fighting Evil". Princess Jin was able to defeat the former leader of the Shaw Brothers in the Christmas stall, which made Lei Juekun quite proud.

"Hehe, thanks to Boss Lei's appreciation." Mai Jia thanked him casually, he probably guessed what the invitation in Lei Juekun's hand was just now, but it had nothing to do with him for the time being, so he touched his bald head, smacked his lips and continued: "But if "Funny Times" can be released in the New Year, it will be ......."

"Haha, Ajia, if "Funny Times" is released in the New Year, it is estimated that there will be no scum left." Lei Juekun laughed and interrupted Mai Jia's words.

Mai Jia groaned for a while, nodded helplessly and replied, "That's the same." ”

"So, ah......" Lei Juekun picked up a report on his desk and said: "When you first came to me with the two movies "Funny Times" and "Happy Fairy Nest", I only ranked the better "Funny Times" in the Christmas file, and the almost "Happy Fairy Nest" in the New Year's file. ”

"It's still Mr. Lei who sees it thoroughly!" Mai Jia complimented the big benefactor in front of him.

"Well, what I call it thoroughly, it's just self-knowledge." Lei Juekun put down the report in his hand: "But Ajia, do you know what I did when I came to you this time?" ”

"Uh......" Mai Jia shook her head honestly: "Mr. Lei, I don't know if I don't hide it." ”

Lei Juekun didn't speak this time, but pushed the report down in front of Mai Jia. Glancing at Lei Juekun suspiciously, Mai Jia picked up the report casually. He took a closer look, but found that this report was the movie project list for "Funny Times" and "Happy Fairy Nest".

"Ah Jia......" Lei Juekun's right hand was gently tapped on the desk, he looked at Mai Jia, who was still puzzled, and continued: "Don't you think that Xinyi City is still missing something?" ”

Mai Jia suddenly put down the report in her hand, and then said with a sad face: "Boss Lei, you're talking about the director, right?" ”

Although Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers secretly issued a "** order" to Princess Jin, prohibiting actors and directors from filming Princess Jin, this secret order is useless for many film companies. Among these film companies, the most interesting ones are Baoxiang and New Century.

Baoxiang is Hong Jingbao's wholly-owned film company, but Hong Jingbao and Zou Wenhuai's personal relationship is very good. For example, the movie "Happy Fairy Nest" released in the New Year file of the Golden Princess Cinema this time was directed by Xinyicheng looking for a noon code. As a veteran of the Hong family's class, Zou Wenhuai had no choice but to turn a blind eye and not be held accountable.

As for the new century, it is even funnier that this film company turned out to be Shao Yifu's industry. Of course, New Century does not belong to the Shaw Brothers, but to a subsidiary of TVB. This film company, which can't shoot two films a year, is now inviting Chu Yuan of the Shaw Brothers under the pseudonym Chu Wan to co-produce Gu Long's famous novel "Flying Knives and Flying Knives" with Princess Jin.

At this point, the "** order" issued by Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers has become a secret joke.

The two films started by Xinyicheng are also the works of outsiders. This kind of thing is a very dangerous thing for Lei Juekun, who intends to integrate production and distribution, so he had to talk to Mai Jia about it.

And Mai Jia was also worried at this time, he, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming were not director-type talents. And good directors are in demand in Hong Kong, and they are watched by various companies with great effort, and there is no way to poach people.

Now, where do they go to find a good director? (To be continued.) )