"Thank you for joining us for the 60th anniversary of Sing Tao Daily and the Hong Kong Film Awards. "Sing Tao Daily" has been established for 60 years now, and my father, Hu Wenhu, started by selling medicines, and has always kept in mind my grandfather, Mr. Hu Ziqin's motto of 'being a righteous person', and finally broke through this ......"

It's not so much a celebration banquet for the Academy Awards, but a celebration party for Sing Tao Daily. Chen Baisheng was still able to grasp the initiative of the Academy Awards when they were in the college hall, but at this banquet, it was the real home of "Sing Tao Daily".

However, Hu Xian is the owner of the money, and it is not up to her to decide how to get it. In addition, Sing Tao Daily is one of the top three best-selling newspapers in Hong Kong, and it is now much more influential than Movie Fortnightly.

Hu Xian was happy to say above, and Mai Jia also listened happily below. Although he was nominated for Best Actor for "Best Partner", it was a pity that he lost to Zhou Yunfa in the end. But he doesn't take these names very seriously, and he can afford to put them down.

Of course, if he is not famous, he also values money more.

In fact, the three bigwigs in Xinyicheng are all people who like to spend money, not only in movie shooting, but also in life. Mai Jia likes to buy luxury houses, Shi Tian likes to play golf, and Huang Baiming likes to travel everywhere. The money earned by Xinyicheng every time he sells movies, except for the funds left for the company's operation, is almost spent by them.

Every time Xinyicheng made a movie, he directly asked Lei Juekun for money, and in the end, he made half of the money. The money is just divided and spent, and earned while spent. Anyway, behind the new art city is Lei Juekun, the big financier. They are not short of money. Otherwise, almost all the movies in Xinyicheng have made money in recent years. But why do they have no spare money in their hands?

However, this model is usually fine when the economy is booming, and it will be troublesome when it encounters a stock market crash this year.

For example, Xu Ke returned to Xinyicheng and wanted to re-film, and he looked for the three of them several times, but where did they get the spare money? Lei Juekun's Kowloon Construction Industry is unlucky, and even the new art city is powerless to fight. This year's shooting plan, except for the third part of "Best Partner", which is a big movie with an investment of 8 million, the others are all small-budget films.

Although it doesn't matter if there are small-budget films, you have to see how many small films they plan this year.

"Young Master Weiwei", "Prying the Corner", "Yin and Yang Wrong", "The Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order", ......

Just four films. Yes, this is the filming plan of New Arts City this year. Among them, three are small-budget movies. Compared with the output of seven films in New Arts City last year, this year's number is almost half less.

The landlord's family has no surplus food!

This year, Xinyicheng only received about 10 million funds from Lei Juekun in total, of which the funds for the sequel to the ace movie "Best Partner" must be guaranteed. So the funds went to ** million at once, and there were only two or three million left under their hands.

Nowadays, making a movie is much more expensive than five years, and it costs nearly a million casually. But the two or three million funds to make three small films are already the limit, and the surplus money from Xinyi City is tossed by Xu Ke.

Li Xuan had six or seven golden trophies on their table, which was particularly eye-catching. Although there are few trophies at this table in Xinyi City, there are still two. One is the best film soundtrack for "Reborn". One is the best clip of Night Terror. Although it is not as good as the three awards of "Fleeing to the Angry Sea", it is not bad.

It is Hong Kong's veteran cinema chain Golden Harvest. I just won an award!

"Hey, baldhead."

Xu Ke dragged a chair with a wine glass and squeezed into the seats of Mai Jia and Shi Tian, and his words to Shi Nansheng at the Academy Awards venue completely dispelled Xu Ke's idea of looking for Lei Juekun, and he had to pay attention to Xinyicheng again.

Mai Jia felt a headache when she heard this cry, looked at the slightly drunk Xu Ke and said, "Why, when Old Monster Xu is still drinking, this is really not like you." ”

"Where are you drunk or not, ask you something."

"What?" Mai Jia asked in surprise.

Xu Ke didn't shout loudly, but asked Mai Jia in a low voice: "The box office of "Young Master Weiwei" should still be in the company, right?" ”

In July, the summer file of happy ghosts and zombies was lively, and "Young Master Weiwei" in Xinyi City was not bad, getting a box office of more than 8.5 million. Although this movie has not even broken the box office of 10 million, Xinyicheng, which has always been stable, still makes money.

The 8.5 million is divided into theaters, the share of the financier Lei Juekun, and the cost of the movie, and the new art city makes a net profit of about 1.5 million.

So in fact, at this time, Xinyicheng, well, no, it is Mai Jia and the other three shareholders who still have spare money.

"It's still there, why are you asking this?" Mai Jia knew that Shi Nansheng was in charge of the internal affairs of Xinyi City, so she didn't think about hiding Xu Ke, and replied honestly.

"Can you ...... then" Xu Ke paused and continued to whisper: "Then can you call it first, you see that I have been idle for more than half a year." ”

Ha, I know that you Xu Ke is making a new movie again!

Mai Jia sighed secretly, deliberately shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "Old Monster Xu, wait for another half a year, don't worry, when the sequel to "Best Partner" is released to make money, we will invest in you to make a movie immediately." The company really has no money left at this time, the 1.5 million yuan has to continue the company's operation for at least half a year, and the publicity expenses for the release of the remaining movies are all included in this money, where does the spare money come from. If you don't believe me, you can ask Nan Sheng, she knows how to manage internal affairs. ”

knew that this bald guy would find a reason again, Xu Ke pouted, and suddenly said: "That's okay, I won't have the idea of making this money, but after the painting of "Prying the Corner", you can invest it ......in me."

"Lao Xu, Lao Xu, "Prying the Corner" has just been released, don't be in such a hurry." Mai Jia suddenly interrupted Xu Ke's words, picked up a glass of wine and said, "Come on, today is a good day, let's have a drink first." ”

"But ......"

"Alright, alright." Mai Jia waved her hand and said, "It's still early to draw "Prying the Corner", let's talk about it then, let's talk about it then, come on, cheers!" ”

"Ping-"

Two crystal clear glasses collided together, and a crisp and pleasant crashing sound was heard. Xu Ke sighed secretly, and then raised his head depressedly and drank the glass of liquor, which was another excuse for this old tooth to use for half a year.

"Hahaha-"

There was a burst of laughter in the distance, Xu Ke and a bunch of people in Xinyi City turned their heads and looked away, and saw Ms. Hu Xian leading a bunch of people under her to toast around, and at this moment they were going to Wanda Li Xuan's table.

That burst of laughter came from Li Xuan and Hu Xian's group.

Xu Ke looked at Wu Yusen, who was raising a glass and laughing, and suddenly felt a little lonely. (To be continued......)