This is a time for Mecca to be full of ambitions.

At the beginning of this year, the owner of Kowloon Bus, tycoon Lui Juekwan, brandished a cheque to set up the Lisheng Cinema Line, and entered the Hong Kong film industry in one fell swoop. So far, Xiangjiang Films has entered the era of the Three Kingdoms from the original Shaw Brothers Golden Harvest.

The market share that two people grabbed was now one more to grab a job. How could Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest give up? At the beginning of the establishment of Lisheng, the two opponents who originally looked down on each other tacitly issued a ban order. Privately warned the film companies in Hong Kong not to put their films on the Lisheng Cinema Line, otherwise they would cut off the channels for their films to go out of town. And Lisheng is just getting started, and there are no out-of-town channels at all.

In addition to the local box office market, the foreign market also accounts for a large share, mainly in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, as well as the South Korean and Japanese markets. Among them, Golden Harvest almost dominates the Korean and Japanese markets, while Shaw Brothers has deep roots in the Southeast Asian market, and the Taiwan market also occupies a piece of the mountain. It can be said that being blocked by two families is basically cut off from other cities.

After the ban order, almost no film companies came to the door for a month, and they could only use some old films and some shoddy low-cost movies produced by small companies to support the scene. More than a dozen theaters under the cinema chain are losing money every day.

However, Lei Tycoon is also a decisive person, and first took the lead in abolishing the current Baodi gold system in Xiangjiang. The reserve fee system is an overlord clause of the cinema chain, which requires the producer's film to be shown in the theater, and it must pay rent to the theater. Under this clause, as long as there is a film in the cinema, there will be basically no loss, and the box office risk of the film is basically pressed on the producer. The bottom gold is a sword hanging over the producer's head.

As soon as the bottom gold system was abolished, a large number of film companies kicked out Jiahe, who had more monks and less porridge, and Shaw Brothers, who basically produced and sold themselves, and switched to the arms of Lisheng, after all, this is the interest of seeing, and there are only a few movies that sell well at the box office in other cities.

In this way, the Lisheng Cinema Line has successfully broken through, and Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are still reluctant to give up this piece of fat for the time being.

However, this alone still can't become a big climate, and once the two families are also separated, they will return to the original point again.

So a few months ago, Tycoon Lei approached Mecca, and Tiyì was funded by himself, and Mecca was in charge of running it, forming a new film company as the team of Lisheng Cinemas.

Mecca has been very breathless in Golden Harvest in the past two years, and the pioneer film company he established with his friends has also made a few good works, but when it was released in Golden Harvest Cinemas, he couldn't get a good schedule, not to mention, after all, people have their own lineage of support, and their own periphery cannot be compared. But half of the movies that were released were forced to go offline when the box office did not decline very much, just because they had to make way for Chen Long's new film, which made Mecca unbearable. Chen Long's film can be released for two consecutive months, even if the attendance rate is less than 20% in the later stage, it will not go offline. As for himself, if the box office declines, it is not a problem to cut it in half in advance, and even when the box office is okay, he has to be afraid......

One was anxious to form a company to avoid being controlled by others, and the other was full of resentment and centrifugation, and the two hit it off.

Just this month, Mecca, together with his partners Huang Baining and Shi Tian, established a joint venture with Lei Daheng to form the New Arts City Film Company. The four agreed on the equity of Xinyicheng, with Huang Baiming accounting for 9%, Shi Tian accounting for 19%, and Princess Jin and Mecca, who changed their name to Lisheng, accounting for 72%. Of the 72% shares, Princess Jin accounts for 51% and Mai Jia accounts for 49%.

Under the constraints of this shareholding ratio, the golden princess guaranteed a controlling stake in the new art city company, and Mecca's private stake was close to 36%, more than her two partners combined. has its own cinema again, so you don't have to be controlled by others anymore.

Thinking about his opponent again, Shaw Brothers looks very big, and in the past two years, the rivers have been declining, and they have been crushed by Golden Harvest for two or three consecutive years. Will it turn over later? Mecca doesn't think so, Shaw Brothers' biggest problem is the mechanism, it's not just one or two good movies that can turn over, in other words, his current operating methods are no longer suitable for the current environment. The cost of a movie is too much for a million, and in order to save costs, movies almost never use exterior locations, and they are all done in the movie studio. A fake tree, a few fake stones, the scene of the movie is as restrained as a drama. The theme is also that the father or master who has not changed for decades is killed by a traitor, and the son or apprentice learns magic skills to avenge his father (teacher), changing his face and changing tricks back and forth, the cost of this kind of film is so low that a little box office can pay off, and there is no need to make up the story, anyway, it's like this back and forth, and the audience is tired of watching it. Not a problem. Mecca even wondered if he would be able to hold out for another five years?

And Jiahe is a strong opponent, although he has a lot of resentment against him, but he is still hairy when he really fights in the ring. Now that Golden Harvest is full of talents, it goes without saying that Chen Long, who has been working hard in the past few years, has the potential to become the first person in Xiangjiang after the deceased Li Xiaolong. There is also Xu Guanwen, although there are few works that are basically one a year, but basically every one of them is a big hit, and then his friend Sammo Hung is it.

And what about your own side? It's just been formed, and now it feels like it's lacking everything. Now that it's open, it's going to start filming, and there's not even a director or even a script. Although he can also pour himself, Huang Baining is a gold medal screenwriter. However, at first, Mecca didn't want to make a move on his own, and once the box office hit the streets, the pressure would be great, not to mention that the company had just opened, and he really had a lot to do as an actual manager.

"Forget it, let's discuss it with everyone, there will always be a way." Mecca touched her bald head and explained to the secretary of the office, "Tell everyone to come to the conference room for a meeting." ”……

A few minutes later, Shi Tian and Huang Baining walked into the conference room.

"Good news!" As soon as Huang Baining entered the door, he said, "Wu Yushen promised to make a film for us, and he also has the script there, called "Funny Times", I feel good when I look at it." Huang Baining slapped the script in his hand on the table with a "snap".

"That's good." With a new film to make, Mecca breathed a sigh of relief. Anyway, with a film to shoot, the company is on the right track. Wu Yushen now gives people the impression of being a good comedy director in the Xiangjiang film circle, and the few dramas he has filmed before are all considered hot sales, which can be regarded as a box office guarantee.

Several people read the script, made a shooting plan and decided to play the role in it, and the company's first major event was decided.

"There's also a story that's perfect for adapting into a screenplay." Shi Tian also took out a stack of newspapers from his bag and put it on the table.

"Huh?" Huang Baining and Mecca looked over.

The newspaper was not a whole newspaper, it only took one page, and that was exactly what they wanted.

"Home Alone?"

Huang Baining took the lead in picking up the opening article and read it, Mecca didn't fight with him, Huang Baining is his own gold medal screenwriter, and the story is not suitable for him to have more say. After reading more than a dozen newspapers at a glance and ten lines, Huang Baining's hands trembled slightly.

"It's in the newspaper?" Although it was a sure thing, I couldn't help but ask.

"Ming Pao Evening News, I just finished serializing it two days ago."

"Immediately contact the newspaper about the original work, and grab the adaptation right before others." Huang Baining felt that he couldn't wait for a moment, "If the newspaper is on the table, it will definitely not be long before it will be targeted, and there will be many people who can see the potential of the story, don't let others take the lead." ”

"Well, I'll get in touch with you." Shi Tian said.

"It's better to go in person." Seeing that Huang Baining was so anxious, Mecca also sniffed out something different.

Shi Tian frowned slightly, but he didn't say much, turned his head and walked out of the gate.

"Baining, are you sure this can be a big deal?" Mecca asked.

"In fact, for comedy movies, the most important thing is whether the script is funny, the director and actors are secondary, I don't dare to say other themes, and I usually look at the script to determine whether it can be popular." Like his own screenwriting ability, Huang Baining is also quite confident in his sense of smell in comedy. Huang Baining is best at making comedy, and in the entire New Art City era, comedy accounts for a considerable part of the country.

"Oh!" Mecca looked at the signature in the corner of the newspaper, "Then it's better to bring the author directly, with you and him, at least in comedy, we can win."

"Hmm." Huang Baining also thinks it is feasible, "It's very simple to adapt this story into a script, I can do it in two days at most, but have you figured out who will direct it?" ”

"Who else? Of course, it's Wu Yushen, in fact, he is willing to promise to help us make a movie, and he must have an opinion on Golden Harvest, one is filmed, and the two are not the same? "It's better to take this opportunity to bring him over, we are too short of directors." ”

Wu Yushen is now an employee of Golden Harvest.

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