Chapter 157 Film Company Development Plan
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In the current space-time film studio, the directors have Xu Anhua and Wang Jing, but there is still a lack of a director with a large field of vision and enough weight to take charge. Of course, Lin Jing is also a director, but her weight as a director is only known to herself, so she has to find someone else.
In Lin Jing's heart, Wu Yusen is such a suitable candidate.
Wu Yusen is still in Golden Harvest, but his life in Golden Harvest is not good, because making comedy and burlesque is not what he wants. However, Golden Harvest wanted to overwhelm Xinyicheng, which started with comedy, and launched a large number of comedy movies, especially after the big hit of "Five Lucky Stars", the fire of comedy became more and more prosperous.
In Lin Jing's memory, Wu Yusen will leave Golden Harvest this year and join New Art City.
But even if he switched to Xinyicheng, Xinyicheng, which was already so strong that it was a mess, couldn't look down on Wu Yusen at all, so he had to continue to sink, and it wasn't until "The True Colors of Heroes" came out in 1986 that he turned over and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Jing was not very sure about recruiting Wu Yusen, because the reason why Wu Yusen would leave Jiahe was because of Xu Ke.
In addition to the director, Lin Jing's second consideration is the screenwriter.
Perhaps at this time, many filmmakers will be surprised when they hear that Lin Jing is going to establish a huge screenwriting team, because in their eyes, a hundred screenwriters are not as good as Lin Jing alone. After all, in Hong Kong, which screenwriter wrote three scripts with a box office of more than 20 million by himself? No, so in Time and Space Film Studio, it is enough to have Lin Jing as a screenwriter.
But the truth is. It's just a beautiful fantasy.
Lin Jing's mind does have a large number of scripts, a large number of good scripts. But these scripts, if they are simply copied, will not be adaptable, because in these scripts, the time, background, and lines are often not suitable for this era and Hong Kong.
For example, "Hurricane Rescue", this movie is excellent, but if it is moved out as it is. I'm afraid it won't be able to pass logically. Because this movie has a key prop - a mobile phone, but in this era in 1983, was there a mobile phone?
Big brother has it, and last month, Lin Jing saw Hong Xinbao use it.
What's more, Lin Jing is not satisfied with simply copying the movies of later generations
Therefore, many of these films must be localized in Hong Kong in the script first.
This kind of localization, Hong Kong adaptation, requires a lot of time and rich experience. Lin Jing, a pseudo-Hong Konger, may be able to do it reluctantly, but it will definitely take her a lot of time, and there may be a lot of loopholes in the adaptation.
There is a lot of strength in numbers, and it is not unreasonable for three stinkers to beat Zhuge Liang.
So Lin Jing's plan is to recruit a large number of screenwriters. A playwright group was formed, and some screenwriter theories from later generations were trained in them. Then provide the outline of the script yourself and train them in a "practical" way.
In the end, this screenwriting team can write the script on its own. It is possible to adapt the script.
In Hollywood studios, there is such a screenwriting department. Every script must be reviewed and polished by the screenwriting team. And the movie that the audience sees at the end, whether it is the plot or the lines, is the result of the screenwriter's hard work.
Hong Kong can produce a lot of good movies every year, but more of them are bad movies, and many of the problems of bad movies lie in the script, which is closely related to the fact that Hong Kong filmmakers do not attach importance to the role of screenwriters.
Lin Jing didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so she raised the establishment of the screenwriting department of the Time and Space Film Studio and the recruitment of screenwriters as one of the main tasks of the Time and Space Film Studio.
The space-time film studio, which already has the image of a giant, has expanded its scale and recruited troops, which is naturally a cloud of applicants.
Lin Jing got the list of applicants, and now there is the power of the future generations.
And in the first place, it is Liu Zhenwei.
Liu Zhenwei is still in Century Company, a financial company that entered the film industry when he saw the film market improve, although he has been the producer of several films and is called a producer, but in fact he is not a real talker, and he does not have much power in his hands at all. Moreover, Century Company has been in the film industry for more than two years, but it is still half-dead, not to mention compared with the film production company such as Time and Space Film Studio, which has risen like a rocket, second only to Golden Harvest and New Art City.
In addition, there are many "acquaintances", but compared with Liu Zhenwei, they can only be regarded as second- or third-rate.
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The buyout prices of "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan", under Mo Ziqi's efforts, finally reached 5 million and 4 million respectively. Of course, this buyout price includes the exercise of the videotape.
In recent years, with the large number of video recorders entering the homes of ordinary people, video tapes have become a new profit point for film companies.
In this way, these two films, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Time and Space Film Studio can clearly earn a profit of 19 million.
The box office was a big hit, and the celebration banquet was naturally indispensable.
So, for the sake of convenience and excitement, "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan" combined to hold a grand celebration banquet at the Peninsula Hotel, one of the most famous five-star hotels in Hong Kong.
In order to be able to open up the channels of the film studio, Mo Ziqi has been flying everywhere recently, sometimes in Hong Kong, once in Taiwan, once in Singapore, and sometimes in Japan, and he is almost as busy as a trapeze.
Even at the celebration banquet, there must not be a little leisure, no, I talked with the representative sent by the Shaw Brothers Company again. The representative of Shaw Brothers is Fang Yihua, with Shao Yifu retiring behind the scenes, Fang Yihua walked to the front of the stage, and faintly already had the queen mother style of wireless Shaw Brothers "hanging the curtain and listening to politics".
Mo Ziqi got Lin Jing's instructions and tested the Shaw Brothers Company to see if he could win the support of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.
In the past two or three years, the more movies have been made, the more losses have become, not only the production company has lost money, but even the theater chain has also lost money, because the movies released are all movies that cannot make a profit and have to be discounted.
Maybe it was the big production "Best Partner" in the new art city, or maybe it was seeing Golden Harvest launch the blockbuster "The Legend of the Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain", so Shaw Brothers also gritted their teeth and invested more than 10 million yuan to shoot a "quasi-science fiction" and "big production zuò" - "Interstellar Blunt Tire", which was claimed to be the Hong Kong version of "Star Wars" before filming began.
What kind of science fiction masterpiece "Star Wars" is, everyone on earth knows it.
Pity the Hong Kong version of "Star Wars", "Interstellar Blunt Tire", the largest investment "blockbuster" in the history of Shaw Brothers Film Company, the box office in the end was only more than 6 million, not to mention profitable, and it couldn't even recover its costs, and it was forced to withdraw from the theater after a few days of release. At the time of the release, the audience collectively quit halfway during the movie, and made an embarrassing incident of asking for a refund at the ticket window.
Shao Yifu, who was still trying to save Shaw Brothers Film Company last year, was already disheartened in film production after the blow of "Interstellar Blunt Tire".
In particular, TVB's television production business is booming, like flowers cooking oil on a brocade fire, and it is even more set off the failure and bleakness of Shaw Brothers Film Company.
Therefore, although it will take some time for Shaw Brothers Film Company to stop production from the reduction of production to the final shutdown, the theater chain is empty.
For Shaw Brothers' cinemas, Time and Space Film Studios can't afford to buy them, but it's okay to rent some. In the future, Debao Film Company rented the Shaw Brothers cinema chain and became a film production company comparable to Golden Harvest and New Art City.