Volume 1 Chapter 35 Film Biweekly
Contacting last year's Asian sister champion Qiu Yueqing to make a film, but unexpectedly had a grudge with the real estate prodigy Luo Zhao, Lin Xiaozhi held back a fire in his heart, until the car was far away from the dock and the sea breeze kept coming, he felt that the anger dissipated a little, drove the sports car around Yau Tsim Mong District for a while, and drove the car in the direction of Tsim Sha Tsui.
The sea breeze blowing from Victoria Bay kept blowing on Lim Hsiaozhi's cheeks, causing him to squint his eyes slightly and enjoy the fresh sea breeze unique to this harbour city.
Although there was still some time before the agreement with Ho Fan, after a while in West Kowloon, Lin Xiaozhi still drove the sports car and rushed to a restaurant with a little reputation in East Kowloon.
Later, he will meet with He Fan, the master of erotic films who has long been famous in Xiangjiang, and strive to invite him to take charge of the guide tube of "I am crazy for Qing".
Speaking of He Fan, he was also a legend in the Hong Kong film industry in the sixties and seventies. Lin Xiaozhi has inquired a lot about him during this time, He Fan joined Shaw Brothers Films in the early 60s and made his debut in the early 60s, and worked as a scene reporter and drama for several years, and also acted in a few years of tricks, before he became popular all over Hong Kong in the mid-60s by playing Tang Seng in "Journey to the West", creating a precedent for handsome men and beautiful women in the film industry.
After becoming one of the best actors in Hong Kong, Ho Fan soon became obsessed with photography and directing. Heaven seems to have been loved by God, not only has a handsome and handsome appearance, but even in the director's movie, it quickly bursts out with dazzling light. After leaving Shaw Brothers in the late sixties, he made a number of films and won numerous awards at major international film festivals. In the mid-70s, he relied on several erotic films such as "Rapunzel" to attract money and applause, and was respectfully known as the master of Hong Kong erotic films.
The meeting time agreed by the two was twelve o'clock at noon, and the location was chosen by He Fan. It is a restaurant called 'Juxiang Lou', which is located in East Kowloon, and it is a very ordinary shop from the outside.
Compared with many luxury hotels and restaurants in Hong Kong, the scale of Juxiang Building is not large, only two floors of ** small building, but listening to He Fan, this restaurant is very famous in Hong Kong, at least in the dining circle, its fame is not small.
Lin Xiaozhi has contacted He Fan twice on the phone before, and according to his own explanation on the phone, there are at least nine stores in Hong Kong that will do 'Buddha jumping over the wall', but only this one has the most flavor. He's a eater, and he's a regular customer of this shop. Although Lin Xiaozhi is not a eater, it is almost human nature to pursue food, so he responded directly.
Parking the car in the parking garage of a nearby shopping mall, Lin Xiaozhi walked for a while to a restaurant called 'Juxianglou'.
"Sir, may I ask you!" Although it was not yet meal time, the private rooms in this restaurant, which looked very ordinary from the outside, were full, but fortunately, He Fan booked a private room in advance, which saved him a lot of effort.
"Take me to Songjian, my friend Mr. He Fan has already booked a private room in advance."
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary restaurant, but when you walk in, you will feel like you are shining brightly.
The interior of the house was well decorated, and Lin Xiaozhi answered him casually while looking around. The decoration is not very rich and gorgeous, but it has a warm and middle-of-the-road feeling, which is very in line with classical Chinese aesthetics, and integrates some unique customs of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. There are a lot of gods and statues in the hotel, and the refreshing sandalwood fragrance comes to the nose for a while, even a person like him who is not very involved in religion can feel some of the designer's preferences from this layout. It seems to have come from the hand of a designer who likes Huang Laozhi's theory.
"Okay, Mr. He Fan hasn't arrived yet, please come with me first!"
A waiter went to check on the counter and found that Matsuma had indeed been ordered in advance by an old customer named Ho Clan, so he immediately came back to lead him over.
"Haven't they come yet?" Lin Xiaozhi glanced at the time on the wall and found that it was only half past eleven, so he smiled dumbly and ordered: "Then you will make me a pot of tea first, and have a snack from your side!" ”
"Okay, please wait!"
The waiter ushered him into his room and left quickly. Songma is located in the corner, it seems that this is a habit in the entertainment industry, when everyone goes to a hotel or restaurant to eat, they like to pick a private room in the corner, celebrities are also people, no one likes to be exposed to the public's eyes 24 hours a day.
Just casually glanced at the decoration in the private room, Lin Xiaozhi lost interest. In the corner of the wall was a cupboard with several magazines and newspapers. There is still some time before the appointed time, it is boring, Lin Xiaozhi walked over and wanted to look through whether there were any magazines, but he couldn't help but be very disappointed, those magazines were almost all women-oriented fashion magazines, so he had to be bored in a bunch of newspapers, and accidentally turned out a monochrome black-and-white printed magazine at the bottom - "Film Fortnightly".
Lin Xiaozhi was stunned for a moment, and then he came to some energy, picked up the magazine and returned to his seat to read it.
"Film Fortnightly", this magazine should be no stranger to domestic filmmakers, it was founded in early 1979, with the tide of Hong Kong films, witnessing the golden age and rise and fall of Hong Kong films, and at the same time, the most prestigious "Hong Kong Film Awards" award ceremony in the Chinese-speaking world was also founded by "Film Fortnightly".
The copy he got was not the latest issue, but the version half a month ago, but after waking up, Lin Xiaozhi also forgot to order a copy of "Film Fortnightly", so he also watched it with relish.
"Lei Juekun Middle Road set up a banquet for dinner, and the three giants of the new art city went to the banquet together!"
After only turning a few pages, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes lit up, he was attracted by an article in the magazine, read it word by word, and soon read the whole article, holding his chin and his eyes flashing.
For those who are not familiar with Hong Kong films, it is difficult to imagine what the three words "New Arts City" meant in Hong Kong in the 80s. Since the early 80s, Wu Yusen anonymously made the first pot of gold for several movies for him, which attracted the attention of Hong Kong's top wealthy Lei family, who controlled Kowloon City Construction and Kowloon Bus Bus, and soon the Lei family successively established the Golden Princess Entertainment Company with an investment of about 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and one of the three giants of the new art city, Mecca Hejian Cinema Film Co., Ltd. (51% of the golden princess, 49% of the Mecca), controlled 72% of the shares of the new art city. Among the three giants, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming respectively accounted for 19% and 9% of the shares of Xinyi City.
So the Lei family contributed money, the big three contributed, in just a few years, a huge film empire rose, 86 is the most glorious year of the new art city, not only because this year "The True Color of Heroes" was released for the new art city to make a lot of money, not only because this year the new art city shooting, equity investment, distribution of the total number of films exceeded 50, but because in this year the new media giant Murdoch, who bought the twentieth century Fox, issued a letter of intent to the new art city, wanting to 1. US$2.5 billion wholly acquired New Arts City.
1。 US$2.5 billion, almost equivalent to HK$1 billion. As soon as the news of Murdoch's intention to buy New Arts City was released, it quickly caused a huge sensation in the entire Hong Kong film industry. Murdoch probably didn't even expect that his eagerness to meddle in Hong Kong's film and television media industry would shock the top management of New Arts City. Although the Lei family, who was not short of money, rejected Murdoch's offer, the high-level turmoil in the new art city caused by this acquisition intention also began.
Murdoch's acquisition made Shi Tian, especially Huang Baiming, more and more dissatisfied with Mecca and the Lei family. After his request for the redistribution of the shares of Xinyicheng was categorically rejected by Mecca, he privately contacted Debao to invest in the filming of the fourth part of "Happy Ghost" that year, and openly made films for other film companies against his own film company. Huang Baiming had a bad head, and not long after, Mecca also learned from him and ran away, filming a "Best Lucky Star" for Golden Harvest, and in the summer of that year, he killed all sides, suppressing all the movies shot by Xinyicheng's own company. Shi Tian was disappointed, and also began to secretly invest in Xu Ke's Xu Ke studio, accepting investment from Golden Harvest, Debao, and Shaw Brothers to make movies.
The contradictions between the three giants of the new art city have since become public, and the three pillars of the huge film empire have cracked, and under the unstable foundation, it is only a matter of time before this former film empire dies-
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