On April 3, New Asia Film Company held a celebration party for "Color is Empty" at the Shangri-La Hotel in Hong Kong.

With New Asia's current limelight and the connections of Zheng Zeshi, the actor, this celebration was very successful, and almost half of the people in the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry came. Of course, no one can deny that the reason why so many people in the entertainment industry came is also related to the rumors released by Lin Xiaozhi in advance, ATV boss Qiu Degen and Lin Baixin, one of the top ten richest people, may also come to the celebration.

Lin Baixin naturally didn't come, just as Lin Xiaozhi himself thought, although he sent out an invitation, he was still rejected by Lin Baixin. However, Lin Baixin didn't come, but Lin Jianming was invited by him, Lin Xiaozhi just asked him, but he didn't expect that Lin Jianming readily agreed to come to the show, giving him enough face. There is also Qiu Degen, this Boss Qiu is very talkative, he heard that Xinya was going to hold a celebration party, he directly agreed, and this meeting was with Zheng Zeshi and them, busy greeting people before and after, with a smile on his face as bright as a flower.

"Boss Qiu, congratulations"

"Brother Cat, this is the second spring of your career"

"This young guy is Mr. Lin, it's amazing"

Inside the Shangri-La Hotel, it seems to be a sea of joy. Tonight's Shangri-La is truly a star-studded event, bringing together almost half of Hong Kong's A-list celebrities and company executives. The spotlight flashed from time to time, which also proved the existence of the journalists.

"If you want to say that last year's Hong Kong film industry, in addition to the traditional three strong New Arts City, Golden Harvest, and Debao, I am afraid that the five film companies of New Asia, Yongsheng, Xu Ke Studio, Yingzhijie and Yineng were the most active, all of them made tens of millions of dollars last year, and there were at least two or three works with a box office of more than 10 million."

"Xinya Film Company is a subsidiary of ATV, and it has made several tertiary films that are very popular. I also know this Xu Ke studio, it seems to be a subsidiary of Xinyicheng, and it has signed several directors such as Xu Ke, Wu Yusen, Cheng Xiaodong, etc., I heard that Shenxian Fa has also cooperated with Xinyicheng all year round because of his friend Wu Yusen's relationship. What are the origins of the other film companies? ”

"Brother is a newcomer, the major shareholder of Yineng Film is Debao boss Pan Disheng, but the relationship between Yineng and Debao Film is a little unclear, and it can only be said that it is a brother company. Deng Guangrong, the boss of Ying Zhijie, is amazing, he is also the owner of another Darong film company, and it is said that he is black with Taiwan. Dao's friendship is not shallow, and it is rumored that the big financiers behind him are those Taiwanese rotten bananas...... As for Yongsheng Film Company......"

"Yongsheng's boss Xiang brothers are Wan'an bosses, and last year there were a few incidents in Hong Kong that forced celebrities to film, and it was rumored that they were all ......"

On behalf of New Asia Company, Lin Xiaozhi boldly announced at the celebration that he had distributed a box office dividend of up to 2 million to the crew and all the leading actors, and the atmosphere became even hotter.

This high dividend distribution has been going on since Lin Xiaozhi joined New Asia, and it has never been interrupted, and it has gradually become a habit of New Asia.

Lin Xiaozhi is not a person who picks the door, but he is also not a 'generous, person, when the company now needs funds to develop the most, this distribution of high dividends to stars and crews is actually a means for him.

Yes, a means of attracting celebrities to join.

To make a movie, you must invite stars, but Lin Xiaozhi doesn't like to invite big-name stars. To be precise, he doesn't like the high value of big-name stars. The scale of Hong Kong films is actually not large, and the situation is better than that of Taiwanese films, Hong Kong has become a complete film industry chain, but compared with Hollywood, Bollywood and Chinese mainland, Hong Kong films have also only formed a film industry, no film industry.

In the past two years, the Hong Kong box office has continued to rise, according to the Hong Kong box office data released by the Film and Television Department in March, the total box office size of Hong Kong in RR has reached 100 million Hong Kong dollars, according to the ratio of one Hong Kong dollar to 8 US dollars, in fact, it is a market of more than 100 million US dollars. Although the scale of the entire industrial chain may reach two or three billion Hong Kong dollars, it still cannot support the higher and higher salaries of celebrities in Hong Kong.

Of course, the salary is one of the reasons, but the main reason is that in the early 90s, everyone saw that Hong Kong's market was too small, and the local film industry also perished in the rapid detonation of various drawbacks, so they chose to leave.

Whether it is Zhou Yunfa or Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, etc., they can earn hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars a year during the Hong Kong period, but after leaving Hollywood, their income plummeted, and after several years of hard work, they could barely regain so much in a year. Chinese actors are not popular in Hollywood, and even Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, the two hottest stars in Hollywood touted by the Chinese media, rarely receive any scenes. In Hollywood, they can't act, and when they go back to Hong Kong, their worth is too high and no one invites them. As a result, there are fewer and fewer movies, and the brokerage company is unwilling to reduce the value it has won in Hollywood, so it can only give a 'friendship price, half-price filming, and it is still worth 30 or 40 million Hong Kong dollars per person, and he can't receive a few plays.

In the early 90s, the increasing value of celebrities was also the main reason for the destruction of Hong Kong's survival of the 'United States system, cost, independent production). There are only a few film companies with assets of more than 10 million yuan in Hong Kong, which is really not much. In 19RR, there were ll registered film companies in Hong Kong, but there were only 13 with assets of more than 10 million. The remaining nearly 200 film companies are all leather bag companies, either the Hong Kong underworld forces behind the scenes to manipulate money laundering, or Taiwan's hot money is invested in a single vote and left.

As the worth of a group of stars such as Zhou Yunfa skyrocketed to one or two million, those small crews with an investment cost of only one or two million, two or three million could not move them as big-name stars at all, and could only turn to learn from underworld capital and Taiwan investment to follow the trend and make films.

It can be said that the high salary is also one of the main reasons that have shaken the foundation of Hong Kong films.

Therefore, compared to inviting celebrities with large salaries. Lin Xiaozhi even recognized spending a lot of effort to ponder the script and spending more money to improve his skills. Of course, there is no doubt about the importance of stars, and their acting skills and influence are not comparable to new actors who are not famous. I don't want to increase the cost burden of film shooting, and I want to have influence on big-name stars. Then, you can only work box office dividends

Lin Xiaozhi's trick is to put it bluntly, that is, to use the future box office income to attract big-name stars, there is an idea that he can get box office dividends, even if Xinya gives some stars a lower salary in the future, they should be willing to 'surrender themselves, some, so as to save shooting costs.

"Boss Qiu, you Xinya are really amazing this year......

Huang Baiming came over with a glass of wine, Xinya held a celebration party, and Xinyicheng also received an invitation from Brother Mao. However, in the end, it was not Mecca nor Shi Tian who went to the appointment, but Huang Baiming. This is also the same as the temperament of the three of them, although the three giants of New Arts City have left a lot of comedians on the screen, but in reality, Mecca is too stubborn and does not have many friends at all; Shi Tian is too lonely, and he has a good relationship with Xu Ke and other old Qijie of Xinyicheng, but the circle is only limited to this. Among the three, Huang Baiming is the most kind and good at making friends, from Jiahe to Debao to Lao Shao, he is praised when he is mentioned.

Qiu Degen has been busy handing over the power of ATV to the Lin family recently, even if Lin Xiaozhi doesn't invite him, he will come to today's celebration. Not surprisingly, this old man who single-handedly created the 'ATV empire, and also made a sub-movie, this is the last time he participated in the company's film celebration as the chairman

"Huang Sheng is polite, Xinya's current situation is the result of Mr. Lin's efforts. Compared to these old-timers in your new art city, Xinya still has a long way to go" Qiu Degen glanced at Lin Xiaozhi, who was standing and talking with He Fan not far away, and saw that he was whispered by Zheng Zeshi just now and said sorry and walked over, presumably there is something to talk about, so he can only cheer up and deal with the situation here for him.

"Hehe, Boss Qiu is still so modest"

A middle-aged man with a square face next to him, a heroic middle-aged man raised his wine glass and touched Lin Jianming on the side, "The development speed of Xinya is really fast, I know many old people in the industry, and they are all amazed." ”

This person's name is Deng Guangrong, who is the boss of Yingzhijie Film Company and Darong Film Company, and is also an actor and director. The handsome and handsome Deng Guangrong starred in "The Student Prince" for the first time at the age of 17 and became an instant hit, and since then his acting career has begun. Because of this film, he received the nickname "Student Prince". Debuted in the UU era, Deng Guangrong went to Taiwan to develop in the 70s, and in just a few years, Qin Han and Qin Xianglin were called "Taiwan's three major literary and artistic film niches", compared to his huge fame in Taiwan, Deng Guangrong knows him in the Hong Kong film circle There are not many people who know him now. However, just looking at Lin Jianming, who was born in a wealthy family with tens of billions of dollars, politely greeted him, you can see how amazing he is.

Huang Baiming heard him say this, and also came over to touch a glass with him, and said jokingly: "If you want to say surprise, Deng Sheng, your Ying Zhijie has always been the focus of attention in the industry last year, and it is no worse than New Asia." You have two guns under your command, Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei, one will win awards and the other will make money, and I am also beautiful and happy

Deng Guangrong touched a glass with him, and always felt that he still had words in his words, and suddenly realized that he was slightly silent, and hurriedly said: "Huang Sheng, how can we get into your eyes if we have a little trouble over there." I just saw Ah Sen and Fa Zai, your new art city is enviable, not to mention the group of seven people, that is, the artists below can show a few casually, and they can envy the whole Hong Kong film company."

Indeed, he suddenly remembered that Wang Jiawei, one of the two generals of Shadow Jie, was actually from Xinyi City in his early years. When Wang Jiawei ran away from Xinyi City, it is said that he was still unhappy with one of the Big Three. Although Deng Guangrong is very dissatisfied with Wong Jiawei's waste of money and time in filming, it Wang Jiawei will win the award, at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards that just ended a few days ago, his "Mong Kok Carmen" won the 'Best Supporting Actor and Best Art Direction' for the film, two awards, which really showed Deng Guangrong's face. For this point, no matter what contradictions he has with Xinyicheng, Deng Guangrong will help him block it

Qiu Degen looked at a few senior executives of other film companies who were standing around him and chatting happily, and a wry smile appeared on his face.

Lin Xiaozhi has been hiding it, and now few people in the outside world know that Xinya is no longer ATV's industry, and has basically become his Lin Xiaozhi's private property. It's ridiculous that this young man is still pulling ATV's tiger skin to engage in propaganda everywhere, but most uninformed people still think that Xinya is still a subsidiary of ATV, which is really calculating.

Lin Xiaozhi sneezed, rubbed his nose, and thought that he had not paid attention to the cold in the hotel in the past few days.

"Mr. Lin, it's okay, right?" He Fan asked with concern.

"It's okay, it may be a little cold" Lin Xiaozhi finished the wine in his hand in one sip, called the waiter to change a glass of wine, and then said: "Director He, it's really a little sad to delay you for so long." Some time ago, Xinya encountered a lot of things, and the script and the new movie that I promised to give you were delayed again and again......"

He apologized to He Fan apologetically, the master of Fengyue films in front of him had made two movies for New Asia in the past year, and earned at least 20 million for New Asia and himself, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a great contributor to New Asia.

He Fan just smiled and nodded, "I just want to say thank you to Mr. Lin and Xinya, I took two good movies, and now my fame has gone up, and I have made a lot of money, real fame and fortune, so why wait for a few days"

He found that Lin Xiaozhi looked around from time to time, and he knew that he was waiting for someone regularly, and Yu Crisp accompanied him to chat. The two chatted back and forth for a while, He Fan suddenly found that the young man was looking in a direction behind him, and suddenly faintly with joy, and then turned his head to take a look, only to find that an acquaintance was panting from the direction of the gate, and behind him there was a young woman dressed in fashion, seeing the woman walking with a wave of waves, He Fan was stunned at first, and then his eyes lit up.

It's a good seedling

Immediately, he shook his head with a wry smile, he has been filming Fengyue films for so many years, and now when he sees a young and beautiful woman, his first thought is whether this woman is suitable for filming Fengyue films, and whether she can be popular, has become an occupational disease.

Lin ...... Mr. Lin ......"

The panting man walked up to Lin Xiaozhi and He Fan first, panting and handed the two document bags to Lin Xiaozhi: "I brought something......

Lin Xiaozhi took the two file bags, cautiously opened them, looked at them and nodded, and thanked him with a smile: "I'm sorry for you, Zheng Fei." It's all because I was in a hurry when I came, and I took it and left it in the hotel."

Yes, this acquaintance who came out of breath and He Fan also knew was Zheng Fei, the director of the New Asia Distribution Department who had dealt with him several times.

"Mr. Lin, you look for me"

Ye Zilin followed Zheng Fei and walked unhurriedly, she only wore a low-cut evening dress today, although she was draped with a black shoulder pad on her shoulders, she couldn't help the pair of milky white waves on her chest, not only Zheng Fei looked in a trance, but even He Fan's eyes unconsciously always glanced at the white

Lin Xiaozhi naturally wouldn't admit that he was also one of the men who changed color for him. Coughed and pointed to He Fan and introduced to Ye Zilin: "This is He Fan, Director He Da, Miss Ye, I asked you to come over today because the company has arranged two new movies for you, I wonder if you are interested?" ”

After speaking, he didn't understand Ye Zilin's opening, so he whispered to Zheng Fei again: "Go and see where Director Zheng is, and ask him and his friend to come over later."

"Oh"

Zheng Fei was stunned for a moment, but he didn't hesitate, and left them directly and went to the hall to promote Zheng Zeshi.

Ye Zilin heard that he had arranged two movies for himself, a pair of soft eyes suddenly lit up, his red lips squirmed, and even his voice was a little festive: "Then I want to thank Mr. Xie Lin first, but I don't know what kind of movie Lu Dao is?" ”

Since she signed a contract with Xinya in February, Ye Zilin called Xinya several times in the next month, and the answer she got was that the script was still in contact, so that she was a little skeptical that she hastily signed Xinya if she got into a thief car. Now, I can get an affirmative answer from his mouth, which touches the heart of the throat and eyes, and I can finally go back.

There has never been a shortage of hooligans and scoundrels in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Ye Zilin has encountered several film companies that tricked her into signing contracts before. If it weren't for the fact that a little sister she knew at ATV before had been fooled, she had been deceived for a few years and lost a lot of money, and she was forced to make some movies she didn't want to make, and took some endorsements that she didn't want to take. The price of being unvirtuous is likely not only to lose a few years of freedom, but also to lose money and even disgrace.

The reason why Ye Yuqing accepted Lin Xiaozhi's invitation to sign with New Asia was that she took a fancy to the ATV background behind New Asia, and secondly, it was not that Ye Yuqing became famous by starring in two New Asia plays, which made her who also wanted to be famous have more ideas.

Lin Xiaozhi was a little apologetic, he had promised Ye Zilin to arrange a movie for her as soon as possible, but who knew that Lu Dao was delayed for more than a month, so he patiently replied immediately: "The company has two movies now, and they feel quite suitable for you, and they are both protagonists." The other one we will talk about later, one of the movies is called "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", the nature of Fengyue films, you can choose to take it or not. It has been clearly written in the contract before the salary, there is a box office dividend, and a naked replacement can be used. The film director will be Director He, this Director He I think you should also be familiar with it, last year's two most popular Fengyue films "I'm Crazy for Qing" and "Can't Help It" are his works"

He Fan was taken aback, immediately glanced at the two document bags in his hand, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, it seems that this is the script."

Then he looked at Ye Zilintel for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, and said: "I think Miss Ye's congenital conditions are very good, as long as the script is not too bad, coupled with Xinya's publicity strength, the final box office should not be bad."

He also gave Lin Xiaozhi face, although he hadn't seen the script yet, he didn't forget to help Lin Xiaozhi promote the strength of their new Asia.

Lin Xiaozhi nodded, seeing Ye Zilin's happy face, but out of prudence, she had never taken on Fengyue films, but she was not in a hurry to agree.

Xindao is a cautious woman, he immediately handed the two document bags to the two of them, "Miss Ye, don't be in a hurry to reply, you are a signed artist of New Asia, and the relationship with the company is mutually beneficial, New Asia will not do anything to kill chickens and eggs and force artists to take over the show." This movie is the same as "I'm Crazy for You", which is why the company arranges two movies for you at the same time. Later, you can take this script back and take a look, if you think there is no problem, come to the company to sign the contract before next Monday, but one thing you have to remember is that this book cannot be shown to other people, and it must not be lost. ”

Ye Zilin breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that he didn't coerce himself to agree, he had a great feeling of being kind to people in his heart, took the script and said thank you, and wrote down his instructions.

He Fan also took his copy of the script, curious about what kind of book it was. He was not used to such a lively occasion as the celebration party, and as soon as he saw that the script was in hand, Yu Crisp said goodbye to him and left early, ready to go home to study the new movie.

As soon as He Fan left, the atmosphere between Lin Xiaozhi and Ye Zilin suddenly became awkward, originally he was there, and the three of them could still chat a few words, as soon as he left, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't keep talking to her about the content of the new drama Fengyue he had just received, and the two were embarrassed, and suddenly they heard a rush of footsteps coming over, and before the person approached, he heard Zheng Zeshi's loud voice.

"Mr. Lin, I'm still looking for you everywhere, but I didn't expect you to ask Director Zheng to find me first. Come on, let me introduce you, this is the great director Gao Zhisen, this is the big star Zhou Runfa, and this is ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a hearty laugh.

"Brother Cat, when will you learn to be poor......"

Lin Xiaozhi turned around and saw a tall and handsome man smiling at Zheng Zeshi's poor mouth, and next to him stood a fat man with smiling and crooked eyes and another man with fluffy hair and unshaven beard, who looked a little unkempt.

It was Zheng Zeshi, Zhou Runfa, Fa Ge's good friends Wu Mengda and Gao Zhisen.