Volume 1 Chapter 264 Cooperative Association

"Red Alert" was launched, and since the release of "Killer Leon" at the end of last year, Lin Xiaozhi, who had been idle for four or five months, began to be busy again, going back and forth between the residence and the crew every day, and dealing with some company affairs from time to time, and he was very busy.

Liang Jiaren's "A Comic Book Goes to the World" was released much later than expected, mainly because the schedule given by Debao Cinema was not very good, after all, everyone has selfish intentions, and the best Chinese New Year schedule naturally hopes to give his own movie.

In addition, New Asia has too many things to be busy with in the past month, and it wasn't until some time ago that Lin Xiaozhi personally went over to talk to Cen Jianxun, president of Debao Cinemas, and finally New Asia chose the latter in terms of the inferior release time at the end of the Lunar New Year and the high-quality release after the end of the Lunar New Year.

On March 5, "A Comic Book Goes to the World", which has been promoted for more than a month, officially landed in Debao Theaters for release. This New Asia invested nearly 10 million yuan, and the film starring quasi-newcomer director Leung Ka-jen exceeded 7 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in just one week, which made Lin Xiaozhi, who had always been very worried about Leung Ka-yan's level, finally breathe a sigh of relief.

relied on a "Color is Empty" and "Friends" to make a name for themselves, and as the production director of New Asia, Ye Weixin is not worried about not having a movie. At the end of last year, his "Friend" was released in the United Kingdom and sold very well after the news came to Hong Kong. He received an invitation from Yidu Entertainment Co., Ltd. to take charge of the director with Liu Jiarong and co-produced a movie called "Thin Tiger and Fat Dragon".

Originally, Ye Weixin didn't want to take on this drama, because Lin Xiaozhi had promised at that time that he would help him prepare a new script and continue to shoot it alone. But he can't bear the unclear relationship between Yidu Entertainment Co., Ltd. and his old club Xinyicheng, Yidu Entertainment Co., Ltd., the boss is Mecca, the president of Xinyicheng, and this film company is also a joint venture between him and Hung Jinbao. Although the relationship between Mecca and Ye Weixin is not good, but there is a relationship with Xinyicheng, Ye Weixin is difficult to refuse, and after seeking Lin Xiaozhi's opinion, he still chose to take this play, with a salary of 500,000 for Yidu Entertainment Co., Ltd., it took nearly three months to shoot, and the film was just finished recently.

Not surprisingly, this drama may be released in May and June, pointing to the summer file.

Time always flies on busy days. I haven't felt it yet, it's been more than half a month since I started it in a blink of an eye, but the movie process has never been fast, because Lin Xiaozhi's requirements are not low, and the movie requires a lot of electronic technology and computers, although Lin Xiaozhi invited Lan Naicai, and invited several experts who are proficient in using computers to join the crew through his relationship, but some of the equipment in the movie still can't stand scrutiny

As a result, it has been two weeks since the release of "A Comic Book Goes to the World", and at the same time, He Fan's new drama "Cheating Treasure" has also begun the most post-release promotion, and the filming progress of his new movie "Red Alert" has only just completed about one-fifth, and it is a bit suspenseful to catch up with the release of this year's summer file. This also made him start to think about whether he should choose to cooperate with some companies that are good at this way.

Although it has entered the nineties, but looking at the whole world, there are not many companies that are proficient in computer applications, after all, computers are not as popular as the Internet era, and in this period when the Internet has not yet entered thousands of households, most of the companies that are mainly good at producing and using computer-related equipment are European and American enterprises

Lin Xiaozhi once considered contacting IHNL Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and other companies, and it was common for large-scale film shooting companies to cooperate and even solicit sponsorship in later generations, and it was the same in the United States during this period. But in the end, he gave up this idea, the arrogance of the blue giant has been for a long time, he sent the company's vice president Chen Qiang to contact IHN, there directly offered a price of two million, and at the same time asked all the equipment needed for the filming of their movie to use IHN's own production. That attitude didn't look like cooperation, but felt like charity, although he also knew that his film company was less than one percent of IHN's, but Lin Xiaozhi was still very annoyed by being looked down upon so much.

In 90, Dell only had one office in Hong Kong and dozens of employees, and American computer brands such as HP and Compaq did not even have offices in Hong Kong, and it was said that there were in Taiwan, but he was too lazy to find them

entrusted Lan Naicai to inquire with the circle, and he finally knew the truth. During this period, the sales of American computers in Asia were not good, and ordinary people did not know what the use of computers was. Enterprises buy computers either IHN or Panasonic, Toshiba, and occasionally some also buy Wang An computers and Lenovo assembly machines, the Hong Kong computer market in 1990 is in a wild period.

After thinking about it again and again, Lin Xiaozhi finally sent cooperation intentions to Wang An Computer and Lenovo, two Chinese computer companies.

Although Wang An, the founder of Wang Computer, is Chinese-American, it is also a standard American company headquartered in the United States. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, Wang An's computer is no match for IH Yin's other American computer brands, and it relies on the Chinese identity of the boss to invade the market, but compared with Lenovo, which is still the main business or imports parts from all over the world and then assembles the computer by itself, the strength of Wang An's company, which can design and develop computers by itself, is still first-class.

However, Wang An's computer's response was still too slow, and the intention to cooperate with Xinya was handed over for three or five days, and there was no reply. On the contrary, Lenovo replied on the day that the cooperation intention of Xinya Film Company was sent. Two days later, he took the initiative to send Yang Yuanqing, the deputy manager, to the headquarters of New Asia Film Company in person to negotiate with Chen Qiang, vice president of New Asia, about cooperation.

It was this attitude that made Lin Xiaozhi finally give up Wang An's computer, which was slow to respond, and chose to cooperate with Lenovo Computer. It only took half a day of agreement, Lin Xiaozhi handed over the order of computer equipment and security equipment worth two or three million needed in his new movie "Red Alert" to Lenovo, and in return, Lenovo will send a seven-person team to be stationed in the "Red Alert" crew in the next two months to provide technical assistance to the crew.

With the technical support of Lenovo, in "Red Alert", the filming of the movie scene that has plagued Lin Xiaozhi for a long time using high technology to steal confidential information has finally been solved, although he is still not very satisfied, but after the film is finished, post-production can make up for some regrets caused by the lack of technology.

However, this incident also made Lin Xiaozhi aware of a key weakness of Xinya Films' blockbuster films, and they lacked a computer special effects processing company that could provide them with technical expenses.

In the busy days, the arrival of two good news made Lin Xiaozhi very happy. Meiya and scholars, PC and other companies have successively paid dividends from Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea for films such as "Killer Leon" and "Friends", and the dividends of more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars have made Xinya Film Company, which has just spent a huge amount of money to invest in "Cheng Pao" and also support the filming of the two films "Red Alert" and "Love Letter", and the financial constraints are finally relieved.

With the sale of the distribution rights of "Silly Birthday" and "A Comic Book Goes to the World", the funds returned from New Asia's financial account gradually exceeded 60 million, which was not only enough to support the filming of "Red Alert", but also had an extra surplus of about 20 million.

It has never been Lin Xiaozhi's choice to put money in the bank to eat interest, and when he was still struggling with where to find a new script to invest in making a new movie, Liu Zhenwei, who had disappeared for a month and had not come to the door, came to the door again. On March, after the end of the afternoon filming, Lin Xiaozhi announced his disbandment in the crew that had been busy for a day, and there would be no night scenes this night. It has been delayed for more than a month, and the small celebration banquet of "Silly Guy's Birthday" is finally coming