Volume 1 Chapter 420 - The Great Action (Part II)

As a direct competitor of Lin Xiaozhi's "Cheng Pao", although with the strong rise of another rival "Next Magazine" in the past year, the most important backyard of "Oriental Daily" - entertainment news has been robbed of many readers, and the focus of defense has shifted to "Next Magazine". But if you have the opportunity to give each other some eye medicine, "Oriental Daily" will never give up on this.

For example, this time, I noticed that the entertainment industry and all walks of life in Hong Kong questioned Lin Xiaozhi and his Media, and "Oriental Daily" was the first to stand up and question the inaction of Media Asia and Lin Xiaozhi.

“…… After Beijing appealed for assistance from the outside world, Hong Kong took the lead in responding to the mainland's call and people from all walks of life enthusiastically donated money to the people in the disaster-stricken areas, raising nearly 500 million Hong Kong dollars in donations for the people in the disaster-stricken areas in just one week. Among them, in addition to the business community, the entertainment industry is particularly active in this donation. The executives of major film companies and TV stations in Hong Kong have donated money to help, and have contributed more than 100 million donations in a short period of time, which has attracted the attention of all walks of life in Hong Kong. What is unpredictable is that Lin Xiaozhi, who is close to the mainland in Hong Kong, did not respond to this round of entertainment industry donations. As one of the only two listed film group companies in Hong Kong, it is not an exaggeration to say that Media Asia Group is a leader in the industry in terms of scale, but as of yesterday, Media Asia has not announced any donation propositions, which makes people suspicious."

It has to be said that the Oriental Daily has made a bad start. As soon as its doubts saw the newspaper, all kinds of doubts came one after another, and all kinds of unintentional ink were poured on Huanya and Lin Xiaozhi.

"The stingy behavior of the new tycoon Lin Xiaozhi has aroused doubts, and the failure to donate a single cent from the flood in East China has aroused criticism from all walks of life"

"There is no big company, but there is no virtue of a big company, and people in the industry bombard Huanya for being stingy"

Lin Xiaozhi did not express his stance on donating to the mainland, which is suspected to be related to the cold treatment of the mainland when he led his team north a few days ago......

"Media Asia's artists donated to the mainland in their private names, and said in an interview that they had not received a unified donation statement from the company......"

Throwing the newspaper on the table, Lin Xiaozhi sneered on his face, "The urine of the media, I think that Golden Harvest has been in the limelight recently, and we will have to compare it sooner or later."

What kind of people in the industry bombarded Huanya for being stingy, and it was not a filmmaker who was out of gas ten years ago behind Golden Harvest, relying on his former fame to howl twice.

“…… The media dares to publish anything for the sake of the topic. However, Lin Dong, Golden Harvest's offensive has become more and more aggressive recently......"

Xian Qiran is in Lin Xiaozhi's office, as the president of Debao and one of the directors of Media Asia Group, he knows all the actions of Lin Xiaozhi, and because he is so calm, the reason why he came here today is mainly because Lin Xiaozhi wrote a script for Ye Weixin a few years ago, this young man took the script and went to film with the investment of Media Asia, and after filming for half a year, it was finally completed recently and post-production began, and it was not surprising that it could be released in October and November. Xian Qiran is more optimistic about Ye Weixin's new drama, so he came over this time, hoping that Lin Xiaozhi would agree to put his new drama under the name of Debao.

Lin Xiaozhi nodded, he also felt that in the past few months, Jiahe's attitude has become more and more aggressive, completely changing the strategy of treating Xinyicheng and Princess Jin as the first enemy a year ago, and now they have put them in the position of the main competitor. As a result, Golden Harvest has a lot of new plans recently, and it can be seen that they are all formulated for Media Asia.

"Golden Harvest has recently been listed, and it is okay for us to avoid it recently. The main thing is that the box office of their "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", I didn't expect it to be so good, it seems that our "Resident Evil" will not come out, and we will have to make them proud for a while"

Golden Harvest's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" landed in the European market a week ago, and that movie originally grossed more than $90 million in North America, nearly 100 million. Although everyone guessed that it would not be bad to land at the European box office, as soon as the box office came out in the first week, Lin Xiaozhi's eyelids jumped. In the first week of its landing in Europe, the total box office of Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy exceeded $30 million, and it is conservatively estimated that it is likely to exceed $100 million when Europe is painted.

It is precisely with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as the foundation that Golden Harvest and Zou Wenhuai will be so confident, and they have recently been aggressive in Hong Kong, which has made the top management of Media Asia begin to be a little restless. However, Lin Xiaozhi is not in a hurry at all, the copyright of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series can still be eaten for two years, and as soon as the copyright use right expires, Zou Minhuai will either pretend to be his grandson to accept the blackmail of Phantom Studio, and give up part of the profits in exchange for continuing to use it, otherwise it will be difficult to rely on the signboard of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to sell the show.

Let's enter the mainland, Zou Minhuai's 89-year friendship with the mainland is a self-cut back road, and Golden Harvest has invested in "Cousin, Hello Wild" in the past two years, two or two movies that have been blacklisted by several bigwigs in Zhongnanhai to smear the mainland, and the connections that have been established in the mainland in the early years have almost ruined. Jiahe is only thinking about taking advantage of the flood to show goodwill to the mainland now, but it is difficult to see if he Lin Xiaozhi gives Jiahe this opportunity

Looking at Xian Qiran, Lin Xiaozhi frowned slightly, in his heart, his original positioning for the two film companies of New Asia and Debao was not biased, after all, Debao has no experience in entering overseas markets, and its influence is more concentrated in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Therefore, he asked New Asia to make blockbusters mainly in the European and American markets. With a prolific mix of low-budget films, it is right to secure the source of Turbow cinemas and maintain Media Asia's presence in Southeast Asia. However, Xian Qiran is obviously not only willing to let Debao only make small-budget movies, no, now he is eyeing Ye Weixin's new work with a script written by him himself.

Although Lin Xiaozhi has only shot three movies himself so far, he has written more than three scripts. Among the blockbuster movies of New Asia in the first two years, at least six or seven percent of the scripts were written by him, and he has long been recognized as a screenwriter by the industry. If it weren't for the fact that he was from a wealthy family and was the big boss of Media Asia, it is estimated that there would be no fewer people who wanted to book a script with him.

Xian Qiran saw this, so he wanted to put Ye Weixin's new movie under the name of Debao, and take the opportunity to make Debao famous in Europe and the United States.

After pondering for a while, Lin Xiaozhi finally felt that this head could not be opened easily, and after thinking about it, he said: "Mr. Xian, you just wanted to put Ashin's new movie under the name of Debao, and I can't agree to this, because it has been planned under the name of Xinya before." However, if you have an idea for Debao to try to expand overseas, it is worth encouraging, so when the filming grant for next quarter is formulated, I will add 30 million to Debao side. But Mr. Xian, I have to warn you. Traditional Hong Kong films are not popular overseas, and the scripts of each of our films that focus on overseas are carefully prepared and created after studying the aesthetics and preferences of overseas audiences, so there will be a scene where several films have gained a firm foothold overseas. The real situation is not that the higher the investment in Hong Kong films, the more exquisite and gorgeous the production, the more they will definitely sell well in Europe and the United States......"

Hearing the rejected answer from his mouth, Xian Qiran couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Fortunately, hearing that Lin Xiaozhi promised to add 30 million to Debao next quarter made him a little happy, this fund is enough to shoot two or three medium-cost movies, and it is almost enough to save a little money to make a blockbuster. However, Lin Xiaozhi's last short words were also poured down like a basin of cold water, cooling down his fiery thoughts.

After a while, he nodded to Lin Xiaozhi convincingly: "Lin Dong taught you a lesson!" Yes, I'm too anxious. ”

"It's all the experience of the predecessors, you can not believe it, but you have to listen to it. Golden Harvest has entered the European and American markets since the 70s, and one after another has lost money and hit the streets, in exchange for the big sales of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". I summarized the failure of Golden Harvest, and the success of some Japanese commercial films in Europe and the United States, only then did the previous success, European and American whites are very different from us in terms of culture and values, and it is inevitable to blindly go on the street without understanding their preferences. Needless to say, I have to go to Chengbao Newspaper, Media Asia has been silent for more than a week, it's time to give those who jump up and down, eye medicine"