What kind of man is this?

is young, handsome, and looks like he is in his twenties, which should be not much different from Lin Xiaozhi's youth. But at this time, there were a few more bruises on his handsome face, and there were even blood stains on his forehead, and not far behind him, several young men dressed in colorful clothes with sticks in hand and fierce faces were chasing him.

Because of the sudden rush out of the car, the people hesitated slightly, but after two of the people who seemed to be the leader stood together and whispered a few words, they saw that these people moved faster and walked towards them.

"Leave it alone, turn around and go"

Lin Jiannian frowned and said, Hong Kong is a very chaotic city, especially after night, although he is not afraid, he will not help people for no reason. The end of being a good person is to have a grudge with others, and it is the value of businessmen that people do not offend me, I do not offend me, and I do not offend talents.

“…… Yes, boss."

Gao Sen only hesitated for his order and directly started the car engine, apparently preparing to drive straight over.

"Wait......"

Lin Xiaozhi stopped him, and when he came back to his senses, he felt a little familiar when he first saw the young man outside. After carefully recalling it for a while, I suddenly felt a vague figure appear in my head. He thought about it before turning to Lin Jiannian and said, "Dad, the other party may be someone I know, let's help him......"

"Who do you know......" Lin Jiannian pondered for a moment before nodding towards Gao Sen, he didn't have a good impression of gangsters and gangsters. Even if he heard Lin Xiaozhi say that this person knew each other, he saw that the other party was chased and beaten by a few gangsters, and he only regarded it as a friend he met when he didn't learn and didn't know how to do it before, so he naturally didn't have a good feeling.

Gao Sen nodded when he saw him, so he stopped the car, opened the door and got out of the car.

"Made, dare to meddle ......"

As soon as he saw a person walking out of the car, a blonde young man in the lead was stunned for a moment, and then spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm to the side in anger, "Even he taught him a lesson"

"Hey, what's that?"

Although Gao Sen is a special police officer who can fight four or five empty-handed, there are five or six people on the other side, and they are all armed with weapons such as sticks. Therefore, he didn't dare to hold it up, so he got out of the car and directly opened his suit jacket, revealing the holster inside.

Guns are strictly controlled in the UK, but citizens are not allowed to own guns, so many British households have non-automatic, semi-automatic firearms such as those of the Great Powers. Hong Kong has been occupied by the British since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and as the largest arms trading port in the Far East, Hong Kong's black history cannot be washed away. During the War of Liberation, a large number of Kuomintang troops were routed and fled to Hong Kong, and they also brought a large number of stragglers and firearms. The Lin family is no exception, and several of the bodyguards hired have gun licenses.

As soon as the Glock pistol on Gao Sen's waist was revealed, the faces of several thugs changed. There are a lot of civilian firearms in Hong Kong, and naturally there are many people who know how to do it. One of the gangsters was sharp-eyed, and when he arrived, he found that Gao Sen was in possession of a police-issued Glock 17, a special firearm for the personal bodyguards of many wealthy people. I saw that it was a high-end Mercedes-Benz sedan that stopped, and I didn't know where I stopped a rich car outside of myself.

After the thug stopped a few companions and whispered a few words, he saw the blonde young man in the lead glance at Gao Sen with a gloomy face, snorted coldly, pointed at the young man who seemed to have suffered a lot before, and said, "Made, count your luck today." Let's go...

After saying that, he glared at Gao Sen viciously, but he knew that even if this kind of bodyguard had a gun license and legally held a gun, he could not take the initiative to shoot to find trouble, and there were many restrictions.

Gao Sen watched a few people retreat expressionlessly, and only after making sure that there was no danger did he remove his hand from the gun bag pressed on his waist, and straightened his suit to block the gun bag.

"It's okay," he walked over and glanced at the young man who was being chased, and finally remembered that Lin Xiaozhi said that it was his friend

"Xie Lu Xie...... Mr. Xie Lu, Mr. Xie, you come to the rescue."

The young man seemed to have injured his leg, and after escaping with strong support, he could no longer walk. Although he didn't see how Gao Sen scared a few people away, after seeing a few gangsters flee, he fell to the ground and couldn't move.

"My leg hurts my ......," he smiled wryly, "Sir, if it's convenient, can you call an ambulance for me?" ”

Gao Sen saw that one of his legs was slightly twisted, and it should have been discounted just now.

......The door on the driver's seat was opened again, but it was Lin Xiaozhi who found that the young man blocked the door and turned out from the driver's seat over there.

After approaching and looking at it carefully for a while, Lin Xiaozhi immediately determined that he had not recognized the wrong person, and he was too familiar with the young man in front of him, "You are Mr. Ma Rongcheng of Yulang Group."

That's right, this person is Ma Rongcheng, the original creator of "Fengyun", who was respected by later generations as the most successful adaptation of Hong Kong comics, Lin Xiaozhi once served as a drama manager in the crew of "Fengyun", and had a relationship with Ma Rongcheng, who had come to participate in the opening ceremony.

Ma Rongcheng raised his head, the corner of his left eye was red and swollen because he had been beaten before, and now he couldn't open his eyes, but his right eye was fine, and he couldn't bear to look at Lin Xiaozhi painfully, and inhaled in pain: "Sir, do you know me?" ”

"Lin Shao, use your phone to call him an ambulance......

Gao Sen motioned for him to look at Ma Rongcheng's leg, Lin Xiaozhi noticed that his leg had been discounted, and hurriedly apologized: "I didn't notice it, Ma Sheng, you hold on for a while, I'll call an ambulance for you."

He also saw that if his father hadn't heard him say that he knew someone, he wouldn't have been ready to get involved in this matter at all, so he directly took out the phone and dialed the ambulance, but fortunately, there was a hospital nearby, and an ambulance arrived a few minutes later, and Ma Rongcheng, who couldn't help but thank them, and forced Lin Xiaozhi to give a business card, loaded it into the car.

It was just a small episode that Ma Rongcheng, a young talent in the Xiangjiang comic industry, was chased and beaten by gangsters, and the reason why Lin Xiaozhi helped was also based on his identity as the original creator of "Fengyun", and he almost forgot about it the next day.

Since he told his father that he had agreed to get a loan from the family bank, he was also very concerned about this matter. No one thinks they have a lot of money, and Lin Xiaozhi is the same. After returning to the company the next day, he began to get busy with this matter, and after he roughly explained some attention, he handed it over to Sima Jie, who is proficient in law, to handle it, and it took only two and a half days to put the application materials for New Asia Film Company to apply for a large loan from the Bank of Kowloon on Lin Jiannian's shore.

As the oldest and most authoritative film magazine in the UK, the influence of "Sight and Hearing" really made New Asia Company red-eyed, and it was unexpectedly recommended by George Coppero Fils, the editor-in-chief of "Sight and Hearing", and "Killer Leon" was officially recognized by the British. Although the momentum of "Killer Leon" has begun to decline in the third week of its release, after taking in the box office of 9.43 million pounds in the first two weeks of its release, it still earned 3.67 million pounds, which is slightly higher than the box office of some British films released in the same period.

However, from the third week of its release, you can see the essence of a foreign language film. Compared with several French and American films released in the UK during the same period, "Killer Leon" saw a plummeting box office in the fourth week of its release in the UK. It fell by nearly half compared to the third week, and finally ended the release of "Killer Leon" in the UK with a weekly box office of 170,000 pounds.

"Killer Leon" won 1.48 million pounds at the box office in the four weeks of its release in the UK, not only becoming the fourth Hong Kong film to win more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in the UK, but also refreshing the highest Hong Kong film box office record of 740,000 pounds held by Golden Harvest in the UK for "Police Story". Although "Killer Leon" is far inferior to Cheng Long's "Police Story" in terms of fight scenes and personal heroic expressions, it has won praise from many media and filmmakers in the UK.

"The best and most meaningful Asian film I've seen in recent years" – Grande, vice president of the British Film Institute, spoke highly of "Killer Leon": "George recommended a good movie, and they said that "Seeing and Hearing" was always so professional"

Glasgow Herald: "It refers to "Killer Leon" to make many of our audiences who are exposed to Hong Kong movies for the first time feel the charm of oriental culture, God created this world but made this world too big, so that the long distance from Britain to Hong Kong has prevented many British people from remembering Hong Kong, including myself, I only remember that Hong Kong is a dispensable colony that is about to be robbed by the Chinese, so that I ignore the people living there, the culture they created"

Daily Mail: "In the UK, Hong Kong film lovers are mostly immigrants and people of color, compared to Jack Cheng's films, "Killer Leon" is undoubtedly 'terrible, terrible. Its fights are so unsatisfying that many Hong Kong film lovers have complained about wasting £3. But we should see the progress of Hong Kong cinema, "Killer Leon" has made millions of Britons happy to pay to go into the cinema, and the vast majority of these people are local white, and we interviewed some viewers who have seen this film, and they are happy to give this film a four-star or even five-star review, saying that it is a good film that is not worse than European films......"

In the UK, there are not a few films that exceed 15 million pounds at the box office every year, otherwise the British would not stubbornly set a threshold, believing that any film with a box office that cannot exceed 30 million pounds cannot be a blockbuster. It ended its release in the UK four weeks after its release, and "Killer Leon" only looks at the box office, although it is only one of the dozens of films that have been born in the UK with a box office of more than 10 million this year. However, when the news of its UK box office exceeding £15 million reached Hong Kong, it still caused a huge sensation.

Although the box office of "Killer Leon" also fell to 4.97 million Hong Kong dollars in the fourth week of its release in Hong Kong, a decrease of nearly 30% from the previous week, but there was no blockbuster or no movie that could threaten it in Hong Kong in November.

As a newspaper that had interviewed Lin Xiaozhi, Fan Hongwei, editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of "Cheng Pao", immediately sensed the opportunity and took the lead in handing Lin Xiaozhi an invitation for an interview.

“…… We never thought that the film would be successful in the UK, and it was a surprise that "Killer Leon" would sell out."

In an interview with Sing Pao in a private room of a café that afternoon, Lam Hsiao-chi was more calm and comfortable than he had been a few months ago, "Hong Kong is too small, and as a city it is huge. But if you want to feed a film industry, relying only on the local market is too limited. It's okay if it's just to make some money, but if a film company wants to become bigger and stronger, it will definitely not be able to rely on the local port alone. New Asia has been learning from Golden Harvest, but Golden Harvest has chosen to focus on the North American market, and we think that New Asia does not have the strength and channels of Golden Harvest, so we chose to test the waters in the UK, after all, Hong Kong films are now released in the UK There are a lot of conveniences!"

This interview is different from the last time, there are only two people, Lin Xiaozhi and Fan Hongwei, which is also requested by Lin Xiaozhi, the two are more like friends communicating, but there is no deliberate preparation.

"Lin Dong, the development momentum of New Asia is very fast this year, can you talk about your experience?" Although he turned on the tape recorder, Fan Hongwei still spread out the pen and paper and wrote down some important questions.

The experience of the reborn cannot be copied, but he who is good at eloquence will also talk nonsense: "No matter what experience we have, we all learned from Jiahe, Xinyicheng, and Debao, and it can be summed up as just a few." Control the cost of films, have a stable team of screenwriters and directors and signed artists, pay attention to the advertising of films, and actively open up foreign markets and broaden income channels. ”

It's not right to say it's nonsense, in fact, Lin Xiaozhi is not wrong about these things. Any film company can do it all, and it will definitely be able to develop. It's just that these few seem simple, but how many film companies can do it?

There are really few in Hong Kong, seventy or eighty percent of hundreds of film companies are leather bag film companies, a director, a screenwriter or even an actor, when he finds a script, he dares to take the money everywhere to find a crew to shoot, and Lin Xiaozhi really hasn't seen a few real film companies in Hong Kong. In addition to the Big Three, Yongsheng, Xinya, and Artseng, even Hong Jinbao's Baohe, Cheng Long's Weihe, Xu Ke's Xu Ke Studio Company, Wu Yusen's Wu Yusen Studio, and even Deng Guangrong's Ying Zhijie all belong to the nature of Leather Bag Film Company.

Although Lin Xiaozhi was surprised to answer this question, his ambiguous answer, although Fan Hongwei wrote it down, was still not satisfied

"I heard that the great director of Hong Kong Fengyue film, He Fan, recently signed a contract with New Asia and is ready to make a new movie. So Lin Dong, is his new movie still a Fengyue film? I remember that Lin Dong is also a good screenwriter, and even created several popular Fengyue film scripts by himself, could it be that Director He's movie script is still from Lin Dong himself? Lin Dong was born in a wealthy family, isn't he worried about the criticism of some media? Recently, there have been rumors that Xinya has started the filming of several movies at the same time, and Lin Dong conveniently revealed, is this news true or false? ”

He asked a number of questions in one breath, but Lin Xiaozhi pondered for a while before organizing the language, "Director He did sign a contract with our Xinya to make a new movie, and the script is still from me, and it is also a Fengyue film script." As for New Asia's recent film shooting arrangements, it's no secret now. We now have three films in the pipeline at the same time, and one is in the pipeline waiting to be released. At present, there are already movies that are nearing the end of filming, and they may be able to meet you at the end of this year or early next year. ”

He paused for a moment before answering Fan Hongwei's question about Fengyue films: "As for Editor-in-Chief Fan asking me why I want to make Fengyue films, I am worried that I will be criticized by others, I don't think this is actually a problem. Fengyue films were born not long after the birth of movies, and many Fengyue films are sold every year, which itself also proves that there is a market for movies of this type and theme. As for other people's criticism, if your mouth grows on others, can you still prevent others from talking......"

He smiled, "In the past year, no matter whether I did well or badly, there were always people who pulled their pigtails and said irresponsible things, just to look at me unpleasantly. For those who don't appreciate me, my answer is just one sentence, 'Those who don't appreciate me, please continue not to appreciate, I appreciate your disappreciation,'" ”

That contemptuous look made Fan Hongwei's eyes light up, especially his last sentence, although the tape recorder next to him was always on, Fan Hongwei still seemed to be afraid of forgetting, quickly wrote this sentence on paper, and the interview of "Cheng Pao" ended here

As the second largest newspaper in Hong Kong, just as the "Oriental Daily" dares to speak about current affairs, entertainment gossip, "Ming Pao" serializes novels, criticizes current affairs, and "Sing Tao Daily" is far more rigorous than other newspapers, "Sing Pao" also has its own style, that is, it likes to interview Hong Kong politicians and business people, and releases an interview with a heavyweight topic person from time to time every month.

Approaching the end of November, Cheng Pao was clearly not in a hurry to release an interview with Lin Xiaozhi. Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi, who was curious to see a report about himself the next day, was disappointed and failed to see a report about himself in "Cheng Pao", but with the end of November, under the green light that Lin Jiannian turned on for him, it took only four days for Lin Xiaozhi to get a loan of 40 million yuan from the Bank of Kowloon before the end of the month. Under his instructions, Zhu Zhishan, who had been negotiating with Mecca to acquire Yibao Records, was once again entrusted with the important task of negotiating with Polygram to wholly acquire all the shares of Xinyibao Records under his name.

Wang Fatzi's speed is very fast, and he has just entered the end of November, and Yongsheng has started the promotion of "God of Gamblers". Obviously, Yongsheng learned a lot of propaganda skills from Xinya, when the latest "Oriental Daily" was placed on his shore, looking at the "Fa Ge Late Night Secret Meeting with the Pretty Lady Zhang Le, the marriage was red light", 丨 Dehua was not convinced by the provocation of the famous crew of the fairy hair, "God of Gamblers" The real investment is actually only 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and other gossip topics, "God of Gamblers" became popular before it was released, and when the fame of "Killer Leon" in Hong Kong was overwhelmed by "Killer Leon" for a while, and became a new focus in the eyes of the media, "Killer Leon" The little pride he brought to him suddenly dissipated.

The entire world is constantly developing, and it is not only him Lin Xiaozhi and Xinya's family who are progressing.

In the fifth week of the release of "Killer Leon" in Hong Kong, the box office has dropped sharply, and the box office in the first three days has been tightly tightened by more than 00,000 Hong Kong dollars, and many private theaters have chosen to paint this movie.

After thinking about it for a few days, Cen Jianxun took the initiative to dial the phone number of Xinya, and communicated with Lin Xiaozhi in advance that he would end the screening of "Killer Leon" after the fifth week of screening.

Although there are some regrets, Lin Xiaozhi has not complained about anything, and the box office of "Killer Leon" in Hong Kong has steadily exceeded 30 million, becoming the first film in New Asia to exceed 30 million at the box office. What's more, more than a month after the release of "Killer Leon", now that its popularity has gradually waned, it is time to paint.

On the 3rd, a sensational news came out again, Zhu Zhishan successfully negotiated with PolyGram, and Lin Xiaozhi acquired the shares of Xinyibao Records held by Polygram for 400,000 Hong Kong dollars. At the press conference of the contract signing, Lin Xiaozhi held up the contract and announced that he would establish Xinya Records based on Disheng Records and Xinyibao Records.

On the second day, "Cheng Pao" released a new interview about him, and even put an exclusive interview about him on the front page of the entertainment section, with only four words in the headline: 'Swallow Xiangjiang,