The storm caused by the Merry Case and the Silver Rooster Case made people panic in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in August.

The entertainment industry has never been a clean place, especially in Hong Kong, where wealth is highly concentrated and rich people gather, the so-called upper class, especially the pursuit of female stars and female artists, leads to unspoken rules such as 'celebrity dinners'. Not only some low-level artists who are eager to become enlightened are happy to do this, but even some well-known superstars can hardly refuse the temptation of coming to the proud door, leaving a lot of topics.

Lin Xiaozhi straightened his collar, and then gently knocked on the door of Qiu Degen's office.

"Come in ......"

An old male voice came from inside the house, and Lin Xiaozhi immediately pushed the door and walked in.

Chairman ...... Yesterday, Debao Cinema drew our movie offline, here is my box office data and follow-up overseas distribution and video release plan, as well as New Asia's plan for the next six months, please take a look! ”

He stepped forward respectfully and placed the documents he had carefully prepared on Qiu Degen's desk, waiting for him to review them.

"It's you, just take these documents to your President Wang for approval, how can you bring them to me?"

When he came in, Qiu Degen was looking down as if he was processing the documents, and found that the person who came in was him, Qiu Degen was obviously a little surprised, but although he said this, he put down the work at hand and directly picked up the documents he placed on his desk and read them.

“…… Chairman, there are data on the box office of the movie, overseas distribution and video tape publishing plans, and I have prepared a copy and sent it to Mr. Wang. However, this is related to the plan of New Asia in the next six months, but it can only be approved by you personally, because this plan is based on the continued expansion of New Asia, and Mr. Wang is more strict about the financial card, if we can't get your approval, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to get financial support from him, even if the company is now relying on the hot sales of the two films, it is difficult for the financial situation to improve! ”

Lin Xiaozhi looked at Qiu Degen, who was looking down at the documents, and his eyes flickered from time to time in his answer. After a period of side scrutiny, he was already very sure that Qiu Degen had unimaginable feelings for Xinya, the seemingly most inconspicuous film company under his name. Lin Xiaozhi inquired about the story of Qiu Degen and his ex-wife who died early, and sometimes he even wondered if Qiu Degen regarded this film company as his past memories with his ex-wife. At ATV, he would be furious at the overuse of millions in procurement, and hold a high-level meeting to reprimand the relevant managers. But for the film company's continuous losses, he did not frown and allocated huge sums of money one after another to shoot new movies in this hole.

His tolerance and dedication to the film company made Lin Xiaozhi see an opportunity. After working with Wang Jia'an for a period of time, he became more and more sure in his heart that this product had no intention of growing New Asia at all, deducting investment funds and refusing to expand employees many times, if it hadn't angered Zheng Zeshi, he was forced to contact Qiu Degen to intervene in New Asia personally, even if there was Lin Xiaozhi, a butterfly, he could at most make a sum of money and leave, and he couldn't stop the decline of New Asia at all.

Qiu Degen and Wang Jia'an, one wants to develop and grow New Asia, but the other wants to end New Asia's business as soon as possible, and the contradiction between the two is almost irreconcilable. And the half-year plan carefully prepared by him, Lin Xiaozhi can be said to have pinpointed Qiu Degen's pulse, and many of the plans summarized by him in combination with the experience of the development and growth of many film companies, he didn't believe that he couldn't scratch the itch in Qiu Tycoon's heart.

"Really?" Qiu Degen responded, and when he heard Lin Xiaozhi mention that Wang Jia'an was tightening his finances, his brows were clearly wrinkled, but he quickly stretched out again, and nodded again and again with a smile on his face: "Not bad, not bad." The two films invested by New Asia this year have made a good start, "Maoshan" has not yet been painted, and the box office has exceeded 11 million; Your "I'm Crazy for You" is not bad, the box office stopped at 9.74 million, and it is a pity that it failed to break through 10 million. However, based on the investment cost of more than 2 million, it really makes a lot of money! By the way, why did Debao draw this movie in a hurry? ”

"This ......" Lin Xiaozhi pretended to be a little hesitant, seeing that he had attracted Qiu Degen's attention, he raised his head and sat quietly waiting for his reply, before replying: "Something happened, the romantic case and the silver rooster case that the media have been hyping up recently, and a heroine of "I'm Crazy for Qing" was involved. Debao Cinema Line is newly built, and I am worried that it will affect my reputation, so I unilaterally announced yesterday that we will draw our movie! ”

"Who got involved?" The affair case has been making a lot of noise recently, and Qiu Degen has also heard about it, frowning and asking, his voice a little displeased, "Those two restless sisters again?" ”

Miss Asia was promoted by him, although it was an imitation of Miss Hong Kong, Qiu Degen didn't want Sister Asia's beauty pageant to really become a contest in the mouth of the media to hide dirt and dirt, which would damage ATV's reputation.

Lin Xiaozhi recalled the change in the expressions of the two yesterday, shook his head and said: "It should be that Taiwanese baby, I sent someone to inquire, she has not been popular in Hong Kong for two years, and it is not impossible to take some dinners or want to climb into some rich and famous directors!" ”

For such a thing, both of them look very lightly. ATV's annual advertising investment and Qiu Degen's own company's banquet, he will use his status as a boss to bring some artists over to accompany the wine, the same thing is available in major film companies and even wireless, the reason why Lin Xiaozhi was so angry yesterday was entirely because the movie was implicated and painted, which affected the box office.

However, this matter may also affect the company's reputation, he told Qiu Degen about the matter in confidence, and then finished talking about his worries, and listened to him readily: "There is some trouble on the media side, and they may not give in easily for the sake of sales." But it's nothing on the police side, Hong Kong has always paid attention to the protection of individuals**, I will let people go over and say hello! ”

He answered the matter, even if it was revealed.

Qiu Degen quickly finished reading his distribution plan and asked: "I have already finished reading this plan, we have our own distribution channels for New Asia, why do you want to cooperate with Meiya?" ”

"Because their channels are more powerful than ours, especially in Southeast Asia! This is an era when channels are king, and I have investigated the income of Golden Harvest and New Art City in recent years, especially Golden Harvest...... Since the rise of New Arts City, Golden Harvest has faced the competition of New Arts City, Shaw Brothers and Debao in the Hong Kong local market, and the box office revenue of this port has decreased year after year, but according to the data I collected, this giant in the Hong Kong film industry has not succumbed to New Arts City as the outside world thinks, on the contrary, since 81 years after testing the American market again with "Cannonball Speed", almost every year, Golden Harvest has two or three films that can be released in the United States, and continues to bring millions of dollars to Golden Harvest every year. At the same time, relying on Cheng Long's trump card, after Bruce Lee's death, the Japanese market, which had closed the door to Golden Harvest, was reopened to Golden Harvest, and the profits that can be brought to Golden Harvest every year are extremely amazing! ”

Bruce Lee can be called a myth in the history of Hong Kong films, the 50s and 60s are definitely the most glorious period of Japanese films, a large number of Japanese films flow into Hong Kong every year, and the food, clothing, and pop culture from Japan affect the lives of Hong Kong people. However, in 1974, this situation was reversed, and in this year, Golden Harvest not only entered the Japanese market with Bruce Lee's three films, but also ranked among the top five at the Japanese box office that year, shocking the entire Asian film industry. These three movies are "Jingwumen", "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Enter the Dragon", of which "Jingwumen" won 17. At the box office of 3.2 billion yen, "Tangshan Big Brother" won 14 in Japan. 2.3 billion yen box office, "Enter the Dragon" is even more remarkable, with a total box office of up to 3 billion yen, almost won the Japanese box office champion that year, Golden Harvest with Bruce Lee, the emperor superstar, not only opened the door to Japan, but also in the following years, plundered more than 3 billion yen from Japan.

It's a pity that God is jealous of talent, Bruce Lee died unexpectedly a few years later, and Japan was immediately closed to Hong Kong films, and no Hong Kong film could achieve more than 100 million yen at the box office in Japan within a few years, and this situation did not change until 80 years when Golden Harvest rediscovered Cheng Long, the successor of Bruce Lee.

Every day when he goes to work, except for the busy days after the movie screening, Lin Xiaozhi is very free at other times. Backed by the big tree of ATV, from ATV's database, he can get a large amount of data in the Hong Kong film and television industry, and today he came to see Qiu Degen, Lin Xiaozhi's preparation is not sufficient.

In 80 years, Golden Harvest re-supported Cheng Long, and "Killer Trench" once again opened the door to Japan and won 9. 400 million yen at the box office; At the end of the same year, "Junior Brother Out of the Horse" consolidated the position of Golden Harvest to 11. With a box office of 3.4 billion, it ranks 13th in Japan at the annual box office. In 82, "Young Master Dragon" was 10 at the box office. 800 million; 83 years, "One and a Half Tricks into the Rivers and Lakes" 10. 200 million; In 84, "Five Lucky Stars" won 1.5 billion at the box office, and Golden Harvest's other "A Scheme" won 3.1 billion yen at the box office, surpassing Bruce Lee's highest box office record in Japan and becoming the second best-selling Chinese film in Japan after "Shaolin Temple". In the past few years, "Weilong Detective" 11. 900 million, "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" 13. 600 million, "Food Truck" 2 billion, "Police Story" 18. 900 million, last year's "A Plan Sequel" Golden Harvest won 20 again. 900 million yen box office ...... According to my statistics, in the past eight years, the Japanese market has provided Golden Harvest with nearly 100 million US dollars, equivalent to about 7 Hong Kong dollars. 100 million. In the past 8 years, Golden Harvest's main box office revenue has been 12. 400 million Hong Kong dollars, net profit of about 5. about 800 million; In the past seven years, the total box office revenue of New Arts City in the city has been 14. 7.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, net profit of about 700 million. In terms of overseas market development, New Arts City only focuses on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and this short-sighted vision has led to the overseas box office revenue of New Arts City in the past seven years has been less than 200 million Hong Kong dollars......"

Lin Xiaozhi's eyes flashed, it was the integration of these data during this period of time that he finally understood why Jiahe was able to survive the Shaw Brothers and drag down Debao and Xinyicheng in history, because the income from other cities has accounted for more than half of Jiahe's income. It's a pity that a generation of film tycoon Zou Minhuai, if it weren't for the fact that this master later slowed down the filming and investment in the development of overseas markets, Golden Harvest was involved in real estate development without doing business, and suffered a heavy blow after the Asian financial crisis, resulting in a huge loss of more than 2 billion. After the new century, Golden Harvest has not been able to continue its myth and become the last pillar of Hong Kong films.

Qiu Degen frowned and nodded from time to time when he heard this, looking at Lin Xiaozhi who was talking like no one in front of him, and there was a lot of brilliance in his eyes.

At the beginning, he ordered Wang Jiaan to promote Lin Xiaozhi to executive director, although there were reasons why he was deeply impressed when they first met. is more dislike Lin Baixin stretched out his hand to the film company he valued, wanting to do a trick to kill, first, to divide the relationship between Wang Jia'an and Lin Xiaozhi, and secondly, when Lin Xiaozhizhi was full of flaws, he could justifiably drive him out. However, Lin Xiaozhi's excellent performance at the high-level meeting, especially the operation and publicity methods of the movie "I'm Crazy for Qing", made him have a better impression of the Lin family junior in front of him.

Zheng Zeshi's "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" was successful, and Qiu Degen was not surprised. The investment is more than "I'm Crazy for Qing", in order to keep the disgruntled Zheng Zeshi, although he said that he allocated 2 million, in fact, he gave another 3 million for him to make films. Zheng Zeshi's connections are also far above Lin Xiaozhi, and he also brings together the already well-known 86-year Asian sister champion Li Zhi, ghost queen Wang Xiaofeng, ace host Lou Nanguang, gold medal green leaf Wu Junru, and the four villains Cheng Kuian, and the zombie Taoist Lin Zhengying and another Taoist Zhong Fa also played a cameo role in the movie, if such a huge lineup can't achieve some results, he really has to doubt Zheng Zeshi's ability.

This young man is amazing!

It's not the first time that Qiu Degen has had this kind of idea, taking advantage of Lin Xiaozhi's high-minded talk, he quickly finished reading the half-year development plan at a glance, and then said: "Since you have an idea, and you are also the main investor in that movie, you can see how to distribute it yourself." Mr. Wang, I will go and inform you, and if you don't negotiate with Meiya, you will let us do it ourselves. ”

Yang Yang raised the development plan, "Now, tell me about this plan and your views on New Asia!" ”

It's finally here!

Lin Xiaozhi's heart jumped, and he meditated for a while, and then he suppressed his excitement, and said bluntly: "Chairman, I think the current Xinya is very bad, and I have been in the company for a while, if it weren't for the bottom of the film company, I don't think this is a film company that wants to develop......"

"Oh......" Qiu Degen was stunned, but he didn't expect that he didn't explain the development plan he had just read, but instead said such a paragraph, "Then you can talk about it, what a bad ...... method"

"Yes...... I think Xinya is very bad now, I have just set up the distribution department, publicity and advertising are an empty shelf, there is no professional approval for finance, the company wants to develop, but the top management is restricting financial allocation, and is unwilling to pay for more people. But even making movies is unwillingly unwilling to pay for making excuses, which is not only unacceptable to Director Zheng, but also difficult for me to understand. The film company is reluctant to invest in making films, unwilling to grow and grow, what else do you want it to do, keep it as a souvenir? ”

In an instant, Lin Xiaozhi raised his heart to his throat, he was betting, betting that Qiu Degen valued Xinya far more than he imagined, and even more bet that he was becoming more and more dissatisfied with Wang Jia'an!

His eyes stole a glance at Qiu Degen, and sure enough, his face sank when he heard this. It took a long time before he sighed and said, "Then what do you think should be done to solve this situation?" ”

"It's very simple, New Asia needs a new president!"