The next day, Xu is Lin Xiaozhi's red envelope worked, and the Hong Kong media gave a lot of space to report on the celebration of "Water Margin", and even several sets of photos of Lin Xiaozhihao throwing millions to reward the crew at the celebration appeared in the newspaper. Immediately, someone turned up the old news that Lin Xiaozhi had come up with huge bonuses to reward the crew at the past few New Asian celebrations.

Although there was no talk of overwhelming discussions on the streets and alleys for a while, the publicity effect that Lin Xiaozhi wanted was still achieved. New Asia Film Company, which only began to focus on film production last year, has been labeled as not bad for money and bold in Hong Kong, and for a while, the company's phone kept ringing, and many people in the circle called to inquire if New Asia still wants people. What surprised Lin Xiaozhi even more was that he was surprised to send himself to the door.

On August 8th, Lin Xiaozhi went out to supervise the post-production of the film, and on this day, there were unexpectedly more than a dozen manuscripts in the company's submission mailbox, most of which did not pass the review of the manuscript review office that Xinya had just set up, but only one script was kept by Ye Weixin, who personally served as the chief reviewer of the review office, and then sent to Lin Xiaozhi's desk. The script left by him is called "Doll Accompanies Me to the End of the World", although the name of the screenwriter is the name of Liang Jiaren, a martial arts star of Shaw Brothers Film Company in the past, but when Xinya called according to the phone left in the script, the person who answered the phone was a man who claimed to be Zuo Songsheng.

Although there are some suspicions about the original author of the script, this does not affect Lin Xiaozhi to personally send an invitation to Zuo Songsheng and the person who claims to be the real author of the script as the president of New Asia, asking him to take time to come to New Asia to discuss cooperation. Without it, because of this script, Lin Xiaozhi looked at it and in his memory, a well-known movie that should have been born in the past few years, and the plot similarity was as high as more than eighty percent. And the name of that movie is "A Comic Book Goes to the World", which is one of the famous works of star Zhou Xingchi in my memory.

But recently, this man named Zuo Songsheng seems to be a little busy, although he made an appointment with Lin Xiaozhi to come to New Asia to talk about cooperation, but this time was scheduled for the end of the month, according to his own words, he recently took over a movie and was busy shooting, I'm afraid it will be a few days late to come over

After nearly 50 days of shooting, Ye Weixin's new film "Friends" was finally completed in early August and officially entered the post-production stage, which was only slightly slower than Lin Xiaozhi, which surprised him slightly. But when he thinks of the straightforward and simple plot of "Friends", he is not surprised.

Ye Weixin unexpectedly completed it a month earlier than he expected, which made some of Lin Xiaozhi's original ideas come alive. In his opinion, a film with a strong black humor such as "Friends" will be difficult to sell well in Hong Kong. Originally, he asked Ye Weixin to shoot this movie in order to focus on overseas markets, pointing at the United Kingdom and even Europe and the United States. Originally, he thought that it would be difficult for Ye Weixin, who was filming very slowly, to finish at the end of August, but who expected that he would complete the initial shooting of the film in early August, which undoubtedly made his mind lively, because being able to shoot in this time period means that they have great hopes to participate in the "Venice International Film Festival" from the end of August to the beginning of September.

Different from the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which has no influence at all, the "Venice International Film Festival" has been established for more than half a century, and after more than 50 years of development, it has become one of the three major international film festivals in the world along with the Cannes International Film Festival in France and the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. As long as they make a little success at the festival, their films are likely to become instant hits and be exported to Europe and the United States.

Last year, Wong Jiawei's "Mong Kok Carmen", it was precisely because of the praise of the jury at the "Cannes Film Festival" that it sold the distribution rights of Britain, France and Germany at the prices of 500,000 pounds, 10,000 francs, and 900,000 marks respectively, so that Deng Guangrong's film company made tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in Europe.

This year's "Venice International Film Festival" is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Lin Xiaozhi, who has always been eager to open up the European market.

As for the stake in New Asia, Meiya, who obviously does not have its own film production company, is far more active than Lin Xiaozhi. On the night of the 6th, they reached a preliminary oral agreement, Xu was worried that the night would be long and dreamy, and on the 10th, he printed the contract, and then gave Xinya a phone number, agreeing that Lin Xiaozhi would contact the law firm for notarization, complete the shareholding signing procedures, and invest 50 million Hong Kong dollars in New Asia Films, in exchange for 30% of New Asia's shares.

However, the final signing of this contract still experienced some twists and turns, such as the two sides did not fully reach a consensus on some treaties. Meiya's stake in Xinya itself is to supplement the lack of its high-quality film sources, and naturally wants to take all of Xinya's overseas distribution rights in the contract, leaving Xinya with foreign ports and a few markets that are ignored by Meiya, which Lin Xiaozhi simply cannot allow.

The two sides negotiated fiercely around this point for several days, and even Lin Xiaozhi and Li Guoxing slapped the table because of this, and finally made some concessions in order to avoid the bankruptcy of this win-win shareholding plan. On New Asia's side, Lin Xiaozhi chose to completely give up foreign ports in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Singapore, which are most important to the United States, and even the Korean market, which has gradually become popular in recent years, was given to Meiya, and the distribution of video tapes in Hong Kong and Macao was also fully handed over to Meiya to do, for which he himself terminated New Asia's acquisition of a local video tape production company in Hong Kong.

In exchange, Meiya also frowned and confirmed that the two most profitable markets in Hong Kong and other ports, Taiwan and Japan were in the hands of New Asia. Although Li Guoxing also knows that Europe and the United States are the importance of Japan and Europe and the United States, but Meiya's strength cannot cover these regions, so after making a compromise in New Asia, and the local video tape market was handed over to Meiya to do, he finally pinched his nose and admitted it.

The agreement for AIG to take a stake in New Asia was finally signed on August 19. Despite the news blockade of New Asia, there are still some movements in the news of Meiya's shareholding. It's not surprising that Hong Kong is so big that even the slightest breeze and waves can be captured, not to mention the recent hot topic in the media, Lin Xiaozhi, the president of New Asia Films, who has frequent contact with Li Guoxing, chairman of Hong Kong's largest distributor, Meiya.

The two of them already have some eyes and ears around them, and the first few contacts can be understood as that Xinya is preparing to use Meiya's distribution channels to sell the two movies that have only recently been painted under their names. But such contacts can often be negotiated at most a few times, where is it so frequent. Suddenly, there were some rumors that the two companies were seeking cooperation between them, and some rumors began to circulate, which attracted the industry's top executives to pay attention to the two companies that have recently come close, and speculated whether there would be some stories.

With the signing of the agreement for Li Guoxing's stake in New Asia, a buyout agreement was also signed. Meiya bought out the Southeast Asian distribution and video release rights of the films "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" and "Water Margin" at a price of more than 14 million. The price is far cheaper than the money that Meiya spent on New Asia before, and since it is already a major shareholder of New Asia, some preferential and privileges are also enjoyed.

In 89 years of Hong Kong, involving nearly 100 million funds, it is really not a small matter for Meiya to invest in New Asia. Both Li Guoxing and Lin Xiaozhi themselves were interested in taking the opportunity to promote their companies, so the views of the two sides coincided, and a consensus was quickly reached that a press conference would be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in August.

Lin Xiaozhi is not the kind of person who likes to hand over the initiative to others to operate, so he replied to Li Guoxing's decision to hold a press conference in the name of Meiya and took over the errand himself.

With such a good publicity opportunity, Lin Xiaozhi naturally will not let it go. On the lth, more than half of the media in Hong Kong received the invitation of New Asia.

Although many media are very puzzled by the sudden invitation of New Asia and Lin Xiaozhi, New Asia and its young president have faintly become one of the center of topics in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and basically all the media who received the invitation came. Even because the movement was too big, some of the second and third media who did not receive the invitation also sent their own reporters to the Shangri-La Hotel.

The result naturally did not disappoint them, and the banner hanging at the entrance of the Shangri-La Hotel to celebrate the signing of a cooperation between New Asia Film Production Company and Meiya Entertainment Company has already made the media who do not rush to the scene unable to help but gossip, and began to speculate whether New Asia Film Company really has reached any cooperation with Hong Kong's largest distribution company. For example, the distribution giant Meiya spent a lot of money to acquire the film company New Asia, which is now in the limelight in the Hong Kong film industry?

As the largest distributor in Hong Kong, Meiya has almost monopolized more than half of Hong Kong's film distribution channels under the leadership of Li Guoxing. In recent years, as the Big Three Golden Harvest, Golden Princess and Debao have begun to intervene in overseas distribution, the war of the four major publishers has been fought from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia and back to Hong Kong. In the past few years, Meiya was able to take advantage of the distribution channels that had been built for many years to gain the upper hand in the face of the advance of the Hong Kong Big Three. But in recent years, as the Big Three began to block the source of Meiya's films, from the satellite companies of the Big Three to other small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong to reduce cooperation with Meiya, in this war of resources, Meiya, which controlled the channels, gradually lost the initiative in the war.

Therefore, Meiya urgently needs to acquire one or even several film companies to make up for the shortcomings of its own film source that is controlled by others, so that it can travel lightly and compete with the Big Three for market share in Southeast Asia. In the past two years, Li Guoxing has contacted many film companies with banknotes, but he is either too strong or too weak, and then he wants the money too ruthlessly, so that Meiya has not been able to fill the gap so far.

Therefore, when I saw this huge banner, and then thought of the senior management of the two companies that I had frequent contact with in the past period of time, many people had this feeling in their hearts

I have to say that there are never a lot of smart people, and they guessed right

Lin Xiaozhi is wearing a black suit today, he prefers the traditional long tie to the bow tie, he tied a dark blue tie that Li Jiaxin personally bought for him, after the designer specially designed the image for him, today he looks extraordinarily spiritual. Today's signing ceremony may be the last time he has presided over as the president of New Asia Film Company, which used to be his personal private property, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't have the position of chairman, anyway, there is also the honorary chairman Qiu Degen, but now there is a major shareholder, but he can't help but disobey the rules and seriously consider taking the position of chairman.

Of course, before a more suitable president is found, Lin Xiaozhi, the president of New Asia, will continue to serve as a concurrent.

"Dear media friends, thank you for taking the time to attend our press conference at New Asia Film Company today to witness the birth of a friendship and cooperation. Now, I would like to announce that AIG Entertainment Co., Ltd. has officially acquired 30 shares of our company with NT$145 million UU00,000,000 and unconditionally provided Xinya with an unsecured loan of nearly NT$100 million in Wuxi. From today onwards, New Asia Film Company will work hand in hand with Meiya Entertainment Company for mutual benefit and win-win ......"

Wow

Before Lin Xiaozhi's words were finished, the venue was in an uproar, and all the reporters thought they had heard it wrong, and hurriedly crowded around him to ask questions.

"Mr. Lin, are you saying that Meiya Entertainment Company will invest heavily in Xinya Film Company?"

"Chairman Li, may I ask if Meiya has really finalized this shareholding plan?"

"When it comes to more than 200 million Taiwan dollars, even if it is converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is almost equivalent to more than 80 million Hong Kong dollars, I heard you right......

There was a brief chaos in the venue, Lin Xiaozhi shouted repeatedly, and finally suppressed the chaos, "Everyone...... Everyone, please listen to me...... Listen to me, you heard me right. Our Xinya Company has indeed reached a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Chairman Li's Meiya Company, and Meiya will spend a huge amount of money to invest in our Xinya Film Company, and will become the majority shareholder of Xinya. Please don't be impatient, after my speech with Chairman Li is over, we will set aside a period of time for you to be interviewed."