The spoon gently stirred the coffee cup, Lin Xiaozhi tore open the sugar bag, poured a bag of white sugar into the coffee cup and stirred gently, but his eyes did not look at the movements of his hands at all, but fell on the middle-aged beauty who was sitting opposite him who was looking down at the manuscript paper in her hand and pushing her glasses with her fingers from time to time.

He had been doing this for more than twenty minutes.

After a long time, I saw that the beautiful woman breathed a sigh of relief, took off her glasses, rubbed her eyes that were a little sour because of reading the manuscript for a long time, and looked up at Lin Xiaozhi.

"It's a very good script, Lin Sheng, I can take over this drama......"

This middle-aged beautiful woman is Zhang Wanting, whom Lin Xiaozhi contacted for more than a month.

Picking up the coffee cup, Lin Xiaozhi bowed slightly, "Looking at the whole of Hong Kong, there are really not many directors who are suitable for making this kind of delicate and euphemistic style movie." I had watched Ms. Zhang's "Autumn Fairy Tale" before, and I was deeply touched by the delicate and graceful emotional line of that movie, so I recognized that the director of this movie must be you."

Listening to his praise for him, a big director and a new film company tycoon who is in the limelight in Hong Kong today, Rao is talent is as talented as Zhang Wanting, and his beautiful eyes are bent into two crescents with a smile. But a talented girl is a talented woman, she looked very good because of Lin Xiaozhi's praise, but she still replied unhurriedly: "Lin Sheng has won the award, but I still have two requirements, as long as Lin Sheng can accept it, I will take this play......"

"Please ......"

"First, although the script was created by Lin Sheng, there are some things that are not to my liking, so I ask for the right to modify the script, for example, in the script, you set the story in the bleak season of late autumn, but I think this story should be more poignant in a more solemn winter."

Zhang Wanting's words made Lin Xiaozi's eyelids jump, and he secretly praised in his heart that she was really worthy of the "talented woman of Xiangjiang, known as this woman is indeed talented." In fact, the movie "Love Letter" was originally set in winter. It's just that when he revised it, considering that there was no snow in Hong Kong all year round, and it was not convenient to shoot in winter, he made some modifications to it. But I didn't expect this little jerky feeling to be discovered by Zhang Wanting.

When it comes to taking winter snow scenes, this is the right season. It's just that I definitely have to shoot outside, and it seems that the shooting budget will increase a bit.

A little thought turned slightly in his heart, but he only nodded after a little muttering, "This requirement is reasonable, you are the director of the movie, and you should have the right to reasonably modify the script." I agreed to this request, so let's talk about your second request."

After selling the European and American distribution rights of "Killer Leon", Lin Xiaozhi, who has nearly 100 million more funds in his hands, is not bad for money for the time being, so Zhang Wanting wants to change the script slightly to be closer to the original work in his memory, and when he goes out to shoot, Lin Xiaozhi doesn't care about spending more than 1 million. In this movie, he intends to test the Japanese market, and the little devil's money is not made in vain. Before the turn of the millennium, the Japanese market was relatively easy to enter.

The unexpected decisiveness of his promise made Zhang Wanting's eyes smile a little thicker, and her fingers pinched the spoon and stirred it in the coffee cup she had just added, but her eyes stared at him directly, because she knew that her second request was a little ashamed to speak.

"My second request......" she paused slightly before continuing: "I want my husband Luo Qirui to cooperate with me and co-lead the filming of the movie "Love Letter".

Luo Qirui

Hearing this name, Lin Xiaozhi really hesitated for a while, because Luo Qirui knew who Lu Dao was, it was Zhang Wanting's husband, a director assistant and screenwriter who is not famous in the Hong Kong film industry.

Zhang Wanting met Luo Qirui in 198183 while studying for a master's degree in film at New York University, and the two began dating after graduation. However, it was not until 87 years after the filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale" that the two got engaged, and they got married at the end of last year. When Lin Xiaozhi contacted her before, Zhang Wanting, who had just been married, was spending her honeymoon in Japan with her husband Luo Qirui.

In Hong Kong, especially in the film industry, Zhang Wanting and her husband are a very unique pair. Among the two, the male protagonist and the female protagonist are outside, the wife is more famous than her husband, and there is a well-known director as his wife, although Luo Qirui is also a screenwriter, he also looks bleak under Zhang Wanting's aura. Legend has it that when filming "Autumn Fairy Tale" a few years ago, because she asked her boyfriend Luo Qirui to give her a hand, it also caused a lot of discussion in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Lin Xiaozhi also thought about it for a while before nodding and agreeing.

He has seen the movie "Autumn Fairy Tale", and it is said that the script is Luo Qirui's work. Although Zhang Wanting just opened her mouth to ask, she inevitably felt a little strange awkwardness in her heart. But someone who can write such an emotionally delicate script should help make up for his shortcomings.

finally got the director of the play "Love Letter", and Lin Xiaozhi finally let go of a stone in his heart

This film is not only his promise to Chen Baiqiang, but also his high hopes and attempts to open the door to the Japanese film market. In the past year, although Xinya has also contacted Japanese distribution giants such as Kadokawa Pictures, the box office of "Color is Empty" in Japan can only be regarded as average, and it won more than 10,000 yen at the box office of UUUU in about three weeks after its release. In Japan, the box office is only one billion and it is not a blockbuster at all, not even 100 million yen, strictly speaking, it should not even reach the passing line.

With the exception of "Color is Emptiness", the average number of other films sold by Shinya to Kadokawa was not released in Japanese theaters, and the videotape was directly released. Although the purchase was good and bad, the overall result did not satisfy Lin Xiaozhi, who was eager to open up a new market in Japan. The movie "Killer Leon", Xinya is now negotiating with Kadokawa for the release in Japan, and there is no negotiation yet, and Lin Xiaozhi is also worried about whether the film can sell well in Japan, so he has heavier expectations for the movie "Love Letter".

The time has just entered 1990, and on October 4, after getting the investment money from New Asia, "Qin Warriors" directed by Cheng Xiaodong was officially announced. Because of the impact of last year's storm, several political prisoners fled to Hong Kong through the protection of film companies, which caused dissatisfaction on the mainland, so there are some objections to their application to go to the mainland for filming.

According to the notice sent by the crew, they will stay in Hong Kong for a few days first, shoot a few modern dramas in the cinema here in Hong Kong, and the crew will go to the mainland as a whole team around the middle of the month.

At that time, Xinya Film Company will send a financial and a producer to follow the team, and the finance is fine, but Lin Xiaozhi attaches great importance to that production quota. After repeatedly selecting and selecting tiles in the company, I found a staff member named He Jian from the distribution department, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve five years old, who immigrated to Hong Kong from Shanghai seven years ago, and has no prejudice against the mainland, and has more taboos against the mainland than others

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still a period of time for the crew to leave, Lin Xiaozhi kept him by his side for the past few days, and when he had time, he had to explain to him the purpose and requirements of letting him go to the mainland this time, in order to take this opportunity to establish a cooperation channel with the mainland.