Chow Yun-fat and John Woo saw Jackie Chan in Lin Xiaozhi's office, and said hello before sitting down, but they were slightly suspicious in their hearts.

Although we haven't cooperated much before, Hong Kong is not big, and they all eat movies, and Chow Yun-fat, John Woo and Jackie Chan also maintain a certain degree of contact.

So although I know that Jackie Chan has gradually shifted his focus to his film company in recent years, he is a superstar who was picked up by the former Hong Kong film overlord Golden Harvest, and even if he makes movies, he basically cooperates with Golden Harvest, and he will appear in Lin Xiaozhi's office, which inevitably makes people have some thoughts in their hearts.

Jackie Chan obviously knew that the two of them were only afraid of having ideas, although they pretended not to care and chatted without a word, but their expressions were still somewhat unnatural. After all, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, he can be regarded as an artist who has climbed to the top, at this time, the Hong Kong film industry because of the arrival of Lin Xiaozhi, still maintains the pattern of giant confrontation born since the 60s, once the artist is labeled as an industry giant, even if he is a superstar who is respected as a box office guarantee, it will inevitably be dirty to take on other movies.

At this point, Jackie Chan is far less comfortable than Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow, who are also known as 'Double Monday Success' with him.

The former was not cared for because he had made a lot of money-losing movies when he first switched from the small screen to the big screen, so he first signed a contract with the not very large Tsui Hark Studio, and a few years later followed his old friend John Woo to sign a contract with his company, although he was also once labeled as a 'new art city' (the new art city was once the majority shareholder of Tsui Hark Studio), but it was very free.

And Stephen Chow is because he jumped too fast, from 90 years to 91 and 92 years, he will take on several movies every year, and all of them can get the top 20 of the total box office list in Hong Kong that year, most of which can even squeeze into the top ten or even the top five, plus he happened to have a contract with Magnum and also expired in the past few years to change to a new owner, so whether it is Magnum or Media Asia, Golden Harvest or his new owner Yongsheng, they all value him a lot, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are competing to win him over.

Lin Xiaozhi saw all this in his eyes, and was secretly proud in his heart.

In the past few years, as his Media Asia has grown bigger and gradually made a name for himself overseas, several major Hong Kong film giants, including Golden Harvest, Yongsheng and New Art City, have also begun to follow some of Media Asia's measures to develop themselves, which is much better than the original history in the past few years.

The good influence is that as the local Hong Kong film power becomes stronger, they have no possibility of fighting in the face of American blockbusters that are about to kill in Asia. The bad influence is that the talents who originally began to flow during this period in history, but with the increase in the power of several giants, there is a spearhead that has been relabeled and divided into camps, which is undoubtedly something he strongly opposes.

The free flow of artists, screenwriters, and directors, although it will push up the cost of filming to a certain extent, is more conducive to promoting the birth of excellent works, which American films do the best and are what he is trying to promote. chose Jackie Chan to shoot "Hurricane Rescue", not only because the style of this movie matches him.

So he won't make it too difficult for Jackie Chan, and after seeing Chow Yun-fat and John Woo sitting down and chatting a few words, he immediately led the topic to the topic, "Now that everyone is together, let's talk about business." Brother J, Brother Fa, Brother Long, I invited the three of you here today not for anything else, Media Asia is recently preparing to start filming two new movies as the main focus of next year's summer file. We will give full support in terms of investment and post-production, and I am ready to ask Brother J to take charge of one of the films, starring Brother Long, and the investment is tentatively set at 80 million Hong Kong dollars, which can accept a floating of 20 million! ”

As soon as his words fell, Wu Yusen was immediately moved!

When Lin Xiaozhi contacted him and said that there was a movie that he wanted to ask him to take charge of, John Woo, who also served as a judge in the screenwriting competition, actually guessed that Lin Xiaozhi wanted to ask him to shoot the movie "Hurricane Rescue", to be honest, he was very excited and hesitant.

Heartbeat is a matter of course, not to mention that the style of "Hurricane Rescue" is more appetizing to him, it is a standard action movie, but also a hero film with a strong personal color, with Jackie Chan, a superstar who has never cooperated but is one of the best in Hong Kong, and then has Media Asia's large investment and post-production special effects, even if the movie has not been filmed, he has a premonition that it can be popular.

The hesitation is because of the many hero films he has shot in recent years, except for one "Across the Seas" with Media Asia, which can be regarded as a good and popular sale, the others are either good at the box office or barely recouping, so that the Taiwanese capital behind him is very dissatisfied with him, and as a result, he was ready to make a new movie in the middle of the year, and even ran for more than two months, but everyone was willing to invest except Cai Songlin.

The film company that he has invested in everything is now half-dead, and at this time, let him go to other film companies to take the helm, it is difficult to step in people's hearts!

Jackie Chan was persuaded by him, so Lin Xiaozhi kept staring at John Woo's expression, when he saw the hesitation on his face, although he was a little puzzled, but after thinking for a while, he quickly thought of what he was negligent, that is, John Woo's own film company has been deteriorating in the past two years, and he has been shooting many movies in a row and has not been able to make any big money for him and the investors behind him, so he has heard about it half a year ago, saying that many investors are not willing to invest in him anymore.

John Woo's film company Lin Xiaozhi was really curious to inquire, because he hid it for a period of time after having a conflict with his friend and boss Tsui Hark, and John Woo's early years of movies were all part-time jobs, so when he left Tsui Hark to start his own company, he didn't have so much capital except for making a little money from filming in his early years, so that his film company is one of the many leather bag film companies in Hong Kong, and since its establishment, it has no own crew and no own screenwriter. After getting the script, I have to run around to pull investment, and most of the money I make is someone else's, and sometimes I don't even own the movie copyright.

For example, John Woo cooperated with Media Asia to shoot "Across the Seas", and the film copyright was asked by Lin Xiaozhi.

Now making movies, it's not the seventies and eighties, and you can just pull a million Hong Kong dollars to play. Especially after Media Asia began to introduce large-scale and standardized shooting, and positioned special effects production as an indispensable process in the post-production of films, Hong Kong's standard blockbuster investment baseline has long been raised from 30 million to 40 million a few years ago.

It can be said that the golden age when small Hong Kong film companies can play has passed, and the current Hong Kong films have gradually begun to enter the era of group companies, otherwise Tsui Hark, who is known as a ghost, would not have been able to cooperate with Media Asia frequently in recent years, introduce Media Asia Capital to make films, or simply hold the camera for Media Asia in exchange for investment and support.

However, John Woo is also a director he likes very much, and instead of letting his own film company go bankrupt and go to Hollywood, it is better to tie him to death in Hong Kong to add another tiger to Hong Kong films to meet the upcoming impact of American films. And with the beginning of Jackie Chan, it will not be difficult to loosen up here.

So he quickly said, "The script of "Hurricane Rescue" is really good, we have basically negotiated on Brother Long's side, Brother J, if you don't have a job in hand recently, you might as well consider taking over this movie." In addition to the guarantee that you will be satisfied with the salary, in principle, we can accept part of the investment in this film, and we will talk about it in detail afterwards. ”

Jackie Chan's eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately understood that Lin Xiaozhi was after he participated in the investment of the film, and simply let go and allowed John Woo to follow suit.

Wu Yusen's eyes suddenly lit up, he was already very optimistic about this movie, and Huanya relented and let him participate in the investment, which was simply giving him a sum of money for nothing.

Although it is not clear how much investment Media Asia can accept, with Lin Xiaozhi's current status in the industry, as long as he opens his mouth, he will naturally not regret it. Wu Yusen no longer hesitated in his heart, he knew that as long as he made the movie well, it was completely possible to send it to Europe and the United States for release with the strength of Media Asia.

After nodding and agreeing to take the photo, Lin Xiaozhi had a stronger smile on his face, and was about to speak when suddenly the mobile phone that he threw on the table next to him rang, so he could only say sorry to the three of them first, and then got up and picked up the phone and walked to the window.

"Hey ......"

"Achi, it's my ......"

The voice of the eldest brother came from the other side of the phone, Lin Xiaozhi was slightly stunned, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother, I have a guest here, have the things been done in Australia?" ”

Lin Xiaoyi accompanied his father Lin Jiannian to Australia some time ago, firstly, for Lin Jiannian's recuperation, after all, the environment in Australia is much better than that in Hong Kong, and secondly, it is also for the Lin family to go to Australia to buy property.

This is not surprising, although Lam is well aware that the country has not interfered in the governance of Hong Kong after the return of Hong Kong in the future, and has even been generous to Hong Kong during repeated economic crises. However, in the past half century, the demonization and propaganda of the British government and the Western media in Hong Kong have made Hong Kong people distrust the mainland, and second, with the arrival of hawkish politician Chris Patten in Hong Kong as the last governor of Hong Kong, he has set out to add chaos to Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and at the same time has not forgotten to mobilize pro-British media and forces to encourage elite immigration, which has caused turmoil in Hong Kong recently.

At the end of October not long ago, Chris Patten also visited Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries and reached a consensus with many governments that a number of Commonwealth member states will not only give the green light to Hong Kong immigrants who also belong to the Commonwealth, but will also give preferential treatment to Hong Kong investment.

Although the Lin family is now Lin Xiaozhi's word, with the lobbying of the old man Lin Jili, his father Lin Jiannian, and his eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi's grandson, he finally made a slight modification to the Lin family's earlier policy of hugging the mainland's thick thighs. Although the main business of the Lin family is still in Hong Kong and the mainland, he also changed the Australian nationality of one of his two newborn sons at the suggestion of his family, and at the same time took a small part of the Lin family's now very large property, and prepared to take advantage of the current preferential policies to make some investments in Australia, including the purchase of farms, wineries, sea view villas, and the acquisition of several Australian newspapers and magazines and waiting for the opportunity to invest in Australian television and so on.

Recently, he had too many things in his hands to leave, so he sent a few people to accompany his eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi and his father to Australia for inspection, so as soon as he heard his call, Lin Xiaozhi immediately guessed that there was probably a plan over there.

Hearing that there were guests on his side, Lin Xiaoyi suddenly realized and said: "We have consulted the opinions of several investment experts here, and we have seen the ground almost, since you have guests there, then I will fax the detailed investment plan over when I go back, you can get busy first!" ”

The phone hung up quickly, Lin Xiaozhi had a slightly apologetic expression on his face, and when he turned around, he saw that several people were waiting for him to speak, and continued with a slight smile: "As I just said, Media Asia is preparing to shoot two blockbusters recently, and strive to perform in next summer. One of them is "Hurricane Rescue", which we are going to cooperate with Brother J and Brother Long, if you can, I hope you can prepare to start filming as soon as possible, and strive to finish it before May next year......"

"In such a hurry?"

Jackie Chan frowned slightly, his slow filming is well known in the industry, sometimes he shoots a scene to the end, and can even repeat it hundreds of times, which not only supports the rhythm but also often increases the cost of the movie.

John Woo didn't say anything, although he is not a famous fast gunner, but he has already made a movie in two months. He has already read the script of "Hurricane Rescue", although there are many scenes, and he still needs to shoot abroad, but if he rushes a little, it will not be a problem to finish it within four or five months.

Lin Xiaozhi was also helpless, "This is a must-have!" ”

He sighed, thought about it or decided to give a few people a little breath first, and reminded: "I heard the rumors, the Hong Kong government has recently intended to fully open the Hong Kong film market to foreign capital, especially American capital, which also means that as soon as next year's summer file, we may face a full-scale invasion of American blockbusters, and we have to make some preparations in advance!" ”

Jackie Chan's face was stunned, and John Woo and Chow Yun-fat also frowned slightly.

They all eat the bowl of rice, they are naturally aware of the gap between the strength of Hong Kong films and American films, especially Jackie Chan, since he became famous in the early 80s, he has always dreamed of becoming the second Chinese superstar to succeed in Hollywood after Bruce Lee, but the threshold of Hollywood is too high, and the huge cultural differences have also made him repeatedly tried and failed, and none of them have succeeded.

In Hong Kong, a movie with a total box office of more than 100 million yuan in Hong Kong and other cities is already a super blockbuster, but there are very few movies that grossed more than 100 million dollars a year in the United States.

It was this huge gap in strength that made the three of them change their faces after learning from Lin Xiaozhi that the Hong Kong government might open the market to American films.

Lin Xiaozhi's heart is also heavy, he is familiar with the history of the decline of Hong Kong films, and he knows better than others how much impact it will have on Hong Kong films in the next few years once American films invade. However, as long as he thought that because of his existence, today's Hong Kong movies are not without the power to fight, his mood suddenly improved a lot.

So he smiled, showed an expression that didn't care too much, and said: "The Hong Kong government has not yet decided, and recently I have also contacted Jiahe, Yongsheng, and Princess Jin to join forces to put pressure on the Hong Kong government." However, the iron has to be hard, and we can survive a year or two by relying on the protection of the policy, and sooner or later we still have to meet the American movie soldiers! ”

After saying that, he looked at Chow Yun-fat again, took out a script from the drawer and handed it to him, "I also mentioned it to you before, I have a new idea to ask you to be the starring role in the new movie, I just rushed out the script a few days ago, you can take the book and see it first, if you can, I hope you can star in this movie!" ”

Hearing that his new movie script was actually ready, Jackie Chan and John Woo on the side couldn't help but stretch their necks to look at the document bag he handed over.

Chow Yun-fat had a little excitement in his eyes, he nodded and hurriedly opened the file bag and took out a manuscript that still exuded the scent of ink, and the huge three words on the cover of the first page instantly attracted the attention of several people in the room - "The Mummy"!