"The worst media persecution in Hong Kong's history"

It was no one else who wrote such an article, it was Fan Hongwei, the editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of "Cheng Pao". At this time, it is actually wrong to call him the editor-in-chief, because although he is still temporarily acting as the editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of "Cheng Pao", the senior management of "Cheng Pao" knows that because of the merits of holding hands with New Asia Film Company to take a stake in "Cheng Pao", as well as his personal relationship with Lin Xiaozhi, the boss of New Asia, he has been designated as the new deputy director of "Cheng Pao", and the relevant appointments are currently being prepared, just waiting for the procedures on the personnel side of "Cheng Pao" to be completed.

This Fan Hongwei obviously knows very well who made him climb so fast, and Xinya Film Company is likely to take over "Cheng Pao" in the near future, so he naturally dares to write about what the future boss will do

“… The emergence of Chen Baiqiang's scandal is not accidental, we can't say what happened to Hong Kong now? In fact, it was not so far back a few years ago, when I was just a small editor. In Hong Kong, the relationship between the media, especially media people who eat the entertainment industry, and artists is very good. However, in the past few years, the atmosphere in Hong Kong has suddenly turned sour. Every once in a while, some media will always select a person from the entertainment industry to create a topic character and come out for the public to ridicule and sarcasm, vent and have fun. For what, just to sell his own newspapers"

Although he did not explicitly mention these "certain media," one of the few newspapers in Hong Kong that did not know that the first gossip trend was the Oriental Daily.

Since its inception, Oriental Daily has been the most controversial newspaper in Hong Kong. Before its birth, there were few newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong that focused on entertainment news and gossip, although the "Oriental Daily" only regarded the entertainment edition as a supplement, and has been spending great efforts to build its current affairs section, but as the newspaper with the widest coverage of Hong Kong's gossip influence, its entertainment edition can be different from other mainstream media in Hong Kong only to 4 editions, 4 editions are the norm, and even when there is big news, it often does as much as the U version. With its influence covering more than one million readers in Hong Kong, the influence of "Oriental Daily" on the Hong Kong entertainment industry can no longer be described as great.

Fan Hongwei compares Hong Kong to a village, with the name of an international metropolis, and most of the villages are clearly immigrants from the mainland and Vietnam, and the grassroots atmosphere is too strong, and the education level is not as high as that of Europeans and Americans. Therefore, I prefer to bet on horses and play Mark Six, and I can't think about too profound theories and study academics, and only know a single pastime; He also has the "passerby mentality" passed down from his ancestors, cares less about current political news, and loves more short chickens and dogs in his parents.

He blamed it on 'identity anxiety,' he attributed: "When ordinary citizens in Hong Kong gossip, those objects are envious and jealous at the same time. No one doesn't want to live in the spotlight, but most people's wishes are destined to be unfulfilled, so out of jealousy and a small citizen mentality, everyone wants to see the news that celebrities are not good, so as to get comfort. This projection of desire with identity anxiety has a lot of negative emotions. So everyone began to consume the scandal of celebrities, the dark side of the personality of consumers, and the unknown hypocrisy of celebrities. The greatest value of gossip is not to lift a person to heaven, but to lift him up to heaven and then pull him down. ”

He summed it up in the end: "Some unscrupulous media people obviously grasp the mentality of small citizens, so they package their selfish desires and sell them to people who are eager to consume celebrities." Not only satisfied his selfish desires, but also earned money......"

It is no coincidence that Sing Pao is head-on with Oriental Daily.

Since the late 70s, Sing Tao Daily, the largest circulation in Hong Kong, has been gaining momentum, and dozens of print media outlets, including Oriental Daily, Sing Pao, Ming Pao and other newspapers, have dreamed of replacing it. Among these major newspapers, the old newspaper "Cheng Pao" and the emerging giant "Oriental Daily" are the largest. Compared with Oriental Daily, Sing Pao was stronger and had an average audience for all editions, but in the end it lost to Oriental Daily, and it took over the position of Hong Kong's largest newspaper from Sing Tao Daily by relying on the gossip and entertainment reports that pioneered Hong Kong's media circles.

Over the years, in order to compete for the position of readers and the first place, the two sides have fought openly and secretly.

What is really strange, however, is the attitude of Sing Pao, the second largest circulation newspaper in Hong Kong, and no one doubts its status as a media giant. And this time the Chen Baiqiang scandal incident is indeed too big, and if New Asia, which has entered the High Court, wins the battle against more than a dozen bad media, it will inevitably affect the interests and status of the uncrowned king of Hong Kong, the media.

Sing Pao is a member of the media and one of the few newspaper groups in Hong Kong. It is obviously on the side of New Asia, and the posture of being the enemy of the media really makes many people dumbfounded, and it is not clear what kind of conditions New Asia has paid to win over "Cheng Pao" in order to make this media giant stand on its side

“…… Lin Dong, I am also very embarrassed when something like this happens. You must know the truth, so I won't say much about it...... On behalf of Xi'an Film Studio, I would like to once again express my gratitude to Lin Dong and Xinya Film Company......"

Hanging up Zhang Yimou's international call from Xi'an, a smile flashed in the corner of Lin Xiaozhi's eyes.

He is in a really good mood, not only because of the 'Chen Baiqiang scandal case, which has had the effect he wants, although New Asia Film Company is currently on the blacklist of many media, but in the future, when there are bad media who want to pour ink on New Asia and the artists under the name of New Asia, they have to weigh whether they will get into a lawsuit. In addition, there have been several good things that have happened recently that have made his heart flutter.

Just three days ago, on the 10th of the month, during the Lunar Lantern Festival, the crew of "Qin Warriors", which was filming in the mainland, had an accident. The reason is that Cheng Xiaodong gave a holiday subsidy of 100 yuan to each of the Hong Kong drama managers, personnel and actors in the crew. However, only Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, and Yu Rongguang got the mainland staff, and the rest of the mainland crew members with hundreds of people did not even get a dime.

This incident immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of many mainland crew members of the "Qin Warriors" crew, Shaanxi has a strong New Year's flavor, and it was forced to return to the team to shoot with the Hong Kong crew on the sixth day of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year, which has caused dissatisfaction among many mainland crew members. On weekdays, every temporary worker from Hong Kong can get a daily salary of 70 yuan, while the daily salary of mainland personnel is only 5 to 15 yuan per day.

Cheng Xiaodong did not issue holiday subsidies to the mainland crew, and finally became the fuse that ignited the dissatisfaction of the crew of "Qin Warriors", and the crew of a mainland took the initiative to ask for a holiday subsidy but was rejected by Cheng Xiaodong, and was scolded by a Hong Kong crew member for an insatiable mainland boy, and later, after being in contact with this group of Hong Kong people for a period of time, he already knew that 'mainland boy, the crew member who is a slanderous term that Hong Kong people despise mainlanders suddenly became angry, and stepped forward to give the Hong Kong man who scolded him a punch, After the two fought, their acquaintances also stepped forward in groups of three or five to pull the fight, and as a result, there was a big fight, and more than a dozen people were injured on the spot, which not only shocked the Xi'an Film Studio, but also couldn't shoot "Qin Warriors" after just filming six or seven percent

Although Lin Xiaozhi promised not to interfere in the management, the movie "Qin Warriors" was invested by New Asia Film Company after all, and the company also arranged several entourages in the crew, and notified the Hong Kong side of the matter as soon as possible.

Originally, Cheng Xiaodong was still a little unwilling, in his opinion, he just did the same as most Hong Kong directors. At the beginning, Liu Jialiang was even more excessive when he was filming in the mainland, "North and South Shaolin" gave Hong Kong extras a daily salary of 300, but even professional actors on the mainland could only get three or five yuan a day. He didn't feel that he had made a mistake, so he wanted to go to the top management of the Western Film Studio to theorize, but was stopped by New Asia Film Company.

Lin Xiaozhi seized the opportunity and immediately sent the producer to contact the West Film Studio in the name of New Asia Film Company, and took the initiative to put pressure on Cheng Xiaodong, and the final way to deal with it was to slap each one and dismiss the Hong Kong crew who took the lead in provoking and scolding and the mainland crew. The whole crew compensated each person 100 yuan, and at the same time, New Asia also revised the salary agreement and took the initiative to double the treatment of mainland personnel.

Although it is still not as good as Hong Kong, the film investment on the side of New Asia Film Company has not increased by more than two or three hundred thousand, which has eased the contradiction between the mainland and Hong Kong personnel of the crew, and at the same time, it has also established a relationship with Xi'an Film Studio, the son of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of the mainland, and New Asia also took the opportunity to put forward a proposal to the West Film Studio to jointly build a film subsidiary, although it was only supported by Wu Tianming, the director of the West Film Studio, but the West Film Studio still handed over the joint venture plan he had prepared for a long time to the provincial radio and television, and the progress is not small.

And in the process of dealing with this matter, he tentatively asked Song Nianhui to deposit one million of their money in the black market circle to the Bank of China in Hong Kong, and then hit Xi'an through the Bank of China system. The renminbi has not yet been recognized in Hong Kong, and its purchasing power is less than a fraction of what it was before the turmoil, but its purchasing power in the mainland is a fraction greater than before the turmoil, much to Lam's overjoy.

This hot potato that has been in his hands for half a year, he has found a way to shake his hands.

It's not just these pieces that make him feel good, "Killer Leon" has just been painted in Singapore, after it won 39.55 million Taiwan dollars (about 350,000 Hong Kong dollars) box office in Taiwan, this film has also been enthusiastically sought after in Singapore because of its hot sales in the United Kingdom, and the total box office at the time of the painting was 10,000 Singapore dollars, which was converted into Hong Kong dollars and was close to 50 million Hong Kong dollars.

The worry is that if he hadn't agreed to Lin Xiaozhi's share of the tens of millions of profits, it would have belonged to Meiya alone. The good thing is that only half a year ago he spent 50 million shares in New Asia, just less than half a year, he is afraid that this investment will bring him close to 10 income, at this time if he has the heart to sell his hands of three percent of the new Asia shares, as a price of more than 100 million I am afraid that some people are willing to take over. Of course, he wouldn't sell it so easily.

At the beginning, he pinned his hopes on relying on New Asia's strategy of completely controlling the distribution channels in Southeast Asia, but now it has achieved initial results.

Relying on the release of New Asia's most recent films, Meiya has won the top five annual box office results in many countries in Southeast Asia. The blockbuster films released by Wai Mei and Asia could not compete with Hong Kong's traditional film giants Golden Harvest and Golden Princess, but that scene finally changed last year.