When Wu Siyuan came back from outside, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

"Sir, do I need to prepare dinner for you?"

The Filipino maid in the house hadn't slept at this time, and his wife had just returned to her parents' house yesterday and might have to stay there for a few days, so the house was just with him and a few maids.

"No need, warm a glass of milk for me, I haven't been sleeping well lately"

As the owner of a film company, although Wu Siyuan's own film company is not as good as Huanya, Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, etc., but with his connections in the circle as a veteran Hong Kong director and film producer, he is not worried about not being able to attract investment and actors, and his ambition is not as big as others.

At the beginning of the year, his friend Xu Ke pulled him to be the producer of his new movie "Huang Feihong", "Huang Feihong" was one of the hottest movies in Hong Kong last year, and it is undoubtedly a great honor for a filmmaker to participate in the filming of the sequel, Wu Siyuan readily agreed. Not only that, but he also invested 3 million in this movie through his relationship with Xu Ke and became an investor in this movie.

Speaking of this, he really has to thank Xu Ke, because many people know that although the first part of "Once Upon a Time" was planned and filmed by Xu Ke and his company, the main investor and main copyright owner is the giant of the Hong Kong film industry-Media Asia Group.

In the industry, Lin Xiaozhi has a widely spread nickname, that is, 'tyrant, which not only alludes to his always high-profile and domineering style. For example, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess often attract some capital from Taiwan and local capital to co-invest in order to share the risk when making movies. But Lin Xiaozhi and his Asia-Pacific are stronger, unless it is a film that they fancy and participate in the investment, the films invested and produced by their own company never absorb capital from the outside world.

Of course, the behavior of eating alone is not pleasant, especially in recent years, the movies invested by Lin Xiaozhi and Media Asia can bring amazing returns, which makes many people in the circle who make a living from film investment can only scold and blush, I heard that there are some people who have changed careers and spent hundreds or tens of millions to buy a lot of Media Asia shares as shareholders to share the expansion dividends of this giant.

"Once Upon a Time" has brought an astonishing return of 200 million Hong Kong dollars to Media Asia and Xu Ke since its release last year, as a blockbuster movie, even if Xu Ke is not ready to make a sequel, Media Asia itself will consider making a sequel. The second part has more investment than the first part, a huge amount of 50 million Hong Kong dollars, and Media Asia and Xu Ke Studio can get it. However, although Xu Ke is extremely bold in the filming of the movie, he is too cautious in investment, even if he knows that he can make money, he is not willing to take the risk that he may save zài.

Media Asia is willing to pay this money, but Lin Xiaozhi thought about tying Xu Ke, the ghost director, to Media Asia's chariot, and finally the investment in "Huang Feihong" cost Media Asia 30 million, as for the remaining 20 million out of Xu Ke's own pocket or contact other investors, Media Asia will not care, provided that the other party does not have any ideas about the copyright ownership of the film.

It is because of this that Wu Siyuan had the opportunity to participate in the investment of "Once Upon a Time", the sequel to last year's popular movie.

"Okay sir, I'll go get it"

The Filipino maid was about to get him milk after listening to his explanation, and as soon as she turned around, she suddenly seemed to remember something, and turned back and said, "By the way, sir, Chen Sheng called you at night." I said you weren't there, and he asked me to remind you to call him back when you came back."

"Chen Sheng?"

Wu Siyuan was stunned, there were not a hundred but eighty of the friends he knew with the surname Chen, and many of them were in frequent contact. When the Filipino maid mentioned, "Chen Sheng, he really couldn't guess who the other party was." Then he opened his mouth and asked, "Which Chen Sheng is it?" ”

"It's the same Mr. Chen Baisheng who has been calling you a lot in the past few days."

"Oh, it turned out to be him"

Wu Siyuan frowned in response, his face became bitter, he waved his hand to signal the Filipino maid to get busy, and after thinking for a while, he walked to the side and picked up the phone, and dialed a number skillfully.

"Hey, Old Chen. You're looking for me......"

Old friend Chen Baisheng, one of the founders of "Film Fortnightly", still serves as the editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly". This magazine is different from other media in Hong Kong, because the people who were founded at the beginning were filmmakers with some bookish spirit, so although there is also a division of shareholders and shares, the top management is only the general manager, the deputy general manager and the editor-in-chief. It is worth mentioning that the other party is also one of the starters of the Hong Kong Film Awards, Chen Baisheng called him at night, and Wu Siyuan also knew the reason for the other party's call with his butt.

"I said that you Boss Wu is really a busy man, making so much money, you are learning from Sammo Hung, and you can go in and out of your own class and take a few big brothers, even if you don't put on a score, it is convenient for others to find you."

Chen Baisheng opened his mouth in a familiar mocking tone, and Wu Siyuan smiled dumbly. It's not surprising that his old friends despise Sammo Hung, in fact, in the circle, the contradiction between Chen Baisheng and Sammo Hung is not a secret.

Sammo Hung is a big brother in the Hong Kong film industry, he was born as a dragon and tiger martial artist, and he took on a lot of fighting scenes in his early years. However, in the early years when the company was first established, because he was afraid of risks, the movies he invested in and shot were all either imitating Golden Harvest's best-selling works, or copying the classic routines of Shaw Brothers, and Chen Baisheng wrote several film reviews and ridiculed them back then. Sammo Hung, who had a hot temper, almost staged an all-martial arts show when he met Chen Baisheng at a party, and the two sides formed a bond.

Wu Siyuan and Sammo Hung have a good relationship, and Chen Baisheng is an old friend who has known each other for more than ten years. However, a scholar's grudge is a lifetime, and the smug Sammo Hung let this grudge go as a fart as soon as he turned around, but he Chen Baisheng hasn't let it go all these years

Wu Siyuan didn't want to entangle this grievance with him, he didn't like mobile phones very much, so he could only explain: "You don't know that I'm not used to using Big Brother, let's say, what's the matter with me today?" ”

"Lao Yang wants to talk to the person surnamed Lin, and you know that there has been a lot of pressure on our side recently. His stinky mouth surnamed Lin has caused us a lot of trouble"

Wu Siyuan was taken aback, and hurriedly grabbed the microphone and asked, "Yang Sheng wants to talk to Lin Xiaozhi?" Did I hear me right? ”

The name of Yang Sheng in the mouth of the two is Yang Yuping, and he is not well-known in the Hong Kong film circle, but if you want to talk about the merits of Hong Kong films, he can at least rank among the top three

This is the big truth, in the early years, before Chen Baisheng established "Film Fortnightly", he was the chairman of the well-known Firebird Film Club, but he was a poor man who was poor and white although he had a public office. At that time, Yang Yuping was not only an official in charge of administration and programs at the Hong Kong City Hall, but also the first screening room that wrote a heavy stroke in the history of Hong Kong film, and he was also one of the pioneers, and the first Hong Kong International Film Festival was promoted by him.

Even when Chen Baisheng established "Film Fortnightly", he also pulled Yang Yuping as a partner, and Chen Baisheng, who established the Hong Kong Film Awards, did not take credit, and admitted in person in advance that Yang Yuping was the first to propose it. Although this person has been low-key in the circle because of his public office, only those who really know him understand how much he has contributed to the Hong Kong film industry.

The outside world knows the special influence of "Film Fortnightly" in Hong Kong's film industry, and Hong Kong does not know how many film investors are eager to spend a lot of money to advertise their films on it. However, over the years, the position of "Film Fortnightly" has been fair and impartial, the advertising fee is not high, and not all movies can go up. And once you encounter bad movies and shoddy productions, there will never be fewer face-slapping comments.

The reason for this is that, in addition to the stubborn bookishness of the top management of "Film Fortnightly", there is another unknown reason, that is, except for Chen Baisheng, who has resigned to concentrate on running "Film Fortnightly", its other four shareholders are all public officials. Yeung Yu-ping is now the Deputy Director of the Cultural Services Department, while Chow Yongping, Wong Chun-wah and Liu Liye each hold key positions in the Cultural Services Department, the Regional Municipal Affairs Bureau, and the Civic Centre.

"The Academy Awards were promoted by Lao Yang, and now after the king of the media has opened his mouth, you see that we want to treat it coldly in the past month, but what is the result? On the contrary, more and more people jumped out and fired at us, eager to smash the Academy Awards If Lao Yang can still sit still, I wonder if he has been an official for a few years and threw away all the ideals in his chest."

But no, at this year's Academy Awards ceremony, Lin Xiaozhi won the best director trophy but fired a lot of shots at the Academy Awards, bombarding the selection of the Academy Awards jury is becoming more and more unfair, emphasizing literature and art over commercial films.

encountered this embarrassing scene, although there were countless annoyed people on the side of the Academy Awards, but some people wanted to refute it, but some people exposed to the media that the Directors Guild and the Film Critics Guild each supported the film they liked to win the award. All kinds of news spread overnight, today the news broke the news that some people accused the Academy Awards of engaging in internal trading, and tomorrow someone jumped out and scolded that now the award has to fight for connections, and the Academy Awards are a loss and caught off guard, and finally the "Film Fortnightly" decided to deal with it coldly.

The official did not come forward to refute Lin Xiaozhi's bombardment and accusations from the outside world, nor did he apologize for saying a typo.

I wanted to put it off to see if I could solve it, but who would have thought that the more it dragged on, the more endless it became, seeing that a third of this year has passed, this matter has not been solved, not to mention, the Academy Awards have not decided who to cooperate with every year.

Let's take a look at Lin Xiaozhi's side, in mid-April, Media Asia Group joined hands with Yongsheng Films, Yingzhijie Pictures and other Hong Kong film companies to jointly invest one billion to establish Shenzhen 丨 Cinema Investment Group, as the largest investor, Lin Xiaozhi also served as the chairman of the investment group, and on the same day with the mayor of Shenzhen to shovel the first shovel of soil, since then Shenzhen 丨 Cinema officially kicked off the construction curtain.

The media from all walks of life in Hong Kong reported on this for two weeks, and it can still be seen in some newspapers.

Recently, the ATV under his name has become popular again, and it is still beautiful.

Wu Siyuan listened to him finish speaking, and immediately understood the other party's mind as soon as his head passed, and he wanted him to pull a line.

He didn't know Lin Xiaozhi well, and he had met a few times before and exchanged phone calls, but because everyone was busy, he didn't have much contact. However, he has recently participated in the filming of the film "Once Upon a Time" invested by Media Asia, and he is also serving as a producer, and Chen Baisheng probably thinks of his identity.

"I've got his phone here, okay...... Although I don't have much contact with Lin Xiaozhi, this person's personality is not as unruly as it is rumored outside, I think if I open my mouth to invite him to tea, he should not refuse" Wu Siyuan also helped a lot of the Academy Awards, but he didn't treat this matter as a foreign matter, and he agreed after just a little thought.

But when he finished speaking, he heard Chen Baisheng say: "No, Lao Yang is going to have a drinking party at the beginning of May, and he will invite many film company bosses in the circle to come and sit." You know that he was a little unhappy with the Hong Kong government some time ago, and Lao Yang was worried that he might not be able to invite him in the name of the Hong Kong government, so he wanted you to help inform him......"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Siyuan felt strange in his heart, and almost opened his mouth in one sentence: "He won't go to the invitation of the Hong Kong government, it won't be a Hongmen banquet, right?" ”

He was answered with a soft cough......

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