The time has just passed seven o'clock in the morning, and two Toyota sedans escorted Lin Xiaozhi's extended black Mercedes-Benz sedan into the Media Asia Twin Towers, and through the window, he can vaguely see that some reporters have arrived nearby, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and a sense of confidence and strength filled his heart.

"Chairman, according to your orders, we have sent invitations to major media in Hong Kong, including wireless and Oriental newspapers, and ATV said that he will fully cooperate with us, and will broadcast the whole process on the Chinese channel at that time!"

"It doesn't really matter whether ATV is live or not, now the whole of Hong Kong is waiting to see our attitude?" Lin Xiaozhi withdrew his gaze from the car window, leaned back against the leather sofa in the car and closed his eyes for a nap.

It has been a while since "League of Assassins" was completed, and he has returned to the routine of getting up at half past eight and rushing to the office at nine o'clock every day.

After a moment of silence, he continued: "You can arrange the press conference later, I will go to the office to rest first, and by the way, I will go through the speech." If the people you invite come, you can arrange for a meeting at the reception center on the fourth floor, and then have someone notify me! ”

Chen Qiang immediately nodded and agreed, and the car was obviously recognized as soon as it arrived, after all, most of the wealthy people in Hong Kong like British luxury cars, like Lin Xiaozhi, there are still a few who love German luxury cars, not to mention that his car is still the only one in Hong Kong today.

However, although some reporters tried to gather around and ask him questions in advance, they were ready to get first-hand news one step ahead. However, Lin Xiaozhi did not reveal the meaning of the news in advance, and with the cooperation of the security personnel of Media Asia, the car drove slowly into the parking lot of the Media Asia Twin Towers without stopping.

Although it is August, because it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, it is still a little cool to go out in the morning in Hong Kong wearing only shorts and shirts.

However, Rao was stimulated by the wet and cold sea breeze blowing from Victoria Bay for a while and sneezed a few times, but Shen Zhong still just rubbed his nose and continued to fiddle with the Sony camera hanging on his chest, and raised his head from time to time to look at the two twin buildings not far away that were still closed, with some expectation in his eyes.

“…… The day before yesterday, "Oriental Daily" photographed Lin Xiaozhi dining and chatting with several directors of the Screenwriters Guild for more than three hours, and everyone was smiling when they came out, and I think most of it is related to today's press conference......"

"I heard that Zhang Guozhong, an entertainer, came to visit Lin Xiaozhi three days ago, according to the rumors from within Media Asia, Wen Jun, Deng Guangrong, and the Xiang brothers all visited a few days ago......"

“…… I heard that Lin Xiaozhi briefly entered the Governor's Palace yesterday morning and stayed for more than half an hour, and at noon he even had tea with the senior management of the Entertainment Department......"

Shen Zhong listened to a few young reporters next to him gather together to exchange the information they had, and also came over and took the initiative to hand over a few cigarettes, and said: "Hey, I heard that two days ago, Mr. Chen personally asked Jiahe and Princess Jin to come out for dinner. ”

Although the two explosive news of the 'Huang Longwei Incident' and the 'Cai Ziming Shooting Case' in the Hong Kong entertainment industry last month have successfully detonated the local news market, and thanks to the viciousness of these two incidents to attract enough attention, Hong Kong's major media have made a lot of money for a while.

Subsequently, the new Governor Chris Patten was furious, and the first Chinese police commissioner personally held a police press conference for all Hong Kong people.

So much so that during this period of time, almost as long as you can see on the front page of the newspaper any progress and new 'insider' exposure about the 'Huang Langwei incident' and 'Cai Ziming shooting case', which nightclubs, dance halls, bird houses, food stalls, and sauna cities have been swept away by the police, and how many evil gangsters have been arrested, readers will buy a copy with a lot of money.

Hong Kong's entertainment industry, especially the film industry, has naturally borne the brunt of the huge impact in the more than a month after the outbreak of several incidents, after all, with the continuous invasion of community forces, community capital has long been entangled with a large number of Hong Kong film companies. Although this wave of blackouts is aimed at community forces, the Hong Kong entertainment industry, which has been invaded by it for many years, has also broken bones and tendons, and has suffered a lot of impact. In just one month, several leather bag film companies that rely on community capital to film have collapsed, and more than a dozen crews that had already started filming also announced the suspension of trading due to the rupture of the capital chain.

Middle- and lower-class film practitioners have also suffered heavy losses in this wave of anti-crime storms, many crews who are starting filming will stop when they say they will stop, and the scenes they have already taken are suddenly gone, and Hong Kong has never given enough remuneration before filming, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have suffered the most losses in this wave of anti-black.

Although the capitalist system prevails in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, which is deeply influenced by traditional Confucianism, has not been able to fully absorb the systems from Western countries, so that although the Hong Kong film industry was born very early, there has never been a trade union organization to protect the legitimate rights and interests of artists. Hong Kong, which has entered the 90s, has also not yet given birth to a special law for the basic rights and interests of film practitioners, and it is a system that is barely supported by credibility and corporate authority. So much so that in the Hong Kong film industry, overlord contracts and unpaid wages are never short of topics.

This is also the reason why many friends and groups who were still close and complement each other a few years ago may be the bane of all kinds of tearing wars regardless of their cheeks a few years later, and the conflict of interests is just a bait.

In addition, many well-known film companies in the industry, including Ying Zhijie, Yi Neng, Yongsheng, China Star, etc., were forced to announce production cuts or suspend film shooting because the community capital quickly fled the Hong Kong film industry in order to avoid the Hong Kong government's crackdown, and the entire film industry seemed to have returned to the Great Depression under the impact of the political storm two years ago, which made the industry panic.

Although there are still several giant companies in the industry, such as Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, and Media Asia, which have not been affected much, the entire industry has been generally affected, and the two listed companies of Golden Harvest and Media Asia have not been spared, and the stock price has been falling since a month ago and even falling frequently, and the market value of the two companies together has evaporated more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars but there is no big move at all.

If it was placed in the past, the media would not care too much, but there is a fierce dragon lurking in the Hong Kong film industry today. Media Asia boss Lin Xiaozhi, known as the 'news maker', has not stopped talking about it since his debut a few years ago, and he himself is deeply loved by Hong Kong citizens because of the supertalent of the prodigal son and his great commercial success.

Now his name Media Asia Group has long become Hong Kong's largest listed film production company, the sweep of Hong Kong in the black storm, Media Asia's stock price has also been affected, the stock price fell in response, just over a month to evaporate nearly a billion market value, if on paper, Media Asia is undoubtedly the most heavy loss in this wave of storm.

What's more, not long ago, Lin Xiaozhi had just been given the post of chairman of the newly established 'Hong Kong Film Society'. Judging from what Lin Xiaozhi did in the past, many people expect him to save the market at the right time. But during this period of time, he did nothing, which also caused a lot of discussion in the industry. Therefore, this time, Media Asia just released the news that it would hold a press conference, and many Hong Kong media immediately ran over, ready to harvest a big news.

Obviously, Media Asia did not disappoint them, and with more than an hour to go before the press conference was announced, some celebrities in the industry could be seen arriving at the Media Asia Twin Towers, which are now becoming more and more famous in Hong Kong.

"Yo, look, it's Wen Jun......"

"Old Monster Xu is also here, good guy, it was Shi Nansheng who came with him, didn't they say divorce?"

"Brother Sanmao is also here, I didn't expect Jiahe to send someone over, it looks like there is big news today!"

“…… Hey, isn't that Huang Baiming, Princess Jin has been busy going public recently, why is he here! ”

Xu has scruples, or is worried about doing something noisy, even if there is an entertainment jam, most of the celebrities in the industry who came to attend the press conference of Media Asia laughed and excused themselves, and bluntly said that they would know if they waited a while.

Zhang Guozhong, the boss of the entertainment industry, is not exempt from vulgarity, his car just stopped near the Media Asia Twin Towers, and blocked a bunch of anxious reporters, and some reporters who are good friends with him on weekdays have some friendship with him, so he bluntly asked: "Zhang Sheng, the brothers have been waiting here for most of the day, you can ventilate in advance, so that everyone knows what to talk about at the press conference, right?" ”

Zhang Guozhong also wanted to excuse himself and leave, but when he saw that he was asked about a few media reporters who were good friends on weekdays, it was difficult to refuse even if he was an old friend, so he took the initiative to release some rumors after thinking about it at the moment, "Please forgive me, it is inconvenient for me to disclose the details in advance, anyway, the press conference will start in a while." I can only tell you that the press conference held by Media Asia today will not disappoint you. And today's press conference will be a major milestone for the Hong Kong film and television industry, which is bound to rewrite the ecological environment of the entire Hong Kong industry! ”

As soon as he mentioned the upcoming press conference, he immediately became eyebrows fluttering, and the excitement on his face was uncontrollable, although he only revealed a little bit of tone and left, but there is no doubt that Zhang Guozhong was like throwing a hot bomb in the crowd, which suddenly made a group of reporters and media people who were already looking forward to today's press conference even more impatient.

So much so that when there were still more than ten minutes before the press conference, and the security personnel of Media Asia opened the passage to no longer block it, as many as hundreds of reporters and media people flocked to the Media Asia Twin Towers, and the order was once so chaotic that many reporters even pulled each other and began to abuse and quarrel in order to rush to the front to seize the favorable position of the interview waiting for the meeting. Fortunately, there were no injuries, and Media Asia's security personnel quickly intervened to separate those who were arguing, and repeatedly reminded that the press conference was about to begin, so there was no incident.

Whew......

The dazzling magnesium light stabbed Lin Xiaozhi's eyes and had to squint, thanks to the fact that he was somewhat accustomed to this kind of scene, it didn't affect him much.

Feeling the eyes of anticipation focused on himself, although he knew that the reason why they were invited to come was more to get the red envelopes and big news of Huanya, Lin Xiaozhi knew in his heart that his face did not show Xiàn, but put on a gentle smile, and released kindness to these reporters as soon as he came up: "Thank you media friends for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend our press conference today, in recent times, we have experienced a lot of things together, both good and bad, But one thing that will not change, and that is our shared desire for a better place in Hong Kong......"

Although he said a standard official remark as soon as he came up, the media present still applauded his face. Lin Xiaozhi also accepted it when he saw it, and after only a few minutes of talking, he immediately went straight to the point.

“…… As we all know, since the birth of cinema, it has been considered one of the most lucrative industries. A piece of investment and hard work can even get several times, dozens of times or even hundreds of times the return in a very short time. Huge profits, coupled with the low investment threshold for films, have created a problem in Hong Kong, which is a problem that most countries and regions in the world will encounter in the process of developing the film industry, that is, the continuous invasion of external capital! ”

"We can roughly divide the capital that has been invading the film industry into two categories, one is the fast money capital that is eager to get huge returns in a very short time, and the other is the gray capital with unknown composition and unclear source, and the nature is for the purpose of money laundering and sharing film investment dividends! These two types of capital have both advantages and disadvantages for the development of the film industry, and on the whole, they do more harm than good. ”

"Most of the fast money capital is legal business income, mostly from some domestic and foreign corporate persons or individual investors. The reason why they invest in making movies is simple, it is to make money. We have never denied the positive role of fast money capital in Hong Kong films that lack development funds, but the reason why it is compared with gray capital is that it blindly pursues the rate of return in the process of investment and interferes in the filming of films, forcing some filmmakers to follow the trend of popular films and shoot shoddy films in order to curry favor with such investors, which not only harms the interests of investors, but also pollutes the overall living environment of the film industry and destroys the reputation of Hong Kong films. ”

"If the overall impact of fast money capital on the Hong Kong film industry is barely good more good than good, then gray capital is completely doing more harm than good for the film industry. Hong Kong's special geographical location and the background of the times have led to a large number of local community organizations, and the vigorous development and huge profits of the local film industry have also entered its eyes, some of which are eager for money laundering, and some are simply greedy for the huge profits of the film industry, creating a decades-long history of struggle between the Hong Kong film industry and community capital since the sixties and seventies. ”

"Unfortunately, due to the small size of the local market, most of the small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong are short of funds, except for a few large film companies that are actively exploring the foreign market and have a very high market share in the local market. So much so that they know the harm of fast money capital and gray capital, but they can't completely abandon their temptation. This point should be reviewed in our industry, but we also hope that local capital and the government will also review it. The soundness of an industry not only requires profit, but also a sound system and law, but we regret that in the decades since the birth of Hong Kong films, there has not been a clear legal bill! ”

"The tight capital chain, the lack of a system, and the inability to follow are the current realities of the entire Hong Kong film industry. Because of this, as soon as the government cracked down on the government and the market in other cities tightened, most local film companies were affected by it, temporarily closed down or even tore up their original contracts, and the industry was in a depression. ”

Lin Xiaozhi paused slightly, his eyes swept over the entire venue flatly, and his finger pointed slightly at the genius and continued: "Ticket prices are rising year by year, shoddy films, community capital invasion, and various systems are missing, and the current Hong Kong film has reached an inflection point. If you go right, you will be the next golden decade, and if you go wrong, the next step will be the abyss. Now, it's time for someone to stand up for the industry! ”