Volume 1 Chapter 116 The Last Scene

If Shaw Brothers was once a Hong Kong film factory, and New Arts City was the most dynamic and energetic company in Hong Kong, then Golden Harvest wants to call itself the most ambitious film company in Hong Kong, I believe no one can deny it.

As early as the early 70s, Golden Harvest executives such as Chow Minhuai and others saw the limitations of Hong Kong, and when Shaw Brothers was preparing to start a war with it in Southeast Asia, they set their sights on a broader overseas European and American market. With the influence of a generation of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee, Golden Harvest had a brief success in the United States in the early 70s. However, all this with the passing of Bruce Lee has become a big regret in the hearts of Golden Harvest's senior management.

After the death of Bruce Lee, Golden Harvest temporarily turned its attention to attracting foreign investment, and successively invested in the production of films such as "Straight to the Yellow Dragon" and "Crocodile Pool Heroes" have foreign capital to join, and the film pattern is also very close to internationalization; Subsequently, Golden Harvest wholly produced the first all-English film "Bloody Blood", directed by Robert Gallos, who had filmed "Enter the Dragon" and "Game of Death", starring Robert Micham of the United States and Chan Sing of Hong Kong, etc., and went to Hollywood for post-production, which was released in North America and Hong Kong in 1977 and 1978 respectively, but unfortunately the box office was not satisfactory.

In 1979, Golden Harvest officially established the Western Film Production Department and cooperated with a number of foreign film companies to produce Western films, in an attempt to enter the Hollywood market. The following year, Golden Harvest rediscovered Cheng Long, carefully packaged it as 'Bruce Lee's second, promoted it to Hollywood, and let him star in "Killer Trench" alone, striving to make him the second kung fu superstar to break into the international after Bruce Lee. However, Golden Harvest's previous filming of "Hejing Blood" is no longer a blockbuster, and "Killer Trench" is also unsatisfactory, Golden Harvest for the sake of insurance, fortunately, he dropped UU million dollars to invite a number of Hollywood superstars to participate in "Cannonball Speed" (including a sky-high salary of 5 million US dollars to bring in Bi Reynolds to star), and added Cheng Long and Xu Guanwen cameos. Although "Cannonball Speed" did not do well at the box office in Hong Kong, it took away $100 million at the box office in the global market, which can also be called a victory for Golden Harvest to enter Hollywood.

Until the late RU era, Golden Harvest has successively produced a number of Western films, such as "Hejing Blood", "The Third Corps", "Merry Night Flowers", "Cannonball Speed", "Cannonball Speed Sequel", "Weilong Detective" and "Thunderbolt Corps", etc., but except for "Cannonball Speed" in North America box office of more than 100 million, most of them are unsatisfactory, and although the continuous high production cost makes Golden Harvest more and more cautious about shooting Western films, it has to be said that Golden Harvest's ambition for the European and American markets has never been extinguished, although it has gone astray because of the mistakes of high-level strategy. But one cannot but admire its ambition.

The news that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was going to be filmed was transmitted back to Hong Kong, and Lin Xiaozhi also saw this news for the first time, and at the same time, he couldn't help but admire the ambition of Golden Harvest boss Zou Wenhuai.

He still has some understanding of this film invested by Golden Harvest, which has been filmed since the beginning of this year and officially started in March, but because of the arrogant attitude of the crew, directors and actors in the United States towards Chinese capital, it has been tossed until the end of the year. Don't look at Zou Minhuai's shouting of an investment of tens of millions of dollars, but at the beginning, Golden Harvest only prepared a pre-allocated shooting fund of 7 million US dollars for this movie, and it was tossed like this, and it was increased to more than 10,000 US dollars before the filming was completed. The investment exceeded the expected investment by 5 million US dollars (about 40 million Hong Kong dollars), which is not a small amount for Golden Harvest, which has been sniped by the new art city in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and has to face the strong impact of the newly rising Yongsheng film, and almost did not drag Golden Harvest down.

After the filming of the movie, Golden Harvest encountered another big embarrassment. Twentieth Century Fox, which originally agreed to cooperate with Golden Harvest and arrange the release for it, repented, took the contract but did not arrange the release, and as a result, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was delayed again and again, and it was only in the 90s that Twentieth Century Fox sold the American distribution rights to New Line Pictures and was able to release it in the United States, which made this film, which created an astonishing box office of 110 million dollars in the United States alone, not be buried

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" will become a film that will rewrite the history of Golden Harvest. It is said that the global distribution of the film brought nearly HK$1 billion in gross profits to Golden Harvest. It was precisely because of this huge dividend that Golden Harvest spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the following years to shoot many money-burning Hong Kong-made blockbusters such as the "Police Story" series, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Red Fan Zone", "Thunderbolt" and so on.

As long as Golden Harvest survives, the future is about to enter an era of not bad money.

Recalling the success of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Lin Xiaozhi once again realized the importance of overseas markets, especially in Europe and the United States, but compared to Golden Harvest, which is about to be short of money, he still has a long way to go with New Asia.

When he was attacked by Zhou Liang Shuyi before, Lin Xiaozhi asked Qiu Degen to buy down the shares of New Asia in his hands and ATV, and at that time, Qiu Degen was obviously interested in letting him take over New Asia, but because Zhou Liang Shuyi was still there, he made an excuse at random and asked them to make 10 million yuan for the film invested by New Asia. "Can't Help It" brought him and Xinya at least 10 million in earnings, Qiu Degen did not mention that the 10 million must be earned by Xinya, so Lin Xiaozhi has now completed the agreement.

However, he was not in a hurry to ask Qiu Degen to take down New Asia, counting the income brought to him by "Can't Help It", the funds he can use now are only more than 26 million Hong Kong dollars, and he will have to pay at least more than 10 million for the remaining 70 shares of New Asia, and the remaining funds will have to consider signing a few artists he likes, and at least three or five million will be used for this. Once Xinya was taken over by him, it was obviously impossible to continue to use the office space in the ATV building, and it was a lot of money to choose a new office space. No matter how much you plan to prepare a new movie, it costs money, more than 26 million looks like a lot, but in fact, such a calculation is really not enough

Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi has already calculated the time, and he will wait until the filming of "Color is Empty" is over, and then talk to Qiu Degen about the acquisition at the same time.

The High Court officially accepted ATV's lawsuit against Huang Jianming and Xu Xiaoming, which made ATV, the old owner, and the new owner of the two meet again in court.

The performance during the hype of "Can't Help It" and the subsequent big hit of the movie made the dissatisfied voice that was originally focused on Lin Xiaozhi a little quieter. Lin Xiaozhi is now chic and comfortable, but not necessarily the same for others. In the face of the intensifying crusade within ATV, Lin Jianle has not shown his face at the ATV meeting for a week, and several brief appearances have been in a hurry to deal with the backlog of documents, and contact and appease his henchmen in ATV's development, and then hurriedly left the ATV building.

However, Lin Jianle's move to deal with the dissatisfaction of the ATV veteran party in a low-key manner was not forgiven by the senior ministers, and as the attitude of the representative of the Xinshi Lujie Group in ATV at the board meeting gradually became ambiguous, Lin Jianle's life became more and more difficult. Qiu Degen had already conveyed the meaning of ATV's old courtiers to Lin Baixin euphemistically, either giving a promise to appease them, or replacing them with a new director.

Tens of billions of tycoon Lin Baixin, Xinshi Lujie Group boss Zheng Yutong, ATV chairman Qiu Degen, what these big guys who really decide the fate of ATV think in their heads, Lin Xiaozhi is not clear and can't control, during this time he has been soaked in the crew, Zhang Luo The filming of "Color is Empty", and with his efforts, after more than three months of shooting, "Color is Empty" is finally approaching the end of filming

"OK, let me take a deep breath, everyone, this is the filming of one of the last scenes of our movie" Lin Xiaozhi took a deep breath, his face looked slightly restless because of too much excitement, he took a few deep breaths in a row, and then looked at Qian Jiale, Yuan Jieying, Ge Minhui, Sun Xing and other main actors, with a trace of excitement on his face, "Whether you can end the shooting today depends on you." ”

The movie has reached the end of the last scene, and according to the audience's point of view, the movie is only less than two or three minutes of plot left.

"Director, I promise it once" Qian Jiale had already received a hint from Lin Xiaozhi two days ago that he would get a signing contract from New Asia, and some of the conditions revealed by Lin Xiaozhi were even better than he thought. Stimulated by this good news, he has been like a doping drug for the past few days, and even when he is not filming, he can't control himself from jumping up and down.

Yuan Jieying stroked her long black straight hair, and her face was full of soft smiles. In this movie, she is the only heroine, not only has many scenes, but the script is also very interesting, especially the scene after the abortion of the heroine O filmed a few days ago, even she, the heroine, knew that the way was fake when she watched the male protagonist played by Qian Jiale please her, but she still left tears without using tear gas. It is said that women are made of water, and women's minds are much more delicate than men's, with her eyesight of starring in many movies, Yuan Jieying does not doubt that this movie will be a success, and she will add another flame to the bleak star journey.

"OK" Ge Minhui and Sun Xing stand together, although the two future comedy giants can hardly hide their youthful acting skills at this time, but they are bonded because of this play, and the two who have always been stuck together recently have become good friends with each other and their similar temperaments, and they have the meaning of cutting off the head of the chicken and burning yellow paper to worship the second master.

Ge Minhui's pair of thick eyebrows moved around like earthworms, causing Qian Jiale and Yuan Jieying, who had just finished painting makeup next to them, to laugh.

The unrelated person immediately quit the room, and the photography team prepared for the ...... in one minute."

"The last scene, TT"