"It seems that "Color is Empty" has no hope of rushing to the box office of 30 million" Lin Xiaozhi smiled and put down the box office data that had just been counted below, and said to Zheng Zeshi who was sitting on the side, and his mood did not look bad

Today, along with the statistical data from Debao Cinema Line, there is also a phone call from Cen Jianxun. In view of the fact that the attendance rate of "Color is Empty", which has been released for four weeks, has generally fallen below 40%, Debao Cinemas has decided to fully paint the film after the release of the last day in March. They already have a better and newer choice, that is, Liu Zhenwei, one of the hottest directors in Hong Kong in the past two years, has just signed a distribution agreement with Debao senior management for his new work "Ghost Mansion", which will be released in Debao theaters on April l, April Fool's Day.

In fact, Debao Cinema is not the first theater to make this decision, and there are many private theaters that have begun to decline at the box office after seeing "Color is Empty". Moreover, the promotional activities made by New Asia in cooperation with the theater company are limited to the Debao Cinema Line, and are not applicable to other private theaters, and after failing to bring them actual benefits, in the face of the new release and more popular "The Story of Kuan", more private theaters have already painted their films, or choose the story of Kuan", or release films with more favorable conditions from other film companies.

Zheng Zeshi took the box office data he handed over and looked at it for a while, and praised: "It's 27 today, and the total box office of "Color is Empty" is only more than 200,000 to UU million." Mr. Lin, do you know that because of the movie New Asia, the outside world has been noisy. Including Xinyicheng, many film companies are asking me about the film and the script...... Huang Sheng especially admires you, I met Ah Sen when I went to see him two days ago, and mentioned this movie between you and Xinya during the chat, and he also asked me to tell you that Meng Gao raised his noble hand, saying that if "Color is Empty" and "The Story of Yu" were released at the same time, it would be a disaster."

Huang Baiming's words are naturally a joke, although the new art city has continued to fall into infighting in the past two years, no one can deny one thing, that is, the new art city is still the leader of Hong Kong films, even if Golden Harvest has the tendency to swallow mountains and rivers, in the battle for the box office market in Hong Kong, there are more losses and fewer wins. As one of the three giants of the New Art City, Huang Baiming's words are mostly jokes, if he wants to say that he will praise "Color is Empty", he will praise New Asia's hype methods are really good, and the investment of hundreds of thousands of publicity expenses is better than the publicity effect of some blockbuster millions of investments.

In fact, this is not only his curiosity, now there are enterprises and organizations in the industry that specialize in advertising, and they have also paid attention to the publicity methods of the two recent New Asia films, Zhu Jiading, who seems to be known as an advertising genius, once praised New Asia's methods in the media, and said with a smile, "New Asia is a capable person, and if they don't make movies in the future, they will have one more competitor in a few years after joining the advertising industry." This Zhu Jiading can be regarded as half of the entertainment industry, although he is a talent in the advertising industry, but in recent years, there have been frequent news that he has dated and even lived together with first-line actress Zhong Chuhong, and he has paid more attention to the entertainment industry.

Lin Xiaozhi just smiled slightly, but he didn't take it to heart, who wouldn't say polite words, instead of listening to these polite words, he would rather sit in the office and look at the box office data sent by various theaters and snicker.

"Huang Sheng, that's kind words, let's get down to business, Brother Cat."

Lin Xiaozhi called Zheng Zeshi to come to the company today, in fact, there are two things. The first thing was to ask him how Gao Zhisen's preparations were. This is the second thing, that is, this year's Hong Kong Film Awards are coming, which will be held at the Cultural Center on the evening of the evening, and New Asia not only received an invitation, but also a film was nominated, it was Zheng Zeshi's "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", screenwriter Huang Ying was nominated for Best Screenplay.

"Brother Mao, we also have a film nominated for the Academy Awards this year, and I am busy preparing for the celebration banquet of "Color is Empty" in the past few days, and I have to contact overseas distribution, and by the way, arrange the preparation of the new movie, which is really inseparable for the time being. Why don't you lead the team and go to the Academy Awards on the 29th?"

Lin Xiaozhi at this year's Academy Awards is not ready to go and doesn't want to go, in terms of the box office, "Can't Help It" is undoubtedly one of the biggest dark horses at the Hong Kong box office last year, but because the theme of the tertiary film is not pleasing, he didn't even get a nomination. Compared with it, another big dark horse at the Hong Kong box office last year, "Overlord Flower", won a nomination for Best Newcomer. To put it bluntly, it's because they're Fengyue films.

In the previous life, Lin Xiaozhi didn't pay much attention to the Academy Awards in the past few years, and he didn't remember which movies won awards. However, he inquired, the big hit of this year's Academy Awards is "Mong Kok Carmen" and "Together", these two movies are really famous in the history of Hong Kong film, and it is not surprising that most of the awards will also be won by the two films, and he also went to study with the prince, so he called Zheng Zeshi today, in fact, he hoped that Zheng Zeshi would represent New Asia in the past.

Zheng Zeshi was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that Lin Xiaozhi would be unwilling to participate in the Academy Awards ceremony. For Hong Kong filmmakers, the Academy Awards Gala is an annual feast. There are only two or three hundred people who can get invitations from the Academy Awards every year, but every year, there are hundreds of people who do not receive invitations, sharpen their heads, and try their best to get admission tickets at a high price, and take the opportunity to make friends with those big stars, directors and executives of other film companies.

He didn't know what Lin Xiaozhi was thinking, but when the young president from a wealthy family didn't know this, he explained to him: "Mr. Lin, I know that you may be busy. But the Academy Awards is an annual event in the industry, so it's best to go there in person, as you can make a lot of contacts and benefit the company's future development......"

But he didn't want Lin Xiaozhi to just smile and shake his head, seeing that he was still puzzled, Lin Xiaozhi said: "Brother Mao, I know that you are kind." It's just that the timing of this year is not good, at first I just joined New Asia, there is nothing here to be poor and white, in order to make money, I can only write a small cost Fengyue drama that does not require much investment, and make some money for the company. This is a double-edged sword, the good thing is that the company has made a lot of money because of it, and there is also a bad side, Xinya is now afraid that in the hearts of many people in the industry, it has been reduced to a salty and wet film company specializing in making tertiary films. ”

Recently, in the newspapers, there are often some people who talk about him Lin Xiaozhi saying that it is salty and wet, and it seems that it is a very shameful thing to make salty and wet movies as a child of a wealthy family. Whenever he saw such remarks that affected his mood, Lin Xiaozhi would look at the box office data sent from all over the country and calculate how much revenue "Color is Empty" could bring to the company, and suddenly his bad mood improved.

"Color is Empty" counts the later publicity, Xinya and himself invested a total of 6.34 million yuan in it, if the box office of this film exceeds 28 million Hong Kong dollars before the next painting, then it will bring him and the company at least nearly 10 million box office revenue. At this time, he has not yet sold the overseas trailers and videotapes of "Color is Empty", but Li Guoxing, the president of Meiya, has given him many phone calls to practice the overseas distribution of the film with him, but he has postponed the negotiations under various pretexts, that is, after the final box office comes out, he will completely grasp the initiative in the negotiation and then talk to Li Guoxing.

It is conservatively estimated that "Color is Empty" can bring investors a net income of 20 or 30 million, which is more than what he made by gambling on the Taiwan stock market, and it is this huge profit that makes Lin Xiaozhi withstand pressure from all sides.

Zheng Zeshi didn't know what to say, he did see some reports in the media that were not conducive to Lin Xiaozhi recently, just because he was trying to reduce some of the pressure on his body. Hearing him say this, he never refused, but sighed in his heart, 'The life of the wealthy family is not easy, so he agreed to lead the team to participate in the Academy Awards.

"Okay, I'll go over there at the Academy Awards. "Color is Empty" has achieved such a good result, it is time to have a celebration banquet, and when the time comes, I will contact some friends in the circle on the company's side to make it more lively."

Zheng Zeshi's reply made Lin Xiaozhi very happy, the last celebration banquet of "Maoshan" had made him realize Zheng Zeshi's connections in the circle, and the reason why he didn't feel sorry for missing the Academy Awards was that he wanted to take the opportunity to make this celebration banquet bigger and officially announce that he had joined the circle.

"Hehe, okay, Brother Cat. How can you say that you are also the production director of our New Asia, you still need to use more snacks in this matter" He replied with a smile, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, it is better to take the opportunity to invite Qiu Degen and Lin Baixin, the two bigwigs, to come to the town, Lao Qiu should be no problem over there, he has already eaten seventy percent of New Asia's shares, it stands to reason that the chairman's position should have been his, but Qiu Degen did not take the initiative to speak, Lin Xiaozhi did not mention this matter to him, Lao Qiu and New Asia have a deep relationship, as long as he opens his mouth, It's impossible for him, the chairman, not to come.

As for Lin Baixin's side, Lin Xiaozhi thought about it and didn't have confidence in his heart. His ninth uncle is also one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong, although he is ranked last, but his family assets are also more than 10 billion.

"Forget it, ask when the time comes, if you can't invite Lin Jianming, although he is not famous, who makes the family have a good father"

When Zheng Zeshi heard him reiterate his identity as the production director of Xinya again, a trace of complicated emotions flashed on his face. During this time, another reason why he didn't come to the company often was that he wanted Lin Xiaozhi to terminate the contract with him and replace the production director of his company, after all, even the company's shares were sold, and Zheng Zeshi didn't want to stay in New Asia anymore.

It's just that he didn't expect that he hadn't paid attention to it for a few months, this originally poor and white film company has become well-known in the industry under the management of Lin Xiaozhi, and it has also made a few money-making movies, and the capital has begun to be full. In addition, the new boss Lin Xiaozhi is a young man who is ambitious and wants to take revenge in the industry. Zheng Zeshi was constrained by the former president Wang Jia'an because of the filming of film funds, and he didn't know Lin Xiaozhi's identity at that time, he only thought that the assistant to the president was sent by Wang Jia'an to monitor him, but he was not polite to him, but later Lin Xiaozhi treated him well, as if he was a newcomer in the industry, giving him enough face as a senior.

It was this politeness that made it difficult for him to say that he wanted to resign. Recently, he helped Xinya contact his friend Gao Zhisen, on the one hand, it was indeed because he did not win the script of "Maoshan", and there was also a layer of meaning, it was not that he wanted to take over a movie to be a big hit, so he left with peace of mind. But before his actions came out, a "Color is Empty" made him see a little bit of New Asia's potential, and it was inevitable that he had some complicated emotions in his heart for a while.

The water flows to the lower place, and the people go to the higher place, and I was not optimistic about the future of New Asia and wanted to go, just human nature.

Maybe it's not bad to stay

Looking at the young president in front of him who suddenly quieted down, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, Zheng Zeshi suddenly had a strange thought in his heart for a moment. He shook his head, only to remember that there was something he hadn't told Lin Xiaozhi yet, so he coughed immediately, which made him come back to his senses, and then said: "Come over today, it just so happens that I also have a good thing to tell Mr. Lin." Ah Sen has been busy with all the publicity of "Family Carnival", if Mr. Lin is not in a hurry, I think it is better to choose the day of the celebration banquet, I will call Ah Sen over, let's take the opportunity to talk about the movie, right? ”

Before he could ask, he said it. finally got the exact news of Gao Zhisen's movie from his mouth, he nodded, and responded with a smile: "It's okay, it's all agreed at the celebration banquet at once."