"Brother Fa, congratulations, I heard that the box office of your movie "The Story of Yu" yesterday has reached 22 million, and according to this efficiency, the box office before the next painting has stabilized to more than 30 million......"

Lin Xiaozhi and Zhou Yunfa are not the first time to meet, at the celebration banquet of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" last year, he was stained with the light of Zheng Zeshi and Wu Mengda, chatted with Fa Ge for a while and even exchanged contact information. During the simultaneous release of "Color is Emptiness" and "The Story of Yu", he and Zhou Yanfa called each other and joked, both of them said that they liked each other's noble hands, and they were friends.

Fa Ge, who has just passed the age of his life, is undoubtedly the best artist of the same age in the entertainment industry in terms of beauty. To have a figure, to have an appearance of the Fa Ge people are also very bold and gentle, the style of the humble son not only gained him a love that outsiders envy and many fans, but also made him popular in the circle, anyone who mentions 'Zhou Runfa, these three words have to give a thumbs up.

Fa Ge smiled gently, shook his wine glass and touched it with him, "Big director, don't make fun of me." Today is your New Asia's celebration banquet, who doesn't know that the first movie you directed almost exceeded 30 million at the box office."

The entertainment industry is also a very realistic circle, Ye Weixin is now recuperating at home because of his injury, he originally wanted to come to the celebration, but failed to get the consent of his parents, as a result, he, another director, did not appear at the celebration, no matter what others think, the glory of "Color is Empty" also fell on Lin Xiaozhi.

Lin Xiaozhi didn't explain, said hello to Wu Mengda and Zheng Zeshi, looked at Gao Zhisen, who had fluffy hair and unshaven beard next to him, and looked a little unkempt, and asked with a smile: "I have admired the name of Gaosheng for a long time, I am very happy that you can come to our New Asia celebration tonight......"

Gao Zhisen has seen it many times in the newspaper, it is said that he was also the No. 1 handsome guy in his twenties, but now it is completely in line with the law of men's evolution, and the men are eighteen changes, and the more they change, the more ugly they become. Not only does the beard look terrible, but the messy hairstyle is getting more and more like an artist, and it's getting farther and farther away from the title of handsome guy.

But don't look at the crookedness, he is still one of the best directors in Hong Kong, especially when making Chinese New Year comedies, Gao Zhisen wants to call himself the second, and no one in Hong Kong dares to call himself the first. Lin Xiaozhi has never dealt with him, he has been delayed again and again, and it took more than two months to talk about his script to be sold to Xinya, Lin Xiaozhi thought he was a somewhat arrogant and difficult person, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the stiff expression on Gao Zhisen's face suddenly collapsed.

I saw him take out a pack of seven-star cigarettes from his pocket, light one for himself and said: "Mr. Lin, I'm really sorry, I was mixed with some things before, but I said that I had a script for Xinya, and it was delayed until now." ”

The crying and laughing expression on his face didn't seem to be fake, it seemed to be really a little difficult to hide. Lin Xiaozhi was curious, and just about to ask, he heard Gao Zhisen complain: "Mr. Mai has been tossing me recently, didn't he just help Debao make a movie, I didn't know that when Xu Guanwen came to me, the big financier of "Family Carnival" was Debao. Hey, the gods are fighting and the little ghosts are suffering."

Mr. Mai, who was complained by him, is undoubtedly the president of New Art City, Mecca.

Gao Zhisen seems to be the kind of person who can't hide things in his heart, and there are still Zheng Zeshi, Zhou Yanfa, Wu Mengda and Lin Xiaozhi standing around, and he doesn't care at all that complaining about Mecca behind his back will reach his ears. Lin Xiaozhi looked at Zheng Zeshi and Zhou Yanfa again, and the expressions on their faces did not change, and only Wu Mengda seemed to be a little curious and pricked up his ears, and was surprised in his heart.

Gao Zhisen complained a few words, and he finally understood why he agreed to give Xinya a script two months ago, but he delayed until April before he pulled out his hand.

It turned out that by 89 years, the discord and infighting between the three giants of Xinyicheng had completely intensified, last year Mecca had helped Jiahe and Debao make movies, Shi Tian also helped other film companies make films to snipe his own company's works, Huang Baiming is no exception, not only helped Debao and Xu's Pictures make movies, but also Xinya's "Color is Empty" If there is no help from him, it would be really difficult for Lin Xiaozhi to invite Yuan Jieying to be the heroine.

Originally, the three giants of Xinyicheng did not agree, each of them took on private work outside, and everyone was not clean in their hands, and they all tacitly agreed not to accuse anything, but this year, Huang Baiming's side made Mecca unhappy. Gao Zhisen is Huang Baiming's confidant, he helped Debao and Xu's Pictures to make "Family Carnival", and directly cut down Xinyicheng's own film with a box office of more than 30 million, and the reputation was so bad that fans threw rotten eggs at Xinyicheng Company The movie "New Best Partner" won this year's Chinese New Year box office champion. Subsequently, New Arts City artist Yuan Jieying joined New Asia to shoot "Color is Empty", which almost won 30 million box office, and even collided directly with New Art City's masterpiece "The Story of Helang", which started a tragic box office tug-of-war.

Gao Zhisen and Yuan Jieying are both under the control of Huang Baiming, this time the box office of the new art city at the beginning of the year was bullied by two movies made by his own people to help outsiders, Mecca as the president of the new art city, and Huang Baiming has the biggest difference with him, he naturally grasps the handle and uses the topic to play, and recently Mecca and Huang Baiming attack and accuse each other. The gods fought and the little ghosts suffered, Gao Zhisen had to stay outside during this time, and he didn't return to Hong Kong until recently after Shi Tian mediated the dispute between Mecca and Huang Baiming.

Years of infighting at the top level, the dissatisfaction within the new art city in the past two years has begun to be undisguised. Gao Zhisen, as one of the best directors in Xinyicheng, has also been involved in the triumvirate many times. In fact, it is not only him, but big stars like Fa Ge have also been implicated. It's no wonder that Gao Zhisen doesn't care about saving face for Mecca, and openly complains in front of people about shaking out the in Xinyi City.

Gao Zhisen appeared to say that Lin Xiaozhi was not very clear about the battle between the three giants of the new art city, and he had a rough idea in his heart.

87 is definitely the heyday of the new art city, direct investment in thirteen films, not counting the films filmed in cooperation with other film companies, the total box office in Hong Kong that year is 100 million Hong Kong dollars, but in that year, the new art city alone accounted for nearly half of the box office in Hong Kong, and Debao and Golden Harvest collapsed. However, in 87, the contradiction between the three giants of the new art city has also intensified, and the infighting has seriously affected the new art city in the past few years.

Last year, the direct investment of the new art city has been reduced to only 8 films, and in April this year, only two films were released in the new art city, one movie is being made, and there are no rumors that other films will be filmed for the time being. The new art city can now be said to be internal and external troubles, but the internal friction of this old overlord is not necessarily a bad thing for other small and medium-sized film companies.

Lin Xiaozhi silently began to think in his heart, Xinyicheng had a lot of things he was interested in. The stunt team of New Arts City is especially good at flying eaves and wall walking and speeding car stunts, but it is the best stunt group in Asia along with Golden Harvest's blasting special effects team; New Yibao Records has provided a steady stream of high-quality soundtracks for New Art City, and has also cultivated a large number of musical talents; Oriental Printing is the largest and best film color printing company in Hong Kong, and hundreds of films choose to be printed by Oriental Printing Company every year...... There are also a large number of directors, crews and artists in Xinyi City, just thinking about it makes people blush.

After the disintegration of Xinyicheng in the 90s, Xu Ke, Huang Baiming, Mecca, Shitian, and Jiahe and Yongsheng joined forces to carve up the talent of Xinyicheng, which still created the rise of Xu Ke Studio Company.

"If it goes on like this, the new art city will collapse" Gao Zhisen is still venting his dissatisfaction with being forced by Mecca to be out of Hong Kong for a few months: "I can't stand this toss anyway, I have made some money filming in the past few years, but if it doesn't work, I will leave the new art city and toss a film company to play by myself"

"Ahem"

At the beginning, Gao Zhisen complained there, and Fa Ge and they just listened. It wasn't until he heard Gao Zhisen say more and more that Fa Ge coughed and reminded him to stop. Zheng Zeshi also reacted, worried that his friend's words would reach Mecca's ears, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Asen, tell Mr. Lin about your new script, and negotiate this matter as soon as possible, so let's start ......filming as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Gao Zhisen was stunned, and obviously found that he was chattering about his old club, and he seemed to be a little out of shape. smiled awkwardly, lit another cigarette for himself, nodded and said: "Let you see the smile, Brother Cat asked me some time ago if I had a new script for Xinya, and it just so happened that there was a young man under me who was very talented, and he wrote a book that I liked very much, so I helped him revise it and prepare it for filming." Lin Sheng, I didn't make it clear to you before, because it is a script created by a newcomer, so it's okay if Xinya doesn't want to take the script now. If Xinya is willing to take it, just give the price to the general screenwriter......"

Gao Zhisen said it lightly, although "Water Margin Laughter" was only written by his subordinate, a young man named Gu Dezhao. But from the plot to the character portrayal, it is very interesting, and with his personal help in revising and polishing, it is already a good script. Moreover, he Gao Zhisen is famous, even if Xinya doesn't want to let him out of the news, someone will come to the door at a high price, which is also the reason why he lightly told the source of the script.

Lin Xiaozhi smiled when he heard this, "Gao Sheng, what do you think of me Lin Xiaozhi and Xinya, I heard Brother Mao mention some plots before, and it is quite an interesting script." What newcomers are not newcomers, several people in the entertainment industry are not newcomers who survived. We want this book in Xinya.,If it's okay.,Let's sign the contract in the next two days.,Let's plan to shoot.。 But I have a request, if I can, the main actor in the script, I want to use our own signed artists as much as possible......"

Don't say that he, Lin Xiaozhi, is not the kind of guy who only recognizes his name but not people, but Gao Zhisen doesn't know the details of him. Unfortunately, Lin Xiaozhi really watched a movie called "Water Margin Laughter" directed by Gao Zhisen, although the plot is a little rougher, it is also a typical Hong Kong-style ghost horse comedy, and the screenwriter is the famous Gu Dezhao in Hong Kong. It's just that because that movie seems to have been shot a few years later, he can't be sure if the two are the same

However, with Gao Zhisen's golden signboard, if the script is too bad, I think he himself will be willing to smash the signboard to take over the shooting.

Sure enough, although he didn't care very much, Lin Xiaozhi readily agreed to sign it directly, and Gao Zhisen was still very happy with his confidence and trust in him. smiled and nodded again and again: "This is naturally the priority to choose New Asia artists, but I also have a few suggestions for the protagonist, Wu Song's role I think Ah Fa or Xu Guanjie are more in line with the image." Wu Dalang, how do you think of Brother Da, as for Ximen Qing, I recommend Xu Guanying, who has worked with me before, and the matchmaker chooses Shen Dianxia, which is not bad......"

Lin Xiaozhi frowned when he heard this, he had already determined that this "Water Margin Laughter" was the one in his memory, and he did not deny that the ones recommended by Gao Zhisen were more suitable. However, Fa Ge's salary is nearly 4 million, even if he lowers his salary, I am afraid that he will have to pay 2 million, Xu Guanjie is the same, invite one of the two of them to come, and the film investment will be close to 10 million.

"Hehe, I wrote down Gao Sheng's suggestion, and I'll go back and think about it."

Lin Xiaozhi didn't agree on the spot, Zhou Yunfa stood aside, and with a turn of his head, he probably guessed that the estimated reason was still on himself. Although I regretted that I couldn't participate in the show, I thought about it and glanced at my good friend Wu Mengda, and took the initiative to say: "Lin Sheng, you don't need to think about me." I've been filming "Bloody Heroes" recently, and I may be busy until July, so let's work together again if we have the opportunity in the future."

When he said this, he also took the initiative to help Lin Xiaozhi find an excuse. Lin Xiaozhi is grateful, an actor like Fa Ge who has good acting skills and no character is something that every film company wants to work with, and after Xinya becomes big in the future, he will definitely be invited to film.

Wu Zhisen originally wanted to analyze with him why he wanted to invite these people, but with Fa Ge's help, he could only temporarily dispel his thoughts, and made an appointment with Lin Xiaozhi to go to New Asia to sign a contract recently.

The group chatted for a while, Fa Ge and Wu Mengda left one after another, Gao Zhisen also left soon after, and Zheng Zeshi went out to see him off. After ten o'clock in the celebration, most of the people who came to cheer had already left, Lin Xiaozhi was thinking about whether to announce the end, and a voice stopped him who had just sent Qiu Degen away.

"Mr. Lin, you are a busy person tonight, I can be regarded as finding an opportunity to chat with you alone."

With a familiar voice, Lin Xiaozhi slowly turned around and saw Li Guoxing, the president of Meiya, take out a lighter and light a cigarette for himself.

Xinya has indeed been drying Meiya for a long time.