For Lin Xiaozhi, 199l has been dyed with lucky colors since it was opened.

In January, Media Asia was successfully listed, which more than doubled his value, and he became a first-class billionaire in Hong Kong with billions of Hong Kong dollars. Later, with the help of the Bank of China Group, he finally got on the line with the mainland, and he successfully took the first step, and he still has a certain confidence in whether he can use the general trend to open up the mainland market in advance.

The good news came one after another, just when he Lin was pulling people to the north without stopping, he learned from his girlfriend Zhou Huimin that she was successfully pregnant, and it was also a great joy that he would become an expectant father. Before his excitement could subside, several good things came one after another.

After several months of negotiations, "The Saint of Gambling" and "Red Alert" have successively completed the distribution layout in Japan and South Korea. In particular, "Red Alert", which Lin Xiaozhi cares about the most, was released in Japan, and Zheng Fei won the opportunity for it to land in Japan at the end of the month from Kadokawa Pictures Co., Ltd. Although the Japanese New Year follows the Gregorian calendar, it has been completely detached from the influence of the Chinese cultural circle since the Meiji Restoration, and there is no such thing as a New Year's holiday in Japan. However, if Red Alert can be released in Japan at the end of the month, its box office will undoubtedly stimulate the share price of Media Asia.

Golden Harvest Xu was stimulated by the listing of Media Asia, and Golden Harvest owner Zou Minhuai recently not only sold a lot of real estate properties under his name to start recovering funds, but also restarted Golden Harvest's listing publicity. Thanks to the global success of last year's difficult "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Golden Harvest's deeds of making hundreds of millions of dollars (Hong Kong dollars) in a movie are being sought after by major media and investors in Hong Kong. And at this time, Zou Minhuai shook out the plan to start filming the second part of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" a few days ago. For the first time, the share price of Media Asia fell slightly.

A battle for the leading position in the Hong Kong film industry has started quietly, although Media Asia has taken the lead in listing, it does not mean that it can always maintain the upper hand, Media Asia is currently looking forward to winning "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" by relying on the box office of "Red Alert".

A little later than in previous years, the most official film award in the Hong Kong film industry, the Academy Awards, also belatedly arrived at this time, and finally released the list of nominees for the 10th Academy Awards. Like last year, if you only look at the list, there is no doubt that Media Asia has become one of the dark horses of the Academy Awards. As the champion and runner-up of the Hong Kong film box office list last year, "Red Alert" and "The Saint of Gambling" have undoubtedly become the second favorites to win the 10th Academy Awards. Among them, "Red Alert" won four nominations: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Xu Jinjiang), and Best Action Director (Yuan Kui, Liu Jiahui). "The Saint of Gambling" also received four nominations, namely Best Film, Best Actor (Zhou Xingchi), Best Supporting Actor (Wu Mengda), and Best Film Song.

To everyone's surprise, "Love Letter", which was much worse at the box office than the previous two, received two more Academy Award nominations than the two, and even won six Academy Award nominations, becoming one of the favorites to win the championship this year. And in addition to the three awards it won for Best Art Direction, Best Film Score, and Best Film Song, the remaining three are all heavyweight awards, including the three heavyweight awards of Best Director, Best Film, and Best Screenplay. In terms of commerciality, "Red Alert" and "The Saint of Gambling" are obviously more commercial than "Love Letters", but if it is about literary "Love Letters", it will be a few streets away from the other two films, which undoubtedly scratched the itch in the hearts of the Academy Awards jury, as can be seen in the nominations for six awards.

And strictly speaking, the box office of "Love Letter" is actually not bad. This port may be weaker than "The Saint of Gambling" and "Red Alert", but in Taiwan, its box office beat "The Saint of Gambling" and won the third glory of the Taiwan box office list in 1990, and it was an instant hit in Japan, with a total box office of more than 2 billion yen also squeezed into the top ten (ninth) of the Japanese annual box office list.

Three of the films under the name of Media Asia were nominated for 14 Academy Awards, accounting for almost a fifth of the total 77 nominations for this year's Academy Awards, which is a little more than last year. However, it seems that there are a lot of nominations, and it is still unknown how many will actually win the final award. Not to mention anything else, the blackest dark horse at this year's Academy Awards is not "Love Letter", but the True Story of Hefei invested and filmed by Deng Guangrong's Ying Zhijie Film Company. This film directed by Wong Kar-wai and also gathered Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, and Lau Dehua, four Hong Kong first-line male and female artists, but won 9 Academy Award nominations in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi, who is very good at the consistency of the Academy Awards jury, does not take a few nominations seriously. In contrast, Sima Jie, who has been stranded in Canada for nearly three months, has just sent back from Malibu, a beach city in California, USA, with a good news that makes him feel extremely happy. After more than a month of contact, Sima Jie finally completed another acquisition for him, officially acquiring the American independent film company Miramax 87 for HK$950 million. shares.

With this acquisition, Media Asia finally has a U.S. distribution channel.

Founded in the 1971s by brothers Winston (Bob and Harvey), Miramax is a pioneer of the American independent film industry. In the 20 years since its establishment, it has become the leading independent film company in the United States by producing and distributing low-budget independent films, and its total assets have skyrocketed from $70 to tens of millions.

However, the 89 and 90 years can definitely be called the two years that changed the fate of Miramax, and in the previous year, Miramax bought out the distribution rights of several money-losing movies at a high price, resulting in a loss of more than $19 million for the company, which seriously damaged the vitality of Miramax. In the following year, Hollywood's top film company, the Disney Group, sent a purchase offer to Miramax, and the enthusiastic 'Uncle Mickey Mouse' was no longer satisfied with only making cartoons and amusement parks, and wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and acquire Miramax, an independent film company that is well-known in the United States, to make up for Disney's lack of live-action film shooting strength

When Lin Xiaozhi sent Sima Jie to contact Miramax, the negotiations between Disney and the Winston brothers had actually lasted for about half a year from the mid-90s. Half a year has passed, and the two sides have never been able to reach a consensus. As soon as the Winston brothers opened their mouths to ask for an ultra-high price of $100 million, the Disney Group was only willing to buy it for $300,000 with the previous year's loss-making financial statements of Miramax.

Without Mr. Lin's involvement, the Winston brothers, who were talking about spitting, would have sold Miramax to Disney for $10,000 next year. However, because of Disney's stinginess, by the time he intervened in the acquisition, Uncle Mickey Mouse was only willing to increase the purchase price of Miramax to more than $000,000.

After getting his promise, Sima Jie quickly figured out the negotiation process between Disney and Miramax, and made an offer that was far higher than that of the Disney Group and that the Winston brothers could not refuse. Successfully acquired the film company, which has signed distribution agreements with 33L theaters in the United States.

With the acquisition of Miramax, the North American release of Red Alert, which lasted for several months without a follow-up, also began to be on the agenda.

With the Hong Kong-style Spring Festival without New Year's flavor coming, Hong Kong's New Year's stalls have finally arrived at the port of a hundred edges.

This year's Lunar New Year was undoubtedly a bad one for the ill-prepared Media Asia, which made a small profit for the company when it was released four weeks later, including "Fortune and Fortune" and "Central Heroes", which were shot by Sin Qiran himself. However, compared with Yongsheng, which relied on the two films "The Gambler" and "Tricky Expert" to dominate the Hong Kong film box office from December last year to early February this year, it is undoubtedly a lot worse.

With the arrival of the New Year, Golden Harvest made a lot of effort, endured it for more than a month without releasing it in advance, and let Yongsheng's "Tricky Expert" be beautiful for a month, and after charging first to frustrate Huanya's sharpness, he released the big production that he had been holding for more than a month - "Flying Eagle Strategy".

After 89 years of embarrassment of having no scenes to shoot for a year, Cheng Long realized that he was too dependent on Golden Harvest (his own high salary is also an important reason), so he thought of his friend Deng Jingsheng, and immediately made an appointment with this powerful screenwriter who helped him write "Pei Di Out of the Horse", "Al+ Row" series, and "Police Story" and many blockbuster blockbusters, and there was "Flying Eagle Strategy", which imitated "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The script was born

He is the richest artist in Hong Kong, and he has earned hundreds of millions of family properties through filming and endorsement in the past, and he was also influenced by Jiahe's tens of millions of dollars to shoot "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and Lin Xiaozhi's heavy investment in "Red Alert", "Flying Eagle Strategy" He took out an investment of 40 million Hong Kong dollars when he first invested, and also pulled a lot of capital from other Taiwanese and Japanese companies.

It's a pity that this movie is strictly just a product of Cheng Long's stubbornness and obstinacy. Because he stubbornly believed that he could be qualified for the position of director, he refused to ask his senior brother Sammo Hung to take charge, and also rejected the other directors that Weihe chose for him. The financial intemperance, and the excessive demand for quality, which did not allow others to criticize him, eventually led to this film, which was shot since the beginning of the 90s, and it took more than half a year to shoot. In addition, the cost of filming has increased from less than 50 million Hong Kong dollars at the beginning, and finally exceeded 15 million US dollars (about 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars).

This money is really unjustly spent, because "Flying Eagle Strategy" strictly speaking, there are scenes, but because Cheng Long himself is too obstinate and stubborn, he only needs to spend three or four million Hong Kong dollars to do it, Cheng Long has to be 'bold, and spend tens of millions.

It is this conceit that made "Flying Eagle Strategy" spend a lot of unjust money, but it failed to make an effect worthy of its cost. Therefore, when Golden Harvest merged with Weihe before, played a publicity campaign with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, and released a large number of promotional posters, the Hong Kong film industry only regarded it as a satellite, and few people believed that it was true no matter how Golden Harvest promoted it.

As soon as "Flying Eagle Planning" was released, the publicity that Golden Harvest was still trying to maintain was quickly closed. Although it handed over 30,000 Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the first day of release, it only took six days for the box office to break through 10 million Hong Kong dollars, making it the most dominant film in this year's Chinese New Year file, crushing Media Asia's "Color is Empty" released at the same time.

However, the reputation of "Flying Eagle Strategy" is mixed, and the audience is satisfied with the addition of many foreign scenes in the movie, but at the same time, they pouted at the consistent small situation of Hong Kong-style treasure hunting in the movie, and even the media openly ridiculed Golden Harvest for running the train with his mouth full.