In the early morning of June 25th, in the Crystal Pavilion Villa, Lin Xiaozhi got up early in the morning, washed briefly in his pajamas, asked the Filipino maid to report the newspaper he ordered, and went to the roof on the third floor, lying on a recliner in the sea breeze, and reading the latest issue of the newspaper.

He hid from the media four days ago to see Hong Kong, which had just returned to Bangkok by plane. The outside world is still making a fuss about the acquisition of Standard Chartered by the Kowloon Bank, but with Song Nianhui handling this matter, and the overall situation has basically been decided, Lin Xiaozhi also returned to Hong Kong with peace of mind, one is to avoid the attention of all the forces that have now been attracted to the United Kingdom, and on the other hand, it is also to sit in Hong Kong and urge the post-production of "The Mummy" to be accelerated.

"Darling!" Li Jiaxin was also wearing a silk pajamas, one hand was still covering the towel on the wet hair, and the other side was holding a bottle of ordinary cream whiskey and two goblets.

Zhou Huimin has reached the dangerous period before giving birth, not only has her mood often relapsed recently, but even the quality of sleep is not good, she was coaxed by him for a long time to fall asleep last night, and she has not gotten up yet.

The old man's body is also not as good as day by day, last month accidentally caught a cold, and finally had a high fever of nearly 40 degrees and entered the hospital, and when he came out again, the whole person did not have the spirit of the previous two years. He also knew that he didn't have a few days to live, so he wanted to see more little dolls at home, so he personally asked someone to find two nurses with a good reputation in the industry to serve Zhou Huimin, because she also went to the hospital for a check-up not long ago, and this pregnancy is also a twin, even if it is a girl's family, it is also festive.

Lin Xiaozhi knew who was coming when he heard the footsteps, looked up and smiled at her, then shook the newspaper and continued to read.

Just yesterday, that epic monster was finally released. On June 24, "Jurassic Park" landed in North American theaters, and if you calculate the time difference, it is still on the night of the 24th in the United States.

Even if it is thousands of miles away, even if there is a time difference between the two places, even if Lin Xiaozhi doesn't look at it, he can guess the current situation in the United States, which must be boiling.

For a masterpiece that can not be imagined with human vision and imagination - "Jurassic Park"!

Li Jiaxin knew that he didn't like to talk when reading the newspaper, so he sat down next to him silently, poured him a glass of sweet wine and pushed it next to him, and also learned from him to lie on the recliner on the other side.

Next to him, Lin Xiaozhi was still looking at the newspaper at a glance, searching for news that interested him.

“…… Golden Princess Chairman Luo Zhaohui announced that he would invest 300 million yuan in film shooting, Mecca proudly said that he would serve as the director, and "Best Partner 7" will be launched on a later date! ”

"Andy Lau promised to make five more movies this year, and he will throw all the money he earns into it!"

"UFO has recently reached a cooperation with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and will recommend five to ten new screenwriters to enter the academy for at least half a year of professional training every year!"

Lin Xiaozhi has subscribed to a lot of newspapers, many of which are related to the entertainment industry. Looking at the news reports about movies in newspapers that took up at least more than one-third of the entertainment section, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but feel excited. Now the development process of Hong Kong films has made him a little in a trance, as if the scene when he was reborn before the three domestic Internet giants BAT and many real estate and capital tycoons competing for the film industry is appearing in Hong Kong now.

Capital is eyeing the film industry, although it has brought a series of problems, but the biggest benefit is that it has brought abundant capital for the development of Hong Kong films.

The newspapers were quickly read through, and Lin Xiaozhi didn't read much about the news about his company, and basically took it with ten lines at a glance.

Quickly hurriedly flipped through more than a dozen newspapers, he breathed a long sigh of relief, drank the sweet wine that Li Jiaxin poured for him on the table next to him, and then got up and looked at Victoria Bay not far away, and stretched lazily.

"The easy days are coming to an end, but it's a good day!"

"Jurassic Park" premiered at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and the box office first fell and then soared on the first day of release, handing over a single-day box office of $18.64 million on the same day, shocking the United States.

Yes, it did shock the nation.

In fact, although Michael Clayton, the author of "Jurassic Park", has a lot of popularity in the United States, and the original film adaptation quickly set off a reading frenzy in the United States due to his broad imagination after the publication of the film in 90, but when the well-known director Spielberg announced that he would shoot this work, not only the original author euphemistically told him that it may be difficult to produce the desired effect with the current technology, and many American film giants are not even willing to invest.

The outside world is not optimistic about him, the American media once ridiculed Spielberg, and even when he finally won the investment, he sent invitations to Harrison Ford and William Hurt, Harrison Ford refused to play the leading role on the pretext, and William Hurt simply refused without even reading the script.

The general disapproval of American society even made Spielberg's confidence shaken for a while, and when it took only three months to complete the filming and enter the post-production, he wrote in a letter to his friends: "...... Filming it was probably the worst decision I've ever made in my life, Tippett (who provided CG tech support for Jurassic Park) had a lot of work and wasn't satisfying to me, and I was even thinking about asking Lucasfilm (ILM is part of Lucasfilm) for help, at least their robots were doing a good job! ”

However, although the movie was not favored before it was completed, after the release of "Jurassic Park", it quickly proved with the box office that filming it was the most correct choice for Spielberg in his life.

The premiere won an outcry, and then on the first day of release, "Jurassic Park" sold out all the movies released in North America on that day. Although it only had three screening days in its first week of release, "Jurassic Park" shocked the United States with an astonishing weekly box office of $91.47 million.

After handing over a perfect report card, Spielberg, who became more and more confident, changed hands and began to lay out the global release after contacting his two main investors, Universal and Lin Xiaozhi.

As a major investor, Lin Xiaozhi not only owns one of the largest cinema chains in Hong Kong, but also has made many acquisitions, and is now one of the major cinema companies in Japan and the United Kingdom. So after a short negotiation, Lin Xiaozhi successfully obtained the main distribution rights in the three places, and then arranged the release time of "Jurassic Park" in the UK to August 5, as for Japan and Hong Kong, he arranged them on August 19 and August 27 respectively!

After this arrangement, Media Asia has changed from passive to active, creating a favorable battlefield for its many movies that started early in the morning to snipe "Jurassic Park"!

Media Asia Film Group, in the office of Lin Xiaozhi.

Quietly avoiding possible media reporters through the back door, Lin Xiaozhi came to his office, where Ye Weixin had been waiting for a long time.

"Lin Sheng......"

"Sit ......"

Lin Xiaozhi took off his coat and hung it on the hanger on the side, with a little crying and laughing on his face: "I have to hide and hide like a thief when I commute to work every day, I really hope that Mr. Song in London can do it as soon as possible!" ”

The battle for the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank has entered the white heat, after Song Nianhui flew to the United Kingdom, the main battlefield of the equity battle around Standard Chartered has been transferred to the United Kingdom, with the efforts of Standard Chartered management, there have been more than a dozen small and medium-sized shareholders to the current management, plus there is also the Stockton family is trying to absorb shares, the current Standard Chartered senior management holds and can affect the shares has been close to 30%, not much less than the shares eaten by the Kowloon Bank that was prepared half a year in advance.

Fortunately, in the past period of time, Song Nianhui has also won several small and medium-sized shareholders and increased the shares in his hands. At the same time, after a period of public relations, Lloyd's Bank's offer gradually fell back to a range that they could accept, and just yesterday morning, when Song Nianhui called him from London, he speculated that it should be able to get 3. The price below £3.5 billion will be about 6 of Lloyds' Bank's holdings. 03% of Standard Chartered shares are taken down!

Once Lloyd's is acquired, their stake in Standard Chartered will jump to more than 45% and firmly gain the upper hand. When the time comes, after seeing the situation clear, I believe that many Standard Chartered institutional investors who are still waiting will have many of them turned to them.

Ye Weixin just came back from the United States, that is, he went to the United States with Li Guoxing, and negotiated with Spielberg and Universal Pictures about the distribution rights of "Jurassic Park" in Hong Kong, Japan and the United Kingdom.

After the negotiations, Yip Weixin went directly back to Hong Kong, while Li Guoxing, who went with him, went to the United Kingdom to temporarily take over the management of UCT Cinemas, and he had to stay in the United Kingdom temporarily until the new president completed the formalities and handed over to the United Kingdom.

The future president of UCT Cinemas, Lin Xiaozhi's favorite two are Cen Jianxun, the former president of Debao Cinemas, and Wu Zhaocan, the former president of Golden Princess Cinemas.

He had sent an invitation to Cen Jianxun before, but Cen Jianxun refused. Since Debao resigned, he tossed a leather bag film company called 'Mavelik Production Company', and invested in so many movies in a few years, but unfortunately this old cannon didn't know if it was a funny head, and he made a few literary films that were sour to death, although the cost was not high, but he also lost three or four million before and after.

After entering the New Year this year, Cen Jianxun seems to have finally opened his head, and it is more likely that he has been exhausted by a series of money-losing movies, and finally no longer makes any literary and artistic movies in a sour way, and picks up the old business to make a small-budget comedy, this kind of movie is actually not a hot spot in the market now, but it is not difficult to make money, not to mention that as a former Hong Kong film giant, Cen Jianxun also has extraordinary appeal and connections in the circle, and it is quite lively for a while.

Cen Jianxun was reluctant to give up his film company, so Lin Xiaozhi had to send someone to contact Wu Zhaocan again. This time, Wu Zhaocan didn't refuse him again, but agreed very happily.

Wu Zhaocan has been managing the Golden Princess Cinema for the Kowloon tycoon since the time of Lei Juekun, and he has been conscientious for more than ten years, and he also pioneered the business model of Hong Kong cinema catering and retail, and once wanted to engage in a movie membership system, but unfortunately several proposals were suppressed by Lei Juekun with the excuse of taking too many risks, and he proposed again and was rejected during the Lei Qizheng period, and then Luo Zhaohui did not even approve his proposal to allocate funds to upgrade the theater configuration, and watched the largest Golden Princess Cinema in the industry in the past. Now that he has thrown a few streets away from his old rivals Golden Harvest and Debao Cinemas, it is no wonder that he is lost and wants to leave.

However, it is not easy for Wu Zhaocan to resign, his contract with Princess Jin has long expired, but Luo Zhaohui has no connections in the circle, and he can't pick a suitable person to take over the work in his hands for a while.

After taking a seat, Lin Xiaozhi brewed two cups of black tea, handed one to Ye Weixin, took a few sips of light drinks before putting it down, and said with a smile: "Your performance at the Cannes Film Festival this year was dazzling, and "Truman's World" won the Palme d'Or, the Jury Award and the International Federation of Film Critics Awards three gold cups in succession, and the performance was eye-catching, no wonder I postponed the film for so long before letting it be screened, right?!" ”

When he mentioned this movie, his eyes were also a little strange, obviously he had changed the name to "Whose World" when the script was written, but who would have thought that when he waited for post-production after the finale, Ye Weixin felt that the name was not good, because the protagonist's name was 'Truman', so he made the decision to change the name of the movie back to "Truman's World", but he didn't expect it to become a reincarnation after going around in a circle.

At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the performance of "Truman's World" was indeed eye-catching. If it weren't for Lin Xiaozhi telling Ye Weixin to let him talk about the release slowly, distributors in many countries, including the United States, even promised to release it in their home countries by the end of June at the latest. You must know that this is definitely a treatment that only popular movies can have, and many films that are favored by distributors in various countries at the film festival can only have the opportunity to land in theaters in various countries after half a year to a year after the film festival.

Ye Weixin just came back from the United States and went to see two "Jurassic Park" in person, shaking his head solemnly: "I know the company's plan, in order to snipe "Jurassic Park", it is acceptable to sacrifice a little box office." Although Lin Sheng, you have already explained to us in advance that this movie is very unusual, but Mr. Li and I still didn't believe it at the time. Before we came back, we went to the theater to watch two shows in person, and finally understood Lin Sheng, your worries, letting such a movie be released in Hong Kong is definitely a disaster for Hong Kong films......"

"Jurassic Park" also has Lin Xiaozhi's investment, it's not that he is brainless and can't get along with money, and he feels uncomfortable if he doesn't target "Jurassic Park", but no one knows better than him how much impact this movie has on Hong Kong films in the original history.

In the original history, although American blockbusters have gained a firm foothold in the Taiwan market before 93, Hong Kong films still firmly control more than half of the market in Taiwan Province, until the establishment of small and medium-sized film companies in 93 and the impact of "Jura И Park", in 94 Hong Kong films were defeated by American blockbusters for the first time in this most important foreign port, and their market share fell below forty percent, and they have never been able to rise again.

The same is true in Southeast Asia, and since the late 80s, Southeast Asian countries have set off local protectionism to support their own films, and the life of Hong Kong films has not been so good.

South Korea and Japan are both part of the Asian Tigers and one of the richest countries in Asia, and the box office is more than one or two times larger than that of Hong Kong, but the local films of the two countries are not very good, and the government does not dare to offend the United States, as a result, "Jurassic Park" quickly caused a hot movie-watching frenzy in Asia as soon as it was released, and the concept of American blockbusters has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

For Hong Kong films, the most cruel thing should be the defeat of the port.

As a British colony, Hong Kong has actually had British films screened in Hong Kong since before World War II, but British films are not competitive, and with the rise of Hong Kong's local films, they were squeezed into no market in Hong Kong in the fifties and sixties.

Since the sixties and seventies, American films have also begun to pay attention to the Hong Kong market, including "Star Wars", "Terminator" and a series of American blockbusters, in fact, have been released in Hong Kong, just because of the huge differences in culture, this series of movies in Hong Kong box office is very popular, the only two American films in Hong Kong box office exceeded 20 million Hong Kong dollars were born in recent years, namely "Terminator 2" and "Batman 2".

Although there are few successful people, it cannot be ignored that Hong Kong film fans' attitudes towards American films have begun to change with the increase in appreciation level and the continuous absorption and contact with foreign cultures, and now Hong Kong films alone can no longer fully satisfy their pursuit of novel films.

Therefore, in the original history, "Jurassic Park" was released in Hong Kong, and quickly defeated all the Hong Kong films released in the same batch, and won the August box office alone, and then ate most of the box office in September, with a score of more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars, fully maintained the name of Hong Kong's highest box office, until 97 when another shipwreck movie also from the United States hit, it was satisfied to give up the throne of "Hong Kong's highest-grossing movie".

Think about it, the Hong Kong film called 'Oriental Hollywood' was occupied by an American film from 93 years to the first box office, until the second half of 97 was recaptured by another American film, and in recent years, Hong Kong filmmakers and Hong Kong films have been defeated one by one when they continue to try to regain this honor that should belong to themselves, what kind of cruel blow is that, it is no wonder that a well-known Hong Kong filmmaker will say 'Hong Kong films lost in 93 and died in 97, After 98, there will be no more Hong Kong films' desperate words.

Since he has lived a lifetime again, Lin Xiaozhi naturally will not allow such a thing to happen again.

He has been preparing for "Jurassic Park" for a long time, and investing in its filming is just an unstoppable next step, firstly, to share a part of the box office dividends, and secondly, to take the opportunity to grasp first-hand film information. After all, with Spielberg's connections and value, although he was not optimistic at first, he was finally able to win investors to shoot "Jurassic Park".

In fact, it also proves that his investment in "Jurassic Park" is a clever move, and it is through this relationship that Media Asia has obtained its distribution rights in Hong Kong, Japan and the United Kingdom, at least calmly sniping at the box office of "Jurassic Park" in these three major markets of Media Asia.

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