Solving the matter of the Lion King is just a small episode, and after he is busy with this matter, Lin Xiaozhi has more and more important things to do, the first two things are to arrange the release of "Color is Empty" in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and the shooting of Zhang Luo's new movie.

Taiwan is relatively close to Hong Kong, and it is currently the largest foreign market for Hong Kong films, so Lin Xiaozhi plans to take a trip in person recently, and meet with the largest distributors there to see if he can open up New Asia's Taiwan distribution channels. On the Korean side, he has already asked Zheng Fei to fly over first to see if he can contact the publisher in South Korea. As for Japan, Lin Xiaozhi on the Japanese side will not consider it for the time being.

Zheng Fei clearly told him that the distribution channel for Hong Kong films to enter Japan was almost monopolized by Golden Harvest. As the world's second economy and the largest film producer in East Asia, although Japan's domestic film industry is declining year by year, the huge Japanese box office market also makes several major cinemas worry about the lack of film releases, so it is natural that they will not take the initiative to come to Hong Kong to buy film sources. Therefore, even giants like Xinyicheng, Debao and Meiya are difficult to open the Japanese box office market, and it is difficult to enjoy the high share ratio of Golden Harvest in Japan. Even if the five major Japanese film companies occasionally come to Hong Kong to purchase, most of them choose to directly buy out the release rights of the film.

Japan is estimated to surpass France this year to become the world's third largest box office market in East Asia.

89 is a year of storms, judging from the box office in the first four months of this year, it is a foregone conclusion that the Hong Kong box office will exceed one billion Hong Kong dollars this year, and it is a year of big explosion.

'89 is also a year of Hong Kong film opportunities, in which Coco Chow's investment of nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" almost dragged down Golden Harvest's capital flow and slowed down its Asian film plans; After Debao's boss Pan Disheng spent a huge amount of money to completely take over the old Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, he further reduced the production funds allocated to Debao Films, which made Debao, which had the lowest market share among the three giants, a few points weaker; Not to mention Xinyicheng, at the beginning of this year, Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen's master and apprentice facilitated the filming of "Family Carnival" and "Color is Empty", which sniped Xinyicheng's own two movies "The New Best Partner" and "The Story of Yu", the battle between the three giants has been completely irreconcilable.

"Oriental Daily" recently posted a photo of Mecca and Huang Baiming staring at each other angrily, according to legend, the conflict between the three giants has reached Lei Juekun, the behind-the-scenes boss of Xinyi City, and even gossip newspapers broke the news that Mecca has forced Lei Juekun to ask Huang Baiming to be relieved of his position as production director.

According to the data released by the Hong Kong Film and Television Department in previous years, the three giants of Golden Harvest, New Arts City, and Debao have joined forces to monopolize about 70% of the Hong Kong box office almost every year. And this year, the big three will cut production, and this share will definitely fall, and it is not impossible to even fall to half. The slowdown of the Big Three's filming is a huge opportunity for other film companies that can only drink some soup under their monopoly all year round, because they give up and give up a box office market of up to hundreds of millions to be carved up.

Thinking about the real rise of Yongsheng back then, it was in 89 years, this year Yongsheng's "God of Gamblers" not only beat Golden Harvest and Cheng Long's "Miracle" to win the 89 Hong Kong box office annual champion honor, but several other films also won nearly 200 million box office for Yongsheng in the city, and the limelight was unparalleled for a while.

New Asia's "Color is Empty" at the beginning of this year made a good start for the company, and the box office of the first movie released in 89 exceeded 20 million, which was only one step away from 30 million, so Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but have some ideas. Why can Yongsheng do it, he Lin Xiaozhi can't do it. It is true that Yongsheng has Wan'an, the largest community, behind him, but he Lin Xiaozhi is not an ordinary person, and the self-confidence of the traverser makes him look at the box office market of the Big Three, and he can't wait to make a few more movies and swallow them all in one go.

The opportunity is in front of us, but it is still a little difficult to rely on Xinya, a film company that could only be regarded as a leather bag company half a year ago, and now it is only a little bit of a climate. If Lin Xiaozhi has all the funds in his hands, relying on the income from the Taiwan stock market and the income brought to him by the two movies "Can't Help It" and "Color is Empty", after deducting the company's basic operation needs to set aside half a year's employee salaries and administrative expenses, the reserved funds for the artist's contract, and the money that is ready to take over Qiu Degen's shares in New Asia at any time, the capital that New Asia can use for filming and post-publicity is about 29 million Hong Kong dollars.

Among the 25 million, the filming budget of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" is 4.4 million, and 3 million has been allocated to the crew. The filming budget of "Water Margin" is 00,000 Hong Kong dollars, Gao Zhisen is a director with a strong desire to control, and directly after signing the contract, he transferred nearly 7 million shooting funds from Xinya for the first time, leaving only 00,000 temporary post-production costs. In this way, how much is left of New Asia? It's just more than 16 million, but in fact, there is not much money left.

After deducting some of the publicity needs, that is, New Asia can now spend about 14 million of surplus funds to shoot two or three small budget or a medium-budget film.

This is a very good multiple-choice question, and Lin Xiaozhi, who couldn't find a more suitable director to take charge of the director's tube, gave this important task to himself who had greatly increased his confidence after taking charge of "Color is Empty". He's going to take charge of a movie himself, which he will use to gamble on this year's mid-year box office.

After more than half a month of hard work, Lin Xiaozhi's new script for himself finally came out.

"Killer Leon"

Lin Xiaozhi stretched his waist and read the script that had just been corrected again in the computer with satisfaction, and then connected to the printer next to him through his online neighbor and printed out the script.

"Finally got it"

In the sound of brushing, looking at the script manuscripts that have just been printed. Lin Xiaozhi got up and poured himself a cup of coffee to refresh himself, since the script of another movie that Xinya will start filming has been determined, the filming of the movie will also enter the preparation stage.

Killer Leon, a movie that once impressed him. The controversial Lolita plot and the police who are supposed to do justice have instead become the dregs of society and the opposite of the slaughter of the executioners of justice. Social descriptive techniques, etc., make it a classic many years after its birth.

This is a budget film that Xinya needs most right now without many big scenes, without much investment, and without too many actors.

The script has been completely Hong Kongized, and Lin Xiaozhi has consulted a lot of people in the past week, including Zheng Zeshi, Gao Zhisen, Ye Weixin, and other all-rounders who are also proficient in script creation.

This movie, New Asia can squeeze out about 15 million funds at most, excluding the depreciation of the dollar year after year in the next few years, the cost of filming in Hong Kong in 89 is only about one-third or even a quarter of the United States, and the salary of Hong Kong stars is only a fraction of that of Hollywood.

"In order to avoid insufficient funds, except for the main actors, the rest are seconded artists from ATV to shoot. Just a few protagonists to whom should they be given? The anti-narcotics police officer is not suitable for Jiang Hua, he can't play the kind of Xie Qigen's nervousness when he is young. Wu Yi will ...... Yes, Wu Yi will be good, and you can consider him as the first candidate. 'Leon, who will play it?' It's not good if it's not famous enough, and it's not good if it's not good enough acting, so ...... Fa Ge? The acting skills are enough, and the fame is enough. It's just that Fa Ge seems to be a little too thin, if he wants to act, he has to find a way to make Fa Ge gain weight......"

After the script came out, Lin Xiaozhi spent a whole day calculating the investment and cost of the script, as well as the scene arrangement and actor selection

The tragic killer 'Leon, who was played by Renault as a screen classic in his previous life, in fact, Lin Xiaozhi was still a little uneasy when he chose Zhou Runfa. Jean Renault is one of the few favorite male stars among overseas actors, so he naturally knows more about his situation. He knows that Renault's screen image is deeply influenced by John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and Jean Garbin, and he has made many movies after entering Hollywood, all of which are mainly taciturn, tall appearance and melancholy eyes, irritable but not losing the vicissitudes of a tough guy, which has almost become Renault's trademark.

Compared with him, Fa Ge is just past his prime, when he was young. If you want to take the route of a taciturn tough guy, Fa Ge will undoubtedly not work. The vicissitudes of life feel that I can also cover up my acting skills through makeup, acting in many gunfight movies, and also receiving some simple martial arts training! Fa Ge can also catch up with Jean Renault, who once joined the army. But there is an irreconcilable abyss between the taciturn and the gentle and laughing Fa Ge, which is difficult to overcome.

But in the end, he still finalized the role to Fa Ge. There is no doubt about the strength of Fa Ge's actor, Hong Kong wants to talk about the most incendiary tragic role on the screen, Xiao Ma Brother was created by Fa Ge, not long ago in "The Story of Yu", Fa Ge has created a seemingly ordinary but let countless people cry The image of 'man, with' father, 'Leon, hand it over to Fa Ge with the most abundant acting skills to play, you can give it a bold try.

It just so happens that the recent "Bloody Heroes" played by Fa Ge is almost finished, although Lin Xiaozhi's friendship with Fa Ge is average, but Xinya has cooperated with Fa Ge's good friend Wu Mengda several times, Lin Xiaozhi also has a good relationship with him, Da Ge Da Ge's is not called in vain, I believe that as long as Lin Xiaozhi invites him to come forward to invite, Fa Ge will definitely give this face.

It's just that another soul choice of the movie stumped Lin Xiaozhi. The little heroine in the play "Killer Leon", the eleven or twelve-year-old underage Lori, who should be found to play it?