Volume 1 Chapter 185 The soundtrack is unmanned
As the largest newspaper in Hong Kong, "Oriental Daily" naturally will not let go of such a sensational news report. The same gave a full page to explain the news of Xinya and Lin Xiaozhi.
“…… A film company that was on the verge of bankruptcy a year ago has entered the 100 million yuan club in only one year, and it is difficult to hide the aura of a man behind all this, which is the "rebel son of a wealthy family, Lin Xiaozhi", which has been widely recited in the entertainment industry recently. According to this newspaper, two years ago, he was almost imprisoned for a night racing car, he was rebellious, crazy, and in the company of famous gentlemen in the rich circle, he has been lingering in major night clubs and balls. ”
In the past year, if there is no Lin Xiaozhi to take over, I am afraid that no one doubts that a film subsidiary disliked by ATV can burst out with such amazing energy. In the past year, New Asia has won all battles, invested in a number of movies and sold them one after another, not only becoming the sixth film company in Hong Kong to be born in the billionaire club, but also creating a young billionaire. If you want to say that the most regretful, it is probably the original shareholders of New Asia now."
Qiu Degen is worth billions, so naturally he will not bother with this money. What's more, he is not an ordinary newspaper that can be interviewed, and he has been staying at home and pretending to be sick in order to avoid the trial and sentence from the court, so naturally it is even more impossible to give the "Oriental Daily" a chance to interview. For the film company that has only lost money for many years in his hands in the past, when it came to Lin Xiaozhi's hands, he quickly staged a salted fish turnover, no one knows what he thinks.
But just because you can't interview Qiu Degen doesn't mean that others can avoid the interview. The first to bear the brunt is the former major shareholder of New Asia Zheng Zeshi, after the cat brother sold 30% of the shares of New Asia to Lin Xiaozhi for 5 million Hong Kong dollars last year, although he also stayed in New Asia for more than half a year, but still chose to leave New Asia some time this year. As the former production director of New Asia, when New Asia did not have a general manager and vice president, he was second only to Lin Xiaozhi and Qiu Degen's absolute high-level management
After leaving New Asia, Brother Cat returned to the New Art City where he stayed before. In fact, this is not correct, because after a period of time as a senior executive of the company, Zheng Zeshi has realized that he has no ability to toss the film company, so although he returned to Xinyicheng, in fact, he only went back as an actor and director. With the help of Huang Baiming, he re-signed a hard-binding contract with his old club. Brother Mao's acting skills and directing skills are still first-class in the Hong Kong film industry.
The shares that were given up by themselves have appreciated tenfold in just one year. Isn't Zheng Zeshi heartbroken?
Nature is impossible
“…… I will definitely regret it, if I knew a little bit about investment, I would have held on to this potential stock and didn't sell it, and now I can easily earn tens of millions, where do I have to work hard to film"
When the crew of "Oriental Daily" in "Rich Corps", a film jointly invested by Hong Jinbao and Yineng Film Company, blocked him, Zheng Zeshi readily admitted it.
"But when I went to New Asia, Boss Qiu invited me over, and at that time I just thought that there was an ATV behind New Asia, so it shouldn't be difficult to get it. Who would have thought that after I went, ATV would not give money to make a movie, or Boss Qiu would pay for me by himself, Lin Sheng had to figure out his own way to make a movie at that time. Last year, it was about this time, Boss Qiu told me that he might be leaving ATV, I thought to myself that he didn't get up when he was ATV, and he definitely didn't have to play when he left
He is a cheerful person, and he did regret selling New Asia's shares afterwards, and even regretted leaving New Asia, but he readily admitted it. At the beginning, he would sell his shares, or because Qiu Degen, who invited him to Xinya, was leaving ATV, thinking that ATV would no longer give money to Xinya for filming, Zheng Zeshi thought that he was unable to attract more money, so he sold it. Later, he felt that he had not fulfilled his obligations as a production director for most of the year, and Xinya was very prosperous under Lin Xiaozhi's efforts, and he still occupied the position of production director, which was too dead-skinned, and Huang Baiming pulled him back at that time, so he naturally left Xinya.
Zheng Zeshi's cheerful admission and self-deprecation did not receive much ridicule after appearing in the newspaper. In the entertainment industry, especially in the film industry, it is too normal to invest in a movie and look away. Brother Mao is not optimistic about the future of Xinya because Qiu Degen is leaving ATV, and it is normal to sell his shares, and it is difficult to think that there will be a rebellious Lin Xiaozhi on the way, so he is mostly sympathetic and applauded.
Compared with Zheng Zeshi, who readily admitted his regrets, ATV's reply quickly became a topic in the eyes of the media, and became the target of ridicule and ridicule from major newspapers for a while.
Why?
Chow Leung Shuyi, who was still the CEO of ATV at the time, took the initiative to open her mouth when asked in an interview with "Sing Tao Daily" whether she regretted selling New Asia, and the wording was very tough: "...... When Boss Qiu invited me to be the CEO of ATV, I took over not only power but also responsibility. ATV fought with wireless for more than half a year last year, and gambled on the exclusive broadcast rights of the Seoul Olympic Games, which cost a lot of money, and the new Asia Film Company lost money year after year and could not bring any income to the company, which was a heavy financial package, and had to be thrown away to reduce the burden on ATV... So even if someone asks me now, I will answer in the affirmative, 'ATV has no regrets, because we made the right choice at the right time.'"
Obviously, such a reply is unlikely to be satisfactory.
Since taking the helm of ATV, because of his vigorous and resolute style, he has won the nickname of 'Exterminator Shitai, the CEO of ATV, and one of the senior executives of ATV who advocated the sale of New Asia at the ATV senior management meeting. However, she made a mistake and made a mistake when she should have answered in a low-key manner, and she didn't even need to reply, she stood up and spoke, because she immediately became the target of public criticism, and she took the blame for ATV's high-level executives who also looked away and now regretted it very much
Zhou Liang Shuyi paid a heavy price for her consistent style, and for a while, the voices of doubt and accusation were like sharp arrows, shooting at her target.
“…… Since taking over ATV at the beginning of last year, it has been nearly two years in the blink of an eye. The former 'Six Gentlemen' of Good Sight was obviously blinded by the identity of a member of the Legislative Council, and she focused too much on politics, not only mistakenly selling a promising high-quality subsidiary at a low price after just achieving profitability during her tenure. What is even more questionable is her clumsy performance in the 'Exodus Incident, which makes people have to wonder, 'Exterminator Tai, is she capable of leading ATV ......"
There are even newspapers that openly shout such voices: "...... ATV needs a new president who is more capable"
Suddenly, there was an undercurrent surging in the ATV building, and under the fanning of the flames behind the well-intentioned people, the voices of dissatisfaction and accusations became louder and louder, and gradually formed a huge voice condemning Zhou Liang Shuyi, which was quite eye-catching.
A former gentleman from a wealthy family, it took only one year to bring a film company on the verge of bankruptcy into the Hong Kong 100 million yuan club, and became the sixth film company with assets of more than 100 million yuan after Golden Harvest, New Arts City, Debao, Artseng, and Yongsheng, and even he himself became one of the ranks of Hong Kong billionaires, New Asia, whose popularity has skyrocketed recently, has the momentum of being coaxed to the throne of the first company in the Hong Kong film industry.
Some of them are well-intentioned, and the reports are pure icing on the cake. Some of Yu Crisp is uneasy and well-intentioned hype, they wish that New Asia would be blocked by other popular forces in the Hong Kong industry, and then make a topic, and then they can use it to hype and sell newspapers.
However, this kind of hype and reporting has little influence on Lin Xiaozhi, who is proficient in hype, but it is also thanks to them that Lin Xiaozhi's trouble with Xinya has finally come.
“…… Mr. Lin, you're back."
"Hmm"
Lin Xiaozhi loosened his tie and returned to the company from the outside with a face. For a whole morning, he was out and about, busy with two things. The first thing is to find a new office location for New Asia, since the press conference revealed that there is no relationship between New Asia and ATV, some gossip in the ATV building that could have been suppressed suddenly exploded, Lin Jianming has hinted at him twice in private, and signaled that he had better move New Asia out of the ATV building.
According to Lin Xiaozhi's speculation, the voice behind the sudden outbreak of public opinion against the current president of ATV, Zhou Liang Shuyi, is likely to be Lin Jianming. It seems that Lin Jianming also listened to all the words he reminded before, but he was still a little too anxious, and this time he caught an opportunity, so he couldn't help jumping out and exerting his strength, pointing at Zhou Liang Shuyi's position as the executive president of ATV.
There is no way to continue to stay in the ATV building, and Lin Xiaozhi has sent a lot of people out to find a more suitable office location in the past few days. Although there is a relationship with Lin Baixin, no one will come to drive them away for a while, but this kind of precarious life is not his pursuit, Lin Xiaozhi also picks out some time every day to find a more suitable office location for New Asia, but he still hasn't found a more suitable place in the past few days.
That's not all that makes him upset, the reason he's been in a bad mood in recent days is entirely because of another of the two things he's been busy with lately, which is that the post-production of the film went wrong.
In this August, the last two works invested by New Asia in the first half of the year, "Killer Leon" and "Friend", have completed the pre-shooting, and the completion has entered the post-production process. Because the "Venice International Film Festival" is coming at the end of August, New Asia has invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources in the post-production of the two films during this time. According to Lin Xiaozhi's original idea, he was originally going to personally bring two films to Europe when the "Venice International Film Festival" arrived.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances, even if it is a reborn, it is not a last resort, there is a problem in the post-production of the movie, but it is not Ye Weixin's "Friend", on the contrary, because the plot is relatively simple, the film has basically completed post-production, and recently at the request of Lin Xiaozhi, Xinya seconded a group of foreign artists with very standard English pronunciation from ATV to carry out English dialogue production, and is fully prepared to go to Venice.
Xinya now only has two films in post-production, and the problem is not the "Friend" directed by Ye Weixin, who else can there be, naturally it is the "Killer Leon" directed and filmed by him himself. The film is particularly demanding on music, and there are more than 40 parts that only need to be scored. Originally, during post-production, Xinya took out a high salary and was ready to invite the Hong Kong master soundtrack group Huang and Gu Jiahui in the middle, Lin Xiaozhi also knew very well that he had beaten Ni Zhen before, and Huang Zhan was also Ni Zhen's father, even if it was just to see the face of his old friend Ni Mad , he would not accept Xinya's soundtrack, so he didn't think about inviting him at all.
What Lin Xiaozhi didn't expect was that he still underestimated the influence of Ni's father and son. Last time, Gu Jiahui helped Xinya complete the production of the soundtrack for "Water Margin", and it was Gao Zhisen's face to watch. At this time, Xinya sent him another invitation, but Gu Jiahui didn't buy it at all. His soundtrack studio only replied, "I have been taking too many jobs recently, and I don't have the energy to pick up Xinya's words, so I directly refused to score for Xinya."
really treated him Lin Xiaozhi as an idiot, if he hadn't inquired about Gu Jiahui's recent lack of work, otherwise Xinya would not have been able to send him an invitation.
But it's okay to be angry, it's okay to be angry. Gu Jiahui was reluctant to score for Xinya, and Xinya's trouble came.
Hui Huang is definitely one of the top soundtrack masters in Hong Kong, although the soundtrack of the two is more classical, but the understanding of the soundtrack is very comprehensive, otherwise it is impossible to get the title of master, if one of the two is willing to do it at the beginning of the month, "Killer Leon" is very hopeful to complete post-production before the arrival of the "Venice International Film Festival". But the relationship between the two and Xinya or Lin Xiaozhi is not good, and if they are unwilling to make a move, then Xinya can only choose someone else.
Lin Xiaozhi is in a very bad mood now, if you want to use one sentence to describe the present, then 'the house leak happened to rain overnight, this sentence could not be more appropriate. Lu Guanting, who has worked with Xinya, recently not only took over a movie to play the ticket, but also took over the music production of four movies at the same time, unless he breached the contract for Xinya first, otherwise he couldn't help Lin Xiaozhi at all. 'Chen Xunqi, who has worked with Xinya, is the same, this product was recently pulled by Zheng Zeshi to shoot "Rich Corps", and the movie "Best Thief Partner" directed by him has also started filming, and he can't spare time to score for Xinya.
Lun Yongliang has the ability to score for Xinya, but this Mei Yanfang's exclusive, musician, was dissatisfied with Lin Xiaozhi's strict prohibition of company employees from making political remarks, and in a previous interview with "Cheng Pao", he insinuated that Mei Yanfang took the lead in inciting the entertainment industry to conduct demonstrations; When New Asia sent him an invitation, he directly told New Asia's people that he would not be independent unless Lin Xiaozhi apologized to Mei Yanfang in the newspaper and admitted his mistake in the newspaper and allowed New Asia to support free political speech. Cutter, cooperation. Lin Xiaozhi, who listened to it, was very inexplicable, and he couldn't understand whether this talented man who had returned to Hong Kong after studying in the United States for many years was confused by the so-called American-style 'people and masters'.
Coincidentally, at this time in August, the gold medal soundtrack that Xinya invited was either busy or unavailable. There are two or three kittens left, and it's okay to give general movie soundtracks, for example, Xinya has invited a few now, and it's okay for movies like "Friends" that don't have high requirements for soundtracks, but if you want to complete the production of the film score for "Killer Leon", the shortcomings are obvious. Lin Xiaozhi successively rejected more than a dozen soundtrack works that failed to meet his required level, resulting in the post-production of "Killer Leon" coming to a standstill.
"Mr. Lin ......"
Although he noticed that he was not in a very good mood, as his secretary, Zhou Huimin still dutifully reminded, "Miss Ye and Miss Xu have been in the company for half a day, and they are waiting for ......you in your office now."
Lin Xiaozhi was slightly flustered when he heard this, and immediately nodded and walked into his office.