It is said that good things come in pairs, just hung up Zhang Yimou's phone, and a call came in when he inquired about the reception, and not long after a newly recruited female public relations at the front desk led a man into his office, it was not someone else who was the director of "Silly Birthday" - Liu Zhenwei.

"Lin Dong, I didn't bother you......"

Liu Zhenwei is a very simple person, as soon as he entered Lin Xiaozhi's office, he didn't get the master's nod, he sat down on the sofa next to him.

He was never polite, but Lin Xiaozhi just smiled disappreciatively, "Drink something, coffee or black tea?" ”

"Black tea is ready"

"What kind of wind is blowing you here today?"

Brewed a cup of black tea for him and handed it over, Lin Xiaozhi asked curiously.

"Xie Lu Xie" He took a sip before saying: "I came to New Asia to ask Lin Dong about the latest box office situation, and by the way, I would like to discuss with you whether the celebration banquet of "Silly Birthday" can be delayed. I've been working on a new script with my friends lately, and I probably won't have much time for the next week or two......"

Hearing him say that he was preparing a new script, Lin Xiaozhi's footsteps faltered. took a new paper cup and poured himself a glass of pure water, and after a few sips, he walked back to the table and rummaged around for a while, took out a fax paper and handed it to him, while asking quietly: "Ji'an, what new script, is it convenient to leak some rumors?" ”、

This Ji'an is the pen name of Liu Zhenwei, and he has used this pen name to create many scripts earlier.

As a low-budget Chinese New Year film, this film is undoubtedly a success, with a total box office of more than 13 million Hong Kong dollars in the first two weeks of release, although it is lower than the expectations of Debao Cinemas, but it still gets three weeks of release time, and the final box office is likely to reach about 17 million to 18 million.

"Fifteen million Hong Kong dollars?"

Although Liu Zhenwei heard his words, he was full of thoughts about the box office situation of his movie, and he was not in a hurry to reply to him. Instead, he took the fax paper and looked at the data transmitted from the theater for a while, and then waved his fist excitedly. Immediately, he sighed a little annoyed, "It's a pity that it's still a little bit close, 20 million is hopeless."

After taking the fax paper in his hand and reading all the data on it carefully, he replied to Lin Xiaozhi and said: "What is convenient and inconvenient to disclose, am I still worried that Lin Dong, the screenwriter, will plagiarize the idea?" It's just a gambling movie, or Wang Fatzi's "God of Gamblers" gave me inspiration, I also want to make a gambling movie, but it is a little different from "God of Gamblers", I am ready to take a special function, route"

Returning the fax paper to Lin Xiaozhi, he scratched his scalp, "I went to the mainland at the beginning of last year, and found that the mainland is now very popular with special functions and qigong, and I also met a very famous special function person named Wang Lin. Hey, although it's a trick to fool people, but if it can become popular, it means that someone must be good at it, I'm going to try it."

He and Lin Xiaozhi have also known each other for a while, and he knows that this wealthy family is not as difficult to get along with as the outside world has said, but he is very bold and generous. I also admire him as a screenwriter, although I revealed to him a little bit the type of new script that I and my friends are working on, and I don't worry about plagiarizing him.

But I didn't want Lin Xiaozhi to be taken aback when he heard this, and then I remembered that this year Hong Kong should give birth to a masterpiece "The Saint of Gambling" that completely became popular with the star, and that movie was really directed by Liu Zhenwei. As Xing Ye's famous work, he has watched it many times before. Last year, he also thought about plagiarizing this script, and later after "Killer Leon" made a good start in the European market, Lin Xiaozhi forgot about this when he got a new script and began to focus on overseas markets.

"This theme is really novel, not bad...... he praised a few words, "I'm a little interested in what I said, after this script comes out, how about selling it to us Xinya, Ji'an?" The combination of special features and gambling movies makes me want to watch it right now just thinking about it. Yes, you can think about this script, sell it to us Xinya, and we can invest in you to continue directing and filming."

He was almost sure that the script mentioned by Liu Zhenwei was "The Saint of Gambling", not counting "God of Gamblers", which was jointly pitted by Golden Harvest and Debao, it was the first Hong Kong film in the history of Hong Kong film that would last forever with a box office of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

In Hong Kong, there are really a lot of things that rely on a creative and record to attract investment from investors, seeing that he wants to invest, although Liu Zhenwei is happy, but he is not a newcomer who has just entered this circle after all, and he replied after a little hesitation: "Thank you Lin Dong for looking at it, but we haven't got the script done yet, and then we will consider the investment thing."

After all, he is the hero of the shadow, the golden twin guns under Deng Guangrong. It's one thing to take someone else's play, but it's another thing to get the script yourself and not take the initiative to contact your own company for investment.

Lin Xiaozhi only frowned slightly when he heard this, but he also nodded and stopped insisting. However, after thinking about it, the investment in "God of Gamblers" has exceeded 10 million, and the investment in "The Saint of Gambling" cannot be low. Deng Guangrong counted the films invested by their film company in the past few years, and there were few works with more than 10 million yuan, basically an investment of between 300UU000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Thinking about this, a smile came back on his face. When the script comes out, if Deng Guangrong is too expensive and unwilling to invest, he has already cooperated with Liu Zhenwei once, and he has also taken the initiative to invest in New Asia, it will inevitably be Liu Zhenwei's first choice, but wait a few more days, and he will not be in a hurry.

promised Liu Zhenwei to postpone the celebration banquet of "Idiot's Birthday" for a period of time, and Lin Xiaozhi personally sent him downstairs, and then turned back upstairs. As soon as I got on the elevator, I met Zhu Zhishan, the executive director who came back from outside, and he has been going back and forth between "Sing Pao" and New Asia for the past few days. Because Sun Zheng, the manager of the Propaganda Department, recently went to Taiwan to cooperate with the promotion of the upcoming "Idiot Greeting Birthday", these days can only trouble him to temporarily coordinate the publicity of several movies such as "Idiot Greeting Birthday" and "A Comic Book Goes to the World", as well as the follow-up publicity offensive of Chen Baiqiang's scandal incident.

Seeing Lin Xiaozhi, Zhu Zhishan hurriedly said hello, the two chatted in the elevator, and just after the seventh floor, he suddenly seemed to remember something, patted his head and asked: "Boss, just now I came from Cheng Pao Newspaper Group, Mr. He asked me to ask you, when will it be announced to the outside world that our New Asia will take a stake in Cheng Pao?" ”

As soon as his words fell, Lin Xiaozhi smiled, "Why is Mr. He so unbreathable, it stands to reason that it should be our Xinya who should be in a hurry for this kind of thing, why is he in a hurry first?"

"I heard that there are other shareholders on the side of Cheng Pao," he glanced at Lin Xiaozhi, his face was bright, "Boss, you don't know what to say, Cheng Pao was lifeless in the first two years, and he looked old and immortal. It was also in the middle of last year that we began to cooperate with Xinya, and we began to have some vitality. I look at the meaning of their shareholders, eighty percent of them want to borrow Lin Dong's magic and ability, so that "Cheng Pao" will follow a little light"

Maybe there is something like this over there, but when he said this, although Lin Xiaozhi was proud in his heart, he didn't show it, he just waved his hand, "This matter can't be hidden for a few days anyway, Hong Kong is already so big, not to mention that I wasn't ready to hide it at the beginning of my freshman year, I was just waiting for a suitable time to be exposed."

Recently, there has been a lot of uproar in the newspapers about New Asia suing more than a dozen media, and the attitude of the mainstream media is very obvious. Dozens of newspapers and periodicals such as Oriental Daily held high the banner of "freedom of speech, and the news about New Asia on it was either only in the tofu section or in the corner, and then it was some inconsequential reports, which were almost equivalent to banning."

"Ming Pao", "Hong Kong Economic Daily" and other newspapers do not show favoritism or make any remarks, but they are still too optimistic about their status as the uncrowned king, and the power of cold blocking is only greater than that of "Oriental Daily" and other means.

In addition to "Cheng Pao", there are only a few newspapers close to the mainland such as "Ta Kung Pao". The reason why they shouted a few times for New Asia was because newspapers such as "Oriental Daily" were either pro-British or pro-Taiwan, and the enemies of the enemy were naturally also enemies, and the friction between the leftists and the rightists in Hong Kong media people had continued since the Republic of China period and had never stopped.

After this battle, although Xinya occupied the moral high ground, Lin Xiaozhi was not confused. He knows very well that no matter whether he can win the dozen or so gossip newspapers and magazines, he has offended the Hong Kong media industry enough, and I am afraid that even some media that used to have an average relationship with New Asia have now blacklisted him

The goal of Chen Baiqiang has been achieved, and from the perspective of timing, it is time to release the news of New Asia's stake in "Cheng Pao" to divert the public's attention and downplay the public attention of the "Chen Baiqiang scandal incident."

As soon as he thought about it, he said again: "It's almost time to let out the news, and I will contact the "Cheng Pao" in person later." By the way, wait a minute, you hang up a phone call to the entertainment company, and ask Zhang Guozhong, I want to use their company's artist Liu Dehua as the leading actor in my new movie, and see if he can make time over there? ”

"What?"

Zhu Zhishan was taken aback, and immediately rejoiced: "Boss, are you going to make a new movie?" ”

Lin Xiaozhi smiled and nodded