ATV's high-level meeting did come to a lot of people, listening to Wang Jia'an's meaning, it seems that the entire ATV and the senior management of its subsidiaries have come, which can be said to be gathered together. Even Lin Xiaozhi saw the company's major shareholder, his ninth uncle Lin Baixin, who is among the top ten richest people in Hong Kong.

However, this meeting was also a little more boring than Lin Xiaozhi expected, and it was not much different from the mainland meeting. First of all, Qiu Daheng recalled the past of ATV and sighed about the present. Subsequently, several new shareholders and shareholder representatives stood up and praised Qiu Daheng, and ATV got better and better under his leadership. Then, after a brief introduction of their own heads, some of the newly appointed senior executives of ATV gave a provocative speech like politicians, which was nothing more than the meaning that although the old management in the past was good, it would be better under the leadership of our newcomers.

Lin Xiaozhi only frowned when he heard the boring speech, but the nervousness in his heart was also dissipated, because he found that compared to these pitfalls, he had prepared a lot of things, not only including the promotion and distribution plans of several newly released films in New Asia, but also how to change New Asia's development plans and strategies.

Lin Baixin didn't seem to mean to speak, but his son Lin Jianle also stood up and said a few words, Lin Xiaozhi listened carefully for a while and lost interest, because Lin Jianle mentioned the recent friction between ATV and wireless over the exclusive broadcast rights of the Seoul Olympics. In the past two months in Hong Kong, this matter has often been on the front page of the entertainment page and the current affairs page, and Lin Xiaozhi also inquired about ATV, although Qiu Daheng is not opposed to fighting with TVB, but he also does not agree to spend a huge amount of money just to get the broadcast rights of an Olympic Games. According to the gossip spread in ATV, ATV's funding for the purchase of broadcast rights in Seoul all came from Lin Baixin, the new shareholder, and the execution was the bombastic Lin Jianle in front of him.

Pouting, Lin Xiaozhi turned his face away and looked in other directions.

ATV's senior management quickly finished speaking, and it was the turn of the following subsidiaries and institutions to speak. The order of the speeches seems to be arranged according to profitability, and judging from the order of the speeches they sent to their hands before the meeting, they are in a relatively low position. Among ATV's subsidiaries, the strongest profitability is undoubtedly 'Visual Arts Printing Co., Ltd.', which is a wholly-owned printing company of ATV, which can not only receive dozens of TV series from ATV every year, but also accept some film printing, with an annual profit of more than 10 million. Wong Ka On once mentioned to him that New Asia's films are also handed over to 'Visual Art Printing', and the price is much cheaper than that of the two major Hong Kong film printing giants, "Hong Kong Color Film Processing Co., Ltd." and "Oriental Color Printing Factory".

Lin Xiaozhi didn't care much about the subsequent companies, and only pricked up his ears and listened carefully when Sun Zhao stood up to introduce their printing agency, perhaps because the printing agency he was responsible for has always been a small profit, Sun Zhao just simply said some about this year's printing arrangements and sat down, which disappointed Lin Xiaozhi, who wanted to know more about their publishing house.

The heads of subsidiaries and institutions stood up to introduce their companies, and soon it was New Asia's turn to speak. When the eyes focused on the corner where they were, and felt Wang Jia'an pull the corner of his clothes, Lin Xiaozhi quietly put down the report he had carefully prepared in his hand and stood up.

“…… Thank you Mr. Wang for giving me the important task of reporting the situation of my New Asia Film in front of you, I will introduce myself first, my name is Lin Xiaozhi, and I am now serving as the executive director of New Asia, although I have not been in the company for a long time, but under the guidance of Mr. Qiu and Mr. Wang and other seniors, I am currently responsible for the promotion and distribution of New Asia Films. Without further ado, the predecessor of New Asia Film was Qiu's Film Company, and at the beginning of the year, Chairman Qiu introduced a new investor, Mr. Zheng Zeshi, a well-known filmmaker in the circle, and then changed his name to New Asia. ”

“…… With the advent of the era of great development of Hong Kong films in the 70s, there have been blockbuster films with a box office of more than 20 million or even 30 million in recent years, and film investment in Hong Kong has gradually become one of the three major profiteering industries along with finance and real estate. In the past, there were some errors in the development strategy of Qiu's Film Company, and the previous managers paid more attention to the reputation and quality of the films, so they did not need to invest heavily in medium-cost and large-scale films, although they also produced many award-winning films, but because the literary and artistic colors were too strong, the movies were not popular, and it was difficult to obtain the glory of the Shaw Brothers movies in the past! ”

"After the film company lost money, we did some serious reflection on this, so Mr. Zheng Zeshi, a new shareholder with rich experience, was introduced by Chairman Qiu, and a new president was appointed, that is, Mr. Wang Jia'an. After changing the name to New Asia, we had several discussions about the loss of film investment, so the new management paid more attention to the investment cost control of the film, the quality of the script and the genre. And in the first half of this year, with 1 million and 500,000 Hong Kong dollars respectively, he invested in two small-budget films with a total production cost of 3 million and 2.5 million respectively......"

"So far, New Asia's two films have completed pre-shooting and entered post-production. The film with a 3 million investment directed by Mr. Zheng Zeshi himself has reached an agreement with Golden Princess Cinemas and will be released at the end of July. I had the pleasure of being involved with Mao the other day. Film appreciation, with its quality and catch up with the good time of the summer file, we are optimistic that the final box office of this film may exceed 5 million Hong Kong dollars, reaching about 8 million; Compared with it, our other film, "I'm Crazy", has just started post-production, but we have already started to act in terms of publicity and distribution. We have contacted a well-known magazine and secured two issues of recommended advertising space on the cover, and there are other promotional methods that are being actively expanded......"

“…… At the beginning of the reform of New Asia, we steadily pursued development. Summing up the experience of past failures, the ultimate goal set by New Asia this year is only one, that is, to reverse the situation of continuous losses, and still have a net profit of 300 to 5 million after excluding operating expenses, so as to change the unfavorable situation that New Asia needs to rely on ATV's financial allocation in the past, so that New Asia will no longer be a burden on ATV. In order to achieve this goal, we will be more cautious and steady in terms of investment, in addition to strict control of scripts, leading actors and directors, our investment plan this year will also be reduced from five to nine in previous years to three to five, and the cost of a single part investment will be controlled at about one million, we can consider participating in the shooting to share the production risk......"

Lin Xiaozhi's speech speed is very fast, the speech is written by him, and the content in it is naturally ripe, and there is no need to read the manuscript at all. So although he was more prepared than the others, he ended his speech in a matter of minutes.

After his speech, there was a whisper in the conference room, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't see many people pointing at him, but seeing that Xinya was not valued by the high-level except Qiu Degen, no one had the intention of asking, so he had to sit down.

The ATV high-level meeting lasted for more than three hours, which was much more boring than Lin Xiaozhi imagined, neither what he thought, the rivalry between the old and new management, nor the fierce friction between the major shareholder Lin Baixin and the current chairman Qiu Degen, at least on the surface, he didn't see that although some issues could indeed smell some gunpowder, but overall the main tone of the meeting was still very tacit.

Well, it's all based on a big premise, because Qiu Degen said at the meeting, "...... In the past few years, my health has become worse and worse, and I often feel a little powerless when I wear many hats. Within this year, I am ready to give up the position of chairman of ATV and hand it over to a more suitable person to lead ATV to glory! ”

It is precisely with his words of assurance that all the contradictions caused by the replacement of the old and the new within ATV have been suppressed.

After the meeting, the conference room, which was originally crowded with people, quickly walked away. Seeing that Sun Zhao got up to leave, Lin Xiaozhi was about to walk over and get to know him and the president of Visual Art Printing, but he didn't want to get up just now, but he was stopped by Lin Baixin who was far away.

"Nine...... Lin Dong, you call me! ”

Lin Xiaozhi came over when he heard the voice, he wanted to call Uncle Nine directly, but when he saw that Qiu Degen, ATV CEO Zhou Liang Shuyi, Lin Jianle and other five or six people were there, they knew a lot of workplace rules, so they didn't shout out this title. Lin Baixin is also the executive director of ATV, and it is appropriate for him to call Lin Dong.

Lin Baixin's eyes were full of approval, and he nodded at him with a smile, although he had also heard some gossip about the child of the fourth family during this time, and even Lin Xiaozhi knew about it the day after he was promoted to the executive director of New Asia, at first he thought it was a flattering move below, and he was worried that this child would not be criticized behind the back of others. At today's meeting, when I saw his well-organized remarks, I felt a little relieved.

He pointed at Lin Xiaozhi and said to Qiu Degen: "This kid is a junior in my fourth brother's family, and he likes movies a lot, so some time ago I pulled down my face and begged Xinya to arrange an ordinary position for him, and I wanted this kid to learn something from him." Mr. Wang on Xinya's side is too, and he will take better care of this child and let him, who doesn't know anything, take on the position of assistant to the president. Qiu Sheng, I heard that some time ago, you personally appointed Ah Zhi as the executive director of New Asia, you see...... This kid doesn't understand anything now, where can he take on this heavy responsibility! ”

is a good Lin Baixin, in front of ATV's senior management, he swept away most of the gossip on Lin Xiaozhi at once. Everyone else only knows that Lin Xiaozhi has been promoted to two levels in less than a month after entering ATV, but because they don't know what is going on in Lu Dao, they only think that Lin Baixin intervened in the arrangement, and they don't know that Lu Dao actually made his appointments from Wang Jia'an and Qiu Degen, so the rumors rose, and the more they spread, the more evil they became.

Lin Xiaozhi stood aside obediently, always with a warm smile on his face, and his attitude of not being arrogant or impatient made Zhou Liang Shuyi, the CEO of ATV who met him for the first time, nodded, she had heard rumors about Lin Xiaozhi, after all, there have been rumors about him and Lin Baixin going to ATV and nepotism for this period of time. There is a saying that hearing is false, and now that she has met in person, it is a little different from what she thought.

Qiu Degen held the crutches and moved his hand, and glanced at Lin Xiaozhi's expression was very flat: "Lin Sheng's blame is just for no reason, I have personally inspected Director Lin's business ability, and Xinya is now under his management, well organized, much better than before." Some of his views on the management and development of the company coincide with mine. If I don't reuse such a young man with ideas, will ATV still be able to recruit talents in the future? ”

When Lin Jianle heard this, he hated it so much that he never thought that the trap he had carefully arranged would be bypassed by Lin Xiaozhi lightly, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Because of the disagreement between the Lin family, although Lin Baixin and Lin Jili have already seen it themselves, he is a petty man who admits death, but he is unhappy with the fourth uncle's family, and especially looks down on Lin Xiaozhi, a gentleman who has the same temperament as him and loves nightclubs, parties and women. At least in the eyes of the unruly Lin Jianle, he is much more capable than his nephew of the same age, which also causes him to hear Lin Xiaozhi's name now, and he can't stop it.

An unkind gaze fell on him from time to time, and Lin Xiaozhi, who had always felt very keen, quickly noticed that the owner of the sight was his cheap uncle Lin Jianle.

Although he couldn't figure out where he had offended him, he couldn't help but raise some vigilance in his heart. In my memory, it seems that after 89 years, Lin Jianle will officially take over the management of ATV as an executive director, and offended the future uncrowned king of ATV for no reason, and it seems that the future will not be easy.

Lin Baixin stayed with him, and introduced him to the real executives of ATV one by one, and after they left under their respective excuses, out of ATV's building, Lin Xiaozhi could no longer find the figure of Sun Zhao, the president of ATV Publishing House, so he had to go back to the office and ask Wang Jia'an for his contact information, and a phone call was made to the publishing house, and he was finally contacted.

“…… Director Lin, right, disrespectful and disrespectful......"

ATV's publishing house, to Lin Xiaozhi's surprise, was not broadcasting, but in the To Kwa Wan Light Industrial Zone, a little farther away. When Lin Xiaozhi arrived according to the address given by the other party on the phone, Sun Zhao, the president of the publishing house who had a relationship with him at the ATV high-level meeting, had been standing there waiting for a long time.

Sun Zhao, the president of the publishing house, is a middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, not tall, but he has a literati atmosphere, and I don't know if Lu Dao often deals with publishing.

However, the scale of this ATV-exclusive publishing house made Lin Xiaozhi a little worried. It rented a 60s-style factory building in the To Kwa Wan Light Industrial Zone, and after Lin Xiaozhi went in and walked around, he asked a little worriedly: "President Sun, I would like to ask, can your publishing house have the ability to typeset and print celebrity photo albums?" ”

"Celebrity photo album?"

Sun Zhao was stunned for a moment and didn't seem to know that there was such a thing in Lu Dao, Lin Xiaozhi thought about it before he suddenly realized, he remembered that at this time period, even in Europe, America and Japan, the concept of celebrity photo albums has just emerged, and it seems that this statement has not yet spread to Hong Kong. Fortunately, he was also prepared, and immediately took out a copy of "Fire Qilin" magazine from his briefcase and handed it to him, then pointed to the magazine and continued to ask: "President Sun, I mean, can your publishing house refer to the mold of Fire Qilin magazine and design a 16K photo album for me with female celebrity swimsuit photos as the only content......

"This ...... Is it not that difficult? Sun Zhao just flipped through the "Fire Qilin" magazine, thought for a while and asked, "Director Lin, what do you want this for?" ”

"The company made a new movie, I designed a set of swimsuit photos for each of the heroines, and after the shooting, it was supposed to stay in the magazine for promotion, but after seeing the promotional photos in the magazine, I suddenly had the idea to publish a swimsuit photo album for each of them, and then use it as a prize for the event when cooperating with the theater chain to give back to the audience, and at the same time, it can also stimulate the box office!"

Sun Zhao's eyes lit up, and he praised repeatedly: "This is a good idea, how many copies is Director Lin going to print, how much paper is expected to be needed for each one, whether to use ordinary paper or copper?" ”

"In terms of quantity, I tentatively set a total of 10,000 copies to be printed, each designed to have a total of 13 pages with a cover, and only half of the "Fire Kirin" magazine. I have prepared photos of the three heroines here, so I hope that the publisher will design three different swimsuit photo books based on the template of "Fire Unicorn". As for what paper you need, Mr. Sun, is there any difference? ”

"Of course, the quality and aesthetics of ordinary paper are slightly worse, but the printing cost is lower. According to your previous requirements, if you use ordinary paper printing, more than 10,000 copies are printed at the same time, the printing cost of a swimsuit photo album should be about three to four yuan, and if it is the same copper paper as this "Fire Unicorn" magazine, then the printing cost of each copy may be twice as high, about seven or eight yuan! ”

Lin Xiaozhi was a little embarrassed in his heart, and he preferred to print copper paper plates like the "Fire Qilin" magazine. But now, as "I'm Crazy for You" enters the post-production stage, and the release is imminent, he has not much advertising money left to spare.

"Use ordinary paper, otherwise the cost will not be controlled. President Sun, I've just talked so much, I think you have heard it, I intend to print 10,000 copies of this swimsuit photo album in our own publishing house, I don't know if you can take this job! ”

"Pick it up, don't answer it for nothing!" Sun Zhao responded happily, pointed to the factory and said, "You should also see the situation of our publishing house." Usually I print things for ATV, and the machine is used for no more than one-third of the time in a month, so no matter how profitable it is, it is all supported by ATV's funding. But there is one thing I have to say in the front, the machine on our side is running at full power, that is, printing 500 to 700 copies a day, and it will take at least half a month to prepare enough numbers! ”

This is probably another important reason why ATV can't compete with wireless, when wireless is at its most glorious, it not only has the largest studio in Hong Kong, but also rents tens of millions of dollars every year just by renting it to other crews and film companies to make films, and the gross profit of Shaw Brothers Film Company at its peak was as high as 210 million Hong Kong dollars a year, as well as Shaw Brothers Cinemas, Hong Kong alone can bring nearly 100 million in revenue, not counting the hundreds of millions of net income brought by TVB's own annual advertising.

On the other hand, the entire ATV can only rely on the income from advertising to supplement a group of unprofitable enterprises under ATV, and naturally cannot compete.

Although half a month is a little longer, Lin Xiaozhi thought about it and thought that the release of the movie had not yet been contacted for theater release, so half a month could be accepted. I answered immediately, discussed some more arrangements with him, and reached a verbal agreement.