"What, even Princess Jin made a move?"

Lin Xiaozhi closed his hand in Chinese jiàn and asked in surprise.

Standing in front of his desk was a thirty-five or sixteen-year-old man with glasses, who looked like a gentleman, Wang Yuan, the president of the newly established Media Asia Special Effects Company in the middle of last year. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in the United States, and worked for IBM and Compaq Computer Company as a technical director for several years.

Media Asia Special Effects is not a SESI company, although they are both industries under his name, they are two different systems. Media Asia Special Effects Company is a subsidiary of Media Asia Group, which was built on the basis of dozens of technicians dug up by Xu Ke's new visual studio, although it is much worse than SESI in terms of technology, but it is better than foreigner technicians who understand the national conditions better, you let foreigners do Star Wars special effects They can play flowers, but let them use CG technology to make the simplest Chinese Taoist palm thunder, floating gossip diagram, you can only get the helpless shrug of foreigners.

The cultural differences are too great, so although SESI's technology is much higher than that of Media Asia's special effects, Lin Xiaozhi still had to split them up.

Wang Yuan pushed his glasses and nodded cautiously, "Someone from the second technical department reported to me that Princess Jin had recently contacted them, and the conditions offered were very generous, but after hearing about our agreement, I didn't see each other again......"

There are now more than 100 people in the entire Media Asia Special Effects Company, of which the technical department alone accounts for about seventy percent. There are three departments in the technical department, one department is good at blasting and modern large-scale battle scene special effects, the second department is responsible for the production of magical atmosphere and background, and the third department has just been built, and there are no personnel and equipment yet.

Lin Xiaozhi has long been prepared for the fact that Huanya will be poached, and he doesn't care too much about it, "The minimum contract we signed with the technical staff and the supervisor is three years, and the resignation before the end of the contract is not only to pay the company three to five times the annual salary of liquidated damages, but according to the agreement, he shall not engage in any work related to special effects within three years after his resignation." There are these two items in the middle of no one can poach people from Hiroya, you should pay attention to appease everyone's feelings, wait for a few days to finish the later stage of "League of Assassins", and give the main technical personnel a week's paid vacation in batches! ”

That's right, Media Asia has signed an agreement with many of its technical staff that will give any poacher a headache, it is precisely to prevent poaching and unfair competition in the industry, he Lin Xiaozhi is not a saint, but he did not give up the idea of giving up the technical team he had worked so hard to cultivate. In order to make Media Asia's technical staff voluntarily sign this pseudo-overlord agreement, Media Asia's salary for the technical team is much higher than the industry level in Hong Kong.

Newcomers who have not undergone three months of training can get a high salary of 6,000, at least 7,000 after becoming a regular, and the minimum monthly salary of the technical backbone is more than 10,000, and few companies in Hong Kong in the nineties are willing to offer such a salary for employees.

During this period of time, Jiahe, Yongsheng and even Xu Ke's studio have been in contact with the people of Media Asia Special Effects Company openly and secretly, and they have seen that Media Asia is crazy about making money by relying on special effects.

Among these companies, Golden Harvest is a listed company that is not bad for money. Although Yongsheng's strength is not as good as Golden Harvest and Media Asia on the surface, the Xiang family is the oldest **** family in Hong Kong, and the family has countless disgraceful properties. Xu Ke will also not be surprised that Media Asia poached Lin Xiaozhi, he used to take the opportunity of Xu Ke not paying attention to the New Vision Studio to poach the New Vision team from him. In the past two years, Xu Ke has earned tens of millions of dollars if not 100 million, as the first in Hong Kong to notice computer special effects technology, although it had done the short-sighted act of killing chickens and eggs a few years ago, it is not necessarily that now after seeing Media Asia rely on special effects to make a lot of money, it continues to be indifferent.

On the contrary, it is the golden princess, Lin Xiaozhi really didn't expect that at this level, it would also be mixed up.

Since last year, the Golden Princess has exposed the rumors of listing, but because of several turbulences, compared to the strength of Media Asia and Golden Harvest Golden Princess and Xinyicheng, the strength of Yan zhòng, so although Lei Qizheng ran everywhere to contact capital intervention, he was also busy for a whole year, and finally reached a listing agreement with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early May this year, and the Golden Princess will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in August or September at the latest.

is also a competitor in the industry, and he is naturally also paying attention to the listing of the Golden Princess, and he knows a lot more than others, for example, he knows that the largest shareholder of the Golden Princess is no longer the Lei family.

Not long ago, Lei Qizheng said that Roger, a wealthy businessman in Macau, accepted 1. A$8.4 billion (about 1. 5.7 billion Hong Kong dollars) and bought 16. 2% stake in the Golden Princess Group. He also persuaded Sun Hung Kai Securities and Superman Li Zekai to invest more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars each to buy Golden Princess 4 respectively. 1% with 4. 36% of the shares. At the same time, Xinbao Cinema Line, one of the four major cinema chains in Hong Kong, also took the opportunity to spend more than 70 million Hong Kong dollars to buy about 8 Mo. 14% Golden Princess shares.

Between a few months of capital operation, Lei Qizheng easily packaged the golden princess and sold it at a good price. Although he lost more than 30% of the shares of the Golden Princess, most of the more than 300 million introduced capital also flowed into his pocket, making a lot of money, showing his ability to operate capital.

Although the Hong Kong Stock Exchange also has a silent period for listing, it is not as strict as several major stock exchanges in the United States. On the contrary, in the days when the time to go public comes, listed companies can use this time to package and promote their companies on various channels. To put it bluntly, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is also worried that no one will buy and sell the shares after the company is listed, so although it violates the rules of speculation and publicity of listed companies, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has always turned a blind eye to this.

The reason why Huang Baiming and other senior executives of Xinyicheng stood with him at the cocktail party a month ago was that they reached some agreements with him in private, in addition to his promise that if he became the first chairman of the Film Association, he would strive to ensure that Princess Jin would get a minimum seat on the board, and also guaranteed that his media would be open to Princess Jin, and would not publish any news reports unfavorable to Princess Jin during the period of his publicity and listing, after all, he, the big boss of Media Asia, and Princess Jin are competitors.

It's just that after introducing a number of forces to participate in the Golden Princess, although Huang Baiming and others also retained the right to operate, after all, there are many new shareholders, and it is difficult to say that they can unanimously go left and right now. Princess Jin suddenly joined the ranks of the special effects team of Poaching Corner, which made him a little unsure whether the management of Princess Jin and the new shareholders had reached some tacit understanding.

Wang Yuan responded and left quickly, obviously he also knew that the agreement signed by Yi Huanya with the technicians, it was really difficult to poach outside, but it was just his duty to report to him.

And Lin Xiaozhi's side quickly put this matter behind him, because he had four more important things to be busy with recently.

The first thing is related to "Zombie Supreme", that is, he is ready to operate this zombie film that is currently popular in Hong Kong and release it in the mainland.

Originally, the mainland, which was holding high the banner of 'science' and opposing superstition, wanted to put a zombie film that completely described demons and gods into the mainland for release, and there was almost no possibility at all. However, since the 80s, a wave of qigong boom has suddenly emerged on the mainland, and with the efforts of countless 'qigong masters' and 'grandmasters' with 'special functions', of course, there are also local governments that have contributed to the development of local tourism resources and many religious sects on the mainland that have been suppressed for many years.

All of a sudden, all kinds of qigong and special functions on the land of China were endless, and even a wave of wonderful export sales were carried out, which affected Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Southeast Asia. Film works such as "The Saint of Gambling" were inspired by such topics in the mainland, and the famous music godfather Luo Dayou even joked in his well-known pop song "Queen's Road East" that "the cold and warm climate also affect the city, but the change of seasons may depend on special people", the influence can be seen.

Lin Xiaozhi has no intention of dwelling on whether this qigong boom that is burning vigorously in the mainland is right or wrong, but there is no doubt that this wave in the mainland is beneficial to the media and Hong Kong films that are gearing up to enter the mainland. The north is ready to increase the scale of Hong Kong films introduced, and at the same time, it has also promised to relax the approval appropriately. So he wanted to take this opportunity to lobby mainland radio and television to see if he could stuff "Zombie Supreme" into it. Once this film is approved for release, many high-quality films with the theme of gods and ghosts shot by Media Asia and the Hong Kong film industry will undoubtedly have the opportunity to be screened in the mainland.

You must know that this has not changed even until Lin Xiaozhi was reborn in his previous life, not only is it difficult for Hong Kong films to pass the review and be allowed to be released in the mainland, even if they look at the mainland, there are many constraints and constraints. There have even been some well-shot movies, because the content is not scientific enough and too superstitious, they were castrated by radio and television and became unconnected, so that the audience was confused and had to scold mainland filmmakers for being too scumbag.

So although they are ready to fail, Lin Xiaozhi and his Media Asia are still ready to take advantage of the current trend that Hong Kong has not yet returned to the motherland.

After receiving most of the resources of Media Asia, the largest film group in Hong Kong, "League of Assassins" has been preparing for more than half a year, and the computer special effects processing in the later stage is nearing completion, and it is close to release. This is also a major event that Lin Xiaozhi and Media Asia attach importance to, because as we all know, since the beginning of the year after a complete fall out with Taiwan, Media Asia has lost this market. Although Taiwan's annual box office can bring them only 100 million or 200 million Hong Kong dollars at most, it is not for nothing that Taiwan, as a market with a base population of 20 million, is regarded as the 'most important reserve' for Hong Kong films.

After the movie was not screened in Taiwan, many artists in Media Asia also lost the right to release songs, hold concerts, and participate in TV series in Taiwan under the ban of Taiwan.

Therefore, his new movie cannot fail, not only can it not fail, Lin Xiaozhi and Huanya hope that they can use this movie to make a more impressive noise, and use high-quality movie plots to influence Taiwanese fans to 'rebel' and force the Taiwan authorities to take the lead in surrendering.

Media Asia does have this confidence, because since the beginning of the year, Media Asia has blocked and suspended the cooperation between dozens of Taiwanese artists and Media Asia, and at the same time, the scale of Hong Kong films released in Taiwan's theaters has plummeted by two percent since the beginning of this year, forcing the unprepared Taiwanese theater businessmen to temporarily increase the introduction of more films from Japan and the United States to make up for the gap, and the introduction cost of American blockbusters is much higher than that of Hong Kong films.

As a result, after a toss, in just half a year, there have been a lot of complaints from Taiwan's academy businessmen, although there are more voices accusing Media, but Huanya simply ignores these Taiwanese Yankees who can't help Lin Xiaozhi, and can only spread their anger on the heads of local politicians.