The arrival of September announced the end of this year's Hong Kong summer season.

However, the pain brought by the storm has not only hit the umbilical cord of Hong Kong's economic connection with the mainland, but also deeply damaged this year's Hong Kong summer season

Compared with previous years, this year's Hong Kong summer box office not only hit the streets, but also the general attendance rate of movies has also dropped sharply. Last year, a total of 15 works with a box office of more than 10 million were born during the Hong Kong summer file, and this year there are only 9 works, with a total box office of only 100 million Hong Kong dollars. If there is no box office boost from Cheng Long's blockbuster "Miracle" during this year's summer season, with a box office of nearly 35 million Hong Kong dollars, it will account for more than one-sixth of the total box office in Hong Kong in the summer of several years, and I don't know what the box office of this year's summer file will become.

I have to admit that the Xiang brothers coerced and lured Wang Jing for Yongsheng Film Company to sign Wang Jing was the most correct choice they made. Although Wang Fatzi's new movie "Supreme" in this year's target summer file has a bad reputation, relying on the double screening of Golden Harvest and Xinbao, Shengsheng has created a dazzling box office of 23 million, becoming the second sales runner-up in this year's summer box office second only to "Miracle". Wu Yusen's "Bloody Heroes" followed, and I don't know if Lu Dao was influenced by Gao Zhisen's film for Xinya, after Princess Jin painted "Water Margin Laughter", she did not paint this movie earlier than the release of "Water Margin Laughter", but also extended his release time to the end of August, so that Wu Yusen's film was released for two months before it was painted.

Princess Jin's kindness failed to keep Wu Yusen, but it brought real benefits to Wu Yusen, that is, his movie, which was not in the limelight this year, jumped to more than 21 million at the box office, which is slightly higher than New Asia's "Water Margin" by hundreds of thousands.

In this year's Hong Kong summer file, there are a total of four movies with a box office of more than 20 million, and the four movies together contributed nearly 100 million to the box office, while the box office of dozens of movies released in the same period is slightly lower than them, which shows the decline of the Hong Kong summer box office this year.

Out of the summer season, Hong Kong in September, the turbulence of the situation has not subsided compared to the beginning of June, but has become more chaotic

As more and more foreign companies announce the withdrawal of investment from the mainland, transferring hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth to Hong Kong, the turmoil in Asia's financial center is also continuing under the lure of capital. Along with the many foreign companies that have evacuated from the mainland and come to Hong Kong, there are also a number of people who have witnessed the '49 storm' that was smuggled into Hong Kong under the cover of the so-called 'Falcon Operation'. Some people do it because of political opinions, some people because they are angry, some people believe in others, and some people do it purely for money. As more and more witnesses came forward to tell the story, the storm that had enveloped Hong Kong, the Oriental Pearl for several months, was once again ignited.

More and more business and politicians and people in the entertainment industry have chosen to join the ranks of the attackers, and under their guidance and allocation, more and more ordinary citizens have chosen to join the ranks of demonstrations and protests against the return, and even more extremists have chosen to drive away and attack mainland stowaways, burn and destroy their settlements, besiege the shops of mainland merchants in Hong Kong, and run on state-owned banks.

Hong Kong, a city that has been turbulent and displaced for a hundred years and is about to return to the motherland, is as if it has been barbecued on fire, full of restlessness and unease.

For this flame to burn more and more evil, and gradually began to spread to every corner of the entertainment industry, Lin Xiaozhi behaved coldly and toughly as always. Once again, he stressed to the company's internal employees that no one should participate in political events in the name of the company, and after learning that two employees who came to Hong Kong from Taiwan Province in the 70s participated in the demonstration of Taiwanese immigrants, he immediately announced the termination of his contract with the two. The act of killing chickens and monkeys made him quickly become the focus of attention in this high-profile Hong Kong, and two employees who left because of dissatisfaction lashed out in the newspaper and vented their dissatisfaction with him, and words such as Lin Xiaozhi and the dismissal of two employees became the focus of attention for a while.

It's a pity that from beginning to end, in the face of verbal criticism and accountability from the media, Lin Xiaozhi neither replied nor showed up to speak, and Xinya and Lin Xiaozhi himself were very cold. Soon, the media didn't have the energy to care about Lin Xiaozhi and his New Asia Film Company to fire two employees who participated in the demonstrations against Hong Kong's return to the motherland, because a few hot news about New Asia and Lin Xiaozhi made the media a for a while.

After a busy few months, it's time for the harvest again.

On September 16th, a group of people from the British ODN company that Xinya met at the Venice Film Festival arrived in Hong Kong a week later than Lin Xiaozhi, led by an old man named Noble, according to Zheng Fei, who was in charge of negotiating with OD, told him that this person seemed to be the deputy manager of ODN's purchasing department, and the huge ODN as the largest distributor and publisher in Europe sent a deputy manager of the purchasing department, although it looked a little British arrogance, but it was not too rude.

ODN was born after World War II, the founders of the Mingwilton brothers founded a cinema called the Mingwilton Brothers Cinema in 1946, which screened British films, and by 1956, the Mingwilton Brothers Cinema had grown from one to five, and established a company called the Mingwilton Brothers. In 1974, the Mingwilton brothers, the company took advantage of the recovery of the British economy after World War II, and successfully owned more than 20 cinemas and a film production company.

74 is the year that changed the fate of the 'Mingwidton Brothers', because of the death of the eldest brother, and at the same time in order to fight for control of the company, the Mingwilton family has a violent conflict between the two generations of uncles and nephews, resulting in investors have been disappointed to leave, the British private equity company Taifeng Capital took the opportunity to absorb a large number of 'Mingwidton Brothers' shares, and merged it with several other theaters and film companies controlled by its name, and the birth of the largest cinema and distribution company in the UK - ODNL

Lin Xiaozhi didn't know much about the situation of ODN, but Zheng Fei was busy collecting some information about it, and he also had a rough understanding of it.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of the day he arrived in Hong Kong, he politely declined New Asia's invitation to lunch, and after a short rest of more than two hours in the hotel, Noble, the deputy manager of the purchasing department of ODN, led the team to the office of New Asia Film Company, which is still located in the ATV building.

Let me introduce you to Mr. Noble, the purchasing manager of ODN company, "Zheng Fei, who has good English communication skills, acted as an intermediary to introduce this old man to Lin Xiaozhi.

"Hello Lin"

"It is our honor to have the opportunity to work with ODN," Lin Xiaozhi smiled and shook his hand, "Welcome to Hong Kong, Mr. Noble." ”

The assistant manager of the ODN purchasing department, whose full name is Harvey Noble, is a standard British old man, although Zheng Fei told him that this person should be only in his fifties, but the white man is old, he looks much older than Lin Xiaozhi's father, with a chubby belly, but his eyes are very bright, and his thick and strong arms show that he likes sports very much.

"Lin, I heard that this is the largest TV station in Asia, it's really great" When Harvey Noble was picked up by the car sent by Xinya, Zheng Fei had already introduced him and said that this was Hong Kong Asia TV. It's just that this foreigner seems to have misunderstood the meaning of ATV's name, and mistakenly thought that this was the largest TV station in Asia.

Lin Xiaozhi smiled and didn't explain, this kind of misunderstanding is difficult to explain. Although this foreigner just said politely, he still disagreed with it in his bones, obviously a traditional arrogant British, and thought that Hong Kong was just a British colony, and the yellow people in Asia were poor and backward, and even the largest TV station could not compare with the British.

Of course, this may just be his own guess of the wrong meaning, maybe the other party does not have such an idea at all.

As early as the Venice Film Festival, Zheng Fei reached a preliminary agreement with them in the name of New Asia to sell the European and American distribution rights of Ye Weixin's "Friends" for 1.4 million pounds. ODN's group will come to Hong Kong, but Lin Xiaozhi is desperate, on the one hand, he wants to sign an agreement with them in Hong Kong, adding another fire to the release and promotion of "Friends" in Hong Kong. This second, in fact, for the sake of his new movie "Killer Leon", he wanted to take the opportunity to have a good talk with the ODN team about the feasibility of the film being released in Europe.

There is no need for nonsense or anything in negotiations with the British, but it is better to start negotiations directly. chatted with Noble and others for a while, and by the way, officially signed the "Friend" buyout and copyright trading agreement. Lin Xiaozhi immediately stated his purpose, saying that New Asia also has a movie, and hopes to cooperate with ODN to seek distribution and release in Europe.

ODN and others seem to have guessed that this would happen, and it is not surprising that this is going to happen. Noble only thought for a while and agreed, but instead told Lin Xiaozhi that unless the quality of the film was very high, ODN would not be able to give "Friends" such a high price.

Lin Xiaozhi naturally nodded with a smile, he hadn't thought about buying out in this movie, so he was naturally not in a hurry.

ODN and his entourage were then led by Lin Xiaozhi into the company's temporary screening room, where Xinya had already prepared the English translation of the master disc of "Killer Leon", and the two sides would negotiate after they watched the movie.