Volume 1 Chapter 17 New Asia Film Company
If it was a few days ago, someone asked him, does ATV have its own film company? Lin Xiaozhi's answer must be: "I haven't heard of it!" ”
Yes, before going to Tsing Yi Island to visit Lin Baixin, he knew about Dao ATV, and also knew about Dao Jiahe, Shaw Brothers, Debao, Weihe, Baohe, Yongsheng and other film companies, but Lin Xiaozhi really didn't know that Dao ATV also had its own film company!
Ye Yuqing is an ambitious woman after all, knowing that she has a rare opportunity, she reached a verbal promise with Lin Xiaozhi not to reveal three points, and took over the play, and after Lin Xiaozhi contacted the crew and funds, she could shoot.
In the next two days, Lin Xiaozhi did not stay at home, while contacting some fox friends in his memory, while asking everywhere about ATV's own film company, two days were enough. Soon, Lin Baixin also got a notice from his side, saying that everything had been arranged, and asked him to report to the film company called 'New Asia' as soon as possible.
New Asia Film Company is a holding film company under the name of ATV, New Asia does not seem to be large, at least it is not well-known in the circle, not to mention compared with the Shaw Brothers Film Company, which was once known as the "Hong Kong Film Production Factory", even if it is Chen Xunqi's "Yongjia Film Company", the three Hui brothers' "Hui's Film Co., Ltd.", etc., are much more famous than New Asia!
To Lin Xiaozhi's surprise, according to the news he heard, Xinya still had some relationship with Ye Yuqing. In 1976, Ye Yuqing's eldest brother Ye Zhiming was at the peak of his career, and he was involved in many industries, and movies were also one of the industries he fancied.
In mid-1981, in order to raise money to build Qiaozui Island Resort, Ye Zhiming sold the famous but poor performance of BANGBANG Film Company to Qiu Degen and Chen Songqing. At the end of that year, Qiu Degen bought all his shares in BANGBANG Film Company from Chen Songqing, the king of cloth shoes. The following year, Qiu Degen spent a huge amount of money to acquire ATV and became the new owner of ATV. At the end of 1982, he followed the example of his rival Shao Yifu and renamed BANGBANG Film Company as 'Qiu Film Production Company'.
ATV's performance has been booming since Qiu Degen took over, especially in the TV business, which has swallowed up the market share of wireless, and the Hong Kong screen share has soared from 8% before Qiu Degen became the owner to 19%. However, the success of the TV station does not mean that Chiu's Film Production Company is also successful. Continuing the principle of emphasizing literature and art and not looking at the market like its predecessor 'BANGBANG Film Company', Qiu Degen has invested more than 10 million yuan in Qiu Film Company in the past four years since changing its name to 'Qiu Clan', but none of the seven films shot can bring profit to the company, and all of them are not popular.
Qiu's poor performance also affected investor confidence, and Qiu Degen was furious that three presidents in four years in a row could not bring any change to 'Qiu'. Finally, last year's stock market crash hit the other industries of the Qiu family hard, and after several considerations, Qiu Degen contacted Zheng Zeshi, who is also a well-known artist in the Hong Kong film industry, who is worth tens of millions of dollars, and finally succeeded in saying that the actor Zheng Zeshi became a shareholder of Qiu Films, and accepted his suggestion to change the name of the film company to 'New Asia Film Production Company'.
After the return of Hong Kong in 97, he was one of the first Hong Kong artists to go north to beg for food, and he took on all the dirty work, and he did not have the shelf of most Hong Kong artists, Lin Xiaozhi has cooperated with him to shoot several TV series, and even one of them Lin Xiaozhi is the assistant director, and the cat brother is the producer, and the two have a slight friendship in later generations, and now they unexpectedly found that the actor Zheng Zeshi is the major shareholder and production director of Xinya Film Company, Lin Xiaozhi calmly couldn't.
Especially when he found out from the memory of the original owner of this body, Zheng Zeshi turned out to be one of the most famous rich artists in the Hong Kong entertainment industry today, he was even more dumbfounded. In later life, he personally heard Brother Mao mention that he once owed nearly 100 million yuan in debt because of his investment in a film company and real estate bankruptcy, and the word "four walls" was simply created for him. Now that he knows that the 88-year-old cat brother is so awesome, even the ATV boss Qiu Daheng has to personally invite him to co-invest in this new Asian film company, and he can fight with the cat brother in the most glorious period, Lin Xiaozhi can't suppress the excitement in his heart, after receiving Lin Baixin's notice, he drove to the radio station the next day, according to Lin Baixin, someone will pick him up when he arrives.
Broadcast Road is located in Kowloon Tong, in the northern part of Kowloon City, Hong Kong, and is a prosperous area throughout Hong Kong. In the 70s, Hong Kong's five major television stations and radio stations 'ATV, TVB, Jiayi, Commercial Radio, and Radio Television Hong Kong' were all concentrated on a small hill here, so it was named 'Wutai Mountain'.
"Grandpa Fu, when the old man and they get up, they will say that I am going to New Asia, and you don't have to wait for me to come back for dinner at noon!"
In the early morning of May 25, Lin Xiaozhi got up early in the morning. Before seven o'clock, he picked an ordinary Toyota car from the garage for several bodyguards at home, left the Lin Mansion and went straight to the radio road where Wutai Mountain was located.
In addition to the address of New Asia Film Company, Lin Baixin also left him a phone number, telling him that as long as he called, someone would definitely be arranged to pick him up. Lin Xiaozhi had already contacted that side last night, and the person who answered the phone was surnamed Wang, although the person had not yet introduced himself, but the tone should be a high-level member of New Asia. The two chatted briefly, and the man told him that Xinya had been busy recruiting actors recently, so in the past, the company would not have anyone to work until eight o'clock, but in the past few days, almost all of them have started working before seven o'clock, so Lin Xiaozhi simply made an appointment with him a relatively early time and came to the radio early in the morning.
“…… Are you waiting for me at the Broadcast Road Bus Terminal? ”
Holding the steering wheel with both hands, after he drove to the broadcast road, Lin Xiaozhi, who had not yet been accustomed to the Hong Kong driver's seat design on the right side of the car, had slowed down to 40 yards, and people kept looking around, looking for where the bus terminal on the broadcast road was.
The broadcast road is still very big, after all, it is merged into one by Guangwei Road and Anning Road, fortunately, Lin Xiaozhi's sense of direction is not bad, after driving slowly in the broadcast road for a few minutes, the bus terminal has not yet been seen, but the two office buildings not far from each other have been imprinted. They are the Radio Television Hong Kong Broadcasting Building and the Asia Television Building.
"Found it!"
Lin Xiaozhi excitedly honked the horn and drove the car in the direction of the radio broadcasting building. Although his destination was the Asia Television Building, the other party was waiting for him at the bus terminal opposite the Radio Broadcasting Building, which happened to be convenient for the nearby TV and radio commuters to park, and there was also a large parking lot nearby, and there was even a place to park.
After avoiding the camera, Lin Xiaozhi turned around, and quickly drove to the vicinity of the bus terminal. At this time, it is the peak working season in Hong Kong, and it must be known that there are nearly 200,000 film and television employees in Hong Kong, although most of them are contract workers and temporary workers called 'extras', but this is Wutai Mountain, a small radio channel, at least tens of thousands of people are employed by the four major television stations and radio stations.
When Lin Xiaozhi arrived at the bus terminal, a bus happened to stop, and the people who rushed off the bus made it impossible to tell who was coming to pick him up on the platform for a while. However, the people dispersed, but a few people standing near the platform were revealed, including a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, and was not tall, only about 1.68 meters, with a round face and a slightly chubby face, wearing a straight suit.
His car kept wandering near the bus stop, and the middle-aged man who was talking to someone quickly noticed him, and after whispering to another person he was talking to, the person nodded and left, and then Lin Xiaozhi saw that the person was walking towards his car in no hurry!
"Are you Lin Xiaozhi, Lin Shao?"
There weren't a few steps between the two, so he quickly walked to Lin Xiaozhi's car, knocked on the window and asked.
"I'm Lin Xiaozhi, you are ...... Wang? ”
"Sure enough, it's Lin Shao, hello, hello, it's the contemptible Wang Jia'an. I thought Lin Shao would come later, but I didn't expect to come so early, I just came! The man said a few polite words, and then urged: "The road is not the place to talk, Lin Shao is not familiar with the neighborhood, right?" There's a parking lot over there, let's park there first, and then I'll take you to the office! ”
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Wang Sheng!"