"Gu Chen showed great ambition as soon as he entered the film industry, first acquiring the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, and now merging the Golden Princess Cinema Line, mastering two-thirds of Hong Kong's cinema resources, I think this is extremely detrimental to the healthy development of Hong Kong films. As we all know, competition is indispensable for any industry to maintain its forward momentum, and monopoly will only make any industry sail against the current, and if it does not advance, it will retreat. ”

"I don't know what Gu Chen thinks about hype, but personally, I will never use my own scandal to hype up for commercial interests, because I always believe that any hype should have a bottom line, and hype without a bottom line for the sake of interests is easy to disrupt the atmosphere of the entire industry."

"The commercial value of the Golden Princess Cinemas is about HK$150 million to HK$160 million, and the purchase price I submitted to the board of directors of Kowloon Development was initially HK$170 million, and then after negotiation, the purchase price was increased to 176 million, which can be said to be very reasonable, and has been recognized by the other shareholders of Kowloon Development except Mr. Lui. But it's a pity that Mr. Lei vetoed everyone's opinions in the end, and merged the Golden Princess Cinema into the Tang Dynasty Cinema in the mode of equity replacement, and obtained 25% of the equity of the new cinema line and 8% of the equity of the Tang Dynasty film, I don't want to question the correctness of Mr. Lei's decision, but at least it is not considered, as the so-called people have stumbled, there is no one in this world who will never make mistakes, and only God knows how Tang Dynasty movies will be tomorrow. ”

These are the three paragraphs that Pan Disheng said in an exclusive interview with "Oriental Daily", which can be said to be aimed at Gu Chen, which immediately caused crazy reprinting by major media. And his goal was also achieved, dozens of reporters gathered at the premiere of "Royal Senior Sister", which was no less than the premiere of "Double Dragon Club", and as soon as he appeared, he killed countless spotlights in an instant, and all kinds of problems came to him.

"Mr. Pan, you said that the Tang Dynasty cinema chain monopolized Hong Kong's cinema resources, and said that the monopoly will make any industry regress, what you want to express means that Chen Shao has hindered the development of Hong Kong films, right? But in fact, Tang Dynasty films have set many records for Hong Kong films, what do you think about this? ”

Pan Disheng, who was walking towards the door of the theater, immediately stopped when he heard this question, and said with a smile into the microphone: "I never said that Gu Chen hindered the development of Hong Kong films, I just explained the harm of monopoly to the industry from an objective standpoint, that's all, of course, if Mr. Gu Chen is seated, I can't help it." As for the Tang Dynasty films you said set a record of Hong Kong films, I don't know if the record you mentioned refers to a box office record, but what I want to say is that any so-called record is created by people and is destined to be surpassed. ”

The reporter seized the loophole in Pan Disheng's words and asked: "Does Mr. Pan mean that the box office record created by Tang Dynasty films will be surpassed by your Debao?" Or are you confident that "Royal Sister", which is coming out today, and think it can set a new box office record? ”

In fact, after finishing speaking, Pan Disheng found that he was too full of words, and he also bypassed himself, and now he heard the reporter's question and did not answer, so he turned around and left, but he was worried that the media would interpret it as having no confidence in "Royal Sister", so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: ""Royal Sister" has all the elements that a good movie must have, excellent script, excellent production, professional and high-quality actors, etc., I have no reason not to have confidence in it. But I don't have a hard and fast requirement for how much box office it can achieve in the end, as long as every audience who buys a ticket to the theater to watch it feels worth the money after watching it, I am satisfied. ”

After speaking, without waiting for the reporter to ask another question, Pan Disheng walked away quickly, and did not answer any reporter's questions halfway, which disappointed the reporter.

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Gu Chen sat on the executive chair, his legs crossed on the desk, holding a newspaper in his hand and looking at it with relish, the content of the page he was looking at was the report of the premiere of "Royal Senior Sister" yesterday, and Pan Disheng's answer to the reporter became the focus of the report.

"S......queak" was watching, the sound of the door opening came into his ears, and he moved the newspaper down, except for Zeng Zhiwei, who else dared not knock on the door when he entered his office, couldn't help but roll his eyes, and said angrily: "I said Zeng Da Fat, don't you know that you have to knock on the door before entering the door?" ”

Since serving as the general manager of Tang Dynasty Films, Zeng Zhiwei has not directed any movies or starred in that movie, but has concentrated on taking care of Tang Dynasty films, perhaps because he has a wide heart and a fat body, or maybe he has been sitting in the office for a long time.

Zeng Zhiwei wanted to say that he didn't see you knock on the door when you entered my office, but he didn't say it after all, because he knew that what he said was also in vain.

He raised the newspaper in his hand and said, "Have you read today's newspaper, Pan Disheng is making a lot of nonsense in front of reporters again." Then he didn't need Gu Chen to beckon himself to sit down on a chair in front of his desk, and then said: "I think he's just using himself to hype, you look at today's newspaper, eight out of ten of them have more or less reported the premiere of "Royal Senior Sister". ”

Gu Chen put the newspaper on the desk and said indifferently: "If he wants to hype, let him hype, I can't care about him with a long mouth." Besides, "Royal Sister" is now being released in theaters in the Tang Dynasty, and it's a good thing that the box office has gone up, and I won't have trouble with money. ”

Zeng Zhiwei said unwillingly: "Then let him be arrogant like this? It's not that you haven't seen what he said, you can say whoever you want, you can say whatever you want, he really regards himself as a character, and what I look down on the most is this kind of self-righteous person. ”

"And how do you think I should respond? A mad dog bites you, do you want to bite it too, not to mention that he Pan Disheng is just an insignificant little character in my eyes, and it is not a self-surrender to deal with him in general. Okay, let's not talk about this, you won't come to my office specifically to complain to me, just say anything, if you don't have anything to do, get out of here. ”

Gu Chen said this, what else could Zeng Zhiwei say, took out a document from under the newspaper and put it in front of Gu Chen and said: "Wu Siyuan sent it in the morning, if you are not there, you will put it with me first, the above is the box office statistics of the first day of "Double Dragon Club" and "Royal Senior Sister". ”

"Double Dragon Club" was also released in Tang Dynasty theaters (including the original Golden Princess Theater) and Golden Harvest Theaters at the same time because Golden Harvest also had half of the investment, so although it was released one day earlier than "Royal Senior Sister", the statistics of the box office on the first day did not come out until about the same time.

Gu Chen picked up the document and looked directly at the most difficult statistics: the box office of "Double Dragon Club" on the first day was 2.73 million, he was still very satisfied with this figure, "Royal Senior Sister" was 2.47 million, the box office difference between the two films was not big, but it is an indisputable fact that "Double Dragon Club" stabilized "Royal Senior Sister".

Putting the document back on the table, he said, "You asked Wu Siyuan to publish these two data, I think this should make Pan Disheng stop a little." ”

Zeng Zhiwei took back the documents, but he had no intention of leaving, Gu Chen glanced up at him and asked, "What, there are other things?" ”

Hearing this, Zeng Zhiwei suddenly showed an expression of being defeated by you: "No, you won't forget everything I told you when I called you last night, right?" ”

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, remembering that Zeng Zhiwei did make a phone call to himself last night, but he didn't pay attention to what he said, at that time Li Zhi was sitting on him and shaking vigorously, how could he have the mind to take care of other things, it was already good to be able to pick up the phone.

Seeing that Gu Chen's expression was a little embarrassed, Zeng Zhiwei knew that he had said it, so he had to say it again: "Now that "Double Dragon Club" has been released, "Eight Star Annunciation" has been filmed, just waiting for the release of the Chinese New Year, and "Jiupin Sesame Official" in cooperation with Yongsheng is also doing post-editing, and even the publicity work has begun, should the company arrange the next filming plan?" ”

Zeng Zhiwei said that the filming plan was planned, but in fact he was just asking for a script, how could Gu Chen not hear it: "Isn't the script of "God of Gamblers 2" already given to you. ”

"That's only one, and besides, Brother Fa is about to open Lin Lingdong's new film "Dragon and Tiger", and "God of Gamblers 2" may have to be postponed."

"I'm afraid of you, I'll give you the script tomorrow, it's okay, you can go out of the script if there's nothing to do, don't bother me thinking about the script."

"Then I'll come to you tomorrow to get it, don't forget it again."

"Zhilu Dao, I'm only a few years old, like an old man, verbose."

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Finally sent Zeng Zhiwei away like a dog skin plaster, Gu Chen flicked the desktop with his fingers, while thinking about what script to give to Zeng Zhiwei, since his rebirth for more than a year, he has recorded a lot of scripts one after another, but this time he wants to make some breakthroughs - to make a movie that can really go out of Hong Kong, out of Asia, and across the ocean to the United States and Europe to make money from foreigners.

This is kind of his attempt.

And the Oriental movies that want Westerners to accept are movies with a large number of special effects, but unfortunately although the special effects of the Tang Dynasty developed rapidly, after all, the creation time is still short, and there is still a big gap in strength compared with industrial light and magic. Since big-budget special effects movies can't work for the time being, they can only work on the plot.