Chapter 689: Spring Festival Stalls

Bao Yongqin's release on bail pending trial does not mean that the matter is over, but that he has entered the next stage of prosecution.

The Liu family will face two lawsuits next, one is Steve. The case in which Wanda sued Amico for breach of contract and claimed compensation is the case of the Commercial Crime Bureau against Bao Yongqin for commercial fraud.

In the case of the police accusing Bao Yongqin of commercial fraud, because the evidence of the crime is conclusive and there is already a confession, I believe that the verdict will be tried quickly, the difference is how many years Bao Yongqin will be imprisoned.

According to the current law in Hong Kong, if a large amount of money is suspected of commercial fraud, it will be imprisoned for at least seven or eight years. The amount involved in this commercial fraud is 20 million Hong Kong dollars, which is already quite a huge amount.

And Steve. Wanda sued Aimeico for breach of contract and claimed compensation, because the contract had been signed in advance, and the lawsuit was relatively easy to fight. However, lawsuits like this for economic disputes are usually appeals, appeals, and appeals, and it is really necessary to wait for the verdict to come down, and I don't know how many years of litigation it will take.

Thinking about Mei Yanfang's mother's lawsuit over her daughter's inheritance, she fought for ten years, appealing, appealing, and appealing, and in the end the money was spent a lot, but the lawsuit still did not progress.

In the estate case of Hong Kong's chief female billionaire Nina Gong, Chan Chun-chung fought a lawsuit with the Chinachem Charitable Foundation for more than four years, and the litigation costs cost more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, which almost bankrupted the whole person, and finally sentenced him to 12 years in prison for forgery and other crimes.

However, what is more beneficial to Xu Guanwu is that Steve. Wanda, with Xu's funding, has enough money to fight a lawsuit with Liu. And the Liu family only survived more than 100 million assets, and this lawsuit has no choice at all. Unless the Liu family is willing to put all the money into it. Bankrupt in order to save his daughter-in-law.

However, in view of the fact that the combination of Bao Yongqin and Liu Luanxiong was not recognized by the family. Therefore, it is estimated that Liu will only try his skills. Once perceivable Steve. Wanda's forces behind her are strong and invincible, so she should learn from the gecko's tail and blame all the fault on her daughter-in-law, and let her go to prison for a few more years to atone for her sins.

After all, for these businessmen, going bankrupt and having no money is worse than going to jail. The Liu family would rather let Bao Yongqin go to jail than want Aimeigao to go bankrupt.

Given that Liu Luanxiong was no longer an issue, Xu Guanwu began to send people to talk to Shaw Brothers about Zhong Chuhong's contract again. Of course, he will not go out in person, nor will he send Hui's people to go out, but ask a medium-sized film company in Hong Kong to talk to Shaw Brothers.

Shaw is now going through successive setbacks. The box office failure, the loss of stars, the decline in popularity, the wireless robbery, the change of hands, etc., have greatly consumed Sir Shao Yifu's spirit.

To be honest, Sir Shao has been quite aggrieved over the years, before Xu Guanwu crossed over, even if Shaw Brothers had Golden Harvest as a competitor, it was still a dominant position in Hong Kong. At that time, Golden Harvest was only Bruce Lee who could cause it a little trouble. What's more, Bruce Lee died in seventy-three years, and the Shaw Brothers were even more dominant. Firmly ranked at the top of the Hong Kong film industry. At that time, Jiahe was really dark and bleak, and it was almost impossible to support it.

But since Xu Guanwu crossed over, the Xu brothers defected to Jiahe, and several ghost horse comedies were really applauded and popular, supporting most of Jiahe's sky. The Shaw family couldn't help but have a headache about this, but it was just a headache, after all, it was mainly the Xu brothers who could show Jiahe at that time. At that time, the Shaw Brothers had director Zhang Cheda and his Zhang Jiaban, as well as director Li Hanxiang and his Fengyue films, as well as other directors of various kinds, all kinds of films, each with their own leads.

It wasn't until Xu Guanwu made his first pot of gold with "Rocky", came back to bring his brothers to start a new stall, and promoted Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and others, that the Shaw Brothers really began to decline. The rise of kung fu comedy has led to the gradual decline of the sword kung fu film that Shaw Brothers has always been proud of.

Then the rise of a new generation of directors such as Mai Jia, Gui Zhihong, Zeng Zhiwei, Zhang Jian, Zhang Guoming, etc., and the popularity of urban action movies and strange case films also caught Shaw Brothers off guard. As the saying goes, a small boat is good to turn around, and at that time, Xu's was just a small boat, which could easily turn the bow of the boat and launch one new work after another.

But the Shaw Brothers is a huge ship, and if it turns around sharply, I am afraid that the ship is in danger of capsizing. In the Hong Kong film industry at that time, it was no longer the rhythm of big fish eating small fish. Instead, it entered the rhythm of fast fish eating slow fish. Whoever can lead the trend will be able to make money, and whoever can keep up with the pace will be able to make money.

Because of Xu Guanwu's guidance, Xu is a kung fu comedy film, a social fantasy film, an urban action movie, a romantic comedy, a suspense thriller, and a romantic literary film...... Films of various themes have been filmed one after another, each of which is one step ahead of others, step by step, always leading the trend of entertainment development, making Hui's films more and more popular.

In comparison, Shaw Brothers' movies have always been the same over the years, director Zhang Cheda made martial arts kung fu films again in the 60s, and still makes martial arts kung fu movies again, the same is a man's spirit, the same is revenge, completely ignoring the times have changed, the movie audience has changed for several generations, and the taste has already become too much, but he has been serving the same dishes for more than ten years, which will naturally make people sick to their stomachs, which is quite disgusting.

The cost of the new film "Demon Temple and Dragon Slayer" is as high as more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars, but in the end the box office only recovered more than 1 million, so the miserable box office has already explained the problem.

And another problem reflected is that Shaw Brothers has reused the old man over the years and has not given new directors a chance. Director Zhang Cheda has been used from the 60s to the present, although he has indeed made a lot of contributions before, but in fact, his methods have fallen too far behind, and some new people should be replaced to make new meanings.

is like director Xu Anhua, if a drama does not sell out, it will be kicked out, but Zhang Che has many dramas that are not selling, but they are still reused. With such a vastly different treatment, how can you attract new directors to join?!

In addition, TVB was secretly acquired by Xu Guanwu, and Jiayi TV made Sir Shao lose tens of millions, and now Sir Shao is really sharp. So when he heard again that someone was planning to buy out Zhong Chuhong's contract, he thought about it hard, and vaguely remembered that there was once a pretty girl in the company. It's just that I don't know where to go these months. But forget it. Since people want to leave, and some people are willing to spend money, just let it go.

Sir Shao raised a price of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was half sold and half given to that company. Xu Guanwu then spent 1 million to buy Zhong Chuhong's contract. Then he called Zhong Chuhong and told her that she could go back to Hong Kong.

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In the Spring Festival schedule after the Christmas schedule, unexpectedly there was a window for the Hui brothers this year, and there were no new works this year, which disappointed the Hong Kong audience who had been looking forward to it for a year.

This year, Xu's launched "Specializing in the Foot of the Wall", directed and filmed by Mai Jia. tells the story of a romantic lawyer who likes to seduce married women, until one day he also wants to start a family, but he doesn't dare to find a lover in the local area, lest he be pried into the corner by others. So he specially married a girl from the mainland and carefully trained her to be a perfect wife. Unexpectedly, the lawyer's cousin happened to fall out of love, and the lawyer encouraged him to find his second spring again. The cousin actually chose the wife of the merry lawyer, and in the end, he successfully pried the corner of the lawyer.

Although the plot of this drama is a bit absurd, because of the accumulation of a lot of jokes, especially the irony of the now popular girl-chasing drama, this film is very watchable. However, director Mai Jia's plays are generally lively and lacked aftertaste. In terms of box office, it can generally win, but in terms of awards, it is difficult to compete.

In addition to the comedy film "Corner". There is also a popular action movie "Flying Tiger Eagle", which is filmed about the heroic deeds of the Hong Kong Police Special Operations Team, also known as the Flying Tigers, in fighting criminals. The protagonist Lu Liangwei plays a heroic vice captain of the Flying Tigers, but his temper is slightly hot, and in an operation, because of his own negligence, two team members were killed. Lu Liangwei was also given a major demerit and almost left the police force.

After that, Lu Liangwei, who felt deeply guilty, kept tracking down the whereabouts of the criminals, and finally traced them, but his application to his superiors for arrest was not approved, so Lu Liangwei had to go into danger alone, although he destroyed the terrorists' branch, but the terrorists successfully kidnapped the ambassador and his wife. Under such an emergency situation, Lu Liangwei was ordered to lead the Flying Tigers back into battle, and finally annihilated the criminals, successfully rescued the ambassador and his wife, and avenged the brothers who died in the line of duty.

This film is the latest work of director Zhang Jian, and it is the first film in Hong Kong to depict the Flying Tigers. Lu Liangwei and several people who played the Flying Tigers in the film went to the police force for a month-long training before filming, so no matter the action of holding the gun, the posture designed, the process of handling the case, the details of the action, etc., they can be decent, so as not to be criticized for drinking at the player's house.

The two dramas "Pry the Foot of the Wall" and "Flying Tiger and Eagle" are one soft and one hard, one literary and one martial, which can fully meet the needs of most audiences. Just after Christmas, Hui has already begun to build momentum for these two films.

Compared with Xu's combination of civil and military use, Golden Harvest is still the main action card this time, the action movie "Covering the Sky with One Hand" shot by Deng Guangrong's Darong Film Company, tells the story of a certain big brother being beaten to death, and the rivers and lakes immediately set off a bloody storm, one side is the ambitious younger brother, the other side is the son who is ready to take over the big position, and the other side is the opponent who is eyeing the sky, who can cover the sky with one hand......

Because of his lack of hematopoietic ability, Golden Harvest is not like Xu's TVB and Xinghui Art School as talent training bases, so the strategy he adopts is to win over other qualified small film companies. Now Zou Wenhuai may want to open it and understand that a person can't be too greedy, and be careful that greed becomes poor, so he began to make a lot of profits in the second half of last year, which attracted a number of small film companies to defect to the past.

These small studios may have only one director, two or three artists, or just a sum of money. However, the gathering has also formed a large scale. Deng Guangrong was originally a Hong Kong native, but he started shooting Taiwanese literary films, because he was tall and handsome at the time, so he was also known as the student prince.

Deng Guangrong earned his first pot of gold by shooting literary films in Taiwan, and it is said that his salary was 200,000 Hong Kong dollars for a play, which was absolutely sky-high at that time. After Taiwanese films began to decline, Deng Guangrong returned to Hong Kong and opened Tai Rong Film Company in Hong Kong with the help of Taiwanese film companies' funds and connections in Taiwan.

Although he is now the only famous artist in the company, he has pulled up a small team that seems to be the same, and dug out a few good newcomers, and then hired external directors, photographers, etc., to start filming this "One Hand Covers the Sky". Later, it was selected by Golden Harvest Business and released during the Spring Festival.

In addition to Deng Guangrong's "One Hand Covers the Sky", Golden Harvest Pictures also launched the action movie "Big Husband" shot by Mak Dangxiong. This film is adapted from the popular drama "Big Husband" filmed by Mak Dangxiong in Leigh, the plot is tighter, the scenes are more hot, and it is also Mak Dangxiong's first test of the film industry. (To be continued......)