It is really difficult to define whether Xinyicheng and Zhang Jianting are infringements, and it is really a headless lawsuit to go to court.

Because Xinyicheng and Zhang Jianting did not say that "Seven Days of Love Again" is a sequel to "Seven Days of Love", and the two movies do not have much relevance in terms of content and plot. But judging from the title of the movie, Xinyicheng is obviously using the reputation of "Seven Days of Wrong Love" to attract the audience, and when doing publicity, it is also intentionally or unintentionally misleading that it is a sequel.

It is very difficult to define the infringement of such novels, movies and other literary and artistic works, and it is only known who can win the lawsuit, but the longer the incident drags on, the higher the lawyer's fees will be, and the side with less money will be particularly uncomfortable.

"When I was making a movie last year, I said not to use the name of the series "Seven Days of Love", but you didn't listen, now wait for the lawsuit to be filed!" After Huang Baiming finished speaking, he sat there with a cold face, looking at Shi Tian and Mecca expressionlessly.

Huang Baiming traveled abroad for more than two months, and only returned to Hong Kong a few days ago, only to find that Xinyi City's "Wishing You Prosperity" lost the box office battle, and then was sued by DreamWorks for infringement, and the company has a mess waiting to be dealt with.

"Anla, I have consulted a lawyer, and Kang Jianfei will not win this lawsuit." Shi Tian smiled quite easily.

Huang Baiming said angrily: "If you ask for money in a lawsuit, Kang Jianfei will help you pay for your lawyer's fees?" ”

"Well, it's got to this point, there's no point in arguing about who's right and who's wrong," Mecca said impatiently, "and what should be discussed today is what to make." ”

Huang Baiming said angrily: "What else are you filming?" The company only has more than 600,000 on its books, which should be left for employees to pay. ”

Mecca said with a smile: "When the box office accounts of "Wishing you prosperity" and "See Seven Days of Love Again" arrive, won't the company have money?" Our film planning should be up front. ”

Well, this is the famous Xinyi City, which has actually reached the point of waiting for the rice to be cooked.

When the bubble in Hong Kong's property market had just burst, Lei Juekun lost in both the stock market and the property market. I also saw that the film department of Xinyicheng was a blockbuster, so I increased my investment in movies, and there were a few big casts like "Best Partner".

After that, Lei Juekun's losses in the stock market and property market were too heavy, not only could he not increase his investment in Xinyicheng, but he had to constantly draw funds from Xinyicheng to make up for the holes, and even sold several Golden Princess theaters.

The big bosses of New Art City all play like this, and Mecca, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming are naturally no exception. Anyway, after a movie makes money, they will divide what they deserve first, and then reserve a part of the funds for the company's operation and film investment, plus the follow-up funds for the overseas box office. The new art city can still develop smoothly.

Lei Juekun has been hit hard by the business, his health has been greatly deteriorated, maybe he will not be able to live for a few years, and his enthusiasm for Xinyicheng and Princess Jin has greatly decreased, and he is unwilling to continue to invest more. Xinyicheng can only rely on its own operation and be responsible for its own profits and losses.

In the parallel space, the new art city in just five years. Organized by a film company with only a few employees. It has developed into a studio, dubbing studio and record company, with more than 100 employees, and the annual basic expenses need to be nearly 10 million, gradually moving closer to the large-scale studio model. Since 1985, New Arts City has become a giant, and it has also started from this year. New Arts City suffered a loss for the first time, and then it went downhill.

Due to the appearance of Kang Jianfei, the development of the new art city in this time and space was not so smooth, and there was no exclusive record company of its own. There are only about 60 employees, but losses have also occurred.

On the other hand, although Kang Jianfei's family is big, his record company, brokerage company, film company and TV station are complementary, and the four companies often share artists and equipment, and similar departments have long been adjusted or merged into one, which greatly reduces operating costs. At present, Kang Jianfei's four major companies have more than 500 regular employees, but the total annual administrative and operating expenses are less than 60 million.

(For Oriental Entertainment, more than 100 contracted stars were both a resource and a burden in the past, and hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong were customers of Oriental Entertainment.) Since being banned by the Taiwan authorities, Oriental Entertainment Company has also lost these customers, leaving a large group of celebrities who can only eat dry rice.

Therefore, Alan Tam, Hui Yinghong and others changed jobs, from a certain point of view, it is actually a good thing, which greatly reduces the expenses of Oriental Entertainment Company. Even if they don't leave, Kang Jianfei will take the initiative to terminate the contract with them at some point, and if they leave by themselves, Kang Jianfei can still earn a liquidated damages.

Now because it is self-sufficient, dozens of contracted actors are completely sufficient, and the enrollment of Oriental Entertainment's training class has also changed from one trick a year to one trick every two years. ）

The current situation is that Mecca is rich, Shi Tian is rich, and Huang Baiming is also rich, but all this money is their own, and the money on the books of Xinyicheng is only enough to pay salaries to employees.

Shi Tian pondered for a moment and said: "The box office account of "Wishing you prosperity" should be divided, and the company can get six or seven million. ”

Mecca calculated and said: "Singapore will also have millions of accounts next month, saving a little money, enough to make two movies." ”

"Shoot what?" Huang Baiming asked.

Shi Tian thought for a while and said: "Let's make a comedy gambling movie, the gambling movie has been very popular recently." ”

Huang Baiming doesn't like to follow the trend in film creation, he shook his head and said: "No, there must be countless follow-up films after the big sale of "The Saint of Gambling", and it is likely that Xinyicheng will also make comedy gambling films. ”

Mecca scratched her head and said, "Why don't you find Xu Guanjie, he has made a few comedy gambling films before." ”

Huang Baiming reminded: "Now the audience loves to watch nonsense, and Xu's comedy is outdated. ”

Left or right, Mecca said a little depressedly, "Then what do you say?" ”

Huang Baiming, like Shi Tian and Mecca, has long lost the passion he had when he started his business, and he thought for a long time before saying: "I haven't thought about it yet, let's talk about it." ”

"Then we'll talk about that another day," Mecca said, looking at her watch and standing up sharply, "it's already open, I'm going to see my stocks, and we'll talk next time!" ”

Mecca threw down a sentence and disappeared quickly, and Shi Tian also said: "I also made an appointment to see the real estate and left first." ”

Huang Baiming stayed alone in the conference room and sat for a long time before sighing.

This is the disadvantage of good friends starting a company together, everyone shares joys and hardships when starting a business, and once the business grows, there will be various differences.

In the past, Dianmao and Shaw Brothers were typical representatives of the large-scale studio system, and the reason why they could develop and exist for a long time was because the company's boss could say anything. And now the new art city is also moving closer to the big studio system, but the three bosses are constantly disagreeing, and they don't have any passion to work normally.

In 1984 and 1985, the scale of the new art city developed rapidly, and the relationship between Huang, Mai, and Shi also deteriorated rapidly. By 1985, the production volume of Xinyicheng had increased greatly, but the three bosses rarely participated in film production, and directors such as Yu Rentai, Wu Yusen, Lin Lingdong, and Xu Ke were busy, which also indicated the collapse of the three-person team.

Of course, there is also a change in mentality, after all, after becoming the boss of a large company, there is no need to do everything yourself, and you have more time to be busy with other things, such as stock trading, property speculation and travel.

Huang Baiming returned to his office, asked the secretary to call his apprentice Gao Zhisen, and said to him: "Ah Sen, I want to make an urban comedy, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Gao Zhisen silently took out a letter of resignation and said, "I want to go to Debao." ”

The smile on Huang Baiming's face disappeared instantly, he glanced at the resignation letter, and asked, "Why do you want to leave?" Has Xinyicheng wronged you? ”

Gao Zhisen lowered his head and didn't speak, he did feel a little sorry for Huang Baiming.

Huang Baiming waved his hand and said, "Okay, everyone, get together and disperse, I accept your resignation letter." ”

After Gao Zhisen patted his ass and left, Huang Baiming faced a huge company and suddenly felt unhappy. But Mecca and Shi Tian were both hands-off shopkeepers, and he didn't care about the company anymore, so he had to instruct the secretary again: "Call Lin Lingdong!" ”

Not long after, Lin Lingdong walked into the office and asked, "Mr. Huang, are you looking for me?" ”

"Didn't you say you were writing a script last time? Is it well written? Huang Baiming asked.

Lin Lingdong nodded and said, "It's already written, I'll bring it to you now." ”

Half an hour later, Huang Baiming finished watching Lin Lingdong's "Eros No. 1" and commented: "A love film with a very cliché plot, if you want to sell well, you need the director's ability to tell the story, are you confident that you can shoot it well?" ”

How dare Lin Lingdong guarantee that it will be a hit? All he could say was, "I did my best." ”

"I believe in you, go and prepare, the next drama of the company will be "Eros No. 1". Huang Baiming is still very confident in Lin Lingdong's directing level.

After Lin Lingdong left, Huang Baiming's secretary suddenly said: "Manager, don't you notify Mr. Mai and Mr. Shi about filming "Eros No. 1"?" ”

Huang Baiming said a little unhappily: "No, you can do your own thing, don't meddle in your business." ”

"Oh," the secretary walked out of the room with his head bowed, and suddenly stopped, "Manager, today's newspaper is on the table." ”

"Zhilu Dao, you go down." Huang Baiming said impatiently, picked up a newspaper and flipped it up.

After only watching it for a few minutes, Huang Baiming suddenly flipped to a page, and then was so shocked that he almost fell under his desk. I saw that the headline of that edition was: DreamWorks and Phoenix Terrace are carrying out group reforms, or they will take the opportunity to go public.

DreamWorks is going public?!

Huang Baiming almost thought that he had seen it wrong, Shaw Brothers dominated Xiangjiang for so many years and did not go public, Golden Harvest broke box office records every year and did not go public, DreamWorks is actually going to be listed?

Does Kang Jianfei really want to take the company public?

Obviously, it can't be, and you have to wait a few more years to go public.

However, the company's group reform is real, and this is something that Kang Jianfei has planned for several years, but because of the influence of being blocked by the Taiwan authorities, it is now being carried out in advance. (To be continued......)