Vientiane Film Company, conference room.

Huang Baiming, Du Qifeng, Teddy Robin and Lin Lingdong, the four shareholders, sat together regardless of priority, and Huang Baiming's opening sentence shocked the other three: "The new art city may be disintegrated, and it will last until the end of the year at most." ”

"How can it disintegrate? The "Diary of a Big Husband" in the summer file of Xinyicheng is selling well. Lin Lingdong asked puzzled.

Huang Baiming said with some schadenfreude: "Building a studio, opening a record company, opening a brokerage company, and opening a film branch in Taiwan, the stall is too big." It's good to say that Xinyicheng has always maintained high profitability, but it's a pity that it hasn't had an excellent performance in the prime period for more than two years. Before I left, Xinyicheng was in a loss-making state, and in the first few months, I spun off and sold all the subsidiaries, although I turned losses into profits after reducing expenses, but it was difficult to recover the decline. The two bosses, Mecca and Shi Tian, are no longer focused on the movie, and it is only a matter of time before the new art city disintegrates. ”

Teddy Robin asked, "Did Boss Ray tell you about this?" ”

Huang Baiming nodded: "He hopes that I can receive some resources from the New Art City after the disintegration of the New Art City." ”

Johnny To said happily: "This is an opportunity for us to develop. ”

Huang Baiming said: "I think so too, but the most important thing is the director and behind the scenes, and don't do anything else." ”

Teddy Robin said: "All four of us can write and direct, no matter how many directors there are, it is a burden, and the technical staff behind the scenes is the most important." ”

Huang Baiming said with a smile: "There are not too many good directors, as soon as the new art city is dissolved, who else will be able to compete with us for the schedule of the golden princess in the future?" ”

As one of the several major cinema chains in the past. The Golden Princess Cinema Line has declined somewhat in the past two years, and the main reason is that the table of Xinyi City is not strong.

In the entire summer of this year, the film released by Princess Jin was the best at the box office of "Diary of a Big Husband". Fortunately, in addition to Huang Baiming's other Vientiane Pictures. Lei Juekun also pulled Liu Jialiang over, and Liu Jiaban hung the "Tiger Out of the Guard" filmed in Xinyi City, and also made a muscular man Li Yuanba popular.

After the end of the new art city, the person with the most complicated mood is Huang Baiming. The new art city used to be the pinnacle of Huang Baiming's career, and now that it is about to disintegrate, he is still full of taste, but the biggest beneficiary of the closure of the new art city is Huang Baiming.

Because as long as there is a zài in the new art city, Huang Baiming's new company, Vientiane Pictures, will never be able to grab a good schedule. For example, this year's summer file. Vientiane Pictures' work is "School Storm" directed by Lin Lingdong, which was finally scheduled for the summer season in the Golden Princess Cinema, but it was arranged to be released at the same time as Cheng Long's "Police Story Sequel". In addition, at the same time, there was also Wang Jing's "Hardcover Chasing Girls" series to grab the audience. "School Storm", which originally had great potential, was only in the early 10 million at the box office.

As long as the new art city is finished, Vientiane Pictures will inevitably grab the best schedule of the golden princess in the future, and the benefits are even greater than the resources left by taking over the new art city.

Teddy Robin suddenly said: "Gao Zhisen has mixed well this year. Why don't you try to dig him back? ”

"I can't dig it." Huang Baiming shook his head with an unnatural expression. Even if he could dig it, he wouldn't dig it.

If you want to say that the best director in Hong Kong in the past year, Gao Zhisen is definitely one of them. At the end of last year, he directed a "Rich and Powerful", which collected a box office of 27 million, and a few months later, Gao Zhisen rushed to shoot a "Rich and Powerful Again", which collected 25.8 million at the box office. In the past summer file, the box office of "Chicken and Duck Talk" directed by Gao Zhisen reached 29 million.

Three consecutive movies with a box office of more than 25 million came out, making Gao Zhisen a top director in Hong Kong. It can already be compared with the King Sutra.

Gao Zhisen used to be Huang Baiming's apprentice, and he was also appreciated and promoted by Kang Jianfei. But now he is a big director under Pan Disheng, how could Huang Baiming go to the cold ass of others with a hot face?

Du Qifeng suddenly said: "Zeng Zhiwei can pull it over." ”

Huang Baiming's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "This is a good idea." ”

After Zeng Zhiwei resigned from the position of manager of the production department of DreamWorks, the good friend film company that he got out was quite prosperous at the beginning for more than a year, but now it is half dead. Zeng Zhiwei can't talk about regretting leaving DreamWorks, after all, he made a lot of movies from his own company.

It's just that Zeng Zhiwei's current situation is very embarrassing, and he can only make a little money by continuing to make movies by himself, and he can't save face when he pleads with Kang Jianfei and returns to DreamWorks. If Huang Baiming can send an invitation to Zeng Zhiwei at this time, he will most likely be able to pull Zeng Zhiwei and his good friend company to Vientiane Pictures, so that the foundation of Vientiane Pictures can be thicker.

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Kang Jianfei's polyamorous relationship with Guan Zhilin, Wang Guxian, and Li Jiaxin finally slowly decreased in popularity after two months of continuous hype.

The big news in place is that Zeng Zhiwei took his good friend Film Company and merged it into Huang Baiming's Vientiane Pictures as a whole. Many behind-the-scenes talents in the new art city have also transferred to Vientiane Pictures, and for a while, rumors of the imminent disintegration of the new art city have spread.

"New Art City is about to disintegrate? It's too fast! Kang Jianfei was also surprised when he heard the news. Because in his memory, the dissolution of New Arts City was in 1990, and the last movie produced by New Arts City was released in 1991.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to think about how many talents and films Xinyicheng had lost because of his appearance, and the news of the imminent disintegration of Xinyicheng was enough to hold on until now.

Once the new art city disintegrates, Vientiane Pictures, which has taken over the resources of the new art city and annexed the good friend company, as long as it can make a few high-grossing films that stand up, it will inevitably become another big company that can compete with DreamWorks.

At that point, the Hong Kong film scene will be a four-nation battle between DreamWorks, Golden Harvest, Debao and Vientiane, not to mention the other messy independent film companies.

The Xiang brothers' Yongsheng Film Company is still making follow-up films to make a living, and twice wanted to learn to play big casts, but the results were not ideal, and they barely made some money at the overseas box office.

Moreover, Xiang Huaqiang's mind is not on making movies now, because last year's club was too outrageous. Finally annoyed the British authorities in Hong Kong. Xiang Huayan, the leading boss of New Ngee An, was arrested by the police for investigation, and the court just sentenced Xiang Huayan to seven years in prison.

Today, New Ngee An is internally unstable. Xiang Huaqiang was "ordered" to be the boss of the club, resisting the pressure from other clubs on the one hand, and using various means to appease the community on the other, where can he still care about making movies?

In addition to the changes in the New Arts City and Vientiane Pictures, there is another major event in the Hong Kong film industry, that is, the film censorship system has been drafted to solicit the opinions of all Hong Kong citizens. And invited major producers and directors to discuss and negotiate.

The revision of Hong Kong's film censorship system has been called for since last year, mainly due to a foreign report. After such speculation by some well-intentioned people in Hong Kong, it immediately aroused the public's attention and discussion.

What makes Hong Kong filmmakers feel most embarrassed is that Hong Kong films have been developing for decades, but Hong Kong's film censorship system has no legal basis. In the past, the censorship of films by the Hong Kong Electricity Censorship Office was an executive order.

The new censorship of films will be finalized in the form of law. And the film classification system has also become inevitable.

This is not a trivial matter, if the film classification system is established, then the censorship of the film will inevitably be relaxed, and now many films that cannot be made can be made, directors and screenwriters will have more freedom in creation, and after the film classification, it can also make all kinds of films more benign development.

It can be said that the real prosperity period of Hong Kong films was actually after the establishment of the Hong Kong film classification system.

"Phineas. The 7th is the first meeting of the Directors Guild, and Mr. Wu Siyuan invites you to attend. No. 11 is an invitation from the Legislative Council. Participate in discussions on film censorship. The 16th is the award ceremony of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong, and you also need to attend the ......" Li Meifeng reported the schedule to Kang Jianfei, and this frequent meeting and ceremony made Kang Jianfei quite upset.

Kang Jianfei said: "Got it, you can help me make arrangements, and notify Zeng Bolin when the schedule is ready." ”

Li Meifeng said: "In addition, there is news from Japan that the game of "The King of Fighters" has been completed and is being tested, and it will be released by the end of the year. ”

"It's pretty fast." Kang Jianfei said with a smile and said to Li Meifeng, "You help me go back over there and say that part of the manga of "The King of Fighters" has been created, and let their publicity department contact Kadokawa Bookstore." ”

"Okay." Li Meifeng wrote it down on a notepad.

Kang Jianfei went downstairs and ran to the Dark Horse Comics Company, flipped through the comics about "The King of Fighters", and found that the plot they made was slightly different from what he remembered, but it was not too big. Just wait for the game of "The King of Fighters" to come out, and it can be promoted together.

The animation company is also developing quite well, and its current works include "Crayon Xiaoxin" and "Elf Mouse", which are mainly broadcast on Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV, and are also sold to Japan, Taiwan, Nanyang and the mainland. Among them, "Crayon Xiaoxin" is based on the comics, and "Elf Mouse" is the company's original cartoon, and the children's response after the broadcast is not bad.

Kang Jianfei came over this time, and what he wanted to watch more was the animated movie "Mulan".

The plot of this animation is provided by Kang Jianfei, which is actually Disney animation from another time and space.

There is no precedent for animated films to be a big hit in Hong Kong, mainly because people are influenced by fixed ideas that cartoons are for children.

Kang Jianfei is going to take "Mulan" to North America to test the waters first, if he can win a few awards, then he will be released in Hong Kong, at least it will not be very miserable. After all, if a Hong Kong cartoon is well-known overseas, it is still easy to promote and attract parents to bring their children to the cinema.

Now that two-thirds of the employees of the animation company are from the mainland, Kang Jianfei found some of the finished films of "Mulan" to watch, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

The Disney version of "Mulan" knows at a glance that it is an animation produced in the United States, and now Kang Jianfei is full of the Chinese style of "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace" and "Nezha in the Sea".

As for which is better or worse, Kang Jianfei can't say clearly for a while, but he is sure of his worries. is mainly because Kang Jianfei regards North America as the main box office market for "Mulan", and he is afraid that it will be difficult for North American audiences to accept it if it is too Chinese.

However, a group of mainland painters who have not seen much American cartoons are doing original paintings, and Kang Jianfei is not so harsh, so people have to draw Disney style, so they can make do with it, maybe the North American audience will like it more when they look at the novelty.

After leaving the animation company, Kang Jianfei saw that the time was about the same, so he drove to pick up Zhong Chuhong, who was filming the location. Honggu's play today is about to be completed, Kang Jianfei hurried over to accompany him, his main work in the past two months, in addition to making movies, is to coax those angry lovers one by one. (To be continued......)