A week and a half after the Lantern Festival, "Notes on Tomb Robbery" was finally released in Hong Kong, with a box office of 42.67 million in Hong Kong, once again refreshing the box office record of 41.55 million set by Kang Jianfei himself.

Nowadays, the average ticket price of movies in Hong Kong has risen to 26 and a half yuan, purely based on the number of moviegoers, 42.67 million is actually only equivalent to the box office of 32 million three years ago. As long as it is due to the increase in theaters, the number of movies released in the same period has also increased, diluting the number of moviegoers of a single movie.

Since the 90s, although Hong Kong's economy has been developing rapidly, the public is more concerned about the rapid deterioration of social order.

Since New Year's Day, there have been several vicious incidents in a row, and the victims are all people with heads and faces. Kidnapping and extortion, some of which are committed by new immigrants and smugglers, and others by local Hong Kong associations.

Even the chief member of the Legislative Council was chased and slashed by five gangsters in front of his house during the Spring Festival, so you can imagine how bad Hong Kong's law and order is.

The security company co-founded by Kang Jianfei and Ye Laosan suddenly grew a lot after the year, which can be regarded as a blessing for the inaction of the Hong Kong police.

……

"Smack!"

"Three cylinders!" Ouyang Zhenhua slapped the mahjong on the table and said with a smile, "Ah Yu, this time is good, I have been shortlisted for Best Actor." ”

Wu Zhenyu said with a smile: "I am the one who accompanies me at the Academy Awards this time, and Fa Ge is also nominated, where have I won him." ”

"It's a good start to get a nomination, and I'm sure I'll win the award next time. Touch! Li Zixiong said with a smile that he only joined the Oriental Entertainment Agency last year, and he had been filming TV series on TVB before.

The woman who accompanied the three men to play mahjong was called Bai Yunlin. is Li Zixiong's girlfriend who has been dating for half a year, and like Zhang Meng, she graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

"Brother Yu, you are very familiar with Zhang Meng. Why haven't you ever asked her out? A lot of people are also lively. Bai Yunlin suddenly said that she wanted to make friends with Zhang Mengpan as an alumnus.

Wu Zhenyu said: "Amin doesn't like to socialize, he usually stays at home when he has nothing to do, and he doesn't talk much during filming. ”

Bai Yunlin asked, "I heard that she has a good relationship with Mr. Kang, is it true?" ”

For Wu Zhenyu, no matter what Kang Jianfei's character is, he is his Bole and benefactor. If it weren't for Kang Jianfei's support, he Wu Zhenyu might still be playing tricks on TVB.

Hearing Bai Yunlin's question, Wu Zhenyu immediately became dissatisfied. The smile on his face was still there, and he said: "What is the relationship between Amin and Mr. Kang, I don't know about this, you can ask her yourself another day." ”

Li Zixiong heard that Wu Zhenyu's tone was wrong. Hurriedly kicked his girlfriend secretly. Then a card is played and the monster screams, "Oops, I played the wrong card." ”

Ouyang Zhenhua's mind turned quickly, and he helped change the topic and said, "It can't be a self-drawn card, right?" ”

"How is that possible?" Li Zixiong smiled, "I am a veteran of the card field for more than 20 years. ”

The two successfully changed the topic by gagging, and the atmosphere at the card table became lively again, but Wu Zhenyu's impression of Bai Yunlin was very poor.

"Ding-dong, ding-dong!"

The four played cards for a while. The doorbell rang suddenly.

Wu Zhenyu walked to the back of the door and looked at the cat's eye, and there was a courier delivery brother standing outside. He opened the door and asked, "What's it?" ”

The courier brother said: "I don't know, it seems to be a box inside, it's quite light, it's urgent." ”

Wu Zhenyu returned to the table after holding hands, unwrapped the package while playing mahjong, and soon opened a cardboard box. When he opened the cardboard box, Wu Zhenyu's face instantly became extremely ugly, and he didn't react when he touched the cards.

"What's wrong?" Ouyang Zhenhua asked.

"It's nothing, I'm in some trouble." Wu Zhenyu smiled bitterly and took out a notebook from the box.

Li Zixiong asked: "Script?" ”

"Well," Wu Zhenyu took out another pistol bullet and said, "and this." ”

The faces of the other three also became solemn, and Li Zixiong asked, "Someone forced you to make a movie?" ”

Wu Zhenyu nodded: "The salary I promised is not low, 2 million Hong Kong dollars, but I didn't have a schedule, and second, their script was too bad, so I refused." ”

"Which company?" Bai Yunlin asked.

Wu Zhenyu said: "Fuyi, a new company that was only registered last year. ”

Li Zixiong said: "I heard that Mr. Kang still has a very good background in Hong Kong, so I don't want to ask him to help settle it." ”

"I'll give my agent a call first." Wu Zhenyu's mind was a little cloudy, and his hands were a little trembling when he dialed the phone.

Less than half an hour later, Wu Zhenyu's agent Tian Chunming came.

Tian Chunming is in his 40s and has joined Oriental Entertainment Agency for 5 years and is one of the company's gold brokers. After he checked the script and bullets, he immediately dialed out a few more calls, and it took a long time to figure things out, and comforted: "Ayu, don't worry, don't go out these days, the company will help you get it." ”

As Hong Kong's law and order becomes more and more chaotic, and more black forces enter the entertainment industry, Oriental Entertainment Agency has encountered many such things in recent years, and it also has its own set of methods to deal with it. However, this is the first time I have received a bullet, and the most I used to do was to threaten it with a knife or splash paint.

Wu Zhenyu was still relieved, and asked, "Brother Ming, what is the origin of the other party?" Why did you find me? ”

Tian Chunming said: "A big circle, this time I named you to film, because "Notes on Tomb Robbery" sold more than 60 million Taiwan dollars at the box office in Taiwan, and it has not been released yet. An investor in Taiwan opened a handicap, saying that as long as it is a movie starring you, he is willing to spend 10 million Hong Kong dollars to buy the distribution rights of Taiwan and Nanyang. ”

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, that's it.

Wu Zhenyu's current salary is more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars, if he is invited to be the leading actor, and then he can casually invite a bunch of second-tier actors to make a bad movie, and the production cost will be up to 5 million. And Taiwanese investors have opened a handicap of 10 million, which means that as long as the drama is filmed, whether it sells or not, the producer can make more than 5 million for nothing, and can continue to make box office in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.

This kind of good thing that only makes money and does not lose money. If it weren't for Kang Jianfei's cover, I'm afraid there would be more than one person who came to force Wu Zhenyu to film.

Even the bullets were sent. Tian Chunming was really not able to deal with it by himself, and after he called to find out the situation, he immediately left to go back to the company.

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Oriental Entertainment Agency, General Manager's Office.

Zhang Guozhong frowned and asked: "You mean, this Fuyi Film Company, Shu Qi also has a stake in it?" ”

Tian Chunming nodded and said, "I've inquired, this Cai Zhiming is a big circle." He suddenly made a fortune a few years ago, and I don't know where his money came from. Later, he went to Europe to do smuggling business, and returned to Hong Kong three years ago. There are bars, karaoke parlors, saunas and other businesses under his hands. The year before last, when he saw that Hong Kong films were very popular, he invested in a small-budget film and made more than two million yuan, so he decided to enter the film industry. Suffering from no connections. He joined the company last year. The three collaborated to form Fuyi Film Company. Tong Guò Shu is in the middle, Fuyi Company has signed Liu Dehua and Ye Tong, I heard that a while ago it also tried to dig Anita Mui. In addition, there is unreliable news that Pan Disheng and Michelle Yeoh are separating, and Michelle Yeoh is preparing to return to filming and have contact with Fuyi Film Company. By the way, this Cai Zhiming is a bit similar to Zou Wenhuai back then, poaching people and not signing contracts. Liu Dehua and Fuyi Company also made a verbal agreement. ”

"He's an ambitious guy too." Zhang Guozhong sighed.

Shu Qi is the editor-in-chief of Film Fortnight and the founder of the Hong Kong Film Awards. Cai Zhiming pulled Shu Qi in to open a film company. Obviously, his ambition is not small, and it seems that he is ready to do a big job.

It's a pity that the fishing is the wrong door after all, please send bullets without moving the actors, which is too out of line.

It is said that in the past two years, Yongsheng's style has also become a little bad, and there have been some forced invitations, but there are no direct bullets.

Zhang Guozhong was still sighing there, but he didn't know that in another time and space, because his agency had a large number of stars, he had been threatened and even ambushed countless times.

Tian Chunming asked: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Kang has a good relationship with Shu Qi, do you want to inform Mr. Kang and let him deal with it?" ”

"If this little thing bothers Mr. Kang, what do you want me to do as a general manager?" Zhang Guozhong glared at Tian Chunming.

Zhang Guozhong was not ready to trouble Kang Jianfei, but Kang Jianfei was still troubled.

Just when Zhang Guozhong called about Shuqi, Kang Jianfei also received a distress call from Qiu Shuzhen's agent.

But after the Lantern Festival, many crews in Hong Kong started filming, and Qiu Shuzhen also took over a play from an independent film company, who knew that on the first day of filming, a group of people came to "ask Qiu Shuzhen to leave" very impolitely.

After filming two Wang Jing dramas, Qiu Shuzhen was made into a new generation of sexy goddesses by Wang Fatzi, and now has many fans in Taiwan and Nanyang. Moreover, Qiu Shuzhen's salary is much lower than Zhong Chuhong, Wang Zuxian and others, and some small companies rushed to ask her to film.

Qiu Shuzhen didn't worry about running out of money after becoming Kang Jianfei's lover, and she was not a workaholic, so she took on four or five plays a year at most. This time, a company asked Qiu Shuzhen to make a film to no avail, so they simply sent someone to rush to film, and arranged for someone to monitor Qiu Shuzhen in the crew at any time, and even when she went to the toilet, someone followed her.

No wonder some people say that this is the most glorious era of Hong Kong films, and it is also the darkest era of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Especially after entering the 90s, there was a general panic psychology in Hong Kong society, and the government's inaction made the black. The Dao forces are even more unscrupulous.

Kang Jianfei put down the phone, feeling a little headache, he found that his face was becoming more and more useless, and someone was looking for trouble with him just after the New Year.

If you want to settle things, you must first know who the other party is, and after making a few phone calls and asking, you know that the other party is the person from Hehetu.

The main site of Hehetu is in Central, and Kang Jianfei's Queen's Building and other properties are in Central, and he has given Hehetu a "filial piety fee" every year.

Among the many associations in Hong Kong, Kang Jianfei hates the most is Hehetu. There is no other reason, because this association with the prefix controls more than 60% of the pirated film and video tape business in Hong Kong. These pirated videotapes are not only sold in Hong Kong, but also smuggled to the mainland, Taiwan, and even South Korea and Nanyang for sale, and I don't know how much profit Kang Jianfei loses every year.

Kang Jianfei really felt helpless about the threats to his artists, he was not a gangster, and it was impossible for him to really fight with others. And now that there are more and more signed stars in the company, there are naturally more and more people looking for trouble, so it is impossible for him to arrange several bodyguards around each star, right?

As for calling the police? Even if the police handle the case seriously, they will only catch a few little minions who are behind the blame, which will make things more stiff.

Kang Jianfei has a relationship with Xin Yi'an in 14K, but people and Hetu don't dump you at all.

Kang Jianfei now has a big family and a big business, and he feels more and more that the previous set of tough methods is not good, in order to take advantage of the boom period of Hong Kong films to make money, more and more people are hitting the head of the Oriental Entertainment Agency - who calls this company more stars.

Kang Jianfei decided to change his thinking, that is, to win over several major associations and use these major associations to deter Xiaoxiao. In other words, in the future, film companies of large associations such as Hehetu, 14K, and Xinyi'an will be given preferential treatment, and driven by interests, these major associations will naturally help Kang Jianfei suppress the clown.

At least, before the return of Hong Kong in 97, this must be done to save a lot of trouble. As for Hong Kong's return to the motherland, there is only a lovely solution. Let the army teach those blacks. How to be a Taoist person, Kang Jianfei is happy to be a good citizen, secretly reporting some of them to go in and pick up soap. (To be continued......)