Dreams of the Fragrant River

Hong Kong in September was chaotic, but not without good films. [;Starting]

On the second day of Luo Wei's painting, it was officially released on the Golden Princess Cinema. This movie is a horror movie. In order to get a good box office in Taiwan, Luo Wei specially invited Lu Xiuling, a contracted artist of the Oriental Entertainment Company, to star in the starring - in fact, Luo Wei wanted to invite Lin Qingxia, but Lin Qingxia's salary of up to 1 million was not him at all. If I can afford it, I have to retreat and invite Taiwan's "Little Lin Qingxia" to be the heroine.

Lv Xiuling is an artist under Kang Jianfei's hand, but the movie she starred in was shown in the Golden Princess theaters, and Kang Jianfei and the Golden Princess are well known to not deal with each other, which made many small film companies in the Hong Kong industry see the sincerity of Oriental Entertainment.

Not only that, but the actor who achieved good box office in Xinyicheng some time ago was also Alan Tam of Oriental Entertainment Company.

With these two films as demonstrations, other small film companies that still have some doubts finally don't have to worry about asking Kang Jianfei's actors to offend Princess Jin, and can let go of their hands and feet and invite artists from Oriental Entertainment to make movies.

It was released after only a week of release, and the box office was close to 2 million. The next grand debut is the co-production between New Kunlun and the mainland. This film was shown in Yindu Cinemas for a month, and it was the most chaotic period of Hong Kong society, and the box office was close to 16 million.

The leading actor, Tony Leung, is the prospective son-in-law of director Li Hanxiang at this time. Although the film became a hit, tragedy is waiting for him not far away, and the days of being banned by the Taiwan authorities are not far away.

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Peninsula Cafe.

Pan Disheng stirred the milk tea. After looking around, he smiled with emotion: "Hong Kong is so chaotic, there are even fewer people in the tea restaurant. In the past, when you came to the Peninsula Tea House for afternoon tea, you had to queue up without a reservation. It's like there are only a few people now. ."

"It's better if there are fewer people. Drinking tea is much quieter." Hong Jinbao said while eating the lotus seed paste.

Pan Disheng smiled and said, "I thought Mr. Hong would like to be more lively."

"Then it depends on what," Hong Jinbao suddenly asked, "I don't know why Mr. Pan asked me out today?"

Pan Disheng didn't answer directly, but praised with a smile: "I watched Mr. Hong, it's really great."

Hong Jinbao said modestly: "It's far worse than Mr. Kang's, and the box office is 10 million less."

Pan Disheng nodded and said, "Mr. Kang is really good at making movies. I want to play two cards after watching it."

It's more than that simple. Since its release in the past two months, the number of people who have gone to Macau to gamble from Hong Kong has increased by 20%. In other words, He Hongshen should write a thank you letter to Kang Jianfei.

Hong Jinbao has been guessing Pan Disheng's purpose today. "I didn't expect that Mr. Pan also likes watching movies," he said with a smile.

Pan Disheng said: "When I was studying abroad, I often watched movies to pass the time."

Hong Jin Bao agreed and smiled, and continued to eat lotus seed buns and drink afternoon tea, since Pan Disheng had been going around. He wasn't in a hurry to ask.

The two chatted for a long time, before Pan Disheng finally said, "Is Mr. Hong interested in partnering to open a film company?"

Hong Jinbao was obviously stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect Pan Disheng, a young man who sells brand-name jewelry and watches, to partner with him to open a film company.

"My current Baohe company is doing well, and I don't want to open another company for the time being." Hong Jinbao refused directly. He thought that Pan Disheng knew nothing about movies, and he knew what would happen if he cooperated with a layman.

Pan Disheng is still trying to convince Hong Jinbao: "Mr. Hong, Baohe's funds are not recovered very quickly, and the box office earned will have to be taken away by the parent company Jiahe, so that there will be less money for reinvestment in filming. With the current financial resources of Baohe Film Company, making two films a year has reached the limit, isn't the rest of the time a waste? If we cooperate to open a film company, you can make at least four films a year, and the opportunity to make money It’s twice as much as before, so why not? And I know I don’t know anything about movies, so I’m only in charge of investment, and you’re solely responsible for film production.”

Hong Jinbao was quite moved by Pan Disheng's remarks, but he was still a little concerned about Zou Wenhuai's reaction, and said, "But Boss Zou..."

"You don't have to worry about Uncle Zou. If we cooperate to open a film company, the films produced in the future will also be shown in Jiahe Cinemas." Pan Disheng smiled.

Only then did Hong Jinbao know that Pan Disheng was not on a whim. He had already found all the theaters in advance, and then came to him to discuss cooperation.

But just made a big profit, Hong Jinbao is not short of funds in the near future. If Pan Disheng had found him three months ago, Hong Jinbao might have agreed.

Hong Jinbao thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed and said, "If Mr. Pan really wants to make a movie, of course I am very willing to cooperate with you. But recently Baohe is going to make a new movie, I at least If I can’t separate the energy to do other things within two months, or wait for a while to talk about cooperation.”

Pan Disheng said with a smile: "No problem, now we just need to determine the general cooperation plan."

Hong Jinbao saw that Pan Disheng wanted to finalize the cooperation, and he could no longer play Tai Chi, so he had to discuss the cooperation with Pan Disheng.

When it comes to the company's equity distribution, Pan Disheng said: "How about this? I will pay the company's funds, I will take 65% of the shares, you want 25% of the remaining shares, and I will give him 10% from Cen Jianxun's side. ."

This is a very generous share allocation. Pan Disheng is much more generous than Kang Jianfei. The reason why this son-in-law wants to enter the film circle is to see that Hong Kong films are prosperous and profitable, and the other is to advertise the various famous brands he represents. Just as Xiang Huaqiang opened a film company to launder money, Pan Disheng did not only focus on box office revenue when making films.

"Cen Jianxun? He is now the deputy head of the planning team of DreamWorks' film production department." Hong Jinbao said in surprise.

"It's Cen Jianxun. In the future, the management of the company will be handed over to him. When the company opens, he will resign from DreamWorks." Pan Disheng said with a smile. In fact, he and Cen Jianxun are old friends. Selling famous jewelry and watches inevitably has to deal with fashion magazines. At the beginning, Pan Disheng's business was based on advertising sales, while Cen Jianxun was the editor-in-chief of the magazine before.

Pan Disheng intends to start a film company. The first partner that came to mind was Cen Jianxun, and then Cen Jianxun suggested that he bring Hong Jinbao in as a filmmaker.

By the time they left after the afternoon tea, Hong Jinbao and Pan Disheng had already finalized the general cooperation plan. Although there was no formal signing of the contract, a verbal commitment was enough. Anyway, it was still very early for the company to officially open.

The two even chose the name of the film company, and it was called d&b film company. Among them, "Treasure" is naturally Hong Jinbao, and "De" is taken from the first letter of Pan Disheng's English name -pn.

In fact, Debao Film Company was originally founded by Pan Disheng. It is rumored that he bought Debao from Hong Jinbao and Cen Jianxun. In fact, it was just that he paid for the share of Hong Jinbao's shares.

Because at the beginning of Debao's establishment. Its films are all shown in the Golden Harvest Cinemas. Hong Jinbao can naturally shoot back and forth between Baohe and Debao. Mixed like a duck in water. But then Debao failed to make a good schedule in Jiahe Cinemas for several consecutive films. Pan Disheng, who was rich and powerful, invested more than 100 million yuan to develop his own cinemas in a rage. Debao also changed from Golden Harvest's satellite company to a competitor.

At this time, Hong Jinbao was faced with a choice, either to stay in Baohe or to stay in Debao, but Hong Jinbao finally chose the former and sold his shares in Debao to Pan Disheng. Another shareholder, Cen Jianxun, stayed on and served as the general manager of Debao Cinemas.

Pan Disheng took a fancy to Hong Jinbao's film-making ability, and Hong Jinbao also took a fancy to Pan Disheng's strong financial resources. The first meeting between the two was very harmonious.

After coming out of the Peninsula Hotel, Pan Disheng asked his driver to take Hong Jinbao home, and personally sent Hong Jinbao back.

The two continued to chat in Pan Disheng's car, perhaps because they wanted to enter the film industry. Pan Disheng kept asking all kinds of movie-related questions to recharge himself.

Many questions seemed very naive, Pan Disheng didn't even know the film production process, and Hong Jinbao had to answer them one by one.

"I heard that Golden Harvest has conflicts with Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks, and Princess Jin. In the future, when our Debao company makes movies, can we go to several other companies to invite big stars to appear?" Pan Disheng asked.

Hong Jinbao replied: "It depends on the specific situation. For example, Zheng Shaoqiu is from TVB, but his movie contract is not signed, and the TV contract is also very loose. If we ask Zheng Shaoqiu to make a movie, Even Shao Daheng can't stop him. But you can't ask Dillon, because Dillon is the face of Shaw Brothers. If you ask Dilong to play a movie in the Golden Harvest Cinema, it will be a slap in the face of Shao Daheng."

Pan Disheng asked again: "Then can we invite people from Oriental Entertainment Company? This time yours is Zhong Chuhong, and there seems to be no problem."

Hong Jinbao said with a smile: "There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film industry now - 'If you find an actor, go to Oriental Entertainment Company', we Baohe's lower part, except for the Hong Jiaban and the individual actors of Jiahe, I will go to the rest of the staff. Oriental Entertainment Company is looking for it."

"Oriental Entertainment has such a big influence in the film industry?" Pan Disheng was quite surprised by this, but he was relieved, because his Disheng jewelry store is now shooting advertisements for publicity, and he is directly looking for stars in Oriental DreamWorks.

In Hong Kong, in terms of the number of film practitioners, the largest number is Shaw Brothers. After all, Shaw Brothers has decades of accumulation. However, Shaw Brothers has strict control over its artists. In the absence of personal relationships, it is difficult and troublesome to invite Shaw Brothers actors to make movies.

It can be said that Oriental Entertainment Company is the only entertainment brokerage company in Hong Kong so far, which has greatly facilitated a large number of small Hong Kong film companies to invite actors.

Don't underestimate these small film companies. The most prosperous period for Hong Kong films was in the early 1990s. At that time, there were hundreds of film companies in a small Hong Kong. Although it has not reached that level at this time, there are still hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong. Except for Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and other large film companies, the remaining hundreds of small and medium-sized film companies are all potential customers of Oriental Entertainment Company. .

In this summer, the Oriental Entertainment Company, which has only opened for half a year, suddenly saw a huge increase in business volume, and the films of its artists floated like snowflakes.

The most comforting thing for the directors of small companies is that Oriental Entertainment also has various packaged package services. What types of actors are needed, even extras, dragon and tiger martial artists, stunt performers, etc. As long as the customer requests, Oriental Entertainment will come up with a plan in the shortest possible time, which greatly reduces the preparation time for these film companies. with expenses.

There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film industry now, that is, when you choose an actor, you can find Oriental Entertainment, not only can you find the most suitable actor, but also can find you if there is a lack of behind-the-scenes actors. If you lack a photographer, we will give you a photographer. If you need a movie theme song, there is no problem. Not only do we arrange Pop Records to help you write and compose songs, but also provide one-stop service for singers and recordings.

Only now did many of my peers understand that it turned out that there is such a big business opportunity for a star brokerage company. In the next few years, more than a dozen other star companies will be established in Hong Kong, but in terms of scale and influence, these companies are not even worthy of providing shoes to Oriental Entertainment.

Because the most important thing for a star agency is artist resources, in Hong Kong, only Shao Yifu's men have such a huge star resource that can rival Kang Jianfei. However, Shao Yifu will never set up a star agency. This is related to the management system of Shaw Brothers and TVB. If he starts a star agency, it is estimated that TVB's star artists will all run away within a few years.

For example, Zhang Weijian made a TV series for TVB in the 1990s. Not only did the ratings set a new record in Hong Kong, but the TV series also became popular in half of Asia. TVB made 400 million yuan in advertising fees in Asia alone. . Correspondingly, Zhang Weijian, the protagonist, worked in TVB for a whole year at that time, and only got a salary of 80,000 yuan after suffering from illness.

Zhang Weijian asked tvb for better treatment~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but he did not dump him, and directly changed actors in the sequel. Zhang Weijian was also half-banned for disobeying the arrangement. Zhang Weijian was naturally furious. After the contract was full, he immediately left TVB to develop in Taiwan and the mainland.

If Shao Yifu dares to set up a star agency, the artists under his banner will taste the sweetness outside, and most of them are unwilling to stay in Shaw Brothers or TVB.

Here, Pan Disheng contacted Hong Jinbao, and also quietly poached Cen Jianxun, the vice president of Kang Jianfei's ideal future theater chain, but Kang Jianfei didn't know anything about it. He was staring at the release on Phoenix TV, and was approached by Cheng Long and Deng Jingsheng to write the script, saying that he was planning to start planning a co-production between Jiahe and DreamWorks, which was agreed with Zou Wenhuai at the beginning.

Kang Jianfei had a great headache, because this time Zou Wenhuai wanted to use this film to break into the European and American markets, not only to show Lin Qingxia's heroic and valiant royal senior sister image in the film, but also to highlight Cheng Long's comedy fighting ability. There really is no ready-made script to copy.

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