Dreams of the Fragrant River

It is really difficult to define whether Xinyicheng and Zhang Jianting are infringing, and going to court is also a headless lawsuit. {starter}

Because Xinyicheng and Zhang Jianting did not say that "Goodbye for the Seven Days of Love" is the sequel to "The Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table", and the two films are not much related in terms of content and plot. But just judging from the title of the movie, Xinyicheng is obviously taking advantage of the word-of-mouth of "The Wrong Seven Days of Love" to attract audiences, and it also misleads the sequel intentionally or unintentionally when promoting it.

It is very difficult to define the infringement of such literary and artistic works such as novels and movies. Who will win the lawsuit will only know, but the longer the incident drags on, the higher the legal fees will be, and the side with less money will be particularly uncomfortable.

"When I was making a movie last year, I told you not to use the name of the series "Seven Days of Love", but you didn't listen. Now wait for a lawsuit!" Huang Baiming sat there with a cold face after speaking. Looking at Shi Tian and Mecca with expressions.

Huang Baiming traveled abroad for more than two months, and only returned to Hong Kong a few days ago. It turned out that Art City's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" lost the box office battle, and then was sued by DreamWorks for infringement, and there were a lot of messes in the company waiting to be dealt with.

"Alright, I have consulted a lawyer, and Kang Jianfei won't win this case." Shi Tian smiled rather relaxedly.

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

"Okay, at this point, there's no point in arguing about who's right and who's wrong," Mecca said impatiently. "Today everyone should be discussing what movie to make."

Huang Baiming said angrily: "What other films are there? The company only has more than 600,000 in the book, and it has to be left to the employees to pay wages."

Mecca smiled and said: "When the box office of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and "Goodbye Seven Days of Love" arrives, won't the company have money? Our movie planning should be ahead."

Well, this is the famous Xinyi City, and it has reached the point of waiting for the rice to cook.

When the Hong Kong property market bubble just burst, Lei Juekun lost both the stock market and the property market, and saw that the movie department of Art City was selling well, so he increased his investment in movies, and only had a few "Best Partner" films. Such a big casserole.

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 Art City. Instead, they have to constantly allocate funds from Xinyi City to fill the holes, and even sold several theaters of the Golden Princess.

The big bosses of Xinyi City all play this way, and Mecca, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming are no exception. Anyway, after a movie makes money, they should share what they deserve first, set aside a part of the funds for company operation and movie investment, plus the follow-up funds from overseas box office, and Art City can still develop smoothly.

After being hit hard by business, Lei Juekun's health is not as good as before, and he may not be able to live for a few years, and his enthusiasm for Xinyicheng and Princess Jin has greatly diminished. Unwilling to continue to make additional investments. Art City can only run on its own and be responsible for its own profits and losses.

in parallel space. In just five years, New Art City has grown from a film company with only a few employees to a studio, dubbing studio and record company with more than 100 employees. The annual basic expenditure requires a scale of nearly 10 million, and it is gradually approaching the large-scale studio model. Since 1985, Xinyicheng has become a giant. Since this year, Xinyicheng has suffered losses for the first time, and then it has gone downhill.

Due to the appearance of Kang Jianfei, the new art city in this time and space has not developed so smoothly. It does not have its own exclusive record company, and there are only about 60 employees. But losses have also occurred.

On the other hand, although Kang Jianfei has a big business, his record companies, brokerage companies, film companies and TV stations are complementary. The four companies often share artists and equipment. Similar departments have long been adjusted or merged into one, which greatly reduces the operation. cost. At present, there are more than 500 formal employees in the four major companies of Kang Jianfei. But the total annual administrative and operating expenses are less than 60 million.

(For Oriental Entertainment Company, more than 100 contracted stars in the past were both resources and burdens. Hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong are clients of Oriental Entertainment Company. Since being blocked by Taiwan authorities, Oriental Entertainment Company has also lost these customers. , leaving a large group of stars can only eat dry rice.

Therefore, the job-hopping of Tan Yonglin, Hui Yinghong and others is actually a good thing from a certain point of view, 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. If they leave, Kang Jianfei can still earn a liquidated damages.

Now that it is self-sufficient, dozens of contracted actors are enough, and the recruitment of Oriental Entertainment's training class has changed from one recruit per year to one recruit every two years. )

The current situation is that Mecca has money, Shi Tian has money, and Huang Baiming has money, but these money are all their own, and the money on Xinyicheng’s books is only enough to pay the employees.

Shi Tian pondered for a while, and said, "The box office distribution of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" should arrive, and the company can distribute six or seven million."

Mecca calculated the account and said, "Singapore will also have a million-dollar split next month, save a little bit of money, enough to make two movies."

"What?" Huang Baiming asked.

Shi Tian thought for a while and said, "Let's make a comedy and gambling movie. Gambling movies are very popular recently."

Huang Baiming doesn't like to follow suit when it comes to film creation. He shook his head and said, "No, there must be countless follow-up films after the big sale of "The Gambler", and Xinyi City also makes comedy and gambling films that are likely to hit the street."

Mecca scratched his head and said, "Why don't you bring Xu Guanjie, he has made several comedy and gambling films before."

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

Neither left nor right, Mecca said in a depressing tone, "Then what are you talking about shooting?"

Like Shi Tian and Mecca, Huang Baiming had long since lost the passion he had when he started his business. After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "I haven't thought about it yet.

"Then let's talk about it another day," Mecca looked at his watch, stood up abruptly and said, "The market has already opened, I'm going to see my stock, and we'll talk next time!"

Mecca quickly disappeared after saying a word, and Shi Tian also said: "I also made an appointment to see the real estate, so I will go first."

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

This is the disadvantage of good friends starting a company together. When starting a business, everyone shares weal and woe, and once the business expands, there will be various differences.

In the past, Dianmao and Shaw Brothers were typical representatives of the large-scale studio system. The reason why they have been able to develop for a long time is because the boss of the company can speak his mind. And now Xinyicheng is also moving closer to the big studio system, but the three bosses are constantly at odds, so they have no passion to work normally.

The same is true in the parallel space. In 1984 and 1985, the scale of Xinyi City grew rapidly, and the relationship between Huang, Mai and Shi also deteriorated rapidly. By 1985, the production volume of Xinyi City had greatly increased, but the three bosses seldom participated in film production. All directors such as Yu Rentai, Wu Yusen, Lin Lingdong and Xu Ke were busy. With the collapse of the trio.

Of course, there are also changes in mentality. After all, after becoming the boss of a big company, you don’t have to do everything yourself, and you have more time to work on other things, such as stock speculation, property speculation and travel.

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

Gao Zhisen silently took out a resignation letter 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 did you leave? Xinyicheng wronged you?"

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

Huang Baiming waved his hand and said, "Okay, everyone can get together and leave. I accept your letter of resignation."

After Gao Zhisen patted his **** and walked away, Huang Baiming suddenly felt unhappy facing a huge company. But Mecca and Shi Tian were both the hands-off shopkeepers. He didn't care about the company anymore, so he had no choice but to instruct his secretary, "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? Have you written it yet?" 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 watched Lin Lingdong's "Eros No. 1" and commented: "A romance film with a very cliché plot needs the ability of the director to tell the story if you want to sell it. Do you have the confidence to shoot it?"

How can Lin Lingdong be sure to sell? All he could say was, "I'll try my best."

"I believe in you, let's prepare, and the company's lower part will be filming "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 inform President Mai and President Shi about the filming of "Eros No. 1"?"

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

"Oh~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The secretary walked out with his head down, suddenly stopped and said, "Manager, today's newspaper is on the table. "

"Understood, you can go down." Huang Baiming said impatiently, picked up a newspaper and turned it over.

After watching it for only a few minutes, Huang Baiming suddenly turned to a page, and was so shocked that he almost fell under the desk. I saw that the headline of that edition was: DreamWorks, Phoenix TV carry out group reform, or will take the opportunity to go public.

DreamWorks going public? !

Huang Baiming almost thought he had read it wrong. Shaw Brothers dominated Heung Kong for so many years and never went public, and Golden Harvest broke box office records every year and never went public. DreamWorks was going to go public?

Does Kang Jianfei really want to go public?

Obviously not possible, and it would be the best time to wait a few more years to go public.

But the group reform of the company is real. This is something that Kang Jianfei has planned for several years, but it is only carried out ahead of schedule because of the blockade by the Taiwan authorities.