Dreams of the Fragrant River

In the formation of the Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (hereinafter referred to as the Oriental Group), Hong Kong ushered in the 4th Film Awards. (starter)

DreamWorks has the most nominations at this year's Academy Awards. "Love in a Fallen City" starring Xu Anhua, Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong won 6 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director; Li Xiuxian's "Public Servant" won Best Actor, 5 nominations including Best Supporting Actor; and "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" directed by McDonald Bear is even more powerful, winning 9 awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Newcomer, and Best Screenwriter nominate.

On the contrary, although Kang Jianfei's film sold wildly at the box office, the judges of the Academy Awards gave no face at all, and they didn't even have a nomination. Also, nonsensical grass-roots comedies like "The Holy Gambler" and "The Saint of Love", it is enough to be amused and earn money, but there is really no comparison with connotative films such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers".

On the other hand, "The Terminator" invested by Kang Jianfei, although it did not win the Oscar, swept three trophies at last year's Saturn Awards (Science Fiction Film Awards).

The decoration of the third administrative building of Tseung Kwan O Film Studio was completed, and the video tape company managed by Ye Zhiming officially moved in, and merged with the distribution departments of DreamWorks and Pop Records to become the Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company.

Although Ye Zhiming is still the general manager of this company, he finds it a little boring. He wants to specialize in the videotape business and monopolize the videotape business in Hong Kong in the future. However, the news that Kang Jianfei is a major shareholder of the company has long been known, coupled with the ban by the Taiwan authorities, the video company's business has plummeted, and its development prospects are extremely poor.

Ye Zhiming is a strange person who does not want to be subservient to others. In another time and space, this person has a lot of ups and downs in the shopping mall. When he developed, he had billions of property. He would win or lose millions in Pai Gow, but in the end he saw through the world and became a monk.

Now he has become the general manager of Kang Jianfei's company. Ye Zhiming can only continue to work in this position, just waiting for one day to see business opportunities and make a comeback again.

In the first two days of the awards ceremony, Kang Jianfei found Ye Zhiming who had just moved into the No. 3 administrative building: "Old Ye. I heard that you built a resort on Qiaozui Island?"

"I thought you were looking for me to talk about the company," Ye Zhiming shook his head with a wry smile. "Don't mention the Qiaozui Island Resort, I'm still in debt for it."

Sharp Island is an offshore island belonging to the New Territories. If people in the urban area of ​​Hong Kong Island want to go to Sharp Island, they can either rent a boat and go directly by sea, or cross the sea and go to Kowloon to Sai Kung and then take a fishing boat. It is outrageously remote. I don't know how many times more troublesome than going to Macau.

Before the housing bubble burst. Ye Zhiming, whose jeans empire collapsed and the film company changed hands, raised tens of millions and prepared to make a desperate attempt to develop the Qiaozui Island Resort. The result can be imagined, Ye Zhiming still owes a lot of debts, and as for the resort on Qiaozui Island, it was only half-built and then stopped and abandoned.

In the original time and space. Ye Zhiming will sell this resort with an investment of 10 million in two years. The price is astonishing...650,000.

Kang Jianfei said: "I know that you are not willing to help others manage the company. It is not the original intention of you and me to cooperate with the company. We are the same kind of people, so we will not beat around the bush. Either I will buy the resort to help you pay off the debt, and You can help me manage the distribution company with peace of mind, or I will pay to buy back the shares in your hands, and you will use the money to find another future."

Ye Zhiming didn't expect Kang Jianfei to speak so directly, it really made it difficult for him to choose. He can't predict now that he will make a comeback in the future. He has no confidence in the future, but he is used to being a boss and is really not used to helping people work, although his salary is higher than that of many small bosses.

After thinking about it, Ye Zhiming succumbed to reality and said, "I choose the first one. How much do you want to spend to buy the Qiaozui Island Resort?"

"What do you think?" Kang Jianfei asked back.

Ye Zhiming said: "I invested more than 12 million yuan in the Qiaozui Island Resort. Now the real estate industry in Hong Kong is picking up. How about selling it to you for 5 million yuan?"

Kang Jianfei was noncommittal, but asked, "How much do you still owe?"

"It's still seven, seven, eight, eight, and three or four million is still owed." Ye Zhiming said easily, he didn't take a few million seriously at all.

"Yes, just 5 million." Kang Jianfei agreed.

Ye Zhiming glanced at Kang Jianfei approvingly, let alone selling 5 million of his resort, even if it only sold 500,000, no one was willing to take over. Ye Zhiming has clear grievances and grievances. Since Kang Jianfei is so generous, he will naturally go all out to help Kang Jianfei manage the publishing company.

Kang Jianfei has never done business at a loss. Although Qiaozui Island has little investment value within five years, it has beautiful scenery and is far away from the city. Building a resort in the 1990s will definitely make money.

In fact, Kang Jianfei didn't want to make much money. He wanted to spend some more money to buy the entire Qiaozui Island, build a few mansions on the basis of the original resort, and buy a yacht to travel between Hong Kong Island and Qiaozui Island. Think of Qiaozui Island as your comfort zone for self-cultivation and relaxation.

After Kang Jianfei spent money to build the Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, and bought buildings and land, there were still more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars in the bank that were useless, and it really didn't cost much to buy the entire Qiaozui Island.

After calming Ye Zhiming's heart, Kang Jianfei began to think about doing comics again.

Now Japanese comics have flooded into Hong Kong. Robot cats, Dragon Balls, etc. are very popular in Hong Kong, but they can't talk about occupying the market. In Hong Kong today, Hong Kong comics are still the mainstream of the market. "Dragon Tiger Gate", "Bruce Bruce" and "Chinese Hero" are the most popular comics in Hong Kong.

A few years ago, when Huang Yulang was proud of the spring breeze, the Yulang International he founded dominated the arena, and he generously paid Ni Jiaang to his new magazine to make his name famous.

Just last year, Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei withdrew from Yulang International, and the latter two set up their own business. Now they have formed a three-point world. Of course, Huang Yulang's Yulang International still occupies the vast majority of the market share. Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei Brothers Alliance Wu Kangcao are very reluctant to hold on.

Yulang International is planning to go public, and Huang Yulang will never sell it. If Kang Jianfei wants to enter the comics industry now, he can only choose to invest in Shangguan Xiaobao's 82 Painting Club, or Shangguan Xiaowei's Xiaowei Publishing House.

It is easy to make a choice between the two Shangguan brothers. The Eighty Two Paintings Club mainly publishes kung fu comics such as "Bruce Bruce" and "Fang Shiyu", while the Serena Publishing House mainly focuses on horror comics such as "Blurry World". The audience of the latter is It's too narrow.

However, Kang Jianfei's idea was to buy all the Eighty Two Paintings Club and Xiaowei Publishing House. He then brought in the cartoonist Shangguan Xiaolong, relying on the gimmick of the three Shangguan brothers getting together, and cooperating with the release of the comic version of "The Misty Journey" to resist Yulang International's "Chinese Heroes" and "Dragon Tiger Gate".

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An office building on Jia Yip Street, Hong Kong Island.

Shangguan Xiaobao walked into his company whistling, and he had enough reasons to be happy about his comeback. After receiving the support of the publisher Tongde Books and Newspapers and the printer Yousheng Printing Company, Shangguan Xiaobao finally re-established the 82 Painting Club and took back the copyright of "Bruce Bruce" from Yulang International.

"Boss, the most recent issue of "Bruce Bruce" sold less than 20,000 copies." The assistant's words made Shangguan Xiaobao sober up from his complacency.

Shangguan Xiaobao asked, "What about "Chinese Hero" and "Dragon Tiger Gate"?"

The assistant followed Shangguan Xiaobao from Yulang International. He was well informed by Yulang International and reported: "The sales of "Chinese Heroes" exceeded 40,000 copies, and the sales of "Dragon Tiger Gate" were close to 40,000."

Ten years ago, "Dragon Tiger Gate" sold a full 100,000 copies, and "Bruce Bruce" sold more than 80,000 copies. It's a pity that after the Hong Kong government investigated and purged the comics industry, Hong Kong Manga was in a state of collapse, and its sales were directly reduced by half. In addition, the Japanese manga eroded the market a little bit, and Hong Kong Manga's sales were even less.

All other comics are published in pictorial newspapers. Only the three series of comics, "Chinese Hero", "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Bruce", are the most famous. They are published independently from the doll newspaper and are sold as a 34-page full-color weekly magazine. The price of each copy is 8 yuan (at this time, the uniform price of Hong Kong newspapers is 1 yuan).

"Bruce Bruce" is Shangguan Xiaobao's representative work, and it is also the signature of the eight-two painting club. The lower and lower sales are really a headache for Shangguan Xiaobao.

But no matter how much headache you have, you have to edit the comics well, otherwise eating will become a problem, so Shangguan Xiaobao plunged into the studio.

After Yulang International unified the port a few years ago, Huang Yulang carried out a pipeline reform on the creation of comics. He established departments necessary for the publishing industry such as printing, color separation, character planting, and binding, and built new printing machines and color separation machines to greatly improve the printing quality of comic books; in order to expand the company's production capacity, Huang Yulang The production of comics is divided into drafting (drawing the composition), hooking (drawing the head of the character), turning the body (drawing the body of the character), filling the head (only responsible for the hair of the character) and other steps, each step has Different painters are in charge.

Shangguan Xiaobao stayed in Yulang International for a few years, and learned this kind of assembly line. Although his 82 painting club is small, it is relatively formal in the production of comics.

Including Shangguan Xiaobao ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, there are a total of six people in the painting club, and they start to create every day.

"Dong Dong Dong!"

"Come in!" Shangguan Xiaobao didn't lift his head, and the brush in his hand didn't stop.

The assistant said, "Boss, a Mr. Zeng called you and said that it was on behalf of Mr. Kang Jianfei that he invited you to dinner."

Shangguan Xiaobao raised his head abruptly, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and asked in surprise, "Who do you think invited me to dinner?"

The assistant repeated: "Mr. Kang Jianfei Kang, I will invite you to eat at Fulinmen tomorrow at seven o'clock."

"What is Kang Jianfei looking for from me?" Shangguan Xiaobao was confused, he didn't have the slightest intersection with Kang Jianfei, and he really couldn't figure out why the other party was looking for him.

Is DreamWorks going to make the comic "Bruce Lee" into a movie?

Thinking of this, Shangguan Xiaobao can't wait to rush to Fulinmen Restaurant to wait early.