You don't understand the happiness of the director

Zou Wenhuai has two sons and one daughter. Two of the sons are illegitimate children with the female writer Wu Shufang. They are not engaged in film and television related industries. The elder brother works as a civil engineer in the United States, and the younger brother owns a number of large medical clinics in Hong Kong.

As for Zou Zhongheng, the "Princess Jiahe" born to him and his first wife, he has a master's degree in film from Stanford University in the United States. His son-in-law Chen Yingming once played the leading role in Chen Guo's movie "Hollywood in Hong Kong".

However, these two couples are not particularly capable management talents. When Zou Zhongheng was in charge of Jiahe, the company's market value reached its lowest point after listing. She herself did not have the confidence to clean up Jiahe, so she simply sold it and took the money. You can do something else.

Accompanying Zou Wenhuai at this time were the daughter and son-in-law, who were all smiles for Wang Quan, the big benefactor.

Wang Quan is surrounded by mostly women, including his financial housekeeper Wendy, his assistant Anna, and Shi Nansheng, the newly recruited general manager for Jiahe.

When the two parties met, Zou Wenhuai smiled and shook hands with Shi Nansheng, and said with emotion, "We will work together in the next three months."

"Zou Sheng, please give me some advice." Shi Nansheng smiled.

Zou Wenhuai promised that he would continue to serve as a consultant to Jiahe for the next three months to help the new team make a smooth transition.

After entering the company, the first thing you see is a dense collection of movie posters, which are arranged in chronological order.

Golden Harvest was founded in 1970. Starting from "The One-Armed Swordsman vs. the Blind Man" released in 1971 and ending with "Lucky Man" in 2003, Golden Harvest produced and invested in more than 600 films in more than 30 years, and its film library has countless classics. , after 2003, I just did some movie financing and barely made ends meet.

Wang Quan slowed down and reviewed the classics with Zou Wenhuai and Shi Nansheng.

The most eye-catching movie of 1971 must be "Brother Sugar Mountain".

In 1972, "Fist of Fury" and "Way of the Dragon" were released one after another, and Bruce Lee's career reached its peak.

But it was too short-lived. Bruce Lee passed away in 1973, and Jiahe also fell into a brief trough.

Fortunately, in 1974, Xu Guanwen came out. This former king of comedy turned out to be a comedy actor. He wrote, directed, and acted. He brought his younger brothers Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie to produce "Double Star", which broke the box office record in Hong Kong film history in one fell swoop.

It was followed by "Geniuses and Idiots" in 1975, "Half a Thousand Years" in 1976, "The Pledge of Allegiance" in 1978, and "Modern Bodyguard" in 1981. If you don't make a move, it will be Hong Kong's annual box office champion, "The Ghost Horse". , "Half a Category" and "Modern Bodyguard" have broken the box office record in Hong Kong film history three times.

It's just that Xu Guanwen made films too slowly and was used to working slowly and meticulously. In that era, it was normal to direct several films a year, but he would only produce one every year or two, and even one in the next three years.

Comedy may be like this, eating inspiration, the laughter needs to be polished over and over again.

Fortunately, Golden Harvest discovered two kung fu superstars at this time, who are both capable of acting and directing.

First of all, Hong Jinbao, who had a brilliant performance in "Sande Monk and Chum Liu" in 1977. Before that, he was already a well-known action director in the industry and had a lot of brothers.

Then came 1978. Cheng Long, who had been wasting many years, finally found the right way to perform. Within a year, he produced works such as "Drunken Master", "The Boxer" and "Snake Shape", and his style gradually took shape.

Of course, only the least famous "Boxer" among them is from Jiahe, and the rest are from Siyuan Pictures. At that time, Cheng Long was still caught by Luo Wei, and was borrowed by Wu Siyuan to make two hits. Movie.

By 1980, Cheng Long finally got rid of Luo Wei and made another annual box office champion for Golden Harvest, "The Young Master", which not only broke the box office record in Hong Kong film history, but also became popular in Asia with this film.

Many of the posters in the back are childhood memories, including "The Prodigal Son" by Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao in 1981.

In 1982, Cheng Long's "Master Long" and Yuan Heping's "Qi Men Dun Jia" were released.

"Plan A" and "Five Lucky Stars" in 1983.

Since Hong Jinbao and Zhong Chuhong's "The Scary Man" in 1982, the fantasy kung fu movies he pioneered have also become a beautiful sight in Jiahe's film library.

There was "Man Scares Ghosts" in 1984, "Mr. Zombie" in 1985, "Zombie Family" in 1986, and "Yimei Taoist" in 1989.

However, after entering the 1990s, bottomless following the trend and shoddy production almost destroyed the zombie genre. Even Uncle Ying no longer performed well. He originally wanted to film "Mr. Zombie 2", but due to cancer, it was too late in 1997. passed away.

With the introduction of the Hong Kong film classification system in 1988, many three-episode films emerged in Jiahe during this period.

Such as "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", "Yu Futon", "Female Robot", "Lamp Grass Monk", "Red Fruit Lamb", etc.

During this period, Jiahe no longer had the momentum to be number one in the world. Although Xinyi City was ruined by itself, there were also rising stars such as Media Asia, Yongsheng, and Yinghuang.

Originally, Jiahe had a chance to grab another life-saving straw, Zhou Xingchi.

Zhou's early films such as "Lucky Star", "The Gambler" and "Fist of Fury 1991" were all produced by Golden Harvest, but later Zhou Xingchi joined the Yongsheng family after leaving Li Xiuxian, and became a cash cow for the Xiang brothers.

Later, Wang Quan saw the poster of the Once Upon a Time series again. He looked at Shi Nansheng and smiled, "Your husband's works, and there are many of them."

In the 1990s, Xu Ke also cooperated with Jiahe. Large companies could help him get money, and they had the ability to distribute their products throughout Asia. Jiahe could even sell them to Europe and the United States.

In fact, Xu Ke had hooked up with Jiahe as early as the New Art City period. The "New Shushan Swordsman" in 1983 was shot by him for Jiahe while he was in New Art City. Who made Mai Jia die and not cast for him? Money shoots Xianxia.

Moreover, Mr. Xu felt that Boss Zou was a very nice person and he was not angry even after losing so much money, so he later started a long-term cooperation.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, Golden Harvest was still able to win the annual championship with "Red Zone", "Police Story" series, and "The King of Storms". During this period, there was another series that became famous, which was the "Young and Dangerous" series. Produced by Jiahe.

At this time, Golden Harvest is still strong, but this strength is only for Xiangjiang movies themselves. Looking at the world, Xiangjiang movies have fallen behind, and the Xiangjiang movie market has almost lost its glory.

In 1993, "Jurassic Park" came out, and the box office championship in film history, which had been held by local films for decades, was once again won by a Western film after "The Sound of Music" in 1965.

Later in 1997, "Titanic" broke this record again, reaching an unprecedented HK$115 million in small Hong Kong. Hong Kong filmmakers were no longer able to fight back.

Since then, the share of Hong Kong films in the local market has plummeted. In 1998, there were only three Hong Kong films in the top ten box office.

The annual box office championship in 1999 was actually won by the neon movie "The Ring".

Entering the 21st century, only "Shaolin Football", "Infernal Affairs" and "Kung Fu" can be regarded as the last afterglow of Hong Kong films, but these films have nothing to do with Golden Harvest.

After the new millennium, after Cheng Long's 2001 "The Lost City", which was a huge hit, Jiahe, which had emptied its fortune, was in a state of collapse.

Looking at this poster of Cheng Long and Xu Ruoxuan, Zou Wenhuai sighed. He kindly reminded Wang Quan, "If Xu Ke asks you to make a large-scale production worth hundreds of millions, you must be cautious and cautious again. Such a big investment can be done once." It can make you breathless."

Wang Quan looked at Shi Nansheng, who laughed, "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm definitely on your side, boss."

Fortunately, Zou Wenhuai only voted for "The Lost City of Secret Agents". If he had also voted for Xuke's 01 version of "The Legend of Shushan", Jiahe would probably not even have any scum left.

Wang Quan nodded, "Big productions do involve big risks, so I will definitely do this kind of movie myself first."

Zou Wenhuai was curious, "Oh, do you already have an idea?"

Wang Quan nodded, "We will start preparations this year, but not in Xiangjiang, but in the United States. The market in Xiangjiang cannot tolerate large investments at all."

Zou Wenhuai nodded, "Yes, my biggest regret is that the mainland market opened too late. If it had been earlier, we could have developed the mainland box office market in advance."

Since 2004, the mainland's total box office has surpassed that of Xiangjiang. Last year, in 2006, the total box office of 2.6 billion almost doubled that of Xiangjiang. Such a growth rate makes him, a filmmaker, greedy, but at this time he There is no way back.

If the mainland opens up to Hong Kong early, Hong Kong films can at least gain a glimmer of hope in the mainland by relying on the intimacy of the same origin as Hollywood has conquered the world, causing Hong Kong films to lose ground in the Asian market.

He thought well. In the future, the survival of Hong Kong films will depend on the mainland market. The mainland market is so big that any small share can support the Hong Kong film industry. One film, "Fury: Serious Case", has a box office of 1.3 billion in the mainland. It can almost catch up with Xiangjiang's total box office that year.

"But Mr. Wang, how much investment do you mean by big investment?" Zou Wenhuai's daughter Zou Zhongheng couldn't help but ask.

Wang Quan didn't mind either, and estimated, "Probably not less than 150 million."

"Wow, it's really a big deal." Zou Zhongheng sighed, but what he thought in his heart was that it's not as good as the 210 million in "The Secret Agent". It's so petty.

However, Zou Wenhuai was surprised because the book investment in Wang Quan's previous film "Twilight" was more than 150 million Hong Kong dollars, so...

"Sheng Wang, are you talking about U.S. dollars?"

Wang Quan, "When filming in the United States, of course the money is US dollars."

"hiss!"

At this time, Zou Wenhuai, his daughter, Weng and his son-in-law, and even Shi Nansheng took a breath of cold air. It exceeded 1 billion Hong Kong dollars. Is it such a big deal!

Is Longtou really still just a small company? !

After seeing these movie posters, Wang Quan, led by Zou Wenhuai, met several of the surviving founders and part of the company's management team.

At first, Zou Wenhuai took away capable men such as He Guanchang and Cai Yongchang from Shaw Brothers. However, Zou Wenhuai's right-hand man and Cheng Long's godfather He Guanchang passed away in 1997. His departure was also a major blow to Jiahe.

Cai Yongchang is Zou Wenhuai's cousin and rarely appears in public. Now that Jiahe has changed hands, he also came to say his final goodbyes.

There are also Liang Feng, Chen Ziqiang and others, the youngest of whom are over sixty years old.

Chen Ziqiang is known as a superstar promoter and gold medal manager. He has been Cheng Long's military advisor for a long time. He is known as father and daughter to Zhang Manyu and Zhong Chuhong. However, Cheng Long is now very close to Yinghuang, which makes the old man very sad and drags Wang Quan to nag him. A long time.

Wang Quan chatted with these uncles for a while and took the initiative to take photos, which was regarded as the handover of one era to another.

From then on, holding the royal power of a listed company can also be called a film industry tycoon.

The last step was to take Wang Quan to see Jiahe's film library. There are copies of all Jiahe's films. Of course, there are also some that are lost or damaged and eventually became out-of-print.

Wang Quan feels that the top priority is to digitize first, and then select the best ones for high-definition processing.

This was the first thing Shi Nansheng did after he came to power, to preserve these precious video resources, especially masterpieces such as "Jade Pop Group" and "Liao Zhai Yan Tan".

The second thing is to develop movie theaters and improve theater chains. This requires colleagues from Dawang Cinemas to come and help.

After being acquired by Wangdao, Jiahe is still Jiahe, but the theater chain under Jiahe will be renamed Wangdao Jiahe. It must first expand the scale of theaters in the mainland. At that time, existing theaters can be used to mortgage loans for development. Wangquan now has no extra money.

At this stage, theaters are being built in the Mainland, and with the help of the dividends from the rising box office period, it will take less than two years to make back the investment.

The third thing that belongs to the royal power is to select a few films from this rich film library and bring them to the United States for adaptation, thereby boosting the stock price.

Next, he will probably have to spend time in the "film and television library".

As for Jiahe's production business, there is no rush now. It will not be too late to wait until he returns to China completely.

But the distribution business can be developed. At least the films produced by Long Toutou will no longer have to be handled by others in Hong Kong. Even the Southeast Asian market can be handed over to Golden Harvest.

Now "Insidious" has accumulated a total of 28 million U.S. dollars in North American box office in two weeks. It is a dark horse, and it is the work of a Hong Kong director like Yu Rentai, and it is also written by Wang Quan. It has already triggered a lot of discussion in Hong Kong.

Wang Quan discussed with Dorothy and planned to gradually introduce Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries in early April, leaving everything to Jiahe.

This was also the first tough battle after Jiahe changed ownership, and we won. There will be "Twilight" in the future, and maybe it can be introduced at the same time.

That night, Wang Quan posted a photo of himself, Zou Wenhuai, Shi Nansheng and others in front of the Golden Harvest poster wall on his blog. In addition, he also attached high-definition posters of many classic Hong Kong movies, which greatly attracted a wave of attention from those who are passionate about Hong Kong movies. .

In order to prevent Wendy from being exposed, she was not allowed to appear on the scene this time.

This blog mainly talks about three points.

One, Jiahe is mine from now on.

Second, Shi Nansheng was hired to take charge of Jiahe.

Third, we firmly believe that Jiahe will be reborn from the ashes.

Liu Yifei didn't grab the sofa this time, so she could only shout with everyone: Boss is awesome!

At this time, she and her mother had returned to the capital, and Yang Mi had also returned. Once, they met. Liu Yifei saw Yang Mi holding a small yellow dog and said it was a gift from her brother Quan.

Liu Yifei was sour at that time, thinking about how to hint to Wang Quan to give her one. It doesn’t have to be a dog, a cat can also be used~

At this time, Wang Quan was watching a movie through the movie library in the hotel, and then he received a call from Yang Mi.

After the call was connected, Yang Mi said in a bad tone, "It's okay, I just want to see if your ringtone has been changed~"

Wang Quan rolled his eyes and suddenly realized, "Oh, I forgot, I will change it to "Once Upon a Time". How are the sales of Fairy Tale Town now?"

Yang Mi's tone became even worse, "It's not bad, it's ranked 28th on the download list."

If Wang Quan remembers correctly, Liu Yifei still has three songs in the top 20 download charts~

(I guess someone is going to say this chapter is bad again. Let’s just say it’s bad. I spent several hours researching it and wrote it. I love it. In addition, do you think there are any Hong Kong films suitable for adaptation into foreign films~)