From Xiangjiang Martial Arts in the 70s

Chapter 102 Business Operations
That day, Wu Changyun was busy in the office dealing with interviews with various reporters. Half an hour ago, the tea Zhao Yazhi poured for him was completely cold now, and the breakfast Wu Mengtao brought him.

Now both of them are on the shooting scene, very busy.

Half a year has passed since the last TVB director mentor, and now it is the sprint stage for major companies to go all out for the Lunar New Year file.

Qi Ji Film Company also officially opened at this time, without any fireworks and ribbon cutting, and only internal employees knew about the official opening.

The hole cards of Wu Changyun's company include: Zhao Yazhi, Zhou Runfa, Wu Mengyu, Du Qifeng, Huang Zhengli.

The other two were strongly recommended by Wu Changyun. Du Qifeng brought Zeng Jiang and Xu Shaoxiong from TVB. Zeng Jiang is an old man, and Xu Shaoxiong is a student of the first phase of the artist training class. Both of them are gold medals in Wu Changyun's eyes supporting role.

In order to film "The True Colors of a Hero", Wu Changyun deliberately found Leslie Cheung who had just returned to China. The other party's father was in the hospital, but luckily nothing serious happened now.

Inviting Zhang Guorong really took Wu Changyun a lot of effort, because the purpose of the other party's return to China was to visit a doctor, and the family was not short of money. Zhang Guorong's father was a tailor, but not an ordinary tailor.

Hitchcock, who is the godfather of movies, has come to Hong Kong to patronize the tailor shop of Zhang Guorong's father. A director who is famous all over the world in later generations, returned to a tailor shop in Hong Kong across the sea. Just thinking about it is like a novel. Only the plot.

"Xiao Wu, what do you want to eat for lunch?"

"Grandma can just figure it out." Wu Changyun shouted.

"Then eat wontons and buy some roast duck."

The person who spoke was Wen Jing's grandmother. After that incident, Wen Jing disappeared for a long time. After her mother was discharged from the hospital, she took care of her rental business, so she had a place to live.

Considering that the income from renting out the house alone might not be enough to support the two of them, Wu Changyun took his grandma to the company and asked her to help cook in the back kitchen.

In this way, Wu Changyun is also relieved, he doesn't believe that someone will poison or something, after all, if the food is not good, it may cause the actors to have stomach problems during filming.

Wu Changyun didn't go to the shooting scene today, mainly because he had to deal with media interviews.

It has been 75 years now, his movies are considered outdated, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune, but he can always be involved in various topics, this time it is because of Yuan Aijia.

He and Yuan Aijia had been in a romantic relationship in the news for a long time, and the relationship between the two is still very good, but Yuan Aijia has made a big move recently. She and the Great Wall Company jointly built a movie theater near the Pearl River.

It is reported that it is currently the most luxurious movie theater in Hong Kong, and it has also acquired seven nearby movie theaters to form a fast-encircling theater chain. There is an advantage for him to do so.

That is, Yuan Aijia has the final say on what movies the nearby audience want to see. It may sound a little closed, but the fundamental meaning is that in this way, she has the reliance to negotiate with other film companies.

For example, Golden Harvest has [-] theaters in the west, but the theaters in the east are all monopolized by another one. If Golden Harvest wants to occupy the eastern market, it needs to release the broadcasting rights of its own movies. Similarly, the other party will release the movies in west.

Hong Kong is not very big. The main reason for this is the inconvenient transportation, and on the other hand, the lack of information circulation.

In the 21st century, every family has a car, everyone can access the Internet, and if they live in the east, they can drive to the west to watch movies.

It is not enough to look at this matter from the perspective of the 21st century. This is what Wu Changyun has only recently realized. Some seemingly naive issues are indeed the most important points that the company needs to pay attention to now.

At present, Wu Changyun still does not have his own theater chain. If his movies want to be released online, they need to be released in the theater chains of major film companies. Among them, the most friendly ones are Zhengke and Great Wall. Compared with him, these two close.

As for the two companies, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, they offered Wu Changyun 50% of the box office revenue.

Thinking of this, Wu Changyun sighed. According to the box office performance of his works in Hong Kong, he should not have received 50% of the box office. His works are good enough to bring competitiveness to the theaters.

But the current situation is that Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers seem to have negotiated, and their caliber is very unified.

Needless to say, it is naturally impossible for the Shaw Brothers to lend Ti Lung out so that Wu Changyun can gather the original team.

For this reason, Wu Changyun went to Ren Dahua, believing that Xin Dahua should be able to be promoted to the helpless and sad brother Congliang, but when all the actors were drawn, Wu Changyun discovered a problem.

Leslie Cheung was fine, he was originally a very young character in the play.

Zhou Runfa can also use makeup to make up for it, but Ren Dahua, who is just 20 years old this year, can't cover it up at all. Wu Changyun's evaluation of him is: "It looks more than domineering, and the temperament is in line, but it is too young."

Among all the actors, Zeng Jiang is the oldest, but the problem is that Zeng Jiang is not decent enough.

"Wu Changyun, I'm coming in." Outside the door was Zhou Huiting. Wu Changyun had promised to give her a better job before, and now Wu Changyun fulfilled his promise.

"This is the expenditure for last week's shooting." Zhou Huiting handed a report to Wu Changyun.

When compiling the report, Zhou Huiting once wondered if there was an extra zero in those bills, because the numbers on the report were really astonishing.

Before the filming started, they had already used up one-fifth of the budget, which did not include the salaries for the actors and the production team, and the salaries would not be settled until the filming was completed.

Wu Changyun glanced at the report and put it back on the desktop calmly. What he was most worried about was that he could not get the permission of the shooting location. This time the movie was shot in a port, so he needed to apply to the government.

"Wu Changyun, if this goes on like this, our company will run out of money after the movie is finished."

Zhou Huiting couldn't help but remind Wu Changyun that she was not worried about losing the job she just got, but mainly felt distressed.

Watching a very exaggerated number decrease every day, and the money is enough for an ordinary person to live a lifetime.

"Well, I know, if there is no money in the account, I will continue to invest."

Wu Changyun signed the statement and stated that he had no objection to the accounts. At present, the company has not attracted any investors and is entirely supported by Wu Changyun's funds.

"Huh?" Zhou Huiting was a little surprised, but she never asked Wu Changyun how he developed to his current net worth in less than three years.

"Are you sure? If we keep working hard like this, there will be good results?"

Hearing Zhou Huiting's words, Wu Changyun couldn't help but laugh. Unexpectedly, Zhou Huiting, who was so courageous, would ask such a question to herself.

"Speaking of which, it's not like your style."

"Hmph, I don't know good from bad."

Zhou Huiting turned around and slammed the door, and left the office.

(End of this chapter)