I haven't been a boss for many years

Then the benevolent see benevolence, the wise see wisdom, and each takes what he needs.

At present, Hong Kong has not promulgated the "Film Censorship Regulations" Chapter 392 of the Hong Kong Island Law. It has not adopted a classification system for violent aesthetic films such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", and has not restricted the audience. Therefore, film companies instinctively tend to be more explosive. Weird and gimmicky movie themes, such as crime, murder, fantasy, etc.

Shao Yifu really likes "Province and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" very much, especially the speeding scene in "Province and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", which is both exciting and explosive, and it is an enhanced visual experience.

Film is, after all, a visual art.

Justin Shao sighed: "It is unrealistic to open up the artist library for free, but I can promise you that as long as the film you shoot is released on Shaw Brothers, Shaw Brothers will use artists for you for free. If the film you shoot is not drawn on Shaw Brothers, the commission A [-]% cut of the artist's remuneration, the money is said to be drawn from the artist, but in fact it is still drawn from you."

Yifu Shao showed shrewdness in his eyes: "Unless you don't want to cooperate with Shaw Brothers artists anymore."

"Haha, Mr. Shao was joking. Shaw's artists have outstanding professional skills and are famous. I'm making a movie in Xiangjiang, so why not use Shaw's artists?"

"However, I am very satisfied that Mr. Shao can make concessions in the contract. Thank you, Mr. Shao." Zhang Guobin stretched out his hand.

Shao Yifu clasped his hands together.

As soon as the two shook hands, they separated immediately, and the cooperation was reached.

"Chu Yuan, go and print out the contract." Yifu Shao said to a director of the Shaw Brothers who was watching the sample at the same time.

"Yes, Shao Sheng." Chu Yuan immediately left to prepare the contract. Half an hour later, Zhang Guobin and Shao Yifu signed the contract in the office. They shook hands and thanked each other. Shao Yifu sent Chu Yuan to send Zhang Guobin away. Chu Yuan personally asked Zhang Guobin for his contact information, and praised Mr. Zhang for making movies with personality, and works with personality are the most soulful and the easiest to sell.

This time, Da Bohao did not express any dissatisfaction with Shao Yifu after watching Zhang Guobin and Shao Yifu discuss business, because he vaguely felt that Brother Bin seemed to have made money?

Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest started the pumping mode when the suppression was ineffective, and the opening of the resource bank to Zhang Guobin was actually to hope that DreamWorks would produce more blockbuster movies, and the two theaters would draw more blood. As everyone knows, a movie giant About to be fed step by step.

end of June.

Christmas.

The Xiangjiang River is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the streets are noisy and lively.

On this day, the shops on Tung Choi Street and Fa Yuen Street were full of people, and many sneakers, clothing, and bags were sold out of stock. On this day, Yau Ma Tei nightclubs, sauna rooms, bathrooms, and gambling stalls were full of VIPs. With an income of more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars, "Happy Ghost" was screened at Golden Harvest Cinemas on this day...

At the gate of the Mong Kok theater, at the ticket office, there is a long queue like a dragon, citizens with their families, couples in love, and classmates who are dating out of the street line up along the stairs, with scalpers on both sides of the stairs The bad boy of the ticket, the "Happy Ghost" series became popular as soon as it was painted. Whether it is the movie plot, actors, or the atmosphere of watching movies, it suits the appetite of Hong Kong citizens.The theater of laughing heartily is the environment for picking up girls next to horror movies. The inadvertent shoulder hugs and hand holding between laughter make everything seem unreasonable and acceptable.

The family carnival route of "Happy Ghost" was a great success, and after the movie ended, some funny NG scenes during filming were cut into a collection and put at the end of the film. The picture, the children looked at it happily, and the parents also looked at it happily.It is said that some idiots bought more than a dozen movie tickets repeatedly just to see the NG scene of Li Lizhen's one-piece swimsuit and waited until the movie was over before entering.

February 81th, 2, New Year's Eve.

"Provincial and Hong Kong Banner Soldiers" was drawn online in Shaw Cinemas with sufficient publicity.

"Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" relied on crime themes that reflected social hotspots, coupled with the popular speeding scenes, defeated many martial arts and comedies that were released in the same period, and won 1000 million 30 box office within a one-month schedule. Ten million box office threshold. "Happy Ghost" won a box office of 1400 million in a period of more than a month, with a total of 430 million box office, accounting for one-third of the total box office of Xiangjiang in the opening year.

In addition, since the release time of "The Banners of Hong Kong" and "Happy Ghost" is only a little over a month apart, there were a few short days in which the paintings were hung at the same time, which led to an obvious phenomenon at the box office of the theater. "The audience usually bought one or two, two or three tickets, but the citizens who bought "Happy Ghost" bought five or six, seven or eight tickets at a time. It can be seen that two good films with different themes are released, and the whole family Where is the advantage of comedy?

It is foreseeable that the box office of "Happy Ghost" is higher than that of "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers".

Zhang Guobin was not surprised at all.

The respective box office of the two movies has reached and exceeded Boss Zhang's expectations. Although the box office of the original film is the benchmark, after all, factors of the times and inflation must be considered...

Boss Zhang said he was very happy.

In the beginning of 81 years,

Xiangjiang Film Circle,

A heavyweight climbed to the top of the mountain,

Worth opening a bottle of Lafite.

Chapter 79/80 1981

Sorry, I can't drive the 82-year Lafite, only the 78-year-old...

Zhang Guobin may consider hoarding a batch of 82 Lafite.

same year.

The Xiangjiang movie world is even more chaotic.

The two movies of Prince Bin became popular, and they pocketed 1000, 46 million.

Is anyone in the Xiangjiang Club envious?"Yongsheng" under Xinji, "Changhui" of Number Gang, "Agni" of Shenghe... more than a dozen film companies with community backgrounds began to use all kinds of tough methods to hire stars/directors to make films. Movies, and then use the box office appeal of stars/directors to defraud the box office of the movie market.

They can't be the second "Prince Brother", but they can be villains who destroy the market and make bad money!

……

"Crack!" Huang Zhiming slapped a copy of "Film Biweekly" on the table, lowered his head, lit a cigarette, and cursed loudly: "Mother Dio Lei, a rotten red stick from an association, finally started to look like a dog." Pretend to be gentle."

"What do movie magazines call him?"

"The prince of the film industry!" Huang Zhiming breathed out with the strength of alcohol, "The prince of the film industry? Could it be that he can still be the emperor of the film industry?"

If it weren't for the effect of alcohol to stimulate consciousness, Huang Zhiming would never show his fear of Zhang Guobin in front of his subordinates, but Zhang Guobin finally started to walk on the road that Huang Zhiming feared most. Du Zhenghui, Li Liyong and other police officers gathered around the meal to drink Having dinner, drinking beer, with a silent expression.

Zhang Guobin, the cover character of the first issue of "Film Biweekly" in 1981.

In the first six months since his debut, he has produced three films with a box office of tens of millions. "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Happy Ghost" all set off a movie-watching frenzy.

Founded Universal DreamWorks Film Company, broke through the dilemma of the Hong Kong film industry in the late 70s, successfully jumped out of the quagmire of kung fu movies, and brought a new wave of Hong Kong film...

"Movie Biweekly" gave Zhang Guobin's films a high rating, and the company gave him a very high evaluation. At the end of the article, he was called the prince of the film industry. I don't know if he was alluding to Zhang Guobin's club status or touting Zhang Guobin's film potential. There are many ways!Huang Zhiming obviously read all the reports about Zhang Guobin.

Du Zhenghui was wearing a white shirt, put down his wine glass, and yelled: "Fuck the prince of the film industry, he is a scumbag, he will be arrested and imprisoned sooner or later!"

"By the way, is there any news from Sir Zhong of the Commercial Crime Investigation Division?" Huang Zhiming asked suddenly.

Du Zhenghui shook his head: "Nothing."

"Sir Zhong investigated the accounts of Prince Bin's two films and found no major problems, but Sir Zhong reassures you that he will always keep an eye on the operation of Universal DreamWorks."

"There are also those two factories and shops."

Huang Zhiming nodded: "On the business side, I can only trouble Sir Zhong first."

"I don't believe that a young and Dangerous boy is doing legitimate business. He really wants to do righteous business. Dogs can't change eating shit. Maybe there is some dirty deal behind it."

"Forget it, let's have a New Year's dinner today, don't talk about business."

"Come and have a drink..."

"I wish you all a smooth and successful next year and make great achievements."

"Sir Wen from the Criminal Intelligence Division will come over later... He has handled several cases recently, and he will be promoted to inspector next year. You should learn more from him. In the future, we will need his help in handling cases..."

Huang Zhiming raised his glass.

But Du Zhenghui stood up holding his wine glass, and said in a loud voice: "May we eradicate Yihai Club next year! Get rid of Prince Bin!"

"The most important thing is safety..."

Huang Zhiming sighed.

……

In 1981, the Hong Kong Film Awards had not yet been established. Zhang Guobin was not very interested in being on the cover of "Movie Fortnightly". It is known as the predecessor of the Academy Awards, but after all, it is just a new magazine that has just been published, and its influence is general.

There was no special film magazine on Hong Kong Island before, which made the "Film Biweekly" come up with a bit of fame.

The "Film Biweekly" itself is more similar to a critical magazine, often commenting and criticizing the shortcomings of some films, but it may be due to Zhang Guobin's status as a social organization, and he used his title of "Prince of the Film Industry" to insinuate others. community background.

Zhang Guobin chuckled and made a note secretly.

……

The seventh day of the first month.

Peninsula Hotel, Ballroom.

Golden Harvest Company year-end dinner.

Zhang Guobin arrived at the entrance of the hotel in a Mercedes limousine, wearing a black suit as usual. After the greeter trotted forward and opened the door, he led Zhu Baoyi in a white dress to get out of the car slowly.

The two entered the hotel hand in hand, and immediately attracted a lot of attention as soon as they entered the banquet hall. There were familiar Zou Huaiwen, Wu Yusen, etc...

There are also Cheng Long and Sammo Hung who have never met face to face.

With a smile on his face, Zhang Guobin walked forward with Zhu Baoyi on his arm and greeted his host, Zou Huaiwen, and immediately walked among the actors and directors with a glass of wine, looking for his favorite candidates for the next movie.

Zhang Guobin already has his own heart.

That was the sole purpose of his coming to the dinner party.

……

"Mr. Zhang, I have paid attention to the "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" produced by you. There are many novel speeding action scenes in this movie."

"I'm very interested in this kind of action drama."

Two days later.

Peninsula Hotel.

Zhang Guobin and Cheng Long sat opposite each other.

Zhang Guobin picked up his coffee cup and said, "Mr. Cheng, if you are interested in speeding scenes, the new movie can tailor one for you."

"Mr. Cheng is a kung fu superstar, so he has to consider safety issues. I'm afraid no insurance company will dare to accept the order for flying the car himself. The risk is too high. It is recommended to use a substitute instead."

"I never use a double when I make movies." Cheng Long said proudly.

At least he doesn't now.

Zhang Guobin curled his lips: "Okay, then with Mr. Cheng's driving skills, he can't shoot speeding scenes for the time being. There is a compromise, you can design some action scenes during the car chase."

"Action scene in a car chase?"

Cheng Long nodded slightly, and began to build movements in his head, thinking about the picture, the more he thought about it, the more exciting it felt.

Last year, Cheng Long's "Junior and Brother" won the first [-] million box office in Hong Kong Island, and became the most popular Kung Fu star in the Hong Kong film industry.If the former Zhang Guobin went to cooperate with Cheng Long, Cheng Long might not be easily tempted. Even if he agreed, the negotiation process would be very difficult and there would be no profit.

However, Zhang Guobin now has three movies with a box office of tens of millions. To put it arrogantly, he has never made a movie with a box office of less than 1000 million!It is much easier to talk about cooperation with Cheng Long, and Cheng Long went to Hollywood to develop with the full support of Golden Harvest after filming "Junior and Brother", and filmed "Killer Trenches" in an effort to open up overseas markets, but he rushed to the street miserably. Golden Harvest's tens of millions of production costs were wasted, and Golden Harvest's vitality was seriously injured.

Right now, Cheng Long is striving to transform Kung Fu movies!

To put it bluntly, "Junior and Brother" is still an old-fashioned kung fu movie.

It's just that Cheng Long discovered his personal style,

Cause a hit.

Therefore, he was very interested in the "cops and gangster movies" Zhang Guobin talked about. The two had a chat at the Golden Harvest Dinner and they had the intention of cooperating. After two days, they sat together to plan a new movie.

This year, Zhang Guobin plans to use Cheng Long to make action movies to make money. As for the "Patriotic Line", he will use other overseas movies with low box office, high reputation, and topical movies as a bridge to build the line. After all, Cheng Long's overseas box office revenue is a big one, let alone the leftists. Theaters didn't necessarily like the earliest cop films.

Cheng Long paid great attention to the tone of his speech to Mr. Zhang,

no way.

He is afraid!

Chapter 81 Happy Chinese New Year

The tenth day of the first lunar month.

After some discussions, the production lineup of "Project A" was officially finalized.

Director: Cheng Long, starring: Cheng Long, Hong Jinbin, Yuan Kui, Zhu Baoyi.

Producer: Universal DreamWorks.

Production team: Universal DreamWorks, Cheng Jiaban, Hong Jiaban.

Whether it's the actors, the director, or the crew, most of them are the same as the original, so as to ensure the production level of "Project A".

At the same time, Universal DreamWorks fully invested and became the big proprietor of the movie box office, accounting for 80.00% of the net income. The home class accounted for 15.00%, and the Raptors stunt team under Universal DreamWorks participated in the production. Zhu Baoyi acted as the only female role in "Project A".

The big boss filmed and arranged for the girls around him to be the leading actresses, sprinkle water, the basic operations of the film industry bosses, anyway, "Project A" is a male-dominated police drama, and the actresses themselves have few roles, so the arrangements are made.

What's more, Zhu Baoyi is now a well-known female movie star in Hong Kong, and has a certain number of fans.

Zhu Baoyi's roles in "The True Colors of a Hero" and "Happy Ghost" are very brilliant, and she has been dubbed the title of fairy sister by fans. Her participation will also add a lot of color to "Project A".

Cheng Long, Sammo Hung and others all support this.

The face of the boss is very important.

The big guy's girl must be praised!

The schedule of "Project A" is set after the [-]th day of the first lunar month, at least wait until the brothers' Spring Festival holiday is over, and then we can happily film together...