You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 175 Tycoon King Power, a new blockbuster movie! (2, monthly ticket 3600)

Zou Wenhuai has two sons and one daughter, two of them are illegitimate children with female writer Wu Shufang, and they are not engaged in film and television related industries. His elder brother works as a civil engineer in the United States, and his younger brother owns many large medical clinics in Xiangjiang.

As for the "Golden Harvest Princess" born to him and his first wife, Zou Chongheng is a master of film from Stanford University in the United States, and his son-in-law Chen Yingming once played the leading role in Chen Guo's movie "There's a Hollywood in Hong Kong".

However, these two are not particularly capable management talents. When Zou Chongheng was in charge of Golden Harvest, the company's market value reached the lowest point after listing, and she herself did not have the confidence to clean up Golden Harvest's mess, so she just sold it and took the money to do something else.

At this time, Zou Wenhuai was accompanied by the daughter and son-in-law, smiling at Wang Quan, the big benefactor.

And Wang Quan is surrounded by women, his financial manager Wendy, his assistant Anna, and the newly recruited general manager Shi Nansheng for Golden Harvest.

When the two sides met, Zou Wenhuai smiled and shook hands with Shi Nansheng, feeling very emotional, "We will work together in the next three months."

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

Zou Wenhuai promised that in the next three months, he will continue to serve as a consultant of Golden Harvest to help the new team make a smooth transition.

After entering the company, the first thing you see is the densely packed movie posters, which are arranged in chronological order.

Golden Harvest was founded in 1970. From the release of "The One-Armed Swordsman vs. the Blind Man" in 71 to the termination of "Superman" in 2003, Golden Harvest has produced and invested in more than 30 films in more than 600 years.

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

The most eye-catching movie in 71 must be "Brother Sugar Mountain".

In 72, "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. Bruce Lee passed away in 73, and Golden Harvest fell into a short trough.

Fortunately, Xu Guanwen came out in 74. This former king of comedy was born. He wrote, directed, and acted.

Immediately after "Genius and Idiot" in 75, "Half Weight" in 76, "Deed of Sale" in 78, and "Modern Bodyguard" in 81, if you don't sell it, it will be Xiangjiang's annual box office champion.

The reason is that Xu Guanwen's filming speed is too slow, and he is used to slow work and meticulous work. In that era, it was normal to direct several films a year, but he produced one film every year or two, and even held back one film in the next three years.

Comedy may be like this, eat inspiration, and laughs need to be polished repeatedly.

Fortunately, Golden Harvest discovered two kung fu superstars at this time, who can act and direct.

The first is Hong Jinbao, who made a brilliant performance with "San De Monk and Chong Mi Liu" in 77. Before that, he was already a well-known action director in the industry, and he was a brother.

Then in 78, after years of waiting, Cheng Long finally found the right way to act. Within a year, he came up with works such as "Drunken Master", "Fist Master" and "Serpentine Hand", and his style gradually took shape.

Of course, only the least famous "Fighting Master" belongs to Golden Harvest, and the rest belong to Siyuan Films. At that time, Cheng Long was still held by Luo Wei, and was borrowed by Wu Siyuan to make two blockbuster movies.

In 1980, Cheng Long finally got rid of Luo Wei and made another annual box office champion for Golden Harvest, "Junior and Brother", which not only broke the box office record of Xiangjiang film history, but also became popular in Asia with this film.

Many posters in the back are childhood memories, "The Prodigal Boy" by Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao in 81.

"Master Dragon" by Cheng Long in 82, "Qimen Dunjia" by Yuan Heping.

"Plan A" in 83, "Five Lucky Stars".

And since Hong Jinbao and Zhong Chuhong's "Scary People" in 82, the magical kung fu movies he created have also become a beautiful landscape in Golden Harvest's film library.

In 84, there was "Human Scary Ghost", in 85, "Mr. Zombie", in 86, "Zombie Family", and in 89, "Taoist with One Eyebrow".

However, after entering the 90s, the bottomless follow-up and shoddy production almost destroyed the theme of zombies. Even Uncle Ying no longer had a brilliant performance. He wanted to shoot "Mr. Zombie 2", but he passed away early in 97 due to cancer.

With the introduction of the Xiangjiang film classification system in 1988, Golden Harvest also produced many three-episode films during this period.

Such as "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", "Yu Pu Tuan", "Female Robot", "Dengcao Monk", "Red Fruit Lamb" and so on.

In this period, Golden Harvest no longer has the aura of being number one in the world. Although Xinyi City has been abandoned by itself, there are also rising stars such as Media Asia, Yongsheng, and Yinghuang.

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

In the early days of Zhou, "Invincible Lucky Star", "The Saint of Gamblers" and "New Fist of Fury 1991" were all produced by Golden Harvest, but later Zhou Xingchi joined Yongsheng's family after leaving Li Xiuxian, and became the cash cow of the Xiang family brothers.

Later, Wang Quan saw the posters of Huang Feihong's series again. He looked at Shi Nansheng and smiled. Oh, your husband's works, and there are many

In the 90s, Xu Ke also cooperated with Golden Harvest. Big companies can help him get money, and they have the ability to distribute to the whole of Asia. Golden Harvest can even be sold to Europe and the United States.

In fact, as early as in the New Art City period, Xu Ke had hooked up with Jiahe. In 83, he filmed "New Shushan Swordsman" for Jiahe during his time in New Art City.

Moreover, Mr. Xu felt that Boss Zou was really nice, and he was not angry after losing so much money, so he cooperated for a long time afterwards.

In the mid-to-late 90s, Golden Harvest was still able to win the annual championship with the "Red Fan District", "Police Story" series, and "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony". During this period, there was another series that was famous, that is, the "Young and Dangerous" series, which was also produced by Golden Harvest.

At this time, Golden Harvest is still strong, but this strength is only aimed at Xiangjiang Film itself. Looking at the world, Xiangjiang Film has fallen behind, and Xiangjiang Film Market has almost lost its glory.

In 93, "Jurassic Park" turned out to be the box office champion of film history, which had been maintained by local films for decades. Since "The Sound of Music" in 65, it was once again won by Western films.

After that, "Titanic" in 97 broke this record again, reaching an unprecedented 1.15 million Hong Kong dollars in the small Hong Kong, and Hong Kong filmmakers had no power to fight back.

Since then, the share of Hong Kong films in the domestic market has plummeted. In 98, there were only three Hong Kong films in the top ten at the box office.

The annual box office champion in 99 was actually won by the neon movie "Midnight Ring".

Entering the 21st century, only "Shaolin Soccer", "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, since Cheng Long's blood-losing "Spy Lost City" in 2001, Jiahe, who had emptied his family, has been in a slump.

Looking at this poster of Cheng Long and Xu Ruoxuan, Zou Wenhuai sighed, and he kindly reminded Wang Quan, "If Xu Ke asks you to shoot a large-scale production with a scale of hundreds of millions, you must be cautious and cautious. This kind of large investment can make you breathless."

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

Fortunately, Zou Wenhuai only voted for "The Lost City of Secret Agents". If Xu Ke's 01 version of "The Legend of Shushan" also voted, it is estimated that Golden Harvest will not even be left with scum.

Wang Quan nodded, "Big productions do have 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 can't accommodate large investments right now."

Zou Wenhuai nodded, "Yes, the thing I regret the most is that the mainland market was opened too late. If it could be done earlier, we can definitely develop the mainland box office market in advance."

Since 04, the total box office in the mainland has surpassed that of Xiangjiang, and last year, that is, in 06, the total box office of 26 billion almost doubled that of Xiangjiang.

If the mainland opens up to Hong Kong early, Hong Kong movies will at least be able to gain a glimmer of life in the mainland by relying on the intimacy of the same origin when Hollywood conquers the world and causes Hong Kong movies to lose ground in the Asian market.

He had a good idea. In the future, the survival of Hong Kong films depends on the mainland market. The mainland market is too big, and a random share is enough to support the Hong Kong film industry. A "Rage: Serious Case" has a box office of 13 billion in the mainland, which can almost catch up with Hong Kong's total box office.

"But Wang Sheng, what is the big investment you are talking about?" Zou Wenhuai's daughter, Zou Chongheng, couldn't help asking.

Wang Quan didn't mind either, and estimated, "Probably not less than 1.5 million."

"Wow, it's really a big deal." Zou Chongheng sighed, but what he thought in his heart was that it was not as good as the 2.1 million in "The Lost Secret Service".

However, Zou Wenhuai was surprised, because Wang Quan's previous film "Twilight" had a book investment of more than 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, so...

"Wang Sheng, are you talking about US dollars?"

King Quan, "Filming in the United States, of course, is in US dollars."

"hiss!"

Now, Zou Wenhuai's father, daughter and son-in-law, and even Shi Nansheng gasped, over 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, such a big deal!
Is Dragon Head Up really just a small company? !

After watching these movie posters, Wang Quan met several surviving founders and part of the company's management team under the leadership of Zou Wenhuai.

At the beginning, Zou Wenhuai took He Guanchang, Cai Yongchang and other capable leaders from Shaw, but Zou Wenhuai's right-hand man, Cheng Long's godfather He Guanchang passed away in 97, and his departure was also a major blow to Golden Harvest.

Cai Yongchang is Zou Wenhuai's cousin, and he rarely shows up in public. Now that Golden Harvest has changed hands, he also came to say goodbye.

There are also Liang Feng, Chen Ziqiang and others. The youngest is over 60 years old.

Chen Ziqiang is known as a superstar pusher, a gold medal manager, and has been Cheng Long's military adviser for a long time. He and Zhang Manyu and Zhong Chuhong are considered father and daughter.

Wang Quan chatted with these uncles for a while, and took the initiative to take a group photo as a souvenir, which can be 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 movie tycoon.

The last link is to take King Quan to watch Golden Harvest’s film library. There are copies of all Golden Harvest films here. Of course, there are also some lost and damaged ones, which eventually became out of print.

Wang Quan felt that the most urgent task was to digitize first, and then choose the best one for high-definition processing.

This is Shi Nansheng's first thing after he came to power, to preserve these precious video resources, especially such masterpieces as "Jade Pu Tuan" and "Liao Zhai Yan Tan".

The second thing is to develop the movie theater and improve the theater chain. This requires colleagues from Dawang Cinema to come and help.

After being acquired by Wangdao, Golden Harvest is still Golden Harvest, but the theater chain under Golden Harvest will be renamed Wangdao Jiahe. First of all, the scale of theaters in the mainland must be expanded. At that time, existing theaters can be mortgaged for development. Wang Quan has no extra money now.

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

The third thing belongs to the royal power, which 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.

From now on, he probably will be soaking in the "film and television library".

As for Golden Harvest's film production business, it's not in a hurry now, and it won't be too late when I return to China completely.

But the distribution business can be done, at least those films that show the dragon's head will not need to be handed over to others after Xiangjiang, and even the Southeast Asian market can be handed over to Golden Harvest.

Now "Latent" has accumulated a total of 2800 million dollars at the box office in North America in two weeks. It is a well-established little dark horse, and it is the work of a Hong Kong director like Yu Rentai and written by Wang Quan, which has already aroused a lot of discussion in Hong Kong.

Wang Quan discussed with Dorothy, and planned to introduce Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries one after another in early April, all of which were handed over to Jiahe.

This is also the first tough battle after Golden Harvest changed hands. If we win, there will be "Twilight" later, maybe it can be introduced at the same time.

That night, Wang Quan posted photos of himself, Zou Wenhuai, Shi Nansheng and others in front of the Golden Harvest poster wall on his blog, and also attached high-definition posters of many classic Hong Kong movies, which ruthlessly harvested a wave of Hong Kong movie lovers' attention.

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

This blog mainly talks about three points.

One, Golden Harvest will be mine from now on.

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

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

Concubine Liu Yi didn't grab the sofa this time, so she could only yell with everyone: Big guy is awesome!
At this time, she and her mother had returned to the capital, and Yang Mi had also returned. Once they met, Concubine Liu Yi saw Yang Mi holding a little yellow dog and said it was a gift from her brother Quan.

Concubine Liu Yi was sour at the time, thinking about how to imply that Wang Quan should also give herself one, it doesn't have to be a dog, a cat is also fine~
At this time, Wang Quan was watching a movie through the video library at the hotel, and then received a call from Yang Mi.

After the phone call was made, Yang Mi said in a bad tone, "It's nothing, I just want to see if your ringtone has been changed~"

Wang Quan rolled his eyes and suddenly realized, "Oh, I forgot, I'll change it to "Fairy Tale Town". How is the sales volume of Fairy Tale Town now?"

Yang Mi's tone became even worse, "It's okay, it's 28th on the download list."

If Wang Quan remembers correctly, Concubine Liu Yi still has three songs in the top [-] of the download list~
(It is estimated that some people will say that this chapter is watery again. It is watery. I checked it for a few hours and wrote it. I love it. In addition, which Hong Kong movies do you think are suitable for adaptation into foreign movies~)

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