Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Xu Ke was very busy. After he settled the matter in a few words, he got up and left.

After walking a few steps, I felt hungry, so when I passed by Wong Jing's table, I grabbed a lotus seed paste bun from their table.

Teddy Robin couldn't help but complain: "Hey, your boss won't let you eat enough!"

"Next time it's my treat!"

Xu Ke didn't even turn his head back, and walked away with the bun in his mouth!

Huang Baiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said with some envy: "The movie "The Sword of the Third Young Master" that Lao Xu made last year was really amazing. I heard that when it was released in Japan, the Japanese were amazed."

Eric Tsang said: "Ink painting and martial arts are a perfect match, with Jet Li and Zhen Zidan working together, plus two beauties, Rosamund Kwan and Xiao Qiang, it's no wonder it's so impressive. But the cost was too high, it's said to have cost 10 million US dollars, more than A Chinese Ghost Story."

Teddy Robin said, "That ink-and-wash animation is a state secret of the mainland. Outsiders have no idea how it was made. It is also time-consuming, labor-intensive, and extremely costly. It appeared twice in the Third Young Master's sword, and it took half a year to complete. The money spent was enough to make a movie."

Eric Tsang lamented, "In the past two years, Yeung Kee has been continuously launching big productions, each of which is very aggressive. It is becoming increasingly difficult for an independent film company like us to survive."

Wong Jing said: "Yang Kee follows the Hollywood model, investing a huge amount of money, hiring a super-star cast, promoting it extensively, using superior resources to monopolize a large number of screenings, snatching a large number of audiences, creating a super-sellout phenomenon, and then starting to reap the benefits overseas. This model enriched itself, while all the films released in the same period became cannon fodder. Look at "School Storm" and "The Love of Long and Short Legs" released by Mai Jia and Shek Tim this year. The movies are not bad, but they were beaten to the point that they couldn't even make 10 million at the box office."

Zeng Zhiwei said: "This is actually the drawback of the cinema alliance. The winner takes all. The popular movies occupy the best prime time, and the unpopular movies can only be scheduled in some garbage time slots and eat the leftovers. Yang Ye used this trick back then, which was really amazing!"

Teddy Robin said, "Is there no way to break the impasse? For example, Cinema City's movies are suppressed so badly by Yang's, doesn't Boss Lei have any ideas?"

Wong Jing said: "When the cinema alliance was first established, several large cinema chains such as Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, White Poplar, and Lisheng exchanged equity and formed a community of interests. Today, everyone benefits from this model. Yang Kee's movies are selling well, and all theater owners in Hong Kong are making money. Even if Boss Lei has some ideas, they are just about why we can't make such awesome movies."

Teddy Robin said, "Is it possible to set up another cinema chain? Hong Kong movies are making so much money now, it shouldn't be difficult to get those Taiwanese guys to pay for it, right?"

Wong Jing said, "It's difficult. The Cinema Alliance has monopolized Hong Kong's cinema resources. There's no point in fighting against them. Wouldn't it be better to join them and make money together? Isn't the Jewish guy Ji Aihua rich enough? Didn't his UA Cinema directly join the Cinema Alliance?"

Eric Tsang added: "Besides, the Poplar Cinema Line has already expanded to Southeast Asia, and Yangye also has a large Chinese cinema line in North America. If we want to sell our films in North America, we still have to rely on them. Why would we go against them?"

Huang Baiming said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. I have already received the support of Mr. Lei and have officially withdrawn from Cinema City and established Vientiane Film Company. I hope you can come and help me. The three of us will conquer the world together!"

Eric Tsang and Teddy Robin looked at each other and were not surprised at Wong Jing's departure.

In the beginning, the seven of them conquered the world together, but the spoils were not divided equally. The movie was obviously made together, but some people got more money and some got less; some could share the profits and some could only get a little bonus.

So Eric Tsang left after not being around for long. Eric Tsang said it very well: if so many people eat from the same pot, no one will be able to eat well, so I will give you my share and I will go out to find food myself.

Later, Xu Ke wanted to make a big production, but Cinema City was only willing to make comedies. Xu Ke didn't want to play anymore, and once Xu Ke left, Shi Nansheng naturally followed.

Among the three bosses of Cinema City, Wong Jing is the one who loves movies the most. His ability is obvious to all. He does the most work and makes the greatest contribution, but gets the least money. He has long been dissatisfied.

He was able to endure until now before leaving, and it really was because of what Mai Jia said. Mai Jia thought that Wong Jing was willing to suffer a loss, so he brought him along!
If you want to start your own film company, the first requirement is to find a financial sponsor.

Because making movies is too risky, even the biggest directors can't guarantee making money every time.

So smart filmmakers use other people’s money to make movies, and they can make them however they want without feeling bad about it.

Even if there is a loss, it is the investors' money that is lost. Next time, you can just find another sucker and continue to cheat.

Investors who are not smart and have no background are often cheated by this group of people and suffer heavy losses, or even lose their entire fortunes.

Because even if you make a profit, these guys will make you lose money after doing the accounting.

Last year, there was an internal conflict in Cinema City and Teddy Robin left to start a business with Eric Tsang.

They also brought in Alan Tam, and the three of them set up a "Good Friends Film Company" and found the newly wealthy Wong Yuk-long as an investor.

After Wong Yuk-long's Yuk-long International was successfully listed last year, his wealth skyrocketed twenty times, making him a capital tycoon.

Wong Yuk-long was full of ambition and started to get involved in the film industry. However, he encountered the 87 stock market crash and suffered heavy losses. He was instantly brought back to his original state.

Cheng King-hon's Paramount Group and Hu Xian's Sing Tao Group took the opportunity to acquire the Yu Long Group, using all kinds of dirty tricks to make Wong Yuk-long embarrassed.

For example, Wong Yuk-long's favorite Ma Rongcheng had his hand chopped off, and his career was almost ruined. Ma Rongcheng therefore left the Yulang Group.

In order to protect his power, Wong Yuk-long was involved in falsifying accounts and was reported. Now he is embroiled in lawsuits and will soon be thrown into jail.

A large part of the income of filmmakers comes from investors. Zeng Zhiwei and his friends were enjoying a good living with Wong Yuk-long, but suddenly Wong Yuk-long went bankrupt, and that became a problem.

Zeng Zhiwei originally planned to make ten movies first and signed Chen Long and Jet Li to star in them, but this plan was aborted.

They had no choice but to do independent production and use the money from selling movies to support their own movies, but this was too slow and they could only make a few movies a year. Just when they were worried, Wong Jing came to them and said, "I have a sponsor, let's do it together!"

However, this time, we must not repeat the mistakes of Cinema City and must come up with a reasonable distribution mechanism.

So the three of them started discussing how to divide the spoils.

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Yang Ye is very busy and works around the clock every day.

For him, the time in Hong Kong was the most troublesome time because there were too many women and it was difficult to take care of them all.

On the contrary, when I am outside, it is very comfortable to have a woman by my side.

Yang Ye walked into the dormitory of Girls' Generation. All nine girls were there. Each of them was holding a game console and playing happily.

During this period, Kingsoft's "Elvensoft Palm" has been officially released for sale, with a domestic price of RMB 398 and a Hong Kong dollar price of 398.

For domestic use, this price is a bit outrageous.

However, the current development in the country is extremely uneven. In the southeast coastal areas, the average monthly salary in urban areas has exceeded 500 yuan.

The monthly income of a taxi driver in Shanghai can reach 4000 yuan, and many leaders of state-owned enterprises have been laid off and now drive taxis.

In Beijing, an actor like Liu Xiaoqing working in a regular film studio only earned 60 yuan a month.

So it's popular to go into business these days. It's boring to earn a meager salary in the company.

Although the "Palm Elf" is expensive, it is still affordable for many people.

For Hong Kong, this price is still acceptable.

The Tetris, Pac-Man and Plane Wars games it carries are all very classic and became very popular once they were launched.

In less than a month, sales exceeded 300,000 units and revenue exceeded 100 million yuan.

And the number is still growing. Almost every young person has a mobile phone, and they can be seen playing game consoles happily in various public places.

This is quite similar to how people in later generations always take out their mobile phones to play with them in any occasion.

After learning that this "palm elf" was launched by Yang Ye, Hong Kong media lamented that Yang Ye was going to take over the entertainment activities of Hong Kong people!

Yang Ye originally came to find Wang Zuxian, and the two of them just happened to get along well, so Yang Ye naturally had to spend more time with her.

Unexpectedly, all the staff were there, so he immediately smiled and said, “They are all here!”

"Brother Ye!" Xiao Qiang threw the game console away, ran over, threw herself into Yang Ye's arms, and wrapped her long legs around his waist.

Yang Ye held Xiao Qiang's hips with one hand to prevent her from falling, and complained: "Yingying, you are always so reckless, I have something in my hand!"

Xiao Qiang snorted and said, "What delicious food did you bring for Xiaoxian again?"

Yang Ye laughed dryly and said, "Well... I didn't know you were back!"

"You biased bastard, I want to eat too!"

"Then I'll ask someone to buy it."

"No, I won't eat it if you didn't buy it!"

"Okay, I'll go buy it now, you come down first!"

Xiao Qiang got off Yang Ye. Yang Ye looked around and saw that the other eight women were all looking at him with different expressions.

"Well, wait a moment, I'll be right back!"

Yang Ye said, turning around and walking out.

I walked and complained, too many women are annoying, luckily I am not Tang Bohu! (End of this chapter)