Movie tycoon

Chapter 260 Entertainment Tycoon (Part [-])
Speaking of Zou Wenhuai, many people first think of the traitor of the Shaw Brothers, and then the film tycoon, the new overlord of the film industry.

Especially as a traitor of the Shaw Brothers, Zou Wenhuai has been responsible for many rumors and rumors that have been criticized.But anyone who really knows him knows what a great filmmaker he is.

What's ridiculous is that in the previous life, ATV even filmed a TV series that reflected Shao Daheng and Zou Wenhuai's battle in the silver sea - "Cinema Tycoon".In this play, "Chou Wenjie" played by Hong Kong movie star Fang Zhongxin is actually Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Golden Harvest Film Company.

Everyone should know that Golden Harvest was the largest film company in Hong Kong in the 90s and [-]s, and had made countless popular films.Brother Xin has also made many films in Golden Harvest, such as "Gun King", "Dangerous Corner", "I Love You" and so on.The protagonist Wen Yueting is actually Shao Yifu, the big boss of Shaw Brothers Film Company and TVB.This movie is about filming some stories in the film industry back then, and the prototypes of events and characters can be found in seven or eight out of ten cases.

Zou Wenhuai, who is such a powerful figure in the film industry, logically has a lot of room to develop.

But it's a pity that this movie was filmed by ATV, and ATV's scripts often have some vulgar plots.

Originally, in the 80s and [-]s, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Run Run Shaw and Chow Wenhuai, although the competition between the two giants of the film industry was fierce, they all made great contributions to the Hong Kong film industry, and there is no such thing as good or evil.ATV is quite eccentric.The main character, Wen Yueting, takes all the advantages, while Qiu Wenjie is not bad, but he is a little tricky.The separation of good and evil simplifies the competition between the two. In fact, it can be more exciting if it is filmed according to the truth.

Zou Wenwen was originally an important minister of the Shaw family. He built up the land for the Shaw family for 12 years.Later, he left Shaw Brothers and founded Golden Harvest Film Company.This is why it is said in the film that Wen and Qiu were good brothers who started a business together.

In fact, Shao Yifu has always had a tough style and seldom compromises. How can there be Wen Yueting's gentleness and kindness?The Shaw Brothers under his leadership back then followed a large-scale studio system, not only requiring actors and directors to sign a one-year to several-year "inclusive contract", during which time they could not go outside to take on the show, but also restricted the salary level of employees. The right to shoot is concentrated in the hands of a small number of high-level officials.Although under the strict management of Shaw Yifu, Shaw Brothers can produce excellent films while reasonably controlling the cost of filming, it also limits the free space for some talented directors and actors.This style has continued to the future TVB.

In contrast, Zou Wenhuai implemented the independent production system. He changed the employment relationship with the actors into a cooperative relationship, and the film profits were also shared with the actors.Golden Harvest even subsidizes superstars and directors with box office guarantees to set up satellite companies, adopting the contracting system, Bruce Lee's "Concord", Xu Guanwen's "Xu's", Hong Jinbao's "Baohe" and Cheng Long's "Weihe" in the future are all Golden Harvest. satellite company.While they have decision-making power, they enjoy a large degree of creative freedom, but the script, budget and shooting progress are still supervised by the parent company.In this way, it naturally recruited a large number of box office stars and outstanding film creators.

Without Zou Wenhuai, under Shao Yifu's strong leadership, I don't know how many outstanding film talents will be killed in the future.In the 80s, Shaw Brothers stopped making movies, switched to TV, and started to operate TVB. However, Golden Harvest has been working hard in the film industry, cultivating Cheng Long, Huang Feihong and many other good films.Although TVB can be regarded as the leading Chinese-language TV station, its momentum is no less than that of mainland CCTV.However, the contribution to the film industry is still more than that of Golden Harvest.

At the beginning of Golden Harvest's establishment, it was naturally difficult to compete with the powerful Shaw Brothers. At this time, Bruce Lee, who was already well-known in the United States, wanted to return to Hong Kong to develop.Bruce Lee was originally most interested in the wealthy and powerful Shaw Brothers, but Shaw Yifu refused to give him preferential treatment. Not only was the salary for each film only 2000 US dollars, but he also had to sign a long-term contract, no different from the Shaw Brothers' actors.With Bruce Lee's status, he would naturally not agree.This gave the newly born Golden Harvest an unprecedented development opportunity.With Zou Wenhuai's warm invitation, coupled with Golden Harvest's remuneration of 7500 US dollars for each film, and trying to meet his other requirements, Bruce Lee finally verbally agreed to make two films for Golden Harvest. "Brother Tangshan" and "Fist of Fury" both broke box office records and became a sensation in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Golden Harvest also made a lot of money because of this, the company's strength has grown by leaps and bounds, and it has also opened up the international market.

All these things were filmed in "Cinema Tycoon", but "Big Brother Tangshan" was renamed "Big Brother Tangshan", and "Fist of Fury" was changed to "Heroes of Fist of Fury".Originally, supporting Bruce Lee was a major victory for Golden Harvest, but the film cleverly avoided Shao Yifu's missteps. In the end, Bruce Lee turned against Qiu Wenjie and others. Instead, he became friends with Wen Yueting and planned to form another company with him to make a film. His other company was Zou Wenhuai, and the two co-founded "Concord" Films. The company's first (and only) work was "Way of the Dragon" directed and acted by Bruce Lee, which had nothing to do with Shaw Brothers.

Later, when Bruce Lee was sent to the hospital, Qiu Wenjie performed brilliantly. As expected of seeing big scenes, he quickly settled the reporters and stopped all scandals that were unfavorable to Bruce Lee. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died after all.Ou Jintang, who plays Thunder Dragon (Bruce Lee), is very similar. He can also speak pure English, just like Bruce Lee from the United States.

After Bruce Lee's death, Cheng Long became popular, and it was Golden Harvest who invited him to join him. He not only promised to enjoy the autonomy of creation, but even gave him shares in the company. Cheng Long was deeply impressed by Golden Harvest's sincerity and kindness. Du Wenze's Shenglong in "Cinema Tycoon" is Cheng Long, but the film only focuses on how the empire signed Shenglong by any means, and only briefly mentions the great success Cheng Long brought to Golden Harvest. The screenwriter is too partial.

By the 80s, Golden Harvest had surpassed Shaw Brothers in popularity. In 1985, Shaw Brothers officially ceased production and shifted its focus to television.In the battle between Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, it is actually obvious who will win and who will lose, and Zou Wenhuai has finally become a generation of film tycoons, shining like the sun! ! !

When Cheng Long came to the president's office according to the summons, the tycoon Zou Wenhuai had already sat back on the boss's chair. He looked at Cheng Long and asked, "Aaron, how was the concert last night? You and SAM should have a good relationship." Just a little bit."

Cheng Long smiled, smoked the cigar on Zou Wenhuai's desk, leaned on the desk, played with it in his hand, and said casually: "It's okay, after all, I will be there to support the God of Songs concert. , and won’t say anything more.”

"Hehe, are you mad at me for asking you to support SAM? Everyone is in the entertainment industry, so there will inevitably be cooperation. The relationship is very harmonious!" Zou Wenhuai said, click, the lighter lit up, and said in front of Chen Xiaotang : "Cigars are for smoking, not for watching!"

Cheng Long hesitated for a moment, then leaned on Zou Wenhuai's lighter and lit the cigar.

Zou Wenhuai's temper is like this, very gentle, sometimes even mild enough to make you feel too much, as the trump card of Jiahe, it's not that no one digs Chenglong, facing conditions that are much better than Jiahe, Cheng Long still chooses to stay in the end Here, the biggest reason is because Golden Harvest has a boss like Zou Wenhuai.

Just imagine, if a boss treats you like a friend and nephew, what reason do you have to betray him? !
"Brother Huai, you called me here in such a hurry, didn't you just ask this?" Cheng Long took a sip of his cigar, feeling a bit choked, and couldn't help coughing.

Zou Wenhuai smiled, threw the newspaper in front of him, pointed to the entertainment section on it and said, "What do you think?"

Cheng Long glanced at it and understood what was going on, and said with a smile: "That Chen Xiaotang is really good, he is a talent!"

"Oh, do you think so too?" Zou Wenhuai testified, looking at Cheng Long with interest, waiting for him to continue.

Cheng Long simply sat down on Zou Wenhuai's desk, drooped his legs, and said, "You didn't see that concert with your own eyes, two words-shocking! If I had to say it, even the singer Xu Guanjie Chen Xiaotang's sharpness was overshadowed by this Chen Xiaotang! At the end, those fans shouted Chen Xiaotang's name loudly, you don't know how ugly and embarrassed Xu Guanjie's face was on the stage at that time, haha!"

Thinking of Xu Guanjie's embarrassment at that time, Cheng Long felt relieved.I have been compared with Xu Guanjie for a long time. Some people even said that Xu Guanjie will replace himself as a new generation of kung fu superstar. Before he became popular, the name of God was already popular all over the country. Now if he enters the film industry, he will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Originally, the God of Songs had nothing to do with me, but Xu Guanjie’s filming route was exactly the same as his own. He was playing high difficulty and thrilling adventures——what did Cheng Long think about this? Didn’t he clearly challenge himself? ?
The last time I lost my movie, losing to Xu Guanjie's "Best Partner", those crazy words started again, saying that I was about to lose to the other party, was replaced by the other party, and I was about to have a bad life.

Cheng Long is not convinced, Grandma’s Xiong, it’s okay if you, Xu Guanjie, sing your own songs well, but you want to come to the film industry to join in the fun, so you can join in the fun, and you still have to come at me, mother’s head, who can’t bear it , I, Cheng Long, will fight you to the end and see who can have the last laugh.

Hearing what Cheng Long said, Zou Wenhuai laughed and said, "In this way, even you think we Jiahe should recruit this person?"

"Do you need to ask? The reason why Jiahe was able to stand up under the oppression of the Shaw Brothers back then was because of Bruce Lee?! Talent, for us, is a big deal!" Because of Jiahe's shares, So Cheng Long also has a bit of a "shareholder" in his words.

Zou Wenhuai nodded: "Then have you already made a move?"

Cheng Long shook his head, "That Chen Xiaotang is now regarded by the Shaw Brothers, and a little favor can't impress him!"

"Oh, is that so?" Zou Wenhuai rubbed his chin, suddenly, "Since favors can't impress you, then use actual benefits to impress—"

"Brother Huai, what do you mean—"

"I heard that their family is planning to buy a house recently, isn't it?" Zou Wenhuai smiled.

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At the same time, Hong Kong New Art City Film Company.

As we all know, the largest shareholder of New Art City Film Company is Lei Juekun, who almost monopolizes Xiangjiang and is in the bus transportation business.And Lei Juekun knew that he was a layman in film, so he distributed the management power to the three giants of New Art City, Huang Baiming, Mai Jia and Shi Tian.

These three are also the founders of New Art City. To put it bluntly, after they founded New Art City Film Company, because of insufficient funds, they let the bus tycoon Lei Juekun join. They have talent, and Lei Juekun has funds. The combination of strong and powerful forces will lead to the vigorous development of New Art City today.

Golden Harvest, New Art City, and the established Shaw Brothers have formed a three-legged confrontation. With the continuous reduction of production by Shaw Brothers, New Art City is the latecomer, and there is a vague tendency to continue to expand.

Since its establishment in 1980, New Art City has released dozens of classic blockbuster movies, such as "Crazy Big Brother", "Salted Fish Turns Out", and "Funny Times", and its rapid development of strength is jaw-dropping.

The founding row of New Art City is in Hong Kong and Kowloon, with an office of only [-] square feet at the beginning.However, New Art City soon made a lot of money, and now it has moved to the top floor, with an office that is more than ten times larger than the original office, and the original office was used to run a "Friends of New Art City".

At this moment, at the filming site of "Best Partner 2" in New Art City, the bald guy Mai Jia who starred in this film is furtively pretending to be reading the script, but his small eyes are shining brightly. An actress with short hair.

The actress is not too beautiful, but she has an outstanding temperament, especially her ecstasy eyes, which is very suitable for the bald man Mai Jia.

Seeing the actress chatting and laughing with the other actors on the set, for some reason, the bald man Maijia was a little jealous. He saw a vase next to it with prop flowers in it, so he pulled it out and walked thinking With a very chic crab pace, he walked over, lifted his belt, and said to the actress with a smile: "What are you talking about, you smile so happily, can you tell me about it, so that I can be happy too?!"

Seeing that it was him, the actress was one of the three bosses of New Art City, and said in embarrassment: "We didn't talk about anything."

"You look like I'm frightened by you. Don't be restrained. I've always been amiable and approachable. To be honest, let me listen to what you're talking about—" the bald man Maijia said with a smile.

The actress saw him like this, so she said boldly: "We are talking about the love between men and women, saying that marriage is the grave of love."

When the bald man heard this, he slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, you're right! I dug my own grave because I didn't understand this truth at the beginning—this bouquet of flowers is for you. It represents my whole heart for you, don't reject me, be sure to accept it."

The actress froze for a moment, and accepted the prop flower.

"But why did you send me flowers for no reason? Why didn't you send them to your wife?"

"Didn't I just say that I jumped into the grave. Since I became a living dead, I never send flowers to my wife except for wedding anniversaries, Valentine's Day, and Christmas. It's not because I'm mean, It’s because the relationship has faded, and a marriage without love is like a deserted Sahara that is about to dry up—after all this, don’t you understand my heart?” Mai Jia blinked her small eyes.

The actress seemed to understand something, her cheeks flushed a little. "I, that, I just lost love recently, so I don't want to talk about relationships——"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!" Mai Jia continued to say, "Actually, I completely understand how you feel about falling out of love at the moment—look at my eyes, do you feel a little bit of care? And a little bit of comfort?"

"It's not a big problem to lose love. Who hasn't lost love? But you have to open your heart-everyone will always keep their secrets locked in their hearts in their lives. If someone holds a key to open your Lock, then he is your true destiny, because a lock will rust after a certain period of time, that is, the relationship will fade, then he will leave you at this time, and close the lock of your heart again with his own hands. It will take a while for another person to melt you with love, but if you want to leave the shadow of sadness early, you can go to a lockpicker. Now I am honored to introduce myself, I am the girl who understands lovelorn best, comfort They, encourage their king of lockpicking—Maijia the bald head, you can also call me brother bald head, or my English name, Rambo!" The small eyes blinked and discharged.

The actress was a little embarrassed by Mai Jia's height, her cheeks were flushed, and she didn't know what to say.

Mai Jia continued to provocatively say: "You can reject me, but you can't reject my heart. Feel for it, is my heart jumping around like a frog? If there is, it means that I have been captured by Cupid." The arrow has been shot, if there is no antidote for your love, I am afraid I will die and die!"

"Ah, so serious?!" The actress was almost speechless.

At this moment, a voice said: "Beautiful girl, don't pay attention to him, he has already been shot to pieces by that dwarf Cupid, and he will die several times a day, your love antidote can't save him, it can only speed up his insanity." Blood flow, speed up death!"

A thin man wearing glasses appeared next to them at some point, smiling and looking at the bald man who was picking up girls.

When the actress saw him, she hurriedly greeted him, "Hello, Brother Ming—I've been busy in the past!" She took the opportunity to slip away.

The bald-headed Mai Jia saw that the little girl had run away, and glared at the skinny man angrily and said, "You Huang Boming, it's not too late for you, can you stop coming here every time when I'm doing my kung fu? I'm crazy!"

"Why, did you bother you to pick up girls again?" Huang Boming raised his eye sockets in a gentle manner, "I did this for your own good, so that you can accumulate a little more virtue. Picking up too many girls is easy to get rich!"

"It's your size! You see, I look like a beautiful tree and look like Pan'an. No matter how you look at it, I don't look like a flower~liu's life! On the contrary, you always disturb my ditch girl. From the standpoint of a friend , you are harming others and not benefiting yourself, from the standpoint of the company, you are offending your partner without knowing the heights of heaven and earth!"

"Wrong! From the standpoint of a friend, I am telling you to rein in the precipice and reform! From the standpoint of the company, I am cleaning up the scum and rectifying discipline!"

The bald Mai Jia was almost speechless, and he was eloquent. He could be said to be an invincible opponent in love, but he couldn't do anything about this skinny monkey.

Seeing that the bald man stopped talking, Huang Boming sighed and said, "You are not too young, don't be a dick girl or something, and do something meaningful."

"Aren't I just doing this! This is my happy filming life. When I am busy, I write scripts, edit plots, and when I am free, I look at beautiful girls and strike up conversations with beautiful women-this is my attitude towards life, my taste of life !"

Huang Boming shook his head, "Life, that's how it is. Always occupying the position of absolute leadership, when countless idiots shouted that they controlled their lives and their destiny, but they didn't see that they were living in a higher sky, With a sneering mocking face."

Do not utter dirty words when swearing!

The highest state!

Mai Jia patted her bald head fiercely: "Your grandma——what you said is too profound, I can't understand it after I graduated from elementary school."

Huang Boming handed over a string of fish balls like magic, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, as long as you can eat it. Eat it, I'll treat you."

Mai Jia turned her head and said sarcastically: "I know you are admitting your mistake to me in disguise, but a bunch of fish balls is not enough, at least you have to go to the rich man to call a dozen girls and order a dozen bottles of XO. Before you leave, you ask me to pack a box of good Cuban cigars, maybe that way I can relax."

"Halo, you're relieved, I'm going to worry about the bill. I didn't expect you to have a thick skin besides your head."

"It's a good time to rape, and the serious illness will be easy!" Mai Jia smiled at Huang Bai in front of him. "By the way, you didn't come to me suddenly to disturb me to pick up girls, did you?"

"Of course not, Chen Xiaotang, have you heard of this person?"

"Men, women, if it's a man, then I've never heard of it, because I've never been interested in men, if it's a woman, then it's a different story!"

"Stop joking, let's be serious—what do you think of this person?" Huang Boming said solemnly.

Mai Jia also stopped smiling, touched her bald head and said, "Recent newspapers and magazines are all about this man. Those who know him are just an actor, but those who don't know think that all newspapers have changed their editions and used him as the cover!"

"Singing is gimmick, acting is wonderful, I heard that you can write novels, scripts, and kung fu—you Huang Boming is already perverted enough, this Chen Xiaotang is even more perverted than you, he is simply a genius! This is how I know him, Do you like it or not?"

"Your understanding is correct, this person is very remarkable, the most important thing is that he is still very young, and our New Art City needs such excellent new blood—"

"You don't need to say it, I already understand what you mean, go ahead and do it, I'll take care of it if something goes wrong!" Bald-headed Maijia patted his chest and said, "Just recruit that kid over, and everything else is easy to talk about!"

What Huang Boming wanted was Maijia's words.You must know that although he is one of the three giants in New Art City, the bald man still makes the decisions in many decisions. Now that he agrees with his own ideas, then he can let go and go blogging. What is the most important thing in the Hong Kong film industry? , talent!Is there any? !
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