425 [The Black-bellied Song Zhichao]
If you remember well, Song Zhichao clearly remembers that 1992 was the famous "Zhou Xingchi Year". Zhou Xingchi filmed six or seven dramas throughout the year, and these seven dramas were ranked at the top of the Hong Kong box office rankings, namely "The Dead and the Cauldron", the second one, "Happy Event in the Family", the third one, "The Deer and the Cauldron", the fourth one, "The Martial Arts Prize Su Qi'er", and the fifth one, "The Deer and the Cauldron: The Dragon Sect", etc. It can be said that in 1992, Zhou Xingchi created a history that belonged only to him. The top five in Hong Kong box office were films starring him, and he also used this to "become the gods".
Having said that, for the drama "The Deer and the Cauldron", Zhou Xingchi's role as "Wei Xiaobao" has been cleverly interpreted in a nonsensical way. Even in the next ten years, it will still be a classic among classics.
Of course, for Song Zhichao, it doesn't matter whether he is classic or not. The most important thing is to make money. He is happy as long as he can make money. In essence, he is a profit-oriented businessman. He has no noble character and a spirit of dedication to art, and he does not have the courage to support him to the end even though he knows that a drama can lose money and lose money.
So when facing Liu Dehua's "Legend of the God of War", Song Zhichao immediately vetoed it. However, he directly decided to invest in filming the "Deer and the Cauldron" mentioned by Zhou Xingchi.
Faced with Song Zhichao making the decision so quickly, Stephen Chow was stunned, "Mr. Song, this drama has been invested in a considerable amount. The director I discussed with him. He may have to invite some very well-known actors, such as Liu Songren, Zhang Min, and Brigitte Lin, etc. The most important thing is that Mr. Jin Yong's film is very long and cannot be carried by a movie. It is very likely that the sequel will be filmed - in this way, the investment may be as high as 50 to 60 million..."
"Five or sixty million? That's it..." At this time, Song Zhichao really wanted to say to Zhou Xingchi loudly, "Don't worry, go and take photos. I can still take out 50 or 60 million. Even if I sell it, I will support you..." But after a look at Liu Dehua, who looked sad, Song Zhichao did not say these words. Instead, he looked at Zhou Xingchi with a very heavy look, and then held his chin with his hand, as if he was thinking.
Finally, Song Zhichao gritted his teeth and said, "I decided to invest in filming. After all, our movie made money this time, and I decided to invest in your "The Deer and the Cauldron" first. As for Andy Lau's new drama, Andy Lau, your "Legend of the God of War" starring you, it should be good. It's not difficult to find investors, so I will no longer participate in the investment - of course, in order to express my apology to you, let's do this, I have a movie with a large budget, called "The Twins of the Peerless". We are also planning to invite Brigitte Lin to star in this drama. If you are interested, you can join!"
After Song Zhichao finished speaking, he looked at Liu Dehua with hope. On the surface, this drama was his refusal to invest in Liu Dehua's "The Legend of Conquer", but in fact he was using Liu Dehua to make up for the money. You know, "The Two Prodigals" starring Liu Dehua and Brigitte Lin in the previous life won nearly 20 million box offices in Hong Kong. In addition, the box office in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other regions, as well as the sale of film copyrights, the total profit was as high as about 30 million, and the investment was only 5 or 6 million, which can be regarded as a super profitable commercial film.
Unfortunately, the kind Andy Lau did not know this. He thought that Song Zhichao was really "sad" to him, so he took the initiative to invite him to film the drama "The Two Sexes". The most important thing is that Song Zhichao took out the heroine "Britain Lin" to seduce Liu Dehua into the trap.
Who is Brigitte Lin? The goddess of this era! Of course, it is also the object that Liu Dehua hopes to cooperate with. What's more, "The Deer and the Cauldron: The Dragon Sect" filmed by Zhou Xingchi can cooperate with Brigitte Lin. Why can't he?
Immediately, Liu Dehua agreed to Song Zhichao with great righteousness: "Okay, I am willing to star in "The Two Sexes"!"
After hearing what Liu Dehua said, Song Zhichao laughed and said, "Sure enough, Andy Lau, you are very loyal, I'll give you a thumbs up!"
Liu Dehua didn't understand what it meant to give a thumbs up, but he could feel that Song Zhichao was praising himself - but he didn't know that he would soon be defeated and was dragged to death by "Legend of God of War". He wouldn't have thought that Song Zhichao would use the play "The Twins of the Peerless" to make Phantom Entertainment make a big profit again.
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The annual company meeting of Phantom Entertainment is temporarily over.
Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi and other senior executives left one after another. Soon, only Song Zhichao and Fu Ershao Fu Jiajun were left in the entire conference room.
Fu Jiajun yawned and suddenly said to Song Zhichao: "Don't you think it's too much to cheat Andy Lau like this?"
Song Zhichao smiled slightly, "Did you see it?"
"I am also the second boss of the company. When will our company plan to film "The Twins"? It is clearly the decision you made just now." Fu Jiajun said smartly, "Also, why don't you invest in filming "Legend of God of War"? I watched that drama that looks very good."
Song Zhichao took out a cigarette box, took out a cigarette and threw it to Fu Jiajun. He also took out one and held it in his mouth, lit it, and took a sip and said, "If I said that the Legend of the God of War will be killed, do you believe it?"
Mr. Fu shot a cigarette in the ashtray, raised his face and smiled and said to Song Zhichao: "I may not believe it before, but now I believe it."
"Why?"
"Because you call Superman Chao!" Fu Jiajun smiled, "Of course, some people call you Bitch Chao, but I still like others to call you Superman Chao-you really looks like Superman. Since you met you, you have created one miracle after another."
After pausing, Fu Jiajun narrowed his eyes and sniffed his cigarette and said, "I don't know why, now I believe you. Even if you say Andy Lau's "God of War" is going to compensate, I believe it; because since you, Song Zhichao, you, have never done a losing deal!"
"Oh my God, you don't know. Sometimes when I count my fingers, you are even better than Zhuge Kongming. Since you are surging the business world, you have almost no omissions and never missed it - if you weren't a living person, I really doubted whether you were sent by God!"
After sighing, Fu Jiajun said again: "So my dad often tells me that you are lucky enough and have enough, as long as you follow you to do things!"
Song Zhichao smiled: "Then I asked you to invest in the stock market with me, why don't you invest?"
Fu Jiajun also smiled, "It's not that I don't want to vote, it's because I'm about to get married - by the way, our family will hold an engagement banquet tonight, you must come!"
Song Zhichao: “…”
He had never expected that Fu Jiajun would make him get engaged.
It came so suddenly and so bizarrely.
Chapter completed!