It is really difficult to define whether Xinyi City and Zhang Jianting are infringements, and suing them in court is a headless lawsuit.
Because New Art City and Zhang Jianting never said that "Goodbye Seven Days" is a sequel to "Seven Days of Fraud", and the two movies do not have much relevance in content and plot. But only from the title of the movie, New Art City is obviously using the reputation of "Seven Days of Fraud" to attract audiences, and when doing promotion, I also intentionally or unintentionally mislead it as a sequel.
The definition of infringement of such novels, movies and other literary works is very difficult. Only those who can win the lawsuit will know, but the longer the incident will delay, the higher the lawyer's fees will be, and the less money will be particularly uncomfortable.
"When I was filming the movie last year, I said not to use the name of the "Seven Days Love". You just don't listen. Now I'll wait and have a lawsuit slowly!" Huang Baiming sat there with a cold face, looking at Shi Tian and Mecca with expressionless face.
Huang Baiming traveled abroad for more than two months and returned to Hong Kong a few days ago. He found that the box office battle of "Congratulations on the Rich" of New Art City failed. He was then sued for infringement by DreamWorks, and there were a bunch of messes in the company waiting to be dealt with.
"Okay, I have consulted a lawyer, Kang Jianfei won't win this lawsuit." Shi Tian smiled quite relaxedly.
Huang Baiming said angrily: "If you want money for a lawsuit, will Kang Jianfei help you pay the lawyer's fee?"
"Okay, things have come to this point, and it doesn't make sense to argue about who is right and who is wrong," Mecca said impatiently. "Today we should discuss what movies we should make."
Huang Baiming said angrily: "What else do you want to make? The company only has more than 600,000 yuan on its books, so it will be left to the employees for their salary."
Mecca smiled and said, "When the box office of "Congratulations on the Rich" and "Goodbye Seven Days" is divided, won't the company be rich? Our film planning should be ahead."
Well, this is the famous New Art City, and it is actually at the point where the rice is put into the pot.
When the Hong Kong real estate bubble just burst, Lei Juekun lost both the real estate market in the stock market and saw the film department of New Art City selling for the top spots, so he increased his investment in movies, so he had several big casts like "Best Partner".
Later, Lei Juekun suffered too much losses in the stock market and real estate market. Not only could he not increase his investment in Xinyi City, but he would continue to draw funds from Xinyi City to make up for the holes, and even sold several Golden Princess Cinemas.
The big bosses of Xinyi City play this way, and Mecca, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming are no exception. Anyway, after making money in a movie, they should share what they deserve first, and reserve a portion of the funds for company operation and movie investment. In addition, the subsequent funds for overseas box office recovery, Xinyi City can still develop smoothly.
After being hit hard by commercial damage, Lei Juekun's health was no longer as good as before. Maybe he would not have lived for a few years. His enthusiasm for Xinyi City and Princess Jin has greatly reduced and he refused to continue to invest more. Xinyi City can only operate on its own and bear its own profits and losses.
In parallel space, in just five years, Xinyi City has grown from a film company with only a few employees to a studio, dubbing room and record company with more than 100 employees, with a basic expense of nearly 10 million yuan per year, gradually moving closer to the large studio mode. Since 1985, Xinyi City has become a giant, and since this year, Xinyi City has suffered losses for the first time, and later it has declined and declined.
With the emergence of Kang Jianfei, the development of this new art city in time and space has not been so smooth. It does not have its own exclusive record company, and only has about 60 employees, but the losses have also occurred.
In contrast, although Kang Jianfei has a big family, his record companies, agency companies, film companies and TV stations are complementary. The four companies often share artists and equipment. Similar departments have long been adjusted or combined into one, greatly reducing operating costs. Now, Kang Jianfei's four major companies have more than 500 formal employees, but the total annual administrative operating expenses are only less than 60 million.
(For Oriental Entertainment, the past more than 100 signed stars were resources and burdens, and hundreds of Hong Kong film companies were all customers of Oriental Entertainment. Since being banned by the Taiwan authorities, Oriental Entertainment has lost these customers, leaving a large group of celebrities to have to eat.
Therefore, from a certain perspective, the job-changing of Alan Tam, Hui Ying-hong and others is actually a good thing, which greatly reduces the expenses of Oriental Entertainment Company. Even if they don’t leave, Kang Jianfei will take the initiative to terminate the contract with him at some point. If they leave by themselves, Kang Jianfei can still earn a penalty for liquidated contract.
Now, because it is self-sufficiency, dozens of signed actors are enough, and the enrollment of training classes of Oriental Entertainment has also changed from one move per year to one move per year.)
The current situation is that Mecca has money, Shi Tian has money, and Huang Baiming has money, but this money is their own. The money on the books of Xinyi City is only enough to pay employees.
Shi Tian thought about it for a while and said, "The box office share of "Congratulations on Fa Cai" should be reached, and the company can get six or seven million."
Mecca calculated the accounts and said: "There will be more than one million yuan in Singapore next month. It will save some money and be enough to make two movies."
"What are you taking?" Huang Baiming asked.
Shi Tian thought for a while and said, "Let's make comedy gambling movies, gambling movies are very popular recently."
Huang Baiming doesn’t like following the trend in film creation. He shook his head and said, “No, there must be countless followers after the “Gambling Saint” has been sold. Xinyi City also films comedy gambling movies and it is very likely that they will fail.”
Mecca scratched her head and said, "How about bringing Xu Guanjie in there, he has made several comedy gambling movies before."
Huang Baiming reminded: "What audiences like to watch now is nonsense, and Xu's comedy is outdated."
Neither left nor right, Mecca said with a little depressed feeling: "Then what do you think you are taking pictures?"
Huang Baiming, like Shi Tian and Mecca, had long lost his passionate state when he started his business. After thinking for a long time, he said, "I haven't thought about it yet, let's talk about it."
"Then let's talk about it another day," Mecca looked at her watch and stood up suddenly and said, "The market has been opened. I want to go and see my stocks and talk about it next time!"
Mecca threw down a word and disappeared quickly. Shi Tian also said, "I have made an appointment to go to see the property and leave first."
Huang Baiming stayed alone in the conference room and sat for a long time before sighing.
This is the disadvantage of starting a company with good friends. When starting a business, everyone shares the joys and sorrows. Once the career grows bigger, various differences will arise.
Once upon a time, Dianmao and Shaw Brothers were typical representatives of the large studio system. The reason why they can develop and exist for a long time was that the company's boss could make a big deal. Now, Xinyi City is also moving closer to the large studio system, but the three bosses are constantly disagreeing and have no passion to work normally.
The same is true in parallel spaces. In 1984, the scale of Xinyi City developed rapidly in 1985, and the relationship between Huang, Mai and Shi quickly became worse. By 1985, Xinyi City's production volume increased greatly, but the three bosses rarely participated in the film production. They were all directors such as Yu In-tai, Wu Yusen, Lin Lingdong, and Xu Ke, which also showed the collapse of the three-person group.
Of course, there is also a change in mentality. After all, after becoming a boss of a large company, you don’t need to do everything yourself and have more time to work on other things, such as stock trading, real estate speculation and travel.
Huang Baiming returned to his office and asked his secretary to call his apprentice Gao Zhisen and said to him: "Asen, I want to make an urban comedy. Do you have any good ideas?"
Gao Zhisen silently took out a resignation letter and said, "I want to go to Debao."
The smile on Huang Baiming's face disappeared instantly, he glanced at the resignation letter and asked, "Why do you want to leave? Xinyi City has wronged you?"
Gao Zhisen lowered his head and did not speak. He really felt a little sorry for Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming waved his hand and said, "Okay, everyone can get together and part. I have accepted your resignation letter."
After Gao Zhisen patted his butt and left, Huang Baiming suddenly felt distracted when facing a huge company. But Mecca and Shi Tian were both hands-off managers, and he had no choice but to ask his secretary again, "Call Lin Lingdong!"
Not long after, Lin Lingdong walked into the office and asked, "Mr. Huang, are you looking for me?"
"Didn't you say you were writing a script last time? Have you written it?" Huang Baiming asked.
Lin Lingdong nodded and said, "It's already written, I'll bring it to you now."
Half an hour later, Huang Baiming finished watching Lin Lingdong's "Love God One" and commented: "A romance film with a very clichéd plot, if you want to sell it, you need the director's ability to tell stories. Do you have the confidence to shoot it?"
How could Lin Lingdong guarantee that he would definitely sell the top spot? He could only say: "I will do my best."
"I believe you, go and prepare. The next drama of the company will film "Love One"." Huang Baiming is still very confident in Lin Lingdong's directorial level.
After Lin Lingdong left, Huang Baiming's secretary suddenly said, "Manager, don't you notify Mr. Mai and Mr. Shi about filming "God of Love One"?"
Huang Baiming said a little unhappy: "No, you can go your own, don't meddle in other people's business."
"Oh," the secretary walked out with his head down, and suddenly stopped and said, "Manager, today's newspaper is on the table."
"I understand, you go down." Huang Baiming said impatiently, picking up a newspaper and turning it over.
After only a few minutes of watching, Huang Baiming suddenly flipped into a page, and then almost fell under his desk in shock. The headline title of that page was: Dreamworks, Phoenix Station is undergoing group reform, and may take the opportunity to go public.
DreamWorks is going to go public?!
Huang Baiming almost thought he had read it wrong. Shaw Brothers dominated Xiangjiang for so many years and Jiahe broke the box office record every year but didn't go public. Is DreamWorks going to go public?
Is Kang Jianfei really going to list the company?
Obviously it is impossible. To go public, you have to wait a few more years before the best time is.
Chapter completed!