Kang Jianfei read the newspaper with his legs crossed, while Yu Rentai drank tea from time to time and looked at the door of the tea restaurant.
Last year, Kang Jianfei said that he wanted to meet Zhang Guozhong, but he was too busy and had no time. It is only now that "Dao Ma Dan" is about to be released, and other people are busy with the promotion and screening work, so Kang Jianfei has been able to relax.
Yu Yantai has been working as a screenwriter in the production department of DreamWorks these days. The scripts of "Swordsman" and "Mr. Zombie 2" were actually completed with the help of Yu Yantai, which saved Kang Jianfei a lot of time.
Apart from that, Yu Rentai didn't have much to do at DreamWorks. He went through and revised the script of "City Patrol" more than ten times. Yesterday, he took the script to Kang Jianfei again, and Kang Jianfei agreed immediately.
He was told to find a strong and handsome actor to play the leading role.
While waiting for Zhang Guozhong, Yu Yantai has been thinking about who should play the leading role. The first choice in his mind is Zhou Runfa, but unfortunately Zhou Runfa is from TVB now, so he probably can't hire him.
Kang Jianfei suddenly said: "Artest, Zhou Runfa officially signed a five-year contract with TVB in the autumn of 1976, and the contract will expire in more than two months. As far as I know, he now wants to enter the big screen, but he has been hesitant.
I haven’t renewed my contract with TVB yet.
Yu Rentai was stunned and asked: "Mr. Kang, do you want to sign Zhou Runfa?"
"I have this idea. If Zhang Guozhong is willing to join DreamWorks, you two will do the poaching of Zhou Runfa. I will let Zhang Guozhong be Zhou Runfa's agent." Kang Jianfei said with a smile, "By the way, Wu Mengda and Zhou Runfa are good friends.
Let him go with you."
In the parallel space, there is a very famous movie in the history of Hong Kong movies called "The Story of Hu Yue". It directly made Zhong Chuhong famous and allowed Zhou Runfa to successfully transform from a TV star to a movie star.
This movie was supposed to be released more than three months ago, but due to the butterfly effect brought about by Kang Jianfei, the production company of "The Story of Hu Yue" stopped production last year, and the producer Li Shaoxia returned to her original business selling clothes.
, executive producer Teddy Robin ran to Xinyi City early.
All these factors made the film's director, Xu Anhua, run into obstacles with the script written by Zhang Jianting. No one was willing to invest in this literary film that would probably fail on the street.
In other words, today's Zhou Runfa is just a TV star and has only made some minor movies. Except for TVB, if Kang Jianfei wants to sign Zhou Runfa, no one will compete with him.
Although Yu Rentai was a little surprised that Kang Jianfei liked Zhang Guozhong, he was so excited that the script he wrote himself could be made into a movie and he didn't think much about it.
Kang Jianfei continued to read the newspaper. He was holding a copy of "Wen Wei Po". The front page headline was the news of the Hong Kong property market plummeting, and the second page was the news that a mainland martial arts troupe was coming to Hong Kong to exchange and perform kung fu. Li Lianjie
His name is clearly listed.
Just as Kang Jianfei was thinking about recruiting Li Lianjie, Yu Rentai suddenly said: "Zhang Guozhong is here."
Zhang Guozhong, who was wearing glasses and a suit, walked over and said quickly when they met: "Sorry, the property market and stock market have plummeted in the past few days, and I am also very busy at my foreign bank, so I am late."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "It's okay, just sit down."
After Zhang Guozhong ordered a cup of silk stocking milk tea, he couldn't help but look at Kang Jianfei. He had been famous for Kang Jianfei for a long time. He became a billionaire from scratch before he was 20 years old. In Hong Kong, which advocates wealth, he is definitely someone the working class looks up to.
Idol level exists.
Yu Rentai took advantage of the topic and said: "Ah Zhong, if you are too busy with the foreign business, just don't do it."
Zhang Guozhong smiled and said: "How can I eat if I don't do something?"
Yu Rentai glanced at Kang Jianfei and said, "Mr. Kang would like to invite you to work at DreamWorks."
Zhang Guozhong said in surprise: "Invite me? I have only worked at Zhucheng Pictures for a few months. I can't do anything in the film company."
Yu Rentai said: "Mr. Kang would like to invite you to join the Artist Department of DreamWorks as an agent."
Zhang Guozhong looked at Kang Jianfei and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Kang, are you kidding me?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "Of course I am serious. I have a task for you now. Zhou Runfa's contract with TVB is about to expire. You are responsible for signing him, and then you will be his agent."
The reason why Kang Jianfei convened to recruit Zhang Guozhong was because there were no good agents in the Artist Department of DreamWorks. Pan Yingzi was busy with other affairs of the company, and it was too busy to be an agent anymore.
In addition to Zhang Guozhong, Kang Jianfei finally dumped Chen Bingkun, the big-mouthed one, to the artist department. This guy was the scriptwriter of "Dao Ma Dan". He was too clever and energetic, but he always had small problems. Kang Jianfei didn't want to keep him in the production department.
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As for Zhang Guozhong, in a parallel space, this person has served as the agent for celebrities such as Zhou Runfa, Andy Lau, Irene Wan, Alan Tam, Shawn Yue and so on. He definitely has the talent to be an agent.
Zhang Guozhong was naturally attracted by the young rich man's personal recruitment, not to mention that he himself liked working in the entertainment industry, and his job at a foreign company was really boring.
Zhang Guozhong thought about it briefly and said: "I'm honored that Mr. Kang can think highly of me, but I need to discuss this matter with my boss first. She still takes good care of me."
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: "It should be."
After taking care of Zhang Guozhong, everyone had finished their business and started chatting casually. The topic was naturally the property market and stock market, which have been the most talked about recently.
Yu Rentai said: "Property prices have fallen so much in the past few days, it's time to stop. If they continue to fall, real estate developers will have to jump off the building en masse."
Zhang Guozhong shook his head and said: "It's still very early for the real estate prices to end. A lot of people speculated on real estate some time ago, and the real estate prices were raised too high. It's so high that it's scary. It would be strange if it didn't collapse."
Yu Yantai said: "It's not a crash, it's just a drop in property prices."
Zhang Guozhong said with a smile: "I work in a foreign bank, and I know some things very well. Although property prices have dropped by nearly one-fifth, they have definitely not fallen to the bottom yet. You must not buy a house in the past two years."
Kang Jianfei listened to the conversation between the two of them, but he was thinking in his heart: The collapse of Hong Kong's property market in the 1980s seemed to be caused by Sino-British negotiations. Now that the two sides have not officially started talks, why has the property market started to collapse?
In other words, Hong Kong property prices have never fallen to the bottom. The real property market collapse has not yet begun. It will have to wait until China and Britain start negotiations.
Kang Jianfei suddenly woke up and decided to wait until property prices and land prices fell to the bottom and take the opportunity to make a fortune.
Kang Jianfei didn't understand financial stocks, but he could still do it by buying land and building at low prices and then selling them after two years.
How did Li Chaoren make his fortune?
Didn't he take advantage of the Cultural/Revolutionary Movement in Hong Kong, which caused social unrest, and land prices and house prices plummeted? Then he used all his money to buy land and houses at the bottom, and his net worth doubled several times in two or three years.
After having afternoon tea, I returned to the company. As soon as I entered the office and sat down, secretary Chen Shuli came in with an invitation and said, "Mr. Kang, this is the invitation from the Chinese Martial Arts Exchange Group forwarded by Wen Wei Po."
Kang Jianfei asked: "What's going on?"
Chen Shuli said: "On August 1, the Chinese Wushu Exchange Group will perform a martial arts performance at the Lee Stage. Many Hong Kong social elites, including the Governor of Hong Kong, will go to watch."
Kang Jianfei laughed self-deprecatingly: "It seems that I have truly become an elite."
Chen Shuli asked: "I heard that the Chinese martial arts exchange group will come to Hong Kong in late July, which will happen to be the premiere of "Daoma Dan". Do I need to invite them?"
Kang Jianfei was afraid that inviting these people to attend the premiere would cause dissatisfaction with the Taiwanese authorities. But considering that there was also Li Lianjie in the show, he didn't care what the Taiwanese authorities thought, and nodded: "Please."
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Zhao Yazhi walked elegantly into the cafe wearing a pink silk shirt and a pair of high heels. Her long wavy hair swayed as she walked, and she immediately attracted countless male customers in the cafe.
Xu Anhua stood up and shook hands with Zhao Yazhi and said: "Azhi, I took the liberty of inviting you out for coffee this time and delaying your filming time. I'm really sorry."
Zhao Yazhi smiled and said: "Sister Anhua is treating us, I will come out no matter what."
The two reminisced about old times and kept chatting for more than ten minutes. Only then did Xu Anhua gradually get to the point and asked: "Azhi, are you friends with Mr. Kang?"
Zhao Yazhi and Kang Jianfei are good friends. This is no secret in the circle. The fact that Kang Jianfei drove to visit to pick up Zhao Yazhi from work has gradually spread in the circle. Even Lin Qingxia and Guan Zhilin have heard about it.
Qingxia didn't ask any more questions, but Guan Zhilin lost her temper. Kang Jianfei had to coax her for a while before she calmed her down.
When mentioning Kang Jianfei, Zhao Yazhi smiled sweetly and said, "We can be considered good friends."
This is what Xu Anhua was waiting for. She said: "I have a script in my hand, and I want Mr. Kang to read it in person, but I don't have a chance to meet him."
Zhao Yazhi immediately understood what Xu Anhua meant, and obviously wanted Kang Jianfei to invest in the movie. The two had some friendship before, and it was difficult to refuse, so she could only say: "I can ask him out for a meal, but A Fei disagrees.
I can’t guarantee it.”
"Of course, no one can say for sure about investment, as long as Mr. Kang can take a serious look at my script." Xu Anhua said with a smile.
Xu Anhua's last movie "The Robbery" was invested by Liang Shuyi and Zhang Aijia's Bigo Film Company. Unfortunately, Bigo Film Company has been dissolved long ago.
Xu Anhua took the script of "The Story of Hu Yue" and first went to New Art City to find his old friend Zhang Aijia. After reading the script, Zhang Aijia liked the script very much and recommended it to Mecca and others. But how could Mecca agree to make such a literary film? Just do it directly
Refused.
Xu Anhua had no choice but to think of other ways, because she had worked in TVB before, so she went to Fang Yihua with the script. Shaw Brothers was reducing the production of films now, and would not invest in this kind of literary film, so she declined politely.
In the past few months, Xu Anhua had been in trouble and couldn't even get a penny of investment. He had no choice but to ask Zhao Yazhi for help in contacting Kang Jianfei. (To be continued.) q