Hong Kong is in chaos in September, but it’s not like there are no good movies released.
Luo Wei Film's "The Devil" was officially released at the Golden Princess Cinema the day after "God of Gamblers" was released. This movie is a horror film, and Luo Wei specially invited Oriental Entertainment Company in order to get a good box office in Taiwan.
Lu Xiuling, a contracted artist, starred in the film - in fact, Luo Wei wanted to hire Lin Qingxia, but Lin Qingxia's salary of up to 1 million was simply not something he could afford, so he had to settle for inviting Taiwan's "Xiao Lin Qingxia" to be the heroine.
Lu Xiuling was an artist under Kang Jianfei, but the movie she starred in was released in the Golden Princess Cinema. Kang Jianfei's disagreement with Golden Princess was well known. This allowed many small film companies in the Hong Kong industry to see the sincerity of Oriental Entertainment Company.
Not only that, the leading actor in "Yin Yang", which was a hit at the box office in New Art City some time ago, is also Alan Tam from Oriental Entertainment Company.
With these two films as demonstrations, other small film companies that still had some doubts finally no longer had to worry about offending Princess Jin by hiring actors under Kang Jianfei, and could freely invite artists from Oriental Entertainment Company to make movies.
"The Devil's Fetus" was released after only one week, and the box office was close to 2 million. The next grand debut was "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", a co-production between New Kunlun and the Mainland. This film was released in Yindu Cinema for a month, and
During the most chaotic period of Hong Kong society, the box office was actually close to 16 million.
Leading actor Tony Leung Ka-fai is now the prospective son-in-law of director Li Hanxiang. Although he became an instant hit because of this film, tragedy is waiting for him not far away, and the day when he will be banned by the Taiwan authorities is not far away.
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Peninsula Teahouse.
Pan Desheng stirred the milk tea, looked around, and smiled with emotion: "Hong Kong is in such a mess, there are even fewer people in the teahouse. In the past, if you came to the Peninsula Teahouse for afternoon tea without a reservation, you had to queue up.
, it’s not like there are only a few people now.”
"It's better to have fewer people. Drinking tea is much more peaceful," Hong Jinbao said while eating a lotus seed paste bun.
Pan Desheng laughed and said: "I thought Mr. Hong would like to be more lively."
"That depends on what's going on," Hong Jinbao suddenly asked, "I wonder what Mr. Pan wants to do when he invites me out today?"
Pan Disheng did not answer directly, but smiled and praised: "I watched Mr. Hong's "Five Lucky Stars" and the filming was really great."
Hong Jinbao said modestly: "It is far worse than Mr. Kang's "God of Gamblers", and the box office was 10 million less."
Pan Disheng nodded and said: "Mr. Kang is really good at making movies. After watching "God of Gamblers", I wanted to play two cards."
It’s not just as simple as being awesome. In the two months since the release of "God of Gamblers", the number of people running from Hong Kong to Macau to gamble has increased by 20% compared to before. In other words, Stanley Ho should really write a thank you letter to Kang Jianfei.
Hong Jinbao had been guessing Pan Disheng's purpose of coming today and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Mr. Pan also likes watching movies."
Pan Desheng said: "When I was studying abroad, I often watched movies to kill time."
Hong Jinbao smiled in agreement and continued to eat lotus seed buns and drink afternoon tea. Since Pan Disheng kept asking, he was not in a hurry to ask.
The two chatted in confusion for a long time before Pan Disheng finally said: "Mr. Hong, are you interested in opening a film company together?"
Hong Jinbao was obviously stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect that Pan Disheng, a young man who sells brand-name jewelry and watches, would actually ask him to partner in a film company.
"My current Baohe company is doing well, and I don't want to open another company for the time being." Hong Jinbao refused directly. He thought that Pan Desheng knew nothing about movies, and he knew what would happen if he cooperated with an outsider.
Pan Disheng is still trying to persuade Hong Jinbao: "Mr. Hong, Baohe's funds are not withdrawn very quickly, and the parent company Golden Harvest will take a share of the box office earned, so there will be less money for reinvestment in filming.
.With the current financial resources of Baohe Film Company, making two movies a year has reached its limit. Wouldn’t the remaining time be wasted? If we cooperate to open a film company, you can make at least four movies a year, which is a chance to make money.
It’s twice as much as before, so why not do it? And I know that I don’t understand movies, so I’m only responsible for investment, and you are fully responsible for the production of the film.”
Hong Jinbao was moved by Pan Desheng's words, but he was still a little wary of Zou Wenhuai's reaction and said, "But Boss Zou..."
"Uncle Zou, don't worry. If we cooperate to open a film company, the films we produce in the future will also be released in Jiahe Cinema." Pan Desheng said with a smile.
Only then did Hong Jinbao realize that Pan Disheng was not just a whim. He had already found all the theaters in advance, and then came to him to discuss cooperation.
However, "Five Lucky Stars" has just made a lot of money, and Hung Kam-bo will not be short of funds in the near future. If Pan Desheng had found him three months ago, Hung Kam-bo might have agreed immediately.
Hong Jinbao thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed, saying: "If Mr. Pan really wants to make a movie, of course I am willing to cooperate with you. However, Baohe is planning to make a new movie recently, and I at least
If I can’t find the energy to do other things within two months, I’ll have to wait for a while before discussing cooperation.”
Pan Disheng smiled and said: "No problem, now we just need to finalize the rough cooperation plan."
Hong Jinbao saw that Pan Desheng wanted to finalize the cooperation, and he could no longer practice Tai Chi, so he had to discuss cooperation with Pan Desheng.
When talking about the company's equity distribution, Pan Disheng said: "What do you think of this? I will provide the company's funds, and I will hold 65% of the shares. You want 25% of the remaining shares, and I will give him 10% of Cen Jianxun's shares."
This is a very generous equity allocation. Pan Desheng is much more generous than Kang Jianfei. The reason why this young man wants to enter the film industry is that he sees the prosperity of Hong Kong films and the profits, and the other is to provide various services for his agents.
Just like Xiang Hua opening a film company to launder money, Pan Disheng does not just focus on box office revenue when making movies.
"Cen Jianxun? He is now the deputy leader of the planning team of the DreamWorks film production department." Hong Jinbao said in surprise.
"That's Cen Jianxun. From now on, the management of the company will be handed over to him. He will resign from DreamWorks when the company opens." Pan Desheng said with a smile. In fact, he and Cen Jianxun are old friends, and it is inevitable to sell famous brand jewelry and watches.
To deal with fashion magazines, Pan Disheng's business relied on sales through advertisements in "Oriental Fashion", while Cen Jianxun used to be the editor-in-chief of "Outside" magazine.
When Pan Desheng planned to start a film company, the first partner he thought of was Cen Jianxun. Later, Cen Jianxun suggested that he bring in Hong Jinbao to take charge of film production.
By the time they left after having afternoon tea, Hong Jinbao and Pan Disheng had finalized the general cooperation plan. Although they did not formally sign a contract, a verbal commitment was enough. Anyway, it was still very early before the company officially opened.
The two even chose the name of the film company, which was called Debao (d※b) Film Company. The "宝" was naturally Hong Jinbao, and the "德" was taken from Pan Desheng's English name Dickson-
initials of poon.
In fact, Debao Film Company was originally founded by Pan Desheng. It was later rumored that he bought Debao from Hong Jinbao and Shun Jianxun. In fact, he only paid for the share of equity held by Hong Jinbao.
Because when Debao was first established, its movies were all released in Golden Harvest Cinemas. Hung Kim-bo was naturally able to shoot films back and forth between the two companies, Debao and Debao, and he was very comfortable. But then Debao failed to make several movies in a row.
When Jiahe Cinema Line got a good time slot, the wealthy Pan Desheng was furious and invested more than 100 million to develop his own theater chain. Debao also changed from Jiahe's satellite company to a competitor.
At this time, Hong Jinbao was faced with the choice of staying in Baohe or Debao, and Hong Jinbao finally chose the former and sold his shares in Debao to Pan Disheng. Another shareholder, Cen Jianxun, continued
He stayed on and served concurrently as the general manager of Debao Cinemas.
Pan Disheng took a fancy to Hong Jinbao's film-making ability, and Hong Jinbao also took a fancy to Pan Disheng's strong financial resources. The first meeting between the two was very harmonious.
After coming out of the Peninsula Hotel, Pan Desheng asked his driver to take Hong Jinbao home and personally sent Hong Jinbao back.
The two continued chatting in Pan Disheng's car. Perhaps because he wanted to enter the film industry, Pan Disheng kept asking various movie-related questions to recharge his batteries.
Many of the questions seemed very naive. Pan Desheng didn't even know the film production process, so Hong Jinbao had no choice but to answer these questions one by one.
"I heard that Golden Harvest has conflicts with Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks, and Golden Princess. When our Debao Company makes movies in the future, can we go to other companies to invite big stars to star in them?" Pan Disheng asked.
Hong Jinbao replied: "This depends on the specific situation. For example, Zheng Shaoqiu is from TVB, but his movie contract is not signed, and the TV contract is also very loose. If we ask Zheng Shaoqiu to make a movie,
Even Shaw Tycoon can't stop him. But hiring Ti Lung is not possible, because Ti Lung is the face of Shaw Brothers. If Ti Lung is hired to act in a movie released at Golden Harvest Cinema, it will be a slap in the face to Shaw Tycoon."
Pan Disheng asked again: "Then can we invite people from Oriental Entertainment Company? This time you invited Zhong Chuhong for "Five Lucky Stars", and there seems to be no problem."
Hung Jin-po said with a smile: "There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film industry now - 'If you are looking for actors, go to Oriental Entertainment Company'. For our next film in Bao Wo, except for a few actors from the Hung Family Class and Golden Harvest, I am ready to hire all the other actors."
Looking for you from Oriental Entertainment Company."
"Oriental Entertainment Company has such great influence in the film industry?" Pan Desheng was quite surprised by this, but he was relieved because his Desheng Jewelry Store now shoots advertisements for promotions and directly looks for stars at Oriental DreamWorks.
In Hong Kong, in terms of the number of film practitioners, the one with the largest number is Shaw Brothers. After all, Shaw Brothers has accumulated decades of experience. However, Shaw Brothers has relatively strict control over its artists.
Under such circumstances, it is difficult and troublesome to invite actors from Shaw Brothers to make movies.
It can be said that Oriental Entertainment Company is the only entertainment agency in Hong Kong so far, which has greatly facilitated the hiring of actors by numerous small film companies in Hong Kong.
Don't underestimate these small film companies. The most prosperous period for Hong Kong films was the early 1990s. At that time, there were hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong. Although it has not reached that level at this time, there are still hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong.
Film companies, except for several large film companies such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, the remaining hundreds of small and medium-sized film companies are all potential customers of Oriental Entertainment Company.
In this summer, Oriental Entertainment, which had only been open for half a year, suddenly saw a huge increase in business, and film appointments for its artists came in like snowflakes.
The most comforting thing for those small companies and directors is that Oriental Entertainment Company also provides various packaged services. Which types of actors are needed, even extras, dragon and tiger martial arts masters, stuntmen, etc., as long as the customer puts forward the request, Oriental Entertainment
Entertainment companies will come up with plans in the shortest possible time, greatly reducing the preparatory time and expenses of these film companies.
There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film circle now, that is to choose actors, go to Oriental Entertainment. Not only can they provide you with the most suitable actors, they can even find you behind the scenes. If you need a photographer, we will give you a photographer.
If you need a movie theme song, that’s no problem. Not only will Fengxing Records help you write and compose the song, but we will also provide one-stop and attentive services for singers and recording.
Only then did many colleagues realize that there are such huge business opportunities in establishing a celebrity agency. In the next few years, more than ten other celebrity companies will be established in Hong Kong. However, in terms of scale and influence, these companies are even less powerful than those in the East.
Even entertainment companies are not worthy of carrying shoes.
Because the most important thing for a celebrity agency is artist resources. In Hong Kong, only Shao Yifu has such huge star resources that can rival Kang Jianfei. However, Shao Yifu will never create a celebrity agency. This is different from the management system of Shaw Brothers and TVB.
Relatedly, if he opens a celebrity management company, it is estimated that all TVB’s celebrity artists will be gone within a few years.
For example, Zhang Weijian filmed "Journey to the West" for TVB in the 1990s. Not only did the ratings set a new record in Hong Kong, the TV series also became popular in half of Asia. TVB made a profit from advertising fees in Asia alone.
Correspondingly, Zhang Weijian, the protagonist of "Journey to the West", worked at TVB for a whole year and got sick from exhaustion before he received a salary of 80,000 yuan.
Zhang Weijian asked TVB to improve his salary, but TVB refused to dump him and directly changed the actors in the sequel of "Journey to the West". Zhang Weijian was also semi-banned for disobeying the arrangement. Naturally, Zhang Weijian was so angry that his balls ached and he stayed until the end of the contract.
After I finished my career, I immediately left TVB to develop in Taiwan and mainland China.
If Shao Yifu dares to set up a celebrity management company, his artists will taste the benefits outside and most likely will not be willing to stay in Shaw Brothers or TVB.
Here Pan Disheng contacted Hong Jinbao and secretly poached Kang Jianfei's ideal future theater vice president Cen Jianxun, but Kang Jianfei had no idea about this. He was watching the release of "Bao Qingtian" on Phoenix Channel, and was attracted by Cheng Long
I and Deng Jingsheng approached me to write a script and said that I was going to start planning a co-production between Golden Harvest and DreamWorks. This was what I had agreed with Zou Wenhuai at the beginning.
Kang Jianfei had a big headache because this time Zou Wenhuai wanted to enter the European and American market with this film. He wanted to show Lin Qingxia's heroic image as a royal senior sister in the film, and also highlight Cheng Long's comedy fighting talent. What the hell
