During the formation of Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (Oriental Group for short), Hong Kong ushered in the 4th Film Awards.
DreamWorks has the most nominations for this year's Academy Awards. "Love in a Fallen City" directed by Ann Hui and starring Chow Yun-fat and Chung Chu Hong won 6 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director; "Public Servant" directed by Li Xiuxian won the Best Actor.
There were 5 nominations including Best Supporting Actor; and "The Flag Soldiers" directed by McDonald Bear was even more impressive, winning 9 categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Newcomer, and Best Screenplay.
Nominate.
On the contrary, although Kang Jianfei's film sold like crazy at the box office, the judges at the Academy Awards did not give it any face, and did not even get a nomination. Also, nonsensical grassroots comedies like "The Gambler" and "The Saint" are funny.
It's enough to make money by being funny, but it really doesn't compare to movies with such connotations as "The Flag Soldiers of the Province and Hong Kong" that won awards.
On the other hand, "The Terminator" invested by Kang Jianfei, although it did not win an Oscar, it swept three trophies at last year's Saturn Awards (science fiction film awards).
The third administrative building of Tseung Kwan O Studios was renovated and the video tape company managed by Ye Zhiming officially moved in and merged with the distribution departments of DreamWorks and Pop Records to form Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company.
Although Ye Zhiming is still the general manager of this company, he feels a little boring. He wants to specialize in the video tape business and monopolize the video tape business in Hong Kong in the future. However, the news that Kang Jianfei is the company's major shareholder has long been known, and then
Coupled with the ban imposed by the Taiwan authorities, the video company's business has plummeted, and its development prospects are extremely bleak.
Ye Zhiming is a strange man who doesn't want to be inferior to others. In another time and space, this man had great success and failure in the shopping mall. When he was prosperous, he had billions of properties. He often won and lost millions playing Pai Gow, but in the end he saw through the mortal world and became a monk.
Now that he has become the general manager of Kang Jianfei's company, Ye Zhiming can only continue to work in this position, just waiting for one day to see business opportunities and make a comeback again on his own.
Two days before the Academy Awards ceremony, Kang Jianfei approached Ye Zhiming, who had just moved into the No. 3 Administration Building: "Old Ye, I heard that you have opened a resort on Qiaozui Island?"
"I thought you were talking to me about the company," Ye Zhiming smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly, "Don't mention the Qiaozui Island Resort. I have to bear a lot of debt for it."
Kiu Tsui Island is a small offshore island in the New Territories. If people from the urban area of Hong Kong want to go to Kiu Tsui Island, they can either rent a boat and go directly from the sea. Or they can cross the sea and take Kowloon to Sai Kung and then take a fishing boat. It is so remote.
It’s countless times more troublesome than going to Macau.
Before the real estate bubble burst, the Jeans Empire collapsed, and Yip Chi Ming, who changed hands with the film company, raised tens of millions of dollars and prepared to make a desperate move to develop the Qiao Tsui Island Resort. As you can imagine, Yip Zhiming still owes a lot of debt. As for Qiao Tsui Island,
The resort was only half-built before being abandoned and abandoned.
In the original time and space, Ye Zhiming would sell this resort with an investment of tens of millions in two years, for an astonishing price... 650,000.
Kang Jianfei said: "I know you are not willing to help others manage the company. Merging the company into the Eastern Group is not the original intention of our cooperation. We are the same type of people, so we won't beat around the bush, or I will buy a resort to help you pay off your debt. And
You can help me manage the issuing company with peace of mind, or I will pay to buy back your shares, and you can use the money to find another future."
Ye Zhiming didn't expect Kang Jianfei to speak so directly, which really made it difficult for him to make a choice. He didn't expect that he would make a comeback in the future, and he didn't have the slightest confidence in his future, but he was used to being a boss and really wasn't used to helping others. Although he worked part-time
His salary is more than what many small bosses earn.
After thinking about it, Ye Zhiming still succumbed to reality and said: "I choose the first one. How much do you want to spend to buy Qiaozui Island Resort?"
"What do you think?" Kang Jianfei asked.
Ye Zhiming said: "I have invested more than 12 million in Qiaozui Island Resort. Now that the real estate industry in Hong Kong is picking up, how about selling it to you for 5 million?"
Kang Jianfei did not comment, but asked: "How much money do you still owe now?"
"It's still 7,788, I still owe three to four million." Ye Zhiming said easily, he didn't take the millions seriously at all.
"Okay. Just 5 million." Kang Jianfei agreed.
Ye Zhiming glanced at Kang Jianfei approvingly. No one would take over his resort, let alone selling it for 5 million, even if it only sold for 500,000. Ye Zhiming had a clear sense of grudges in his work. Since Kang Jianfei was so generous, he would naturally go all out to help.
Kang Jianfei managed the publishing company well.
Kang Jianfei never engages in loss-making transactions. Although Qiaozui Island has little investment value in the past five years, it has beautiful scenery and is far away from the city. Building a resort in the 1990s will definitely make money.
Kang Jianfei actually didn't want to make much money. He wanted to spend some more money to buy the entire Qiaozui Island, build a few luxury houses on the basis of the original resort, and buy a yacht to travel between Hong Kong Island and Qiaozui Island.
Think of Qiaozui Island as your own haven for relaxation and relaxation.
After Kang Jianfei spent money to build the Tseung Kwan O Studios and bought properties and land, he still had more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars sitting in the bank with no use, and it really didn't cost much to buy the entire Kiu Tsui Island.
After calming down Ye Zhiming's mind, Kang Jianfei began to think about making comics again.
Nowadays, Japanese comics have poured into Hong Kong. Doraemon, Dragon Ball, etc. are very popular in Hong Kong, but they are still far from occupying the market. In Hong Kong today, Hong Kong comics are still the mainstream of the market, such as "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee"
and "Heroes of China" are the best-selling comics in Hong Kong.
A few years ago, Huang Yulang was at the height of his success. Yulang International, the company he founded, dominated the world, and he even used sky-high royalties to hire Ni Jiang to make his new magazine famous.
Just last year, Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei withdrew from Yulang International, and the two later set up their own business. Now they have formed a three-thirds world situation. Of course, Huang Yulang's Yulang International still occupies the vast majority of the market share, and Shangguan
Brothers Xiaobao, Shangguan Xiaowei and Wu Kangcao all managed to hold on with great reluctance.
Yulang International is planning to go public, and Huang Yulang will never sell it. If Kang Jianfei wants to enter the comic industry now, he has no choice but to invest in Shangguan Xiaobao's Bayer Painting Society, or Shangguan Xiaowei's Xiaowei Publishing House.
It is easy to choose between the two Shangguan brothers. Bayer Painting Society mainly publishes Kung Fu comics such as "Bruce Lee" and "Fang Shiyu", while Xiaowei Publishing House mainly publishes thriller comics such as "The Lost World". The latter's audience is
It's really too narrow.
But Kang Jianfei's idea was to buy out both the Bayer Painting Society and Xiaowei Publishing House. Then he would find the cartoonist Shangguan Xiaolong, and use the gimmick of the three Shangguan brothers to gather together to cooperate with the release of the comic version of "The Misty Journey".
"Heroes of China" and "Dragon and Tiger Gate" used to resist Yulang International.
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An office building in Ka Yip Street, Hong Kong Island.
Shangguan Xiaobao walked into his company whistling. He had enough reasons to be happy about his comeback. After receiving support from the publisher Tongde Books and Newspapers and the printer Yousheng Printing Company, Shangguan Xiaobao finally re-established the Bayer Painting Society.
, and got back the copyright of "Bruce Lee" from Yulang International.
"Boss, the sales volume of the latest issue of "Bruce Lee" is less than 20,000 copies." The assistant's words made Shangguan Xiaobao wake up from his complacency.
Shangguan Xiaobao asked: "What about "Chinese Heroes" and "Dragon and Tiger Gate"?"
The assistant followed Shangguan Xiaobao from Yulang International. He was well-informed at Yulang International and reported: "The sales volume of "Heroes of China" is more than 40,000 copies, and the sales volume of "Dragon and Tiger Gate" is close to 40,000 copies."
Ten years ago, the sales volume of "Dragon and Tiger Gate" was a full 100,000, and the peak sales volume of "Bruce Lee" reached over 80,000 copies. Unfortunately, after the Hong Kong government investigated and cracked down on the comics industry, Hong Kong comics collapsed, and sales were directly reduced by half.
Japanese comics are eroding the market little by little, and the sales of Hong Kong comics are even less.
Other comics are published in pictorials. Only the three comic series "Chinese Heroes", "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Bruce Lee" are the most famous. They are published independently from the doll newspapers and are sold as 34-page full-color weekly magazines.
The price is 8 yuan per copy (the uniform price of Hong Kong newspapers is 1 yuan at this time).
"Bruce Lee" is Shangguan Xiaobao's masterpiece and now the signature work of the Bayer Painting Society. The increasingly low sales volume really gives Shangguan Xiaobao a headache.
But no matter how hard it was, he still had to finish the comics, otherwise eating would be a problem, so Shangguan Xiaobao dove into the studio.
After Yulang International unified Hong Kong Manchuria a few years ago, Huang Yulang carried out assembly line reforms for comic creation. He established departments necessary for the publishing industry such as printing, color separation, typesetting, and binding, and built new printing machines and
The color separation machine greatly improved the printing quality of comic books. In order to expand the company's production volume, Huang Yulang divided comic production into drafts (drawing the composition), hooks (drawing the heads of characters), and bodywork (painting).
The character's body), filling the head (responsible only for the character's hair) and other steps, each step has a different painter responsible for it.
Shangguan Xiaobao spent several years at Yulang International and learned this kind of assembly line very well. Although his Bayer Painting Club is small, it is relatively formal in terms of comic production.
Including Shangguan Xiaobao, there were a total of six people in the painting club, and they began to create meticulously every day.
"Dong dong dong!"
"Come in!" Shangguan Xiaobao didn't even raise his head, and the brush in his hand never stopped.
The assistant said: "Boss, Mr. Zeng called you and said he wanted to invite you to dinner on behalf of Mr. Kang Jianfei."
Shangguan Xiaobao suddenly raised his head, thinking that he heard wrongly, and asked in surprise: "Who did you say asked me to dinner?"
The assistant repeated: "Mr. Kang Jianfei Kang, I will invite you to dinner at Fulinmen at seven o'clock tomorrow evening."
"Why is Kang Jianfei looking for me?" Shangguan Xiaobao was confused. He had no contact with Kang Jianfei at all, and he really couldn't figure out why the other party was looking for him.
Is DreamWorks going to make the comic "Bruce Lee" into a movie?
Thinking of this, Shangguan Xiaobao can't wait to rush to Fulinmen Restaurant to wait early. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest
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