The Lai Sun Group founded by Lin Baixin was originally a well-established garment company in Hong Kong, and the famous brand "crocodile shirt" was under its name.
However, the economic strength of Lai Sun Group is not very strong. Although Lin Baixin is also working hard to run ATV, and yes, ATV occasionally has classic works released, but the overall strength has improved slowly, and it no longer has the same vitality as ATV during Qiu Degen's period.
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By 1989, the intention to establish an in-depth cooperation between the Future Department and Wireless had been basically reached, and along with it, Fa Ge's management contract was successfully transferred to Youlian.
The TV program "Undefended Tonight" has also been negotiated with TVB and ATV under the mediation of Youlian. The entire program has a total of 100 episodes and is expected to be broadcast for two years. It will be independently produced by Youlian.
The column still invites three talented people besides Jin Yong as hosts. The guests invited in each episode will include the most popular stars, singers and behind-the-scenes personnel in the entire Hong Kong entertainment circle, including other countries and regions that come to Hong Kong for development.
artist.
This new column will be broadcast simultaneously on two TV stations late at night every Saturday. Each episode of the column is 30 minutes long and broadcast in three segments. All content is provided by Youlian for free.
At the same time, Youlian will receive all six prime advertising spaces in this column (the first and last advertising spaces of each program) as a return on investment.
The new version of "Undefended Tonight" filmed through a third party (Youlian) no longer deliberately differentiates between TVB and non-TVB artists, so as to truly reflect the current full picture of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Sun Dahai believes that over time, this column will definitely become the bearer of this history of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Uncle Zhan was discussing a script with several people around him. When he saw Sun Dahai come in, he left the others behind and came over to chat with Sun Dahai.
It turned out that he heard that the soundtrack of "The Last Love" was very good, so he asked Sun Dahai to help Kasol Film Company to ask for a copy in advance to study it.
"No problem. When it's time to go to work over there, I'll let Gao Yi contact me about this matter. By the way, Uncle Zhan, how do you know whether the soundtrack of "The Last Love" is good or not?"
"Xiaolan from the leading studio just came back from the United States. He told me." Uncle Zhan replied.
A leading film and television special effects studio opened a branch in Hong Kong last year. Youlian transferred all its staff responsible for special effects and hired some people from outside.
The manager of the branch is Lan Naicai. He is a senior director in the Hong Kong film industry, but he likes special effects production very much, so he was introduced and became the manager.
The Xiangjiang branch did not undertake any business this year, but went to the American headquarters in batches to study. Compared with Hollywood's film special effects technology, the gap here in Xiangjiang is still very large.
Leading Headquarters has been doing post-production work on "The Love of Ghosts" during this period, so it's not surprising that Lan Nai only knew about the film's soundtrack.
Lan Naicai has participated in the production of many movies as a photographer and director. Even if he is not a professional musician, he is still authoritative enough to evaluate whether a movie's soundtrack is good or not.
"Has the post-production of "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts" been completed?" Sun Dahai asked.
Sun Dahai is quite optimistic about this movie. Otherwise, he would not have proposed to make this movie the first production of Kasol Film Company after its rebirth.
However, Sun Dahai has been busy recently, so he doesn't know where the current progress of "The Love between Humans and Ghosts" is.
"It has been completed. Xiaolan and the others also participated in part of the post-production work, so they have been paying attention to the progress of the film.
Xiaolan told me that two days ago, Hollywood organized movie theater viewers to participate in a preview meeting and received high praise. Xiaolan and the others were very happy, and they made a lot of contributions to this, so they also worked with some
Rong Yan."
Sun Dahai nodded, there are still two weeks until the release date of "The Last Love". To be honest, the post-production work of this movie has just been completed now. It can be seen that the director has paid great attention to every detail, and this movie has become a success.
The effect of the film can also be imagined from this.
Youlian is now well-known and receives many scripts every month. However, Youlian still maintains the habit of only producing high-quality products and never shoddy ones. Therefore, the monthly script review will often have their heads shaved, and even one of them can't
I can’t even pick out the scripts for the project.
Some people have suggested that the company's review would be changed to once a quarter, or even once every six months. However, this suggestion was opposed by Liu Zhenwei and others.
Liu Zhenwei has personal experience of this. A screenwriter who has written a good script must hope to be recognized as soon as possible. Even if the project cannot be approved for the time being, at least the company must give the screenwriter an explanation.
If the company really gets the script and puts it out for a few months, I'm afraid not many screenwriters will be willing to continue sending scripts to Youlian in the future.
In addition to reviewing the scripts received by the company this month, today's review meeting also has an important task, which is to review the script of "New Dragon Inn" that Sun Dahai assigned previously.
Now that he has reached a strategic cooperative relationship with TVB, Sun Dahai is naturally unceremonious. He directed Youlian to buy out the film and television adaptation rights of the movie "Dragon Gate Inn" from TVB for 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, and arranged for Youlian's screenwriter team to collectively create "Dragon Gate Inn".
The movie script of "New Dragon Inn".
As a monument to the new style of martial arts movies, the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" has naturally been on Sun Dahai's mind for a long time.
The adaptation rights of "The Swordsman" were taken away by Tsui Hark early, which already made Sun Dahai unhappy. He could no longer give this movie to him.
Sun Dahai had a plan in mind when he founded Youlian. He must win several classic movies such as "A Better Tomorrow", "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Westward Journey" and "Infernal Affairs".
Whether these movies make money or not is not important to Sun Dahai. The key is that this kind of emotion is what Sun Dahai really cares about.
The script of "New Dragon Inn" successfully passed the preliminary review, and together with Fatty Wang's script "The Gambler" and two other scripts, it will enter tomorrow's review.
This is a natural thing. "New Dragon Inn" is a collective creation. Not only the screenwriting team worked together, Liu Zhenwei, Zhan Shu, Cheng Xiaodong and others also actively contributed to the script.
This movie must be co-produced with mainland China. There are no suitable locations in Xiangjiang. It can't be shot in a studio like the old version of "Dragon Inn", right?
Sun Dahai plans to let Zhang Yimou direct this film. His use of color and the scheduling of large scenes are by no means comparable to the directors of Xiangjiang.
Sun Dahai has always believed that Zhang Yimou's biggest flaw is his inability to tell stories. This is why directors with screenwriting abilities are more likely to achieve success, such as Ang Lee, John Woo, and Sunglasses King.
