When Chu Huan came to Black and White Image, he received bursts of applause. This was the first time Chu Huan returned to Black and White Image after completing the acquisition of Jiahu Textile.
The employees of Black and White Image were sincerely happy when they saw the boss who had created a miracle. After all, the richer their boss was, the better the company's development would be, and their treatment would naturally get better and better.
As for the previous worries, naturally they disappeared because Chu Huan's successful acquisition of Jiahu Textile was published in the newspaper.
Chu Huan was pleasantly surprised to find that he saw several familiar faces in the crowd.
Not an original employee of Black and White Video, but a new recruit.
Liu Pingkui pulled a skinny four-eyed rooster and proudly said to Chu Huan: "Brother Huan, let me introduce to you. This is my newly discovered screenwriter. He wrote the script of my current movie.
of."
After the success of "Happy Ghost", Liu Pingkui successfully made a name for himself in the Hong Kong film industry. He had previously submitted a script to the company, but it happened that Chu Huan was acting at that time, so for Chu Huan's sake, Liu Pingkui added
That script was withdrawn.
Chu Huan learned about this during a meeting at Black and White Video, and asked the company to give Liu Pingkui money to develop the current movie.
Chu Huan only knew that this was also a comedy film and didn't pay much attention to anything else. But he didn't expect that the screenwriter Liu Pingkui was looking for was actually this one - Huang Baiming!
"What are you still doing here, A Ming? Calling someone!"
When Liu Pingkui saw the stunned Huang Baiming, he patted him on the shoulder and said angrily.
Only then did Huang Baiming react, and he called a little dull: "Young Master Huan!"
Although this person will become an absolute big brother in the Hong Kong film industry in the future, Chu Huan just nodded at this time.
Huang Baiming, one of the three giants of New Art City. Although later generations refer to New Art City as the Seven Monsters of New Art City, in fact, New Art City was founded by Huang Baiming, Mai Feng, and Ishida.
Founder, the remaining four people joined later.
"The Best Partner", Hong Kong's first movie with a box office of over 20 million, was written by Huang Baiming. In addition, "Happy Ghost", which Chu Huan had plagiarized before, was also his work, as well as the subsequent "Happy Events at Home" series.
written.
Among them, Huang Baiming also participated in the two series "Happy Ghost" and "Happy Events at Home".
As for the "Ip Man" series that everyone knows about in later generations, he actually ran it.
"This kid used to be an actor at TVB, but he prefers to write scripts!" Liu Pingkui was afraid that Chu Huan would despise Huang Baiming, so he quickly introduced Huang Baiming to Chu Huan and said: "By the way, he used to be a screenwriter, director, and actor of the Youth Drama Club. You can
He is said to be an all-rounder, but the interesting thing is that he actually had his own job before!"
At this time, Huang Baiming was 27 years old, older than Liu Pingkui, but Liu Pingkui didn't think there was anything wrong with calling him a kid!
"Really? I didn't expect him to be an all-rounder. If he does his job well, the company will not bury talented people!"
Chu Huan encouraged with a smile.
Huang Baiming hurriedly said: "Thank you, Mr. Huan, I will definitely work hard!"
Fang Jianhui waited for Chu Huan to finish talking to Huang Baiming, then led three young people to Chu Huan and introduced him to Chu Huan.
"Chairman, these are the three directors selected by our company in this Hong Kong New Director Competition, Mai Fong, Ishida, and Wu Yusen!"
Well, there is no shadow in Xinyi City yet, and the three monsters are gathering in the black and white image.
By the way, we have to add Wu Yusen, a 25-year-old boy.
But what Chu Huan can't accept is that Mai Feng now has long hair. This is very different from his image as a bald man on the screen, and he looks a bit serious, not at all like a comedian. appearance.
It seems that comedians are a bit serious in their daily lives.
Mai Fang is naturally best known for playing the role of a bald man in the movie "The Best Partner".
By the way, Lin Lingdong, the director of the famous drama series "Prison" and "Dragon and Tiger" in the history of Hong Kong films, was discovered by Mai Fang.
"Chairman, Mai Feng is a top student in the film department of New York University. During his studies, he also participated in the filming of "007 The Man with the Golden Gun" as an assistant director. He is also the director with the highest box office in our emerging director competition. He directed The movie’s box office was as high as 970,000 Hong Kong dollars, almost breaking one million!
Originally, he wanted to set up his own film company with his friends, but later he joined our black and white film company because he participated in our emerging director competition."
Fang Jianhui first introduced Maijiao to Chu Huan.
After hearing this, Chu Huan smiled and nodded, "It's not easy to get such a high box office for your first movie!"
Fang Jianhui laughed and said: "This is not his first movie. He also shot a small-budget experimental movie in Hong Kong before, but the box office was average!"
Mai Jiao said: "No compensation!"
Chu Huan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "It would be best if you don't lose money. The company doesn't want a director who loses money!"
The rest of the people were slightly stunned when they heard what Chu Huan said, but some of the new members also understood Chu Huan's definition of movies.
Make money!
If you want to engage in art, it's best not to think about it, unless you can become a presence of Li Hanxiang's level in the company.
Then Fang Jianhui introduced Chu Huan to the second place winner in the emerging director competition - Ishida!
Ishida can be said to have the lowest sense of presence among the three giants of New Art City. For future generations of audiences, the most familiar character may be the character Long Si in "A Better Tomorrow 2".
But in fact, Ishida is one of the three giants of Xinyi City alongside Huang Baiming and Mai Feng. Ishida is still very capable. For a while, Ishida was even called the Chaplin of Hong Kong!
New Arts City's first film "Funny Times" starred Ishida!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There was also Cheng Long's "Snake Shape Trickster" in which Ishida also participated, but later Ishida's mind was no longer on the movie, coupled with the collapse of Xinyi City, in the starring role After finishing "Uncle Cai: Sweeping the World", he immediately quit the film industry. It wasn't until Hong Jinbao's "My Grandpa Agent" that he made a cameo appearance with Mai Fang and Xu Ke!
"Ishida studied at Shaw Brothers' Southern Experimental Theater before, and later signed a contract with Shaw Brothers as an actor. However, the contract expired last year, and he happened to see an advertisement for our company's emerging director competition, so he wrote a script and entered it!
Unexpectedly, he won second place and had a box office of 790,000!"
"I have seen your previous movies, and you are very talented in comedy. You can continue to try it!"
Chu Huan shook hands with Ishida and said.
It was just a plain word of encouragement, but when it fell into Ishida's ears, it was like the sound of nature, and he quickly and respectfully said: "Thank you so much, Mr. Huan, I will definitely continue to work hard!"
The last one is Wu Yusen, whom Chu Huan has very complicated feelings about.
At this time, Wu Yusen still seemed a little green. In fact, he was the same age as Huang Baiming, also 27.
This person does not need to be introduced too much. The films "A Better Tomorrow", "A Better Tomorrow" and "Across the World" that cannot be missed under any circumstances in Hong Kong film history were all directed by this person.
Later, he became the most successful director in Hollywood and produced classic movies such as "Face".
Not to mention "Mission Impossible 2", although Wu Yusen added a lot of his own things to this movie, in the final analysis, this kind of movie belongs only to Tom Cruise.
Unfortunately, he failed later on, and "Wind Talker" almost bankrupted MGM. Then Wu Yusen couldn't survive in Hollywood, so he returned to China and made "Red Cliff 1, 2" with countless flaws.
It is precisely because this director is so famous that even Chu Huan knows more about his affairs. The reason why Wu Yusen is said to be a second grader is because what he does is indeed a second grader. things that will be done.
New Art City's first film "Funny Times" was directed by Wu Yusen, but at that time Wu Yusen had a film contract with Golden Harvest. As a result, Wu Yusen's temper broke out and he directed "Funny Times" under the pseudonym Wu Shangfei.
In addition, he is still a disciple of Zhang Che, but he signed a contract with Jiahe as a director, and the story is quite elaborate.
Later, the filming of "Red Cliff" in China also had so many flaws that I was too lazy to complain about it. Do you know why the movie "Red Cliff" has sister Zhiling?
It's definitely not because of Sister Zhiling's baby voice, but because Wu Yusen was funded by Taiwanese capital in his early years, so when he later entered the domestic market, he had the idea of using domestic capital and market to make Taiwanese artists famous!
(ps: This is what a Taiwanese director said at a foreign director summit. As for the specific details, interested friends can check it out for themselves!)
"This is Wu Yusen, Chang Cheh's apprentice, but he does not have a contract with Shaw Brothers. His movie also won third place in the Emerging Director Competition, and the box office results were HK$50,000 and 740,000 less than Ishida!"
Chu Huan nodded and did not show any dissatisfaction because of his inherent impression of Wu Yusen. No matter who he was, in Chu Huan's eyes at this time, he was a money tree. If he dared to talk to Chu Huan in the future, Regarding the matter of playing with the second and fifth boys, Chu Huan guarantees that there is no place for him in the entire Southeast Asia and later the domestic market and the Hollywood market, let alone in Xiangjiang!
For the Hong Kong Emerging Director Competition, Black and White Investment invested RMB 3 million and shot a total of ten films. As a result, the combined box office of the top three was only an auspicious number of RMB 2.5 million. Fortunately, the combined box office of the last seven was only RMB 2.5 million.
It also exceeded 700,000. It seemed that there was a profit of 200,000, but if you throw away the box office share given to Shanhai Cinema, it would still be a loss of 300,000!
Fortunately, Black and White Image has its own distribution channels in Taiwan and Southeast Asia in cooperation with Shaw Brothers. In the end, it still made a profit of more than one million!
Black and White Video not only discovered a screenwriter and three directors during this period, but also signed contracts with many actors, including Hu Feng, who had previously appeared in "Happy Ghost".
There are also Feng Cuifan who later played Rhinoceros in "Five Lucky Stars" and Wu Yaohan who played Dashengdi.
Feng Cuifan used to be an actor in Shaw Brothers, but now his contract is over. Because he participated in Ishida's movie, he joined Black and White Video together. Wu Yaohan is friends with Mai Fang, and he was originally planning to set up a film company with Mai Fang, but
Because he participated in Mai Fang's movie, Mai Fang didn't have the idea of setting up a film company, so he followed Mai Fong and became an actor in Black and White Video!
"Very good, with everyone joining the company, the company has become stronger and stronger. As for the company's system, everyone must already know it, so as long as you are talented and capable, the company will not treat you badly. Everyone, be well
come on!"
After encouraging everyone, Chu Huan and Fang Jianhui came to the office together.
Fang Jianhui first reported to Chu Huan the recent situation of the company. The first thing was the release of the new movie of Hong Jinbao and Li Hanxiang.
The company has been busy with the emerging director competition, and theaters have allocated these films for release. Li Hanxiang and Hong Jinbao are now the company's two signatures, and their films naturally need more treatment.
For example, in publicity.
After hearing this, Chu Huan expressed no objection and told Fang Jianhui that he would have less and less time to come to Black and White Video in the future, and he could run the company's affairs on his own with confidence and boldness.
Hearing the news, Fang Jianhui was also very happy.
But then, Fang Jianhui also told Chu Huan about another thing.
Chen Xiao disappeared in Xiangjiang!
On the day Chu Tianxiao was arrested, Chen Xiao also disappeared.
"Disappeared? I didn't expect him to run very fast!" Chu Huan sneered. At this time, Chu Huan already knew from Chu Ran's mouth that when "Big J" was released, Chen Xiao's performance was a little abnormal.
, according to Chu Huan’s analysis, it is believed that the person who hired the murderer to stab him was probably Chen Xiao.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Chu Huan was busy with Jiahu Textile at that time, so he had no time to talk to Chen Xiao. Unexpectedly, when he wanted to find him now, he disappeared.
However, this also proved that Chu Huan's speculation was correct.
"As long as he returns to Xiangjiang in the future, he will not be able to escape from the things he is responsible for!" Chu Huan said coldly.
Fang Jianhui scratched his head and said: "One more thing, Rachel and I broke up!"
Chu Huan laughed out loud and said, "Why don't we talk about this matter again? Haven't you already had this idea?"
The relationship between Fang Jianhui and Rachel was a drama of espionage and counter-espionage. Rachel thought that Fang Jianhui didn't know her true thoughts, so she stayed with Fang Jianhui to find out information about Chu Huan.
Fang Jianhui followed Chu Huan's suggestion and took advantage of the situation, while also completing the tasks assigned to him by Chu Huan.
"Brother Huan, don't you want to know how she and Cai Huiling are doing now?" Fang Jianhui asked curiously.
Chu Huan waved his hands and said: "How are they? What does it have to do with me? Now that Chu Tianxiao is finished, they are naturally useless!"
"Sure enough, he is still that man with an iron heart!" Fang Jianhui couldn't help but whisper.
Chu Huan went up and was confused: "Don't think that I can't hear you if you speak softly!"
Rubbing his head, Fang Jianhui said: "Brother Huan, although you will have less time to come to the company in the future, there is something I still want to discuss with you."
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Say it!"
"Now the company has more and more artists and directors, plus newly added screenwriters, so I want to set up three departments in the company: artist department, director department, and screenwriter department. This will also help the company manage them!"
Fang Jianhui stated his plan.
In the past, the market for black and white videos was too small. There were only two directors, Li Hanxiang and Hong Jinbao, and the films they made were basically made by their own team members. Therefore, the directors and actors of black and white videos were basically free-range. It is different now.
The company's development scale is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more actors, directors, and screenwriters. If it continues to be like this, problems will easily arise.
Chu Huan had no objection to Fang Jianhui's proposal, "Okay, let's handle this matter according to your idea!"
Fang Jianhui nodded, and then told Chu Huan his idea.
At this time, in a lounge in the black and white image, the four Xu brothers were sitting there, discussing something softly.
"Brother, now that Mr. Huan is here, I think you might as well go find Mr. Huan with your new script!" Xu Guanwu said to Xu Guanwen, who was sitting there thinking about something.
When filming a movie directed by Li Hanxiang, Xu Guanwen also wrote a script based on his experience as a host. However, Xu Guanwen did not want to hand over the script to other directors in the company to direct, but wanted to be the director himself.
Not only that, Xu Guanwen also wants to participate in the profit sharing of this movie!
This shows how much Xu Guanwen attaches great importance to his script.
"I think we should wait a little longer. After all, as long as the eldest brother makes another movie with a box office of more than 2 million, he can become an S-level actor in the company. At that time, the company can invest in the eldest brother and establish his own film company."
Xu Guanjie didn't want his eldest brother to go find Chu Huan at this time.
At this time, Xu Guanwen had become an A-level actor in the company due to the success of two consecutive movies!
Remuneration has also been relatively increased.
Xu Guanying thought for a while and said: "I think what Lao Si said is right. Director Li has already said it before. His next movie will also star his eldest brother. With Director Li's golden name, the box office of the new movie will exceed 200 yuan."
Wan, isn’t it easy?”
Xu Guanwen thought for a while and said: "Aying, what Ajie said makes sense. Young Master Huan still values us very much. And based on our understanding of Young Master Huan, if we go to Young Master Huan to discuss dividends at this time,
Mr. Huan will definitely not agree to this. Instead of doing this, it is better to wait for a few more months, and I can use this time to polish the content of the script!"
After hearing what Xu Guanwen said, Xu Guanwu didn't say anything.
The suggestion he just made was also in the hope that his eldest brother could become famous as soon as possible.
Chu Huan didn't stay in Black and White Image for too long. After chatting with Fang Jianhui, he left Black and White Image by car and came to Fantasy Comics!
Yasuo Kamikura had already received a call from Chu Huan in advance. At this time, Masaru Tomioka and the people from Fantasy Comics were also waiting for Chu Huan in the lobby.
Just like the black and white video, the scene Chu Huan did some time ago frightened Kamikura Yasuo and others, but fortunately, Zhong Zhichen comforted him, as well as the funds left by Chu Huan, plus Chu Huan
I also came here later, which completely stabilized the situation of fantasy comics.
Among the crowd full of oriental faces, there are also twenty-one white people. They are all North American painters and story editors brought by Kelly.
Chu Huan has also told them the story outlines of "Transformers", "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider". At this time, these people have been divided into three groups and are studying the content and style of the story.
As usual, after appeasing everyone with a few words, Chu Huan, Kamikura Yasuo and Tomioka Masaru came to Chu Huan's office at Fantasy Comics.
Whether it's black and white images or fantasy comics, Chu Huan now has his own office. In fact, this is also a waste of resources. After all, Chu Huan doesn't come to these two companies much anymore.
In the future, when these companies move together to the newly built Jiahu Building, there will be no such waste.
Chu Huan smiled when he saw Zhong Zhichen coming in with Kamikura Yasuo and Tomioka Masaru!
Kamikura Yasuo immediately said: "Achen performed very well before and is a very capable young man, so I hope he can get more involved in the company's affairs!"
Chu Huan nodded, had no objection, and smiled at Zhong Zhichen: "Since Editor-in-Chief Shencang trusts you so much, then work harder in the future!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhong Zhichen said with a serious expression: "We will not let the president down!"
The most important thing about fantasy comics this time is that there are two things. The first is that the previous six comics such as "Dragon Ball" have been released in single volumes. Chu Huan needs to know the sales of the single volumes. The second is to take a look at those North American painters.
's drawings.
On the phone, Kamikura Yasuo told Chu Huan that the painters from North America had completed the design of several editions of drawings and were now waiting for Chu Huan to decide on which drawings to use. Then they could save the drawings and wait for them in May.
It's time to put it in "Fantasy Comics".
"The stand-alone books of "Dragon Ball", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Swordsman", "The Deer and the Cauldron", "Peerless Two Prides" and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" have all been released. Unsurprisingly, the best-selling one is "Dragon Ball", which has been sold in Hong Kong.
It has reached 180,000 copies, with sales of 350,000 copies in Southeast Asia, 400,000 copies in Japan, and 200,000 copies in Taiwan.
The second best-selling ones are the comics adapted from Gu Long's two novels "Peerless Two Prides" and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang". The sales of these two comics in Hong Kong are 120,000 and 150,000 copies respectively, while the total sales in other places are
, 750,000 copies and 780,000 copies respectively!
The sales volume of comics adapted from Jin Yong's three novels in Xiangjiang is actually similar to that of Gu Long. "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Swordsman" and "The Deer and the Cauldron" are respectively 115,000, 100,000 and 130,000 copies. As for
The sales volume in other places is slightly lower than that of Gu Long, which are 580,000 copies, 500,000 copies, and 620,000 copies respectively!"
The price of a single volume is higher than that of the "Fantasy Comics" magazine, at HK$0.8 per copy.
The total sales of the six novels in Hong Kong were HK$636,000, and the total sales in other regions were HK$3.344 million.
Throwing away all costs, Fantasy Comics' profit was HK$2.388 million.
"This profit is only temporary now, because the single volume will only be available for half a month, and sales will definitely increase in the future."
Yasuo Kamikura then added.
"Also, our comic book volumes have been sold in European and American markets, but we haven't received specific data yet!"
First, release the single volume in the European and American markets to increase the popularity of these comics in the European and American markets. This is something that Chu Huan and Kamikura Yasuo have already discussed before.
Chu Huan frowned slightly at this time. "Dragon Ball" has exploded. Chu Huan can understand it, but it stands to reason that nowadays in Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, Jin Yong should be more famous than Gu Long. Why Jin Yong
The comic book adaptation of the novel is not as good as Gu Long?
"President, is there something wrong?"
Seeing Chu Huan's expression, Kamikura Yasuo couldn't help but ask.
Chu Huan waved his hand and asked aloud: "No, this result is very good. By the way, why..."
Chu Huan expressed the doubts in his heart.
Hearing Chu Huan's doubts, Kamikura Yasuo smiled and said: "That's it. Although Mr. Jin Yong is more famous than Mr. Gu Long, the painting style of "Peerless Two Prides" is still more advantageous. In addition,
Previously, the president's film company released a movie of the same name as "Chu Liuxiang", which also brought more popularity to the comic "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", which is why the current situation has occurred."
After hearing this, Chu Huan nodded with satisfaction.
Later, Kamikura Yasuo brought the drawings of the North American painter to Chu Huan for review.
Obviously, they were well prepared for Chu Huan's review. Each group came up with five different painting styles for Chu Huan to choose from.
""Transformers" will enter the toy market in the future, and its main audience should be teenagers, so the painting style should not be too dark, but should be more sunny and passionate."
Thinking about the market for "Transformers", Chu Huan found the painting style that met his requirements among these five painting styles, and handed it to Kamikura Yasuo: "This is it!"
"Resident Evil is more adult-oriented, and because of its story style, the painting style should be darker."
Thinking of the style of "Resident Evil", Chu Huan also found a drawing that met his requirements among the drawings of the Fifth Middle School style, and gave it to Kamikura Yasuo.
"The last one is "Tomb Raider". Although the style of this story is somewhat similar to "Resident Evil", they are actually two completely different stories, so her style should be dark and sunny, but also
Be sexy!”
After carefully reading it several times, Chu Huan finally found the drawing that best suited the style of "Tomb Raider" and gave it to Yasuo Kamikura.
"Just these three types!"
Kamikura Yasuo took the drawing and said happily: "I will ask Achen to inform them to start working on the drawing now!"
Zhong Zhichen took the drawing from Kamikura Yasuo's hand and walked out.
Chu Huan said to Kamikura Yasuo: "Recently, my Chinese proficiency has made good progress. Although it still sounds awkward, at least it is not that difficult to understand!"
Later, Chu Huan discussed the future development plan of "Fantasy Comics" with Yasuo Kamikura and Masaru Tomioka. The main thing was how to open up the European and American markets.
By the time we finished here, it was already dark.
After Chu Huan left the Fantasy Comics Club, he did not leave by car immediately. Instead, he waited for Zhong Zhichen to get off work and asked Ma Jizu to stop him.
"Master Huan wants to invite you to dinner!"
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ps: I recommend a friend's book "Azu, Stop It Quickly", a Hong Kong comprehensive article. Friends who like it can read it~