It can be seen that Hu Yingxiang is very attentive to the construction of the Tseung Kwan O studio. Chu Huan followed him around without any objections.
Hu Yingxiang followed Chu Huan and said with a smile: "Director Chu, according to the current project progress, the first studio in the Republic of China District will be completed in three months."
There are three studios in the Republic of China District alone, which shows the future scale of the Tseung Kwan O studio.
"Staff dormitories, restaurants and other supporting facilities must also be kept up in time, otherwise even if the studio is completed, it will not be able to be used in time!"
Chu Huan preached.
When the crew can enter the Tseung Kwan O studio, it will become the base camp of Chu Huan's black and white videos. Not to mention some artists, even senior executives like Fang Jianhui will stay here for a long time.
Even Chu Huan himself needs a villa of his own here.
Hu Yingxiang was a little worried and said: "The staff dormitories, restaurants, and supporting facilities may take a little longer."
Chu Huan also knew that this was not the same concept as a studio, so he said: "Just try your best!"
Then Chu Huan specifically warned: "But there must be no problems with the quality!"
Hu Yingxiang smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, Mr. Chu!"
While Chu Huan and Hu Yingxiang were inspecting the construction progress of the studio, Wu Xiaoshi, the leader of the secretarial team of Jiaku Consulting Company, drove to the scene.
"Boss, Mr. Li Xiaolong went to the company to find you. Miss Xu asked me to inform you!"
There are no telephones here, pagers have not yet appeared, let alone mobile phones, so now the only way to find someone is to show up artificially.
Li Xiaolong is looking for him?
If it was a private matter, Xu Yi would definitely not send Wu Xiaoshi over. After thinking about it for a while, Chu Huan lectured Hu Yingxiang.
"Director Hu, I still have some things to deal with here, so I'll leave the matters here to you!"
"Okay, don't worry, Mr. Chu!" Hu Yingxiang said, patting his chest again.
Chu Huan nodded slightly and returned to Jiahu Building with Wu Xiaoshi.
On the way, Chu Huan asked Wu Xiaoshi, "Do you know what it is?"
Wu Xiaoshi said: "It seems that the cooperation with Warner Bros. made Mr. Li very unhappy!"
Only then did Chu Huan remember the Avengers Alliance formed by Chen Qizong and others.
The first thing they did to them was that Luo Wei contacted Warner's Andrew Morgan, who even said that from now on Li Xiaolong's Hollywood movies and Chu Huan's black and white images would not be able to participate.
However, after Chu Huan banned Luo Wei later, he forgot about this matter. Now it seems that although Luo Wei was banned, Warner has not given up on this matter.
After Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Building, it turned out that this was what Li Xiaolong came to talk to him about.
"It's simply too abominable. Warner actually proposed to stop supporting my new movie if black and white images are included!"
After Li Xiaolong told Chu Huan what happened, he spoke angrily.
Chu Huan asked: "I heard that last year, at the suggestion of Mr. Zou, your Xiehe Pictures signed a three-film contract with Warner. During this period, Warner could only occupy part of the investment share in the films you shot.
And it has to be handed over to Warner for distribution?”
Li Xiaolong showed a regretful expression and said: "Yes, but they clearly agreed to me and agreed to Black-and-White Video's participation in the investment of subsequent movies, but now they are not loyal!"
Chu Huan asked helplessly: "So, this was not marked in the contract at that time?"
Li Xiaolong nodded awkwardly and said: "That's true, but Mr. Zou told me that a company as big as Warner would definitely not deny this kind of thing. I didn't think much about it at the time, so I signed the contract directly!"
Chu Huan was helpless, this matter was a bit troublesome. He believed that Li Xiaolong had committed his old habit in this matter, and was trusting others when it comes to loyalty.
But this is definitely not the case with Zou Wenhuai.
Today's black and white images are no longer the black and white images of the past.
Just at the beginning of this year, Fang Jianhui finally established his own overseas distribution channel with the help of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe's overseas distribution channels.
In addition, now Black and White Video has started to build its own studio again.
It can be said that the black and white image at this time has no shortcomings.
My relationship with Shaw Brothers is not bad. Now they are competing and cooperating with each other in movies, but my relationship with Golden Harvest is not so harmonious.
The rise of black and white images actually started step by step following Jiahe.
At this time, Jiahe has completely lost its advantage in Hong Kong, and the only Hollywood card left is Li Xiaolong. If black and white images are allowed to develop in Hollywood through Li Xiaolong, Jiahe will have only one ending left, becoming black and white.
Image stepping stones on the road to success.
When black and white images are truly successful, it will be the time for Jiahe to lie dead.
So Zou Wenhuai definitely couldn't let Chu Huan let black and white images develop in Hollywood like this.
After analysis, Chu Huan understood that Zou Wenhuai had taken over Luo Wei's baton and took action against the black and white images.
This has nothing to do with personal grudges, it is business competition, a business competition that is a matter of life and death, and Zou Wenhuai doesn't care about that much.
Seeing that Chu Huan remained silent, Li Xiaolong thought that Chu Huan was angry.
He suggested: "Ah Huan, why don't we go to court with Warner? Anyway, my company, Concord Pictures, has signed a contract with your black and white images!"
After Luo Wei's incident happened, both Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong believed that a simple verbal promise would be fine for them.
But for Warner, they definitely don’t recognize this.
So Chu Huan's black and white images signed a cooperation contract with Li Xiaolong's Concord Pictures.
It is stipulated in the contract that Li Xiaolong has priority investment rights in black and white images during movie shooting in Hollywood. Of course, this investment right only accounts for 30%!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When Chu Huan heard what Li Xiaolong said, he immediately shook his head and said: "You have just entered Hollywood. Although you have the success of "Enter the Dragon", you are still a newcomer in the final analysis.
If you file a lawsuit with Warner now, it will definitely leave a bad impression in Hollywood as a theater tycoon, and other film companies will also reconsider their cooperation with you.
Warner Pictures must have taken a fancy to this and made such an unscrupulous request!"
Li Xiaolong said angrily: "But why should they? We have also signed a contract!"
Chu Huan smiled helplessly: "Things are not that simple. First of all, I have just mentioned one reason. The other reason is that we only signed the contract in Xiangjiang. If we go to court with Warner, it will be a transnational lawsuit.
It also occupies a disadvantageous advantage for us, and usually once such a lawsuit is filed, it will be a protracted lawsuit, so the popularity you have accumulated in Hollywood will soon be exhausted."
Li Xiaolong sat there and said helplessly: "This won't work, that won't work either. Should we just let them manipulate us like this?"
Chu Huan smiled at this time and said: "Actually, Brother Long, you should be happy about this!"
Li Xiaolong was stunned for a moment and asked: "Happy? Why?"
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Of course it's because the previous movie "Enter the Dragon" was so successful at the box office in North America. Think about it, with an investment of US$800,000, it achieved US$25 million in box office revenue in North America alone. So
Even the Hollywood movie companies must be very jealous of the huge profits.
But when they saw that they couldn’t get so much profit, they naturally felt unwilling!”
Although Hollywood emphasizes that the bigger the investment, the more investment should come in. Only in this way can investment risks be better shared.
But Li Xiaolong's movies are different. In terms of investment type, although Li Xiaolong's movies are only C-level productions, they can rival those A-level productions at the box office. Therefore, Hollywood film companies naturally want to release more investment rights.
It's on you.
What's more, black and white images are not famous in Hollywood, and it is a Hong Kong film company. To put it simply, in Li Xiaolong's next movie shooting.
Black and white images can only provide financial support, but cannot provide other help.
The release in Xiangjiang is supported by Golden Harvest cinemas, and the distribution in Southeast Asia and other places also has Golden Harvest's distribution channels.
Since Jiahe already has everything a black-and-white image has, why should it add a black-and-white image to share its own interests?
So now even without Luo Wei as a troublemaker, Warner certainly doesn't want to see the addition of black and white images.
When Li Xiaolong heard what Chu Huan said, he didn't know what to say.
He never thought that it was precisely because of his success that Chu Huan had problems.
"Then what should we do? We can't just let them succeed in this matter, right?"
Chu Huan also had a headache at this time. Although he already had Vertex Pictures in Hollywood, Vertex Pictures itself was a small transparent company in Hollywood. To put it simply, its influence might not be as great as that of black and white images.
It has no effect at all on this matter.
"Let me think of a solution first. There will always be a solution!" Chu Huan didn't have a good solution now.
Seeing Chu Huan's expression, Li Xiaolong said indignantly: "I don't know what Mr. Zou is thinking. We all entered Hollywood together. When the Hollywood company suppresses us, we can join each other to keep each other warm, but now we are...
Choose to stand with Hollywood companies!"
It seems that Li Xiaolong also guessed that Zou Wenhuai was obstructing this matter.
Chu Huan stood up, took out a can of Coke from the refrigerator and handed it to Li Xiaolong, smiling: "Mr. Zou has his own considerations, leave this matter to me. When have you ever seen anything that I can't solve?"
?”
Li Xiaolong could only nod helplessly and said: "Okay!"
Then Chu Huan sent Li Xiaolong away.
Sitting on the office chair, Chu Huan frowned lightly, no longer as calm as when Li Xiaolong was not around.
I originally thought that things would go smoothly this year, but I didn't expect that there would still be a lot of problems.
The previous matter with Li & Fung Toys did not go as planned, which led Youth Toys to launch its own Toy City plan in advance.
Now the Li Xiaolong incident has appeared again.
"Huh, don't worry, things always have to happen step by step, and problems have to be solved one by one!"
After calming down, Chu Huan continued to work.
But what Chu Huan didn't expect was that after Li Xiaolong left Jiahu Building, he went directly to find Zou Wenhuai.
"Mr. Zou, why did you do this about Ah Huan?"
After Li Xiaolong saw Zou Wenhuai, he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked Zou Wenhuai.
As if he had expected Li Xiaolong to come, Zou Wenhuai stood up and came to Li Xiaolong's side, leaning on his desk.
"Aaron, I won't hide this from you. It is indeed the result of my discussion with Warner!"
Seeing Zou Wenhuai admit it, Li Xiaolong became even more angry.
"Why? Mr. Zou, I trust you so much, and now you have teamed up with Warner Bros. to trick me into breaking my trust in front of Ah Huan!"
Zou Wenhuai sighed: "Aaron, I know you have a very good relationship with Chu Huan, but isn't the relationship between us bad? No one in Xiangjiang thought highly of you at the beginning, so I flew to North America to bring you there in person.
Please come back, it can be said that no one in Xiangjiang is more optimistic about you than me!"
He knew clearly that Zou Wenhuai was playing the emotional card with him, but Li Xiaolong just fell for it.
So after hearing what Zou Wenhuai said, the anger on Li Xiaolong's face became less intense, but he still said with some dissatisfaction: "Mr. Zou, if that's the case, why do you still want to trap me into injustice?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zou Wenhuai smiled bitterly and said: "Aaron, let me ask you, even if I didn't invest in your movie, how are Chu Huan's black and white images doing now?
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Li Xiaolong said: "Now the second largest film company in Hong Kong, once the studio is established, it is very likely to become the largest film company in Hong Kong!"
Zou Wenhuai said with some sigh: "Yes, Chu Huan completed all this in less than two years, but do you know the current situation of Jiahe?"
Li Xiaolong looked at Zou Wenhuai in confusion. He was either making a movie or imagining his own new script. He didn't pay much attention to Jiahe's development.
Zou Wenhuai said helplessly: "Now Golden Harvest seems to be the third largest film company in Hong Kong, but in fact, it is already in decline.
Last year, Golden Harvest produced 19 movies, but less than five of them made money. This also includes your "Enter the Dragon". If there were no theaters, studios, out-of-town distribution channels, and your movie,
Jiahe's financial situation last year showed a serious deficit, and Jiahe was actually only established four or five years ago.
If the movie loses money, the theater chain will naturally not make any money. Now Black and White has begun to build its own studio. I have been to their construction site, and it will be far superior to the Shaw Brothers Clearwater Bay studio. That is to say, by the time
With the successful construction of the black-and-white Tseung Kwan O studio, Golden Harvest's studio will definitely experience a sharp drop in business.
The same is true for distribution channels. Now Black and White Video has established its own distribution channel. In order to compete for the market, Black and White Video has even lowered its price to accept movies from other companies.
It doesn't matter if Chu Huan is rich and powerful, but what about our Jiahe?
In other words, Aaron is the only one left in Jiahe now. If I let Chu Huan join in your movie investment, then in the future Chu Huan will gradually erode our Jiahe’s investment share in your movie.
At that time, there will be only one result left for Jiahe.
collapse!"
At the end of his sermon, Zou Wenhuai's tone revealed the feeling of a hero in his twilight years.
But in fact, Zou Wenhuai was only 47 years old at this time!
Zou Wenhuai's emotional card was still useful. After saying this, Li Xiaolong was embarrassed to be angry with Zou Wenhuai again, but he still preached.
"But we can obviously develop together. Aren't A Huan and Shao Yifu coexisting peacefully now?"
Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said: "Although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that there is no way Golden Harvest can compare with Shaw Brothers. Shaw Brothers is a large studio system. The actors and directors are basically their own people. In addition,
In their own theaters in other places, Shaw Brothers has completed its own internal cycle.
To put it simply, for a movie with a box office of 1 million, Shaw Brothers can earn 600,000 to 700,000, while Golden Harvest can only earn 300,000 to 400,000.
So whether Chu Huan's black and white video becomes the number one in Hong Kong or the second in Hong Kong, it actually doesn't stop Shaw Brothers from making money.
You know the relationship between Jiahe and Shaw Brothers. I believe that Shao Yifu would rather watch Chu Huan's black and white image become the number one in Hong Kong than watch us develop.
Aaron, I hope you can understand me. Now Jiahe has reached its most dangerous moment. If no changes are made, Jiahe may become a piece of history in the Hong Kong film industry!"
Li Xiaolong was speechless.
"Aaron, I know this matter has embarrassed you. Now I just hope that for the sake of our happy cooperation over the years, you will stop hating me for this matter!"
At this time, Zou Wenhuai could be said to have lowered his posture to the lowest level.
But there is nothing we can do about it!
This was what Li Xiaolong couldn't bear the most. In the end, he didn't get any answer he wanted from Zou Wenhuai and could only leave Zou Wenhuai's office.
After Li Xiaolong left, He Guanchang came to Zou Wenhuai's office.
"How was your conversation with Aaron?"
At this time, Zou Wenhuai had already sat back in his seat, his face full of melancholy and loneliness, "I understand Aaron, this matter should be in the past!"
Hearing what Zou Wenhuai said, He Guanchang also breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the whole Jiahe knew that they could not do without Li Xiaolong. If they separated from Li Xiaolong again, the only outcome waiting for Jiahe would be bankruptcy.
At this point, Zou Wenhuai did not lie to Li Xiaolong.
"Achang, do you think we in Jiahe can really catch up with black and white images again?"
Thinking of his ambitions when he started his own business, and then looking at the situation that Jiahe was facing now, Zou Wenhuai felt very defeated.
He Guanchang said firmly: "It can be done, it must be done!"
Seeing that there was no change in Zou Wenhuai's expression, He Guanchang could only continue to comfort him.
"Raymond, in fact, the path we in Jiahe took was not wrong. The reason why Chu Huan's black and white images were successful was actually taking the same path as us. This has proven that our original judgment was correct, but...
....”
Speaking of this, He Guanchang also said a little helplessly.
"It's just that none of us thought that Chu Huan would be so rich, and that he would be so lucky to find treasures such as Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Liu Pingkui, Lin Qingxia, and Zhao Yazhi."
Now that the chat box has been opened, He Guanchang continued to preach.
"Raymond, Chu Huan can learn from our Jiahe when creating black and white images, and we, Jiahe, can also learn from Chu Huan at this time.
Now that the overseas box office share of "Enter the Dragon" has been received, in addition to preparing for the investment share of Aaron's next film, we should also create our own artist training class and invest in our own emerging director competition. There are still many talents in Hong Kong
Yes, I believe we can definitely bring Jiahe back to its original position!"
Hearing what He Guanchang said about Zou Wenhuai rekindled his fighting spirit and said: "Yes, our Jiahe has not fallen yet. We had the courage to start everything from scratch, and now we should naturally have the ambition to set sail again!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing Zou Wenhuai like this, He Guanchang breathed a sigh of relief.
If Jiahe is regarded as a big ship, Zou Wenhuai is the helmsman of this big ship. He is leading Jiahe to move forward. If even Zou Wenhuai loses his fighting spirit, then Jiahe is actually finished!
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The emergence of problems will not stop the world from functioning.
After finishing her day's work, Chu Huan came to Miao Kexiu's villa in Repulse Bay.
Originally, the literary film that Miao Kexiu shot last year was going to participate in this year's Taiwan Golden Donkey Awards. However, for unknown reasons, this year, the Golden Donkey Awards suddenly announced that they would suspend this year's event.
All films participating this year will be put into competition next year.
This made Miao Kexiu, who was once full of confidence, a little disappointed.
Although Chu Huan also has a lot of troubles in business, when it's time to comfort himself as a woman, he should still comfort himself!
Chu Huan came to the villa, but did not see Miao Kexiu. After being notified by the servant, Chu Huan learned that Miao Kexiu was currently venting her youth in the practice room on the first floor!
Although Miao Kexiu has participated in literary films, Miao Kexiu has no intention of giving up her identity as a woman beater.
So every day when I have nothing to do, I will exercise.
So in this villa, Chu Huan specially decorated a practice room for Miao Kexiu.
Chu Huan arrived at the practice room. Before he entered, he heard the sound of humming and haha coming from inside.
Pushing the door and entering, there is a huge room with a round sports protective mat in the middle. Miao Kexiu is standing in the middle wearing a tight sportswear. The ones who are sparring with her are bodyguard Li Le and Miao Kexiu's other bodyguard Huang Dan.
He stood aside and watched.
Seeing Chu Huan come in, Huang Dan wanted to come over, but Chu Huan waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need it.
Finding a random place, Chu Huan sat directly on the floor.
On the sports protective mat, Miao Kexiu and Li Le were going back and forth, but even Chu Huan, a non-professional martial arts talent, could see that Li Le had been giving way to Miao Kexiu.
Miao Kexiu's attacks have stronger routines, while Li Le's boxing skills are flexible and have no fixed routines.
It's so lively for both parties to come and go!
In the end, Miao Kexiu stopped the sparring and stood with her hands on her knees, panting. Chu Huan stood up, took off his shoes, picked up the towel and thermos cup next to him, and came to Miao Kexiu's side.
around.
"Thank you...Brother Huan!"
At this time, Miao Kexiu discovered that Chu Huan was coming.
He happily took the towel from Chu Huan's hand and wiped the sweat from his body. Seeing this situation, Li Le and Huang Dan left the practice room directly.
"Why didn't you call me in advance when you came over?" Miao Kexiu was indeed a little tired and was already sitting cross-legged on the protective mat.
Chu Huan followed Miao Kexiu's example and sat down, smiling and saying: "If I had called in advance, how could I have seen you looking so dashing and heroic!"
Miao Kexiu smiled shyly and said, "If you want to see it, I can call you anytime!"
Chu Huanxiao asked: "Are you a little worried about the Golden Donkey Award?"
Miao Kexiu smiled sweetly and shook her head: "When I first learned about it, I was really a little worried, but I won't be anymore. I'm not filming to win awards!"
Seeing Miao Kexiu's frankness, Chu Huan stopped entangled in this matter.
Miao Kexiu suddenly said to Chu Huan: "By the way, Brother Huan, Brother Long called me before and asked me to say sorry to you. Did something happen?"
Chu Huan smiled bitterly and said: "This Aaron, I didn't expect him to take this matter so seriously!"
He left here and even called Miao Kexiu to apologize to him. This was something Chu Huan did not expect.
Then Chu Huan told Miao Kexiu what happened today.
Miao Kexiu said worriedly: "If you can't invest in Brother Long's movie, will the loss to you be particularly great?"
In fact, the loss was not that big for Chu Huan. Previously, Chu Huan wanted to use Li Xiaolong's signature to open up the North American film market.
But now that he has Vertex Pictures and Spielberg in his hands, investing in Li Xiaolong's movies is not that important to Chu Huan.
After all, no matter how high the box office of Li Xiaolong's movies is, the box office of movies with Eastern faces starring in Western movies will always be limited.
What really makes Chu Huan unhappy is that he did not take the initiative in this matter!
Because in Chu Huan's view, I can not want things, but you can't say not to give them to me!
So by now Chu Huan already hated Jiahe and Warner!
"The loss is not big, but I will be very unhappy if someone manipulates me like this!"
Miao Kexiu asked: "I think Brother Long must have tried his best, otherwise he wouldn't have called me personally!"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Of course I know this!"
Miao Kexiu looked at Chu Huan and couldn't help but worry, "Brother Huan, I believe you will be able to succeed in Hollywood even without Brother Long's movies."
Chu Huan laughed and said: "It doesn't matter whether you succeed or not, the most important thing is to be able to make money!"
Seeing Chu Huan's smile, Miao Ke said with confidence, "Then I'll take a bath first, and then have dinner with you!"
After saying that, Miao Kexiu stood up and wanted to leave.
Chu Huan looked at Miao Kexiu, who was wearing a tight-fitting sportswear, showing off her good figure to the fullest. Suddenly, she hugged and pushed Miao Kexiu down on the protective pad.