If we were to say which company among the companies under Chu Huan's name has been the most aggrieved in the past half month, then it has to be the black and white image.
Since October, almost all the films submitted for review with black-and-white images have been turned back by the Film and Television Administration, requiring rectification. However, the Film and Television Administration does not tell you that there is a problem with that part of the film. It means that it will be rectified and then re-reviewed.
So since then, Shanhai Cinemas, which has been renamed Black and White Cinemas, has never released any black and white movies.
This is actually something that has never happened before in the history of Hong Kong films, but it has happened to black and white images now. Nowadays, rumors from the outside world about whether black and white images can still be sustained have already flown to the moon.
Chu Huan sat in Fang Jianhui's office and asked him with a smile: "How are you doing? Can you withstand the pressure now?"
Fang Jianhui said: "It's okay. In fact, external comments don't mean anything to me. Anyway, I know your plan, Chairman. As for the directors within the company, the actors need to be comforted regularly.
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Now this thing happened to a super film company in Hong Kong like Black and White. If it happened to other film companies in Hong Kong, under such circumstances, the artist directors of this film company would have already left long ago.
about there.
But even a super company like Black and White Image is experiencing internal undercurrents.
"I read the recent report on black and white imaging sent by Xu Yidi. More and more artist directors have applied to establish satellite companies."
Chu Huan said with a smile.
This time, the targeting action only includes black and white images themselves, and movies produced by satellite companies under its name are not included. This also shows that the Xiangjiang Film and Television Office is targeting black and white images alone.
Fang Jianhui nodded and said: "Yes, but this is all expected. The current situation of the company does have some problems for those who do not know the truth. It is reasonable for them to make such a choice."
Now Fang Jianhui has become a mature manager and no longer uses his personal emotions as an important basis for handling a matter.
Everyone is profit-seeking. Nowadays, black and white images are in turmoil. Everyone has their own ideas. This is what they should do. We cannot require everyone to be a loyal minister and a filial son.
Black and White Video is just a company. To put it simply, its artists and directors bring huge benefits to the company, and the company provides them with channels to become famous and make money.
Now that something is going on in the company, it is understandable for everyone to think about themselves.
Chu Huan nodded and said: "If you want to set up a satellite company, support them, but you must remember that if you want to change jobs before the contract expires, then I will severely suppress the other party."
Chu Huan allows these people to have their own ideas, but he absolutely does not allow these people to have ideas that are detrimental to the company in addition to their own ideas.
Establishing a satellite company is itself a development plan originally designated by Black and White. As long as you have this level in the company, the company will support you in establishing your own satellite company.
This is the reason why Xu's Pictures, founded by Xu Guanwen in the early days, was based on this principle.
But if you have not reached this level and still want this treatment, or even want to leave the company at this time and start your own business, then the artist will definitely be removed from Xiangjiang.
"I understand that at this time, the company's system will become more stringent!"
Fang Jianhui nodded.
Regardless of the black and white images at this time, no matter how the Hong Kong government targets them or why their own movies cannot be released, it is really too easy to ban a film artist or director with the size of the black and white images.
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After talking about this matter with Fang Jianhui for a while, Chu Huan told Fang Jianhui about his plan for black and white images.
"I am ready to create a super universe of Hong Kong movies!"
Chu Huan presented Fang Jianhui with a concept that Fang Jianhui could not understand at this time.
"The super universe of Xiangjiang Movies?" Fang Jianhui couldn't help but asked Chu Huan: "What does this mean?"
I believe that if this concept is put into future generations, it will be known to everyone. The so-called Hong Kong movie super universe is to build a huge and huge world among Hong Kong movies, or the movies produced by Black and White itself.
A complex cinematic universe story.
In Chu Huan's vision, such a super movie universe should be composed of Hong Kong's classic IP movie series, establishing a universe with connections, stories, and foreshadowings between them.
In another time and space, Xiangjiang movies were called their peak in the 1980s and 1990s, with countless classic characters and classic movie series appearing.
Even Chu Huan, who is not that familiar with Xiangjiang movies, knows that Xiangjiang movies actually have a problem from beginning to end.
That is, when the film company in Hong Kong was filming the first movie, no one actually thought about whether there would be a follow-up sequel series. Everyone found out that this movie was really a hit, so we started filming immediately.
As for a movie, as for the logical problems, the almost crazy Xiangjiang movie can be ignored.
The most classic among them is the "A Better Tomorrow" series. When filming this movie, no one from the boss of the film company to the director or actors thought that this movie would be a hit.
But after this movie became a hit, the film company naturally would not give up such a profitable project, so it would immediately start including the second part in the shooting plan.
But the soul character in the movie at that time, Xiao Ma Ge, had already been headshot in the first movie. What should I do?
It doesn't matter, just write a twin brother.
The concept of the Super Xiangjiang Movie Universe that Chu Huan is working on now is actually to avoid these things as much as possible. Of course, Chu Huan also understands one thing.
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If the movies are integrated into the same movie universe, the confusion will definitely be more intense.
Zhou Runfa has different classic film series such as "A Better Tomorrow", "God of Gamblers", "Prison", "Heroes" and "The Two Heroes".
Zhou Xingchi is the author of masterpieces such as "Fight Back to School", "The Gambler", "Westward Journey", "Ouchi Secret Agent Ling Ling Fa" and "The God of Cookery".
Cheng Long also has masterpieces such as "Police Story", "Drunken Master", "Plan A", "Eagle" and "Human Torch".
If there are both Ma Ge, God of Gamblers Gao Jin, and killer Xiao Zhuang in a universe, it will inevitably cause confusion among moviegoers.
Just like the Hong Kong comprehensive article that became popular on the Internet before Chu Huan was reborn.
If there are multiple roles for one character, it will inevitably give readers confusing ideas.
So in order to overcome this, the Super Xiangjiang Cinematic Universe cannot have only one cinematic universe, but different cinematic universes created by multiple different movies.
In addition, you can also create a movie universe of an era according to different eras.
Mainly hero movies with characters from the 1950s who appeared in later generations.
Just like movies such as "The Crippling Man", "Chasing the Dragon", "The Four Detectives", "Brothers of the Dragon and Tigers" and "Three Flags", the same movie universe can be created according to different eras.
To create the Hong Kong movie super universe, one is the influence of Chu Huan from the later Hong Kong comprehensive literature, and the other is the influence of the Marvel Universe.
If Chu Huan's black and white video was just an ordinary film company in Xiangjiang, this idea would be impossible. After all, in another time and space, the Xiangjiang film industry is famous for following trends and invading societies.
After a popular genre movie comes out, all the movies in Hong Kong will be of this type. After "God of Gamblers" comes out, gamblers, gamblers, gamblers, gamblers, and gamblers will emerge in endlessly.
After the release of "Mr. Zombie", Hong Kong was flooded with zombie movies again.
When will it stop after completely squeezing out all the profits from this type of movie?
But for Chu Huan, there is no need to worry at all, because now Chu Huan's black and white cinema chain has basically monopolized the channels of Xiangjiang movies in Xiangjiang. Coupled with the existence of Brother Audio and Video, it basically covers the video tape market and
The future VCD market will also be completely monopolized.
To put it simply, black and white images can formulate the rules of the Hong Kong film market. As long as black and white theaters do not show their movies and Brother Audio does not rent out and sell their video tapes, there will basically be no such movie.
The film company dares to touch it again.
Of course, in order to avoid causing public outrage, some high-quality movies will definitely be released in black and white in the future, but the specific operation of this kind of thing will definitely not be handled by Chu Huan, and there will also need to be a censorship system.
In addition, societies have invaded the film industry. They are actually the originators of trendy films. If a filmmaker is popular, they will look for them. If a genre is popular, they will look for a popular star to star in a popular movie!
But now under Chu Huan's suppression, such a thing will definitely not happen.
Therefore, with these two convenient conditions, it is completely possible to cut Xiangjiang movies into super movie universes.
After excluding some sensitive topics from these contents, Chu Huan told Fang Jianhui his ideas.
After Fang Jianhui heard this, he was immediately stunned.
"Can movies still be played like this?"
At this time, the concept of a movie universe had never appeared before, so it was naturally impossible for Fang Jianhui to think of this.
Speaking of the movie universe, Xiangjiang Film is actually the ancestor of Hollywood Marvel. The two early classic series of Xiangjiang, "The Best Partner" and "Five Lucky Stars", actually had a linkage later.
The bald man has entered the Five Lucky Stars!
Of course, at that time, Xiangjiang Film only thought of it as a gimmick and did not work on it in depth, so it lost such an opportunity.
"Of course it's possible. The protagonists of two or more movies can appear at the same time in a certain movie. It doesn't even need to have too much story, it's enough to make the audience interested in this matter, and then through some stories
The design allows them to interact with each other, and that’s it…”
Chu Huan is still explaining the concept of the Super Xiangjiang Movie Universe to Fang Jianhui in detail.
In fact, it is still a bit early to bring up this concept at this time. If we can wait another two years, the best time to bring up this concept is when the two series "The Best Partner" and "The Five Lucky Stars" are released.
Even in the early days, there was no need for the characters from the two movies to interact in the movie. It only needed to be mentioned through the mouths of the characters in the movie that there was a group of each other. In that case, it would be easy to implant such a concept into the audience.
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Moreover, we can also use the series "Five Lucky Stars" to bring out Cheng Long's "Police Story" series.
In the movie "Five Lucky Stars", a character played by Cheng Long appeared, but at that time, the character played by Cheng Long in this series was not Chen Jiaju!
Then follow the example of the Marvel Universe and launch a single-player series through the large platform of TVB. Take "Five Lucky Stars" as an example. It is completely possible to create a personal TV series for the five of them. There is no need to have too many episodes. Each character only needs
A story of eight to ten episodes is enough.
At that time, Black and White Video and TVB will form a dream linkage with the help of these movies and spin-off dramas.
But Chu Huan also understood that after he proposed this concept, the future Xiangjiang movies would completely change from the Xiangjiang movies he knew.
After being surprised, Fang Jianhui began to seriously think about Chu Huan's suggestion. After a long time, Fang Jianhui gave a lecture.
"This matter is too big. If this plan is really to be implemented, then all the resources of Black and White Video will be moved closer to this aspect. The workload of screenwriters, the allocation of actors, and the establishment of the review system will all be reduced.
It will be a time-consuming thing.
Especially the concept of putting multiple movies into one universe and creating a fantasy linkage.
Before this, we had no precedent to follow and could only explore slowly, which will be a very huge workload for the company's screenwriters."
After listening to Fang Jianhui's questions, Chu Huan also nodded in agreement.
The idea of the Xiangjiang Super Movie Universe that I proposed is very different from Marvel. First of all, Marvel already has a fixed fan base after decades of comics accumulation, and there are also comics to provide film stories.
Various fantasy linkage scripts also save countless troubles.
But the Hong Kong Super Movie Universe is different. This will be a creative process from scratch. No one knows how to start from scratch in this movie universe.
"And the main problem is that most of Xiangjiang's screenwriters are invincible in the design of plots, but it is really difficult to ask them to set up a super proposition like creating a universe.
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Fang Jianhui continued to talk about the difficulty of doing this.
The screenwriters of Xiangjiang Movies are just like Xiangjiang Movies. Many of them come up with scenes on the shooting scene. According to Wang Jing’s description, it is like flying paper. They are shooting and writing at the same time. After one scene is shot, the other side will
I will write out the next plot.
Therefore, the early Xiangjiang movies were crazy enough and funny enough, but what they lacked was a rigorous sense of logic.
It even happens that during the filming of a certain movie, because a certain actor's performance is outstanding enough, he will be written from a supporting role to a protagonist.
The most classic among them is naturally "A Better Tomorrow"!
In this movie, Xiao Ma Ge, played by Zhou Runfa, was actually only regarded as the fourth character when the early script was released.
Listed after Brother Hao, Ajie, and even the villain Acheng.
But during the filming process, Wu Baige fell in love with the role of Ma Ge so much. Coupled with Chow Yun-fa's classic performance, he made this character the protagonist.
Even when it was finally presented to the audience, it outshone all other characters in the movie.
But in this super movie universe plan proposed by Chu Huan, the rigor and logic of the movie script are very much required.
"In other words, to solve the concept of the Xiangjiang Super Cinematic Universe, a movie from zero to one is needed, and at the same time, a huge team of screenwriters is needed to serve this matter?"
After hearing Fang Jianhui's concerns, Chu Huan gave his own summary.
At this time, Chu Huan did not think that he understood movies any better than Fang Jianhui, who had been the general manager of Black and White Video for several years.
Compared with Fang Jianhui, Chu Huan's advantage is his control over the future and his understanding of the trends in the film industry. However, in terms of detailed operations, Chu Huan believes that Fang Jianhui should be stronger than himself.
Fang Jianhui nodded and said: "Yes, and if this super Hong Kong movie universe plan is to be implemented, then the starting movie of this universe, that is, the first movie, must cause a big enough sensation in Hong Kong."
Chu Huan had no opinion on this point.
The reason why the Marvel Universe was successful in its first ten years and harvested box office revenue around the world was due to the success of "Iron Man".
It is precisely because of the success of Iron Man that the Marvel Universe has an opportunity to open up.
Therefore, the concept of the Xiangjiang Super Movie Universe proposed by Chu Huan also needs such a key to open this universe.
"In addition, we also need to set up a villain BOSS for a single character's plot line in this universe, as well as a powerful BOSS behind the scenes, as the key to opening the joint universe."
Chu Huan smiled and said, "Don't you remember that I just told you this?"
Fang Jianhui also smiled and said: "Chairman, this is the basic operation of the movie. Since you want to create a super movie universe, there will be a day in the future when characters from these different movie series appear together in the same movie.
In the movie, there are so many protagonists from blockbuster movie series, so naturally their opponents must be worthy of their roles.
Otherwise, wouldn’t it be like using a cannon to hit ants, allowing the audience to curse at the midnight show?”
Hearing what Fang Jianhui said, Chu Huan smiled and said: "It seems that you have become a qualified film company boss now!"
Fang Jianhui said funnyly: "Chairman, are you just recognizing me now?"
Chu Huan laughed and continued: "I have an idea about this movie."
Although Chu Huan has rarely been involved in the specific affairs of black and white images in recent years, the fact that Chu Huan originally came up with the series "Happy Ghost" is still firmly imprinted in Fang Jianhui's heart.
Even now, this series is still one of the most profitable black and white film series... It is no longer the highest-grossing film series, but it is definitely a profitable film series.
Now when he heard what Chu Huan said, his eyes suddenly lit up and he asked, "What do you think?"
Chu Huan thought for a moment and asked, "Are Huang Baiming and Maga in the company?"
Fang Jianhui nodded immediately and said: "I'm not sure, but the two of them submitted applications to the company at the same time, hoping to join forces with Ishida to jointly establish a satellite company!"
Huang Baiming, Mika, and Ishida later founded a film company that was famous in the Hong Kong film circle in the 1980s, New Art City!
Later, Xu Ke, Zeng Zhiwei, Shi Nansheng, and Taidi Robin joined to form the famous New Art City Seven Monsters!
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However, this movie was produced in 1982, nearly five years earlier than it is now.
"Both of them are so successful, are they qualified to start a satellite company?" Chu Huan asked in surprise.
"Yes, I already have this qualification!" Fang Jianhui also said with some sigh.
He now greatly admires Chu Huan's proposal about the Hong Kong Rising Star Directors Grand Prix. This Grand Prix has indeed provided many super talents for black and white imaging.
This is why black and white images can dominate the Hong Kong film industry with hardware, and they can also dominate the Hong Kong film industry with software.
"Call them two!"
Chu Huan gave a lecture to Fang Jianhui.
Fang Jianhui nodded, called his secretary, and asked her to call Huang Baiming and Maga to his office.
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"Sir Mai, do you think the company will think too much about our application to establish a satellite company this time?"
At Maga's home, Huang Baiming asked Maga worriedly.
In the movie, Maga is a happy character, but in real life, Maga is an unsmiling, even somewhat serious person. It is precisely because of his character that many people who are familiar with him now like to call him
Sir Mai!
Maga nodded and said: "It is certain that we have ideas. We have chosen to establish a satellite company at this time. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a way to protect ourselves."
Seeing that Huang Baiming was a little worried, Maga smiled and said: "But you don't have to worry too much. We are just setting up a satellite company, and we don't want to completely separate from the company. I believe that both Director Chu and Mr. Fang will have this mind.
What's more, your relationship with Director Liu is so good, as long as Director Liu is here, no one will really say anything to you."
Due to Huang Baiming's success as a screenwriter in the follow-up series of "Happy Ghost", he became Liu Pingkui's royal screenwriter. After working together for a long time, and they are both young people and willing to play, their relationship is naturally good.
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Who doesn’t know that the entire black and white video is directed by Liu Pingkui, Chu Huan’s childhood friend?
Hearing Maga's teasing, Huang Baiming also smiled and said: "It's just that this time when we start our own satellite company, we always have to have a good start, just like Xu Guanwen's Xu's Pictures. Otherwise, we will
It’s become a joke!”
In another time and space, the pioneering work of New Art City was "Funny Times" directed for them by the pseudonym Wu Baige.
In this movie, Ishida plays the leading role, Huang Baiming, and Mika also perform. It can be said that the whole cast is involved.
But now Wu Baige has disappeared in the Asian film industry, and he must not be found. Moreover, the screenwriter of this "Funny Times" is also Wu Baige, so if Huang Baiming, Mika, and Ishida start their own movies this time
company, it is definitely impossible for this movie to appear!
"I'm going to trouble you about this matter. I can serve as the director and producer of this movie, but among the three of us, Ishida, none of us are as good at writing scripts as you. For a good movie, the script is the most critical thing.
You can create a script based on Ishida’s characteristics and model him!”
Maga suggested to Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming nodded and said, "I will discuss this matter with Ishida recently."
"Um!"
Just as the two were discussing the matter, the phone at Maga's home rang.
After putting down the phone, Maga said to Huang Baiming in a somewhat complicated manner: "The company just called and Director Chu wants to see us two!"
Huang Baiming was also shocked by the news, "Mr. Fang can make the decision on the establishment of a satellite company. Why does Board Chairman Chu suddenly want to see us two?"
Could something be wrong?"
At this time, Maga had already stood up and put on his coat, and said: "I don't know, but no matter what, we have to go there. I think Director Chu will not be angry because of this matter. It should be something else."
matter!"
Huang Baiming had no choice but to think so at this time. He stood up and picked up his coat and said: "Now think about it, we are a little anxious about establishing a satellite company. We should wait until the Xiangjiang Film Festival is over before talking to the company.
Mentioning!"
Maga smiled calmly and said: "It's too late to talk about this at this time. It's better to go over and take a look first!"
"Um!"
The two left Maga's home and drove to the company.
When the two came to the company, they happened to see Ishida finishing work at noon. Ishida was a little surprised when he saw the two of them.
"Don't you two have any work today?"
Mai Jia told Ishida that Chu Huan wanted to meet them. Ishida felt a little complicated after hearing this. It was the three of them who proposed to open a satellite company. Now Chu Huan actually only saw Mai Jia and Huang Baiming.
Facing Chu Huan at this time, I still felt a little disappointed.
On the contrary, after seeing Ishida, Mika became even more convinced that Chu Huan's meeting with them was probably not for the purpose of raising an army to hold him accountable, otherwise Ishida would not be missing.
"Okay, you don't have to think too much. After meeting with Director Chu later, the two of us will go visit you!"
Ishida nodded and said, "Okay!"
Then Maga and Huang Baiming came to Fang Jianhui's office and met Chu Huan.
After meeting them, Chu Huan did not mention the satellite company, but said: "I have a story here, and I need you two to help me write it out!"