Attract five more investors? Investment accounted for 40%?

These two sentences are easy to understand, but they make Li Hanxiang's mind confused.

When the movie made money, Lin Chaoyang's first thought was not to get rid of him who was making money along with him, but to continue to invest with him and let him attract people to invest together? Li Hanxiang was used to the unscrupulousness of Xiangjiang movie bosses.

Facing Lin Chaoyang's seemingly paradoxical operation, I was filled with doubts.

I just felt that the smile on Lin Chaoyang's face was full of mystery.

When Lin Chaoyang saw this, he didn't show off and asked Li Hanxiang: "Do you still remember the Golden Horse Award last year?"

Last year's 23rd Bay Island Film Golden Horse Awards were held in October. At that time, "The Truman Show" and "A Better Tomorrow" had already been screened in Bay Island and had achieved good box office and word-of-mouth reviews.

But at the Golden Horse Awards, the two pre-race favorites failed to win any awards.

It is not difficult to see from this result that Wan Dao has noticed Lam Pictures, and their hostility is quite obvious.

The fact that "The Truman Show" and "A Better Tomorrow" were released is most likely due to the capital operations of Golden Harvest and New Art City, and the officials of the Wandao Pseudo Film Bureau turned a blind eye.

However, the Golden Horse Awards is a film award led by the Bay Island government and has a strong political atmosphere. Naturally, they do not want these two films involving Lam Films to steal the spotlight during the awards.

After the Golden Horse Awards failed last year, there was a heated discussion in the Hong Kong film circle. Many people believed that Lam Pictures had been targeted by the pseudo-film bureau and pseudo-cultural bureau of the Bay Island.

There will be a ban list at the meeting.

This argument caused a lot of discussion at the time, but now that several months have passed, the Bay Island side has not expressed its position, and this trend has not blown out. Li Hanxiang is very clear about this matter, so when Lin Chaoyang mentioned it

When he won the "Golden Horse Award", he seemed to have some enlightenment.

"Lao Li, we are all old friends, I won't hide it from you anymore.

You are now a persona non grata in Bay Island, and our Lin Film Company will probably be on their blacklist within the next year and a half..." The reason why Lin Chaoyang said this is because "The King of Kids" has already won the award.

This is something everyone knows.

Before, Lin's Pictures had no official background and was just riding on the coattails of Golden Harvest and Xinyi City. Wandao didn't care too much. But after the movie "Kids King", the situation was different. Lin's Pictures

Ye is the producer of this movie.

With the two names "Yindu Organization" and "Xi'an Film Studio" hanging together, it is impossible for Wandao to let them grow wildly in Hong Kong like before. According to Lin Chaoyang's estimation, Wandao's response time

It won’t be too long, maybe Lam Films will be blacklisted and banned within two months.

The scary thing about Bay Island's ban is not that the movie cannot be released in their market.

What's more, everyone related to this movie will be banned from appearing in the Wandao Film Market. To put it bluntly, it is a conspiracy. Nowadays, Wandao is the largest foreign market for Hong Kong movies, so it has a great influence on the Hong Kong film circle.

It will be too late to wait until the ban is implemented and then move around. Now that Lin's Pictures has accumulated the first pot of gold, it is natural to get more people on board so that it can better cope with it. After understanding Lin Chaoyang's thoughts, Li Hanxiang

His expression relaxed.

He thought for a while and then asked: "But if we really wait for Wandao to express its stance, no one may be willing to invest, right? After all, this is not only equivalent to giving up the Wandao market, but it is also likely to affect their development in Xiangjiang.

.”

Lin Chaoyang showed a disdainful smile on his lips.

"Capital is afraid of no profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of a vacuum. Once there is appropriate profit, capital becomes bold.

If there is 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, it will become active; if there is 50% profit, it will take desperate risks; for 100% profit, it will dare to trample all human laws; there are

With 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime and even risk being hanged.

If unrest and strife can bring profits, it will encourage unrest and strife, as evidenced by smuggling and slave trading." Lin Chaoyang explained his purpose for doing this in a paragraph, his tone full of confidence.

Li Hanxiang was born in the Mainland, and when he was young it was the time when political activities were most active. Naturally, he knew the origin of the passage recited by Lin Chaoyang.

He has been in the film industry for many years and understands that Lin Chaoyang's idea is right.

There has never been any distinction between left and right in capital, as his former boss, Boss Shao, is proof.

Since the Hong Kong film industry dominated the Hong Kong film industry in the 1950s, if the wind blows to the left, Boss Shao will be left; if the wind blows to the right, Boss Shao will be right.

?”

Li Hanxiang asked the biggest question in his heart, which was also the seemingly biggest flaw in Lin Chaoyang's plan.

Filmmaking has always been a high-risk investment. Lam Films has just arrived in Hong Kong. All the films it has participated in and independently produced have been successful. This is already a big miracle.

But to say that they can maintain such a miracle, Li Hanxiang cannot believe it no matter what.

Even if Lin Chaoyang's plan goes well, he can really unite a group of investors and filmmakers to fight against the ban on Bay Island.

But as long as one or two movie investments fail, it is very likely to cause the building to collapse. Li Hanxiang does not believe that Lin Chaoyang does not understand this truth.

"Old Li, you still don't understand the weakness of capital. It doesn't matter if one or two movies fail. As long as we keep having successful movies, they won't leave so easily.

Besides, even if the Bay Island side wants to block it, they won’t be able to hold on for long.”

Having said this, Lin Chaoyang showed a mysterious smile again, which tickled Li Hanxiang's heart. He asked a few questions, but Lin Chaoyang still refused to tell him.

Li Hanxiang had no choice but to think alone. After much deliberation, he felt that the reason why Lin Chaoyang was certain that the ban on the Bay Islands would not last long was probably due to cross-strait relations. Cross-strait relations have improved in the past two years, and maybe they will happen when

Ushering in the "handshake of the century".

Li Hanxiang knew Lin Chaoyang's status in the mainland and thought he had learned some inside story. Thinking of this, he felt relaxed.

Lin Chaoyang patted him on the shoulder at this time, "I'll leave it to you to recruit people. You have to give me a good publicity!"

At this moment, Li Hanxiang finally realized that he was the example set by Lin Chaoyang, and he had already been tied to the chariot of Lin's Pictures without realizing it. However, he did not feel the slightest resentment of being plotted in his heart. Instead, he was happy with it and wished he could

It's best to have more "calculations" like this.

“Don’t worry when I, Lao Li, do things!”

Li Hanxiang's chest was slapping loudly, fully demonstrating what it means to make money for people and to eat birds. As long as he can make money, no matter how much he is banned from Wan Dao, Lin Chaoyang showed a happy smile.

As time entered mid-April, Lin Chaoyang received news from the French Gallimard Publishing House.

The sales volume of "The Truman Show" easily exceeded 30,000 copies six months after its publication in France, and the growth momentum is strong. This is of course due to the popularity of the movie.

In addition to being sold in France, "The Truman Show" is also available in several European countries where French is the official language, including Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The sales of 30,000 copies include these countries.

These sales brought Lin Chaoyang 210,000 francs, approximately US$28,000 in royalties.

These royalties are not huge, but according to Clement Meteille, the purely literary book market in France is different from that in some European and American countries.

Its long-tail effect is more obvious and lasting. It should be said that everything is just beginning, and the sales volume of 30,000 copies of "The Truman Show" has already surpassed the level of many French local writers.

In the next few years, or even more than ten years, this novel will continuously bring income to Lin Chaoyang. That night, Lin's Pictures was holding a celebration banquet for "The Best Bad Friend".

"That Gao Zhisen was originally going to Debao, but then he heard about how Adu and Artest were treated here, and ran over directly. I planned to open a play for him called "Wealthy and Rich"."

"As you said, Xing Zai does have some potential, and he performed well in "Best Bad Friend" this time."

"This time the movie was a big hit at the box office, and Ah Jing made at least another 3 million yuan. The directors in the company have become more active, and they all hope to make a fortune from making movies like Ah Jing."

...

Lin Chaoyang followed Tao Yushu's words and looked over, only to see Wang Jing surrounded by a group of people, pushing cups and changing cups, feeling high-spirited and extremely proud. "The Best Friend" has just been released in the past two days, and the local box office is better than "The Hardcover"

"Girl" increased by HK$100,000 to HK$21.82 million.

Just the local box office has made Lam Pictures a huge sum of money. If you include other places, the profit should easily exceed 20 million Hong Kong dollars. At this level, if Lam Pictures releases five movies a year,

The profit can basically kill more than 95% of the listed companies in Hong Kong today.

In addition to the huge profits made by Lam Films, two consecutive movies have been successful, which has also brought huge wealth to director Wang Jing. In today's Hong Kong, a director can be considered very successful if he plays his part.

Except for those big directors and big stars who can start a company and fully control their own lifeline, and are in cooperative relationships with big companies, few people can make as much money from a film as Wang Pin does.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why Wang Jing is so proud.

"Cheung Kwok-chung from Yi Neng Pictures has contacted me in the past few days, hoping to cooperate with us. He wants to ask Ah Jing to tailor a film for Andy Lau." If Lam Films wants to unite Hong Kong filmmakers, Li Hanxiang alone is certainly not enough.

Tao Yushu is also trying to win over people now.

Don't worry about the two giants, Golden Harvest and New Art City. Lin's Pictures will compete with them for the market. Everyone is a competitor, but the small and medium-sized film companies all over Hong Kong are Tao Yushu's best partners.

Yi Neng Pictures is a company that Tao Yushu is more optimistic about. This company was founded by agent Zhang Guoqiang, who also has the identity of being the nephew of the wife of Hong Kong's most popular singer Alan Tam.

Yineng Pictures was founded in 1985. From the beginning, it has been walking on two legs. It is engaged in film production, record distribution, and artist management company. Now it has Alan Tam, Andy Lau, Mok Shaocong, Miu Qiaowei and many other stars under its umbrella.

Pretty good.

"Promise them, get them to invest some money, and get some companies. For Gao Zhisen's film, Lao Li was one, he got Hu Jinquan and Wu Siyuan."

Tao Yushu nodded slightly after listening to his words, and then said: "Yongsheng has recently changed his name to Yongsheng. It seems that the Xiang brothers are going to show off their talents in the film industry. They contacted Ajing and said they wanted to recruit a heroine."

Wang Jing had cooperated with the Xiang brothers before, and was intimidated by the Xiang brothers' background. He did not dare to refuse, so he could only come and say hello to Tao Yushu. "Don't let them just fill in the people, and invest in them too."

Lin Chaoyang said generously.

He is not afraid of more people now, but less afraid of them. Tao Yushu also understands this truth. After the lively celebration banquet, Lin's Pictures is still busy.

April 24 is the day of the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony. More than half a month ago, the Film Awards Organizing Committee released the shortlist for this year’s awards to the outside world.

Among them, "The Truman Show" was nominated for 11 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and "A Better Tomorrow" was nominated for 10 awards. During the nomination stage, these two films showed an overwhelming advantage over other shortlisted films.

Advantages.

In the past, Golden Harvest was behind "The Truman Show" and New Arts City was behind "A Better Tomorrow." The major media in Hong Kong would inevitably hype up the heated scene of the confrontation between the two major film companies.

But this year, although many media are also reporting on the company behind the film, the media's focus is on Lam Pictures.
To be continued...