After interviewing four or five people, Chen Chong discovered his mistakes - he did not explain clearly what industry experience the secretary he was looking for - so the talent agency recommended them to him were all applicants with knowledge of foreign trade agents.

Chen Chong wanted to find a secretary - or assistant - to prepare for the filming of "Crazy Jones". After all, he was just a pseudo-filmist who talked about on paper and needed an assistant with experience in filming or TV shooting to help with chores.

With a thought, Chen Chong immediately turned his attention to TVB, which is the Whampoa Military Academy in the Hong Kong film industry. It should not be difficult to poach one or two talents.

He took out the phone book, Cai Jiguang, Gao Zhisen, Tang Jiming... All friends who were busy on TVB, Chen Chong called and asked them to help inquire about whether anyone among his colleagues wanted to change jobs, preferably women.

Because "Crazy Job" is the work of a female director and a female screenwriter, Chen Chong felt that finding a female assistant would be beneficial to communication between the two parties.

Cai Jiguang and Tang Jiming are now both TVB's well-known directors and are in a good situation and promised to ask for help. Gao Zhisen is a basic screenwriter in TVB. He wants to change the environment and he has a bit of self-recommendation on the phone. However, Chen Chong simply pinched off his thoughts directly. This guy should stay in TVB. There are many opportunities there and can hone his experience. There are all miscellaneous work here, but there are not many resources for him to practice. It is a waste to be an assistant.

Putting down the phone, Chen Chong put the recruitment of assistants aside, touched his chin, and began to consider the idea of ​​going to the Movie Biweekly to attend the shareholders' meeting in the afternoon.

I had already been angry with Shu Qi before, and it was basically no problem to acquire the magazine. The price was easy to say. I asked Chen Chong to attend the shareholders' meeting, but I just asked him to explain how the magazine's future was planned after the acquisition. They were afraid that the magazine would be inhumane and worried that after the magazine was sold, they would be chaotic by the buyer.

Take out a pencil, Shen Chong drew four boxes on the paper in front of him, and then fill in different contents.

The first box is "Matrix Technology Co., Ltd.", and then fill in the notes: the current cash cow, the production and sales platform for future movie peripheral products.

In the second box, Chen Chong filled in the name "Shenshi Technology Investment Co., Ltd.". This was registered for the purpose of investing in VisiCalc, which he had before going to the United States. The comment content was: Money-making machine, so you can attract money as much as possible.

In the third box, Chen Chong filled in "Oriental Charming Film Production Company", which he registered before the year, and then filled in the comments: the flagship and core of the Future Film Group.

In the fourth box, Chen Chong wrote the name "Movie Power Co., Ltd.", which was also registered before the New Year. The annotation is: Drives and engines in the film industry.

These are the four basic departmental frameworks in Shen Chong’s future plan.

The first department is currently in good operation and makes money every day. In Shen Chong's plan, this department will be responsible for distributing movie peripheral products in the future, such as toys, props, comics, game adaptations, etc., and even videotapes, VCDs, DVDs and other products. They will also be distributed through this department. The subsequent profit of the movie is the big part of profit and must be taken seriously.

The second department currently has only one VisiCalc, which is still under development. Shen Chong plans to use this department to invest in various profitable industries to raise funds for building a film empire. Movies are a capital-intensive industry, and the more money the better.

The third department is still an empty shell, and has only signed a filming contract for "Crazy Raid". Ann Hui has been rushing to recruit crew members in recent days. When she is ready, she can start construction. The production company is the core department of the Future Film Group and there is nothing to question.

The fourth department is currently poor and has nothing, but this department is the one that Chen Chong cares the most and is the most consuming and expensive department in the plan.

In Shen Chong's plan, this department needs at least one bank to provide film production financing, a high-tech development team to develop digital film technology, a TV station with a wide coverage to protect movies, an authoritative film award to guide the development of the film industry, and a high-level film academy to cultivate fresh blood...

In the Shen Chong plan, this department has at least 20 sub-departments, which are complicated and complex. Without more than ten years of water grinding and billions of funds, it is a fantasy to set up this department.

But what Shen Chong wants to do now is to create an authoritative film magazine under this department to subtly influence the Hong Kong film industry.

Or two...

With the current vague and swaying style of "Movie Biweekly", it is difficult to get favor from the market. If you can't sell it, you will have no influence. If you don't have influence, you will not be authoritative. What Shen Chong needs most is authority. Only when a magazine has a status can he use the media attributes of the magazine to influence the development of the industry.

Therefore, Chen Chong planned to divide the "Movie Biweekly" into two and publish two magazines with different positions.

One is a weekly magazine, aimed at the general public, mainly based on film information and industry trends, supplemented by popular film reviews, double tape full color printing, and takes the fashion entertainment route, similar to the hybrid of "Watching Movies" + "Variety Show".

The other is a monthly magazine, aimed at industry insiders and high-end film enthusiasts. It mainly focuses on professional film reviews, supplemented by lectures on film art and technical knowledge. Its style is similar to the authoritative film review journal in North America. The Lincoln Center Film Association of New York published "Movie Review".

Weekly magazines are used to gather ordinary movie lovers. When the number of subscriptions reaches a certain level, they will undergo a qualitative change and have the "authoritative" attribute.

Monthly magazine uses professionalism to create "authoritative" attributes, and does not rely on it to make money. He even plans to deliver free delivery. As the saying goes, he can abandon all the interference of commercial factors, use high-end luxury words such as "neutral, professional, and taste" as labels, and criticize those inferior movies and siege shoddy junk movies from public opinion.

After both magazines have "authoritative" attributes, the golden little beauty, the Hong Kong Film Awards, is the one that Shen Chong has won. With the Film Awards, she mastered the weather vane of the Hong Kong film industry, thereby better manipulating and promoting the development of the industry.

A movie award cannot be too niche, otherwise it will easily become a self-entertainment game in a small circle. You will know the outcome when you watch the Hong Kong Film Awards 30 years later. Then it will not be a professional movie award... It is simply a big dinner for local Hong Kong filmmakers, sitting in a row, splitting fruits, and their influence is declining.

Chen Chong split the "Movie Biweekly" with this consideration. He used weekly magazines to collect votes from ordinary movie audiences, and used monthly magazines to collect votes from professionals, and then designed an algorithm to coordinate the calculation of weights and achieve mutual appreciation between the elite and the masses. Only in this way can the authoritative results of the final selection of the Golden Image Awards be made and the Golden Image Awards become the highest honor in the Chinese film industry. Chen Chong did not want to be a niche award in Hong Kong. If you want to do it, you must naturally be the best!

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"Next, please ask our big funder, Master Shen Chong, to talk about his future plans for the magazine after the acquisition!"

In the afternoon, in the cramped office of "Movie Biweekly", Chen Bosheng presided over the shareholders' meeting. He casually said a few clichés as the opening remarks, and then introduced Chen Chong to appear in a very ostentatious tone.

Chen Chong stood up and looked around the room. Seven or eight shareholders were sitting or standing, some holding water cups, some smoking cigarettes, and they didn't say a word, looking at him quietly.

After a light cough, Chen Chong began to talk a lot.

"French film master Truffaut once said that there are two types of directors. Some directors will think of the masses in their hearts, while others do not consider the masses at all. For the former, movies are a kind of performance art; for the latter, movies are personal adventures. There is no difference between the two in essence, only the routes are different..."

"I think that being a magazine is the same as being a director, and there are two types: one is to aim at the public and do things that ordinary people like, and the other is to focus on individuals as the main body and focus on personal taste..."

"So I'm going to divide it into two after acquiring the magazine, one is a weekly and the other is a monthly..."

Chen Chong picked up a piece of white paper, nailed it to the wooden door of the small compartment with a thumbtack, and then held a pen and wrote out the outline of the plan while saying it so that everyone could think.

"My ultimate goal is to create the most extensive and authoritative magazine in the Chinese film industry!" Chen Chong ended his speech with a very infectious sentence, then put away his pen and said, "The above is my plan for the future operation of the magazine. If you have any opinions, you can mention it now."

Chen Chong's big plan made everyone in the magazine collectively absent. After a while, Chen Baisheng stood up first and applauded: "A Chong, I'm increasingly suspicious that you are going to steal the bank. You are so rich!"

He walked to the wooden door, looked at the slanted handwriting on the white paper, and said, "You gave us a big surprise. I thought you had bought a magazine and we would benefit at most and have more office resources. I didn't expect that you would come up with such a big plan."

"A Chong is so bold!" Shu Qi also stood up with admiration on his face. He said, "I never dreamed of such a plan. The layout is very big, and just looking at it makes people feel excited."

The editors were also talking about it. After about half an hour of discussion, they finally decided to transfer the magazine to Shen Chong the original price.

Since there is no need to pay premiums, Chen Chong is happy to save money and signed a share transfer contract with everyone happily.

After everything was done, Shu Qi stood up and said, "Everyone, I will say a few words. The conditions I proposed to start "Movie Biweekly" were not enough, and everything was simple, so I reluctantly became the editor-in-chief. Now that the magazine is on track, I decided to resign from the position of editor-in-chief."

Chen Chong was quite surprised when he heard this. Shu Qi's organizational ability was exactly what he was in urgent need of at present. How could he let it go? He was busy trying to persuade him to keep him. Shu Qi said first: "A Chong, you don't need to persuade me. I have limited energy. It is difficult for Jiahe and the magazine to take care of it. After the establishment of "Movie Biweekly", it was basically all Bai Sheng who was taking care of me. I, as the editor-in-chief, should have stepped down long ago."

Chen Chong had to persuade him again, and Shu Qi said again: "A Chong, you know that I have been helping Yan Hao write scripts recently, and I am really unable to do it. Moreover, I have always wanted to make movies, and I will definitely develop towards the director in the future. Even if I stay in the magazine, I am still in Cao's camp and my heart is in Han, and I can't do it."

Seeing that Shu Qi was determined, Chen Chong stopped persuading him and left Shu Qi with the title of honorary editor-in-chief, and then appointed Chen Baisheng as editor-in-chief.

Acquisition of shares is only the first step. How to reorganize the magazine, how to allocate editors, and also issues such as editorial treatment, recruitment of new reporters, printing and distribution of new magazines, etc., are all intricate and not enough details. Chen Chong and everyone discussed it until seven or eight o'clock in the night before the meeting ended under the pressure of hunger.

I found a good restaurant near Wanchai. Chen Chong treated her to a guest. It was the first dinner after the acquisition. After eating and drinking, everyone said that they would go back to the office to continue discussing.

"Hey hey, everyone, I'm sorry." Chen Chong didn't want to have a meeting all night with a group of men. The soft-scented sister Yuanyuan is the favorite. He clasped his fists and lied with a shy face and said, "I'll have an appointment with my girlfriend to watch a movie tonight. Let's continue tomorrow, otherwise Hedong Lion Roar, everyone will have to go to the hospital to have a meeting with me."

Everyone burst into laughter, and after making a few jokes, they all parted in understanding.

Before leaving, Shu Qi handed Chen Chong a file bag and said, "A Chong, this is the first draft of the script I wrote for Yan Hao, please help me see."

"I haven't written a script, how can I understand it?" Chen Chong shirked away.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to watch it. First, he is too busy and has no time recently, but second, he is not afraid to watch it. According to his obsessive-compulsive temperament, he will definitely not be able to help modify it after watching it.

In the Internet era, high-definition movie and video resources are everywhere. As a movie controller, Chen Chong can completely boast about Haikou. No one has watched more movies than him in this era.

The so-called "I haven't eaten pork, but I've never seen pig run"? If I watch too many movies, my taste will naturally increase. In addition, Chen Chong has also read a lot of mixed movie textbooks. It can be foreseen that if I read the script, I will definitely be modified by him. Not to mention whether doing so will hurt Shu Qi's self-esteem. The key is that he has no understanding of the current Hong Kong pop culture. With his aesthetic view and thinking logic from the future, the revised script may not be popular in the market. If the box office fails badly, will it affect the future of Shu Qi and Yan Hao...

Chen Chong changed the script of "Crazy Job" and only dared to change some logical flaws. As for the storyline and character image, Chen Chong only made suggestions. He still asked Chen Yunwen to do the specific changes, and he did not dare to interfere.

"Don't be humble. I've heard from Sister Chen. The first time I read the script, I pointed out the problems in the notebook in half an hour and gave excellent suggestions. Sister Chen has never been convinced and admires you very much." Shu Qi insisted on handing the file bag to Chen Chong and said, "I used to work with others to write scripts. This is the first time I took the initiative to write alone. I feel a little guilty. Ah Chong, please help me check it. Yan Hao urged me to start filming next Monday."

"Okay, I'll read it, study and study. In the future, I will write scripts as well." Chen Chong had no choice but to take the file bag, "Brother Shu Qi, if you have time, come to the magazine to help me."

"I will do it if you don't say it. I founded the magazine. Just like my own child, how can I just let it go?" Shu Qi patted Chen Chong's shoulder and said, "Okay, go quickly, don't let your girlfriend wait for a long time."
Chapter completed!