In early March, Haomeng Company received an invitation letter from the organizing committee of the Xiangjiang Academy Awards.

"Infernal Affairs" has won fourteen nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Huang Bo won two nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer. Lin Zixuan also has a nomination for Best Screenwriter, becoming a popular actress at this year's Academy Awards.

The only one who can compete with "Infernal Affairs" is "Shaolin Football", which won thirteen nominations.

With the two popular films "Infernal Affairs" and "Shaolin Football", the Xiangjiang film market has recovered a little vitality and gave people a warm impression.

Xiangjiang media reported on this year's Academy Awards and listed major highlights.

Especially the nomination for Best Actor, there are many stars, Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xingchi and Zhang Xueyou. Each of them are big stars, and the competition is particularly fierce.

Huang Bo faces the same problem.

In the nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Zeng Zhiwei and Huang Qiusheng, who starred in "Infernal Affairs", are both veteran movie stars in Hong Kong and have strong strength.

However, the award for Best Newcomer has a great advantage.

Moreover, "My Savage Girlfriend" was nominated for the best Asian film, and Huang Bo was the starring actor, which means that he had two films shortlisted for this Academy Awards.

Coupled with the promotion and stimulation of Haomeng Company, some media regard Huang Bo as a representative figure of the new generation of the mainland film industry.

The Xiangjiang Golden Star Awards open in mid-April, and Lin Zixuan will team up to go there.

He did not meet with the powerful figures in the Hong Kong film industry, exchange views, and gain an in-depth understanding of the current situation of the Hong Kong film industry.

Good Dream Company entered the Xiangjiang film industry for the first time, and the success of "Infernal Affairs" opened a door.

However, as an outsider, we have to pay attention to local forces, especially the Xiangjiang film industry, the situation is complicated, with both a mature production system and the infiltration of various external forces.

Capitalists, social groups, film and television companies and performing artists constitute the worldly situation of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry.

Lin Zixuan did not intend to get into it too much. He used the Xiangjiang film industry as a pedal to communicate with European and American film companies, and at the same time collected talents for my use.

Once he is besieged by local forces in Xiangjiang, he can withdraw directly.

You can attack and retreat and defend. There is nothing to be left to nostalgic for the declining Xiangjiang film industry, and the so-called Oriental Hollywood has become a bubble.

Lin Zixuan just wants to harvest a group of people in the end, both celebrities and behind-the-scenes staff are fine.

He had a few things to do when he came to Xiangjiang.

The second part of "Infernal Affairs" has been filmed and is scheduled to be released in the summer season in May. With the influence of the first part, I believe the results of the second part will not be too bad.

What Lin Zixuan wants to talk about is the third part.

The third part continues to be starring Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei, and several new roles will be added, and the cost will soar.

The first part invested 25 million Hong Kong dollars, the second part is not much different, and the third part invested more than 60 million, and the main reason for the increase in actor pay.

For example, supporting roles like Zeng Zhiwei and Huang Qiusheng offer two to three times the payroll of the first movie.

The same is true for the director and the staff behind the scenes. The pay is linked to fame. By this calculation, the entire crew's pay alone costs more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars.

This is a common phenomenon in series of movies.

Unless this series changes the actors and production team, the production costs will only get higher and higher, but changing actors takes a lot of risks and the audience may not buy it.

This is the process of the game between investors and actors.

Investors want to control costs and reduce risks, and actors must strive for their own interests.

The third part of "Infernal Affairs" adds the plot of the mainland, and Director Chen plays an undercover agent from the mainland. Haomeng Company has increased its control over the crew.

Lin Zixuan contacted Xiangjiang's film company because some film companies wanted to invest in "Infernal Affairs".

They have long been eyeing this big-selling movie. There are too few movies that can make money every year. Except for those big stars, they can be said to be able to make one movie and lose another movie.

The entire industry is on a downward trend, and small-cost movies are favored by investors, hoping to make a big splash with small ones.

Under this circumstance, Xiangjiang's art films have shown a trend of rising.

This is a very interesting phenomenon. With the development of the mainland film market, commercial films have gradually become the mainstream, and art films have lost their living space. On the contrary, the prospects of commercial films are worrying, but art films have shown vitality.

From this we can see that the role played by the market is not without opportunities, it depends on whether it can be seized.

Lin Zixuan doesn't mind accepting investment from Xiangjiang Film Company. With the participation of local forces, the films will be sold better, and everyone will make money. Of course, he will not agree to the request that is too greedy.

He has the confidence.

"Xiaoxue's Big Adventure" has exceeded US$700 million worldwide. Haomeng Company has huge potential and has a considerable influence in the mainland. Xiangjiang's film and television companies have long fallen behind in this round of competition.

Besides, he can also put forward his own conditions.

The copyright department of Haomeng Company is acquiring the online broadcast rights of major film factories and film and television companies in the mainland. Lin Zixuan hopes to reach an agreement with Xiangjiang film and television companies and TV stations to obtain the broadcast rights of Xiangjiang film and television dramas on the mainland Internet.

This is undoubtedly a rich film and television resource.

After all, Xiangjiang has been named Oriental Hollywood. There are countless film and television dramas produced in recent years, and some of them have caused a sensation when they were broadcast in the mainland.

Even for nostalgia, I believe someone will watch it online.

There is another thing that has something to do with Liu Dehua.

The internal strife at Tianmu Company reached the point of going to court, and Liu Dehua filed a lawsuit with the court, demanding that the company pay him a remuneration of 15 million Hong Kong dollars.

Another shareholder of the company, Mai Shaotang, sued Liu Dehua for compensation of 150 million Hong Kong dollars in breach of contract and applied for banning all performances of Liu Dehua.

He even threatened to ban Liu Dehua's acting career.

This lawsuit has caused a lot of controversy.

On the one hand, Lin Zixuan expressed his support for Liu Dehua, but he could not affect the filming of the sequel to "Infernal Affairs". On the other hand, he wanted to talk to Liu Dehua in person.

The breakup of the sky is a foregone conclusion, and this is an opportunity for Haomeng Company to intervene.

He is willing to invest and cooperated with Liu Dehua to establish a film and television company as a stronghold in Xiangjiang.

It can be foreseen that Xiangjiang filmmakers will go north one after another to make a living in the mainland. There are more and more opportunities for joint ventures in the two places to make films, and there are inevitably uneven quality.

Lin Zixuan decided to do some screening work.

Provide certain help and support to directors who really want to make movies, and those directors who are eager for quick success, make instant benefits, and earn pension checks are blacklisted.

The blacklist is not only implemented in Good Dream Company, but also effective film and television companies associated with Good Dream.

Doing so may not plug all loopholes, but at least it can reduce the occurrence of some bad movies.
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