April 12, Golden Harvest Pictures, Wong Tai Sin.

Cheng Long walked into Zou Wenhuai's office with a notebook in his hands with an excited look on his face, "Zou Sheng, I plan to continue my efforts and start filming Police Story 2 directly. I have a preliminary idea for the notebook. Can you help me take a look?"

Zou Wenhuai laughed and stood up to welcome him.

In early March, they went to visit Zhao Donghuai together, hoping that Police Story 1 would be distributed in North American theaters under Zhao Sheng's care.

Police Story 1 made over 10 million US dollars in cooperation with AMC theaters for promotion. As of mid-April, Police Story 1 has made more than 21 million US dollars at the box office in North America.

Again, Aaron's future Hong Kong film-style films such as "Double Dragon" and "Drunken Master 2" will earn tens of millions of dollars in the North American video tape market. Movies like Police Story can be released and launched on a large scale.

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It is not surprising that the box office of Ordinary Xuanfa exceeded US$10 million in just one month.

And you dare to spend 10 million US dollars on publicity? The box office is naturally higher. This is 70 to 80 million Hong Kong dollars in 1986 to play publicity.

Zou Wenhuai and Cheng Long don't care at all whether this movie can make money in North America. What they want is long-term benefits, including the profits from the sequel to Police Story. As long as they help Cheng Long become famous, then all the movies he stars in in the future will be profitable.

made money.

In the original trajectory, Cheng Long finished filming Police Story 1 in 1985, and then shot the second part three years later in 1988. During this period, he went to film "Brothers of the Dragon and Tigers", and almost died in a filming accident.

Why did I shoot Brothers and Dragons? I traveled all over the world to shoot scenes. I wanted to hit the North American and European markets. Now I see that I only filmed in Hong Kong Island. As long as the filming can be good-looking, I can also open up the North American market?

Then let’s continue shooting in Hong Kong!

Instead of traveling around the world to make movies and spending a lot of money on filming, it is better to make movies at low prices in Hong Kong and invest all the money in promotion.

After Zou Wenhuai took over the script and read it, he nodded and said, "Okay, of course we will fully support you in making the movie... By the way, is Aaron still short of money?"

"If you are short of money, you can borrow it from me at any time, and I don't charge interest. We are all on our own, so we help each other."

Cheng Long smiled and shook his head, "It's okay, there is no shortage for the time being. After all, Zhao Sheng also brought us into the foreign exchange market and made a fortune. I had no money at the time, but I went to the bank to borrow 100 million Hong Kong dollars."

"Now that the Japanese yen's foreign exchange has appreciated by 11%, we have made a profit of 220 million!"

"This is not just for me, there are four of them: A Ying, Brother Sanmao, and A Biao."

Is Cheng Long short of money? Of course, it is Wanwan’s 200 Wanjia comprehensive shopping malls, buy, buy, buy, that is 200 yuan of land and real estate in the commercial bustling areas of various places.

The quartet of Cheng Long, Lin Zhengying, Sammo Hung and Yuan Biao still want to maintain 15% of Wanjia's shares, so they can only continue to pursue capital.

If it weren't for Zhao Donghuai's arrogance and letting them participate in the second wave of big financial investment, Cheng Long and the others would really be extremely poor. Even the big money they made from selling goods in the past few years would not be enough.

Buy 200 pieces of land or a building as tall as three or five stories in one go!

This is also the fundamental reason why Zou Wenhuai is now an equal partner to Cheng Long. Aaron is no longer just a star, he is one of Hong Kong's Haowan business tycoons.

At present, Hong Kong has long formed a consumption pattern in which shopping at Wanjia is the best and most upscale shopping experience. It can be said that if a brand, from clothing to shoes, electrical appliances and other department stores, cannot enter Wanjia, then it will

It represents low, and once you get in, you will be a big-name concept.

Hong Kong Haowan is scheduled to have 252 chain stores by the end of the year. This is still the current era. In the future, as the times develop, there will be more and more new urban areas, and Wanjia will continue to expand and develop.

What is the status of such a business tycoon? Zou Wenhuai's independent film business is not as high as Cheng Long's current status. Fortunately, he also has a newspaper, shampoo, soap, and toothpaste factories.

After a few pleasantries, Zou Wenhuai lit another cigar and said with emotion, "I heard that the big judges of the North American Oscars and the big judges of the Cannes International Film Festival in France are all tired of sitting still and are going to die."

"I feel that Zun Long will have a chance to be nominated for an Oscar, and (Juno) directed by Zhang Yimou and Huang Jianxin will also have a chance to win the Cannes trophy..."

"I have been making movies all my life, and I never dreamed that such an operation mode could be possible!"

As a filmmaker who has been working all his life, he hopes to break into Europe and the United States. In addition to making money and making more money, he also wants to promote the internationalization of the Hong Kong film industry and make money and win Canadian awards.

Until now, Zhao Donghuai's playing style has shattered his outlook many times.

Wrinkle Huai sighed again, "So next year's Academy Awards? The weight will be very different."

At these words, Cheng Long trembled with excitement, "As long as Police Story 2 is well shot, I feel that there is hope for the Golden Horse Award. Before, the Golden Horse Awards for the first film didn't look down on me, so they jumped on the street, and now they invite me to go."

I'm too lazy to offend them."

Yes, Aaron's Police Story 1 was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor at the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards. Although it didn't win many awards, it was at least nominated.

However, he wanted to go to the Golden Horse for the first time. The 1986 Golden Horse will only be held in September or October this year, but he turned down the offer.

Not a single nomination!

Aaron was so angry that he almost exploded with anger!

Anyway, he was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in 1984 with "Plan A", and he worked hard to make "Police Story" so unsatisfactory?

Now, with the Cannes International Film Festival and North American Oscar judges frequently visiting the Zhao Financial Center, as well as Zhao's North American film crews...

The Golden Horse team hurriedly called him again, hoping that he would go to the Golden Horse this year. There were many more nominations, but Cheng Long decided not to take this opportunity.

He also has a premonition that with the emergence of new styles of play, the influence of the Hong Kong Film Awards will completely surpass that of the provincial Golden Horse and film awards from other places such as Japan and South Korea.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Asia Pacific Film Festival will be suppressed by the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Having said this, Zou Wenhuai handed Aaron another cigar, "Pack it up and go visit Zhao Sheng? I just got the news that Li Zhiren is planning to run a satellite TV station. This is to challenge us.

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Cheng Long's eyes widened. Can he agree to this? He can't agree!

Now he has experienced firsthand what a terrifying power the media is. Let’s just say that when someone wanted to expose the incident about his wife and children in North America, the media could easily use it and photos and the like were exposed, and they were easily suppressed by all kinds of news.

Got off.

Li Zhiren wants to cause trouble??

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after a while.

In the big office of Zhao's Financial Center, Zhao Donghuai looked at Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Lei Juekun, Ma Chengkun and other media guys sitting together, and immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know about that too."

"Although it will take several years to operate, we can stop it from the fundamentals. I will say hello to Wall Street and let them communicate with British capital. Satellite TV can be launched, and it must be launched in a big way."

"But Lao Li can't do it. I'll apply for qualifications another day."

In the past, it was a Hong Kong-funded company that wanted to run a terminal business, but even the entry qualification for the bidding meeting was blocked. During the first war of speculating on Japanese yen and foreign exchange, outrageous unplugging of network cables and official seal-level operations were carried out.

Directly freeze the funds for no reason!

If he hadn't been able to warn in advance, the trouble would have been huge. We couldn't really let the Pan-Asia Group stage a blockbuster scene. For the sake of harmony and friendship, some things should be omitted.

It's different now. How dare Hong Kong investors block him on satellite TV? He can let go of the big money of Hong Kong's richest people to operate.

Do you continue to freeze? Are you really going to cut yourself off from the people, including Hong Kong’s capital? Even if you dare to do that, Zhao Donghuai can persuade Wall Street to buy the pound a few years in advance!

Although it is said that building the British Pound cannot be done at once, it requires a suitable environment. Without an environment, you will fail if you try to do it...

But after the Second World War, the British Commonwealth has been in a state of decline. Now that it has fallen, as long as you work hard, there is no chance that you will have a chance to operate the quadruple set of counterfeit banknotes to defraud the British pound.

Mainland practical communication and broadcasting satellites have been operating stably for two months!

Based on Zhao Donghuai's current circle of friends in the Mainland, even if Hong Kong Capital supports Li Chao Ren, Director Zhao keeps in touch with his friends, but Li Chao Ren is not qualified.

Developing satellite TV is no longer just ATV's English and Cantonese channels. The satellite TV originally started by Li Chao and others was sold to Murdoch in the end, but the channels...

There are so many channels, and the most famous one in mainland China in the 21st century is Phoenix TV. “Really? I don’t believe it” is just one of the many.

No matter whether Mr. Li still wanted to do what he wanted in the original trajectory, run it to get qualified, and then transfer and sell it after making a lot of money, Director Zhao would not give him a chance with such public opinion.

Hearing what he said, Shao Yifu and others naturally breathed a long sigh of relief. Shao Daheng nodded repeatedly and sighed, "Last time, I was asked if I would sell TVB. This is really evil."

“We can’t guard against thieves all day, right??”

At that time, even though the editors at that time asked TVB if they could sell it, which angered Shao Yifu, at that time, everyone only talked about financial resources, and Shao Yifu was not as good as Li Zhaoren.

The situation is different now!

Not to mention the last time Mr. Li wanted to get involved in his TVB, it was in 1984 when the Baijia chain was first opened. The strength and potential of the other company were rising step by step, and almost became "British capital disguised as Chinese capital" for a period of time.

"Representative.

At that time, Hong Kong Electric and Kwai Tsing Ferry Terminal were still under his plans.

Watsons, PARKnSHOP and even 711 are not so cool.

At that time, Shao Yifu couldn't compete with Shao Yifu in terms of financial resources, but now Cheung Kong and Huangcai have a market value of more than 10 billion... Apart from real estate, Li has almost nothing.

Shao Daheng felt that he had something to say!

He is a media tycoon who also owns newspapers and commercial radio stations in addition to TVB, and since the joint venture to engage in tea, his tea has also been available in hundreds of retail terminals in Haowan, Hong Kong, including Wanjia terminals.

During the thigh period, I helped him sell tea, and the cash flow was super high.

As soon as these words came out, Zou Wenhuai didn't say anything and just listened. Lei Juekun asked curiously, "Shao Sheng, what do you mean?"

Shao Yifu sneered, "I definitely can't eat it by myself, but I think it won't be too troublesome for us to join forces and steal his Hutchison, right? He wants to get satellite TV, so this can be regarded as a courtesy from us!"

Lei Juekun's eyes were even brighter. In addition to newspapers, movies, and Kowloon Bus, he also owned the real estate group of Kowloon Construction Industry. If he joined Hutchison Whampoa, the picture would definitely be beautiful.

A few years ago, Lao Li's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa was considered a battle between British capital and British capital, which helped Li Zhiren become famous. At that time, Hutchison Whampoa's market value was 6 billion, and HSBC held 20% of the shares. How could 20% get 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars in real money?

Buy it in silver?

But Mr. Li actually paid in installments. With a down payment of HK$30 million, he acquired 20% of the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. With HK$30 million, he leveraged the 6 billion group and HSBC became a shareholder of Cheung Kong!

Hutchison Whampoa's market value surged in 1981 and 1982.
To be continued...