Hong Kong was in chaos in September, but good movies were not released.

Luo Wei Pictures' "The Demonic Fetus" was officially released on the Golden Princess Theater on the second day after the "God of Gambling" was painted. This movie is a horror film. In order to achieve a good box office in Taiwan, Luo Wei specially invited the contracted artist Lu Xiuling from Oriental Entertainment to star in the starring role - in fact, Luo Wei wanted to invite Lin Qingxia even more, but Lin Qingxia's salary of up to 1 million is not something he can afford, so he had to settle for the second best to invite Taiwan's "Little Lin Qingxia" as the heroine.

Lu Xiuling is an artist under Kang Jianfei's command. The movie she starred in was released in Princess Jin's theaters. It is well known that Kang Jianfei and Princess Jin's misconduct are not in conflict, which has made many small film companies in the Hong Kong industry see the sincerity of Oriental Entertainment.

Not only that, the male lead of "Yin Yang Clash", which won a good box office in New Art City some time ago, is also Alan Tam, a subsidiary of Oriental Entertainment.

With these two movies as a demonstration, other small film companies with some doubts finally don’t have to worry about asking the actors under Kang Jianfei to offend Princess Jin. They can let go of their hands and feet to invite artists from Oriental Entertainment to make movies.

"The Demonic Fetus" was released for only one week and the box office was close to 2 million. The next grand debut was the co-production of New Kunlun and the mainland "Burning the Old Summer Palace". This film was released in Yindu Theater for a month, and it happened to be the most chaotic period in Hong Kong society, and the box office was close to 16 million.

The starring actor Liang Jiahui is the prospective son-in-law of director Li Hanxiang at this time. Although he became famous because of this film, the tragedy is waiting for him not far away. The days of being banned by the Taiwan authorities are not far away.

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Peninsula Teahouse.

Pan Disheng stirred the milk tea, looked around, and smiled with emotion: "There is such a chaos in Hong Kong, and there are fewer people in the tea restaurant. In the past, when I came to the Peninsula Teahouse for afternoon tea, I had to queue up without making an appointment, but there were only a few people now."

"It's better to have fewer people, and drinking tea makes it much quieter." Hong Jinbao said while eating lotus paste bag.

Pan Disheng smiled and said, "I thought Mr. Hong would like to be more lively."

"That depends on what's going on," Hong Jinbao asked suddenly, "I wonder what happened to Mr. Pan asks me out today?"

Pan Disheng did not answer positively, but praised with a smile: "I have watched Mr. Hong's "Five Blessings Stars of Strange Schemes" and it was really great."

Sammo Hung said modestly: "It's far worse than Mr. Kang's "God of Gambling", and the box office is 10 million less."

Pan Disheng nodded and said, "Mr. Kang is really good at making movies. After watching "God of Gambling", I want to play two cards."

It's not just that it's amazing. Since the release of "God of Gambling", the number of people who have traveled from Hong Kong to Macau to gamble has increased by 20% compared to the past. By the way, Ho Hongshen should really write a thank you letter to Kang Jianfei.

Hong Jinbao has been guessing what Pan Disheng is going to come today and smiled: "I didn't expect that Mr. Pan also likes watching movies."

Pan Disheng said: "When I was studying abroad, I often watched movies to pass the time."

Hong Jinbao agreed and smiled, and continued to eat lotus paste bags and have afternoon tea. Since Pan Disheng was wandering around, he was not in a hurry to ask.

The two chatted for a long time, and Pan Disheng finally said: "Is Mr. Hong interested in opening a film company together?"

Sammo Hung was obviously stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect that Pan Disheng, the young master who sells famous brand jewelry and watches, would ask him to open a film company together.

"My current Baohe company is doing well and I don't want to open another company for the time being." Sammo Hung refused directly. He thought Pan Disheng knew nothing about movies, and he knew what would happen if he worked with an outsider.

Pan Disheng was still trying to convince Sammo Hung: "Mr. Hong, Baohe's funds were not recovered very quickly, and the box office he earned would be withdrawn by his parent company Jiahe, so that the money he used for reinvestment and filming would be even less. With the financial resources of Baohe Film Company, it has reached the limit for making two movies a year. Wouldn't the remaining time be wasted? If we cooperate to open a film company, you can make at least four movies a year, and the chances of making money are twice as high as before. Why not do it? Moreover, I know that I don't understand movies, so I am only responsible for investment, and you are fully responsible for the production of the film."

Pan Disheng's words made Hong Jinbao quite excited, but he was still a little concerned about Zou Wenhuai's reaction and said, "But Boss Zou..."

"You don't have to worry about Uncle Zou. If we cooperate to open a film company, the future films will be released in Jiahe Theater." Pan Disheng smiled.

Only then did Hong Jinbao realize that Pan Disheng was not on a whim and had found all the theaters in advance, and then came to him to discuss cooperation.

However, "The Five Blessings Stars" just made a big profit, and Sammo Hung will not be short of funds in the near future. If Pan Disheng found him three months ago, Sammo Hung might have agreed in one go.

After thinking for a long time, Sammo Hung finally agreed and said, "If Mr. Pan really wants to make a movie, of course I am willing to work with you. However, Baohe is preparing to film a new movie recently, and I will not be able to do other things within at least two months, so I will not be able to talk about cooperation after a while."

Pan Disheng smiled and said, "No problem, now you just need to determine the general cooperation plan."

Seeing that Pan Disheng wanted to finalize the cooperation, and he could no longer practice Tai Chi, he had to discuss cooperation with Pan Disheng.

When talking about the company's equity distribution, Pan Disheng said: "What do you think? I will pay the company's funds. I will hold 65 shares. You need 25 shares for the remaining shares. I will give him 10."

This is really generous equity distribution, and Pan Disheng is much more generous than Kang Jianfei. The reason why this young man wants to enter the film industry and wander in the muddy waters is that it is profitable to see the prosperity of Hong Kong films, and the other is to advertise various famous brands he represented. Just like Xiang Huaqiang can launder money by opening a film company, Pan Disheng is not only focusing on box office revenue when making movies.

"Cen Jianxun? He is now the deputy leader of the planning team of the DreamWorks Film Production Department." Hong Jinbao said in surprise.

"It's Cen Jianxun. In the future, the company's management will be handed over to him. When the company opens, he will resign from DreamWorks." Pan Disheng said with a smile. In fact, he has always had a relationship with Cen Jianxun. Selling famous brands of jewelry and watches, he has to deal with fashion magazines. At that time, Pan Disheng's business relied on the sales route of advertising in "Oriental Fashion", while Cen Jianxun was the editor-in-chief of "Notification" magazine.

Pan Disheng planned to start a film company, and the first partner he thought of was Cen Jianxun. Later, Cen Jianxun suggested that he bring Hong Jinbao in to work as a film production work.

Until they left after afternoon tea, Hong Jinbao and Pan Disheng had already finalized the general cooperation plan. Although they did not sign a formal contract, it was enough to have a verbal promise. Anyway, it was still very early to officially open the company.

The two even named the film company, and they were called Debao (D※B). Among them, "Bao" is naturally Sammo Hung, while "De" is taken from the first letter of the English name Dickson-Poon by Pan Disheng.

In fact, Debao Film Company was founded by Pan Disheng. Later generations rumored that he bought Debao from Sammo Hung and Cen Jianxun, but in fact he paid for the money to recover the equity in Sammo Hung.

Because when Debao was first established, his movies were released in Jiahe Theater, so Sammo Hung could naturally shoot back and forth between Baohe and Debao companies, and he was as good as a fish to make. But later, Debao's consecutive movies did not schedule a good schedule in Jiahe Theater. In a rage, Pan Disheng invested more than 100 million to develop his own theaters, and Debao also changed from Jiahe's satellite company to a competitor.

At this time, Sammo Hung was faced with a choice, either staying in Baohe or Debao. Sammo Hung finally chose the former and sold his shares in Debao to Pan Disheng. Another shareholder, Cen Jianxun, continued to stay and served as the general manager of Debao Cinemas.

Pan Disheng took a fancy to Hung Jinbao's film production ability, and Hung Jinbao also took a fancy to Pan Disheng's strong financial resources. The first meeting between the two was very harmonious.

After leaving the Peninsula Hotel, Pan Disheng asked his driver to take Sammo Hung home and personally sent Sammo Hung back.

The two continued to chat in Pan Disheng's car. Perhaps because they were about to enter the movie industry, Pan Disheng kept asking various questions related to the movie to recharge himself.

Many questions seem very naive, and Pan Disheng doesn't even know the process of film production, so Sammo Hung had to answer these questions one by one.

"I heard that Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks, and Princess Jin have conflicts. When our Debao company makes movies in the future, can we go to several other companies to invite big stars to perform?" Pan Disheng asked.

Hong Jinbao replied: "This depends on the specific situation. For example, Zheng Shaoqiu is a TVB person, but his movie appointment was not signed, and the TV appointment was signed very loosely. If we ask Zheng Shaoqiu to shoot movies, even Dakong Shao will not be able to stop him. But it is not possible to invite Ti Lung, because Ti Lung is the face of Shaw Brothers. If Ti Lung is invited to act in a movie released in Jiahe Theater, it would be a slap in Dakong Shao."

Pan Disheng asked again: "Then can we invite people from Oriental Entertainment Company? This time your "Five Blessings Stars of Strategy" was invited by Zhong Chuhong, and it seems that there is no problem."

Sammo Hung smiled and said, "There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film industry now - 'If you find an actor, go to Oriental Entertainment Company'. In the next play of our Baohe, except for the Hong family and Jiahe, I am going to go to Oriental Entertainment Company for other people."

"Oriental Entertainment Company has such a great influence in the film industry?" Pan Disheng was quite surprised by this, but then he felt relieved, because his Disheng Jewelry Store is now filming advertisements and is also looking for celebrities at Oriental Dream Factory.

In Hong Kong, Shaw Pictures has the largest number of film practitioners. After all, Shaw has accumulated decades of foundation. However, Shaw has strict control over its artists. Without private relationships, it is difficult and troublesome to invite Shaw actors to make movies.

It can be said that Oriental Entertainment is the only entertainment agency in Hong Kong so far, which greatly facilitates the large number of small Hong Kong film companies to hire actors.

Don’t underestimate these small film companies. The most prosperous period of Hong Kong films was in the early 1990s. At that time, there were hundreds of film companies in a small Hong Kong. Although it had not reached that level yet, there were still hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong. Except for Shaw Brothers and Jiahe and other large film companies, the remaining 100 small and medium-sized film companies are potential customers of Oriental Entertainment.

This summer, Oriental Entertainment, which has only been open for half a year, suddenly saw a huge increase in business volume, and its artists' film appointments floated like snowflakes.

What makes those small directors most comfortable is that Oriental Entertainment has various packaged package services. What types of actors are needed, even temporary actors, dragon and tiger martial artists, stunt actors, etc. As long as the customer makes a request, Oriental Entertainment will come up with a plan in the shortest time, greatly reducing the time and expenses of these film companies in the preliminary preparations.

There is a popular saying in the Hong Kong film industry now, that is, if you choose actors, you can find Oriental Entertainment. Not only can you give you the most suitable actors, but you can even find you behind the scenes. If you lack a photographer, you will give you a photographer. If you need a theme song for a movie, there is no problem. Not only will Fengxing Records arrange for you to write and compose songs, but you can even serve the singers and recording one-stop and thoughtful services.

Now many colleagues realized that there are such great business opportunities to set up a celebrity brokerage company. In the next few years, more than a dozen other celebrity companies will be established in Hong Kong, but in terms of scale and influence, these companies are not even worthy of carrying shoes to Oriental Entertainment.

Because the most important thing about a celebrity brokerage company is the artist resources. In Hong Kong, only Shaw Yifu has such a huge star resource that can be compared with Kang Jianfei. However, Shaw Yifu will never create a star brokerage company. This is related to Shaw Brothers and TVB's management system. If he opened a star brokerage company, it would probably take a few years for TVB's star artists to run away.

For example, Zhang Weijian filmed a movie called "Journey to the West" for TVB in the 1990s. Not only did the ratings break the Hong Kong record, but the TV series also became popular in half of Asia. TVB alone earned 400 million yuan in advertising fees in Asia. In contrast, Zhang Weijian, the protagonist of "Journey to the West", worked in TVB for a whole year, and was sick and only got a salary of 80,000 yuan.

Zhang Weijian asked TVB for increased treatment, but TVB didn't even let him go, and directly changed actors in the sequel to "Journey to the West", and Zhang Weijian was also half-banned because he did not obey the arrangement. Zhang Weijian was naturally so angry that he was so angry that he immediately left TVB until his contract was full, and he immediately left TVB to develop in Taiwan and mainland China.

If Shaw Yifu dared to start a celebrity agency, his artists would have tasted the sweetness outside, and most of them would not be willing to stay at Shaw Brothers or TVB.

Here Pan Disheng contacted Hong Jinbao and secretly poached Kang Jianfei's ideal future deputy director of the theater chain, Cen Jianxun, but Kang Jianfei had no idea about this. He was staring at the release of "Bao Qingtian" on Phoenix Channel, but Cheng Long and Deng Jingsheng came to write the script, saying that he wanted to start planning a co-production film between Jiahe and Dream Factory, which was agreed with Zou Wenhuai at the beginning.
Chapter completed!