Lin Chaoyang turned his head and laughed, "Jiang Shan, how about it? Are you still adapting to staying in Xiangjiang?"
"The colleagues in the company are very caring and are very adaptable." Jiang Shan replied, and said hello to Xie Jin: "Hello Uncle Xie!"
Xie Jin asked: "Are you Jiang Shan from the Yan family of Jianghuai?"
"yes."
"Why did you come to Hong Kong?"
Lin Chaoyang explained to Jiang Shan: "There is a female second-teacher in a movie that suits her very well, so let her come over to play and watch it."
Jiang Shan casts gratitude to Lin Chaoyang.
Xie Jin nodded, "Xiao Jiangshan's conditions are really good. She acts well. Maybe she will be Gong Li again in the future."
Jiang Shan was a little confused by Xie Jin's praise, "Uncle Xie, you have won the award. I haven't even acted in a movie."
"Take it slow, don't worry."
Lin Chaoyang asked Jiang Shan again: "When will the filming of your drama start?"
"Next month, Leslie Cheung's schedule will be too full, so she will be training in the company during this period."
In the mainland, actors are actors. After a professional college graduate like Jiang Shan can act directly after joining a professional troupe. Even if it is a supporting actor, it is also called acting.
But in Xiangjiang, many newcomers start with training class students, in addition to learning and practicing acting skills.
The cultivation of social etiquette, hair and hair skills and other skills is also indispensable.
Lin has also signed some artists in recent years. The principle is that the essence is not expensive, and the training is much higher than the TVB actor training class.
The whole process of acting, music, dance, styling, fitness, and public relations is aimed at cultivating superstars.
Jiang Shan talked about her experience in visiting Xiangjiang for more than half a month, and she looked very excited. For her, all her experiences and experiences these days were fresh.
In addition to language, diet and other aspects, she is very satisfied with everything she is now.
"That's good. Yushu and I will treat Lao Xie to dinner tonight, so you can go together.
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Jiang Shan was not willing to attend such a party at a young age, but she noticed the subtle expressions of Lin's employees not far away, and immediately understood Lin Chaoyang's intention. Uncle Lin was afraid that she would be bullied in Xiangjiang, so she was giving her
Support it.
"Okay, thank you Uncle Lin."
Jiang Shan and Lin Chaoyang chatted for a while before leaving. Lin Chaoyang and Xie Jin ran to the conference room to listen to the report.
The box office and overseas copyright operation of Red Cliff War.
The massive release of "The Battle of Red Cliff" is mainly concentrated in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Other countries outside this are basically operating in the form of copyright buyouts.
Compared with the huge box office revenue in East Asia, Southeast Asia, this part of the benefits are very low, currently only 350
Hong Kong dollars, which also indirectly confirms that the largest audience of the IP "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is still in the Confucian cultural circle.
"Can this computer game sell so well?"
Xie Jin pointed to the slide projection, his face full of strangeness.
The game of the same name in "The Battle of Red Cliff" was developed by Sugar Games and was launched before the New Year. With the popularity of movies in the Confucian cultural circle, its sales performance is good.
In the three months of issuance, the cumulative sales reached 560,000 units, of which the Japanese market performed the most, contributing nearly half of the sales.
The sales of a single game amounted to HK$112 million, setting the best result of Sugar Games so far and laying a solid foundation for the internationalization of Sugar Games.
A few days ago, Yulang Institution announced the sales performance of "The Battle of Red Cliff", and the stock price rose by 5.2%.
"It's the linkage effect, and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very influential in East Asia, Southeast Asian countries themselves.
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Xie Jin exclaimed, "In business, there are still too many leading Hong Kong movies."
Xie Jin is one of the earliest directors in China to awaken business concepts and market economy awareness. He is dissatisfied with the current situation where the literary and artistic circles can only rely on state funding.
It is believed that people in the literary and artistic circles should change their ideas and establish awareness of the commodity economy. They have repeatedly called for it in the media and in public, but unfortunately they are useless.
"The United States is still far from it, and it still needs to work hard," said Tao Yushu.
After talking about the operation of the film copyright, Tao Yushu called the finance department, and the black suitcase fell heavily on the table.
Tao Yushu directly opened the suitcase, and a whole box of gossip red came into view. Xie Jin couldn't help but shrink his pupils and breathe stagnated.
"The Battle of Red Cliffs made a lot of money for Lin, and everyone has a share, and this share is yours," said Tao Yushu.
A heartbeat flashed in Xie Jin's eyes, but soon returned to Qingming Festival. "I have received my reward, which is not suitable."
Xie Jin is the head of Superstar Pictures, which is one of the investors in "The Battle of Red Cliff", so Xie Jin naturally needs to avoid suspicion.
"I say it's appropriate, it's appropriate. This is a red envelope, and others can't say anything."
Xie Jin still shook his head, "The company has made enough money, this red envelope——"
He hesitated for a moment and finally said, "Forget it."
There are four investors in "The Battle of Red Cliff", namely Lin's Pictures, Xiangjiang Times Pictures, China Film Cooperative Production Company and Shanghai Superstar Pictures.
Because there are many investors and the contracts are relatively complex, in summary, Lin's Pictures occupies nearly 80% of the film's revenue because it occupies the majority of investment, the advantages of production team and overseas distribution channels.
The remaining 20% ​​of the money is shared by Times Pictures, Co-production and Superstar Pictures, but even so, it has already made several companies make a lot of money.
Superstar Films initially invested 2 million yuan in "The Battle of Red Cliff", earning nearly 5.5 million yuan in return.
This number is inconspicuous for Lin's Pictures, but for Superstar Pictures and Shanghai Film Studios, it is a rainfall from the sky.
Domestic film studios have always lost money when investing in movies, but Superstar Film has made a big profit in investing in "The Battle of Red Cliff".
It is definitely rare in the domestic film industry. During this period, Shanghai Film Studios were excited and felt that they had found a shortcut to the path of marketization.
"The company is a company, and an individual is an individual. If you follow the rules of Lin's Pictures, you will get more than this.
It is because of your special situation that I said this is a red envelope.
You are filming outdoors all year round, so you can treat this money as a way to improve your living conditions for your family."
When talking about family members, Xie Jin was silent.
It is no exaggeration to say that his achievements in film career stand at the top of this country and even Asia, but behind this is his long-term neglect and debt to his family.
He and his wife have three sons and one daughter. Except for the eldest son, they are healthy, the remaining three children have some intellectual defects.
Xie Jin has earned a lot of money for many years, but his family's financial situation has always been unoptimistic.
During the filming of "The Battle of Red Cliff", his son Asan passed away and he only stopped working for three days.
Tao Yushu mentioned his family and saw Xie Jin silently, she said, "Let's do this, I'll call your factory to explain the situation, and it's a special reward from our Lin Family Pictures.
"The Battle of Red Cliff" earned our company 300 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office alone. I would like to reward you, a hard-working director, and no one can say anything."
Tao Yushu's thoughtful arrangements made people unable to find any fault. Xie Jin finally bowed to her and Lin Chaoyang, "Then I'm ashamed of taking the lead!"
"There is no pressure. You don't know Lin's rules. As long as the movies are big, the directors, screenwriters and starring actors, everyone will be able to pay dividends.
The old Chen boy made a movie "Farewell My Concubine" and he got more money than you.
You uncle still have to work hard.”
Lin Chaoyang's jokes made the atmosphere in the office relax, and Xie Jin also let go of his psychological burden.
In the evening, Lin Chaoyang chose the reception location at Hangzhou Restaurant.
He found Li Hanxiang and Wu Siyuan to accompany him. Since the reform and opening up, they have had many exchanges with the mainland film industry and are also acquaintances with Xie Jin.
Another thing is Jiang Shan, a young man. She came to the party just to be a diner and gain some experience.
Listening to the elders talking about Xiangjiang and various strange stories in the mainland film industry, she felt that she was very eye-opening today.
This trip is worth it.
Of course, what made her even more excited was the movie pay and dividends mentioned by everyone.
A big-selling movie is worth millions of Hong Kong dollars. Jiang Shan, who has lived in Yan Film Studio since childhood, realized for the first time that movies are such a profitable job. She couldn't help but feel her future acting career full of longing.
More than half a month later, Du Feng led Chen Lan into Villa No. 75, Shenshuiwan.
Chen Lan just retired last month and transferred to Yanjing Public Security Bureau, otherwise she would not be able to leave the country.
Her and Du Feng’s wedding date is scheduled during the National Day. This time, Du Feng came to Xiangjiang to buy some jewelry.
Du Feng is now rich, so of course he can't get shabby when getting married.
"Where did you buy a wedding house?" Tao Yumo asked him.
"Lijing Garden."
"Tu, I've all gone to the airport."
"What do you know? The location doesn't matter. What matters is that the house is expensive, 10,000 yuan per square meter. Don't care how far I live, who can't say a big money?"
"That's a local rich man."
Tao Yumo said to Chen Lan: "Don't listen to his jewelry when buying it. The aesthetic soil is so fatal. I'll help you with your advice.
Make sure to make him bleed."
Chen Lan smiled gently, "Actually, there is no need to buy anything, he has to make a fuss."
Speaking of marriage, Du Feng felt a little regretful, "According to my opinion, the wedding banquet will be held at Diaoyutai 100
The table. Drive another thirty or fifty big horses, first take a walk around Chang'an Street, then run around the Second Ring Road·—”
Du Feng's idea was very bold, but it was not feasible. He dared to do this, and his father could break his legs first without the Chen family saying anything.
According to the ideas of the elders of the two families, the lower the key, the better.
In form, Du Feng could only use his mind to other places, such as the jewelry Chen Lan wore when she got married, such as the dresses and wedding dresses worn by the two of them at their wedding—.
He finally got married once, but he felt really uncomfortable without being extravagant. He felt that it was completely meaningless to make so much money.
Xiangjiang is just the first stop for the two. Du Feng plans to take Chen Lan to Europe and the United States for a walk, with the main focus on being rich and willful.
To sum it up in Tao Yumo's words is just one word: slutty!
In April just past, the country fully liberalized the purchase and sales prices of grain and oil, and the last batch of grain coupons, oil coupons officially withdrew from the stage of history.
In this comparison, Du Feng, who is devoted to spending money, has some of the ugly faces of the capitalist.
He stayed in Xiangjiang for almost a week, and his footprints were spread all over the high-end shopping malls in Xiangjiang, spending money like soil.
That night, he and Chen Lan came back from outside with a bunch of spoils.
I asked Lin Chaoyang about the housing prices in Shenshuiwan Road, "Brother-in-law, how much does this house cost now?"
"I don't know much. What's wrong? Do you want to buy a house?"
"For investment, the housing prices in Xiangjiang are so good now. After buying a house, I don't have to bother you anymore. I heard that the villa next to you, the Bao family is empty now. Please help me find out."
Seeing that Du Feng was not a joke, Lin Chaoyang said seriously: "No need to inquire."
"Why?"
"Because they won't sell it."
In the early years, Deepwater Bay Road became one of the most well-known wealthy districts in Xiangjiang because Li Ka-shing made his fortune. In recent years, with the rise in housing prices, such assets themselves are scarce.
A few years ago, Lin Chaoyang and his wife moved here, and their value was rising. They sat firmly on the top ten richest people in Xiangjiang in three or four years.
People in Xiangjiang have always been superstitious about Feng Shui. The history of Lin Chaoyang and his wife's success made people in Xiangjiang believe that Deep Water Bay is a Feng Shui treasure land. Many tabloid media have also reported this incident specifically, which has attracted the attention of many citizens.
This has led to the status of the luxury houses on Deepwater Bay Road becoming more respectful in the past two years, and many wealthy people have set their sights on this place.
Unfortunately, all the wealthy families living here are Xiangjiang, including the Li family, Xu family, Bao family, and Jiadaoli family. In 1992, Xiangjiang's GDP was HK$575 billion, and the wealth of these families living in Shenshuiwan Road combined,
It reached 20% of Xiangjiang's GDP.
After Bao Yugang passed away, his villa No. 77 Shenshuiwan Road was distributed to the four daughters and four son-in-law of the Bao family, and the huge mansion was empty there.
To put it bluntly, the rich people living in Deepwater Bay Road are not short of money. If there were no major changes, they would not have taken advantage of the level of assets such as the Deepwater Bay Road luxury house.
After hearing Lin Chaoyang talk about the situation of the Bao family, Du Feng sighed with regret: "There is a market that is priceless!"
"If you really want to buy it, you can increase the price!"
Tao Yumo acted as a military advisor, and Du Feng took her with his ideas and could use his wealth to make such a wealthy as the Bao family?
"Blind! It's true that the Bao family has money, but now they are all separated. You are showing some sincerity, which is not bad."
Du Feng thought about it and thought Tao Yumo's words seemed to make some sense, so he looked at Lin Chaoyang.
"Don't listen to her blind ideas. This villa is also a house after all, how much can you add? People say 200 million, will you buy it?"
The villas in Deepshuiwan Road are priceless, and there is no specific reference standard at all. If you follow the housing price trend in Xiangjiang in recent years, it is definitely no problem for the villa No. 75 of Lin Chaoyang's family to be worth HK$70 to 80 million.
The Bao Family Villa No. 77 has a better geographical location than here and is larger in scale. The price is up to 100 million.
But since there is a market that is priceless, the price increase must not be too shabby.
Even if Du Feng can get 200 million, it will be enough to make him feel pain.
In recent years, his business has been developing smoothly, his wealth has grown very quickly, and his mentality has also expanded a bit.
What Lin Chaoyang said today made him feel a little more awake.
He sighed: "I really don't know if the money is less than Xiangjiang! It seems that my value is still not worthy of the luxury house in Deep Shuiwan Road, so I can only buy a house in Mid-mountain."
Tao Yumo said at this time: "Why would I sell my house to you."
Two years ago, Lin Chaoyang gave her a half-mountain mansion, which was empty and no one lived there.
Du Feng knew that she had a house, but he didn't know the specific situation. After hearing what she said, he became interested.
"My house is so popular now. Anita Mui just spent 20 million to buy a house there last month. If you buy it, you will be a neighbor with her...
Tao Yumo fooled Du Feng and was stunned. Lin Chaoyang didn't say anything and looked at him with a smile.
Tao Yumo called the house to 25 million, and Du Feng felt that it was worth the money. When Tao Yumo was so proud, Lin Chaoyang said, "It was only more than nine million when she bought her house."
Du Feng suddenly felt fooled, "You bought it for 9 million, and I will sell it for 25 million? Zhou Papi is not as rude as you!
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"Brother-in-law~" Tao Yumo said coquettishly, and before she could hold Lin Chaoyang responsible, she said to Du Feng: "Don't listen to my brother-in-law's nonsense. The house has been bought for several years, so it's normal for me to increase a little. My price is absolutely nothing.
bully."
Du Feng was beating, "I can see that, you're just catching my wool! Fortunately, my brother-in-law reminded me, don't worry, I won't buy your house even if I beat you to death."
Before the wool came, Tao Yumo was disappointed and kept complaining about Lin Chaoyang's talkative words.
Because of buying a house, Du Feng and Chen Lan stayed in Xiangjiang for a few days and finally chose a duplex house in Zhongbanshan, with a total property price of HK$14.7 million.
The area is comparable to that of Tao Yumo's house, which confirms her bad intentions.
It was June in a flash. It had been more than a month since Lin Chaoyang's new work "Ambren Hunter" was published in "Contemporary", and the single-line version was officially launched in the mainland and Xiangjiang the day before yesterday.
This novel was created by Lin Chaoyang in two later films, one is "The Revenant" starring Li Zi and the other is "Togo".
The story of "The Revenant" tells the story of the fur hunter Glass, played by Little Little Little Zi, was rescued by the captain after being seriously injured by a brown bear during a hunting trip, and two more people, John and Jim, hired to take care of him.
But John was unwilling to take care of Grass, and only wanted to take Grass' property for himself. He brutally killed Grass's son and persuaded Jim to abandon Grass in the wilderness and wait for death.
The two thought that Glas would die like this, but Glass traveled through the wild wilderness for several months with his strong perseverance, and finally returned to safety and began to revenge.
The story of "Togo" tells the story of 20 snowmen and 150 sled dogs traveling 1,085 kilometers to transport serum in 1925 in order to save the lives of Alaska children. They suffered heavy losses along the way, and finally completed the task after going through hardships.
In the novel "Ambren Hunter", Lin Chaoyang extracted the "hunter" and "rescue" elements in the two movies respectively, and used a first-person perspective to tell the story from the perspective of "I".
"I" was a sociologist in the 1920s. In order to understand the culture and history of ethnic minorities in the Xing'anling area, "I" went deep into the Xing'anling area to conduct field surveys of the sparsely populated Oroqen people who made a living by fishing and hunting.
But he was injured unexpectedly and his life was hanging on the line. When a sudden blizzard occurred, he was in a state of emergency. In order to send me medical treatment, the old Oroqen hunter Ambren brought his reindeer and hunting dog to start a life-and-death rescue.
Ambren took me with me through the torture of blizzards and low temperatures. He paid the price of three hunting dogs to repel the invasion of the wolves, but his supplies were accidentally lost, and he was hungry and cold.
In the cold wave, I met the Siberian tiger with a starving eyes and a red-eyed storm. Ambren fought bravely with his evil tiger, and finally successfully sent me to medical treatment and saved my life.
Finally, Ambren returned to the forest with his only disabled hound.
The whole novel tells it in the tone of "I", but the protagonist is the old hunter Ambren, who portrays Liu Xu, a taciturn, tenacious but full of money like Ambren, and is very vivid.
The novel was published in the first issue of "Contemporary" in the form of a headline in early May. It became the focus of hot discussion in the literary world in just a few days, and it also brought this issue of "Contemporary" magazine back to its peak.
Bookstores and post offices everywhere are filled with readers who come to buy magazines, which is not enough to sell.
The concept of the four-part "Birth, Aging, Sickness and Death" has been proposed for more than four years, "Entering the Master", "Father"
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Lin Chaoyang used high-quality works to confirm that the concept he proposed was not a false appearance, and also gained a great reputation for the four-part "Birth, Aging, Sickness and Death".
Now that the last novel in this series is available, readers will naturally buy and compete to read the news, and soon a hot trend has formed.
320,000, 810,000, 1.17 million, 1.4 million—
The surging enthusiasm of readers has made "Contemporary", which has been selling for many years, return to its prime with only one issue of the magazine.
In one month, the third issue of "Contemporary" in 1993 hit 1.4 million copies.
Even when literary journals were at their peak seven or eight years ago, this data was among the first-line literary magazines, let alone today when literary magazines have declined.
The editorial department of "Contemporary" optimistically estimated that the sales of this issue of magazines should easily exceed 2 million copies, which shows Lin Chaoyang's appeal among Chinese readers.
Of course, in addition to Lin Chaoyang's appeal, the most important thing about the hot sales of "Contemporary" is the excellent quality of "Hunter Ambren".
In this novel, the protagonist An Bulun resolutely chose to send "me" to medical treatment even though he knew the future was in danger.
He broke through all kinds of difficulties and obstacles along the way, and was on the verge of despair several times, but never gave up. He deeply demonstrated the greatness and glory of human nature, moving all readers.
Many readers have written letters to the editorial department of "Contemporary" after reading this novel, calling the novel "Chinese version of "The Old Man and the Sea".
For many writers, they do not like their works being labeled as "Second Second" and "XX Version XX", but such titles do express readers' recognition of the works to a large extent and favorite.
These readers do not think that "Ambren Hunter" is really worse than "The Old Man and the Sea". They are just eager to find a more concrete concept to express their shocking feelings after reading this novel.
"Chinese version of "The Old Man and the Sea"" is the highest praise for this novel that readers can think of.
The focus of the title is not on the "Chinese version", but on "The Old Man and the Sea".
Chapter completed!