Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 294 Cooperating with Stephen Chow (two chapters in one)

In mid-April 1995, Chen Qiming became the subject of crazy pursuit by the media.

Not only because of his terrifying money-absorbing speed, not only because he has become a new rich man in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also because in the just-announced shortlist for the Academy Awards, Chen Qiming was once again shortlisted for Best Actor with "Chongqing Forest".

After being shortlisted last year, Chen Qiming once again entered the ranks of best actor with "Chongqing Express" this year.

Competing with them on the same stage are Kok Min-fai's "Three Boys in Love", Leslie Cheung's "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", and Stephen Chow's "Domestic Lingling Paint"

, Chow Yun-fat's "Shaolin", Jacky Cheung's "The New Marginal".

Last year, Chen Qiming did not win the award, which caused a large number of Chen Qiming's fans to question the fairness of the Academy Awards and once held a protest.

With this example before, Chen Qiming dared to be shortlisted for this year's Academy Awards. Many media speculated that Chen Qiming might have already secured the title of Best Actor for the Academy Awards.

And if Chen Qiming wins this year's Academy Award for Best Actor, his achievement will be a bit scary.

He is only 23 years old this year.

But he has already won two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor. If he wins another Golden Image Award this time, he will hold three Best Actor titles at the age of 23 for an unprecedented time.

And this is something that has never happened in the entire history of the Chinese film industry, and even in the entire world film industry.

Therefore, the entire Hong Kong and Taiwan media are staring at the upcoming Golden Statue Awards, wanting to see if Chen Qiming can win the three titles of best actor in the Chinese film industry at the age of 23.

……

The media is concerned about whether they can win awards and about their assets.

Chen Qiming didn't have time to pay attention to these, he was thinking about the future of the Pacific Cinemas he had just acquired.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, the theater chain has a new boss, and the theater chain's business model will naturally change.

Before, when Luo Jiechen was running the theater chain, because the theater chain was unable to make ends meet, this made Luo Jiechen move the cake of the producer.

For all the films that were screened in the former Yonggao Cinemas, except for movies starring actors like Chen Qiming with box office appeal, the box office share of other movies released in Yonggao was suppressed to the minimum.

This has caused many producers to give up cooperating with Yonggao.

After the theater was in charge of Chen Qiming, he naturally did not intend to do such a thing that would tarnish the reputation of the theater.

After he acquired the theater chain, he immediately took the initiative to reduce the box office share after the movie was released, in order to bring back some customers.

And today, he was going to meet a very important person in the Hong Kong film industry in person.

Stephen Chow!
Well, this is the King of Comedy.

Last year, due to being squeezed too badly by Yongsheng and Universal Pictures, Zhou Xingchi finally broke with Yongsheng and Universal Pictures, and he and Yang Guohui and others established Color Star Films.

"Westward Journey" is the company's debut film.

As a result, "A Chinese Journey to the West", which was released in February, only earned 2000 million at the box office in Hong Kong, and its reputation was extremely poor.

For a while, the whole of Hong Kong was full of the saying that Stephen Chow was exhausted, and it didn't make sense that movie audiences didn't buy it.

Of course, these current situations have nothing to do with Chen Qiming.

He made an appointment with Zhou Xingchi in order to win the second part of "A Chinese Journey to the West".

Color Star Film Company invested a total of more than 6000 million in the filming of "Journey to the West", because the plot cannot be finished in one film, so a total of two films were produced.

Although the first part of "A Chinese Journey to the West" was a failure.

But for the second part, the major theaters in Hong Kong are still very eager to get their own company's release.

how to say!

When a movie is released and the box office loses money, it is usually only the production company that loses money.

For theaters, as long as they get the source of the film, no matter whether the film loses money or makes money, it is a steady profit for the theaters.

After all, for theater chains, releasing and distributing a movie only requires the movie to be played in theaters. Even if there is investment, it will only be some promotional expenses at most.

Generally speaking, theater chains are definitely the most stable industry in the film industry.

Of course, the premise of all this is that you can find the source of the film.

The previous Luo Jiechen was a lesson for the past.

Because it is only responsible for distribution and release, but the relationship with the film production companies in the circle is not very good.

As a result, the production companies were unwilling to release the film in Yonggao.

Without the release of the film, the high theater rent and other inputs will naturally have to be paid out of pocket.

Therefore, generally speaking, although the first part of Stephen Chow's "A Chinese Journey to the West" did not do well at the box office, he is still very popular in theaters.

After all, Zhou Xingchi is one of the few people with the strongest box office appeal in recent years, no matter how bad the box office is, there must be 2000 million.

With a 1000-[-] split, the theater chain can still get about [-] million. Even if a part of the publicity fee is deducted, the theater chain can still earn several million to pay the rent.

So, after winning the theater chain and sorting out various matters in the theater chain, Chen Qiming immediately made an appointment with Zhou Xingchi.

……

"Mr. Chen, hello!"

In the agreed restaurant, Chen Qiming met Zhou Xingchi.

The king of comedy who has become famous in Hong Kong in recent years is not as extroverted as in the movie in reality, but rather taciturn.

"Mr. Zhou, nice to meet you!"

Seeing that Stephen Chow didn't like to talk, Chen Qiming took the initiative to chat, "I heard that Mr. Zhou likes Bruce Lee. I got an autographed poster of Mr. Bruce Lee back then, which I can give to Mr. Zhou as a gift!"

With that said, Chen Qiming took out the prepared gift and handed it to Zhou Xingchi.

Bruce Lee's signed posters are hard to find.

Since Bruce Lee's death, his signed poster has become a bottom-of-the-box collection for many diehard Bruce Lee fans.

Chen Qiming obtained this poster by accident, and it cost him [-] Hong Kong dollars.

A poster costs [-] Hong Kong dollars, but there is still a price but no market.

You can imagine how hard this thing is to find.

Hearing that the thing in his hand was a poster signed by Bruce Lee, a smile appeared on Zhou Xingchi's serious face.

"Thank you, thank you Mr. Chen!"

It can be seen that he likes Chen Qiming's gift very much.

Secretly applauding his own preference, Chen Qiming started talking about business.

"Mr. Zhou should have some guesses about my purpose of looking for you today.

Yes, I'm here for the "A Chinese Journey to the West 2" in your hand.

I think Mr. Zhou should have heard that I have acquired Yonggao Cinemas and I am re-contacting partners.

Mr. Zhou's talent is obvious to all. I hope to reach a cooperation with Mr. Zhou. In the future, when Mr. Zhou's films are screened in Pacific theaters, I will definitely give everyone a satisfactory sharing condition! "

"I know, congratulations to Mr. Chen for successfully acquiring Yonggao Cinemas, and here, I also wish your Pacific Cinemas a prosperous future.

but……"

Stephen Chow said with a questioning expression on his face, "If I heard correctly just now, Mr. Chen was talking about cooperating with me, not Color Star Movies?"

"Yes, cooperate with you, Mr. Zhou, not Caixing.

Let's put it this way!What I value is your ability and talent, Mr. Zhou, not colorful stars.

My hope is, no matter whether Mr. Zhou is in Color Star or in other companies in the future, I hope we can work together. "

Chen Qiming nodded and said.

If Chen Qiming wanted to cooperate, he would of course choose to cooperate with Zhou Xingchi.

Although everyone outside now thinks that Stephen Chow's nonsense has been eliminated by the audience.

It is believed that Zhou Xingchi's box office appeal will decline significantly in the future.

But this is what the outside world thinks.

In Broken Dreams, these things don't happen.

In the next ten years, Zhou Xingchi will not be eliminated by the market, on the contrary, he will continue to rise all the way and his career will flourish.

Therefore, Chen Qiming naturally had to invest in advance.

However, this investment must be invested wisely.Color Star Movies.

This company is not the company of Zhou Xingchi alone, it was established by Zhou Xingchi and Yang Guohui.

According to the dream information, next year, Stephen Chow will take the initiative to withdraw his shares in Color Star and re-establish a new film company, Xinghui Films.

In the next few years, Stephen Chow's films almost came from this film company.

"It's not impossible to hand over "Journey to the West 2" to Pacific Cinemas, but can Mr. Chen guarantee enough publicity for us?
In addition, the sharing should not be like the previous Yonggao, right?

If it's still the same as before, then I'm sorry, we may not agree to hand over the film to Pacific Cinemas. "

Zhou Xingchi raised his head, looked at Chen Qiming and said.

The first part of Colorful Star's "A Chinese Journey to the West" was handed over to Yonggao for distribution and release.

However, Yonggao's share ratio is quite a lot.

In addition, Yonggao's promotion ability also made the main creators of Westward Journey, including Stephen Chow, very dissatisfied.

"Mr. Zhou, don't worry about this, since I changed the name of Yonggao to Pacific Ocean, it naturally means that the theater chain needs to be re-reformed!

As for the share, I can make the decision now and give Mr. Zhou a [-]-[-] share, and the announcement is not included in it.

In addition, regarding the schedule, we will try our best to arrange the best schedule for you! "

Chen Qiming promised.

Hearing this, Zhou Xingchi nodded, agreeing with Chen Qiming's statement.

He had no dealings with Chen Qiming.

But it doesn't mean they don't understand Chen Qiming.

On the contrary, Stephen Chow may know more about Chen Qiming than other Hong Kong stars.

And this is mainly due to Zhu Yin.

Athena Chu and Chen Qiming have been dating for a while, this is something he knows.

When he discovered Athena Chu and starred in "Play Back To School", he fell in love with this dark-skinned girl at first sight.

As a result, because of his introverted personality, he started a step too late and was picked by the thief Chen Qiming.

Because of this matter, he paid close attention to Chen Qiming.

According to his understanding, although Chen Qiming was a bit fiddly.

Well, it's a playful heart.

He doesn't know exactly how many people Chen Qiming has dated with.

But there are quite a lot of gossip about this guy, and the news almost describes him as someone who changes his girlfriend every day.

However, no matter how hard he tries, this guy is really impeccable in terms of work.

Moreover, he had never heard of any rumors about Chen Qiming breaking his promise.

Therefore, he believed in Chen Qiming's promise.

"Actually, I came to see Mr. Zhou today for another matter!"

At this time, Chen Qiming suddenly spoke.

"Say it!" Zhou Xingchi looked at him.

Chen Qiming pointed to his head, "I have a hunch that Mr. Zhou may choose an independent business in the future, so I hope that if Mr. Zhou starts his own company, we can cooperate.

Well, if your film is short of funds, I can help! "

Hearing this, Zhou Xingchi couldn't help squinting his eyes.

If it was someone else, after hearing Chen Qiming's words, they might think that Chen Qiming was cursing himself.

After all, I have just started a company with someone, but it is said that I want to start my own business, which really feels like a curse.

But for Zhou Xingchi, he really didn't regard this as a curse.

Because, because Stephen Chow is really planning to do it alone.

After forming Color Star with Yang Guohui, Zhou Xingchi realized how uncomfortable it is to cooperate with these capitalists.

He was greatly restricted in Cai Xing.

Not only in terms of freedom of film creation, but also in terms of rights.

Yang Guohui is a producer, and at the same time this guy is rich, he is considered a half-capitalist.

Because of this, in Cai Xing, Stephen Chow's rights were almost emptied out, just like a wage earner, which made him very uncomfortable after being squeezed by Wan Mian and Yong Sheng before.

Some people may think that it is too much to say that Magnum and Yongsheng squeeze Stephen Chow.

But that's exactly what it is.

Don't look at Zhou Xingchi's current glory, he is one of the few people with the most box office appeal in Hong Kong.

But, in truth, he might be the worst of the few.

Jackie Chan, whose godfather is He Guanchang, has always been a pillar of Golden Harvest. Golden Harvest has treated him very well, not only helping him start a company, but also never defaulting on all aspects of film remuneration.

Chow Yun-fat, Chow Yun-fat's agent and Andy Lau's agent are the same person, that is, Zhang Guozhong.

Zhang Guozhong is one of the most powerful brokers in Hong Kong, with a very good ability and background.

Surrounded by Zhang Guozhong, Chow Yun-fat did not join any big company, like a mercenary, whoever needs him, pays for it, and whoever pays the most, he will shoot for whoever pays more.

Jet Li, even though Jet Li is from the Mainland, his background is not small. He has an official background in the Mainland.

With this background, and Yang Dengkui, one of the top ten filmmakers on Baodao, as his backer.

Therefore, even if he is restricted in Hong Kong, the benefits he should get will never be less.

Not to mention Chen Qiming, he had the endorsement of the eight major filmmakers Changhong before, and Baodao CTS TV was also his backer. In addition, there were Warner Records and other companies that needed his records to help him.

Now, he turned himself into a slave and sang, set up his own cinema, and became a chess player in one fell swoop, which is really enviable.

Only Stephen Chow.

Only Zhou Xingchi has the worst life among this group of people with strong box office appeal.

He debuted in the late 80s, became popular in the 90s, and it has been so many years now.

Zhou Xingchi is like a tool man, he can be squeezed as much as he wants.

From 90 to now, in five years, Zhou Xingchi has been among the top ten box office charts every year.

After making so many movies, Stephen Chow barely earns as much money as a movie he starred in.

Yes, it's that miserable.

Zhou Xingchi's salary has already reached tens of millions.

But the tens of millions of pay, almost less than a million in his hands.

The reason why he was able to establish Caixing with others was because he took advantage of the loophole and made more than 1000 million yuan by filming "A Happy Event in the Family" for Huang Baiming.

Without this money, Zhou Xingchi would not even have the money to start the company now.

It was because he was squeezed too hard that Zhou Xingchi chose to turn his back on Yongsheng last year.

And because of his previous experience, he now hates being exploited as a tool.

And now Caixing, he has this feeling.

He felt like a tool man again.

Therefore, he is already preparing to withdraw his shares, not cooperate with anyone, and set up his own company.

"I won't start a company with anyone...at least not now!"

After a while, Zhou Xingchi said.

"I don't invest in your company, only in your movies.

I think, you should not give up a chance to share the risk with someone! "

Chen Qiming smiled and said.

(End of this chapter)