Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

"No less than four screens?" Du Qifeng was surprised: "Mr. Chen is not joking?"

"I'm not someone who would joke about this kind of thing." Chen Qiming glanced at him.

"Sorry, sorry!" Du Qifeng smiled sarcastically.

Just now, he subconsciously ignored Chen Qiming's identity and raised a question.

When I come back to my senses and think about it carefully, others may not be able to upgrade the theater's screen to no less than four, but Chen Qiming can do it.

As the only Hong Kong film and television company to make a profit of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in 1996, and in the past two years, Peacebird has rapidly occupied the Southeast Asian market and become the leading clothing brand. Chen Qiming definitely has the strength to dominate his theaters. The online theater will be expanded and built into the industry's top level.

After learning from Chen Qiming that Pacific Cinemas was going to add more screens, Johnnie To no longer had any worries. He looked at Wei Jiahui and stood up and said:

"If it is true as you said, Mr. Chen, then we have no worries and we are very willing to join the Qiming Film and Television family."

"I look forward to working with you. I believe that your joining will make us even more powerful and bring more, better and more popular movies to the film and television industry."

Chen Qiming stood up and shook hands with him.

After a pause, Chen Qiming said: "I have decided to merge Pacific Cinemas, Qiming Film and Television, Qidian Records and other companies into a group company starting next month.

The company officially changed its name to Pacific Entertainment Group.

At that time, your Galaxy Image will be directly under this group company.

In addition, regarding the movies produced by Galaxy Image, you founders will have a share of the movie profits of Galaxy Image, each of you will have 5%. .

I guarantee that these revenue shares will exist as long as you are in Galaxy Image. "

Establishing a group company is something Chen Qiming has been considering for a long time.

Although splitting up all companies seems to be more conducive to reducing taxes, and may even make it easier to operate reasonable tax avoidance.

But the decentralization of the company is very unfavorable for control.

Especially Chen Qiming is busy with various things every day.

It doesn't matter if this situation lasts for a short time, but if it lasts for a long time, it will inevitably lead to deception.

In order to avoid this situation and to better control all the companies under him, Chen Qiming decided to merge them all into one company.

There is another benefit to merging all these companies.

That's all the company's money can circulate before.

The record company's money can go through the head office and then be invested in film and television, and the money from film and television can also be invested in records.

As for the benefits of sharing for Johnnie To and others, they seem to be a lot, but in fact they are not much.

Because after Galaxy Image was acquired, Chen Qiming did not intend to interfere in the company's internal affairs. He was only responsible for getting the head office to allocate funds for investment.

In this way, the galaxy image is very independent.

Since they are independent, if they want to make money, Johnnie To and others will naturally have to work hard.

For Chen Qiming, the harder they work, the more value they can create for themselves.

Since you have to work so hard, you can't give up any money!

If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it grass. Chen Qiming understands this very well.

"Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Chen. Please rest assured that Galaxy Image will not let you down."

Chen Qiming decided to give each of them a 5% share of the film's income, which made Johnnie To very happy.

Don’t look at the bunch of people in the film and television industry who call themselves literary and artistic people.

But if they don’t have money, they’re nothing at all artistic.

All literature and art are based on having enough food and clothing and sufficient pockets.

As long as they are human beings, no one dislikes money.

Of course, the level of Erma is different. What they pursue is fame and the process of success.

And Johnnie To is obviously not at this level.

For Johnnie To now, money is obviously still very important.

Therefore, he was very excited and held Chen Qiming's hand without letting go.

Not only him, but also Wei Jiahui, who rarely spoke next to him, also looked very excited.

A pair of eyes kept scanning Chen Qiming, obviously very satisfied with Chen Qiming, the new boss.

"You're welcome, we are all in the same boat from now on.

I am not a stingy person. I have always believed in the principle of making money and eating meat with it.

If the Milky Way Image can create benefits for me, then I naturally cannot treat you badly. "

Chen Qiming smiled.

Who can win people's hearts?

He just wants Du Qifeng and others to concentrate on doing things for themselves and creating benefits for themselves.

Judging from the situation in the dream, it seems that the company Galaxy Image does not have many blockbuster movies.

However, there are not many movies that are of average quality and even popular in the disc market.

Works such as "Dark Flower", "Dark War", "Gunfire", "Exile", "Underworld", "Detective", etc. will all become classics of gangster films in the future.

These works can fill the small and medium-cost investment market of Qiming Film and Television.

After the business matters were settled, the next thing was purely a private chat.

Chen Qiming and Johnnie To chat about the future of Hong Kong movies.

I also talked about Hollywood and the recent very sluggish economic trend.

At half past seven in the evening, Chen Qiming and his party walked out of Fulin Tower.

Originally, Johnnie To and the others planned to go to a nightclub to have fun.

But because Chen Qiming brought Li Ruotong with him.

The smart Johnnie To and others understood that Chen Qiming might have a big fight tonight.

Therefore, after bringing it up, Chen Qiming rejected it once and never mentioned it again.

However, although Chen Qiming will not go by himself.

But he still asked Han Cheng to entertain Du Qifeng and the others.

"Manager Han, just have fun with Director Du and the others tonight! All consumer companies will reimburse you."

"Don't worry, Mr. Chen."

"Mr. Chen, let's leave first."

"Goodbye, Mr. Chen."

After Du Qifeng said goodbye to Chen Qiming and Li Ruotong, they were taken away by Han Cheng to have fun.

Chen Qiming and Li Ruotong were left behind.

"Actually, you can go too. I can go home by myself."

Li Ruotong looked like I was very considerate.

"No, let's go, let's go shopping elsewhere."

Chen Qiming got in the car first, and after Li Ruotong came up, he asked, "Is there anything you want to buy while I'm free today?"

After dealing with more women, Chen Qiming gradually gained some understanding of women.

To have a relationship with them, it is better to just buy them a bag or gold and silver jewelry.

Although it seems vulgar, it is the fact that it is much more convenient to spend money than to fall in love.

It was only in the past two years that Chen Qiming gradually realized Da Liu's unique skills in picking up girls.

It’s not a unique skill. It’s a three-dimensional axe, delivering bags, gold and silver jewelry, and villas.

If you follow this set of three tricks, as long as you are not that kind of nymphomaniac, you are guaranteed to have a beautiful woman in your arms.

Of course, Chen Qiming is not as proud as Liu.

It's not that he doesn't have money.

But it's not necessary.

Compared with Da Liu, Chen Qiming has two advantages besides gold and silver.

One is his own outstanding appearance. In this era where appearance is the most important thing, even if he has no money, he is unlikely to be short of women.

Another is that he is very powerful in the entertainment industry and can help beautiful women satisfy their career ambitions.

Several advantages mean that Chen Qiming does not have to buy several villas for a woman like Liu to get her.

To be honest, I have to admire Da Liu. Although he is not very good-looking, he spends money to sleep with a lot of women.

But I only envy others.

"Forget it about shopping! You accompany me to visit the night market." Li Ruotong said.

Chen Qiming glanced at her. Compared with Li Jiaxin who always asked for bags and jewelry, Li Ruotong was not too obedient.

"Then let's go shopping first." Chen Qiming started the car.

For Chen Qiming, there is an advantage to shopping at night.

That is, in the dim night, he doesn't have to worry too much about being discovered by passers-by.

This allows him to walk on the street like a normal person without wearing a hat or mask.

Because he hadn't been out shopping for a long time, Chen Qiming felt fresh after finally going out once.

They were visiting Victoria Harbour.

When Chen Qiming visited here the year before last, he came here with Li Jiaxin and Zhou Huimin.

Although the place was prosperous at that time, the buildings on both sides of the street were a bit old.

But this time, the buildings on both sides of the street have a completely new look.

The only pity is that there are very few people in Victoria Harbor tonight.

Only a few people could be seen here and there on the whole street, which was almost less than half of the number of the year before.

This is not caused by the economic crisis.

In general, although the current Southeast Asian brokerage is somewhat depressed, the real economic crisis has not completely broken out.

According to the information Chen Qiming got from his dream.

The economic crisis in Southeast Asia will not really break out until July.

It started in Thailand and then quickly spread throughout Southeast Asia.

The main reason why there are few people on the street tonight is actually the martial law.

It’s not considered martial law. The main reason is that as July 1st gets closer and closer, in order to avoid major accidents, there are patrol police everywhere in Hong Kong.

Don't tell me every step of the way.

But we also managed to see patrols everywhere.

In addition, the people of Xiangjiang are now very worried about the future, which has resulted in a very depressed situation on the streets.

Chen Qiming and Li Ruotong walked around for more than an hour.

After several inquiries, the two of them lost the mood to continue shopping. Chen Qiming bought a few pieces of jewelry for Li Ruotong at the nearby Saturday Fu, and then returned.

Didn't go back to Li Ruotong's house.

Chen Qiming opened a presidential suite at the Shangri-La Hotel.

After returning to the hotel and watching TV for a while, the two of them got straight to the point and started playing pony riding.

Early the next morning, after bidding farewell to Li Ruotong, Chen Qiming continued to rush to the rehearsal room.

97's return rehearsals are in batches.

Not all participating singers and artists rehearse together, but in different batches.

Chen Qiming's rehearsal time is two weeks.

He has been rehearsing for a week now, and in another week, he will give up the rehearsal room for others to rehearse.

When Chen Qiming came to the rehearsal room, Andy Lau, who had just flown back from Treasure Island last night, had already arrived here.

In the next two days, he will rehearse with Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming's song "Chinese" is very suitable for the occasion, so Andy Lau will continue to sing this song with him at this party.

"Your company is getting bigger and bigger! I heard that you acquired Galaxy Image."

As soon as they met, Andy Lau said with a jealous look on his face.

He is really jealous.

I think he has been in the industry for more than ten years, and he still hasn't gotten rid of his identity as an artist.

Chen Qiming has only been in the entertainment industry for five or six years, and he has actually reached the position of a giant in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

It just gets more and more irritating the more I think about it.

"Talent and luck are two things that are indispensable. You may be just short of talent, but also short of luck."

Chen Qiming pointed out a finger.

"Shit..." After hearing Chen Qiming's words, Andy Lau couldn't help but cursed: "You guys, don't you know how to care about the mood of your seniors? You are still showing off."

"Then I won't say anything anymore." Chen Qiming obediently shut his mouth.

He was afraid that Andy would become angry if he was provoked again.

This guy's lifelong pain is Tianmu Company.

Chen Qiming mentioned talent and luck, which simply rubbed salt into his wounds.

"What are your plans next? Can you give me a ride?"

Seeing that Chen Qiming stopped talking, Andy Lau stared at him speechlessly and asked.

"What, you decided to do something big? Aren't you worried that the Tianmu incident will continue to happen?" Chen Qiming continued to be venomous.

This time Andy Lau rarely refuted, but said: "I can't always be an artist."

As he said this, he glanced at Chen Qiming, feeling extremely complicated.

Sometimes, it’s really nice to have an awesome friend.

But it's also very frustrating.

Chen Qiming's repeated success really hit him hard.

Sometimes he feels like a supporting character in a biographical novel about a legendary figure.

However, although it is often hit.

But Chen Qiming's deeds also inspired him.

He has decided that he wants to be his own boss.

When it comes to being the boss, Chen Qiming, a legendary figure who has turned into a singing serf in the entertainment industry, is naturally the best guide.

Chen Qiming stared at Andy Lau's face for a long time: "If you really have this idea, prepare more funds this year. Next year at the latest, I will make a big move."

"What big move?" Andy Lau wanted to ask clearly.

"Just be ready. I'll let you know when the time comes." Chen Qiming walked directly into the rehearsal stage without revealing the secret, "Let's start rehearsing."

In the next few days, Chen Qiming kept going between home and the rehearsal room between two o'clock and one line.

However, although he is not outside, there is a lot of news about him from the outside world.

First of all, the news of his acquisition of Galaxy Image and the merger of several of his companies into Pacific Entertainment Group Company were revealed, which caused an uproar in the industry.

Several companies owned by Chen Qiming were already strong and had a large number of partners, and now they have acquired Galaxy Image.

In the eyes of people in the industry, they have already seen the rise of a Hong Kong film and television giant.

Stimulated by Chen Qiming, on June 10, Golden Harvest and Oriental Film Company (Huang Baiming Company) announced that they would reach a strategic partnership, and films produced by both companies would be jointly screened in the two theaters.

There is no doubt that anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a team-up attempt by Golden Harvest and Oriental Film Company to warm up after they felt threatened by Pacific Entertainment.

"The Hong Kong film industry officially enters the struggle between two powers for hegemony"

Oriental Daily, which is not too busy but not too big a deal, directly put such a title in the latest issue of the newspaper.

This officially marks the official entry of Hong Kong films into an era of dominance by an alliance formed by Golden Harvest and Oriental Film Company, together with Chen Qiming's Pacific Entertainment.

(End of this chapter)