Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Forty-Eight [Use The Big To Bully The Small]

Wu Chenggang frowned when he returned home. He has been working on TV in recent years, and he is not familiar with the current situation in the film industry. Fortunately, he did have a few old friends who made movies, and he called them one by one to ask them as soon as he got home.

The news made Wu Chenggang even more frustrated. It turned out that when the movie was released in Lisheng Cinemas, it would offend Jiahe and Shaw Brothers.

Zhou Mingfang came out with the child in her arms. Seeing her husband frowning, she asked, “What’s wrong?”

Wu Chenggang sighed: “It’s not A Fei’s business! I persuaded him not to rush to make a movie, but he didn’t listen. Now that the Lisheng Cinema Line has been renovated, the movie he made can’t be released, and he will lose money. More than 400,000!”

Zhou Mingfang advised: “Don’t worry, think of other ways, maybe you can find a movie theater to show it. The big deal is to take the samples to those independent movie theaters and show them one by one, and there will always be a few who will agree to show it.”

Wu Chenggang said: “Those independent movie theaters, or luxury theaters like Li Stage, don’t even bother to show A Fei’s small productions. Or they are neighborhood theaters and rural theaters, they won’t be able to sell a few box-offices if they die. This is impossible.”

Zhou Mingfang came up with an idea: “Would you like to ask Shaw Brothers and Jiahe?”

“That’s the only way,” Wu Chenggang sighed in a low voice and suddenly raised his head, “Hey, isn’t that Huang Song publishing at Jiahe? Do you still have his phone number?”

“What kind of bad idea!” Zhou Mingfang’s expression changed. That Huang Song was in love with her back then, and Zhou Mingfang didn’t know that the other party had a wife until she was pregnant with a child. After Huang Song’s wife learned of the relationship between the two, she brought someone to kill her and beat Zhou Mingfang to the point of miscarriage.

Wu Chenggang stepped in to save him at the time, and thus offended Huang Song’s wife, and the woman’s elder brother was the boss of the Kowloon Walled City, so his family had to hide in Tiaojingling to live.

Although “Happy Ghost” is a movie by Kang Jianfei, Wu Chenggang is more anxious than Kang Jianfei himself. Now that he is in a state of emergency, he has to go to the doctor, so he thinks of his ex-boyfriend who seeks his wife.

Wu Chenggang felt inappropriate when he thought about it, and said embarrassedly, “Forget it, I’ll think of other ways.”

Seeing his distressed look, Zhou Mingfang couldn’t bear to say: “Oh, I’ll give him a call to try, I don’t know if he has moved.”

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The next morning, after Zhou Mingfang took her daughter Wu Ruixue to the school bus, she went to find Kang Jianfei with Wu Chenggang.

After arriving at Kang Jianfei’s house, only Hu Juncai and Wen Bixia were at home.

Wu Chenggang asked, “Where’s Ah Fei?”

Hu Juncai shook his head and said, “I don’t know. I went out early in the morning and asked him what he was doing.”

Wu Chenggang asked, “Where’s the demo of “Happy Ghost”?”

Afraid of accidents, Kang Jianfei made two copies of the film, one locked at home and the other taken out to run errands.

Hu Juncai said with a smile: “A Fei took one, and the other is still there. I’m going to take it to help him find a movie theater. Maybe I can get things done.”

“What do you know?” Hu Juncai urged, “Get the samples and follow me.”

Hu Juncai said happily, “Uncle Biao, have you found a way?”

Wu Chenggang didn’t have the heart to explain to him, and said, “Don’t ask so much!”

Hu Juncai didn’t ask any questions, he took out the locked film samples and went to Jiahe Company with Wu Chenggang and Zhou Mingfang.

Half an hour later, the three appeared in the distribution department of Golden Harvest Pictures.

Zhou Mingfang’s ex-boyfriend Huang Song is a small head in the distribution department. He is almost fifty years old and looks very calm. After seeing Zhou Mingfang, Huang Song sighed slightly: “I haven’t seen you for more than ten years, A Ruan, you are still so beautiful, it’s a pity that…”

Zhou Mingfang’s face was frosty and he interrupted, “Mr. Huang, we are here today to discuss the film.”

Huang Song was a little embarrassed by Zhou Mingfang, touched his nose and said, “Then let’s watch the movie first.”

A few people entered a projection room, a Jiahe projectionist was in charge of the projection, and Hu Juncai kept beside the projector, for fear that the film would be dropped.

Hu Juncai accepted the truth, and his brain was lacking. Kang Jianfei told him to take good care of the film, but he did not dare to leave for a moment, for fear of losing the copy.

Huang Song joined Jiahe when it was first established. Although he is not a veteran, he is considered an old man. He has always been in charge of the film distribution business and has a great appreciation for films. The films released by independent companies through his hands have also sold well.

Huang Song initially decided to take time out to watch the film after giving Zhou Mingfang face. When “Happy Ghost” first started showing, he was quite disdainful, but after watching it for half an hour, the expression on Huang Song’s face began to become serious. He had a faint feeling in his heart that this novelty comedy and ghost film, as long as it worked well, was likely to sell well.

After the film was finished, Wu Chenggang couldn’t help but said, “Mr. Huang, this film is not bad, I think it is fully qualified to be shown in Jiahe Cinemas.”

Although Huang Song predicted that “Happy Ghost” would be a big hit, he put on an embarrassed look and said, “To be honest, I wasted my time watching the film today because of A Ruan’s face. What should I say about this film? The film is not like a ghost film, a comedy is not like a comedy, and the whole one is not like a four, it is difficult to sell at the box office.”

Wu Chenggang’s heart sank, and he asked in a low voice: “Mr. Huang, why don’t you give “Happy Ghost” a preview at midnight. If the response is not good, we will naturally stop talking. If the audience reacts well , just ask Jiahe to vacate a few theaters.”

Huang Song sighed: “Dude, you used to be in the film industry, and you know that the theaters are not easy to arrange. Now there are 16 theaters under the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and Shaw Brothers movies cannot be arranged every day; There are 19 theaters, but most of them are reserved for our own films, and the rest are for famous independent film companies like Siyuan Films. Your film is not easy to make!”

Wu Chenggang had already mustered up his courage to come to his wife’s ex-boyfriend for help. Now that he heard no hope, he sighed and said, “Then I’ll disturb Mr. Huang today, so I’ll say goodbye!”

Zhou Mingfang hurriedly followed behind her husband, and Hu Juncai also grabbed the samples from the projectionist. Just when they stepped out of the screening room, they suddenly heard Huang Song say, “Otherwise, I’ll buy the movie.”

Wu Chenggang turned around in surprise and asked, “Buy it? Do you mean to buy out the film directly?”

Huang Song said with a generous expression: “Yeah, it’s hard to see you guys. I bought the movie on my own initiative, so that you can pay less.”

Wu Chenggang asked, “How much are you going to spend on it?”

Huang Song stretched out two fingers: “200,000.”

Hu Juncai couldn’t help but interject, “You want to buy it out for 200,000 yuan? Ah Fei spent more than 400,000 yuan to make a movie!”

When Wu Chenggang heard it, he was speechless to Hu Juncai. It was natural to negotiate a price when talking about business. This guy actually revealed his bottom line as soon as he came here.

Wu Chenggang said to Huang Song, “Mr. Huang, this film belongs to my nephew. I can’t explain the price to him.”

Huang Song said “accommodatingly”: “Everyone is an old friend, so let’s pay 300,000 yuan. It’s hard for me to buy a bad movie for 300,000 yuan. Maybe I will be scolded by the manager. It’s not bad for you to pay less than 100,000 yuan. already.”

“No, I won’t consider it if it’s less than 600,000.” Wu Chenggang turned around and left.

Huang Song sighed and said, “Alas, I was the one who felt sorry for A Ruan back then. No matter what, I bought it for 500,000 with some money, which is to compensate for the damage I did to A Ruan back then.”

When Zhou Mingfang listened to Huang Song talking about business, the one on the left was “A Ruan” and the other “A Ruan” on the right mentioned himself, and finally couldn’t help but get angry: “Huang, stop being pretentious, you think I don’t know who you are. Is it? A lot of age, bargaining with a woman as an excuse, what are you!”

Huang Song was exposed on the spot by Zhou Mingfang. He turned his face away in embarrassment, coughed twice, and said, “Anyway, I will pay up to 500,000. Do you like to sell it or not.”

Wu Chenggang thought to himself that if he could sell 500,000 yuan, Ah Fei would have earned tens of thousands of dollars. He comforted his wife a few words and said to Huang Song: “Mr. Huang, the movie belongs to my nephew. I am not qualified to sell it, but I will pass on the price that Mr. Huang offered to him.”

Huang Song smiled and shook hands with Wu Chenggang and said, “Then I will wait for the good news!”

“Farewell!” Wu Chenggang took Zhou Mingfang’s hand and left.

The three returned home with the film, and Kang Jianfei was leaning on the sofa nibbling on an apple that Wen Bixia had cut.

Wu Chenggang asked, “Where did you go this morning, Ah Fei?”

Kang Jianfei glanced at the movie sample in Hu Juncai’s hand, and said, “Looking for Boss Lei Jue Kunlei, but I was busy all morning and didn’t see anyone else. How about you?”

Wu Chenggang recounted their experience in Golden Harvest~www.readwn.com~ and then persuaded: “A Fei, I think it’s not bad to sell for 500,000 yuan, at least you made tens of thousands of dollars.”

Kang Jianfei asked back, “Uncle, if this film is really that bad, would someone surnamed Huang spend 500,000 yuan to buy it?”

Wu Chenggang smiled bitterly and said, “I know your film is good, but what’s the use of a good film if it is not shown in theaters?”

“Uncle Biao, you can call back the man surnamed Huang now, and let him save the 500,000 yuan to buy **** to eat.” Kang Jianfei said angrily.

Kang Jianfei knew very well what Huang Song had in mind. He wanted to spend 500,000 yuan to buy everything in “Happy Ghost”, including the copyright of the episode and theme song. Even when it is screened, the director of “Happy Ghost” may become another person, and the production company will definitely put the name of Jiahe Pictures, and everything after that has nothing to do with Kang Jianfei and Oriental DreamWorks.

Jiahe has done this kind of bullying the small, and other big companies are also quite good at it. Even in the entertainment industry 30 years later, there are frequent cases of stealing films, scripts, and songs.

A rookie director and singer who has little influence, cooperates with those big companies and big stars, and his work becomes someone else’s work in a confused way.

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I feel that the update is too slow. If you have time, go and read Lao Wang’s last entertainment article: “Taiwan.Taiwan Entertainment 1971”.

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