Chapter 225 The future is great (7K chapters, please subscribe~)

  When Chu Huan came to the black-and-white video, it attracted bursts of applause. This was the first time Chu Huan returned to the black-and-white video after completing the acquisition of Jiahu Textile.

  The black-and-white video employees are genuinely happy to see this miracle-creating boss. After all, the richer their boss is, the better the company's development will be, and their treatment will naturally get better and better.

  As for the previous worries, naturally, the matter of Chu Huan's successful acquisition of Jiahu Textile was published in the newspaper, and it disappeared.

  Chu Huan was pleasantly surprised to find that he saw several familiar faces in the crowd.

   It's not the original employee of Black and White Video, but a new recruit.

Liu Pingkui pulled a thin four-eyed chicken, and proudly said to Chu Huan: "Brother Huan, let me introduce you. This is my new screenwriter. He wrote the script of my current movie." of."

After the success of "Happy Ghost", Liu Pingkui successfully made a name for himself in the Hong Kong film industry. He handed over a script to the company before, and it turned out that just in time for that, Chu Huan was acting, so for Chu Huan's sake, Liu Pingkui made another That script was withdrawn.

  Chu Huan found out about this during the black-and-white film meeting, and asked the company to give Liu Pingkui money to open the current movie.

  Chu Huan only knew that this was also a funny film, and didn't pay much attention to the others, but he didn't expect that the screenwriter Liu Pingkui found was this one--Huang Boming!

   "What is Ah Ming still doing in a daze, call me!"

  When Liu Pingkui saw Huang Boming who was stunned, he patted him on the shoulder and preached angrily.

  Huang Boming finally came to his senses, and called out a little bluntly, "Young Master Huan!"

  Although this person will become an absolute big brother in the Xiangjiang film industry in the future, Chu Huan just nodded at this time.

Huang Boming, one of the three giants of New Art City, although later generations call New Art City more by the Seven Monsters of New Art City, but in fact New Art City was founded by Huang Boming, Mai Jia, and Ishida. Founded, and the remaining four people joined later.

Xiangjiang’s first movie with a box office of over 20 million, "Best Partner" was written by Huang Boming. In addition, "Happy Ghost" that Chu Huan plagiarized before is also his work, as well as the later "Happy Family" series. written.

   Among them, Huang Boming also participated in the two series of "Happy Ghost" and "Happy Family".

   As for the later generations, everyone knows that the "Ip Man" series is actually operated by him.

"This kid used to be an actor of TVB, but he prefers to write scripts!" Liu Pingkui was afraid that Chu Huan would look down on Huang Boming, so he hurriedly introduced Huang Boming to Chu Huan and said, "By the way, he was a screenwriter, director, and actor for the Youth Drama Club before. It is said that he is an all-rounder, but what is interesting is that he even had his own job before!"

  At this time, Huang Boming was 27 years old, older than Liu Pingkui, but Liu Pingkui didn't realize that there was a problem calling him a boy!

   "Really, I didn't expect to be an all-rounder, work hard, the company will not bury talented people!"

  Chu Huan encouraged with a smile.

  Huang Boming hurriedly said: "Thank you Huan Shao, I will definitely work hard!"

  Fang Jianhui waited for Chu Huan to finish talking to Huang Boming, and then brought the three young people to Chu Huan's side, and introduced them to Chu Huan.

   "Chairman, these are the three directors selected by our company in this Xiangjiang New Director Competition, Mai Jia, Ishida, and Wu Yusen!"

   Well, there is no shadow in Xinyi City yet, and the three monsters are gathered in black and white images.

  By the way, Wu Yusen has to be added.

But what Chu Huan can't accept is that the current Mai Jia still has long hair, which is quite different from his image as a bald man on the screen, and he looks a bit serious, not at all like a comedian look.

  It seems that comedians are a bit serious in their daily lives.

  Mai Jia is most famous for playing the image of a bald man in the movie "Best Partner".

  By the way, Lin Lingdong, the director of the famous Fengyun series "Prison Situation" and "Dragon and Tiger Situation" in Xiangjiang film history, was discovered by Mai Jia.

"Chairman, Mai Jia is a top student in the film department of New York University. During his studies, he also participated in the filming of "007 The Man with the Golden Gun" as an assistant director. He is also the director with the highest box office in our new director competition. He directed The box office of the movie was as high as 970,000 Hong Kong dollars, which almost broke the million box office!

  Originally he wanted to set up his own film company with his friends, but later he joined our black and white video because he participated in our new director competition. "

  Fang Jianhui first introduced Mai Jiangdao to Chu Huan.

  Chu Huan nodded with a smile after listening, "It's not easy to get such a high box office for the first movie!"

  Fang Jianhui smiled and said: "This is not his first movie. He also shot a small-budget experimental movie in Xiangjiang before, but the box office was average!"

  Maijiao said: "I didn't lose money!"

  Chu Huan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's best if you don't lose money, the company doesn't want a director who loses money!"

  The rest of the people were slightly stunned when they heard what Chu Huan said, but some newcomers also understood Chu Huan's definition of movies at this time.

   Earn money!

  If you want to play art, it’s best not to think about it, unless you can become a level existence like Li Hanxiang in the company.

   Immediately afterwards, Fang Jianhui introduced to Chu Huan the second place in the Emerging Director Contest—Ishida!

  Ishida can be said to have the least sense of presence among the three giants of New Art City. For future audiences, the most familiar character may be the dragon four in "The True Colors of Heroes 2".

  But actually being able to rank with Huang Baiming and Mai Jia as the Big Three of New Art City, Ishida's ability is still very good at playing. For a while, Ishida was even called the Chaplin of Xiangjiang!

  New Art City's pioneering work "Funny Times" is starring Ishida!

Ishida also participated in Cheng Long's "The Snake-shaped Hand", but later Ishida's mind was no longer on the film, coupled with the collapse of Xinyi City, after starring in "The Uncle Cai: Sweeping the World", he quit directly After entering the film industry, it was not until Hong Jinbao's "My Grandpa Special Agent" that he made a guest appearance with Mai Jia and Xu Ke!

  "Ishida had previously studied in Shaw Brothers' Nanguo Experimental Theater Troupe, and later signed a contract with Shaw Brothers to be an actor. However, the contract expired last year. He happened to see the advertisement of our company's new director competition, so he wrote a script to participate in the competition!

   Unexpectedly, he won the second place, with a box office of 790,000! "

   "I have watched your movie before, you are very talented in comedy, you can continue to try!"

  Chu Huan shook hands with Ishida.

  It was just a simple sentence of encouragement, which fell into Ishida's ears, but it was like the sound of heaven, and he hurriedly said respectfully: "Thank you, Young Master Huan, I will definitely continue to work hard!"

  The last one is Wu Yusen, whom Chu Huan has very complicated feelings about.

  At this time, Wu Yusen still seemed a little young, but in fact he was the same age as Huang Boming, also 27 years old.

   This person does not need too much introduction. The movies "The True Colors of Heroes", "Blood Heroes", and "Across the World" are all directed by this person.

  Later, he became the most successful director of Xiangjiang in Hollywood, making classic movies like "Face Changing".

  Not to mention "Mission: Impossible 2", although Wu Yusen added a lot of his own things in this movie, but in the final analysis, this kind of movie only belongs to Cruise.

  It’s a pity that I got off the hook later on. A “Wind Talker” almost bankrupted MGM, and then Wu Yusen couldn’t survive in Hollywood. He returned to China and made a movie called “Chibi 1, 2” with countless bad points.

It is precisely because this director is so famous that even Chu Huan knows more about him. The reason why Wu Yusen is said to be a 25-year-old boy is because what he does is indeed a 25-year-old boy. will do.

  New Art City's pioneering work "Funny Times" was directed by Wu Yusen, but at that time Wu Yusen had already had a movie contract with Golden Harvest. As a result, Wu Yusen had a temper tantrum and directed "Funny Times" under the pseudonym Wu Shangfei.

   In addition, he is still a disciple of Zhang Cheh, but he signed a contract with Golden Harvest as the director, and the story is quite particular.

   Later filming "Red Cliff" in China also had a lot of problems, and I was too lazy to be complained about. Do you know why there is a sister Zhiling in the movie "Red Cliff"?

   Certainly not because of Zhiling’s baby voice, but because Wu Yusen was funded by Taiwan’s capital in his early years, so when he entered the domestic market, he had the idea of ​​using domestic capital and the market to promote popular Taiwanese artists!

   (ps: This is what the director of Taiwan Island said at a foreign director summit. As for the specific things, interested friends can go and see for themselves!)

   "This is Wu Yusen, Zhang Che's apprentice, but he doesn't have a contract with Shaw Brothers. His movie also won the third place in the Emerging Director Competition, and the box office score is 50,000 less than Ishida, 740,000 Hong Kong dollars!"

Chu Huan nodded, and did not show dissatisfaction because of the inherent impression of Wu Yusen in his heart. Whoever he is, anyway, in Chu Huan's eyes at this time, he is a cash cow. Chu Huan promised that he would not have a foothold in the whole of Southeast Asia, plus the domestic market and the Hollywood market, let alone Xiangjiang!

For the Xiangjiang Emerging Directors Contest, 3 million was invested in black-and-white images, and a total of ten films were filmed. As a result, the combined box office of the top three was only an auspicious figure of 2.5 million. It also exceeded 700,000. It seemed that there was a profit of 200,000, but after throwing away the box office share for Shanhai Cinemas, it was a loss of 300,000!

   Fortunately, black and white video has its own distribution channel in Taiwan and Island, as well as a distribution channel in Southeast Asia in cooperation with Shaw Brothers. In the end, it still made a profit of more than one million!

  Black and white video not only found a screenwriter and three directors during this period, but also signed a lot of actors, including Hu Feng, who had already participated in "Happy Ghost" before.

   There are also Feng Cuifan who played the rhinoceros in "Five Lucky Stars" later, and Wu Yaohan in Dashengdi.

Feng Cuifan used to be an actor of the Shaw Brothers, but now his contract is full, because he participated in Ishida's film, he joined the black and white video together, Wu Yaohan is friends with Mai Jia, originally planned to set up a film company with Mai Jia, but Because he participated in Mai Jia's movie, Mai Jia didn't have the idea of ​​setting up a film company anymore, so he became an actor of black and white video with Mai Jia!

"Very good, the company has become stronger and stronger with everyone joining in. As for the company's system, everyone must already know it, so as long as you are talented and capable, the company will not treat you badly. Good luck everyone. come on!"

   After encouraging everyone, Chu Huan and Fang Jianhui came to the office together.

  Fang Jianhui first reported to Chu Huan the recent situation of the company, first of all, the release of the new movie of Hong Jinbao and Li Hanxiang.

  Before, the company was busy with the new director competition, and theaters were allotted for these films to be screened. Li Hanxiang and Hong Jinbao are now the company's two signatures, and their films naturally need more treatment.

   For example, in publicity.

  After listening to it, Chu Huan expressed that he had no objection, and told Fang Jianhui that in the future, he would have less and less time for black and white video, and he could operate the company's affairs with confidence and boldly.

   Hearing the news, Fang Jianhui was also very happy.

   But then, Fang Jianhui also told Chu Huan about another thing.

   Chen Xiao, disappeared in Xiangjiang!

   On the day Chu Tianxiao was arrested, Chen Xiao also disappeared.

"Disappeared? I didn't expect him to run so fast!" Chu Huan sneered. At this time, Chu Huan had already known from Chu Ran that when "The Big J Valve" was released, Chen Xiao's performance was a little abnormal. According to Chu Huan's analysis, it is very likely that Chen Xiao was the one who hired a murderer to stab him.

  But Chu Huan was busy with Jiahu Textile at that time, so he didn't have time to talk to Chen Xiao. He didn't expect that when he was looking for him now, he disappeared.

   But this also proved that Chu Huan's speculation was correct.

   "As long as he returns to Xiangjiang in the future, he will not be able to run away for the things he is responsible for!" Chu Huan said indifferently.

  Fang Jianhui scratched his head and said, "One more thing, I broke up with Rachel!"

  Chu Huan laughed and said, "Is there any need to talk about this matter? Didn't you already have this idea?"

  The relationship between Fang Jianhui and Rachel is a spy and counter-spy drama. Rachel thinks that Fang Jianhui doesn't know her true thoughts, so she stays with Fang Jianhui and wants to find out about Chu Huan.

  Fang Jianhui followed Chu Huan's suggestion, and took advantage of it, and completed the task that Chu Huan gave him.

   "Brother Huan, you don't want to know how she and Cai Huiling are doing now?" Fang Jianhui asked curiously.

  Chu Huan waved his hands and said, "What about them has nothing to do with me. Now that Chu Tianxiao is finished, they are naturally useless!"

   "Sure enough, he is still the man with a firm heart!" Fang Jianhui couldn't help whispering.

  Chu Huan went up with a brain collapse: "Don't think that if you speak softly, I won't be able to hear you!"

  Rubbing his head, Fang Jianhui said: "Brother Huan, although you will spend less time in the company in the future, there is something I still want to discuss with you."

  Chu Huan nodded and said, "Speak!"

   "Now the company has more and more artists and directors, plus new screenwriters, so I want to set up three departments in the company, the artist department, the director department, and the screenwriter department. This will also help the company manage them!"

  Fang Jianhui expressed his plan.

In the past, the black-and-white film market was too small. There were only two directors, Li Hanxiang and Hong Jinbao, and the films they made were basically their own team members. Therefore, the black-and-white film directors and actors were basically free-range. Now it is different. The scale of the company's development is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more actors, directors, and screenwriters. If they are kept in this way, problems will easily arise.

  Chu Huan has no objection to Fang Jianhui's proposal, "Okay, let's handle this matter according to your idea!"

  Fang Jianhui nodded, and then told Chu Huan about his vision.

  At this time, in a lounge with black and white images, the four Xu brothers were sitting there, discussing something softly.

   "Brother, now that Young Master Huan is here, I think you might as well take your new script to find Young Master Huan!" Xu Guanwu said to Xu Guanwen who was sitting there thinking about something.

  When filming the film directed by Li Hanxiang, Xu Guanwen also wrote a script based on his experience as a host, but Xu Guanwen did not want to hand over the script to other directors of the company to direct, but wanted to be the director himself.

   Not only that, Xu Guanwen also wants to participate in the dividends of this movie!

   It can be seen how much Xu Guanwen attaches importance to his script.

   "I think it's better to wait. After all, as long as the elder brother makes one more movie with a box office of more than 2 million, he can become an S-level actor of the company. At that time, the company can invest in the establishment of his own film company for the elder brother."

  Xu Guanjie didn't want his elder brother to go to Chu Huan at this time.

  At this time, Xu Guanwen has become an A-level actor in the company because of the success of two films in succession!

  The remuneration has also increased relatively.

Xu Guanying thought for a while, and said: "I think what the fourth brother said is right. Didn't Director Li already said that his next movie will use his eldest brother as the leading role. With Director Li's golden signature, the box office of the new movie exceeds two hundred Wan, isn't it easy?"

Xu Guanwen thought for a while, and said: "Aying, what Ajie said makes sense, Huan Shao still values ​​us very much, and according to our understanding of Huan Shao, if we go to Huan Shao to mention the dividend at this time, Young Master Huan will definitely not agree to it, instead of doing this, why not wait a few more months, and I can use this time to polish the content of the script again!"

  Hearing what Xu Guanwen said, Xu Guanwu didn't say anything.

  The proposal he just made is also to hope that his elder brother can become famous as soon as possible.

  Chu Huan didn't stay in the black and white video for too long. After chatting with Fang Jianhui, he left the black and white video by car and came to fantasy comics!

   Yasuo Kamakura had already received a call from Chu Huan in advance. At this time, the people who led the fantasy comics with Sheng Tomioka were also waiting for Chu Huan in the lobby.

Just like the black-and-white video, Yasuo Kamakura and the others were terrified by Chu Huan's scene some time ago, but fortunately with Zhong Zhichen's reassurance, and the funds left by Chu Huan, plus Chu Huan I also came here later, and it can be regarded as completely stabilizing the situation of fantasy comics.

  Among the crowd full of oriental faces, there are also 21 more white people. They are all North American painters and story editors brought by Kelly.

  Chu Huan has also told them the story outlines of "Transformers", "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider". At this time, these people have been divided into three groups, studying the content and style of the story.

  As usual, after comforting everyone, Chu Huan, Yasuo Kamakura, and Katsuo Tomioka came to Chu Huan's office in Fantasy Comics.

  Whether it’s black-and-white images or fantasy comics, Chu Huan now has his own office. In fact, this is also a waste of resources. After all, Chu Huan doesn’t come to these two companies very often now.

   In the future, when these companies move together to the newly built Jiahu Building, such waste will disappear.

  Chu Huan smiled when he saw Zhong Zhichen who came in with Yasuo Kamakura and Katsuo Tomioka!

   Yasuo Kamakura immediately said: "A Chen performed very well before, and he is a very capable young man, so I hope he can participate more in the company's affairs!"

  Chu Huan nodded, had no objection, and smiled at Zhong Zhichen: "Since the editor-in-chief of Shencang trusts you so much, then work harder in the future!"

  Zhong Zhichen said with a serious expression: "We must not let the president down!"

There are two most important things to come to fantasy comics this time. The first one is that the previous six comics such as "Dragon Ball" have released separate volumes. Chu Huan needs to know the sales situation of the volumes. The second is to look at those North American artists. sketches.

On the phone, Yasuo Kamakura told Chu Huan that the painters from North America had already completed several versions of the draft design, and now they are waiting for Chu Huan to make a decision to use that draft, and then they can save the draft and wait for the May edition. Time to put it in Fantasy Comics.

"The booklets of "Dragon Ball", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Swordsman", "The Deer and Ding Tale", "Peerless Twins" and "Legend of Chu Liuxiang" have been released. As expected, the best-selling "Dragon Ball" has sold in Xiangjiang. It reached 180,000 copies, 350,000 copies in Southeast Asia, 400,000 copies in Japan, and 200,000 copies in Taiwan.

The next best sellers are Gu Long's two comics adapted from novels "Peerless Twins" and "Legend of Chu Liuxiang". , respectively 750,000 and 780,000 volumes!

The sales volume of comics adapted from Jin Yong’s three novels in Xiangjiang is actually similar to that of Gu Long. The sales volume in other cities is slightly worse than that of Gu Long, they are 580,000 copies, 500,000 copies, and 620,000 copies respectively! "

  The price of the booklet is higher than that of the magazine of "Fantasy Comics", at HK$0.8 per copy.

  Six novels, with a total sales of 636,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong and 3,344,000 Hong Kong dollars in other regions.

  Avoiding all costs, Fantasy Comic’s profit is 2.388 million Hong Kong dollars.

   "This profit is only temporary now, because the booklet has only been on the shelves for half a month now, and sales will definitely increase in the later stage."

   Yasuo Kamura then added.

   "Also, our manga booklet has been released in the European and American markets, but we haven't got specific data yet!"

   First release the booklets in the European and American markets to increase the popularity of these comics in the European and American markets. This is something that Chu Huan and Kamakura Yasuo have discussed before.

Chu Huan frowned slightly at this time, "Dragon Ball" has already exploded, Chu Huan is understandable, but it stands to reason that Jin Yong should be more famous than Gu Long in Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, why Jin Yong Is the comic book adapted from the novel not as high as Gu Long?

   "President, is there a problem?"

   Seeing Chu Huan's expression, Yasuo Kamakura couldn't help asking.

  Chu Huan waved his hand and asked aloud: "No, this result is very good. By the way, why?"

  Chu Huan expressed his doubts.

Hearing Chu Huan's doubts, Kamakura Yasuo smiled and said: "That's right, although Mr. Jin Yong's reputation is higher than that of Mr. Gu Long, the painting style of "Peerless Twins" still takes advantage. In addition, The film company of the previous president released the film of the same name of "Chu Liuxiang", which also brought more popularity to the comic "Legend of Chu Liuxiang", so this situation happened now."

   After hearing this, Chu Huan nodded in satisfaction.

   Afterwards, Yasuo Kamakura gave the North American artist's drawing to Chu Huan for review.

  Obviously, they were well prepared for Chu Huan's review. Each team came up with five different styles of painting for Chu Huan to choose from.

   ""Transformers" will go to the toy market in the future, and the main audience should be teenagers, so the style of painting should not be too dark, it should be more sunny and passionate."

  Thinking about the "Transformers" market, Chu Huan found a painting style that meets his requirements among the five painting styles, and handed it to Yasuo Kamakura: "That's it!"

   ""Resident Evil" is more adult-oriented, and because of its story style, the painting style should be dark."

   Thinking of the style of "Resident Evil", Chu Huan also found a drawing that met his own requirements among the sketches of the fifth middle school, and handed it to Yasuo Kamikura.

"The last is "Tomb Raider". Although the style of this story is somewhat similar to that of "Resident Evil", they are actually two completely different stories, so her style should have sunshine in the dark, and at the same time Be sexy!"

  After carefully reading it several times, Chu Huan finally found the drawing that best suited the painting style of "Tomb Raider" and handed it to Yasuo Kamikura.

   "Only these three!"

  Holding the sketch, Yasuo Kamakura happily said, "I'll let Achen notify them to start rushing the draft now!"

  Zhong Zhichen took the sketch from Yasuo Kamakura and walked out.

  Chu Huan said to Yasuo Kamakura: "Recently, the level of Chinese is improving. Although it still sounds awkward, at least it's not that difficult to understand!"

  Hearing Chu Huan's praise, Kamakura Yasuo smiled innocently.

  After that, Chu Huan discussed with Yasuo Kamakura and Katsuo Tomioka about the future development plan of "Fantasy Manga", and the main thing was how to open up the European and American markets.

   By the time it ended here, it was already dark.

  After Chu Huan left the fantasy comics club, he didn't leave by car immediately. Instead, he asked Ma Jizu to stop Zhong Zhichen after he got off work.

   "Young Master Huan wants to invite you to dinner!"

  ps: Recommend a friend's book "Azu, stop it soon", Hong Kong comprehensive article, friends who like it can go and read it~

   Also, at six o'clock in the afternoon~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)