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Volume 1 Chapter 573 Assassin¡¯s Storm (Part 2)

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    Lin Xiaozhi has not broken his promise. Taking advantage of the impact of the Hong Kong anti-gangsteria storm on the film industry, he is really prepared to intervene once and for all to solve the various problems of local film's unstable foundation, so as to prevent half of the prosperity like in the original history.  The Hong Kong movies of the century have completely declined with the handover and can even be said to have died.  On the third day after the press conference, he and Media Asia invested 300 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong Film Development Support Fund, completing the property capital injection with a high profile and announcing its establishment. On the same day, China Film Heroes, Xu Ke Studio, Golden Princess, Yi Neng  The four companies immediately invested 10 million, 30 million, 50 million and 10 million respectively, bringing its registered capital to 400 million Hong Kong dollars.  Although Jiahe was interested in joining before, the board of directors hesitated because the fund was led by a competitor, Media Asia, and did not choose to inject capital in the first place.  However, Zou Wenhuai is a visionary and courageous filmmaker after all. With the strong promotion of him, Sammo Hung, and Ho Guanchang, who was preparing to retire, he quickly persuaded many institutional directors who joined Golden Harvest's board of directors to agree.  Two days later than the other four companies, Golden Harvest announced that it would spend 100 million to invest in the Hong Kong Film Development Support Fund, becoming its third largest shareholder after Lin Xiaozhi himself and Media Asia.  It is worth mentioning that Yong Sheng, the Heung brothers who have become quite famous in Hong Kong under the name of the Heung brothers who have been controversial during this period due to their association background, did not participate in the capital injection of the fund. Instead, they temporarily listed it through another company.  The China Star Film Company under his wife's name quietly invested 100 million, becoming another important shareholder of the fund. At the same time, it also enabled the newly established Hong Kong Film Development Support Fund to easily exceed the 500 million assets planned by Lin Xiaozhi.  Inject capital and start accepting film investment applications from external parties.  He pushed the Hong Kong government to cancel the entertainment tax, establish the Hong Kong Artists Union, and review and approve the film legislation. The process was surprisingly smooth. Although the Hong Kong government and the new Hong Kong Governor Patten did not express their position on the matter, many film and entertainment department officials  People have admitted in interviews that the existence of Hong Kong¡¯s entertainment tax is indeed detrimental to the development of the local film industry.  And it seems that in order to make friends with him, a Hong Kong media tycoon, many members of Congress have expressed their support for the establishment of the Hong Kong Artists Union and the introduction of film legislation.  The Taiwan Cinema Business Alliance is also very wary of the newly established Hong Kong Film Association's involvement in selling Hong Kong movies.  After all, Lin Xiaozhi, the first chairman of the Film Association, had the guts to forcefully announce that Media Asia would withdraw from Taiwan and ban local Taiwanese movies because the Taiwan authorities wanted to ban a Media Asia movie from being released in Taiwan. And in the past six months, he has  It is indeed very good. Except for a few Taiwanese artists who have signed contracts with Media Asia, a large number of Taiwanese artists who have taken roles in Hong Kong have not been able to take roles due to the blacklist order from the giant Media Asia.  shoot.  The Golden Horse Awards were instantly overshadowed by the boycott of Hong Kong film companies. Some Taiwanese media even changed their tune and said that this year's Golden Horse Awards will be the most disappointing in history, because except for a few Hong Kong film companies such as Golden Harvest  , a large number of Hong Kong film companies that have good relations with Media Asia Group have collectively announced that they will not respond to the nominations for this year's Golden Horse Awards, let alone send teams to compete for the Golden Horse Awards, causing the Golden Horse Awards, a Chinese-language heavyweight film award, to plummet.  The development of Taiwan's local films has suffered heavy losses due to Media Asia's ban. Lin Xiaozhi is also the number one ruthless person. He once specially formulated a blacklist. All film companies and Taiwanese directors who will become the mainstay of Taiwanese films in the future are on it.  He was blacklisted and banned by Media Asia.  Behind the scenes, he disrupted the plans of many Hong Kong and Taiwan co-production films by exerting influence, using his power to coerce others, and using co-productions as inducements.  Zhu Yanping, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang and other Taiwanese directors who have been hanging around in Hong Kong all year round looking for funds, contacting Hong Kong artists and scripts to make films suddenly became street rats that no one dared to touch. Taiwanese local films immediately lost their nutrition and could no longer start from there.  Hong Kong absorbs the essence and nourishes itself.  It is precisely because of his past actions that the newly established Taiwan Small and Medium-sized Hospital Business Alliance is very vigilant.  Lin Xiaozhi's method of dealing with them was also very clever. He openly contacted Jiahe, Yongsheng, Princess Jin and many Hong Kong film companies to form an investigation team of more than ten people to trace the activities of small and medium-sized theater operators in Taiwan in the past two months.  In the process of purchasing films, they collectively lowered prices and maliciously forced purchases of local film companies in Hong Kong.  Secretly, he sent someone to contact some small and medium-sized theaters in Taiwan that he had cooperated with in the past, and promised that Hong Kong would give him a reasonable price for selling films, and would give priority to signing blockbuster movies to him in the future.  As expected, the newly formed Alliance of Small and Medium-sized Cinema Operators in Taiwan soon began to have internal conflicts. Some people advocated taking the opportunity to negotiate with local film production companies led by the Hong Kong Film Association to get a price that was reasonable for both parties.  .  Many Taiwanese cinema operators, who have experienced collective price reductions in the past two months, are not willing to compromise with the Film Association. They boast that they control a large number of cinemas in Taiwan. Once they unite, they will be compared with Taiwan's four major cinema chains.  Or maybe Cai Songlin's scholars are more powerful, so they have the capital to force Hong Kong film production companies to bow to them and sell more profits.Run.  A set of punch combinations had an immediate effect, and Lin Xiaozhi was undoubtedly more calm.  He was originally worried that the Taiwanese people would stick together and not buy it. Once he saw someone taking the bait, he immediately became more flexible and tougher.  He first used high interest rates to lure several small and medium-sized cinema operators who had a good relationship with Media Asia to withdraw from the cinema operator alliance. With the signing of the contract, he assured them that excellent movies co-produced by Media Asia and other companies would be given priority to them, and at the same time, he would give them the best movie prices at the same time.  made significant concessions.  After these small and medium-sized hospital providers took advantage of Lin Xiaozhi and withdrew from the alliance, the Taiwan small and medium-sized hospital provider alliance, which was originally bound by interests, suddenly panicked.  Lin Xiaozhi also took the opportunity to press forward step by step. On the one hand, he continued to offer some favorable conditions to induce Taiwan's small and medium-sized medical institutions to sign contracts and withdraw from the alliance. On the other hand, he bluntly banned the most tough-minded medical institutions among several medical institution alliances.  The Film Association's banner managed to persuade a number of local Hong Kong film companies to join forces and promise not to sell any film footage to them.  In the name of the Film Association, he repeatedly attacked the Taiwan Small and Medium-sized Theater Business Alliance. Soon after, this Taiwanese Theater Business Alliance, which only had channels but no film production capabilities, was in chaos, with a swarm of withdrawals from the alliance.  And Lin Xiaozhi was not too aggressive. Although the conditions he offered were far less generous than the ones he initially contacted, there was no doubt that profits could be guaranteed.  Even though he severely punished some of the theater operators with the toughest attitudes, he later sent people to secretly contact them in the name of other local film companies, promising to lobby the Film Association to significantly shorten the time for banning them, and promised to fight for them as much as possible.  The same treatment as other hospital operators.  After a set of punch combinations, although in the short term, he diluted the profits of many local film companies, he successfully disintegrated the newly born Taiwan Small and Medium-sized Cinema Business Alliance. Lin Xiaozhi unintentionally wiped out a situation for local films.  It's not a small stumbling block. After all, if you just ignore it and allow Taiwanese cinema developers to join forces to lower prices, sooner or later they will become more greedy and will become more powerful to intimidate Hong Kong film production companies to make greater concessions, so that Hong Kong films will eventually be free.  The Taiwan market is completely unprofitable.  ¡°Furthermore, it is not unprofitable for him to disintegrate Taiwan¡¯s small and medium-sized hospital-business alliance.  Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Xiaozhi successively contacted most of Taiwan's small and medium-sized medical institutions. He believed that after establishing a bond of interest with these people, it would be easier for him to return to the Taiwan market in the future.  Although there has been a huge momentum to promote legislation for Hong Kong films, the birth of a legal bill is not that simple, even if it has won the support of the film industry, public opinion and some lawmakers.  Therefore, he has no other choice but to urge from time to time in order to speed up the legislative process.  What's more, there is another more important thing in front of him, the promotion of the upcoming "Assassin's League" is ready to go.
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