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Volume One Chapter 591

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    Undoubtedly, it is inevitable to be shortlisted for the top eight in the eyes of many of Hong Kong's top directors and screenwriters, and to sign contracts for the eight selected works, but it is not without controversy and distinction.  For example, Luo Jinhui and Liu Yongjian, the creators of "Eight Immortals Restaurant: XX Barbecued Pork Buns", are not newbies in the industry. They also wrote some scripts a few years before their debut, but most of them were not well-known, but this "Eight Immortals"  As soon as "XX Barbeque Pork Buns in Hotel" came out, it is estimated that some film companies will take the initiative to sign a contract or even train him in the future.  Although "The Eight Immortals Hotel: XX Barbecued Pork Bun" is based on a horrific massacre that actually happened in Macau a few years ago, I have to say that this script is indeed brilliantly written. The original inside story was unknown and the murder was made using imagination alone.  The tragedy is quite thrilling.  Therefore, in the first round of tile selection, Chen Jingsheng, who was in charge of the first review, gave a four-star evaluation and passed it, and Xu Ke, who was the reviewer, also gave almost the same comment.  But both of them saw that this was a great script that could make a big difference in a small way, and once it was filmed, it might become a dark horse at the box office for a season.  In comparison, "Barefoot Boy" by newcomer screenwriter You Naihai and "Top Ten Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" by fellow newcomer screenwriter Zhuo Bing are quite controversial.  The former You Naihai's "Barefoot Boy" was too literary and artistic, and lacked commercial elements. Several judges were not satisfied with the second half and the ending, and reminded that it should be revised to prevent the audience from buying it. However, You Naihai never listened.  Although the writing style has improved over time, the storyline and ending have never changed.  Although You Naihai is Wei Jiahui¡¯s apprentice and is now a contracted screenwriter for ATV, Lin Xiaozhi reviewed this work twice during the ¡®Script Competition¡¯, but only reluctantly gave him three stars for the sake of his future achievements.  Judging from his experience, the intended investment in this script is nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars. The script is too literary and does not take into account that the current audience market is no longer as accepting of tragedy as it was in previous years. Therefore, although the script is good, it is difficult to recover the cost.  .  Er Dongsheng, on the other hand, was quite optimistic about the script. He gave it a five-star rating the only time he reviewed it. He even took the initiative to contact You Naihai and seemed to be interested in buying the script after the script competition.  "Compared with "The Barefoot Boy" which received mostly positive reviews, Zhuo Bing's "Ten Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" did not receive a good reputation.  This script is obviously intended to be a romance, so the movie can only get a third-level rating when it is made. Although the romance movie market has been quite big in Hong Kong in recent years, except for Lin Xiaozhi who did not care enough to give it four stars, only Zhang Haijing and Zhang Haijing  Huang Baiming is more optimistic about its profitability after it switches to making movies.  "The Laughing Immortals" and "Superman in Troubled Times" by Long Xiao and Zhang Mingda are two traditional Hong Kong-style shit comedies. The scripts are somewhat innovative and the shooting difficulty is not too high. They can be called low-cost model scripts. Because of this, there are many  Both judges gave it high marks.  However, the best scripts in the first "Script Competition" are undoubtedly "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", "Hurricane Rescue" and "New Drunken Master".  Because of the butterfly effect brought about by Lin Xiaozhi's rebirth, New Art City and Princess Jin, which should have become history, have had the momentum to come back to life in the past two years.  Therefore, the screenwriting wizard Gu Dezhao, who was supposed to have conflicts with his master Gao Zhisen in the past two years, also got a broader stage to display his talents, so he would have secretly written it and sold it to Yongsheng a year later.  He now wrote the script in 1992, and he resisted the temptation of Media Asia and Lin Xiaozhi's sky-high buyout fee. It seems that the script has been bought by New Art City in advance.  The screenwriter of "Hurricane Rescue", Chen Bo, comes from Media Asia and is a very talented screenwriter that Lin Xiaozhi is currently focusing on training.  He joined Media Asia in early 1991. Chen Bo, who graduated from the Chinese Department of Baptist College, had outstanding literary talent. At that time, Lin Xiaozhi was actively expanding the number of screenwriters, so he was included in the screenwriting team. Over the past year, he also helped complete the joint project.  Several scripts.  Strictly speaking, "Hurricane Rescue" cannot be completely regarded as Chen Bo's work, but the original idea of ????the script did come from him.  Media Asia has always encouraged screenwriters to create their own scripts, and will buy out some high-quality and creative scripts at high prices and adapt them for filming.  At the beginning of the year, Chen Qi came up with an idea. A policeman who was all about handling cases didn't care enough about his family, so his wife and son became more and more alienated from him. In the end, he once again forgot about his promise to spend time on his son's birthday in order to handle a case.  When he took him to Tokyo Disneyland to play, his wife, who couldn't bear it, had a big quarrel with him. She angrily took her son and two of them to Tokyo Disneyland to play, and she also prepared to divorce him.  In the end, the protagonist was still worried about his wife and children, so he asked for leave from his boss and went to Tokyo.  ?After arriving at the place, he did not see his wife and son. Instead, he learned from the Japanese police in a chance encounter that a transnational human trafficker group had been operating frequently in Tokyo in the past two months, and many foreign tourists had been tortured.  The kidnapped and disappeared.  In order to save his wife and children who were also murdered, the protagonist had to take actionFight evil.  After less than half a year, Chen Bo completed the script, originally titled "Dad Tiger" and submitted it to Lin Xiaozhi. Lin Xiaozhi was also surprised after reading it.  In addition to the small layout and slightly weak plot, this script is still very filmable.  What surprised him even more was that the idea Chen Bo came up with was quite similar to a European and American action movie he remembered from more than ten years ago - "The Rescue".  Not only did he personally guide Chen Bo to revise and improve the shortcomings of the script, he also bought out the script at a very high price and prepared to invite the great director Wu Yusen to shoot it with a handheld camera.  "New Drunken Master" should be the next work prepared by Jiahe for Cheng Long, because Tang Minming and Ruan Jizhi are both contracted screenwriters of Jiahe.  As for why Golden Harvest submitted the script to participate in the first 'Script Competition', the reason is nothing more than the same idea as Media Asia, preparing to train the next two screenwriters and create momentum for the filming of "New Drunken Master", especially the second point  It's even more important.  Because we all know that Cheng Long's first famous work "Drunken Master" was filmed more than ten years ago in the late 1970s, and it was Wu Siyuan's Siyuan Pictures that originally invested in the filming of "Drunken Master", which has nothing to do with Golden Harvest.  Half a dime relationship.  Although the current strength of Siyuan Pictures is far from being comparable to that of Jiahe, Wu Siyuan has a wide network of contacts in the industry, and in recent years, the industry has also advocated brand protection, such as the blatant use of other people's series titles in the past few years, which has been achieved  Several major theater chains that have reached some consensus will not let it go easily.  Jiahe must have discussed with Wu Siyuan about filming "New Drunken Master", and maybe he would actively give up some profits to get him to invest together.  In the past few years, Hong Kong has produced one good movie after another, which seems to be continuing the golden era. It has been such a long time before a sequel to "Drunken Master" is released. How many viewers are still buying it?  Jiahe himself was unsure.  It is probably because of this that Jiahe took out this new script to participate in the "Script Contest" to create a lot of hype. After all, now there is no need to worry about plagiarism after the script is exposed in advance.  Not to mention that all the judges participating in the ¡®Script Competition¡¯ are well-known people in the industry and attach great importance to their reputation. In addition, the existence of the Film Association also prevents the possibility of plagiarism or leakage of the participating scripts.  In the third negotiation in mid-October, the film industry finally reached a consensus with the British Hong Kong government. In the future, the Hong Kong Censorship Office will jointly appoint 9 reviewers to review the film, 4 of which will be from the film reviewers.  The Association recommends, and the five will continue to be appointed by the Film and Entertainment Department. The terms of reviewers will be changed every two years to prevent long-term problems.  Although it seems that the Film Association is still less influential than the Film and Entertainment Department, considering that the British Hong Kong government has never delegated this power to non-governmental organizations for more than half a century, this is a huge victory for the Film Association.  It¡¯s no exaggeration.  The mere fact that the Hong Kong Film Association now has the ability to nominate four reviewers to participate in film review and rating is enough to ensure its status in the Hong Kong film industry.  At the same time, the two parties also reached a consensus that they will crack down hard on shoddy and plagiarized works. The Film Association promised to actively contact major film companies and theaters to ban them from being released, while the Film and Entertainment Department will cooperate with other government agencies to strictly investigate and prevent these films from being released.  Works that violate market order are eligible for filming and pass the review.  Undoubtedly, the scripts from these three film giants are the best works in the first ¡®Script Competition¡¯. In the end, the best script of the first ¡®Script Competition¡¯ will be selected from them.  Since only the top eight list was announced, Lin Xiaozhi only chose to attend the ceremony and read out the list, but did not participate in the subsequent activities.  And now the news that Li Jiaxin gave birth to twins for him has already spread in Hong Kong. Everyone knows that he is really busy now, so no one is gossiping about it behind his back.  However, for Lin Xiaozhi, the busy days did not end with the birth of his son. On the contrary, it is now the busiest time of the year for him.  Since Lin Xiaozhi had a falling out with the Academy Awards at the Academy Awards Ceremony at the beginning of the year, her original contract with TVB has expired. She originally planned to cooperate with ATV to broadcast the Academy Awards Awards Ceremony live broadcast. The Academy Awards Organizing Committee and its  Behind the scenes, Film Fortnight immediately stopped negotiating with ATV. For more than half a year, wars of words broke out between the two parties, which turned out to be very bad.  Just because they were worried about renewing their contract with TVB, Media Asia, which has now become the leader in the Hong Kong film industry, and a series of film companies that depended on Media Asia joined forces to boycott the Hong Kong Film Awards, which ultimately led to the Hong Kong Film Awards being the highest-ranking film industry that has been around for more than ten years.  The gold medal came to nothing, so no matter how angry the Academy Awards organizing committee and "Film Fortnightly" were at Lin Xiaozhi's lack of respect, they still did not make any move to stimulate Media Asia to start a new business with him. As a result, the Academy Awards' contract renewal issue  There has been no follow-up, so that after August, many media in Hong Kong frequently discussed "whether the Hong Kong Academy Awards will be suspended next year", "whether Lin Xiaozhi will start another Academy Award" and so on.    Fortunately, after the two sides were in a stalemate for more than half a year, the Academy Awards finally compromised first. In early October, the editor-in-chief of "Movie Biweekly" personally visited ATV. After that, he did not mention the previous spat with Lin Xiaozhi.  Negotiate cooperation on the live broadcast of the Academy Awards in the next three years.  Although Lin Xiaozhi once had the idea of ????relying on ATV and other media channels to build another "Academy Awards" if he could not reach an agreement with the Academy Awards, the Academy Awards has been established for more than ten years and has not only established a strong reputation for Chinese-language films.  The authority of the first award is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If we start a new one, it will be difficult to predict the future without operating for more than ten years, not to mention the competition from the Academy Awards and the impact of American blockbusters.  So as soon as the Academy Awards compromised, he immediately sent someone to have serious talks with Film Fortnight.  After more than half a month of negotiations, the two sides quickly reached a consensus through mutual compromise.  ATV has bought out the live broadcast and rebroadcast rights of the Hong Kong Film Awards for the next five years at a price of 25 million Hong Kong dollars over five years. It also has the priority to renew the contract with the Hong Kong Film Awards for another three years after the contract expires. It will also  As a representative of the television media, he was recruited into the Academy Awards and became one of the judges.  In addition, Lin Xiaozhi also got almost everything else he wanted.  For example, he requested that the film's final box office revenue from video tapes and other channels, together with the opinions of film critics and audience reputation, be included in the basic criteria for the award selection, instead of being based on the opinions of film critics, audience reputation secondly, and box office as in the past few years.  The view that revenue is insignificant has caused local films with box office revenue of less than two to three million Hong Kong dollars to often be dark horses in winning awards. At the same time, the Hong Kong Film Awards also accepted the appointment of a director by the Film Association to join the organizing committee to supervise the following award committee members.  Of course, in exchange, ATV not only offered a live broadcast buyout contract that was more generous than TVB (12 million over three years), but also received Lin Xiaozhi¡¯s promise that ATV and the major media companies under Lin Xiaozhi¡¯s name would  From the beginning of December to the opening of the Hong Kong Film Awards in March of the following year, we will continue to promote the first, second and second level sections to help the Hong Kong Film Awards gain more social attention!
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