I Haven’t Been A Boss For Many Years

I Haven’t Been A Boss For Many Years Chapter 81

2022-03-09

Chapter 81 Chapter 7980 Two in one, 1981 (on the shelf, please subscribe)

Sorry, I can't open the 1982 Lafite , only 78 years old...

Zhang Guobin can consider stocking up a batch of 82 years old Lafite.

The same year.

The Hong Kong film industry is even more chaotic.

Crown Prince and Bing's two films went viral, pocketing 12.46 million.

Isn't it hot in the eyes of the Xiangjiang community? "Yongsheng" of Xinji, "Changhui" of Number Gang, "Agni" of Shenghe... More than a dozen film companies with social backgrounds began to do everything they could, using various tough methods to invite stars/directors to shoot Movies, and then use the star/director's box office appeal to defraud the movie market at the box office.

They can't be the second "Crown Prince", but they can be the villains who destroy the market and make bad money!

......

"Pa!" Huang Zhiming took a copy of "Movie Weekly" on the table, lowered his head and lit a cigarette, scolding: "Mother Throwing Thunder, A bad boy from a club, Red Stick, finally began to put on airs to pretend to be gentle."

"Film magazines call him Ye Ye?"

"Crown Prince in the movie world!" Huang Zhiming took advantage of the wine and exhaled his breath: "Crown Prince in the film industry? is it possible that, he can still be the emperor in the film industry?"

If it wasn't for the effect of alcohol to induce consciousness, Huang Zhiming would definitely He would not show his fear of Zhang Guobin in front of his subordinates, but Zhang Guobin finally began to take the path that Huang Zhiming was most afraid of.

Zhang Guobin was the cover character of the first issue of "Movie Weekly" in 1981.

Have produced three million-dollar box-office movies within half a year of debut, and "The True Color of Heroes" and "Happy Ghost" have all set off a movie-watching frenzy.

Created a global DreamWorks film company, broke through the dilemma of the Hong Kong film industry in the late 1970s, successfully jumped out of the quagmire of kung fu films, and brought a new wave of Hong Kong films...

"Film Biweekly" gave Zhang Guobin's films are highly rated by the company. At the end of the article, he is called the Crown Prince in the film industry. I don't know if he is alluding to Zhang Guobin's social status or touting Zhang Guobin's film potential. There are many ways! Huang Zhiming obviously read all the reports about Zhang Guobin.

Du Zhenghui was dressed in a white shirt, put down his wine glass, and cursed: "Fuck the Crown Prince in the movie world, he is a bad boy in the world, sooner or later arrest him and imprison him!"

"That's right, Is there any news from Sir Zhong of the Commercial Crime Investigation Section?" Huang Zhiming asked suddenly.

Du Zhenghui shook his head: "No."

"Sir Zhong investigated the accounts of the two films of Crown Prince and Bing, and found no major problems, but Sir Zhong reassures you, he I will always keep an eye on the operation of Universal DreamWorks."

"And those two factories and stores."

Huang Zhiming nodded: "The business side can only trouble Sir Zhong first. ”

“I don’t believe that a young and dangerous boy is doing a good business. He really wants to do a good business. A dog can’t change it and eat shit, maybe there is some dirty business behind it.”

"Forget it, let's have a New Year's dinner today, don't talk about business."

"Come, come and have a drink..."

"I wish everyone a smooth and successful next year and make good achievements."

"Waiting for Sir Wen from the Criminal Intelligence Division to come over... He has handled several cases recently, and he will be promoted to inspector next year. You should learn more from him. In the future, we will need him to handle cases. Helper..."

Huang Zhiming raised his glass.

Du Zhenghui stood up with a glass of wine, and said in a loud voice, "I wish we could shovel the Yihai Society next year! Kill the Crown Prince Bin!"

"The most important thing is safety... "

Huang Zhiming sighed.

……

The 1981 Hong Kong Film Awards have not yet been established, Zhang Guobin is not too interested in being on the cover of "Film Biweekly", although "Film Biweekly" will be A film magazine that spanned two decades and witnessed the rise and fall of Hong Kong films. It is also known as the predecessor of the Academy Awards, but after all, it is just a new magazine that has just been launched, and its influence is widespread.

Before Hong Kong Island did not have a special film magazine, that made "Film Bi-Weekly" a little tricky.

The "Movie Biweekly" itself is more similar to a criticism magazine, often commenting and criticizing the deficiencies of some movies, but it may be due to Zhang Guobin's social status being changed to favor, using his "Crown Prince in the film industry". "The name, alluding to its social background.

Zhang Guobin hehe smiled and wrote it down.

……

The seventh day of the first lunar month.

The Peninsula Hotel, Ballroom.

Gold Harvest's year-end dinner.

Zhang Guobin arrived at the entrance of the hotel in a Pingzhi sedan, wearing a black suit as usual. After the greeter trotted forward and opened the door, he slowly got out of the car with Zhu Baoyi in a white dress.

The two entered the hotel hand in hand. As soon as they entered the banquet hall, they immediately attracted a lot of attention. There were familiar Zou Huaiwen, Wu Yusen, etc...

There were also Cheng who had never met face to face. Dragon, Sammo Hung.

Zhang Guobin smiled and hugged Zhu Baoyi to greet the owner Zou Huaiwen, and then walked among the actors and directors with a wine glass, looking for a favorite candidate for the next movie.

Zhang Guobin already has a heart for it.

This is also the sole purpose of his coming to the dinner.

……

"Mr. Zhang, I have noticed your production of "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers". There are many novel racing action scenes in this film."

"I'm interested in this kind of action."

Two days later.

The Peninsula Hotel.

Zhang Guobin and Cheng Long sat opposite each other.

Zhang Guobin picked up the coffee cup and said, "If Mr. Cheng is interested in the speeding scene, the new movie can completely tailor it for you."

"No process. My husband is a kung fu superstar, so I have to consider safety issues. I’m afraid no insurance company would dare to take orders for flying the car in person. The risk is too great, so I suggest using a substitute instead.”

“I never use a substitute when I make a movie.” Cheng Long proudly said road.

At least he doesn't need it now.

Zhang Guobin twitched his lips: "OK, then with Mr. Cheng's driving skills, I can't make a speeding scene for the time being. There is a compromise. We can design some action scenes in the car chase."

<> "The action scene in the car chase?"

Cheng Long nodded lightly. He began to construct the action scene in his head, the more he thought about it, the more exciting it felt.

Last year, Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Goes Out" won the first 10 million box office on Hong Kong Island and was the highest-grossing Kung Fu star in Hong Kong cinema. If the previous Zhang Guobin went to Cheng Long to cooperate, Cheng Long would not be easily tempted. Even if he agreed, the negotiation process would be very difficult and he would not make any money.

However, Zhang Guobin now holds three tens of millions of box office movies. To put it arrogantly, he has never made a movie with a box office of less than 10 million yuan! It is much easier to talk about cooperation with Cheng Long, and after the filming of "Junior Brother Goes Out", Cheng Long went to Hollywood to develop with the full support of Golden Harvest, and filmed "Killer Trench" to try to open up overseas markets, but he was miserable in the street. , wasting tens of millions of production costs of Jiahe, making Jiahe strength great injury.

Right now, Cheng Long is trying to transform into a kung fu movie!

"Junior Brother Out of the Horse" is still an old-fashioned kung fu movie.

Therefore, he was very interested in Zhang Guobin's "Police and Bandit Movie". After a little chat at the Golden Harvest Dinner, the two agreed to cooperate. After two days, they sat together to plan a new movie.

This year, Zhang Guobin plans to make money with Cheng Long's action movie. As for "Patriotic Line", he will use other overseas movies with low box office, high reputation, and topical films as a bridge. After all, Cheng Long's movies overseas box office. The income is the big one, not to mention, the leftist theaters may not like the earliest police and bandit movies.

Cheng Long pays great attention to the tone of his speech to Mr. Zhang,

There is no way.

He's scared!

Although Xiangjiang Wuxing is also very grouped, Cheng Long has the famous Cheng Family class, but the Wuxing Baotuan club is even more grouped!

In the final analysis, martial arts is selling kung fu, but the club is really hard work!

Cheng Long has heard Mr. Sammo Hung talk about Mr. Zhang's club background.

How dare you mess with it now?

You must know that Jiahe and Shao Clan have recently been a number of well-known movie stars, and the directors have been invited by the club bosses to drink tea and chat, and the movie world has become a mess.

Shao Boss and Zou Boss deal with each other, adjust human affairs accidents, spend a lot of connections, money and benefits are not very effective.

Even some popular stars, directors.

Both bosses open one eye and close one eye, please leave.

Don't give me a penny, don't beat people, just save some face...

And Boss Zhang sitting in front of him was the first to shoot with the power of the community The movie's big shot in the rivers and lakes, and now he is still shooting well, with three consecutive tens of millions of masterpieces, how can such a person dare to provoke?

Cheng Long didn't dare to mess with Zhang Guobin's Universal DreamWorks, but he couldn't solve it with just a few words. It was Zhang Guobin's "Police and Bandit Action Movie" that caught his heart and hooked him. He was fiercely heartbroken.

At present, a large number of crime movies have appeared in Xiangjiang, the main selling point is blood and crime.

The aesthetics of violence expressed in "The True Color of Heroes" is already a sublimation, and the expression of socially sensitive issues in "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" is an improvement...

Ke Xiangjiang Movies with police as the protagonists have rarely been made before.

"The True Color of Heroes" is a step forward, at least the supporting role has a policeman, or a young and dangerous boy, while others dare not make a police movie, sorry, the young and dangerous boy is the bravest! He dares!

The police as the protagonist, punishing the evil and promoting the good, is indeed a good theme for a movie. First, it can create a lot of action scenes and change the kung fu movie into a new form to continue. Second, it can shoot a lot of In a big scene, it can also establish a positive influence of the leading role, three can shoot social issues, shape the advantages and villains, etc...

Cheng Long is really hard to refuse!

The script Zhang Guobin gave this time was not "Police Story", but "Plan A". First of all, "Plan A" itself is a successful movie. Second, in order to bind Cheng Long's cooperation with DreamWorks, there is no need to bomb Wang the first time. Finally, the production cost of "Plan A" is higher than that of "Police Story". 》Low, the first cooperation can make more money.

If Cheng Long refuses to continue to cooperate with DreamWorks after cooperating with "Plan A", DreamWorks will transfer the "Police Story" series script to the leather bag company and invite the stars to make a bad movie and destroy it. Cheng Long's transformation road, although it may not cause much hindrance to Cheng Long, at least it can disgust him.

No way, this series of films "Cheng Long" is indeed an irreplaceable soul, both the starring role and the director, the perfect Cheng Long style.

Zhang Guobin must work with him!

Cheng Long finished after several thoughts, nodded and said: "If this is the case, I can go into battle in person."

"But the speeding car scene in "Plan A" is not suitable for the protagonist. , can't fly a bike? Jump off the building again, punch, it's almost it." Zhang Guobin said with a smile: "If you must fly, then I will arrange for you to fly a police car."

"Flying bike?" Cheng Long's brows twitched, with a look of fear on his face: "Will this be too bold?"

"Not bold, not bold, it's normal for the police to fly police cars." Zhang Guobin stirred with a spoon Coffee, bowing his head with a faint smile.

He originally planned to design a bus scene similar to the police story, but it doesn't matter if you think about flying one or two police cars. There are so many police cars that are scrapped in the Hong Kong Bureau. If you have a good relationship, you will inevitably have to spend some money to develop contacts.

What's up?

You can't drink tea with the police?

Can't?

Hey! Who said I'm a young and dangerous boy, I'm a serious businessman!

Zhang Guobin didn't think it was difficult to get through the relationship between the police station.

After all, making police movies and promoting a positive image of the police is good for the police department.

It is O's business that you want to catch Young and Dangerous Boys, and the PR department has to do publicity and it's the performance of the PR department... One is to talk to Crown Prince, the other is to talk to Boss Zhang, there is no conflict! Can you still stop me?

You don't need the police department's approval to make a movie in Hong Kong, but you do need to make a police movie, but you are not afraid of the police, why are you afraid of making a police movie?

Xiangjiang police and bandit movies are a code of wealth. Zhang Guobin runs a film company, and it is impossible not to make police movies. Since it will be made sooner or later, it may be a good thing to get through the relationship as soon as possible.

After listening to Zhang Guobin's explanation, Cheng Long said with a bitter smile on his face: "Zhang Sheng, you are right, I have no way to refute it."

"That's right. Shooting, don't hesitate." Zhang Guobin took a coffee cup and took a sip of coffee: "The script of this movie will be sent to you tomorrow."

"The box office share and the actor's remuneration are all one more than Jiahe. If you are happy, you will be the director, and if you are not happy, I will direct."

"If you are happy, you choose the actor, if you are unhappy, I will choose it for you. Order?" Zhang Guobin spoke word by word, his tone was neither too fast nor too slow, but firm and powerful, in all fairness, the conditions were excellent.

"many thanks Zhang Sheng, I'll give you an answer after watching the movie tomorrow." Cheng Long raised his teacup and lowered his head to drink tea.

Actually, he had already decided in his heart to shoot "Plan A", but he had to support a group of Cheng Family members and a group of Martial Masters beside him, so he couldn't make a decision in a hurry.

speak frankly, Cheng Long is very good to all brothers.

Probably also came from the bottom, experienced hard work, obeyed the rules of martial arts, and showed loyalty.

He also admired Zhang Guobin's straightforward style, and immediately said: "But Mr. Zhang, don't worry, we can't work together, we are also friends."

"hehe." Zhang Guobin Laugh twice.

There are many ways to have a friend on the rivers and lakes, but now is the time to talk about interests, don't talk about friends, it is not easy to talk about interests among friends, and if you want his friend, you must first learn to work hard for him.

"I'll wait for your reply."

Zhang Guobin finished his coffee and put down his cup.

Suddenly, Cheng Long remembered that a friend was invited to film, and sighed: "If the bosses who want to make a film all do things like Mr. Zhang, make films seriously, and rely on their ability to get money, there should be How good?"

"We're just fighting for food."

"No one wants to die."

Zhang Guobin's eyes twinkled , I probably heard what Cheng Long meant, but he didn't follow up. Now the rivers and lakes are very chaotic, and he can't intervene if he can.

He takes money well, just don't bother him.

No one can force him to do it.

Unless his patriotism is tested.

Zhang Guobin saw that the matter was over, it was time to arrange a show that men liked, he immediately closed his suit, stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Cheng, I asked my brothers to arrange some pretty goods in the venue, Are you interested in taking a sauna together?"

"Not good... Zhang Boss..." Cheng Long hesitated suddenly, but his face was full of excitement, and his buttocks almost left the chair, if it wasn't for the reaction Just in time, the jackets are picked up.

Zhang Guobin smiled and said with a smile: "What's wrong, Aaron, everyone is a man..."

"Yes, we are just Play a game that men all over the world can play..." Cheng Long no longer refused, and got up with a smile.

second day.

Before the script of "Plan A" was sent out, Cheng Long called and agreed to participate.

Jun Zai's hand is disabled, and the previous operation made a mistake. Chapter 80 is even more wrong. Now 79/80 is combined into one chapter, let brothers spend 10 points to watch 4k!

(end of this chapter)