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Chapter 240

Jiahe Studio, in a large test studio.

Listening to the noisy noise in the test room, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but rub his eyebrows in disgust. At this time, Jiahe's second-in-command He Chuchang came over and asked in a low voice: "Wenhuai, can you start?"

Zou Wenhuai let go of his fingers, nodded slightly and replied: "Let's start."

"Um!"

He Chuchang responded softly, then stood up straight and clapped his hands and shouted: "Dear bosses and producers, everyone is quiet, we are ready to start the test."

When everyone in the test room heard this, they became quiet instantly. He Chuchang nodded with satisfaction, then looked at the screening hole behind the test room and waved his hand. In an instant, the test room became dim and a beam of light hit the big screen in front, and He Chuchang immediately sat down.

A picture gradually appeared on the big screen, an ancient city gate tower with people coming and going, and then the two big words "Yin Ji" were printed on the screen. Zou Wenhuai frowned slightly as he looked at the movie scene, and then opened a stack of information reports in his hand with the light of the screen.

"The Yin Qi, Shaw's father and son company came out..." Zou Wenhuai paused slightly. Since it was a movie released by one of Jiahe shareholders, let's take a look.

However, in the next ten minutes, Zou Wenhuai became more and more disappointed with this movie. The movie "Yin Ji" is a movie that combines the Kung Fu movies of the Republic of China, the Spiritual Fantasy Kung Fu movies and the Ghost Movie movies. Not only does the fighting not compare to the wonderfulness of the Chenglong Minchu Kung Fu movies, but the Spiritual Fantasy is not as good as the tale of Sammo Hung's zombie series, but even the ghosts in it are extremely rough. Such a movie is probably not a problem to protect the capital, but if you want to fight against New Art City in Christmas, you will probably die miserably.

"Stop! Projectionist, ready to put down a movie."

Zou Wenhuai interrupted the screening of "Silent Guards" without hesitation, without taking into account the face of the production manager of Shaw's father and son in the back row. Today, Jiahe's concubine selection conference will have eleven movies to watch, and Zou Wenhuai was not interested in seeing them one by one from beginning to end. Moreover, why Zou Wenhuai took into account the faces of Shaw's father and son? The day before yesterday, his confidante Liu Lianghua wanted to put a movie she produced in the Christmas market, but Zou Wenhuai did not agree.

If a person reaches the level of Zou Wenhuai in the film and television industry, then face is the most important thing, and even before profit.

Less than three minutes later, the screen lights up again, but the next movie is about to begin. However, the boring subtitles at the beginning of the movie that were nearly two minutes reduced Zou Wenhuai's expectation for this movie by half.

""Cold Blood Red" is produced by Mingcai Film Company. Alas, it's another newly opened small company!"

Zou Wenhuai sighed slightly at the information table. This year, with the popularity of the Hong Kong film market, more and more funds have begun to pour into this industry, and many so-called small film companies have opened. For example, today's test film meeting, such as Mingcai, King Kong, and Jianlong, he had never heard of film companies before. But now he heard that Jiahe chose concubines, and these companies have all rushed over.

Unfortunately, the quality of the movies they made is not good.

Zou Wenhuai loudly explained that the next movie was shown, and then he quietly closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair regardless of the reactions of others. It was funny to say that in the Christmas season in 1981, Jiahe, the leader of the Hong Kong film industry, had no heavyweight films that could be shown, and he had to rely on these peripheral companies to help him.

There are three main reasons here:

First, Chenglong's injury disrupted all Jiahe's plans, resulting in the fact that Jiahe had no time to re-shoot the film for Christmas.

The second is the establishment and rise of Princess Jin, which stole a large number of talents under Jiahe. Many satellite companies that originally had only loose agreements with Jiahe have switched to Princess Jin, resulting in the reduction of Jiahe's high-quality film sources by half.

Third, Jiahe's investment in Hollywood this year occupied most of the company's funds, resulting in the fact that Jiahe's main company in Hong Kong had little money to use.

In the past two years, although the Jiahe Film branch, which is in the United States, has only filmed two movies, "The Killer Trench" and "The Bomb Speed", its investment in the American film market has been scattered and scattered. Some of these movies make money and some lose money, but overall it still makes some money.

But filming movies is an industry with extremely slow capital recovery. It usually takes about three months for filming and post-production alone. Then wait for the theaters to be scheduled for one month. If the release is good, the film will be scheduled for one month. Finally, the movie is in an external environment, and the capital conversion and withdrawal will take another month. After all, it will take about half a year for the film companies that invest in foreign films to see the money back.

So although "Sky Speed" sold $70 million in North America during the summer season, the box office share received by Jiahe was only three months ago. And because of "Sky Speed"'s great success in North America, Zou Wenhuai has invested in several Hollywood movies in succession.

The result was that Zou Wenhuai made Jiahe's main company not have the money to make big-name movies in Hong Kong in the second half of the year. The early investment of Chenglong's new film "Detective Weilong" was still the spare money that Jiahe had after "Police Story" was sold well in Hong Kong.

At this moment, Zou Wenhuai deeply felt the mistake in his decision-making!

Zou Wenhuai closed his eyes and rested for a moment. He heard that there was movement in the test room again, so he opened his eyes and looked at the big screen. Then he saw a bus covered with metal wires on the big screen was parked alone on an open space, and all kinds of police cars were parked on the outside of the open space. A woman and a few children tied inside the bus were crying for help. Many policemen were anxiously looking into the bus next to the police car. As a police car drove into the screen quickly, Ren Dahua walked out of the car.

At the beginning of the movie, a group of inexplicable bandits kidnapped a teacher and several students in order to force the black hero to appear in Hong Kong, and then loaded a high-intensity time bomb on the bus.

The nervous and exciting beginning immediately attracted the audience in the entire test room.

"I said, I don't know where the Black Hero is. He has already left Hong Kong. Don't attack the children. Tell me whether the bomb is cut red or blue?" Ren Dahua, wearing an explosion-proof suit, just lay under the car and prepared to dismantle the bomb, and then received a call from the bandits to the public telephone booth next to the open space.

"Hmph, don't attack the children..." The mysterious voice on the other end of the phone snorted coldly and said slowly: "You people in the world of light don't know what we have experienced since childhood. Let me ask again, where is the Black Hero?"

Ren Dahua pounded the public telephone booth hard and replied, "I said that he has left Hong Kong long ago, and there is not much time left. Please..., hey? Hey? Hey?"

Hanging up the phone that had been busy in a row, Ren Dahua kicked the public telephone booth hard.

"Captain, I have no time. Should I cut the blue line or the red line?" The explosion-proof team member who was still lying under the bus shouted loudly.

Ren Dahua looked at his watch suddenly and found that there were only eight seconds left before the bomb exploded. After a trance, he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Red Line!"

The team members under the car heard the captain's voice, and trembled with their hands to extend the pliers towards the red line.

"Click!"

The red line was cut, and the number on the time bomb also jumped to '1' and stopped moving. Seeing that the bomb was lifted, the audience took a deep breath and finally let down the hanging heart.

However, just when the hearts of people outside or in the movie were relaxed, the ‘1’ on the time bomb suddenly jumped to ‘0’.

"Bang--"

A loud bang came, and the entire bus was blown into two pieces on the audience and the police on the screen, and then was swallowed by a raging fire.

"Stop!"

"Make something."

"Damn, this director is amazing!"

“…”

At this time, the bosses and producers of various film companies who have always been quiet and self-reliant, started to curse like ordinary movie fans. Even Zou Wenhuai and He Shuchang looked at each other quietly, their eyes filled with astonishment and surprise.

"Is this A Xuan and his friends' "Black Man 2"?" Zou Wenhuai asked a very stupid question, but he immediately reacted and asked, "By the way, A Xuan didn't seem to come today?"

"Uh!" He Chuchang nodded and continued to answer: "He is still doing the late stage of "The Legend of Lucky Stars", but Jin Zai, the director of "Black Man 2", is here."

"Jinzai, this guy is so beautiful than the blue!" Zou Wenhuai sighed at Wang Jin, who was sitting in the back seat and looked proud, then pointed to the burning fire on the screen and the opening subtitles of the movie and continued: "This kid is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't know he can still play the bomb trick."

Of course, Zou Wenhuai didn't know that it was not Wang Jin who liked to play with bombs but Lin Ling's wife. When this guy played with bombs, Li Xuan spent an extra million to wipe his butt.

However, it looks very good at the moment!

In the next nearly an hour, the test room was screening "Black Hero 2". In order to force the black hero to come out, the funny and humorousness of the black hero and the female host, and the pain and entanglement of Ren Dahua as a policeman who saw the crime but was powerless, all deeply attracted the audience present and let them follow the plot.

"Stop, turn on the light!"

Before the movie was finished, Zou Wenhuai issued this order in everyone's confusing eyes. The test room immediately lit up. Zou Wenhuai stood up and turned around to look at the 'audience' present, and then said loudly: "Whoever thinks that his company's movie is better than this "Black Man 2", please raise your hand! I'm too lazy to watch it one by one."

“…”

For a full half minute, the entire test room was silent.

"Not bad!" Zou Wenhuai nodded with satisfaction and looked at everyone and said, "The bosses or producers of other film companies please come back. We will arrange for everyone's movies to be released one after the New Year. However, Mr. Wang Jin, please stay. Let's discuss the specific matters of the release of this movie during the Christmas season. Now we will be leaving."

“…”

However, Zou Wenhuai, who announced the end of the meeting, found that no one left the scene.

Do these people want to rebel together? Zou Wenhuai frowned slightly, then asked loudly: "Is there anything else for everyone?"

The audience is hesitating now, I look at you and you look at him. After a while, a film company producer raised his hand and replied, "Well, Mr. Zou, can we finish watching the movie just now before leaving?"
Chapter completed!
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