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"Huh, I'm finally back. The airport is so congested. Not to mention the people coming to Hong Kong Island, there are also so many people leaving the country. I really hope that the MTR's rapid light rail can be opened as soon as possible."

Hong Kong's international airport is already big enough, but who would have known that the development of Hong Kong driven by the Far East would be accelerated so quickly? Hong Kong's international airport has topped the list of the world's busiest airports for four consecutive years.

Although the traffic planning of Hong Kong International Airport is very good, traffic jams still occur during peak hours, and now occur every few days.

In order to solve this problem, the Hong Kong government has come up with two solutions. One is to reclaim land and build a new airport for use in medium and long-distance routes, and the other is to solve the current traffic problem.

However, the new airport plan was eventually abandoned by the Hong Kong government. First of all, the Hong Kong International Airport was newly built, and there was also a second phase development plan, which planned to reclaim land and build a runway.

By then, Hong Kong International Airport will have three passenger runways and one cargo runway, which is more than enough.

Another point is that 97 is approaching, and building a new airport requires negotiations with the Rabbit, site selection, preliminary planning, etc., which is simply impossible to complete before 97.

So the two options had to be chosen, and finally the Hong Kong government decided to solve the traffic problem. The MTR and the Hong Kong government directly built an undersea tunnel and light rail from Lantau Island to Tuen Mun in the New Territories.

There are three main destinations for people coming to Hong Kong Island. One is the eastern commercial district of Lantau Island, which is the first stop for accommodation and sightseeing.

One is Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, which are connected by the Tsing Ma Bridge.

Finally, there is the Tuen Mun and Yuen Long area in the New Territories, which is the core of Hong Kong Island’s Internet companies. The size of the city is also constantly expanding, and the population is growing rapidly accordingly.

As long as a direct traffic line from the airport to this side is opened, about 30% of the passenger flow can be diverted and the traffic problem can be solved.

In 1991, the construction of the undersea tunnel planned by the Hong Kong Government and the MTR officially started. Although it was built in sections, it would take another three to five years for it to be officially opened to traffic. The plan was to open it to traffic in late 1996 or early 1997.

Luo Nianzhong didn't have many good solutions to all of Luo Laowu's complaints, and he couldn't create a solution out of thin air.

"Then you won't come back by helicopter."

The Luo family mansion has a helipad to prevent similar situations from happening and wasting time due to emergencies.

"I don't want to. Besides, I have Wenbo with me. It will be too noisy."

Luo Laowu had just returned from Taiwan with Luo Wenbo to visit his parents. He handed the sleepy Luo Wenbo to the nanny, who sat directly in Luo Nianzhong's arms.

"This time when I went back, I really felt the power of Hong Kong culture. My best friend and I took our children to see a movie. Guess what happened?"

"uh-huh?"

"The posters on the doors of cinemas all over the street are about movies from Hong Kong. I heard from Lily that the top 15 box office movies in Taiwan every year are basically all from Hong Kong."

Lily is Luo Laowu’s best friend. She has been to Hong Kong Island several times and Luo Nianzhong has met her once.

As for the Hong Kong movies she mentioned, Luo Nianzhong really didn't know much about them.

However, this reminded him that Luo Nianzhong knew that the Hong Kong film industry had a falling out with the Taiwan industry around this time, and that this was also the turning point in the decline of the Hong Kong film industry.

Some people may wonder, isn’t it just a small Taiwan market? What’s the big deal? You also have a vast rabbit market.

Very much.

Why do many people say that we owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket? Because the movies like Shaolin Soccer that we watched when we were young were all pirated, even if you watched them in the cinema.

The first movie released by Stephen Chow with the theme of "Rabbit" was "Kung Fu". After watching so many of his movies, how many people actually paid to watch the authentic version?

Hong Kong movies are all dual-dubbed, one in Cantonese and one in Mandarin.

Do you think Mandarin is dubbed for the Rabbit audience? You are totally wrong. This is dubbed for Taiwan and Southeast Asian Chinese.

As for Rabbit, only 15 films can be screened there each year, and this was promoted by Luo Nianzhong back then.

The reason why Hong Kong movies were so good during this period was because of the huge investments, and the reason for such huge investments was because of the box office guarantee from Taiwan.

Later, the eight major film producers in Taiwan lost money due to the ever-increasing buyout prices of Hong Kong films. They wanted to lower the prices of Hong Kong films, but the producers in Hong Kong refused to buy it.

As a result, the eight major film producers turned around and began to introduce Hollywood blockbusters, and Hong Kong films lost their largest foreign market. This also caused serious talent loss in Hong Kong and the cost of making films continued to fall.

Why were Hong Kong films in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s so good and so popular all over the world? It’s because they dared to fight and fight.

Have you ever seen the Hong Kong movies where people jump off several floors in real life? Not at all.

There is certainly capital operation involved here. If you can make money by taking beautiful photos, who would work so hard?

But the real gap occurred in the late 90s, when Hong Kong Island lost the Taiwan market and was hit by the Asian financial crisis. It had no money to make movies.

Without money, who among those supporting actors who risked their lives would be willing to jump off the building?

Nowadays, a supporting actor in an action scene can earn 15,000 Hong Kong dollars per film, and it is no problem to make 300 to 500,000 Hong Kong dollars a year. This is for the smallest marginal roles where actors get beaten, so there are so many actors who risk their lives.

"What are you thinking about?"

Seeing that Luo Nianzhong didn't speak for a long time, Luo Laowu directly sat on him and held his face and asked.

"Nothing, just thought of some other things."

"Hmph, I've been away from home for half a month, and you still have the mind to think about other things even in this position."

Feeling Luo Laowu rubbing against him while sitting in his arms, Luo Nianzhong glanced at the sunny sky outside, picked him up and went upstairs.

Our ancestors invented the term "daytime debauchery", so we should not let it down.

In the master bedroom, Keiko Matsuzaka, who was taking a nap, felt as if she was on the beach, and the rocking chair she was resting on kept rocking.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Luo Laowu pushing him back and forth.

In the evening, Luo Nianzhong, who was playing with the children after school, saw Zhou Liang Shuyi and others coming to the house, and immediately came to the study.

"Did you bring the information?"

As soon as he sat down, Luo Nianzhong asked Shi Tian what information he needed.

"I brought it." Shi Tian opened his briefcase, took out a thick stack of documents and handed it over.

Watching Luo Nianzhong flipping through the documents in silence, Zhou Liang Shuyi, Shi Tian and other senior executives of various Asian media companies did not know what the big boss's purpose was.

Luo Nianzhong rarely cares about the affairs of Asia Media now. Basically, any important matters are handled by people from the family office, such as the board of directors.

Today, he suddenly received a call asking them to prepare the materials for cooperation with Wanwan and come to see him. He was a little confused and didn't understand why such a small matter would alarm the big boss.

"The highest-grossing movie we sold to Taiwan last year was HK$2800 million?"

“Yes, it’s Jackie Chan’s Super Cop.

The other party also said that if Jackie Chan makes another new film this year, they are willing to pay 3500 Hong Kong dollars."

"It seems that last year's super police made the other party a lot of money." Luo Nianzhong tapped the information twice in his hand with a fake smile.

The box office of NT$1.6 million is equivalent to over NT$2800 million in HKD, and the film revenue of NT$ million means the other party made a lot of money.

Trailers, this is something with the same concept as pre-sale properties, but one sells properties and the other sells movies.

The booming development of Hong Kong's film industry in recent years has far exceeded that of the original time and space, attracting capital from Southeast Asia to Hong Kong.

In order to obtain local broadcasting rights, various regions have approached Hong Kong's film companies and paid them in advance to make films.

A movie may not even have a script, but the funds will be in place just by announcing which actors may be used.

This has also led to the establishment of hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong in recent years. Almost all first- and second-tier actors have established their own film companies, but some are independent and some are collaborative, such as the first film company established by Jackie Chan and Dongfang Film and Television.

"Does Aaron have any plans to make a movie this year?"

“There will be a City Hunter in the second half of the year, which is adapted from a comic book produced by a comic book company under a group in the island country.

Aaron's main focus now is on Hollywood, and Rush Hour 4 is currently being filmed in London."

I really didn’t expect that Rush Hour has already been filmed to the fourth season. Luo Nianzhong feels that he is really not paying attention to this media empire now.

"Tell me".

Luo Nianzhong likes this series of movies very much, but he has only seen three in his previous life. The fourth one is set in England, so he is quite interested in it.

"This time it's about two traffic brothers who were each sent to London to carry out a mission, but when both sides were arresting their respective suspects, they regarded the other as enemy support and let their respective targets go.

After meeting, they discovered that their goals actually belonged to the same organization, and then they worked together, with various funny scenes interspersed in between.

I visited the set of a film in London a few days ago, and saw a scene where two people were running naked down the street with pants made from the hats of the Queen's guards."

"Really? Then I'll have to go and see the film after it comes out."

"No problem, I'll notify your secretary when the test film is ready."

The big boss is coming to watch the movie, Shi Tian must seize this rare opportunity to show his face.

Without saying anything, Luo Nianzhong agreed and lowered his head to look at the information in his hand.

The other people in the room didn't dare to disturb them and just sat there quietly.

After about ten minutes, Luo Nianzhong briefly went through all the information and put it on his right hand side.

“Tell Taiwan that this year we will not sell trailers for all our movies, but will take a cut.

And set a minimum guarantee of 2500 million Hong Kong dollars."

"Isn't it a bit too high? There are no more than ten films a year that can sell for more than 2500 million Hong Kong dollars. This threshold will exclude many of our films."

Shi Tian was in no position to speak at this time, so Zhou Liang Shuyi had to persuade him.

"Who said the minimum is HK$2500 million? I said the maximum is HK$2500 million.

The eight major cinema chains can show our films for free, and we take a percentage of the revenue. Once the box office reaches HK$2500 million, we won’t take a single cent.

This guarantee is not to protect us, but to protect the other party."

"Huh?" Zhou Liang Shuyi and everyone in the room were shocked.

"This will cause us to lose a lot of income. Just one movie by Aaron will cost us at least 10 million Hong Kong dollars. I don't understand why."

"Why?" Luo Nianzhong said as he handed the information at hand to Zhou Liang Shuyi.

"Look at how many movies were made in Hong Kong Island each year in recent years? Last year, there were more than 1500 movies, and most of them were about the same subject matter. I don't need to see them to know that they are all copycats.

Let’s take a look at the films that breached the contract for the first time and failed to be delivered on time. There were eleven of them from Eastern Film and Television alone. Although the contract stated that the time could be extended, it’s easy to imagine what would be produced in that one month.

No one can guarantee that every film will be a hit, or that audiences will never get tired of watching these stars and these themes. As long as the reputation is lost due to quality issues and these film producers lose money, then the Hong Kong film industry is likely to collapse.

Hong Kong Island is very small, and we cannot invest much money in the Hong Kong Island market to develop and produce Hong Kong films.

Our main battlefield is other places. Only if we allow them to gain more benefits and have more room for imagination, can they work harder to sell films to us.

With the rise of Hollywood special effects, although we are not bad in technology, our ideas are still completely based on martial arts films.

We need to change our mindset and learn from Hollywood. Think about it, would the audience prefer someone being thrown from the sixth floor or the entire Hong Kong Island being blown up?

This is the advantage of computer special effects. You can never achieve such a shocking effect by risking your life.

But don’t give up on the fighting scenes, as they will push the film to its climax one after another."

There is one point that Luo Nianzhong did not mention, and that is that bad money cannot be allowed to drive out good money.

Hong Kong films are now making a lot of money. As long as there are big-name actors, there will be countless investors from all over the world.

Under such circumstances, the actors' pay naturally rises. The pay of Zhou Yi, Yi Long and Li Yi has exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and the pay of the remaining first-line stars has also exceeded several million.

Why do many singers want to develop into actors during this period? Isn’t it because they are more famous and can earn more money?

In order to make more money, celebrities will naturally take on many roles crazily. Do you think they will have the time to shoot properly?

Once the prices of Eastern Film and Television's trailers are reduced, all the other film companies will have no choice but to reduce their prices. This will lead to the death of a number of film companies first.

Luo Nianzhong estimated that within two years, 90% of Hong Kong's current film companies would die.

After the financial crisis, Oriental Film and Television was able to produce films at very low prices, completely unifying the Asian market. This period also allowed Hong Kong films to undergo transformation.

This is a decision that no one else can question. After Luo Nianzhong finished speaking, he asked about another topic that he was very concerned about.

"How's that movie deal with the Bunny going?".

“The other party agreed to the most basic point that joint venture films are considered local films, but there are still many problems.

Our films are all big productions, and they simply can't come up with the money for joint ventures.

There is also the content of the film. QS and blood are the two most popular attractions recognized worldwide, but the other party did not allow most of them to appear."

What agreement was it? It was the CEPA agreement that Rabbit later used to save many front- and behind-the-scenes practitioners in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

It goes without saying how big the Rabbit market will be in the future. Luo Nianzhong wants to find new profit points for Hong Kong movies, and also to let Rabbit enter the commercial film era ahead of time.

“It doesn’t matter if they don’t have money, we can lend them money with guarantees.

Any old and powerful film studio will do, and you can even do them a favor.

As for the QS and gore you mentioned, are there a lot of these things in our top-grossing movies every year?

If Aaron’s film can meet the standards, why can’t other films? If they really can’t, can we edit another version just for them?”

Luo Nianzhong chatted with them for a long time until Luo Laoer came over and called for dinner.

Luo Lao Er invited everyone to stay for dinner, but the only one who actually stayed was Zhou Liang Shuyi.

Just kidding, Zhou Liang Shuyi has a high status and is also a close friend of several women in the Luo family.

We stay? What's wrong with us? If we really stay, we won't be able to enjoy our meals.