After negotiating with Wang Tianlin, Shao Zhongkang planned to set up his own film company first before looking for Zhong Chuhong. No matter what, Shao Zhongkang had to sign such a future sexy goddess first.
It was not difficult to set up a film company. At this time in Hong Kong, if you wanted to own your own company, you only needed to go to the relevant department to register. With the Shao family's connections, the documents were processed in less than a day. Shao Zhongkang named his new film company "Shao's Entertainment Agency". He first invested one million yuan, and then Shao Zhongkang immediately started from his father's Shao's Film Company.
There were indeed many directors in Shao's films, but most of them were old and experienced. These people had been in Shao's for decades. Although Shao Zhongkang was the young master of Shao's, it was impossible for them to leave the old Shao's and come to the new Shao's in a short time. Moreover, those old people were all from the martial arts film industry. In the future, Hong Kong martial arts films would enter a period of low ebb and would only flourish again in the late 1980s. Shao Zhongkang did not want to support these people for nothing.
What really made Shao Zhongkang envious was the huge bottom-level team of Shao's, such as lighting, script supervisor, Dragon Tiger Martial Artist, and all kinds of filming equipment, props, costumes, etc. Shao's decades of foundation was definitely not covered in this aspect. Even the Jiahe Enterprise in Hong Kong, which was competing with Shao's, was not as good as Shao's in these aspects.
Thanks to Shao Yifu's support, Shao Zhongkang managed to recruit a large number of people from Shao's family, including many experienced people. Such a large number of talents was definitely a great help to a newly established film company. Usually, after the establishment of a film company, it was basically just a few kittens. Only Shao Zhongkang, who had the resources of the Shao family, could get so many talents at once.
At the same time, Shao Zhongkang relied on his relationship with Jin Yong to publish a recruitment advertisement in the newspaper and began to openly recruit directors. The job advertisement clearly stated that besides a fixed salary, the new director would also enjoy benefits like a share of the box office earnings.
Shao Zhongkang believed that as long as he could make a blockbuster movie in Hong Kong, it wouldn't be long before someone would come to him.
It had to be said that Jin Yong had a very good impression of Shao Zhongkang now, because after the ancient sword story was published in Ming Pao, Jin Yong had even published three chapters in a newspaper for the first time. Immediately, this book became popular in Hong Kong.
One had to know that although the Xianxia novel had the " Shushan " of the Master of the Pearl Returning Pavilion, the problem was that the first Shushan novel was too long and the plot was a little messy. The second was that this book was written during the Republic of China. In the 1960s and 1970s, many young people did not know about Shushan at all. It was only after Old Monster Xu filmed it that the 60s and 70s knew about Shushan.
And now, Ming Pao had suddenly published a novel with a unique style. The novel started off with the story of Han Yunxi, a young man from Wumeng Spirit Valley, being exterminated. Then, it was thrown into Heaven's Wall City and renamed Baili Tusu. The readers naturally began to guess who killed Han Yunxi's entire family. With suspense, they had the motivation to continue reading.
Immediately, Ming Pao's sales rose by several points. After the first day of the third chapter of the Ancient Sword Tale, the readers were even more eager to see the following plot. They rushed to buy Ming Pao's newspapers. It could be said that all the newspapers printed in one day were sold out, which made Ming Pao earn a small profit. Moreover, Shao Zhongkang did not ask for royalties. Ming Pao could be said to have made a profit this time. Jin Yong was naturally happy.
Of course, Jin Yong also fulfilled his promise and announced the true identity of the author," Chang Qin ", in the newspaper. He was Shao Zhongkang, the new trusted young master of Shao Corporation. He also carried out a large degree of free publicity, including helping Shao Zhongkang to advertise.
The scion of a wealthy family could actually write martial arts novels! Hong Kong's fishing boats were bustling with activity again. In the eyes of ordinary Hong Kong people, those young masters from wealthy families should be sitting in their offices thinking about how to earn capital or spending money in nightclubs. Who would know that there were people who could write novels?
Of course, many people raised doubts. They thought that it was unusual for a martial arts novel written by a rich family to sell so well. Someone must have ghostwritten it. He spent money or plagiarized it and said that he wrote it himself.
Shao Zhongkang was too lazy to pay attention to this kind of rumor. He only replied with one sentence," The innocent are innocent. If you have the ability, find the ghostwriter and ask him to tell you the story behind it!"”，The people who said these words naturally could not find out who the ghostwriter was, so the people basically ignored them. Instead, they were very curious about the new young master of Shao's.
After spending about a week to sort out the company's matters, Shao Zhongkang planned to sign his first artist in Dream Entertainment, Zhong Chuhong.
Chu Liuxiang was almost done filming, and TLV had also started preparing for the first film that their young master was going to make," The Bund." The producer of this film was Shao Daheng's son. Although he was not the head of TLV yet, Shao Yifu was definitely the number one figure due to his smile and health. Now that his son, who might be the heir of TLV in the future, was going to personally produce the first film, TLV naturally had to take it seriously.
The actors for this drama had also been decided. Wang Tianlin easily found the Lu Liangwei that Shao Zhongkang had mentioned. He was a good-looking little actor who was currently playing an extra role on TVP. He had suddenly become the second male lead of a big drama that the station wanted to invest in. He did not know how many of his peers were envious.
Usually, for a big star, after filming such a big production, they would be given a period of time off after the filming was completed. Therefore, after Wang Tianlin and Zhao Yazhi, who could enjoy such a big shot, negotiated, they replied to Shao Zhongkang that they would start filming in Shanghai in a week.
Shao Zhongkang naturally had no objections. Anyway, he didn't care much about the matters of Shanghai Bund for the time being. After all, he was inexperienced as a producer. Although he had a cheat, Silly Girl, experience was not something that could be given by a cheat. Moreover, the reason why he chose to be the producer of Shanghai Bund was mainly because Shao Zhongkang wanted to put forward his opinions on some parts of the filming. Those who were responsible for contacting actors and organizing cohesion, etc. Shao Zhongkang tactfully gave up to Wang Tianlin, who was an experienced veteran. After all, he was a professional.
When he was almost done with the company's matters, Shao Zhongkang was waiting to accept talents. What he needed to do now was to sign Zhong Chuhong so that she could join the filming in Shanghai.
Zhong Chuhong was the fourth place Hong Kong sister this year. Shao Zhongkang thought that Zhong Chuhong had already signed with TVP or Shao's. For this reason, Shao Zhongkang specially went to Miss Hong Kong's office to understand Zhong Chuhong's situation.
After asking, she found out that Zhong Chuhong had participated in the Hong Kong Sister Competition a few months ago. After she won fourth place, although she was not the champion, the media praised this sexy and beautiful girl. Some media even named her as the "most beautiful Hong Kong Sister". At that time, TVP wanted to sign Zhong Chuhong.
The problem was that the five-year contract with the wireless station was not only long, but the conditions were also not good. After some consideration, Zhong Chuhong gave up on signing the contract. When the wireless station's persuasion was fruitless, they resolutely gave up on Zhong Chuhong. Zhong Chuhong even got a supporting role on TVP, so she had no choice but to go back to being a jewelry store salesperson.
Hearing these things, Shao Zhongkang was quite speechless. He remembered that there seemed to be a classic saying in Hong Kong in the future," No matter how red she is, she can't be more popular than Zhong Chuhong, and no matter how fat she is, she can't be more popular than Zhou Runfa." However, compared to Zhou Runfa, as a man, Shao Zhongkang naturally preferred the sexy and enchanting Red Aunt.
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