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Chapter 356 The Threat is Found

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Fang Nan even called Wang Sunglass who hadn't boarded the plane.

From the other party's narration, Fang Nan probably knew why he received an anonymous threatening phone call.

In 2002, Wang Sunglasses purchased the copyright of Ip Man, began preparations for the movie "The Grandmaster" with the theme of Bruce Lee's master Ip Man, and set the male number one Tony Leung.

But he likes to dawdle in his work. Five years later, "The Grandmaster" still only has two concept posters.

Meanwhile, film rights expired.

Just when Wang Shajing was ready to renew the copyright contract, Huang Baiming, who was also interested in Ip Man's film, took the lead in snatching the copyright of Ip Man's film, and quickly cooperated with Xiangjiang director Ye Weixin and Zheng Zidan to make the first "Ip Man" movie.

The first "Ip Man" was released, and the box office reputation is quite good.

It was inevitable for Huang, Ye, and Zheng to continue their relationship. In 2009, "Ip Man 2" officially started filming.

Wang Sunglasses was very angry.

Is it a fake that he asked Tony Leung to learn Wing Chun from Ye Zhun as early as 2002?

He spent five years planning and promoting Ip Man's film. Is it fake?

Xiangjiang colleagues just pick peaches like this?

Feeling depressed, and investors kept pushing and nagging, Wang Sunglass simply broke the can and broke the copyright, and started filming "The Grandmaster" strongly, and chose the same year as "Ip Man 2", there is a big difference mean.

For this reason, the two companies have been talking about each other for several years, and now it is on Fang Nan.

After learning about the love-hate entanglement behind "Ip Man" and "The Grandmaster", Fang Nan was very curious, so maybe it was Huang Baiming's anonymous threatening phone call?
In the past two years, not many people dared to call him Nanzi, let alone those who threatened him and bossed him around.

Fang Nan didn't know whether Huang Baiming had the guts to threaten him, but this person was indeed old.

Twenty or thirty years ago, Huang Baiming was one of the Big Three of Xiangjiang New Art City Film Company.

He Maijia, Shi Tian, ​​Old Monster Xu, Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, and Teddy Robin are known as the Seven Monsters of New Art City, and produced "Happy Ghost", "Best Partner", "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing", "Sword Horse Dan" , "Prison Storm" and a series of new wave movies.

It was the hottest Xiangjiang film production company in that era.

In the era of the Seven Monsters of New Art City, Huang Baiming invested and cooperated with too many Xiangjiang filmmakers. Today, Huang Baiming is very popular and his qualifications are always the consensus of most people in the Hong Kong film industry.

Huang Baiming does have the right to speak on the board of directors of the Academy Awards, and it seems reasonable to threaten him.

It's just that such a person will make anonymous threatening phone calls to him?

It's not that the other party doesn't dare, it's that the other party has to be scruples about his status, just like him now, he has to be careful about what he can say and what he can't say.

And as far as he knew, Huang Baiming loved money.

A money-loving filmmaker shouldn't offend him easily. At least he owns a few movie theaters with dozens of screens, and the number is still increasing.

Moreover, he has a close relationship with mainland distributors and theaters. Offending him for a movie is really not worth the candle.

Puzzled, Fang Nan asked for Huang Baiming's number from Mr. Xu.

Both Old Freak Xu and Shi Nansheng were one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City back then. Although the last seven broke up unhappy, they should have the numbers of Huang Baiming and Ye Weixin.

Fang Nan didn't hesitate to get their numbers, and called Huang Baiming first.

Huang Baiming's qualifications are in Xiangjiang, so he doesn't match him. If the other party is not the one who made the threatening call, he respectfully calls him a senior.

If it is, he will ask the other party how he wants to solve him!
For a movie, to put him and the Academy Award to death?

The phone call was connected quickly, and after Fang Nan reported his home, Huang Baiming was very polite: "Oh, Fang Sheng? Hello, hello, I have been to the capital several times and wanted to invite you to drink tea, but I heard that you have been out of town. "

Hearing that the other party's tone didn't sound like someone who wanted to stab him, Fang Nan nodded and said with a smile: "Really? Then I will fly to Xiangjiang in a few days, and invite Brother Bai Ming to have afternoon tea on the peninsula."

"must?"

"Sure, but I'll ask you something first."

Hearing the other party's promise with a smile, Fang Nan immediately talked about the grievances between "The Grandmaster" and "Ip Man", and told the other party that he was threatened by an anonymous phone call last night.

Huang Baiming was shocked: "It is true that Wong Kar-wai and I had a very unpleasant quarrel over "Ip Man", but we will not be afraid of the movie hitting the schedule and threatening film investors with indiscriminate means. Today is a harmonious society, not to mention that the threat is still yours pregnancy."

Fang Nan asked with a smile, "Ye Weixin Ye Dao is possible?"

"Boss Yeh won't either. Box office competition may throw dirty water on each other, and he will never threaten others. We have been in the mainland for several years, and we will not break the law knowingly."

"That's why the crew of "Ip Man" has made trouble."

Huang Baiming, who was far away in Guangzhou on the crew of "Ip Man", was short of breath.

Judging from Fang Nan's tone, he and the crew of "Ip Man" seemed to have fallen into the crotch of yellow mud—was it shit or shit?

But thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with Fang Nan's understanding.

It wasn't their "Ip Man" crew who were threatening Fang Nan, so it wouldn't be Wong Kar Wai who was just yelling "stop the thief" or Fang Nan was lying?

Obviously impossible.

Huang Baiming pinched his mobile phone and looked at the busy crew, his squinted eyes behind the glasses were as sharp as a falcon and swept towards everyone.

Lean slightly.

Huang Baiming waved to a young man in his 30s beside Ye Weixin: "Huang Heng, come here."

Huang Heng is one of the screenwriters and his son.

If Fang Nan's threatening phone call was true, and Wang Jiawei didn't call out "Stop the thief", the most likely person who made the anonymous threatening phone call was his son.

"Old Dou, what's the matter?"

Huang Baiming asked: "Where is your mobile phone?"

"Here, what's the matter?"

Without saying a word, Huang Baiming grabbed it directly, opened the phone book and looked through Fang Nan's number, and soon, he slapped his son on the head.

"Are you stupid, threatening people and still using your own mobile phone, and you don't even bother to delete the number? You're still working as a screenwriter like this!"

"Old Dou, you know?"

"If you want to be unknown, you have to do nothing! What is Fang Nan's identity, how difficult is it to find a number?"

Huang Baiming knocked on his son again, and said: "Look who is calling, you should be your screenwriter honestly, what are you going to do to threaten people, you don't want to hang around in the mainland anymore?"

Huang Heng said dissatisfied: "Wong Kar Wai broke the rules first, I just want to remind Fang Nan that "The Grandmaster" is a hot potato."

"Self-righteous, people want you to remind me that you think Fang Nan is a vegetarian? So what if "The Grandmaster" doesn't have the copyright? Isn't Yindu Institution still investing? If I don't have Ip Man's copyright, I won't be filming "Ip Man"?"

"Don't think that everything in the world is as black and white as your eyeballs, fools are so absolute!"

"Tell me exactly what you said last night. If you don't make progress, don't want to inherit the family property."

(End of this chapter)