The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 233

To make matters worse, just at this time, Poly Construction Company, which was held by Hopewell Real Estate Company, was liquidated and went bankrupt, and the chairman of the board of directors, Paul Li, was arrested and imprisoned.Hopewell Real Estate Company has been implicated again!
Hopewell Properties previously invested 990 million Hong Kong dollars in Poly Construction Company. When Paul Lee was prosecuted by the ICAC for fraudulent accounting, bribery and other crimes, and Poly Construction Company was thus liquidated and bankrupt, Hopewell Properties’ previous investment of 990 million Hong Kong dollars naturally disappeared. for the foam.

It's really a blessing, and misfortunes never come singly!
Affected by this, Hopewell Real Estate, which was already struggling, is now in a quagmire.Not only did the investment of 990 million Hong Kong dollars be lost, but Paul Lee also caused a lot of trouble, which made the already bad reputation even worse.

The stock price also fell accordingly, from the highest point of 30 Hong Kong dollars, all the way down to [-] cents Hong Kong dollars, and the stock price fell nearly forty times.

Other Chinese real estate companies such as Cheung Kong Properties, Sun Hung Kai Properties, New World Properties, etc., although their stock prices also fell during the stock market crash, they are the only ones in Hong Kong that are as miserable as Hopewell Properties.

Originally, as an ordinary person, under internal and external difficulties, it should not be able to survive.

However, Hu Yingxiang, chairman of Hopewell Properties, is by no means an ordinary person. He himself graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, and his father is a well-known taxi king in Hong Kong. Later, he turned to the real estate industry and is also a powerful real estate developer.So Hu Yingxiang can continue to hold on, and he will not fall down.

HSBC did not give up on him completely, they still believed in his ability and continued to give him money to develop.However, HSBC’s money did not come from strong winds. After the Great Depression after the stock market crash in [-] and the oil crisis in [-], HSBC also faced profitability problems, so the capital injection of Hopewell Properties was also doomed. Not too much.

That's why Shen Bi now thinks of using private funds like Xu Guanwu to support potential development companies like Hopewell Properties.

Xu Guanwu had also heard about the name of Hopewell Real Estate for a long time, and knew that the stock market crash had nothing to do with this company, and it was definitely a disaster for no reason, so he didn't have much concern about investing with him in terms of reputation.

But what Xu Guanwu is really worried about is, does Hopewell Real Estate really have the development potential as Shen Bi said?What if you lose money?
Xu Guanwu has never heard of the name of Hopewell Real Estate in the future market. He has the impression that Chinese real estate is relatively good. One is Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Properties, the other is Li Shau Kee's Henderson Land, and the other is Guo Desheng's Sun Hung Kai Properties. , and the other one is Zheng Yutong's New World Real Estate.

Hopewell Real Estate has never heard of it. Do you want to invest in it?Xu Guanwu hesitated for a while.

"Forget it!" After thinking for a while, Xu Guanwu finally made up his mind and said, "Mr. Shen Bi, how much do you think I should invest?"

When Shen Bi first suggested Xu Guanwu to invest in Hehe Real Estate, seeing the astonished expression on his face, he knew that he was not interested in Hehe Real Estate. After seeing Xu Guanwu's answer for a long time, he knew that he was concerned about his own face.

If Hopewell Real Estate was recommended by the second person, I'm afraid Xu Guanwu would refuse it without even thinking about it.

Are you kidding, let me pay to save that mess?
But then Xu Guanwu actually agreed to inject capital, which surprised Shen Bi, "Although I really want to say as much as possible, I still respect your opinion."

"That's it, then I'll invest 5000 million Hong Kong dollars first, and you can help me absorb the other [-] million Hong Kong dollars in shares of Sun Hung Kai Properties." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"Let me thank you on behalf of Chairman Hu Yingxiang." Shen Bi said with a smile, "I will fight with you for a good share from him."

"Okay." Xu Guanwu said indifferently.His investment in Hehe Real Estate was mainly to make Shen Bi happy. It is of course a good thing to make money, even if he can't make money, it doesn't matter.It's only [-]-[-] million Hong Kong dollars, and you can earn it back in minutes by making a movie, but Shen Caishen's favor is not so easy to earn.

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A few days later, under Shen Bi's operation, Xu Guanwu obtained [-]% of the shares of Hopewell Real Estate.With the help of Xu Guanwu's capital injection of [-] million Hong Kong dollars, Hu Yingxiang, the chairman of Hopewell Properties, applied for a loan from HSBC again. After receiving another [-] million yuan in loans, he re-absorbed the stocks of retail investors in the market, consolidating his position in Hopewell Properties.This is actually another empty-handed white wolf led by Shen Bi.

Xu Guanwu has successively become the major shareholder and partner of many real estate companies, and even Henderson Land Development has acquired half of the shares in his hands, so he did not pay much attention to the successful investment in Hehe Real Estate.

I still do what I should do at ordinary times, look at documents, hold meetings, approve projects... When I am free, I take a car and buy delicious food to go to Shaw Studios to visit the studio. thing.

But the strange thing is that Boss Shao didn't ask anyone to stop him, and of course he didn't dedicate himself to meeting Xu Guanwu, as if he didn't know about it at all.

Xu Guanwu went there too many times, and every time it was either fruit or dessert, the whole Shaw Brothers knew that he loved his wife.

As time passed day by day, "Meteor Butterfly Sword" directed by Chu Yuan finally started filming. The actor who played Meng Xinghun was still Zong Hua, because Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei had no schedule.

The film was shot under the name of the leather bag company, and Mingxiu went to Chen Cang secretly on the plank road, and successfully borrowed actors from Shaw Brothers.

A dozen or so actors were all rented out, and it only cost more than 30 Hong Kong dollars, which is really cheap.However, compared to their salary at Shaw Brothers, the salary is considered too much.

On the first day they arrived at the film crew, they were so happy that they wanted to invite Director Chu Yuan to drink, saying that they wanted to thank Director Chu Yuan for his support, so that they could go outside to earn a little money.Otherwise, trapped in Shaw Studios with such a small fixed salary every month, he would starve to death sooner or later.

In addition to director Chu Yuan's new film, Hong Jingbao also started filming a new film "The Prodigal Boy".He is one of the members of the seven-person team, and the review project is naturally faster than others.From reviewing the script to confirming the actors to reviewing the cost, it only took one meeting to complete a set.

Because the play "The Prodigal Boy" is mainly to support Yuan Biao, the leading role is of course Yuan Biao.The villain was originally supposed to be Chen Xunqi.It's a pity that this brother is still making film soundtracks at Shaw Brothers, and has no intention of going to the front of the screen.

There was no other way, Hong Jingbao had no choice but to push out Feng Ke'an, who often played the villain, and asked him to play the big villain in the movie, the little prince.

Speaking of which, Feng Ke'an was quite unlucky. Although he had appeared in many movies, almost without exception, they were all villains, and all of them were villains with strong martial arts skills.

This probably has something to do with his appearance, there is no flesh on his face, he doesn't look like a good guy at first glance, especially with the evil spirit in his eyes, it would be a shame not to play a bad guy.

In fact, Feng Ke’an himself has a very strong background. He was born in a family of performers. His father is a famous Cantonese film director. His elder sister Feng Subo and younger brother Feng Jilong are both well-known entertainers. The most popular child star in the film era, known as Hong Kong's Shirley Temple.

After "The Prodigal Boy" passed the review, it immediately entered the shooting stage.What Hong Jingbao meant was to seize the time to shoot and try to complete the film within two months, so as to catch up with the release date during the Spring Festival.

Seeing that everyone was busy in their own way, Mai Jia didn't seem to be in a hurry. After filming "Salted Fish Reborn", several months passed, and he didn't want to start shooting a new film.

Xu Guanwu didn't urge him either, so he was allowed to torment.

Compared with Mai Jia, Zeng Zhiwei is undoubtedly much more active. After three months of filming, "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" has finally been completed and is now in post-production.

This film is starring Yuan Hua, and the other Seven Little Fortunes and Hong Jiaban are involved in various ways. The story is also absurd and spoof.

007 James Bond in the West, Red Dead Redemption, Popeye in the United States, Blind Man in Japan, as well as vampires, zombies, mummies, Hades...

But just listing these characters together makes people feel out of tune, not to mention that this movie was actually made.

After Zeng Zhiwei filmed "The Fat Dragon Crossing the River", his confidence increased greatly. He also placed high hopes on this "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate", so he wanted to find a good schedule with Xu Guanwu, such as the Spring Festival schedule and Christmas schedule. one of a kind.

After all, there are a lot of audiences in these two schedules, so even a bad movie will do well at the box office, not to mention his ambitious work.

So after the filming, Zeng Zhiwei had bad intentions and kept slowing down the post-production process, striving to release it in the Christmas schedule.

Everyone in the company didn't notice Zeng Zhiwei's little tricks, so everyone should do what they should.

Cheng Long's "Drunken Master" has been filmed for more than half a year, and finally finished filming in November.Although the efficiency is surprisingly slow, after watching the samples, Xu Guanwu is still very satisfied with Cheng Long.

To be honest, Cheng Long's intentions can be seen in all of Cheng Long's works, except for the early films directed by Luo Wei.

Whether it's "Junior Brother Going Out" or "Project A", or even the outdated "Master Dragon", Cheng Long also shot very carefully, without any laziness.That's why they can rely on this spirit to grow into a world-class superstar step by step.

It's not like other actors who, after becoming popular, took some bad movies to make money, but ended up going their own way.

After watching the samples of "Drunken Master", everyone thinks this movie is very good.Xu Guanwu immediately suggested that the film be released during the Christmas period, which would be the highlight of the Xu Brothers Company.

Hong Jingbao, Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie, Liang Shuyi, Mai Jia and others did not object, but Zeng Zhiwei had a bitter face.His "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" procrastinated and couldn't handle the post-production, just to delay the release until Christmas, but now it was snatched by Cheng Long's "Drunken Master".

As for the schedule of the Spring Festival, there is no need to think about it. The big boss's "Deed of Sale" will definitely lead the way.Hong Jingbao is also rushing to shoot "The Prodigal Boy", and it will be difficult to compete with him at that time.So Zeng Zhiwei felt that he was shooting himself in the foot with a rock.

"Mr. Xu, my "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" is about to finish the post-production, can you arrange me and Aaron to be together in the Christmas file?" Zeng Zhiwei suddenly said.

"Zhiwei, didn't you say that the post-production of your film is very troublesome? Even the dubbing needs to be found now?" Hong Jingbao asked suspiciously.

Hearing what Sanmao said, Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help feeling embarrassed.Looking for a voice actor now is one of his excuses for delaying the post-production, just to be able to delay the release until Christmas, but now he is used by Hong Jingbao as an excuse to block his Christmas release.

"The voice actor has been found, and we will get it soon." Zeng Zhiwei hurriedly laughed.

"In this case, let's take the movie for a test screening later." Xu Guanwu thought for a while.

"Okay, I see, Mr. Xu." Zeng Zhiwei said with a beaming smile.

……

The time has entered November. In addition to the completion of two films, Deng Lijun's "Love You Like a Dream" Asian tour concert has finally come to an end successfully. The concert schedule covers Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and Taiwan. and other countries and regions.

The number of viewers exceeded 15, and the total revenue exceeded 300 million Hong Kong dollars.However, because the concert was too high-grade, the total cost exceeded 200 million yuan, so in fact, this tour did not make any money.

However, the signboards of Yesheng Records and Fumao Records have really launched their signatures through this tour, and it has strengthened Deng Lijun's position as the number one Chinese female singer, and also took the opportunity to integrate Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. resources, so that Yesung Records has truly become a large multinational chain record company.

So the potential value is still immeasurable.

(End of this chapter)