The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 661

Bao Yongqin is now released on bail, which does not mean that the matter is over, but has entered the next stage of prosecution.

The Liu family will face two lawsuits next, one is the case where Steve Wanda sued Amergo for breach of contract and compensation, and the other is the case where the Commercial Crime Investigation Division sues Bao Yongqin for commercial fraud.

The police accused Bao Yongqin of commercial fraud, because the evidence of the crime is solid and there is already a confession, I believe the verdict will come down soon, the difference is how many years Bao Yongqin will be imprisoned.

According to Hong Kong's current laws, if a large amount of commercial fraud is suspected, it must be locked up for at least seven or eight years.The commercial fraud involved an amount of 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, which is already quite a huge amount.

And Steve Wanda sued Amergo for breach of contract and compensation, because the contract had been signed in advance, and the lawsuit was relatively easy to fight.However, lawsuits over economic disputes like this usually involve appeals, appeals, and appeals. We really have to wait for the verdict to come down, and I don’t know how many years the lawsuit will take.

Back then, Mei Yanfang's mother fought for ten years in the lawsuit against her daughter's inheritance, appealing, appealing, and appealing again, and finally spent a lot of money, but the lawsuit still did not make progress.

In the inheritance case of Gong Nina, the chief rich woman in Hong Kong, Chen Zhencong fought the lawsuit against the Chinachem Charity Foundation for more than four years, and spent more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars in legal fees, which made the whole person almost bankrupt. In the end, he was accused of forging Sentenced to 12 years in prison for clerical and other crimes.

However, what is more beneficial to Xu Guanwu is that with the support of Xu, Steve Wanda has enough money to file a lawsuit with Liu.However, the Liu family only survived with a property of more than 1 million yuan, so there is no point in this lawsuit.Unless the Liu family is willing to invest all their money and go bankrupt in order to save their daughter-in-law.

However, considering that the combination of Bao Yongqin and Liu Luanxiong was not recognized by the family, it is estimated that the Liu family will only try their skills for a while. Once they realize that the power behind Steve Wanda is strong and invincible, they should learn from the gecko's broken tail The fault is all on the daughter-in-law, let her spend a few more years in prison to atone for her sins.

After all, for these businessmen, going bankrupt and having no money is worse than going to jail.The Liu family would rather let Bao Yongqin go to jail than Aimegao Company to go bankrupt.

Since Liu Luanxiong is no longer a problem, Xu Guanwu began to re-send people to discuss with Shaw Brothers about Zhong Chuhong's contract.Of course, he would not do it himself, nor would he send people from the Xu family to do it. Instead, he invited a medium-sized film company in Hong Kong to talk to Shaw.

Shaw Brothers has experienced continuous setbacks, box office failure, star loss, popularity decline, TVB being robbed, Jiayi changing hands, etc., which have greatly weakened Sir Shao Yifu's spirit.

To be honest, Sir Shao has been quite aggrieved these years. Before Xu Guanwu came here, even though Shaw had Golden Harvest as a competitor, it was still the dominant company in Hong Kong.At that time, Golden Harvest had only Bruce Lee who could cause it some trouble, not to mention that Bruce Lee was still dead in [-], and the Shaw Brothers was even more dominant, firmly ranking at the top of the Hong Kong film industry.At that time, Jiahe was really dark and gloomy, and it was almost impossible to support it.

But after Xu Guanwu came here, the Xu brothers defected to Golden Harvest, and a few ghost comedy films were really popular and popular, supporting most of Golden Harvest's sky.Shaw couldn't help but feel a little headache about it, but it was just a headache. After all, it was the Xu Brothers who Jiahe could do at the time.At that time, the Shaw Brothers had director Chang Cheh and his Zhangjiaban, director Li Hanxiang and his Fengyue films, and other directors, all kinds of movies, all in their own right.

It wasn't until Xu Guanwu made his first pot of gold with "Rocky", came back and brought his brothers to start another business, and promoted Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and others, that the Shaw Brothers really started to go downhill.The rise of kung fu comedy made the sword kung fu films that Shaw Brothers had always been proud of gradually decline.

Afterwards, the rise of a new generation of directors such as Mai Jia, Gui Zhihong, Zeng Zhiwei, Zhang Jian, and Zhang Guoming, as well as the popularity of urban action films and mystery films caught Shaw Brothers by surprise.As the saying goes, a small boat is easy to turn around. At that time, Xu was just a small boat, and he could easily turn the bow and release one after another new works full of new ideas.

But the Shaw is a huge ship, if it turns around too quickly, the ship may be in danger of capsizing.In the Hong Kong film industry at that time, it was no longer the rhythm of big fish eating small fish.Instead, it has entered the rhythm of fast fish eating slow fish.Whoever can lead the trend can make money, and whoever can keep up with the rhythm can make money.

Under the guidance of Xu Guanwu, Kung Fu humor films, social mystery films, urban action films, romantic comedies, suspense thrillers, romantic literary films... Movies of various themes have been shot one after another, and each theme has its own unique characteristics. It is launched one step ahead of others, leading step by step, always leading the trend of entertainment development, making Xu's movies more and more popular.

In comparison, Shaw Brothers’ movies have been the same all these years. Director Chang Cheh made martial arts kung fu movies again in the 60s, and he is still making martial arts kung fu movies now. Yes, movie audiences have changed for several generations, and the tastes have already become too much, but he has been offering the same dishes for more than ten years, which will naturally make people feel nauseous and quite disgusting.

The cost of the new film "Slaying the Dragon in the Devil's Temple" was as high as more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, but in the end the box office only recovered more than 100 million. Such a miserable box office has already explained the problem.

And another problem reflected is that Shaw Brothers still reuses old people over the years and does not give newcomers the opportunity to direct.Director Zhang Cheh has been using it since the 60s. Although he has indeed made a lot of contributions before, his technique has lagged too far behind, and some newcomers should be replaced to create new meanings.

Just like director Xu Anhua, if a movie does not sell well, he will be kicked out, but Zhang Cheh has already had many movies that did not sell well, but they are still reused.How can such a huge difference in treatment attract new directors to join? !
Coupled with the fact that TVB was secretly bought by Xu Guanwu, and Jiayi TV station cost Sir Shao tens of millions, now Sir Shao's spirit has been greatly reduced.So when he heard again that someone planned to buy out Zhong Chuhong's contract, he thought about it hard, and vaguely remembered that there was a pretty girl in the company, but he didn't know where she went these past few months, but forget it, since she If you want to leave and someone is willing to spend money, just let go.

Sir Shao raised a price of 50 Hong Kong dollars, which was regarded as a half-sell and half-gift to the company.Xu Guanwu then spent 100 million to buy Zhong Chuhong's contract.Then I called Zhong Chuhong and told her that she could come back to Hong Kong.

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The Spring Festival schedule after the Christmas schedule, unexpectedly this year, the Xu Brothers have a vacant window, and there are no new works this year, which somewhat disappoints the Hong Kong audience who have been looking forward to it for a year.

This year, Hsu's release is directed by Mai Jia and filmed "Picking the Wall". It tells the story of a flamboyant lawyer who likes to seduce married women until one day he also wants to start a family, but he dare not find a lover locally for fear of being caught. Someone else pried the corner of the wall.So he specially married a girl from the mainland, and carefully trained her to become a perfect wife.Unexpectedly, the lawyer's cousin just fell out of love, and the lawyer encouraged him to look for his second love.The cousin actually chose the wife of the romantic lawyer, and finally successfully pried away the lawyer's corner.

Although the plot of this drama is a bit absurd, but because there are a lot of jokes piled up, especially the irony of the popular girl chasing drama, this film is very watchable.However, the dramas directed by Mai Jia are generally lively but lacking in aftertaste. They can usually win at the box office, but they are hard to compete in terms of awards.

In addition to the comedy movie "Cracking the Corner", there is also a popular action movie "Flying Tiger Eagle", which is about the heroic deeds of the Hong Kong police special operations team, also known as the Flying Tigers, in fighting criminals.The protagonist Lu Liangwei plays a heroic vice-captain of the Flying Tigers, but his temper is a little hot. In one operation, due to his own negligence, two team members died in the line of duty.Because of this, Lu Liangwei was recorded as a major demerit and almost left the police force.

After that, Lu Liangwei, who felt deeply guilty, kept tracking down the whereabouts of those criminals, and finally tracked them down, but his application to the superiors for arrest was not approved. Lu Liangwei had to go into danger alone. Although the terrorist branch was destroyed, the terrorists But successfully hijacked the ambassador couple.Under such an emergency situation, Lu Liangwei was ordered to lead the Flying Tigers back into battle, and finally wiped out the criminals, successfully rescued the ambassador and his wife, and avenged the brothers who died in the line of duty.

This film is the latest work of director Zhang Jian. It is the first film in Hong Kong to describe the Flying Tigers. The scenes are hot, the editing is smooth, the script is solid, and the characterization is quite successful.Lu Liangwei and several people who played the Flying Tigers in the film specially went to the police force to receive a one-month training before shooting, so no matter the action of holding the gun, the posture of design, the process of handling the case, the details of the action, etc., you can To be presentable so as not to be criticized is at the player's house.

The two dramas "Prying the Wall" and "Flying Tiger and Eagle", one soft and one hard, one literary and one martial, can fully meet the needs of most audiences.Just after Christmas, Xu has already started to promote the two films.

Compared with Xu's combination of civil and martial arts, Golden Harvest is still focusing on action this time. The action film "One Hand Covers the Sky" shot by Deng Guangrong's Da Rong Film Company tells the story of a big brother with a prefix being beaten to death, and a bloody storm ensues immediately. One is an ambitious younger brother, the other is a son who is ready to take over the big position, and the other is a fierce opponent, who can cover the sky with one hand...

Because of his lack of hematopoietic ability, Golden Harvest did not have TVB and Xinghui Arts School as talent training bases like Xu's, so the strategy he adopted was to win over other qualified small film companies.Now Zou Wenhuai may be thinking about it, and understands that one should not be too greedy, and be careful of the truth that greedy words will become poor, so in the second half of last year, he began to make large profits, which attracted a group of small film companies to join him.

These small film companies may only have one director, two or three artists, or just have a sum of money.But the gathering has formed a large scale.Deng Guangrong's Da Rong Film Company is such a small film company. Deng Guangrong was originally from Hong Kong, but he started out shooting Taiwanese literary films. Because of his tall and handsome appearance at the time, Deng Guangrong was also called a student prince.

Deng Guangrong earned his first pot of gold by shooting literary films in Taiwan. It is said that his film salary was 20 Hong Kong dollars for a film, which was definitely a sky-high price at the time.Later, Taiwanese films began to decline. Deng Guangrong returned to Hong Kong after assessing the situation, and with the help of Taiwanese film studios' funds and contacts in Taiwan, he opened Da Rong Film Company in Hong Kong.

Although he is the only famous artist in the company now, he has pulled together a small team that looks like a model, and found a few good newcomers, and then hired directors, photographers, etc., to start filming. "One Hand Covers the Sky".Then it was selected by Golden Harvest Business, and it was released during the Spring Festival.

In addition to Deng Guangrong's "One Hand Covers the Sky", Golden Harvest Films also released the action movie "Big Man" shot by McDonald.This movie is adapted from the popular TV series "Big Man" shot by Mai Dangxiong in Lili. The plot is tighter and the scenes are hotter.

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