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"He Qing, this is Zeng Zhiwei, the general manager of Hong Kong Asia Film Company. I told you last time that I was going to make a movie with you. I really didn't lie to you!" Li Xuan said to He Qing with a smile. ◇↓,

When is it the turn of the big boss behind the scenes in Asia Films to take to the streets to be a scout in person! In fact, Zeng Zhiwei felt that he could not hold the newcomers who graduated from the ATV artist training class every year.

However, Zeng Zhiwei only complained a few words in his heart, but nodded to He Qing with a smile on his face and said, "Miss He, our Asian Films is one of the top film companies in Hong Kong, and there will be more than a dozen films in the second half of the year. Seeing you in person today, I think there are several characters that fit your temperament very well!"

"Manager Zeng, thank you for your kindness! I don't speak Cantonese, and I don't have enough acting experience, so I may not be able to meet your love!" He Qing declined politely. Before she came, she firmly believed to keep a distance from Li Xuan.

He Qing's refusal made Zeng Zhiwei feel a little more favorable. Many small film companies in Hong Kong like to find new people on the streets, but ATV Media has its own set of perfect talent training system. Even if a good seedling is found outside, it will be sent to the ATV training class for a period of time.

Although the company starts shooting a lot of TV series and movies every year, the internal competition is actually very fierce, and it is not easy for newcomers to get ahead. In fact, it is not just ATV, but the entire Hong Kong performing arts industry can really become a hit. After all, there are only a few lucky people who have become highly anticipated stars, and most of them are struggling in obscurity.

If it weren't for the ** oss sitting next to him, Zeng Zhiwei would not have given He Qing a few more glances. This is not to say that Zeng Zhiwei has no aesthetic vision, but because information on various beautiful women will appear on his desk from time to time. Even if they are a bit inferior to He Qing. But they are also very eye-catching. Some girls are even willing to sell their bodies in order to win a role.

Zeng Zhiwei will naturally become numb when he sees it too much. Compared with the bright appearance, he now values ​​the actor's acting skills more. Because only actors with good acting skills are worth a lot of effort to cultivate. It will bring huge returns to the company.

"Miss He, you are too unconfident in yourself! I have seen many beautiful women with my eyes. But my first impression of you is very special, giving you a pure and soft beauty!

Don't rush to refuse, you can read the script first and then decide whether to go to Hong Kong to audition! In fact, I dare not make a guarantee that you will definitely be selected. In our company, the final decision of each character in a movie is usually in the hands of the director and producer!

And our Asian film industry has very generous contracts for actors, but for a newcomer like Ms. He who is not yet famous, the remuneration is naturally not too high, and each play is only about 100,000 Hong Kong dollars! " Zeng Zhiwei said skillfully.

He first praised He Qing's beauty. After all, no girl will mind when others say she is beautiful. Then he pointed out that he was not eager to invite him to act, but just gave her a chance, and it was not certain whether she could be selected.

Everyone has a rebellious mentality. If you are too diligent, it is easy for people to suspect that you are not thinking about things. Zeng Zhiwei deliberately made a gesture that I didn't dare to guarantee, but it made He Qing feel very sincere.

In the end, he seemingly inadvertently pointed out that if He Qing went to Hong Kong to act in a movie, the salary would be 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to more than 20,000 yuan. He Qing's monthly salary in Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe is less than 100 yuan. And the "Shaolin lay disciples" she filmed before. The crew gave a reward of 1,200 yuan. More than 1,000 yuan is already a windfall for Li Xuan!

And Zeng Zhiwei's mouth is now 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and he still uses a very disdainful tone. He Qing had been to Hong Kong when he was filming "Shaolin Secular Disciple", and naturally he knew that Asia Films was a well-known film company in Hong Kong. The general manager's words are naturally consistent, and there is no need to deliberately deceive her.

And listen to the meaning of this manager Zeng. The salary of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars is still relatively low, and famous Hong Kong stars can get more. He Qing had heard from others before that many Hong Kong stars were paid millions of Hong Kong dollars for a movie. She always thought it was a false rumor. Didn't think it could be true.

He Qing's heartbeat couldn't help speeding up. She didn't expect that she could make millions by making a movie. Even 100,000 Hong Kong dollars is an incredible amount of money for her.

Do you want to try it in Hong Kong, as the manager Zeng said? What if you get selected!

Unconsciously. He Qing's attitude began to become unstable. Anyway, this manager Zeng also said that whether she can be selected in the end still needs her to impress the director and producer with her own strength, which has nothing to do with Li Xuan.

In He Qing's opinion, this is similar to the last time Director Hua Shan went to the Kunqu Opera Troupe to cast roles. At that time, it was because of her outstanding performance that she stood out from the dozen girls in the troupe and got her first chance to act in a movie.

The salary of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars mentioned by Zeng Zhiwei is indeed a relatively low level among the leading actors in the movie, but one of the most critical modifiers is "starring". Not any newcomer can get the chance to star when they are together.

There are as many as thirty or forty students graduated from the ATV performance training class every year, and most of them start from the role of the dragon with a salary of several thousand or even several hundred yuan. Then slowly grind to accumulate experience, and then encounter a good opportunity, will have the opportunity to play a supporting role. Those who took the lead role from the very beginning were all niche students and Hua Dan who the company was very optimistic about and prepared to focus on cultivating.

Many Hong Kong actors don't even want to be paid in order to have the opportunity to star. And these behind-the-scenes stories, He Qing, a mainland girl who has never been in contact with Hong Kong's entertainment industry, is naturally impossible to understand clearly.

In order to flatter his big boss, Zeng Zhiwei naturally couldn't let He Qing go to work. He has already started to quickly recall the next few movies that the company will shoot in his mind, thinking about which role is more suitable to recommend to which Qing.

Zeng Zhiwei understands his current task very well, which is to persuade He Qing to go to Hong Kong to film. Otherwise, the little girl is staying in the mainland, while the big boss Li Xuan is staying in Hong Kong, how can it be possible to get close to this beautiful girl. Then go on the offensive!

Li Xuan was not too enthusiastic about He Qing, and occasionally chatted with her. Most of the time, he is talking about business with Zeng Zhiwei!

"Li Sheng, the company's board of directors has just passed a resolution. It is ready to go public before the end of the year!" Zeng Zhiwei also took this opportunity to report the situation of ATV Media again, and he didn't care about the outsider who was beside him.

Li Xuan's properties have never been listed on the Hong Kong stock market before, which is also what he is most criticized by Hong Kong public opinion. The future development prospects of most of the Oriental Group's industries are immeasurable, and Li Xuan is naturally reluctant to let those high-quality companies spin around in the small pond of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong today is not the important financial center in Asia that will be decades later. In fact, the reason why Hong Kong can become a financial capital in the future is entirely dependent on the support of China. For example, a large part of the market value of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange comes from domestic companies. If this part of the market value is excluded, Hong Kong is far from comparable to other competing cities in Asia such as Tokyo and Singapore.

And the Hong Kong stock market in the early 1980s. Although it has been developed for decades, it is far from mature. There are four stock exchanges in one city, and even in New York, there are only two exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.

Under the pressure of the Hong Kong government, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Far East Exchange, the Gold and Silver Exchange, and the Kowloon Exchange established the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong as early as 1980 and started various matters of merger. But four years later, progress has been very slow.

This time, ATV Media reported that it was preparing to go public, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire Hong Kong capital market. The chairman of the four exchanges began to frequently contact the senior management of ATV Media and Oriental Group. Among them, the most powerful Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Far East Exchange are the most active.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the oldest exchange in Hong Kong, its history can be traced back to 1866. The listed companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are mainly British-funded companies. In the 1960s, Hong Kong's economy was booming, and many Chinese-funded companies were eager to get listed and raised, but were repeatedly turned away by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which is controlled by Western brokers.

Therefore, with Li Fuzhao as the head, the Far East Stock Exchange was established in 1969. A large number of well-known Chinese-funded enterprises in Hong Kong such as Li Jiacheng's Cheung Kong Industrial. All are listed on the Far East Exchange. Now the Far East Exchange has overtaken the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has become the exchange with the largest turnover among the four exchanges in Hong Kong, with a daily turnover of 100 to 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Although the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has not given up public relations. But if nothing else, ATV Media will choose to be listed on the Far East Exchange. Although the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the oldest exchange in Hong Kong. But the interior of the exchange, whose main management is all British, has been immersed in narcissism and has not sobered up.

You must know that the British-owned power in Hong Kong has been declining rapidly in recent years. And Chinese capital is rising rapidly. More than 90% of the shareholders in the Hong Kong stock market are Chinese, but the Hong Kong Stock Exchange still retains implicit discrimination against Chinese capital. How could such an institution have a future? It is no wonder that after the successful merger of the four exchanges in the future, Li Fuzhao of the Far East Exchange will be the first chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

ATV Media Group did not go public this time, but mainly focused on the Hong Kong Film Industry. With the support of ATV Group, Asian Films has developed smoothly in recent years. Taking advantage of the prosperity of Hong Kong films sweeping the entire Southeast Asia, the annual profit is very considerable.

In contrast, despite the fierce competition with tvb, Asia Television successfully held the other party under its body and won the honor of the largest TV station in Hong Kong. However, ATV's profitability is actually quite average. With the substantial increase in ratings in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, advertising revenue has also soared.

However, in order to maintain the program level, ATV's various expenditures are also quite large. Therefore, if it is only about Asian TV stations, it can actually surpass the break-even point and achieve only a meager profit. Of course, when Li Xuan acquired Asian TV, he never thought of relying on it to make a profit.

ATV is just a knife in Li Xuan's hand, launching attacks on the enemy at any time according to his needs. For example, Asia Satellite TV has criticized the Hong Kong government's governance methods in recent years, which has caused a lot of public opinion pressure on the authorities.

After the Sino-British negotiations began, Hong Kong became a card in the hands of the British government. Downing Street did not hesitate to put pressure on Beijing-Beijing at the expense of the health of Hong Kong's economy. This naturally harmed Li Xuan's interests to a large extent, and it was inconvenient for him to express his position directly at such a sensitive time. So Li Xuan just used the public opinion card of Asia Satellite TV to express his dissatisfaction.

ATV Media has been unswervingly implementing the separation of production and broadcasting in recent years. Compared with a few years ago, Asia Satellite TV has now been greatly reduced in size and has spun off many leading companies. For example, the original TV drama production department of the TV station has become a new Asian TV drama production company, which transfers the broadcasting rights of the new TV series to Asia Satellite TV in the form of copyright sale.

The original artist department of the TV station has become an Asian brokerage company. Now the Asian brokerage company has become the largest entertainment brokerage company in Hong Kong. In addition to all the brokerage contracts of artists and behind-the-scenes personnel in the original ATV system being transferred to the company's name, many outside artists have also signed their brokerage contracts with Asian brokerage companies.

Now that many new film projects in Hong Kong are set up, the first thing that directors and producers think of is to cooperate with Asian agencies. Moreover, the Asian brokerage company also learned from a Hollywood brokerage company called caa, relying on its own powerful resources, to provide some small film companies with overall packaging services from script to director, to actors and behind-the-scenes personnel!

Although the profitability of Asian TV stations is not high, the profitability of other companies such as Asian TV drama production companies, Asian brokerage companies, and Asian film companies is still very good. Therefore, Li Xuan decided to package and reorganize these high-quality companies in ATV Media Group, and then get listed on the stock market.

The Sino-British negotiation has begun to draw to a close, and the turmoil caused by the crisis of the future has begun to calm down. The Hong Kong stock market, which was hit hard by the Sino-British negotiations, is now at a low point.

But in fact, Hong Kong's economy is not as bad as the stock market's performance, especially as the United States emerges from the economic recession, Hong Kong's light industry exports have begun to resume a thriving trend~www.readwn.com~ Therefore, the bottoming out of Hong Kong's stock market has rebounded. In front of you, and ATV is just taking advantage of the next wave of rising and riding a bull to go public!

The assets that ATV Group plans to package and list this time have an estimated market value of around 1 billion Hong Kong dollars. This amount of money is naturally insignificant to Li Xuan's current net worth, but not to others in the ATV Group.

ATV Group has been carrying out equity incentives over the years, and if the company has not been listed, these stock options in everyone's hands are actually no different from waste paper. So even from the perspective of enhancing the company's internal cohesion, it is time for ATV Group to go public.

And ATV Pictures, as the main body of the reorganization of the new company, Zeng Zhiwei also has his own ambitions, and he hopes to become a newly listed company. This new company, which has just been named as Asia Entertainment Holdings on the board of directors of ATV Group, will include a series of businesses such as the production and distribution of TV series and movies, artist management contracts, and record production.

After the listing of Asia Entertainment Holdings, it will not only become the first stock in Hong Kong's entertainment industry, but also likely to become the largest film and television entertainment company in Hong Kong. If Zeng Zhiwei can become a new company, he can further enhance his status and truly become a leader in Hong Kong's entertainment industry! (To be continued..)

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