At night, Wang Zuxian took Aaron to the Dafuhao Nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui to meet with another producer of the "History of Chinese Laborers in America" project.
The resplendent Dafuhao Nightclub was a den of extravagance in Hong Kong, with guests of all kinds coming and going in an endless stream!
In the VIP room, Zhang Jiazhen looked somewhat excited when he saw Aaron Anderson enter. He was director Wu Yusen's partner, and the New Milestone Film Company they founded had produced many excellent works.
"Across the Board" and "Hard Boiled" were both filmed by New Milestone Film Company.
"Mr. Anderson, congratulations, Dawn has had another bumper year this year," Zhang Jiazhen was Wu Yusen's promoter into Hollywood, and he himself graduated from the New York University Film School, so he had always kept an eye on Hollywood.
Aaron Anderson's name was like thunder!
Then, he inconspicuously glanced at Wang Zuxian beside him, wondering how she knew this big shot.
Aaron smiled. "Okay, Terence, let's talk about this 'History of Chinese Laborers in America'!"
Zhang Jiazhen's English name is Terence Zhang.
The story mainly tells the history of Chinese laborers being "sold as piglets" to the United States after the Opium War in the Qing Dynasty.
Just like how every railway sleeper of the American Central Pacific Railroad has the bones of Chinese laborers beneath it, the founder of Stanford University, Leland Stanford, was one of the ten great tycoons of the American Gilded Age, and also the first governor of California and president of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the famous "Railroad King."
Leland Stanford initially built this century-old avenue spanning North America, the Pacific Railroad, by piling up countless Chinese laborers' blood and bones!
"When the time comes, the film will be shot on location in the United States to recreate that period of history, and director Hu Jinquan is very meticulous about costumes, props, and sets, so most of the cost should be spent on the scenes!"
Listening to Zhang Jiazhen's explanation, it was no wonder there were no foreign investors.
However, for Aaron, these were not so important, after all, this amount of investment was very small for Dawn.
Aaron smiled and said, "Okay, I will have New Moon Pictures invest in it. You can start preparing for the project at any time!"
"Thank you very much…"
"You agreed to invest just like that?" Back in the high-rise mansion in Tsim Sha Tsui, Wang Zuxian still felt a little surprised.
"Otherwise? You've already spoken, I have to give you face!"
Aaron hugged the woman and sat on the sofa.
He kissed her red lips. "Dawn's investment is only 3 million US dollars, it won't have much impact."
"Besides, I also want to see what the effect will be after this subject matter is filmed."
Wang Zuxian smiled, intimately wrapped her arms around the man's neck and rubbed against him, "You're so good, how should I thank you?"
Aaron stroked the woman's body, leaned close to her ear, "Weren't you very uninhibited yesterday?"
"What man can resist such temptation!"
"Well, go take a shower first," Wang Zuxian said softly.
Aaron picked up the woman and headed straight to the bathroom amidst her exclamations, "Let's go, let's take a double bath together…"
After Aaron agreed to Zhang Jiazhen's investment in "History of Chinese Laborers in America", he made a phone call to Los Angeles to have New Moon Pictures cooperate.
Director Hu Jinquan also came to Hong Kong to officially start preparations, of course, letting Wang Zuxian play the female lead in this movie.
At the same time, the mainland was in stark contrast, where the planned economy's unified purchase and sales film model made the film market so bleak that it reached a freezing point.
This year, the Chinese Ministry of Radio, Film and Television finally introduced a mechanism reform in the film industry, changing the previous method of the China Film Company uniformly distributing domestic feature films to film studios directly negotiating with local distribution units, in order to push the film studios to the market!
However, Aaron was not optimistic about it, because it was still a fully state-owned industry. Not only did local production plants not understand distribution, but they also would not produce commercial works that the public liked.
If private distribution companies are not liberalized, and joint venture production companies are not liberalized, it will be difficult. The Chinese film market is so sluggish, it must be changed.
Hong Kong, Shangri-La Hotel, Aaron, who came from Repulse Bay, enjoyed afternoon tea with Zou Wenhuai.
Zou Wenhuai nodded. "The resistance is not small. Many people have expressed their opposition, feeling that this is allowing American films to occupy the Chinese film market and using Chinese box office revenue to enrich foreign film companies, which is not conducive to stabilizing the morale of the entire Chinese film industry."
"They believe that this will seriously squeeze the development space of domestic films!"
Aaron spread his hands. "Without pressure, there is no motivation. This is the catfish effect. They are just worried about not being able to compete and endangering their own stability."
"But, if you don't make changes, how can you progress? If you don't look at the industrial effects outside, how can you develop your own film career?"
The latest novels are first published here!
Zou Wenhuai smiled helplessly. "Now the Hong Kong market in Taipei has been challenged by Hollywood. It is difficult for Hong Kong to compete with Hollywood blockbusters."
"The loss of the Taipei market will be a disaster for Hong Kong films. The new market in the north must be taken seriously by us."
In a few years, it will be 97. When Hong Kong returns, the bilateral relationship will be closer, but Hong Kong films need to find a way in and out as soon as possible.
However, now the co-productions between Hong Kong and the mainland have developed, but the effect is not very ideal.
In the evening, Aaron stood by the window of the hotel suite, looking at the distant Victoria Harbour seascape, but he was thinking about China's Wan Yan VCD player.
In September, Wan Yan produced the world's first VCD player, and soon, the first batch of 1,000 units were quickly bought by various companies.
"By the way, Joey, do you know that Wan Yan company in China that produces VCD players?"
Aaron asked Wang Zuxian, who was sitting on the sofa.
"Oh, I seem to know. That company is in HF City, Anhui Province, China."
"My ancestral home is also in Anhui. I went back to Anhui last year to worship my ancestors!"
Although Wang Zuxian was born in Taipei, her ancestral home is Shucheng, Anhui.
"Is that so?" Aaron turned his head to look at the woman.
"It's true."
Aaron nodded. VCD doesn't actually have too much technical content, CD plus decoding chip. It won't be long before Chinese VCD brands will spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
After all, China's patent law is extremely unsound now!
