Chapter 137 Hong Kong Dollar Pegged to the . Dollar
Although Hong Kong's traditional foreign capital has lost its foreign influence, the copyright fees from other countries have increased significantly. After all, "Detective" is a movie that broke Hong Kong's box office record, so the copyright fees are naturally high.
Especially Thailand, this movie was shot in Thailand, so the box office in Thailand will definitely be very high.
As a result, the copyright fees from traditional foreign brands are still more than 6000 million Hong Kong dollars.
Liu Hongmin was in Beijing for a meeting at the time, so he did not go to Hong Kong to attend the celebration banquet. But he told Zou Shifang to give everyone double the bonus.
As soon as the celebration banquet of the film company ends tomorrow, the Hong Kong dollar suddenly plummets, and the exchange rate against the US dollar drops rapidly from 8:1 to . This gave Wang Yaowei a false alarm. Fortunately, Liu Hongmin had proposed to convert all foreign currencies into Japanese yen. If all were converted into Hong Kong dollars, so much money would be lost without doing anything, and one-fifth would be lost.
After the Iron Lady's fall in 82, many Hong Kong people lost confidence in Hong Kong stocks, which led to a stock market crash. Although the stock market crash quickly stabilized, many Hong Kong people still lost money. This is also the reason why the 83 Spring Festival was not as good as the 82 Spring Festival. "Best Partner" was not worse than "Best Partner", but the box office was three million less.
In the context of economic downturn, it is a miracle that "Inspector Gadget" has grossed 30 million yuan.
This is also the reason why the media wants to dig deep into the behind-the-scenes stories of "Shenzhen". In the economic downturn, they also need to take advantage of the traffic of "Shenzhen".
Similarly, this is enough to show that the quality of "The Detective" is very good. If there is no stock market crash, "The Detective" will definitely get more box office.
When people thought the stock market crash was over, the Hong Kong dollar was in crisis again. There was a shadow of international hot money in this, they took advantage of the instability of the Hong Kong stock market to reap the wealth of Hong Kong people. At the same time, it could also cause panic in Hong Kong and achieve unknown political goals.
Under such circumstances, Jackie Chan's "Project A" suffered a huge setback before it was released, and there was no possibility of it surpassing "Inspector Gadget".
Liu Hongmin had just come out of the meeting when he learned about this.
He did not make any comment on this. He had too little money to invest in Hong Kong stocks. Although he wanted to save the people of Hong Kong, he did not have the ability to do so, so he did not worry about it.
The trial implementation of the Patent Law has come to an end. The discussion has been completed and the votes have been taken. The remaining work is to find some legal professionals to improve the trial implementation of the Patent Law to avoid loopholes. Once the improvement is completed, it will be promulgated and implemented. According to the resolution of the Preparatory Committee, the trial implementation is tentatively scheduled for January 84, 1.
Liu Hongmin had just rested for two days when he was again dumped by Director Wang on the central stage.
The 83 Spring Festival Gala was a great success, and the entire balcony was grateful to Liu Hongmin. This year, China Television had a lot of advertising revenue, and except for the fixed funds for "Journey to the West", the rest was basically invested in TV series.
The reason why Liu Hongmin was invited to come this time was, firstly, to invite him to join the Spring Festival Gala director team and help plan the program, and secondly, to make sure that China Central Television wanted to film "The Ming Dynasty 1566".
RTV also wanted to buy the adaptation rights of "The Ming Dynasty 1566" before, but Liu Hongmin did not sell it, because Hong Kong directors cannot shoot historical dramas.
Liu Hongmin refused to join the director team, he didn't have the time. The Hong Kong dollar crisis had a big impact on him. Tomorrow the film company had less Hong Kong dollar reserves, so it was no problem. But the Transformers toy factory had a large amount of Hong Kong dollars in stock. One-fifth of the toy factory's funds evaporated out of thin air, which was no joke.
Therefore, he had to go to Hong Kong. If Wang Yaowei exchanged the Hong Kong dollars at this time, he would lose a lot. As for "The Ming Dynasty 1566", Liu Hongmin agreed to film it for China Television. However, he did not want the adaptation fee, but only 20% of the copyright fee except for the mainland. When the filming of "The Ming Dynasty 1566" is completed, he can take it to Hong Kong and sell it to RTV. If Random House is interested, it will be even better.
As for the adaptation fee, he couldn't even get 1566 RMB. But if he sold it to RTV, it would be at least Hong Kong dollars. If he could sell it to Random House, it would be at least several hundred thousand US dollars. The Japanese admired "The Ming Dynasty " very much. As long as Random House took it to the Japanese, they would make a fortune.
Director Wang and Liu Hongmin signed the contract and started looking for someone to shoot "The Ming Dynasty 1566". However, with the current financial resources of the China National Television, it will take at least until March or April next year to complete the production of "The Ming Dynasty 1566".
After finishing his work in Beijing, Liu Hongmin flew to Hong Kong again. He brought the manuscript of the sixth part of Justice Bao and made an appointment with Huang Qiang and Yang Guiren directly, and signed the contract before dinner.
The three of them were discussing the Hong Kong dollar crisis while eating. They were very worried that Hong Kong would not be able to withstand the crisis and that capital would flee. If panic was caused, Hong Kong might become a deserted city.
Liu Hongmin was very optimistic. Apart from other things, even the British did not want to see Hong Kong decline now. If that happened, they would earn less money for more than ten years, which was unbearable for capital.
Sure enough, on October 10, the Hong Kong government announced that the Hong Kong dollar would be pegged to the . dollar, with a fixed exchange rate of 15: to the . dollar.
As soon as the news was announced, the Hong Kong dollar crisis was immediately resolved. Then the Hong Kong stock market gradually recovered and Hong Kong gradually stabilized.
Liu Hongmin was also relieved and began to write the script for the second part of "Detective".
The news quickly spread within the company, and many people rushed to his office to see the movie. Especially Stephen Chow, who became a popular star in Hong Kong as the lead actor in the movie "Detective" which broke the box office record. He was very grateful to Liu Hongmin both personally and professionally.
He Jiajin also came to join in the fun. He became famous right after his debut, so he didn’t have too many thoughts. He just wanted to see what story the second part told.
The most active one among the rest is Li Lizhen, who is even more anxious than the director Xu Xiaoming. She has been out of work since the filming of "The Detective". If the company hadn't asked her to attend a training class with pay, she would have wanted to change jobs. You know, she turned down the female lead role in "Happy Ghost" and joined Tomorrow Film Company.
Li Lizhen was born in an Indonesian Chinese family. She is the eldest daughter in the family. She came out to make movies to supplement the family income. In this respect, she is the same as Lan Jieying, so she is also able to endure hardships.
Lan Jieying's departure from Tomorrow Film Company gave her an opportunity. She became the only actress in the company and had great room for development in the future.
It turned out that her instinct was right. The movie broke the box office record in Hong Kong and made her famous. Especially the smile at the end of the movie gave people a chilling feeling. Many media commented that she was the most outstanding new actress in the 80s.
Many movies now ask her to make cameo appearances, hoping to use her to attract audiences to the cinema.
Li Lizhen has been receiving many acting offers. If she wasn't for training, she would have to go to the set to film every day.
(End of this chapter)
