Hong Kong Entertainment 1979: A Beating Up the Manager at the Start

A week later, Kowloon Tong Baptist Hospital.

Rosamund Kwan was wearing maternity clothes, with a baby lying next to her.

Huang Zaoshi took photos of the two of them with a camera, while Chung Chu-hung ate an apple beside him.

Just after Huang Zaoshi took a picture, he suddenly noticed that the baby looked a little strange.

After discussion among several people, they unanimously agreed that the child was the reincarnation of Zhu Xiucai.

Kent Tong, however, didn't seem to care. He separated Wong Cho-shing and Cherie Chung, and shouted, "Call me Dad!"

This sound frightened the child so much that he burst into tears.

Upon seeing this, Li Jiangbo shouted, "Cut! I hereby announce that filming for 'Happy Ghost' has wrapped!"

The nurse outside rushed into the ward, picked up the child and comforted him, giving Tang Zhenye a glare before leaving.

This was borrowed from their hospital; it wouldn't be good if it frightened the child.

Rosamund Kwan, along with Wong Cho-shih, Cherie Chung, and Kent Tong, shouted in unison, "Oh! Filming's wrapped up!!!"

The nurse suddenly turned around and shouted angrily, "Don't shout so loudly! This is a hospital!"

The group of people lowered their heads like children who had done something wrong.

After the nurse left, the group whispered, "Yeh! Filming wrapped!"

Li Jiangbo only breathed a sigh of relief after filming the last shot. Only now did he realize that the film cost a total of 450,000 yuan, and he still had more than 50,000 yuan left.

This is all thanks to Yung-tsai. If he hadn't been paid for the film and had recorded the song for free, we wouldn't have saved so much money.

Li Jiangbo handed over the rest of the work to Wang Jing and prepared to talk to Guan Zhilin himself.

"Jiahui! Do you want to become a professional actress? Do you want to sign with my company?"

Upon hearing this, Rosamund Kwan's eyes lit up. She was about to agree when she remembered what her mother had told her.

"Director Li, I need my parents' permission for this."

Li Jiangbo smiled and nodded, "It's alright, you can ask first."

Huang Zaoshi, standing to the side, asked, "Director, why don't you ask me?"

Li Jiangbo curled his lip and said, "You're a TVB employee, your contract is with TVB, I don't have the money to pay you the penalty for breach of contract."

Huang Zaoshi blushed, filled with regret. She wished she hadn't taken the TVB acting training course. She earned ten thousand dollars for just one movie shoot.

What she didn't know was that if she hadn't taken the TVB acting training course, she would never have had the chance to act in Li Jiangbo's dramas.

Li Jiangbo had no time to deal with these things; he had a lot more to do.

During this period, he only did one glass-buying business, and the other party never contacted Li Jiangbo again.

It wasn't until today that they called to say they had contacted the buyers, several major glass manufacturers in China, and would settle the payment in Hong Kong dollars.

Li Jiangbo decided to find someone he knew well to go to the United States and familiarize himself with the acquisition process, since he couldn't do everything himself.

We also need to set up a film company, and now we're in post-production. We should also get the company logo ready.

In fact, Li Jiangbo had already thought of the company name: Time Pictures. As for the logo, he planned to design it himself.

As for why he didn't sign Huang Zhaoshi, there are two reasons: he doesn't want to fall out with Shao Daheng yet, and secondly, Huang Zhaoshi isn't very photogenic on the big screen.

What do you think we should do about Chen Tianfang?

Let it be! In this day and age, which tycoon doesn't have three or four godbrothers or godsisters? It's simply impossible for Shao Daheng to fall out with Li Jiangbo because of a sycophantic godbrother.

The next day, Li Jiangbo handed over the preliminary pruning work to Wang Jing, and returned to the New Territories, where he found Zhao Dong, a fellow villager with whom he had a good relationship, in Lijia Village.

The two took a plane and flew together to the United States.

Li Jiangbo was very confident in entrusting this matter to Zhao Dong, as he had learned this from the simulation.

Li Jiangbo had complete confidence in the system regarding this matter.

As soon as Li Jiangbo got off the plane, he didn't waste any words and spoke only practical advice, sharing his life experiences with Zhao Dong while doing his work.

Three days later, Li Jiangbo and Zhao Dong appeared at Kai Tak Airport with one million yuan.

As the two got into the car, Zhao Dong was still in a daze. He asked in a muffled voice, "Brother Bo, did we really make a million on this trip?"

Li Jiangbo shook his head helplessly, "If you remove the costs, it's only around 800,000."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Dong's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Li Jiangbo.

Li Jiangbo patted Zhao Dong on the shoulder and handed him an envelope. "The rest of the business is in your hands. This time, consider it your share of the profits. Next time, you can hire a translator and go by yourself."

Upon hearing that there would be a next time, Zhao Dong hurriedly asked, "Next time? When?"

I'll contact you then, remember to keep it a secret.

After dropping Zhao Dong off in the New Territories, Li Jiangbo drove to TVB headquarters, where editing work awaited him.

Li Jiangbo isn't afraid of editing work; he has the images in his mind, so he just needs to copy them and edit them.

Thus, Li Jiangbo spent three days on editing, and with the addition of the music and production company logo, it took a whole week to complete the post-production work of the film.

......

In a small screening room at TVB City on Broadcast Drive, Shaw Yi-fu, who was watching the film, was jolted awake when the theme song "Happy Ghost" started playing.

He fell asleep halfway through the movie.

He had absolutely no interest in movies that were neither quite comedies nor quite ghost movies.

A small-time director making erotic films, coupled with inexperienced actors—this is a disaster no matter how you look at it.

Li Jiangbo walked up to Shao Yifu and asked, "Sixth Uncle, how are you feeling?"

Shaw smiled slightly, "It's alright, there should be some audiences who like it. Very few people make this kind of film."

"The film scheduling..."

Shaw calmly took a sip of tea. "Then let's schedule the midnight screenings as number 3? We'll start with ten cinemas on number 4, including four of the top cinemas. If it sells well, we'll add more. As for the publicity, you can handle that yourself."

After saying that, Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua and the others walked outside.

Inside the screening room, Wang Jing, Johnnie To, and others exchanged bewildered glances. These ten cinemas were neither too many nor too few.

Li Jiangbo was also somewhat unsure, although he knew that in later generations, this film would eventually be screened with a box office of 1700 million.

But having filmed the movie five years in advance, he really didn't know if it would be a success.

With that thought in mind, he asked everyone, "What do you all think?"

Wang Jing chimed in, "Judging from Shao Sheng's attitude, he seems unsure about the market for this film; otherwise, it would have been shown in at least 20 theaters."

Johnnie To commented, "I think the cinematography is quite good, and it should sell well."

The topic then became the subject of heated discussion.

Li Jiangbo felt a headache coming on from the noise. He rubbed his temples and walked out of the screening room.

Zhao Yazhi, who was standing to the side, followed Li Jiangbo out as well.

"Bo-zai, I think your photos are really good, everyone will love them."

Li Jiangbo let out a breath and smiled, "Sister Zhi, I think so too. If it sells well, I'll give you a big bonus!"

This amused Zhao Yazhi, who smiled and said, "Alright then, you can't refuse to give it to me!"

"no problem!"

The others, seeing that the director was missing, all went looking for him.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Wang Tianlin, Li Jiangbo left, citing other business.

After Wang Tianlin left, Li Jiangbo spoke to Zhang Guorong, Guan Zhilin, Zhong Chuhong, Huang Zaoshi, and others:

"Gentlemen, I'll need to trouble you all these next few days to do some promotion and publicity work, especially Jia Hui, A Hong, and A Shi."

Rosamund Kwan readily agreed, "No problem, I'm on vacation anyway, I'll just get my classmates involved."

The others nodded in agreement.

Only Leslie Cheung asked shyly, "Director, um..."

Li Jiangbo said, "Don't worry, I promised to write a song for you, and I definitely will. I'll call you when it's finished."

Leslie Cheung nodded.