Chapter 95: Gathering of Beauties! (Seeking Collections and Follow-up Reads)

Tsk!

Look at how arrogant you are; anyone who didn't know better would think Fengrui Film and Television was already the hegemon of the Hong Kong film circle.

There is no need to say much to the person in charge of Fengrui Film and Television regarding the promotion of novels and comics.

In Wu Feng's view, as long as there is an opportunity to expand outward, one must grasp it firmly.

Even if one cannot earn much money in the early stages, it is still very necessary to cultivate a group of loyal readers.

If possible, he wouldn't even mind supplying the comics to Japan's manga companies for free.

"Have you thought about adapting the movie 'Swallow Li San' into an arcade or cartridge game?"

Wu Feng asked directly: "You should have heard how popular the arcade version of 'A Better Tomorrow' is!"

"This..."

The person in charge of the film company hesitated, saying awkwardly: "I have had thoughts in this direction, but we still have to wait for the box office performance after the movie is released!"

Seeing that Wu Feng's expression was calm and he did not show any dissatisfaction, the person continued: "After all, the initial investment is not a small amount, and the risk is a bit too high!"

Wu Feng was noncommittal and did not say much more, only telling them to properly arrange the movie's release.

In his heart, however, he had made up his mind to establish a game company specifically to plan and develop arcade and cartridge games.

This is a massive gold mine that has flourished for countless years; since there is an opportunity to get involved, one naturally cannot give it up easily and must boldly invest to occupy a place.

In a Hong Kong entertainment novel he read in his past life, the protagonist focused on the home game console field and fought with Japan's Nintendo in a way that was truly passionate, once occupying a considerable advantage.

Then, starting from home game consoles, he switched to attacking the Subor Learning Machine that was popular in the Mainland in the nineties, thereby successfully stepping into the field of home computer research, development, and assembly.

In this era, the gap between the Mainland's strength in the microelectronics field and that of Europe and America or Japan was not as exaggerated as it would be later; at the very least, this was true in terms of the electronic industrial foundation.

As for whether this was actually the case, Wu Feng naturally was not very clear.

Once he freed up enough time, he would naturally dispatch enough technical personnel to investigate and clarify things at certain research institutions and laboratories in the Mainland.

In short, he had many ideas in his mind regarding the consumer electronics field.

Of course, most of them were inspired by certain plot points from the rebirth urban novels he had read.

Anyway, his wealth was currently expanding at an astonishing speed, and with enough cost for trial and error, it could completely be treated as a long-term activity to pursue.

After coming out of the film company manager's office, Wu Feng patrolled the interior of the company once more.

At this time, Fengrui Film and Television Company was naturally no longer the shell company it was when it was first founded.

There were over a hundred employees alone, all of whom were members of the film and television industry, such as directors, screenwriters, lighting technicians, cinematographers, costume and makeup artists, and other behind-the-scenes members; it was no problem to quickly assemble one or two small-to-medium film crews.

What satisfied him most was that during their time at the company, these employees were honestly accepting the learning and training provided by the company.

He had a quite firm belief that technical talent could gradually improve their self-ability through learning and practice, so the company had always provided learning opportunities in all aspects.

Perhaps a great director requires talent, but an ordinary director with decent execution ability can be cultivated through a large amount of training and learning.

At this time, what Fengrui Film and Television lacked the least were shooting plans for low-budget films.

As long as it was a novel serialized in "Mong Kok News" or a story with some fame in "Novel Monthly", the company's directors and screenwriters could adapt it into a low-budget film.

On the film company side, after the tempering of multiple low-budget films, a quite complete shooting, promotion, and release process had already been formed; as long as they didn't film a flop, recovering costs was no problem.

Without too much cost pressure, the shooting plans formulated by the company were naturally numerous.

It could be said that there were shooting tasks every month throughout the year. The total number of films to be shot in the entire year of '87 was a full fifteen or sixteen, not counting those added on a temporary basis.

With so many film shooting plans, even if they were all low-budget films, it was enough for all the employees in the company to have sufficient opportunities to exercise and accumulate various experiences.

When he walked to the actor department, Wu Feng's footsteps paused, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

There was no other reason; the number of actresses receiving training in the actor department was clearly quite large.

Moreover, they were all young and beautiful, and most were even familiar faces.

Like Li Saifeng, whom he had seen before, and Ye Yuqing, who later became very famous, and even Weng Hong was there.

Clearly, with the expansion of Fengrui Film and Television Company's strength, the actor department could no longer be supported by Wen Bixia alone; he hadn't expected to recruit so many familiar female artists.

There were still quite a few filming outside; who knew how many more "surprises" there were?

He only glanced through the large two-way glass window outside the actor department's training classroom; he had no intention of going in to meet these familiar female artists.

Thinking about it, the entire company had to shoot fifteen or sixteen small-to-medium budget films in '87; if there wasn't a sufficient reserve of actors, they would definitely be at a loss.

They couldn't just go outside to hire people every time; it was very easy to get throttled or run into unexpected situations.

Only by going deep into the Hong Kong film circle could one know just how chaotic it was inside.

The infiltration of triads into the film circle was already quite severe, and the most fatal thing was that the knowledge and quality of most practitioners in the film circle were worrying, often doing stupid things that normal people found hard to understand.

For the sake of a little petty profit, they really could do anything without a bottom line.

It was true that Wu Feng was a Sai Kung Hall Master of the Hung Hing, but he couldn't just specifically go and offend this person or that person for the sake of actors; he really didn't have that much international time.

"Eh, that handsome guy who was just entertained by the Manager, could he be the company boss?"

He was unaware that the female artists receiving acting training in the classroom had already discovered him.

Once the figures of Wu Feng and his party disappeared, the classroom was suddenly filled with discussion.

Weng Hong looked excited, winking at Li Saifeng who was sitting beside her.

Ye Yuqing and several other female artists nearby pricked up their ears, full of gossipy expressions.

As for Li Saifeng, who had just returned from filming in the Mainland, they didn't have any feelings of jealousy or envy.

There were so many films the company had to shoot that they all had the opportunity to become the female lead; no one needed to envy or be jealous of anyone else. The key was still having that kind of acting skill and strength oneself.

Otherwise, if they filmed a flop, that would be purely going against money.

Just thinking about the amount of money that could be lost was enough to make them feel depressed to the point of chest pain.

Fengrui Film and Television Company had not only formed a quite perfect process in producing small-to-medium budget films.

It had also accumulated a certain amount of experience in the business of product placement for standout characters in films, and had begun to form a relatively reliable process and business model.

Not to mention the natural product placement ability of fashion dramas, even in period dramas, they could sell small accessories and trinkets worn by standout characters for a considerable amount and then split the profits.

In fact, the fixed salary of female artists was not high, and it could only be considered a medium level among their peers in Hong Kong.

But they couldn't resist the paths and channels for making money through product promotion; as long as they performed brilliantly, a single movie could even earn them a cut from product promotion that was higher than their acting fee.

It was also because Fengrui Film and Television Company was the first to pioneer product promotion and was willing to share the profits with the Actors, that a large number of beauties joined the company in a short period of time, some of whom hadn't even met the company boss to this day.

Going on sale tomorrow, asking for monthly votes.

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(End of this chapter)