"As for the chairman, let Ah Fa play the role, both in terms of fame and acting skills.

His appearance is very confusing. He will be very interesting to play opposite Mi Gao, and it will be easy to handle the publicity in the future. After listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, Xu Anhua's eyes lit up, while Xu Guanwen looked thoughtful.

Whether in novels or scripts, Lao Jin is a well-deserved protagonist.

But the character of the Chairman also has a lot of roles. Even because of Lin Chaoyang's excellent writing, this character is more complex and multi-layered than the protagonist Lao Jin.

This man looks polite, courteous, and courteous on the outside, but inside he is full of the arrogance and superiority of the upper class. His disdain and disdain for the lower class people are hidden under that thin mask.

In him, we can clearly see the alienation of money and power. All his self-reliance comes from money, and he has the kind of strong-willed but strong-willed middle-class character unique to the upper class. Chow Yun-fat is elegant in appearance, charming and charming, and his acting skills are online.

, it would indeed be a good choice if you could play the role of chairman.

This is the reason why Xu Anhua's eyes light up, and Xu Guanwen's meditation is also easy to understand.

Such a brilliant role was played by an actor who was not inferior to him in terms of fame and acting skills. He was inevitably worried about being robbed of the limelight. But soon, Xu Guanwen thought about it.

When it comes to filming, the most important thing is that the film is exciting. If the quality of the film is a mess, what's the use of having more scenes? "Afa is a good choice, but what about the others?"

Lin Chaoyang thought for a while and said: "Let's use Zhong Chuhong as the wife of the chairman. The "Autumn Fairy Tale" she collaborated with A Fa did well at the box office. Playing the husband and wife again will be a publicity point. I haven't thought about others.

, just look at the arrangements."

Xu Anhua said hesitantly: "Mi Gao, Ah Fa, Hong Gu, plus other actors, I'm afraid the actor's salary will be close to 10 million Hong Kong dollars. Investment... Lin Chaoyang looked indifferent, "10 million is not enough

It’s only 20 million, and Lam Pictures just lacks big investment.”

His statement surprised and delighted Xu Anhua and Xu Guanwen. They were surprised by Lin Chaoyang's generosity, but they were delighted by the huge investment in the film. For them, there would be more room for development. After thinking about it, the two of them understood Lin Chaoyang.

The reason behind doing this.

The banning order of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Free Association had just come down, and the Lin family urgently needed to make big moves to show their confidence and strength. After understanding this truth, both of them felt at ease.

Throughout the whole day, the three of them discussed various issues about the script and filming. They separated after dinner in the evening.

When Lin Chaoyang returned home, Tao Yumo shouted to him: "Brother-in-law, buy a mobile phone. I can't contact you all day long." Lin Chaoyang was too lazy to listen to her complaints and asked, "What's the matter?"

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"A foreign publishing house wants to publish your book."

"Oh?" Lin Chaoyang raised his eyebrows, "Which country?" "Random House in the United States."

"Random House?" Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised when he heard the name.

Random House was founded in 1927 and played an important role in the American book industry throughout the twentieth century.

It started as a modern library, and then relied on ingenious planning to quickly become an internationally renowned literary publisher. Today, it has become one of the top publishers in the American book industry.

"What did they say?"

"The person who contacted me is Luan Walter, who is a senior editor at Random House. He wants to introduce your book "The Truman Show" to the United States," Tao Yumo said.

Lin Chaoyang secretly thought, is he going to publish "The Truman Show"? It is probably influenced by the movie. Thinking of Paramount Pictures, which was rejected by Tao Yushu some time ago, Random House may have heard some rumors and came here.

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"Brother-in-law, your novel is going to be published in the United States!" Tao Yumo said with an excited expression.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "I'll leave this matter to you." Hearing this, Tao Yumo was both excited and worried, "Can I do it?"

Lin Chaoyang had negotiated the publishing of previous novels, and she was responsible for being the agent and signing the contract. The first time she took charge of the matter, she felt a little unsure.

"It doesn't matter what can or cannot be done, it's not that difficult."

Lin Chaoyang's words made Tao Yumo feel at ease. Since her brother-in-law trusted her so much, she naturally couldn't retreat.

After dinner, while digesting food, Lin Chaoyang flipped through today's evening newspaper and saw the newspaper's report on the takeover battle of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel Company.

When it comes to Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel Company, almost no one has heard of it, but when it comes to Peninsula Hotel, many people should know that Peninsula Hotel is one of the company's properties. The company's other properties also include Kowloon Hotel, Repulse Bay Tower,

Peak cable car, etc., and has hotel business in the United States, Philippines and other countries.

With a current market value of HK$6.7 billion, it can be described as a behemoth in the Hong Kong hotel industry.

People in Xiangjiang call this company the Grand Hotel, and it is run by the Kadoorie family of British-Jewish origin.

The family not only controls large hotels, but also controls China Electric Power, the largest listed company in the Hong Kong stock market. It has been regarded as the top wealthy family in Hong Kong for more than half a century.

At the same time, the head of the Kadoorie family, Laurence Kadoorie, is still a British Lord. He has been given a life-long peerage by the emperor and a member of the House of Lords. He can be said to have both wealth and power. However, in such a large hotel with a huge and profound background, someone dares to stroke his beard.

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This person is none other than Liu Luanxiong, a sniper who has become notorious in the Hong Kong stock market in recent years.

Starting from March, he and Lin Jianyue, the second son of the Lin family of Lai Xin Garments, suddenly announced a large-scale purchase of hotel stocks, with as many as 30 million shares. In recent days, the Xiangjiang Acquisition and Merger Committee ruled that Liu and Lin had no

"Acting in concert" rejected the Kadoorie family's complaint against the acquirer. Now the two sides are in a stalemate, and the hotel's share price has fallen.

Lin Chaoyang read the newspaper and compared the stock prices of Grand Hotel and Cathay City held by him during this period. He found that the acquisition battle was so fierce, but the increase in the stock price of Grand Hotel was far less than that of Cathay City.

Monster stocks are indeed monster stocks!

"Brother-in-law, do you also want to trade in stocks?" Tao Yumo asked.

Lin Chaoyang replied while flipping through the newspaper: "It's just a collection of information." Tao Yumo asked again: "Which stock do you think has potential now? Lin Chaoyang glanced at her, "What? You want to trade in stocks?"

"It's not me, it's Maggie. She has been trading in stocks for more than two years and has been losing money."

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but be curious when he heard this. He had forgotten it before. The Hang Seng Index had been soaring since last year. He could still lose money under such circumstances. He was somewhat of an investment genius! "What stocks did she buy?"

"There are many, including Wheelock, Nunda, China Coal...

Tao Yumo reported everything in detail, and Lin Chaoyang fell into silence after listening. Just by listening to the company name, the stocks Maggie Cheung bought were all good targets in the market. But the problem is, sister, you specialize in buying targets that are involved in mergers and acquisitions wars.

What does it mean?

Lin Chaoyang knew without guessing that Maggie Cheung most likely wanted to fish in troubled waters, thinking that in this case she could follow the dealer and drink some soup. Little did he know that if a little shrimp like her got involved in such a big storm, she would only be swallowed up by the dealer.

destiny.

"Brother-in-law, why don't you speak?" Tao Yumo asked.

Lin Chaoyang did not answer her words, but warned her, "Stay away from her in the future."

"What's the meaning?"

"Be careful if she borrows money from you."

Tao Yumo sneered and said: "Brother-in-law, Maggie can earn more than me, several million a year..." She was halfway through her words before she realized what Lin Chaoyang meant.

"It's not as exaggerated as you said!" she muttered.

Lin Chaoyang shook his head and had already mentally labeled Maggie Cheung as an "investment genius" and "a lantern in the sea of ​​stocks". In future investments, as long as he tries to avoid the stocks she chose, the profit probability will be greatly improved.

Time flies to July. Lin Chaoyang spends a lot of time on new books every day, and the progress is gratifying.

In less than a month, nearly 200,000 words have been written for the new book. At this rate, it should be completed before the end of July. By the second Wednesday of July, "Autumn Fairy Tale", which had been in theaters for 23 days, was officially released.

The box office was as high as 26 million.

The investment in this film was 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but the cost was recovered and a huge profit was made based on the local box office alone.

Tao Yushu has been busy with the overseas release of "Autumn Fairy Tale" these days. With Chow Yun-fat here, there is no need to worry about the overseas release of "Autumn Fairy Tale". Lin's Pictures will definitely make a lot of money.

Wong Jing's "The Supreme Being" also started shooting two days ago. The crew's preparation process was very smooth and it seems that it was not affected by the blocking order.

The company's development has not been greatly hindered for the time being, and Tao Yushu's mood has become much clearer in recent days. She took time to spend a day at the amusement park with Lin Chaoyang and her two children over the weekend.

When having breakfast the next day, Tao Yushu was reading the newspaper when he suddenly said "Hey". Lin Chaoyang looked towards her, and Tao Yushu had a subtle expression and said, "Wandao is having sex!"

The so-called "JY" means to relieve JY.

JY has little impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, but its effect on the loosening of the entire society is extremely obvious. Wandao JY means that the capital of Wandao will be more active, which naturally includes film capital.

This is also the reason why Hong Kong's film market has entered a period of intense heat since 1988. Too much hot money poured in at once. "Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing for us?" Tao Yushu asked Lin Chaoyang's opinion.

Lin Chaoyang pondered for a moment and replied: "In the next few years, the film market in Xiangjiang will probably become more and more lively, which is actually beneficial to our development..." Li Yunlong was able to win the battle not because of the entire Jin Dynasty.

The northwest is in chaos. If you want to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the opportunity to expand, it would be better if the situation is a little more chaotic.

Listening to his analysis, Tao Yushu nodded affirmatively.

A few days later, Tao Yumo told Lin Chaoyang that the royalties from Mingbao Publishing House had been settled. This was the second royalty received by Lin Chaoyang this month. In January, "Parasite" was published in mainland China and in Hong Kong, showing that

Excellent as always.

In the first month of the mainland, 450,000 copies were sold, with cumulative sales of 1.64 million copies and a settled royalty of 510,000 yuan.

The cumulative sales of Xiangjiang were somewhat beyond Lin Chaoyang's expectations, exceeding the 150,000-copy mark.

150,000 copies were sold in half a year. This is the first time since Lin Chaoyang's works were launched in Hong Kong that such a sales speed has been achieved.

This kind of sales volume is enough to show that Lin Chaoyang's appeal among Hong Kong's pure literature readers has reached an extremely high level. Lin Chaoyang believes that this is inseparable from the honor that "The Truman Show" has achieved for Hong Kong.

The hot sales of "Parasite" in Hong Kong also brought Lin Chaoyang 1.95 million Hong Kong dollars in royalties, which is also the largest royalty income his work has received since it was published in Hong Kong.

Lin Chaoyang made a careful calculation and found that not counting the assets of Lin's Pictures and other companies, as well as the assets and deposits in the mainland, his available deposits in Hong Kong alone already amounted to more than 9 million Hong Kong dollars.

If you include the floating profit caused by the soaring stock price of Cathay City during this period, this figure will reach HK$15 million.

These savings are certainly not large compared to the wealthy people in Hong Kong, but as a pure literary writer, it is already very rare to make so much money in Hong Kong. In an environment like Hong Kong, it is difficult to become a rich man simply by writing.

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To be continued...