Chapter 137 The Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the US dollar
There are fewer Japanese in Xiangjiang’s traditional Waifu, but the copyright fees in other countries have increased a lot. After all, "The Detective" is a movie that broke the box office record in Hong Kong, so the copyright fees are naturally rising.
Especially in Thailand, this movie was filmed in Thailand, so the box office in Thailand will definitely be very high.
As a result, the copyright fee for traditional Waifu is still more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars.
Liu Hongmin was attending a meeting in the capital at that time, so he did not go to Xiangjiang to attend the celebration banquet. But he told Zou Shifang that he would give everyone double bonuses.
As soon as the film company's celebration party ended tomorrow, the Hong Kong dollar suddenly plummeted, and the exchange rate against the US dollar dropped rapidly from 8:1 to 9.6:1. This gave Wang Yaowei a false alarm. Fortunately, Liu Hongmin made a proposal to convert all foreign currencies into Japanese yen. If all was converted into Hong Kong dollars, one-fifth of the money would be lost without doing anything.
After the Iron Lady's fall in 1982, many Hong Kong people lost confidence in Hong Kong stocks, resulting in a stock market crash in Hong Kong stocks. Although the stock market crash stabilized quickly, many people in Hong Kong still lost money. This is also the reason why the Spring Festival release of 1983 was not as good as the Spring Festival release of 1982. "The Best of Us" is not worse than "The Best of Us", but the box office difference is three million.
In the face of the economic downturn, "Detective" won 30 million box office, which is simply a miracle.
This is also the reason why the media wants to dig deeper into the behind-the-scenes story of "Detective". In the economic downturn, they also need to take advantage of the traffic of "Detective".
Similarly, this is enough to show the excellent quality of "Detective". If there had been no stock market crash, "Detective" would definitely have received more box office hits.
When people thought that the stock market crash was completely over, the Hong Kong dollar was in crisis again. There is a shadow of international hot money in this. They are taking advantage of the instability of the Hong Kong stock market to harvest the wealth of Hong Kong people. At the same time, it can also cause panic in Xiangjiang and achieve unknown political goals.
Under such circumstances, Cheng Long's "Plan A" suffered a huge setback before it was released, and there was no possibility of surpassing "Detective".
Liu Hongmin learned about this just after he got out of the meeting.
He didn’t say anything about this. For Hong Kong stocks, the money in his hands is too little. Although he wanted to save the people of Xiangjiang, he didn't have the ability, so he didn't worry about it.
The matter of trial implementation of the patent law has come to an end. What should be discussed has been discussed and what should be voted has been voted. The remaining work is to find some legal professionals to improve the trial patent law and avoid loopholes. When it is perfected, it will be promulgated and put into trial use. According to the resolution of the preparatory committee, the trial implementation is tentatively scheduled for January 1, 1984.
Liu Hongmin had just rested for two days when he was dumped in the center by Director Wang again.
The 1983 Spring Festival Gala was a great success, and the entire balcony was grateful to Liu Hongmin. This year, China Taiwan has a lot of advertising revenue. Except for the fixed funds for "Journey to the West", the rest are basically invested in TV series.
This time I invited Liu Hongmin to come here. First, I wanted to invite Liu Hongmin to join the Spring Festival Gala directing team and help plan the program. The second is that China and Taiwan want to film "Ming Dynasty 1566".
RTV also wanted to buy the rights to adapt "Ming Dynasty 1566" before, but Liu Hongmin didn't sell it. Director Xiangjiang couldn't make a historical drama.
Liu Hongmin refused to join the directing team because he did not have the time. The Hong Kong dollar crisis has had a great impact on him. Tomorrow Film Company has few Hong Kong dollar reserves, so there is no problem. However, the Transformers Toy Factory has a large amount of Hong Kong dollars. It is no joke that one-fifth of the toy factory's funds have evaporated out of thin air.
Therefore, he must go to Xiangjiang. Once Wang Yaowei exchanges the Hong Kong dollars at this time, he will suffer a big loss. As for "Ming Dynasty 1566", Liu Hongmin agreed to film it in China. However, he does not want an adaptation fee, only 20% of the copyright fee outside the Mainland. When the filming of "Ming Dynasty 1566" is completed, he can get Xiangjiang and sell it to RTV. If Random House is interested, so much the better.
As long as the adaptation fee is paid, he can't even get 10,000 yuan. But selling it to RTV costs at least 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. If it could be sold to Random House, it would probably fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. The little devil admires "The Ming Dynasty 1566" very much. As long as Random House gets it from the devil, it can make a fortune.
Director Wang and Liu Hongmin signed the contract, and then began to find someone to film "The Ming Dynasty 1566". However, with the current financial resources of China and Taiwan, if you want to complete the production of "Ming Dynasty 1566", you will have to wait until at least March or April next year.
After settling the affairs in the capital, Liu Hongmin flew to Xiangjiang again. He brought the manuscript for the sixth part of "Bao Qingtian" and directly made an appointment with Huang Qiang and Yang Guiren, and signed the contract during the break before dinner.
The three of them discussed the Hong Kong dollar crisis while eating. They are very worried that Xiangjiang will not be able to withstand this crisis, causing capital to flee. If panic occurs, Xiangjiang may become an empty city.
Liu Hongmin is very optimistic. Not to mention other things, even the British do not want to see Xiangjiang decline now. In that case, they will make more than ten years less money, which is intolerable to capital.
Sure enough, on October 15, the Hong Kong government announced that the Hong Kong dollar would be pegged to the U.S. dollar, with a fixed exchange rate of 7.8:1 against the U.S. dollar.
As soon as this news was announced, the Hong Kong dollar crisis was immediately resolved. Then the Hong Kong stock market also gradually recovered, and Hong Kong slowly stabilized.
Liu Hongmin was relieved and began to write the script for the second part of "Detective".
The news quickly spread within the company, and many people ran to his office to take a peek. Especially Zhou Xingxing, "Detective" broke the box office record, and as the starring role, he has become a hot star in Hong Kong. Whether it is personal feelings or career, he is particularly grateful to Liu Hongmin.
He Jiajin also came to join in the fun. He became famous right after his debut, so he didn’t have much idea. He just wanted to see what story the second part told.
The most positive among the remaining people is Li Lizhen. She is even more anxious than the director Xu Xiaoming. She has not had a job since the filming of "Detective". If the company hadn't asked her to take paid training courses, she would have wanted to change jobs. You know, she originally rejected the heroine of "Happy Ghost" and then 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 support her family. She is the same as Lan Jieying in this regard, so she can also endure hardships.
Lan Jieying left Tomorrow Film Company, which made her aware of the opportunity. She has become the only actress in the company, and there will be a lot of room for development in the future.
It turns out that her intuition was right. "Detective" broke the Hong Kong box office record and made her famous. Especially the smile at the end of the film gave people a chilling feeling. Many media commented that she was the most outstanding new actor in the 1980s.
Nowadays, many movies have asked her to make guest appearances, hoping to use her to call the audience into the theater.
Li Lizhen has constant filming appointments. If she didn’t have to train, she would have to go to the studio to film every day.
(End of this chapter)