Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 255 A Milestone and a Trendsetter in the Film and Television Industry!
Xiangjiang Xigong, Liufu Restaurant.

This restaurant specializes in cooking fresh seafood, Hakka cuisine, and Tanka cuisine. It just earned a Michelin star this year and is hailed as the "ceiling" of Saigon seafood!
Ding Ye hosted a celebratory banquet, inviting Xu Zhixia, Lin Xingzhuo, Xiao Ma, Zhang Youqian, and others.

We ordered a table full of dishes, including salt and pepper abalone, secret-recipe freshwater prawns, Saigon seafood rice porridge, and handmade almond sachima, and also opened three bottles of transparent-filmed Moutai.

The only one absent was Master Zhou, who made the greatest contribution this time.

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Master Zhou's business was booming, and he was so busy that he called Ding Ye and Lin Xingzhuo to apologize for not having time to attend this gathering.

Master Zhou's shipping business was facilitated by Xiao Qian, a former subordinate of Ding Ye who had transferred to Qiongzhou Customs, and his connections within the customs system. This allowed him to establish shipping routes to Xiaoyong, Beibu Gulf, and Fangcheng Port.

In addition to traditional frozen meats such as pork chops, pork legs, chicken wings, and beef by-products, they are now also involved in the red oil business.

Faced with the rapidly expanding scale of his business, he also purchased two new iron-hulled boats, one cargo ship, and seven motorboats.

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His seafarer labor agency also began recruiting large numbers of seafarers in county towns and villages in two locations.

One is Shanwei City in eastern Guangdong Province.

The saying "Thunder in the sky, Haifeng on the ground" is no exaggeration. Xiao Ma once witnessed the fierce local customs when he went to Jieshi to buy a motorcycle...

Another province in Fujian.

Visa-free access worldwide, hundreds of international trips, and passports still pristine upon return—Even Interpol struggles to secure judicial cooperation with him…

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This battle at the Yau Ma Tei pier warehouse in Kowloon established the reputation of the Tiger Group's coal industry in Hong Kong.

Even if other gangs were envious of Zhou Hongbing's waterway business, they could only watch and drool, drinking and complaining behind his back, but they didn't dare to compete with him at all...

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After this gathering, everyone will go their separate ways to get back to their busy lives...

Xu Zhixia is going to Japan to work on establishing the Japanese office of Tiger Shadow Star Brilliance Culture.

Ding Ye is responsible for integrating Tiger Roaring Kirin Cinemas with Golden Harvest Cinemas, Vieshow Cinemas in Taiwan, and Cinema XXI in Indonesia.

Ding Ye adopted Lin Xingzhuo's suggestion to retain the brands of these cinema chains, focusing instead on strengthening internal capabilities, implementing standardization, and establishing a centralized procurement system.
Implement standardized operational processes for ticketing, merchandise sales, and venue management, and unify financial accounting and cash flow management to secure financial control from the outset.

Golden Harvest Cinemas, Vieshow Cinemas Taiwan, Cinema XXI Indonesia, and Tiger Roaring Kirin Cinemas have established a joint centralized procurement system.

This can enhance copyright management and improve the ability to negotiate with film studios, thereby obtaining better copyright terms.

It can also reduce supply chain costs, including projection equipment, consumables, and merchandise, leveraging economies of scale.

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The main problem now is that the situation at the Taibei Vieshow Cinemas is very complicated, with local gangsters still holding shares...

Compared to the gangsters in Hong Kong, the gangsters in Taibei are more down-to-earth and more professional.

They usually grew up in their local communities, have good relationships with the community, and are very polite. After joining the company, the division of responsibilities and management of the business are clearly explained.

Compared to the brawling and violent nature of the Young and Dangerous gangsters, these gang leaders are more like a Frankenstein's monster, a remnant of feudal clans from the Republic of China era and a Japanese yakuza organization...

In short, these gang leaders are all incredibly difficult to deal with.

Dealing with these guys will keep Ding Ye busy for a while.

The next day, Lin Xingzhuo, still hungover, hurriedly washed up and rushed to the set of "Love in a Puff" to attend a script discussion meeting held on short notice.

The main reason for this discussion was a survey report on mainland romance films and television dramas sent by the marketing and publicity department of the investor, Tiger Shadow Star Brilliance.

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Romance is an important genre that has been present in novels, movies, and TV series throughout history, and it has given rise to a large number of sub-genres.

There are romantic love stories like "Roman Holiday" and youth romance films like "You Are the Apple of My Eye";
There are romantic comedy films like "If You Are the One" and "Love Transfer";
There are also historical war romance dramas like "The Passionate Years";
Or a suspenseful romance film like "The Equation of Love and Death";
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The most popular romance genre in 2009 was also a milestone and trendsetter for the entire Chinese-language television industry.

It's the campus drama "Meteor Shower," starring Chen Sa and Zhang Han, adapted from the Japanese manga "Boys Over Flowers"!

This campus romance drama, featuring a Cinderella-like school beauty and a domineering CEO-like school hunk, is a pioneering work of mainland Chinese campus idol dramas, ushering in a golden age for this genre!
Back then, the production crew was so poor that even the son of a prestigious school board member from Alliston could only afford to drive a MG and treat it like a treasure.

Although the costumes and props were terrible, Chen Sa's looks were truly stunning back then!

Chen Sa, a newcomer to the industry, has a good figure, not too thin, and hasn't had any plastic surgery.

This is absolutely the pinnacle of preppy style!!
Of course, it's also the most confusing ceiling...

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Last week, the orange storm that Lin Xingzhuo stirred up on Weibo had just ended when Chen Sa's name appeared on the trending topics list!
It was during a trip to Happy Camp with the cast of "Meteor Shower." It happened to be Chen Sa's birthday, and Zhang Han gave her a crystal bracelet, something like wishing her to always be as pure as she is...

The evil gardenia also joined in the praise, saying she was as pure as crystal and a little fairy.

Lin Xingzhu saw it on Weibo and was also horrified!
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In short, campus romance is currently the most popular genre of love stories in mainland China!
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has already started the registration process for several films and more than a dozen TV series!

Furthermore, "Love O2O," which began serialization on Jinjiang Literature City last year and concluded this year, has already attracted visits from many leading film and television production companies to its author, Gu Man.

Among them, Shencheng Juku Culture also used an underhanded tactic, specifically hiring a handsome student from the Musical Theatre Department of Shencheng Conservatory of Music, who also worked part-time as a model, to do special public relations.

His name seems to be Chen Xuedong...

Writers are human too; they need to eat well too!

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Inside the meeting room, everyone read the report and fell silent.

The kind of innocent, almost absurdly romantic storyline between the school's most popular boy and most beautiful girl seems to offer absolutely no inspiration for "Love in a Puff"...

However, this kind of subject matter is very popular in mainland China, and the investment scale of "Love in a Puff" has now exceeded ten million Hong Kong dollars.

Since the turn of the millennium, the highest-grossing Hong Kong film with an urban romance theme is still "Love on a Diet," directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, and starring Andy Lau and Cheng Sau-man, which was released eight years ago.

The domestic box office was only 28 million.

The current female lead in "Love in a Puff" is "Little Zheng Xiuwen," and the male lead is nowhere near as good as Andy Lau.

Director Peng Haoxiang is considerably weaker compared to the combination of Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui...

If this movie wants to avoid commercial losses, it definitely needs to enter the mainland Chinese market.

Seeing the silence among the crowd, producer Leung Kai-yuen took the initiative to start a conversation...

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