Chapter 400 Explosive News
Guo Bin already knew that "Royal Overlord Flower" was a copycat of "Treasure Hong Kong Overlord Flower" and had also been doing all sorts of things to smear it. He asked, "Sister Xiao, do you want to teach the leading actors a lesson as well?"
Hu Xiaoxiao looked at the promotional stand and saw that among the main actors, there were four female artists who looked exactly like those in "The Queen of Hong Kong 1". It can be seen that this movie was originally intended to imitate "The Queen of Hong Kong 2".
"Forget about the actors." Every wrong has its perpetrator.
That night, Zhang Huai and Yan Weikan were beaten seriously on their way home and were sent to the hospital.
Hu Xiaoxiao doesn't want to let Hongguang Film off so easily. The plagiarism of "The Queen of Hong Kong" and the slanderous things he did must be related to Fang Jing.
If it was just a copycat, Hu Xiaoxiao wouldn't have bothered to care, because the Hong Kong film market is like that: once a movie becomes popular, a whole bunch of people will follow suit. Even after her hit, "The Hitman's Bodyguard," became a hit, there are still people copying it.
Whether you follow the trend or copycat, everyone will turn a blind eye. However, if you copycat and even step on the original film to elevate your status, you will make enemies. No matter which film company it is, they will not give up easily.
Fang Jing wants to use "The Queen of Hong Kong" to rise to the top, and he is also collaborating with other theaters to create Shengshi. It would be strange if Hu Xiaoxiao didn't deal with him.
Hu Xiaoxiao asked someone to check the production cost of "Royal Queen" and then went to the cinema to watch it again.
The film's cast is indeed strong. Almost all the big-name artists from Hongguang Film and Television Company have participated in the performance, and two famous movie stars have also been invited to make guest appearances.
There are so many big names, and to accommodate their status, they've been given a lot of screen time. As a result, the four female leads have very little screen time, practically serving as background characters. To describe them as overshadowing the main cast is the most accurate description.
The appearance, modeling and costumes of the four heroines are all pitifully simple and monotonous. Their martial arts are sparse and weak, lacking the exhilarating feeling of an action movie.
This is a terrible film, relying entirely on big-name actors to attract audiences. And the cost of such a film is a staggering 10 million yuan. Hu Xiaoxiao is very skeptical about the authenticity of this figure. It's impossible that all this money was spent on the salaries of the big-name actors, right?
With such quality, I'm sure Yan Weikang and Zhang Huai knew the box office would be terrible, so they came to suck the blood of "Baogang Baowanghua"? "Baogang Baowanghua" is a movie that Hu Xiaoxiao painstakingly made, so they can really suck the blood of it?
"Sister Xiao." Huang Yuliang's assistant, Tang Wenkui, had heard that Hu Xiaoxiao wanted to investigate Fang Jing and Hongguang Films, so he sent her a document. "Take a look at this."
Hu Xiaoxiao took it and took a look. Wow, Fang Jing wanted to make money with the movie "Royal Beauty"!
She said, how could Fang Jing, who is so cruel and ruthless, who once pointed a gun at a star to make a movie for him and didn't pay her a penny, be so generous as to pay so much to hire someone?
The film's budget of 10 million must have been inflated.
When something is discovered by outsiders, it means it has been done more than once. Hu Xiaoxiao then had someone check the costs and box office of Hongguang Film's previous films and discovered that Fang Jing had used movies to make money more than once.
After getting this information, Hu Xiaoxiao planned to have a good time with Hongguang Films and set an example for those who wanted to make a fortune in the film industry. Otherwise, everyone would dare to step on her.
As Huang Yuliang recruited more and more people, Shengshi Entertainment Company's departments became more and more comprehensive. Among them was a newly established information department, which recruited many employees who were good at finding information. These employees used to help various clubs run errands and find information.
Huang Yuliang recruited them into the Information Department, specifically tasked with gathering information for him. During his recent battle against the Changxing Society, he had this department's staff bribed numerous sources within the Changxing Society, as well as individuals. This action caused the Changxing Society to suffer numerous losses at Huang Yuliang's hands.
Hu Xiaoxiao asked the people from the Information Department to investigate the matter of Zhang Huai and Yan Weikan.
Zhang Huai had plagiarized her idea, a truly dishonest act. She was already a renowned star, yet Zhang Huai dared to steal. She suspected he was a repeat offender. Even a star like her couldn't complain, so if someone without fame or connections had been plagiarized, wouldn't they have even less recourse?
Hu Xiaoxiao asked the Information Department to check whether Zhang Huai had any disputes in this regard, and to check among the old employees of the two companies where Zhang Huai had previously worked.
Yan Weikang was a toxic figure in the film industry. Backed by the pockmarked tiger, he was extremely arrogant and ruthless, with reports of him forcing actresses to film pornographic films. Hu Xiaoxiao had the Ministry of Information investigate Yan Weikang's misdeeds.
After receiving the task from Hu Xiaoxiao, the people from the Information Department immediately went to check on the two of them.
Yan Weikang's case was very easy to investigate because the Information Department had people recruited from the Sanren Society. One of them had even helped Yan Weikang resolve a public opinion storm before. It could be said that there was plenty of information about Yan Weikang's bad incidents, and he himself had a lot of information in his hands.
After further investigation, dozens of pages of information were handed over to Hu Xiaoxiao in less than three days.
After reading this information, Hu Xiaoxiao wanted to have someone go to the hospital and beat up Yan Weikang again. She knew he was a scumbag, but she didn't expect that calling him a scumbag was flattering him. Yan Weikang was not even a human being.
Hu Xiaoxiao had heard of several female stars being forced to star in pornographic films, but there were even more instances he hadn't heard of. For example, they used the name of a major film company to sign young, unsophisticated women. Besides profiting from making explicit films for them, they also pimped these women, introducing them to gang leaders like Mamianhu and forcing them into prostitution.
Yan Weikan also made fake contracts, using large-scale fake contracts to trick people into signing pornographic film contracts. After the matter was exposed, he ordered the thugs of the Sanren Society to burn down the victim's home and threatened the lives of the victim's family.
There were cases of people pointing guns at stars while filming, and there were also cases of extortion. There was even one case where someone had a screenwriter from a film company killed because they had taken a fancy to him and wanted to poach him but failed.
After knowing all the crimes of murder and arson, Hu Xiaoxiao sorted out all the evidence, put the ones with evidence aside and send them to the sir when the time was right.
After thinking about the rest of the information, Hu Xiaoxiao decided to pick some out for gossip news.
The more explosive the gossip, the more willing the magazine is to report it.
If there is anything that easily stirs the gossip of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong, it is nothing more than the fact that Yan Weikang forced female stars to shoot pornographic films, and several of the female stars are very well-known.
However, these actresses are already victims. If these news are exposed, wouldn’t that be hurting them a second time?
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