Chapter 19: Like the East Wind

In Zou Wenhuai's opinion, Jiang Heng is definitely going to be in big trouble this time.

After all, in this world, fairness and justice are spoken for the weak, and more often than not, strength is respected.

This is especially true in places like Hollywood, where the animated film "The Lion King" released in 94 was questioned for having too many similarities with the animated series "The Jungle King" broadcast in 65, but Disney flatly denied it.

The Tezuka Corporation, which holds the copyright to "Jungle Emperor," did not file a lawsuit, claiming that its company was too weak to compete with Disney.

How could Jiang Heng, an independent filmmaker with no background, compete with the Hollywood giant Warner Bros.?

However, the next day, Zou Wenhuai suddenly saw a shocking news on the front pages of many newspapers.

"Huana claims that Jiang Heng stole their script and shot The Matrix first. They demand Jiang Heng hand over the copyright and all profits, and compensate Huaana 100 million US dollars...!"

After flipping through several copies, he still found similar reports. Zou Wenhuai was so angry that he coughed for a long time.

The door was pushed open, and Cai Yongchang and Liang Feng came in together, holding newspapers in their hands.

"Oh no! He actually used Hua Na's lawyer's letter to do something. Now all the attention has been taken away!" Cai Yongchang said anxiously.

Liang Feng said slowly: "This is too strange. The audience must be curious about what happened. This time I really miscalculated!"

Zou Wenhuai felt the same way, but he was more angry.

As the overlord of the Hong Kong film industry, he has been at the top for too long, so long that he cannot understand the audacity of the little people.

There was only one thought in my mind: how dare he, how dare he?
"Think of a way to suppress this heat?"

Zou Wenhuai also felt that it was unlikely, but there was no better solution for the time being.

Liang Feng said: "It's very difficult. TVB has already sent a program team to interview, and all the major newspapers have reported this matter!"

Cai Yongchang said with a bitter face: "The major newspapers are more objective, but those street tabloids are all fabricated. Some say that Jiang Heng slept with a beautiful woman who came to Hong Kong for tourism, but she was actually the daughter of a senior executive of Hua Na...!"

Zou Wenhuai felt a headache after hearing this. What the hell is going on? It's too attractive.

He bet that this tabloid would sell out today.

"These paparazzi have no bottom line at all!" Zou Wenhuai pounded the table angrily.

Cai Yongchang continued, "Right now, the plagiarism incident of The Matrix is ​​the biggest gossip in Hong Kong. It will definitely attract a lot of audiences to the cinema. We have to think of a way to deal with it."

"How about hyping up the scandal between A-long and the two heroines?" Liang Feng asked tentatively.

Zou Wenhuai smiled bitterly, "At this moment, how can it be too late?"

What was not said is that Aaron has so many scandals that they are no longer news.

But there is no better way at this time, we can only arrange staff to operate it, which is better than nothing!

But on this day, the 16th, there were long queues in front of the theaters of the Xinbao and Jinsheng cinema chains, and more than half of these audiences came to watch Jiang Heng's "The Matrix".

There had been no successful science fiction films in the Hong Kong film industry before, and the audience was not interested in this subject matter.

The box office of "The Matrix" in mainland China exceeded 100 million yuan, but to them it was just average. They did not think that movies with high box office in mainland China were good movies.

The lawyer's letter from Hua Na Company and its related contents have aroused the curiosity of Hong Kong audiences.

Stealing a Hollywood script, filming it ahead of schedule, and filming it very well, it was said that the executives of Hua Na Company were so shocked that they turned green in the face. This content is really too new for Hong Kong audiences. I have never heard of such a thing. I want to go and see what kind of movie it is.

And when I entered the theater and took a look, wow, wow!
The young leading actors are handsome and the actresses are good-looking, the action scenes are exciting, the special effects are explosive, and the story is also very novel, which received rave reviews immediately.

On the 17th, Jiang Heng, who stayed at home, received box office data from Jinsheng and Xinbao Cinemas, which completely crushed Stephen Chow's "The Lucky Guy". As to whether it surpassed "Who Am I", it is still unknown. After all, they didn't know the situation at Jiahe Cinemas.

But Jiang Heng knew the original performance of "Who Am I" in Hong Kong, 3880 million. According to his estimation, it was not as high as the first-day box office of "The Matrix" in Hong Kong.

By this calculation, it is almost certain that "The Matrix" will win the box office championship during the 98th Hong Kong Spring Festival.

With such achievements, it is natural to publicize them.

I immediately called all major media outlets and reported the first-day box office performance of "The Matrix".

Naturally, all the media were happy to report this incident, pushing the popularity of "The Matrix" to a new height.

All this completely annoyed the people from Hua Na Company.

Silver has led the Wojcicki brothers and others from Shanghai to Hong Kong. When they saw the crowds in front of the Jinsheng and Xinbao cinemas, they were so angry that they wanted to blow up the cinemas. This is all our money!
"Immediately, appeal immediately and make him bankrupt!" Silver was furious.

But Chief Attorney Petroche frowned and said in a deep voice: "Litigation is not a good option. It is difficult for us to prove that he stole the script!"

Silver fell silent upon hearing this. He also knew that this would be difficult to accomplish.

If you want to sue someone for murder, robbery, or fraud, you must provide a factual basis, including the time, place, people, and events. You must know what exactly happened!
But Huana himself didn't understand what was going on and was completely confused!

"We have registered the copyright, so he shouldn't have it?" Silver asked.

Petroche nodded, "I checked, Jiang Heng has not registered the copyright of the script in Hong Kong, and we registered it on March 97, 3...!"

Silver said, "Then we should approach it from this angle. We must sue him until he goes bankrupt!"

"Well, that's all we can do for now. By the way, although we haven't been able to find any records of his script copyright registration in Hong Kong, we can't rule out the possibility that he went to mainland China to register!"

"Can we find out?" Silver was a little panicked. He thought of a not-so-good possibility.

"I can only say that it is very difficult. As you know, this is a very backward country. Their office system is not connected to the national network...!"

When Silver heard this, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.

"Is there no better way?"

"At present, we can only check it bit by bit!"

"Well, I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise the company will suffer huge losses!"

Silver sighed and said that he found that the quality of "The Matrix" filmed by Jiang Heng was really very high, even better than they had expected.

If we can get all the copyrights of the film, we can directly release it in North America and Europe. I believe it will have good box office results.

Just when he was happy, Silver's face suddenly changed, and he thought of a terrible possibility.

I wonder if other Hollywood companies have also noticed this film and want to distribute it?
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(End of this chapter)