[2011.04.03] UPSET NICHOLAS TSE MAKES A BUSINESS

Nicholas Tse Ting Fung yesterday dressed up to celebrate his post production company Post Production Office's relocation. His father Patrick Tse Yin and boss Albert Yeung Sau Sing came in support.

Ting Fung first displayed the film work to the media and revealed that the company has already been established for eight years. At the time he put a mortgage on his home and invested seven figures on it. Now over half international brand name advertising and film company post productions came from them. The company also had an office in Shanghai.

As for the low profile, Ting Fung said, "I held back for a long time. I don't want any unnecessary trouble. If the company gets its clients due to my fame and popularity, I feel it wouldn't be success. In addition it is not long term enough, one thing at a time. My being an

artist is another matter, the investment is a dream." Ting Fung said that actually industry insiders all knew. Did he only publicize because he felt like it performed? Ting Fung thought that at the time the performance was not great, now it is mature enough and paper cannot wrap up fire. Who would have 13,000 square foot office in Causeway Bay? In addition it was not like it was embarrassing, and Wong Jing already leak the news earlier. Ting Fung also said that at the time he was interested in this business because Hong Kong was under Korean and Japanese storm influence. When he made the JADE BUTTERFLY music video he thought something was missing. After an in depth understanding he realized that he had to merge pre production, production and post production into one for the result to be its best. However at the time he heard the film had to be shipped overseas for post production and he was somewhat upset. Ting Fung said, "I was a little mad, why can't Chinese people, Hong Kong people do it all at once? I originally wanted to maintain the broadcast quality of my work, but now I hope to maintain Hong Kong broadcast quality."

Would he consider taking the company public? Ting Fung thought that the company just moved into a five story new address, he would like to first take care of that. In addition no post production company in history has been publicly traded. Reporters said that he could be the first. Ting Fung thought that instead of going public, his goal was cultivating talent. He would like the company to make Sundays open house days to provide instructors and tools to educate young people who are interested for free. He hoped to be able to tell the entire world Hong Kong can. Has he already made his money back? Ting Fung smiled and only said that the company every year would spend several tens of millions on taking care of employees and expenses. Since 2004, the company went form 11 people to an annual growth of 35%.

Ting Fung said that he mainly was responsible for management and marketing, the rest was left to his partners. Would he become his own manager later? Ting Fung said, "No, my contract with Emperor hasn't ended. In addition managers have to argue with others, which I don't like. (Now you are doing it?) Right now I am managing others, currently I am 99% uninterested. (How many years do you have left on your contract?) I just signed the contract last week, actually the company gave me a lot of freedom."

In addition, speaking of his wife Cecilia Cheung Pak Chi earlier accidentally hit an old man while driving. Ting Fung said that his wife was more worried about the uncle's injury. Her personality has always kept others in mind. Ting Fung continued, "I am not qualified to participate because the matter is in the hands of the police. I am afraid of saying something wrong. (Would she take care of the uncle?) She would."