Talking about the Mainland film and television industry brings tears to my eyes.

Before capital entered the mainland film and television industry, Wu Jing had to sell his house and make movies. After capital entered, various gambling contracts were formed, and such gambling contracts were extremely risky.

It’s not just that if you have a famous director and big-name actors, the audience will buy it.

If it's a movie that has signed a deal, and the theater chain deliberately doesn't schedule the movie, then even if you make a masterpiece, the audience won't be able to see it.

Everyone feels that movie theater chains don’t give more good films a better schedule because of financial problems. In fact, this is not the case. As long as the theater chains collude with the proprietors of the bet, even if the theater loses money or makes less money, it can still win from the bet.

Earn it from the employer.

Celebrities do have some box office appeal, but that's just it. From "Shaolin Temple" to "Crazy Stone" and other movies, they are basically movies starring newcomers and have become both word-of-mouth and box office hits.

If there was a formula for success in the film industry, everyone would have followed it long ago. Why would we still study new film shooting technologies and new film art innovations?

In fact, movies, like painting, music and other art forms, require constant innovation and change in order to satisfy the audience.

"Shaolin Temple" is the founder of the new style of on-site filming. Of course, it also has the blessing of starring Kung Fu Emperor Jie Ge, who has been a martial arts champion for ten consecutive years, and it has an effect of 11 greater than 2.

After leaving the Yindu Cinema Company, Zhang Cheng grabbed twenty trays of shrimp dumplings from a tea restaurant outside Kowloon Airport and began to solve the breakfast problem.

Zhang Cheng was halfway through eating when a stewardess sitting across from him also took two trays of shrimp dumplings and sat down.

Zhang Cheng looked at it and felt that he had seen him before. He asked tentatively: "Ya Zhi?"

The very beautiful flight attendant opposite smiled and said, "Have you seen my beauty pageant? It happened several years ago."

Zhang Cheng: "It was an accident. Why are you still working as a stewardess?"

Yazhi: "I used to be a flight attendant. Because I refused to sign a long-term contract with the wireless station, I only won the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong, a watch, and a bonus of 1,000 yuan. I starred in a TV series as a supporting actress, but the TV series did not become popular.

.I had no choice but to go back to being a flight attendant. What’s so strange about this.”

"The fourth Miss Hong Kong is really ranked among the beauties."

"You complimented me!"

"No, tell the truth." The fourth Miss Hong Kong is more than just a Yaya. There will also be a Chu Hong next year. These two can be said to represent the highest achievements of women in Hong Kong TV dramas and movies. On the contrary, they were the ones that year

The top three Hong Kong sisters have not achieved much, and most of them are married.

At this time, to marry a Hong Kong girl, you have to be from a wealthy family. The betrothal gift is calculated in tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. If you give birth to a son after marriage, you will have to pay more.

Zhang Cheng knows that the elegance and beauty of modern clothing is beautiful, but it does not overwhelm the beauty - the wisdom of modern clothing is not inferior to elegance, but the elegance of ancient clothing is a burst of spiritual energy emerging from the Tianling Gai, which is simply

She's so beautiful that she's so beautiful - otherwise, why would there be a mighty dragon ready to catch the monster!

Zhang Cheng took out the business card of the president of Oriental Film Company that he registered with Oriental Film Company and handed it to Yazhi: "Yazhi, our company is going to make a movie, a new martial arts film. Are you interested in moving to the big screen and TV series?

If we can’t do it, we’ll go to the movies. Our drama still lacks a female lead, so you can consider it.”

Yazhi put away the business card and did not reply on the spot: "I'll think about it."

Zhang Cheng asked about Yazhi's life again. It turns out that in the parallel world here, Yazhi is not married yet. Of course, as a great beauty, there are indeed many people pursuing her, including many young and talented middle-aged wealthy businessmen.

But now Hong Kong society is still very traditional. It is believed that after a woman gets married, the focus should be on returning to the family, mainly taking care of her husband, giving birth and educating the children. Yazhi feels that she does not want to go home and live a life of caring for her husband and raising her children every day. Some are more satisfied with the man.

conditions, but the mother-in-law was dissatisfied with the other party's mother-in-law, and these suitors also made trouble with each other and made scandals. In the end, Yaya did not agree to the pursuit of these people.

She is indeed a modern independent woman.

I like.

The most important thing is that my mother-in-law is not on this planet at all, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that Yazhi is worried about will never happen.

Early the next morning, Yaya, still dressed as a flight attendant, took her business card to a commercial office building in Kowloon and found a room rented by Oriental Film Company.

Oriental Film Company just opened, and they just rented an office of more than 1,000 square feet. The company hired a front desk girl who graduated from junior high school, a tea girl who graduated from junior high school, and a female secretary who graduated from high school, plus the boss Zhang Cheng

, four people in total.

When setting up the company, Zhang Cheng sang: I think back then, my team had just opened...

It was a coincidence that Yazhi arrived. Mr. Wang from Yindu also arrived to study the cooperation between the two parties - the focus was on the proportion of overseas money sharing.

Martial arts movies have always been very popular in Southeast Asia. There are even a large number of fans of martial arts movies in Europe and other places. The name Bruce Lee became a household name in the 1970s, and several of the movies he starred in made the Hollywood movies of his time more popular.

The film rubbed against the ground.

Seeing Yazhi coming, Zhang Cheng introduced to Mr. Wang: "This is Yazhi. She was the fourth Miss Hong Kong that year and also acted in a TV series. I invited Yazhi to audition for the heroine of our Shaolin Temple."

Mr. Wang: "We have agreed to hire someone from our side."

Zhang Cheng ignored him and introduced Yazhi: "This is Mr. Wang from Yindu Cinema. Zhongyuan Pictures, a subsidiary of Yindu Cinema, is our partner for this film."

"Hello, Mr. Wang."

"Hello, Miss Yazhi."

After the two greeted each other, they sat down elegantly, and the tea girl gave them a cup of Maojian.

Zhang Cheng: "The male lead is made by your people, the villains and extras, and most of them are also made by people from your side. But for the martial arts instructors, the concept here in Xiangjiang is more advanced. I would like to hire some martial arts instructors from the Yuan Family Class

.As for Yazhi, my personal opinion is to recommend Yazhi to audition for the female lead, and whoever is suitable will be cast at that time."

The point is that the original heroine of "Shaolin Temple" was the one who sang the role of the shepherdess, and she did not become popular in the end. However, she is a member of the system, and the harvest will be guaranteed despite droughts and floods, and it does not matter whether she is popular or not.

But this role is very important to Yaya, who has already failed in a TV series.

Xiangjiang has completely entered the commercial society. If a star wants to become popular, a national-level TV series or a hit movie can do it. After becoming popular, various endorsements and business performances can be received - Xiao

From the opening of a store to the tailoring to the endorsement of international famous brands, you can get a lot of money. This is the star effect.

Since the heroine was not forcibly appointed, but only auditioned, Mr. Wang couldn't say anything else, so he continued to talk about the overseas box office share. In the end, it was agreed that it would be half for each family. Yindu Pictures would also help contact overseas theaters.

In this era, Chinese martial arts films are very popular, and Hollywood is the younger brother. Overseas earnings are all foreign exchange, and Yindu Cinema will certainly not give up.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng still kept the bottom line and obtained the copyright of "Shaolin Temple" in Hong Kong. After all, he is also an investor. This power is still necessary.

At this point, the "Shaolin Temple" project with an investment of two million Hong Kong dollars has officially been signed to start.

After signing the contract and seeing Mr. Wang off, Zhang Cheng asked Yazhi: "How is it? Yazhi, do you have any intention of starring as the heroine?"

Yazhi: "What do you think? This drama is going to be filmed in the Mainland?"

Zhang Cheng: "Yes, the filming will take about half a year. If you are willing to be the heroine, I can set the salary at 150,000 Hong Kong dollars."

Nowadays, Hong Kong's first-tier actresses can earn up to about 300,000 Hong Kong dollars for starring in a movie. Yamei is not a newcomer, but she is not a big hit either. A 150,000 Hong Kong dollar film is already a very high premium.

Today's wages in Xiangjiang are not high. For example, the monthly salary of the receptionist and tea girl employed by Zhang Cheng is only 1,500 Hong Kong dollars. The female secretary is a white-collar clerk and earns a higher salary, that is, 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a month.

At this time, a taxi driver can earn 2,500 Hong Kong dollars a month. Yazhi, a flight attendant, earns a slightly higher salary, which is 3,000 to 5,000 Hong Kong dollars a month. The more flight attendants earn, the more they earn.

However, the cost of living in Xiangjiang is also high, with vegetables costing two or three yuan per pound. The living environment is even more famous for its pigeon cage rental houses - the capsule houses later developed in Japan are really not original, they are just the opacity of the cage houses here in Xiangjiang.

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Think about what it would be like for a person to live in a wire cage the size of a bed. What it would be like for a family of seven or eight or even a dozen people to live in a house of more than ten or twenty square meters.

In terms of living environment, this place is simply a hell on earth.

Yazhi thought for a while and made a decision: "I will use my own abilities to fight for the position of the heroine. I will resign when I get back."

Zhang Cheng: "Okay, if you have this ambition, I think you can play the role of Bai Wuxia well Yazhi. This part is the role of the heroine that I assigned, you can take a look first."

Speaking of which, Yazhi is really destined to be Bai Suzhen. The role that made Yazhi truly famous and popular was also Bai Suzhen.

After seeing off Ya Zhi, Zhang Cheng went to the street to buy a box of cakes and went to visit relatives in Mong Kok.

Zhang Cheng vaguely remembered a cousin from his previous life who lived in Mong Kok. However, except for the occasional correspondence with his father, the two families had no real contact because of the distance.

Now he can pretend to be his uncle in his previous life and go to his uncle. Anyway, Zhang Cheng has read all the letters exchanged between the two parties - when Zhang Cheng was a child, there were very few books to read at home. There was no Internet at that time.

Zhang Cheng, who had just learned to read, had the habit of reading.

I remembered the address from the letter, and even saw a family photo of their home, which was popular at that time.

After Zhang Cheng arrived at the floor with address 501, he knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was a pretty young woman in her thirties. It looked like she was the third aunt when she was young. My uncle was very lucky. Moreover, my uncle didn’t have one wife, but four wives. This is also a legacy of Xiangjiang.

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Zhang Cheng saw the third aunt who opened the door and introduced himself: "It's the third sister-in-law, I'm Zhang Pan's cousin, Zhang Yao. I just came to Xiangjiang to settle down not long ago. I'm here to introduce myself today. I also want to meet my cousin. Call me."

Just the waist will do.”

The third aunt took the pastry box: "Ah, we are one of our own, come in. Brother Pan will have to wait a while before he can go home from work for dinner. The eldest sister and the fourth sister went to sell braised food, and the second sister went to buy vegetables. I will be back later.

.You wait in the room for a moment."

After entering the house, Zhang Cheng immediately saw that in a room of more than 50 square meters, which is more than 600 square feet in Xiangjiang, two children who were still nursing and could not walk were running around but they had not yet gone to school.

He has four children. Well, considering that there are still several children in school, it is not easy for my cousin. No wonder there are two wives who have to go out to sell braised food to support the family.

The three sisters-in-law and their cousin came home one after another.

Zhang Pan walked in and saw Zhang Cheng in the living room, and was a little confused: "You look a lot like my cousin."

The third sister-in-law smiled: "It's your cousin who spreads his waist."

Zhang Pan: "It turns out to be the waist. I remember it when I was a child. You were still young at that time, so you probably had no impression of me."

"I heard it from my brother. I heard that my cousin works in the public sector. I wonder which department he is in?"
To be continued...