Chapter 275 Director Xu Knows the Audience Superbly(2/3)
Fortunately, she just stepped in to fight for her and was not afraid of losing.
Lin Qingxia asked curiously, "It's only after six o'clock in the morning and not yet seven o'clock. Are you sure that Sister Xin can come over and play mahjong with you??"
Hong Xin smiled and grabbed the eldest brother, "Wait until I contact her and ask."
Although Li Jiaxin is a little unclear and loses wildly at the mahjong table, with her current physique, strength and energy, she is really strong.
After a while, Hong Xin smiled calmly and said, "Okay, we will gather at Ah Fen's house in Huayuan Phase 1 in an hour. We can also have some breakfast and wait for her."
Opposite the eldest brother, that sister Xin seems to be doing her morning exercise.
She was extremely curious and doubtful about how Miss Xin managed to enjoy the height that could only be measured by a size 38.
More than two hours later, 9 a.m.
Li Jiaxin, who was in high spirits and in high spirits, knocked on the door of Cai Shaofen's house. When she entered, she saw Lin Qingxia, Zhang Yan, Yuan Jieying and other girls already playing mahjong with great interest.
Li Jiaxin grabbed Cai Shaofen's hand and protested softly, "You didn't even wait for me to start?"
Cai Shaofen rolled her eyes wildly, unable to complain.
We agreed to come over for the show at 7 o'clock, but it's already 9 o'clock! Does it take that long to get from Kowloon Tong to Tsim Sha Tsui?
Fortunately, she has a high status. While she was complaining, the girls over there had already stood up and began to welcome her with a smile. Li Jiaxin asked doubtfully, "Where is Hong Xin?"
Cai Shaofen smiled brightly, "She went to catch up on her sleep. She still owes you more than five thousand times. Today I asked Sister Qingxia to be a foreign aid."
While walking, as soon as she passed by, Yuan Jieying smiled brightly and said, "Sister Xin, come and fight. My skills are not good yet. I'll watch Ah Fen fight and learn the skills from her."
Cai Shaofen suddenly felt a little numb... How about she go catch up on some sleep??
To this day, she recalls that when she was filming the final scene of the death of Blue Phoenix played by Yuan Jieying, she couldn't let go of the way Yuan Jieying looked at her.
The next moment, Ah Fen said hurriedly, "I'm actually very sleepy too. How about you fight for me, Ah Ying? I'll treat you to dinner when I wake up."
Li Jiaxin looked indifferent. She sat in the seat where Yuan Jieying had been before and said with a smile, "Hey, this card is not bad, so I will continue playing at this table. Ah Fen, you can finish this game before going to bed."
Yuan Jieying also smiled and said, "Sleepy? It's okay. I'll rub your shoulders for you. I promise not to talk."
Cai Shaofen is even more paralyzed. Who will save her? She is still a child and should not bear such a weight!
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In the ATV office, Wang Zuxian put down the phone and came over with a strange look on his face, "Boss, Director Xu said that he wants to invite me to play The Invincibles 2. Do you think I can play the role?"
Zhao Donghuai was in a trance for a moment, feeling a bit toothache, "Old Xu is on the street, Dongfang Invincible is still filming, and it's not over yet. Are you planning a sequel again?"
The original version of "The Swordsman: The Invincible" had a box office of more than 34 million Hong Kong dollars because of Jet Li's starring role, but "The Invincibles: The Return of the East", without Ajie, the Hong Kong box office dropped to more than 11 million Hong Kong dollars. Already.
In this day and age, most of the major female protagonists really can't handle the big box office hits.
However, "The Storm Comes Back" has more than 11 million, which is pretty good. Let's just say that "Tian Long Ba Bu: Tian Shan Tong Lao", which brought together three beauties, Lin Qingxia, Gong Li, and Zhang Min, only had a box office of more than 6 million in Hong Kong.
There is also "Green Snake" starring Wang Zuxian and Zhang Manyu in the original track, which only had a box office of more than 9 million in Hong Kong Island.
Leaving aside the box office, Zhao Donghuai remembered that Xu Ke, at a certain stage, really liked having female stars and female stars on the big screen...
A series of strong lesbian feelings that can't be stopped for many years. Xu Ke understands male movie fans so well.
It's a pity that in the era of double-Monday Sing plus Jet Li's suppression, without those male superstars starring, one movie after another flopped at the box office.
After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai laughed and said, "It doesn't really make sense for you to follow this kind of sequel. Many of Xu's martial arts films relied on soundtracks, theme songs and interludes to become great classics."
Although in "The Rise of the Invincible East", the martial arts of the leader of the East is to easily catch the matchlock bullets out of the chamber, and he can catch a lot of bullets from the chamber with both hands, which is a super cool interpretation mode.
Putting his imagination twenty years later, it would be fun to just copy it from the Internet. But the character played by Wang Zuxian in the second part is really ordinary. Apart from a bright red dress and red dress, he looks pretty, but talk about it. Not a masterpiece.
The development of the main story is too crazy, and it is purely developed to serve Dongfang Bubai, who has a naughty character.
Xiaoxian nodded, "That's okay, I pushed it. By the way, Mai Xunxiong's studio sent a movie called (Eight Immortals Restaurant: Human Meat Barbecued Pork Buns). Why does the name sound a bit disgusting to me... It’s quite scary.”
Zhao Donghuai, "..."
Director Zhao was also speechless, "Mai Xunxiong filmed it himself? I never heard of that old Mai suddenly becoming so heavy-handed."
Wang Zuxian shook his head, "No, it was co-produced by his studio's contracted director Huang Tailai and Qiu Litao. Qiu Litao has worked as a photographer for Director Huang many times before, and this is his second time directing."
Zhao Donghuai nodded, "Then... well, I won't review the film. Who starred in it?"
Xiaoxian said with shame, "Ren Dahua."
Director Zhao understands that this film was filmed several years in advance and was adapted from a real case. Simon Yam's acting skills are indeed much more perverted and expressive. After all, this brother Dahua has already starred in "Memories of Murder" and became popular in East and Southeast Asia.
It wouldn't be a big deal if another movie, Hotel of the Eight Immortals, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Why do you think Lao Mai suddenly made such a thriller crime film four years in advance? Of course it was also the stimulus of money. After all, Debao and 100 Years Pictures were listed on the market one after another, and their market value exceeded 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.
No matter what Lao Mai has been like in the past, with his vision of producing biopics such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", "Lame Hero", and "Wang Wenxia Biography", and he also has generals like Huang Tailai under his command, it is not surprising that he will cause trouble in advance.
After all, the real case of barbecued pork buns happened in Haojiang in 1985.
Last year, Lao Mai directed Huang Tailai to film "The Strange Case of Three Wolves". In "The Mysterious Case of Three Wolves", when Huang Bingyao's deadly scissor-kicks urged a group of police station leaders to help Zhou Xingxing, an undercover agent, cheat in the exam, the ordinary policeman bitch muttered
(The Strange Case of Three Wolves).
Last year, The Strange Case of the Three Wolves sold nearly 11 million Hong Kong dollars on Hong Kong Island, 12 million Hong Kong dollars on Wanwan, 21 million Hong Kong dollars on the South Korean ticket warehouse, and 10 million Hong Kong dollars on the island country of Plus Star, Malaysia and other places. Standard small cost, big profit
, similar to a ghost mission hall.
It was simply because New Era had not yet opened in the Mainland at that time, so it was not released in the Mainland and became a hit at the box office.
The barbecued pork buns are not bad either. According to the original trajectory, it was in the era of biweekly sales 4 years later, and it could still earn more than 15 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, which was even more powerful than The Strange Case of Three Wolves.
Thinking of this, Zhao Donghuai said, "You call the big stone and ask New Era Cinema to come over and see if the film can be released in the mainland... I always feel a bit suspenseful. This subject is not an ordinary crime, it is too bloody and violent.
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"I feel that if the Three Wolves Strange Case is taken out for review in the mainland now, the probability of passing review is much higher than that of barbecued pork buns."
Wang Zuxian nodded. She was a little afraid to watch the new movie. Forget it, call the mainland theaters to review it. If it works, then forget it.
After a while, Xiaoxian said in surprise, "Boss, director Xu Ke is here. I haven't called him before to refuse him the opportunity to star in Invincible East 2. It seems he has other matters."
She decided to push the sequel to The Invincible and didn't rush to call back because she knew that it was past seven in the morning when Xu Ke finished filming overnight.
Lin Qingxia and the others finished work after six o'clock, and Xu Ke continued to shoot Li Lianjie's other scenes. It was already past ten o'clock in the morning. I guess the great director just took a break, right?
As for calling Shi Nansheng? Of course, it’s okay. This is not Xiaoxian’s debut. When she first came to Hong Kong Island, she filmed five Xu Ke’s works. In terms of personal acting skills, Xu Ke gave her quite a lot of guidance, so she didn’t officially pay her respects.
An experienced master.
She then thought of waiting for Xu Ke to rest and call him in person to communicate and explain the reason for the rejection.
Zhao Donghuai asked in surprise, "Could it be that Xu Jinquan and Xu Guanjie's version of Swordsman has finished filming?"
The two "Swordsman" movies were planned together and started shooting two months apart. They didn't use the same Linghu Chong, not even Yue Lingshan, because Tsui Hark's version focused on "the love entanglement between Linghu Chong and Dongfang Bubai."
story".
A few minutes later, when he saw Lao Xu who was a little out of spirits, he walked in. Wang Zuxian personally made coffee for him. Lao Xu was very straightforward and said with curiosity, "Sheng Zhao, Huang Zhan begged me again."
He said he wanted to ask Deng Yurong to let Xiao Ni go. The old Ni Sheng returned all the money he had lost, just hoping that Deng Yurong's men would let him go."
Zhao Donghuai was stunned, "What happened? Lost money?"
"The last time you sent a message for Huang Sheng, you also said that when the younger brothers of Lian Le spent the winter with him, they often played poker and mahjong. In the beginning, the guys from Lian Le won a lot. It was Deng Yurong who made the decision to cancel those IOUs.
, are you afraid that it will not look good if Mr. Cha comes forward if there is a big fuss?"
Xu Ke patted his thigh speechlessly and said, "I'm also at a loss. I just couldn't contact Deng Yurong so I came here in the middle of my sleep."
"I speculate that this incident may have happened when those bad guys from the society returned to Hong Kong and knew that Xiao Ni was rich and could ask his father for money from home, so they took it upon themselves to trick him."
"He only came back on the 12th of last month, and it lasted until today, May 6th. Good guy, Xiao Ni has lost more than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in cash, and still owes hundreds of thousands more."
"Not counting interest, the total is less than 500,000, and the Ni family will definitely be able to pay it back."
Zhao Donghuai was speechless. In less than 30 days, he lost less than 500,000 yuan. Although Zhao Donghuai's newspaper group recruited writers from the mainland, Ni Jiaxing's manuscript fee standards collapsed since the book was opened.
But that was also opened in 1984.
Before that, the Ni family had already received a royalties of RMB 500 per thousand words for three years from the Yuan Zhenxia series, so the Ni family would definitely be able to afford the gambling capital of less than RMB 500,000.
After a few seconds of silence, he said curiously, "Good guy, you don't have to be in such a hurry, right? I can't get in touch in the morning, so I'll wait until the afternoon..."
Xu Ke smiled bitterly, "I have a series of martial arts movie plans in my head now, and I really need Huang Sheng to help me perfect various theme songs, soundtracks, etc."
"I went home and slept for less than an hour when Huang Sheng knocked on the door and shook me awake."
"I can't help it, that guy is talented. From the Chinese Ghost Story series, to Once Upon a Time, to the two Swordsman films, most of the classic songs were composed by Huang Sheng alone..."
"If the ghost of A Chinese Girl disappears (the road is blurry), Huang Feihong disappears (men should strengthen themselves), and the Swordsman disappears (a big smile from the sea), everything will lose its luster."
Zhao Donghuai nodded, "Okay, I'll call and ask."
Huang Zhan has not only contributed many classic songs and compositions to Xu Ke's movies for many years, he is also currently filming the variety show "Undefended Tonight" on ATV, and he has begun to work hard to dig out Li Chao's various underworlds.
Where is the material?
At this stage, Mr. Li has recorded two episodes (undefended tonight). He drank some wine and smoked a cigar. However, he did not reveal any important black spots during the whole process. He occasionally leaked something and was questioned by the host. In the end, he asked:
Damn, you are using all kinds of tricks to gild yourself.
Those two issues (Tonight's Undefended) didn't have any exciting chapters.
To be continued...