In Zhao's Film Office, when Zhao Donghuai heard the call from his secretary, saying that Li Lianjie wanted to come to see him... Director Zhao was confused for a few seconds before he remembered that Shaolin Boy was about to be released!

He asked his secretary to invite someone in, while he went to get a cup and make tea.

Seeing Ajie and Ji Chunhua walking in together, they both greeted him respectfully and then praised the hurricane rescue.

Just from their words of praise, we knew that these two people had watched it a lot. When it came to the excitement, Ajie got up and wanted to rehearse the details of some martial arts scenes in the office.

He wanted to imitate the effects of various edited action scenes in the movie!

Many of them cannot be used.

Zhao Donghuai smiled and comforted the two of them to sit down, served tea, and after a few sips, when Ajie tentatively asked about filming and other matters, Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "You want to cooperate with my Zhao's Pictures? Of course it is a good thing, I

I’m quite interested.”

Is Ajie on equal footing with Cheng Long in Amei's video market, or is he a gold mine that he got into by himself?

Why is it not a good thing to have gold mines come to your doorstep and money to spend? Besides, when his theater chain is launched, he will need blockbusters to fill the theater chain.

If you recruit Hong Yinbao to the left and Ajie to the right, the new Zhao Cinema chain will have no shortage of good film sources.

When Golden Princess was first established, it faced repression from Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. It was only after the cancellation of the theater subsidy system that countless small and medium-sized companies came to seek release of their films. Suddenly there was no shortage of films. If Zhao replaced Shaw Brothers,

If he wants to stand firm, he has no choice but to shoot it himself.

Other blockbusters are also necessary.

Li Lianjie took a restrained sip of tea and said, "Mr. Zhao, many Hong Kong directors have asked me to film movies in the past, but they all asked me to go overseas and give up my mainland identity. I'm afraid it's hard for me to agree to this. I didn't know that your company would cooperate with me.

If so, are there any similar conditions..."

After hearing this, Zhao Donghuai felt that fate was playing tricks on people.

Later generations will know that Ajie changed his nationality long ago and performed many strange tricks.

But the time when he changed was in the late 1990s, when he was in his 30s.

Now Ajie is only 21 years old. He is of different age groups. It is really not the same brain circuit to think about things. When he was the most popular in the early 00s, he was always suppressed, just like Liang Jiahui, who is also blocked now. Want you

It doesn't matter if I write a letter of repentance and publicly admit my mistakes, Lao Liang, I would rather be banned, the worst possible outcome is to change my career.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Zhao Donghuai spoke cheerfully, "No, I don't have such a request. Wanwan Market says it's important, and that's it. At worst, the film I collaborated with you on won't go there."

Ajie is a powerful tool for breaking into the North American market. It can also be used to break into island countries. The box office there really doesn't matter.

"Whether you are in the system or not, you are free to take whatever status you want. I respect your choice. However, if you maintain the status quo, you will have to invite the leaders of the unit to renegotiate."

Jet Li was ecstatic, "This is not a big problem."

This problem is really not a big one. Whether he can go to sea or not is just a factor of whether he gets the entire remuneration from Hong Kong Island after paying taxes, or the system takes away 80-90% first and then gives him the rest.

A lot of Hong Kong directors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and hired him to film movies worth millions, and the bosses were very happy and excited. But once they heard that he was unwilling to go overseas, and if he didn't give up his mainland citizenship, he was destined to be unable to go to Wanwan Cinema, so there was no follow-up.

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Do you think his leader doesn’t want his unit to earn foreign exchange? In this era, no matter which leader in the Mainland wants to earn foreign exchange, okay, if he can do so, he will be a little hero in the system.

This is also the case with Shaolin Temple, Shaolin Boy, North and South Shaolin, and a few years later he started his own group as a director, and then made a film, all of which received support from many peers and leaders, many of whom really wanted to earn foreign exchange.

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Let's just say this first. I'll think about the movie first, and then I'll talk to your company."

"But there is one thing I hope you can do."

Li Lianjie immediately cheered up and said, "Mr. Zhao, please give instructions."

Zhao Donghuai waved his hand, "Don't be so serious. I hope that in addition to cooperating with me in the future, you will also pay attention to safety when taking on other roles. Don't do some moves that are too dangerous. You have to know that Kung Fu superstars are different."

"In some dangerous action scenes, it is normal for a mistake to be delayed for several months, resulting in missed work and time. So you have to go back and report. If we cooperate and sign several drama contracts at a time, then during this period, I will send someone to you

During the filming, I went into the set and watched."

"You will have people help you refuse some dangerous moves, otherwise we are working together to make a lot of money and you suddenly get injured... It will affect a series of major links from production to distribution to publicity, etc."

If he remembered correctly, after Li Lienjie finished filming Shaolin Boy, he was seriously injured while filming Shaolin North and South. His spine became lateral and he was about to be disabled for life. It would be this year or next year.

It took a long time to recover from my injuries.

He did not comment on Ajie's future marriage, but there is a good comparison. Look at the superstars of his generation, how much is Cheng Long? How much is Hong Yinbao? What about Ajie...

Hollywood is even more chaotic! DiCaprio is the representative of the guy playing with guns on the beach.

Throughout his life, judging from the results, there are a lot of messy news, just like the Hong Kong gossip report a while ago that Ma Sheng was born in a few seconds and the power of ten horses was as weird as that.

Jet Li, "Huh?"

Ji Chunhua reacted quickly and pulled him, "Ah what? This is for your own good, Mr. Zhao, please agree."

After finishing speaking, Lao Ji looked at Director Zhao eagerly, with a look of anticipation and desire.

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "If the deal is settled, I would also like to work with Mr. Ji. Your performance in the Shaolin Temple is very good!"

After the decline of Hong Kong movies, the Four Villains and the like also attracted many netizens to follow them. In fact, the Mr. Ji in front of me is not bad at all.

What he is thinking about now is that Ajie came to ask for cooperation. What kind of movie should he make, Black Man? Is it too advanced? But there is a saying that this kind of superhero story is the most popular and the most popular in Amei.

Easy to start.

Bruce Lee debuted as an adult in the superhero Green Hornet.

There are many Jet Li classics, such as Once Upon a Time in the Sky and Once Upon a Time in the Sky. The A-Mei video rental and sales sold for 10.23 million U.S. dollars and the DVD rental and sales for 3.6 million U.S. dollars, which is more than 10 million U.S. dollars, and the total revenue is hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

Even if there is a cost to produce the video tape, the publisher would have to cut it in half and pay taxes, which would still be a profit of tens of millions.

But now that Ajie is 21 years old, can he play the image of the great master? Can Xu Ke do it?

Superhero-style movies like Dark Knight are much easier to say. Not only did the video tapes and DVDs sell for more than 36 million U.S. dollars, and the discount is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, but the requirements for acting skills are not too high.

If we are filming Black Man, there will be no problem if Ji Chunhua is brought in to be the villain boss.

In terms of film remuneration, Ajie's Shaolin Temple shocked the world, and Shaolin Boy is not much weaker. The box office in Hong Kong was 22 million. It was originally the third runner-up in 1984, and it suppressed the fast food trucks of Cheng Long and Hong Yanbao.

There were 180,000 moviegoers in South Korea, and a ticket price of HK$20 was equivalent to 3 to 4 million, while the island country had a box office of more than 600 million yen.

Yes, compared to Shaolin Temple, the sequel to Shaolin Boy is in a state of decline. Looking at the world's film industry, there are not many sequels that are better than the original.

After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai said, "Ajie, working with you is destined to give up the Wanwan box office, so the salary I offer you may not be as high as some directors who spend money on you. I will tentatively decide on 500,000 Hong Kong dollars for each film."

"Is it acceptable?"

Li Lianjie was shocked and was a little knocked unconscious. More than one person really paid millions to poach him, but that was under the premise of letting him go to sea and give up his mainland identity.

Cheng Long's salary was 4.8 million yuan plus red envelopes afterward. Ajie, who started his career in the Shaolin Temple, is now much more valuable than Zhou Yunfa.

Now that Zhao Donghuai doesn't have those messy conditions, he still gives so much? Ji Chunhua was shocked and at a loss. After all, when he came, he still helped pay for the bus ride.

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After Zhao Donghuai saw off Li Lianjie and Ji Chunhua, Cheng Xiaodong came out from the corner of the corridor. He glanced at Ajie a few times before Cheng Sir smiled and said, "Jueyuan?"

"Boss, do you plan to collaborate with Jue Yuan in your next film?"

Zhao is the director, and he is considering who to find to direct Dark Man... It has been decided, considering that in the end Ajie's first movie will be filming Dark Man, to test the waters of a superhero movie.

Once successful, you can start Black Hero 2 or 3.

Or get into other superheroes.

Why didn’t he continue to act in the second film after Ajie’s Black Man? At that time, Black Man’s box office in Hong Kong was average, only over 13 million, which was far behind other films starring Ajie, and even a little less famous than the Kung Fu Superstar.

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After all, Ajie, who became famous thanks to the Once Upon a Time series, only earned 13 million at the box office by starring in a bigger role? What the heck is he doing?

Black Man has no plans for the next film.

It will be a few years later when Hei Xia has made over 36 million dollars in the A-Mei video tape market, which is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

The videotape market cycle is too long.

When that thing exploded, Ajie started to star in Hollywood. Naturally, he didn't like the crew of the Hong Kong version of Black Man, or the money from Hong Kong Island was not enough...

But when the company that holds the copyright for Dark Knight saw the potential of the video, Dark Knight 2 came out, and they found a Hollywood company to co-produce Dark Knight 2, and they jumped on it without any regrets.

The first Black Man was directed by Li Rengang. In order to gain fame, the second film hired Hollywood stars as supporting actors and co-produced it, with Xu Ke leading the team.

But it’s obvious that I can’t handle this subject matter.

Zhao Donghuai also knows that Black Man is a gold mine for poachers. As long as he secures Ah Jie's contract, Hong Kong film action in this era is epoch-making and ahead of the times for Hollywood. As long as the film is good and meets the appetite of Ah Mei people, he can really make money.

Quite a few.

When it is released in Hong Kong, we should also consider the possibility of a blockbuster.

Of course, just find an ordinary director. At most, Mr. Zhao will produce a split-shot script. With split-shots, the director only needs to have good skills and skills.

Isn’t Cheng Xiaodong the best choice?

He smiled and held Cheng Sir's shoulder, "It's not me working with Jue Yuan on the next play, it's you. I have a new idea. When I write the script, you will direct it alone, with Jue Yuan... By the way,

Find Liang Jiahui again."

"If Ajie is the first male lead, then the second male lead will be Tony Leung Ka Fai."

As the police male protagonist in The Dark Knight, Ah Hui is absolutely not afraid that Ah Hui will not be able to support him. After all, he has become an actor since his debut.
To be continued...