In early December 1990, Jim Carrey got the comic and planned to turn the comic into a movie to prepare for a big special effects movie. The early special effects models and other things were slow to work on.

Until this year, after Wang Jing finished filming, Playing Truant was released, and on May 21st, Fei Jing was still thinking of signing Zhang Weijian to star in it.

However, by mid-June, all the preparations were completed, and filming was officially launched. Fei Jing, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, etc. were also busy again.

The big villain in that movie was Richard Norton, a club boss who was killed by his subordinates in rebellion. He killed him and became the ultimate villain. The one who also stole Loki's mask was Gary Daniels.

Gary Daniels is Cheng Longli, the white gangster who robbed the Fuki Maru with Richard Norton.

The filming started on June 15th, and today is November 5th. The more than 4-month-old crew is approaching the completion period. However, in the early stages of filming, information about the floods in East China in the Mainland flooded everything, and East Asia and Southeast Asia were all focused on the disaster.

That crew seemed very marginalized.

Zhao Donghuai took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Shao Sheng, you are getting an advantage by hiring Jim Carrey to film now. When he is released, the salary will not only be 5 million US dollars."

Shao Daheng's eyes lit up, "Are you very confident in his movie?"

After saying that, without waiting for a reply, Shao Yifu smiled and touched the floor with his crutch, "I was negligent. Yes, even though it was an imitation style, Ah Xing's Variety Star King has not been a big hit in Europe and the United States."

"But that's because it's almost entirely produced by Chinese people. The popularity in Europe and the United States is already low. It has a white creative team. So as long as Jim Carrey has 70% of Ah Sing's comedy skills, the box office will not be bad."

Zhao Donghuai was also happy. Jim Carrey has Ah Xing’s seven-success power? Well, with different development trajectories, in this dimension, the identity of the second generation of Lao Jin Ah Xing cannot be escaped.

Even in terms of age, he and Zhou Xingxing are both entertainers and stars born in the same year.

Shao Yifu said again, "Speaking of which, I'm afraid that Ah Xing won't like him. It's not that I can't afford the money. It's that Zhou Xingxing is already a capital boss at this stage. His book is not good enough, so it will be difficult to impress him."

"To hire Jim Carrey now is equivalent to a salary of HK$39 million, which is much more expensive than hiring Ah Sing himself!"

If you go to hire Zhou Xingxing, who is not Zhao or a subsidiary of Zhao, you won’t be able to hire him for 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but you can’t hire him for up to 15 million Hong Kong dollars.

In the current Chinese entertainment industry, no one can earn an outrageous salary of more than 15 million Hong Kong dollars. On the contrary, white celebrities, not to mention Depp's sky-high salary, Jim Carrey's and the like are also sky-high.

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "Lei Sheng made the film, and his salary was 218 million. Judging from the results, he still made a lot of money."

After the example of Summer Lovers, Kochisen and Huang Baiming also became famous. After all, they are directors and producers. Similarly, this movie also made the original comic author Gui Zhenghe famous. In the past, Gui Zhenghe was only a famous figure in the Japanese comics industry.

Great God.

At this stage, his popularity in Europe and the United States is also overwhelming.

I heard that many Hollywood giants have taken their sights on Gui Zheng and other works, and also want to adapt them for film and television production.

After he and Shao Yifu chatted for a while, Wang Dashuo, who had been waiting outside for a long time, quickly came to say hello after seeing this person off.

After being polite, Wang Dashuo smiled and said, "Sheng Zhao, I'm here to deliver the master tapes. It's not easy to wait until now for this movie to have a better schedule."

?This is a project that was saved when Dashifu visited on February 17, the third day of the Lunar New Year. Director Yu Rentai, after the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he took Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Wu Zhenyu, Lan Jieying and others to shoot.

It will be completed in May.

At that time, the schedule was for "The Movie" and "The Movie", which hit the Asian film scene one after another. What were the box office performances of those two blockbusters? As long as you are not stupid, you will not let your projects compete with those two movies.

Then in June, theater chains were silent during the floods in East China. After the floods, in addition to being released in Asia, Wanjia and New Era Cinemas strongly promoted the film from Shanghai Film Studio.

Next up are blockbuster films like He and Hui.

It has only been released for a little over a month now. Zhang Guorong is still touring with Andy Lau, Tan Yonglin and others with his disciples, so it is a very good time to release it.

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Then let's release it and let Ah Rong mention a few words during the tour. It will be released in theaters on the 7th the day after tomorrow."

Wang Dashuo smiled brightly, "I feel that the box office of Hong Kong Haowan and Xingma Tai, South Korea will not be much higher. Just like Ajie's aesthetic fatigue, I feel cold, but I don't have a big appetite, so I can make a small profit."

A profit of 30 to 40 million Hong Kong dollars is enough."

"I paid Ah Rong and the others' remuneration in RMB, so the cost can be ignored."

What Da Shitou said makes people want to beat him up, but it is a fact of this era. All his remuneration is settled in RMB. After all, Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Wu Zhenyu and others also have factories in the mainland, so they don't have to worry about lack of space.

flower.

Those RMB can just be used as wages in the factory, and there is no need to worry about spending them.

When calculating the profits of the movie, Big Stone Hong Kong Island will definitely not make much money. It is estimated that it will only earn a few million Hong Kong dollars. But if you add up multiple locations, the profits will always accumulate.

Zhao Donghuai also remembered that in the original track, the box office in Hong Kong was more than 7 million higher than Ajie's.

Da Shitou smiled again and said, "By the way, I have to thank Zhao Sheng, otherwise how could The Final Battle achieve such a high box office? Its box office really shocked countless people, including the main creative team."

Zhao Donghuai was dumbfounded, "It has nothing to do with me, it's just that the soldiers are too cute."

In fact, in the original track, the first part of Armageddon was also released on Hong Kong Island. It took 1 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in 14 days of release, but it was released in March 1993...

The schedule doesn't work, and the announcement doesn't work.

In this dimension, Zhao Donghuai never interfered in the creation and production of Armageddon, but he was able to make the movie accumulate more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars in box office in thousands of theaters on Hong Kong Island.

Xingma Taiga South Korea and Benzhou have also accumulated a total box office of hundreds of millions.

Why is the gap so big? Because in June and July, ATV broadcast live broadcasts of too many scenes of soldiers rushing to the front line to fight floods and provide disaster relief. They collapsed and fell asleep on the road.

This kind of quality as a soldier shocked the Hong Kong star Matthew Tai and the island nation of South Korea.

Compared with the current soldiers from various countries, the quality of the soldiers from the mainland is really shocking. There are many warlords in Thailand. The chaos in the Golden Triangle is well known. What is the quality of the soldiers from South Korea and island countries?

I am really afraid of comparison in everything!

The popularity of "The Showdown" in thousands of theaters in the mainland is getting more and more exaggerated day by day. Coupled with appropriate publicity and vigorous promotion, it will rise from the original trajectory of more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars to more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong Island.

Of course, compared with the original trajectory of Hong Kong Island, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong drifters from the mainland are also part of the main contribution to the box office. Millions of white and Latin mixed Hong Kong drifters were curious after watching the news about the Bingge Tiantang fighting floods and disaster relief.

They are attracted to see how their predecessors fought.

It also contributed a lot to the box office.

There are also a lot of tourists!

According to the original track, in 1992, Huaihai: Battle 2 was quite good. Huaihai was divided into two parts, which were released in theaters on Hong Kong Island in turn. The two parts accumulated more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.

Huaihaili's classic line "800,000 vs. 600,000, the advantage is mine" is still a famous meme in the 2020s.

Nowadays, the box office revenue of Battle 1 and 2 has been settled one after another to the mainland. The video distribution is also operated by the Zhao family, and the revenue is settled monthly.

That is a profit settlement of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars... One is the Bayi Factory and the other is the Shangmei Factory. With this efficient and fast money settlement, the power of Zhao Donghuai and his friends in the mainland has risen several levels.

Donating five-axis linkage CNC machine tools and supercomputer is a kind of friendship, and leading the mainland to make money and make a fortune based on their own strength is another kind of friendship.

The next moment, Wang Dashou suddenly smiled a little obscenely, "Zhao Sheng, can I go and watch the crew of Mai Jujie and Ajie? What kind of futon? This film seems inappropriate to be released in Wanjia and New Era, right?"

Zhao Donghuai groaned in his heart, what kind of futon is turned on?

It seems to be right. The original track was to be released on November 30, with a box office of more than 18 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 15th in the box office rankings of Hong Kong Island in 1991.

He honestly didn't expect that Ajie would take this path. In the photo of Wei Yangsheng and Tie Yuxiang, the Tie Yuxiang who impressed Zhao Donghuai the most was Lan Xinyan.

After sending Wang Dashu away, he said to Xiaoxian, "Ajie has started filming? Who is acting?"

Xiaoxian ran to investigate and then came back and said, "Wu Qihua was originally chosen as the male lead, but Wu Qihua didn't want to play the role after learning that it was a romantic film. Later, Wu Dairong was cast, and the female lead was Ye Zimei, but A Mei didn't work.

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"Amei is the kind of person who still holds the pipa and half-covers her face..."

Zhao Donghuai listened to the explanation and nodded one by one. Compared with the original work, this version of Wei Yangsheng only changed three people. Wu Dairong, the male lead, and Xu Jinjiang are not here. The person who replaced Lao Xu is Shan Liwen.

Luo Lie is not here either, and his replacement is Luo Dahua.

There are quite a few romantic movies in Hong Kong with a long history, but Wanjia has never released those movies. Mak Xuexiong and Mak Xujie must know the rules.

He was a little surprised. How could Lao Mai, who had filmed before, still be a producer and make this kind of movie... He was short of money and spent it?

Xiaoxian smiled broadly, "You want to see it? Then find someone who can't help but take it back and take a look at it first?"

What she was talking about was one of Ye Yuqing's masterpieces, Original Track, Current Plane. Sister Ye still made a trilogy. The first part was released just ten days ago, and she made a lot of money at Jiahe Cinema.

Zhao Donghuai was speechless, "You are looking down on yourself."

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In a private room of a hot pot restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui, Lao Wu looked excited and dazed. He raised a glass of wine gratefully and said, "Ah Zhen, thank you so much. It's all in the wine. It's all in the wine. I'll do whatever you want.

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Zhang Jiazhen waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, Brother Sen, you are talented. The defeat of Taiping Wheel was an accident."

"However, it ended up taking 1.35 billion yuan in box office in the Mainland, setting a new box office record, exceeding more than 70 million yuan. The total box office in East and Southeast Asia exceeded 2 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is enough to show that the modern war movie is actually very popular."

"As long as you shoot well, you will make a lot of money."

"When you go to Vietnam to shoot, you should shoot more big scenes of war scenes. You are very motivated."

As early as the 15th of last month, the Zhang family had interceded with Wang Zuxian and persuaded Zhao Sheng to speak up and let the Xiang family let Lao Wu go. They bought out the contract with 10 million Hong Kong dollars from Akai of the Li family.

It's been 20 days...well, when the ten-year director contract was voided, Xiang Laoshi couldn't help but beat Lao Wu again. He just recovered from his injuries and was able to come out today.

Now Good Luck comes to the private room, and there are only two people, Lao Wu and Zhang Jiazhen, but this meal is really not just for two people, Lao Wu also called Liang Chaowei, Zhang Xueyou, Li Zixiong, Simon Yam and others. Those are all Lao Wu's breakfast

Just consider good candidates.

On the contrary, he hasn't chosen the heroine yet.

The director and producer came early? This is because Lao Wu has been holding back for so long and suffered so many crimes. He feels free and can't wait to spread his wings and fly high.

After he drank a glass of white wine and listened to Zhang Jiazhen's words, he couldn't help but nod, "Yes, yes, my original idea was still about a movie about brotherhood. Although there are not many scenes describing the war, it is still inferior to the final battle.
To be continued...