Chapter 436: Her martial arts dream is to work as a waiter in an inn?(1/3)
November 3rd.
In Huayuan Phase 1, Tsim Sha Tsui, Zhao Donghuaizheng and Amin took Zhao Zheng to watch the little guy running back and forth between the sidewalk and the garden. Several cars stopped not far away, and a group of people quickly got out of the cars.
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"Hello boss, good afternoon, boss lady!"
"boss!"
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These are Hu Yong's family and Azhi, Lao Fan's family, Jia Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan and others, as well as a group of Pan Asia Group bodyguards.
As for their cars? Two cars and two trucks. The trucks were full of furniture and other supplies.
Zhao Donghuai laughed dumbly, "You guys moved here too?"
Azhi ran forward and smiled sweetly, "It's all thanks to your help, boss. Although my film (Alone Thief) only had a global sales of over HK$700 million when it was released, which is equivalent to US$91 million, it is far inferior to the (Home Alone) series.
The box office of a single film is more than US$300 million."
"But it's easy to buy a house and decorate it, not to mention the big red envelope you gave me, boss, it's really a lot of money."
In fact, when buying a house was still in preparation, Hu Yong had already gone to Lao Fan to discuss using the Chen Family Hong Kong Island Commercial Bank method to get a loan to buy a house in the first phase.
The house matters were settled at the beginning of May. Now it's November and the two families have just moved. It's just a matter of decoration.
Zhao Donghuai waved his hand, "Okay, you go and do your work."
Azhi thanked him again and backed away, while Bingbing came with Gao Yuanyuan, "Boss, (Harry Potter) is finished. Will our film (Prodigy) start filming this month?"
She did not talk about buying the house in the first phase of Huayuan. The house was a rough house that Guan Jiahui resold to her family and Azhi's family... In April, Lao Fan and Hu Huyong came to see the house. Basically, there were not many here.
A normal citizen owner.
Along with the group of celebrities staying there, there are more and more owners of elite Pan-Asian bodyguards. Those who are a little smarter and not short of money can just buy a few more sets and stock up on them.
Whether you use it to live in your own house in the future, or transfer it to friends or other stars in the future, this is all about connections and not relationships.
I spent more than ten days looking at houses, and the filming of (Harry Potter) has really started. Guan Jiahui is a Chinese female principal. Hermione, played by Bingbing in the crew, always wants to pay homage to the principal. The little girl is not only beautiful but also speaks nice words.
If so, Guan Jiahui would just transfer it to their family.
How should I put it? There are more than a dozen buildings in the first phase of Huayuan, with three to four units in each building. Guan Jiahui, the big tenant, is just here. Each unit in each building has at least one house.
This was still a period when many celebrities did not move in. The first phase of Huayuan was also the first residential community built by Zhou Huimin after acquiring Huazhi. At that time, Guan Jiahui, with casual support, bought a batch of houses for Amin.
At that time, it was still 1,410 feet, equivalent to 14,1 square meters. By November 1992, it had soared to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars per square meter.
Fan Bingbing is currently buying a double-storey duplex mansion in Unit 2 of Building 6, on the 7th and 8th floors. Azhi lives right across from her house. Because it has an indoor area of more than 200 square meters and two floors, she brought Gao Yuanyuan to move in with her.
New house.
A house costs about seven to eight million Hong Kong dollars. When I bought it, the Fan family couldn't afford that much money. Guan Jiahui also said that it didn't matter. She would just pay the final payment when she had saved up enough.
However, the two of them still borrowed a sum of money from Hong Kong Island Commercial Bank to complete the transaction.
Because the house was transferred to them by Guan Jiahui, Bingbing did not dare to say more. After all, Director Zhao and Zhou Huimin were raising the children together now...
Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Yes, (Agent Prodigy) can start filming at any time, but are you and Yuanyuan sure you don't want to take a break? Can we start working in the first half of the month?"
From April to November, including the preparation period (Harry Potter), it can be regarded as half a year. After the finalization, the post-production of special effects will also take several months. It is estimated that the actual release will be after the Spring Festival.
Wang Jing went to shoot "God of Gamblers 2", but this kind of movie, if Lan Naicai, Johnnie To or Chen Musheng were given a shot, the filming would not be slow.
Bingbing shook her head excitedly, "There's no need to rest. Yuanyuan and I will shoot with all our heart and strive to shoot better than (Little Ghost, Thief)."
Bingbing happily said, "My dad has become the store manager of a branch of Good Fortune in Tsim Sha Tsui, and his salary and benefits have been improved a lot. With his and my mother's full support, I will definitely be able to do more things."
Zhao Donghuai burst into laughter. Lao Fan has become a store manager? This... Lao Fan came to Hong Kong to work as a drifter in 1987. At first, he worked various odd jobs and occasionally worked as a street performer. In 1988, he opened the first batch of five restaurants in Tsim Sha Tsui and Central.
Bring the hotpot and open the business together.
He started working as a waiter and worked at Lucky Lai for more than four years.
It's not like he was asked to work as a store manager at the Tsim Sha Tsui flagship store. It was an ordinary branch. It was nothing, and it was a routine promotion and salary increase.
After chatting with Bingbing for a while, she asked them to continue moving. Seeing the two families, including the moving bodyguards, heading towards Building 6, Zhou Huimin couldn't help laughing, "The two little girls are still competing."
Ah Zhi's "Little Ghost and Thief" grossed US$91 million worldwide. This single movie is really more profitable than the two movies Bing Bing starred in (Laughing Lin Boy).
Putting aside the Harry Potter series, Bingbing really needs to shoot "The Prodigy" well if she wants to overtake her.
However, there is no need to talk about this kind of healthy competition. Amin looked at Zhao Donghuai curiously and asked, "How is your discussion with Murdoch going?"
Zhao Donghuai shook his head, "Lao Mo is not very courageous. He doesn't want to film it, or he dares not to film it. Diabetic patients in North America have begun to block Liu Yijun, thinking of raising funds from the public for our film industry to make a documentary film about resistance."
"Old Mo still won't let go...it's a bit troublesome."
Paul, a diabetic patient from New York and a young rich man, blocked Liu Yijun outside the first phase of Huayuan. He certainly knew that Zhao Donghuai was not afraid of multinational pharmaceutical giants such as Eli Lilly and Sanofi.
After all, as early as a few years ago, he had many battles with multinational giants such as Pfizer, Bayer, and Novartis.
But this time, after all, the FDA is involved. It's not just a fight with a medical group. If we really have to fight a business war, if the fight continues, Zhao Donghuai will definitely win. He has the ubiquitous Hydra organization.
But if there is too much movement, it would be a bit inappropriate.
It's the end of 1992, and it's been almost a year since Big Bear was officially disbanded...
"It's better to wait and see first, there's no rush in this matter."
After all, in the Hong Kong film industry, (Jurassic Park 3), (Spider-Man 2) and (Wanted 3) have all been completed in the summer and autumn, and they have all begun post-production special effects at the Pengcheng Special Effects Base.
Plus one (Harry Potter)??
At this stage, Ajay's (Fist of Fury) has only been released for 18 days, and there is also a blockbuster movie waiting to be released in November, Jim Carrey's (Dumb and Dumber), and Jim Carrey's (The Man in Disguise) in February. It has already been released and has taken the world by storm, earning more than 300 million U.S. dollars at the box office.
With such a record, Zhao Films finally "promoted" a new global superstar, how could it leave Jim Carrey idle? Jim Carrey and Chen Baixiang will play a pair of stupid buddies in (Dumb and Dumber), which will be filmed in April. The heroines of this version are Bai An and Nicole Kidman.
At that time, Zhao Donghuai just wrote an outline and asked the screenwriting team to fill in the details, including Chen Baixiang, who was also one of the screenwriters. Naturally, there is no need to mention Ah Le’s acting skills. He was not only able to compete with Ah Xing in Ah Xing’s nonsensical comedy, but he was also able to compete with Ah Xing. .
It has been a lot of fun working with Jim Carrey for a few months, and the schedule is set for November 13th, which is not far away.
With a lot of blockbusters gathering, the Type 1 Diabetes version (New York Buyers Club) is in no rush to be filmed and released.
Just then, Lan Nai appeared from a distance and started running from a distance, saying hello while running. Zhao Donghuai also accidentally discovered that Lao Lan was holding a comic in his hand??
When Lan Nai arrived a few meters away, he stopped and said with a smile, "Zhao Sheng, I found a comic called (Hot Blood High School). It is very popular in the island country. I contacted them and they are willing to sell it." Give me the copyright."
"I plan to try to make this movie, but if I want to make it, would it be better if the screenwriter changed it to a movie that takes place on Hong Kong Island, or would it be better to go to the island country to shoot?"
"And this comic is a bit too violent. I wonder if it will be blocked in mainland theaters?"
Amin smiled when he saw this and said, "You guys chat, I will take Xiaozheng to play somewhere else."
Zhao Donghuai nodded, "If you want to make the comic Hot Blood into a movie, it will be difficult to release it in the mainland. Not only in the mainland, but also in Malaysia, it's hard to say whether it can be released."
"But if you finish filming, you can still expect a wave of theaters in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. You can make it into a garbage university in the island country, an adult version of college students, so as not to mislead the outside world."
Dominate Suzuran University?? The hot-blooded manga was published in 1990 and was once known as the bible of delinquents. It was not until 2007 that an island director made a live-action movie, which made the star Oguri Shun explode in popularity.
Even if it is not released in the mainland, what are the resources in the Internet age? I don’t know how many movie fans got to know Shun Oguri through this movie.
This project can be done... Anyway, it will make money, and it can also make famous stars and create new cash cows. It is just that we can't expect the box office of theaters in many places.
But the business of video tapes and VCD discs is also not a small fortune.
Thinking of this, Zhao Donghuai still nodded and said, "Let's go to the Island University for filming."
Lan Naicai's own (The King of Power) was adapted from the island's comic book, and the comic version (Summer Lover) also achieved massive global box office, making Depp and Jennifer Aniston even more popular.
The director team continues to focus on comics and comic adaptations, which is basically gay.
The first part of the original version of "Hot Blood" was released in the island country and took in a box office of 2.5 billion yen, which is equivalent to 160 million yuan based on the exchange rate in 2007. The second part took in 3 billion yen, which is equivalent to almost 200 million yuan in 2009. 100 million yuan box office.
Even if it is released globally and does not get theaters in many countries and regions, it will be profitable enough for island countries.
In this dimension, there is no problem in releasing it in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Thailand.
Lan Naicai also nodded, "Okay, I'll go to the island country to shoot, but can I ask for water from Sakai Spring for the heroine?"
Zhao Donghuai laughed dumbly, "Quanshui, it will be difficult for you to ask her to make a movie. Give it a try. If you are really not the material for filming, there is nothing wrong with hiring Shizuka Kudo or Shinobu Nakayama."
The Ajie version (Fist of Heroes) currently being released around the world, one of the heroines is still Nakayama Shinobi. How can I put it, Ajie's modern urban blockbuster, the box office in Haowan, Hong Kong is average, and it can't match the box office in Hong Kong Island.
The box office is 25 million Hong Kong dollars.
But when it comes to the level of the action field? The fight between Ajie and Billy Chow is truly a century-old classic. After the movie was released in Europe and the United States, in more than ten days, it gradually accumulated 21 million U.S. dollars in North America and more than 13 million U.S. dollars in Europe.
It really relies on the super exciting fighting scenes to attract the audience.
The reputation is also strong enough! Original Locus (Fist of Heroes) has accumulated more than 16 million US dollars in video rental sales in North America.
Shinobu Nakayama has also become famous after her debut in the industry. At this stage, she and Izumi Sakai are the same. They are both representatives of the island country's red stars held up by the Hong Kong film industry.
Lan Naicai nodded, "Okay, let me contact Sakai Quanshui first to talk about Nakayama Ninja as an alternative. By the way, Fan Shaohuang is the male protagonist? That guy is quite good at fighting, and he looks good too."
Zhao Donghuai thought for a while, "Consider Wu Jing and Jincheng Wu, and let Xiao Fan be the first wife. Those two unlucky children have been deceived by Wang Jiawei for 21 months. Give them a little extra compensation."
"By the way, Wu Jing can try the original role of the old overlord who dominates Linglan, with Ah Wu playing the male lead... Let's change the script and make Wu Jing, the old overlord, a Chinese, a second-generation overseas Chinese who immigrated to the island country."
"Because of the discrimination and exclusion caused by my overseas Chinese identity, I convinced everyone with my true strength."
Lan Naicai was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "That's it."
To be continued...