On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

It has been a full two weeks since "Zombie Supreme" was released on February 10.

In the past, the Filmmaker's Café at The Peninsula was particularly lively on weekends, with many big stars calling for afternoon tea before finding a place to play mahjong.

The same is true now, the staff of the Oriental Film Company are basically rich in time, and in this kind of free time, they will make an appointment with familiar friends to drink tea and chat here, and today's filmmaker tea house is basically chartered by the directors and star artists of the Oriental Film Company.

Xu Ke, who is the director of the martial arts film production department, drank tea and glanced at a place in the distance, where Lin Zhengying was drinking tea and chatting with Liu Guanwei, the director of the fantasy film production department, and Liu Zhenwei, who is also the director of the fantasy film production department, was also on the side, interjecting from time to time to create an atmosphere.

"The box office of "Zombie Supreme" broke 15 million, right?" Xu Ke retracted his gaze and asked himself Cheng Xiaodong at this table.

Cheng Xiaodong nodded: "It seems that it broke 15 million the day before yesterday, and according to this momentum, the box office of "Zombie Supreme" may also have more than 30 million." ”

At this time, at another table a few meters away from Xu Ke and Cheng Xiaodong, Zhang Aijia said unpleasantly: "It broke 30 million again, I didn't expect that a fantasy film could be such a blockbuster." ”

Accompanying Zhang Aijia was Xu Anhua, the director of the literary film production department of Oriental Film Company.

Xu Anhua, like Zhang Aijia, is an honest literary film director and screenwriter, and they both shoulder many responsibilities anyway.

Xu Anhua said helplessly: "I heard that the Twentieth Century Fox Company in the United States has come to talk about the release of this film, and I can't imagine that there will be such a situation in a fantasy film that has never improved. ”

In Xu Anhua's memory, there has never been a film with the style of a fantasy film that can enter the American market, but today's results of "Zombie Supreme" have refreshed her cognition.

Oriental Film Company, this time the joint release is the fantasy film "Zombie Supreme" and the literary film "Favorite". One will be released in the East Theater and the other will be released in the West Theater.

Obviously, the scale of the theaters released is exactly the same, but two weeks later, the box office is a world of difference.

The box office of "Zombie Supreme" has exceeded 15 million, and "Favorite" has not even broken 8 million.

However, although "Favorite" did not do well at the box office, it also received rave reviews, and maybe it could be followed up.

It can be said without modesty that Lin Zhengying is a figure who has often been talked about by others in the past few days, from the song and dance hall to the meeting of some parliamentarians, they can't help but make fun of Uncle Nine.

The eyes returned to Xu Ke, although "Zombie Supreme" is a work of Oriental Film, as a member of Oriental Film Company, he also has honor and honor. But in reality, it has nothing to do with him.

Oriental Film Company still has quarterly and annual evaluations, saying that the production department where Xu Ke is located can't lose to the psychedelic film production department, and the current more popular martial arts fantasy loses to psychedelic fantasy, which is really ridiculous and generous.

So these days, Xu Ke postponed the filming of the original "Dao Ma Dan" and decided to shoot a new film, but fortunately, the original heroine of "Dao Ma Dan" still supported his decision, and it was not too difficult to give it to Xu Ke.

Cheng Xiaodong sat there and inked for a long time, and finally said: "We also have to step up the filming of movies, it doesn't matter if we lose in the quarterly evaluation, we win the majority in the annual evaluation, that is the key." ”

There is no penalty for Oriental Film Company's quarterly evaluation, and the annual evaluation is not only rewarding, but also extremely frightening. (For readers who have forgotten, you can see the chapter "Chapter 283 Wonderful Ideas Xu Ziming" for specific content.) ）

Xu Ke nodded, he thought that Cheng Xiaodong's analysis had some truth, Xu Ke said: "I have been thinking about photographing an ancient one recently

Loading movies. ”

Cheng Xiaodong's martial arts instructor is the number one expert, but when discussing the plot, he doesn't know, "What movie, is there a name?"

Xu Ke explained: "I watched Li Hanxiang's version of the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" these days, and found that there is still a huge space for us to explore. ”

Xu Ke glanced at Cheng Xiaodong and said: "The current movie does not show the romantic emotional drama between men and women, let's shoot a love story." ”

Cheng Xiaodong was surprised: "Have you told Mr. Xu (Xu Ziming)?"

Xu Ke said directly: "I'll go to Mr. Xu another day to talk about the filming plan." ”

Cheng Xiaodong was a little worried: "If you do this, I'm afraid that Mr. Xu may not agree." ”

Xu Ke said relaxedly: "This is not a problem of ancient costumes, but a problem of mentality, now people need something of romantic emotion, I think Liaozhai is a story that can be used well." ”

The movie that the two talked about was "A Chinese Ghost Story", which swept Hong Kong in the future and left lingering memories for future audiences.

The director and staff of Oriental Film Company are worried about the next quarterly evaluation. At this moment, Xinyi City, because of the news that the psychedelic film "Zombie Supreme" is valued by Twentieth Century Fox and is about to be released in Europe and the United States, the company has exploded.

Many years ago, Xinyicheng can be said to be full of talents, the core creative team of Xinyicheng, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng have already left; then Zhang Aijia left, and later switched to Oriental Film Company; recently Teddy Luobing also had conflicts with Mecca, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming, and it is estimated that it will not be long before he will leave Xinyicheng.

used to be the core creative team, but now there are only three giants left: Mecca, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming.

Among these three people, they are not monolithic, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming felt that Mecca had too many shares, and asked for the redistribution of the company's shares many times, but they were ruthlessly rejected by Mecca. If it weren't for the common interests between them, I'm afraid Xinyicheng would have broken up.

Moreover, the mentality of the three giants of Xinyicheng has already changed, they were ambitious and passionate when they first started their businesses, and they often worked all night to discuss the plot.

But now?

With a computer in his office and a pager in his briefcase, Mecca spends his days not creating movies but studying the Hong Kong stock market.

Hong Kong's stock market has been doing well since September last year, with most of Mecca's money going into it, and now he makes more money buying stocks than making movies, so where can he focus on filmmaking?

Shi Tian is in a similar state to Mecca, but he is not speculating in stocks but in buildings.

But Shi Tian did not have the good fortune of making money in Mecca, on the contrary, he lost a lot of money in real estate speculation, but the more he lost, the more he wanted to win.

Huang Baiming is not as vulgar as the previous two, but he is almost tired of it.

Seeing that the psychedelic films were better than the big productions of their new art city, Huang Baiming's idea of leaving the stinky pool of the new art city was even more determined.

Twentieth Century Fox directly opened the door to the Oriental Film Company, which did not require the Oriental Film Company to go to the United States in person, which also destined the Oriental Film Company to make great achievements in Hollywood in the future.

Huang Baiming has two main aspects of making movies, one is to make movies to make money, and the other is to like this industry.

Therefore, Oriental Film Company seems to be the best way for him to leave Xinyi City.

In the chairman's office of Golden Harvest Film Company, He Guanchang said with a sigh: "The new art city is not enough to worry about, and Oriental Film is the most powerful opponent." ”

Zou Wenhuai nodded and said: "It's good that the new art city can last another year without breaking up, but without the new art city, our cooperation with the golden princess is actually not very useful." ”

Why did Golden Harvest cooperate with Princess Jin before,

In order to compete with the Oriental Film Company to a greater extent, but if the new art city is disbanded, it will deal a fatal blow to the golden princess, and if the golden princess is weak, the cooperation between the two will be much lower.

"That's not what I'm worried about," Zou Wenhuai's cloudy eyes revealed a bright light of wisdom, threw the cigarette in his hand directly into the ashtray, and said, "I heard from others that not long ago, the 20th Century Fox in the United States sent someone to the Oriental Film Company in person to talk about the release of "Zombie Supreme" in the United States, as if there was some cooperation between the two companies. ”

He Guanchang's face also became grim, because he already understood what Zou Wenhuai was worried about.

At the beginning, Golden Harvest opened up the American film market, and it was also because of Bruce Lee that he was able to get a piece of the pie, and after Bruce Lee's death. Golden Harvest is ready to train Cheng Long to become the best candidate to break into Hollywood.

However, Golden Harvest has never been able to achieve its wish, and has always been on the verge of temptation. Because compared with American Hollywood blockbusters, although Chinese movies are good, Chinese movie stars are not very popular in the United States.

Now the fantasy film has actually attracted the interest of major American film companies, and it is really a thing that a sow can climb a tree.

If the Oriental Film Company can operate well, Golden Harvest will lose not only to the Hong Kong film market, but also to the international film market.

Zou Wenhuai was quite sad that the film company he was obsessed with was left far behind by the other party in the end, just like other small film companies.

He Guanchang couldn't help sighing: "Aside from the United States, just from the Hong Kong film industry, our Golden Harvest is already much worse than Oriental Film Company." The most popular artists in Hong Kong are basically where Xu Ziming is, as for Golden Harvest, it is also Cheng Long, Xu Guanjie, Xia Wenxi, Hu Huizhong, ,......"

The famous artists signed by Golden Harvest, He Guanchang can be counted almost with one hand, and as for the Oriental Film Company, He Guanchang and Zou Wenhuai are too many to count with their hands and feet.

However, the influence of male stars in Hong Kong's film industry is still much higher than that of female stars, which means that the influence of the film industry is mostly determined by male movie stars.

Zou Wenhuai said: "In this Hong Kong movie, if the movie star is famous enough, the script is also good, this is the situation of a big hit." I think Lin Zhengying's recent fame is almost comparable to that of the Four Heavenly Kings, so I just let people dig Lin Zhengying at a high price. ”

"Lin Zhengying can't dig it up, is it possible to dig Wan Ziliang and Zhou Xingchi?" He Guanchang suddenly asked.

Lin Zhengying is now single-minded, rejecting any non-Oriental Film Company's fantasy films, this is to hold on to the rhythm of the big tree of Oriental Film Company.

Liu Lianghua, who had been sitting next to Zou Wenhuai, shook her head and said, "Taking the initiative to dig into Xu Ziming's corner, will the risk be too great." ”

Liu Lianghua's worries are not unreasonable, Xu Ziming is not the boss of a different film company, and his identity background is very complicated.

He Guanchang said ruthlessly: "Let's dig quietly, and when we get the people, I don't believe that Xu Ziming will snatch the people directly." ”

Zou Wenhuai heard this, and said with concern: "Zhou Xingchi and Wan Ziliang are not worth this. ”

He Guanchang said affirmatively: "Although Wan Ziliang and Zhou Xingchi are not the most famous now, they feel that they are potential stocks, as long as they dig carefully, there are basically few movie stars in Hong Kong who can compare." ”

"Compared with our Jiahe's Cheng Long, although Zhou Xingchi and Wan Ziliang are still a little worse, but in time, even the current Zhou Runfa will be better. ”

The current Zhou Xingchi is like this, Hong Kong audiences only recognize Zhou Xingchi's nonsensical comedy, if this comedy style can continue to sell well, then Zhou Xingchi's value is not inferior to Cheng Long.

And Wan Ziliang's acting skills are even better, and the style of the boss in the movie is intoxicating.

"Let Liang Feng talk, he is eloquent. Zou Wenhuai thought for a while and said.

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