Chapter 166: Celebration Banquet
In December's film market, Jiayi's "God of Gamblers" dominated the market, and the box office reached more than 18 million Hong Kong dollars in four weeks of release this month, which not only became the box office champion this year, but also the highest film in Hong Kong's box office record.
On the evening of December 28, Jiayi Film Company held a celebration party at the Peninsula Hotel, which was specially ordered by Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing also watched this movie, and there is still a big gap between this movie and the previous life. Chow Yun-fat's acting skills are obviously not as superb as later, and the plot of Wang Jing's current movie is also a little different from that of later generations, but overall, it is still good.
Jiayi Film Company also took great pains for this play, and none of the characters in it were simple, with Chen Yulian and Ouyang Peishan playing the two heroines, and the role of Xiaodao was played by Lin Guoxiong, a popular student from Jiayi Group who was dug from Li's. Liu Jiang, the backbone talent of Jiayi TV, also made a cameo in it, and the movie was full of big names.
At half past seven in the evening, Lee's motorcade arrived at the Peninsula Hotel. Naturally, reporters from all walks of life will not miss such an opportunity, and they all want to interview Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu didn't answer many questions, and walked into the hotel with a few perfunctory replies. Although these reporters wanted to interview Li Guangyu more, they had no choice but to shift the target to other people.
Many senior executives of Jiayi Group attended the celebration tonight, and there were not a few stars who came.
When Liu Tianci and others saw Li Guangyu coming, they immediately greeted him and greeted Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing one after another.
Li Guangyu said: "This time is very good, to have such good news when our group is about to go public, it is very beneficial to the market value of our group." ”
Today's happiest is Wu Xianglin, his original rhetoric at the group meeting has become a reality, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing personally came here to participate in the celebration, and their weight in Jiayi Group has increased a lot.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the celebration dinner officially began, Li Guangyu said: "Thank you for your efforts, this film will be of historical significance to our Jiayi Film Company, this is our first film in Hong Kong to gross more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, I hope this is a good start, and continue to break this record in the future." ”
After Li Guangyu finished speaking, he came to Wang Jing's side, which was full of some directors of the company and some friends of Wang Jing.
When Wang Jing and the others saw Li Guangyu coming, they immediately got up and said, "Li Shenghao is good." ”
Li Guangyu said: "Jing Zai, good job, this time the company would like to thank you for making such a good movie." ”
Wang Jing replied: "Li Sheng, I also want to thank the company for supporting me, if it weren't for the company's help in terms of artists, I'm afraid I wouldn't have such good results now." ”
Wang Jing knows that in order to successfully shoot this movie, Jiayi TV has adjusted the schedules of several artists for this reason. If it weren't for Jiayi Group, I would have wanted these people to come in a movie, and I basically couldn't do it.
And small film companies have to think carefully about the cost, unlike in Jiayi Group, as long as they have a script, there is basically no problem, and this investment is not much to consider in Jiayi.
Later, Wang Jing introduced several friends to Li Guangyu, and the one Li Guangyu knew the most was Wu Yusen. The true colors of this later hero put Chow Yun-fat on the altar, and the image of Xiao Ma spread all over the Taiwan Strait.
Wang Jing said: "Li Sheng, Wu Yusen's ability is still very powerful, he intends to come to our company to develop, I don't know what Li Sheng thinks." ”
Li Guangyu said: "Our group welcomes any talents to join, Mr. Wu Yusen is willing to come, we naturally welcome it." Why, is it Wu Xianglin who disagrees?"
Wang Jing knew that Li Guangyu had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "Li Sheng, no, I haven't told Manager Wu yet." The main reason is that the film that Assen wants to shoot is different from today's comedies and martial arts films. Ah Sen wants to shoot the shootout type, but he doesn't have such an opportunity on the Golden Harvest side, so I want to consult you first. ”
Li Guangyu naturally has no opinion, John Woo is famous for his gunfight movies. Lee said: "Mr. John Woo, our group will not restrict you to the type of film you make, as long as the film does not contain elements of political attack, you can shoot it. ”
John Woo has been a little depressed in the past two years, although he has also made some movies, but they are all comedies and the like, and the boss of his favorite genre film company does not agree. So he has never had the opportunity to try to shoot his favorite style, and this time in Lee Guang Woo finally got good news.
John Woo said: "Li Sheng, thank you for giving me this opportunity, I believe that such a movie will also be welcomed." ”
Li Guangyu naturally believes that it has been proved by later generations. Li Guangyu said: "You're welcome, Mr. John Woo, I believe that your talent will definitely achieve good results, and the title of tens of millions of directors will also have your name." ”
Li Guangyu came to the actors' side after chatting with Wang Jing for a while, and Li Guangyu expressed his gratitude to them for their contributions to the company, and also wished everyone and the group better and better development.
After returning to the management, Li Guangyu said to Wu Xianglin: "Wang Jing has a friend named Wu Yusen who will join our company, you should pay attention to him, if he has any scripts to shoot, direct investment to follow up, I am very optimistic about his future." ”
As soon as Wu Xianglin heard it, he knew that he was a top talent, and now the whole company has such treatment as Wang Jing. And Wang Jing really lived up to expectations and directly refreshed the box office record of Xiangjiang movies. Now Li Sheng has given Wu Yusen the same treatment, but I am afraid that this person's ability will not be much worse than Wang Jing.
Wu Xianglin said: "Li Sheng rest assured, our company will pay attention to it, and what the company lacks now is a talent like Director Xiang Wangjing." ”
Li Guangyu said: "We can't sit stupidly in the group and wait for talents to vote, if you think you have good ability, you can take the initiative to invite talents to the company." ”
Wu Xianglin also thinks about it, but it is not easy to find talents like Wang Jing nowadays, either they are in Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, or they are the bosses.
Wu Xianglin said: "Li Sheng, we will dig." ”
Li Guangyu then said to Liu Tianci: "You have to do a good job in the group, we will be listed on the 3rd of next month, and I don't want bad news from the group in the past few days." ”
Liu Tianci said: "Li Sheng, rest assured, we must pay attention to the affairs of the group, and never let it affect the market value of our listing." ”
The dinner lasted until 11 p.m., when Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing left the Peninsula Hotel at the behest of the higher-ups.