Chapter 142: Unleashing the Residual Heat (2/6)
Why are you looking for Wu Mengda, "The Wandering Earth" is about to be filmed, according to the original words of the big golden retriever: In the entire "The Wandering Earth", the most favorable role is Han Ziang played by Wu Mengda...
And Wu Mengda is different from those old-timers, in addition to making money to act in some old-fashioned comedies in recent years, he will also star in some serious movies, such as "Fuse News Line".
I still think of myself as a professional actor...
The main thing is that people are not short of money, and his restaurant is quite prosperous...
In addition, Lu Xiaoran thought about whether to get these people together and make a variety show that gave full play to their residual heat, just like "Informal Talks", so that everyone could talk about the Hong Kong movies of the year.
Choose a topic for each issue...
There should be a head.
There are so many topics that Hong Kong movies can say: comedy, action, underworld, eroticism...
A bunch of secrets!
Lu Xiaoran filmed "Wushuang" for two weeks, and the biggest feeling - this place says that some people are used to making movies!
For example, when filming a crowd scene, you don't need to set up a scene: before filming, the staff hid in the crowd with the equipment, and as soon as the director shouted Action, the staff rushed to the crowd with the actors and started acting.
Of course, alone, the chase scene is reported in advance, blocking the streets...
Hong Kong is very small, and the locations that can be photographed often overlap with the places that people frequent, so it can lead to dissatisfaction among vendors.
……
"You're going to do a variety show?"
"Yes, our company has a subsidiary specializing in variety shows, called Orange Pan Entertainment, "The Voice of China" and "Run" are all created by them, in recent years, the scale of variety shows that can be broadcast on TV is getting smaller and smaller, and you can only go to the video platform, I am ready to invite you to do a program with Wu Mengda, Weng Hong, and Guan Lijie to do a program that reminisces about Hong Kong movies..."
"If you want to do this kind of variety show, it's best to invite a few different companies, Xinyicheng, Golden Harvest, Xinbao, Emperor, China Star... The Hong Kong movies of that year were basically the world of these companies!"
“… I'm just preliminarily imagining, and the specific ideas and invitation list still have to wait for the variety show company to submit. ”
"You also have to pay attention to the fact that Hong Kong is too small, and there are a lot of grievances and grievances!"
Chen Baixiang's brain is quite flexible...
He is the host himself - the host of TVB's "Happy Tonight"!
Lu Xiaoran wanted to find a few familiar gold medal supporting roles, but these people always have their own faction, Chen Baixiang is, he has a very bad relationship with Zhang Guorong, when Tan Zhang was fighting for hegemony, he helped his good friend Alan Tam to scold Zhang Guorong a few times...
Everyone has their own circle!
However, because of Anita Mui's relationship, several people are also considered a circle, Chen Baixiang, Zeng Zhiwei, Alan Tam and Anita Mui have a very good relationship, so good that Anita Mui said, 'There are three dogs at home, one is called Chen Baixiang, one is Zeng Zhiwei, and the other is Alan Tam'...
Lu Xiaoran admires Chen Baixiang quite a lot, this guy's life is really legendary: when Brother Lat was 18 years old, he pulled his good friend Alan Tam to play music together, and they formed a band called "Loser".
The band didn't fail at all, as they beat Xu Guanjie's Lotus Band to win the championship at the festival.
But soon after, Chen Baixiang left the band, Alan Tam also went to study abroad, and the "loser" band was disbanded.
left the band to start a business, and in three years, he owned a three-piece garment factory and a net worth of 10 million.
That year, Chen Baixiang was only 25 years old.
The high-spirited one once bought five luxury cars in one go, and "life must be happy" is the best way to describe him.
After only a few years, because of the economic recession and increased competition, Chen Baixiang's garment factory was facing closure, and his girlfriends flew separately.
Not to mention the lack of people and money, there are still millions of unsalable clothes.
Chen Baixiang, a daring artist, personally dragged millions of pieces of clothing to the Middle East to trade with Somali pirates.
He offered to give the pirates a dollar for every piece of clothing sold, and it took him several years to clear all the goods, and he made a fortune.
Nima, talk to pirates?
Awesome!
Of course, now he is even more courageous: I am a normal Hong Kong citizen, with no high hall or children, so there is nothing to fear me!
……
The filming of "Wushuang" encountered a little problem - "Cold War 2" was too popular in Hong Kong!
Liang Jiahui and Zhou Yunfa had to publicize...
Ten days after its release, the box office has reached 45 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is very likely that "The Mermaid" will become the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong.
It is foreseeable that the next trend will be quite good, 60 million or even 70 million is possible!
It has been a long time since there has been such a big-selling local film in the Hong Kong film market, and of course "The Mermaid" is also a big seller: 57 million Hong Kong dollars!
By the way, the Hong Kong box office of "Journey to the West" is more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars...
In Lu Xiaoran's opinion, even if "Cold War 2" can have 70 million Hong Kong dollars, it is just a fraction of the mainland box office...
With this spare time, why don't you go to the mainland to run more roadshows?
In the eyes of these people, Hong Kong movies are only proud if they are big hits in Hong Kong!
Convinced!
Anyway, the filming cycle of "Wushuang" is two months, which is enough, and Lu Xiaoran is too lazy to care about so much...
However, a group of reporters asked questions that made him quite ... Surprised.
actually asked him what he thought of "Cold War 2" sweeping the mainland box office?
Big guy, the highest single-day box office of "Cold War 2" did not break 100 million, do you call this a sweep?
What is the highest single-day 240 million in "Geng Hao's Return to Hometown"?
Do you have any misunderstanding of the word sweep?
"Cold War 2" was released for a week, with a cumulative box office of 460 million;
The ticket price of "Big Fish and Begonia" is 410 million, and the release of "The Night the Comet Comes" was released for 14 days, with a cumulative box office of 590 million...
Orange Ticketing's box office forecast for "Cold War 2" is 670 million;
"Big Fish and Begonia" box office prediction is 580 million;
"The Night the Comet Comed", the total box office should be around 700 million...
Swept?
can't even beat a low-cost sci-fi thriller with an investment of 25 million, what kind of sweep can you talk about?
Of course, he definitely didn't answer like this, he said this: "I have always believed that the Chinese film market is the most inclusive in the world, good works will definitely be appreciated, and shoddy works will definitely be disliked..."Cold War 2" has an excellent reputation and quality, so it is expected to win a high box office!"
"Didn't you say before that it would be difficult for Hong Kong films to get more than 300 million box office results in the mainland?"
“… When I said this, in 2009, the total annual box office at that time was less than 10 billion, and now the total box office has already broken 50 billion, you multiply 300 million by five..."
Even in 2019, the best box office of Hong Kong films was "Anti-Drug 2 Heaven and Earth Showdown", which won 1.3 billion when there were almost no opponents in the same schedule, setting a box office record for Hong Kong films...
But so what?
Compared with the large market environment of more than 5 billion and 4 billion head works, Hong Kong films can only be regarded as an organic part of Chinese films at most, and they have long been not the mainstream choice!