Chapter 286: Building a Cinema
The next day, Guan Zhilin opened her eyes and reached out to hug the great man beside her, but she pounced. Guan Zhilin turned her head to look and found that Li Xuan, who was sleeping next to her, had already left at some point, and she was holding the crystal chandelier on the ceiling in a daze, feeling very lost.
After a few minutes, Guan Zhilin suddenly remembered something, sat up from the bed all of a sudden, opened the quilt directly to reveal her delicate snow-white body, and rummaged through the bed to find something. Soon, she spotted the folded check next to the pillow next to the bed.
Guan Zhilin picked up the check and glanced at it, her heartbeat couldn't help but speed up immediately, and there was a look of surprise on her pretty face. 5 million! Guan Zhilin looked at it carefully again, confirming that this number was not wrong, and her face was already full of excited smiles.
Her previous negative feelings of loss and sadness have been swept away at this moment. This huge amount of money is enough for her to work hard for four or five years. The salary of movie stars today is not as good as that of a few decades later, and it is often millions of dollars. In the past 1982, the box office champion in Hong Kong was "Best Partner" starring Xu Guanjie, which only won a total box office of 26 million Hong Kong dollars.
Among the first-line stars in Hong Kong, there are actually very few who can earn more than one million, and there are only a few people such as the Xu brothers, Jackie Chan, and Hong Jinbao. The salary of female stars is lower than that of male stars. TVB's "Chu Liuxiang" was introduced to Taiwan last year, making Zhao Yuzhi, who played the role of "Rong Rong", popular all over Taiwan. So Taiwanese producers came one after another, offering her a high price of 250,000 Hong Kong dollars, and competing to invite her to make a movie.
Guan Zhilin, with the support of Asia Pictures, has recently been promoted to a first-line actress, but more often she still plays some beautiful vase roles. The brokerage company helped her quote 15-200,000 Hong Kong dollars per play. These salaries are minus the brokerage company's commission. And after paying taxes, less than half of them can really be obtained. Even if you count commercial income such as shooting advertisements and receiving endorsements. Guan Zhilin worked hard for a year, and the real income was only about 1 million.
Compared with ordinary salaried people with an annual salary of only 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, this is naturally a lot of income. That's why countless people aspire to be stars. In addition to enjoying the vanity of standing in the spotlight and being paid attention to, real benefits are also an important reason to attract countless boys and girls to join the big dye vat of the showbiz.
And Li Xuan didn't even blink, he wrote a check for 5 million, which was a huge sum of money that Guan Zhilin had never seen in her life. She is a person who enjoys more, and although she earns a lot of money from making movies, she usually spends more. Buying cosmetics, clothes, and bags, since becoming a star, Guan Zhilin naturally disdains to use those big road goods. And choose some luxury brands that are expensive.
Under such lavish expenses, Guan Zhilin has not been able to save much money from making movies. So she has always longed to step into the wealthy family with one foot and live that kind of luxurious life without worrying about food and clothing. And obviously Li Xuan is the best target she chose to achieve her dream.
The net worth of "God of Wealth Lee" has exceeded 50 billion when converted into Hong Kong dollars. A mere 5 million yuan is just a drop in the bucket for Li Xuan.
After a long while, Guan Zhilin's excitement calmed down a little, and she found that there was a new set of clothes with the check. The set of clothes that Guan Zhilin wore on her body last night had already been reimbursed under Li Xuan's tearing. And before Li Xuan left, he obviously asked someone to bring her new clothes to wear today.
Guan Zhilin's heart welled up with a hint of sweetness. I didn't expect such a strong man last night to have such a careful side. She went into the bathroom and opened the water valve, ready to soak in a hot bath. And all she was thinking about now was how to capture Li Xuan's heart so that she could stay with this man all the time.
Filming is not a very easy task. Especially if the filming process is not smooth, or the director has to rush the deadline, it is common to rotate for more than ten hours. Sometimes Guan Zhilin came home. I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to take off my clothes, so I fell asleep. Compared with. If she could capture Li Xuan's great treasure, she wouldn't need to work as hard as she did now. Just sit at home and dress up beautifully.
Guan Zhilin's most envious thing in her heart is Zhong Chuhong, she is also an acting background, but now she has become Mrs. Li who is envied and envied by all Hong Kong girls. Every time Zhong Chuhong attends a high-class social banquet gracefully and luxuriously, she will become the focus of everyone's attention, and she is called the most temperamental woman by Hong Kong newspapers. Guan Zhilin didn't feel that she was worse than the other party, but her life was not as good as Zhong Chuhong's, and she didn't meet Li Xuan in advance.
There was no Guan Zhilin's role today, but she still endured the discomfort of her lower body and rushed to the set, because there was a scene of Li Xuan in the afternoon. In fact, Li Xuan's cameo is a very rich diamond king, and he only needs to perform in his true colors, and he doesn't have many scenes. But Li Xuan obviously has no talent as an actor, not only often making low-level mistakes in various positions, but also performing very stiffly.
So Zeng Zhiwei, who was sitting behind the monitor, could only keep ng. If it were other actors, he would have gone crazy a long time ago, and the scene that should have been filmed in a few hours has been filmed for two days. But in front of Li Xuan, not only did he not have the slightest resentment, but he told Li Xuan with a smile on his face and told Li Xuan very kindly, so he almost taught him by hand.
"This is over!" After shooting three times in a row, Zeng Zhiwei finally nodded happily.
"It seems that the profession of filming is indeed not suitable for me!" Li Xuan shook his head helplessly, he had already seen Zhou Liang Shuyi standing behind Zeng Zhiwei with a playful smile on her face.
In the past few days, the crew of "Five Lucky Stars" has continued to welcome many onlookers, such as the producers and directors of ATV who used to shoot TV series on the same set, and they came to watch the screen premiere of their big boss. As a result, a group of people looked at his poor acting skills, wanted to laugh but were embarrassed to laugh, endured it very hard, and soon ran away.
And just now, Du Wenqiang, the fat man, as the president of Oriental Game Company, even openly took the lead in leaving his post during working hours and came from Central to the set in Kowloon to watch the excitement. He was not happy to stand on the sidelines and watch, and he personally went out to be an extra, and he also appeared in the camera.
"Let's delete more of my scenes, I can't let me personally drag down the progress of the entire crew, this is not in accordance with the rules!" Li Xuan smiled at Zeng Zhiwei, "I will sponsor 1 million Hong Kong dollars to the crew as an additional expense for these few days!"
In the past two days, Li Xuan has become addicted to acting, and he has lost a lot of enthusiasm for continuing to act. So he simply prepared to quit early and let Zeng Zhiwei delete some of his scenes. Originally, his cameo role was actually dispensable, and even if it was all edited in the later stage, it would not have any impact on the movie.
And in the past two days, because of Li Xuan's drag, most of the entire crew has nothing to do. Because ATV Group, the parent company of Asia Films, is not Li Xuan's sole proprietorship, the company has some other small shareholders. Li Xuan was not prepared to damage the interests of other shareholders because of his own tickets, so he simply sponsored 1 million yuan to the film in his personal name, which was enough to make up for the loss caused by slowing down the two-day process.
"You won't come to see me perform, right?" Li Xuan turned his head to Zhou Liang Shuyi and asked, she, a famous strong woman in the Hong Kong film and television industry, would definitely not be as boring as Du Fatzi before.
"I was just passing by, and by the way, I saw the wonderful performance of the boss, you just now!" Zhou Liang Shuyi said with a smile.
"You people are all so bold! Not only do you not praise me for my courage in dedicating yourself to art, but you all dare to make fun of your boss. Wait until the end of the year to pay bonuses, and there will be a time for you to cry!" Li Xuan said pretending to be dissatisfied.
At this time, Zeng Zhiwei arranged for an assistant director to take over to continue filming, and he personally accompanied Li Xuan and Zhou Liang Shuyi into a lounge next to him.
"Taking advantage of the sharp drop in land prices in Hong Kong, our group is ready to negotiate with the Hong Kong government, hoping to buy a piece of land in Tseung Kwan O at a lower price to build its own studio!" Zhou Liang Shuyi quickly explained her intentions, "The group's recent financial situation is relatively loose, and it has obtained a lot of credit from banks. And we feel that the Hong Kong film industry is entering a golden period, so we decided to build a large-scale film and television city!
At present, the largest Leung family studios in Hong Kong are Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay Cinema and Golden Harvest Pictures' Axe Hill Cinema. The studios of both companies will give priority to the shooting of their own films. In recent years, the production and sales of the Hong Kong film industry have been booming, especially the box office of the summer and New Year stalls.
Under the deliberate embarrassment of a large number of newly opened film companies in Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, it is difficult for the movies they shoot to catch up with the good schedule. Because the cinema built by our ATV will not set up any obstacles for external film companies while satisfying the shooting of its own TV series and movies!"
With the ratings of ATV gradually stabilizing, it is now on par with TVB. Especially in TV dramas, ATV can create a batch of high-quality dramas every year, and it has gradually formed a reputation among the audience. However, ATV has been renting other studios for filming, which obviously restricts the future development of the production department, especially the large-scale production of ATV's two films a year, and the existing set is difficult to meet the requirements of excellence.
So as early as the beginning of last year, there were calls within ATV to build its own studio. But at that time, it was the time when the land price in Hong Kong rose to the highest point, and Li Xuan obviously would not apply for land at this time, so he suppressed the matter.
"Where are you going to choose the address, and what is the level of land price?" asked Li Xuan.
Hong Kong's land prices have collapsed since September last year, so he will naturally not intervene in this matter again. On the contrary, he will be very supportive, because it will send a signal. (To be continued......)