"Pretty Girl" staff list

Producer: Wang Zifan

Executive Producer: Mak Dangxiong

Director: David Lai

Photo: Mak Dangjie

Screenwriters: Xiao Ruoyuan, Wen Xie

Cast:

Heroine LAM: Anita Mui

Female No. 2 Irene: Wen Bixia

Actor Peter: Liang Chaowei

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When Mak Dangxiong reported on the preparations for "Pretty Girl", Wang Zifan was very surprised, because the heroine of the movie turned out to be Anita Mui. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hong Kong is so big, why was it bumped into by Mak Dangxiong?

Mai Dangxiong said with a smile: "I have calculated with Wong Tai Sin, next Monday is the auspicious day of the zodiac, by the way, Afan, will you participate in the worship ceremony?"

"Your first movie, of course I'm going to cheer for it!" Wang Zifan nodded with a smile and agreed, and drew a bar under Anita Mui's name with a pen: "Newcomer?"

Mai Dangxiong's expression was unnatural, he nodded with a wry smile and explained: "Her name is Anita Mui, her identity is an amateur singer, she usually likes to sing in bars, Dawei and I also went to more than a dozen bars, looking for dozens of girls before and after, and finally decided to let her play the heroine!"

Wang Zifan said with a smile: "Others like to use big-name stars when making movies, it's better for you to find newcomers, not afraid of movies hitting the streets?"

Mai Dangxiong said ambitiously: "What I value is the novelty in them, and it is not real to shoot them if they can act!"

Wang Zifan was curious: "How much is this Anita Mui's salary?"

Mai Dangxiong smiled: "Don't worry about this, the salaries of several actors are 5,000!"

Wang Zifan said: "That's not a contract?"

"Afan, I'm looking for them to only make this movie, some of them are students, some are little sisters, singers, they have no potential, is it necessary to sign a contract?" Mai Dangxiong looked reluctant, although Wen Bixia and Anita Mui were selected by him from the crowd of people with great effort, but he was not optimistic about their future, because the movie needed, he was looking for rebellious girls.

Wang Zifan thought to himself, you can look at this, Wen Bixia aside, let's not talk about it for the time being, Anita Mui is a star in film, television, and song, and she has won various awards, which is the talent that DreamWorks needs most, and the company has already signed Qiu Shuzhen, Ye Zimei, and Zhou Hailin, and it is nothing to have two more.

"Let's sign it!"

"Okay, you have the final say!" Mai Dangxiong shook his head, went out for a spin and walked back.

Wang Zifan said unexpectedly: "Or is it a thing?"

Mai Dangxiong smiled: "I forgot to say just now, the camera you want has arrived!"

Wang Zifan asked, "Where is it?"

Mai Dangxiong said: "When do you have time, I will let someone send it over?"

Wang Zifan thought for a while and said, "It's just this afternoon!"

Anita Mui!

Zhang Guorong!

This group can start a record label!

Knock knock!

"Please come in!"

"Mr. Wang, it's me!" Cheng Xiaodong had a smile on his face, and he was a little restrained when he came in.

Wang Zifan greeted him cordially: "Director Cheng, please take a seat!"

Cheng Xiaodong said modestly: "I'm not a director yet!"

Wang Zifan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you used to be or not, you enjoy the treatment of a director with me!"

Cheng Xiaodong thanked him gratefully, hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard some things in the Shan family, I wonder if you are interested?"

Wang Zifan smiled: "About whom?"

Cheng Xiaodong said: "The tycoon invested 20 million US dollars to make a Hollywood blockbuster!"

Wang Zifan nodded, Hong Kong people say Hollywood is Hollywood, this sentence means that Shaw invested 20 million US dollars in Hollywood, according to the current exchange rate, converted into Hong Kong dollars is about 110 million, such a huge investment, it seems that Shaw is really going to do a big job!

"What you say is important!"

"One more thing!"

"What?"

"The starring role is not Zhou Yanfa!"

"What did you say?"

Now Wang Zifan was really surprised, the reason why Zhou Yunfa jumped to the Wei family was because Kui Yifu promised to promote him to enter the American market, how could this be?

Cheng Xiaodong knew a little about Zhou Runfa's job-hopping incident, and said with a smile: "I heard that the United States is against it, and they are unwilling to find a Chinese to be the leading actor!"

Wang Zifan was stunned and said, "Yi Yifu agreed?"

Cheng Xiaodong said as a matter of course: "Yes, for the sake of the box office, they hired a Hollywood star as the starring role at a high price, and Zhou Yunfa may be able to run a trick in it!"

I see!

Wang Zifan really didn't know what to say, Run Run did not hesitate to choose the former when the two clashed, because with Zhou Runfa as the starring role, the American audience may not buy it, 20 million US dollars is not a small amount, and Run Escape's choice is reasonable.

This is also the reason why he disdains to co-produce films with the United States, obviously he pays for the film himself, but the right to speak is in the hands of others, the film is a blockbuster, and he wants to give them dividends, and the film hits the streets, and the losses are all his own responsibility! If he goes it alone, he and Jiahe don't have the courage to do it, and they can't figure out the preferences of the American audience, so they can only let the United States slaughter them.

Since the late 70s, the Hong Kong film industry has formed a situation of confrontation between Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, the two major film companies have large studios and distribution theaters respectively, Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay Cinema, Golden Harvest's Axe Mountain Road Studio, every day to shoot and rush to work, every prime time, the two major cinema chains will do their best to fight each other, on the other hand, other independent small production companies can only survive in the cracks.

This situation lasted until this year, broken by the sudden rise of DreamWorks, seeing that the Shan family and Golden Harvest have already aimed at the North American market, Wang Zifan's mind is also alive, if you want to talk about the preferences of American audiences, I am afraid that he knows three points better than those big Hollywood companies, and is far behind Shaw and Zou Wenhuai more than a dozen streets, like the "Home Alone" series and the "Grim Reaper" series, which are typical examples of low cost and high returns.

What Wang Zifan didn't know was that in fact, as far back as the late 50s, Shaw Brothers and RB began to collaborate on films, and the films produced were marketed in most parts of Asia, and in 1973, Luo Lie's "The First Punch in the World" entered the American film market, ranking ninth among the top ten grossing films in the world that year, and was deeply loved by Western audiences.

In the same year, Shaw Brothers and the British company Salon Horse co-produced the horror film "Seven Golden Corpses"; in 1976, Shaw invested 60 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot the film version of James Clare's best-selling novel "Taipan"; in 1978, Shaw Brothers spent 16 million US dollars to invest in the Hollywood blockbuster "Earth Catastrophe" starring Sean Connery; and now Shaw has invested 20 million US dollars to find the science fiction film "Blade Runner" starring the big star Harrison Ford.

In this way, whether it is shooting a large-scale production for the international market, or directly investing in Hollywood blockbusters, Shaw Brothers has invested heavily in the intention of opening up the international market. It's a pity that it backfired, and the 76-year-old "Taipan" had almost no repercussions;

As for Golden Harvest Company, because Li Xiaolong successfully opened the international market, the three films "Tangshan Big Brother", "Jingwumen" and "Raptors Crossing the River" have created amazing foreign income for the company, even after Li Xiaolong's death, Golden Harvest can still borrow the reshoot of "Game of Death" and the production of "The Legend of Li Xiaolong" documentary, which continues to attract the attention of the European and American film circles.

Now, the late Li Xiaolong alone cannot satisfy Golden Harvest's ambition to covet the international market! After Zou Wenhuai's painstaking management, the fledgling Golden Harvest began to promote the film to the international market in a planned way, and Zou Wenhuai's first thing to do was to package a new generation of action superstar Cheng Long and tailor the action film "Killer Trench" to suit the tastes of Western audiences, but the result was not successful. Then Zou Wenhuai attacked again and produced the racing action film "Cannonball Speed", which gathered a large number of European and American stars, including Cheng Long and Xu Guanwen, the two Golden Harvest red stars.

Wang Zifan has seen this movie before, and it was made hilarious and funny, although Cheng Long did not have many scenes, but it was very popular with the audience, and the global box office was at its peak, bringing a high profit of more than 100 million yuan to Golden Harvest.

In fact, from Wang Zifan's point of view, in the 80s, the production of the Shaw Brothers has no longer been glorious, and the studio system pursued for many years has made the decision-makers aging and unable to keep up with the pace of the times, and still follows the shooting mode of setting up scenes on the set in the 60s and 70s.

Filming "Blade Runner"!

Golden Harvest filmed "Cannonball Speed"!

Although Wang Zifan knows the shortcomings of the Zong family and Golden Harvest, but Run Run and Zou Wenhuai don't think so, the reason why they make Hollywood blockbusters with great fanfare is to hope that DreamWorks will follow suit, with Wang Zifan's little financial resources, if they make American blockbusters, it will inevitably affect the output of Hong Kong films, and when the time comes, Shan and Golden Harvest will join forces again, and they will definitely be able to defeat DreamWorks in one fell swoop!

The idea is perfect, and everyone thinks that success can be great!

But how do they know Lao Tzu's real advantage! Wang Zifan is full of ambition, and the production cycle of American blockbusters is extremely long, and when he suppresses the limelight of the Wei family and Golden Harvest in Hong Kong, and then gives them a slap in the face in Hollywood, the effect will surely be even better!