Chapter 245: The Banquet in Lan Kwai Fong
Lan Kwai Fong is located on the south side of Queen's Road in Central, Hong Kong Island, commonly known as "Rotten Ghost Square" in the 18th century, named after its foreigners, originally inhabited many ladies who took "matchmakers" as their profession, so it was called "Matchmaker Lane" or "Matchmaker Lane", and later changed its name to "Lan Kwai Fong" because of indecency. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the end, Wang Zifan only spent about 70 million yuan to buy the core area of Lan Kwai Fong, one of which was rented to a foreigner named Sheng Zhiwen, who is very famous in the new century, known as the father of Lan Kwai Fong, the reason why he invested in Lan Kwai Fong, is because he feels that foreigners living in Hong Kong lack social places, so he intends to invest tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to buy one of the buildings, and renovate it into a Western-style restaurant, but unfortunately these properties were pocketed by Wang Zifan early, and in the last few rounds of negotiations, Sheng Zhiwen became Wang Zifan's agent, managing Lan Kwai Fong Wang's property, and at the same time rented the Western-style restaurant at a low price。
Although it has only been developed for less than a year, because of its proximity to the business district, it has gradually become an entertainment and leisure venue, several pedestrian streets are occupied by bars, and half of the contracted businesses are foreigners, so Lan Kwai Fong has gradually become a gathering place for people living in Hong Kong.
Two parallel pedestrian streets, plus a short section of avenue connecting the two pedestrian streets, really can't be compared with the romantic mood imagined by Cheng Long, the pedestrian street is not long, each street is only seven or eight minutes away, the bars on both sides of the street are narrow, the lights are dim, and the layout is nothing special, Wang Zifan originally planned to build this place into a high-end leisure place, Sheng Zhiwen also agreed, but unfortunately the plan was shelved due to financial problems, and the result became the current situation.
Although there is no financial blessing, some of DreamWorks movies are filmed here, which has gradually made Lan Kwai Fong a tasteful place to relax, with more and more bars, restaurants and entertainment venues, and now there are more than 30 bars and restaurants in Lan Kwai Fong, and after 9 o'clock every night, many fashionable young people and foreigners come to the bar to drink and have fun.
The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and some industry bars are the easiest places to grow, singing every night, come to Lan Kwai Fong to enjoy the world's most extravagant nightlife, if you like clubbing people come here, take this place as a dream paradise.
Wang Zifan drove into the cobblestone alleyway, the car slowly stopped at the door of the bar, handed over the key to the security guard of the bar valet parking, looked at the environment left and right, and almost every corner could see one or two 'foreigners' standing on the street with wine glasses, chatting while drinking, except for these, he didn't find anything abnormal, thinking that the power of New Ngee An in Causeway Bay had not yet developed here, and he entered the bar thoughtfully.
Today is the finale banquet of "Young Master Long", after a year of filming, Cheng Long's film is finally finished, others don't know how to watch it, Wang Zifan knows that Zou Wenhuai is waiting for the flowers, several times Jiahe was forced to the point of exhaustion by DreamWorks, just waiting for this film to put out the fire, but the more urging, the more accidents occurred, single-way dragon, during which he was hospitalized several times, and once he was broken by the boxing king two ribs, and he was alive and jumping in a month to film.
Sometimes Wang Zifan can't help but feel that Cheng Long has a strong vitality, and if he is an ordinary person, how can he recover without two or three months of cultivation, although he got acquainted with Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long early, and used to often party, but since he made a fortune, the relationship with them has been maintained between friends and acquaintances, which is cordial than acquaintances, but it is not a close friend, and occasionally they meet to discuss movies.
When I entered the bar, I saw Hong Jinbao standing at the bar with a cigar and bragging with people, it seemed that he had drunk a lot, and when he saw Wang Zifan, he walked over with his arms open with a red face.
"Afan!"
"Sanmao!"
Hugging with a smile on his face, Wang Zifan quipped: "Drinking so high before you started?"
Hong Jinbao smiled: "I saw an acquaintance drink two more glasses just now!"
Wang Zifan was curious: "What acquaintance makes you so happy?"
Although it involved personal privacy, Hong Jinbao did not hide it, and said indifferently: "Friends from South Korea, I will introduce you later!"
Wang Zifan lost interest in South Korea as soon as he heard it, throughout the eighties, South Korea's entertainment industry was a miasma, because of political reasons, the government actually supported pornography, resulting in pornography becoming the mainstream, and the slightly famous actresses were all born as stars, and they really couldn't get into the eyes of Wang Zifan, he made movies, of course he understood the truth in the movie, and the Korean entertainment industry was famous for its unspoken rules, and it is estimated that nine out of ten stars have been slept with.
"Why didn't you see that kid Aaron?"
"He's currying favor with Taiwan's No. 1 beauty in it!"
"Is it Lin Qingxia?"
"Who else but her!"
"Hehe, that's interesting!"
Wang Zifan smiled slightly, a few days ago, the newspaper also reported that Cheng Long pursued the Miss Oriental beauty pageant champion Hu Huizhong, but he didn't expect to turn the gun so quickly and start pursuing Lin Qingxia again.
It is estimated that he was rejected by Hu Huizhong!
"Mr. Wang!"
"Mr. Wang!"
"Mr. Wang!"
"It's all your own people, you're welcome!"
"Mr. Wang, the bar was covered by Aaron today!"
"Yes, Aaron still knows how to play!"
Several acquaintances also came to greet him, Wang Zifan nodded in response, and chatted with Lin Zhengying for a few words, "Mr. Zombie" sold very well at the overseas box office, earning 20 or 30 million in Japan alone, plus the box office in South Korea and Taiwan, it filled the funds for DreamWorks to acquire theaters, and recently the income from peripheral video tapes has also arrived one after another, and he has approved three zombie films in a row, all starring Lin Zhengying.
Originally, Wang Zifan was very opposed to follow-up films, but the zombie theme is an exception, and the situation needs to be consolidated just now, and he will shoot it if he doesn't shoot outside film companies, Lin Zhengying is a golden sign of zombie films, and his schedule naturally can't be given to outsiders.
Hong Jinbao turned his head again, hesitated, and then asked, "I heard that the theater has already arranged for Christmas?"
Wang Zifan knew that he wanted to put "The Loser" in the Christmas file, and frowned: "The schedule has been set a long time ago, a comedy!"
I heard that it was a comedy, Hong Jinbao knew that he didn't have much hope, after a series of combination punches from DreamWorks, the old-style kung fu films were declining day by day, and fashion comedy movies were popular, even Golden Harvest and Shan Shi began to try to make comedy films, and comedy elements were also added to kung fu films.
Wang Zifan comforted again: "I also have high hopes for your movie, if there is no popular schedule, then extend the screening period, and the potential of the film will be released!"
Hong Jinbao immediately opened his eyebrows and smiled: "Afan, thank you!"
"Hehe, let's go in! Today is Aaron's home field!" Wang Zifan smiled to hide the strange feeling in his heart, although this film is under the name of Debao Film Company, but Hong Jinbao only accounts for 30% of the profits, and it is the box office of the city, like overseas dividends, it must be DreamWorks that accounts for the majority, plus the distribution company shares three points of profit, and there are very few that fall into the hands of Hong Jinbao, just like Zhao Benshan sold abduction, he was obviously cheated, and he had to thank him, which made him very embarrassed.
When he arrived on the second floor, Wang Zifan was amused by the scene inside, saying that Cheng Long was pleasing Lin Qingxia, but one sat inside, and the other sat on the outside, Lin Qingxia chatted with several actresses, and sometimes made silver bell laughter, and Cheng Long gathered a few fox friends and dog friends, and if you looked closely, you found that most of them were people in the family class, drinking and talking loudly.
"Senior brother, Afan, you're here!" Cheng Long stood up happily and beckoned to the people behind: "Everyone sit casually!"
Wang Zifan smiled and said, "Ah Long, congratulations!"
Cheng Long touched the back of his head and smiled bitterly: "Congratulations, I've been blamed to death recently!"
Wang Zifan said unexpectedly: "What's wrong?"
Cheng Long burped behind him, and complained while he was drunk: "It's not some high-level executives of the company, I don't like what we filmed is not funny!"
Not funny enough?
No wonder none of the senior executives of Golden Harvest came!
Wang Zifan was stunned for a full three seconds before he reacted, crying and laughing and secretly waking up at the same time, it seems that Jiahe Zou Wenhuai and they have slowly touched the market, Cheng Long is desperate + funny is the rhythm of big sales!
Cheng Long waved his hand and said: "Don't talk about this, Uncle Huai is also worried about the box office!"
I heard that even Zou Wenhuai began to pay attention to funny elements, and Hong Jinbao had a plan to make a comedy in his heart.
"Drink!"
I don't know who took the lead, everyone drank happily, and poured the wine into the stomach one by one, Wang Zifan drank a few glasses at the beginning, and then he smiled faintly, and the TV filmed with internal strength to force out the wine is fucked, but he can't drink now, because every time he gets drunk, his sensory acuity, that is, his sixth sense, will decline, and it will take a long time to recover.
Mars raised his glass and smiled: "Mr. Wang, I respect you, you are free!"
Cheng Long got up and bent down to fill the opposite cup, and coaxed: "What's casual, if you don't get drunk today, you won't return!"
The aroma of blazing wine came to his nose, and Wang Zifan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What kind of wine is this, it is higher than the degree of Moutai, and there is nothing else?"
Cheng Long stretched out his hand and pointed at it, and said with a strange smile: "There are others, on the other side!"
That was where the women stayed, and when they heard Cheng Long's loud voice, they all looked at it.
Hong Jinbao reminded: "Don't go too far!"
Cheng Long saw that Wang Zifan's face was at the bottom of his heart, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, don't worry about it, you must try the amount of Afan's wine today, every time you drink, you can't pretend to be good, what did we call it before...... Sneaking and tricking!"
"What is the reason, if you don't know how to drink, you become a cheater?" Lin Qingxia saw that everyone was embarrassed Wang Zifan was drinking, and stood up to defend it, just now Cheng Long's drunken offense made her very angry, and she was very happy to see someone out of the mud without staining.
"That's it!"
"I hate drunk men the most!"
The actresses next to her echoed one after another.
Lin Qingxia smiled and beckoned: "If you don't drink, you can come to us!"