March 5th, stunned, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

It has been 25 days since "Lucky Stars" opened the Lunar New Year stalls on February 10, and in these more than 20 days, the box office of the six Lunar New Year films has increased dramatically, setting a record for the largest box office in the past year.

In addition to the box office of "Fuxing Gaozhao", which ranks first, has reached 25 million, the box office of "Prison Storm" and "Plan A Sequel" followed by it is infinitely close to 25 million, and "Wishing you prosperity" and "Kapok Robe", which are still hovering at the box office of 10 million, have thrown off a big section.

And Shaw's other new drama "Goodbye Seven Days of Love", the box office is a bit bleak, from the release of the Chinese New Year's Eve to now, the total box office has just exceeded 5 million.

When Shao Tycoon saw the box office gratifying "Prison Storm" and "Plan A Sequel", and then looked at the bleakness of "Goodbye Seven Days of Love", it was inevitable that the old face of the high-spirited would be a little depressed, but fortunately, "Seven Days of Love" was only released for 15 days, and the remaining days of release should allow Shaw Brothers to earn back the cost.

On the 14th day of the first lunar month, most of the companies in Hong Kong have already started, as have Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Weihe and Zhengfei Xingwei, with the success of the first cooperation of "Plan A Sequel", as soon as the New Year holiday is over, the four companies will gather at Shaw Brothers Cinemas to discuss the production plan of the second co-production.

Lin Qingxia, who has read the script of "Police Story", has agreed to join, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest have also reviewed the script, and the box office distribution is still the same as the first co-production.

"I don't agree with the choice of the heroine. ”

For the role in the play, Wang Zheng only arranged the role of Lin Qingxia, and the other candidates were arranged by Jiahe, Fang Yihua immediately spoke out against the selection of the heroine.

Zou Wenhuai's opposition to Fang Yihua seemed to have been expected, but he smiled faintly: "Manager Fang, don't be impatient, the candidate is not suitable, it is better to listen to Director A Zheng's meaning first." ”

After Wang Zheng saw Zhang Manyu's name written on the heroine column, he secretly scolded the old fox.

Zhang Manyu suddenly switched to Golden Harvest, and she will not be treated well by Fang Yihua, and when filming "Plan A Sequel", Wang Zheng praised her acting skills more than once.

Although it feels a little used, Wang Zheng really feels that Zhang Manyu is very suitable for the heroine of this play, so he had to explain to Fang Yihua: "Sixth aunt, although Ayu is the heroine of this play, the main role is still on Lin Qingxia, and Ayu is not enough to provoke the beam of this play, and she exists in the form of a vase at most in the play." ”

said that the role played by Zhang Manyu is a vase, in order to resolve the prejudice in Fang Yihua's heart, in Wang Zheng's opinion, "Police Story" would not be complete if Zhang Manyu did not star.

After listening to Wang Zheng's explanation, Fang Yihua was really not as tough as just now. "It's okay to be played by Zhang Manyu, but the rest of the roles will be arranged by our Shaw Brothers. ”

Chenlong's movies are always his one-man show, and the other characters generally have no shining points. Zou Minhuai, who had read the script carefully, smiled very dryly: "There is no problem, Manager Fang can be fully responsible for the candidates for other roles." ”

After determining the candidate for the heroine, the meeting ended, and after Zou Minhuai and Chen Long left, Fang Yihua personally presided over it, accompanied by Wang Zheng, and conducted an internal casting in Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

After screening, the biggest antagonist in the play will be played by Chu Yuan, who is not only the great director of the Shaw Brothers, but also has a great interest in acting, in his words, he likes to challenge all kinds of new things, including playing the villain.

Tang Zhenye, one of the new Five Tiger Generals, will also make a cameo appearance as a policeman in the play, and Wang Zheng has no opinion on this.

In the end, Fang Yihua only arranged these two roles in the end, and relinquished the remaining roles to the artists under Golden Harvest.

said that Shaw Brothers wanted to take over all the remaining roles, but Fang Yihua had an excellent grasp of proportions and grabbed the right to arrange the roles, but he was only dissatisfied with Golden Harvest's signing of Zhang Manyu, but the rice has become a cook, and too much consideration will only destroy the cooperation between the two companies.

All the roles have been arranged, and "Police Story" is finally set for after the Lantern Festival, and the sixteenth day of the first lunar month will officially start.

During the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, most companies have been on holiday, but Zheng Fei Xingwei is busy at the temporary headquarters of the broadcast road.

On the day Lin Zhengying came to report to Zheng Fei Xingwei, Wang Zheng signed a five-part drama contract with him, promising that his 1 million expenses would also be paid on the spot.

didn't give Lin Zhengying time to sigh with a cash check of one million, the resolute Wang Zheng immediately recruited Zeng Zhiwei, and at the same time took out the script of "Mr. Zombie", and started a grand movie casting on the same day.

In order to make this drama start quickly, not only the artists of Shaw Brothers and Wireless can participate in the casting this time, Wang Zheng also sent invitations to artists from ATV, Golden Harvest, New Art City and other companies.

"Mr. Zombie" is Zheng Fei Xingwei's first independently produced film, Wang Zheng attaches great importance to it, not only personally presided over the casting, but also Da Fei, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei, Pan Hengsheng, and the four company shareholders also came to the casting site, and also served as the casting officer this time.

"Zheng, Fei Ge, Xing Zai, and Wei Zai are all good actors, this drama can be played by them, why bother with casting?"

After feeling a sense of crisis at the concert, Guan Zhilin spent most of his time with Wang Zheng except for occasionally accompanying Zhang Binqian's mother and son, and I don't know if she is relying on Wang Zheng or guarding against the woman who wants to seduce him.

Although the play "Mr. Zombie" is a horror film, it is mainly based on funny and supplemented by horror, and the positioning of Ah Xing and the three is not suitable for this drama. ”

In the same way, Wang Zheng also said to Zhou Xingchi and the others that Da Fei wants to be an action director, and it doesn't matter if he can star or not.

And Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei are on the rise, and they urgently need to star in a large number of movies to consolidate their position in the entertainment industry, and they can't understand whether they are allowed to star, Wang Zheng didn't explain too much, and when they establish their own film style in the future, they will understand his good intentions.

During the Lantern Festival, many artists and actors are on vacation, even so, the artists who came to participate in the casting also filled the temporary office of Zheng Fei Xingwei.

can be so popular, it is really because Wang Zheng's current fame is too loud, and all the newcomers he brings are popular, and Zhang Guorong, Zhang Manyu and others, who are now popular all over Xiangjiang, do not mention it, such as Zhang Yaoyang, Huang Guangliang and others, who are unknown, have also become the targets of major film companies since they starred in "Prison Storm".

Therefore, as long as the artists who are eager to be popular, they all want to try their luck.

Let Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei serve as casting officers, in addition to the two of them being the founding shareholders of Zheng Fei Xingwei, Wang Zheng also wants them to learn from the casting actors, so as to improve their acting skills.

plus director Zeng Zhiwei, there are a total of six casting officers, and when the artists who came to participate in the casting lined up, Wang Zheng, as the chief examiner, did not talk nonsense and started today's audition directly.

The artists in the first place, all six of them know each other, Xu Guanying, the third of the four heroes of the Xu family, Wang Zheng and he have cooperated in "Plan A Sequel", but at that time he made a cameo for Golden Harvest, so the two were not familiar.

With Xu Guanying's fame, I don't know why I want to participate in the casting of Zheng Feixingwei's new play, Wang Zheng is not interested in knowing, and directly starts the interview process: "Mr. Xu, thank you for coming to our company's casting interview." ”

After some politeness, he asked, "Excuse me, does Mr. Xu believe that there are ghosts in this world?"

Xu Guanying was neither humble nor arrogant, and replied with a light smile: "Ghosts and gods, believe in it or not, although I have never seen it, I still believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world." ”

Wang Zheng nodded and asked the following question: "Ghosts are often frightening, please Mr. Xu perform the terrifying scene after encountering ghosts." ”