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In the conference room of Angel Pictures, Fang Jianhui is presiding over the meeting to study the film shooting plan for the first half of next year.

In the past few years, with the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, China's reform and opening up, as a bridgehead between China and the outside world, Xiangjiang's economy has developed rapidly, and with it, Xiangjiang's film market has become more and more prosperous, and the total annual box office has increased year by year from 260 million Hong Kong dollars when Fang Jianhui came to Guijing in 1979, 350 million in 1980, 430 million in 1981, 610 million in 1982, and this year has not ended, and the box office has exceeded 600 million.

In this big cake, the angel system has the largest share, Angel Cinema Line and Anle Cinema Line, the two major cinema chains have achieved a total box office of 50% with 40% of the total number of seats in Xiangjiang. Golden Harvest ranked second, accounting for about 20% of the total box office, and the rest, such as Shaw Brothers, Shuangnan and more than 10 large and small theaters, divided the rest of the share.

In order to cope with the rapid development and changes of the market, Angel Pictures' planning meetings have become more and more frequent, from once a year to once a year, and will be modified and updated at any time according to market conditions.

Shi Nansheng introduced the films currently under project, including "Family Portrait", "Frog Prince", "Shanghai Night", "God Help", "Mr. Zombie", and invested in "Can't Stop Love" by McDonald Bear Studio, "Gentleman" and "Public Servant" by Yongjia Pictures.

"Family Portrait" is a fashion comedy, directed and starring Shi Tian, with Xu Guanjie and Anita Mui participating in the performance, and is expected to be released in the summer of next year.

The film is about Yongchang (played by Xu Guanjie) and Zhengnan (played by Anita Mui) who separated due to personality differences, leaving behind a pair of children: Meisi and Tommy, who were taken care of by their grandfather (Shi Tian). In the blink of an eye, the two got a new love. The grandfather didn't want the child to fall into the hands of his stepfather or stepmother, so he designed to reconcile Yongchang and Zhengnan, and finally reunited the family after a series of ridiculous events.

"The Frog Prince" is a romantic comedy, written and directed by Wang Jin, starring Zhong Zhengtao, Chen Baixiang and Zhong Chuhong, Zhang Manyu, Guan Zhilin.

Zhong Zhengtao became popular in Xiangjiang through the previous "Seven Days of Love", and this time he played a rich son, and he played opposite Zhong Chuhong, who is also popular in Xiangjiang, and the male protagonist is Chen Baixiang, because he hosted "Millionaire", he is now known to everyone in Xiangjiang and is deeply loved by the audience. With such a powerful combination of actors, a box office hit is a high probability event.

Zhong Chuhong also brought Guan Zhilin and Fang Jianhui's potential target Zhang Manyu in together, Guan Zhilin played the scheming public relations manager Yun Piaopiao, in order to climb the high branches, bent on breaking up Zhong Zhengtao and Zhong Chuhong. Zhang Manyu plays Zhong Chuhong's friend in the film, and develops a relationship with Chen Baixiang. It is worth mentioning that this will be Zhang Manyu's first film,

"Shanghai Night" is the first work launched by Xu Ke after the establishment of a film studio, which tells a love story during the Republic of China and tells a sad story in the form of comedy. The male lead is still Zhong Zhengtao, and the female lead is Zhang Aijia and Ye Qianwen.

Zhong Zhengtao and Zhang Aijia play a couple, ten years ago, the two made up their minds for life under a dark bridge, but they didn't even see each other's faces clearly. Ten years later, Zhong Zhengtao returned to Shanghai to find a lover, Zhang Aijia became a dance lady, and Ye Qianwen played a rustic country girl, who was taken in by Zhang Aijia in distress. The stories of all kinds of joys and sorrows that happened between the three of them.

"Can't Stop Love" is a follow-up to "Pretty Girl", which is a story of a dancing girl, directed by McDonald's younger brother Mai Dangjie, starring Andy Lau, who emerged in "The Condor Heroes" last year.

The film tells the story of Eric (Andy Lau), a wealthy and handsome intern doctor, who meets the dancer Liang Peijun by chance, and the two gradually like each other after a short contact, but Liang Peijun is a dancer and feels that he is not worthy of Eric, so he hides it from Eric...

As a reminder, in this film, the handsome guy Andy Lau will perform a boat scene for the first time...

"Heaven Help" is a somewhat thriller fantasy film, directed by David Jiang, starring Zeng Zhiwei and Guan Zhilin. "Gentleman" is a fashion romance, directed by Lin Lingdong, starring Tan Yonglin, "Public Servant" is a story of a police case, written and directed by police professional Li Xiuxian.

Before the meeting, Fang Jianhui had already held a family meeting and divided the labor among the women. Lin Qingxia had other arrangements in the first half of the year, one of which was not acted, and everyone had a part in the rest, except for Teresa Teng and Bai Annie, who did not act.

Among them, Zhu Baoyi and Lan Jieying focus on TV, and in the new year, Zhu Baoyi will star in "Wu Zetian" produced by Li Zhaohua. "Wu Zetian" is a costume TV series adapted from the legendary story of the historical figure Wu Zetian, with a total of 40 episodes, and is ATV's annual key drama.

Lan Jieying will star in "A Wife in the Family" produced by Wu Yanquan and "Senior Brother Xinzha" produced by Zhao Zhenqiang, and she will play opposite the popular ATV student Liang Chaowei. The two will also co-star in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" supervised by Xiao Sheng. These three are also the key dramas of ATV in the new year.

In addition, ATV's key dramas also include Wu Yanquan's "Heavenly Master Holding the Throne" and Wang Tianlin's "Decisive Battle of Xuanwumen", because Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhao Yazhi were poached, ATV opened another "Chu Liuxiang's Bat Legend", which was produced by Xiao Sheng.

The second-level dramas include "Xiangjiang Flower Moonlight Night" produced by Wang Tianlin, "Reprinter" and "Draw a Rainbow" produced by Zhao Zhenqiang, "Qiu Jin" produced by Xiao Sheng, and "Demon Paradise" produced by Li Huimin.

In terms of films, Zhong Chuhong starred in "The Frog Prince", she also pulled Zhang Manyu and Guan Zhilin, who had not passed through the door, Guan Zhilin starred in "God Help", participated in "The Frog Prince", Ye Qianwen starred in "Shanghai Night", and Anita Mui starred in "Family Portrait".

Li Saifeng, Lan Jieying and Wang Guxian will star in "Mr. Zombie" and "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" directed by Fang Jianhui himself, respectively.

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After the meeting, Fang Jianhui officially launched "Mr. Zombie" the next day.

Since "Notting Hill", Fang Jianhui has not filmed local films in Hong Kong for two years. In order to shoot "Mr. Zombie", Fang Jianhui gathered his former royal team, art director Zhang Shuping, cinematographer Du Kefeng, and assistant director Liu Zhengwei, who has just joined the company.

The starring roles are Lin Zhenying, Xu Guanying, Qian Xiaohao, Lou Nanguang, Lan Jieying, Li Saifeng and others. Among them, Li Saifeng is the most famous, her image of Huang Rong is well known to women and children in Xiangjiang, followed by Lan Jieying, who starred in "Yin and Yang Wrong" and two "Happy Ghosts" in a row, and her popularity in Xiangjiang is also very high. Lin Zhenying is considered a third-tier at this time, Lou Nanguang and Qian Xiaohao are newcomers to ATV, and the rest are pure newcomers.

Liu Zhengwei, originally the producer of Century Pictures, an independent production company in Hong Kong, has successively filmed films such as "Marginal People", "Murder List", and "Killing in Xiyingpun" since 1980, with acceptable results. But this year, the boss liquidated the company, and Liu Zhengwei had no choice but to come out to work and invest in Fang Jianhui's Angel Pictures.

Liu Zhengwei has a stunt of 'ghost film', and when Fang Jianhui was looking for an assistant director, he fell in love with him at a glance from the company's list of directors and directors.

Since buying this script, Fang Jianhui has been thinking about who should be played by the ninth uncle of the Taoist chief in the film, thinking about it, and suddenly remembered the future title of 'zombie Taoist leader' he saw when he swept over Lin Zhenying a few years ago, and substituted his image into the script to take a look, and found that it really matched the role perfectly.

Lim Chun-ying is now in Hong Jinbo's Hung family class, serving as an action director and performing some minor roles. Because he has always had a good relationship with Jiahe, and the personnel exchanges between the two sides are frequent, Fang Jianhui didn't want to break the rules by rashly poaching people, so he ordered someone to contact Hong Jinbao, and conveyed to Hong Jinbao that he wanted to praise Lin Zhenying as the starring role in the film. Hong Jinbao and others have always put righteousness first, as soon as they heard that Fang Jianhui was interested in Lin Zhenying, of course they didn't want to stand in the way of their brothers, so they immediately found Lin Zhenying, told him what Fang Jianhui meant, and asked him to report to Angel Pictures.

Fang Jianhui looking for me to star? As soon as she heard the news, Lin Zhenying was dizzy, she thought she was dreaming, and she solemnly thanked Hong Jinbao for her release, came to Fang Jianhui, and signed a contract with Angel Pictures.

The main filming location of the film is the recording studio of Angel Film and Television City, although the entire film and television city has not yet been completed, but this recording studio with the theme of "Republic of China" has been put into use. According to Fang Jianhui's description, Zhang Shuping led people to build relevant scenes, designed the costumes of the characters, and Fang Jianhui gave an order to officially start filming.

One of the protagonists of this film is zombies, and the actors who play zombies are more difficult, it takes two or three hours to put on makeup, and they have to put all kinds of strange things on their skin, and Fang Jianhui feels uncomfortable for them.

In order not to delay Fang Jianhui's time, when Fang Jianhui arrived on the set at nine o'clock in the morning every day, these actors had already finished their makeup in advance, that is, they had already started to put on makeup by six o'clock in the morning at the latest. Because there are some night scenes in the film, Fang Jianhui sometimes shoots until ten o'clock in the middle of the night, considering the time to put on makeup and remove makeup, Fang Jianhui feels that they may not have time to sleep.

There are many martial arts scenes in the film, Lin Zhenying is not only the starring role, but also the action director, Fang Jianhui often communicates with him about the martial arts scenes, telling Lin Zhenying what he expects to achieve. Lin Zhenying is a serious and responsible person, as soon as Fang Jianhui said that, he immediately racked his brains and tried every means to achieve it, and often stayed awake for this, which made Fang Jianhui very impressed.

Fortunately, Lin Zhenying and Qian Xiaohao, who are mainly responsible for fighting scenes in the film, both have martial arts skills, and Qian Xiaohao has also won medals in martial arts competitions, which is also an important reason why Fang Jianhui chose him.

According to Fang Jianhui's instructions, the costume director put on a pink princess dress for Li Saifeng, matching her delicate face, which was extremely cute in the camera. Lan Jieying has already played a female ghost in "Yin and Yang Wrong", and this time she plays a female ghost again, she seems to be familiar with the way, Fang Jianhui can understand it with a little guidance, and the filming is very smooth.