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Chen Lang, who wanted to form his own crew, found that he had no idea where to start.

Although some time ago, he often haunted the crew of Sammo Hung's "Five Lucky Stars" and Shaw Brothers' "Interstellar Blunt Tire", and they also got along very well with the crew, but Chen Lang knew that if he asked them to form a crew to film, they would definitely not agree.

The first is that Chen Lang is famous for writing novels and singing, and he is completely new to movies, and everyone will definitely doubt Chen Lang's ability.

Secondly, now Xinyicheng, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers can be described as a three-legged stand, Hong Jiaban has always been backed by Golden Harvest, and wants to borrow Hong Jiaban for filming, and then release it in Shaw Brothers Cinemas, it is impossible without enough connections, Chen Lang is just a newcomer and has no hope.

So now Chen Lang can only contact Wang Jing, and the two have made an appointment to meet in a café.

"Ah Jing, this way." Chen Lang saw the obscene Wang Fatzi standing up and greeted.

Wang Jing walked over with a smile when she heard this, "I have finally finished all the work at hand, and I can concentrate on preparing for the filming of "Happy Ghost". ”

"I want to congratulate you on the big sale of "Flower Heart". Chen Lang said with a smile.

"Flower Heart" was officially released in June, and now it has been painted, and finally achieved a box office of more than 7.3 million.

Now the cost of a movie is generally only two or three million, and Wang Jing's shooting is even more simple, mainly selling his various funny scenes, so the cost of this movie is only about 2 million, plus the distribution and theater are all Shaw Brothers, so it can be regarded as making a lot of money for Shaw Brothers, which is also the best box office result achieved by Shaw Brothers this year, which has lost money one after another.

"Hehe, little meaning, little meaning." Wang Jing's chubby face seemed to be shaking when she smiled, and her two little eyes were completely invisible, as obscene as she wanted.

"Okay, let's get down to business, I came today to trouble you to form a crew." Chen Lang said helplessly.

Wang Jing glanced at Chen Lang with a smile, "Lang Lang, although we haven't known each other for a long time, you suit my appetite very much, and I also regard you as a friend." When it comes to writing scripts, you are indeed a good hand, and I love to read all your novels, and judging from your performance during this time, I can also feel your love for movies, but to be honest, making movies is not that simple.

You have a good script and enough money, but it's really hard to make a movie in Hong Kong and release it, even at a good time, and you don't have enough connections and interests.

Now there are four larger cinemas in Hong Kong, and the others are scattered small cinemas, you know the three-legged situation, and the competition between each other is becoming more and more fierce, and the resources in the hands of the three companies, whether it is a star or a good script or a good schedule, are the key to the fight of the three, and it is impossible for them to give it to their opponents.

At the same time, the three are competing, but they are also exclusive, although the film market is getting bigger and bigger, but one less person participates, they can get more profits, so unless there is really a big money owner willing to spend a lot of money and there is a certain background/scene, it is really difficult to survive between the three.

So it's a wise move for your film company to choose to cooperate with Shaw Brothers, and now although Shaw Brothers movies have been filmed, they are basically not profitable, and even many are losing money, if you can seize the opportunity to make a few blockbuster movies, then you can be qualified enough to make Shaw Brothers pay attention, let him give you enough theatrical support, and when you have interests bundled, Shaw Brothers will fully support you. ”

Chen Lang didn't expect the obscene fat man to say such a serious thing.

However, if you think about it, you also know that the box office of movies is getting higher and higher, and the big profits are scary, even less than finance and arms, which will definitely arouse the covetousness of many capital predators, and the three film companies, as the biggest vested interests, will definitely exclude others to grab food while competing with each other.

Chen Lang, as a complete newcomer, broke in rashly, first of all, he had to have the support of the theater chain, now is the era when there is a theater chain to have the right to speak, you can only be at the mercy of others if you don't have a theater chain, if you start a new stove, unless you have the capital and relationships behind you, you will definitely be squeezed to the ground.

Chen Lang was also a little happy in his heart, fortunately, he plotted against the Shaw Brothers, and chose to cooperate with the Shaw Brothers by mistake, otherwise his net worth might be gone, after all, no matter how good the movie is, it will be in vain.

"Then fatty, why don't you invest in making movies yourself? I see that the movies you make are quite popular with everyone. Chen Lang looked at the fat man curiously and asked.

"Alas, life is hard, and no one can guarantee that every movie will be a hit, and sometimes movies are really a bit like gambling." Wang Jing smiled bitterly when he heard this.

Wang Jing said that her life is hard because she has a gambling mother.

When Wang Jing was young, his mother once lost all the family property due to gambling, and when Wang Jing was about to get married, his mother lost the family's money again. Wang Jing has four younger sisters, his wife has just given birth to a daughter, and he still owes a bunch of gambling debts outside, so he and his father have to be busy making money to support their families and pay off their debts.

As for investment caution, it can't be said to be a bad thing, after all, except for Chen Lang, no one knows if the movie can be a big hit, if it loses it, it will be a matter of millions, maybe he will go bankrupt in an instant, even if the famous MGM is not because of many investment failures, and finally was directly destroyed by John Woo's "Wind Whisperer".

The typical representative of the same caution is Tsui Hark, a genius director who has sold countless movies, but he never invests alone, and every film has to attract various investors, even if he doesn't invest, just take dividends.

If Tsui Hark hadn't been so cautious, with his talent, coupled with his wife's supervision and the connections between the two, Tsui Hark's film studio would definitely not have been just a bit of an achievement in the future, and maybe it would have directly changed the pattern of Hong Kong film power.

"I can't help it now, you can directly help me contact the Shaw Brothers crew." Chen Lang had no choice but to admit it, and now he has nothing to do with the film industry, but it happens to have the declining Shaw Brothers, which is also a good thing for him.

"That's right. Now that the production of Shaw Brothers movies is gradually decreasing, there are too many idle people, give me two days and I can recruit the entire crew, and the rest is a matter of casting. Wang Jing smiled when she heard this.

"Well, the main characters of the movie are the three high school girls and Zhu Xiucai, I looked for the three girls myself, you see if it is suitable, and Zhu Xiucai I want to find Huang Baiming to play, I don't know if it will work?" Chen Lang handed the actor information of the three girls he prepared to Wang Jing.

Wang Jing took it over and looked at it, "These three girls are okay, just use them, but I'm afraid it's not easy to let Huang Baiming play Zhu Xiucai, I've already told you the truth." ”

Wang Jing didn't take the three girls seriously at all, because this movie is a campus comedy, and there are no requirements for acting skills, and the three heroines have no problem using newcomers, as long as they are not too ugly, and it was recommended by Chen Lang, an investor, Wang Jing didn't want to refute Chen Lang's face.

Chen Lang actually knew that this was a bit difficult after listening to Wang Jing's previous words, but in order to make the movie a big hit, Chen Lang still wanted to be as faithful to the original version as possible, for fear that the movie would fail because of the changes.

However, Chen Lang thought about it again, the filming time and release time of this movie must be different from the previous life, the director, screenwriter and even the second male lead are different, there are so many differences, so it seems that it is nothing to replace Huang Baiming.

It's just that the role of Zhu Xiucai requires that he can't be too handsome, and at the same time, he must have considerable affinity and a certain ability to be funny, "Then who do you think is suitable?" ”

"Since I think Huang Baiming is suitable, then find someone similar to him, I think Chen Baixiang in the stage is good, what do you think?" Wang Jing thought for a while and suggested.

"Chen Baixiang?"

Chen Lang remembered this person.

I know Chen Baixiang because he is a good friend of Alan Tam, and Chen Lang also knows this guy's legendary businessman's life, of course, the most familiar is Zhu Zhishan in Stephen Chow's movie "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", which was used by Stephen Chow to paint, and finally hooked up with Sister Pomegranate.

Chen Baixiang's appearance is not outstanding, and he has been a host, his funny ability is very good, and it seems that there is no problem with being kind, and he really looks like Huang Baiming, which is very suitable for the role of Zhu Xiucai.

"It's a good fit." Chen Lang nodded, "I'll talk to Aaron and send him an invitation to see if he is willing." ”

"I'll leave it to you." Wang Jing smiled when she saw Chen Lang's recommendation agreeing to her, "By the way, are you going to play the handsome guy who made Lin Xiaohua's belly bigger?" ”

Chen Lang heard the black line of steamed buns, "This is just the need of the plot." ”

"Whether it's a plot or in real life, you can do it on your terms." Wang Jing said with a wink.

Chen Lang covered his forehead, this obscene fat man.

Chen Lang also wanted to open it, he had to eat one bite at a time, he couldn't learn everything at once, anyway, he was still young, and if he had time, let Wang Jing practice the Shaw Brothers crew, and just learn by himself.

In the next few days, Chen Lang followed Wang Fatzi to contact the personnel needed by the crew, most of whom were people from Wang Fatzi's filming of "Flower Heart", which everyone was familiar with and saved the time for running-in.

At the same time, Chen Lang asked Alan Tam to make an appointment with Chen Baixiang for him, and sent him an invitation, but Chen Baixiang was very simple, and he didn't even read the script, "You are Alun's friend, that is, my friend, I agreed." ”

Chen Lang didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and he was also very happy.

Zhu Xiucai got it, and there was good news on Wang Jing's side, the three girls were also found one after another, plus Chen Lang's male number two, several protagonists were finally determined, and the remaining secondary roles can be through casting.

When Chen Lang was busy with movie casting, there was also good news and bad news in the music world.