Chapter 343 Clear Water Bay
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In June, Anita Mui of Huaxing Records took over from Leslie Cheung and released her second album "Red Anita Mui".
Because of the popularity accumulated by the first record, this album directly topped the Hong Kong album chart after its release.
It sold 25,150 copies on the first day of release, and 96,542 copies sold in the first week.
Huaxing now has only three singers who have released records.
As early as the end of March, Chen Lang released his third album "Lang Cai Girl", which has won six platinum sales so far, ranking first in record sales this year.
The subsequent release of Leslie Cheung "The Wind Continues to Blow" also attracted everyone's attention, this singer who had not made a statement in the Hong Kong music scene before, with the sales of this record close to five platinum and the popular song "The Wind Continues to Blow" swept Xiangjiang, and suddenly became a well-known singer, which can be described as an instant hit.
Now, in June, last year's best newcomer, Anita Mui, received gold disc certification on the first day of release of her second album, and nearly double platinum sales in the first week, which can be described as terrifying.
Huaxing Records has only released three singers since signing Chen Lang, but the performance of these three singers is really shocking.
Chen Lang's three records have achieved sales of five platinum, seven platinum and six platinum respectively.
Leslie Cheung's first record after the transfer also won four platinums, with nearly five platinum sales.
Anita Mui, who has just released a record, has sold nearly double platinum in the first week.
Although Huaxing has few singers, its record sales exceed that of most record companies in Hong Kong.
Now the momentum shown by Huaxing Records is in full swing, just like a new art city in the film industry, which is impossible to ignore, and it also shocks major record companies, including Polygram.
At this time, Chen Lang was in the office of Huaxing Records Chen Shufen.
"Lang Lang, do you have something?" Chen Shufen is now happy.
Obviously, the three records released by the company so far this year are all big hits, which makes her feel very good.
"There is indeed something today, I want to ask about Wang Jing, but I am really not familiar with Shaw Brothers Film Company, so I have to come to ask you for advice." Chen Lang said.
"Wang Jing? Is it the son of Wang Tianlin's producer? Chen Shufen was stunned when she heard this, obviously very puzzled by Chen Lang's inquiry about Wang Jing.
"Yes, it's this Wang Jing." Chen Lang saw Chen Shufen's doubts, and directly picked up the script in his hand, "I have a script I want to give him, and I want to see if he is willing to direct this movie." ”
"Script? You can't write this script yourself, right? Chen Shufen frowned slightly when she saw this script.
"Yes, to be precise, I adapted it from a play, which is the first film script I wrote." Chen Lang said happily.
Although it was basically copied from the movie in my head, it was the first time after all, and I felt a little excited.
"Lang Lang, are you planning to make a movie in the future?" When Chen Shufen heard this, her brows furrowed even tighter.
"I'm going to make movies in the future, but the album will still come out, and I plan to release another record before the end of the year." Chen Lang explained when he saw Chen Shufen's frowning brow.
Chen Shufen's expression was a lot more relaxed when she heard this.
Although Huaxing is very strong now, Chen Lang is the pillar of the company, if he devotes himself to the movie, it will be difficult, and it is too difficult for a record company without a superstar singer who is in charge of his own life.
"Whether it's making movies, many singers are multi-faceted nowadays, and if the movie is a big hit, it can further expand your influence, and you can also expand your popularity outside Hong Kong and countries."
"Well, it's kind of complementary."
"And when are you going to record a new record?" Chen Shufen is clearly very interested in Chen Lang's latest record.
"I'm still writing songs, probably in October, but of course there may be changes, after all, writing songs requires inspiration, and the specific time can't be accurately controlled."
Chen Lang mainly thinks about movies, and records are more casual because it is too easy to write songs.
"Then I'll wait for your good news." Chen Shufen nodded.
Chen Lang saw that Chen Shufen lowered his head to deal with the documents after speaking, and said anxiously, "Sister Chen, you haven't told me where Wang Jing is?" ”
Chen Shufen raised her head and smiled when she heard this, "I heard that he recently made a movie in Clear Water Bay, you can go and find it." ”
"Thank you, Sister Chen." After Chen Lang finished speaking, he immediately rushed out of the office.
It took half an hour to take a taxi before Chen Lang arrived at Shaw Brothers Cinema in Clear Water Bay.
Spanning 1 million square feet, the fully equipped cinema is the largest film studio in Asia, with modern sound stages, a state-of-the-art and well-equipped "color center" and a fully functional office building.
In addition to the darkroom and printing shop where the copies were developed, there were a dressing room, a costume room, a set room, a carpentry department, a masonry department, four staff quarters, 265 units, three canteens, a "mini-bank", dozens of transport vehicles and Shaw's palatial villa.
At its peak, the studio had more than 1,500 employees, countless special actors, more than 100 good horses, more than 100,000 props, 94 sets of 13-foot-high wardrobes, hundreds of thousands of sets of dragon robes worth tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, and countless antiques, vases, clocks, ceramics, jujube wood furniture, calligraphy and painting decorations and Tang Bohu, Zhao Shaoang's calligraphy and painting "authentic".
In addition, there are five permanent streets such as Tang Street and Songcheng built by the mountains and rivers and the scenery according to the place, there are forty or fifty shops on these streets, more than 100 signboards of various fonts, as well as small bridges and flowing waters, pavilions and pavilions and various buildings in ancient and modern China and foreign countries.
In short, in addition to the printing of color film to the printing of posters, except for Kodak brand negatives, which need to be imported, Shaw Brothers Studios can produce any movie.
As soon as Chen Lang got out of the car and entered the studio, a young man ran over, "Lang Lang, is that you?" ”
"Hello, I'm Lang Lang." Chen Lang smiled when he saw this young man who was a little excited, "I have something to find Director Wang Jing of the Shaw Brothers, I wonder if you can take me over?" ”
"Of course you can, Director Wang Jing is filming "Flower Heart", and it seems to be almost finished, I just happened to have run a trick in that crew, let me take you over." After the young man finished speaking, he walked ahead and led the way.
"Didn't you hear about the Shaw Brothers production cut, why is it still so busy here?" Chen Lang looked at the people coming and going and felt very puzzled.
"Shaw Brothers has reduced production, but now Hong Kong's movies are so popular, and many new film companies have opened, so there are a lot more crews, they don't have their own studios, they all rent studios here to film, so everything will be so busy."
"I see."
After walking for a while, Chen Lang was taken to a studio.
"Here it is."
Hearing this, Chen Lang took out a pen from the paper bag he was carrying, wrote a string of phone numbers on the paper, and handed it to the young man in front of him, "Thank you for bringing me here, this is my phone number, if you need anything in the future, you can call me." ”
The young man seemed to be stunned, obviously he didn't expect Chen Lang to give him his personal phone number, and then he took the piece of paper ecstatically, put it in his pocket cautiously, and looked at Chen Lang who walked into the studio in a daze.
Chen Lang walked into the studio to see the filming site of the movie, but unfortunately, the movie seemed to be finished, and the crew was packing up the props.
When Chen Lang was still looking for his target Wang Jing, he heard a shout full of surprise behind him, "Lang Lang, why are you here?" ”
"Honggu, why are you here?" Chen Lang's eyes lit up when he saw Zhong Chuhong, "You won't be the heroine of this movie, right?" ”
"Yes, I'm the number one female in the movie, but you, why did you come here, you didn't come to me, right?"
Zhong Chuhong at this time was much different from the impression in Chen Lang's mind before.
Zhong Chuhong in front of him, although he was wearing a simple nurse's uniform and black-framed glasses on his face, he looked rustic, but the confidence in his eyes was unreserved, which was far from the shyness and embarrassment when the two met before.
Since Zhong Chuhong co-starred with Chow Yun-fat in 1981 in "The Story of Hu Yue" directed by Ann Hui, it has attracted the attention of the film industry.
Later, in 1982, he starred in "City Patrol Horse" and "Scary" directed by Wu Ma, as well as the commercial comedy "Difficult Brothers" starring Shi Tian, and his fame is rising.
At this time, Zhong Chuhong looks confident, generous and close, although the current outfit is very cheap, but Chen Lang vaguely saw the sexy beauty who charmed all beings in the future.
Zhong Chuhong saw Chen Lang looking at him stunned, and he was happy, but he said angrily, "What are you looking at?" ”
"No, nothing." Chen Lang smiled awkwardly, and then looked directly at Zhong Chuhong in front of him, "I didn't expect that it was just a while since I saw you, Honggu, you have become more beautiful and charming." ”
Zhong Chuhong laughed happily when she heard this, "Flamboyant, what are you doing today?" ”
"I want to find director Wang Jing to shoot the first script I wrote." Chen Lang took out his script and shook it.
"Script? Lang Lang, are you ready to enter the film industry? Zhong Chuhong heard the words and read the script directly.
"What script? A script written by a young talent? As soon as Chen Lang was about to answer, he heard a somewhat special voice, Chen Lang knew that this was Wang Jing, and he still had some impressions of this voice in his previous life.
"Hello Director Wang, I'm Chen Lang." Although Chen Lang is now a hot singer in the Hong Kong music scene, he has not yet stepped into the film industry, so his posture is very low.
"The famous Lang Lang, how could I not know him." Wang Jing is also kind, coupled with a chubby round face, she looks approachable, "Lang Lang, are you here to go out to dinner with Ahong today?" ”
"Hahaha......" Zhong Chuhong laughed out loud, "Lang Lang, this script you wrote is so funny, it's really funny." ”
When Wang Jing heard that it was a script, she thought of Chen Lang's other identity, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
Chen Lang smiled when he saw Wang Jing's appearance, "Actually, I came here today mainly to find Director Wang, the script in Honggu's hand is my first creation, I hope you can help check and see if you can shoot." ”
Although Wang Jing at this time was not the king of commercial films in later generations, and he did not have many masterpieces, Chen Lang, who knew the future, would not underestimate him.
Although the movies that have been scolded by people are all, pee, and fart, people can make a lot of money at the box office, which is an achievement that many people can't do.
"Lang Lang is too polite, just call me Ah Jing, I'll read the script first." Wang Jing smiled and took the script.
Open the script and take a closer look, "Happy Ghost"!