699【Celebration Banquet】
"The Three Heroines of the East" won its first battle, earning $50 million at the box office in Asia in its first month, almost squeezing out the box office potential of the Asian film market.
This box office miracle is more than criticized and belittled by the filmmakers, but the media in Hong Kong and Taiwan are full of praise.
will return to Taipei the next day, Wang Zijun will celebrate the box office of more than 50 million US dollars celebration banquet, held in his villa in the mid-mountainous area, and even Wang Zijun from Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest asked someone to send invitations.
When Le Yun arrived at the villa in the afternoon, the chef invited by Wang Zijun had been busy for a while. Towards evening, cars drove into the large iron gate of the villa, and some media reporters who were invited to the scene excitedly pressed the shutter on the celebrities.
Huang Jiaju and others came in He Chaoqiong's car, and today's performance at the celebration banquet can be regarded as their first step on the road to fame.
After getting out of the car, Huang Jiaju and the four of them carried musical instruments inside, and those reporters were obviously not interested in them, but aimed the camera at He Chaoqiong, who came in the same car.
For this gambling king's daughter, Hong Kong's paparazzi are very familiar, a few years ago, He Chaoqiong filmed a TV series on TVB, and it was hotly discussed for a while.
"Miss He, why did you come to the celebration banquet of "The Three Heroines of the East" today? Are you friends with director Wang Zijun? He Chaoqiong didn't take a few steps before she was surrounded by reporters.
Wang Zijun has a friendship with the ghost king Ye Han, and Ye Han has a dislike with the gambling king Stanley Ho; And Wang Zijun and Shao Tycoon have a lot of disagreements, but Shao Tycoon has a good relationship with the gambling king. Judging from the fact that the enemy's friend is the enemy, the relationship between Wang Zijun and the gambling king should not be very good, but He Chaoqiong, the daughter of the gambling king, came to participate in Wang Zijun's celebration banquet, which is not thought of by the reporters.
Especially Wang Zijun's romantic reputation, reporters naturally thought in that direction: Did Wang Zijun soak the gambling king's daughter?
He Chaoqiong didn't like to deal with the media, so she threw the reporters away with a straight face and an unhappy face.
"The three women are here!" A reporter shouted, and the others turned their attention away from He Chaoqiong.
The three women, Lizhi, Yang Ziqiong and Iraqi Laudia, are the brightest stars this summer. The three of them are all outright newcomers, but because of Wang Zijun's movie, they have risen to the sky in one step and directly become top movie stars.
The three daughters went to the banquet together, obviously arranged, no matter what their relationship was in private, but they had to be good sisters in front of reporters.
is different from the queen's royal sister in the film, the three daughters are wearing evening dresses today, looking down-to-earth and generous, gentle and moving.
"Lime, do you have any shooting plans for the second half of the year?"
"Miss Yang, may I ask if your relationship with Mr. Pan is true?"
"Claudia, I heard that you dumped your boyfriend after you became famous, is there such a thing?"
“……”
One problem after another began to bombard, and the agent assistants of the three hurriedly helped block the drive, and finally coped with it.
Xiang Huaqiang and Manna came hand in hand, although Manna is more famous in Hong Kong's rich circles, but because she doesn't show her much, few reporters know her. However, she appeared with Xiang Huaqiang, and the relationship between the two was so close, which immediately aroused the minds of reporters and inquired about its origin.
Along with Xiang Huaqiang and Manna, there are also Xiang Huasheng and Huang Yumin, the latter two are veterans of the original Yongsheng Film Company.
Not long after, Zhuge Mao, Mecca, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Teddy Robin and others from New Art City also arrived, as well as Li Kesheng, general manager of Wang's (Hong Kong) Cinema Line, Huang Xizhao of DreamWorks Entertainment Venture Capital Company and others.
Shao Daheng and Zou Wenhuai, who received Wang Zijun's invitation, did not come, but the two asked Fang Yihua and He Guanchang to attend the celebration banquet on their behalf.
Fang Yihua and He Guanchang arrived at the same time, and after getting out of the car, they saw each other looking at each other and smiling, but this smile was somewhat bitter.
"The Three Heroines of the East" was filmed with full investment by Wang's Pictures, and now it has sold $50 million in Asia a month, which is already a box office record, even if "Titanic" was released in Asia at the beginning (the most powerful thing about "Titanic" is that it is full of stamina).
Not only that, but even in the Indian market, where Chinese films have not been able to sell bids, I heard that some Indian film companies have recently contacted Wang's and want to introduce "The Three Heroines of the East" to India.
The aesthetics of India have strong colonial characteristics, and everything is on par with Britain and the United States. Wang Zijun's movies, as long as they sell well in Europe and the United States, India basically introduces them.
However, in the past, all the ones sold in India were produced by Dragon and Tiger Film Company, except for "Titanic" and "Ghost Love", the others did not sell very well in India.
There are several major film bases in India, and the films produced are in different languages, but the mainstream is Bollywood movies. Bollywood movies are often a few hours a week, and they are full of singing and dancing elements, which often makes foreign films fail at the box office when they enter India. Because Ah Sange felt that there was no singing and dancing, and the movie was only more than an hour long, it was not worth the ticket price.
The prospect of "Three Oriental Women's Surnames" entering India is unclear, but this is an important start, and Indian filmmakers have taken the initiative to introduce Chinese films, which is still an unprecedented thing.
If Chinese-language films can successfully enter the Indian market with a population of hundreds of millions, then Wang Zijun will be a great contributor to the opening and expansion of Chinese-language films.
Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are old enemies, but now Shaw Brothers no longer makes movies, and even Hong Kong's cinemas have been sold, leaving only a few hundred theaters in Nanyang, so all grudges have become a thing of the past.
Fang Yihua and He Guanchang chatted all the way into the banquet hall, and Zhong Chuhong, Zeng Zhiwei, Ye Yuqing and others came over to greet them.
Fang Yihua saw Pan Disheng coming over, and joked: "Mr. Pan has made a good deal this time." ”
Yang Ziqiong is Pan Disheng's girlfriend and his signed artist, Wang Zijun made Yang Ziqiong popular, which is indeed a great thing for Pan Dickson.
Fang Yihua's words were endless, making people wonder whether she was congratulating or ridiculing. However, in Pan Disheng's ears, this remark turned into irony, during this time, some gossip tabloids were still rumoring about Wang Zijun's affair with the three heroines, which made Pan Disheng very unhappy.
"When it comes to trading, I'm not as good as Miss Shang." Pan Disheng sneered.
This was said with resentment, the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line was originally going to be sold to Pan Disheng, and the two sides talked about it. As a result, Xiang Huaqiang ran out and intervened, and the bid was 8 million Hong Kong dollars higher than Pan Disheng, and Shaw Brothers didn't say a word, directly tore up the verbal agreement and sold the theater to Xiang Huaqiang.
Pandy was so angry that he vomited blood, and the other party's resentment was very great.
He Guanchang, the old fox, saw that there was anger in the words of the two, so he immediately said goodbye and went to chat with an old friend, so as not to stand next to him and be affected by the pond fish.
The sky is getting dark, and the celebration banquet is about to begin, and there are many beautiful women in the banquet hall who can dazzle people's eyes.
It was the first time for Huang Qiusheng to participate in this kind of occasion, and at this time he was not an old fox and an old hooligan, but a real literary and artistic youth, quite shy to stay alone in the corner.
is more at a loss than Huang Qiusheng, but it is Le Yun, who has just become Wang Zijun's personal secretary. This 19-year-old girl has seen this kind of scene, she can't name any of the people here, but Wang Zijun asked her to go down to greet the guests.
Le Yun was wearing a black dress at this time, not only did the high heels under her feet make her uncomfortable, but the exposed piece of her back always felt cool.
Le Yun stood hesitantly in the center of the banquet hall, her tall figure and seductive eyes attracted a lot of attention, and there were already many men eager to try and want to go up and talk.
Most of the guests invited by Wang Zijun this time are people in the film industry, including bosses, producers, directors and actors, and even Christopher Doyle, a photographer.
Wang Sanyue, who didn't know where to get the invitation, saw Le Yun's eyes lit up, this fat man didn't have any demeanor, so he went up directly and asked, "What is this young lady's name?" ”
Le Yun didn't dare to offend Wang Zijun's guests casually, and hurriedly replied: "My name is Le Yun, the music of music." ”
"It turned out to be Miss Le, it's really like her name." Wang Jing smiled a little obscenely, "I think your appearance is very suitable for a movie I have conceived now, are you interested in coming to the audition?" ”
According to Wang Jing's thoughts, most of this woman who has never heard of it is a young actor under Xinyicheng or Jiashi, and she is crazy to become famous. He is a great director, and he uses movies as a temptation, so he is naturally able to catch it.
Le Yun didn't know who Wang Jing was, let alone his father's origins, so he directly refused: "I'm sorry, I'm Mr. Wang's secretary now, and I don't have time to make movies." ”
"Which Mr. Wang?" Wang Jing asked.
Le Yun said: "It's Wang Zijun." ”
"Uh...... Hehe, Miss Le, you're busy, there's a friend looking for me over there. Wang Jinggan laughed a few times and ran away under the pretext, giving him a hundred women who would not dare to soak Wang Zijun.
Tsui Hark, Wu Yusen and Shi Nansheng were sitting together chatting, and the two boring men were betting on whether Wang Jing could succeed or not, but it didn't take long to see Wang Jing fleeing back in disgrace.
"What's the matter, you're deflated?" John Wu asked.
Wang Jing was speechless: "Guess who that woman is?" ”
Tsui Hark smiled: "Who, it won't be the daughter of a rich man." ”
Wang Jing smiled bitterly: "It's Wang Zijun's female secretary." ”
Although Shi Nansheng's surname is very grinning, he is a woman after all, and he frowned: "This Boss Wang, talented and rich, is not good, women are like marquees." ”
"Talented people inevitably have quirks." Wu Yusen helped Wang Zijun say good things. He even hit the street for a few films, and no one dared to use him as a director, but some time ago he took the script to Wang Zijun's DreamWorks Entertainment Venture Capital Company, and actually got millions of filming funds, and promised to help him contact the purple Zhou Yunfa to be the actor of the new film "The True Color of Heroes".
This alone is enough to make Wu Yusen have a good impression of Wang Zijun, what is it to have more women? As long as you don't use tough and despicable means.
(To be continued)