Chapter 023, Xu Laowei's request

Although this is more belated, but still have the cheekiness to ask for a recommendation and collection, thank you in advance, thank you!

In May, "Sky Trap" has been completely offline, and the box office in Hong Kong has reached 52 million. It set a new record for the highest box office in the history of Hong Kong films, raising the highest box office performance set by "Best Partner" in '82 by 26 million.

According to incomplete statistics, at least half of the people in Hong Kong have seen this movie, and almost half of these people have seen it at least twice, which shows the appeal of this movie. Zhong Chuhong, who is not popular with anyone, is now even more popular all over the sky, and even Zhou Yanfa, who was once a "box office poison", is now able to straighten his waist and accept people's respectful "Fa Ge".

With a box office of US$79 million, it ranked second in the North American box office rankings after "Ghostbusters" (US$229 million), "Police Academy" (81 million) and "Full of Energy" (80 million). In the global film market, especially in Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia, the box office has also received a number that makes people fall through the glasses, and the total global box office has reached a terrifying more than 900 million Hong Kong dollars.

The success of this film also made Hong Kong filmmakers like chickens, and began to frantically follow some thief films, in which museums and banks around the world were stolen, and some even entered the Federal Reserve's reserve center. But it's a pity that because of blindly following the trend and shoddy production, no movie can exceed 20 million at the box office, and even fail miserably at the overseas box office.

The film sold more than 50 million at the box office in Hong Kong, but because of Fang Yihua's deliberate exploitation and bullying agreement, 30% of the screening commission went to the Sing's Cinema Line, and the rest of the ticket money recovered accounted for 30% of the distribution cost of the Clan's Theater, and then the 1 million publicity cost of the pit father was removed, and then the content of the account was divided.

According to the provisions of the agreement, Mo Fei could only get a pitiful 7.4 million out of the 52 million box office, and the Wei clan swallowed the remaining 45 million through various means, which made Mo Fei grit his teeth with hatred.

Fortunately, there is also overseas box office supplements, 35% of the North American box office can be used to share the account, and the box office in other regions can also have almost 40%. And among these box office revenues, Mo Fei had to be shamelessly deducted again, and could only get 30% of the 70% of the inexplicable distribution fees charged by the Ao, and the entire North American box office exceeded 600 million Hong Kong dollars, and 30% and a half of them were more than 200 million, and Mo Fei was only barely able to share the same income as the Wei family in Hong Kong.

Mo Fei personally created a movie with a global box office of more than 900 million Hong Kong dollars, and he himself got less than one-ninth of his income, but he didn't do anything, and easily gained more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars, it is estimated that they never thought that they could make so much money on a movie.

But for Mo Fei, it's a great shame. But looking back, didn't you personally put your neck up and wait for others to bleed. It seems that this actress is also a technical job, it is not possible without a professional level, people throw out 18 million, it is easy to succeed, I lost at least hundreds of millions of dollars on my side, but I didn't even touch a finger, and finally soaked the girl into someone else's girlfriend, the level is not ordinarily rotten, this is more embarrassing than suffering such a big loss.

If it's just like this, forget it, Mo Fei didn't plan to cooperate with the Wei family anymore anyway, but Fang Yihua's woman refused to give up, and after learning the news that Mo Fei took out a loan to make a movie, she hugged the money and refused to let go, even if it was only one day late, she had to make Mo Fei feel uncomfortable.

This made Mo Fei unbearable, and at the beginning of June, he went directly to the law firm to talk to the Wei family, but as soon as those lawyers heard that it was a lawsuit with the Wei family, they immediately stopped talking.

In the name of Phoenix Culture's parent company, Bermuda Phoenix Culture Development Company and his own identity as another nationality, he invited an Italian lawyer and sent a lawyer's letter to Wei, which forced Weishi to transfer the money that Mo Fei deserved.

Let's put it down and don't talk about it. After asking Wu Yusen to invite Xu Ke to direct "A Chinese Ghost Story", in less than a week, Wu Yusen fed back the news, Xu Ke was very interested in being able to cooperate with Mo Fei, and said that as long as his "Shanghai Night" was completed, he would be able to start filming a new film immediately.

After a weekend night, I asked Wu Yusen to ask Xu Ke out to meet, and by the way, I talked about the specific details of the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and tried to prepare as much as possible before the filming started.

Wu Yusen arrived with Mo Fei, the two came to the door of the box and knocked on the door to enter, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng saw the two come in, and they also got up from their seats to greet each other. In the film industry, they are Mo Fei's predecessors, but when it comes to real skills, Mo Fei can throw all Hong Kong filmmakers out of several streets just by relying on the current movie, and the global box office of more than 900 million is not something anyone can do, even in Hollywood, the United States, where the film industry is the most vigorous, not most of the movies that can produce a global box office of more than 100 million US dollars every year.

"Mr. Mo is a distinguished guest, and I have long wanted to have a good time with Mr. Mo, but I have never had a chance, and today I finally got what I wanted, so please hurry up." Xu Ke shook hands with Mo Fei and invited Mo Fei to take a seat.

Xu Ke treated each other politely, but he couldn't show arrogance, and said politely: "What did Director Xu say, I'm just a novice who has just entered the industry, and there are many things to learn slowly, I hope Director Xu will give me advice." ”

After Mo Fei and Wu Yusen sat down, Shi Nansheng poured tea for everyone, sat back in his seat, and said: "Mr. Mo has fought for Hong Kong movies this time, and won the fourth place at the North American box office in one fell swoop. When Xu Ke is at home, he often mentions Mr. Mo, saying that you were born 50 years late, otherwise today's Hong Kong will fall apart from Hollywood. ”

If he could travel 50 years ahead of time and reach Hong Kong in 1934, with more than 80 years of prophets, not to mention killing Hollywood, as written in the novel, it would not be a big problem to kill the United States.

But he can't say that, if he is not treated as a monster, he will be regarded as a paranoia, he smiled modestly and said: "Director Xu is serious, Hollywood is the pioneer and representative of the world film industry, where do I have that ability." However, as long as colleagues in the Hong Kong film industry can work hard to develop and make the film road wider, maybe in another 30 or 50 years, it will still be possible to catch up with Hollywood. ”

Then chatted a few more words, could it be that Xu Ke had the intention of having a meal, today it was Xu Ke and his wife who were the east, Mo Fei was originally not good at overstepping, but he came today and made an appointment with another person, so he had to take advantage of Xu Ke's words before he could say anything, and preemptively said: "I also made an appointment with another friend today, maybe there is something delayed on his side, why don't we talk about this new drama first." I also brought the script, Director Xu can take a look at it first, if there is anything that needs to be improved. ”

Mo Fei didn't say who the other person was, and Xu Ke and his wife didn't ask, presumably Mo Fei wouldn't call an unrelated person over. Since you have to wait, let's take advantage of this time to read the script first, and Xu Ke has been interested in Mo Fei's script for a long time, and I really want to see what kind of script made such a blockbuster movie.

took the script handed by Mo Fei, opened it, and said: "Mr. Mo's script is a priceless treasure, it has made the highest-grossing film in the history of Hong Kong cinema before, and now this "Peace Hotel" is also a first-class script according to Yu Sen, and I can finally see it with my own eyes today." ”

Xu Ke's words were not compliments, but he really wanted to read Mo Fei's script, and after opening it, he stopped talking, and looked at every page in his hand intently, and every time he saw the highlights, he couldn't help but pat the table and praise "wonderful",

This script is really amazing, as long as you shoot according to the script, it is basically a finished movie after filming, and after a little editing, with music, it can be released directly. Not only can I not see a superfluous description, but I also give a simple and concise explanation at the key point, a good actor doesn't even need the director to talk about the play after getting the script, and the screenwriter can make it up to this point, and it is not too much to say that it is a god.

The most rare thing is that this script is like being written completely according to his ideas, although it limits the director's room to play, but when he really wants to do more, he finds that he can't add anything at all, so he can only shoot according to the script, or he can shoot according to his own ideas, but this idea was captured by the script in advance.

Xu Ke has watched "Sky Trap", and he has seen it more than once, he believes that the script must be different from this style, and it should be written according to Wang Jing's commercial film ideas, otherwise it is impossible to shoot that effect. This kind of script is what every director loves and hates, and it doesn't take too much effort to get the script, it's like writing it yourself, and that's it, it's just that such a screenwriter is too rare, and it's estimated that there is only one in Hong Kong.

As soon as he saw half of it, Xu Ke couldn't help it anymore, put the script on the table, and said, "Mr. Mo's script is really amazing, I saw it today, I have to say that I admire it." I must make this film, but before that, I also want to make a small request, hoping that Mr. Mo can help me. ”

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