After confessing, Gu Weiqi went to Phoenix TV Company.

After arriving at the company, he first found Huang Xizhao, Xiao Sheng and Zhou Liang Shuyi to inquire about the company. According to the report of the three people, Gu Weiqi learned that the company's current operation is very good. In particular, the "Millionaire" program is very popular in each issue, and now several TV stations in Europe and the United States want to introduce this program idea, and they are currently negotiating.

In addition, the "TV Shopping" program has also been launched, which has greatly boosted the advertising business. Then there is the creative patent for the program "National Motion Sickness" has been applied, but because of the cold weather, this program has not yet been recorded. However, the ratings of other programs such as "University Open Class", "Truth Investigation", and "Entertainment Star Weekly" are still quite good.

After learning about the company's operation, Gu Weiqi finally put his mind at ease, and now that the TV station has entered a benign development track, he can devote more attention to the development of the film company in the future. But all this has to wait until after the Spring Festival, after all, the Spring Festival is about to be celebrated.

Nowadays, the Spring Festival in Xiangjiang is still very lively, especially the lion dance and dragon dance are particularly popular in Xiangjiang. At this time, the fireworks set off in various places every night are particularly beautiful. It's a pity that in later generations, the Hong Kong government explicitly stipulated that fireworks were not allowed, and the traditional culture of lion and dragon dances slowly disappeared.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Gu Weiqi drove to pick up Anita Mui, Chen Huixian and Ye Qianwen to attend the grand party held by Phoenix TV.

At the party, in addition to distributing red envelopes to everyone, he also awarded bonuses and trophies to the selected queen Yang Panpan and Emperor Huang Yuansheng. He even sang two songs, performed real kung fu tai chi and magical space dance, and pushed the atmosphere of the party to a high court amid the screams of countless beautiful girls. At one point, the night's ratings exceeded 80 points.

The wireless side is also not to be outdone, and all kinds of popular Xiaosheng and Hua Dan performances. Like the pillars of the stage, Zheng Shaohao, Zhou Runfa, Wang Mingquan, Zhao Yuzhi, etc., all sang and danced on stage; Asia Television was not far behind, and the likes of Taizhu Yu Xue and Liu Xiangren also performed wonderful programs.

But both TVB and Asia Television are still difficult to resist Phoenix's offensive. After all, Gu Weiqi, the boss of Phoenix, went into battle in person. And whether it is the songs he sings, or the boxing and space dances he performs, they are very exciting, attracting a considerable part of the audience to watch Phoenix TV.

After participating in the Spring Festival Gala held by Phoenix TV, Gu Weiqi called Luo Jianan, Fang Lingwei, Guan Zhilin, Li Saifeng and Zheng Wenya to go home and have a "reunion dinner" with his grandfather. The old man saw that all the girls brought back by his grandson were as beautiful as flowers, and the old man was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival passed quickly. After the Lantern Festival, the old man went to the mainland again and continued to turn his antique business upside down.

During the Spring Festival, Gu Weiqi accompanied his grandfather and a few women during the day, but he worked tirelessly at night, and worked tirelessly to get rid of the story outline and character image of the comic "Macross - Have You Ever Remember Love", but also drummed up the comics "Sky City", "City Hunter", and "The Legend of the Demon God Heroes".

After handing over the comic manuscript to the person in charge of the comic club, Gu Weiqi also handed over the script of "The Diamond Robbery" to Liu Zhenwei, in addition to asking Zhang San to assist him in experimenting with blasting special effects, he also transferred Lin Zhenying and Chen Xunqi to him to help him direct the action scenes and flying car stunts on the spot.

As for the actors, Gu Weiqi originally wanted to openly recruit some newcomers. Thinking about it later, in order to ensure the box office, I simply used the original team of "The Grandmaster of National Art from Scratch", and this can also be used as a gimmick for the promotion of this film. Then he began to be busy editing the movie "The Grandmaster of National Arts: Starting from Scratch".

Editing is the selection of a large number of materials shot in a film, through selection, selection and assembly, and finally compiled into a coherent and smooth, clear meaning, and artistically appealing work. It is the main component of film art creation, an indispensable and important process of film production, and a re-creation of a film from shooting to completion.

At this time, the film editing work was done with a simple machine, which was then glued together with glue or adhesive tape. It is far less than the computer "non-line" editing (digital editing) that Gu Weiqi was familiar with in his previous life, so editing is a heavy and meticulous work. At the same time as editing, Gu Weiqi made a few more songs as an interlude to this play.

During the day, he was engaged in the post-production of "The Grandmaster of Guoshu Starting from Scratch", and Gu Weiqi was not idle at night, and in one breath he drummed up the outlines of ten novels, including "Lotus Battle", "Clever Tricks and Five Lucky Star Series", "One Liter of Tears", "Spicy Teacher", "One Cut Plum", "The Star of the Sheep", "Snow Flower Dragon Girl", "Pretty Girl", "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Best Partner", which were lost to the editorial team.

After more than ten days of intense busyness, Gu Weiqi finally completed the post-production of "Guoshu". However, he was not in a hurry to release it, but first launched an overwhelming publicity. In addition to editing a wonderful film for non-stop screening on Phoenix TV, there are also promotional posters in newspapers, magazines and comics. There are also car body and wall advertisements, which can be said to have achieved the ultimate in the promotion of this play.

"National Martial Arts Showdown, a real action blockbuster in the history of Xiangjiang films!"

"Fists to the flesh, fiery fierce battles, passing by, not to be missed!"

"A milestone work for an action movie, a blockbuster movie you have to watch!"

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In just a few days, the propaganda of "The Grandmaster of National Art from Scratch" spread everywhere like a virus. Especially with the broadcast of the trailer, people began to pay attention to this film while discussing it. Another point is that there is a lottery to watch this movie, which can be said to be the first of Gu Weiqi.

And just when "The Grandmaster of Guoshu Starts from Scratch" was carrying out large-scale publicity, "Lifting and Releasing Little Hands", which had been released for a month, was finally drawn. As a result, this movie actually got a box office of 21.1 million Hong Kong dollars, which is nearly 10 million more than in history. In one fell swoop, it broke the box office record of 18 million created by "Modern Bodyguard".

You must know that the original version of this film only received 11.6 million Hong Kong dollars. In fact, there are many factors that affect the box office of a movie, such as schedule, publicity, length of release, and so on. Now there are no particularly competitive films released in the same period of this movie, and the other one was released during the Spring Festival, and there are more audiences watching the movie, and the release time is relatively long. So although it is surprising to get nearly 10 million more box office than the original version, it is actually reasonable.

The success of "lifting and letting go of the little hands" not only made Chen Xunqi sit on the name and status of tens of millions of directors, but also marked the real rise of Donglai Company.

After the film was painted, Gu Weiqi not only held a grand celebration banquet for everyone, but also took out hundreds of thousands of dollars and distributed them to the members in the play. For example, Hong Jinbao, Di Wei and others all got 50,000 big red envelopes. You must know that at that time, it was rare for a producer to take out so much money to distribute to everyone, which at most meant three thousand or two thousand. But the least number of people who went that night also got tens of thousands, which made everyone see his boldness and atmosphere, and they all said that they could continue to cooperate in filming in the future.

And just after the painting of "Lifting and Releasing Little Hands" was completed, on March 10, 1981, a grand midnight test screening was held in "The Grandmaster of Guoshu from Scratch". That night, Gu Weiqi called everyone in the film company and everyone in the film crew, and also invited Hong Jinbao, Xu Guanjie and other friends in the circle to come over to cheer.

At that time, the movie had not yet started, but at this time, the crowd was already shouting in front of the theater. Many itinerant vendors shout hot sugar cane, fried chestnuts, brine offal, roasted corn, popcorn and other snacks. Many people bought snacks such as sugar cane, popcorn and soda, and went into the theater with friends, waiting for the movie to start.

"Haha, I won the first prize! I heard that the first prize can be subscribed to the 'China Entertainment Times' for free for a whole year, and the 10 yuan ticket is worth it! ”

"Aha, I won the third prize, and the third prize can get a home game console, and I earned it too!"

"Hey, I only won a lucky prize, but it's not bad, and it's not bad to get a handheld game console to go back to play with the kids!"

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At the entrance of each theater, there were surprises from time to time, and there were more and more people queuing. Xu Yanbing, the executive president of Tang Dynasty Cinema Line, walked around outside the entrance of the theater, returned to the office with a smile on his face, and asked his assistant how the advance tickets of other theaters were. The other party told him that it was also very hot.

Gu Weiqi stood at the door of the theater, greeting the people who came to cheer, this side had just sent Deng Lijun in, and Hong Jinbao came over there, behind him, followed by a few people, leaving Lao Mo far away, he laughed and said: "Brother Gu, congratulations, congratulations, you have a new film released, I hope it will be a big hit at the box office!" ”

"Cheng eldest brother Jiyan, I hope so." Gu Weiqi nodded with a smile and asked, "Who are these ......?"

"I'm about to introduce it to you, this is my junior sister Yuan Hagi (the one who plays the charter wife in Kung Fu), this is my junior brother Yuan Hao (the charter man in Kung Fu), Yuan Biao and Di Wei I introduced to you at the 'Lifting Little Hands' celebration banquet, this is the brother Zhou Proportion, Ke Shouliang, who has just joined my Hong family class, ......

Gu Weiqi couldn't help but sigh secretly, these are all famous stars in history. Hong Jinbao deserves to be called the eldest brother, look at the people gathered around him, but they are all talents. Look at your surroundings again, there is a shortage of talents. If there are so many talents around him like the other party, with his own financial resources and the "creativity" in his head, he will definitely be able to dominate Xiangjiang Movies in less than five years. Now, it's only one step at a time.

"Yes, yes, Brother Hong, these people around you are all talents. You see, our company has abundant funds and sufficient scripts, but there is a lack of talents. Hey, I'm planning to start a new drama in a while, and I want to secondment two brothers to you as the leading actors of the new film, I don't know what Brother Hong thinks? ”