After explaining Chen Xunqi, Gu Weiqi threw himself into the intense filming of "The Grandmaster of National Art from Scratch".

However, "Chasing Girls" was under great pressure, and under the sniping of the three major theaters of Jiahe, Shao's and Princess Jin, it was released for a month. In the end, this film achieved an impressive box office score of 12 million when it was painted, directly breaking the box office record of 11.02 million Hong Kong dollars created by last year's "junior brother".

However, the box office champion was taken away by "Modern Bodyguard", and the film got a box office of 18 million Hong Kong dollars when it was drawn. That's more than 200,000 more than in history.

But Chen Xunqi still became a director of tens of millions in one fell swoop with this movie. And several leading actors in the film, whether it is Zhang Guorong, Zhang Tianxi or Guan Zhilin, have all become hot tomorrow stars for a while. And Donglai Company has also become an eye-catching emerging film company.

In fact, it is not for nothing that this film can get such a high box office. One is that it is well-made, after all, the investment of more than 2 million is not a joke; Second, propaganda is in place; the third is that it meets the appetite of the current citizens, so the audience is more convinced; Fourth, one of the most important reasons is that the release time is relatively long.

It must be known that at this time, except for the masterpieces of the Xu brothers and a few people in Cheng, which can be scheduled for about a month, most of the current movies have only a short release period of one to two weeks.

And like Shao's assembly line operation, some may only be produced in batches for two or three days. Even the films made by some small leather bag film companies can't be released in theaters at all. This is also the reason why most films generally do not have a high box office.

In fact, in the seventies and eighties, the film overlord Shao Shi and the film giant Jiahe competed with each other, and finally won the theater chain. If a film company wants to gain a foothold in the film industry, it must have a reliable theater chain. Otherwise, even if your movie is filmed, it will be useless if it is not released in theaters.

It has received a box office of 12 million, which is definitely a great joy worth celebrating. Therefore, Gu Weiqi, who was nervously filming "The Grandmaster of Guoshu Starting from Scratch", announced that he had taken a day off for the crew, and held a celebration banquet for the heroes of the "Chasing Girls" crew and several main persons in charge of the cinema at Yushanfang International Restaurant.

At the banquet, Gu Weiqi took out a box office of 500,000 yuan and distributed it to the crew and the management of the theater chain. Among them, Chen Xunqi got 100,000 yuan, you must know that his salary for filming this time was only 50,000 yuan, but he got 100,000 yuan in dividends, which shows the generosity of Boss Gu.

In addition, Guan Zhilin, Zhang Guorong and Zhang Tianyan, who originally had a salary of only 50,000 yuan, also received a dividend of 50,000 yuan. The others have more or less received a considerable amount of dividends, and everyone is happy.

In fact, don't blame Gu Weiqi for being so generous, you must know that now "chasing girls" has made millions of dollars in Xiangjiang alone, and the box office harvested from the following releases in other places is all profits. There is also a video tape that can make a lot of money.

However, what makes Gu Weiqi more headache is the distribution problem, it must be known that although Donglai Company has its own cinema in Xiangjiang City. But there is a blank slate when it comes to local distribution, and he knows that foreign distribution is the main thing, and a well-made good movie can sometimes make much more profit than it makes in its own port. After all, the population base of the Xiangjiang area is too small, and even if the box office is hot, the profits earned are limited.

Fortunately, after the film exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars, many filmmakers like Taiwan, Nanyang, Yueben, Taibang, Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines automatically came to discuss cooperation and expressed their intention to introduce this film.

Gu Weiqi was busy filming "The Grandmaster of National Art", so he handed over this arduous task to the assistant secretary Fang Lingwei.

When it comes to Xiangjiang movies, before the 70s, Shao was definitely a well-deserved overlord. Through the unremitting efforts of the Shao brothers, Heung Kong Films is very famous throughout Southeast Asian countries. After entering the 70s, Fu Wenhuai and He Guanchang, who originally worked in Shao's family, ran away and founded Jiahe Film Company, and since then they have been fighting with Shao's for more than ten years.

Because of the competition, the quality of the film during this period is still very good. Especially after Li Xiaolong joined Jiahe, he was very particular. Because of this, filmmakers in many countries and regions in Southeast Asia saw the profits and went to Xiangjiang to introduce Hong Kong films for distribution and release.

Because of this, it is still very easy for Xiangjiang films to enter various countries, and the box office has been rising. And this is also an important reason for the prosperity of Hong Kong films. It is precisely because of the continuous growth of the box office in other cities that Xiangjiang has become the second film production place in the world after Hollywood. It was even called the "Hollywood of the East" for a time.

Fang Lingwei did not disappoint Gu Weiqi, because this film got a high box office of more than 10 million in Xiangjiang, and many regions are scrambling to introduce it. As a result, after some fierce negotiations, a total of 38 million Hong Kong dollars were sold for the distribution rights in eight regions including Nanyang and Yueben, including the distribution rights of the videotapes.

After deducting costs and taxes, plus the local box office, this film made Donglai Company earn more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars. This can't help but make Gu Weiqi secretly sigh, movies are really a profiteering industry, no wonder so many associations and various rich people want to invest hot money in the film industry later. It's a pity that we can't enter the mainland market now, otherwise we can make a lot of money.

In addition, this film is a typical Hong Kong film, and it is naturally not suitable for release in Western countries. Because of cultural and regional differences, many of the jokes and episodes are interesting to Easterners, but if you are Westerners, you may not be able to understand them. So Gu Weiqi didn't think about taking this movie to Western countries for distribution and release at all.

In addition, it is a pity that Gu Weiqi does not have a complete distribution channel, otherwise he will definitely make a lot more money if he publishes it in other cities. But he also knew that these things could not be rushed. Now although "chasing girls" has made a good start, the foundation and talent reserve are still very weak, which is no way to do it, after all, the company has only officially opened for a short time, and it will definitely not be able to compare with Shao's and Jiahe, which have been open for many years.

However, what makes Gu Weiqi happy is that Chen Xunqi's filming efficiency is quite high, and the production of "Lifting and Releasing Little Hands" was completed just a week ago.

In fact, in this era, Xiangjiang people make films at such a speed. You must know that once the crew is turned on, everyone will consume every day to eat and chew, not counting the budget funds. The same film, shot in a month and a year, the difference in cost is not a little bit of a star. So the general crew is in a hurry.

In fact, the reason why this "little hands" Chen Xunqi was filmed so quickly was mainly because there were no big scenes, and several action scenes were also designed by Gu Weiqi in advance on the script. As long as the filming location is found, the Lazi crew will be able to start filming. So it's understandable to be a little faster.

In addition, Fang Lingwei also reported to Gu Weiqi that the budget for the film "Let Go of Little Hands" was 5 million, but because of the relatively fast shooting, it actually used 4.18 million.

Gu Weiqi immediately instructed Fang Lingwei to let Chen Xunqi launch a propaganda offensive. After a week of publicity, "chasing girls" painted, and "lifting and letting go of the little hands" immediately went up. However, he didn't worry about it anymore, because the filming of "The Grandmaster of National Arts: Starting from Scratch" had reached a critical moment, and he couldn't be distracted.

That night, the scene where the heroine returned to the Tianxing Lake community and was assassinated was filmed. Regarding the mansion owned by the heroine, Gu Weiqi directly arranged the filming location in his home, after all, the villa where he lived with his grandfather was definitely luxurious. Especially with Huang Yongheng, he personally arranged it, which became more and more high-end and high-grade.

However, this scene of "Death's Bullet", the black "Violent Bear" and the white "Evil Wolf" assassinating the heroine is not so smooth. After all, it's a play. Although there is Luo Lijia as a stand-in for Yang Xuanpan, and Lin Zhenying, who has rich experience in action coaching, is also stunned many times.

This made a few people suffer enough, but fortunately, under the leadership of Gu Weiqi, everyone gave full play to the spirit of not being afraid of hardships and fatigue, and finally completed this scene after three days of hard work. Of course, I still asked Yang Qianpan to make up some important shots of showing his face.

Under Gu Weiqi's forward-looking action design, this fight scene was filmed very well. It can be described as fist-to-flesh, hearty, and exciting. It has a strong ornamental and strong visual impact. In particular, the scene of "beating people like hanging paintings" interprets oriental kung fu superbly.

The next few days will be spent filming the literary drama where the hero and heroine are together. Because the two of them cooperated more tacitly, the shooting finally went a lot smoother. However, in the next scene, the heroine teaches the male protagonist to play shot put, but it is not so easy. The shot put is about 200 pounds, and Rao is Luo Lijia's kung fu is pretty good, but he can't play at all.

Gu Weiqi thought about getting a big and two-size-fits-all football and letting Luo Lijia play it, but he felt that it was too fake. had no choice, so he decided to personally go into battle for Yang Yipan as a stand-in to shoot this relatively difficult scene. Thanks to his figure, although he is much taller than Yang Yanpan, he is not the kind of strong man with knotted muscles, but a very well-proportioned body with soft lines.

All they saw was that the shot put was so light in his hand that it looked like playing football. But when he fell into the stone trough with a "bang", everyone knew how heavy it was when they heard the muffled sound. But his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he looked like he didn't care.

As the heroine, Yang Qianpan couldn't help but feel ashamed that she took such a high salary, but asked Gu Weiqi, the boss, to be a stand-in for her personally. This boss can do this job, which can be regarded as an eternal anecdote. In fact, it's no wonder that she can also do kung fu. But it can't be compared with Boss Gu, a perverted guy.

After playing with the shot put, he jumped on the edge of the oiled tank to hit the sandbag and practice. At this time, five cameras were used to capture his incredible movements from multiple angles. He has a very good grasp of the center of gravity, and he has practiced kung fu in this way for several years.

Now practicing on it is like walking on the ground, but others find it thrilling. If you don't pay attention to it, you will fall from it, and if you don't do it well, you will fall and injure yourself. However, he didn't care at all, and in order to show the difficulty of practicing martial arts and perseverance, he deliberately fell from it many times.

To say that his acting skills are indeed very exquisite, even if it is deliberate, ordinary people will never be able to see it. Just like a novice, he kept falling from it, but he kept climbing up.

In this way, he fell down and climbed up many times, and he couldn't bear it on ordinary people for a long time, but he had already practiced a copper skin and iron bones, and he could still withstand it. This scene adopts the shooting technique of fade-out and fade-in, and as he kicks the sandbag at the end, this practice scene was filmed for two days before it was finally filmed.