What can I do? Even if you try your brains, you have to find a way to dispel Xu Ke's thoughts. Xiao Ran secretly scolded a few hellish words, which made the face that had been slack up: "Lao Xu, it's wrong for you to think like this!" I thought you knew that Wu Yusen was very talented, but I didn't expect ......."

"He is indeed talented, he can be regarded as a kind of person who has never met Huaicai!" Xu Ke was stimulated by Xiao Ran, and his tone seemed to be a little loose, especially when he thought that Wu Yusen had earned the first pot of gold for Xinyi City, he hesitated: "However, such a theme is indeed not easy to grasp, I'm worried that he will mess up!" ”

"Have you ever photographed this subject?" Xiao Ran didn't ask any further, but instead started to knock on the side from another aspect: "No, no one knows if you can do a good job." Why don't you try to leave it to Wu Yusen to do it? Perhaps he is particularly talented in this area? ”

Xu Ke was very depressed, he didn't expect Xiao Ran to not support him to direct this film himself. Staring at Xiao Ran, who didn't give in at all, he sighed and gave in: "Okay, I'll get him back." However, I don't know if I can convince Boss Lei! ”

Boss Lei's full name is Lei Kaitai, and it goes without saying that his Golden Princess Company is financially powerful, and he is also the chairman of the Hong Kong Bus Union, which can be described as famous and advantageous. The new art city was invested by Lei Kaitai, which made Xiao Ran admire the vision of this boss Lei.

"If you really want Zhou Yanfa and Wu Yusen to make this movie, I think you still need to coordinate with Huang Baiming and them!" Xu Ke is a workaholic, as long as he decides on a certain job, he will start it immediately.

Xiao Ran was surprised, in his memory, Xu Ke's film studio was a part of the new art city. If it's from the same company, why do you need to coordinate? He was puzzled by this!

When he asked this question, Xu Ke looked at him strangely and asked, "Who told you that the film studio belongs to the New Art City?" However, if you really want to say that, it is correct, at least in terms of name! ”

When Xu Ke continued to explain, Xiao Ran was dumbfounded. It turns out that there are huge differences within the new art city, but the first few years of its establishment are fine, at least everyone is very united. A prime example of solidarity is the famous "Struggle Room", where the Seven Giants often held a night meeting in a small room.

In 1984, Xu Ke left Xinyicheng because of the difference between his creative concept and the concept of Xinyicheng. However, Lei Kaitai appreciated Xu Ke very much, and immediately invested money to set up a film studio for him.

Interestingly, when Xu Ke founded the film studio, many people speculated that Shaw Brothers and other companies invested in it, but no one guessed that it was still Princess Jin who did it. When the truth was revealed, the business of the optical store that day was very good.

However, in the final analysis, the ultimate reason for the split of the new art city is interests. In terms of profit distribution, Huang Baiming, Mecca and Shi Tian, who originally founded Xinyicheng, were different, which planted the seeds of division among the three giants. And some Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei, who joined the company later, as well as Teddy Luo Bin and Shi Nansheng, got different benefits, so it was a miracle that there was no infighting.

Except for regret, Xiao Ran has no other feelings. The peak of talents in Xinyicheng, even Zhang Manyu, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Hua and other big stars have eaten closed-door soup, which is definitely not inferior to Jiahe at its peak.

The new comedy of New Arts City not only did well at the box office, but even led the entire period. In particular, the emergence of classics such as "The True Color of Heroes" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" has even influenced the creation of Hong Kong films in the next ten years, which has simply pushed the company's popularity to the peak.

In later generations, the new art city is a myth, a well-deserved myth. Just when other film companies are still focusing on stars, New Arts City has completed the transition from stars to behind-the-scenes staff. It's just that in Xiao Ran's memory, future Hong Kong films will repeat the mistakes of the past again.

It's a pity that Xiao Ran also knows that Mecca, one of the Big Three, just made a rebellion last year. As a high-level executive of Xinyi City, he actually rebelled once, and made a box office hit for Hong Jinbao, which is the Fuxing series, and fiercely confronted his base camp. The end of this is obviously very bad, and it not only makes the other two giants angry.

And in the next few years, Huang Baiming also concocted a rebellion, this new art city that pays the most attention to collective cooperation finally failed to stop another giant Shi Tian from going his own way due to the problem of "previous convictions", but the big investment made a mediocre box office "Uncle Cai's Sweeping Thousands of Armies" came out, as a result, Shi Tian was disheartened and simply quit the film industry and started a business.

Thinking of the future division of the new art city, Xiao Ran seemed to faintly experience that kind of sadness. Reasonably, he deeply regretted the split of this company, and some of the classics that later generations saw came out because of this company. However, reason told him that if he wanted to build his own business in the future, Xinyicheng had to get rid of it, otherwise he would definitely be an excellent opponent.

Back at the Nest, Xiao Ran began to calculate. If all is not divided, then "True Colors of Heroes" will still be the box office champion of this year, sweeping thousands of troops at the Academy Awards in March and April of next year.

Thinking of the Academy Awards, Xiao Ran remembered one thing, he had to go to the fifth Academy Awards. Of course, I have to go, not to mention anything else, to be able to enjoy the grand occasion of the Academy Awards in this era, it is worth a thousand dollars. Moreover, he was also shortlisted for the Best Screenplay Award with Szeto Zhuohan for "Mr. Zombie".

This fact made Xiao Ran so embarrassed in private that he wanted to buy a piece of tofu and crash to death, there were originally two screenwriters in this film, one of them was the extremely prestigious Huang Bingyao in this era, but these two original authors were not shortlisted, but Xiao Ran was shortlisted.

The other Xiao Ran didn't remember his name, but it didn't matter. Only this Huang Bingyao, Xiao Ran is indeed deeply sorry, he can be said to have grown up watching this guy's films. For example, "Truant Dragon" is his work, and he also made a cameo appearance in the film as the chubby fat-killing scissorfoot director!

Soon, Xiao Ran realized that Huang Bingyao died of cancer in 1991 or 92. If you can meet him at the awards ceremony this time and remind him of this in time, maybe you can save this amazing screenwriter, and it will be Xiao Ran's compensation for plagiarizing the script.

Xiao Ran put down the matter of the Academy Awards and continued to think. Although Wang Jing has a wide range of contacts in the film industry, he has always made films for the Shaw Brothers, and the Shaw Brothers have almost completely discontinued films in the past year, and Wang Jing has not produced any films. This means that in the short term, he must not rely on Wang Jing to give him much help.

He is now waiting, waiting for "Police Story" to win the best picture at the Academy Awards, and then he can be regarded as a real leaper. If there is another halo of the best screenwriter, it will be able to increase his value. After such a period of time, Xiao Ran has understood that he is now at best a new screenwriter with potential, not to mention any special status.

However, even so, Xiao Ran's name is more or less known to people in the circle. First, because he has been deliberately making friends with people who can make friends all this time, and secondly, because several of the scripts he wrote are on the top ten box office lists.

After thinking about it, he knew that his chance to be in charge of the guide tube was close at hand. He has to have a complete preparation, the producer is obviously no problem, and the shooting is not a big problem. However, in terms of specific shooting, he still needs an experienced assistant director.

In order to become a director that day, Xiao Ran had already chosen his goal - "Eight Star Annunciation". This is the safest choice, and the strongest point of this film lies in the performance of the actors and the excellence of the script, not in the director's skills.

Of course, box office results are important, so important that no one dares to ignore them. Xiao Ran didn't want to be like Wang Jiawei at the box office, and made the investment boss so angry that he vomited blood. The box office of this film is 37 million, which is a remarkable number for Chinese and Western films in this era.

And this film was released in early 88, that is, from preparation to shooting, it only took about half a year at best. Plagiarizing this script will not have any copyright problems, and he can rest assured that he will copy boldly.

Of course, what Xiao Ran values most is that the time when this film was released in a dream is just right, even if it appears a year in advance, the possibility of affecting the future is very small. Xiao Ran only thinks that the only impact is to give Cheng Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" one less chance to break the box office record, but who cares?

When it comes to plagiarism, Xiao Ran was initially afraid that he would be in danger of becoming "twins". However, he soon discovered that Hong Kong films in this era are very different from those after the decline, in this era, everyone is rushing to start work. If you write a good script, you will immediately send it to the film company for review, and if you pass it, you will immediately prepare for filming, and the cycle will never exceed half a year.

It's not at all like after the decline, a script has been endured for several years and no one dares to invest. Even if it is filmed, it may not dare to be released immediately, and it will have to be delayed for a few months, waiting for a good schedule, or delaying it for two years before it is released. is especially typical of Xu Ke's "Black Man 2", which even completed post-production, but it was not released until two years later.

As for the issue of investment, Xiao Ran hopes that he can use his own money to make an investment, and he can get a large share of the profits with the production and distribution companies. In this way, the film "Eight Star Annunciation" has a local box office of 37 million, and if you add the income from the sale of Southeast Asia, I believe it is more than 80 million.

After accurately calculating his income, Xiao Ran found that he didn't get much, "Mr. Zombie" certainly got the end and dividends, and even "A Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman" released in January was obtained, and "Police Story" also got it. The box office of these three films exceeded 20 million, and Xiao Ran got 250,000.

In addition, "Happy Ghosts" and "Dao Ma Dan", as well as "The True Color of Heroes" only got the first installment, with 100,000. Even if he gets the mantissa and dividends, the money he can make will never exceed 500,000. This gave him a headache, and he couldn't get a big head if he didn't have money.

According to his understanding, it only takes about four million to make a medium-sized film, and more than seven million for a large-scale production. According to his calculations, there are really not a few stars in "Eight Star Annunciation", Zhou Runfa's salary alone is more than 300,000, and if the value of "The True Color of Heroes" increases, it will take at least 500,000 or 600,000.

In this way, the salary of the actors in the film alone needs at least more than one million. Combined with the remuneration and filming expenses of the creators behind the scenes, it will cost about five million! But this gave Xiao Ran a headache, where should I get the five million? The devil knows!

It's not that the investment can't be obtained, Xiao Ran is sure that as long as he gives the script of "Eight Star Annunciation" to Xinyicheng, he will definitely get the funds. The problem is that he hopes to make at least 10 million with this film, so if he wants to make money, he has to get money. It's really hard for him......

(What Xiao Ran is currently doing is to accumulate popularity, and if he is famous in the film industry, he has everything)

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