This year's summer vacation prime time is destined to be occupied by Wang Xiaohu, Golden Harvest Company has no revenue for half a year, and Shaw Brothers Company is a very wise choice to let "Lu Acai" be released behind the ass of "A Tiger", in the words of Run Run Shaw: It's all your own family, why play the inner bar!

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Thailand and other Southeast Asian publicity work has been in full swing, at the same time, Wang Xiaohu also let the Los Angeles branch to carry out publicity work, Wang Xiaohu did not want to be released in the United States, because the theme of "A Tiger" and "Rocky" crashed, but Stallone has not yet completed the filming of "Rocky 2", it can be said that Stallone's performance made Wang Xiaohu feel speechless, since the start of last year, "Rocky 2" has been tossed back and forth for almost nine months, and it was easy to get things done, Stallone has been dragging on for so long, which shows that he is not competent for the director's job. 【】

For this reason, Stallone once made a special call to apologize, explaining many problems encountered in filming, when he learned that Stallone was striving for perfection and wanted to make "Rocky 2" surpass the previous work, Wang Xiaohu almost didn't laugh, some films only have one fire, "Rocky 2" is an obvious example, but he can't say it too bluntly, for fear of hitting Stallone's positive surname, ask for the surname to toss Stallone. "Sylvester, if you haven't finished "Rocky 2" now, take your time seriously and carefully, and put the film on release after October."

"Boss, why after October?" Stallone asked blankly.

Wang Xiaohu gritted his teeth and said: "Because our two films collided, if you don't want the box office of the film to be affected, it will be delayed until October!" ”

Hearing the faint anger in the young boss's words, Stallone closed his mouth knowingly and handed the phone to Winterdur.

"Lao Wen, prepare the promotion of "Ah Hu" in Chinatown, Chinese, and black-dense places, because this film is the main Hong Kong version of "Rocky", and many American audiences may not be interested in it, so it doesn't matter if Fox is not willing to help, as long as we ensure that our company's 100 theaters are released." Wang Xiaohu said on the phone after some careful consideration.

Winterdur said a few times in a row on the phone, "Boss, it's obvious that you're overthinking, you must know that you are now holding 4 little golden figures in your hands, even if the Hong Kong version of your film is very popular with the American people, I think not only Fox will be happy to arrange theaters, Paramount, Mikle and several large companies will also have a strong interest!" ”

Winterdur's words just now have a lot of subtext, Wang Xiaohu is the winner of the Oscar four times, he is now a famous director in Hollywood, since he left Los Angeles, several films shot by Concord Company in addition to "Rocky" and "Home Alone", "Ip Man", "Righteous Hero", "Enter the Dragon", "Jingwumen", "Raptors Across the River", "Warriors" Six kung fu films with strong Chinese characteristics once again set off a hot frenzy in Los Angeles, and the box office results of the re-releases caught up with the data of the premiere. In the past two months, the amount of US dollars received by Concord Company made Wang Xiaohu shocked when he saw it.

Wang Xiaohu finally knew what Lucas meant when he said that a little golden man could bring 20 million box office.

"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to send the promotional poster and trailer over later, and try to maintain friendly and cooperative relations with several other companies as much as possible." Wang Xiaohu hung up the phone and ran to the recording studio full of enthusiasm to record.

In post-production, Wang Xiaohu divided the ending of "Ah Hu" into two versions to edit, that is, one attaches importance to the original, Ah Hu finally died in the ring, and the other is the modified version, in fact, this modified version does not emphasize that Ah Hu was still alive when he watched it, but it will make everyone not so uncomfortable when they watch the ending, which can be regarded as Wang Xiaohu's opportunistic method.

Due to the increased chance of release in the United States, it has also invisibly increased the workload of post-production, Wang Xiaohu and the company's post-production team worked together on the English version of the recording, subtitles, and editing.

The next day, major media newspapers in Hong Kong were invited to interview Wang Xiaohu, and when a reporter learned that "A Tiger" had invested more than 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars before and after, they were speechless, and immediately a reporter raised the microphone in front of Wang Xiaohu and asked: "Mr. Wang, why did you invest so much money to shoot this film?" ”

Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "First of all, the cast of this movie is very strong, and the appearance fee of Muay Thai Wang Naifo alone is more than 500,000, and we shoot very carefully, I believe everyone will appreciate the Thai style in the film." Last but not least, I have made films in Hollywood over the years that I have deeply felt that there is not enough investment in Hong Kong films, and many of our films are shoddy due to cost constraints, so I rashly used big investment to stimulate the Hong Kong market this time. ”

"I've heard that there are two versions of the ending of "Ah Hu", which is the first time in your directing career, what influenced you to do this?"

When Wang Xiaohu heard this, he smiled and stroked Weng Meiling's hair beside him and said, "If I don't shoot two endings, I'm afraid my daughter will be angry with me." ”

"Oh!!" All the reporters were in an uproar when they heard this, and they rushed to press the shutter on Weng Meiling, Wang Xiaohu actually had a daughter, and she was already a teenager, so who is the child's mother!

"That's not the case!" Weng Meiling pouted and grabbed the microphone dissatisfiedly and said, "Don't listen to my father's nonsense, I later learned that he fooled me, and the ending was the same as not filming." After speaking, he glared at Wang Xiaohu fiercely, Wang Xiaohu shrugged his shoulders innocently and continued: "Actually, everyone will know after watching the film tomorrow that the ending is not very important to "Ah Hu", and some people may have questions about this ending, so I asked for the surname to be lazy, and filmed two for everyone to choose by themselves, of course, everyone saw the first ending at the premiere. ”

"According to the trailer of "Ah Hu", you have had many fights with Muay Thai king Naifo in the film, who will win and who will lose in the final result?" A reporter asked.

Wang Xiaohu groaned slightly: "It's still the same sentence, after watching the film, you will know the real answer." ”

Many reporters can't help but sigh when they hear this, Hong Kong citizens are now very concerned about the results of the competition, they want to know whether it is the Muay Thai king who is powerful, or Wang Xiaohu is powerful, after all, in the 60s, many Hong Kong martial artists and Muay Thai have had an incident, Hong Kong side was flattened by Muay Thai fighters without suspense, it is really a shame in the Hong Kong martial arts industry, seeing Wang Xiaohu selling Guanzi, some reporters have decided to go to Thailand to investigate.

Wang Xiaohu is a director who is good at and good at praising newcomers, there is no one, through the trailer and various publicity, everyone knows that this time he wants to be popular is his "daughter" Weng Meiling, this little girl who looks like a fairy in the world has won the hearts of many reporters, because she sometimes speaks very directly, and directly breaks the news A lot of tidbits during filming, such as Wang Xiaohu forgot to bring a wig during filming, for example, Wang Xiaohu once took a photo with a local ladyboy in Thailand, etc., which caused the audience to laugh, also made Wang Xiaohu hate to stop Weng Meiling's mouth, lest she say more explosive news.

With these news and speculations, more than half of the Hong Kong citizens walked into the theater the next night, and all the crew of "Ah Hu" also entered the theater in advance, this is Weng Meiling's debut on the screen, so she attaches great importance to it, and during the filming, she also called her mother who was far away in the UK, begging her mother to return to Hong Kong to accompany her to the premiere on this day, but unfortunately her mother was lacking in skills, and Ah Weng was not very happy all day.

Zhao Yazhi shook her head when she saw this, bought some popcorn and desserts, and asked Li Guohao to come over to accompany her sister.

The film began to use a black-and-white documentary to tell everyone that Ah Hu is a Muay Thai fighter, and several scenes are interspersed, making all the audience feel an unprecedented narrative style, especially a slightly messy hair, a beard on a well-defined face, and endless vicissitudes and stability, giving full play to Meng Hu's vicissitudes of guilt and helplessness and tenderness.

And the next few passionate Muay Thai fights have set off the audience's long-lost memory, right, this is the kung fu movie they are familiar with, the real kung fu style they are used to, belongs to the atmosphere of the Bruce Lee era, and at this point, they found nostalgic sustenance in "A Tiger", and at the same time, the audience really understood that Wang Xiaohu is still the successor of Bruce Lee's mantle.

The scene at the station is the place where Ah Hu appears as a father is the best way to show it. Many viewers couldn't help but shed tears when they saw this, and they deeply felt Ah Hu's strong fatherly love that broke out at that moment. When the daughter finally shouted "Daddy", some of the audience had already begun to applaud enthusiastically.

Weng Meiling also clapped her little hands happily, hugged Wang Xiaohu's neck and said, "Dad, you see that everyone has recognized me!" ”

"Yes, they all recognize you, a seemingly rebellious, but actually very kind little princess!" Wang Xiaohu smiled and pinched her face and said, "Hurry up and wipe your tears, otherwise you will become a little cat!" ”

The father and daughter in the film are playing here, and the episode of "When I Meet You" sounded in the theater at this time, Ah Hu chased the car with a sprint speed on the highway, launched a sprint to his love, launched a sprint to his new life, and launched a sprint to the critical point of his failed life in the first half of his life.

In this paragraph, the sound and emotion, the picture of the nun played by Zhao Yazhi in the film struggling in the car made the audience in the movie theater unable to sit still, "Stop it!" "Promise him!" All kinds of voices came and went, and when Zhao Yazhi stopped the car and hugged Ah Hu in the audience's expectation, the audience was happy, crying, and moved

(To be continued)