Chapter 41: Rich Bosses
"What? This time "Laughing Fist Monster Moves" had a bumper harvest, and Luo Wei only gave Ah Long 3,000 yuan? Zou Wenhuai asked with a smile.
Luo Wai, a well-known master of following the trend in Hong Kong. joined Golden Harvest in 1970, and later directed Li Xiaolong's "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Jingwumen", which can be regarded as half of the people who made Li Xiaolong popular. In 75, he founded Luo Wei Film Company, which is still a major kung fu film, Luo Wei is conceited and can make Li Xiaolong popular, and of course he can also achieve others, so he signed Chen Yuanzhu, who was ready to go to Australia to change careers to become a chef, and renamed him "Chenglong". It's a pity that even making several kung fu movies was a fiasco, and it wasn't until 1978 that Wu Siyuan borrowed Chenglong to shoot "Serpentine Trickster" and "Drunken Fist" that he became popular.
Zou Wenhuai's metaphor is that after the filming of "Drunken Fist", Wu Siyuan, who loaned Chenglong for filming, gave Chenglong a salary of 50,000 yuan. It's a pity that all the money was taken away by Luo Wei, and only 3,000 yuan was given to Chenglong afterwards, and Chenglong's monthly salary in Luowei Company at that time was 3,000 yuan, which means that Chenglong made a popular film that was equivalent to working for an extra month.
And "Laughing Fist Tricks" has been drawn on March 7, with a Hong Kong box office of 5.44 million, and now ranks first at this year's box office. With this, Luo Wei's film company can get at least 2 million Hong Kong dollars.
He Yichang squinted his eyes and replied: "This time, he also knows to appease Ah Long for tens of thousands of yuan, but tens of thousands of yuan?" Hey hey ......"
"You're ink. Always grind slowly, grind slowly, this has to grind until when you can dig people over! Cai Yongchang said beside him.
"Haha!" Zou Wenhuai looked at Cai Yongchang and smiled: "Yongchang, what should I do if I don't grind?" The first time you smashed a million, people didn't ask for it; The second time I smashed 2.7 million, but people still didn't ask for it. It seems that Aaron is still very righteous. ”
"Righteous anger?" Cai Yongchang smiled coldly, he remembered the hesitation on Chenglong's face when he handed over the check for 2.7 million Hong Kong dollars last time.
Seeing the disdain on Cai Yongchang's face, Zou Wenhuai asked solemnly, "What?" Yongchang, do you want to give it a try? ”
"I'll add another two million this time to see who is still righteous!"
"Four million and seven million?" He Yichang was startled beside him: "Yongchang, are you crazy?" "These 4.7 million are enough to make several movies, no wonder He Yichang was taken aback.
"I don't think Yongchang is crazy." Zou Wenhuai frowned and said, "Luo Wei will definitely not be able to keep people!" I heard that now Shao Yifu has also taken a fancy to Ah Long, let's dig it up as soon as possible, and we must not let the Shaw family snatch people over. ”
Hearing this, He Xichang glanced at Zou Wenhuai worriedly and said, "Money is trivial. However, that guy in Luo Wei is not a good person, I'm afraid that guy will make a bad move! ”
"Hehe......" Zou Wenhuai sneered disdainfully: "At our status, the yin trick can't be put on the stage, no one is black and white, if he dares to make a bad move, I will be easy to do." ”
"Then it's decided, I'll go see Ah Long in the afternoon, I can't believe it this time!" Cai Yongchang said loudly, and after speaking, he turned his head to look at Zou Wenhuai and asked, "Hey, Wenhuai, is there anything else?" No I went out to prepare. ”
Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai picked up the newspaper on the table and asked, "By the way, are the people who fainted yesterday okay?" ”
"It's fine." Cai Yongchang waved his hand: "I'll send someone to keep an eye on it." Besides, there are prohibitive notices posted at the entrance of the theater, and if something really happens, there will be much less responsibility. ”
"Bad luck!" Zou Wenhuai glared at Cai Yongchang: "Anyway, pay attention, if you don't have an accident, it's best not to have an accident." ”
"By the way, should we add a few more theaters?"
Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment, picked up the report on the table and looked at it again. The first 280,000 yuan, fifteen theaters screened, if you add the remaining four and those who rent Lisheng Cinemas.
"What's going on with the rest of them?"
"Da Rong's "Family Law" and Yin's "Three Seven Twenty-One", I watched it, and Da Rong's movie this time is very good."
"Darong?" Zou Wenhuai frowned, Deng Guangrong has been in Taiwan Bay for more than ten years, but he has a lot of relationships. Forget it, make less money, earn less.
"No need to add it!" Zou Wenhuai closed the report, raised his head and said, "That's it, just publicize the movie." ”
"Okay, then I'll go out first!" Cai Yongchang nodded and turned around and walked out.
Looking at the closed door, He Yichang shook his head: "This Yongchang still likes to smash people with money so much!" ”
"Haha, whatever, if you can get things done!" Zou Wenhuai replied with a smile.
The two of them won't know at this time that Cai Yongchang, who still likes to smash people with money thirteen years later, smashed Wang Jin and Zhou Xingchi against each other, this is a later story, so let's not mention it for the time being.
Li Xuan has only paid attention to two things in the past few days.
The first thing is that Bao'an Town opposite has finally been renamed Shenzhen City, but unfortunately there is no suffix of the Special Economic Zone, which makes Li Xuan's brain confused and stunned, isn't it the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone?
The second thing is that he underestimated the resistance of people in this era to his horror film twenty years later, at least Li Xuan had never heard of people being scared in the theater for several days in a row. Don't you see, a large number of people on the Internet in later generations are there to say that "The Grudge" is not scary. However, the good thing is that the movie has not been able to scare people to death.
In the past few days, the newspapers have been lively, discussing this horror film vigorously.
For a while, the newspaper said that "The Grudge" was a perfect new interpretation of horror films, the birth of a new film genre; For a while, the newspaper said that "The Grudge" was an innovation on traditional horror films, with a kind of film art quality close to reality; After a while, another newspaper said that the plot of the movie was weak, and except for the segmented structure, which was eye-catching, the other shots were used monotonously and boringly. The last sentence is said to Li Xuan's heart, he would not be a director, and the only long moving lens and several zoom shots in the movie were all completed by Wang Fatzi. Now that he thinks about it, he feels incredible that he can still be a director.
When several newspapers were arguing and planning to interview Li Xuan, who was a combination of editors and directors, they were all dumbfounded. Who is this Li Xuan? Why haven't you heard of it? However, some people saw Wang Jin in the movie and wanted to build a bridge with him, but unfortunately Wang Jin, who had already been explained by Li Xuan, blocked back.
Li Xuan's current shooting skills are honestly very bad, and it is estimated that he is a little better than those who dangle around all day with a DV camera in later generations. Now if the interview is famous, how can you learn from others? What to shoot in the back? Especially a few days ago, he went to Golden Harvest to ask about the box office, and learned that the box office rose to 600,000 two days before the screening, and if it is good, the box office of 4 million is certain, which is the third rhythm of the annual box office in 78. This scared Li Xuan even more so that he didn't dare to run to Jiahe, so it was better for him to keep a low profile.
"I would like to be in a fairy tale, ...... in a fairy tale, I will become a ...... in a fairy tale" Li Xuan is very painful now, although he remembers the tune of this song, and he can also play the general melody vaguely. However, it took Li Xuan more than five days to revise one-sixth of the tune, and every time he replayed the revised tune, he still felt that something was wrong, and changed it several times. Sure enough, with Li Xuan's half-tone level, it is really not suitable for arrangement.
"Hey, don't play! I wasn't scared to death by your movie, but by the sound of your piano! Wang Fatzi shouted on the side. This guy came to the door with his script of "Ghost Addiction" again, watching Li Xuan's movie is estimated to earn hundreds of thousands, his eyes are red, and now he complains all day long why he didn't invest at that time.
"Boom!"
Li Xuan pressed his hands heavily on the piano keys, glanced at Wang Fatzi and asked, "What's wrong with your script?" ”
"It's nothing, I've changed it a little, you can help me see if it's scary." Wang Fatzi casually put the script on the piano.
Li Xuan didn't flip through the script, but looked at Wang Jin and said, "Do you really want to shoot it yourself?" ”
"What's wrong?" Wang Jin asked curiously.
"Now that this movie is popular, I guess there will be a lot of follow-ups. You know the cost, I'm afraid ......" Li Xuan didn't continue, Wang Jin should understand what it means.
Sure enough, after hearing Li Xuan's words, Wang Jin's strength was leaked all at once, he couldn't learn from Li Xuan to gamble with the only 100,000 yuan.
"What then?" Wang Fatzi lamented.
Li Xuan shrugged his shoulders and said: "There are two ways, one is that your script is good, find a buyer to sell it; The second is to keep it and wait for a year and a half to make a small change. ”
"That's the only way......" Wang Fatzi looked at Li Xuan's hand and pressed on the keys again, and couldn't help asking, "Then what are you going to do recently?" ”
Do? Li Xuan was stunned for a moment.
"I want to compose!"
"I'm going to become the angel you love in fairy tales......"