Chapter 484: The Blockbuster Era Begins

Vincent's nightclub, Vincent was drinking and chatting with a beautiful girl, and two of his subordinates came over.

When Vincent saw them, he raised his glass and asked casually, "Is it over?" ”

"It's not all over it." The two men replied hesitantly.

"Why?"

One of his subordinates was embarrassed and said, "Vincent, we can't kill the nun." ”

Vincent was helpless to slam it on the bar: "What are you talking about, De Lowres is just pretending." ”

"How can you guarantee that she did not convert to God and become a nun?"

Looking at the serious appearance of the two subordinates, Vincent was completely speechless. Taking a deep breath, he emphasized, "Because I know this woman, she can't be a nun." Don't make excuses, go back and get things done, and don't come back to see me if you can't do it. ”

"Okay, we got it." The two men turned, ready to go upstairs to finish off De Laureth.

"Card, that's great, this one is over, get ready for the next shot!"

Chen Ping'an has been back in the United States for several days, and as soon as he returned, he devoted himself to the filming of "Nuns Are Crazy". After a delay of several days, everyone was still a little uncomfortable at the beginning, but soon returned to the previous state, and there were talking and laughing shooting every day, and Chen Ping'an invited everyone to afternoon tea or supper from time to time.

He Chaoqiong continues to play the role of Chen Ping'an's assistant, and now she has changed a lot. After losing the cold arrogance before, he and the crew members also began to talk and laugh, and cooperated with Chen Ping'an to complete the shooting task every day.

The crew members are happy to see this change, but they found that He Chaoqiong gradually has a posture of occupying the magpie's nest...... Well. To be precise, there is a tendency to be a hostess. Almost exclusively endorses Chen Ping'an.

Many people have seen more than once that He Chaoqiong not only chose clothes for Chen Ping'an. He often called him a smoker, saying that smoking was harmful to his health and that he was not allowed to smoke.

Chen Ping'an always smiled at this, and the expression of the two was sometimes like a family. Especially when eating, He Chaoqiong eats a small amount of food, and often distributes her food to Chen Ping'an, and sometimes she wants to take two bites of food, and Chen Ping'an doesn't care.

Chen Ping'an is in a good mood now.

He Chaoqiong in order to make him submit. As much as possible to show the virtuous side of a good wife and mother, "Nuns Are Crazy" is in a pleasant atmosphere, the filming speed is fast, and the current progress of completion is 10% ahead of schedule.

"Terminator 2" is still in theaters. The American film industry is not like Hong Kong, which is basically a month, and the box office may not be satisfactory for a week. In the United States, it is normal for a good film to be released for two or three months, but the number of screens must be decreasing.

At present, the box office of "Terminator 2" is striding towards the 200 million mark. Considering that there is still some time before the painting falls, critics estimate that the film will definitely have more than 200 million at the North American box office, and uh the overseas box office is still being counted, according to the available numbers. It is also running towards the 200 million mark.

Some people believe that "Terminator 2" will become an epoch-making film in the American film industry. Not because of how the movie itself is. Rather, it's because the film has an investment of more than $100 million, and the global box office is likely to reach half a billion!

And then there's the peripherals of the movie itself. For example, the sales of video tapes, etc., sooner or later the revenue will exceed double digits. Well, in billions.

As the first film with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, the spectacular scenes of big-name stars and the huge box office income have long made American producers with a keen sense of business smell smell the business opportunities.

Big cast, big scene, big investment, big system...... Blockbuster!

Although they have just experienced a global stock market crash, American producers are not short of money, only the opportunity to make a lot of money. The success of "Terminator 2" has made them see the opportunity, and many film companies are now starting to focus on this aspect, and are strictly selecting scripts and preparing to start shooting blockbusters.

This also provides an opportunity for some film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan to follow in the footsteps of Dark Horse International and extend their hands to the American film industry. Although independent production is still difficult, co-investment is a good option.

There are already film companies that have tasted the sweetness from it.

Anne Heard was stimulated, and "Lethal Weapon 2", which was being prepared, was postponed because of the additional investment of $30 million, and the screenwriter needed to revise the script to add big scenes of gunfights and speeding cars.

50 doubles and only earns 500,000, but 5 million earns half, and the profit is 2.5 million. For large film companies with deep pockets, the latter is definitely the best choice.

The publicity work of "The Silence of the Lambs" is in full swing, and various media methods are used to promote this small-budget film. An investment of 10 million dollars is a small cost in the United States.

Anthony Hopkins and Lin Qingxia have been cooperating with the promotion, and the two have filmed movies in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong before, and they have often been used to build momentum.

"Midnight Bell" is a good tool, and Anthony is full of praise after watching it. Whether it is the director's shooting techniques, the screenwriter's suspenseful ideas, the performances of the male and female protagonists in the play, or the rhythm and picture of the whole movie, they are all the level of first-class horror films.

"Midnight Bell" has a good reputation in the United States, but because it is an oriental movie, the box office in the United States is not very high, but the sales in the videotape market are amazing. In particular, the content of the film is related to a box of cursed videotapes, which many people are willing to rent to take home.

Gather three or five friends and find a night to hide in your room. Turn off the lights and close the curtains, and watch Sadako on TV crawl out of the TV, screaming and then it's indescribably enjoyable.

The only bad thing is that someone models this movie for crime. After killing four people, he was caught by the police, and during the trial, he said that he was cursed by the videotape, and said that he had seen Sadako, and was threatened that if he didn't do it, he would die.

As a result, after a psychiatric evaluation, he was sentenced to a psychiatric hospital......

After Chen Ping'an learned about this, he could only say that there are so many perverts in the United States.

There are many good news in Hong Kong.

"A Chinese Ghost Story 2" lost to "Chicken and Duck" at the Hong Kong box office, but it became a hit in Japan. "Terminator 2" has been the box office champion until its release in Japan.

followed by "The Best Friend" directed by Wang Jing and "A Chinese Ghost Story 2". This comedy movie starring Liu Dehua, Zhang Min, and Qiu Shuzhen focuses on humor and laughs wildly, which attracts the audience to be impressed by its youthful temperament and humorous bridge. It also pushed the wave of women-chasing movies in the late 80s to its peak.

Zhang Min and Qiu Shuzhen, the queen of commercial films in Hong Kong in the 90s, can only rely on Zhang Min to take the lead. Her partner with Andy Lau has also won the support of the majority of fans. "Best Friend" is also very popular.

It's a pity that in the second round of confrontation in the summer vacation of the Hong Kong film industry, the most limelight is not "The Best Friend", but "Childe Amorous".

In the first half of this year, Golden Harvest's satellite subsidiary, Xu's Brothers Pictures, cooperated with Debao to shoot "Chicken and Duck Talk", which started the summer vacation; And Golden Harvest brought Mai Donald Xiong Co., Ltd. from Princess Jin, and the two sides joined forces to shoot the movie "Childe Amorous".

In this movie, Golden Harvest also invested heavily in finding popular actors from several film companies. Li Yuanba, Anita Mui, Zeng Zhiwei, Li Zhi, Cheng Kui, Li Meifeng, Wu Junru, etc., even Wang Jingjing was pulled over to play a cameo role.

The Hong Kong film industry is too small, and everyone looks down and doesn't see it. With Chen Ping'an leading Dark Horse International to sit on the first throne in the Hong Kong film industry, the competition among several other film companies is not so fierce, but they often cooperate.

Like this time, Li Yuanba is a popular martial arts actor highly praised by Xinyicheng, with "Tiger Guard" starring Zhou Yanfa last year and similar appearance to Xu Guanjie, as well as tendons and flesh all over his body, he became an instant hit.

Since its release, "Childe Amorous" and "Best Friend" have competed with each other for the box office championship, and the two sides have alternately taken the lead.

However, the lineup of "Childe Amorous" is super luxurious, and there is a "geek" Mai Dangxiong screenwriter and producer, which exaggerates the plots of films such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" and "The True Colors of Heroes", which can be described as a Hong Kong farce version of "My Fair Lady" with authentic jokes and public feelings.

The cast and scenes of this movie are all luxurious, and Li Yuanba, as the main star of the film, is definitely not as appealing as Zhou Yanfa. When Golden Harvest was filming, the original actor was selected as Zhou Runfa, but Fa Ge was in the United States at that time, and he and Wu Yusen were concentrating on filming "That Killer Is Not Too Cold", so he politely declined the film offer.

Although Li Yuanba is not as appealing as Zhou Runfa, his figure is similar to Xu Guanjie's face shape, and he has excellent skills, which has also won him many fans. And the combination of Anita Mui and Li Zhi, two popular beauties and laughing aunt Wu Junru, stole most of the limelight from the film and became one of the biggest highlights of the whole film.

The stamina of "Childe Amorous" is stronger than that of "The Best Friend", so in the later stage, it occupied the first position at the box office, and never let it out, "The Best Friend" can only keep catching up.

After losing two battles in a row, Zhang Yijia was very unhappy and pulled Shi Nansheng to drink. Talking about this matter, Shi Nansheng persuaded Zhang Yijia, saying that Chen Ping'an should have intended to "let the race" so that she didn't have to worry too much.

This is indeed the case, Chen Ping'an does have this thought. For two consecutive years, it has almost monopolized the box office champions and most of the honors of the Hong Kong prime-time box office champions and Academy Awards, and other companies can only follow behind to pick up scraps, which can easily arouse public anger.

And after the end of this year's Academy Awards, Chen Baisen, the boss of "Film Fortnightly", made a special call to Chen Chen Ping'an. Although the words on the phone are all respectful, there is also a meaning of please in and out of the words.

Please, what? As the Academy Awards, which is the top film festival in Hong Kong, it is about to become Dark Horse International's own awards stage, what else can you ask for?

Just like in the international large-scale events in later generations, in order to ensure that taekwondo can not be canceled, the sticks specially conceded one or two level champions, so as to ensure that there are still people willing to play with you.

Chen Ping'an is now following this strategy.

What's the second in the two rounds, isn't there also "Huang Feihong 2" produced by Xu Ke and directed by Cheng Xiaodong? (To be continued......) R1292