Chapter 184: The Smoke of Sixty-One Gear (I)
Huang Zhan officially joined the group the next day, because the rest of the scenes in "Baby Plan" revolved around him, which made him have enough of a star-studded drama addiction.
Here, "Baby Project" is rushing to make up the record, and the filming progress of "Crayon Little Student" is also rushing to the scene.
The shooting speed of Hong Kong films in this era was originally fast, because it was necessary to rush the schedule. The first is to catch up with the schedule of stars, because many leading stars usually have several film appointments, and the schedule is limited, which is a schedule that many crews have to sleep endlessly; The second is to rush to release the schedule agreed with the theater. Now that the Hong Kong film market is booming, the cinema chain needs a large number of Hong Kong films to fill various schedules, especially the Spring Festival stalls every year, and various cinemas will inevitably launch various fierce films, which are very lively.
In contrast, although the Spring Festival schedule is so important, because after Lin Xi entered the Shaw Brothers Cinema this year, the two heavyweight films will be released on the June 1st schedule, and as competitors, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess have also adjusted their schedules and released a film to snipe Lin Xi, making this year's June 1st schedule already full of gunsmoke before the war started.
"Baby Plan" only has the shots related to Huang Zhan that need to be reshot, and with Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao working together, the filming progress is naturally fast. And Wang Jing, in order to make "Crayon Little Life" release as scheduled-≤, brought Chen Jiaxiang, another director of Oriental Film and Television Company, to help.
The crew was divided into two, Wang Jing took Wu Mengda and Xiao Binbin as a group to shoot scenes outside the school; Chen Jiaxiang took the rest of the group to shoot the scenes in the school.
With the script provided by Lin Xi, it took both sides about 5 days to complete their respective shooting, and then converged together to shoot the scene where the two sides intersected. It took more than five days for the entire movie to be closed.
This is almost three days less than the half month time given by Lin Xi.
"Mr. Zou. All the information I heard about "Crayon Kids" is here. ”
His subordinates put the two pages on Zou Wenhuai's desk, and Zou Wenhuai picked them up and looked at them. The starring list has three names: Wu Mengda, Wen Zhaobin, and Liu Dehua.
This Wu Mengda, Zou Wenhuai knew that when Lin Xi filmed the first TV series "Chu Liuxiang", he joined Oriental Film and Television with Zheng Shaoqiu, I heard that he used to be a bad gambler and even disliked his friends, but for some reason, after joining Oriental Film and Television Company, he actually changed his sex and began to act seriously.
Because he played a supporting role before, he was not valued by everyone. Unexpectedly, this time Lin Xi directly pushed him to the starring role.
And then there is this Liu Dehua, who used to be an actor of ATV, and was selected by Xu Anhua to shoot Jade Bird Pictures' entrepreneurial work "Running to the Angry Sea" after a few TV series were filmed, I used to think that he was lucky, but now it seems that Lin Xi must have played a lot of roles.
"Running to the Angry Sea" will also be released in Shaw Brothers Cinemas in July, although it is a literary film that will not pose much threat to the box office, but Jade Bird Pictures' support for Lin Xi in such a clear posture still makes Zou Wenhuai a little unhappy.
But there is no way, one of the investors who is called Jade Bird Pictures is Lin Xi's father Lin Shu. Moreover, the producer column of the film "Running to the Angry Sea" also has the names of Lin Shu and Xia Meng written on it, so it is reasonable that there is no problem with the film being released in Oriental theaters.
After Lin Xi became the owner, Shaw Brothers Cinemas also officially changed its name to Oriental Cinemas, and this news has not been officially announced. But for Zou Wenhuai, this is no secret at all.
Zou Wenhuai put down the information in his hand and glanced at his subordinates standing at the desk.
"What's going on with this Wen Zhaobin? Why haven't you heard this name before? ”
"Wen Zhaobin is a three-year-old actor, I heard that Wang Jing specially found him from Taiwan. The crew likes to call him Xiao Binbin, and he is very talented in acting. ”
Find two lesser-known actors to partner with a three-year-old to act. Is this movie really just a timely work to be released on June 1st?
Zou Wenhuai put a big question mark in his heart.
"The film was shot in only 11 days, and it is said that it took only a day and a half to edit. It is generally difficult to ensure the quality of the film made in this kind of hurry. ”
His subordinates expressed their opinions, but Zou Wenhuai was still not at ease.
Speaking of rushing to the scene, there was a similar situation when the Hong Kong movie was filmed, but the difference between fast and slow was to catch up, if it was replaced by someone who made a movie for more than ten days, Zou Wenhuai was absolutely disdainful, but Lin Xi never judged it with common sense, including this time Zou Wenhuai did not dare to take it lightly.
After thinking about it for a while, Zou Wenhuai picked up the microphone and made a call to He Guanchang.
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"What, Mr. Zou asked me and Mr. He to sneak into the media preview of "Crayon Little Boy" to find out about the enemy?" Xu Guanwen looked at He Guanchang who came to lobby him in disbelief, and shook his head decisively to refuse.
At the beginning, under the pressure of Golden Harvest, the cessation of cooperation with Oriental Film and Television Company on the "Back to the Future" series had already made Xu Guanwen very opinionated, and now he had to let him go to the other party's territory to find out the news, this kind of thing he couldn't do anyway.
He Guanchang calmly persuaded: "I know you have opinions on some of the company's previous arrangements, but this is also a matter of no way, if Jiahe doesn't suppress Oriental Film and Television now, will it be sent to Jiahe when it becomes the climate?" Mr. Zou is also doing this for the good of everyone. ”
"Then Mr. Zou should also think about me, right? Just let me have a bad relationship with Lin Xi, and now let me go to the media preview over there, isn't this deliberately making me uncomfortable? ”
Xu Guanwen's attitude is still very resolute, and there is no room for negotiation at all.
He Guanchang was not discouraged, and then said: "You can rest assured, the media preview of "Crayon Little Life" and the media preview of "Baby Project" will be held at the same time, and we have already inquired clearly, Lin Xi will only go to participate in the activities of "Baby Plan" at that time, and "Crayon Little Life" is Wang Jing with a few leading actors at the scene, and when the time comes, we will enter the venue as reporters, and leave directly as soon as the movie is over, and we will not find out over there." ”
Xu Guanwen couldn't help but be angry when he heard this, the No. 2 person in the dignified Golden Harvest Company actually wanted to hide his head and hide his head and go to the competitor's test screening to spy on intelligence, this kind of thing feels embarrassing to think about.
"You feel ashamed, why shouldn't I? But compared to the long-term development of the company, what is this personal honor and disgrace? Besides, Lin Xi is not an ordinary competitor, Mr. Zou has long said that if this person can't be used by me, he will become a big trouble, and now this has been fulfilled, so there is no shame in doing this, only by fully understanding the opponent, can we find a chance to defeat him! ”
When He Guanchang said this, Xu Guanwen was very resistant in his heart, and he had to weigh the consequences of refusal.
""Crayon Little Boy" is a pure comedy, you have always said that Lin Xi is very thoughtful in making this kind of movie, don't you want to take this opportunity to take a look?"
He Guanchang saw that Xu Guanwen had been shaken, but he was too full of words just now, and it was difficult to step down for a while, so he took the initiative to find a step for Xu Guanwen.
Xu Guanwen knew that he couldn't refuse, so he had to sigh.
"Okay, I'll go with Mr. He."
The next day, He Guanchang and Xu Guanwen dressed up in disguise and walked into the cinema in the group of reporters.
The reporters present were busy grabbing the front position, so that they could ask questions to the main creators after the movie was over, He Guanchang and Xu Guanwen didn't have to squeeze with these people, so they chose a seat on the side of the back row.
The screening hall, which can accommodate more than 100 people, has an attendance rate of only about 70%, and it can be seen that the media's judgment is also that this movie is just a make-up work by Oriental Film and Television Company in order to catch up with the June 1st schedule, so there are not many reporters who come over.
At this time, the preview screening of "Baby Project", which was being held in another theater, was the focus of media attention, and a large number of reporters were sent there.
When the film was about to start, Wang Jing came in a hurry with several leading actors, among which Xiao Binbin, who was held in his mother's arms, was the most eye-catching, and even He Guanchang and Xu Guanwen couldn't help but look at the child twice.
"Mr. Xu, do you see any clues?"
"It looks cute, I don't know what it looks like in the movie." Xu Guanwen said this simply.
He Guanchang was also similar to this, so he didn't continue to ask more.
The overhead lights were turned off, and the entire screening room was plunged into darkness.
The bright light hit the screen, and a round of red sun jumped out from the sea level, followed by the six big characters of Oriental Film and Television Company, which attracted a lot of discussion among the reporters present.
"This is the new logo of Oriental Film and Television Company, right? It's very imposing! ”
"It seems that Oriental Film and Television's determination this time is not small, and it can be seen from this new logo alone that they are ready to do a big job."
"You don't know, it is said that Oriental Film and Television has a slogan with this new logo, called 'Sunrise in the East, only I am undefeated', how about it, crazy enough, right?"
"Is there still a lot of times for Lin Xima? If he really lets him stand firm this time, Golden Harvest and Princess Jin will have a hard time! ”
"Golden Harvest and Golden Princess also made a bloody investment this time, Golden Harvest gave up "Back to the Future", Golden Princess gave up "Baby Plan", and I don't know which of these two companies will regret it more this time."
"Why don't you make a bet, I'll bet on Golden Harvest!"
This mention attracted a response from many people around him, and everyone took out money to place bets.
"I'll bet ten dollars on the gold princess!"
"I'll bet ten dollars on Golden Harvest!"
This is a sudden voice that sounded very abruptly:
"I'll bet on the golden princess for five hundred!" (To be continued......)