As Lin Xiaozhi guessed, Xu Ke couldn't refuse the temptation of Media Asia's 50 million investment and 2 million director's salary, and three days after the two met, he rang Lin Xiaozhi's phone and agreed to direct the filming of "Black Man".

However, Xu Laowei also has several requirements, not only does he ask for casting rights, but he also likes that Media Asia promised him to postpone the filming of "Black Man" to mid-to-late June, so that he will not delay his personal follow-up and supervision of the post-production of "Once Upon a Time", nor will it affect the pre-publicity of "Once Upon a Time".

Xu Kehui wants the casting right, which is expected by Lin Xiaozhi, many directors don't like investors and film companies to intervene in their own selection of actors, directors also like to work with stars who want to cooperate, and there are also people who they think are more suitable and unsuitable for starring. Lin Xiaozhi is also a director himself, so he can understand this. It's just that Media Asia is a film group after all, and it also has its own signed artists, so shooting such a blockbuster naturally gives priority to its signed artists.

Fortunately, Xu Ke himself also knew that he also made an excessive request, and finally both sides took a step back, Lin Xiaozhi agreed that "Black Hero" would be postponed to mid-to-late June, and Xu Ke also agreed to give priority to selecting suitable heroines and some supporting roles from Media Asia's own signed artists, but about the male protagonist, Xu Ke bluntly said that he would not choose from Media Asia: "...... the most important thing in the movie "Black Man" is the male lead, and Media Asia does have many male artists, but I don't think anyone meets this role. In comparison, I like the mainland actor Li Lianjie who has worked with me before......"

In history, in the first "Black Man" movie supervised by Xu Ke, it was Li Lianjie who played the role of the Black Man, and Lin Xiaozhi was also very fond of the Kung Fu Emperor to play, so he only thought about Xu Ke's proposal for a while, and agreed directly on the phone.

In the Hong Kong box office battle in May, a winner soon emerged. The veteran director Wu Yusen was defeated by the newcomer Pan Wenjie in the industry, although the box office reputation of "Across the Seas" soared, after all, it was still a step behind "Lame Hao", and on the last day of May, "Across the Seas", which was released nearly four weeks, won a total of 3.17 million box office, and at this time, "Lame Hao", which was only screened one day earlier than it, has exceeded 35UU million Hong Kong dollars, relying on the daily sporadic box office of hundreds of thousands, there is still hope of hitting 40 million.

Strictly speaking, Golden Harvest's role in the filming of "Lame Hao" in addition to investing a sum of money cannot be compared with McDonald's Hung Production Company. But in the same way, Media Asia, like Golden Harvest, also gave a sum of money to Wu Yusen to participate in the investment all over the world. Both parties are investment participants, and as soon as the box office of the two films came out, Golden Harvest immediately began to hype it up in the close media, and it almost made it clear that the high-level investment vision of Media Asia was not as good as that of Golden Harvest.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the box office victory over Asia in May, the old and strong Zou Wen proudly took the opportunity to break the news in an interview with the media that Golden Harvest's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which cost more than $20 million to shoot, will be released in the United States on the U month. While shaking out this shocking revelation, he did not forget to take the opportunity to announce that after several months of negotiations, Golden Harvest finally reached an agreement with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the issue of Golden Harvest's listing. Golden Harvest Group will finally officially list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, July 8, ending its difficult listing path that has lasted for several years since the RU year.

Zou Minhuai's revelations immediately caused a thunderstorm in all walks of life in the Hong Kong media, and at the end of May, which was about to pass, the newspapers were full of reports about Golden Harvest, and even news about Media Asia was arranged on the second or even third page......

On the one hand, since its establishment in the 70s, it has defeated the Shaw Brothers, almost dragged down Debao and New Arts City, and has been a veteran film overlord in Hong Kong for more than 20 years; On the other hand, it has only emerged in recent years, but it has created an amazing rate of return on filming in the shortest possible time, and has leapt ahead of Golden Harvest to become the first listed film group in Hong Kong, and now the market value is approaching 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Whether it's for the news or the hype, with the recent listing of Golden Harvest boss Zou Minhuai, many Hong Kong media will inevitably compare the two giants of the film industry, and various articles will appear in the newspaper for a while......

After a short break of a few days, Lin Xiaozhi and everyone soon returned to the crew and continued the filming of "Resident Evil".

As the summer season approaches, in order to try to catch up with the hottest box office event of the year, Lin Xiaozhi has also begun to speed up the shooting speed after returning from a short break, shooting on time for more than ten hours every day, and even working overtime for more than twelve or thirteen hours from time to time.

After dozens of days of running-in, everyone was completely familiar with the crew, and the filming of "Resident Evil" began to go more and more smoothly. Lin Xiaozhi's filming speed not only amazed the old actors such as Liang Jiahui and Xu Jinjiang, but also touched Liu Qingyun and Wu Zhenyu, artists who worked with him for the first time. They can often feel that he has already made sufficient preparations between shooting, as if he has already imprinted all the scenes and shots in his mind, and it is not at all like many directors who have to constantly readjust according to new problems that arise during shooting.

Because I have the original movie that I have watched more than a dozen times in my head as a reference, "Resident Evil" was filmed very quickly under his direction, and the plot of many scenes is basically like an assembly line at one time, and many details are quite well grasped. also made the big guys in the crew admire him more and more in their hearts, and they feel that there is no vanity under the fame. Although Lin Xiaozhi has only shot three films since his debut, he is undoubtedly a newcomer in terms of quantity, but his three films are hot sellers, especially Red Alert, which only ended its North American screening a month ago, has created a box office that many Hong Kong filmmakers dare not imagine. So although he has only made three movies before, few people dare to doubt his strength.

After dozens of days of getting along, they also discovered that Lin Xiaozhi is a person who strives to do his best no matter what the plot. He has very high requirements for the acting skills of the actors, as long as there are people in the crew, there is almost no one who has not been shouted by him, the waste of film brought by N, the money seems to be nothing in his eyes, in order to strive to do the best everyone can do, he doesn't care about wasting a little film.

However, even with reference and experience, there will be places where the plot of the movie progresses slowly, especially when they still shoot the part near the end.

Before being reborn, Lin Xiaozhi was not very good at fighting scenes, but after the training of "Killer Leon" and "Red Alert", his skills and experience have also improved greatly, but the battle scenes in "Resident Evil" are more intense, and many places have to facilitate the post-production computer special effects processing as much as possible.

The filming of "Resident Evil" is indeed a huge test of the strength of Media Asia Group.

Investment and channels, publicity or whatnot, just the film crew is a huge test

Limited by special effects technology and investment restrictions, "Resident Evil" cannot be like those blockbusters in later generations, relying only on developed computer special effects technology to complete most of the scenes required in the movie. For example, a movie that uses a large number of special effects like "River Vanda", relying only on computer special effects can produce monsters and fierce battle scenes on the planet Pandora needed to generate countless kinds of movies, but obviously does not have this kind of strength now, so when filming "Resident Evil", Lin Xiaozhi had to choose to follow his predecessors and rely on makeup and props to make up for the gap in skills.

Zombie actors need makeup, and the crew and a few Dobermans rented from a professional pet store need makeup, and the most difficult to make up is the licker.