Volume 1 Chapter 175 June Winter

On the day of the U month, after a month-long preparation, Ye Weixin, who has been promoted to the acting production director of New Asia, finally completed the preparation of his new film "Friend", which is expected to invest 3.5 million yuan The film officially entered the filming stage.

With the start of filming of Ye Weixin's new movie "Friends", New Asia's capital chain has officially announced that it has entered a red alert period, and a little lack of control may cause financial turmoil in New Asia. With Xinya's meager family background, and at the same time supporting the shooting, publicity, distribution and release of the four films "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", "Water Margin", "Killer Leon" and "Friends", it is undoubtedly a heavy burden for Lin Xiaozhi and Xinya, who have never liked to sell flowers at a low price before the release of the movie.

The four movies have trapped Xinya's funds of nearly 40 million, and originally only started filming "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", "Water Margin Laughter" and "Killer Leon" at the same time. But in order to retain Ye Weixin, a young and promising director, Lin Xiaozhi promised to allocate funds to let him start filming "Friends" independently, and suddenly squeezed out three or four million funds from the tight finances.

Rao is so, on Li Jiaxin's birthday, after boldly giving away a set of mid-to-high-end apartments that he bought for more than 1.1 million Hong Kong dollars, Lin Xiaozhi enjoyed the gentle service of the most beautiful Hong Kong sister for a few days, and also paid a heavy price for his generosity. On behalf of his private small treasury, the three million funds that he originally set aside to deal with various emergencies at any time are now only more than one million, if the four films that New Asia is currently investing in have problems or cannot bring returns to New Asia, then New Asia will be very sad for a long time in the future.

Of course, these are all false, the most realistic scene is that Lin Xiaozhi, who is already facing the crisis of running out of money, has to reduce the number of meals in the 'Buchuan Restaurant, which tastes good but is expensive, and more and more people from cheap Café de Corals go home for breakfast and supper.

The script of "Friends" can make Lin Xiaozhi sure that he will definitely agree to start filming before showing it to Ye Weixin, needless to say, the natural quality is not to mention, in fact, it is true. This script is based on a well-known British black humor movie "Shallow Grave" that he once watched, and when he thought of his next movie to start shooting when he was writing the script of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", he wrote it together and was originally going to use it to start shooting.

There is no doubt that this is a wonderful low-budget movie. The story is about two men and a woman, three close friends who live in an old-fashioned apartment in Hong Kong, who are left with a huge box of unaccounted bills due to the sudden death of a new tenant. The three of them became greedy, buried the body and took the money for themselves, but greed and increasing distrust put the friendship of the three to the test, and the black and white people came to the door to make them panic, and finally the three close friends, under greed and suspicion, each raised their butcher's knife to their closest friend before, staged a tragedy full of black humor.

The script is definitely a good script, but it is too strong in black humor, which is incompatible with the main style of current Hong Kong films, which makes Lin Xiaozhi very worried about whether it can sell well in Hong Kong. Therefore, after deciding to shoot "Killer Leon" to open the foreign market, he sealed the script, and it was not until he took out the script to him that he was about to leave New Asia in order to save Ye Weixin, who was about to leave New Asia.

Ye Weixin, who thinks delicately and pays more attention to bringing thinking to the audience when making movies, is indeed very suitable for filming movies with 'depth' in Lin Xiaozhi's opinion, and it is reassuring to hand over "Friends" to him to shoot Lin Xiaozhi. However, in terms of financial control, he has the potential to be a loser, and the list of starring actors he took out at the beginning was refuted by Lin Xiaozhi. Liu Dehua, Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Manyu...... Lin Xiaozhi admits that these three people are indeed in the limelight recently, but the combined salary of the three is only 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and if he really chooses the three of them, where will he get the money to shoot movies, and the final investment will definitely exceed 5 million Hong Kong dollars.

In Lin Xiaozhi's opinion, this movie has simply given up on the main foreign port, and is even ready to take it to the international film festival to see if it can win an award. So with a stroke of his pen, he gave the protagonist to Ge Minhui, Lin Haifeng, Sun Xing, who signed a contract with Xinya, and Ye Zilin, who had just finished filming "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" and "Water Margin Laughter".

Less than half a year after signing Ye Zilin, three movies were prepared for her, and Xinya wanted to promote Ye Zilin, taking the lead in cultivating a popular superstar with box office appeal among the signed artists under Xinya's own name. Ye Zilintel, who can take the route of stars and has a much shorter training cycle than male artists, is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate for New Asia at present.

In addition to meddling in the selection of several actors in "Friends", the rest of Lin Xiaozhi never asked again, and handed it all over to Ye Weixin himself. After a month of preparation, the crew also personally took the signed note that Lin Xiaozhi begged for from Lin Jianming, seconded from ATV, and on the day of the U month, Ye Weixin, who was ready, finally personally commanded the worship ceremony and started the filming of "Friends".

On the same day, Wu Yusen, who has been preparing for more than a year of gunfight film classics - "Bloody Heroes", finally landed in Golden Princess Cinemas, and the first 33 theaters in Hong Kong met the audience. Compared with Wu Yusen after "The True Color of Heroes" two years ago, he who was hidden and suppressed by Xu Kexue for two years temporarily lost his former demeanor. On the first day of the release of "The True Color of Heroes", it premiered in 47 theaters in Hong Kong, and Wu Yusen was the top director who scolded Fang Yu at that time.

Cheng Long's "Miracle" has exceeded 30UU million Hong Kong dollars at the box office by the time "Bloody Heroes" is released, but except for Golden Harvest, which is still being screened, other private theaters have all painted this movie, and the impact on the box office of "Bloody Heroes" is basically minimal.

Another movie that has the ability to influence "Bloody Heroes", Wang Jing's "Supreme" created a total box office of 30,000 in the first week of release, and the box office in the second week quickly plummeted to the point that there was only 460,000 left in the second week. If it weren't for the former jade girl Chen Yulian's comeback to filming, and the tens of thousands of fans of Principal Tan and Liu Dehua who willingly paid into the theater to watch the movie, the box office of "Supreme" is likely to have a huge gap.

Rao is so, after seeing that the box office of "The Supreme" is so unbearable, Golden Harvest still announced that it would unilaterally paint Yongsheng's movie after fifteen days of release, and with Golden Harvest's comprehensive decline in "Supreme", a bunch of private theaters have also been affected by it to paint this movie. It is rumored that Wan'an boss Xiang brothers were angry about this, and personally came forward to 'invite, many private theater owners' to have tea, and only after that, did they stop the tide of painting.

However, despite this toss, Yongsheng should not have to worry about whether this movie can be a big hit, not to mention the huge number of fans of a few leading actors, just the news that Xinbao Cinema Line signed an extended release period with Yongsheng in order to break the ban of the three major theater companies, and the agreement made Yongsheng not worry about the problem of no theater release at all. Looking at the whole of Hong Kong, only Cheng Long's movies can enjoy the top treatment, and Yongsheng will also enjoy it in a short time.

Wang Fatzi's new movies are not popular or popular, and the decline in word-of-mouth has not affected him. As soon as the first week of the release of "Supreme" ended, he disappeared from the media's field of vision. It has been reported that he is concentrating on a new script, the new film he claims to be confident will surprise Hong Kong.

Now "Supreme" is not popular at the box office, and the entire Hong Kong film industry is not optimistic about what tricks his new gambling film can make. Except for Lin Xiaozhi, it is estimated that no one knows for the time being, and in a few months, Wang Fatzi will rely on his new gambling film to make a blockbuster, completely sensational in Hong Kong and even the whole of Southeast Asia, and establish his strength and status as a top director in Hong Kong and even the Chinese-speaking world, and the name of that gambling film is "God of Gamblers"

The word-of-mouth of Wang Fatzi's new work is inaccurate, and Wu Yusen has cleared up another strong enemy, although there has been no big show in the past two years, but Wu Yusen's top director's strength is unshakable, "Bloody Heroes" was released against the trend in Hong Kong without being taken seriously, and won the box office of U million in the first week, realizing the take-off of word-of-mouth and box office, and major media and newspapers in Hong Kong have given large reports

"The Return of the King"

This is the word that Wu Yusen has appeared most in major media newspapers after being suppressed by Xu Kexuezang for nearly two years and once again proving his strength to the Hong Kong film industry. However, since the storm in the North Continent blew up, the Hong Kong box office in April and May has been significantly affected, each of them has not increased compared with last year, and the decline is as high as April and as high as L in May, it is not surprising that this year's summer file is not only Cheng Long's "Miracle", it is difficult to give birth to more than 30 million box office dark horses, and even a few movies with a box office of more than 20 million are unknown.

When the cold snap hit, Wu Yusen bet on the right schedule, but not on politics. Although "Bloody Heroes" is a classic Wu movie, it is still unknown whether the box office can exceed 20 million in the cold winter.

It was half a month later than He Fan's "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", which started filming at the same time, and at the juncture that June was about to end, Gao Zhisen's "Water Margin Laughter" finally ended post-production, and after obtaining the second-level rating in the film and television department, it entered the post-publicity and distribution stage. To everyone's surprise, Lin Xiaozhi did not hand over "Water Margin Laughter" to Debao Cinemas for distribution as usual, but chose to land on the Golden Princess Cinemas for release.

The reason why this situation occurs is because in July this year, Princess Jin has no other movies that can be used except for Wu Yusen's "Bloody Heroes". In July this year, the Debao cinema line can be described as a starry star, and Debao's self-produced films are gathered.

On July l, "Single Aristocrat", which was released on the same day as Xinya's "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", was filmed by Debao's own investment, although Chen Xueren is only a well-known director, but the film he directed has attracted a mixed-race prince, Wang Minde, the king of the music world Zhang Xueyou and the first-line actress Zheng Yuling teamed up to perform, although it is only a small-budget movie, it has the momentum of impacting the box office of tens of millions.

However, "Single Aristocrat" was not the fundamental reason why Lin Xiaozhi finally gave up on taking "Water Margin Laughter" to the Golden Princess Theater for release, but what finally made him make this decision was that Debao has a rare film with an investment of more than 10 million this year, "Royal Sister 4" is here, and the film directed by Yuan Heping has won the attention of Debao's senior management and is scheduled to be released in Debao theaters in late July.

If "Water Margin Laughter" is released by Debao, no matter how the schedule and schedule are arranged, it will be subject to head-on competition from "Royal Senior Sister 4". Although Lin Xiaozhi has confidence in Gao Zhisen, he also understands that they are the children of the Angry family after all, how can they be so close to the movies invested by Debao themselves, so naturally they can't compete with "Royal Sister 4". Whether "Water Margin Laughter" is scheduled to be released in mid-July or late July, the best quality theaters and shows will be assigned to "Royal Sister 4", and if he chooses to be released in August, he will have to face the head-on competition of Debao's other investment film "See You Well", unless he is willing to give up this year's summer file and arrange the film to be released after September, otherwise choosing Debao is the most unfavorable principle.

Jiahe Cinema Lin Xiaozhi didn't think about cooperation at the beginning, what the store bully said was Jiahe, not to mention that the poaching revenge Xinya has not been avenged, and now both sides are tacitly acknowledging that they are constantly building momentum for the box office confrontation between "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" and "Qing Ben Beauty", no matter how stupid he is, he will not choose to cooperate with Golden Harvest at this time.

Lin Xiaozhi of Xinbao Cinema was not familiar with it, and asked about the conditions given there that were one level worse than those given to Yongsheng, which made him very dissatisfied. It just so happened that the senior management of the Golden Princess Cinema Line learned that after the filming of Gao Zhisen's new movie was completed, Wu Zhaocan, the president of the cinema chain, personally asked him to bring a message to Lin Xiaozhi, hoping that they would bring "Water Margin Laughter" to the Golden Princess Cinema for release.

After inquiring, I learned that in the sixth, seventh, eighth and third months of the Golden Princess, there were only two films with an investment of more than 10 million yuan, "Bloody Heroes" and "My Days in the Black Club", but one chose to be released at the end of June, and the other was scheduled to be released in August. Coupled with Gao Zhisen's own meaning, he also hopes that New Asia can hand over this movie to the Golden Princess Cinema for distribution, Lin Xiaozhi finally chose to hand over the movie to the Golden Princess Cinema to do, and "Water Margin Laughter" will be released in the Golden Princess Cinema on July 14.

Lin Xiaozhi personally took charge of the filming of "Killer Leon", the filming process was not all smooth sailing, and the problem was the youngest actor in the crew, Xu Ruoxuan, but this time it was not because of acting skills or communication reasons, but because of problems with her family in Taiwan.

In Taiwan, Xu Ruoxuan has an older sister and younger brother, under the neglect of her biological father, one of her grades has declined significantly, and the other is because of a small cold that caused pneumonia, and she was hospitalized for more than a week before being discharged, which alarmed Zhang Xiuqin, who was filming with her youngest daughter in Hong Kong. In order to take her youngest daughter back to Taiwan to take care of her other two children, this woman came to the crew and pestered Lin Xiaozhi for nearly a week, which seriously hindered the filming of the movie. In the end, after Lin Xiaozhi sacrificed a special aunt to take care of Xu Ruoxuan's daily life, she was a little unwilling to leave when she saw that she couldn't take her daughter away. Fortunately, the distance between Hong Kong and Taiwan is not far, and it is only two hours by plane, so I can often come to see her.

When the sun rose again on the second day, "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" landed in Debao Cinema and staged an alternative screen confrontation with Golden Harvest's "The Beauty".