Chapter 581: Hot Release (II)
There is no reason for a downpour, I don't know how many people's travel plans have been disrupted, and Xu Fei is one of them.
“…… Brother Fei, why don't we go over there, anyway, Crown Cinemas is not very far away! I heard that there are 12 screening rooms and it is the largest cinema in Hong Kong and even in Asia, so I wanted to visit it for a long time! "It's not her girlfriend who is talking, it's her best friend.
Looking at his girlfriend Lin Qianqian, who was wiping her head for her best friend Xie Na, who was sitting unceremoniously on the sofa in the living room with wet hair, Xu Fei frowned and looked at the rapid downpour outside the window, and said with some hesitation: "The rain is so heavy, it's still thundering outside, let's wait for the rain to light up before going out." If you want me to say that I won't go today, anyway, the movie will be released for a long time...... Uh......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Xie Na, who had the same temperament as a little pepper, glaring at him and looking at him dissatisfied: "That's the new movie of the great director Lin Xiaozhi, more than a dozen powerful superstars have joined, and the first cooperation between Fa Ge, Brother Long and Hua Ge!" And it's the first movie ticket that I finally grabbed, how can I not go to ......"
“…… Hey, hey, I went to Debao Cinema to line up to buy the ticket! Also, I have to go to work today, so I finally started to change shifts half a month in advance, in exchange for today's day off, just to accompany the two of you to the movies! ”
Xu Fei rolled his eyes, and he couldn't stop complaining in his heart.
Of course, it was not easy for him to say this, but Xu Fei still asked angrily: "I said Mary, didn't you fan Liu Dehua not participate in this movie?" As for the urgency of these two days? ”
After blurting out these words, Xu Fei knew that it was going to be bad, and when he looked up, he saw not only Xie Na frowning, but even his girlfriend Lin Qianqian gave him an angry look.
"Obviously, we have watched so many movies together, Brother Fei, don't you often say that you admire Lin Xiaozhi the most? He is handsome, rich, and rich, and he is so talented that he can make that kind of good movie! Although there are some regrets about not Andy, there are Fa Ge, Brother Long and Hua Ge. Don't you want to go and see Brother Hua's screen debut? ”
Therefore, he doesn't understand the psychology of these star-chasers at all. Although Xu Fei has also been obsessed with watching movies in the past two years because of several of Lin Xiaozhi's best-selling masterpieces, he is far less fanatical than these star chasers.
He picked up the cigarette pack next to him and was about to smoke a cigarette, when he saw Lin Qianqian make a lip shape, he had to endure the addiction to smoking. As soon as he turned around, he sprinkled the little unhappiness in his heart on Xie Na, and said angrily: "Huang Rihua has also starred in movies before, okay, he is just cooperating with Lin Xiaozhi for the first time!" ”
Xie Na raised her head, "Brother Hua has only played some tricks in movies before, and he is working with the great director Lin Xiaozhi this time, aren't you looking forward to it?" ”
"It seems that he is also playing a supporting role this time!" Xu Fei muttered a little, but finally didn't say anything.
Xie Na is not bad, Huang Rihua, as one of Xu Fei's few favorite TV drama stars, is indeed looking forward to him and the powerful director Lin Xiaozhi sparking in the new movie.
Since Huang Rihua starred in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Guo Jing became popular in Xiangjiang, and after several ups and downs, he made a strong return in the first two years with "Intolerable". After his contract with TVB expired in 90, he left ATV because he was dissatisfied with the long-term soft ban of TVB's top management, which once made TVB panic to the point that Huang Rihua's many old and new dramas starring in the past that had been broadcast intensively for four months in an unprecedented manner, hoping to make the audience feel aesthetic fatigue and try to affect his ratings after the broadcast of ATV's new drama series.
However, after Huang Rihua jumped to ATV, he soon starred in the drama "Still Look at the Present Dynasty" (that is, "Skynet", because it involves ten years of turmoil, it is one of the few Hong Kong dramas that have never been introduced in the mainland), and the ratings once reached 27 points, beating other TVB dramas in the same period, and immediately attracted a lot of popularity for ATV after the pass.
But it is such a small screen superstar, but he is very disappointed on the big screen. Since the 80s, Huang Rihua has participated in many film companies, such as Zhou Yunfa, Liu Dehua and others, who have moved to the big screen, but no matter whether they starred in costume films or modern films, action movies or martial arts films, none of them can deliver satisfactory results. 、
From the original movie actor to the second male lead, the third male lead, the supporting role, and the trick, people are going up more and more, but he is completely reversed, and it is no wonder that he has many die-hard fans in Hong Kong This time he participated in Lin Xiaozhi's new movie, which will make people look forward to it so much. Lin Xiaozhi now has the reputation of being the highest-grossing commercial blockbuster director in Hong Kong, so even people like Xu Fei, who are not very star-chasing, can't help but look forward to it.
Glancing at the non-stop heavy rain outside the window again, Xu Fei helplessly glanced at the two girls who were full of expectations, seeing that there was only an hour left before the movie started, he sighed and got up and took two umbrellas out, "Forget it, anyway, I've taken my leave today, let's go!" ”
"Hooray!"
Xie Na cheered and didn't say anything about the ladylike appearance, jumped up directly from the sofa, picked up an umbrella from his hand, and then pulled up his girlfriend and walked outside. Xu Fei, who was left behind, rolled his eyes helplessly, but he was thinking in his heart that he had to quickly introduce a boyfriend to this girl, so that she would not be clinging to his girlfriend all day long, so that his little life would be uncomfortable.
Driving on the road, looking out of the window at the pouring rain from time to time, Lin Xiaozhi, who had just returned to Hong Kong from Japan, did not feel depressed at all, just looking at his fingers tapping on the steering wheel from time to time, you can know his current freehand mood.
He did not let the driver of the house drive him, nor did he accompany him with bodyguards who did not leave an inch. Lin Xiaozhi has not enjoyed this kind of freedom for a long time, and today it is just him and Zhou Huimin, ready to drive to the theater together to watch the premiere of "League of Assassins".
Since the due date is just a few days ago, Li Jiaxin has recently been admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital, waiting for delivery in the company of her sister-in-law, who is also a few months pregnant. If it weren't for the premiere of his movie today, it would be absolutely impossible for him to leave at this time, after all, he had been on a trip to Japan for half a month, and after returning to Hong Kong, he was taught a lesson by the old man and could not refute it at all.
The two people in the car were thinking about their own thoughts, and the atmosphere in the car was silent for a while.
Zhou Huimin held a bouquet of roses that Lin Xiaozhi bought for her when she passed by the flower shop just now, and sat in the passenger seat and looked out of the car window slightly.
Although she is used to life nowadays, it is not surprising for a woman to feel lost when only half of her beloved man's mind is on herself. Especially recently, Li Jiaxin has become the focus of the Lin family's care because she is pregnant with a pair of twins, especially after the hospital examination revealed that there is a great probability that one of them is a boy, almost everyone in the Lin family is revolving around her, but she and her daughter have been snubbed a lot recently, which inevitably makes her feel a little depressed.
Lin Xiaozhi is also thinking about his own thoughts, when he was in Japan, he once called the United States and asked about the filming process of "Jurassic Park" as an investor. As he remembers, "Jurassic Park" has officially started filming in Kauai, Hawaii at the end of August this year, considering that the filming efficiency in the United States is far less than that in Hong Kong, so even if "Jurassic Park" is a film that focuses on CG and computer special effects production in the later stage, I am afraid that the pre-production will be completed in December at the latest and enter the post-production stage.
If there are no accidents, the film will also complete all the filming work in January and February next year, and then start post-production, and finally land in North America and even the world in the summer of June and July next year, setting off an unstoppable wave of horror 'dinosaur frenzy'.
Although Lin Xiaozhi is one of the investors of this film, if "Jurassic Park" is still as popular as it has been in history, it is conservatively estimated that it will bring him at least more than $200 million. But he is not only an investor, but also the owner of "Media Asia", the largest film group in Hong Kong and even in Asia, it can be said that if "Jurassic Park" is a hot seller in Hong Kong or even Asia, it is Media Asia Group that will be hit the most.
After the release of "League of Assassins", he could not take a break for a while before starting a new movie, as he had in the past few years, and he had to think about preparing a new drama now to counter the onslaught of the prehistoric monster that was coming.
What the new film is going to do is a question that needs to be seriously considered.
The general plot refers to "Red Alert" of "Mission Impossible 1", which has achieved a lot of repercussions in Europe and the United States after its release a few years ago, until now there are calls in Hong Kong and even other cities, hoping that he can start filming follow-up dramas. Lin Xiaozhi didn't think about making a sequel, and even the scripts of the subsequent parts of the original work were in his mind, and after some reprocessing with reference to some other popular elements of the same theme in later generations, I believe that the sequel should not be bad.
It's just that he has to shoot two, and it is much larger than the previous one from the scene to the exterior, so not only does it increase the difficulty of shooting, but also many of the locations have to be filmed in Europe and the United States.
If "Resident Evil 2" can be filmed, it will be promising. After all, the monster frenzy caused by "Jurassic Park" has not yet arrived, although the "Resident Evil" series takes the route of sci-fi disaster films, although the zombie monsters created by the virus are not as acceptable as the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park", but in the eyes of the younger generation of audiences in this era, they still belong to the kind of crazy cool and handsome scum sky, which can definitely attract those young audiences who pursue sensory stimulation to pay for tickets to enter the theater to watch the movie.
But not to mention that it was launched immediately after filming "Resident Evil 1" last year, and the follow-up decision was a brain-dead decision, which did not leave enough time for the market to give fans to reminisce so that word of mouth could spread. And if you want to shoot "Resident Evil 2", there is actually another flaw that is difficult to avoid, and that is the special effects. Unlike the previous film, which can make up for the lack of special effects with hard technology through guò editing and acting, the requirements for computer CG production and other technologies have increased too much since "Resident Evil 2".
This span takes more than a year, or even two years to slowly produce the number of data of the zombie species, accumulation technology, etc., at least with the special effects technology that Huanya now has, it is not only very difficult to complete the production of "Resident Evil 2" independently, but also the time consumption and production funds will exceed the budget, so you can only pass it first!
To compete with "Jurassic Park" on its home turf, it is obviously difficult for ordinary movies to do it. Even though Lin Xiaozhi has a lot of excellent scripts in his head, he scratched his scalp for a while.
Debao - Crown Cinemas, just listen to the name and know that this is a theater under the Debao Cinema Line. This was originally a three-storey store in Causeway Bay under the name of Wing On Department Store, because of the poor performance of Wing On Department Store in recent years, coupled with the impact of foreign supermarket chain giants entering Hong Kong to the north and looking at the mainland, Wing On Department Store, as a local department store giant in the past, had to be listed here for sale a year ago to recoup funds, and Lin Xiaozhi took advantage of the low price to buy it for only 37 million Hong Kong dollars.
After a year of renovation and decoration, it has now turned from a hypermarket into the first large-scale cinema in Hong Kong with 12 screening halls and a total of 2,517 seats.
I thought that if it rained, Hong Kong would have fewer fools like me. However, after Chen Xiaochun got out of the taxi, he only glanced at the crowded audience waiting to enter the ticket hall on the first floor of Debao-Crown Cinema, so he involuntarily put his hand into his pocket and clenched the movie ticket.
The cold rain hit his cheeks, and the gap at the neckline of his neck seeped into his clothes, but this trace of coolness could not extinguish Chen Xiaochun's fiery heart at all, seeing the fans in the hall who came to watch Lin Xiaozhi's new movie "League of Assassins" despite the fact that they were still working today, and asked for leave, listening to their ears and excitedly exchanging excitedly about how cool the two promotional films that were densely bombarded on the screen not long ago, Chen Xiaochun only felt that an irrepressible heat was surging upwards in his heart, and he could guess without looking in the mirror that he was red after all!
Chen Xiaochun, who was born in the mainland at the end of the sixties, was a Hakka, and in 80 he was only 13 years old in the face of poverty, and he chose to drop out of school and follow his father to Hong Kong to make a living, due to lack of nutrition, Chen Xiaochun looks much younger than his actual age, he can't find a formal job, he can only go to the construction site where his father works to do odd jobs, and then follow the construction team to enter the construction site, doing the work of laying wooden boards, after the decoration task is completed, the decoration team withdraws from the construction site, and he has to be unemployed.
After becoming an adult, Chen Xiaochun said goodbye to his parents and came to Causeway Bay alone. He first worked as a runner in a food stall, and it didn't take long. After several rounds, he worked part-time in a "Blue Square" barber shop in Wan Chai for two years. By chance in 85, I heard that TVB was recruiting dance artists, because he liked to dance since he was a child, and he also heard that if he became a star, he would not only be beautiful but also make a lot of money, so he rushed to take the exam, and after dancing a few designated movements and free play in the examination room, the judges took a fancy to his flexible movements and appearance, and admitted him on the spot. At that time, dancers could get a monthly remuneration of 700 Hong Kong dollars, and the next day, Chen Xiaochun quit his job in a barbershop and came to TVB to sign a contract, officially becoming a dancer.
However, although Chen Xiaochun joined the TVB dance artist training class, after the training, as an outstanding student, he entered the 'Leopard Boy' group, and was successively recommended to Alan Tam, Anita Mui, Chen Baiqiang, Leslie Cheung, etc. to do concert dances, but this dance is five years, and in five years, in addition to his salary is more than when he first entered the industry, he still holds the lowest salary in the industry and does the dirtiest and most tiring work. So when ATV poached the artists subordinate to Wireless after changing its new owner two years ago, he simply gritted his teeth and followed a teacher who had trained him in the past to jump ship to ATV.
It's a pity that he, a little person at the bottom of the industry, is difficult to change his fate no matter where he goes. ATV got a slightly higher salary than wireless, and he was unknown for more than a year, just when he began to wonder if he didn't have a star personality, at the end of last year, when he danced for Alan Tam at the celebration reception of a certain movie, he had the opportunity to sing a song of Principal Tan's "Water Flower" in front of everyone because of Alan Tam's promotion. Star Factory's boss's wishing attention, he then invited Chen Xiaochun and Zhu Yongtang and Xie Tianhua to form a trio "Wind and Fire", promising to package and push him to fame.
Maybe it's time for me to come to the bitter end, the "Wind and Fire" combination over there hasn't made any name yet, Chen Xiaochun encountered another good thing, ATV suddenly had a new boss, and he is also a well-known wealthy man in Hong Kong - Lin Xiaozhi, and he himself is not only a famous director in the industry, but also owns the most powerful film group in Hong Kong - Media Asia.
At the beginning of the year, after a brief wave of turmoil, the new owner Lin Xiaozhi soon began to show his courage and means. Not only did it continue to launch a high-salary policy to bless all the staff of ATV, but at the same time, its artists had the opportunity to star in movies after changing new contracts with ATV.
It is said that it was because he had a bad and bad ruffian face that the new boss Lin Xiaozhi took a fancy to, and he actually named himself and let Chen Xiaochun play a role in his new movie "League of Assassins", that is, the guy who was a colleague and friend of the protagonist Yang Lin but gave him a green hat.
Although this is only a small supporting role, and it is by no means a character that can be liked by the audience, Chen Xiaochun is still very excited.
Nowadays, no one in Hong Kong knows that he has a future with Lin Xiaozhi, not to mention that his family is rich in a bank, and he also owns Hong Kong's largest film group and ATV, and he is also the best commercial film director in Hong Kong, and movies are released in Europe and the United States every year and sell well. For an artist like Chen Xiaochun, who is at the bottom of the circle, if he can take this opportunity to get in touch with him, he will be familiar with the worst of them, and maybe he will have the opportunity to continue to cooperate with him in the future.
In addition to this, he had a thought in his heart. Who said that a small supporting role can't be popular, a role like him playing a green hat for the protagonist can impress the audience even more, I can't say that he Chen Xiaochun can really take advantage of this opportunity to become popular!
The more I thought about it, the more I felt anxious and unbearable, and I couldn't wait for the movie to start showing immediately, so that he could also see the audience's reaction and see what kind of movie he was involved in.
didn't let him wait long, and soon with the sound announcements hanging around the hall, after the "League of Assassins" began to check in, Chen Xiaochun hurriedly took the internal ticket he got from the crew, and impatiently joined the queue waiting for the ticket check. After the turmoil, the new boss Lin Xiaozhi soon began to show his courage and means. Not only did it continue to launch a high-salary policy to bless all the staff of ATV, but at the same time, its artists had the opportunity to star in movies after changing new contracts with ATV.
It is said that it was because he had a bad and bad ruffian face that the new boss Lin Xiaozhi took a fancy to, and he actually named himself and let Chen Xiaochun play a role in his new movie "League of Assassins", that is, the guy who was a colleague and friend of the protagonist Yang Lin but gave him a green hat.
Although this is only a small supporting role, and it is by no means a character that can be liked by the audience, Chen Xiaochun is still very excited.
Nowadays, no one in Hong Kong knows that he has a future with Lin Xiaozhi, not to mention that his family is rich in a bank, and he also owns Hong Kong's largest film group and ATV, and he is also the best commercial film director in Hong Kong, and movies are released in Europe and the United States every year and sell well. For an artist like Chen Xiaochun, who is at the bottom of the circle, if he can take this opportunity to get in touch with him, he will be familiar with the worst of them, and maybe he will have the opportunity to continue to cooperate with him in the future.
In addition to this, he had a thought in his heart. Who said that a small supporting role can't be popular, a role like him playing a green hat for the protagonist can impress the audience even more, I can't say that he Chen Xiaochun can really take advantage of this opportunity to become popular!
The more I thought about it, the more I felt anxious and unbearable, and I couldn't wait for the movie to start showing immediately, so that he could also see the audience's reaction and see what kind of movie he was involved in.
didn't let him wait long, and soon with the sound announcements hanging around the hall, after the "League of Assassins" began to check in, Chen Xiaochun hurriedly took the internal ticket he got from the crew, and impatiently joined the queue waiting for the ticket check.