Chapter 83: Shaw's Paper Tiger Contract

“…… Ah Fa, you have also read the script! As for your schedule, all of them will be vacated for me, and you are not allowed to play. Otherwise, I will give this role to Wan Ziliang. You two, who is better at acting, who has more aura, and who is more powerful, we all know in our hearts. He can even be fat enough without deliberately gaining weight! Wang Jin's small eyes lit up, and he spat out, and kept patting the script of "God of Gamblers" with his hand, and said to Zhou Yanfa with a dignified face.

"I'll ask you first, mainly because you're a little taller and more handsome than him, and I'm also a little familiar with you." Li Lecheng began to sing duets with Wang Jin: "But he's so good!" His acting skills, wow...... Honest and good people can play it, and the tycoon can also play it. The most rare thing is that there are more details than you in the performance, and the depth and complexity of the characters are staggering, if you want to be sincere, you will be sincere, and if you want to be treacherous, you will be treacherous......"

Wan Ziliang and Zhou Runfa, who is more suitable for the God of Gamblers...... If you put aside the stereotype of the previous life......

Li Lecheng began to feel creepy: Did he fall into a mindset?!

Wang Jin felt that Li Lecheng didn't get to the point, and interjected: "Although he doesn't have any particularly high box office, who let him act in a Shaw Brothers movie, although he has signed a contract with TVK Shaw Brothers, but Wireless is still afraid that he used to be a beautiful person, and at the same time, the movie appointment is in Shaw Brothers, how can it not be considered biological, hey...... But now the TVK Five Tigers will be disobedient, and the sixth uncle is already reusing him, praising him as the actor of the blockbuster drama "Yang Jiajiang" in the decisive battle with the TVA, and the Five Tigers will carry a sedan chair for him, and he will go out on the street at the end of October...... The most important thing is that he doesn't make movies that hit the streets very much! ”

After that, he looked at Li Lecheng with a resentful face: You also think Wan Ziliang is better, why do you have to let him persuade Zhou Yanfa!

Any actor on Hong Kong Island can be proud that he didn't hit the street without him, and Zhou Yunfa heard it like a thousand arrows piercing his heart!

"I'll take it! Can't I pick it up?! No drama guaranteed! ”

Zhou Yunfa hurriedly interrupted Li Lecheng and Wang Jin's words, he was about to be angry to death by these two people!

But Wang Jin was right, he pushed him and Wan Ziliang down the street together, and asked any passer-by, who was wealthy, like a gambling god, nine out of nine people would say Wan Ziliang.

Wan Ziliang's face is full of red light, fat head and big ears, and prosperous wealth, like the kind of particularly shrewd and domineering casino tenants, and the audience has always been good; He doesn't look so confident and angry, and he is a "box office poison", and when the audience sees him, they can immediately think of how much money he has lost to those film companies......

But if he says that his acting skills are not as good as Wan Ziliang, he is 10,000 unconvinced! Although, although he has no bottom in his heart, he dares to say that he plays better than him, but in this role, Wan Ziliang has an innate image advantage! As soon as he thought of this, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Wan Ziliang was more suitable than himself! No way! You can't lose your self-confidence before you fight!

Li Lecheng himself was stunned when he was talking about Wan Ziliang, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that now there is no "True Colors of Heroes" to pave the way for Ah Fa, Ah Fa portrays the role of the God of Gamblers Gao Jin, it may not be as easy as Wan Ziliang to come up directly, and now his perspective has changed a little, as the boss, the box office is the most practical...... Afatta...... And who said that he couldn't act with Wan Ziliang in "Changing Face"? !

"Ah Lok, I think I can definitely play this role well, I don't need to be paid! I will also go to gain weight, prepare the role well, and ensure that when shooting, the shooting is fast and good, saving you costs! ”

"Oops~ how can you not be paid!" When Li Lecheng heard this, he was actually overjoyed.

In the end, Ah Fa asked for 300,000 yuan in order to show his determination, and he just gave it to him after the release, Li Lecheng immediately said that if the effect of filming "God of Gamblers" is good, he will cooperate with him in a film, and give him 500,000 yuan when the time comes, and give it to him as soon as the film starts.

Wang Jin also breathed a sigh of relief on the side, and immediately felt that he had a bigger grasp, Li Lecheng said that the box office was four times the cost to give him 5% of the box office in Hong Kong as a salary, and he wanted to reduce the cost without affecting the quality required by Li Lecheng, and the most effective way to reduce the cost was not to prepay the salary and compress the shooting cycle.

If you don't include Ah Fa and Wang Jin's salaries, the production budget of "God of Gamblers" is 2.5 million, plus 1.5 million publicity costs, a total of 4 million, four times is 16 million, 16 million What is the concept, can enter the top 10 of the year! Wang Jin's best performance before was also a gambling film, just 9th! So Wang Jin has a big grasp of himself, and he is afraid that the four words "box office poison" will affect him......

Li Lecheng has actually taken into account the current reality and greatly reduced the requirements for Wang Jin and Ah Fa, after all, "God of Gamblers" should have won the first place of the year with a box office of more than 36 million four years later. Moreover, the play "God of Gamblers" is so exciting, how can it make a lot of money, right?

Ah Fa looked at Li Lecheng with envy, because he habitually hit the streets, he couldn't receive commercial films, and if he couldn't receive commercial films, he could only receive many literary films, which caused him to become more and more toxic at the box office...... Vicious circle. And what about Li Lecheng? At present, a starring movie has never been out of the street, and it is priceless! The asking price is less than 2 million, and no one dares to ask for more than 5 million! At present, the salary of the film industry, those top five regulars take seven tens of thousands, Tan Yonglin, Lin Zixiang, and Yuan Biao are almost 1 million, and on top are Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie and Li Lecheng, whose price is unknown. There weren't many people to count. But when will he be worth that much?

The more I think about it, the more depressed I become, "God of Gamblers" is a commercial film, the director is also very reliable, and the script will sell out as soon as he sees it, if he can't grasp it well this time, he might as well go back to Lamma Island to fish! And next year, his contract with wireless will also be full, and many of the contracts signed by outside film companies will be given according to the fixed price of a few films per film in a few years, and he must release a blockbuster movie before the contract expires, otherwise it will affect the value of the next few years.

Zhou Yanfa does make sense, in fact, his salary is not the highest in the entire 80s, and there are several international stars and Xu's Shuangjie above him, even in the middle and late 80s, Xu's Shuangjie will not be cheap, after all, the price reduction is equivalent to admitting defeat.

Although the price of "The True Color of Heroes" has been greatly raised, after Zhou Yanfa signed into the new company New Yicheng, the films in New Yicheng within a few years were filmed with a fixed contract of 1.5 million per film, and if he wanted to get more, he had to rely on dividends and loans to shoot outside scenes.

The expiration of Zhou Run's invention year reminded Li Lecheng that next year is a good year, Birch can be thawed, and Ah Fa can also come out, but he doesn't want either, so as not to stimulate the nerves of the sixth uncle and six aunts, who are now highly tense, and they can borrow it by asking their company.

Therefore, the two younger brothers behind the God of Gamblers are still played by Hua Zai and Zhou Xingxing, especially with Hua Zai, who has been banned, you can use him to test how afraid the sixth uncle and six aunts are afraid of him leaving - Li Lecheng wants to leave is a matter of one sentence.

Recently, Jiahe, Xinyicheng, and Debao have all come to ask Li Le if he is willing to go. After all, he has acted in several films on the Shaw Brothers set, and the Shaw Brothers set is now renting for money, crammed with various crews, plus the five minutes of "The Emperor of Jobs", whether he can act or not, and what the level is, most insiders know about it - it's very powerful anyway.

They are willing to pay him liquidated damages, and each of them is willing to give him a signing fee of more than 30 million, and also open a satellite film subsidiary for him, and the treatment is comparable to Cheng Long, after all, he is the only two "international superstars", and Cheng Long is not as well-known as him in the European and American markets.

In fact, when Shaw Brothers signed a contract with Li Lecheng, like ordinary Shaw Brothers artists, the liquidated damages were only 2 million, and Lao Wang's was millions higher than him...... Shaw Brothers' liquidated damages are a drizzle for those big companies, after all, Aunt Six never thought that he could act and pay it, in fact, he didn't need to pay it at all, whoever digs it will redeem it...... Isn't it like this all in the world?

Even Dai Chunliang could afford to pay liquidated damages in order to marry Liu Yong a few years ago, and Zhong Chuhong was dug from Shaw Brothers two or three years ago and was taken away by Jiahe's direct buyout contract. The wireless contract is similar, and the liquidated damages are unaffordable for poor artists with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, but even Hua Zai dares to quote outside, asking him and Wei Zai to jump ship, so he will pay the liquidated damages of the five tigers together and pack them away.

In fact, the liquidated damages of Shaw Brothers have overturned several times, and the last time it turned so big was when Cheng Long was poached in the 70s, when Cheng Long's liquidated damages were only 100,000 yuan......

The movie about Shaw Brothers is really a piece of waste paper for Li Lecheng from beginning to end, and he is now just holding it to coax the two elderly people to be at ease, and he himself is old (...... ), very respectful of the old and love the young.