Chapter 14: Chen Guofu and Di Renjie
Xu Hui...
Someone you'll never guess!
However, after that, the signature of "Waste Wood Movie Dream" is still Xu Hui...
Oh, "Waste Wood Movie Dream" is "The Love of the Public", a waste wood relies on the unspoken rules of the director's identity for those actresses who want to become famous...
opened a studio, specializing in fooling actors who want to enter the industry.
Then I found a very talented actress and took her to feel the real entertainment industry!
The first half is very similar to the large-scale "I Want to Be Famous", and the second half is an actress chasing her dream in the entertainment industry, sleeping amazingly, and eventually becoming a generation of big stars...
It's a cruel story, and near the end of the movie, the male protagonist, who is the director of waste wood, got a good script.
Helplessly, the funds were insufficient, and seeing him with a sad face all day long, the people around him were working hard to make money to raise funds for him.
He himself worked very hard, and he did not hesitate to kneel in public in order to let the heroine star in his own movie.
In the end, the heroine agreed to him.
It also means that there is start-up capital, and just as he happily stood up and went back to the studio, the stuffy stick from the gang was raised behind his head - the heroine was invited by the gang to shoot three plays, and the actor grabbed the schedule and stepped on the line...
Well, it's also a "Dream Showbiz"...
To be honest, Golden Harvest's third-level films do make money!
Last year's "Plaything" cost 11 million Hong Kong dollars, less than 20 million Hong Kong dollars for publicity and distribution, 60 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Asia, and the follow-up TV copyright and audio and video copyright income was as high as 55 million Hong Kong dollars...
Net profit of more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars!
The income of "Dream Showbiz" is a little higher, because the whole of Asia is discussing photography exhibitions, and at the right time, the copyright income has even risen by 20%...
The most important thing is that the cost control is very harsh - the cost of "Dream Showbiz" is still less than 12 million Hong Kong dollars.
Golden Harvest... Including Shen Xudong, it is impossible to let go of this theme!
Besides, I can't make a few more films.
With the development of the Internet, videotapes and discs have slowly withdrawn from history, and Hong Kong citizens... Not only in Hong Kong, but also in the world, citizens around the world will gradually reduce their purchase of discs and turn to searching for resources on the Internet...
Even theaters specializing in third-class films are closing!
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Regarding "Dream Chasing Entertainment Circle", serious Hong Kong media, for example, "Ming Pao Evening News" commented: Exploiting the Hong Kong entertainment industry!
Exploitation movies, as everyone must know, generally refer to the film genre that relies on astringency, violence, and blood, the exploitation of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and the scandal that relies on the Hong Kong entertainment industry...
That's true.
It's weird, you can do it, but I can't talk about it?
What about freedom?
Including Liu Jialin, who was implied, was also very dissatisfied with the movie, and directly said, "I feel offended!" ’
Then Golden Harvest didn't respond, of course, he apologized privately...
This is indeed a bit excessive.
By the way, Lan Jieying's related topics did not detonate, but many people wondered, 'Why does this have such a bridge?' ’
Hehe, wait a few more years, and you'll know!
Shen Xudong did not show up from beginning to end, and did not answer any topics about "Dream Showbiz".
By the way, at this year's Academy Awards, Golden Harvest filmmakers were collectively absent - of course, those who should have signed up must have signed up, "Zhao Zilong", "Hurricane Rescue 2", "Raid", "Lao Qian", "Playthings" including "The Legend of the Wicked" have all signed up...
There is no way, Golden Harvest is still a Hong Kong film company, which is controlled by the association.
It's just that the main creative team has confirmed that they will not attend!
No, the director of "Zhao Zilong" Li Rengang and the starring Andy Lau may attend...
Who knows?
Anyway, Shen Xudong doesn't care at all...
He was busy discussing Di Renjie with Chen Guofu...
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"When I was in Colombia, a foreigner suggested that I be Di Renjie: Di Renjie knows martial arts, has a good image, is romantic, can handle cases, and can reason, and there is no such character in Chinese films."
"Moreover, after the launch of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" in the sixties of the last century, it was all the rage, and Di Renjie won the title of Oriental Sherlock Holmes abroad, and Di Renjie is also a well-known figure!"
It is indeed a little famous, and the British filmed 6 TV series on the Di Gong case, and in 1974, "The Temple Case" was made into a movie and won the Edgar TV Drama Award the following year...
Therefore, as long as the shooting is good, overseas copyright should
"Then I read "The Case of Di Gong" written by Wu Zhaoren, a Qing Dynasty family, and I was very disappointed, it was too, what kind of detective is this, it is all a dream to get the answer, or the victim dragged him to the underworld to witness, there is no artistic temperament at all!"
"I can't watch "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty", that Di Renjie is more gentle and elegant, like a Western gentleman, but lacks a sense of action."
"I gave 1.4 million words to a screenwriter and asked him to sort out the interesting stories in it, and only one or two were singled out."
Well, Shen Xudong hasn't seen these two works...
But he was curious about one thing: why Chen Guofu was looking for him.
"Brother Huayi is not optimistic about this movie?"
"No, the main thing I want to invite Director Xu Ke to direct this play, but Director Xu Ke has a preferential investment agreement with your company..."
After a pause, Chen Guofu added: "The bizarre and tortuous case can be designed, the process of logical deduction can be improved, and the performance status of the leading actor can be honed, but the grand background of the Tang Dynasty, the intense and novel action scenes, and the bizarre visual effects are not at all something that ordinary directors can control together."
In addition, if you want to accurately show Di Renjie's chivalrous temperament, the director had better be a fellow believer, because only faith can be true.
Looking at the entire Chinese film industry, there is probably only one person who is qualified for this job, Xu Ke! ”
Shen Xudong was happy: "Director Xu just signed a film contract with us, and he didn't have personal freedom... Whether you are telling the truth or not, I will definitely invest in "Di Renjie"! ”
The script in his hand is "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire".
The opening work of Di Renjie's series is also Di Renjie's film work with the best quality and reputation!
Don't look at what Chen Guofu said so sincerely, there is a big logical bug in this - Xu Ke signed a preferential investment agreement with Tianmei.
The content is that the works created by him will be given priority to TiMi for investment and development.
But... It doesn't mean that Xu Ke is the contracted director of Tianmei, he has strong autonomy.
For an external drama like "Di Renjie", if he takes over the filming, Tianmei has no right to intervene.
Shen Xudong was not interested in the reason why Chen Guofu came to find him, it was nothing more than that Hua Yi was not optimistic about something...
After all, the cost of 100 million.
After Chen Guofu joined Huayi, he handled two projects such as "Ghost in My Heart" and "Li Mi's Conjecture"...
That's what the market returns.
No matter how Di Renjie saves, no, no matter how much he saves "Tongtian Empire", it will cost 80 million to say the least...
If you look for Xu Ke, you can't get down without 100 million...
Huayi is impossible to gamble!
In the original time and space, Hua Yi dared to bet because Chen Guo was rich in "The Wind"...
What does he have this time?
He guessed correctly, Chen Guofu had already met Xu Ke, and Xu Ke was also very satisfied with the book of "Tongtian Empire", and then suggested that he go to Shen Xudong...
I'm going to dock with the hotel host today, which may delay time...
(End of chapter)