In the early years, Hong Kong actors did have overseas box office.

Selling flowers is the best proof of this!

Selling films, the biggest feature of Hong Kong film financing in the 90s of the last century.

The producer can not even have a script, just relying on the names of Zhou Xingchi, Andy Lau, Zhou Yunfa, Cheng Long, or a simple cast promotional poster, he can easily get an advance of 10 million in port sales fees.

Hong Kong-style selling film is more about selling casts, so as to recover the cost in advance and ensure that the profit is not lost.

But this practice is also "exploiting" Hong Kong films themselves, so that a few years later, except for those "ageless" Hong Kong stars, everything else in Hong Kong films is "hidden in the dust".

To make matters worse, a lot of gangsters have joined in!

Competing for the stars...

To a certain extent, it has accelerated the style of Hong Kong films following the trend and shoddy production!

What's more, the proportion of celebrity protagonists' salaries is getting higher and higher, and the rest of the production team will inevitably feel unfair.

This is also an important reason why almost all bands will disband once they become popular.

93 years later, Hollywood has attacked the Asian market in a big way, and Hong Kong movies are not as good as before, and the film is naturally not very valuable!

But... At this stage, Hong Kong movies still have many overseas fans.

Most Hong Kong movies were released simultaneously in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia!

Later, why can mainland actors be the leading roles?

Because the mainland market has risen, it can give full play to the home star advantage.

There is a market to have stars, and now there is a market in the mainland, so mainland stars will blow out.

Go back 20 years, 30 years, Jiang Wen, Ge You have the strength, they can't make Hong Kong commercial films, and no one invites Hong Kong companies, because they don't match their backgrounds and have no overseas markets!

Jiang Wen played a supporting role in "Song Family Dynasty".

Insert a sentence, at the beginning of "Song Family Dynasty", Jiang Wen didn't answer, saying "I never play a supporting role", but Wu Siyuan coaxed him, saying that Charlie Song is the father of the three sisters of the Song family, "the protagonist of the protagonist", and finally Jiang Wen agreed to play and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but he didn't come to accept the award...

In the original time and space, at this stage, except for Feng Xiaogang, no one used mainland actors as the protagonists in movies with an investment of more than 10 million!

However, Shen Xudong is different.

"Lao Qian", "Life Events", "Embroidered Spring Knife", "Tuner", the male number one is all Deng Chao;

"Painted Skin" male No. 1, Chen Kun;

"Exquisite Ancient City", male number one Liu Ye;

"The Wind" found Yu Hewei's partner Huang Xiaoming...

Oh, "The Wind" is not produced by Golden Harvest...

But this time "Zhao Zilong 2", produced by Golden Harvest, starring Nie Yuan, and the director is also a mainland director!

directly changed the so-called Hong Kong and Taiwan directors + Hong Kong and Taiwan actors + mainland actresses.

The point is that it is also a big seller overseas

Now, you can't fool investors with the view that 'using mainland actors is equivalent to giving up overseas markets'!

It's not over yet, at the Golden Harvest Film Planning Conference at noon on the 11th, a bunch of mainland actors came, Deng Chao, Chen Xiao, Wang Kai, Yu Hewei, and Hu Ge appeared successively.

In addition, Chen Daoming, Wang Xueqi, Ge You, Zhang Guoli, Jiang Wen, Jiang Wu, Hu Jun and others helped out.

The Hong Kong star troupe also came Cheng Long, Li Ming, Zhang Xueyou, Donnie Yen, Gu Tianyu, Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui, etc...

Yang Shoucheng, Jiang Zhiqiang, and Huang Baiming also came.

The director team is Chen Musheng, Chen Desen, Chen Jiashang, Ye Weixin, Zheng Baorui, Liang Lemin, Lu Jianqing appeared...

Zhong Lifang was full of spirit and announced more than 20 film shooting plans in one go.

Including the six Three Kingdoms series after "Zhao Zilong 2", and each of them has disclosed the exact release time: "Dingjun Mountain" January 27, 2009, "Guan Yunchang", "Zhang Yide", "Zhao Zilong 3", "Zhuge Liang" and "Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty - Liu Bei"...

The last one was released in 2010, and the others are basically Spring Festival files, summer files, and even April files...

Shen Xudong said with some regret: "Actually, the Three Kingdoms series, we were originally preparing to shoot eighteen movies in three stages, and together form a Three Kingdoms movie universe, but what happened, everyone knows, after the success of the first movie, the actors and directors are gone... Then we had to change our plans... Fortunately, "Cao Cao" and "Zhao Zilong 2" have a good box office and reputation, giving us enough confidence to continue making series..."

Well, continue to hammer "See the Dragon Unloading the Armor"...

Of course, this is Hong Kong, and there must be a lot of media stirring up trouble.

directly asked him if he was suppressing Hong Kong actors.

"What are you kidding, I'm about to supply them, you have to know that the total salary of the actors of "Zhao Zilong 2" has not reached 3 million Hong Kong dollars, and the first part of "Zhao Zilong" just paid Andy Lau 12 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"Moreover, are you blind, we have to collaborate with Cheng Long, Li Ming, and Donnie Yen in three movies each... Aren't they Hong Kong actors? ”

……

"They treated me well, they didn't take many ugly photos, and they didn't criticize me..."

At the cocktail party in the evening, Huang Baiming comforted Shen Xudong and asked him not to care about the Hong Kong media, Shen Xudong was very free...

It is also a fact that the hostility of the Hong Kong media to Zhang Ziyi and Zhao Yanzi can be described as a 'thorn in the eye', and all kinds of messy reports, such as Zhang Ziyi's love for the dragon father and son, and Zhao Yanzi's ugly photos of chewing gum...

In contrast, the attitude towards Shen Xudong is really good.

At the beginning, he used the 'mainland talent', and now he is the 'new helmsman of Golden Harvest'...

"Then you can't hold grudges, and it's not easy for them..."

"There's nothing to hold grudges against, you see, Hong Kong is integrating with the mainland, and there is friction in the process of integration, which is a normal thing... But I don't think it's a bad thing to have friction, it's like sawing wood, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, but ultimately downward! Wait another 20 years, and when you look back at these things, they are just small dust in the course of history. ”

Hearing this, Huang Baiming couldn't help but be surprised: "Tsk, you are worthy of being a writer, and your thinking is really level!" ”

“… Nope. Shen Xudong suddenly remembered something: "Where did Uncle Huang plan to take me to eat tonight?" ”

"Taipanlou, I've thought about what to take you to eat, but I didn't expect a party today."

"It's okay, I have time tomorrow..."

Taipan Building, Shen Xudong has long heard of it, Asia's 50 best restaurants, the most representative Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong...

Shen Xudong really didn't want to miss it.

Huang Baiming smiled bitterly: "But I don't have time tomorrow, I'm going to fly to Singapore..."

Shen Xudong was a little regretful, thought for a while, and said, "That... You give me the contact information of the Taipan Building, and I'll go by myself! ”

Huang Baiming glanced at him, pondered for a moment, and then suggested: "... So, I'll introduce a friend to bring you along! ”

Shen Xudong shook his head: "Forget it, I'm not used to eating with men I don't know..."

Huang Baiming raised his eyebrows: "It just so happens that the one I introduced is a little girl, who yearns for the film industry!" ”

"I... I'm not that kind of person... How does it look? How old is it? ”

“… Hong Kong's No. 1 Nen model, what do you say? ”

When Shen Xudong heard this, he lost interest: "Fu Ying? ”

“… It's not..."

Huang Baiming was about to introduce in detail, Zhong Lifang, Donnie Yen and Chen Desen came over, Shen Xudong politely said goodbye to Huang Baiming, clicked on his mobile phone, motioned for him to contact him, and then walked away...

After all, the full name of the evening cocktail party is Golden Harvest Movie Night, not a private communication occasion between Shen Xudong and Huang Baiming!

(End of chapter)