Chapter 332: It's really a discussion of the script
After chatting about the MV shooting, Chen Qiming and Tsui Hark walked out together, and just a few steps, Tsui Hark smiled and said:
"I'm here to give you the MV this time, but the movie over there has not been filmed over there, you have to remember this feeling!"
"Of course!" Chen Qiming nodded, his eyes rolling, "How is your cooperation with Oriental Films?" ”
This year, the cooperation between Tsui Hark and Golden Harvest has officially come to an end.
As one of the directors with the strongest box office appeal in the eighties and nineties, as soon as Tsui Hark broke up with Golden Harvest, many film and television companies pounced.
Among them are Yongsheng and Oriental Film Company.
Huang Baiming had worked with Tsui Hark in Xinyi City before, and there was a relationship between such old friends, and Tsui Hark reached a cooperation with Oriental Film and Television after leaving after ending his cooperation with Golden Harvest.
At present, the "Big Three Yuan" co-produced by the two parties is being filmed, and Tsui Hark said that this is the project he put down.
However, Tsui Hark's words made Chen Qiming hear a different meaning.
That is, the cooperation between Oriental Film and Tsui Hark is not smooth.
And this made Chen Qiming have some different thoughts in his heart.
The reason why he invited Tsui Hark to be his MV director this time.
Except that this guy does have a set of directors as a director.
Another reason is that he actually wants to try to see if he can dig the foot of the wall.
It's been almost half a year since Pacific Cinemas was established.
For a long time, the cinema chain has not had a fixed partner.
Among the several theater chains, Pacific Cinemas is currently at the bottom of the list of movies released.
And the reason for all this is that there are too few cooperative film companies of Pacific Cinemas.
At present, Pacific Cinema Line has only reached cooperation with one and a half companies.
One of them is Changhong Film and Television.
As one of the eight major film companies on Treasure Island.
Changhong has not withdrawn from Hong Kong in the past two years, and Changhong Film and Television's branch in Hong Kong is still continuing to make films.
Changhong Film and Television is a company of Baodao film companies, and the films it shoots must be given priority to be released on Baodao.
But at the same time, they will definitely not give up on the Hong Kong market.
There is a relationship between Chen Qiming and Changhong before, after Chen Qiming established the Pacific Cinema Line, the two sides immediately reached a cooperation, and the films shot by Changhong will be preferentially released in Pacific Cinemas in Hong Kong.
In addition to Changhong, the other half is the best partner formed by Wang Jing.
Originally, there was some dirtiness between Chen Qiming and Wang Jing.
But before Wang Jing took the initiative to contact Chen Qiming, it put an end to this matter.
The two sides also reached a verbal agreement that the best partner films in the future will be screened in Pacific Cinemas.
It's just that although the best partner film and television company has been established, because of the complicated relationship between Wang Jing and Yongsheng, all the best partner movies are still in a sealed state, and they will probably not be released until next year.
In fact, Chen Qiming also reached a cooperation agreement with another company.
This company is Stephen Chow's film company.
However, because Stephen Chow has just withdrawn from the Color Star Company, the new company has not even shown signs of it, and according to Chen Qiming's information from the dream, Stephen Chow's film company will be very slow to shoot in the future.
Although his films were very good at the box office in the following years, for a theater chain, he still prefers a film company that produces films more frequently.
Therefore, at present, Stephen Chow is basically not a partner.
So, in general, Pacific Cinemas now has only one and a half partners.
One and a half, plus Chen Qiming's Qiming Film and Television, this is simply not enough to support a cinema chain that needs movies to maintain its operation.
Therefore, recently Chen Qiming is planning to vigorously explore partners.
Tsui Hark is one of his goals.
It's just a pity that Tsui Hark just broke up with Golden Harvest, and Huang Baiming contacted Tsui Hark and pulled him into the lineup of Oriental Cinemas, and Chen Qiming didn't have a chance at all.
As a result, Chen Qiming could only choose to slowly probe Tsui Hark's tone.
It's just that he didn't expect that before he mentioned it, he actually heard Tsui Hark show his dissatisfaction with the Oriental Cinema Line.
"It's not very pleasant, Huang Baiming likes to meddle in film shooting, and I'm thinking about whether to continue to work with him."
Tsui Hark did not hide it, and directly expressed his dissatisfaction with Huang Baiming.
Chen Qiming was not surprised at all.
Who is Huang Baiming? It was one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City.
Although Tsui Hark was on the same list as him, in the original New Art City, Huang Baiming was Tsui Hark's boss.
Moreover, Huang Baiming is a very good filmmaker in his own right.
Tsui Hark went to work under his film company, and it was strange that Huang Baiming didn't interfere in his film shooting!
"Are you interested in working with the Pacific?
You know, I'm a producer, but I never interfere in the filming of a movie.
If you come to the Pacific side, you don't have to worry about the freedom of filming. ”
Chen Qiming stopped and looked at Tsui Hark.
"This ......" Tsui Hark smiled bitterly, "Big guy, if you had told me about this two days earlier, I would have agreed directly, and now I ......"
"What do you mean?" Chen Qiming's heart sank.
Tsui Hark smiled wryly:
"Xiang Boss took the lead, and planned to let me collaborate with Jet Li on a heroic movie similar to "The Green Hornet".
There is also a remake of Shanghai Tang! ”
After a pause, he looked at Chen Qiming, "Why don't I talk to the boss and let you intervene?" ”
"I'm afraid it won't be that easy!"
Chen Qiming shook his head.
After staying in Hong Kong for a long time, Chen Qiming has also figured out some situations of major companies.
On the surface, Golden Harvest is the most difficult company to get along with, domineering and likes to eat alone.
But from the perspective of the theater chain, Yongsheng is actually the most difficult and annoying company.
Three knives on both sides.
This is the name that Chen Qiming gave to this company.
Because of the large scale of the company, there are many actors who have signed film contracts, and Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Jet Li and other actors with box office appeal in Hong Kong are here.
This leads to Yongsheng's feeling that Lao Tzu is the first in the world.
Among all film companies in Hong Kong.
Yongsheng's share with the cinema chain is the highest.
In the case of the theater chain independently undertaking publicity, their share still occupies sixty percent.
Before, Andy Lau's "Chariots of Fire" was like this.
Although this drama Pacific made money, it made very little money, which is only equivalent to a movie with a box office of 20 million.
In addition, in terms of investing in movies, Yongsheng is also very domineering, and they generally do not accept cinema investment.
Well, it's very uncomfortable for theaters.
Especially in the past few years, when the economy began to be depressed, it all relied on receiving movies for release, and if you don't invest, you really can't make any money.
Let Chen Qiming beg to cooperate with Yongsheng, Chen Qiming is unwilling.
Therefore, he did not give up on Tsui Hark, but thought about it for a while and said:
"Actually, if you don't sign an agreement with Yongsheng, you can consider my side.
I've never been a solo eater.
If you cooperate with me, I will give you the appropriate share of the investment! ”
Chen Qiming's words had a great impact on Tsui Hark.
He couldn't help but ponder.
investment share, which is definitely very attractive to Tsui Hark.
This is what he has always expected.
In recent years, Tsui Hark has become very famous in Hong Kong and is a top filmmaker.
But no one knew that he was actually just a part-time worker.
His films first came from Xinyicheng, and later established a film company studio with the support of Golden Harvest.
At that time, his idea was to make a lot of money.
As a result, the results were not satisfactory.
In the past few years, he has made films that he personally does not have a share of investment at all.
Finally, there was an opportunity to occupy a part of the investment, but it was taken away by Golden Harvest in the form of a cinema.
In short, after so many years, he is still a wage earner.
Thinking of the original Golden Harvest Cinema Line, Tsui Hark couldn't help but ask, "How do you plan to cooperate with me?" ”
"It's still satellite mode, but you're not my branch, you have autonomy, and if you don't need my investment, you can invest in production independently.
The only thing I need is that the movies on your side can only be released in Pacific theaters.
In addition......"
Seeing that Tsui Hark intended to move, Chen Qiming immediately talked about the cooperation model on his side.
Overall, there has been little improvement in the cooperation model of Chen Qiming's Pacific Cinema Line.
The only advantage is his promise not to interfere in the film production of the partner company.
In addition, he is not greedy for film investment.
Anyway, if you lack investment, I can help make up for it, if you don't lack it, I won't invest, and I won't not arrange a schedule for you because I haven't invested.
In a word, the Pacific is all about fairness and justice.
"I'll think about it!"
Tsui Hark seemed to be moved, but he didn't agree immediately.
In this regard, Chen Qiming did not urge.
Everything has to be done slowly.
……
In the evening, all the members of the MV shooting crew went to a nearby restaurant to have a good meal.
Well, this meal is not Chen Qiming's treat.
It was invited by Li Ruotong.
Li Ruotong's purpose for being the heroine of this MV is very clear, that is, she came to Chen Qiming.
Li Ruotong debuted in Hong Kong in 1990 and worked with Tsui Hark twice.
"Demon Beast City" and "Burning Red Lotus Temple" have her figure.
Last year's "The Condor Heroes" became a new generation of goddesses in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and her popularity exploded.
It's just that after the TV series became popular, although her popularity increased greatly.
But there are pros and cons to the role, and the role of Xiaolongnu completely imprisons her.
She starred in two movies during this period, and both word-of-mouth and box office were unsatisfactory.
And with the passage of time, the increase given to her by "The Condor Heroes" is slowly weakening, but she is still the same.
This made her anxious.
This time, she learned from Tsui Hark that Chen Qiming was shooting a music video, and after listening to some of Tsui Hark's suggestions, she immediately took action.
plans to take this opportunity to catch up with Chen Qiming, an existence with good influence in the film industry.
Therefore, during the filming, she was a two-day treat, just to have a good relationship with Chen Qiming, in order to get a good role in the movies after Qiming Film and Television.
After all, Li Jiaxin and Zhou Huimin are lessons from the past.
The two of them received the support of Chen Qiming's record resources and suddenly became new singers.
One became the heroine of "The Grim Reaper" with the help of the Hollywood team, and played on the same stage as Liming, it is said that Zhou Huimin is still the heroine.
This is really envious of the dead!
The group ate and drank until about twelve o'clock.
In order to protect his throat, Chen Qiming didn't plan to drink more, but he couldn't stand Li Ruotong coming over to toast three times and twice, and finally returned to the hotel groggily.
He had been lying down for less than two minutes when a knock on the door woke him up from his bed again.
"Sister Ruotong, you ......"
Looking at Li Ruotong leaning against the door frame, Chen Qiming was not intoxicated.
He realized that there might be meat to eat tonight.
Is Li Ruotong pretty?
To be honest, it's pretty pretty.
She's not the kind of pure classical beauty.
If you look closely, you will see that her eyes look like they are half-blooded.
The only thing that's a bit of a pity is ...... It's too small......
"Ming Zai, let me discuss with you what I'm going to shoot tomorrow...... Plot! ”
Li Ruotong raised the MV script in his hand.
Hearing this, Chen Qiming felt a little funny.
What plot can a MV have, it's actually just a page or two of words over and over again.
Moreover, looking at Li Ruotong's drunken appearance, is this like discussing the plot?
Obviously I'm here to unclog the pipes!
Chen Qiming did not let Li Ruotong enter the door for the first time.
He was thinking about whether it would bring a bad impact on himself after letting her in the door.
Moreover, he is still in contact with Li Jiaxin and Zhou Huimin.
He really can't afford to drag it out.
If you do that, will it affect yourself?
These are all things to consider.
In the end, Chen Qiming came to a conclusion.
Thinking too much about yourself.
This is obviously discussing the plot, okay!
The king of heaven Lao Tzu came to discuss the plot.
If you don't believe it, you can ask Li Ruotong.
Therefore, Chen Qiming let Li Ruotong into the house.
As for what you did when you entered the house?
Discuss the plot, discuss the plot, discuss the plot.
Say the important thing three times.
……
With Li Ruotong participating in the discussion of the plot, Chen Qiming's MV shooting in the mainland is finally not so lonely.
This went on for about three days.
On October 7, the MV for the song "Jiangnan" officially came to an end.
After the MV filming of "Jiangnan" was completed, Chen Qiming did not immediately devote himself to the rest of the MV shooting, but flew back to Hong Kong with Li Ruotong after filming.
Of course, Chen Qiming didn't want to follow Li Ruotong to discuss the plot.
He came to Hong Kong for something.
The 1995 Rookie Singing Contest hosted by TVB began.
He had to spend a few days as a judge.
In addition, he was invited by TVB to attend this year's Jade Singer Celebration on the 13th.
In recent years, TVB's suppression of ATV has gradually weakened.
ATV began to emerge, and there is a trend of banning TVB's position as the No. 1 TV station in Hong Kong.
Affected by this, TVB began to invite celebrities to help.
This year's Jade Singer Celebration is like this.
In addition to the four kings of Hong Kong and other popular singers, TVB also spent 3 million Hong Kong dollars and invited Chen Qiming to sing on stage.
For the sake of money, Chen Qiming agreed to attend.
When the time comes, he will take the stage and sing three songs.
As for the game show that the Jade Singer celebrates Taiwan's celebration.
To be honest, it has little to do with Chen Qiming.
His task is to sing three songs, and by the way, let TVB gather popularity in his name.
(End of chapter)