The films produced by Wang Jing may not have a very good reputation, but they will definitely make investors a lot of money. Likewise, among all Hong Kong directors, this guy is the one who is best at packaging and promoting female stars.
In another time and space, actresses such as Guan Zhilin, Zhang Manyu, Zhang Min, Qiu Shuzhen, Li Lizhen, Shu Qi, Lin Xilei, etc., either made their debut in Wang Jing's movies, or shined in Wang Jing's movies and their net worth soared. It can be said that these people
They all became popular after filming Wang Jing's movies.
Take Qiu Shuzhen as an example. Initially, due to the requirements of TVB, she appeared as a young beauty in Wang Jing's movies. Under such circumstances, Qiu Shuzhen was very popular on TV, but as a movie star she has always been lukewarm.
It's hard to stand out if you're hot. Later, after Qiu Shuzhen's contract with TVB expired, Wang Jing planned to transform Qiu Shuzhen from a pure and beautiful girl into a sexy actress.
Qiu Shuzhen's transformation took a sexy route, unlike other actresses who became famous all at once or showed off their bare spots to stir up scandals. Wang Jing paid a high price to hire a French fashion stylist to comprehensively analyze Qiu Shuzhen's body, face shape, collarbones, and fingers to formulate a plan.
Developed a promotional plan for Qiu Shuzhen’s image and packaging.
After such preparations, Qiu Shuzhen's sexiness has completely distanced itself from those of porn stars. She feels gorgeous but not vulgar, charming but not seductive. She doesn't reveal anything, but she can make men want to stop.
During the years when Qiu Shuzhen was popular, as long as she played a small role in a movie or twisted her waist to show a smile, she could attract countless male audiences to the cinema.
These are all the contributions of Wang Jing.
The filming of "Best Friend 2" gave Wang Jing a bit of a headache because of Kang Jianfei's comments. I hope Wang Jing can use this film to promote Jieying and make a breakthrough in terms of image.
Wang Jing racked his brains but couldn't think of any good solution, because Lan Jieying's delicate appearance really makes it impossible to be sexy. And the scandal that was hotly discussed some time ago also made it impossible for Lan Jieying to maintain the image of a beautiful girl. Her star image is really
Some difficulties.
"Best Friend 2" is a medium-cost film with a budget of 5 million. Zhang Guorong's salary alone accounts for hundreds of thousands. Naturally, it is impossible to spend money to hire a French fashion stylist for Lan Jieying.
Wang Jing could only go to discuss with the stylists of Oriental Entertainment Company, and spent two weeks taking photos and research to select the most sexy and tempting parts and angles of Lan Jieying's body. Then he spent time choosing custom-made clothing for Lan Jieying.
The result of everyone's hard work has now appeared on the big screen.
In the movie, Lan Jieying met for the third time with the wealthy young man played by Leslie Cheung. It was a chance encounter at a dance. Lan Jieying appeared in a dress, just like Cinderella turning into Snow White. That day, innocence and sexiness were intertwined, purity and charm were combined.
Her temperament instantly stunned the entire audience. It also attracted all the male audience members at the midnight show.
After the dance. In the movie, under the instigation of her two best friends, Mao Shunyun and Chen Jialing, Lan Jieying dressed up carefully every time she appeared in order to catch up with Zhang Guorong, but due to various misunderstandings, she accidentally ended up with Zhang Guorong.
Conflicts and quarrels occurred.
At this time, Wang Jing was not yet a money-making director who could only make a fool of himself. In terms of the quality of the film's content, comedy would definitely rank among the top three directors in Hong Kong.
Wang Jing came up with all kinds of jokes at his fingertips, making the audience in the screening room burst into laughter. While laughing, the male audience's perception of Lan Jieying had a subtle change.
In the first quarter of the movie, Lan Jieying was an ugly duckling wearing glasses. But after the ball, her image changed drastically. She had to change her outfit and look every time she appeared on the scene. She had 17 sets of costumes alone.
If Kang Jianfei watches this movie, he can feel at a glance that Lan Jieying is essentially another version of Qiu Shuzhen. The scale of the combination of purity and sexiness is perfectly grasped by Wang Jing.
At this time, Qiu Shuzhen had not yet made her debut. For the audience at the midnight show, they were simply attracted by Lan Jieying. Some wretched men even kept swallowing their saliva while watching.
"I didn't expect that Lan Jieying has such a good figure. I didn't know it before."
"A good figure is not the most important thing. Her eyes are so seductive. At first glance, she looks like a ** who is pretending to be innocent."
"Lan Jieying is not a prostitute, she doesn't even have a boyfriend."
"Hey, little brother, how old are you? Children, don't imitate others and come to the midnight show."
"I'm not a kid. I'll graduate from high school next year."
"You should still be young. One day, big brother, I will take you to open a bud, and you will find a coquettish one like Lan Jieying."
"You are not allowed to call her coquettish!"
"Ignore your mother, a brat dares to talk to me like that!"
"..."
A fight broke out at the entrance of the cinema because of Lan Jieying, which attracted many people to watch. However, Lan Jieying had already left the midnight show and went home with her best friend.
No matter how much you call her a slut and a bitch, there are still countless people making money to go to the cinema. A few male viewers even secretly bought tickets several times just to be fascinated by Lan Jieying's appearance in the film.
"Best Friend 2" earned 13.92 million in non-prime time. Leslie Cheung's handsomeness and Lam Jieying's charm, as well as the comedy of supporting actors such as Tony Leung, Mao Shunjun, Lou Languang, and Chen Jialing, have all become important factors in attracting money for this movie.
factor.
And Lan Jieying also inexplicably transformed from a TVB beauty to a popular sexy "porn star", and also won the title of "temptation girl". It's so pitiful that she showed three things in "Best Bad Friend 2", just
She hasn't even exposed her thighs a few times, and the most she wears is low-cut and backless tops.
Kang Jianfei, who was filming in the desert on the border of the United States, had no idea that Wang Jing would create another version of Qiu Shuzhen in advance. When he returned to Hong Kong and learned about the situation, he could only lament that Wang Jing was a talent who was far better at packaging and promoting female stars than himself.
At least Kang Jianfei never thought that Lan Jieying could still take the sexy route.
The success of "Best Friend 2" not only made Lan Jieying famous, but also made Wang Jing's reputation as a director even more famous. Before the film was released, he signed a contract to direct two movies in a row. One of them was
The investor is Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Film Company, and the other film is a wealthy Malay businessman throwing money. It will be filmed under the name of Zeng Chiwei's "Good Friends Company", and the main box office target is the Nanyang market.
Several major film companies are preparing for summer blockbusters during this period. Thanks to the "diligence" of the three shareholders, Xinyi City has barely recovered from the decline last year, but it no longer has the same vigor and upward momentum as when the company was first established.
momentum.
Cheng Long will play a big role again this year. The preparatory work for his "Brothers and Tigers" has been basically completed, and he will go to Europe for filming next month. The first female lead and the second male lead are the same as in another time and space, respectively Lao
La Fang Na and Alan Tam, but the second female lead changed from Guan Zhilin to Zhang Manyu.
As for the reason, Guan Meiren is now enjoying a life of fine clothing and fine food. No one except Kang Jianfei can ask her to come out for filming.
"Brothers of the Dragon" is a big production with a long shooting cycle, and the summer release will definitely be late. It will probably be released during the Christmas or Spring Festival half a year later.
The main movie of Jiahe's summer season this year is "The Lucky Star" directed and starred by Hong Jinbao. This movie came out because of the butterfly effect. It combines the popular spiritual kung fu movies and the Lucky Star series. It is basically
A fashion fantasy kung fu comedy.
As for the movie "The Best Lucky Star" co-produced by the three of them, which had a good box office, and which Makka had a falling out with his partners, and was dragged out by Tsang Chi-wei, and then hooked up with Hung Kam-bo, who was at odds with Golden Harvest, I'm afraid it will never happen in this time and space.
Because now the company of Zeng Zhiwei's good friend is on the right track, and Mika, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian have also temporarily reconciled, and Jiahe has also given Hong Jinbao more benefits because of last year's "Wealth Train" incident. The three are short of money and heartbroken.
Those who were dissatisfied might work together to make a movie, but now that everyone is relatively satisfied with the status quo, there won't be any weird incident of three people defecting from their own company to collaborate on a movie.
In addition to New Art City and Golden Harvest, other independent film companies are also making films like crazy.
I have to mention here that due to the establishment of Xinbao Cinema Chain and the influx of large amounts of overseas investment, independent film companies in Hong Kong have sprung up last year and in the past.
The increase in the number of film productions has brought about an increase in the demand for film practitioners. Not only are a large number of Hong Kong people joining the ranks of behind-the-scenes and actors. The supply of first- and second-tier stars is also in short supply.
Especially those actors who have box-office appeal in Southeast Asia and Taiwan are constantly filming one after another. While the business of Oriental Entertainment Agency has grown significantly, the phenomenon of job-hopping has also begun to increase.
Naturally, newcomers and young actors are not qualified to change jobs. Those who are qualified and want to change jobs are the first-line actors. In the past, they joined Oriental Entertainment Company because of the film and television resources of DreamWorks, but now that the production of Hong Kong films has increased significantly, they
Popular actors don't have to worry about not getting any roles, so naturally they don't want to have their companies take away several percent of their commissions when they work hard in filming.
If it were not for the high liquidated damages, I am afraid that more than half of Oriental Entertainment's popular actors would have left. Even so, several first-tier and near-first-tier movie stars have left in the past two years.
Kang Jianfei didn't pay much attention to these stars who were promoted by Oriental Entertainment Company and then switched jobs. He only asked DreamWorks not to let them film in the future. Oriental Cinemas would not allow any movies starring these people to be released. Phoenix TV
No programs featuring these actors are allowed to be broadcast.
To put it simply, it is an all-round ban. Of course, this kind of ban is secret, and Kang Jianfei will not make it publicized.
The prosperity of Hong Kong films has brought about an impact other than job-hopping, that is, the salaries of Hong Kong film stars have collectively risen to a higher level.
Not to mention special cases like Cheng Long, Xu Guanjie, and Lin Qingxia, the first-line male actors in Hong Kong were paid 600,000 yuan in the past two years, but now it has risen to around 800,000 yuan. Some actors even exceeded the 1 million mark. First-line actresses
The average salary has also risen to more than 500,000.
This situation is a good thing for actors, but not necessarily for production companies, directors, and audiences.
The actual box office revenue of Hong Kong films has not increased much. The overall increase in actors' remuneration means that the cost of movies has increased. If producers want to control costs, they have to reduce expenditures in other aspects of filming. This has caused actors' remuneration to have a significant impact on film production.
The proportion of costs increases.
When a popular movie star's salary accounts for half of the cost of a movie, you can imagine how bad the content of the movie is.
The current salary of Hong Kong stars has not reached that level, but it is also heading towards that trend. For example, the shooting cost of "Best Friend 2" was 5 million, and the male lead Leslie Cheung's salary alone was 750,000, which accounted for nearly 10% of the film's total salary.
One sixth of the budget.
If we continue like this step by step, Hong Kong filmmakers will suffer a bitter taste sooner or later.
Of course, the abnormal increase in movie star remuneration is not limited to Hong Kong. Hollywood also has this trend. At least for the time being, it will not have much impact on the development of Hong Kong films.
Putting aside the movies of major companies, the band Beyond, which has been signed to Pop Records for more than half a year, has finally written all the songs for their first album and is currently recording intensively. The album is expected to be released during the student holidays.
In addition, the Miss Hong Kong and Miss Eastern beauty pageants have also begun. The registration and screening work for both parties has ended. However, in this draw, Miss Eastern held the final before Miss Hong Kong. (To be continued...) u
