The glorious 1980s and 1990s of Xiangjiang movies were like a dazzling galaxy, with countless movies hanging like dazzling stars in this galaxy, but no one can deny that in this galaxy, there are always a few The light emitted by the stars makes other stars look dim!
Among them is the movie that Wu Jianye told Zhou Runfa today!
Before it comes out, Xiangjiang Movies is the world of China, yes the world, and sometimes Cheng Long's world, but when it comes out, Xiangjiang Movies will enter the world of Zhou Runfa!
Of course, Wu Jianye would not explain so much to Zhou Runfa. He would just tell him that filming this film seriously would bring different changes to his career in the film industry.
After taking care of Zhou Runfa, Wu Jianye ordered Liu Feng to contact Ti Lung and Zhang Guoyi. At this time, Ti Lung was just a Hong Kong star who was about to expire, so it was easy to deal with it, and Zhang Guoyi was just emerging in the Hong Kong music scene. , so the problem is not big.
As for the director Wu Baige, although Wu Jianye didn't like his later operations, he also knew that he was the most suitable person to film.
When Wu Jianye left Xiangjiang, Fengge Entertainment had already officially approved the project. He only had to wait until Wu Baige came back from Wanwan to start filming.
Xiangjiang Airport!
"First get familiar with the situation here in Xiangjiang and learn Cantonese. I will write a script for you next year!" Wu Jianye said to the reluctant Gong Yin.
Gong Yin nodded with red eyes, and then said: "From now on, you have to come to Xiangjiang once a year!"
Wu Jianye touched Gong Ying's head and said with a smile: "I know, don't worry!"
"Um!"
Wu Jianye then kissed Gong Ying goodbye. In Hong Kong in the 1980s, unlike in China, no one would care about such an intimate gesture in public!
Watching the plane flying away in the distance, Gong Yin stood on the ground with mixed feelings in his heart.
.......
It snowed heavily in Yanjing, and the ground made a creaking sound when you stepped on it.
At this time, the college was on holiday. Wu Jianye was sitting on the steps of the courtyard, watching Zhao Xiaoyan, Wu Shuangqing, and Dai Zhen building snowmen in the courtyard, feeling very beautiful.
The matter between Zhu Xian and Gong Yin was finally resolved, and the entire 1983 years passed without any danger. He had reason to be happy.
"Brother, are we going back for the Chinese New Year this year?"
Zhao Xiaoyan was wearing a white down jacket, her smiling face turned red from the cold, and she asked happily.
Wu Jianye shook his head and said: "I won't go back this year. If you want to go back, just buy train tickets. It will be difficult to buy train tickets in a few days."
Wu Jianye had accompanied Zhu Xi back to his hometown once before, but he was not planning to go back during the Chinese New Year this year. Although I was alone at home, my grandma and grandpa were all here, so I wouldn't be too lonely.
Originally, Wu Jianye wanted to take my mother to Yanjing to celebrate the New Year, but my mother refused to do anything.
"Well, then we will go back tomorrow!" Zhao Xiaoyan said.
They are different from Wu Jianye. They will go back every year during the holidays in the past two years.
Wu Jianye glanced at Dai Zhen, who was giggling over there, and said, "Help Dai Zhen buy a ticket, otherwise I don't know where he can sit!"
"whee!"
Everyone knows that Dai Zhen is a crazy person, so now when he heard Wu Jianye teasing him, he couldn't help but laugh.
A few people were chatting when Zhu Hao, wearing a brown windbreaker, walked in and looked at the snowman built by Wu Shuangqing and others, showing a helpless smile.
In the eyes of Wu Shuangqing and others, this is a snowman, but in the eyes of Zhu Hao, this is just a big snowball and a small snowball, with a broom standing next to it...
"What are you talking about? You are so happy!"
Zhu Xian asked curiously.
Zhao Xiaoyan took the cakes she brought from Zhu Hao's hand, smiled and told Zhu Hao what happened just now...
As for Wu Jianye not going back this year, Zhu Xian had already known about it, so he didn't say anything. He just told Zhao Xiaoyan and the others to be careful when they went back.
"Don't worry, there are several young men here, what are you afraid of!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.
Not only Zhao Xiaoyan and the others will go back to their hometown, but Zhao Xiaoqiang and the others will also go back, so there is no need to worry about safety issues on the road.
Jingle Bell!
At this time, the landline phone in the house suddenly rang.
After entering the year 1984, Wu Jianye immediately asked Zhao Lei to install a telephone in the place where he lived. It is not so easy to install a telephone in this era. Even Zhao Lei found a lot of connections. This is it.
Several courtyard houses were equipped with telephones, which cost more than 10,000 yuan.
"Boss, the box office has officially exceeded 200 million US dollars!"
Linda's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Linda, this is the sixth time you have called me about the box office!" Wu Jianye said helplessly.
It was officially released in North America during New Year's Day. As a classic family movie, it took the top spot at the North American box office as soon as it was released, becoming the biggest dark horse of North American movies this year and shocking the entire Hollywood.
As an actual operator in Hollywood, Linda was even more excited. Almost every time there was a change in the box office, she would call Wu Jianye to report it.
"Boss, this is nearly 100 million U.S. dollars in revenue, not over 100 million U.S. dollars. According to predictions from professional Hollywood forecasting magazines, the final box office of this movie will be around 300 million U.S. dollars!"
Linda on the other end of the phone was very dissatisfied with Wu Jianye's attitude.
According to Hollywood's sharing method, a movie's investment producer will receive about 45% of the box office. In other words, it has brought 90 million U.S. dollars in revenue to Phantom Entertainment so far, deducting 18 million U.S. dollars in costs.
Net profit has reached US$72 million.
If according to foreign predictions, the North American box office reaches US$300 million, that would be a net income of US$117 million.
This does not include European and Asian copyrights, television broadcast rights, and the largest revenue from video tapes.
If you count all of this, the revenue of a single movie will exceed 250 million US dollars!
This is also the reason why Linda is dissatisfied with Wu Jianye's attitude. This is 250 million US dollars!
As for Wu Jianye, he had already known the power of this movie, so naturally he was not as excited as Linda.
"Phantom Entertainment must be very busy now!" Wu Jianye asked with a smile.
Huge profits come with huge troubles, this is an eternal truth.
"Yes, the threshold of Phantom Entertainment has almost been stepped on. People from all seven major Hollywood companies are here, hoping to cooperate with Phantom in the follow-up series!"
Linda was now in trouble of happiness.
According to Linda's description, Wu Jianye knew that MGM was shameless enough to want to buy the copyright directly. Not to mention Wu Jianye, even Linda directly refused.
"....Boss, which company should we cooperate with?"
If you want to become big in Hollywood, you must be inseparable from the Big Seven in the early stage. Don't think about doing it alone without the Big Seven. According to Hollywood's urine, if Phantom Entertainment dares to do this, it will immediately face a ban from the Big Seven.
, at that time, it would be useless no matter how many classic movies Wu Jianye had in his hands.
Only cooperation is the way to go!
As for when Phantom becomes bigger in the future, that's another story.
"Universal Pictures!" Wu Jianye said.
We cooperated with Universal Pictures for its distribution, and it is understandable that we continue to cooperate with Universal Pictures now.
"Okay, I'll contact Universal Pictures immediately!" Linda said.
.......
After Zhao Xiaoyan and others returned home, Wu Jianye's courtyard did not look deserted. Different people came here every day, and some came just to eat and drink, such as foodies like Tianzhuangzhuang.
Some of them came to celebrate Wu Jianye.
After winning the award in Venice, Wu Jianye returned to China, first taking care of Zhu Hao, then taking Zhu Hao on a trip, and finally even took a trip to Hong Kong.
It was only now that Wu Jianye's friends blocked Wu Jianye.
For example, today, a group of old and new friends came to Wu Jianye's courtyard house.
Old friends include Chen Peisi, Ge You, Yang Zhun, Zhao Baogang and others, while new friends include Zhu Shimao who came with Chen Peisi. The two will officially appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala this year and perform classic sketches.
Although many people in later generations call Zhao Benshan the king of sketches, in fact, in Wu Jianye's eyes, the real kings of sketches should be Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao. Zhao Benshan's sketches still have some limitations.
, it is more liked by audiences in the Northeast, but its influence in the South is much lower.
The sketches of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao are different. They basically cover the entire Chinese region. Unfortunately, their characters are too strong!
"How's the rehearsal for you two's skit going?"
A group of people gathered together, eating hot pot, which was quite lively. Wu Jianye curiously asked about Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's rehearsal of the sketch.
Although Chen Peisi mostly plays humorous roles in sketches and movies, and Zhu Shimao plays a positive character, in fact, in life, Chen Peisi's character is more rigorous, while Zhu Shimao's character is more smooth.
Zhu Shimao complained: "Don't mention it, it's been a bumpy journey..."
Wu Jianye suddenly became interested and said with a smile: "Come on, tell me and let everyone enjoy it!"
Chen Peisi glanced at Wu Jianye while holding the wine glass, but Zhu Shimao smiled and talked about the creation story of ".
"When the Spring Festival Gala crew approached me and Peisi to write a script, the entire Spring Festival Gala crew lived in a hotel to create the script. Peisi and I wrote the script in a week, but it was not approved at all."
Ge You laughed and asked, "What then?"
Zhu Shimao smiled and said: "What else can I do, just keep writing.
At that time, we had to pay food stamps to eat in the hotel, and it was very difficult for the crew. Pes and I left because we couldn't stay any longer, but we forgot to notify the Spring Festival Gala crew at that time.
The person suddenly disappeared.
The Spring Festival Gala crew mobilized the entire crew to search for the two of us. Later, the leaders of the Bayi Film Studio sent people to find us. We had no choice but to go back and continue writing the script.
In order to write the script of this sketch, I ran away from the hotel three times in two days. The script was finally finalized."
Ge You: "You are deserters!"
Chen Peisi said in a deep voice beside him: "What deserters? You don't know that some people are just laymen who lead experts, and they express their opinions indiscriminately, which makes people uncomfortable!"
"Be afraid of laymen leading experts in everything!" Wu Jianye concluded.
"No, I was ready to give up later. If Lao Mao hadn't persuaded me, I wouldn't have participated." Even now, Chen Peisi is very dissatisfied.
Yang Zhun smiled and asked: "Then how did you overcome it later?"
Zhu Shimao said with a smile: "I just gave a performance to our country's athletes two days ago. Looking at the smiles of the athletes in the audience, Peisi naturally has nothing to be dissatisfied with!"
After everyone heard this, they laughed.
In 1983, the TV Drama Department of CCTV, the Recording Department of the Television Art Committee and the TV Drama Troupe of the China Radio and Art Troupe officially merged to form the Huaxia Drama Production Center.
The new friend Yang Zhun brought was his colleague Zheng Xiaolong from the Huaxia TV Drama Production Center, and Zheng Xiaolong also brought his friend Wang Shuo.
As a producer and director...
This is Zheng Xiaolong’s report card, a perfect winner of TV series.
The most important thing is that Zheng Xiaolong later became the leader of the TV drama production center. If you want to make TV dramas in China, he is an unavoidable figure.
As for Wang Shuo, there is no need to introduce him. He is the spiritual leader of the Beijing circle, and his name alone is enough.
"Director Wu, I watched your film and I personally liked it very much. Congratulations on winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival!" Zheng Xiaolong picked up the wine glass.
Wang Shuo laughed and said: "I didn't read it, but I did read what you wrote. It's really good!"
Wu Jianye naturally knew Wang Shuo's character, and said with a smile: "It's fate that we can sit together. From now on, we will be friends, so there is no need to be so polite!"
"Not bad!" Wang Shuo nodded.
Coming with Zhao Baogang was Li Chengru, his classmate in the advanced course at Yanjing Film Academy.
Now Li Chengru is working as a dramaturg on the set, and he is taking two days off during the Chinese New Year, otherwise he really doesn’t have time.
But what impressed Wu Jianye the most about him was his line in the film, which consisted of hundreds of words. Coupled with the changes in Chinese and English and the tone, Li Chengru spoke clearly and passed the scene in one scene. He was an absolute master of lines.
He also has a hot temper, but unfortunately when he meets a master of sophistry, he seems a little unable to do what he wants...
"Director Wu, Director Yang Jie often talks about you. If it weren't for your help, the crew would not have been able to solve many filming problems!"
Li Chengru smiled.
Wu Jianye said modestly: "Director Yang is too polite. I don't count as much, I just help to beat the drum!"