Chapter 054 Only a handful of people stood and watched the whole process
On a new day, Zhao Donghuai was still sleeping when he heard a phone ringing. When he answered the call, A Guang's voice came asking for instructions, "Boss, Mr. He knocked on the door, but I stopped him."
The temporary dormitory of Guang, A Yong and others lives next door to his Taoist Broadcasting House. Under normal circumstances, if Du Qifeng, Ah Fa or even Kwan Jiahui knock on the door, Guang and the others have seen many of them on the set, so they will not stop them.
This is what Director Zhao meant.
Mr. He, stranger?
After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "I'll get up now."
A moment later, he met an old man in his fifties in the living room. When he briefly introduced himself and handed over his business card, Zhao Donghuai smiled brightly and said, "It turns out to be He Sheng, sorry."
This was He Guanchang, one of Jiahe Zou Wenhuai's right-hand men. After learning his identity, he had a rough guess about He Guanchang's purpose.
Under the words, He Sheng, who was in his fifties, had a strange expression. He couldn't help but look back outside the room and said with a smile, "Director Zhao, you are really young and promising. You are so young that it is unbelievable. This is
An unpublished newspaper manuscript, I wonder if Director Zhao is interested in reading it?"
Wait for him to pull out a piece of printing paper from his armpit and hand it over.
Zhao Donghuai took it and soon discovered that it was his resume. He used to study in the New Territories. After graduating from high school, he came to Kowloon and worked as a parking boy. Then he suddenly resigned in May and started to enter the film and television industry.
Until today, I have achieved a good start with a good start??
The newspapers did not publish the conflicts and grievances between him and Yee Seng Little Bully, Fook Hing Fat Snake or even Hutchison Kwun Tong talker Snake Tsai Ming and others.
But behind this string of resumes is a string of question marks, and there are always question marks.
Perhaps the person who printed this paper did not believe how a 20-year-old boy who had never been exposed to movies could achieve great success as a director when he first entered the industry.
Today is the 8th, and yesterday, October 7th, Friday, New World grossed more than 900,000 at the box office, with a cumulative box office of 15.62 million in 16 days of release.
Zhao Donghuai laughed, "The investigation of my resume is quite clear, so why hasn't it been published?"
With the popularity of New World and the conduct of media people in Hong Kong, it is long past time to track down all the news about all the main creators of the Breaking News crew. These days, there are a lot of reported news about Zhou Yunfa, Wan Ziliang, Lu Liangwei and even Johnnie To.
But there is really little information about Zhao Donghuai.
He Guanchang shook his head helplessly, "I don't know. Maybe the relevant newspapers and periodicals feel that the news is too false? If the report is published, readers will question them? They suppressed it for the sake of the reputation of the newspaper."
He first got Zhao Donghuai's information from a familiar media and took a look at it. He didn't believe it at all. Who would believe that a parking boy who graduated from middle school and had never been exposed to the film and television industry would suddenly achieve great success in the industry.
Or use 5 million funds at once to start the show? Do you think 5 million is cabbage?
In the Hong Kong film and television industry in 1983, except for a few people such as Cheng Long and Xu Guanjie, whose salaries were astonishingly small, no one, including no film and television company, could easily spend five million to film a movie.
These surveys are so fake!
Then when He Guanchang came to visit, no one answered the door. Then two bodyguards came out from next door...asking him about his purpose and the sense of vigilance? It felt like a professional level.
Bodyguards, Mr. Zhao really hired them just to find someone to stop the gun.
He Sheng was even more scornful of the base information produced by the media investigation.
Even Cheng Long and Hong Yinbao, how many bodyguards do they take with them when they go out? It's almost enough with a few dragon and tiger martial arts brothers.
Xu Guanwen is not so grand.
Even Hutchison Kwun Tong reporter She Zai Ming knows that when investigating a person, if you can't find out any information after searching many times, it is not simple and synonymous with mystery. But when you investigate a person, you can easily find out all the information about you.
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However, the person you investigated is completely different from the person whose abilities, strength, connections, etc. are now revealed.
Then this is not easy!
When it comes to falsifying resumes, the more perfect the fake you create, the less likely it is that the outside world will be able to find any flaws. This can only mean that there is something big behind the scenes that is covering up your work.
He Guanchang understands this truth better than She Zaiming.
Zhao Donghuai smiled again, put down the paper and said, "Why did He Sheng come to my place so early?"
He Guanchang sat up slightly and said with a smile, "I wonder what Director Zhao thinks of Hong Kong movies?"
Director Zhao, "???"
After a few seconds of silence, he responded, "I usually sit and watch??"
It was He Guanchang's turn to be speechless and confused. Why the hell did he just sit and watch! There's nothing wrong with that. Whether it's in the screening halls of big companies or in theaters, don't everyone sit and watch? Stand and watch the whole thing.
After all, they are in the minority.
It is also rare for two people to watch together while lying down, lying on their stomachs, or superimposed on each other...
After being silent for tens of seconds, he took out two cigarettes and said with a smile, "Director Zhao is so funny. I came here just to ask, does Director Zhao want to become an internationally famous director?"
"Hong Kong Island is too small. It is very difficult for a small movie with a relatively large investment to recover the cost in this city. I heard that New World invested 5 million? Even if it sells 15 million in this city, it will not make enough money.
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"With 5 million, you can just speculate in stocks or buy real estate to increase the value...well, these two things don't seem to be very good this year."
"But if you add in overseas box office revenue, etc., the profit will be huge."
"For example, Aaron and Young Master Long's box office in Hong Kong Island was only HK$18 million, which is far less than the best partner's HK$26 million, but they got SGD 64 million in Wanwan, SGD 770,000 in Xingjiapo, and nearly 300,000 viewers in South Korea.
Movie attendance: 1.1 billion yen for the island country and 190,000 for Spain.”
"The total revenue of "Master Dragon" is about 13 million U.S. dollars. Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is far from being comparable to the best. The best is mostly in Hong Kong Island. If you compare it, in the island country, it is even popular among the audience.
If you criticize it as a copycat of inferior Western films, it will be difficult for it to be released on a large scale."
This is an expected topic.
Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "I still admire Jiahe, but everyone knows that my first drama was only possible thanks to Shaosheng's support."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is not just a courtesy. Looking at the development history of Hong Kong films, the biggest reason why Hong Kong films were able to create glory in the 1980s and 1990s was to reap the dividends of the great era.
Most of the infinite talents are immigrants from the mainland. There are also cross-strait reasons. The mainland and Wanwan Film and Television have their own difficulties, which has created the golden reputation of Hong Kong films.
In other words, in the words of future generations, if you stand on the cusp of the storm, the second senior brother can also become the messenger of the Purification Altar, and the real talents will be even more...
Putting aside these things, Jiahe Chow Sang has always been one of the forefront representatives among the trend-setters of the big era who have always had and wanted to promote and implement international vision and ambition, and wanted to promote Hong Kong films to the world.
Just this kind of international vision, the efforts and struggles put in for it, deserve to be called "amazing and amazing" by Chinese filmmakers.
Success or failure is not a matter of one or two people.
After all, Hollywood movies involve colleagues in the global film and television industry, not just Zou Wenhuai and Jiahe.
He Guanchang laughed, "I understand, I understand. I just want to get to know Director Zhao this time. The Shaw family has a great business, but it is precisely because the family business is so big that it is difficult to turn around."
"If Director Zhao wants to come to our Jiahe one day, Zou Sheng and I will welcome him with both hands."
"Shao is too old, and Shaw's heart has also moved to the TV station. Princess Jin and Xinyi City are watching the fire cooking, but in fact they are in internal and external troubles."
"Although Zou Sheng and I are not young, our hearts are not old yet."
Zhao Donghuai kept smiling, but he felt a little emotional in his heart. From this aspect, in fact, from the early to mid-1980s, Golden Harvest was indeed nothing more than the Shaw Brothers movies and Princess Golden.
As for the later rise of Disheng Entertainment and its subsidiary Debao Cinemas, they were started by Mr. Pan just to gain fame as a watch and jewelry brand and to pick up girls. He stopped playing after the goal was accomplished.
From the perspective of a movie tycoon, Zou Wenhuai is much more successful than Lei Juekun and Pan Disheng.