Chapter 059 Recovering 2 million advertising fees before filming started
October 14th is the 22nd day of the release of "New World". Yesterday, the box office has accumulated to 20.17 million. After the number of theaters is reduced today, the average attendance has actually increased.
The crew has also scheduled a celebration banquet in the evening to celebrate the 20 million box office break.
It was not Zhao Donghuai who insisted on opening this, but Shao Daheng.
In 1982, for the first time in Hong Kong, a movie with a box office of over 20 million appeared, The Best Partner was released at the Golden Princess Cinema. This year, the Best Partner showed its magic, the Golden Princess Cinema.
Five Lucky Stars, Jiahe Cinema Line.
Zhao Tung-huai's New World is the fourth film in Hong Kong to break the 20 million box office, Shaw Brothers Cinemas!
It is understandable that Shao Daheng wants to hold a celebration banquet.
Then the celebration banquet is just to invite a group of people to eat, drink and show off.
Zhao Donghuai brought He Qing and Guan Jiahui to attend. He Qing plays the leading role in Hurricane Rescue, and Guan Jiahui is the heroine idol and female pop singer.
In fact, he thought about asking Lin Qingxia to act as an idol singer. It is not expensive anyway. The leading role only costs 200,000. The supporting role is even cheaper, and it can also stimulate Wanwan's box office.
But Jia Hui arranged for her to cooperate throughout the process, so she was used.
The original version of Hurricane Rescue, one of the protagonists is A Meiren. The heroine and her pig best friend went to Gaul for a trip and were caught and forced to sell themselves. They even sold their bodies at auction for the first time.
For this revision, he wanted to go to the island country for filming, but after careful consideration, he decided against it. Even if he went to the island country, it was just to attract box office.
But the island country is too buggy. Since the market was opened in the era of Bruce Lee, only Bruce Lee and Cheng Long have become popular, while Xu Guanwen has become famous after two or three years.
You don't ask Cheng Long to play a supporting role in your movie. It's like a fool's dream to open the island country market. Cheng Long plays a supporting role? You are not Hong Yinbao who grew up playing in the movie, and you are not Jiahe. There is basically no possibility. Since there is little hope, it is better not to go.
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Currently, Hurricane Rescue has confirmed that Lin Zhengying will be the only male protagonist, who is the mother of the female protagonist. The male protagonist’s divorced daughter-in-law has not yet been decided.
It's easy to say that the villains are all beaten to death after appearing for a while.
Or you can find Cheng Kui On or Ho Ka-Kui? Where are they now? He remembered that Ho Ka Kui entered the industry as a screenwriter in 1978, and Cheng Kui On was also a New Territories kid, working part-time at Shaw Brothers at the age of 13.
After all the calculations, his hurricane rescue was low cost. Except for the waste, it was much lower than the cost of the New World.
What's more important is that the last time I went to watch the movie with Ah Fa, I received a call from Lin Baixin's clothing tycoon. The content was that he wanted to invest two million and asked him to help Lixin Clothing advertise in the new movie.
The advertising fee of 2 million was recovered before filming started, which was much smoother than New World.
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There is nothing much to say about the celebration party.
Two days later, Yat Sing Street, Kwun Tong.
A few gangsters were playing mahjong in an abandoned warehouse when they saw a figure running over, smiling and saying to a man with a venomous snake tattooed on his hair, "Brother Baguan, it seems that someone went to start work at the Grand Trade not far next door.
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Baguan looked at the tiles in front of him, overthrew the mahjong with a huff, stood up and smoked a cigarette, "Tai, come to Risheng Street to start construction, have you reported it to me?"
"Brothers, do something!"
A group of six or seven gangsters walked out of the abandoned warehouse, and then Baguan said, "Who is working? What are they doing?"
The boy who first came to report sneered, "It's just a few cars, I'm not sure, but hasn't the warehouse of Hongwei Trading been vacant for more than half a month?"
Ba Kuan didn't bother to ask any more questions after hearing this. Kwun Tong is the largest industrial area on Hong Kong Island, and there are also bay piers and the like. There are many warehouses, small companies, small factories, etc. here.
Of course it's not that easy to get ahead here. I used to work with a small prefix in Baguan. I passed up the job a while ago and worked for Hutchison Kwun Tong's talker She Zai Ming.
Brother Ming, that’s the person who told the story!
Hutchison.
He also knew that Brother Ming had Zhong, Ah Wei, Ah Heng and other confidants under him. Ah Wei was also known as a ruthless character and a fugitive.
But Brother Ming was willing to take him in, so Baguan wanted to look like a man.
After a while, several gangsters, led by Ba Guan, arrived outside a closed warehouse in a show of force. Ba Guan winked, and soon a younger brother came forward and kicked open the door, and then a group of people swarmed in.
When Baguan and his party entered the gate a few meters away, they saw clearly the scene in the open space outside the abandoned warehouse... Baguan suddenly stopped.
The other boys are similar.
What you can see is a group of relatively eye-catching men, all holding guns in their hands. Not far from these men, there are paper targets, pork targets, etc., which seem to be for these eye-catching men to practice shooting.
Seeing them rushing in, a group of eye-catching men all grabbed guns and opened fire.
Everyone looked at each other.
Why is it described as eye-catching? Zhao Donghuai knows the reason. For example, in a group of people, there are He Jiaju with short hair, Cheng Kui'an with short hair, and Xu Jinjiang with bald head... Not only do the three big men have short hair, He and Cheng also have it on their necks.
There is tattoo paper.
They are all stickers with skull patterns.
Even if all they have are prop guns, the skulls are just tattoo paper.
But when these three newly recruited actors from the hurricane rescue crew came together to audition, it was obvious that they looked more like big brothers than the rest of the group!
Even though they are all good people and good men.
The two groups looked at each other, speechless.
Not far away, Zhao Donghuai, who was holding a prop gun and playing with a pork target, came over in surprise, "What do you want?"
Ba Guan, the newly recruited younger brother of Hutchison Snake Ming, looked at Zhao Donghuai and then at the gun in his hand. He swallowed hard and sneered, "No, boss, we went to the wrong door. We'll leave right away."
After saying that, he turned around quickly and urged his brothers to run quickly.
Until Cheng Xiaodong, who was also in the crowd, said in surprise, "Director, these..."
Before Sir Cheng could finish speaking, Baguan, who was about to run away, was stunned, turned around in surprise, and looked at Zhao Donghuai in disbelief, "Are you the director? Are you filming?"
Zhao Donghuai looked at Ba Guan and nodded, "Yes, we are the crew, here to audition and rehearse the moves."
Damn you, I'm so angry. I'm so scared. I thought I met some vicious bastard desperado boss. You guys are co-writing this for a movie??
It's really unbearable for uncle and aunt.
If the scene just now spreads out, will he and Ji Baguan still get along?
His chest heaved violently with anger. Ba Guan pointed at Zhao Donghuai and cursed, "I'm going to attack you, my mother-in-law. How dare you pretend to be a handsome boy? If grandpa won't beat you today, get down on your knees... Come on, beat me!!"
Zhao Donghuai suddenly rushed forward and rushed in front of Ba Guan. The gun in his hand was inserted into Ba Guan's lower back quickly. He grabbed Ba Guan's left shoulder and swung around. He threw Ba Guan over his shoulder and almost knocked Ba Guan out of his body.
Waiting for the other boys to get angry.
Zhao Donghuai used all kinds of explosive physical strength, combat power, and several years of unlimited fighting experience obtained from the simulator. It was like a fitness instructor beating a kindergarten child, and the battle was resolved in about a minute.
Master-level handheld photography physical skills, that kind of physical strength really requires a photographer to spend hours a day in the gym and practice for years without relaxing.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to carry something weighing fifty or sixty pounds or more and run and play for hours.